Telegraph:

Here's something rather rotten from the State of Denmark. Its government yesterday unveiled official research showing that two-year-old children are at risk from a bewildering array of gender-bending chemicals in such everyday items as waterproof clothes, rubber boots, bed linen, food, nappies, sunscreen lotion and moisturising cream.

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Glenn Greenwald:

Interesting times:

(TPM link)

So, as far as I can tell, Rep. Jane Harman [D-Ca] was conspiring with the Israelis to drop some spy charges in exchange for some lobbying on her behalf, and Alberto Gonzales had an NSA warrantless wiretap™ (wait for it) on her phone and overheard the deal.

In exchange for not investigating, Gonzales asked her to attack the NYT's exposé on (wait for it) NSA warrantless wiretapping. The one she had personally requested be held back until before after the 2004 election (Department of With Democrats Like These, anyone?)

And so she goes free, although the Israelis didn't get her that committee chair she wanted in the first place.

One has to wonder just how much dirt Hoover Gonzales and Rove had on everyone in Washington, and more importantly, how many other favors they blackmailed out of people. And it certainly explains some of those bizarre, neo-Maoist ritual apologies.

So I included "impeachment" in the tags because I've got a dollar right here that says, before his first term is over, one or another Congresscritter is going to ride the wave of the guaranteed to happen future Obama-hating by introducing a bill of impeachment against him, esp as the Bailout fallout speeds the rate at which the economy tanks and nothing gets better for Little People, and brighter Republicans take advantage of the natural opportunity Obama and his bailout buddies have provided them. But I had the thought, even as I realize this blog is already sort of a running one, that we should create "The List" of Obama's various betrayals and failures to live up to his label of "Democrat" and otherwise chooses to shit upon the progressive and liberal element to his party. I'm betting it's going to be a long list, over the next four years. And Oborg members: please don't whine at me that "he's not yet in office." If you think he's not already directing the actions and statements of the Dem party as its leader, you don't know much about how the Village works. I said I'd wait until after the election and I lived up to that. Now, I want my promised results. Or does "compromise" and "unity" only mean such between center-rightists and far-right theocrats and neocons? Sorry, but lefties like me aren't going away, and we're not going to shut up.

I'll go first.

1. Ordering Senate Dems to "make nice" with Lieberman, and allow him to keep his chair and other Senate privs, in the name of "working together." Hint from the Wise, Mr. President-Elect: you can't do business with traitors who stab you in the back (and front). They'll fuck you over every time.

Your turn, Gentle Readers.

When last we spoke with activist Mimi Evans, she and several other concerned citizens were scheduled to meet with Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY, from the fightin' 10th), as they previously had with Rep. Yvette Clark (D-NY, from the fightin' 11th).

Mimi reports that both have agreed to support H. Res. 333, to impeach Dick Cheney.

Congrats to Mimi and all for reaching out to Reps in their area. And thank you to Mr. Towns and Ms. Clarke for listening to the message from the country!

[Welcome, After Downing Street readers!]

I recently spoke with Mimi Evans, a New York-based progressive activist whose day job is raising money for non-profits.

She's so passionate and articulate about the peace and impeachment movements that I wouldn't have felt right about chopping her comments into textbites. So, this runs somewhat longer than I usually post.

Here, she introduces herself:

I started out protesting Bush in January, 2001 when I went to Washington with thousands of other outraged Americans after he stole the election from Gore. That was my first taste of what lay ahead.

Busloads of people, mostly '60s leftovers like myself, had descended on Washington to be met with heavily armed riot police, helicopters, snipers, and a bad attitude. At the end of the day some guy — cold and drenched and discouraged, like I — turned to me and said, "Well, it's only gonna be four years. How bad could it be?"

Thirty-three years ago today, President Nixon announced his resignation to the American people. On August 9, 1974, he left office, famously flashing his twin peace signs before boarding Marine One.

I expect that the viewers at that time privately flashed him the "bird" back.

There has been a vigorous debate and able advocacy in the Mighty Corrente Building regarding the impeachment of Bush and Cheney. I had been somewhat resistant to the idea until I had the chance to read Federalist Paper Number 65 by Alexander Hamilton speaking of the jurisdictional limits of impeachment:

The subjects of [Congressional] jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust. They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated POLITICAL, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.

I know I should not write on politics, but this hits me where I live. I was talking with a friend about his affair with a married woman whose husband is assigned away from the US. It is a sad story, and it is one I have heard mirrored many times. It is one with all the other stories that, like mad cats drawn from the same sack, scratch and claw at us. So forgive me being weak, and writing on a topic that should be forbidden to anyone who must by profession be faceless, blank and without core or surface soul. Forgive me for saying this.

Come home America, come home.

Okay, at the last minute he was reminded that what he was doing was unconstitutional and added a sentence. But if Murray Waas is to be believed, there's something really, really fishy here.

Can't quote a lot out of the National Journal, and this is a moderately long piece. Really quite balanced--all relevant "Clinton did it too!" excuses are noted. But Abu Al basically delegated to Sampson and Goodling--who had maybe one actual prosecution between them as legal experience--authority to take dictation from the White House on hiring and firing decisions of all non-Civil Service Justice Department employees.

And hide it from Congress.

oopsie...Abu Al may have to come back and sit with the dunce Can't Recall cap on again for awhile longer.

Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi has handed his resignation to the country's president after losing a crucial foreign policy vote in the Senate.

You've seen half the war criminals in this picture hanged.

But all the war criminals in this one are still free:

Or words to that effect at Americablog...here.

Rock on, John. I feel movement.

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Okay, I don't know if Ms. Ivins has siblings, or if they have offspring, so as to make her "Aunt Molly" to anybody really. The line was just too good to pass up:

For those of you who have forgotten just what a stonewall paranoid Nixon was, the poor man used to stalk around the White House demanding that his political enemies be eliminated. Many still believe there was a certain Richard III grandeur to Nixon's collapse because he was also a man of notable talents. There is neither grandeur nor tragedy in watching President Bush, the Testy Kid, violate his oath to uphold the laws and Constitution of our country.

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Barron's is for people that own... Well, own a lot of stuff. And if they're heaving Bush over the side, that means they think the economy--by which they mean their streams of revenue--is seriously fucked. Not right now, but in the forseeable future.

Was it James Carville who said, "When I die, I want to come back as the bond market?" Who knew that the inverted yield curve, a recession signal, would seal Bush's fate among the coupon clippers. It's a funny old world....

Let's watch Barron's slip W the Big Weenie, via Big Picture via MyDD