JABbering Stooge

Bush’s colonoscopy confirmed what we’ve known all along:

Count 1: Conspiracy to Violate the Presidential Records Act. We the jury find the defendants GUILTY.

Count 2: Obstruction of Justice in the unlawful disclosure of a CIA operative’s identity. We the jury find the defendants GUILTY.

Count 3: Conspiracy to Commit Voter Suppression in the 2004 Presidential Election. We the jury find the defendants GUILTY.

Count 4: Conspiracy to Commit Voter Suppression in the 2006 Midterm Election. We the jury find the defendants GUILTY.

Count 5: Contempt of Democracy. We the jury find the defendants GUILTY.

Count 6: Conspiracy to Violate FISA. We the jury find the defendants GUILTY.

So The Most Holy George W. Christ recently signed an executive order (is Cheney subject to this?) regarding the rapidly deteriorating situation in Iraq. What immediately drew my attention was this section of the order (bolding mine):

(B) undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people;

Those words: “economic reconstruction” strike me as being aimed at the Iraqi Parliament, which thus far has balked at The Commander Guy™’s demand for a law that would effectively require the Iraqis to cede control of the oil fields to foreign companies - preferably Bush cronies. Mr. Bush is, in effect, making the Iraqi Parliament “an offer they can’t refuse.”

But at the same time, Sara Robinson’s criticism that the executive order is so vaguely worded that it practically invites abuse is exceptionally valid. I mean after all, this administration’s long recorded history of taking a shit on the Constitution is well documented.

Perhaps Mr. Bush was trying to kill two birds with one stone. If so, I’ll see you in Gitmo.

Via AMERICAblog:

* <Latin Nerd>Cato the Elder’s famous saying “Carthago delenda est” uses the passive periphrastic form of the second-conjugation verb deleo (delere, delevi, deletus/-a/-um), which means to destroy or erase. In order to make the phrase relevant to JetBlue’s submission to O’Reilly’s “Victory Through Intimidation” tactics, I changed the phrase to be in perfect passive form.</Latin Nerd>