"For you little kids out there: if you have a Barbie, don't lick Barbie because
she could have lead in there." - - Rush, who licks Kens, not
Barbies, Oink
"Our troops on the ground have a question:
Will their elected leaders in Washington pull the rug out from under them just
as they're gaining momentum and changing the dynamic on the ground in Iraq? Here's
my answer is clear: We'll support our troops, we'll support our commanders, and we
will give them everything they need to succeed."
-- Dubya, about the troops stranded in Iraq,Link
Another way to ask that question is:
Will our elected leaders in Washington keep us stuck in this
hellhole even after every chance to win is frittered away by greedy
oil bastards?
Excerpt: The disclosure that Rumsfeld resigned on the
day before the election, not the day after.
means that he was pushed out of his job the same
day he suggested a de-escalation of the Iraq War.
When Rumsfeld's resignation was announced on Nov.
8, with both his resignation letter and his
de-escalation memo still secret, it was widely
assumed that Bush was reacting to the stinging defeat
and was appointing Robert Gates as an olive branch
to the Democrats.
The reality now appears to be almost the exact
opposite. Bush was preparing for an Iraq War escalation
and was looking for a fresh face as Defense Secretary
to buy him the necessary time to accomplish this
extraordinary political maneuver. Bush also may
have recognized the damage that might have come if
Rumsfeld's war doubts became known.
Quotes
"I'd still be chair of the Judiciary Committee
if Rumsfeld's resignation was known to the public
at the time he resigned."
-- Arlen "Magic Bullet" Specter
"It's difficult to say positive things in this
environment and not have some snarky apologist for the White
House (or Arianna Huffington) turn
it into some clipped phraseology that looks
like support for the president's policies."
-- Nancy Pelosi, speaking about Iraq, Link
Excerpt: "By midnight on Monday, the White House knew.
Monday night I was at the state
Emergency Operations Center and nobody was aware
that the levees had breeched. Nobody."
The charge is devastating: That, on August 29,
2005, the White House withheld from the state police the info
that New Orleans was about to flood.
The whistle-blower is Dr. Ivor van Heerden, deputy director of
the LSU Hurricane Center, the chief technician
advising the state on saving lives during Katrina.
He charged that the White House, FEMA and the
Army Corp hid, for critical hours, their discovery
that the levees surrounding New Orleans were
cracking, about to burst and drown the city.
Dr. van Heerden said, "Fifteen hundred
people drowned. That's the bottom line."
They could have survived Hurricane Katrina. But
they got no mercy from Hurricane George.
"The president's rug may still say "optimistic
person comes to work," but he'll have to pardon the rest of us if we don't share his
sunny outlook. Fourteen American families will learn today that they've lost somebody they love
in a war that never should have been fought. Meanwhile, the Iraqi parliament remains on vacation." --
Tim Grieve, on another fourteen killed when their helicopter went down
in Iraq, Link
Important: The chopper fell out of
the sky due to mechanical problems - for sure.
That's what everyone needs to know and
remember - mechanical problems.
The Stinger missles that Bush gave to the
Saudis did not find their way into the hands
of their allies in Iraq and that's what
everyone needs to know and remember.
It was not a Saudi rocket
- is that clear?
It was mechanical problems, not
a rocket the Saudis got from Bush.
Just so that's clear - mechanical problems
andnot a Saudi rocket.
Reminder: The chopper exploded due
to mechanical problems - for sure.
It was not a Saudi rocket
- is that clear?
It was mechanical problems, not
a rocket the Saudis got from Bush.
WPE spotted in KC protesting Bush's visit. Thanks to John M
Subject: Why they hate Hillary
I'm catching a lot of crap from my "progressive"
friends for supporting "Her".
It is a strange thing. There is no debate once
her name comes up.
They all start frothing at the mouth. Why?
I am not sure but I can tell you that the frothing
becomes foaming and scary.
I see my "friends" have gone away over this issue
which is sad since most of them are WOMEN!
WTF?
~Marselle
If their hatred was based on something tangible,
we could fight it.
If Hillary was simply not the choice of Democrats
- fine, we'll get behind someone else.
But Democrats are pro-suicide at every opportunity.
If she loses fair and square I can live with that,
too.
But they spread that "surge is working" horseshit
and
they
know she never said it. The Hillary haters are determined to destroy
our best chance to win.
Arianna will take any opporunity to fabricate
lies to stop her.
Why do Democrats want to lose so badly?
Arianna Democrats call it "Hillary's
war?" That's how much our side wants to lose.
Excerpt: Sen. John Warner's call for troop withdrawals
from Iraq is likely to ratchet up pressure
on Bush substantially and lend momentum to Democratic
efforts to end U.S. combat.
Warner, R-Va., former chairman of the Armed Services
Committee and Navy secretary
during the Vietnam War, said Bush should bring
some troops home by Christmas. Doing so
would send a powerful message that the U.S. commitment
in Iraq was not open-ended.
Warner says the president should get to decide
when and how many troops should leave.
Bush opposes setting a date to pull out troops
and blames generals under his command for the decision.
Bart, remember when Frist threatened to invoke
the nuclear option if the dems filibustered?
Yes, and if the gelding wimps knew how to play
poker they would've said,
"You can jam that threat up your ass, Cat-Killer,
because we don't care! Fuck with us and we'll make you eat
it, so go ahead - take your best shot."
Instead, they crawled under a table and wet their
pants in fear.
How did I get in a party of sacless wimps?
I don't know what the ramifications of eliminating
the filibuster would ultimately be
but I think the dems were concerned that it would
prove disastrous to the Senate.
Well sure, there are dozens of reasons
to surrender without a fight, but a thug president
committing crimes, ripping up the Constitution
and lying us into wars can also prove disastrous.
Why are Democrats so f-ing stupid?
The GOP doesn't care about the USA or our institutions
but I think there is a shred of
real patriotism in the dems. I hope some
of our elected ones have a little integrity.
Or am I just being a fool?
John
The idiot Democrats can't figure out that there's
a difference between winning and losing.
I'm real tired of "losing with honor."
Excerpt: Barbour Griffith & Rogers has long
been a powerhouse GOP lobbying firm.
Now, apparently, American politics are just too
small-time.
BGR is reportedly trying to influence Iraqi politics
as well.
BGR, the firm started by Haley Barbour, has been
promoting Ayad Allawi, the one-time
Iraqi interim prime minister who over the weekend
published an op-ed in the WaHoPo
calling for the parliamentary overthrow of current
PM Nouri al-Maliki.
This is just another delay tactic from the criminal White House.
When Patreaus says, "We're slowly making some
progress" next month,
Bush and his obedient American whore media will blame Maliki for everything.
"Oh, if we could just get Allawi in there,
we'd see a big difference," and Bush will ask for 6 more months which will kill 600 more soldiers.
Bush likes to say he doesn't worry about what history will say about
him,
but he'll kill another 1,000 men so his whore press can blame Clinton
44 for Iraq.
"If 'None of the Above' gets the Republican
nomination, two things will happen: a) the Democrats will find a way to
lose to him, and b) Bush will try to call and congratulate
him."
--Bill Maher
"The Presidential Advance manual offers advance
staffers and volunteers who help set up presidential events guidelines for assembling
crowds. Those invited into a VIP section near the stage, for instance, must be 'extremely'
supportive of the Administration. To counter any demonstrators who do get in, advance teams
are told to create 'rally squads' of volunteers with large hand-held signs, placards or banners
with 'favorable messages.' Squads should be placed in strategic locations and 'at least
one squad should be 'roaming' throughout the perimeter of the event to look for potential problems.
If the demonstrators are yelling, rally squads can begin and lead supportive chants to drown out the
protestors (USA!,USA!,USA!)." --Excerpt
from The "Presidential Advance Manual",Whore
Post
Meanwhile, Bush is praising the concept of Free Speech.
Bart, I remember how hot McDonald's coffee was
when I was growing up.
It was common knowledge that the stuff was lava.
They had multiple cases
of burns due to the coffee that they ignored.
They decided that it kept better
at that temperature and they had no reason to
change.
The only thing that will make these corporations
change is multimillion dollar law suits.
When you hear the Republicans talk about capping
the amount for damages
they're just helping make these huge corporations
unaccountable.
Sometimes things do go a little overboard but
it's our only protection.
Chris O
When Paula Jones had a no-proof claim against
our best president ever, the GOP
and the Whore Supreme Court became big, big fans
of senseless litigation.
Excerpt: Intentionally or not, a new assessment of Iraq's
political and military prospects landed just in time
to bolster Bush's case that more soldiers should
die for a loost cause.
The consensus report by U.S. spy agencies who
earn their paychecks at the pleasure of Der Monkey
contained a veiled warning: Any move to shift
U.S. troops out of their role directly combating insurgents
could squander the modest security gains secured
by the troop surge.
"A change of mission ... would place security
improvements at risk," the report alleged.
That conclusion, coming unanimously from the nation's
16 intelligence agencies who earn their paychecks
at the pleasure of Der Monkey, will likely help
the Neocons and their boy David Petraeus, argue for patience
from a skeptical Congress and public who are
tired of 54 months of bloodshed and death. Petraeus oversees
the U.S. troop buildup and a more aggressive
counterinsurgency effort that Bush announced in January.
Excerpt: We may be witnessing the first time in history
that the downtrodden manage to bring down
an unfair economic system without going to the
trouble of a revolution.
First they stopped paying their mortgages, a move
in which they were joined by many
financially stretched middle class folks, though
the poor definitely led the way.
Then, the poor stopped shopping. Both Wal-Mart
and Home Depot announced disappointing second
quarter performances, plunging the market into
another Arctic-style meltdown. When, Wal-Mart, the
largest private employer in America, starts experiencing
a shortage of customers, it needs to take a long,
hard look in the mirror. About a century ago,
Henry Ford realized that his company would only prosper
if his own workers earned enough to buy Fords.
Wal-Mart, on the other hand, never seemed to figure out
that its low wages would eventually curtail its
growth, even at the company's famously discounted prices.
Reminder: The chopper exploded due
to mechanical problems - for sure.
It was not a Saudi rocket
- is that clear?
The Saudis are our friends - they
would
not arm their Muslim allies with our weapons.
Subject: Hillary and Barack
Hillary did NOT say "the surge is working."
Drudge made that up; and all these Hillary Haters
took it, started posting it on every website
they could find, and the sheeple followed suit;
I'm in Kansas City; saw excerpts of her speech
(along with 2 standing ovations, and at no time
did she say the words: "The surge is working."
That's a bareface lie.
Anyone who would believe Drudge is looking for
negatives about Hillary, because they know that
Drudge has always despised the Clintons. I'll
never forget his obsession with Bill Clinton during Monica.
After seeing Obama on Jon Stewart, if I hear anything
bad about that charasmatic gentleman,
I'll know they're a pack of lies.
Barrack (you rock) as the supporters shouted; debunked the
non-truths Drudge wrote about him, smiling all
the while. It won't be a problem for me at all,
to support Obama if Hillary doesn't get the nomination.
Marian in Missouri
Drudge lied about it. The NY Post
The Whore AP lied about it. Arianna lied about it, so I guess
I can't be too tough
on those who asked, "Why did Hillary say Bush's
surge is working?"
When I heard that nutty-ass lie, my bullshit meter
started barking like a chihuahua drunk on Jose Cuervo.
Excerpt: Cheny is the single greatest threat to American
and international security in the world today.
Not Osama Bin Laden. Not the ghost of Saddam
Hussein. Not Ahmadinejad or Kim Jung Il.
Not al-Qaida, the Taliban, or Jose Padilla himself.
Not even Bush can lay claim to this title.
It is Dick Cheney's alone. Operating in
a never-never land of constitutional ambiguity which exists
between the office of the president and the Congress
of the United States, Cheney's office has made
its impact felt on American policies as had no
vice president's office before him. Granted unprecedented
oversight over national security and foreign
policy by executive order in early 2001, many months prior to
the terror attacks of 9/11, Cheney has single-handedly
steered America away from being a nation among
nations (albeit superior), operating (roughly)
in accordance with the rule of law, and toward its present
manifestation as the new Rome, a decadent imperial
power bent on global domination whatever the cost.
Excerpt: Your bias shows through in each of these examples.
It is a staple of the right wing
to use these tactics in a debate or argument.
Build the straw man & knock it down.
it is your tactics in arguing these types of
issues that may need changing.
"Bush is saying, essentially, that 58,000 dead
in Vietnam weren't quite enough, that maybe we should have twice as
big a tragic memorial on the Mall." And who's saying it? A man who chose
not to serve, took steps, used family friends to get out of serving in Vietnam, didn't
even show up for his own Guard duty, so that better, braver men could fight
that war."
-- Paul Begala,Link
Randi Rhodes is claiming that the repugs MUST
have some serious inside dirt on the Dems due to
some warrantless wiretapping (very much in the
same vein as ol' Tricky Dick and his enemies list)
Why else would the opposition consistently fold
unless their personal lives were not in danger of being exposed?
JJ
I have an antidote for that.
As long as it's not horrifying, (Michael Vick-type stuff) all the Democrat
has to do is say,
"The only way they could've found that out
was by illegally listening in on my phone calls and reading my mail and these crooked
Republican bastards should have to pay a price for that."
Make that the issue, turn the conversation into a "Peeping Tom"
issue and make them suck on it.
Of course, for our Democrats, total surrender is always an option.
Excerpt: The level of support here for Her approaches
what an incumbent president seeking re-election might expect.
The nerve of that woman!
And then there is Vernon Jordan, who is now a
Clinton $100,000-plus bundler.
And Vernon's wife Ann is also a $100,000-plus
bundler.
Is that even legal? She must be breaking the law...
Clinton's links to the Democratic establishment
and influence centers of Washington D.C. extend
deep into the institutional structure of the
city. Clinton people are embedded in crucial positions.
That does it - I'm getting behind Mike Gravel today!
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Excerpt: What happened to Dennis Miller? He used
to crack us up on SNL and later had his own HBO show
that cleared the way for Bill Maher's show. Like
Maher, Miller would lampoon politicians with a definite
leftist tilt, always ringing true in his exposure
of hypocrisy and basically anything stupid.
But what the hell happened?
Have you checked out his radio gig? To say
he has switched sides is putting it lightly. Check his web site,
The Dennis Miller Zone. Sound familiar? Yeah,
as in The No Spin Zone. Also like Bill O'Reilly's web site,
Miller has an online store where you can buy
DMZ baseball caps and bumper stickers. Then download his
latest radio podcast, and you'll notice that
those who subscribe to Miller's podcast also subscribe to the
right-wing shows of Michael Medved, Michael Savage,
and yes, Bill O'Reilly. I kid you not.
"Mailiki is right. If the US is serious about
Iraq being a sovereign democracy, then we can't tell them we don't like the
way their elected leader is doing the job and they should try another. In fact, it would
be funny if Maliki called for Bush to be replaced because he's failed at crafting
a coherent Iraq strategy."
-- Christopher Hayes, Link
> "Qualifier: To this day, nobody has been
able to explain to me why the GOP can block every > move the Dems try to make now, whereas we
were "totally powerless" for the last 6 years."
Actually, this has been explained to you on many
occasions.
Leafsong
You mean you're not going to say what it is because
the answer is so obvious everyone already knows
what it is?
"Work is valuable in a whole lot of ways; It
is how you earn a living -- something the Kennedy family wouldn't
know about." -- Rush,
the infected child rapist, adrift on the USS Syphilis,
Oink
Rush forgets that three Kennedys died for their
country, two were murdered by the GOP.
Meanwhile, Rush
used his dirty ass crack to avoid military service.
I hope he wears a condom, when he bungholes a Dominican boy.
Bart, thanks for the link to the truth about this
"the surge is working" smear.
The only mistake you made was not using the big
eye catching type face at the end of
the Dwyer horseshit piece saying FOR THOSE INTERESTED
TRUTH HERE link.
The bastards aren't playing nice are they?
DFG in blue PA
It's politics, I expect hardball, but Democrats insist on suicide.
Excerpt: Karl Rove figured out that the way to take an
intellectually incurious, draft-averse, naughty playboy in a
flight jacket with chewing tobacco in his back
pocket and make him governor of Texas, was to sell him as
God's anointed in a state where preachers and
televangelists outnumber even oil derricks and jack rabbits.
Rove turned religion into a weapon of political
combat -- a battering ram, aimed at the devil's minions.
Especially at gay people.
It's easy to scapegoat people you outnumber. Rove
knew in politics to bet on fear and loathing.
Never mind that in stroking the basest bigotry
of true believers you coarsen both politics and religion.
At the same time he was recruiting an army of
the Lord for the born-again Bush, Rove was also
shaking down corporations for campaign cash.
Crony capitalism became a biblical injunction.
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Reminder: The chopper exploded due
to mechanical problems - for sure.
It was not a rocket that Bush
gave to the Saudis to prolong this war so Bush can
comtinue to pump $300M
worth of unmetered oil daily
from the Iraqi oil fields.
The Saudis are our friends - they
would
not arm their Muslim allies with our weapons.
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