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Citing personal financial reasons, Homeland Security Deputy Michael P. Jackson resigned today.

“The simple truth, however, is that after over five years of serving with the president’s team, I am compelled to depart for financial reasons that I can no longer ignore.” Jackson said in an email to staff.

Jackson’s resignation is effective October 26.

From late 2003 to 2005 Jackson worked in the private sector as senior vice president of AECOM Technology Corporation. In his e-mail today, Jackson said, “Today I become, in Washington’s argot, a lame duck.”

With 483 days left in the Bush Presidency, one can only wonder who will be next to jump ship.

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Only one problem with that statement Mr. Bush Your business IS our business!

The Bush Administration’s latest effort to tell the people to go F*CK ourselves came from the Justice Department today that said “records about missing White House e-mails are not subject to public disclosure.”

So not only are White House e-mails missing, but the records of those missing emails are being kept from us.

The Office of Administration estimates that at least 5 million (That’s with 6 zeros!) e-mails went missing between March 2003 to October 2005. Just “went missing”!

I call bullshit! 1, 2, 10, 15, maybe a 100 emails might get temporarily misplaced in the span of a year, not 5 million! This is the U.S. Government we are talking about, not a Mom and Pop newspaper stand in the middle of a corn field somewhere. Where’s the IT department?

I’ve worked for companies that would ensure the emails employees received and sent were backed up and archived twice, on separate servers before they even received it. Is the Government trying to tell us that their IT department is staffed by the Three Stooges?

Hardly. Those emails are safe and sound in Cheney’s “man sized safe” in his office, or stored securely in the deepest, darkest depths of Rove’s ass!

The Bush Administration is breaking the laws of this country, and using the Constitution as a broom to sweep it’s skeletons under the carpet.

Impeachment should be put back on the table, for the whole lot of those crooks. I’m willing to think the country would be in better hands if it were run by the Postmaster General until the next election!

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Karl Rove, or “Bush’s Brain” as some like to call him sure has had a lot to say ever since he left the sanctuary of the White House’s West Wing.

After being protected under the much abused “Executive Privilege” security blanket which protected him from answering questions from Congress regarding the many scandals that have come from the Bush Administration, it seems now that he can’t keep his mouth shut. Unfortunately, what he has to say nowadays is mindless babble anyway.

This Sunday, Rove will appear on Face the Nation, Meet the Press, and Fox News Sunday to answer a variety of questions he no doubt will have approved prior to them being asked.

What will the media ask him? I wonder, I really really wonder? Will they ask him about the leak of Valerie Plame’s identity? Or his involvement in the firing of U.S. Attorneys? Or how about all of those emails that mysteriously disappeared?

The list goes on and on about all the questions that need to be asked and answered, but will they? I guess we’ll have to wait and see, but my gut feeling is that they will not.

Rather, we’ll have to sit and listen to him preach about how evil Hillary Clinton is, and the reasons she won’t make for a good president. Or maybe we’ll get treated to the inside scoop of Karl’s favorite flavor ice cream he liked to serve at his famous “ice cream Friday’s” at the White House!

So check your TV listings in your area, maybe there will be a good pre-season football game on instead, otherwise it’ll be another “there’s nothing good on TV” kind of Sunday.

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There has always been something about Dick Cheney that made me nervous. Was it his smarmy, shit eating grin? Or maybe it was because he always looked like a sleepy lizard looking for a warm rock to lay on that made me question his motives. Either way, there is something about him that reeks “evil” whenever you look at him.

That “evil” was once again used to put him and his office of the Vice President above the law. Cheney is refusing to co-operate with the Information Security Oversight Office, a unit of the National Archives by not complying with routine requests for data on his staff’s classification of internal documents.

All executive branches of the government routinely comply with the oversight requirements, including the National Security Council.

The National Archives is an executive branch department headed by a presidential appointee, and it is assigned to collect the data on classified documents under a presidential executive order. Its Information Security Oversight Office is the archives division that oversees classification and declassification. The executive order states that it applies to any “entity within the executive branch that comes into the possession of classified information.”

You can’t tell me that the office of the Vice President of the United States does not have in it’s possession any classified information!

So the bottom line is, at least in Cheney’s mind is that he and his office are above the law. But in our minds, as we know it to be true is Cheney and his office are hiding the skeletons of the Bush Administration’s evil doings.

Its a shame to see “the government of the people, by the people, for the people” slip silently into a coma because of the “holier than thou” pedestal the Bush Administration has perched themselves on.

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I was sick and tired of listening to Paul Wolfowitz’s reasons for keeping his job as head of the World Bank. Now I’m sick and tired of listening to his pleas to be treated fairly.

It’s infuriating to watch this drama unfold. After being found guilty of conflicts of interest, by a group of his peers, rather than being honorable and stepping down, he claims he is the victim of a “smear campaign!”

Get over yourself Wolfowitz! The only smearing going on around you, is the spit you drag through your hair to keep your comb-over in check!

Regardless of what he says, or thinks about himself, he’s guilty as charged. Everybody knows he used his influence to get his girlfriend, Shah Riza, a nice big fat raise and promotion.

In a quote from the New York Times, Wolfowitz declares he had been “held up to public ridicule” and “caricatured as a “boyfriend” who used his position of power to help his “girlfriend,” Mr. Wolfowitz said that “for the sake of the bank, and for your sake, this process has to be fair. I implore each of you to be fair in making your decision, because your decision will not only affect my life, it will affect how this institution is viewed in the United States and the world,”

Fair? Now he thinks he should be treated fairly? He’s worried about the bank’s image as it’s viewed in the United States and the World, when he’s the one who’s tarnished it! What the hell is wrong with him? Does he have some sort of chemical imbalance that we should know about? He brought this whole mess upon himself, and now he wants to be able to ride off into the sunset like a white knight! Once again, get over yourself Wolfowitz!

So now that the cat is out of the bag, he wants to “negotiate” his resignation! Or rather the Bush administration wants to negotiate his resignation!

We all know that corruption breeds more corruption. So now all of a sudden the Bush administration is acting as Wolfowitz’s negotiating team, claiming that if the board cleared Mr. Wolfowitz of misconduct, or at least said he acted in good faith and was not corrupt, the administration , which previously had rebuffed all suggestions that he resign , would talk about him stepping down.

In a statement from the White House, spokesman Tony Snow claimed, “The fact is that he made mistakes. They are not, in our view, firing offenses.” Coming from the Bush camp, of course they are not firing offenses! Neither were Cheney’s, Gonzales’s, Rove’s, or a handful of other Bush cronies” corrupt actions! But we”ve come to expect this from Bush, so it’s of little surprise.

The bottom line is Wolfowitz needs to go. Not on his (or Bush’s) terms either. Someone needs to be waiting for Wolfowitz in the parking lot tomorrow morning when he arrives for work, and immediately serve him with his walking papers. Then have security bitch slap him and escort him to the rock of obscurity where he can sit and wait for the rest of the corrupt “Bushies” to join him.

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