"So far we could use a little more LBJ with
Obama - threatening, cajoling... And I think that's something that he's
going to have to learn some more of." -- Doris Kearns Goodwin,
on Obama's nice-guy leadership style wehateclintons.com
Excerpt: Kimberly Munley, the civilian police officer
who confronted and shot the Fort Hood gunman, is being hailed as a hero.
The base's top commander, Lieutenant General
Bob Cone, credited her with stopping the shooting rampage that killed
13 people despite being wounded herself.
Munley and her partner responded within three
minutes of reported gunfire on Thursday afternoon.
Munley had been directing traffic moments before
she confronted the gunman, reports the New York Daily News.
A doctor said earlier that Munley had a gunshot
wound that had hit an artery.
"She happened to encounter the gunman. In an exchange
of gunfire, she was wounded but managed to wound him four times,"
Cone said. "It was an amazing and aggressive
performance by this police officer."
I think that calls for a shot of Chinaco for Kimberley
Munley.
How many lives did she save by dropping the shooter?
I'm not looking to start a fight, but I'd say making the decision to
move towards a crazy man
who's shooting at you is more courageous that walking into a burning
building.
"I live a good life ... a hard one, but I go
to sleep peacefully @ night knowing that I may have made a difference
in someone's life." -- Fort Hood hero Kimberley
Munley, Link
Rahm Emanuel has access to the highest level of
out 'Executive Office'.
Rahm Emanuel has duel Israeli/American citizenship.
Where do you think his loyalties lie? (I
used the term 'lie' purposely).
It really is time to address the Israel-Firsters
vs the America-Firsters.
I know this will cost subscribers, but what do
we do, ignore truth?
I know you have set Israel off-limits, but the
Bay Bridge is falling down (only a symptom of general infrastructure breakdown),
no money for health care, no money for schools,
trillions readily stolen in Iraq, and yet while Israel refuses to sign
the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty (signed by Iran), we
continue to send billions of dollars to Israel, we block reports of Israel's
war crimes,
and I could go on, but I know you will demand
sources, documentation, logic.
My answer to that is that I will provide documentation
in abundance, but look around
--is kissyface putting American citizens first?
Is our government putting our interests first?
I submit this with the utmost respect--I have
supported (and will continue to support)
you with my hard-earned (increasingly worthless)
dollars.
I can supply the source material--I'm sorry you
can't publish it.
Don
Shingle Springs
I can publish anything I want.
The problem is, once somebody starts this Middle East headache,
it goes forever and friendships are strained (or destroyed) and nobody
ever wins..
If you want to include your e-mail so they can write to you
- fine.
I like to avoid those eternal headaches whenever I can.
Excerpt: Kimberly Munley is being honored as the hero
she is, having risked her life, doing the job she was trained to do, and
saving
countless lives in the process. But its worth
remembering as conservatives oppose the health care bill, that 20 years
ago they opposed someone like Kimberly Munley
being able to do the job she is now being honored for.
As the congress gets closer to passing health
care reform and as Republicans and conservatives ramp up their opposition
and
predictions of doom and gloom in their opposition,
its a good idea to remind ourselves of how wrong Republicans have proved
to be about everything over the past 25 years.
And Kimberly Munley is only the latest shinning example.
The incident at Ft. Hood and the heroism of Kimberly
Munley reminds us that 20 years ago conservatives were telling us that women couldn't do the same jobs men could.
And they shouldn't even be allowed to try.
As Munley is being honored for her heroism, returning
fire after being shot herself, and taking down Nadal Hasan, putting an
end
to his killing spree, we should remind
ourselves that conservatives opposed women becoming police officers,
they opposed women in combat roles in the military, they
opposed the removing of any institutionalized barriers that separated men and women in terms of opportunity, authority,
and ability. And they did it because
they said women just were not equipped to do the job. They told us where a woman's
place was.
"It was an attack - one or more men decided
with malice to attack a US military base. We need to get right down to the bottom of this - and, liberals,
if the stories of accomplices in custody are true, this is where harsh
interrogation might be needed: whoever was involved
in this most emphatically does not have a right to remain silent." -- Mark Noonan, saying
that the Ft. Hood shooter should be tortured , Link
Funny how torture is the first place
they go when there's trouble...
My guess is the shooter is mentally incompetent.
What fun is there in torturing crazy people?
"Bart,
it's a LOT of fun - trust me.
I get a four-hour erection from it."
Excerpt This is bad. 10.2% unemployment. 16 million people
out of work. Payrolls have been slashed 22 months in a row.
The real jobless rate is now 17.5%. These are
Great Depression numbers. Unemployment benefits have been extended,
but policymakers still resist jobs programs.
Why? Why no federal work programs? Why no WPA?
The dot.com boom fizzled and the housing boom
is kaput. Greenspan's bubblenomics has flopped. There's no driver for new
jobs.
We handed-over the economy to the private sector,
and they blew it up. The supply-side, trickle-down, free market dogma
turned out to be a fraud. We are all poorer and
the economy is broken. Now we need jobs, good paying jobs with benefits.
Government jobs. We need big government, not
big bubbles.
The Democrats are clueless. Their deepest convictions
appear on the screen of a teleprompter and then vanish in a flash.
It's a party of phonies led by a poseur. President
Milquetoast, a charismatic orator with zero guts.
What good is a man who believes in nothing? What
good is a man who won't fight for what's right?
Strong words, but something must be done to wake Obama up.
Obama seems to think turning things over to Reid & Pelosi solves
everything.
That, and being nice to the Blue Dogs and the Rethugs who f-ing hate
him.
"This bill is the greatest threat to freedom
that I've seen in the 19 years I've been in Washington.
-- John Boehner, paid by BIG PHARM to say crazy things,
Link
Subject: "Obama could still
be a great president..."
Bart, you wrote:
> "Obama could still be a great president. > But he's got to work for it - he can't expect
greatness to knock on the White House door. "
Hard to find any fault with that opinion but
wasn't it just as obvious during the primaries
that the guy was all about a load of churchy
rhetoric?
I've been following politics for a very loooong
time and it was my main criticism of him.
My bullshit meter was pinned out with all his
pseudo-erudite blather. If one really listens to him
one hears an endless stream of cliche-ridden
gibberish and not much more. He may have missed
his opportunity to create all that "change" he
went on about endlessly.
Besides, when people like Huffington, Kos and,
Andy Sullivan, all "former" right-wingers, were in his camp
primarily to tear down Ms. Clinton, I was convinced
that his appeal was miles wide and inches deep.
But I do disagree with you about being glad that
Hillary lost.
She's a lot tougher than "he who must be loved".
Jim the Pie Man
Obama may be guilty of an endless stream
of cliche-ridden gibberish but he's got
the power to really change things but he doesn't
seem to want to use that power.
I hope he changes his mind before the possibly
catostrophic 2010 elections.
He'll be unable to act if the bastards
get more House and Senate seats.
Excerpt: After contracting for a year and a half, the
economy grew in the quarter that ended in September, driven largely
by federal stimulus. But government spending,
as large and as necessary as it has been, has not been enough to revive
hiring.
Unemployment surged from 9.8 percent in September
to 10.2 percent last month, its highest level since 1983.
And who was president the last time the economy
crashed? Saint Reagan.
It's always the Republican who crashes the
economy, but the Democrats refuse to list the facts.
Why can't we get a Democrat to list the damn facts
so the ignorant voters can learn?
At the same time, the economy lost 190,000 more
jobs. That means employers have eliminated
7.3 million positions since the recession began
in December 2007.
Taken together, the numbers paint this stark picture:
At no time in post-World War II America has it been
more difficult to find a job, to plan for the
future, or - for tens of millions of Americans - to merely get by.
Obama says "bold, innovative action," would be
needed - from the administration, Congress and the private sector
- to undo the devastation in the labor market.
Americans are waiting for Mr. Obama to lead the way.
Excerpt: Unless your spacecraft just landed last week,
I’m guessing that you’re familiar by now with the new order of things over
at
NBC’s 10pm time slot. In an attempt to
focus solely on cost effectiveness, the network has tossed any attempt
at real programming
for the archaic comedy of one Jay Leno.
Not that NBC has had much to speak of in recent years in the entertainment
department,
but this clear and admitted tactic of filling
prime time with cheap product, ratings be damned, spells out a dicey situation
not just for
televised entertainment but for this country
as a whole. To put it succinctly, Jay Leno is bad for America.
This is a purely suburban example I know, but
seeing Jay Leno on week nights at 10pm is sort of like when the big fancy
mall
in your town starts sliding downhill and the
Foot Lockers and Banana Republics are replaced by 99 cent stores and party
supply
warehouses. Sure it’s still technically
a mall, but only the dregs still go there. The only reason it stays
afloat is because the inventory
was purchased at last weeks swap meet for a biscuit
under thirty bucks. NBC has become the once fancy mall that replaced
its
carpet with linoleum and sells its cheap plastic
wares under blinding florescent lights. Quality was sacrificed in
the name of margin.
Jay Leno at 10pm is not entertainment, Jay Leno
at 10pm is borrowed time waiting for a land developer to turn him into
condos.
Subject: Re: So how does killing
the front-runner's momentum make Palin a winner?
Bart,
Palin can be a loser and a winner all at the same
time, it just depends on your perspective.
From the Democratic side of the fence, she was
no doubt a loser with the chaos she caused.
But look at what she accomplished from the movement
conservative perspective ...
She got what they would call a RINO (Republican
In Name Only), that was selected by the local GOP machine,
booted out of the election and she moved the
party towards more ideologically pure (nutso) candidates.
It doesn't matter that the RINO probably would
have won the election. Now even though she lost, she's helping
shape the Republican party in her image (isn't
that a scary thought?). I'm hoping she has more success, as I believe
that will continue to turn what is left of the
Republican Party into the regional rump it deserves to be.
The movement conservatives and fire breathing
progressives/liberals have one thing in common,
they'd rather lose an election, than help a non
pure candidate win.
"We cannot forget how this whole thing happened
in the first place. There was not a primary. The right message here would indict
the way party bosses, Republican Party bosses and these big thinkers like Newt screwed
the whole thing up from the get go..." -- the vulgar Pigboy
Link
Butt Rush, Gingrich was for the Republican in that
race.
You and Palin and Beck were for that weirdo Independent
guy who lost everything.
Why are you blaming Newt for backing the Republican?
"What an idiot. If Limpballs and Palin and
the rest of their Right-wings fanatics DIDN’T hijack the election Dede what’s
her name would have won. But hey, if they want to blame Newt, go ahead...The
GOP civil War continues..." -- P. D.
Link
"A fat abuser of little boy Dominican prostitutes
and a slimy, cheating adulterer with no morals in a playground, name-calling
fight...fun." -- Buckie Boy
Link
"It is in fact socialism. It is a true, very
scary threat."
-- Former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), saying that he agrees with John Boehner
that
the
health care provided for every member of congress is socialism run amuck,
Link
Excerpt: NY-23 was a damaging setback for the hard right.
Hoffman had the energetic support of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck,
Rush Limbaugh and the Fox bastards as well as
big bucks from their political auxiliaries. Furthermore, Hoffman was
running not only in a district that Rove described
as "very Republican" but one that fits the demographics of the incredibly
shrinking G.O.P. The 23rd is far whiter than
America as a whole - 93 percent versus 74. It’s rural. Its income and education
levels are below the norm. Only if the district
were situated in Dixie - or Utah - could it be a more perfect fit for the
narrow
American demographic where the McCain-Palin ticket
had its sole romps last year.
If the teabagging right can’t win there, imagine
how it might fare in the nation where most Americans live.
Some G.O.P. leaders have started to notice. Mitt
Romney didn’t endorse Hoffman despite right-wing badgering to do so.
On Wednesday, Michael Tom Steele dismissed the
right’s mantra that somehow Hoffman’s loss could be called a victory
and instead talked up the newly elected Republican
governors who won by appealing to independents and moderates.
Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell are plenty conservative,
but both had rejected Palin’s offers to campaign for them.
They also avoided the teabag zanies, the fear-mongering
National Organization for Marriage and the anti-abortion-rights
zealots Hoffman embraced. They positioned themselves
as respectful Obama critics, not haters likening him to Hitler.
In the aftermath of this clear-cut demonstration
of how Republicans can win, the revolutionaries are still pledging to
purge the party’s moderates by rallying behind
more Hoffmans in G.O.P. primaries from Florida to California.
And they may get some scalps. But Tuesday’s loss
revealed that they’re better at luring freak-show gawkers into
Fox’s tent than voters into the G.O.P.’s. As
if to prove the point, protesters hoisted a sign likening health care reform
to Dachau at the raucous tea party rally convened
by Michele Bachmann on Capitol Hill on Thursday.
So what will happen when thre teabagging handjobs have total control
of the GOP?
"It's been a year since Obama was elected.
Yeah. In one short year, Obama's slogan has gone from, 'Yes,
we can,' to 'Wow, this is freakin' hard.'" -- Conan,
How long will NBC continue to deny they have a severe problem?
Excerpt: Dave Weigel reports that the conservative Committee
for Justice is complaining in the aftermath of the nomination of one Latino
and one African American to the federal bench,
that President Obama's judicial nominees aren't diverse enough because
there
aren't enough southern white men among them.
'Does President Obama or his advisors believe
that southern white men are likely to be bigoted, making them unfit to
serve on
the second most powerful court in the land? We
hope not and readily concede that it is difficult to know if any such stereotype
lurks in the White House. The absence of southern
white male circuit nominees could, instead, be an innocent coincidence
or
the not-so-innocent byproduct of a judicial selection
process dominated by racial and gender preferences.'
The white man just can't make it in Obama's America.
Darvin Moon started Saturday's final table with the chip lead.
Joe Cada started the day with a chip and a chair.
After an 18 hour day Saturday the two Americans are the
final two players in the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event.
Play will resume Monday night at 10:00 pm PT with Cada holding the chip
lead.
If you want to see the action go to bluffmagazine.com
at 10 PM Vegas time
Sidebar: I do not like this Darvin Moon guy because I'm jealous.
I've watched every minute of the WSOP on ESPN and Darvin Moon
keepsgettingcards which
isn't really possible - but there he sits.
A-A, A-K, K-K, J-J, A-Q, and then he
always flops something and he wins.
He doesn't seem to know how to play poker, but he knows to say.
"Raise," when he looks down and sees a world-beater hand and it keeps happening.
Excerpt: The favorite mantra of the tea baggers is that
the public option will add to the deficit. They say it even though the
CBO
has scored 4 of the 5 health care bills and said
they would acutally reduce deficit. Needless to say the news media,
especially CNN seems to give equal weight to
the estimates of the CBO and tea party protestors wearing
"Obama Sucks" t-shirts. So we can add the
news media to the dumb category also.
And if that wasnt enough stupidity to go around,
at what might well be called a Stupidity Rally, John Boehner waved
a document that he said was the constitution
and told the assembled tea partiers that he stood with the constitution.
Waving the document aloft he yelled into
his microphone with the legislatively psychotic Virginia Foxx nodding behind
him,
that he "stood behind the words of the constitution"
that " we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal and that they are endowed by their creator
with certain unalienable rights including life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness!"
And the crowd went wild.
The problem is those words are not in the constitution.
They are in the Declaration of Independence.
So like most Republicans and tea party protestors,
Boehner has spent as much time reading the constitution
and knowing what's in it as he did the health
care bill. And his knowledge of what's in both is about the same
"It's getting harder every day and we know
that it's important that we pass this stimulus package. This is not about partisan politics,
this is about rising above that, helping America, and reigniting our economy."
--Gov. Charlie Crist (R), 02/10/09 Link
"I didn't endorse it. I didn't even have a
vote on the darned thing."
--Gov. Charlie Crist (R), 11/05/09, on the stimulus,
Link
> I'm glad Hillary didn't win, but wouldn't
a fair fight have been better?
Sorry Bart, I've been too busy with work and 2
little kids to find time to read my favorite internet site as often as
I used to,
but did you really say this? WHY!?
Hillary wouldn't be playing all the post-partisan crap, and letting the
most conservative
Dems decide everything. Obama is
close to losing my support, for all the obvious reasons. I live in a state
where that won't
matter (SD), and I've already stopped voting
for Herseth Sandlin, one of those worthless Blue Dogs. I figure now I either
quit voting altogether, or my wife and I move
across the border to IA where it might make a difference!
Obama either needs to wake up, clear out some
of the corporatist jerks advising him, or he is going to go down big time.
It will turn my stomach to see the Republicans
latch onto the angry populist sentiment out there, since they mastered
government
of the corporation, by the corporation, and for
the corporation. (replace that with wealthy if you like)
But people are really pissed off, they're getting
squeezed, and times are tough. Bankers and big investors are bailed out,
and making off with billions, while the little
people are trying to find a place to live and a way to buy groceries.
I could go on all day, but I guess that's your
job...I'd better get going on mine.
Don't take it easy on Obama, not that you would....
I think he must be totally disconnected from
what life is like for ordinary people.
Bill and Hillary Clinton understood this, and
never forgot even after they joined the jet-set lifestyle.
Go Bart!
Joe
There's no point in speculating how Hillary would've been as president.
The media and half the Democrats decided Obama was our future and here
we are.
If we can get Obama to act like Obama 2008, things will get better.
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"Did anyone notice that Obama signed a $680
BILLION defense appropriations bill in the midst of our debates about spending
$90 BILLION a year for health care?" -- Chris Hayes,
Link
If America wasn't so addicted to oil wars, we could use that Pentagon
money to give every
American free health care and send every high school graduate
to college - for free.
But we're addicted to senseless wars so we don't get health care
or education.
If only we could get the Democrats to list the facts...
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is extremely
frustrated with orders that the White House is contemplating. According to sources at the Pentagon, including
all branches of the armed forces, Obama may break with a centuries-old
tradition.
Look at all the buzzwords:
contemplating, According to sources, Obama may break None of that means anything but the birther handjobs
keep falling for it.
A spokesman for General James Cartwright, the
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, states that Obama wants to have soldiers and officers pledge
a loyalty oath directly to the office of the President, and no longer to
the Constitution.
It's too stupid to even consider, but they'll
fall for anything that's anti-Obama because they're racists.
"The oath to the Constitution is as old as
the document itself." the spokesman said, "At no time in American history, not even in the Civil War, did the oath change
or the subject of the oath differ. It has always been to the Constitution."
"As the titular head of the Republican Party,
I, of course, was behind fixing the mess which was Dede Scozzafava. I forced
her out. I single-handedly intervened." -- El Pigbo, grabbing
blame for the NY-23 fiasco
"In his first year, Obama has traveled to 16
countries, more than any other president. Bush traveled to 11, but most of those
were just different parts from the 'It's a Small World' ride." -- Jimmy Fallon
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