How’s this one going to end ....

Obama releases the “Torture memos” detailing the cruel and hideous pink belly and death by caterpillar and ladybug technique used on the individuals who planned 9/11, but throws the caveat in there that there will be no prosecutions even though these acts were despicable and didn’t accomplish anything.

Hayden and Gates call Obama a jackass for doing this and say that it will make his job much harder

Then Cheney comes out swinging and says why not release them all including all the actionable intelligence we got from them and the attacks they stopped.

Now Obama says “on second thought, I might just be open to prosecuting individuals from the former administration on this”

So, how does this one end? Does Obama back down or does Cheney? Cheney certainly has nothing to lose as Obama has upped the ante by reversing his prior decision, now being “open” to prosecution of former administration officials.

Cleary Obama wasnt prepared for a response like this, or perhaps he was ... after all with 100's of billions flowing out the door at the Treasury, this makes for a nice distraction.

The left is just dying for its pound of flesh but will Obama spend his energy here, especially if Cheney is correct. What does he have to gain aside from throwing some red meat to the left?

My prediction

Option A: there is no release of the documents Cheney wants made public, Obama quietly backs away from his threat, Cheney quiets down and the Left seethes.

Option B: Cheney doesn’t drop it, Obama still wont release them but they get leaked, Obama loks like a schmuck and the left accuses Cheney’s “stay behind army” of running a shadow government and leaking the material.

Ever wonder why the IDF attacks ambulances?

Wonder no more.

via NRO Media Blog

Dinner with a terrorist

This item about someone paying $450 for a dinner date with Bill Ayers is kind of depressing but comment 2 from David made it worth reading:

His living room, I hear, is A GREAT place to kick off your political career.

Because Police Arent People

From the same paper that wouldn’t let John McCain publish and editorial, even though it allowed The Dear Leader to during the campaign, the NY Times once again reinforces my delight over it’s impending collapse by letting William Ayers pollute its pages.

The Weather Underground crossed lines of legality, of propriety and perhaps even of common sense. Our effectiveness can be — and still is being — debated. We did carry out symbolic acts of extreme vandalism directed at monuments to war and racism, and the attacks on property, never on people, were meant to respect human life and convey outrage and determination to end the Vietnam war.

I suppose that since Sergeant Edward J. O'Grady Jr, Sergeant Brian McDonnell and Officer Waverly Brown don’t technically qualify as people to Ayers because of their participation in and propagation of the white male patriarchical corporate fascist states of Amerika.

You know, for someone who rails against white privilege as much as Ayers does, he didn’t mind it too much when his daddy, CEO of Commonwealth Edison and friend of the Chicago Political Machine, used his influence and money to hire Billy boy the best lega team money could buy.

Eric Holder

America, meet your new Attorney General.

Does this Bother Anyone?

When a "president-elect" and "respectable" journalists :cavort with terrorists

Early on in the panel discussion, the moderator, Joshua Micah Marshall, editor and publisher of the political blog Talking Points Memo, asked Ms. Dohrn what it was like for her and her husband to play cameo roles in the campaign.

She said they felt “tremendously lucky to have been together for almost 40 years now.” She added that they were still “proud radicals,” and were “definitively not now, or then, terrorists.”

Not to say that Marshall is anything other than a slimy shit eating prick, but doesn’t it bother anyone that members of the media are now sitting on, what essentially are the equivalent of teabagging sessions, with these people?