I have been saying for years – YEARS – that I never hear ANY Republican talk about the need to get Osama Bin Laden. This is literally the first and only editorial or comment that I have ever heard from a rightwinger that acknowledges the enormous failure of the Bush administration to respond in ANY WAY to the attacks of September 11th which happened on their watch!

When you think honestly about who it is that outrages the rightwing, it is ALWAYS the American people they despise! NEVER Bin Laden! Whether it’s those silly east coast “liberals” or the west coast “hedonists”, their intense anger is ALWAYS directed at American people - NOT Al Qeada! Bin Laden and Al Qeada are merely mascots trotted out each election cycle to rally votes – which speaks volumes for why the Bush administration has maintained their hands-off policy on him.

Bush has made Osama Bin Laden a victorious hero throughout the Middle East, and with the sole exception of this editorial, the rightwing is largely indifferent to that massive failure of leadership and the shameful impotence that they have cast the United States in on the world stage.

If this was 7 years after Pearl Harbor (which would make it December 1948!) and the US government had decided not to respond to Japan, (or as Bush boasted to “not think about” the person who had attacked us) it would seem largely a historic fact that regardless of what the future holds, Japan had victoriously killed thousands of Americans and faced NO reprisal – NO comeuppance!

That's called winning, folks!

Can anyone honestly deny that the Bush administration’s hands-off approach to Bin Laden has made him the clear victor over the United States?

Osama Bin Laden won – THANKS to the weakness, incompetence, cowardice, and impotence of George W Bush, Dick Cheney, and the Republican Party!

There's no other way for me to put it than that. Like an old broken toilet, his porcelain has cracked, his plumbing is shot, and he stinks to high heaven from too many years of being full of shit.

He brings new meaning to the word 'dishonor'. Like Bush & Cheney, he's devoid of any ethics, morals, or scrupples. It would remain to be seen if his loyalty to foriegn money would preclude any loyalty to the United States that has been such a key component to the massive failure of the Bush administration (ie. the hands-off policy on Bin Laden, the continuation of a war/occupation that weakens national security, etc). The POW shtick, while TRUE, unlike Bush's "Christianity", happened so long ago that I don't think it plays any part in believing he'd ever put country first -- as both his campaign and reckless choice of VP prove to the contrary.

A broken toilet of a man.

"Before it became clear that Sarah Palin had never heard of it, nobody -- including the presidential candidates themselves -- ever had difficulty answering questions about what they believed about the Bush Doctrine, nor ever suggested that this Doctrine was some amorphous, impossible-to-understand, abstract irrelevancy."

-- Glenn Greenwald

Oh, how elitist of you Glenn!

Apparently you didn't catch the ultra-serious John Fund, senior editor of The American Spectator and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, declaring on Bill Maher's show Friday night that he, like Republican Spokesmodel Sarah Palin, wouldn't have known what the Bush doctrine was if asked.

Let me say that again - Senior Editor of The American Spectator and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, John Fund, would not have known what the Bush doctrine was if he had been asked by Charlie Gibson!

That's cynicism you can believe in, my friends (it's about 1 minute in):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrcy1MxhhVk

"Lefties can constantly complain that they run "honorable" campaigns that don't "pander" to the electorate (except, perhaps, when it comes to unions), but the right just focuses on winning, baby."

-- Bubba1234

Yeah, baby! Of course, after the GOP win the elections, Americans tend to get killed at an alarming rate (US troops in nation-building adventures, 9.11 victims, New Orleans victims, etc.), terrorism flourishes, American national security becomes non-existent, the economy tanks, healthcare becomes a luxury item for only the elite, and American jobs get sent overseas to the countries that purchase the GOP’s loyalties. But yeah, baby, the winning thing is great (for the top 1%, for Iran, and for anti-American terrorists) but unfortunately not for the American people.

It takes mind-numbing idiocy and head firmly entrenched in your ass to care more about football or NASCAR than the spirally decline of the United States under GOP “leadership”, but then I'm not a rightwing Christian from heartland America - I have a conscience, I have ethics, I have morals, and I I have a brain.

"The media has no subpoena power. We are, essentially, at the mercy of sources who are brave enough to come forward. And we have to sort those out from the ones who are peddling disinformation." -- Karen Tumulty

2 questions:

(1) How come 35 years ago, before the information age, when a Republican administration was committing secretive crimes against the United States and not volunteering information, the television networks & newspapers could still find out what was going on (even at the risk if not being invited to Washington social affairs) and expose corruption?

As a brief reminder, here’s almost 6 solid minutes of a nightly news broadcast from June 1972 devoted to the criminal actions of the Nixon Administration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I28mQEVJQso

Imagine 6 solid minutes of political corruption being broadcast today – and we have several 24 hour news networks!

(2) Honestly, how much "sorting" of information is actually done by the media from sources telling them disinformation about the Bush administration? Honestly? Why would anyone need to peddle disinformation about an administration that outed a CIA agent, spies on the American people, intentionally lies the nation into a pointless war of aggression, and profits wildly off the blood of US troops? Who exactly is the “sneaky-Pete” telling lies about the Bush Administration?