Letters to the Editor
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"Operation Bolivarian Freedom"
Today, the Senate approved a resolution saught by the Bush Administration to authorize the use of military force against Venezuela and Bolivia. "The people need to be liberated of these horrible tyrants," declared Bush.
A filibuster led by Birnie Sanders failed by a voice vote of 59-41. "We need to stand shoulder to shoulder with President Bush on this," commented Evan Bayh (D-IN) who voted with 9 other democrats and Joe Lieberman (I - CN) to close debate on the measure.
The measure passed by a vote of 51-47. The vote wa held open while Democratic and Republican leaders negotiated behind close doors. Both Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton were absent as they continued their presidential campaigns.
"I did my best to keep this from happening," said Majority Leader Harry Ried, "but there is not much that can be done with the Senate this close and the Republican caucus voting in lockstep."
Reid was criticized by far-left-pinko-commie-pantywaste-liberal bloggers for brining the measure up for consideration even though he said publically he opposed it.
In the latest poll, American oppose military action in South America by a 67-33 margin.
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And this morning..
After Shrubbery talks, CNN says that this is just about 'the government monitoring international terrorists without a court order' and my comment back to the teevee (which is as productive as speaking to my elected representatives) was and no oversight either.
But we can trust Bush, right? He wouldn't do what his administration has done through the US Attorney's offices and selectively single out their perceived 'enemies' for surveillance and harassment, would he?
The world will never know and the politicians that passed this piece of crap won't believe it anyway...
Bush is a liar. Why is that so hard to believe?
The only thing that Bush hasn't failed at in his entire life is being able to completely fuck things up! But the rich are richer and he's the 'supreme leader'. What else isn't important.
Now watch this drive...
Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran... There be democracy to spread...
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Pro War
One of the reasons I regards Glenn as being such a small and petty man (in keeping with most of the posters here) is his complete inability to grant an assumption of good faith to anyone he disagrees with.
Hardly.
You've established yourself as a lying neoconservative propagandist and we know that you're selling turds. And we don't need to try one to know it's not going to taste good.
Pro War: "Look, everybody, I'm not gagging. What's your problem?"
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Thanks so much, Glenn, but even libs are profoundly indifferent
At the end of a meeting of liberals last night, I brandished a printout of your Restore Act petition and tried to interest people in signing. A U.S. House constituent services director was in the meeting too, so it woulda been easy to simply sign and hand it over.
Ten people's eyes glazed over, and all they got up to leave.
Unbelievable.
Thanks anyway, Glenn.
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Northwestwoods
Was that the same Putin that Dubya was speaking of when he claimed he looked into his eyes and saw he had a good soul or some crap along those lines?
Bush was just expressing his admiration for a fellow totalitarian.
Bush could not have looked into Putin's eyes and 'seen his soul', because Putin, being an ex-KGB man, does not actually have a soul. Putin showed Bush exactly what he wanted him to see.
Putin, of course, saw clear to the back of Bush's head and was likely curious about the old post-its and the misspelled graffiti.
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Elephantitus:
Re: That creepy whining Senator from Connecticut that you Repugs so admire...
No paperwork required. He's yours.
Oh, and I guess McCain will be needing a running-mate, unless anyone believes his squirrel-eating redneck Baptist minister colleague has a chance at that or beating McCain to the nomination. Which he of course does not as the math clearly shows. But, hey. He didn't major in math, he majored in miracles. And we all know how the faith crowd rejects science unless it furthers their political agenda, right?
Since Huckster won't be the choice for running mate, perhaps NormPod might be up for it.....
I can't wait to see the nominee, Barack Obama's campaign ads complete with video of McCain singing, "bomb,bomb Iran, hehheh just kiddin'" and "Hell, I'd stay in Iraq for a hundred, no a thousand years" and "Janet Reno is Chelsea's father".
That should resonate with Americans.
The public can then see how immature and unqualified this fool is. I think the cons will have a little difficulty unearthing anything similar on Obama since he is an actual statesman as compared to a foul-mouthed, short-tempered, great-grandpa, statesman wanna-be.
Good luck with that.
BTW: How does it feel after that drunken 8 year crime spree to be going down for good?
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@-Proctology Warming
An example
"Go Cheney yourself."
Ah - a frothing hater and case in point.
Do try to clean the dribble off your shoes when you're done.
There is that classic projection again....
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There is a place...
...here in Tennessee (The Elephant Sanctuary) that takes in old elephants who have spent years in zoos or performing in circuses. Perhaps they will be so kind as to take in our very own Elephantman. And the best thing about the sanctuary is that, once they arrive there, no one is permitted to see them anymore. It sounds like a win-win to me.
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WSJ attacks Obama
Here is an editorial from the WSJ this morning:
Obama's Wiretap Votes
February 13, 2008; Page A26
Now and then sanity prevails, even in Washington. So it did yesterday as the Senate passed a warrantless wiretap bill for overseas terrorists while killing most of the Lilliputian attempts to tie down our war fighters.
"We lost every single battle we had on this bill," conceded Chris Dodd, which ought to tell the Connecticut Senator something about the logic of what he was proposing. His own amendment -- to deny immunity from lawsuits to telecom companies that cooperated with the government after 9/11 -- didn't even get a third of the Senate. It lost 67-31, though notably among the 31 was possible Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama. (Hillary Clinton was absent, while John McCain voted in favor.)
It says something about his national security world view, or his callowness, that Mr. Obama would vote to punish private companies that even the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee said had "acted in good faith." Had Senator Obama prevailed, a President Obama might well have been told "no way" when he asked private Americans to help his Administration fight terrorists. Mr. Obama also voted against the overall bill, putting him in MoveOn.org territory.
The defeat of these antiwar amendments means the legislation now moves to the House in a strong position. Speaker Nancy Pelosi is in the Dodd-Obama camp, but 21 Blue Dog Democrats have sent her a letter saying they are happy with the Senate bill. She may try to pass the restrictions that failed in the Senate, and Republicans should tell her to make their day. This is a fight Senator McCain should want to have right up through Election Day, with Democrats having to explain why they want to hamstring the best weapon -- real-time surveillance -- we have against al Qaeda.
To build one of Glenn's updates, the fact that this editorial contains all of the important buzzwords (e.g., bipartisan) and the assumption of facts not in evidence (e.g., the telecoms "acted in good faith") leads to the conclusion that this editoral was created entirely by a computer program.
To address the final sentence, Democrats do not need to explain why they want to hamstring the "best weapon" we have against al Qaeda. Instead, as Glenn and others have pointed out too many times to count, Democrats need to say that we do not want this "weapon" turned on American citizens without a warrant and without Congressional or judicial oversight.
As Glenn said, time to turn to the House of Representatives.