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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Yeah, there is a reason Maher loves Obama all right. Here is a hint, it starts with an "I", ends with an "l", and has the letters "srae" in between:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF4_oaTIH8g
Bill Maher, crypto-Zionist, caught with his pants down, letting everyone see his Israeli flag patterned underoos. It is a safe bet to assume that Maher is extremely happy with the direction that Obama's administration appears to be headed. Watching Sheuer expose Maher's gatekeeper role on Maher's own show was something to behold.
Although I was furious, I reluctantly decided to give everyone the benefit of the doubt after the FISA vote, but the lieberman vote demonstrates clearly that the Democratic Party is not listening to its supporters. I worked hard for Obama and donated more money than I could comfortably afford. Never ever again will I work for or donate to a polititian. Nor will I ever believe one again.
1. Don't get angry, get even.
2. IF (and it is a big if at this point) Obama does end torture as a policy, Guantanamo, illegal surveillance and has his DOJ enforce Congressional subpoenas, I don't really care if he does it with or without Lieberman as the chairman of the homeland security committee. That really is Obama's headache.
3. At some point Lieberman is going to try to undercut Obama (it is in Lieberman's nature to do so); I need to see how effectively Obama deals with that.
4. If you are a political partisan, you will be hurt as your leader sends you into this battle today and makes peace with yesterday's opponent that you were grappling with.
5. Don't overestimate your strength. If more netroots candidates such as Darcy Burner had made it, or if the netroots had succeeded in ousting Michelle Bachman or Mean Jean Schmidt, the netroots would have more clout.
I am sitting here at my desk, so angry over the Lieberman decision, that I could spit nails. Since spitting nails is impossible, I have come to only one conclusion and action that is possible.
Honor in government is no longer possible in the 21st century. No matter which party you side with, both have disgraced this country and your article only shows a few of the ways in the recent past that we have been disgraced.
I was a Republican for 32 years, when this year I changed my registration to Democrat in order to vote for Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania Primary. (In PA you must be registered for a party to vote in a primary AND you may only vote for candidates within your party) Previously, I have always split my vote in general elections, preferring to vote for the individual candidate and not along any party line; however, this year it seemed mandatory to change parties. While I did not "feel like a Democrat", preferring moderation in all things, I could no longer, in good conscience revert to the Republican Party. I contemplated either staying in the Democratic Party or re-registering as an Independent, but had not made up my mind until today.
Having lived through the Nixon administration and the Clinton administration with their individual scandals, I always believed that each President involved was acting out of a sense of self preservation, whether it be through illegal action, such as Nixon or among other things the selling of the Lincoln bedroom and the questionable elicitation of campaign funds such as Clinton. Under George W. Bush the game changed and it was not a question of self preservation, but the continual acts of eviscerating the Constitution, invasion of a sovereign nation to oust the head of state, who, while truly despicable, was not responsible for the horrendous destruction caused on September 11, 2001. Bush's sins, so to speak, were of the mortal kind and could very well lead to the utter destruction of the Constitution of the United States of America and to our way of life and standing in the world.
Today, I have made a decision. November 4, 2008 was the last election I shall ever participate in and the last time I will have ever voted. It is my conclusion that no matter the party nor the individual, honor was a concept that died with the end of the last century. When a President-Elect and the Senate Democrats can allow an unscrupulous man such as Joe Lieberman to continue to hold such a powerful (yet in his hands, impotent) committee chairmanship and insist on no substantial penalties for his nauseating and traitorous behavior in this past election, that is the day when I say goodbye. I can no longer believe that there are honorable men and women in government; therefore, I shall no longer enable them to come to power by giving them my vote.
It is a sad day for me, as it always must be when one's illusions are destroyed and for the first time in the nearly 15 years my father has been dead, am I glad he is not here to watch as I tear up my voter registration card and make this vow. He, above all, knew what honor was, and it was he who taught me the value and precious right voting was. Very sad day, indeed.
“The 33 new Members of Congress coming to Washington to swell our side of the aisle are pragmatic, not dogmatic,” Hoyer is to say. “They were elected on promises of bipartisanship and fiscal discipline. They were elected, quite simply, to solve problems, not further politicize Washington.”
Does anyone wonder why, if the new members of congress were elected on the promise of giving the Republicans everything they want, people didn't just vote for Republicans in the first place? Did anyone actually campaign by saying we're going to do the same things the Republicans do but we're just not as good at it?
I sure hope Accountability Now has its sights on Steny Hoyer.
is everybody's whipping boy?
Dems and Rs alike eagerly participate in the time-honored practice of slapping around the "Left," which is to say the Democratic Party's base -- which is to say, for the most part, highly educated, professional, well-connected, well-off, middle aged, often white folks who just happen to believe in the concept of Constitutional self-government, liberal ideals, and progressive operations.
That's who you're talking about here. That who, by and large, the Democratic Party base is; that's who get's the football pulled out from under them time and again, and that's who keeps coming back for more and more.
Oh.
Maybe that's why it is such a fun game to those who play it. For all its education, the "Left" can be appallingly... dumb.
Ya think?
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
Salon headlines in your mailbox
