hypocrisy

This is the absolute proof of the hypocrisy the Republican party exhibits:

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist signaled yesterday that he and other White House allies will filibuster a bill dealing with the interrogation and prosecution of detainees if they cannot persuade a rival group of Republicans to rewrite key provisions opposed by President Bush.

Remember the "nuclear option" from last year? A filibuster is suppose to be a valuable tool to help protect the minority in Congress, yet the Republicans wanted to strip that. Now the Republican leadership, in their sense of becoming a dictatorship, wants to use the filibuster to help rubber stamp George Bush even more. I thought everything deserved "an up or down vote"? That's right. Things like that only apply if the other side of the aisle has an objection.

Yup - it is freedom and democracy being spread old Bush style:

Senior Shiite politicians said today that the American ambassador has told Shiite officials to inform the Iraqi prime minister that President Bush does not want him to remain the country's leader in the next government.

It is the first time the Americans have directly intervened in the furious debate over the country's top job, the politicians said, and it is inflaming tensions between the Americans and some Shiite leaders.

The ambassador, Zalmay Khalilzad, told the head of the main Shiite political bloc at a meeting last Saturday to pass a "personal message from President Bush" on to the prime minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, who the Shiites insist should stay in his post for four more years, said Redha Jowad Taki, a Shiite politician and member of Parliament who was at the meeting.

Ambassador Khalilzad said that President Bush "doesn't want, doesn't support, doesn't accept" Mr. Jaafari to be the next prime minister, according to Mr. Taki, a senior aide to Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the head of the Shiite bloc. It was the first "clear and direct message" from the Americans on the issue of the candidate for prime minister, Mr. Taki said.

Now how many other countries out there don't want Bush as our President? Hell how many Americans don't want Bush as our President? This is just another example of the typical BUSHIT that gets spread by this administration

We knew it was coming but it has now been made official. The Justice
Department is set to launch an investigation into who leaked the secret
eavesdropping program to the press. This is according to the

Associated Press:

The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the leak of
classified information about President Bush's secret domestic spying
program, Justice officials said Friday.

The officials, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the
probe, said the inquiry will focus on disclosures to The New York Times
about warrantless surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency
since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

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here.

The hypocrisy of the administration shines through in this action. The
President was eager to get an investigation going, which he made obvious in his
press conference last week. I keep wondering what would happen if this was
leaked by a close adviser of Bush. Will he once again resort to a song and dance
changing the story of what would merit an offence worthy of termination?

Protests were being held this week outside of the
courthouse in sunny Aruba. The people gathering were protesting the negative
press their justice system was getting by the United States Media and also by
the mother of missing teen Natalee Holloway.

Beth Holloway-Twitty, the mother of the missing teen spoke
out this week against the legal system of Aruba, and the two suspects, Deepak
Kalpoe and Satish Kalpoe, after they were released this week by the Aruban
judge. They were not released for no reason; they were released for lack of
evidence. This is the same type of protection we are guaranteed under our own
law.

Beth has come out and apologized since then, and stated she
made the comments out of anger and frustration.

The day of these protests, I was watching Scarborough
Country on MSNBC. Joe Scarborough, the host, was talking with an ex-Diplomat of
the tiny Caribbean Island. The ex diplomat was involved in the protesting, and
tried to explain to Joe that the Dutch law that the island of Aruba follows has
been around for centuries, and in fact is much older than our current law. Joe
would not accept this answer and went on the defense of American justice.

I found a sad and tragic irony in this coverage. The same
week that we learn about Joseph Duncan, the sick individual who kidnapped Shasta
Groene and possibly killed four other members of her family, and how he slipped
through our legal system prior to his crimes, we hear our reporters criticizing
other countries judicial system. If our judicial system was infallible as Joe
hinted during his interview, then Duncan would not have been released on a
$15,000 bond in March when he appeared in court for molesting a child, and was
also a repeat offender.