The Last Straw

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation

Thirty-eight votes. Thirty-eight votes to keep an accomplished liar as Attorney General of the United States. This is the event that has separated the wheat from the chaff. By their votes they have declared that lying, cheating, stealing, and undermining the effectiveness of our Justice Department is okay by them. I declare it is not. Malfeasance is always wrong.

Behold the chaff:

Alexander (R-TN) Dole (R-NC) Lott (R-MS)
Allard (R-CO) Domenici (R-NM) Lugar (R-IN)
Bennett (R-UT) Ensign (R-NV) Martinez (R-FL)
Bond (R-MO) Enzi (R-WY) McConnell (R-KY)
Bunning (R-KY) Graham (R-SC) Murkowski (R-AK)
Burr (R-NC) Grassley (R-IA) Roberts (R-KS)
Chambliss (R-GA Gregg (R-NH) Sessions (R-AL)
Cochran (R-MS) Hatch (R-UT) Shelby (R-AL)
Corker (R-TN) Hutchison (R-TX) Thune (R-SD)
Cornyn (R-TX) Inhofe (R-OK) Vitter (R-LA)
Craig (R-ID) Isakson (R-GA)
Crapo (R-ID) Kyl (R-AZ) Voinovich (R-OH)
DeMint (R-SC) Lieberman (ID-CT) Warner (R-VA)

Behold the evidence:

(some of the evidence - there's much, much more)

Fannie Mae Informed by Justice Department that Investigation Is Discontinued

Goodling Admits to Breaking Law with Political Hiring

These attorneys will not attend.

Vote Caging? What’s That?

• Tim Griffin, Karl Rove's "protege," resigned unexpectedly as US Attorney May 31.
• Griffin, you'll recall, replaced an actually qualified US Attorney in the firings scandal.
• The resignation comes a day after journalist Greg Palast showed Congressman John Conyers a 2004 email showing Griffin's involvement in caging voters.
• Caging voters is when you identify people who are likely to not be able to respond to inquiries about their legal ability to vote. For example, someone who is serving in Iraq is unlikely to respond to a letter sent to their home. The voter's ballot when returned from, say, Iraq, is not counted.
• The caging lists were obtained by Palast when an email was accidentally sent from Griffin to an email address at RNC.com, a spoof Web site, instead of RNC.org.
• Although the emails appear in Palast's book, this week marks the first time it has been reported that Congress is looking into the caging activities by the GOP.
• The implications of the caging lists are obviously that the Republicans, instead of supporting the troops, were stripping minority soldiers of their right to vote.

Not enough? Then wait! There’s more!

“Attorney General John Ashcroft is really sick. About to give a press conference in Virginia, he is stricken with pain so severe he has to lie down on the floor. Taken to the hospital for an emergency gallbladder operation, he hallucinates under medication as he lies, near death, in intensive care.

On the night after his operation, he has two visitors: White House chief of staff Andrew Card and presidential counsel Alberto Gonzales. As described in public testimony, they want Ashcroft to sign a document authorizing the government's top-secret eavesdropping program to go on. The attorney general, who thinks the program is illegal, refuses.

Gonzales, the president's lawyer and Texas buddy, went on to replace Ashcroft as attorney general.”

No Habeas Corpus for you – why? – because Alberto Gonzalez says so.
The US Constitution be damned, says he.

Arlen Specter says Alberto Gonzalez ‘not candid’. Is ‘not candid’ the same thing as lying? Obfuscating, prevaricating, equivocating, fabricating….

These thirty-eight ‘esteemed’ Senators have, by their votes, condoned lying.

No more lies; goodbye, Senators. “Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all”. - Friedrich Logau