Up all night to do what's right

There's a front page post at Buckeye State Blog entitled Up all night to do what's right. We couldn't resist... You can watch the proceedings on C-SPAN. And it would probably be a good idea to keep an eye on Media Matters for any bias in the media coverage that alert citizens should respond to.

Quotes

"The President's decision to commute Mr. Libby's sentence is disgraceful. Libby's conviction was the one faint glimmer of accountability for White House efforts to manipulate intelligence and silence critics of the Iraq War. Now, even that small bit of justice has been undone. Judge Walton correctly determined that Libby deserved to be imprisoned for lying about a matter of national security. The Constitution gives President Bush the power to commute sentences, but history will judge him harshly for using that power to benefit his own Vice President's Chief of Staff who was convicted of such a serious violation of law." --Harry Reid "The President's commutation of Scooter Libby's prison sentence does not serve justice, condones criminal conduct, and is a betrayal of trust of the American people. The President said he would hold accountable anyone involved in the Valerie Plame leak case. By his action today, the President shows his word is not to be believed. He has abandoned all sense of fairness when it comes to justice, he has failed to uphold the rule of law, and he has failed to hold his Administration accountable." --Nancy Pelosi "Only a president clinically incapable of understanding that mistakes have consequences could take the action he did today. President Bush has just sent exactly the wrong signal to the country and the world. In George Bush's America, it is apparently okay to misuse intelligence for political gain, mislead prosecutors and lie to the FBI. George Bush and his cronies think they are above the law and the rest of us live with the consequences. The cause of equal justice in America took a serious blow today." --John Edwards

Pelosi in trouble? Rating for Congress same as Bush.

Crossposted from Left Toon Lane & My Left Wing click to enlarge What about CHANGE does Pelosi and Reid NOT understand? Are we still in Iraq? Yep. Do we have earmarks coming out our, well, ears? Yep. Is the President still in office, unimpeached? Yeppers on that one too. And the spin meisters like Rush Limbaugh eat it up and spew it back out for everyone to hear.

“Unseat Reid and Pelosi” Says Olbermann

Crossposted from Left Toon Lane & My Left Wing click to enlarge Keith Olbermann's Special Comment last night pretty much summed up my feelings on the Democrats idiotic move to continue to fund the war. We worked our fingers to the bone to get Dems into Congress for one MAJOR thing - to bring our troops home. Immigration, the national debt, the spotted owl all took a back seat to this most pressing issue. The Dems held all the cards, the President they are facing is the WORST IN HISTORY and wildly unpopular. Plus the Dems had the support of the people - a huge swath of We The People in fact. So what do they do? Cave. The capitulated. They threw the troops under the bus. God knows, the Dems in Congress don't want to be made to feel uncomfortable.