Just so you know….Joe Wilson tells ‘Traitor’ Bob Novak the truth.

Here it is, straight talk from one our few great Americans by way of TPM:

I just got off the phone with former Ambassador Joe Wilson, and in our conversation he angrily disputed Robert Novak’s latest assertion about the outing of his CIA operative wife, adding that if the columnist isn’t going to confession, “he’s going straight to Hell.”

Wilson’s angry over a story today in The Hill which quoted Novak saying that Wilson did not forcefully object when Novak spoke to him before publishing his now infamous column naming his wife, Valerie Plame, prompting a Federal investigation and getting Scooter Libby carted off to jail.

According to The Hill, Novak made the assertion on Saturday at a seminar on the CIA leak case at the 2007 Society of Professional Journalists Convention. The paper reported that Novak characterized Wilson’s attitude towards the forthcoming column set to name his wife this way: “He was not terribly exercised about it.”

Instead, Novak claimed, Wilson was primarily focused on not being named in Novak’s article solely as an opponent of the Iraq war.

A call for Action!

Others have been working on this for days but now the crunch is on. The corporatists of BushCo have nominated an individual to be on the Federal Election Commission the folks who ‘oversee’ the voting process at the Federal Level. They picked a certain Hans von Spakovsky. A typical Bush nominee as you can read here.

Senators Feingold and Obama have just released a statement giving their opinion as to how they view this nominee:

“While at the Department of Justice, Hans von Spakovsky was directly involved in efforts to politicize the Department and use the Voting Rights Section to disenfranchise voters, rather than enforce our nation’s civil rights laws. As a recess appointee to the FEC he has been a committed, ideological opponent of the campaign finance laws he is supposed to enforce. Putting him at the head of the FEC is just another example of this administration putting the fox in charge of the hen house. We oppose his nomination, and any effort to tie his nomination to the other pending nominations to the FEC.”

Oooooooh! Does not seem like the Senators think much of this choice. FireDogLake has been coordinating a call-in campaign to spike this nomination here…………….. Clik thru and do check out the linked dKos Diary about this.

Then get active, on the phone or otherwise, to pressure Miss Nancy and Conyers to do their jobs. We cannot afford to have corrupt Republican officials overseeing our voting process if we expect to drive them from the seat of power.

And….

It’s now time for Pelosi to start being a Democrat. Not ‘acting’ like one, not triangulating, not posing….

Being one.

Watch for my direct action to highlight her failures in a very public way coming here soon.