No. A President is immune from civil liability for any official actions he takes in his capacity as President of the United States. His decision to invade Iraq was an official act and thus immune from liability. Nixon v. Fitzgerald
The Paula Jones suit against Clinton went through because Sexual Harrasment is an Unofficial Act.
Thanks, Blalron; got it. Should have thought of that. Besides, I don’t want Bush sued; I want him removed from office. Not likely, but I’ll just keep the “Impeach Bush” sticker on the back of my truck, in case the House of Representatives is ever driving behind me.
I used to depend on the internet to keep me updated on the news headlines. At the moment the Earthlink headlines that are scrolling across the top of my monitor are mostly the same ones that were there on Friday and Saturday:
“Arlene Drenches Cuba, Bears Down on Gulf” (for example)
The rain left over from that storm hit Tennessee yesterday.
If I want to know if anything is happening in the world, I check The Guardian website. Everything else here may be watered down.
Congress has cut funding for PBS by 25%.
That’s okay. Public approval of Congress is down to 31%. We can cut it still lower too.
Sometimes I think that the Evening News could carry a lead story of the overthrow of our government by a group called Neo-Con Hawks for a New Republic – and as long as the news didn’t devote more than thirty seconds to the story, there would be no great outcry from the people.
There’s something going on near the media surface, and the white house is nervous about it:
White House disputes U.S. lacked planning on Iraq
They don’t seem to see that by defending themselves only against the memo’s implication of incompetence, they grant credence to the rest of the document.
Without some serious good news, such as a completed Iraqi constitution this August, I think the administration is going to lose their spin control.
Nothing, you misogynist piece of shit.
And now more documents are leaking over from the UK, and news is finally hitting of the piece the BBC did on this mack in March of this year.
Looks like the floodgates are starting to open.
Overseas, anyway. Those of us in the 'States still have to go digging for this stuff, usually buried on page 35 in the last two paragraphs of an article with a misleadingly innocent headline like “US Leaders Could Have Planned Iraq War Better.”
True enough, but it seems like the press on this side of the pond is finally catching on…WaPo’s story was front page in Sunday’s paper.
Does it matter at this point? The best that could happen is that other parties or independents could gain a few seats in '06, but as far as the administration goes, their approval rating could drop to half a percent and they wouldn’t give a flying shit. Bush is ineligible for re-election and I don’t think anybody expects Cheney to run. Besides, they’ve got a mandate.
Not in today’s New York Times, the leftist-pinko-fellow traveller nemesis of the current administration.
They did, however, find room for a front-page feature forecasting a shortage of fried clams this summer.
Eh, it won’t really matter until a station other than CBS throws it up on their nightly newscast or on a newsmagazine investigation.
I still find CBS quite credible, but I do see the problem with other, non-reality based factions finding them otherwise.
Boy, it was nice of Bush to get the Michael Jackson jury to come back with a verdict this afternoon. So this will get buried after that, the Aruba case, and any other pretty white women that go missing.
At least Keith Olbermann is talking about this.
Well, I suppose in some ways Michael Jackson is not much different than a pretty white woman, although he is not missing (at least, not in the common connotation of missing).
Ewwwww…
Hentor, why do you hate pretty white women?
He’s not very pretty, either…
and since the MJ verdict just came in, I predict that any potential splash this story had will be lost in the rush to have all of the talking heads implode simultaneously about the latest trial of the century
shit. beaten to the punch(line). dammit. preview sux.
What? Obviously I meant that Michael Jackson and pretty white women share the qualities of:
…being adored by a portion of the general population
…being given things based on something other than merit
…having a concern for their physical appearance
…having an amusement park in their backyards
What in the world did you think I meant?
Its just a misunderstanding, a question of degrees. Hentor refers to “pretty white women”, not incarnations of the sublime perfections of the Goddess.
Do you mean the goddess of bad plastic surgery?