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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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I am just so tired as seeing the troops, who are doing their best under extremely difficult circumstances being used as human shields by this Maladministration to protect a failed policy and a war based on out and out lies.
"We do know, of course, that al-Qaida has media committees. We do know that they teach people exactly how to try to manipulate the media. They do this regularly..."
Don't listen to their propoganda, listen to ours. Oh, by the way, anything we disagree with is "their" propoganda.
Gee a 100% increase! When will the rest of the Senate grow a spine, get up on their hind legs and censure this SOB? I don't favor impeachment (the idea of "President Cheney" or "President Hastert" just makes me blanch), but Shrub does need to get his wrist slapped, but good.
If I remember right five Democrats thought it was a good idea to impeach Bill Clinton for lying about a blow job. How the hell do they figure that this is less serious?
Anybody else notice that whenever a cartoonist wants to portray a greedy, self-centered, ignorant character they use a duck? Donald and Daffy come right to mind. Ludwig vonDuck and the nephews are, of course, notable exceptions.
I'm not surprised that Tinsley finds Coburn his kind of candidate.
They yo-yo. This year it's Boeing ahead by a nose.
I'm still waiting for Consolidated-Vultee to pull ahead
This is just an illustration of how right Colbert was when he spoke about the White House reporters going home to write a novel " ... about an intrepid reporter who boldly challenges the Administration - you know, fiction".
I probably blew the quote, but you get the idea.
Uh Tim,
Hate to seem nit-picky, but Michael Hayden is Air Force, not Army. The blue suit should have been a give-away.
I wonder if any of the right-wing has realized that a goverment that has claimed the power to define marriage as being solely between one man and one woman is also claiming the power to define it as being solely between six men, four women, and a grapefruit.
What else was there left to say? How is $10,000, $10,000,000, $10,000,000,000, or any amount you care to mention even going to begin to make up for that? It's just paper.
"People who attended a series of high-level meetings this month between White House and Congressional officials say President Bush's aides argued that it could be a politically fatal mistake for Republicans to walk away from the war in an election year."
To paraphrase John Kerry from so long ago:
"How do you ask a someone to be the last man to die for the Republican Party?"
Given the propensity of this Administration to write signing statements giving itself the right to ignore Congressional acts that it finds disagreeable, will it feel that it has a similar right to ignore Sumpreme Court decisions where it thinks they got it wrong?
In short, as the Supreme have no way to actually enforce a decision, we need to trust G. W. Bush & Co. to actually allow an outside agency to limit their power. This flies in the face of the concept of the "unitary executive" held by this Administration, which essentially holds that the Executive branch is not bound by either Congress or the Courts. I'll believe it when I see it.
The 2008 elections are 28 months away. Nobody knows at this point who the nominees will be, so pollsters drag out the same tired names. Twenty-eight months is more than sufficient time for the field to change beyond recognition. At this point, there's plenty of time for attacks of foot-in-mouth disease to crop up and for unknowns to bob up to the surface.
If we're still floating these same names in July, 2007 without anything having changed, then I'll worry ... alot.
The country's only Amish popcorn company is on the list. The owner was both mystified an damused. He thought that it might be "because popcorn explodes".
I'm shocked, shocked to find that that somebody who is a part of this Administration would lie to a member of the press. Heavens me! What is this world coming to?
Next thing you know, we'll be hearing that they lied about the reasons we went to war in Iraq. Or worse yet, that George W. Bush didn't write his own campaign autobiography for the 2000 election.
I can't wait to hear the screams of "activist judges" from the Right. The key being that an activist judge is one who feels that there actually is such a thing as the Fourth Ammendment and that it's still in force. A rare breed, unfortunately.
Given the following from Uncle Joe:
"It's not who votes that counts. It's who counts the votes." -- Joseph Stalin
I'd say that Dean's comparing Harris with Stalin re: the 2004 election was completely appropriate.
But, I guess he probably should have realized that the average American, including a large number of the chatteratti, wouldn't get it. Understanding requires some sense of history, something that's pretty rare here in the good ol' USA. It's so much easier to be outraged.
to try to persuade people like Mr. Cronin that they are wrong on an issue if once they come around and have the guts to say so, we so roundly damn them for not having been with us all along?
Politics is a mixed bag, sometimes one needs to sup with a long spoon. Remembering that is sometimes the only way I can supress my gag reflex long enough to vote for a Democrat when I really agree far more with the Green or Socialist.
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 survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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