A special election will be held in August for the seat that was vacated by Rob Portman when he was appointed as United States Trade Representative by the Cult leader.

Iraq War veteran Paul Hackett is running for his seat against a typical Rethuglican far right wing extremist who was wined and dine by special interests, THE SAME DAY Paul was fighting in Fallujah.

(Campaign commercial of that day can be found here)

Help the brother out and throw a few bucks his way. Make no mistake it will be a long shot but A victory in August would be a nice surprise.

Well gang just as we predicted the cult leader picks some FAR RIGHT WING nut job for the Supreme Court. Thus guaranteeing a LONG fight that will pre-occupy America and sweep Rove's treason under the rug. Rove and the Cult leader knows how to play our nation:

President Bush chose federal appeals court judge John G. Roberts Jr. on Tuesday as his first nominee for the Supreme Court, selecting a rock solid conservative whose nomination could trigger a tumultuous battle over the direction of the nation's highest court, senior administration officials said.

Bush offered the position to Roberts in a telephone call at 12:35 p.m. after a luncheon with the visiting prime minister of Australia, John Howard. He was to announce it later with a flourish in a nationally broadcast speech to the nation.

Roberts has been on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since June 2003 after being picked for that seat by Bush.

Advocacy groups on the right say that Roberts, a 50-year-old native of Buffalo, N.Y., who attended Harvard Law School, is a bright judge with strong conservative credentials he burnished in the administrations of former Presidents Bush and Reagan. While he has been a federal judge for just a little more than two years, legal experts say that whatever experience he lacks on the bench is offset by his many years arguing cases before the Supreme Court.

Liberal groups, however, say Roberts has taken positions in cases involving free speech and religious liberty that endanger those rights. Abortion rights groups allege that Roberts is hostile to women's reproductive freedom and cite a brief he co-wrote in 1990 that suggested the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 high court decision that legalized abortion.

"The court's conclusion in Roe that there is a fundamental right to an abortion ... finds no support in the text, structure or history of the Constitution," the brief said.

Long hot summer gang. Just what Rove needed.

(Want to learn more about this nut, click this link)

Some of you may have wonder why Karl "Judas" Rove betrayed our nation, when he revealed the name of a CIA operative.

Was it money?

Sex?

Drugs?

We gotta hand it to the Cult leader. Just when the heat on his boy gets turned out, Bush will roll out his new Supreme Court pick, which will inevitably have the media and the nations attention as the Dems and the Rethugs fight this one out. Trust us when we tell you that the cult leader's pick will piss someone off.

Special Thanks to the heretik

"They are over here because we are over there"-Pat Buchanan

Yeah we know who Pat Buchanan is. But of all the Rethuglicans we know, he has been the one guy who CONSISTANTLY gets why the terrorist hate our fucking guts. It has jack shit to do with the Bill of Rights or the Constitution as the Bush cult would have you believe.

MR. RUSSERT:  Let's go through what you know with you and our viewers.  This is the Robert Novak column July 4, 2003.

"Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction.  Two senior administration officials told me that Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger. ... The CIA says its counterproliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him."

And then on this Friday, we learned this.

"Karl Rove...spoke with the columnist Robert Novak [on July 8, 2003] as he was preparing an article...that identified a C.I.A. officer who was undercover, someone who has been officially briefed on the matter said.  Mr. Rove has told investigators that he learned from the columnist the name of the C.I.A. officer, who was referred to by her maiden name, Valerie Plame, and the circumstances in which her husband, former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, traveled to Africa to investigate possible uranium sales to Iraq, the person said.  After hearing Mr. Novak's account, the person who has been briefed on the matter said, Mr. Rove told the columnist:  `I heard that, too.'"

Now, Matt Cooper's original article, July 17:  "And some government officials have noted to TIME in interviews, (as well as to syndicated columnist Robert Novak) that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, is a CIA official who monitors the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.  These officials have suggested that she was involved in her husband's being dispatched to Niger..."

And we learned this.  Matt Cooper's e-mail outlining his conversation with Karl Rove on which he based his column.

"Friday morning, July 11, 2003...Matt Cooper was tapping out an e-mail to his bureau chief. ... `Spoke to Rove on double super secret background for about two mins. ... please don't source this to rove or even wh'"--White House.  "...Cooper wrote that Rove offered him `a big warning' not to `get too far out on Wilson.'  Rove told Cooper that Wilson's trip had not been authorized by" the director of the CIA, "George Tenet--or Vice President Dick Cheney.  Rather, `it was, Karl Rove said, wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency on WMD issues, who authorized the trip.'"

Mr. Mehlman, based on that--and you just heard Matt Cooper say the first time he learned that Joe Wilson's wife worked for the CIA was from Karl Rove, wasn't that a leak of something that should not have been leaked?

MR. KEN MEHLMAN:  Tim, it was not.  What's most amazing, if you think about it, is we wouldn't have been having this show last week.  Mr. Fitzgerald was conducting his investigation last week.  What's changed?  You hit the nail on the head what's changed.  Two stories have come out this week, both of which have the effect of exonerating and vindicating Mr.  Rove, not implicating him. And what's so amazing and what's so outrageous, in my judgment, is, despite the fact that this investigation is ongoing, despite the fact that Mr. Rove and other people at the White House are cooperating fully with Pat Fitzgerald, Democrat partisans on the Hill have engaged in a smear campaign where they have attacked Karl Rove on the basis of information which actually vindicates and exonerates him, not implicates him.

That information says Karl Rove was not Bob Novak's source, that Novak told Rove, not the other way around, and it says that Karl warned Matt Cooper about Joe Wilson not to get too overactive.  Karl was right.  Joe Wilson was wrong on numerous fronts.

MR. RUSSERT:  But Mr. Rove did say to Robert Novak "I heard that, too," and Mr. Novak used him as a confirming source.  And, two, Matt Cooper said he learned of her existence as a CIA operative from Karl Rove.

MR. MEHLMAN:  Well, Tim, these same stories also suggested that Karl Rove heard the first time about it from another reporter.  It suggested that he was not Bob Novak's initial source, and that Bob Novak never said, "I'm asking for corroboration."  There was a chat going on.  But here's the point.  We don't know this stuff.  We're prejudging this morning.  And that's why it's so outrageous that this past week, John Kerry, who was the nominee for president of the United States by the Democrat Party, Hillary Clinton, the first lady of the United States, Harry Reid, the Democrat leader in the Senate, would attack Karl Rove, call for him to lose his job, call for his national security clearance to be taken away.  Every Democrat voted for that to happen on the basis of prejudging a case when the information actually exonerates and vindicates.  It doesn't implicate.  It's wrong, it's outrageous, and folks involved in this, frankly, owe Karl Rove an apology.

MR. RUSSERT:  One more point.  I'll bring in Mr. Podesta.  When one is given classified clearance, they are asked to sign an oath, and they are given a briefing book with form--Standard Form 312, it's called.  And if you read this briefing book, it says this:  "Before...confirming the accuracy of what appears in the public source, the signer of"--"SF 312 must confirm through an authorized official that the information has, in fact, been declassified.  If it has not...confirmation of its accuracy is also an unauthorized disclosure."

So by confirming a story from Robert Novak or sharing information with Matt Cooper, no matter where it came from, if, in fact, it was classified information, without seeking to determine whether it was declassified, it is an unauthorized disclosure.

In other words gang, Rove fucked up.

He decided it was better to play politics with National Security.

If you needed any further proof of the Rethuglicans placing party above our nation, take a look at these two statements:

I'm certainly happy that George W. Bush and Karl Rove are not Democrats. If they were, just imagine the mess this country would be in right now, even worse than the mess it is in.

First, there would be cries of "treason" directed at Mr. Rove from the Republican ranks. Some of the more overheated members of Congress would demand that he be taken immediately out back of the Capitol and shot by a firing squad.

After all, he revealed the identity of a covert CIA agent, did he not?-George McEvoy, Palm Beach Post