5 years too late, dickwad
By Thoreau
Tom Ridge has finally admitted that maybe, just maybe, creating a giant color-coded national mood ring and using to scare the shit out of the public might actually have been part of a plot to manipulate the public into voting for Bush.
I would be willing to reinstate the entire Bush administration just so we can impeach them all, then reinstate them and impeach them all again, then dump them into a maximum security prison and put up a web cam so we can watch their gang initiation ritual, or whatever it is that the inmates decide to do with them.
UPDATE: Eric makes a good point in the comments. I would be absolutely delighted if this plan were impossible to carry out due to improved prison conditions.
Comment by Kevin Carson —
August 21, 2009 @ 3:41 am
It would be my fondest wish to see Cheney, Yoo and Gonzales all die in prison. Preferably a maximum-security one. If those guys don’t get life sentences without parole, then we owe the Nuremberg defendants an apology.
Comment by Seward —
August 21, 2009 @ 11:41 am
thoreau,
FWIW, apparently LoneWacko (I know) spotted Ridge saying something like this five years ago: http://www.reason.com/blog/show/135569.html
Comment by Seward —
August 21, 2009 @ 11:41 am
Er, four years ago.
Comment by Seward —
August 21, 2009 @ 11:47 am
I guess I should have read further down the scroll. Many apologies.
Comment by Stu —
August 21, 2009 @ 11:55 am
Hey, Tom, you know when would have been a good time to let us all know that Bush was manipulating the Department of Homeland Security to help himself get re-elected? BEFORE HE WAS RE-ELECTED!
Comment by Seward —
August 21, 2009 @ 12:03 pm
Stu,
Shouldn’t that be the general assumption about any person running for re-election until proven otherwise?
Comment by Thoreau —
August 21, 2009 @ 12:26 pm
Kevin,
Don’t forget Bybee, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Feith, Addington, Ashcroft, Powell (yes, even the one the public considers a saint, due to the performance he gave at the UN), and a bunch of others.
I want them in general population. And I want the prison guards to all take a coffee break at the same time.Comment by BDB —
August 21, 2009 @ 1:16 pm
In that vein, on CNN last night they said, “Cheney was already close to crossing the line in October 2004″.
Gee, ya don’t say, CNN? Why didn’t you say something then?
Comment by Eric the .5b —
August 21, 2009 @ 1:17 pm
I’d prefer the thorough reform to make sure no part of the government, state or federal, allows torture and brutalization to happen to prisoners, detainees, or whatever we’re calling them this week. Even if it protects the last administration in the nigh-impossible event of their imprisonment.
Comment by Thoreau —
August 21, 2009 @ 7:53 pm
BDB-
Crossing what line? Link?
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Comment by BDB —
August 22, 2009 @ 10:05 am
“Crossing what line?”
They said he “Crossed the line” when he basically suggested that if Kerry won, an American city would be nuked. Remember that?
Comment by joe from Lowell —
August 22, 2009 @ 12:33 pm
Olberman had a lengthy review of suspiciously-timed terror alerts last night.
I’d forgotten how bad it was.
Comment by All Your Summer Songs —
August 22, 2009 @ 6:11 pm
I’m already getting the popcorn ready for when Stephen Hadley’s authoritative biography of Cheney comes out. Not ’cause he’s going to tell the truth, but for the simple reason I want to know how transparent the lies will be. I am thinking “very”. But then, subtlety was never the strong-suit of the Wauwatosa GOP.