Monday, May 4, 2009  Slam dunk  ‘Abu Ghraib US prison guards
were scapegoats for Bush’ lawyers claim  Charles Graner plans to
appeal against his conviction for abusing prisoners   The
photographs of prisoner abuse at the Baghdad jail in 2004
sparked worldwide outrage but the previous administration, from
President Bush down, blamed the incident on a few low-ranking
"bad apples" who were acting on their own.       Cheney's office
The Right goes insane   by Mark Morford  Oh, but take that same
vile leviathan and suddenly strip away all its power and
influence and capacity for wickedness, and watch it deflate like
a wheezing circus tent, quickly turning into a trembling
caricature of its former self, a tiny, elfin thing small enough
to fit into a shoebox of panic and pathos and residual Godspit.
Behold, this delightful rule in full effect with the once
portentous, now pitiable Republican party. Watch in wonder as
gaffe follows gaffe, astonishing pronouncement follows childish
meltdown, ludicrous statement lead