Condi Suggests the Best Recourse for America

“Sometimes you have to get rid of really, really bad regimes,” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday at a news conference. Rice was defending the Bush administration’s war in Iraq. She also defended her speaking engagement at Boston College’s commencement today. Rice has many critics at the Catholic/Jesuit school who objected to her presence at its commencement exercises. However, her remark is the best advice anyone in the Bush cabinet has ever given to voters in the United States. And Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales’s remarks on the This Week program yesterday morning made it clear the Bush administration is a really REALLY bad regime. Gonzales said the government has the legal authority to prosecute journalists for publishing classified information. Which is not true. Whatever "legal authority" the Attorney General thinks he can use would be far-fetched and would violate the First Amendment in any case. However, Gonzales went on to say, "We have an obligation to enforce the law and to prosecute those who engage in criminal activity." And that is true. If Gonzales means what he says, the entire White House is in peril. As a really REALLY bad regime, they have all engaged in criminal activity, including the Attorney General. A bit of local news is standing Philadelphia on its ear. Knight Ridder sold the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News to the McClatchy Co., which immediately announced it was looking for a buyer. The Wall Street Journal reported this morning the frontrunner in the auction to buy the Philadelphia newspapers is a group of investors headed by Brian P. Tierney and the Toll Brothers. Yikes! Brian P. Tierney is a so-called marketing entrepreneur (Tierney Communications) in Philadelphia who loudly echoes the GOP party line every chance he gets. Plus he is a staunch defender of every bit of far-right nonsense the Roman Catholic Church and/or the Pope claims God has ordained. The Toll Brothers bills itself as “the nation's leading builder of new luxury homes, new home construction, golf communities, retirement communities, and resort homes”. Tierney says he will keep his GOP/RCC mitts off the newspapers should his group be successful in its bid. Boloney! Like the Bush administration, big business and the RCC have kept their paws off the MSM. It won’t happen. If the Tierney/Toll group buys the Philadelphia newspapers they will become little more than PR rags for the White House, huge corporations, the Vatican and Brian P. Tierney. Really REALLY bad regimes shouldn’t be allowed to get a toehold in the first place.