VIDEO: Dana Perino credits Bush for Copenhagen climate talks

By GottaLaff

Yes, Dana Peroxide, Boy Georgie supported all that scientific science by scientific scientists and their sciency scientific conclusions about global warming. Obama's just following his lead.

What a break for our president and America that his predecessor was such a forward thinker:

This video is from Fox's Fox News Sunday, broadcast Dec. 6, 2009.

Download video via RawReplay.com

According to George W Bush's former press secretary, the ex-president's refusal to sign the Kyoto Protocols in 2005 set the stage for current climate change negotiations in Copenhagen. [...]

[T]he former administration was right to cook the books.

N. Korea Convicts 2 U.S. Journalists

I don't see how this ends well, since we should be cracking down on North Korea and I'm sure they will demand things we don't want to give in on for the women. Oh, and this shit doesn't help.

North Korea's top court convicted two American journalists and sentenced them to 12 years in a prison Monday, intensifying the reclusive nation's confrontation with the United States.

The sentencing came amid soaring tensions fueled by the North's latest nuclear and missile tests. Many believe Pyongyang is using the journalists as bargaining chips as the U.N. debates a new resolution to punish the unpredictable country for its latest military threats.

In a cryptic two-sentence report, the North's state news agency said Laura Ling, 32, and Euna Lee, 36 were sentenced after the five-day trial ended Monday. They were guilty of a "grave crime" against the nation and of illegally crossing into North Korea, the Korean Central News Agency said.

The court "sentenced each of them to 12 years of reform through labor," said the report, without giving other details. The phrase refers to a prison term, according to Choi Eun-suk, a North Korean law expert at Seoul's University of North Korean Studies.

Karl Rove may have to testify as Obama's lawyers get involved

By GottaLaff

I'm not sure which is more appropriate here, optimism or skepticism:

White House counsel Gregory Craig issued a statement late Friday encouraging former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove to cut a deal with Congress, an indication the new administration has begun to put pressure on President George W. Bush's former chief adviser.

"The president is very sympathetic to those who want to find out what happened," Obama's White House counsel Gregory Craig said in a statement yesterday to The Washington Post's Carrie Johnson. "But he is also mindful as president of the United States not to do anything that would undermine or weaken the institution of the presidency. So, for that reason, he is urging both sides of this to settle."

[pouting] No. Don't wanna settle. Wanna throw Rove in prison.

Moreover, the Obama White House is now trying to work out an agreement with former Bush administration staff -- seemingly going over the head of the man some once dubbed "Bush's brain."

Craig's statement does, however, seem to suggest that Bush's former adviser will be granted some leeway as to the form of his deposition to Congress in lieu of President George W. Bush's claim that Rove is protected by executive privilege.

[holding breath until I turn blue] No. No leeway. Testify. Then, prison.

The winds appear to be changing. Obama lawyers and Bush representatives are now "engaged in discussions that could clear a path for congressional testimony by onetime Bush aide Karl Rove, three sources familiar with the talks" told Johnson for Saturday's Post.

The negotiations surfaced on the same day House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) issued his third subpoena compelling to Rove to testify in less than two years. Seeing that Conyers is not backing down, Rove's attorney has hinted at a more conciliatory position, and Bush advisers seem to have all but conceded that they must allow Rove to testify in some form.

"Democrats say President Obama's view of the matter may open the door for Rove's eventual appearance on Capitol Hill," Johnson said.

Why do I feel sqeamish?

But Conyers said he would not accept testimony about Siegelman without testimony about the US Attorneys.

"I do not believe it is acceptable for the Committee to allow witnesses to unilaterally determine what they can and cannot testify concerning," he wrote yesterday.

Just. Don't. Cave. Please, Prez O, that's all we ask.

Here are the rules: No immunity. Under oath. On the record. Then, prison.

Kissinger Backs Direct Talks 'Without Conditions' with Iran

By GottaLaff

Republican after Republican keep siding with Obama about one thing or another:

Former U.S.Secretary of State Henry Kissinger today told an audience in Washington, DC that the U.S. should negotiate with Iran "without conditions" and that the next President should begin such negotiations at a high level.

The former Nixon and Ford U.S. Secretary of State early in the year indicated his belief that the U.S. should hold direct talks with Iran when speaking to Bloomberg Television.

What?! Why, isn't that what Obama said in the primary debates, and consistently since then? And didn't he get blasted for it? Kissinger must be a Muslim terrorist. You can tell by his accent.

When asked what specifically should be done to repair America's reputation and standing in the world, Powell, Baker and Albright all immediately said "close Guantanamo," referring to the U.S. detention facility. Powell added, "and I think that's something we all agree on."

Palin/McCain = Bush III, Cheney II.

Bush's sick, dangerous Iran game

By GottaLaff

My opinion: Now they can say they "met" with Iran, before they, you know, bomb them and junk:

The White House on Wednesday adamantly denied Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama’s (Ill.) claim that the U.S. is negotiating with Iran by sending a high-level diplomat to a meeting with an Iranian official this weekend.

By sending Undersecretary of State Bill Burns to Geneva to meet with the Tehran emissary, the White House has “shifted course” from refusing to negotiate with the country, the Illinois senator said in a statement.

However...

U.S. officials are emphasizing that Burns' role will be limited in that he will be present, but will not negotiate. They say negotiations can begin only if the regime suspends uranium enrichment.

This is a charade. A sick, deceptive, dangerous game that BushCo insists on playing until we all lose... again.