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By You’re Right, Where Is Osama?
August 29, 2006 08:03 AM | Link to this
Turned its back? As the chart nearby indicates, Congress has approved ———->$122.5 billion<—————— for the Gulf Region, a figure incomprehensible in size to anyone but, well, a politician. The real wonder is that anyone is surprised, much less feigning surprise, that things are going poorly.-OpinionJournal
We need to do more?
You want to talk about corruption, these people in Louisiana all need to be locked up.
The post-Katrina spend-fest in Louisiana will be remembered as one of the greatest taxpayer wastes in U.S. history. First came the FEMA $2,000 debit-cards fiasco intended to pay for necessities that were used for things like flat-panel TVs and tattoos. Then came the purchase of thousands of mobile homes that cost as much as $400,000 per family housed; the $200 million for renting the Carnival Cruise Ship; millions more in payments that went for season football tickets, luxury vacation resorts, even divorce lawyers. Federal flood insurance policies surely will encourage many to rebuild in the same flood plains and at the same height as before.
These people are sucking us dry.
Iraq is a freaking fire sale bargain compared to the Gulf Coast.
For all the finger-pointing this week, Congress hasn’t spent much more than a dime to clear away the debris of corruption, patronage, welfare dependency, high taxes and racial division of decimated neighborhoods. Cut “Anybody knows not to mess with me”-Nancy Pelosi leads the Democrats. Yeah, except Al Qaeda.
They make it their strategy to mess with libs.
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However, before Republican voters decide to stay home at the next election, or perhaps to vote for the Democrats, they might repeat one phrase to themselves: “Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi……” Increasing numbers of people seem to think that it is “name-calling” if you refer to someone as a liberal. There are no inherently negative connotations to the word “liberal.̶
By You’re Right, Where Is Osama?
August 29, 2006 08:04 AM | Link to this
The Democrats have become, more and more, largely a coalition of minorities, each with its own special agenda. The first of these was the African-Americans, who regularly cast about 90 percent of their votes for the Democrats. Also early on the scene was a large, disaffected segment of the intelligentsia, dominant in the universities and angry at the failure of the country to recognize its superiority and its right to rule. Then came the ultra-feminists, the abortion supporters, the gay lobby, the environmental extremists and a newly vocal pack of secularists, openly hostile to religion and furious at the alleged efforts of the “religious right” to impose a “theocracy” on society.
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It gets better:
Mr. Armitage disclosed to his boss, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and to Justice Department officials his role in the case in October, 2003, after a second Novak column, Mr. Isikoff and Mr. Corn say.-RealClearPolitics
This Fitzgerald knew who the leaker was the whole time that he was entrapping Scooter Libby.
Mr. Fitzgerald knew in his first few days on the job that Mr. Armitage was the leaker; that the leak was inadvertent, and that the Intelligence Identities Act hadn’t been violated. Yet he has persisted in a sham prosecution.
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Moveon is not the only leftist Web site filled with anti-Semitism. But compared to the Dailykos and the slanderous Huffington Post nothing compares to Moveon in terms of quantity or viciousness. But he never called them “Media owning Jewish pigs” or “sneaky Jewish sympathizers!” Both can be found repeatedly on the Moveon.org Action Forum.-WashingtonTimes
By You’re Right, Where Is Osama?
August 29, 2006 08:04 AM | Link to this
The center’s director of media analysis, Tim Graham, confirms conservatives’ worst fears about ABC, CBS and NBC, as they recklessly go about their efforts to depict an America that simply doesn’t exist. When labeling groups and individuals, network reporters used the term “conservative” 89 times and “liberal” only three times. NBC never used “liberal” in its coverage, despite using “conservative” 45 times. On May 1, NBC’s Nightly News quoted one Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, a rally organizer, without noting her membership in International ANSWER, a Communist organization. Similarly, a March 24 ABC story identified Teodoro Maus as a “community leader” without telling viewers he was Mexico’s consul general in Atlanta from 1998 to 2001.-WashingtonTimes
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We have a problem in us, not in them. It is the recovery of our own sense of what we are, what we believe, and what we are about, that would defeat Afghan cave-dwellers and shrieking ayatollahs fairly quickly. It is this inability to deal forthrightly with madmen, that suggests we have lost too many of our own marbles. For why should a man with a gun fear a man with a stick?-RealClearPolitics
By You’re Right, Where Is Osama?
August 29, 2006 08:05 AM | Link to this
That so-called “jackpot justice” is a cash cow on today’s society is hardly a moot point. One study has found that America’s trial lawyers generate about $46 billion annually, with revenue growing more than 11% a year — nearly triple the rate of growth in the nation’s domestic product. A recent report by the Manhattan Institute finds that medical malpractice liability now accounts for one-tenth of America’s “tort tax,” which each year costs a family of four more than $3,300.-AmericanSpectator
Trial lawyers being a wholly owned subsidiary of the democrat party, of course.
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Housing is normalizing, not collapsing.-RealClearPolitics
The shreikers can’t even understand this premise. Everything is the end of the freaking world to them.
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Sen. John Kerry didn’t contest the results at the time, but now that he’s considering another run for the White House, he’s alleging election improprieties by the Ohio Republican who oversaw the deciding vote in 2004. An e-mail will be sent to 100,000 Democratic donors Tuesday asking them to support U.S. Rep. Ted Strickland for governor of Ohio.-Breitbart
So if this dude is controlling the election outcome, as Bandaid Kerry alleges, what good does Kerry think more democrat votes will do?
By Newt Gingrich
August 29, 2006 08:06 AM | Link to this
“If we can’t respond faster than this to an event we saw coming across the Gulf for days, then why do we think we’re prepared to respond to a nuclear or biological attack?”
By Republicans Wear Sheets and Pointy Hats
August 29, 2006 08:08 AM | Link to this
One Republican senator described his house painter as a “little Guatemalan man.” Another called an Indian man a “macaca,” a type of monkey.
Just as the GOP is pushing for minority voters, the two recent gaffes have fed the perception among some blacks, Hispanics and Asian-Americans that Republicans are out of touch with the changing face of the nation.
“There is disconnect at some level,” said Michael K. Fauntroy, a professor of public policy at George Mason University. “The country is becoming browner and new voters, particularly new immigrant voters, don’t respond favorably to (offensive) comments.
“They may have already missed the boat on this.”
Wow, newsflash, Republicans are bigots……Who woulda ever guessed ? ? ?
By Senator Rick Santorum
August 29, 2006 08:14 AM | Link to this
“I mean, you have people who don’t heed those warnings and then put people at risk as a result of not heeding those warnings. There may be a need to look at tougher penalties on those who decide to ride it out and understand that there are consequences to not leaving.”
By Dennis Hastert
August 29, 2006 08:17 AM | Link to this
“It doesn’t make sense to me… It looks like a lot of that place could be bulldozed.”
By Republicans Can't Even Write a Check Right and We're Supposed to Trust 'em to Run the Country?
August 29, 2006 08:23 AM | Link to this
WASHINGTON - Elderly and disabled Americans who got erroneous refunds from the federal government last week will get a letter this week instructing them on how to repay the money.
Now the elderly and disabled have to fix the Republican administration screw ups. Next they’ll have kindergarten kids and the developmentally challenged cleaning up their messes! ! !
By Republicans Waffle More than IHOP
August 29, 2006 08:30 AM | Link to this
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Republican Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) says he would consider speaking at Bob Jones University, a school he criticized during the 2000 presidential campaign for its ban on interracial dating and anti-Catholic views.
Just another Republican bigot who can’t decide what values to supposedly adopted this week!
By Daryn Kagan
August 29, 2006 08:32 AM | Link to this
“I gotta say that was rather an odd thing to be watching. The president finally making it to the gulf coast after five days, and then spending a big chunk of time, when he could be out seeing the devastation, getting a briefing that frankly he could have gotten back at the White House, if not then, then on board Air Force One. A lot of that seemed like a political opportunity for the cameras and for the Republican governors of Mississippi and Alabama.”
By Retroactive Flashback
August 29, 2006 08:47 AM | Link to this
Another absorbing series of comments by Andy!!! His many folded insertions, profusely illustrated with spot-on asides, dripping with iron-poor irony, pluck the strings of harmonic discharge, and plug the liberal leaks in the cyclical ebb and flow of news. This Andy has his time of day, week, and month. This is that time. We hail thee, wet sir.
By Failure of Supply Side Economics
August 29, 2006 08:51 AM | Link to this
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Instead of gliding to a smooth landing after years of sky-high growth, the US economy now looks set for a bumpy ride as the property market hits major turbulence.
While most analysts do not yet anticipate a hard landing or even recession, they warn that the world’s largest economy is looking a lot shakier than just a few weeks ago.
“‘Home for sale’ signs have edged out gasoline price billboards as the most important sign of downside risk to the economy,” Lehman Brothers economist Ethan Harris said.
Harris predicted that revisions to second-quarter growth data due out this week would show an improvement to 3.0 percent, in line with the Wall Street consensus, from the weak pace of 2.5 percent first given by the government.
But further forward, gross domestic product (GDP) will “slip further below potential” to average 2.5 percent over the next three quarters, the economist said.
This is what Republicans call a ‘robust’ economy……just more lies from the party that can never tell a truth ! ! ! Democrats left the country with controlled expenditures and stable growth which the Republicans have now squandered away. Vote for fiscal responsibility in November…. vote for anything but Republican big, big, big government.
By George (the W ain't for Washington) Bush- "I cannot tell a truth."
August 29, 2006 08:58 AM | Link to this
WASHINGTON - About 100 Iraqi Shiite soldiers refused to go to Baghdad to support the security crackdown there, marking the second time a block of Iraqi soldiers have balked at following their unit’s assignment, a U.S. general said Monday.
The insurrgents are in their ‘last throes’ and the Iraqis really want the ‘freedom’ that King George is shoving down their throats. Anybody still believe in Republican fairy tales ? ? ?
By w00t
August 29, 2006 09:02 AM | Link to this
Andy, you know, I’ve figured out how you work. During the day after you’ve been defeated and sent back to your cave, you go to your “very un-biased” websites and blogs (Heavy sarcasm, if you can’t see it) and look for so called news stories to back you up your claims and your party. Yes you have your occasional AJC or CNN post, but they are primarily from web sites that share the same slanted world view as your own. Then you come back the following morning with your so called back up to try to justify yourself from the following day. It doesn’t work and people can see through your BS. You’re out of ideas like your party is out of ideas. Stop using talking points as your basis of argument. Try thinking for yourself for a change.
As for the Katrina victims and New Orleans, yes, they need support from the government. You know why? Because there is nearly 1.5 million people missing from the city that would make up the tax base of the city. No people = no taxes = no rebuilding = no New Orleans. With out the rebuilding of the city there would be no jobs to support the residents to support the taxes. Without residents of New Orleans there are no children to go to school and so schools are not receiving money. You see it, not about the government just giving these people a “hand out”, it’s trying to jump start the city so that it can start making money again. New Orleans is also these peoples home, you just can’t tell them they can’t live there anymore. How would you like it if they city you lived all your life was destroyed over night displacing your family and hundreds of thousands of people? You had nothing, all your positions were gone, you had no job, and there was no infrastructure in place to support the people. What would you expect to do? How could you expect the city to support it self and generate the revenue in order to rebuild? Wouldn’t you want the government to give your city a jump start? Why is it that we can support people of other countries but we cant even support our own people?
If not, you better just come out and say that you would rebuild the city with your own bear hands and money from your pocket. Better yet, go down to New Orleans and tell them that to their face. They don’t have the luxury of sitting in front of a computer all day.
Show some empathy.
By King George the Party Animal
August 29, 2006 09:04 AM | Link to this
WASHINGTON - President Bush said Thursday he wants a free-trade agreement with Colombia, which would be Washington’s largest Western Hemisphere pact since creation of NAFTA in 1994.
The Chimperor wants to reward the biggest cocaine producer in the world with a sweetheart deal. King George must be trying to secure himself a steady supply of nose candy for his upcoming retirement ! ! ! Mission accomplished.
By WSJ lies and Cracker swallows
August 29, 2006 09:10 AM | Link to this
The relentlessly biased Wall Street Journal editorialists declare that things are going “poorly” in New Orleans even though Congress has approved an ASTOUNDING $122.5 billion for Katrina relief.
What Mr. Cracker doesn’t point out is that ALMOST NONE OF THIS MONEY HAS BEEN ACTUALLY SPENT!! It sits, mildewing, in various government coffers while GOP powerbrokers pick which one of their corporate sponsors will get to feast on this huge pile of cash.
This windfall of GOP corporate welfare is the next best thing to happen to the Republican traitor cartel since the Iraq war! OINK OINK!!
By Barbara Bush
August 29, 2006 09:11 AM | Link to this
“What I’m hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle) – this is working very well for them.”
By Republican Waffle House
August 29, 2006 09:11 AM | Link to this
CRANSTON, R.I. - U.S. Senate candidate Stephen Laffey said he regrets that he wrote columns denigrating gays when he was a college student.
Laffey, the mayor of Cranston, acknowledged writing the columns in a story published Saturday in the Providence Journal. The paper reported that it received copies of the columns anonymously in the mail earlier in the week.
Laffey, 44, running a closely watched race against moderate Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee (news, bio, voting record), said whoever sent the articles wanted to smear him before the Sept. 12 primary. He called the writings “sophomoric political satire” and said they do not represent his views.
“Do I regret some of these things? Sure,” he said. “But at the time, we were just having fun. We thought it was funny.”
The Republican candidate wrote them in 1983 and 1984 while studying at Bowdoin College in Maine. The articles appeared in a paper published by campus Republicans.
Republicans can’t even make up their minds what sort of bigots they want to be when they grow up ! ! ! Waffle, waffle, waffle.
By DINOs Against Iraq
August 29, 2006 09:17 AM | Link to this
[NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Sen. Joe Lieberman, the three-term Democrat whose independent campaign for re-election is being seen as a referendum on the Iraq war, said Friday he would consider taking a look at a fellow lawmaker’s proposal for a timeline for troop withdrawals.}(http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060826/aponelse/connecticutsenate)
Lieberman should officially join the Republican party. He has learned the Republican art of ‘flip-flop’ very well indeed. Poor Republicans, now even their biggest hero has waffled away from Iraq.
By RW-(the original)
August 29, 2006 09:20 AM | Link to this
Are 1.5 million people really missing from the city of New Orleans like government “worker” woot says?
By Retroactive Flashback
August 29, 2006 09:22 AM | Link to this
I see Republicans as flapjacks. They flap their mouths about the flaps in the news, (flapping, flapping) yet they always have their eye on the jack. The more they flap the more jack they git!! Flapjacks!
Andy’s comments today were spotty, and at this point in his cycle, his apparent PMS hysteria seems out of place, he should be well within his ovul office parameters as he splits hairs over Bush.
I think it’s a shame that his mother didn’t raise him to be a nicer girl!
By Typical Republican Candidate
August 29, 2006 09:23 AM | Link to this
OLYMPIA, Wash. - Republican Senate challenger Mike McGavick revealed a drunken driving incident and discussed his divorce and other past missteps, saying, “It’s true I’ve made mistakes.”
No Shiite Sherlock. Just like a Republican to try an minimize their true (lack of) character come election time ! ! !
By Retroactive Flashback
August 29, 2006 09:26 AM | Link to this
Andy also seemed to pad his insertions to plug the flow of liberal ink. I’m surprised at her. She usually doesn’t tug at the heart strings without a sanitary reason.
By Republican Hog Trough
August 29, 2006 09:28 AM | Link to this
WASHINGTON - The government awarded 70 percent of its contracts for Hurricane Katrina work without full competition, wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in the process, says a House study released Thursday by Democrats.
Republican pork-barrel politics and cronyism is still their standard operating proceedure, isn’t it ? ? ?
By RW-(the original)
August 29, 2006 09:39 AM | Link to this
Yahoo yayhoo,
How about going back through the Yahoo archives and linking the stories where you whiny libs were b-itching about cutting the red tape and getting the cash flowing instead of wasting time on bids and things?
By The True Nature of Republicans
August 29, 2006 09:42 AM | Link to this
HOUSTON - Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said he never thought the courts would prevent the Republican Party from replacing him on the November ballot, a Houston television station reported Thursday.
DeLay said efforts to replace him on the ballot weren’t “bungled.”
“We read the law and the law is very specific,” he said. “You’re ineligible if you die, have committed a felony and are convicted of a felony, if you are not mentally capable of serving or if you’ve moved out of the state.”
Democratic Party lawyers argued that it couldn’t be shown conclusively whether DeLay would be an “inhabitant” of Texas — as required by the U.S. Constitution — on Election Day. They argued he could be living in Texas then and eligible to serve. He still owns — and his wife, Christine, still lives in — his Sugar Land house.
King George’s stooge still owns a house in Texas where his wife and he still live and he claims he is no longer a resident of the state. The only time Republicans don’t lie is when they stick their paws out for more graft money ! ! !
Whenever a Republican opens its’ mouth, be prepared to hear another pack of lies. They can’t help it….they are just expressing their true nature ! ! ! Might as well expect pigs to fly as to expect truth from a Republican.
By w00t
August 29, 2006 09:46 AM | Link to this
RW, it’s not JUST residents from the city, but the surrounding area and suburbs where people are missing. It was just the city of New Orleans that was damaged you know.
http://www.neworleansonline.com/tools/factstats.html
“Population. The mayor’s office estimates the population to be increasing. More than 200,000 people now reside in Orleans Parish overnight, with a total for the entire metropolitan area standing at 929,554, as of January 17, 2006. Prior to Katrina, New Orleans had 484,000 residents, and the metro population was 1.3 million.”
So lets do some Math:
Post Katrina 200,000 + 929,554 = 1,129,554 Pre-Katrina 462,269 + 1,337,726 = 1,799,995
Pre Katrina: 1,799,995 – Post 1,129,554 = 670,441
My apologies that I was a little off. I’ll be sure to research it next time. However, you still have 670,441 people missing from New Orleans. Over half a million people that could be there helping to rebuild and pay for the city. Though, what would they have to come back too?
[For Reference((http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans#Demographics)
By GOP oinkers
August 29, 2006 09:51 AM | Link to this
This is too easy.
By RW-(the original)- August 29, 2006 09:39 AM - How about going back through the Yahoo archives and linking the stories where you whiny libs were b-itching about cutting the red tape and getting the cash flowing instead of wasting time on bids and things?
Why don’t YOU explain why neocon rags like the WSJ are declaring that vast sums of money for Katrina relief have been wasted WHEN ALMOST NONE OF IT IS BEING SPENT?
Oink.
By RW-(the original)
August 29, 2006 09:52 AM | Link to this
When a whiny lib opens it’s cyber mouth be careful not to drown in the storm surge of hypocrisy
By President George W. Bush
August 29, 2006 09:54 AM | Link to this
) “We’ve got a lot of rebuilding to do … The good news is — and it’s hard for some to see it now — that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott’s house — he’s lost his entire house — there’s going to be a fantastic house. And I’m looking forward to sitting on the porch.”
By RW-(the original)
August 29, 2006 09:57 AM | Link to this
wOOt,
It was you that said “MISSING FROM THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS,” not me.
An employer will be paying me to work for the next few hours. I know you government workers wouldn’t understand this, but I will have to devote my attention to the task I am being paid to do rather than stealing from my employer by blogging until I am back on my own time.
By w00t
August 29, 2006 10:00 AM | Link to this
(I’d pay to see this](http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/29/iran.nuclear/index.html)
“Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called on U.S. President George W. Bush to participate in a “direct television debate with us,” so Iran can voice its point of view on how to end world predicaments.”
By BM
August 29, 2006 10:01 AM | Link to this
Houston, Texas is begging for the Ninth Ward to be rebuilt; only then can they send all the influx of New Orleans crimminals back to their old stomping ground enjoying a 40 oz after breakfast, playing domino’s on the outside while all of us go to work.
By President George W. Bush
August 29, 2006 10:04 AM | Link to this
“I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.”
By w00t
August 29, 2006 10:04 AM | Link to this
Hey, I don’t work, so what’s there to worry about. I go to a highly liberal college to get my liberal education so that I can make crazy liberal decisions.
Better get kids to stop going to college to get an education. We don’t need them smart and voting for the other party.
Actually, I am wasting your and my tax dollars and lottery winnings by not going to class.
Jeez…
By w00t
August 29, 2006 10:06 AM | Link to this
“It was you that said “MISSING FROM THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS,” not me.”
Whatever, RW, nit-pick all you want.
It still doesn’t and will not change the situation down there.
By w00t
August 29, 2006 10:06 AM | Link to this
Lets try this again
By RW-(the original)
August 29, 2006 10:14 AM | Link to this
Yahoo yayhoo,
This was linked earlier. Maybe if you read Andy’s links instead of whining and trolling through Yahoo you would be better informed.
By Rev. Pat Robertson
August 29, 2006 10:25 AM | Link to this
“Out of this tragedy, the focus of America is going to be on these victims, and inflamed rhetoric in the United States Senate is just not going to play well now.… If they start going on a vendetta against Roberts in the Senate, it’s just going to hurt them. So Judge Roberts can be thankful that a tragedy has brought him some good.” —Rev. Pat Robertson
By Dusty
August 29, 2006 10:26 AM | Link to this
Oh, the Luckovich blog, a gathering of fools and the court jesters of the times.
Liberal Democrats are always good for a few laughs.
Woot thinks 1.5 million people are missing from New Orleans. Could be. That many never were there to start with. Oh, well. Details! Details!
Poor old “True Nature” doesn’t know the President lives in the White House. He thinks that is one big LIE!
“Typical Republican” wants to mention that a Republican candidate has had a DUI arrest. Oh my. Democrats could never tolerate such a thing. Just ask Sen. Ted Kennedy and his son.
“Retro Flash” thinks Republicans flip-flop. What?? Take that title from the king of flipflops John Kerry? Surely you have flipped your flop, Retro. And calling Andy a girl….pure kindergarten stuff.
Keep it up, folks. Letterman will be calling you for the comic bits on his show. Some good stuff here.
By NEAL BOORTZ AND ROYAL MARSHALL
August 29, 2006 10:32 AM | Link to this
BOORTZ: Somebody just put a story in front of me. Let me tell you, aside from the looters, one of the things I was talking about earlier this morning was a huge article in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which is a left-wing rag, about Hurricane Katrina evacuees in a hotel in Atlanta. Her name — the female is Rolanda. She has a 1-year-old baby and her boyfriend, who apparently likes to lounge around on the bed without a shirt on. Well, at least that was the picture in the newspaper. And the whole story was about how worried Rolanda is that she’ll be kicked out of her taxpayer-paid hotel room. She might get kicked out. I mean, it says right here, “Rolanda is worried about being evicted from the hotel. She says, ‘We have a place to stay. We have food. The only worry is how long it will last.’” That’s all she’s worried about, the only worry. And it goes through the whole article here talking about how fed up Rolanda is with FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency] and how she spends all this time on a computer looking for more free housing. Not one mention in the entire story anywhere about the “W” word, W-O-R-K, work, job. I dare say she could walk out of that hotel and walk 100 yards in either direction on Fulton Industrial Boulevard [the street on which the hotel is located] here in Atlanta and have a job. What’s that? Well, no, no, no —
ROYAL MARSHALL (Atlanta radio host and former engineer of Boortz’s show): Watch out, Neal. Those people who know Fulton Industrial Boulevard think you might be suggesting something a little risqué.
BOORTZ: Well, that’s true. Well, you know what? [laughing] Now that you mention it —
MARSHALL: That’s not the way.
BOORTZ: If that’s the only way she can take care of herself, it sure beats the hell out of sucking off the taxpayers.
MARSHALL: Watch out, man. It’s the same thing, technically.
By candide
August 29, 2006 10:33 AM | Link to this
If Americans were interested in reality, they would: 1. Have marched to the White House long ago and put that scoundrel out. 2. Have banned the bible and all religion from public places. 3. Have convicted the GOP of fraud and deceit and violations of the US Constitution and the Rico law.
By rushncap
August 29, 2006 10:38 AM | Link to this
Dusty, if you think the rest of us aren’t laughing at you and your ilk, I’ve got a handful of bridges to sell you.
By getalife
August 29, 2006 10:52 AM | Link to this
If crusty the clown was not so pathetic, it would be down right hilarious.
Then again, maybe it is Colbert type comedy.
By The writing on the wall
August 29, 2006 11:01 AM | Link to this
YOU ARE A SPECIAL PEOPLE CONS
You supported Bush, but in time, you will come to realize how he targeted you for deception.
You were specially picked because of the attributes you possess: fear, ignorance, arrogance, belligerence, bigotry, and low self-esteem. Bush’s political strategists calculated that the people most easily misled and controlled are the ones who fit your profile, so they crafted their propaganda just for you.
He got your support by making you feel better about your personal flaws. He told you to wave the flag because your bigotry is nothing be ashamed of, and to thump the bible because your ignorance is a virtue. You should cherish your hatefulness and small-mindedness as they are family values. He convinced you that you are not society’s rejects, but rather, you are higher on the ladder than certain other people. Right-wing radio points them out so that you know who to hate to feel better about yourself.
He feeds you crap about “imminent threat”, “patriotism”, “spreading freedom”, and “flowers and candy”. He’s only tossing you a bone because he knows he’s asking you for hefty and deadly sacrifices, and he wants to hide that from you. He repeats meaningless, mind-numbing platitudes like “Freedom is not free!” and “We’re fighting them there so we don’t have to fight them here!” You fell for it.
But WE didn’t. And many of the people who did have now awakened to reality. Iraq, Katrina, 9/11, wiretaps, leaks, government fiscal and moral excesses… We’ll be voting in November. So bend over, stick your head between your legs, and kiss your stolen political entitlements goodbye.
By CREEPS seeking missle
August 29, 2006 11:15 AM | Link to this
The WSJ rightwing agitprop posted by our resident Idiot claims Mississippi, unlike Louisiana is healing nicely post-Katrina.
Not so.
“For the people who’ve been able to get back to their homes, there’s a sigh of relief,” said Biloxi City Council member Bill Stallworth. “But for those who haven’t — and that’s the vast majority here — there’s a real panic.
In otherwords, lacking evidence to back up preposterous claims, the WSJ simply lies.
George Orwell would be so proud!
By rushncap
August 29, 2006 11:16 AM | Link to this
I don’t think Bush should debate Ahmadinejad. I don’t think Bush should debate a kitten, for that matter. If Bush and Ahmadinejad get together, people all over the world will think that Shrubby is the best the Western world has to offer, and we’ll have 3 billion new Muslims overnight.
By N-GA
August 29, 2006 11:19 AM | Link to this
Writing on the Wall: Well said. Permit me to add that these same Cons will have us Libs to thank for getting this nation back on track, not that we want or expect their gratitude. Meanwhile we will help to pay off the massive debt that their leaders have incurred on behalf of the American people.
The only repayment I want is that those responsible be held accountable in the law and by history.
By Dusty
August 29, 2006 11:26 AM | Link to this
Oh, I am so honored this morning.
Getalife sends me his picture eating pizza. Charming!
rushncap in all his hilarity uses that moss covered word “ilk”. Ho hum.
Well, thanks, guys, but I think you can do better. “Writing on the Wall” is more original with the graffiti than you two. Better hurry. Recess will soon be over.
By N-GA
August 29, 2006 11:29 AM | Link to this
RE: Katrina
All Americans need to put this catastrophe in perspective. First, it is not a black or white thing. It is a people thing. Having lived in Florida many years ago, I saw thousands of Floridians (crackers and conchs) who refused to evacuate threatening hurricanes. Many died. There was looting and theft, post disaster fraud by many re-construction people, etc. By the same token there were many acts of charity.
There is a lot of blame to go around. Politicians in Louisiana at all levels screwed up. So did bureaucrats at the Federal level.
The questions I have are: Why in the year following Katrina has there not been a coming together of Federal, State and local agencies to lead the recovery efforts? Why hasn’t someone stepped forward to provide the leadership to develop a plan, then execute it? Why isn’t this a story about a resilient America that can rally around disaster? Congress can allocate money until they are blue in the face, but the recovery won’t happen until PEOPLE make it happen.
BTW Lying Andy….you’re a jerk!
By w00t
August 29, 2006 11:32 AM | Link to this
N-GA, you’re spot on! Keep it up!
By Randy
August 29, 2006 11:33 AM | Link to this
Do you ever step off the liberal bandwagon Luckovich to take a look at reality. New Orleans is a mess. The blame can be shared. First responders are local not federal. FEMA can share the blame for their failures and have. I’m tired of the race issue being part of an equation which results in a no sum total. It only serves to allow Nagin to continue in his incompetency.
Where’s the money allocated prior to Katrina by the feds for implementation of homeland security programs? Has anyone been held accountable for that?
Waste everybody’s time with your attempts to divide. That way, nothing will be accomplished. People like you are to blame. Nobody else.
I, for one, am tired of being asked to feel guilty for the failures of states and their representatives. I’m more inclined to support the country as a whole not a part.
By You’re Right, Where Is Osama?
August 29, 2006 11:35 AM | Link to this
I get more discussion than the cartoon does, hehehehe.
W00t stands for idiot in moron speak:
By w00t August 29, 2006 09:02 AM As for the Katrina victims and New Orleans, yes, they need support from the government. You know why? Because there is nearly 1.5 million people missing from the city that would make up the tax base of the city. No people = no taxes = no rebuilding = no New Orleans.
Even in New Orleans heyday they never collected 122 BILLION dollars in taxes, the 122 being on top of private insurance settlements.
That money has gone up the city’s nose.
By rushncap
August 29, 2006 11:36 AM | Link to this
Dusty, we can certainly do better. But you would not understand us if we did. The main rule of engagement: know your audience. If your audience has the stunted mental abilities of a sea cucumber, like yourself, you cannot seriously bother with complex words or ideas.
By getalife
August 29, 2006 11:40 AM | Link to this
Randy,
The only one held accountable was Brownie and that is better than no accountability which is business as usual with the GOP.
We the people are only ones who can vote for accountability.
By A.Becker
August 29, 2006 11:44 AM | Link to this
Whine & ignore Mike. That’s progress.
Bush has made clear that reconstruction should be left to local governments. In his Jackson Square speech, he said communities “need to move decisively to change zoning laws and building codes in order to avoid a repeat of what we’ve seen.”
New Orleans’ foot-in-mouth mayor, Ray Nagin, who wanted to mark the anniversary with a comedy revue, blames the state government for bottling up billions in federal funds earmarked for the city. Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco’s office certainly hasn’t distinguished itself in handling this disaster, but considering that after all these months, the city still has not come forth with a redevelopment plan or strategy for rebuilding its infrastructure, Nagin has nowhere to point but himself.
By w00t
August 29, 2006 11:47 AM | Link to this
Andy, answer my questions:
“How would you like it if they city you lived all your life was destroyed over night displacing your family and hundreds of thousands of people? You had nothing, all your positions were gone, you had no job, and there was no infrastructure in place to support the people. What would you expect to do? How could you expect the city to support it self and generate the revenue in order to rebuild? Wouldn’t you want the government to give your city a jump start? Why is it that we can support people of other countries but we cant even support our own people?
If not, you better just come out and say that you would rebuild the city with your own bear hands and money from your pocket. Better yet, go down to New Orleans and tell them that to their face. They don’t have the luxury of sitting in front of a computer all day.”
I think you’re too much of a hypocrite to answer them.
Andy would be first in line asking for help, especially if a Democrat was president.
By getalife
August 29, 2006 11:54 AM | Link to this
Well, here is some accountability
By Dusty
August 29, 2006 12:06 PM | Link to this
rushncap,
Of course Ahmajinebad and Bush should not debate. That is like the old Scout song about the elephant and the flea. ” Boom boom isn’t it geat to be crazy..tra la.” Ahmajinebad is the Iraqi flea trying to ride on the US elephant. He is not a “big wheel”. Just wants to be one so badly and rushing with the yellow cake.
As to your loyalty, rushncap, we wonder where it lies. Flea or elephant? But your heavy duties as lab assistant probably make you tired, blue, undecided, etc.
Your math about the number of Muslims increasing is about as good as Woot’s on the population of New Orleans. But don’t worry. Muslims are killing Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Darfur and parts of Russia. They are offsetting any possible increases in their own religion. Don’tcha think??
By CREEPS seeking missle
August 29, 2006 12:06 PM | Link to this
By You’re Right, Where Is Osama? - August 29, 2006 11:35 AM - Even in New Orleans heyday they never collected 122 BILLION dollars in taxes, the 122 being on top of private insurance settlements.
You moran! Can’t you read?? New Orleans has only collected a SMALL FRACTION of that $122 BILLION “windfall” Bush and the GOP promised.
The rest is being set aside for… what? Contractors with the right GOP connections? The Iraq war? The pending war with Iran?
One thing’s for sure. It’s NOT being spent in New Orleans.
Bush talks loudly and carries a limp stick. Like you.
By @@
August 29, 2006 12:08 PM | Link to this
I wonder if ml went down to New Orleans and applied some elbow grease. Aside from my own personal monetary contribution, I also made contributions of much needed supplies through my church.
A group of ten of us, friends and neighbors, took an RV and went down to rip out and replace sheetrock. My mudding talent left something to be desired, but nobody complained. The homeowners were black, but that made no difference to us. We were there to help where needed. The family worked right along side of us and were grateful for our efforts.
I think I may have slept with somebody else’s spouse. By the time we were done everyday, we didn’t care where we fell down to sleep. Only had time to do one house, but one step at a time is how you learn to walk. New Orleans is being reborn and I wish them well.
By You're Right, Where Is Osama?
August 29, 2006 12:09 PM | Link to this
w00t stands for idiot in moron speak: Answer my questions-
1) Who built all those lovely floats that they used in the Mardi Gras parade? A parade that was held ON TIME after they pushed all of the trash off to the side and got drunk for 3 weeks?
2) When do all these young citizens find the time in between “rebuilding” their beloved city to murder each other and jack the crime rate up higher than it was before the storm?
Screw New Orleans.
As for your silly a-ss question, the first thing I did before I bought my house was look at the flood plain map.
And bought a place on a hill.
Moron.
By Dusty
August 29, 2006 12:17 PM | Link to this
rushncap,
your poor little posting on cucumbers was ill directed. Surely you were speaking of your fellow cucumbers, a salad bowl of liberal deceit. I haven’t heard a postive untwisted statement coming from Democrats since Nunn left the field.
As you are washing test tubes and picking up lab trash, try to think positively. Your ego is overwhelmed with fabrications and delusions.
By You're Right, Where Is Osama?
August 29, 2006 12:28 PM | Link to this
Let’s see, who do I believe here, creepy
By CREEPY seeking missle August 29, 2006 12:06 PM You moran! Can’t you read?? New Orleans has only collected a SMALL FRACTION of that $122 BILLION “windfall” Bush and the GOP promised.
or the Wall Street Journal?:
As the chart nearby indicates, Congress has approved $122.5 billion for the Gulf Region, a figure incomprehensible in size to anyone but, well, a politician. The real wonder is that anyone is surprised, much less feigning surprise, that things are going poorly. New Orleans’ plight is not the result of federal underspending. Uncle Sam has spent some five times more on Katrina relief than any other natural disaster in the past 50 years.
Thanks for all your “help” and “guidance,” there creepy, but I’m fine.
By w00t
August 29, 2006 12:30 PM | Link to this
Run Andy run!
I guess we should say the same thing to coastal Mississipi too then? They recieved alot of damage since they were on the south eastern quadrent of Katrian.
I guess we’ll put them back together cause they were mainly white huh?
By w00t
August 29, 2006 12:31 PM | Link to this
Actually, w00t stands for: We 0wned the 0ther Team.
kthx heh
By CREEPS seeking missle
August 29, 2006 12:36 PM | Link to this
Dear Mr. Osama lover aka Mr. Cracker
You obviously don’t know the difference between “approved” and actually SPENT…
Nearly all of that $122 BILLION is still safely in the GOP plunderer’s hands in Washington. It isn’t helping anyone in the Katrina zone.
Get a dictionary.
By Retroactive Flashback
August 29, 2006 12:36 PM | Link to this
Iran taunts Bush with debate challenge? I think we need to answer disrespect like that with cruise missiles. Surgical strikes are the liberal way to solve problems.
Bush is shy to debate the Iranian prez and I dont blame him. Bush didn’t know that debating skills was part of the job description, it definately wasn’t in the brochure!!!
We cant let Bush debate Amahdinejad. That would simply be too much humiliation. And who would translate? Nobody knows what the hell bush is saying from one moment to the next anyway. I dont think there’s one linguist on the planet who can do Bush justice.
By w00t
August 29, 2006 12:37 PM | Link to this
Andy, you know what your problem is? You “assume”.
You “Assume” that all the people living in New Orleans were killers, rapest, and gang bangers. You “assume” that all Muslims are crazy and hell bent on killing americans. They are both farm from the truth.
What would you do if your town was destroyed by any form of natural disaster? Would you just pack up and leave, would you still be saying the same thing that you’ve said here today? “Screw them”?
You do know that 30% of the thing you love the most, oil and natural gas, passes through New Orleans. Do you still want the city to go under?
By w00t
August 29, 2006 12:41 PM | Link to this
Andy = Hypocrite
By You're Right, Where Is Osama?
August 29, 2006 12:43 PM | Link to this
By w00t stands for idiot in moron speak August 29, 2006 12:30 PM I guess we should say the same thing to coastal Mississipi too then? They recieved alot of damage since they were on the south eastern quadrent of Katrian.
Show me where they are whining for more money, dic-khead.
By You're Right, Where Is Osama?
August 29, 2006 12:45 PM | Link to this
By CREEPS seeking missle August 29, 2006 12:36 PM Dear Mr. Osama lover aka Mr. Cracker You obviously don’t know the difference between “approved” and actually SPENT…
You obviously don’t understand that once money is approved in the federal government it is just as good as spent.
Blow me.
Take it the Wall Street Journal if you got a beef, loser.
By w00t
August 29, 2006 12:48 PM | Link to this
Ah, that’s great Andy, you can’t answer a few simple questions about your thoughts on your City being destroyed, you say “Screw You” to New Orleans, and you call me a “d!ckhead”. Can you do anything other than throw tantrums like a 5 year old?
Wow, you’re more cunning than I though.
Hypocrite.
By Cindy
August 29, 2006 12:52 PM | Link to this
Andy, Read what you copy and paste. “Congress approved $122.5 Billion. No where does it say anything about being spent. That is purposeful to mislead shallow readers like you.
If you review the federal government’s accounting records, you will see it hasn’t been spent.
By Wolf Blitzer
August 29, 2006 12:53 PM | Link to this
Almost all of them that we see are so poor, and they are so black.”
By w00t
August 29, 2006 12:55 PM | Link to this
Andy, tell me, should we help rebuild Coastal Mississippi? Or should we tell them screw you too?
Now that I think about it, that’s what the Bush Administration told New Orleans. “Screw you!” It’s all coming together now.
Maybe we should movie the Iraqis over here, we sure to support them more than our own people.
I guess you can call it support when 3000+ are dying a month in Iraq…
Andy = Hypocrite. Can’t answer simple questions. I guess he’s afraid it will make him question his own so called “ideas” (more like brainwashing) and party.
By w00t
August 29, 2006 01:00 PM | Link to this
Andy, what is so wrong with helping the citizens of the United States? With that attitude did you tell the people of 9/11 to screw you?
By Dusty
August 29, 2006 01:01 PM | Link to this
Oh bother. I hope no one tries to equate the President of Iran with the President of the United States. Here’s a real challenge for you Democrats. Now’s the time to show your loyalty to country and the President.
Hint: You are supposed to support the USA and the President of the USA. Got it?
By Yahoo News Aug, 30, 2005
August 29, 2006 01:03 PM | Link to this
A young [black] man walks through chest deep floodwater after looting a grocery store in New Orleans…” “Two [white] residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store after Hurricane Katrina came through the area in New Orleans…”
By rushncap
August 29, 2006 01:03 PM | Link to this
I’m glad, Dusty, that you’re so gleeful about Muslims supposedly “offsetting their gains” through killing each other. A wonderful representative of Christian compassion you are. Probably wouldn’t bother with touching the breaks of your Hummer if you saw a Muslim crossing the street.
As for Bush debating Ahmadinejad, do you really want to make Shrubbsy look bad. The moron couldn’t argue water into flowing downhill, much less someone who is obviously a skilled public orator, like the President of Iran. The only thing Bush shares with an elephant, by the way, is the size of his ears.
By w00t
August 29, 2006 01:06 PM | Link to this
[Here you go guys](http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/29/bush.ap/index.html
“So far, Congress has approved $110 billion in hurricane aid. The Bush administration has released $77 billion to the states, reserving the rest for future needs, but $33 billion of that has not yet been spent.”
So 44 billion is being used right now. Thats better than nothing. Too bad they’re a year late.
By Goldie
August 29, 2006 01:09 PM | Link to this
A lot of the bigoted anger we’ve all heard about New Orleans is that many of the poor people stranded there were welfare recipients and consequently “deserved” their fate.
Many of the poor people in New Orleans are also the musicians, bartenders, waitresses, hotel workers and others who help sustain the hospitality and tourism industry. I suppose you neo-cons also believe they “deserved” to have all of their lives and belongings destroyed too? Where the hell is your so-called “Christian” compassion when it comes to your fellow Americans?
One of the responsibilities assigned to our federal governmant as stated in the U.S. Constitution is that it serves “to provide for the common defense”… if a major portion of the American Gulf Coast is devastated by a disaster (natural or not), we’re all responsible as a country to help in the defense of that area.
What if a terrorist group (whether American or foreign) had bombed the Gulf Coast — would you still be slamming those Americans based on their race or income level, or would you find some compassion in your heart to do what it takes to assist in their defense and/or rebuilding? I really wonder…
By rushncap
August 29, 2006 01:11 PM | Link to this
@@, I’m very proud of what you did, and I’m sure the people down in NO are thankful. But here is a question: don’t you think the federal government should have, you know, helped? I mean, if the point of the government isn’t to help its people when they can’t help themselves, what, exactly, is the point? Bush is very good as 3rd grade jokes, and is apparently very good at the type of hobnobbing required of sales representatives and used car dealers. But when a real disaster struck, he was useless. Utterly useless. And it’s not like he was not warned. That hurricane didn’t just appear in a split second. He had time to prepare for a possible catastrophe, and he failed to do so. Certainly he was not the only one to fail, but the question is, where does the buck stop? I’m one of those silly people who thinks that the ultimate responsibility for a national-scale disaster lies with those at the top — the President. Again, if he’s not there to handle things like that, what exactly is the point of a President?
By Havin some fun
August 29, 2006 01:11 PM | Link to this
By Dusty August 29, 2006 01:01 PM | Link to this Oh bother. I hope no one tries to equate the President of Iran with the President of the United States. Here’s a real challenge for you Democrats. Now’s the time to show your loyalty to country and the President. Hint: You are supposed to support the USA and the President of the USA. Got it?
Oh Dusty! Really? YEAH? How’d you support Clinton a few years ago? HMMMMM??? How’d THAT little nugget go back then? Lets say 10 years ago. What were your words of INSPIRATION for HIM? I’m betting “F him” were among your favorites!!!
Quite the chuckle for the DAY!!! Support the prez. WHOOOOOOOOOO. I actually snorted. Thanks for that.
You’re very sad, Dusty. Verrrrrrrrry pathetic. Almost transparent-like.
By "Last night, we showed you the full force of a superpower government going to the rescue." –MSNBC'
August 29, 2006 01:15 PM | Link to this
“Last night, we showed you the full force of a superpower government going to the rescue.”
By Goldie
August 29, 2006 01:37 PM | Link to this
In unusually explicit terms, Rumsfeld portrayed the administration’s critics as suffering from “moral or intellectual confusion” about what threatens the nation’s security and accused them of lacking the courage to fight back
Oh, that’s really rich, coming from Rummy — exactly how much “courage” has he and his family shown in fighting in Iraq? And how about Dubya and Cheney, too — how much have their families sacrificed or have they shown any “courage” for this occupation of their choosing?
By Buy Danish
August 29, 2006 01:37 PM | Link to this
Another classic from Goldie the violinist:
“Many of the poor people in New Orleans are also the musicians, bartenders, waitresses, hotel workers and others who help sustain the hospitality and tourism industry”
CREEP, Rushncap and Cindy,
Governor of Louisiana: Dem- Blanco Lieutenant Governor: Dem- Landrieu Mayor of New Orleans: Dem - Nagin Senators: Dem - Landrieu/Rep- Vitter
Maybe this is a hint^^ of why the money is not being distributed as you claim. This does not include all the local government officials (who we can be sure are super great workers like WooT), local commission and board members who are appointed by the Governor, or congressional representatives that we can pretty much guarantee are overwhelmingly ………..>Democrat.
Why don’t you tell us EXACTLY what you would do to hasten the recovery?
By You’re Right, Where Is Osama?
August 29, 2006 01:39 PM | Link to this
Oh gosh! 33 BILLION hasn’t been spent yet! Why, that changes my whole outlook of those sorry a-sses living in New Orleans!
rushncrap: I agree with Dusty’s reasoning, as a Muslim converts into a religious fascist murderer then he needs to be killed. If we can’t get to the newbie, then slaughtering a veteran in his place works for me.
It figures you would mourn the death of a suicide bomber, freaking loser.
By Goldie
August 29, 2006 01:44 PM | Link to this
Consumer confidence tumbles in August
Another example of the Repugnants’ version of “a strong economy” — I guess America needs another huge tax cut for its wealthiest citizens in order to really get the thing going, huh? Three huge tax cuts are evidently just not enough to really do the job, I guess — I suppose there’s only so many Hummers that can be bought in order to really stimulate the economy for everyone, huh?
By getalife
August 29, 2006 01:44 PM | Link to this
Of course, crusty the clown and her fellow clowns never supported President Clinton.
Frigging losers.
Debating with the two Presidents will get them talking to each other but it will not happen.
By Buy Danish
August 29, 2006 01:45 PM | Link to this
“That hurricane didn’t just appear in a split second. He had time to prepare for a possible catastrophe, and he failed to do so.”
Another classic from Rushncap^^
Rushncap,
Didn’t the able-bodied citizens of NOLA have time to prepare? How is it that all my NOLA friends (some of whom are the so-called “poor” people Goldie is sobbing about) managed to get out of town? Why did Nagin wait until Sunday to announce a mandatory evacuation, and then fail to put the existing hurricane disaster plan into operation?
How is it that I, living in the metro-Atlanta area Georgia, was calling my NOLA friends on FRIDAY and offering my house as a place to evacuate to?
Do you know how many cars were left behind in NOLA because they were too freaking lazy or stupid to put the key in the ignition and leave?
Freaking Big Government dependent loser.
By Buy Danish
August 29, 2006 01:55 PM | Link to this
Getalife,
We were not at war when Clinton was President. Or we were, but the storm clouds on the horizon were ignored by his administration. Kinda like many of the residents of NOLA.
For example, while Clinton held debates at town hall meetings about Iraq, he never actually DID diddley squat. Maybe it was because of idiot Dems like you screeching about it being a “racist war” and “no blood for oil” or yelping about “collateral damage”? Maybe he was afraid of alienating the Left wing Useful Idiots voters and members of the MSM?
Maybe it’s all YOUR fault? Ha Ha Ha.
By rushncap
August 29, 2006 01:56 PM | Link to this
Dusty, it is not MY job to figure out exactly what to do to hasten the recovery of New Orleans. MY job is to elect people who would know what to do. It is THEIR responsibility to figure that out. A surgeon wouldn’t consult Cheney on the best way to perform a bypass or a reconstruction. It’s the surgeon’s job to know what to do in that situation. It is the government’s job to do whatever it can to help in a disaster scenario. It is my job as a voter to ensure that only those who are competent get in a position where they would be called upon to act.
Obviously I have failed in my job: the people we elected (Bush etc) are incapable of doing a good job. And although I never voted for them, I guess there is more I could have done to make sure someone competent occupied the White House. I accept some responsibility for failing there. And Shrub et al need to accept the responsibility for failing the people of New Orleans and Mississippi.
By CREEPS seeking missle
August 29, 2006 01:58 PM | Link to this
By You’re Right, Where Is Osama? - August 29, 2006 12:45 PM - You obviously don’t understand that once money is approved in the federal government it is just as good as spent.
No it’s not, Mr. Cracker. “Just as good as” does not rebuild homes, streets, bridges, etc. It’s not paying for squat. It just waits to be divvied up by the GOPhucker bureaucrats who simply can’t be bothered unless it greases the right GOPhucker palm.
Now blow ME.
By Goldie
August 29, 2006 01:58 PM | Link to this
Connecticut Republican Christopher Shays has long been an ardent backer of the war in Iraq. But after returning last week from his 14th trip to the country, the congressman reported that little progress had been made
So, it only took him 14 trips to Iraq to really understand for himself — I’m sure he’s now included in Rummy’s list of those without “courage”… and there’s slowly but slowly several other Repugnants who now understand that the continuing occupation of Iraq is only hurting America: George Will, Pat Buchanan, Chuck Hagel…
By Dusty
August 29, 2006 01:59 PM | Link to this
Havin some fun aka rushncap,
You are right. It is really sad. When Americans like you think it is a JOKE to support the president of the United States, it is not only sad, it is contemptible. Just WHOM are you going to support? Ahmajinebad? With the present state of Democratic prejudice, I wouldn’t be surprised.
I was loyal to Clinton but I was not happy with his moral deficit. That I did not support. But I never forgot he was the leader of this country. As for using the f..word, I don’t use that word anytime. It shows the low level of your character along with the usual lack of support for your country and its leader.
Yes, very sad, fun boy, and you are part of the decay. The transparency on your part shows the undermining of your own country.
Babble on, bobble head. But I will be elsewhere. Have fun in your disloyalty.
By Jay not jay
August 29, 2006 02:00 PM | Link to this
Danish,
Here’s a Dem solution:
Just air drop the remaining 33 billion over N.O. tomorrow afternoon, all problems solved. Creep, rushncap and Cindy can then go out there and re-build all the homes out of $100 bills.
By Midori
August 29, 2006 02:01 PM | Link to this
The Writing on the Wall,
thank you so very much for your 11:01.
So very well put. So very well said. So very, very true.
Watch the Uniblogger, AKA Andy, start to hurl insults your way.
By rushncap
August 29, 2006 02:03 PM | Link to this
Look, Danish b!tch, you’re the type who would walk by a man who got shot in the face, smile, say “hey, he was in the wrong part of town”, and make sure to clean off her shoes before she went to see her son play golf. You’re human excrement. And I’m really struggling with the concept of using the term “human” in the same sentence as I’m referring to you.
By A "friend" of Democracy
August 29, 2006 02:05 PM | Link to this
Bush loves Democracy and HATES ruthless dictators!
Except when those dictators control a sea of oil, and agree to kiss his arse.
“The White House is making arrangements to host the leader of Kazakhstan, an autocrat who runs a nation that is anything but free and who has been accused by U.S. prosecutors of pocketing the bulk of $78 million in bribes from an American businessman. Not only will President Nursultan Nazarbayev visit the White House, people involved say, but he also will travel to the Bush family compound in Maine.”
Ummm, Mr. Bush?? Lie down with dogs, you get fleas…
Can’t wait for November!
By Michael Chertoff, 9/1/05
August 29, 2006 02:10 PM | Link to this
“I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don’t have food and water.” )
By Goldie
August 29, 2006 02:15 PM | Link to this
But the Bush administration does owe a new battle plan to the fallen American soldiers. If the sectarian violence cannot be brought under control by, say, the end of this year, then a partitioning of Iraq should occur
Wow— and now even Bill “Oh Why Didn’t I Fact-check” O’Reilly is beginning to understand what the continuing occupation in Iraq is doing to Amnerica…
By rushncap
August 29, 2006 02:25 PM | Link to this
Dusty, when the President is a joke, then it’s a joke to support him. I support this COUNTRY, not some idiot who happens to be in charge. I bet you’re they type who would support Hitler, Stalin, Saddam etc. because, hey, they’re still “the leader of our country”. I happen to like thinking independently, and make decisions based on what a person does, not what post he or she occupies.
And I do not support Ahmadinejad. He is a nutcase, a total fruitcake. But he’s certainly a better orator than Bush. Of course you’re too stupid to realize that just because a person does not support Bush does not mean he automatically supports Ahmadinejad.
And I have no idea what “f word” you’re referring to. Not that I don’t use it, or that I’m somehow embarassed of using it, but I have not used it on this board today.
By Michael Chertoff, 9/1/05
August 29, 2006 02:29 PM | Link to this
“Well, I think if you look at what actually happened, I remember on Tuesday morning picking up newspapers and I saw headlines, ‘New Orleans Dodged the Bullet.’ Because if you recall, the storm moved to the east and then continued on and appeared to pass with considerable damage but nothing worse.”
By Dubya
August 29, 2006 02:33 PM | Link to this
Listen up you Republiscum. Slip into those ballcaps, gangsta tees & shorts, flipflops/sandals and cellphones-ta-look-important. Another glorious day! Your alcoholic deserter Presdunt has the gall to slither into Mississippi, Louisiana to “speak with the people,” “inspect the neighborhoods,” and, of course, “attend church services.” There he speaks directly to God and Christ. They go back and forth and personally “instruct” him to perform as he does. This mindless freak is as shameless as his radical supporters. Praise thee Lord. God bless Murcuh!
By President George W. Bush
August 29, 2006 02:50 PM | Link to this
“What didn’t go right?”
By Peggy Noonan
August 29, 2006 02:53 PM | Link to this
As for the tragic piggism that is taking place on the streets of New Orleans, it is not unbelievable but it is unforgivable, and I hope the looters are shot
By Bill O'Reilly
August 29, 2006 02:58 PM | Link to this
Many, many, many of the poor in New Orleans are in that condition. They weren’t going to leave no matter what you did. They were drug-addicted. They weren’t going to get turned off from their source. They were thugs, whatever.
By President Bush
August 29, 2006 03:01 PM | Link to this
President Bush had called her moments before to urge a mandatory evacuation.
By Retroactive Flashback
August 29, 2006 03:04 PM | Link to this
Look at the Ramsey coverage persisting despite the fact that there’s no case. Americans are obsessed with child molesters. NBC gets ratings with it’s “trap a internet child porn addict” shows.
Now, this Ramsey coverage has been running interference for Bush over the Iraq fiasco. Katrina one year later coverage has pushed Iraq to page 327.
The Ramseys were politicos, repubs. There is no doubt now that this whole story was made up to rescue a floundering bush administration.
The Ramsey family murdered and covered up the murder of their daughter. It doesn’t matter which ramsey did it, just know that they did it, and Fox news should STFU.
This is how we can become entangled in the total catastrophe on all levels that IRAQ has become (independent of the war on terror). Americans have an attention span of 24 minutes. An entire country of the clueless. It’s unbelievable.
Look at the wrong way harrigan pilot who drove his plane into a barn. Who do you fire? The construction foreman? The airport supervisor? CEO of Delta? How could such a think as getting the right plane on the right runway ever fail? Ever. Fire them all. Then shoot them all.
I demand that Bush resign effective noon tomorrow.
By Cindy
August 29, 2006 03:08 PM | Link to this
Not all those billions of dollars have gone to the NO residents. The bulk was “approved” for infrastructure; port and levee repair and rebuilding. Some of these funds went to federal agencies for supplies and resources. Federal salaries were paid, federal housing and per diem was paid for federal employees working there. Fuel and maintenance for military aircraft and vehicles, pilot and driver salaries were paid. Over 1.5 billion went to federal auditing staffs to oversee the spending. Another $10 billion was spent by SBA in support of area small businesses. Much has gone to debris removal and which is about 72% complete in NO. None of these things are cheap, especially when charged to a government contract. To top it all off, damage repair had to be completed before much of the rebuilding could begin.
However, I am still amazed that a country that can mobilize an Army to invade a country in the matter of days and spend over $10 billion a month there has done so little to heal itself in a year.
By w00t
August 29, 2006 03:20 PM | Link to this
Andy likes to see his own country men and women suffer and die.
Hypocrite
By FACT CHECKER
August 29, 2006 03:26 PM | Link to this
Limbaugh again claimed President Bush “was begging” Blanco to declare an emergency On the September 13 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh repeated his dubious assertion that during an August 28 phone call to Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, President Bush “was begging that governor … to declare an emergency.” Media Matters for America has debunked similar claims by Limbaugh and other conservatives (here, here, and here).
By President George W. Bush
August 29, 2006 03:27 PM | Link to this
) “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.”
By N-GA
August 29, 2006 03:33 PM | Link to this
I still can’t get over people discussing those people who chose not to leave new Orleans before Katrina hit. What especially bothers me is that many of these wing-nuts seem to focus on those same individuals when rationalizing what is wrong with the city.
In fact the VAST MAJORITY of New Orleans citizens left the city, only to return to utter devastation. Focus on the many, people. Focus on what needs to be done, and let the politicos focus on what should have been done.
New Orleans is no more Sodom/Gomorrah than Houston or San Francisco…its people no different…no less christian.
Bush screwed up by having a political appointee in a position that required a skillful leader.
Governor Blanco screwed up by not running roughshod over Ray Nagin before the storm hit and after when things were chaotic.
Mayor Nagin screwed up by running for mayor in the first place. He is clueless…still.
All of them are screwed up for putting politics before people.
By getalife
August 29, 2006 03:34 PM | Link to this
“President Clinton’s impeachment nemesis Kenneth Starr is staying busy. The semen-stained lawyer is expected to file a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the suspension of a high school student disciplined for holding a banner across the street from campus reading, ‘BONG HITS 4 JESUS.’”
By Retroactive Flashback
August 29, 2006 03:49 PM | Link to this
Andy is a regular guy. He’s the Unibleeder. Just pray he doesn’t tell us to “read his lips”. Period.
He is irrelevant and obsolete. Andy blogs about extinct issues. He’s three years behind current events. He thinks we’re in Iraq to find WMDs and Oust Saddam. ANd he thinks his 5-day pad is an extra strength sanitary napkin. God help his bedmate. God help his jeans. God help God. OMG!
By more American than you know
August 29, 2006 03:51 PM | Link to this
By Dusty August 29, 2006 01:59 PM | Link to this Havin some fun aka rushncap…
ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. Try again, sweetcheeks! I’m not rushn.
“contemptible”!!! Whippin out the $.50 words EH?
“I was loyal to Clinton but I was not happy with his moral deficit.” You’re so full of it your eyes should be brown! L-I-A-R. I’m calling you out. The day you SUPPORTED Clinton is the day I will bend over, grab both my ankles, and kiss my own a$$!
“As for using the f..word, I don’t use that word anytime. It shows the low level of your character along with the usual lack of support for your country and its leader. Yes, very sad, fun boy, and you are part of the decay.” I bet you don’t. Your moral ‘fortitude’ ends there doesn’t it? And that’s “fungirl”. Try to get it right, if your going to spew your ‘contempt’ this aways. Mmkay? I don’t support this ADMINISTRATION. To sit there and act like its Bush running the show is laughable. The man doesnt read a NEWSPAPER! Ever. You do realize that YOU are more up-to-date on what is happening in the world everyday than HE does right? You get that don’t you?
“Just WHOM are you going to support? Ahmajinebad? With the present state of Democratic prejudice, I wouldn’t be surprised. I was loyal to Clinton but I was not happy with his moral deficit. That I did not support. But I never forgot he was the leader of this country.” No, Dust. I support A-M-E-R-I-C-A. A little ol’ rag called the C-O-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-I-O-N. Some silly ideals from the ‘olden days’ as laid down in the B-I-L-L O-F R-I-G-H-T-S. Call me crazy but THOSE are far more important than being a Republi-BOT like the ‘dittoheads’ of the Faux News following-variety. <— THATS YOU there, keep up. You actually managed to REMEMBER that Clinton was our leader…. AND? Where’s that gem going? He was our leader AND? What? You had more money in your bank account? American people WEREN’T screaming out “why oh god is this happening to US!” The deficit wasn’t ASTRONOMICAL? what is your POINT dusty???
“The transparency on your part shows the undermining of your own country.” WRONG Mr! Once AGAIN. This gets tedious. REALLY it does. “Bush = good” does NOT make you a “good AMURCAN”. It makes you a d
By Michael Brown
August 29, 2006 03:55 PM | Link to this
If you’ll look at my lovely FEMA attire you’ll really vomit. I am a fashion god… Anything specific I need to do or tweak? Do you know of anyone who dog-sits? … Can I quit now? Can I come home? … I’m trapped now, please rescue me.”
By more American than you know
August 29, 2006 03:56 PM | Link to this
I knew it’d get cut off… ha. hahaaha. sorry bout that…
“The transparency on your part shows the undermining of your own country.” WRONG Mr! Once AGAIN. This gets tedious. REALLY it does. “Bush = good” does NOT make you a “good AMURCAN”. It makes you a drooling moron to just agree with whatever the administration tells you is right. Do you have ANY opinions formulated on your own??? Or is this ANOTHER of those one-sided arguments that WON’T receive a response. (That means it’s YOUR turn now.)
By Michael Brown
August 29, 2006 03:57 PM | Link to this
If you’ll look at my lovely FEMA attire you’ll really vomit. I am a fashion god… Anything specific I need to do or tweak? Do you know of anyone who dog-sits? … Can I quit now? Can I come home? … I’m trapped now, please rescue me.”
By Buy Danish
August 29, 2006 04:18 PM | Link to this
N-GA,
Why do we focus on the people who didn’t leave?
Maybe it’s because of all the media coverage of people who didn’t leave being rescued from rooftops, people stranded on a bridge with no water, people crowded into the Superdome in hideous conditions, and then blaming Bush for the situation to this day, either out of irrational hatred or pure political calculation?
Maybe it’s because people like Mike Luckovich imply that because of racism certain people fared worse than others?
You think?
By Truthman
August 29, 2006 04:21 PM | Link to this
Hey, has anyone else out there in progressive-land decided that Fox (Faux) News really sent their reporter and cameraman to the same bunker “Dick” Cheney uses, and thus, concocted the entire “kidnapping” story to elicit some sympathy for the nation’s White House propaganda network?
They were “kidnapped” by an “Unknown” organization, never threatened and looked pretty good for being “held as prisoners.”
I beleive if a Faux News reporter was actually kidnapped, they would be killed because Fox suckles at the teet of the Bush regime.
By Truthman
August 29, 2006 04:32 PM | Link to this
OK, so Faux News “kidnapped” its own reporter and cameraman and hid them in “Dick” Cheney subterranean lair to try to get the public to sympathize with the White House Propaganda network.
Sorry, Faux folks, we don’t buy your “kidnapping.”
What a bunch of Bush-sucking losers!!
By rushncap
August 29, 2006 04:32 PM | Link to this
Danish — should we abolish FEMA?
By N-GA
August 29, 2006 04:36 PM | Link to this
The people who didn’t leave are not the real problem…especially now. I cannot help but believe that most who stayed were renters, not owners. But the real point is that the main issue has nothing to do with the “stranded” nutcases. It has to do with cleaning up the mess and re-building New Orleans. Personally I am one of those that strongly supports building it to be better than ever. This is certainly an opportunity for urban renewal if I ever saw one.
So fix the levees and repair the infrastructure. Let American business come in and build apartment houses so that workers have a place to stay. Without them, who will staff the restaurants, bars, hotels, etc? Owners of residences need to rebuild using insurance (and the government needs to be sure that they get every penny their policies say they are due), low interest loans, savings, etc. Or they can choose to take the insurance payout, sell their land, and restart elsewhere. If New Orleans emerges from this catastrophe cleaner, safer, and more prepared, then everyone can be thankful and tourists will return in droves.
By The writing on the wall
August 29, 2006 04:40 PM | Link to this
Midori, thank you for your 2:01pm post.
I see the Unablogger has yet to respond to my 11:01am comments in any way.
I suspect he’s just too stupid or too drunk to understand it.
By Jay not jay
August 29, 2006 04:42 PM | Link to this
Sure Truthman, just like they fired the missile that hit the Pentagon on 9/11.
By You're Right, Where Is Osama?
August 29, 2006 04:47 PM | Link to this
The president urged anyone in the storm’s path “to put their own safety and the safety of their families first by moving to safe ground.”
Bush, detached in his “bubble,” on “vacation.”
President Bush announced Sunday that he had issued disaster declarations for Louisiana, Mississippi and parts of southern Florida. The declaration for Miami-Dade and Broward counties in Florida will allow residents there to apply for federal disaster aid.
Well that makes sense, making sure the area hit gets relief, but hold up, this was BEFORE the hurricane hit:
New Orleans braces for monster hurricane Crescent City under evacuation; storm may overwhelm levees-CNN
And what do the wanker liberals say?
Well, go ahead y’all, tell us some more of your pervert lies.
By Buy Danish
August 29, 2006 04:54 PM | Link to this
rushncap,
No we should not abolish FEMA. What kind of idiot question is that?
N-GA,
Fine. Here’s how you can help
Or try this
and this
or this
all of which can be found here
In addition to the contributions of Americans from all over the country, a lot of people are trying to get Louisiana back to normal^^. These things take time, patience, and hard work.
Believe me, John Kerry would not be doing it any better.
By Bill Maher
August 29, 2006 04:55 PM | Link to this
Finally today convoys of troops and aid started to arrive along the Gulf Coast. Five days after the hurricane hit. Kind of makes you miss the innocent days when Bush only sat on his *ss for seven minutes. It only took him four days to make a plan, but finally today he said he had a plan. Unfortunately it’s a faith-based plan that involves getting two of every animal onto a big boat.”
By rushncap
August 29, 2006 04:58 PM | Link to this
An idiot question to an idiot person, Danish. So if we should not abolish FEMA, what is the point of having it?
By You're Right, Where Is Osama?
August 29, 2006 04:58 PM | Link to this
By The writing on the wall August 29, 2006 04:40 PM I see the Unablogger has yet to respond to my 11:01am comments in any way. I suspect he’s just too stupid or too drunk to understand it.
If a moonbat falls in the fever swamp and there’s no one there, does it make a sound?
By The writing on the wall
August 29, 2006 05:06 PM | Link to this
Well, you’re stupid. But at least you can read.
And where IS Osama?? Is Bush going to give him amnesty? A pardon??
Why not?
Bush pardoned Khadaffi, the bomber of PanAm flight 103, the killer of hundreds of Americans.
Surely pardoning Osama would please the families and friends of the thousands he killed on 9/11! Wouldn’t it?
Oh well… doesn’t matter. Bush doesn’t think about Osama much anyway…
By RW-(the original)
August 29, 2006 05:06 PM | Link to this
Just when you think these libs can’t get any more hysterical, Cindy chimes in to tell us that this money should just be given to the residents. The construction crews, planners, and government coordinators should just be paid by the relief fairy when it comes to deliver all the supplies on the back of it’s flying unicorn.
Cindy, $122 billion comes out to about a quarter million for every man woman and child that lived in the city. It’s still almost $100,000. per if you give the money to woot’s mythical people and all this is not counting insurance, government aid to individuals, millions of dollars given through private charities etc.
Don’t you think you might be just a little over the top here?
By Truthman
August 29, 2006 05:09 PM | Link to this
Yes, a Democratic president WOULD HAVE DONE MUCH BETTER!!
Remember, Bush and Kerry went to the same Ivy League school and are both members of the same fraternity - The Stonecutters.
But, as usual, the dems care for the least of us. Unlike the repugs who will leave no millionaire behind!
72 Days until we take back our country.
I smell neo-con fear!!
By Midori
August 29, 2006 05:13 PM | Link to this
So which is it Andy?
Too stupid?
Too drunk?
By your 4:58 I’d have to say both.
By RW-(the original)
August 29, 2006 05:14 PM | Link to this
WOW! If the only point for many government groups is to abolish them there may be hope for rushncap yet. Where should we start comrade? I say we scrap the worthless education department first. Now if we could just get him to back off on his hero worship of Ahmadinejad.
By w00t
August 29, 2006 05:22 PM | Link to this
Hey, RW I restated my numbers. Here you go for a refresher: 670,441 people that have left New Orleans. However, were 1,799,995 living there before Katrina, and you know that most of them have damage to some degree.
Not all that money goes to the families there. Most will be used to rebuild the city’s infrastructure and Levees.
Andy, you’re still a Hypocrite. Answer my questions, or are you too afraid?
Andy likes to see his own country men and women suffer and die.
By Dusty
August 29, 2006 05:28 PM | Link to this
More American than U No aka Babbling Bubblehead,
So you’re running all over the blog having hysterics while I was gone. What a shame. I wasn’t even here to read it fresh. No matter. It is still sorry when stale.
But first, I must apologize to rushncap who didn’t say the f..word and other trivia. Sorry, rushie, it sounded so much like you. But back to bubblehead.
Sorry about you, bubble, but I have more money in the bank then before. Nobody here is running around screaming. You’re in with a bad crowd. Figures.
And I am quite aware of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. So is the President. He is also honest. He continues to face some of the toughest times in American history. And he did not produce 9/11 or Katrina. He handled them whether you think so or not.
Now you might check with Congress, some of whom you voted for. They haven’t quite learned what is important yet. ‘Specially the Democrats. The pork barrels are so full they are about to pop. Why don’t you study up on politics instead of babbling? That way you could help the country instead of tearing it apart.
Besides, your repetitious rendition of “Bush did it” is so passe’. I gues it is hard to change when your head bobbles back and forth, back and forth. But try it. It might add a few words to your limited vocabulary.
By Buy Danish
August 29, 2006 05:33 PM | Link to this
“So if we should not abolish FEMA, what is the point of having it?”
Rushncap,
What’s the point of you asking stupid questions? I infer that you just want to lump ALL government programs into the “Good” pile.
Some of us think some are “Good”, others are “Bad”, and some “Need Improvement”.
Would you like me to read you a fairytale now?
By Buy Danish
August 29, 2006 05:36 PM | Link to this
WooT,
Are you SURE that EXACTLY 670,441 people that have left New Orleans?
By RW-(the original)
August 29, 2006 05:40 PM | Link to this
woot,
Try paying attention. Cindy wants the money to go to the people and not the reconstruction. God you government workers are a dysfunctional bunch. No wonder rushncap wants to have you all abolished.
By Buy Danish
August 29, 2006 05:42 PM | Link to this
Andy,
Your 4:58 is a wonderful keeper for the moonbat retort file.
By RW-(the original)
August 29, 2006 05:43 PM | Link to this
Buy Danish,
Woot has some very amorphous numbers. Apparently he takes the population on Fat Tuesday and claims that they have fled the city on Ash Wednesday.
By w00t
August 29, 2006 05:54 PM | Link to this
OMG, you guys are so retarded. I got the numbers from the US census Bureu. They are from year 2000. All you guys do is nit-pick over comments. It doesn’t add up to anything, nor explain anything.
Try coming up with something contructive.
Take a look at the numbers here
New Orleans (THE CITY) “As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there were 484,674 people, 188,251 households, and 112,950 families residing in the city. The most recent (2004) population estimate for the city is 462,269.”
“The population of Greater New Orleans stood at 1,337,726 in 2000, making it the 35th largest metropolitan area in the United States.”
Another from the US site
So those numbers are from the GOVERNMENT. These are not made up, as you suggested.
By RW-(the original)
August 29, 2006 05:59 PM | Link to this
woot,
Since you are the government worker, aren’t we already saying we don’t necessarily believe what comes from government workers? Yet you send us to some more of your brethrens handywork anyway. How do we know they didn’t spend all day on blogs when they were being paid to do the census?
By You're Right, Where Is Osama?
August 29, 2006 05:59 PM | Link to this
By The writing on the wall August 29, 2006 05:06 PM And where IS Osama??
Did you look under your bed for your little caveboy hero, wussy?
By You're Right, Where Is Osama?
August 29, 2006 06:07 PM | Link to this
By Truthsissy August 29, 2006 05:09 PM I smell neo-con fear!!
Why don’t you change your underwear and see what you smell then.
By Buy Danish
August 29, 2006 06:07 PM | Link to this
WooT,
Here’s a little 3rd grade curriculum for you and whoever wrote the data you are citing:
Numbers like “462,269” or “670,441” are not ESTIMATES.
By You're Right, Where Is Osama?
August 29, 2006 06:18 PM | Link to this
Plame Out- The ridiculous end to the scandal that distracted Washington. By Christopher Hitchens Posted Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2006, at 1:02 PM ET
Just another stupid moonbat eruption shot down in flames.
I will admit we got plenty of laughs out of this one so it least it had some redeeming value.
Plus it made the fools look even more foolish.
By Midori
August 29, 2006 06:33 PM | Link to this
[Hitchens would like you to believe that a trip to Niger by Wassim Al-Zawahie in 1999 somehow invalidates Joe Wilson’s opinion that there was no threat to the United States. I’m sure some of you are interested in the truth, something often non-existent in any Hitchens article.
Point #1: The IAEA reviewed the trip.. which was not only to Niger, but four African countries which did not have any uranium mines.. and determined that the purpose of the trip was to avoid UN sanctions, not to purchase uranium.
Point #2: The Iraq Survey Group reviewed the trip.. and agreed with the IAEA.
Point #3: Prior to 1999, the two mines producing yellowcake were, in one case, flooded and non-productive; and in the other, under French control. Niger had no say in either case, and could not sell what it did not control.
Point #4: The accusations against Iraq began not from the 1999 visit, but instead from admittedly forged documents that include incorrect persons and dates. It was only after these documents were proven false that folks such as Hitchens began desperately searching for some other justification for statements by Bush that led us to war.
Point #5: Al-Zawahie himself recently commented on the issue, demolishing Hitchens’ arguments completely. (I suppose Hitchens hopes you cannot figure out the Slate archival search feature.)
Slate, please. If you’re going to allow Hitchens to post such uneducated drivel without any editorial oversight, then create a section called ‘Rampant Alcohol-Fueled Vitriol’ and keep it off the front page.](http://www.slate.com/?id=3936&action=next&m=18082217)
Andy loves to use drunks as “experts”
By @@
August 29, 2006 06:38 PM | Link to this
For months on end, extreme leftist bloggers here have ridiculed and attacked the faithful. But while you all sit in here complaining about Bush, I can give him credit for sending the message…Hope springs from the flood.
Bush believed in us; he told us that we could accomplish great things; he told us the country could depend on us, and he was right.
Take a minute to read it. It’s the good that you can’t hear for the droning of your “Hate Bush” rhetoric.
And unlike all of you, I’ll give credit to all of those who are not of the faith and went down there to make a difference, however small it may have been.
By Vatican Lectures
August 29, 2006 06:41 PM | Link to this
Andy is the queen of the non-sequitur. He loves to dredge up obsolete debate topics.
Iraq. He cant handle the truth. It physically kills him. Good.
His blogging skills are average, but his links are amazing. He has figured out how to link things to his blogs, which if he could do it ten years ago, would be super duper amazing, but as it is, it makes him on a par with my grandmother, who learned how to link things to here email. Big deal.
He’s so proud of himself. Linkie here, linkie there. He links. He stinks.
By RW-(the original)
August 29, 2006 06:47 PM | Link to this
Good old CNN! You get President Bush and at the same time Kyra Phillips in the little girls room gossipping
If you want to read along there is a transcript here. I’d hate to be Kyra’s brother now.
By RW-(the original)
August 29, 2006 06:52 PM | Link to this
I thought for a second Midori had written something on her own, besides “SQUAWK”, until I noticed she just screwed up the link to someone else’s words.
By The writing on the wall
August 29, 2006 07:09 PM | Link to this
By You’re Right, Where Is Osama? - August 29, 2006 05:59 PM - Did you look under your bed for your little caveboy hero, wussy?
So you think we SHOULD just go ahead and pardon Osama outright? Just like the US pardoned Khadaffi, is that it??
Maybe we should pardon Timothy McVeigh, too?
Oh no, we can’t. He’s dead.
Well, how about Terry Nichols?
Face it loser, by giving Osama a free pass, George Bush is telling the extremists of the world that terrorism pays, and that terrorists can live on to instruct and inspire other terrorists.
Small solace to Osama’s victims. Not just the 9/11 families. All Americans.
By You’re Right, Where Is Osama? - August 29, 2006 06:07 PM - Why don’t you change your underwear and see what you smell then.
Snicker. Tee hee hee! (chortle!) So this is what the “Mighty NeoCon Troll” has been reduced to? 3rd grade insults??
Have another drink, Andy.
By You're Right, Where Is Osama?
August 29, 2006 07:29 PM | Link to this
Let’s just spiff this up a bit:
By The writing on the wall August 29, 2006 07:09 PM Face it loser, by giving Osama a free pass, Bill Clinton is telling the extremists of the world that terrorism pays, and that terrorists can live on to instruct and inspire other terrorists.
Yep, that’s better, plus it has a feel of truth to it, seeing how King Blo-wjob passed on Osama and the Trade Center is gone.
Bush ain’t give nobody a pass, fool, he spread the word that we weren’t interested anymore, hoping to SUCKER some Al Qaeda out in the open where we could run a hellfire up their a-ss.
The only fish he got to bite was you libs.
Playing the fool as always.
My guess is that Bin Laden is waiting for 08 to get back to work on the American infidels.
He knows with a Republican in office and he attacks, he’ll get the 82nd Airborne crawling in his a-ss.
With a pinko in the White House, the United States will offer to withdraw to Okinawa or some such nonsense.
So Osama sits in his cave, hoping.
Just like you libs are.
The same goals in life as the terrorists.
How sweet.
By Vatican Lectures
August 29, 2006 08:17 PM | Link to this
The sad fact is that the neocons have failed in Iraq. We are literally fighting for Iranian Shia. That’s because Bush is a total ignoramus. Andy is a well meaning american with a thyroid condition who was misled by his president, and can only wish his president was a hero instead of a total traitor.
Here’s what’s going to happen soon: USA will cut and run in a panic when it becomes painfully obvious that the Democratically elected Shia want to slit his throat. Bush brought democracy to people who despise him and will use that freedom, purchased in american lives to try to destroy Israel and the USA.
Bush will finally realize just how pathetic and foolish he has been. Then bush will resign in disgrace. Then Andy will do the honorable thing.
By RW-(the original)
August 29, 2006 08:24 PM | Link to this
finch,
Your premise that OBL has been given up on is just as misguided as your characterization of Qaddafi being pardoned, but you are even further off base when you say that you can’t pardon a dead man. Check out a list of pardons once in a while.
By You're Right, Where Is Osama?
August 29, 2006 09:04 PM | Link to this
By Sodom Lectures August 29, 2006 08:17 PM
Sweety: We’d all love to hear you brag on one of your predictions of the future that actually came true.
Oh, wait a minute, you can’t because none of your predictions have ever come true.
They all fizzle out like Fitzmas did.
Don’t you hate it when that happens?
So you grab your soapbox, haul your fat noisy a-ss down to the street corner and preach your stupid moonbat sermon to the people passing by.
Maybe some spastic will stop and listen with open mouth and moony eyes.
The rest of us will politely look the other way.
By Cindy
September 4, 2006 01:25 PM | Link to this
RW, Apparently you aren’t a good reader or listener. The druggies didn’t get the money. The people didn’t get all that government money. If you are so paranoid about abused government funds, how the heck can you support the war in Iraq?? Billions have disappeared over there! They have more corrupt contractors working Iraq than NO and you don’t say a word. And what about the US government funds in Iraq that fall into the hands of insurgents? You have to be smart enough to know that has happened. That is typical neocon; they just don’t see it. Pathetic.
At least all the money for NO stays right here in this country for our citizens.