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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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Maybe the point is too obvious, but the reason there is no turnover in this administration is because these people calling all the shots are not going to fire themselves. Bush is not in charge of that White House and everyone knows it, but nobody says it. The Washington Post article yesterday stating that WH advisors are considering whether Karl can stay or go is one of a million examples. Why are WH advisors debating this point? This should be clearly a decision that would be considered and made by the President himself in any other administration.
This President is not running this country, he is not running his own White House! It's obvious. Let's get those with press passes to ask why.
What bothered me most about the Washington Post article about the Woodward-Plame revelation is how much Woodward curiously disagrees with the investigation overall. Contrary to the CIA officials who requested the DOJ to investigate the matter, the lifetime journalist thinks the harm done by outing the CIA operative Plame was "minimal."
I think Bobby is getting a little too big for his britches. A scandal just isn't a scandal without Woodward and Deep Throat I guess. Sure, outing an undercover CIA agent isn't as harmful to our national security as getting oral sex from an intern, but perhaps worth investigating and prosecuting none-the-less; so long as we get the okay from Sir Robert Woodward.
Let the Righties keep singing the "Bush shows resolve, Democrats want to surrender" mantra. They think nobody has caught on to what that nonsense really means. They have yet to learn the rule about when to stop digging.
Yes, there are different ideas on what to do about Iraq, and various Democratic leaders espouse different ideas. It is called liberalism. It is the opposite of the group-think mentality that has got us into the very inexplicable mess we are now in.
Republicans get into lock step upon the first (and worst) idea they come up with, then stand by that decision come hell or high water.
Isn't everyone glad that Bush isn't going to flip-flop on one of the worst decision and plans regarding war in the past two centuries? Whew, he's ruined the reputation of the finest country on the planet and killed many people in the process...but at least he's not a "flip-flopper."
I just read the transcript on MSNBC.com and that question and answer are not in the transcript. The first question ameriblog has on their website is in the MSNBC.com transcript, but the follow-up question that specifically mentions Amanpour is not there.
Conrad doesn't actually believed what Alito told him. Conrad thinks he is playing some Jedi mind game with Alito. The way Conrad's grade school logic has it, he wins whether Alito keeps his word or not. If Alito keeps his word, it will be because Conrad made him feel like he wasn't a man of honor if he did otherwise (because he looked him in the eye and told him he would).
Of course we all know (including Conrad), that Alito, like Roberts, is not a man of honor. He will support his well-known ideologies on the bench, not the word he gave Conrad. Conrad thinks this is okay because he will be able to say that Alito lied to his face. Meanwhile, we've all lost more of our rights because Conrad was playing games with them.
Do you think it is possible that the Dems who voted for Alito did so knowing he was going to win confirmation whether they voted for him or not, only for (potential) political purposes? While this is an extremely irrational reason for voting for a justice whose philosophies you oppose, I have no doubt this is what they were doing. In other words, if there was a snowballs chance in hell- from the beginning- that this candidate did not have the votes to be confirmed, they would have voted against confirmation.
As frustrating and discouraging as this confirmation is, I find War Room's incessant sarcasm and whining very couter-productive; Not to mention annoying.
While I understand this confirmation is about much more than abortion rights, the Republicans, with your help, have the Democrats right where they want them- completely divided over a single issue. By the way, this is where the Dems have been post Eugene McCarthy, and here to stay I presume.
I never knew so many ignorant people read Salon.com
Does the Marine wife really think the Iraqi people and insurgents weren't already aware of the widespread inhumane treatment to prisoners and citizens- most of whom are completely innocent?
It's not media outlets such as Salon who are making matters worse and creating terrorists by publishing these photos. Direct your outrage at the message, not the messanger!
Stop for a minute and think about what we are fighting for in Iraq. Nothing that was worth the hell we're paying now unless you're a war profiteer like Halliburton. Saddam was a brutal dictator, but he posed no threat to this country. He was totally against Islamic fundamentalism and fundamentalists because it was a threat to his power. In regard to his military threat to us or anyone else, I'll just quote Zell Miller, "What do we expect them to use, spit balls?"
Salon attempts to illustrate to the sheeple just how damaging this policy is to our nation and our nation's security, but the sheeple continue to direct the outrage to those who realize the problem and solution and provide a free pass to the folks making us less safe. I think these people unconciously realize how scared they should be at directing outrage toward the Bush administration. Wake up cowards!
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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