Too late for a shredder

The AP awakens from its slumber long enough for Matt Apuzzo to slap down the Bushist deregulators and their favored lobbyists at the root of the mortgage crisis:

The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed, buckling to pressure from some of the same banks that have now failed. It ignored remarkably prescient warnings that foretold the financial meltdown...

Careful there, you might commit journalism!

(h/t R. Neal at KnoxViews)

Testify, brother!

David Vitter's nightmare: He's on the stand, trying not to say anything interesting enough to make the evening news, when he realizes he's not wearing any clothes and the hooker from the Big Easy that he called by his wife's name is on her knees in front of him. Oh, God! The sin...

And Eliot Spitzer comes running in with his checkbook open...

AUMF means All U MFs shut up

We're the Bushists. We have the power to do any goddamn thing we want.

The Bush administration argued yesterday that when Congress authorized military action against the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists, it also gave the president the power to detain people who never took up arms against the United States.

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The Justice Department acknowledges that Parhat never fought against the United States and says it has no evidence he planned to do so. Yet government lawyers contend he can be held under the law authorizing military force against anyone who "planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks" of 2001.

With these Orwellians in power, not only is the Constitution no longer in force, but the damn English dictionary is history, too.

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