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Quotes

"Bush is being criticized by right wing groups because his Christmas cards
  did not say 'Merry Christmas."  Instead they said, 'Sorry about the indictment.' "
     -- Conan O'Brien
 

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Holidays, Lobbyists & Murder
  by Robert Parry  as seen on  consortiumnews.com

 Link

 Excerpt:
A murder case in Florida is dampening holiday spirits in Washington, as some associates of Republican
super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff face the unpleasant prospect of testimony in messy fraud and murder trials
surrounding the 2000 sale of the SunCruz casino line. The former owner, who was in a business dispute
with an Abramoff group, was gunned down mob-style in 2001 -- and two alleged hit men had ties to
Abramoff's partner.
 

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Quotes

"Iraqi voters may not agree on much, but 99.5 percent of them agreed not to vote for
Bush puppet Ahmed Chalabi in the recent election. Once hailed by American fascists
as the "George Washington of Iraq," Chalabi's humiliating defeat at the polls makes
him something of an embarrasment now."
   -- Spin of the Day,   Link
 

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Subject: Reardon

There is a bit more tragedy in the Jeff Reardon story if you pay attention.
It's been about a year since his son died of drug overdose and he had angioplasty last week.
He is seriously depressed on meds - he is a mess.

I don't know if you understand real depression, it is no joke - and can make a person act really irrationally.
As a lefty I try to have some compassion a quality lacking in repugs.

TomM
 

Tom, those facts weren't available at press-time yesterday.
Had I known what was about to unfold, I would've handled that differently.
 

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Misery Index highest since Bush the Smarter

 Link

 Excerpt:
More and more Americans seem to be stressed out, miserable and depressed, according to two new polls.
One long term survey shows that personal misery among Americans is at its highest levels since the early 1990s,
with people saddled with woes over healthcare, unemployment, paying bills and romance.

Eleven percent are unable to afford needed medical care, compared with seven percent in 1991,
and 18 percent said they had no healthcare insurance coverage -- up from 12 percent in the early 1990s.
Some 15 percent of people surveyed said had been unemployed for a month, four points higher than in 1991.
 

When Reagan ran against Carter in 1980, he kept asking:
"Are you better off than you were four years ago?" and he killed Carter with that.

In 2004, when the whole country was ten times worse off than they were when Clinton left,
Kerry refused to ask that simple question because he claerly did not want to win.

I know someone who wants to win - and some Democrats hate her for that.
 

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Bush will pardon Rove
  by Paul Begala     

 Link

 Excerpt:
The Bush team excels at political strategy. They pride themselves on seeing three moves ahead
on the chess board. So let us look a few moves ahead as well:

Fitzgerald indicts Rove. Maybe for violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, maybe the
Espionage Act (which outlaws mishandling classified information). Perhaps the charge is a criminal
cover-up -- obstruction of justice, perjury, conspiracy or lying to a federal investigator.

What does the President do? What does he say?
As a former White House speechwriter, I've taken the liberty of drafting the speech for Mr. Bush:
 
 

Frog march, frog march, frog march, frog march, frog march...

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Quotes

"We once lived in a good place, but that was before the war. It got expensive after the war
so we moved out. Now everything costs so much. The rents are too high. Food is not cheap.
My husband can't find work, so we live here in an abandoned building. This war did little to help us.
We are worse now than before. And to make matters worse, I am pregnant again."
    -- Nahad Jouad, another Bush victim,  Link
 

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Subject: BCR 86 comments 

 Link
 

My good friend Tom the Pontiac Pillar (and others) throw down the torture gauntlet.
 

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Schumer Sets Sights High for 2006

 Link

 Excerpt:
Despite being New York's less-famous senator, Charles Schumer stayed busy in 2005,
keeping a hand — or quote — in almost every major congressional battle. Now he is out to
prove he has the strategy to elect Senate Democrats and maybe wrest control from the Republicans.

Schumer, the head of Senate Democrats' campaign efforts, said Tuesday he is focusing on seven states
where he believes they can take GOP-held Senate seats in 2006: Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Missouri, Montana, Tennessee, and Arizona.

"If the stars align right we could actually take back the Senate," Schumer said.
 

Chuckie, I have one word for you:
Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold,
Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold,
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Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold,
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Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold,
Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold,
Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold,
Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold,
Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold,
Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold, Diebold,

If one side is allowed to count the votes, without a paper trail, they're going to win.
Why can't our side figure that out?
 

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Subject: We owe Nixon an apology

I think America owes President Nixon and apology for driving him from office for domestic spying.
What Nixon did was a fraction of what Bush is getting away with.
He should have just declared himself above the law like Bush is doing because it was war time.

Marc Perkel
San Francisco, CA.
 

In the seventies, Republicans had the integrity to go to the White House and say,
"Mr. President, your crimes have become too much for us to support."

No such integrity exists in the GOP today.
 

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Kicking Ass & Splitting Hairs
 Torture doesn't bother Krauthammer's GOP

 Link

 Excerpt:
Krauthammer first goes for the usual argument—these are terrorists and they deserve no regard.
"Anyone who blows up a car bomb in a market deserves to spend the rest of his life roasting over an open fire."
This is the most frequent and confident argument in favor of torture. But it completely ignores the possibility
- nay, the reality - that many detainees have done nothing, will do nothing, and may simply have been sold to
US forces by the Northern Alliance, or just looked too angry at a checkpoint. That's one of the problems
with not charging or trying your prisoners - you never know if they're innocent.

In all of the torture-justifying columns I've read recently, I haven't once seen this point addressed. It's as if
the thought that there could be totally innocent men under those black hoods at Gitmo is just too much for
the Republican mind to process. The very idea that these detainees are not "enemy combatants" to the last man
is somehow blasphemous, no matter how true it obviously is. Why? Because there is simply no way to justify
torturing an innocent man - it can't be done. If we admit for a moment that even a significant fraction of these
torture subjects are totally innocent, the whole thing collapses.
 

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Delta Pilots Take 14 Percent Pay Cut
 With a gun to their heads, you mean?

 Link

 Excerpt:
Delta Air Lines Inc. pilots voted on Wednesday to approve a 14 percent pay cut in a deal
their union worked out with management to help the bankrupt carrier cope with an expected cash crunch.
It's the second double-digit pay cut the airline pilots have accepted in 13 months.

Delta and the Pilots Association, which represents the Atlanta-based company's 6,000 pilots,
will now try to hammer out a comprehensive agreement by March. If not, the sides have agreed
to let the decision be made by a three-person arbitration panel.
 

First they lose their pension, now they lose 25 percent of their salary.
Ain't it great when Bush robs the country blind?
 

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Subject: Clinton's Peace & Prosperty vs Bush's War & Recession

Bill Clinton will go down in history as one of the best presidents for his achievements.
GW Bush will go down in history as one of the worst presidents ever.
I am only talking about achievements.

Clinton never sent a man into battle that didn't come back alive.
Bush has sacrificed over 2,000 troops in his oil grab.

Clinton balanced the budget with a record surplus.
Bush created the worst budget shortfall ever.

Clinton actually cared when disaster struck our citizens.
Bush continued to play golf 5 full days after Katrina hit.

The stock market set all time records during Clinton's reign.
Bush gave us the worst stock market crash since 1929.

Clinton actually paid attention to presidential daily briefings.
Bush ignored the one that might have prevented 9-11.

Clinton followed the Geneva Convention.
Bush continues to torture and create and endless number of future terrorists.

Clinton gave us real welfare reform.
Bush gave the ultra wealthy tax cuts without end, and continued cuts in Medicare and Medicaid.

Clinton always protected Social Security.
Bush worked to eliminate it with a privatization plan.

Under Clinton's watch, over 20 million new jobs were created.
Bush has the worst new job creation records ever.

Clinton saved millions of lives in Kosovo without losing a single American life.
Bush invaded Iraq which led to the needless death of thousands of innocent people.

Clinton would admit it when he made mistakes.
Bush has never admitted to making even one.

Clinton had one success after another.
Bush has had nothing but failures.

One of the best presidents was replaced by arguably the worst of all time.

I have not even talked about how Bush fabricates the news, punishes those
who would criticize his foolish war, and illegally spies on Americans.
 Lonnie in Detroit
 

Lonnie, you are correct.
 

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The Republican Crack Up

  Link

 Excerpt:
Bush's bad year was partly the result of fundamentally flawed policies playing themselves out. It also reflected
the breakdown of a duplicitous strategy to push through policies that a majority of Americans never supported a
nd often misunderstood But it also resulted from the grassroots pressure of progressives and - when they finally
sensed Bush's weakness - some better-late-than-never political discipline from Democrats.

There were two turning points. First, Katrina reinforced a view of Bush as out of touch with ordinary people and
undermined his claim to elementary competence. With American poverty and governmental inadequacy so flagrantly
on display, the GOP had to postpone the vote on one of their favorite causes - permanent repeal of the estate tax.

Then, the 2,000th death of American soldiers in Iraq crystallized Americans' frustration with a war that should not
have been fought - and that Bush misled them into supporting. Bush is losing support on the war. Two-thirds of
self-described conservative Republicans told Washington Post pollsters they had doubts about the war.
 

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Quotes

"It's disheartening. Everyone knows that people are dying in Iraq,
  but to walk past this on the way to work every day is too much."
     -- Sgt. Gary Capan, about a sign that lists the number of troops killed in Iraq,
        the number wounded, and the number of days gone by since this war began,
        in a storefront window next door to the Army recruiting station in Duluth, Minn., Link
 

I'd sure like to get a picture of that.
Any Bartcoppers in Duluth?
 

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Subject: Hey from Portland

Bart, I offer up two criticisms:

* Stop talking about how Democrats "don't like to fight". 
It's mostly true but not with us rank and file. I walked precincts in Portland, Oregon to elect Kerry. 
I'm not a shrinking violet and I realize politics is a contact sport. 
I'm just tired of four or five references every time I read your page. 
One or two, yes, multiple times, no. Then I get mad at you instead of the Democrats. 
We need to toughen up for sure but you rarely hear Repugs criticizing other Repugs and never excessively.

* Don't answer every nutless anti-Hillary hatemail that you receive. 
It's too early, it's not good politics and it sounds too defensive. 
I'd vote for her in a heartbeat and if she's there she'll surely get my vote.
I just think you encourage more anti-Hillary nuts when you answer their idiotic mail every, single day (it seems).

You do a great job and you understand how the game is played. 
So many of these crackpots you lock horns with haven't a clue about how politics really plays out--you do! 
I just had to get those two things off my chest.
 
thank you,
 Dave

 
Dave, I don't answer every nutless anti-Hillary letter.
I just answer a few of the dozens that come in each week.
The great majority who like Hillary don't write.

As far as me screaming at the Democrats, I only do that when Bush commits a crime
and the Democrats remain silent about it - which, sadly, happens almost every day.

Just before Christmas break, Randi Rhodes started yelling at the Democrats,
but is anyone else on the net screaming for them to wake the hell up and start fighting back?
 

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White House claims Bush can read
 Who do they think they're fooling?

 Link

 Excerpt:
Der Monkey is reading "When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House,"
but BFEE spokesman Trent Duffy said Bush is not thinking about his post-Oval Office days.
"He is an avid reader," Duffy said Tuesday where Bush is enjoying another vacation.

Duffy said Brian Williams, right-wing anchor of "NBC Pro-Bush News," recommended the book to Bush.

Duffy said Bush also is reading "Imperial Grunts" so he can learn how to have a bowel movement
with that giant stick up his ass.
 

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Subject: Dukakis v Poppy Bush, 1988

I saw that debate, and knew the election was lost the second Dukakis opened his mouth. 
If he had said: "Listen Bernie, if someone murdered my wife I'd want to set him on fire 
and drag him through the streets until he came apart, twice. But civilization is all about NOT 
exalting our baser instincts, and my personal feelings aside, I'm still a part of a great civilization, 
and that has obligations. Besides, what the fuck kind of 'gotcha' question is that?!!!" 

I think he'd have carried forty eight states. 
Instead he came off bloodless and phony, so much so he made Bush I look like a meat-eater. 
He could have told the truth and gotten elected, too, setting a wonderful precedent. 

Ah, well, maybe another time.....
Scott Peterson (no, not THAT one) 
 

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Bush gives Helen Thomas Whiplash

 Link

 Excerpt:.
Bush poses a curious contradiction: He admits his decision to attack Iraq was based on
faulty intelligence, but he insists that it was the right step to take.

Think about it: 2,161 Americans killed in action, thousands maimed for life;
30,000 Iraqis, "more or less," as Bush put it, have been killed and thousands more wounded.

Iraqi cities have been battered by U.S. bombing, car bombings, kidnappings and religious strife.
Don't forget the billions in U.S. tax dollars spent every month on the war.  Top U.S. officials can
only sneak into Iraq, unannounced or undercover, and heavily protected in armored vehicles,
not exactly as conquering heroes.

Was this war worth it and for whom?
For the families who will never see their sons and daughters again?
For the children who may never climb on their fathers' knees again?
 

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Subject: BushCo

Impeachment - It's Not Just For Blowjobs Anymore! 

RonH
 

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Quotes

"Lightweight, and crank it on, and you shuffle the Shuffle."
     -- Dubya, bragging on his iPod instead of working on an Iraq exit strategy,     Link
 

 Hey Monkey - isn't it time you did some actual work?
 

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Subject: Rush and his secrets

Rush Limbaugh's medical records will reveal the following:

He had his stomach stapled
He has had liposuction
He never did have a back problem
He never did have an ear problem
His drug addiction goes way beyond the abuse of oxycontin

 Rowdy
 

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The Whores of Rasmussen
 Like FOX and the NYWTimes, they'll do anything to help Bush

 Link

Should the National Security Agency be allowed to intercept telephone conversations
between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States?

Yes   64 %
No    23 %
 

I have an idea for another question:

Should Bush be allowed to spy on any American, at any time for any reason?

I have an idea for another question:

Should Bush be allowed to pick and choose which parts of the Bill of Rights
and the US Constitution apply to his imperial presidency?

I have an idea for another question:

Should it be illegal to oppose Der Fuhrer Monkey?
 

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The Biggest Lies of 2005
  by Eleanor Clift

 Link

 Excerpt:
Biggest Lie?  I chose the White House declaration that Rove and Libby 
had nothing to do with leaking the identity of a covert CIA agent. 

Another favorite - from the White House - "everybody saw the same intelligence we did."

Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue. "We do not torture," he declared despite ample 
evidence to the contrary from Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo to secret prisons in Eastern Europe.

It's a wonder Cheney has any credibility left after, "the insurgency is in its last throes."  
 

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Quotes

  If warrantless surveillance is such a swell idea, why has Bush been untruthful about it ? 
"Any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires a court order, 
  Nothing has changed..."
      -- Gene Lyons, quoting Bush from April 20, 2004.   Link
 
 

Good point, same for Rove and Libby.

After years of, "We didn't do it," they got caught, so they changed their lies to,
"Well, Plame wasn't  really  a covert agent at the time, so there's no crime."

Hey Monkey - if there are no crimes, why do you keep telling lies?
 

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Subject: that damn Bush

I think 2006 will be simply awful for Bush.
 
I've meant to ask, with all of the religiously insane claiming 9/11 and Katrina et al 
were evidence of God's wrath, has anyone noted that all the natural disasters of 
recent years were in states that went for Bush in the elections?
 
Take care and Happy New Year to you!
 Mickey
 

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Feds Attack Medical Marijuana in San Francisco
  I guess they found Osama and achieved peace in Iraq

 Link

 Excerpt:
A well-known San Francisco medical cannabis dispensary (MCD) was raided Tuesday by the DEA. 
Pre-dawn, federal agents entered the home of Steve and Catherine Smith and seized plants and money, 
before turning their attention on the collective they run, HopeNet.
 
There they faced off with about 60 activists and patients, who gathered to protest the raid thanks largely 
to a quick mobilization by advocacy group Americans for Safe Access. After several hours, the agents left, 
but they returned after dark when the crowd had dispersed to break down the door and enter the collective.
 
No arrests were made, but the DEA claims to have seized 500 "plants," the majority of which were actually
rootless clippings - a mere 10% maturing into fruit-bearing plants. Only an inch or two high, clippings are 
not legally considered to be plants.
 

Our government has nothing better to do than chase down peaceful flower smokers, many of which are 
trying to ease pain on their doctor's orders, but Bush has a Biblical need to punish the sick and the dying.
 

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Chimp Fulfills Mencken's Prophecy
  Poodles Can Lie, too

 Link

 Excerpt:
In 2003, the "NOTABLE" AWARD was presented to Tony Blair. This year the NOTABLE COMMITTEE 
having reviewed our short-list for mendacity, again recognises Blair's sterling contribution. Bush remained a 
contender, but the committee determined that Bush does not have either the brains or the capacity for articulate deception.

ha ha

Bush, however, has this year been recognised as the President most worthy of the H.L. Mencken prize. 
In light of Mencken's words, the committee commends President Bush for his undeniable suitability for 
the award, and congratulates Blair on his victory.
 

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Subject: King Kong's lust for white women

Hey Bart,

The excerpt on your page regarding the King Kong movie caught my eye and I pointed at the link to see that it was from Landover Baptist.
Cool, says I. They're always good for a chuckle. The problem with Landover is... too many people take it "for real." 

You gave no indication of your opinion, but I'm sure you're intelligence tipped you to the fact that Landover is, in fact, a joke. 

They're connected to whitehouse.org. That should tell you something. 
But, on the other hand, I've read the letters they get too - with a sense of impending doom for our Republic.

Keep up the good fight, Bart.
Dragon
 

Dragon, two of my favorite people, Judy O'Christian and Betty Bowers, run with Landover.
It's a hoot!
 

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Quotes

"There is no one Democratic voice ... and there is no one Democratic position."
     -- Rep. Nancy Pelosi, House minority leader, ...doing her job?     Link
 

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Eva Longoria to File Charges Against Cop

 Link

 Excerpt:
Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria is planning to file charges
against a Texas traffic cop who cited her and boyfriend on Christmas Eve.

The actress claims the police officer acted badly when he pulled them over
for impeding traffic in her home state.
 

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