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 Quote of the Day "The Republicans are dead in the
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Quotes
"She's done a great job bamboozling people
into thinking she's anti-war,
-- Kos, who accepted tens of thousands of dollars for ads from Hillary's
campaign, Link
Bush's Mafia
Whacks the Republic
by Robert Parry
Excerpt:
Historians may look back on U.S. press coverage
of George W. Bush's presidency and wonder why
there was not a single front-page story announcing
one of the most monumental events of mankind's
modern era - the death of the American Republic
and the elimination of the "unalienable rights"
pledged to "posterity" by the Founders.
The historians will, of course, find stories about
elements of this extraordinary event - Bush's denial
of habeas corpus rights to a fair trial,
his secret prisons, his tolerance of torture, his violation of Fourth
Amendment protections against unreasonable searches,
his "signing statements" overriding laws,
the erosion of constitutional checks and balances.
But the historians will scroll through front pages
of the New York Times, the Washington Post and
other newspapers, TV network and cable news channels
and find not a single story connecting the dots,
explaining the larger picture: the end of a remarkable
democratic experiment which started in 1776
and which was phased out sometime in the early
21st century.
Damn, that's some scary stuff, but he's right.
America isn't the same country we grew up in.
...and the press and the Democrats just stood there and watched him
ruin it.
Nader: The
GOP needs me again
He's running to keep Republicans in the White House
"I'm backed by Karl Rove."
Excerpt:
"Democrats have become very good at electing
very bad Republicans," Nader said.
"Democrats know how to implode, how to be ambiguous,
how to waver, how not to be authentic."
While Nader praised Ron Paul and Mike Gravel, who can't win, he blasted Hillary, who can.
"She is a political coward," Nader said. "She
goes around pandering to powerful interest groups
on the one hand and flattering general audiences
on the other. She doesn't even have the minimal
political fortitude of her husband."
Translation: If she was more like Bill, they'd call her "slick."
Dueling Quotes
"Nobody reads them. They have no significance.
Nothing in the world changes by the
publication of a signing statement.
The statements merely serve as public notice about
how the administration is interpreting
the law. Criticism of this practice is surprising,
since the usual complaint is that the
administration is too secretive in its legal interpretations."
-- Jack Goldsmith, former overseer of Bush's Justice Department's Office
of Legal Counsel Link
"We are executing the law as we believe we
are empowered to do so. The signing
statements certainly do and should
have an impact. They are real."
-- Tony Fratto, White House spokesliar, Link
I think it's nice of Bush to tell us which laws he chooses to ignore.
Why I hate
Hillary
by Steven Snark
Excerpt:
Hillary's real claim to fame is that she married
a political star. And, because of that, any biography that
tells the truth about her essentially amounts
to hundreds of pages relaying, well, not that much of anything.
You can't write a good life story about a rather
boring
and unlikable person who's never done enough
to merit a lengthy biography in her own right,
even if she is married to someone as interesting as Bill.
Wait, what about all those murders she has back in Little Rock?
According to the Hillary myth, Hillary's classmates
were wowed by her at Wellesley and that she gave
what they considered to be a stirring graduation
address when she left. Her speech, to be kind, has not
stood the test of time as well as, say, the Gettysburg
Address. "I Have a Dream," it's not.
Really?
She gave a speech that wasn't as good as the Gettysburg Address and
"I Have a Dream?"
...and she has the gall to run for president?
Has she no shame?
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- and you couldn't get anybody's attention?
Brent Parris has already served 8 years.
They want him to serve 37 more.
Subject: free trade
Very, very simple and effective solution.
Every country has a means of protecting the employment
of their citizens to one degree or another.
Find out what those countries do and replicate
it here. For example, does Japan import cheap American rice?
No! Japan protects its rice agriculture. Does
China import manufactured products from America? No!
China only imports raw material from the US.
There is a huge trade deficit/imbalance with other
industrialized countries with the US. There is a reason for it.
The reason is high tariffs on imported goods
from the US and low tariffs on imported goods to the US.
Like Chris Luk has said: Fair trade, not free
trade!
Steve
So, instead of a Camry, I'd have to buy a Ford?
Bush's acts
of madness
by Gene Lyons
Excerpt:
We've all seen this movie before - during the
run-up to invading Iraq, with Cheney beating ar drums,
Rice pratling about "mushroom clouds" over American
cities and Colin Powell as the voice of moderation.
We all recall how that ended, with Powell's lamentable
speech to the U. N. touting Saddam's apocryphal WMDs.
This time, Bush, is described as having until
'next spring... to decide whether to take military action.' At the expense
of being old-fashioned, exactly where in the
U. S. Constitution does it say the president can unilaterally declare war
?
Does anybody believe this Congress will allow
Bush to bequeath to his successor yet another misbegotten crusade
against a Middle Eastern country three times
larger than neighboring Iraq ? And with what army?
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Send me your phone number so we can talk.
Quotes
"What is the point of CNN's Alina Cho pointing
out that
Mitt Romney "looks
great, sounds great, smells great"?
It's akin to Chris Matthews's man-crush
on Fred Thompson."
-- Michael Stickings,
the-reaction.blogspot.com
"I'll do anything for the Republicans."
Subject: Re: Evidence on Bush-Hitler connection
Dear Bart,
Yesterday's link http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.htm
takes me to a page without a story.
Please advise!
Dan
Dan, it was there yesterday - I checked it myself.
Maybe Karl Rove made a phone call...
Wait - here's
a working link
Thanks to Tina!
William Rodriguez is said
to be the last man out of the North Tower.
Click Here
to watch a 3 minute clip.
He heard a big boom, then a minute later, the first plane hit.
What was the first boom?
Bush outsourced Government
Excerpt:
A monumental shift has quietly and quickly been
taking place in the way the public's business is done
- and We the People have not even been informed
about it, much less been asked to discuss and okay it.
Corporations are taking over our government.
No longer is it just a matter of big business's lobbyists and
campaign donations perverting public policy.
Now, politically connected corporations are also seizing
day-to-day governmental operations for their
own profit.
Since the Carter years, Washington
has drifted toward more and more outsourcing of public functions
to private contractors, but Bush Incorporated
has turned that gradual increase into a fullblown, jet-powered
rush to privatization. The shadowy and highly
lucrative world of government contracting has boomed under W,
rising 86% since he's been in office and now
totaling nearly $400 billion a year. Get this: There are now more
people doing federal jobs under corporate contracts
than there are people employed directly by the government.
In other words, in today's government, corporate
servants outnumber civil servants.
Subject: Kansas turns left?
Bart:
The most interesting race in the 2006 KS state
election was for KS attorney general.
Incumbent Phill Kline was a poster-boy for social
conservative stealth tactics, devoting
most of his energy during his term to trying
to indict a Wichita abortion doctor.
His opponent (and winner of the election) was
Paul Morrison, another disgusted Republican
turned Democrat. Mr Morrison had previously been
the Johnson County district attorney.
When he won the AG seat, guess who the Johnson
county Republicans replaced his
vacated DA position with? God-damned Phill Kline.
I believe that the AG race, along with Nancy Boyda's
victory over idiot Jim Ryun,
show that even in Red Kansas people are starting
to realize that religious nuts
don't make the best policymakers.
Maybe you dumb Okies will be next to wake up.
John in Topeka
John, I kinda doubt that.
Oklahoma makes Kansas look like San Fransisco.
Ego surfing
I'm not sure if that's what the kids call it - it when you Google yourself.
I've done it - I admit it.
Psychiatrists say 99 percent of all people do
it, but only a few of us admit it.
Believe it or not, there are those who think of
me as ...imperfect.
But when I read this stuff, I notice they never
mention anything specific.
I have this dread that when I'm no longer here
to defend myself, some spineless handjob
or handjobs will surface with tall tales about
kicking my ass or how certain things happened..
So let's make
this a rule - anyone who's got something to say should say it
now.
Don't say it on some website I never heard of
- say it right to my e-face.
Clarification: If you just don't have any
use for Ol' Bart, fine.
If bartcop.com isn't your
favorite website first thing in the morning, no biggie.
This is not meant for you.
This is meant for certain cowards who talk shit
in places where I'm not likely to see it.
I'm right here.
I have the same e-mail that I've had since before
you bought your first computer.
If you have something to say, don't say it behind
my back. Say it here and now.
And in the distant future when I'm no longer here,
if someone shows up and says,
"Bart was a fraud/coward/criminal/liar/child-molester"
- whatever, it would be cool
if that horseshit was answered with, "So
why didn't you bring this up when he was here?"
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Carmela
and Hillary
by Forked-tongued Dowd
Excerpt:
A Los Angeles Times article notes that the paradox
of the race is that voters want a Democrat to win,
but when they are offered a head-to-head contest
between Hillary vs. Rudy, McCain or Romney,
many switch allegiance to the Republicans. There
is "a sour aftertaste" with President Clinton.
Bullshit - I don't believe that and the polls
back me up. If 70% of this country wants the war over
what makes you think they will vote for a Republican
Fascist who vigorously supports Bush?
This is simply Maureen Dowd pulling for the Republicans
again.
"Who wants four or eight more years of the Clintons'
marital disputes, paid for by the United States,
we the people? I certainly don't," Carol Bendick,
a 63-year-old Democrat, told the paper.
Yeah, who wants eight more years of peace and
prosperity
when we could have eight more years of hell under
George Bastard Bush?
Quotes
"Maureen Dowd whacked the Clintons again, with
a subpar column about their hilarious
video spoof of the "Sopranos" finale.
Her column lacks even one memorable line.
It's a nasty and uninspired piece of
work."
-- Joan Walsh, Link
Subject: letter to Hillary
How about a different letter to Hillary:
Why the hell the Celine Dion song?
That only goes to show the soulless nature of
Hillary herself.
Greg
Who can argue with that?
Without a doubt, you've proven Hillary has no soul.
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The New
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The record
of the paper of record
Excerpt:
Dictionaries define "yellow journalism" variously
as irresponsible and sensationalist reporting that distorts,
exaggerates or misstates the truth. It's misinformation
or agitprop disinformation masquerading as fact to
boost circulation and readership or serve a larger
purpose like lying for state and corporate interests.
The dominant US media excel in it, producing
a daily diet of fiction portrayed as real news and information
in their role as our national thought-control
police gatekeepers.
In the lead among the print and electronic corporate-controlled
media is the New York Whore Times.
They practice fake journalism. It's because this
paper's primary mission is to be the lead instrument of state
propaganda making it the closest thing we have
in the country to an official ministry of information and propaganda.
The NYWT was controlled by Matt Drudge and Rush Limbaugh when Clinton
was president.
When Bush stole power, they turned the Whore Times over to Karl Rove.
Subject: trip to Oklahoma
Hey, Bart,
I'm on a business trip in Oklahoma City.
The contractors we're seeing here took us to lunch the other day,
and I winced when my boss asked them for their
opinions of the 2008 presidential election. To my surprise,
they all turned out to be Democrats! Even more
shocking, a few of them expressed a preference for Hillary!
They claimed that Oklahoma is a Democratic state
that tends to vote for Republicans in national elections.
Later, they said the fact that they all wear shorts
to work -- it's a technology company -- is their rebellion
against the oil industry. Is this completely
atypical? Did I happen across the only group of Okie liberals in
captivity, or am I blinded to the fact that this
is common by my Northeastern elitism?
Today, I saw a car in with Mississippi license
plates and a Kucinich bumper sticker.
Steve
Steve, there are a few sane Okies, but many Democrats
are Tony Keith Democrats.
A great way to explain the Dems here is - Steve
Largent (R-Jesus Twin) would be our
governor but he was against cock
fighting. The Democrat wasn't, so he won the election.
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Iraq
pumped 3.5M
barrels daily before
Bush invaded
and then they got their 2003 Halliburton
upgrade
Bush is stealing $220,000,000every day.
No wonder they were so eager to start a war,
It's the biggest theft in Earth's history.
Exxon made
$10B profit in 90 days
$100M a day - all profit - because Bush
started a fake war
Some people celebrate Bush's bloody oil war...
Some don't.
x 35313546
I'm REAL tired of this war.
The bastards got 15 in the last 40 hours.
Hey George!
Why kill our soldiers?
"Boo
hoo, so some soldiers died.
Do
you think I care?
They
volunteered, so what's the problem?"
How much did BIG OIL make yesterday?
Exxon
makes $108M - every day
Bush can live with that,
because
Iraq's oil wells have no meters
and his
front company is moving to Dubai.
$100M
a day,
$200M a
day,
$300M a
day - where's that money
going?
Bush has killed more Americans than Osama.
Quotes
"The media has decided that the next president
looks like Mitt Romney,
sounds like Fred Thompson, is a strong
leader like Rudy Giuliani and is
fiercely independent like John McCain.
On the progressive side, I guess,
we've got a bunch of inexperienced,
lightweight, shrill, calculating hypocrites."
-- David Brock, mediamatters.org
Depleted Uranium = deformed kids
Not a pretty video
Subject: Cafferty's complaint
Bart,
I'll bet any of your readers who have attended
a massive protest experience the same thing I did:
You go, you are inspired by the huge turnout,
the creative signs and the enthusiasm. You listen to speakers
and you feel as if you're going to change the
world. You return home feeling that this really is a great country.
Then you get home and you discover that the protest
wasn't covered in the papers or on the nightly news.
Nobody heard about it except those who participated
and passers-by. As far as the rest of the world knows,
the protest never happened. Not only does
this silence our voices, it discourages others from trying to participate.
Why bother, if nobody can hear, let alone listen?
People are demanding change; but our "Fourth Estate"
keeps muffling the message.
People are out there making news. It would
be nice if someone would report it.
Keep hammering, dude.
Jenny
Jenny, good point - and it's a problem Cafferty could fix if he wanted.
When 400,000 people turn out, CNN calls it, "a few thousand" and they
show
a camera angle of the crowd that makes it look like 500 people showed
up.
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Sicko - Michael Moore's most important work
Excerpt:
We all knew the American medical system was broken.
But how did Americans, who boasted just
a generation ago of being the freest and strongest
people on earth, fall into the clutches of vicious,
depraved sociopaths, the moral and emotional
cripples who run our insurance companies, our HMOs,
the pharmaceutical companies, and our hospitals.
How did we let them turn the Congress and White House
into puppets, willing to endlessly sell out the
American people so outfits like Kaiser Permenante and
GlaxoSmithKline could augment already huge profits?
Moore doesn't have a simple answer, but notes
that debt is the instrument used to make Americans docile,
cowed, and dependent. And what better way to
make sure they are permanent debt serfs than by putting
their most basic needs at the mercy of for-profit
enterprises, and then telling those enterprises to feast,
and the government would protect them from any
objections by their victims.
Bush's Nuclear
Boomerang
by Ivan Eland
Excerpt:
The Bush administration may live in a bubble
of "unreality," regarding its foreign policy in Iraq,
but neo-conservatives inhabit a parallel universe
on Iran.
Unbelievably, despite the fact that the U.S. quagmire
in Iraq has greatly weakened the U.S. position
vis-à-vis Iran, the neocons are pushing
for military action against that theocratic regime.
Cheney said Condoleezza Rice's diplomatic effort
to shut down Iran's nuclear program was faltering.
Cheney also said that by the spring of 2008 President
Bush might have to decide whether to use
military force against that nation.
I don't want that to happen, but launching a third
losing war five or six months
before the election would seem to be a great
gift for the Democrats.
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you their Nancy Grace Guarantee that Hillary can't win.
But when it comes to money, bullshit takes
a walk because money
talks.
NBC denies
Paris $1M interview
Would corporate whores lie to make more money?
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