Wednesday AM Stuff

Dubya sets a record; can he go lower still? Unfortunately, we'll find out...



Update: And I would assume that this has a lot to do with it...

To the Editor:

Thank you for calling for greater inquiry into the Bush administration’s violations of the War Crimes Act, the Anti-Torture Act, the Convention Against Torture, the Geneva Conventions and other domestic and international laws.

It is not “backward looking” to seek answers and ultimately take legal action where the laws have been violated. We don’t hear prosecutors in this country refuse to investigate and prosecute a criminal suspect because that would be too “backward looking.”

Yet when mounting evidence suggests criminality at the highest level of government, the politicians (both Democrats and Republicans) quickly protect each other with rhetoric about “looking forward, not backward.”

Imagine if every other criminal suspect in this country were given such solicitude!

Daniel Schramm
South Royalton, Vt.
April 20, 2008

...and here's a neat campaign ad for Joe Garcia in Florida's 25th congressional district (h/t Matt Stoller at Open Left).