Katrina vanden Heuvel: Death Bed Czars (The Nation)

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BLOG | Posted 05/23/2007 @ 12:20pm
Death Bed Czars

Katrina vanden Heuvel

As a group of self-posturing macho men not afraid of a little torture, the Republicans do seem to have a habit of trying to take advantage of people when they are literally on their sick beds. Newt Gingrich handed his first wife the divorce papers while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer. Tom Delay and Bill Frist sought, and fortunately failed, to score political points over Terri Schiavo. And now we've learned that Alberto Gonzales made a hospital call to get warrantless wiretaps OK'd.

In riveting Senate testimony worthy of a spy thriller, former Deputy Attorney General James Comey described how then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and Chief of Staff Andy Card raced to a hospital in March 2004 to pressure ailing Attorney General John Ashcroft to approve what he, Comey, and FBI Director Robert Miller considered to be an illegal, unconstitutional power grab by the Bush administration. In a rare profile in courage, all three threatened to resign, forcing President Bush to order changes in the program.

"I was very angry," Comey testified. "I thought I had just witnessed an effort to take advantage of a very sick man."

So whom did the White House pick to replace Ashcroft after he had defied Bush? Why Alberto Gonzales, of course.

Big Brother is alive and well.

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[Justitia]

1. & here in TX, we are one vote away from Voter ID - the vote of a Dem experiencing organ rejection,

he's had a hospital bed set up just outside where the votes are taking place.

TX State Senator Mario Gallegos is experiencing liver rejection. His doctors said he might die if he stays to vote in Austin. The republicans know this and keep scheduling votes on Jim Crow laws, hoping he misses them.

They are the lowest of the low. They know he is literally RISKING HIS LIFE to stay & vote against these Jim Crow laws and they are making him do it.

Unfuckingbelievable!