MSNBC desperately wants to be Access Hollywood

Quick rant.

I tend to watch a lot of MSNBC.

It has my boy-o, Keith Olbermann. (Although I miss the Friday question and answer sessions with Monica) and another crush, Dan Abrams.

But can we please beg MSNBC to drop the "Access Hollywood" angle? I mean, listening to Norah, to Alex, to Chris talk about American Idol is sad. News, people, new. And to see Keith, Joe S and Lost-the-bow-tie *ucker Carlson talk about it on their shows...holy moly.

And the live coverage of the ANS post-death drama?

America, as demonstrated by its voting in 2000 through 2004 has already demonstrated it is stupid enough. Let the little Billy Bush inspired LA-based shows cover American Idol and you, MSNBC, please cover news.

Like relevant news.

--RH--

Are you kidding me?!

Dude.

Raises Hand doesn't even know what to make of all of the C-SPAN she's been watching of late as well as the blogs I consume like tequila shots by Spring Breakers.

Tony Snow slays me. Oversight? Fuck it. Congress does not have the au-thor-i-tay (channeling Eric Cartman) to question the POTUS. As the adorable John Oliver (welcome addition to TDS) stated separately: 1) with regards to Congress "Go Fuck Themselves" and my personal fave, 2) "...Because the White House is adamant its advisors retain the right, if they so choose, to lie...without consequence."

Another TDS shout out regarding a White House "Petulant Tantrum Room".

Oh, and, regarding TB: "...limit advice to things that weren't shameful, illegal or spectacularly bull-headed..."

It has been a dizzying few weeks, has it not? You just know there is a Suggestion Box regarding "Reasons You Think We Fired the US Attorneys" and every day they pull out a new suggestions:

Harriet Miers
Pleasure of the President
Poor performance
Failing to zealously prosecute ____________ (insert specific "grievance" here)

You totally know Turdblossom (TB) wrote the Harriet one. All the super-lazy DoJ-ers and WHers wrote the standard "Serve at the pleasure of the President" and the assholes wrote "Poor Performance".

Of course, Talking Points Memo is *the* source for all of this shiznazz and spin-repellent. Gotta love Josh and crew (including regular folk like you and me) for working on this document dump, finding a "lull" in the communications, etc. I tried looking at a few docs and it is hard to know what to make of them. So many are redundant. Some (call this cynicism) look doctored to me...

What is utterly obvious is the lack of cohesive paper trail. Where is the "Fucking Lam" collection? What about the heart-wrenching Margaret M. Chiara emails about her sadness and desire to obtain the NAC position in South Carolina?

Of course, then last Friday James Knodell dropped the bombshell that the WH has yet to 0pen an internal investigation as to the leaking of classified information regarding Valerie Plame and that Karl Rove never reported to the OAC regarding his mentioning Valerie Plame, as he should have. Haven't even started an investigation that is approaching a story as long as our war in Iraq. While it is not shocking, it nonetheless dropped my jaw while tuning into C-SPAN. Don't even get me started on Ms. Victoria Toensing (although today, Firedoglake has been commenting on Waxman's assertion to check her statements for inaccuracies).

Is this a reality show? Like how bad can an average, well-to-do fuck-up tank America? How low can they go?

It also begs the question of how the frak the Rubber Stamp Congress could not do shit about SHIT? Not exercise an ounce of oversight.

Of course, I do believe aligning oneself to the Bu$hCo regime does require one to sign away their soul. (This is managed by Darth Shooter, of course).

So, we are wrapping up the 3rd month of the Democrats in control and shit storm after shit storm is the way the weather is blowing in DC.

I hope those members have invested in a lot of tarps. Because the hits are just going to keep on coming.

Raises Hand does want to know one thing: Exactly how much frakking up constitutes an impeachable offense? Lying about blow-jobs is an infantile antic in comparison to the grievances this administration has done to our laws, our Constitution, our people, our nation and other members of the planet Earth.

Oh Snap!

...to snag a quote from a favorite of mine, Jon Stewart...

What a week for BushCo, huh? Poor Scooter gets convicted for a few teensy-weensy lies... There is this minor guffaw over some bad rooms at Walter Reed. A few disgruntled US Attorneys testify in front of Congress. AG Gonzalez actually concedes a few things to congressional members... The FBI gets its wrists slapped by that nasty IG report for abusing the Patriot Act... Huh, isn't that what the US Attorney firing hubbaloo is about?

...And the hits just keep on rolling...

I have to say that aside from the absolute tragedy/hypocrisy of Walter Reed, I smiled in satisfaction. Finally, the American people are getting a nice glimpse at the Presidential Kabal they re-elected. Thank you, fine Americans for that "four more years." Just like a thank you to Connecticut voters for the return of Lieberman, the secret Repuglican.

Why oh why do these incidents have zero surprise factor? Why have I become such a bitchy cynic that I can only shrug at the abuse of power exerted by our esteemed President?

Why am I still cynical, despite recent congressional hearings and the upcoming Plame testimony, that the Democratic congress will not step up to the plate and call "foul"?

Will they ensure that the House Ethics committee investigates Reps from NM, WA and who knows what other states?

I don't know if Halliburton/subsidiary/whatever-privatization-entity did anything legally wrong with regards to the Walter Reed facility...but morally, these people have no soul.

Most of this administration has no soul. There, I said it. Religious word and all. I am not a practicing Judeo-Christian, but I can spot a soulless mofo a mile away... This administration wallows in the stench of immorality... It revels in it.

How else do we explain the horrific transgressions we have seen around the world in the name of America? Padilla interview tape just so happens to disappear... Abu Grahib. Walter Reed. The God-only-knows countless rapes you know our American servicewomen are suffering at the hands of our own servicemen...

Thank goodness for shows like Countdown and the Daily Show which will gleefully infuse humor and hypocrisy in the spin cycle of the Repugs.

Bless Jonny for his "Oh, Snap!"-ness. Love it. Bless KO for his Special Comments.

This was just one bad week for BushCo. Shit is starting to hit the fan and I highly recommend congress invests in some good tarps to cover themselves and a whole lotta incense. Because the next few weeks aren't going to be pretty and are going to leave a bad stench in the air.

Raises Hand is most definitely crossing her fingers that we get Fitz! in front of Congress. And it is not just because I have a secret crush on Mr. Straight-Laced-Man... Nope, no sir-ee. But to hear his words talk about this investigation and where that little, minor obstruction of justice thingy may have not let him determine if there was an actual crime... Maybe he'll even crack a smile if he mentions how the "innocent" Turdblossom had to come to the grand jury five times because of his Scooter-like memory.

Speaking of everyone's favorite TB, Raises Hand is pretty sure that poor Scooter drew the short end of the stick one day in the OVP which is why TB got to roll over and Scooter had to become the fall guy...

Oh, Snap! The week is just about to begin and RH is going to watch BSG right now.

RH