Drip...drip...drip...

Blogger was down since last night, so this is a tad out of date:



Dare we begin to hope that the George W. Bush Reign of Terror may be ending soon?



This is what's on Drudge, of all places, tonight:

1) President Bush may skip one of the three debates that have been proposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates... MORE... Bush's negotiating team plans to resist the middle debate, which was to be Oct. 8 in a town meeting format in Missouri // audience of 'undecided voters' for second debate was to be picked by Gallup. Bush officials were concerned that people could pose as undecided when they actually are partisans, WASH POST planning to report in new editions, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE... Developing...

This is pretty huge....this means that the Bushistas won't get the questions in advance, and Bush would have to face voters not pre-screened by his thugs...I mean handlers. If true, this just shows what a chickenshit weasel the current occupant of the White House is. If he won't be accountable to the voters, let him go home to Crawford.

2) The Boston Globe is planning to report that "President Bush fell well short of meeting his military obligation in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War"

What we DO know is that 60 Minutes II is running the interview with Roy Barnes tomorrow night. This means that the AWOL issue is coming to the fore again. Hey, this is the kind of campaign Bush wanted. So let's give it to him. Drudge is also reporting that Bush Family Whores ASSOCIATED PRESS, CBSNEWS, BOSTON GLOBE and NBCNEWS are all planning stories on this.



I'd love to believe this means something, but we've been down this road before. Still...now that the Swift Boat Liars have been toppled one by one like bowling pins, isn't it time for truth to get some face time, as the Majority Report guy says...



Meanwhile, AP is reporting that all of a sudden, some previously unreleased documents related to Bush's National Guard Lack of Service have been miraculously found:

President Bush ranked in the middle of his Air National Guard flight class and flew 336 hours in a fighter jet before letting his pilot status lapse and missing a key readiness drill in 1972, according to his flight records belatedly uncovered Tuesday under the Freedom of Information Act.



The Pentagon and Bush's campaign have claimed for months that all records detailing his fighter pilot career have been made public, but defense officials said they found two dozen new records detailing his training and flight logs after The Associated Press filed a lawsuit and submitted new requests under the public records law.



"Previous requests from other requesters for President Bush's Individual Flight Records did not lead to the discovery of these records because at the time President Bush left the service, flight records were subject to retention for only 24 months and we understood that neither the Air Force nor the Texas Air National Guard retained such records thereafter," the Pentagon told the AP.



"Out of an abundance of caution," the government "searched a file that had been preserved in spite of this policy" and found the Bush records, the letter said. "The Department of Defense regrets this oversight during the previous search efforts."



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The newly released records do not include any from five categories of documents Bush's commanders had been required to keep in response to the gaps in Bush's training in 1972 and 1973. For example, National Guard commanders were required to perform an investigation whenever any pilot skipped a medical exam and forward the results up the Air Force chain of command. No such documents have surfaced.

Why am I not surprised? Could it be that these are among the documents that Bush's chief of staff as governor, Joe Albaugh, told General Daniel James in 2000, "Make sure there's not anything in there that'll embarrass the Governor."



I've blogged on this before, but if you haven't already done so, check out Paul Lukasiak's exhaustive and meticulously researched report which is damn near irrefutable proof that the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces couldn't even handle the cushy National Guard gig his daddy's friends got him, and because he's a spoiled rich brat, decided the rules didn't apply to him.



I'm sure the families of Dead Iraq War Casualties #1000 and 1001 are comforted by that notion tonight.