The judge and attorneys in the Lewis “Scooter” Libby case slogged through more potential jurors Thursday to reach 30 qualified out of a necessary 36, prompting the judge to hope for better results when jury selection resumes Monday.
In three days of interviews, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton and the trial attorneys have disqualified 19 potential jurors, many after expressing negative beliefs about the Bush administration, which could lead to bias at the trial. Source
Oh, I get it. They only want people who are in love with BushCo to serve on the jury. I can’t say I blame them. A jury in love with Bush is more likely to find Libby not guilty. If their political beliefs on the Bush administration is the only reason they were disqualified, that seems wrong. After all, the jury is supposed to be a jury of your peers and Bush’s approval rating percentage is in the lower 30′s.
The Democrats are actually working, and working hard, at doing something good for the country after years of policies backed by Bush and his cronies were passed without so much as a thought by the Republican controlled Congress. First the anti-war resolution was passed, with some support from moderate Republicans and now the House votes to void $14 billion in tax cuts that BushCo gave their oil buddies.
“Big Oil is hitting American taxpayers in three ways,� said Representative Nick V. Rahall, Democrat of West Virginia and chairman of the House Resources Committee. “They are hitting them at the pump. They are hitting them at the Treasury, through the tax code. And they are hitting them through royalty holidays.�
I guess with the majority of the American public finally realizing the war was a bad idea and the reasons we went into war were lies, the Senate is finally going to stand up and do what they should have done years ago. It’s about time people stand up to Bush and his lies.
A group of senators that includes a prominent Republican war critic announced agreement Wednesday on a resolution opposing President Bush’s 21,500-troop buildup in Iraq, laying the groundwork for a major clash between the White House and Congress over the war.
The resolution would put the Senate on record as saying the U.S. commitment in Iraq “can only be sustained” with popular support among the American public and in Congress.
Here’s some more backwards thinking by Republicans. Didn’t they try to pass off as the party of inclusion in the last election?
A state legislator said black people “should get over� slavery and questioned whether Jews should apologize “for killing Christ,� drawing denunciations Tuesday from stunned colleagues.
Del. Frank D. Hargrove, 79, made his remarks in opposition to a measure that would apologize on the state’s behalf to the descendants of slaves.
In an interview published Tuesday in The Daily Progress of Charlottesville, Hargrove said slavery ended nearly 140 years ago with the Civil War and added that “our black citizens should get over it.�
Does Hargrove realize that the Civil Rights movement happened just 40 years ago? The Civil War may have ended 140 years, but the injustices against minorities didn’t end until much later, and some could argue (and rightly so) that there is still a lot of inequality in the United States. Read the rest of the story here.
The Pentagon announced the death of a Texas soldier on Sunday, raising the number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq to at least 3,000 since the war began, according to an Associated Press count.
The milestone was crossed on the final day of 2006 and at the end of the deadliest month for the American military in Iraq in the past 12 months. At least 111 U.S. service members were reported to have died in December.
American deaths in the war reached the sobering milestone even as the Bush administration sought to overhaul its strategy for an unpopular conflict that shows little sign of abating. Read more…
Let’s remember why this war started in the first place. It was the Bush Administration that made the unthinking public believe that Iraq had something to do with 9/11. This unnecessary war won’t end.
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