According to this article in the LA Times, John Kerry is finally ready to denounce the “Swift Boat” ads & challenge their veracity. Great, the only problem is that the 2004 elections, during which this was a major issue, were held back in 2004! Seriously, what fucking good does this do us now, over three years later?! Everybody knew the ads were false back then:

When the allegations against Kerry surfaced in 2004, a Los Angeles Times review of Vietnam-era public records generally supported the view put forth by Kerry and his crew mates — that he had acted courageously and came by his Silver Star, Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts honestly.

(Also, on a side note, can anyone read the last sentence without craving Lucky Charms?)

Hopefully, we won’t have to wait until 2011 for the Dems to respond to the “Swift Boats” of ‘08.

EDIT: I was thinking of doing a cartoon about this, but it looks like Matt Bors beat me to the punch.

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Wow. Today in Congress, the Republicans were voting in favor of impeaching Cheney & the Democrats were the ones doing everything they could to keep the articles in commitee.

House Democrats on Tuesday beat back a Republican attempt to force them to vote on a divisive resolution to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney for “fabricating a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction” to justify the war in Iraq.

Seriously, here’s yet another example of just how pathetic the Democrats have become. They are not an opposition party, people.

“Impeachment is not on our agenda,” said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.)

This basically tells Dubya & Co. that they can do anything they want & the Democrats will let them get away with it: lie, cheat, steal, you name it.

The resolution said that Cheney, “in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of vice president,” had “purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States by fabricating a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to justify the use of the U.S. Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security interests.”

And the Democrats were voting against it. I just hope they don’t act surprised when Cheney starts bombing Iran.

Here’s the whole story.

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*Sigh*  At first, I was really shocked that Dianne Feinstein could even consider approving Bush’s latest AG nominee, Michael Mukasey.   However, now that I think about it, it’s not terribly surprising at all given her record over the years (she’s basically a “Democrat” in name only, kinda like Lieberman before he became an “Independent”).  Let’s just call this “Reason 7,932,548  I’m glad I’m a member of the Green Party.”

Buzzflash has a good piece on the whole thing, you can check it out, here.

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