Is The U.S. Constitution Merely a Suggestion?

I have never been a proponent of non-binding resolutions, for that matter...non-binding anything. Why waste time, energy or money on something with no teeth in it? But, the Democrat controlled senate did just that. So, the non-binding resolution was brought up for vote. The count was 53 - 38. So now, one might think that is a win, over 50% right? Not so fast. Guess what the Republicans did? They filibustered....Remember when there was a Republican controlled Congress and the Democrats attempted to filibuster? The Republicans went nuts and shouted that filibustering was an outdated action and should not be allowed. But the shoe is on the other foot and they filibustered, thus forcing a 60 vote count to pass. "NICE". Gonzales is suppose to be the citizen's attorney, not the Presidents. He sure isn't representing the citizens. Therefore (just as one's attorney can be fired for legal malpractice) WE THE PEOPLE, not I THE PRESIDENT, should fire this lying criminal. Remember, the Republicans impeached President Clinton for lying to the country about sex, Gonzales has lied to the nation, congress and media about countless things, and yet no one impeaches his lying butt. Come on people, we need to take back OUR country. The President (regardless of what he thinks) isn't The Government. The President is only one of the THREE branches of OUR government. And yet, the congress continues to roll over and allow him to dictate policy and direct the nation toward implosion. I am ready for a movement, a movement of true patriots to take back our nation and start supporting the United States Constitution. This administration as well as Congress, seem to believe that the Constitution of The United States is merely suggestions. Our Founders worked diligently to create a government like no other, one with checks and balances. In America, we believe that God endowed individuals with unalienable rights; we do not believe that God has endowed George W. Bush- or any political leader- with Divine right to exercise power. If one actually were to study the Constitution, one might come to the same conclusion as most Constitutional scholars have, "the framers of the Constitution established a secular government, not a Christian theocracy."
Back to subject. It is time Mr. Gonzales, for you to resign or face impeachment. It is your choice.

Is the Prseident AKA Vito Corleone?

Good job Kelly O’Donnell of NBC News, for asking the tough questions, the right questions, the appropriate questions. And still, the President started his infamous “duck and weave routine”. He looked to me like a guilty person, but who knows? By the way, does this constitute a high crime or misdemeanor?

Lawyers and historians are still arguing about the exact meaning of "high crimes and misdemeanors," dividing into three schools of thought about the appropriate definition: (1) serious criminality evidenced by breaking existing law; (2) an abuse of office, and (3) the Alexander Hamilton standard (Federalist 65) of "violation of public trust."

Regardless, here is a transcript of the O’Donnel/Bush dialogue.

Q: There’s been some very dramatic testimony before the Senate this week from one of your former top Justice Department officials who describes a scene that some Senators called stunning, about a time when the warrantless wiretap program was being reviewed. Sir, did you send your then chief of staff and White House counsel to the bedside of John Ashcroft while he was ill to get him to approve that program, and do you believe that kind of conduct from White House officials is appropriate?

BUSH: Kelly, there’s a lot of speculation about what happened and what didn’t happen. I’m not going to talk about it. It’s a very sensitive program. I will tell you that one, the program was necessary to protect the American people and it’s still necessary, because there’s still an enemy that wants to do us harm, and therefore I have an obligation to put in place programs that honor the civil liberties of the American people — a program that was, in this case, constantly reviewed, and briefed to the United States Congress. And the program, as I say, is an essential part of protecting this country, and so there will be all kinds of talk about it. As i say, I’m not going to move the issue forward by talking about something as highly classified subject. I will tell you, however, that the program was necessary. (weave...duck)

Q: Was it on your order, sir?

BUSH: As I said, the program is a necessary program that was constantly reviewed and constantly briefed to the Congress. It’s an important part of protecting the United States, and it’s still an important part of our protection, because there’s still an enemy that would like to attack us, no matter how calm it may seem in America, an enemy lurks and they would like to strike. They would like to do harm to the American people, because they have an agenda. They want to impose an ideology. They want us to retreat from the world. They want to find safe haven, and these just aren’t empty words. These are the words of al Qaeda themselves, and so we will put in place programs to protect the American people that honor the civil liberties of our people and programs that we constantly brief to Congress.

DUCK…DUCK…WEAVE…DUCK

Come on Mr. President, just be honest for a change. Did you send Gonzales and Card to Ashcroft’s room like Vito Corleone would have?
I can only hope we don’t discover a horse’s head in Mr. Comey’s bed.

Future Leaders of the United States of America? I HOPE NOT!

Posted 4/10/07
The UnbelievaBUSH corruption continues.Every day brings to light just how deep the corruption goes.
Monica Goodling, top aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, is the center of the Gonzalesgate. Well, well, well, one would think that the President would want to be surrounded and supported by the best and the brightest minds in the nation. But, I suppose that isn’t true. For instance: Ms. Goodling graduated from Regent University of Law (founded by televangelist Pat Robertson) in 1999. Bush must owe a lot of favors to Robertson, either for votes or donation. The law school was founded in 1986 and accredited in 1996. . It has traditionally admitted just about anyone who applied. And only 40% passed the bar exam, ranked dead last among law schools. The 2007 law school review read that Regent has improved to a ranking of 168th out of the 181 ranked. Regent now has a 61% bar exam pass rate. That doesn’t sound like a super great place to be picking our leaders. It has now been discovered that the Bush administration has hired 150 Regent alumni since Bush took office in 2001. WHAT? Yes it is true. Goodling herself, had scant prosecutorial experience, her qualifications to evaluate the performance of U.S. attorneys is under fire. It use to be that the DOJ jobs were given to the best legal minds in the country. Not anymore. In 2001, Bush chose Kay Coles James (the dean of Regent’s government school) to head the Office of Personnel Management.—essentially the head of human resources for the executive branch. After that, Regent alumni began to feel the halls of DOJ. “No wonder the President gets bad legal advice.” It didn’t hurt that in 2002, John Ashcroft, then the AG, changed the longstanding rules for hiring lawyers to fill vacancies in the career ranks.

Previously, veteran civil servants screened applicants and recommended whom to hire, usually picking students from elite schools. In a recent Regent school newsletter, a 2004 graduate described being interviewed for a job as a trial attorney at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division in 2003. Asked to name the Supreme Court decision from the past 20 years with which he most disagreed, he cited Lawrence v. Texas, the ruling striking a law against sodomy because it violated gay people’s civil rights.

As the dean of a tier four, and one of the lowest ranked law schools in the United States, Jeffrey Brauch of Regent made no apologies in a recent interview for training students to understand what the law is today, and also understand how legal rules should be changed to better reflect :eternal principles of justice<’ from divorce to abortion rights.

Come on, this is insane. This whole bunch needs to be fired. Our government needs a complete overhaul. Each day that passes brings a whole new revealed piece of corruption, cronyism, repayment of favors and general ass-kissing. How much longer can this continue?