I am a bit late in getting to the latest edition of Monday Musings due to my participation in a charitable bike ride on Saturday and Sunday.  Thirty five miles on Saturday and 35 miles on Sunday was more than enough to tire out these old bones.  I am now ready to get back to work, so here we go.

The story that jumped out at me today is the story about the ACLU’s receipt of more redacted CIA documents that provide further evidence of the Bush regime’s torture program.  http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/15/ksm-make-up-stories/.  It seems that the detainees who were tortured actually admitted in interviews that they made up stories in order to stop the torture.  This is evidence that the CIA has been withholding.  I can’t imagine why they would not want the American public to know that they even had evidence that the detainees were giving them false information.  Does that make Cheney a liar when he claims that Khalid Sheikh Mohamed gave us good information?  I think the answer is obvious.  When is the Obama administration going to put a halt to the CIA’s attempts at stonewalling?  I am still waiting for the transparency that President Obama promised us. 

I also want to make a comment about the hysteria being thrown about by the right about the nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor.  They have called her just about every name in the book and they have lied about her record and they have lied about the time they have been given to review her record before Senate hearings are to begin.  They even made jokes about her breaking her foot in the airport on her way to meetings with Senators in Washington.  The Republicans are already holding up the nominations for the head of the Office of Legal Counsel and the chief counsel to the State Department and now they think they can drag their feet on Sotomayor’s nomination.  Of course, these same Republican Senators have also hinted at and threatened the use of a filibuster to delay the nomination.  These are the same guys who claimed during the Bush Administration that the use of a filibuster by the Democrats would be a power grab.  According to a press release by Sen. Inhofe,’ “ This outrageous grab for power by the Senate minority is wrong and contrary to our oath to support and defend the Constitution,” Inhofe said.’ “ http://inhofe.senate.gov/pressapp/record.cfm?id=191287.  It is time to call these guys what they are,  hypocrites and serial liars.  The Neocons are desperate and they will lie and cheat and steal to prevent the Obama administration from being successful.  The Democratic leadership in the House and Senate must call their hand and make these Republican crooks follow through on their threats.  The American public has already seen how hypocritical they are and they will soon see even more evidence of their slime tactics.  The Sotomayor hearings will be full scale televised evidence of how slimy the Republicans have become.  It will be fun to see the Republican party self destruct.