Birmingham Blues

Stephen Colbert takes on Bush at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Go read. And then watch The Colbert Report while you can. It may be broadcast from Gitmo in the near future, and who knows if your cable channel will carry it.
Cross-posted at The Green Knight.

If Truthout has its story straight, Patrick Fitzgerald will ask the grand jury to indict Karl Rove on charges of perjury and lying to investigators in the Valerie Plame case.
Despite vehement denials by his attorney, who said this week that Karl Rove is neither a “target” nor in danger of being indicted in the CIA [...]

Blues reader and Dr. IQ Don is 73 today. Don, we’re glad you were born, and we hope you’ll be celebrating many more birthdays with us!

Geez, is there anyone in Washington who isn’t corrupt? Lester Crawford is being investigated for financial improprieties and lying to Congress. His lawyer says she has advised him to invoke the Fifth Amendment if he is asked about his actions as head of the FDA.
Crawford resigned in September, two months after the Senate [...]

Rush Limbaugh signed a plea agreement yesterday that will clear his record of drug charges if he remains in treatment for another 18 months, stays clean, and doesn’t break any (other) laws.
Let’s see what Rush had to say:
“Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, [...]

I’m off to Georgia this afternoon to visit with my parents — after I meet Blue Gal for lunch with the Over the Mountain Democrats. There’s too much going on in the world not to blog this weekend, with Iran’s president getting more and more belligerent and the possibility of a Rove indictment.
Bush is [...]

I missed something important in yesterday’s story about the Senate GOP’s proposal to give each of us a $100 check to ease the pain at the pump. That money is tied to opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling. This seems to be some kind of obsession with the Republicans, but how [...]

A congressional report shows that the military has been pursuing nearly 900 soldiers to collect $1.2 million in debt incurred through no fault of their own.
WASHINGTON (AP) - After suffering paralysis, brain damage, lost limbs and other wounds in war, nearly 900 Army soldiers ran up $1.2 million in debt because of the military’s “complex, [...]

I know this is just your garden-variety legal wrangling, or at least it is when you can afford high-powered attorneys, but it makes me laugh anyway. Scooter Libby’s lawyers argued that special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald had been given too much power and that the President should have appointed an investigator with the Senate’s approval. [...]

GOP Senators are proposing sending out $100 checks to Americans in order to ease the pain of high gas prices. They’re also demanding the tax records of the big oil companies to see if their unprecedented profits were gained through tax avoidance. And they want to rescind the recently awarded $2 billion in [...]