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In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

I really should read my own blog.

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I am so sick and tired of this bullshit:

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Oh, come on. Rove’s just reminiscing.

If for no other reason, the fact that these scumbags are running around popping off at the mouth like this is why it was a mistake to not prosecute. I always wanted them to do it, but completely understood why they didn’t. Just disgusting human beings.

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  1. 1.

    DougJ

    Friday night it was late, I was walkin’ you home we got down to the gate, and I was dreaming of the night, would it turn out right?

    That’s from memory.

  4. 4.

    beltane

    It wouldn’t have been so bad if Rove, Cheney and the rest had at least shown some gratitude and humility for the fact that they will never be prosecuted. They’re like rich kids who got caught shoplifting but who don’t suffer any consequences because their parents paid-off the shopowner to not press charges.

    Meanwhile in America some poor kid is going to jail for selling a bag of dope.

  5. 5.

    JK

    Karl Rove takes questions from the public tomorrow morning on C-SPAN2

    Karl Rove, senior advisor to President Bush and current Fox News contributor, joins us LIVE (Sunday at 10am ET) to talk about his memoir, “Courage and Consequences,” and take questions from Book TV viewers. You can participate in the discussion by calling in during the program or by sending in questions via e-mail ([email protected]) or twitter (@BookTV).

    h/t http://www.booktv.org/Program/11392/Courage+and+Consequence+My+Life+as+a+Conservative+in+the+Fight.aspx

  9. 9.

    demkat620

    I guess if Karl is proud of waterboarding and it’s not torture, then we should use it on him.

    If he’s got nothing to hide, then he’s got nothing to fear, no?

  10. 10.

    Bret

    We now know the identities of 9 Justice Department lawyers who defended Gitmo detainees, because it was “un-American” not to. Or something. Sure, that’s fine.

    Do we know the identities of each and every doctor or psychologist that gave the affirmation that there were no long-lasting mental or physiological effects on those that were water boarded? If we do not, why don’t we?

  12. 12.

    Leelee for Obama

    @JK: Any chance the question, “Why are you not in jail?” would make it to the air? I am in the same boat as you, Cole. Want them all in prison, and get why that’s the road to absolute insanity in Washington. I have been keeping myself out of the politics, for the most part, cause I’m just tired of it.

    n other bright news, Keith Olbermann’s Dad passed today. Don’t know it that’s been mentioned in other threads. Whatever you may think of him, he’s been a mensch through this past year or so. Lost both parents inside of a year, and he hasn’t gone postal. I commend him.

  13. 13.

    Mike in NC

    If for no other reason, the fact that these scumbags are running around popping off at the mouth like this is why it was a mistake to not prosecute shoot them in the face.

    Fixed

    And why in hell isn’t President McCain going to be on MTP tomorrow? Did he die in another one of those plane crashes he’s so famous for?

  14. 14.

    Chat Noir

    Karl Rove is a scumbag of the scummiest degree.

    If for no other reason, the fact that these scumbags are running around popping off at the mouth like this is why it was a mistake to not prosecute.

    I’m right with you, John Cole. The fact that these people are walking around free is beyond galling. I hate every last one of them.

  17. 17.

    demkat620

    @Polish the Guillotines: You know, I’ve tried but godammit, these people committed crimes. They cost people their lives with the shit they pulled and now they want to comeback and say, it’s just a difference of opinion? That they are the true patriots and deserve honor for what they did?

    No, fuck them. Every last one of them and the media that will lend assistance to this rehabilitation.

    Karl Rove should be living out the rest of his miserable existense in fear of a federal prosecutor.

  18. 18.

    Bnut

    When Rove says “Read the memos” it makes my skin crawl. To think of all the shit that come from this mess had its start as something so perfectly American as a “memo” makes me want to punch a baby. This MFer can go burn in hell.

  19. 19.

    Leelee for Obama

    @Chat Noir: Yeah, his Dad’s been in Columbia-Pres since September, at least most of the time. A nightmare of surgery, infection and Lord knows what else. Like the man he’s always seemed to be, Keith used his Father’s end-of-life plans to educate and advocate and while I am so sad for Keith and his family, I know Ted Olbermann is in a better place.

  22. 22.

    Mike Kay

    Doesn’t matter.

    Nixon’s crooks were all prosecuted and went to jail, and when they came out they all wrote books and ran around the talk show circuit. Hell, Liddy ended up with a radio show and had a recurring role on Miami Vice.

  23. 23.

    Mike in NC

    @Chat Noir:

    Karl Rove is a scumbag of the scummiest degree.

    No, Karl Rove is just Dwight Fucking Schrute with better connections.

  25. 25.

    Polish the Guillotines

    @Chat Noir:

    The fact that these people are walking around free is beyond galling.

    The sick thing is, were they to be indicted of anything — anything — no matter how justified, they’d instantly become hero-martyrs for the wingers. You ready for Oklahoma City times 100? That’s what’ll happen.

  26. 26.

    Mike in NC

    Nixon’s crooks were all prosecuted and went to jail, and when they came out they all wrote books and ran around the talk show circuit. Hell, Liddy ended up with a radio show and had a recurring role on Miami Vice.

    Yup, these dirtbag criminals are now all Very Serious People, according to the Villagers. Ollie North is a rich author, FOX News pundit, and Jesus freak. Nice work if you can get it.

  27. 27.

    Mike Kay

    @Chat Noir:

    that’s sad, he was battling one terrible infection after another. as keith described it, atleast he went in peace, without any pain or terror.

  28. 28.

    HRA

    “Keith Olbermann’s Dad passed today”

    May he have eternal rest.

    I caught the tail ends of 2 Countdowns this past week where KO was on updating his father’s condition and speaking about living wills.

  29. 29.

    Chat Noir

    @Mike Kay: Right. He commented on a post over at the GOS. KO’s last update (on Countdown a few weeks back) sounded like his dad was in pretty grim shape. At least he’s at peace now.

  30. 30.

    Polish the Guillotines

    @demkat620: I agree with you 100%, but unless and until the public-at-large reaches a tipping point and signs off on going after these bastards, they’ll skate.

    This is just so freakin’ charged that the public support for investigation and possible prosecution has to be undeniable, irrefutable, and unimpeachable.

    Speaking of which, the Repubs sooooo queered the system with the impeachment of Clinton that I don’t think the public-at-large is willing to take on the Bush administration, especially in hindsight.

    It’s sickening.

    The only small (and I emphasize, small) glimmer of satisfaction I have is that these clowns are essentially under house arrest. If they leave the U.S., they very well could be scooped up in another country.

    I repeat: Sickening.

  32. 32.

    JK

    @Leelee for Obama:

    Hopefully, Rove will get some pushback during his call-in appearance on C-SPAN 2 on tomorrow morning. I wish Glenn Greenwald could get a chance to ask Rove a question.

  33. 33.

    Ailuridae

    Dan Riehl is a monstrous human being. Did I miss something where a front pager wrote in his defense or is this just a general note that he’s awful?

  34. 34.

    NovShmozKaPop

    “the fact that these scumbags are running around popping off at the mouth like this is why it was a mistake to not prosecute.”

    They’re giving us the finger. And laughing.

  36. 36.

    gnomedad

    @JK:

    Dan Riehl outsleazes Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, Malkin, and Coulter combined by asking “Isn’t It Time To Euthanize Reid’s Wife?”

    Wow, the comments are just … In their world the Death Panel crap is just a fact, so Riehl is just “pointing out the hypocrisy”. ‘Course there’s no rationing in our current system. Nope.

  37. 37.

    Polish the Guillotines

    @JK:

    Hopefully, Rove will get some pushback during his call-in appearance on C-SPAN 2 on tomorrow morning.

    Problem is, there’s no “pushback” when the pushee is a shameless, pathological liar.

  38. 38.

    The Dangerman

    We won’t prosecute them, so they pop off…

    …and hope that someday they’ll find their asses in the docket in the Hague for War Crimes.

    One can hope.

  39. 39.

    Kryptik

    OT, but you probably already know anyways. WVU’s up against G’Town, but true to form nearly pissing away the lead at the half.

    Christ, I know they win quite a bit, but there’s consequences to living and playing dangerously!!

  40. 40.

    gbear

    As long as we’re talking about pathological liars and bullshit, can I bring up Tim Pawlenty? Please let this guy’s career end in the most humiliating way possible.

    Tim Pawlenty has diverted funds from the “Support Our Troops” license plate program to his Governor’s Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, an office that works to connect religious organizations with state funds…The funds, writes Snyders, “by law, were supposed to go to the Department of Military Affairs and the Department of Veterans Affairs.”

  44. 44.

    Kryptik

    @JK:

    The comments there are depressing, particularly the last one. “Hey, the bill isn’t done yet, they may put death panels in at the last second, YOU DON’T KNOW THAT THEY WON’T!”. Fffffffffffff-

  45. 45.

    SteveinSC

    Hang Cheney and rove will shut up. rove has been shown to be a shallow piece of shit and instead of actually creating bush the politician, he has simply benefited from events. He is hardly more than a self-important mouthpiece. The crowing rooster taking credit for the rising of the sun.

    Oh, and thank you dear God for victory in Eye-rak.

  46. 46.

    gbear

    @Mark S.:

    I looked in the St. Paul Pioneer Press and didn’t see anything about it. I just found out about it on MN Independent. That site is pretty small potatoes but a lot of veteran’s blogs have linked to the story, and DougJ has it covered now too. I hope it goes viral.

  47. 47.

    Mark S.

    People, I’m being a hypocrite because I clicked over there, but, seriously, Riehl pulls shit like this every couple of months to drive up his page hits. You already know that he and his readers are douchebags.

  48. 48.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    @SteveinSC:

    At the very least we should string up Yoo and Bybee et al. Or next wingnut that wins the Wh will get his lawyers to ok making himself presidente for life to save the realm and commence to rid the planet of liberal vermin.

  49. 49.

    Corner Stone

    I always wanted them to do it, but completely understood why they didn’t

    Yeah. It’s totally understandable.

  50. 50.

    TenguPhule

    Speaking of which, the Repubs sooooo queered the system with the impeachment of Clinton that I don’t think the public-at-large is willing to take on the Bush administration, especially in hindsight.

    Long past time the CIA earned their pay by doing some drivebys on GOP ops.

  51. 51.

    :Libertini

    @DougJ: And it was playing on the radio on the way home on my first “car” date back in 1970 somethin’. Yeah, I’m Reminiscing.

  52. 52.

    Nethead Jay

    I’m just gonna copy and paste my comment on this very clip on yesterday’s open thread:

    “Wow. I’m watching the podcast of Countdown from last night. Lawrence Wilkerson, the former chief of staff to Colin Powell, is on to discuss Karl Rove’s book and comments yesterday, and man, is he pissed off. I’ve never seen him so angry, and he’s been very strong some of the other times he’s been on there, and on Maddow too. It’s quite exhilarating. If I was Rove I’d give Wilkerson a wide berth, he seems totally ready to take him apart.”

    Watching it again, O’Donnell is very steely in his introduction and starting the interview. I’d say he’s equally angry.

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