Cooper savages Rove in Time!

Crossposted from Dameocrat Blog This is what Cooper wrote about what he said to the Grand Jury according to Time as relayed by Yahoo News This is very disquieting indeed!

   “Rove was first source on CIA agent – Time reporter – Yahoo! News: “So did Rove leak Plame’s name to me, or tell me she was covert? No. Was it through my conversation with Rove that I learned for the first time that Wilson’s wife worked at the CIA and may have been responsible for sending him? Yes. Did Rove say that she worked at the ‘agency’ on ‘WMD’? Yes,‘ Cooper wrote in Time’s current edition.

    ‘When he said things would be declassified soon, was that itself impermissible? I don’t know. Is any of this a crime? Beats me,’ Cooper wrote.

    He also wrote that he was not certain what Rove meant by commenting he had already said too much.

Ok, I think Rove has had it now!  I can’t see anyway around this.

Christians attempt takeover of South Carolina

Crossposted from Dameocrat Blog! Strange story! I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I would not like this if I were South Carolinian. On the other hand, it would be undoubtedly good for the rest of the country to lose some of their Religious Right types to South Carolina. Afterall, the state’s politics have already been taken over by “Christian” Conservatives, more or less, and it can’t get any worse than it presently is.
 

OX Carolina The Ten O’Clock News Christian Exodus Planned For South Carolina: “Plans to reform our government to more Christian-like principals are in the works and we may feel the effects, right here in the Upstate. That is because South Carolina has been chosen as the place for hundreds, even thousands of Christians to move to, in hopes of impacting the government. But people who live here have mixed opinions about the Christian Exodus.

Denise Collins-Bennett lives in Florence, SC and says, ‘I guess it’s great to have more Christian groups moving here.’

Here, is South Carolina: the chosen location for the Christian Exodus, a non-profit group organizing Christians to move to the Palmetto State to concentrate the number of Christians in one location with the intent to influence how the state governs. A plan that some residents say we need.

‘I think it’s fantastic, I think we need more of that actually. I don’t know which direction our government is heading in, but I think they need Christian influence, it would go a long way, I really think so,’ says Mauldin resident, Reggie Brow”

A Quarter of a Million Dollars Per Settler

Here are some interesting insights from Charlie Reese on the disengagement crisis in Israel.  I know he is a Conservative, but he makes sense on this issue, and a persons views on Israel don’t correlate to party anyway.  The peace wing of the democrats is pro two states.  The dlc wing is anti two state solution. The paleocons in the republican party are pro two state solution, the neocon/fudnamentalist wing is anti two state solution.
 

 A Quarter of a Million Dollars Per Settler – by Charley Reese: “A Quarter of a Million Dollars Per Settler
    by Charley Reese

    The state of Israel – which, the last time I checked, was both a foreign and a sovereign nation – wants the American taxpayers to cough up $2.2 billion in addition to our regular $3 billion-or-so annual subsidy to pay for the withdrawal from Gaza.

    Unless the American people raise hell about this, it’s a done deal. In Washington, whatever Israel wants, Israel gets. Nevertheless, there are several reasons why the American people should rebel at the latest brazen attack on our treasury by Israel and its American supporters.

    First, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decided unilaterally to withdraw from Gaza. This was in lieu of following the president’s peace plan, which Sharon has ignored from the very beginning. Where is it written, on stone or parchment or paper, that the head of a foreign government can decide to do something unilaterally and automatically send the bill to the American taxpayers? We will derive no benefits at all from the withdrawal.

    Furthermore, Sharon’s adviser spilled the beans in an Israeli newspaper interview. The withdrawal from Gaza is not part of any peace plan. It was just an excuse to put off serious peace negotiations. Sharon will remove about 8,000 settlers from Gaza who are a pain in the government’s rear end anyway, shut down four tiny settlements on the West Bank, and that’s it. As Sharon’s adviser admitted, there won’t be any serious negotiations with the Palestinians until they ‘turn into Finns.'”

I would normally agree with Charlie on matters relating to the funding of Israel, but I think he is being unpragmatic, and far too cynical. First of all disengagement, even if it was not negotiated, will be of practical benefit to the US. Many polls of people in the middle east show that the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank is the number one complaint against the US on the part of the Arab world. Al Qaeda definitely brings this up whenever they have made pronouncements in public. Getting Sharon to leave by any means necessary will dry up potential Al Qaeda recruts.

Another thing Charlie is failing to comprehend is that Sharon completely miscalculated the affect settler violence would have on the Israeli middle. Sharon believe that it would cause them to think disengagement wasn’t worth the trouble, so they would give up on disengaging from the rest of the occupied territories in the west bank. Instead, settler radicalism has inspired so much contempt from the mushy middle, that it wants to uproot the rest of settlers too.

Secondly, our capitulation to Israel is not just a result of weak willed politicians. There are really bad political consequeces if you don’t give aipac what it wants. The pro-Israel lobby has run several successful primary challenges against those who opposed their projects. Ed Hilliard, and Cynthia McKinney come to mind. There was a reason Fritz Hollings didn’t denounce AIPac until he announced retirement from the Senate. Anyone, who proposed a cut in aid to Israel can expect his/her political career to die a nasty death. The pro-Israel lobby will tell its voters that the politician doesn’t support Israel, and an opponant will be funded generously. It isn’t  primarily the Conservative Jews who will finance your opponant. They are a dinky minority, within a dinky minority. It is the religious right, inspired by a belicose christian zionsim who can command the money and votes of at least 25% of the population. .

Finally, no-one asked us ordinary folks whether we wanted to support the settlements in the first place, and frankly the vast majority of us didn’t complain about it either, so why should we get in a snit now that they are at least beginning to disengage? I for one and happy to pay for them to leave if I don’t have to finance the settlements in the future!

This is crossposted from my Dameocrat Blog

Kos Anonymous friendly board!

The board is open to all disgruntled dems. It’s shameless plug but I have just created a forum specifically just for Kos Anonymous types.  You are all welcome to post there. http://p097.ezboard.com/bstrayroots.  Also visit my new blog.  http://dameocrat.blogspot.com/
I think the reason it is unfair for Booman to expect you to post this stuff on Kos is that Kos has banned you so you obviously can’t.