Sense of entitlement

Remember when Republicans made a big show of concern about the poor having a sense of entitlement to welfare? Well, I guess they fixed that.

Their lips are moving

The Bushists lie routinely, habitually, without conscience. It's not even news any more.

But how do you know that they're lying in furtherance of a conspiracy? Not a single one can remember anything about a topic.

Ron Fournier, on the other hand, is embarrassed by the release of his fawning email to Karl Rove. Sucking up to sources was his job, he defends. So this is why the AP sucks! It's a qualification.

Minutes to midnight

Is anyone surprised that the White House overwrote its email backups? Wake up Rip Van Winkle.

Let's add it up:

• They revealed this at the last possible moment...
• only when directly ordered to...
• despite missing emails being an issue in several investigations.
• They studied absent emails in secret...
• but won't release the study they're being sued to release...
• because, they claim, they (conveniently) think it's not reliable.

From the Washington Post's (better) coverage:

Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) told the National Archives in a letter last month that White House officials had told his investigators they found "numerous days with few or no emails for certain White House components" during a 2005 review of White House computer servers.

"More than two years after this problem was first discovered by White House staff," Waxman said, "the White House still has not identified the cause of the problem, determined the volume of emails lost, or developed a plan for restoring those emails that were lost."

In a related controversy, House investigators have determined that hundreds of thousands of e-mails from former presidential adviser Karl Rove and other White House aides are missing because they were sent using external accounts set up by the Republican National Committee.

The White House is run by scofflaws.

Ain't I sweet? I could have called the Bushists a criminal conspiracy...

Would subpoenas be too harsh?

OK. Michael Mukasey has been sworn in. I don't blame the Bushists for keeping it private. Mukasey took an oath to the Constitution. Will the Democrats in Congress at least try to find out immediately if he takes that seriously, or if he'll continue to be a dutiful Bushist?

Please, Henry Waxman or Pat Leahy, push on Duhbya's new AG and find out. There's plenty of work due to make the Department of Justice a wee bit more transparent. Get started.

Keep turning over rocks

Henry Waxman knows how to find the corrupt Bushist slime. Of course, it's like falling out of a boat and finding water.