If the Republicans in the House vote against the Supplemental spending bill to throw another roughly $100 billion at this war because the bill requires that troops be trained and rested, provides for veterans health care, gives money to Katrina relief and avocado growers, and threatens to move the war to Afghanistan if Bush doesn't make various claims about "progress" in Iraq in the coming months…

And if the Progressive Democrats vote against it because it funds an illegal and aggressive war…

The bill could be defeated. Then the Democratic leadership would have to choose between the Republicans on the one hand and the Progressive Democrats and the American public on the other.

The Democrats held two press conferences Thursday morning. The first was held by the Progressive Caucus, announcing their plan to amend the Supplemental to require that every dollar go to funding a withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. Here's the announcement they sent out.

And a letter they sent around to their colleagues. Here's Barbara Lee's amendment.

I've spoken at impeachment forums, debates, rallies, strategy meetings, and workshops, but tonight's event in Washington, D.C., will be the first I've spoken at since the Vice President's Chief of Staff was convicted for lying to protect him.  So, I'm going in expecting fewer objections and reservations about impeachment.  Still, it's useful to yet again lay out all the familiar ones and why they are more wrong than ever.

I understand that Congressman Henry Waxman may have the prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald testify next week.  That's an excellent start.  But if Fitzgerald will not testify voluntarily, he should be subpoenaed, as should Libby, Rove, Armitage, Bartlett, Matalin, Fleischer, and Cheney.  Each of these people needs to be put under oath and on camera and questioned.

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The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has conducted two hydrologic investigations related to the uranium enrichment facility near Piketon, in the Scioto River Valley in south-central Ohio. The Scioto is a tributary of the Ohio River, flowing into the Ohio at Portsmouth, upstream from Cincinnati.

The site and vicinity are underlain by an incised bedrock valley filled with about 70-85 feet of sand and gravel outwash, deposited by meltwater streams at the edge of an active glacier. The glacial outwash sediments are covered by a thin veneer of alluvium deposited during more recent flooding of the Scioto River and Big Beaver Creek.

The sand and gravel outwash in the Scioto River Valley is one of Ohio’s principal aquifers. Because of its high yields, it is widely used as a source of public and private water supply. One of the DOE wells at the southwest corner of the Piketon site yields as much as 1300 gallons per minute. The water table typically is about 15 feet below land surface, with fluctuations as great as 12 feet annually.

BBC Television had exposed 2004 voter attack scheme by appointee Griffin, a Rove aide. Black soldiers and the homeless targeted.

There's only one thing worse than sacking an honest prosecutor. That's replacing an honest prosecutor with a criminal.

There was one big hoohah in Washington yesterday as House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers pulled down the pants on George Bush's firing of US Attorneys to expose a scheme to punish prosecutors who wouldn't bend to political pressure.

But the Committee missed a big one: Timothy Griffin, Karl Rove's assistant, the President's pick as US Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Griffin, according to BBC Television, was the hidden hand behind a scheme to wipe out the voting rights of 70,000 citizens prior to the 2004 election.

Key voters on Griffin's hit list: Black soldiers and homeless men and women. Nice guy, eh? Naughty or nice, however, is not the issue. Targeting voters where race is a factor is a felony crime under the Voting Rights Act of 1965.