Cabinet: Attorney General

post from DemConWatch on 06 November 2008 11:52:00 PM. © DemConWatch

I know, you all want to play Secretary of State, and yes, we?ll get there. But we all have our issues, and one of mine is the reversal of what has happened to the rule of law in America. The United States is a country founded on the rule of law, and the Baby Bush administration evisceration of rights, laws, and morality has been extreme.

As per the website of the Attorney General:

The Judiciary Act of 1789 created the Office of the Attorney General which evolved over the years into the head of the Department of Justice and chief law enforcement officer of the Federal Government. The Attorney General represents the United States in legal matters generally and gives advice and opinions to the President and to the heads of the executive departments of the Government when so requested. In matters of exceptional gravity or importance the Attorney General appears in person before the Supreme Court. Since the 1870 Act that established the Department of Justice as an executive department of the government of the United States, the Attorney General has guided the world's largest law office and the central agency for enforcement of federal laws.

I want a REAL AG, someone who will respect the Constitution, enforce the laws, and prosecute all the members of the Baby Bush administration and related cronies who deserve it. I?d list them, but I?m pretty sure there?s a space limitation for blog posts, and I?d ram right through it.

Sadly, John Edwards, due to his immoral dalliances, is not on the list. If the affair could be overlooked (which it cannot) he would be a great choice. He knows the law, he has courtroom experience, which means he can pick juries, and therefore could select a great upper staff. He was a tenacious tiger in the courtroom, and has shown a great ability to find just the right section of laws to win his cases.
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Open Thread and Diary Rescue

post from Daily Kos on 06 November 2008 11:51:09 PM. © Daily Kos

Tonight's rescue rangers are ybruti, watercarrier4diogenes, Elise, Got a Grip, and vcmvo2, with Got a Grip editing.

Here are tonight's offerings....

Inspiration

Recalling the South in 1957, annie0313 tells of a brave African-American in Every Small Kindness Counts. (ybruti)

Hark takes us on his personal journey in Today I submitted my application for US citizenship. (Got a Grip)

bandicot relates a letter of great importance from his own father to the letter he wrote today in Nov 4, a letter to my sons. (Elise)

theantidesi101 says we may have lost this battle on LGBT equality, "but we will soldier on." On Prop 8. (Got a Grip)

Environmental Concerns

TheGreenMiles divulges the gory details of the Global Warming Deniers' Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. (Got a Grip)

JohnnyRook analyzes photographs to describe how ice sheets break up in Greenland and Antarctic Glacier Retreat Linked. (vcmvo2)

WattHead suggests there might be good reason to hope that President Obama will put his words on green technology into action in President-elect Barack Obama's New Energy Mandate, Part 1. (Got a Grip)

Unfinished Business

Grand Moff Texan explains in language that even a neocon should be able to understand that Elections Have Consequences. (Got a Grip)

Awash in a sea of Obama Day One diaries, BigAlinWashSt reminds that Bushco policies are still in effect in the world as 23 MORE Children were killed. (watercarrier4diogenes)

Avenging Angel examines how the far right's narrow religious vision has done them lasting, but not yet fatal, harm in The Republican War on Religious Freedom. (Got a Grip)

noweasels talks about Virginia's role in The Capitulation of the "Center-Right" Myth. (Elise)

cartwrightdale writes an Open Letter to Obama: I am a Type 1 Diabetic. (Elise)

jotter has High Impact Diaries: November 5, 2008.

Elise has Top Comments: Thank You.

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Obama to promote oversite at FDA

post from AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth on 06 November 2008 11:45:00 PM. © AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth

What a shocking concept. I'm afraid it's going to take time to rebuild the FDA back into the organization that it used to be but the process has to start. Ignoring the basic organizational responsibilities has been the Bush approach but those days are coming to an end.

Long seen as the government's premier consumer protection agency, the FDA stumbled under Bush. Recurring drug and food safety lapses came against a backdrop of shrinking budgets and long periods without a permanent leader. In Congress, a senior Republican complained the FDA had gotten too cozy with industry.

Obama is being urged to move quickly to appoint an FDA commissioner. Already more than a half-dozen names are in circulation: outside critics such as Cleveland Clinic cardiologist Dr. Steven Nissen; insiders such as Susan Wood, a former director of the FDA's women's health office; and public health advocates such as Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, Baltimore's health chief.

Food safety will be a priority for Obama's FDA. "He thinks this is a fundamental role of government to ensure that people's food is safe and he has been concerned that we are not in a position to ensure that," said Neera Tanden, a senior campaign adviser.

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Labor Pulls One Out

post from OutrageNation on 06 November 2008 11:42:00 PM. © OutrageNation

There may be hope yet for British PM Gordon Brown. He actually managed to help a Labor colleague pull off a victory.

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Open Thread

post from Crooks and Liars on 06 November 2008 11:30:46 PM. © Crooks and Liars

red sex blue sex_5e2e7.jpg Recommended reading: "Red Sex, Blue Sex". The New Yorker's Margaret Talbot explores why so many evangelical teen-agers become pregnant, and why there is such a hypocritical acceptance of teen pregnancy within the evangelical community. And yeah, relying on "abstinence only" education is only part of the problem.

Open thread below...

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Georgia Republicans Call in The Eye Candy For The
Recount.

post from Firedoglake on 06 November 2008 11:30:17 PM. © Firedoglake

I can see some of the ballot boxes from my house! You betcha.[...]

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Thursday Stuff

post from The Liberal Doomsayer on 06 November 2008 11:26:00 PM. © The Liberal Doomsayer

Jim Martin is still a Dem Senate candidate in Georgia; looks like he's headed to a runoff with the despicable Saxby Chambliss (trying hard not to say what I think of southerners who made a mockery of their franchise by returning Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao, Roger Wicker, John Cornyn AND Jim Inhofe - here's a chance to get it right for a change) ...

...they say pets are a reflection of their owner; this is Dubya's dog Barney in action (here - h/t HuffPo)...

...and FINALLY, we have the story of how McCain chose Palin over Holy Joe...

...Nickleback ("Gotta Be Somebody"; a nice little fan vid from YouTuber Nufkobo).

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The Epic Fail of the "Joe The Plumber" Strategy

On October 14th, Barack Obama explained his tax plan to "Joe" the "plumber;" on October 15th, at the final debate, John McCain began his exploitation of "Joe" as central to his claim that Barack is a socialist running to be "redistributionist in chief;"[...]

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C&L's Late Night Music Club with Paul McCartney
and Wings

And now, three-and-a-half minutes of seemingly fluffy/bouncy/goodfeel from the freshly post-Watergate year of 1975 that I've always suspected was not-very-obliquely referring to Richard Nixon and John Dean (among others), the "Saturday Night Massacre" and, when played backwards, Charo.

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Obama may create a "climate czar"

post from AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth on 06 November 2008 10:58:00 PM. © AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth

Good idea and it's about time the US joined the modern world. In Europe, countries (and the media in general) have a much stronger emphasis on climate impact and are constantly discussing the environmental impact of business, food, transportation, you name it. I recently watched a few tech vendors make presentations to large groups of corporate users and was surprised at how many people chose to join the discussions. It was all about the environmental impact (and cost savings due to energy savings) that brought people in. The subject is a top priority with many EU governments and it shows.

Governments can play a positive role in guiding the discussion as opposed to sitting on the sidelines and pretending as though the problem doesn't exist, as we've witnessed for eight years.

Environmental groups see Barack Obama?s presidential victory as a chance to undo the Bush legacy on global warming, and one idea they are discussing is the possibility of a White House ?climate czar?.

Activists say such a post could oversee various government agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department, to focus on tackling global warming and fostering clean energy to jump-start the flagging economy.

?For the first time, candidates and voters are really connecting the dots between energy, the environment and the economy,? said Cathy Duvall, Sierra Club?s political director. She said at a news briefing that Obama had made it clear that investing in cleaner energy would be a top priority in his plan for economic recovery.