Clip of the Day: Chris Matthews

In this clip, Chris Matthews on Hardball does a segment with Joan Walsh of Salon and Michelle Bernard, MSNBC conservative pundit. The topic being Charlie Gibson's inverview with President GW Bush (and First Lady Laura Bush), and in particluar Bush's response to Gibson asking him what the biggest mistake of his Presidency may have been....

Watch the evisceration...

Economic Clusterfu*k

Leave it to Comedy Central to give us a side-by-side of Bush bald-faced lying to Americans about the Iraq War and the $700 Billion Bailout:



Given that the entire dollar value of defaulted mortgage debt in the US is $111 Billion - why precisely does the Bu$hCo Cabal want Americans to give them $700 Billion?

Do the Dems realize they're bending over voluntarily to get fucked by the Repub's one last time before the criminals leave office AND RECEIVE PARDONS?

And below, more analysis of McCain's utter ineptitude:

McCain: Grassroots Video

This says it all.

(Hat tip to DailyKos)

John Edwards: Egads...

I swear. Guys just CANNOT keep their dicks in their pants. John, do you realize that your credibility and political life are now O-V-E-R? And for what?

And by the way, I don't care if you're having sex (not really). I realize that alone doesn't make you a bad person. And truthfully, I cannot tell you how many times over the last 8 years I have wished that someone (anyone) would give Bush a blow job so we could impeach him.

What I can't fathom, John, is that you knowingly LIED to the American People... especially after we (and the world) have been so heinously betrayed with the lies of Bush and his administration. You persisted in your bid for the presidency knowing a skeleton existed that could errupt to the possible ruination of the democratic party and possibly the presidency.

Unforgiveable. I really pity your wife and kids, to have to suffer the consequences of your action. Thank GOD you did not win the nomination - just think of how fucked America would be now had you won the democratic nomination.

One of the (many) things I don't understand is why John McCain's own affair during his previous marriage (and by the way when she was ill) isn't more fodder for comparison by the traditional media.

--Shella

The Guardian: See This Video

For those of you who still support Bush and his administration on the Iraq war or believe that the so-called "surge" was valid or necessary at any level, I offer the following:

Video: Inside the surge
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The Guardian's award-winning photographer and filmmaker Sean Smith spent two months embedded with US troops in Baghdad and Anbar province. His harrowing documentary exposes the exhaustion and disillusionment of the US soldiers.

Keith Olbermann: Speaking The Words In My Soul...

My friend, if you do nothing else, please watch the below "Special Comment" from Keith Olbermann's Countdown on MSNBC. It's only 10 minutes out of your life, but Keith has so eloquently spoken the feelings in my heart, he can tell you how I feel better than my feeble attempts below.

The real fun begins around 5 minutes in.



(Hey Keith, you there? You still single? I have fallen in love with your brain (and you're a cutie too). I want to explore its depths. Check out my pic over there on the right column - not bad eh? What do you say.. wanna go out? Maybe have a cup of coffee? Discuss some politics? Rant and rave together? -- HEY don't sign off yet, give me a chance! I am not a weirdo, I am a realy nice person... hey Keith, Keith, you still there?)

Judge Walton: Issues New Order in Libby Case

The rightwing media/spin machine has been working overtime to frame the Libby commutation as "...despite no jail time, Libby still faces serious penalties including a $250,000 fine and two years probation."

However, Bush and his cronies are so incompetent that they even fucked up the Grant of Executive Clemency.

It appears that the fine and probation can only occur FOLLOWING INCARCERATION. What does that mean? It means that Libby skates scott-free.

The money quote at footnote 1 on page two:

"If either party believes that it would be helpful to solicit clarification from the White House regarding the President's position on the proper interpretation of Section 3583 in light of his Grant of Executive Clemency, they are encouraged to do so."

Read Judge Reggie B. Walton's order: Click Here (pdf)

BUSH: Communtes Libby Sentence

Remember when Bush said that he'd prosecute to the fullest extent anyone who outed Undercover CIA Agent Valarie Plame?

In case you forgot, here's the video:



Well, today will live in the annals of history as the day an American president told the citizens of the United States of America.... we can go fuck ourselves.

Do you know what Bush is? This is what Bush is...

Bush communted Scooter Libby's prison sentence. A pardon. And you know what? This is exactly what he plans on doing for Gonzales, Rumsfeld, Cheney and the whole lot of criminals who run this county. What a sin. What an awful, awful, awful, awful man.

That's why we've got to impeach him and Cheney now, so justice can be served.

What's happened to my country?

BUSH-LOVING ALBANIA: Watch Stolen During Photo Op!

All we've been hearing in the US for the last couple of days is how much Albanians LOVE Bush.

There has been news story after story showing Bush glad handing a frenzied crowd of Albanians, patting his head, hugging him, shaking his hand...

And... he got his watch stolen in the whole dog and pony show!

Hat tip to ROOK at DailyKos.com. See the YouTube video: Click Here

What do you bet it's found on eBay. Or perhaps it contains a tracking device of some sort and the culprit is located via GPS?

Enjoy!

DIS-Card: UMASS Grads Have Higher Standards than White House

On September 11 2001 Andy Card, then White House Chief of Staff was the person who told Bush that the World Trade Center incidents had occurred (Note: scared-shitless expression in W's eyes is evidenced by lack of typical "beadyness")


(Note: Action begins around 2:40 into video)

On May 25, 2007 Andrew Card faced hundreds of boos and catcalls as he was given an honorary degree during the graduate school commencement at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Americans Revolt Against the Arrogance, Greed of Its Elite

Hello everyone:

I ran across a British opinion piece published in The Guardian by Geoffrey Wheatcroft. The sentiment he expresses could be my own, so I’ve taken his words, pared them down, shaken them up, twisted the perspective, inserted my own opinion -- and voila – created my own editorial.

Now and again people have found themselves in places where the course of history was dramatically changed: Paris in 1789, Petrograd in 1917, Berlin in 1989. The US at present is beginning to experience an overwhelming sensation of drastic impending change.

Along with the collapse of Bush's authority, Americans are revolting against the great disaster in Iraq and have finally recognized the hubristic, impenitent arrogance, greed and criminality of the people who have been guiding America's destiny for the past six years. What one senses so acutely are the conditions building for a political perfect storm, which will engulf and destroy the whole neoconservative project.

For those Americans who, in defense of their voting for Bush and other Republicans who have so harmed America, still support Bush – they do so with a defiance worthy of a better cause.

The intractable Bush supporters are masters of one thing and one thing only – detachment from reality and contempt for the rest of civilized humanity whom they now attack as “defeatist”.

It has been said some neocons may now wish for tragic acts of terror to occur on American soil – an attack being the only event that might provide vindication for their acts and activities. You can tell who these neocons are -- their mantra being "History will be the judge", while secretly planning their "I told you so" moment about GW and neoconservatism for after such an incident.

Most certainly because of the illegality and lies which propelled us into the "War on Terror" (read: Iraq) the US now more than ever is in the crosshairs of extremists and terrorists both worldwide and homegrown. It's simply a matter of time and degree, neoconservatism or not, that a US attack will occur.

However, the slumbering giant that is the American people has finally awakened. The Congressional and Senate investigative bodies are finally able to perform oversight and demand accountability. The traditional media spinmeisters and Administration mouthpieces are finally being subject to factchecking. And even America's captains of industry notice the scent of change in the air.

All the readings on the barometer and the wind gauge say the same thing. The perfect storm is gathering. Unfortunately the collapse of the neocon project comes at a very heavy cost, not only to the people of Iraq but to all of us.

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(Hint: Click on the fists, over and over, and over, and over, and over, and.....)

I Feel Proud

After watching the PBS special, Bill Moyers Journal, "Buying The War" for a second time tonight -- I must admit that I feel proud.

Proud that from the beginning, all along (and against all odds) I had the critical thinking skills and independence of thought to see through the propaganda and collusion between the Bush Administration and the US mainstream media.

I challenge you. I challenge you to actually watch the reports linked to below.

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5

If you care one whit about America or our troops - watch it; if you believe you live in reality - watch it; if you think I am a partisan hack - watch it; if you have the ability to view something with an open mind and heart that may reframe your experience of history - watch it; Readers, I cannot urge you strongly enough to please watch all 5 chapters linked to above.

While the story is primarily about the failings of a so-called "liberal" or "independent" media, it documents the Presidents and his top advisors treasonous acts against America and its citizens.

And by the way..... prepare yourself.

Prepare yourself because now that there is no longer a strangle hold on the media, you will likely see future expose's on the impact, spin, propaganda and criminality perpetrated by this President, his administration, and the GOP in most all other areas of life as we know it. From the true impact of the tax cuts; the true harm of its health policies; the incompetence and cronyism seen in national security, Katrina, Iraq, global warming, energy policies, disastrous fiscal policies, deficit management, politics above the people, globalization, merging of church and state, literally in every area of life.

IMPEACH.

Bill Moyers: Journalistic Integrity Personified (my new hero, it's love)

Finally. After 5 long years. Journalist Bill Moyers, whose credentials are above reproach, has NAILED the story of the century. How mainstream media betrayed America, Americans and truth in journalism.

FUCKING FINALLY.

Watch Bill Moyers: CLICK HERE
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"Buying the War"

Four years ago on May 1, President Bush landed on the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln and delivered a speech in front of a giant "Mission Accomplished" banner. Despite profound questions and the increasing violence in Baghdad, many in the press confirmed the White House's claim that the war was won. How did they get it so wrong? How did the evidence disputing the existence of weapons of mass destruction and the link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11 continue to go largely unreported?

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...He [Bush] was hailed by media stars as a "breathtaking" example of presidential leadership in toppling Saddam Hussein. Despite profound questions over the failure to locate weapons of mass destruction and the increasing violence in Baghdad, many in the press confirmed the White House's claim that the war was won. MSNBC's Chris Matthews declared, "We're all neo-cons now;" NPR's Bob Edwards said, "The war in Iraq is essentially over;" and Fortune magazine's Jeff Birnbaum said, "It is amazing how thorough the victory in Iraq really was in the broadest context."


How did the mainstream press get it so wrong? How did the evidence disputing the existence of weapons of mass destruction and the link between Saddam Hussein to 9-11 continue to go largely unreported? "What the conservative media did was easy to fathom; they had been cheerleaders for the White House from the beginning and were simply continuing to rally the public behind the President — no questions asked. How mainstream journalists suspended skepticism and scrutiny remains an issue of significance that the media has not satisfactorily explored," says Moyers. "How the administration marketed the war to the American people has been well covered, but critical questions remain: How and why did the press buy it, and what does it say about the role of journalists in helping the public sort out fact from propaganda?"

On Wednesday, April 25 at 9 p.m. on PBS, a new PBS series BILL MOYERS JOURNAL premieres at a special time with "Buying the War," a 90-minute documentary that explores the role of the press in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq. Two days later on April 27, BILL MOYERS JOURNAL airs in its regular timeslot on Fridays at 9 p.m. with interviews and news analysis on a wide range of subjects, including politics, arts and culture, the media, the economy, and issues facing democracy. "Buying the War" includes interviews with Dan Rather, formerly of CBS; Tim Russert of MEET THE PRESS; Bob Simon of 60 MINUTES; Walter Isaacson, former president of CNN; and John Walcott, Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel of Knight Ridder newspapers, which was acquired by The McClatchy Company in 2006.

In "Buying the War" Bill Moyers and producer Kathleen Hughes document the reporting of Walcott, Landay and Strobel, the Knight Ridder team that burrowed deep into the intelligence agencies to try and determine whether there was any evidence for the Bush Administration's case for war. "Many of the things that were said about Iraq didn't make sense," says Walcott. "And that really prompts you to ask, 'Wait a minute. Is this true? Does everyone agree that this is true? Does anyone think this is not true?'"

In the run-up to war, skepticism was a rarity among journalists inside the Beltway. Journalist Bob Simon of 60 Minutes, who was based in the Middle East, questioned the reporting he was seeing and reading. "I mean we knew things or suspected things that perhaps the Washington press corps could not suspect. For example, the absurdity of putting up a connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda," he tells Moyers. "Saddam…was a total control freak. To introduce a wild card like Al Qaeda in any sense was just something he would not do. So I just didn't believe it for an instant."

The program analyzes the stream of unchecked information from administration sources and Iraqi defectors to the mainstream print and broadcast press, which was then seized upon and amplified by an army of pundits. While almost all the claims would eventually prove to be false, the drumbeat of misinformation about WMDs went virtually unchallenged by the media.

THE NEW YORK TIMES reported on Iraq's "worldwide hunt for materials to make an atomic bomb," but according to Landay, claims by the administration about the possibility of nuclear weapons were highly questionable. Yet, his story citing the "lack of hard evidence of Iraqi weapons" got little play.

In fact, throughout the media landscape, stories challenging the official view were often pushed aside while the administration's claims were given prominence. "From August 2002 until the war was launched in March of 2003 there were about 140 front page pieces in THE WASHINGTON POST making the administration's case for war," says Howard Kurtz, the POST's media critic. "But there was only a handful of stories that ran on the front page that made the opposite case. Or, if not making the opposite case, raised questions."

"Buying the War" examines the press coverage in the lead-up to the war as evidence of a paradigm shift in the role of journalists in democracy and asks, four years after the invasion, what's changed? "More and more the media become, I think, common carriers of administration statements and critics of the administration," says THE WASHINGTON POST's Walter Pincus. "We've sort of given up being independent on our own."

Bush Administration: Criminals, each and every one.

Below is a YouTube of today's Congressional hearing and investigation on the leak of covert CIA agent Valarie Plame Wilson's identity.

Some say that very senior Bush Administration officials leaked this classified information to the US mainstream media to retaliate against and discredit Ms. Plame's husband (Ambassador Joe Wilson) having written an Op Ed critical of the "Yellow Cake Uranium" (WMD) excuse the Administration used to justify the US invasion of Iraq.

The below clip is only 7 minutes, but I urge you to listen and watch the entire thing. It is patently unbelieveable what this Administration has done. I consider it treason. Impeachment is too good.

Just watch and tell me if you don't feel the same.



And.... below is what they said BEFORE the Democrats re-took the House and Senate, embarking upon the first credible investigations...

In Vogue: Disapproval of George W. Bush

It's quite in vogue right now to hate George W. Bush. And I find it somewhat disturbing.

It's like all the Johnny-Come-Lately's are tainting the long term legitimate concerns many Americans have had about George W. Bush, his competence, and his administration. It's been evident to some of us from day one.

Everyone is now (finally) against the war in Iraq, and recognizing the lies that were told to get us into it. That's the sole basis for many American's disapproval of the President and his administration.

However, I have been watching this president since he took office, I and others have been tracking his harmful actions, and so this post will be dedicated to informing readers and showing the reasons -- other than Iraq -- that the President and his Administration are worthy of your disapproval.

The following table documents the actions of Bush during the first four months of his "reign" - and prior to September 11, 2001. It's what alerted some of us early that he would be a disaster of a President.

1-22-2001: CNN
Bush defunds international organizations that provide abortions or abortion counseling to poor women. Organizations that provide healthcare to the third world will no longer be allowed to offer abortions or even counseling about options that include abortion if they want to continue to receive federal funding. Either they forego the funding, which could mean they'd have to shut down, or they comply with this directive, which adds to population problems and subjects women to the morality of conservative Americans. Back-alley abortions will likely result in death for many women.

2-7-2001: CNN
Bush almost closes White House AIDS and race offices. In what will become a pattern for the Bush administration, Chief of Staff Andy Card announces that White House will close its offices on AIDS and race relations. After a brief but virulent media firestorm, the administration backtracks, claiming that the person responsible for running the White House "wasn't aware" that the offices were remaining open.

3-3-2001: Washington Post
Bush lies about his tax cut. Contrary to Democratic reports that more than 40 percent of his tax cut goes to the richest 1 percent of Americans, Bush says that only 22 percent will go to them. But his analysis, Bush leaves out the estate tax cut and the last bits of income tax rate reductions--all of which go to the rich. He just picks and chooses the portions he likes in order to come up with the number he wants--and it's still too high.

3-9-2001: CNN
Bush postures over North Korea. Secretary of State Colin Powell announces that he'd like to continue the diplomatic progress the Clinton administration has made with North Korea. A day later, Bush contradicts his chief diplomat, saying he doesn't trust North Korea to honor their agreements. When a reporter later points out that America has only one agreement with North Korea--which the country has honored--the administration's press flacks explain this by saying that referring to the future in the present tense is just the way the president talks. Meanwhile, the world sits in wonder over our Bush's huge diplomatic step backward.

3-13-2001: CNN
Bush reverses stance on CO2 emissions. Despite a campaign pledge to the contrary, Bush decides he won't tell American factories to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, one of the leading causes of the greenhouse effect. He says the energy crisis requires him to delay action in this area, but does nothing to curb U.S. consumption, which would reduce pollution and alleviate the energy crisis.

3-20-2001: CNN
Bush signs ergonomics repeal. Bush signs a bill that repeals Clinton administration rules designed to protect Americans from ergonomic injuries. The rules, 10 years of study by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the making, are opposed by Bush's friends in the business world, who fear the cost. Of course the long-term cost of dealing with injured workers is much higher.

3-20-2001: CNN
Bush keeps the arsenic levels in drinking water high. Bush delays Clinton administration rules that would have lowered the maximum allowable level of arsenic in drinking water. The standard has remained unchanged since 1942. Who benefits from the higher levels?. The mining companies and other industrial interests that would have to pay more to avoid polluting the water supply. These interests donated generously to Bush's campaign. Anyone surprised?

3-22-2001: CNN
Bush ends ABA's role in selecting federal judges. For 50 years, the American Bar Association has advised the White House on the qualifications of potential nominees for the federal bench. Ever since it gave Reagan Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork a mixed (but mostly positive) review, conservatives have been gunning for the ABA, claiming that the organization has a liberal bias. Bush has given into their demands and seems poised to replace the ABA's advice with that of the Federalist Society, a group of lawyers that makes no bones about its ultraconservative biases.

3-23-2001: Salon.com
Bush cuts programs for children in his budget. Showing the compassionate side of his conservatism, Bush reduces spending on programs that deal with child abuse, preschool education, and training for pediatricians.

3-29-2001: CNN
Bush pulls out of the Kyoto treaty. Prompting an outcry from the international community, Bush says that the United States won't support the Kyoto treaty to reduce global warming because it would hurt the American economy and doesn't hold third-world countries responsible for their pollution. Bush sees no irony in being concerned about the effects of pollution reduction on the world's strongest economy while caring not a whit about the most fragile economies.

3-30-2001 : Washington Post
Bush cuts police budget. One of the reasons for the sharp reductions in crime during the Clinton administration was the increase in community police. Now Bush wants to cut those cops out of the budget to pay for increased security in our schools because, after all, shootings in schools get more media coverage than shootings on the street.

3-30-2001 : Washington Post
Bush makes it easier for criminals to get federal contracts. Our law-and-order conservative president doesn't want to throw the people who run corporations that break worker safety and environmental laws in jail. Bush would rather they get federal contracts, so he suspends Clinton administration rules making it more difficult for companies that broke the law to bid on lucrative federal contracts. Why isn't this simply illegal?

3-31-2001 : Women's Enews
Bush closes White House Office for Women's Initiatives and Outreach. A common campaign theme for Bush was "W Stands for Women." This catchy slogan made it onto thousands of posters, but the message never got through to Bush. One of his first acts as president is to close the White House Office for Women's Initiatives and Outreach, created by President Clinton to give women's groups a greater role in public policy.

4-4-2001 : New York Times
Bush cuts health programs for uninsured. The budget plan Bush sent to Congress includes deep cuts in programs championed by the Clinton administration. The cuts will make it more difficult to provide training to doctors and nurses who want to provide services in underserved areas. The programs he's cutting have also increased the number of minorities in healthcare jobs.

4-4-2001 : USA Today
Bush declares open season on the national parks. Soon visitors to our now-peaceful national parks will be greeted with a dramatic new site: oil and natural gas drills. While I'm not an expert in such manners, it's impossible to imagine a national park remaining unchanged after an oil drilling team gets through with it. National parks are supposed to be preserves, not oil fields, and Bush's insistence on solving energy problems by finding more fuel instead of reducing consumption is doubly bad for the environment.

4-6-2001 : San Francisco Chronicle
Bush removes protections for marine wildlife. Every environmental policy has its opponent in the world of business, and marine wildlife protection zones are no exception. Commercial fishermen resent the zones because it limits the areas that they can catch fish. Given the choice between a U.S. business interest and saving a few hundred species of fish, mammal, and plant, President Bush unsurprisingly looks poised to choose the former.

4-12-2001 : Washington Post
Bush delays release of a report linking dioxin consumption to cancer. While some of us would like the government to keep us fully informed on public health issues, the Bush administration and congressional Republicans are doing the bidding of the chemical and agribusiness industries and delaying a report on that links dioxins--one of which was the active ingredient in Agent Orange--to cancer. The EPA has studied and restudied this issue for years, but it has never released a final report because of industry pressure. Now that Bush is running the EPA, cattlemen and chemical companies aren't worried at all about these results affecting administration policy.

4-12-2001 : Washington Post
Bush tries to cut birth control coverage for federal workers. In what can only be described as an attempt to impose his religious beliefs on all federal workers, Bush is trying to remove birth control coverage from all federal insurance plans. He is, in effect, trying to make sure that women who choose to work for the government--single or married--don't make their own decisions about whether or not they want to have a baby. It's an unprecedented attack on women's freedom to make their own reproductive choices, one that has nothing to do with abortion.

4-12-2001 : Washington Post
Bush makes it harder to put species on the endangered list. The vast majority of animals and plants on the endangered species list get there because of lawsuits. Someone (usually an environmental group) sues a government entity or private company to prevent encroachment on a species' habitat, and a court order places the species on the endangered list. Now Bush wants to take that power out of the courts' hands and give it to Gale Norton--a woman who once wrote that the Endangered Species Act was unconstitutional.

4-13-2001 : CNN
Bush donates cash to the gay-bashing Boy Scouts. Making money off campaign autobiographies is a no-no for politicians. So Bush made sure to find an appropriate charity to donate the proceeds from his ghost-written A Charge to Keep. He split the money evenly among the Boys and Girls Clubs (although the $25,000 they got doesn't do much to make up for the $60 million he cut out of the budget--see item for 14 April above), the Girl Scouts, and the Boy Scouts, which regularly kicks out its members for being gay. It's always nice to know that our leader has no qualms about supporting an organization that discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation.

4-13-2001 : Washington Post
Bush relaxes standards on appliance energy efficiency. Faced with an energy crisis, the Bush administration has consistently chosen to plunder the land for more oil rather than try to conserve energy--the better for his cronies in the energy business. Pleasing one more sector of the corporate world--appliance manufacturers--Bush decides to relax Clinton administration rules requiring air conditioners to be more energy efficient.

4-14-2001 : Salon.com
Bush cuts funding to programs he's used as photo ops. The president visits an Atlanta area children's hospital. His wife goes to a library to kick off "The Campaign for America's Libraries." He visits a Boys and Girls Club six times since he started campaigning, always making sure there are plenty of photographers around. But the budget Bush sends to Congress cuts training programs for pediatricians, federal funding for libraries, and money that goes to the Boys and Girls Clubs. Just like in the campaign, where he took credit for Texas laws he had fought, Bush has no problems appearing to support the things he doesn't, as long as it looks good for the voters.

4-17-2001 : USA Today
Bush auctions the rights to offshore Florida oil drilling. The president is a states' rights conservative who often during the campaign refused to tackle difficult questions (such as the one about the Confederate flag flying over the South Carolina statehouse) by saying that issues should be decided by the people of an individual state. But Bush doesn't stick to his principles if it stands in the way of his oil buddies making some cash. Against the wishes of the people of Florida and the state's Republican governor--Bush's brother Jeb--the administration has decided to auction the rights to offshore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. This is the first time we've seen someone say "fuck you" to the environment, states' rights, and his own brother in one fell swoop.

Check out this comprehensive list of actions and links for more information.

For Posterity's Sake: Madame Speaker Presiding Over Her First SOTU Address

Congrat-ulations, Nancy. It's about damn time.

--Shella

"It is the fundamental principle and unalterable law of this Nation that public servants, agencies, and governmental bodies exist to aid in the conduct of the people’s business. It is critical and central to the Constitution of the United States that the people’s business be conducted openly so that the public may remain informed.

“The people find and declare that it is the intent of law that the actions of public servants – whether appointed or elected – agencies, and governmental bodies be undertaken openly and their deliberations be conducted openly.

“The people of this county do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies or officials that serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know.

“The people insist on remaining informed and with access to all manner of information so that they may retain control over the instruments they have created.”

--By: Shella

State of the Union: Two Words

IMPEACH BUSH.

(Love, Shella)