Document the Atrocities

It's the end of the week, and what a week it has been!!

For those of us who have been waiting for some justice, for someone in the Bush administration to FINALLY get his ass handed to him, for Patrick Fitzgerald (FITZ!) to tear down the iron curtain of the White House, to see a Neocon head go rolling down Pennsylvania Avenue - then this was the week to savor! Let's take a moment to celebrate I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's GUILTY verdict. 30 years isn't enough for outing a CIA officer (and let's face it, that's what they did) but it's a nice start. Obviously it would have been better to get 5 guilty counts rather than the 4/5 split, but why be greedy when the news is just so sweet? Nobody had more thorough coverage of the trial from beginning to end than Jane Hamsher and her amazing crew at Firedoglake, but Arianna and the folks at Huffington Post scored a HUGE coup with their in-depth and exclusive interview with "Juror Number 9".

Speaking of the Huffington Post, Ankush Khadori conducted an amazing interview with our own Lawrence Wright, which should be read, and can be read here.

Another spectacle in the news this week was the new low set by that horror show Ann Coulter. As of this afternoon, 7 newspapers had dropped that vampire from their roster and several large companies (thank you Verizon) have pulled all their advertising dollars from her website. Even the conservatives are starting to realize that fruit from the poison tree is, well, poison. Although some of the Republican candidates at CPAC last weekend have yet to denounce her hateful homophobia (hello, Rudy??). Even dear old Dick seems to have forgotten he begat one of those "faggots" Ann so lovingly refers to. Poor Mary Cheney. Poor Mary Cheney's illegitimate child (pray for them). How will Grandpa ever explain to that child his deafening silence while all his close conservative pals condemned the very existence of his daughter and future grandchild? So sad when conservatives eat their own.

Speaking of Rudy, if you haven't heard the one about how the Associated Press got conned into quoting the head of "Firefighters for Rudy" in a major story this week, you just gotta let the folks at Joshua Micah Marshall's Talking Points Memo tell you all about it.

It's nearly impossible to keep on top of all the Bush scandals this week much less throughout the last 6 years. But somehow that ditzy octagenarian David Gergen seems to have found a way.

It just seems like those Republican conservatives can't catch a break! Earlier this week at CPAC they honored a former military hero, Matt Sanchez. All those giddy neocons just couldn't wait to get their picture taken with the strapping young hispanic vet. Until they discovered his night job - as a gay male porn star. OOPS !! (By the way, I just heart John Aravosis and Americablog. It's the first thing I read every morning and the last I read at night. Can't live without him).

But without question, the most horrific, outrageous ongoing story was documented this week during the Congressional hearings on the Walter Reed debacle. I can barely contain my anger at these people - how dare they campaign and preach about "supporting our troops" while they destroy them in every conceivable way? Forget about putting them in an unwinnable, untenable situation. Forget about not giving them the body armor or sufficient weaponry to do their job. Forget about sending them to this insane war in the first place. But when they come home, wounded, sick, depressed, suicidal - how dare this administration refuse them proper care?! HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN ?!?!

Well, after that sombering news, I thought I'd end on an up note. It really does make a difference when Democrats are in charge. Yesterday Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats announced plans for a BINDING resolution to start bringing home the troops in 120 days. Bush says he'll veto it - Nancy Pelosi says "who cares?". It may be good to be King, but it's damn good to be the Majority Leader and Speaker of the friggin' house!

Have a good weekend !!