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Saturday, Nov 7, 2009
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those loud booming sounds this weekends were only fireworks. They can come out from under their desks now.
Glenn:
Quoting Thomas Paine is so 1776 of you.
That just shows the shallowness of your argument.
Everything changed on 9/11 or hadn't you heard?
I mean, there was no Al Qaeda in 1776. No WMDs, Yellowcake, Guatanamo, evil doers, global warming fascists, islamadamafascistic fascism, liberal fascists, Axis of Evil, DFHs, Al Gore, Freedom Fries, Left Wing Loonies, Qwest, Hollywood elites, etc., etc., etc.
Thomas Paine had it easy.
Nancy Whatshername obviously realizes this. And you don't.
That sympathizers of Osama bin Laden sink three oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and choke off the narrow, bow-shaped channel that funnels 14 million barrels a day from the Persian Gulf to the rest of the world.That the United States attacks Iraq, and Israel launches a huge strike against the Palestinians, driving them from their camps and staking out more land -- all of which spurs the Persian Gulf states to cut off oil for the West. Or perhaps that a popular uprising, led by sympathizers of Mr. bin Laden, topples the ruling Saud family in Saudi Arabia, by far the world's largest oil producer.
''If bin Laden takes over and becomes king of Saudi Arabia, he'd turn off the tap,'' said Roger Diwan, a managing director of the Petroleum Finance Company, a consulting firm in Washington. ''He said at one point that he wants oil to be $144 a barrel'' -- about six times what it sells for now.
- By NEELA BANERJEE, Page 1, NYT, Oct. 14, 2001
Guest co-hosts Mr. Nadal and Mr. Federer were much more entertaining - and just as informative - as the usual collection of conventional wisdom spouting suits & skirts that pollute that time period and channel on Sunday morns.
Evidently the entire city called in sick.
We're all a little better off for it.
Because Mr. Nadal and Mr. Federer were so good, unfortunately, I missed the wisdom and guidance of the Fox ""All-Stars''.
And I here Wolf Blitzer hosted his 10th Anniversary Bloops & Blunders Special of his weekly blabfest.
Word is that Cheney guy killed once again.
On behalf of me - and thousands of regular folks, let me thank you Glenn for once again doing the heavy lifting and analyzing the nonsense and informing us - the unwashed - of the weekly "wisdom'' of the Smart and Serious Washington cult.
Can someone explain to me again why it's so important to have a Democratic Congress? President?
I know, I know because of the Supreme Court. But can there be any doubt now, President Obama would nominate an Anthony Kennedy-type who is more pro-woman and then get a pat on the head from David Broder.
Then days after the inaguration, when President Obama ""moves even further to the middle'' the Kosacs will re-assure the dupes that "wait until 2012'' after Obama doesn't have to worry about re-election and until 2010 after the Dems can get a super-duper majority in Congress (presumably 67 seats in the Senate will be the goal by then).
Once that happens everything will be all right. With 67 Senators and 320 House members the Dems will finally be able to enact such progressive initiatives as ending the six-year old "surge'' in Iraq and bringing the troop levels down to those 2006 pre-surge numbers of 130,000. Oh, and we'll be able to start bringing home some of the 200,000 troops fighting in Iran...soon.
Meanwhile, in some parts of the left blogosphere today, Madame Pelosi is being hailed because she is scheduled to attend some bloggers conference. How novel. The leading Dem in Congress is giving some her biggest supporters (the grassroots and netroots) an annual face-to-face.
She'll parachute in for an hour talk give a pep-talk to the libs - just before the election season gets in full swing - eat a meal, and then retreat to the cocoon of Beltwayville.
She's placating the masses with a smile and a wave. Nothing more. And nothing more is being asked for. What a nice lady!
Pelosi and her pals - the establishment- are the root of the problem, not the answer. She is a willing co-conspirator to the travesties of justice during the past eight years.
Nothing she does or says from here on out can change that.
If it weren't for the tens of thousands of true Constitutionalists, led by the Greenwalds, Hardin Smiths, Hamshers, etc. - the Fourth Amendment would have been obliterated a year or so ago. It's a credit to us and them, and a few "rebel'' Fourth Amendment sympathizers in Congress the fight has lasted this long.
So, again why is November so important?
Blaming Nader for everything lost its flavor around 2002.
I support Glenn and his efforts both financially and spiritually and I am well aware of the major and numerous differences between the two major parties.
However, the differences on the most important issues - foreign policy, the Constitution (see: telecom immunity, patriot act, congressional oversight), withdrawal from Iraq, corporate corruption, corporate welfare, monetary policy (i.e. The Fed), etc. The two parties are very closely alligned.
The Dem Party as your grandparents knew it is finished. It is beyond repairable. The leaders of the party today - the Hoyers, Pelosi, the hapless Whip from SC, the Bob Shrumites and the money men i.e. the Bob Rubins - need to be kicked to the curb as of yesterday.
That's not going to happen. Until it does, things are going to get worse for the country and the party.
If I vote, I will probably vote for Obama. But it's July, and as of now, I would say Obama is the least impresssive Dem Presidential candidate since Monday.
He gives good speech, but that'll wear thin once the GOP narrative starts to kick-in after Labor Day.
But Obama hasn't earned anything from me as of yet. Like I said, it's only July and he shouldn't be ordained by the masses until he actually promises them something besides a few table scraps about hope and change.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost
Once one obtains Seriousness credentials in the Washington media, they are irrevocable no matter one's conduct.
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