…a little bit lower now.
First:
"Asked at a June 10, 2004 news conference if he stood by his pledge to fire anyone found to have leaked Plame's name, Bush answered, 'Yes. And that's up to the U.S. attorney to find the facts.'"
MSNBC, July 19, 2005
Next:
"President Bush said yesterday that he will fire anyone in the administration found to have committed a crime in the leaking of a CIA operative's name, creating a higher threshold than he did one year ago for holding aides accountable in the unmasking of Valerie Plame.
After originally saying anyone involved in leaking the name of the covert CIA operative would be fired, Bush told reporters: "If somebody committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration."
This is a small, but potentially very significant, distinction, because details that have emerged from the leak investigation over the past week show that Karl Rove, Bush's top political aide, and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, discussed Plame with reporters before her name was revealed to the public. "
Washingtonpost.com, July 19, 2005
Deceit:
"I respect the jury’s verdict. But I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive. Therefore, I am commuting the portion of Mr. Libby’s sentence that required him to spend thirty months in prison."
Bush, in a statement on June 5, 2007.
This president sickens me.
Photos
This past weekend I went and took my photo for my new Costco card. I look like a bugged-eyed old lady meth head. The photo is all grainy and my jaw is all angly and weird... it's alien in its inhuman representation of me.
I look like an apple doll.
Seriously, I just know that someday I will be abducted or somehow disappear in some kind of strange accident, and the only photo of me available will be my friggin' Costco card photo. The absolute worst, most horrific picture of me EVER will be blasted all over the television and Missing Persons posters.
And I will come back from being tortured and brutalized by my captors, and that photo's release will be insult on top of injury. Because even after the beatings and the starvation, it will still look like some alien, inhuman representation of me.
Perpetually anxious/simultaneously exhausted mom of a blended family of 7 kids & 2 pets. Writer about same. Wife to one amazingly patient husband. Drinker of wine. 




