Alberto Gonzales Wants His Appointment With The Senate Judiciary Committee Moved Up

  It looks as if Roberto Gonzales has canceled his family vacation plans and has instead gone into training camp for his upcoming performance in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee where he is expected to answer what will be more than a few questions about the firing of eight prosecutors. You know that story by now, so I'm not going there.

  It seems as if the Bush Crime Clan thinks that the testimony from Gonzales can't come soon enough so they are now trying to get the committee to move the date up from what was originally scheduled for April 17. This was after Gonzales asked for that date.

   Gonzo gets a one day training exercise on April 12 at a hearing on the Justice Department's budget for 2008.  He can get warmed up for his due date five days later.   Source

   If the prosecutor purge is going to be discussed at a budget hearing, then maybe the boys on the other side of the table can fine Gonzo every time that he tells a known lie on the subject.  Let us say that he is fined $2 million for every fable. The way that I figure it, we'll all know within an hour or so just how much influence Karl Rove and Bush had in the dismissals. Those two clowns certainly will not pay the ' fable fine ' for Gonzales so the little puke would more than likely speak up and spill his guts.    

    Just a thought. You must remember that in order to beat the crooks, you have to play their game, only in a much smarter way and within the laws. 

   I should also make note that the Democrats have said that Gonzo's appointment with destiny will not be moved up. That is great! Just lets the hoods sweat it out for a little while.

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Senator's Feingold and Reid To Introduce U.S. troop Withdrawal

   The clash over the Iraq war funding between Mr. Bush and the Senate is getting very interesting as of right now.

    Senator's Russ Feingold and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are introducing legislation that would stop the military mission in Iraq and begin the redeployment of the United States forces.

   From Russ Feingold's website:

April 2, 2007

Washington D.C. -­ U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced today that they are introducing legislation that will effectively end the current military mission in Iraq and begin the redeployment of U.S. forces. The bill requires the President to begin safely redeploying U.S. troops from Iraq 120 days from enactment, as required by the emergency supplemental spending bill the Senate passed last week. The bill ends funding for the war, with three narrow exceptions, effective March 31, 2008.

“I am pleased to cosponsor Senator Feingold’s important legislation,” Reid said. “I believe it is consistent with the language included in the supplemental appropriations bill passed by a bipartisan majority of the Senate. If the President vetoes the supplemental appropriations bill and continues to resist changing course in Iraq, I will work to ensure this legislation receives a vote in the Senate in the next work period.”

“I am delighted to be working with the Majority Leader to bring our involvement in the Iraq war to an end,” Feingold said. “Congress has a responsibility to end a war that is opposed by the American people and is undermining our national security. By ending funding for the President’s failed Iraq policy, our bill requires the President to safely redeploy our troops from Iraq.”

The language of the legislation reads:

(a) Transition of Mission - The President shall promptly transition the mission of United States forces in Iraq to the limited purposes set forth in subsection (d).

(b) Commencement of Safe, Phased Redeployment from Iraq - The President shall commence the safe, phased redeployment of United States forces from Iraq that are not essential to the purposes set forth in subsection (d). Such redeployment shall begin not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.

(c) Prohibition on Use of Funds - No funds appropriated or otherwise made available under any provision of law may be obligated or expended to continue the deployment in Iraq of members of the United States Armed Forces after March 31, 2008.

(d) Exception for Limited Purposes - The prohibition under subsection (c) shall not apply to the obligation or expenditure of funds for the limited purposes as follows:

(1) To conduct targeted operations, limited in duration and scope, against members of al Qaeda and other international terrorist organizations.

(2) To provide security for United States infrastructure and personnel.

(3) To train and equip Iraqi security services.

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