"Zero evidence suggests that fear of impeachment will motivate Republicans to vote. Yet, the punditry is all parroting RNC talking points that claim impeachment is good for Republicans. This is a Rovian tactic: they attack at their weakest point. They turn a weak defense into an offense through shear bluff and bull. And the Democrats fall for it."it is truly amazing to witness. the repugs really are arguing, loudly & repeatedly, that if the dems win, they'll investigate hither & tither. risky strategy - but aparently that's the best they've got. I understand their GOTV logic, but the problem is that it is likely to boost the Dems GOTV efforts just as much. (the other possibility is that they are just going to steal the elections, so all they need is a cover story)
* PreznitBlinky speaks: ""And so --the other thing I want you to know about me is that no matter how pressurized it may seem, I'm not changing what I believe. . . . I'm not changing. I don't care whether they like me at the cocktail parties, or not. I want to be able to leave this office with my integrity intact.""
integrity intact? what a small man. He thinks a refusal to change reflects integrity.
* Glenn:
"Just imagine what we would not know about our government over the last five years if there had been no leaks -- warrantless eavesdropping, the use of torture and rendition, secret Eastern European gulags, Abu Ghraib, the inconvenient pre-war intelligence which was ignored. And then imagine the even more extreme measures the administration would have felt free to pursue had they known that there was no chance of leaking. That is the world they are trying to create."
* democracynow:
LARRY JOHNSON: I think the appointment of General Hayden is problematic. He should be required to resign his commission as an officer if he is allowed to take that position as the head of the C.I.A. Otherwise, we are faced with a situation in which more than 80% of the intelligence community, as measured by budget, will be under the control of the Department of Defense, because General Hayden, by virtue of being an active duty military officer, still falls under the direct chain of command of Donald Rumsfeld, and given Rumsfeld’s bunglings in Iraq, I don't think he’s actually earned the right to make a mess of the entire intelligence community.
AMY GOODMAN: Why did Porter Goss resign?
LARRY JOHNSON: My understanding is – and it’s from someone who did attend some of the poker parties – is that Goss was not implicated in any bribery, any of the prostitution. One of Goss’s staff members is, and apparently that issue surfaced to either a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Assessment Board, the PFIAB, or someone at the White House. The White House strategy was to call Porter in, talk to him about arranging, I guess, an orchestrated exit, and when confronted with that, Porter just said, “I'm not going to stay around for that.” He just up and resigned, and that’s what caught them completely unprepared. But there has been tensions with Negroponte, but heavens, you get – there's always interagency conflict in Washington. At the end of the day, both Goss and Negroponte were at odds with Rumsfeld, because Rumsfeld was pushing to make D.O.D., if you will, independent and able to conduct independent operations overseas.
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LARRY JOHNSON: The real – the way that Dusty Foggo, the number three guy at the C.I.A., got his job was through this staff member of Goss. Goss had no ties with Foggo. It was a staff member of Goss, and I've been told that the Goss staff member, in fact, probably was an active participant in the prostitution parties, but there are members of Congress, and some fairly prominent names on the Republican side, so that’s going to be trickling out.
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