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To: Dale Baker who wrote (29630)	10/3/2006 12:34:23 AM
From: wonk	Read Replies (2) of 540784

Three days after the probably the most heinous piece of legislation ever passed by the US Congress (the Military Commissions Act) and Washington is in full bore meltdown. ...The National Intelligence Estimate declares that the war in Iraq in increasing terrorism worldwide Colin Powell say he was fired Rice is on the verge of having to resign [WH / State throws her under the Bus: ww] Bill Frist say that the Taliban should rule Afghanistan [subsequently semi-retracted: ww] The White House met with Jack Abramoff 485 times, and had a huge amount of influence. [and knew about the upcoming Iraq invasion in March 2002: ww] Bob Woodward comes out with a book saying the Bush administration is lying about Iraq. Droves of Republicans are under investigation for something I'm sure that I am forgetting some stuff too. But there is this other thing that is going on: For five years, most of the Republican leadership covered up for and protected a Republican congressman / sexual predator who was targeting young pages who worked on Capitol Hill. And the establishment media is saying jus that. The Republican House Leadership has been figuratively decapitated as a result, and now can't speak effectively on anything. The Republican response has been to blame the pages, blame each other, block investigations, call the incident unimportant, blatant lying, and show once again just how homophobic and ignorant they really are. Because defenses like that really work. And they did it all because they were worried it might cost them power.... mydd.com I cannot think of anything which compares to the avalanche of the last 3 days, except perhaps the revelation of the Smoking Gun tape in 1974. Though maybe time has embellished the memory… ww

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