Mike Luckovich

By Power of Light

April 25, 2007 1:04 PM | Link to this

The quote that there is loyalty to a person not an idea is rich. Something does have to give. The Light formally supported the war, but can no longer stand by and support something only because of a person(president) who is in office. Anyone that can continue to support this, and watch our troops and citizens die with no positive results are potential murderers themselves.

By getalife

April 25, 2007 1:08 PM | Link to this

Mike,

I think there is too much truth in that column and the wingnuts loved to be lied to.

I doubt w watched the hearings and think he told told Ganzo to go spew “I do not recall” (worked for Reagen) and come back to work.

Speaker Pelosi wanted to make him a lame duck and that mission is accomplished.

The Bushies will not man up and resign. The oversight will bring them down.

It is amazing watching the media whoring to this failed and worst administration ever.

Thank goodness for the blogs and honest pundits.

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2007 1:17 PM | Link to this

Cute story. It simply disregards that Gonzales didn’t do anything wrong and the fact that President Bush couldn’t replace him with anyone to the right of Barney Frank, so he has no choice but to keep him.

This is all a set up to keep crooked Democrats from being prosecuted because they will just claim it’s retaliation.

This current crop of Democrats are the most despicable bunch of politicians this country has ever seen and will be the death knell of this great country if we don’t wake up and reign them in.

By Erik

April 25, 2007 1:18 PM | Link to this

Mike,

I agree entirely. I challenge anybody who still supports this war to show me a light at the end of the tunnel. McCain’s shopping trip only adds to the Alice in Wonderland feling about how things are seen. Our “leaders” still fly in and out under cover of darkness and are there briefly and leave. Nobody has yet to give an anounced speech in Baghdad on a balcony or in the way Bush so much likes to do here with the soon-to-be-sacrificed men and women in uniform behind him. Yet everything is OK and we are making progress. Where ? How ? Bush says we need to listen to the generals in charge…how many have come and gone with their advice not taken. Remember Gen. Shinseki ?

It is especially disgusting that this adminstration has done MORE to cut veteran’s benefits than others.

How would anybody in this country feel if every time you went out to shop there was a reasonable chance you be killed outright or kidnapped and have someone drill through your skull or neck with a Black and Decker. And if this persisted for four years and progress was said to be occuring…who would possibly agree.

It defies belief that any thinking individual would still support this. Read Garrison Keilor’s blog at Salon.com.

By getalife

April 25, 2007 1:21 PM | Link to this

Really RW

Do you know right fron wrong?

Geez, he legalized torture for goodness sake.

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2007 1:43 PM | Link to this

getalife,

That story proves that firing the eight AG’s does nothing to stop an ongoing prosecution. Thank you for proving my point!

By Lyleftie

April 25, 2007 1:48 PM | Link to this

So, RW… the highest ranking law officer in the land lying to Congress is “nothing wrong”? Ah yes, the frog is long dead boiling away in an almost empty pan of water.

By getalife

April 25, 2007 1:53 PM | Link to this

Well RW,

If you think having a gop political activist in the top law enforcement poition in this country is right, you do not know right from wrong.

But hey, you are putting food on the table so I can’t argue with that.

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2007 2:10 PM | Link to this

getalife,

errrr….Janet Reno!?!?!?!?

By Walt

April 25, 2007 2:25 PM | Link to this

“By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2007 1:17 PM | Link to this

Cute story. It simply disregards that Gonzales didn’t do anything wrong….”

So they say at FOX.

He lied to the Congress. That’s wrong, isn’t it?

He either did or did not oversee this firing process.

But he can’t recall which.

That’s wrong too.

He wrote legal opinions while WH Counsel that trashed our laws.

That’s wrong — as the basis was overturned by SCOTUS after Gonzales helped facilitate atrocities like Bagram and Abu Ghraib.

Funny idea of right and wrong you have.

Walt

By getalife

April 25, 2007 2:37 PM | Link to this

But, but, but Clinton!?!?!?!

Geez.

By Walt

April 25, 2007 2:39 PM | Link to this

“Geez, he legalized torture for goodness sake.”

Yeah, well.

That gave the Bush Administration a good 3 years before the rationale would be overturned by SCOTUS.

It didn’t matter if what he said was totally bogus or not.

The purpose was to flunky around and do the president’s bidding, not obey the law or his oath.

I am constantly reminded of the story of when Hitler was looking around for a new Chief of Staff for the OberKommando Der Whermacht (OKW). I think that is spelled right.

Anyway one of Hitler’s advisors sad, “you don’t want Jodl. He is nothing but a yes man.”

Hitler said, “That is exactly what I want.”

Jodl was hanged.

Walt

By ABS

April 25, 2007 3:26 PM | Link to this

If the Republicans are starting to turn, then it’s time to impeach — and put Bush and Cheney on the hot seat at the Hague.

By Midori

April 25, 2007 3:50 PM | Link to this

Something tells me that if Bush defecated on himself in public, RW would (1) find a way to justify it and (2) find a way to blame Clinton.

By walt

April 25, 2007 3:57 PM | Link to this

“If the Republicans are starting to turn, then it’s time to impeach — and put Bush and Cheney on the hot seat at the Hague.”

Americans won’t stand for Americans to be tried by a foreign tribunal.

There are plenty of domestic crimes for Bush and Cheney to answer for, like treason.

It’s got to be be treason to start a war when you -know- it doesn’t serve the people you were elected to represent.

It is fun to think of Cheney at his fancy new digs on Chesapeake Bay (paid for by kickbacks from Halliburton) while he contemplates his report date into the federal prison system.

Walt

Walt

By ABS

April 25, 2007 4:05 PM | Link to this

I can still dream though, can’t I? You ruined my fun fantasy for the day!

By Midori

April 25, 2007 4:35 PM | Link to this

Miami Dade College to Bush: STAY THE F*CK AWAY!!

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2007 4:49 PM | Link to this

1) Because when you got to go you got to go.

2) I wouldn’t go into those Oval Office bathrooms this soon after Billy Jeff and friends either.

Wally,

Authoring a position paper that the Supreme Court finds issues with is not a criminal act.

By @@

April 25, 2007 6:54 PM | Link to this

Well of course you would see this as a great piece ml. It gives you the opportunity to refer to Bush as a lunatic.

What greater joy can there be for a radical leftist? You celebrate the division within this country and see it as a way through the door in ‘08.

Loyalty is something that escapes you. Pandering politicians is something that escapes you. Party politics? Now that one, you’ve got down pat.

For Ignatius to quote Republican representatives without giving their names. That’s a tactic of the left.

For Republicans to make those comments without permission to use their names is cowardice.

What’s with the I don’t knows. I don’t know.

I do know that Clinton had to offer no justification in his firing of “ALL” U.S. Attorneys. I DON’T KNOW why that was.

Valerie Plame declared she was “covert” but admitted that she “DIDN’T KNOW” whether her covert status fell within the legal definition of “covert”. I DON’T KNOW why she wouldn’t. It seemed to be awfully important in her scheme of things.

I guess it all depends on what the definition of “IS” is. You’d have to ask Bill about that one.

There are the “I don’t knows” and then there “is” the “I don’t Nooooooooooose” and Bill’s is a big one too. Aesthetically speaking, that is.

Loyalty isn’t a fault in my eyes. How in the hell are you going to attract good people to politics when they run the risk of being dropped for political expediency.

I just don’t know ml. Do you?

By TrooJunkie

April 26, 2007 2:56 PM | Link to this

Dear RW, @@ and friends, Regarding W: First: I didn’t see the word “lunatic” or even its implication in Ignatius’s column. (Thanks, Mike, for a great link.) Rather, the columnist clearly presented evidence of W’s incompetence and the stupidity of his decisions.

Second: Regarding Iraq. Do you really believe it was the “crooked Democrats” and “radical leftists” who manipulated the White House Counsel and Justice Department to allow our government to spy on us? Or who falsified intelligence to justify the Iraq invasion, who failed to adequately plan for the post-invasion, and who RECKLESSLY under-manned our military presence (against military advice)?—-And, consequently, who allowed our soldiers and Marines to become targets stuck in the middle of murderous chaos? Not to be glib, but I thought those things were supposed to be our President’s responsibility.

Second: I’m just waiting to hear one of you repeat the canard that Democrats “embolden the enemy” by opposing the actions of an inept and venial Executive Branch. Sadly, the enemy was “emboldened” (as some put it) by the invasion itself, which was an open invitation to suicidal jihadists from throughout the region. They were “emboldened” by the largely preventable looting and lawlessness that followed our takeover of Baghdad.

Third: True, Congress—including both lefty nuts and righ-wing kooks— authorized the Commander in Chief to pursue this trumped-up war— Good for us for voting many of them out of office in November. It’s an example of the way real democracy (as in what our troops are fighting for) should and does work!

Same thing goes for the revisionist, reductionist blather of the Foxy Dittoheads that America was somehow hijacked by radicals at home who “lost” Vietnam. Actually, what we did was elect officials who used their constitutional power of the purse to implement our will and end the fruitless presence of the US in SE Asia. That’s exactly the example Pelosi, Reid, et al should follow!

By TrooJunkie

April 26, 2007 3:02 PM | Link to this

Whoops, there’s two “Seconds” above. I never said I could count …

By Fly-on-the-wall

April 30, 2007 9:00 AM | Link to this

I’m amazed about a number of things I’ve read here over the months I’ve been following this section. First, most of the more extreme right-wing supporters use a lot of foul language. Second, the right-wingers also always point to Clinton when things are going bad. Third, most of the left-wingers seem to be, at least at the surface, more articulate then the right-wing people. Fourth, the left-wingers seem to want to focus on getting rid of Bush & Cheney versus focusing on just healing the country and moving on. It has been interesting to read the comments of everyone here. Sometimes it feels like all of you must know each other quite well given the personal nature of the comments. Keep it up as it is entertaining at the very least but sad in that no one can come to any compromise and agree much of anything. Hopefully the more bitter posters from each side will either find help or quietly fade away.

By reebok

April 30, 2007 10:55 AM | Link to this

Great cartoon, and thanks for the link. Living in hyper-conservative Cobb County, I sometimes think there are no voices of sanity or reason left, and that Fox News and Sean Hannity really are controlling the political landscape.

By getalife

April 30, 2007 11:36 AM | Link to this

Tenet is pimping a book.

He could of spoke out when he got his fraud medal.

He is responsible for this fraud with the rest of them.

They should man up and turn themselves in to face the consequences of their actions in a world court.

That is how you surrender to a failed illegal occupation.

By ron

May 2, 2007 8:56 AM | Link to this

Good cartoon.I used to vote for the democrats once in a while,but when I see Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi standing together it makes me shudder.Is this the best they have?Where the hell are their leaders?They haven’t had anyone qualified for years.Al Gore,Ted Kennedy,Bob Kerry,the list of drones goes on.Where are the JFK’S,Even Bill Clinton?

By Peggy Davis

May 4, 2007 1:26 PM | Link to this

I am sure there is someone already selected to replace Gonzales. I would even suggest Gonzales was set up in a Rove win-win situation; either the AG firings went unnoticed, or Gonzales would take the fall, which would allow the administration to replace Gonzales under public pressure to do so. The president’s seeming defense of Gonzales is calculated to assure his loyalty after he is asked to resign.