Harry, Nancy, and Jimmy

Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi stayed on course Wednesday.

The Dems are still out there acting as if Patrick Fitzgerald brought charges against Bush administration officials for leaking the name of a covert CIA agent.

One problem with that: IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.

Reid and Pelosi sent a letter to President Bush yesterday. In essence, they demanded that he apologize for Libby's indictment and fire Karl Rove and get Dick Cheney to step down.

They are positively unhinged.Text of letter

November 2, 2005

President George W. Bush

The White House

Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear President Bush:

We write to you today during an extremely serious time in our nation's history. For the first time in 130 years, a senior member of the White House staff has been indicted and the special prosecutor's investigation of the role of White House staff continues. In addition, yesterday the Senate had to resort to extraordinary means in order to force the completion of an investigation focused on whether your Administration politicized pre-war intelligence.

As the Democratic leaders in the Congress, we want to find common ground and work with you to address the American people's priorities. With three years remaining in your term, we believe it is imperative that you move quickly to remove the cloud that hangs over your presidency. There are several actions we hope you will take today to allow us to return to the people's business.

We strongly believe that you should apologize to the American people for the actions of senior members of your Administration. In your first year in office, you said:

"We must always maintain the highest ethical standards. We must always ask ourselves not only what is legal, but what is right. There is no goal of government worth accomplishing if it cannot be accomplished with integrity."

Your words were just right, but it concerns us that you have lost sight of this goal. Instead of striving to meet this standard, your Administration has refused to answer questions and your press secretary has repeatedly made categorically false statements. As a result, the White House has failed to speak plainly with the American people.

When this controversy began more than two years ago, you pledged that anyone involved in the leaking of classified information would no longer serve in your Administration. It is now clear that there were multiple disclosures of classified information involving the identity of the CIA officer, yet only Lewis Libby has left your Administration.

We believe that you should honor your promise to the American people and fire all of those who treated the officer's identity with such reckless disregard for the consequences. It is totally unacceptable that anyone involved in the unauthorized disclosure of the identity of a CIA officer, including your Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove, should remain employed at the White House with a security clearance.

The serious charges in the indictment against Mr. Libby raise a number of questions to which the American people are entitled to have answers. Among these questions are the extent of Vice President Cheney's role in disclosing the identity of the CIA operative, and the degree of knowledge that you and the Vice President had of efforts by members of your senior staff to make the officer's identity public.

We believe that it is in the best interest of the nation for the facts on this matter to be brought fully before the American people. We urge you and Vice President Cheney to support full congressional investigations and to make yourselves available to respond to questions on these matters.

The next three years will bring extraordinary challenges to our nation as we continue to confront the threats of terrorists, seek to recover from the worst natural disaster our nation has ever seen, and work to reduce our dependence on Middle East oil so that American consumers enjoy some relief from record prices at the pump. We urge you to focus on the priorities of the American people and take the necessary steps for us to come together to get that work done.

Thank you for your attention to this serious issue.

Sincerely,

HARRY REID

Senate Democratic Leader

NANCY PELOSI

House Democratic Leader

Yikes!

This letter verifies that Pelosi and Reid are loony, completely wacko, nuts. I think Joe Wilson has been advising them.It's been one disappointment after another for the Dems. Fitzgerald let them down by not indicting Rove, and then Bush nominated Samuel Alito. In an effort to make the pain of that go away, the Dems have been forced to break with reality and pretend that the Bush administration is collapsing.

Their pretense is pathetic. It smacks of desperation. Very sad.

Speaking of pathetic, Jimmy Carter appeared on NBC's Today on Wednesday. He’s been making the rounds of the talk shows hawking his new book, Our Endangered Values.

According to publisher Simon & Schuster, the book “a personal consideration of 'moral values' as they relate to the important issues of the day. He puts forward a passionate defense of separation of church and state, and a strong warning of where the country is heading as the lines between politics and rigid religious fundamentalism are blurred."

While plugging his book, Carter offers a blistering critique of the Bush administration.
The Associated Press reports:
The Bush Administration's prewar claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction were "manipulated, at least" to mislead the American people, former President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday.

The decision to go to war was the culmination of a long-term plan to attack Iraq that resulted from the first President Bush not taking out Saddam, Carter said on NBC's "Today" show.

Carter also said he supports the move by Senate Democrats to force an update on the investigation into prewar intelligence on Iraq, and says Republicans have been dragging their feet on the investigation.

Instead of acting in a more dignified manner befitting a former president, Carter has chosen to attack a sitting president during wartime. Rather than leaving the dirty work to be done by the likes of Reid, Durbin, and Pelosi, Carter straps on a tool belt and lends a hand.

This morning, Carter appeared on The Early Show.

Some quotes:

"I think it's about time that a thorough and complete and public explanation be given for the reasons that we went to war in Iraq."

"And for the last 18 months, the Republicans have been concealing these facts and refusing to go forward with an investigation which they promised the Democrats in the intelligence committee a long time ago."

"So, I think it's completely justified for the Democrats to insist that the investigation be pursued, that it be completed, and that the results be made known not only to the Senate, but also to the public in America.

"We need to understand what this administration has done, why we went to war in Iraq, when obviously all the reasons they gave were false, and let the people understand — was it a deliberate distortion of the facts as they knew them? Or were they mistakes made honestly? Who was culpable, if anyone?"

"Going into Iraq was ill-advised and unjust and unnecessary, which makes it even more heroic for the young men and women to go over there and serve our country."

"It would be inadvisable at this moment just to withdraw all of a sudden, but this administration has never said that even 50 years from now or 10 years from now, whatever, that we are gonna dismantle all our military emplacements in Iraq."

"I think [the decision to go to war in Iraq] was made long before President Bush was elected president and the people that believed that America should be the dominant force in the world, unilaterally, acting militarily if necessary, is another basic change in the principles that have always guided our country and made us great.

"So, going to war without our county being directly threatened is a new policy that's radically changed the basic moral values and ethical standards of the United States of America."


The only explanation that I can come up with for Carter's behavior is that he had a life altering experience at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Spending time with Michael Moore seems to have given Carter a new purpose.

It's as if he has been born again. With a renewed fervor, he's on a crusade against the Bush administration and Republicans.

Of course, it's not like we haven't heard the type of inane comments that Carter is spewing. Actually, they're quite familiar. However, in the past those claims have come from the usual suspects on the radical far Left--the MoveOn loons, Howard Dean, and the libs in the House and Senate--not the 39th President of the United States.

All in all, Carter was a disgrace as president and is a disgrace as a former president.

Just looking at him makes me feel uncomfortable, like I'm mired in malaise.