Courtesy of Slate.

"Each scandal is represented by a colored circle that encompasses the people who are implicated."

This is either pointed acidic humor, or a very real state of mind likely shared by republican golfers in my family.

What's your take?

Here's more evidence of the anti-democratic nature of the Bush administration that views itself as a regime that the people and its representatives ought not to question.

The Pentagon told U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton that voicing her views on withdrawing from Iraq is enemy "propaganda".

So, as the Bush administration implausibly vows that its latest mission is the formation of a democracy in Iraq to stop the 9/11 terrorists from leaving Iraq and coming to the United States (an outrageous lie), it has the nerve to call for halting domestic discussion of American foreign policy.

Make no mistake, the Bush administration is the enemy of democracy in the United States, and all measures ought to be considered to oust this out-of-control regime.

From the Guardian and A.P.:

By DEVLIN BARRETT Associated Press Writer

James Wigderson of Wigderson’s Library & Pub, a generally thoughtful rightwing website out of Waukesha, takes issue with the perceived inconsistency from two of my pieces on Paris Hilton and Lewis Libby.

On Paris Hilton (06/09), Wigderson accurately notes my reaction to her incarceration, quoting, “Taking away someone’s liberty should be a last resort of a society to inflict upon its citizens. But in America, it’s done with appalling frequency: By prosecutors looking to inflate their win-loss record, by judges for whom taking away someone’s liberty can make them look tough, and by spectator citizens for whom watching Hilton is a sick sideshow.”

And on Scooter Libby (07/02),
If there were any doubt that this administration believes that laws and rules are for other people, and that this government is theirs' to rule as they please, such doubts must be cast aside.

U.S. Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL) has had enough of the politicized prosecutions of the Bush/Rove Department of Justice.

Davis, a three-term congressman and member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, has taken up the cause of former Alabama governor Don Siegelman (D), roundly criticizing the DoJ prosecutions of him (one prosecution was dismissed) and calling for a Congressional investigation.

The bizarre conviction of Siegelman this year is drawing nationwide condemnation as a political prosecution engineered by Karl Rove, similar to the prosecution of the innocent Wisconsin state worker Georgia Thompson, now exonerated.

The White House Phone Number Is ...

202 456-1414

"It is time for the American people to be heard — I call for all Americans to flood the White House with phone calls tomorrow expressing their outrage over this blatant disregard for the rule of law." — Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del, reacting to the commutation of Lewis Libby who both leaked and covered up the leaking of a covert CIA agent's name after the agent's husband had exposed one of the main lies used to sell the Iraq war.

Call 202 456-1414.

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Disgrace.

Sure you have heard by now. If there were any doubt that this administration believes that laws and rules are for other people, and not them, and that this government is theirs' to rule as they please, such doubts must be cast aside.

We can no longer credibly assert that this is our government; this is a cabal accountable to no one; we do not live a democracy under this administration.

This commutation of a liar and an obstructor of justice will go down in the annals of American shame.

The reaction of the American people to this outrage will be revealing of the extent to which America remains a democratic republic as we head into Independence Day.

Statement by the President
The White House Office of the Press Secretary
Monday, July 2, 2007; 5:53 PM