Here are a couple more quotes from dubya the greatest orator of our time.

"Actually, I -- this may sound a little West Texan to you,

but I like it. When I'm talking about -- when I'm talking about myself,

and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me."

Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000

"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."

Reuters, May 5, 2000

"I think we agree, the past is over."

On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News,

May 10, 2000

"Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is

sometimes until we get an objective analysis."

Meet the Press, April 15, 2000

"I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty

close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close

to California."

Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2000

"We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the

obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how

to teach the science of reading. In order to make sure

there's not this kind of federal cufflink."

Fritsche Middle School, Milwaukee, March 30, 2000

"The fact that he relies on facts -- says things that are not

factual -- are going to undermine his campaign."

New YorkTimes, March 4, 2000

"It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton

in nature."

Los Angeles, Feb. 23, 2000

"I understand small business growth. I was one."

New York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000

"The senator has got to understand if he's going to have he

can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the

low road."

To reporters in Florence, S.C., Feb. 17, 2000

"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls

and principles, come and join this campaign."

Hilton Head, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000

"How do you know if you don't measure if you have a

system that simply suckles kids through?"

Explaining the need for educational accountability,

Beaufort, S.C.,

Feb. 16, 2000

"We ought to make the pie higher."

South Carolina Republican Debate, Feb. 15, 2000

"I've changed my style somewhat, as you know. I'm less I

pontificate less, although it may be hard to tell it from this show. And I'm

more interacting with people."

Meet The Press, Feb. 13, 2000

"I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the

middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth."

Nashua, N.H., as quoted by Gail Collins, New York

Times, Feb. 1, 2000

"The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady

in my case."

Pella, Iowa, as quoted in the San Antonio Express News,

Jan. 30, 2000

"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"

Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000

"This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's

what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve."

Speaking during Perseverance Month" at Fairgrounds

Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los

Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000

"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."

Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000

"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen

and uncertainty and potential mental losses."

At a South Carolina oyster roast, as quoted in the

Financial Times, Jan. 14, 2000

"We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor

just like you like to be liked yourself."

At a South Carolina oyster roast, as quoted in the

Financial Times, Jan.14, 2000

"There needs to be debates, like we're going through.

There needs to be townhall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge

country."

Larry King Live, Dec. 16, 1999

"The important question is, How many hands have shaked?"

Answering a question about why he hasn't spent more

time in NewHampshire, In the New York Times, Oct. 23, 1999

"Keep good relations with the Grecians."

Quoted in the Economist, June 12, 1999

Mukasey sounds to me like the kind of judge someone accused of demonstrating against the junta in a banana republic would like to get. Instead of sentencing him to be thrown, covered in his own blood, in a crocodile infested pond, the fair minded judge would sentence him to be executed by a firing squad.

When this regime appoints someone to a key position, we are reduced to the level of 'is he/she going to be as bad as Goering or as bad as Himmler'. The choice is always between awful and terrible.

The fact that most southern white males still like and support Bush is an indication that the problem isn't with liberal snobbism(not that it doesn't exist) but with white southern males. When tens of millions of people vote on a regular basis against their own interest and are extremely easy to be manipulated by charlatans like Bush, it's hard to blame the Democrats for reaching the conclusion, assuming that they have, that it would be a waste of resources and time to chase that group. For example, the majority of that group still believes that Saddam was the mastermind of 9/11, the only group where a majority still believes that nonsense. Why would the Democrats try to appeal to those morons, when this groups insists on staying so stupid and ignorant?

Blackwater is nothing but a private SS or Schutzstaffel, German for "Protective Squadron". These are paramilitary killers/cowboys who are accountable to no one. Their latest episode of butchering Iraqi civilians is unique only in the sense that it received publicity, while 99 percent of the killings they commit never receive any. This US SS orgabization is how the Bush administration sees the future-an imperial domination of the world facilitated among others by private mercenary death squads.