Making My Day: A Hero and a Squealer

The Hero: I have to add a second video of the day. A guy named Harry Taylor (left) spelled out his dismay and shame about Bush and his anti-democratic policies right to his face today at a Bush speech in North Carolina. Crooks and Liars has the video and the transcript of Taylor's remarks and the president's misleading response. I don't know how he got into a Bush event, but I'm sure glad he managed to get past the screening. Chalk one up for the people. UPDATE: You can now post a message thanking Harry Taylor at a special website.

The Squealer: Add to this today's disclosure that Scooter Libby testified that Dick Cheney, with the direct approval of Bush, okayed the leaking of very high security intelligence on Iraq to bolster the administration's shamelessly dishonest push for war. Here's what an LA Times article has to say on the Libby story:

President Bush personally authorized leaking long-classified information to a reporter in the summer of 2003 to buttress administration claims, now discredited, that Saddam Hussein was attempting to acquire weapons of mass destruction for Iraq, according to a court filing by prosecutors in the case against former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

... Court papers filed by special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald late Wednesday said that before Libby's indictment, he told a federal grand jury investigating the (Plame) leak that Cheney told him to pass on information about a secret National Intelligence Estimate to the press and that Bush had authorized the disclosure, according to the court papers.

Here's what our Senate Minority Leader, Harry Reid, said in response to the story:

"In light of today's shocking revelation, President Bush must fully disclose his participation in the selective leaking of classified information. The American people must know the truth."

The neo-con house of cards is toppling, a little more each day. Can't you feel the sea change coming? The tipping point we've all been waiting for? The crush of evidence starting to overwhelm Bush's ability to keep the truths and the facts from coming to light?