Mike Luckovich

By George

September 2, 2006 09:39 AM | Link to this

I’m sure that Andy will be here soon to post some drivel that has nothing to do with the toon. He has no life besides the ML blog. Kind of sad actually.

By George

September 2, 2006 01:09 PM | Link to this

I can’t wait to see how Andy spins this one. Either the Pentagon is starting to sound like the Democrats or they are finally telling the truth. What do you think?

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 — Iraqi casualties soared by more than 50 percent in recent months, the product of spiraling sectarian clashes and a Sunni-based insurgency that remains “potent and viable,” the Pentagon said in its latest comprehensive assessment of security in Iraq. During the period from the establishment of the new Iraqi government on May 20 until Aug. 11, the average number of weekly attacks jumped to almost 800. That was a substantial increase from earlier this year and almost double the number of the first part of 2004.

By Extreme Views Find a Home on the Right

September 4, 2006 08:04 AM | Link to this

It’s always interesting to me when people on the right, such as President Bush and defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, begin exhorting us to be wary of fascism in other parts of the world. To reinforce their political agenda, I hear the rhetoric on talk/hate radio every day that liberalism leads to fascism

On the political spectrum line, however, fascism is on the extreme RIGHT; the extreme left is anarchy. Fascism is total control of a society; anarchy is total individuality. We should fear both, for there is no safety for all in either.

However, when American rightists criticize extremism in other rightist cultures and blame it on leftist values, the geometry doesnlt work out right.- Denise Benshoof, Snellville, AJC 9/4/06 pg ,16.

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Dead on, girlfriend. Our ‘Guest Worker’ Fascist (Patriot Act) President still has no better understanding of the English language than he has had for the past six years.

By Ya Gotta Love the Smell of Roast Uber-Fascists in November

September 4, 2006 08:36 AM | Link to this

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats enter the fall campaign with a clear edge in the high-stakes fight for control of the U.S. Congress, riding a wave of momentum that has them positioned to retake the U.S. House of Representatives and make significant gains in the Senate.

“It’s too late to fix the national mood — it’s not going to be fixed,” said Republican pollster Frank Luntz. “The major issues are not playing well for Republicans this year, and Republicans are not playing well with America this year.”

History is also with Democrats — the party holding the White House traditionally loses seats in a president’s sixth year. The modern exception was 1998, when public unhappiness over the Republican-led impeachment of President Bill Clinton helped Democrats gain five House seats.

“This looks like a classic sixth-year election,” said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato, who called the president’s low approval ratings, hovering at about 40 percent, “the single best indicator for any mid-term election.” In other words, when Republicans are wearing their a$$ for a hat in November they can blame King George and the rest of the extreme uber-right pestilence they have allowed to infest their party.

A Democratic majority in even one chamber of Congress would slam the brakes on what is left of Bush’s second-term legislative agenda and hasten his descent into lame-duck status in the final two years of his presidency.

It also would give Democrats an opportunity to hold hearings and investigate many of the administration’s more controversial foreign, military and energy policy decisions. Don’t count on King George being held accountable for his actions, though…Democrats have way more class than Republicans do ! ! !

Democrats may be scumbags, but they are definitely the lesser of two scumbags ! ! !

By Aniother 'Mission Accomplished'

September 4, 2006 08:48 AM | Link to this

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi forces have arrested the second most senior operative in al-Qaida in Iraq, and the group now suffers from a “serious leadership crisis,” the national security adviser said Sunday.

Oooooooo, they gotem a bad guy so now al Qaida has a leadership crisis. Sounds kinda like the leadership crisis they had after Zarquawi was killed, right? We’ve been seeing how that has worked out for the past couple of months, haven’t we? Republicans really need to add a NEW pack of lies to their playbook. They’ve been using the same ones so long they’re getting a little moldy, now. All Republicans ever offer is campaign rhetoric that always turns out to be more LIES ! ! !

By bon scott

September 4, 2006 08:50 AM | Link to this

The Republithugs are getting desperate. Which means they’re getting very, very careless.

Here’s how brazen Mr. Rumsfeld was when he invoked Hitler’s appeasers to score his cheap points: Since Hitler was photographed warmly shaking Neville Chamberlain’s hand at Munich in 1938, the only image that comes close to matching it in epochal obsequiousness is the December 1983 photograph of Mr. Rumsfeld himself in Baghdad, warmly shaking the hand of Saddam Hussein in full fascist regalia. Is the defense secretary so self-deluded that he thought no one would remember a picture so easily Googled on the Web? Or worse, is he just too shameless to care?

By Student Visa

September 4, 2006 09:02 AM | Link to this

The cartoon was okay. If Connie Chung couldn’t pull it off, then Katie Courek has no chance. She’ll be gone by summer.

Dan Rather was the worst anchor in broadcasting history, with the most offensive pie hole of all time.

Katie is only slightly less torture to watch, and I am one guy that aint tunin’ in. She mugs too much when she talks. Like Rather. Ever notice? When Rather didn’t like the news he was giving, he did stuff with his pie hole and his eyebrows.

Gadz I hated Dan Rather. That’s why I sent him those phonied up national guard doc’s about Bush. (I’m sending Katie a phoney document proving that Bush knew that his twins were crack ho’s long after he claimed they were born again).

Rather was on a sunday morning talk show yesterday and made a total fool out of himself trying to sound intellectual. (He would start talking with this bromide: “Any fair assessment of this problem involves….”) What an embarrassment.

Where do we get these noodniks who comprise our media spokesmorons? Rather. Rush. Kimmer. I saw Kimmer once at the punchline. Truly horrific. I almost gave up on mankind that night. What does he think he has to do to entertain people? I cant get the sound of that scoundrel out of my mind. After the show he was standing alone at the bar in the back. I was sitting two bar stools away taking him in. We are in trouble folks, when a zero like that is allowed to poison our youth with jingoistic nonsense and quasi-patriotic blabber. And where did he get that sportsjacket?

By Student Visa

September 4, 2006 09:08 AM | Link to this

The Democrats will blow it. Dont worry, Neo-morocons.

White men cant dance or jump. Democrats cant debate or trump.

No leader. No clue about how to construct the language necessary to dethrone the Neo-morocons.

SO we are going to get an unprecedented sixteen unbroken years of total Neo-morocon rule.

Our debt, in 2016, will be 32 quintquadrillion schmeckles, (that’s 12 plug nickles in 1872 money).

By Buy Danish

September 4, 2006 09:11 AM | Link to this

Georgie Girl,

I breathlessly await YOUR comments about the toon.

By George

September 4, 2006 09:37 AM | Link to this

BD, it is ok. I don’t care either way what Katie does since I never see the evening news.

I think ML should bring back the Al Queida org chart toon since the US killed #2 in Iraqi. So many 2s, so little time.

By Goldie

September 4, 2006 09:39 AM | Link to this

We’ll see what happens with Katie, yes? Too soon to know how it will play @ CBS… I don’t think CBS did the right thing by pushing Dan Rather out, and the network needs a strong intellectual anchor for the evening news, a la Uncle Walt. I don’t Katie is ready for prime time.

By Goldie

September 4, 2006 09:41 AM | Link to this

I have lots of positive feelings about this November’s elections — to paraphrase President Clinton: “it’s the incompetence, stupid!”

By Georgie Girlyman

September 4, 2006 09:45 AM | Link to this

I think the cartoon is funny, true, clever, and remarkable. I think Bye Swedish’s remark is shortbus, blog-simple, and improperly unhelmeted. (where’s the supervision?)

By George

September 4, 2006 09:53 AM | Link to this

Well Goldie, I am a little concerned that the Democrates might seize defeat from the jaws of victory. The Republicans with all their stratgery are handing the Dems the election on a silver platter. Time will tell whether the Dems are ready to catch the ball without fumbling it.

By Buy Danish

September 4, 2006 10:04 AM | Link to this

Georgie Girl,

Well since you don’t watch the evening news it looks like Katie is being paid more than she’s worth.

When you’re not watching the news, you may want to work on your writing skills. You managed to mix no less that 3 metaphors in your 9:53 post to Ms. Goldilocks.

Freaking unbelievable.

By @@

September 4, 2006 10:12 AM | Link to this

Willard is a creature of the home-spun variety. Katie is a creature of the web-spun variety as indicated by Andy’s link.

One of them is rooted in American traditionalism and it ain’t Katie.

Thanks for the weekend commentary Andy.

ml: You’re capturing a good likeness lately in your art. You’re still lacking in your ability to capture Bush.

No need to worry though….Midori will be along shortly with her “inpoot.”

By George

September 4, 2006 10:14 AM | Link to this

Sounds like BD needs a tampon really badly.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 4, 2006 10:15 AM | Link to this

Here’s a labor day nugget of information:

During the 2004 elections, the Center for Responsive Politics (OpenSecrets.org) reports, unions spent at least $61,484,080 in political contributions — 87 percent to Democrats, 13 percent to Republicans. That year, a CNN exit poll found, 61 percent of union members voted for Democrat John Kerry, while 38 percent supported Republican George W. Bush…Labor often backs very liberal causes. The National Education Association (NEA) contributed $1,210,000 to progressive groups, including the Fund to Protect Social Security ($250,000), People for the American Way ($51,000) and the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network ($5,000).-WashingtonTimes

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This warrants copying in it’s entirety:

Critics all about divisiveness<———Link

Anyone reading both points of view with an open mind must surely support Donald Rumsfeld”s argument as opposed to that of the AJC editorial board, whose only points of condemnation include “troops with insufficient resources” and “the embrace of torture.”

{It is people like those on the editorial board who, in every war since the War for Independence, seek to divide this country through their criticism and lack of foresight. Whether it is because they lack courage or simply are politically motivated to take an opposing stand, they are the cause for dividing our United States.](R)

They do not see the harm in their bold criticism that, for all intents and purposes, seems to side with the enemy, adding fuel to the fire. The AJC’s editorial writers should ask any Iraqi if he is better off today than he was under the brutal hands of Saddam Hussein.

Yes, there is still blood spilling in the streets of Baghdad, but freedom does not come cheap. It never has.

ANGELA OUELLETTE, Woodstock

Bravo, Angela!

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 4, 2006 10:16 AM | Link to this

In 43 years of reporting in this town, I have never seen a more bizarre, silly, overblown and wasteful affair than the investigation of the leak that identified one-time CIA covert operative Valerie Plame. At times, the noise has been so loud one would think her identification had severely compromised national security and those involved in the revelation were guilty of nothing less than treason.-WashingtonTimes…Apparently because the CIA pressed the matter as a diversion from the mounting furor over its own inadequacies in counterintelligence, ranging from the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to its assessment of Iraq’s nuclear and biochemical capabilities.

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Terrorism prosecutions drop to pre-9/11 levels-AJC

I thought Bush was “creating” terrorist?

Looks to me like he’s beating them quite soundly.

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One potentially helpful discussion could come from renewed hearings on the progress of the war in congressional committees. These would have to be not political grandstanding committee meetings to skewer Mr. Rumsfeld, but genuine, bipartisan and adult discussions on how to proceed to achieve what we want in the war. This will require statesmanship not showmanship.-WashingtonTimes

Bipartisan? Adult? With liberals?

Yea, right.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 4, 2006 10:17 AM | Link to this

Experts: Young people face tough fight on jobs Tammy Joyner, Michael E. Kanell

So why even bother trying, right, Atlanta Urinal?

It’s hopeless to go to college and educate yourself, it’s pointless to strive to be the best.

Just throw it all out the window and become a full time sex addict like the idiots running the Urinal, freaking failures giving advice to other people.

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Low-paid workers wage losing battle David McNaughton - Try buying groceries or filling up the gas tank with a job that pays $5.15 an hour. Or saving for a college education.

While various other pinkos smear Walmart for paying $10 an hour to it’s workers, the AJC crusades for a $7 an hour minimum wage.

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Much of the nation’s perceptions about the economy’s health come from the news media^^^, which all too often reports it in the most negative light possible. But the numbers tell a far different story about an economy in which consumer spending, which represents about two-third of economic growth, remains strong, exports are rising, oil and gas prices have come down a bit, and wages are rising along with business spending.-WashingtonTimes

By Buy Danish

September 4, 2006 10:19 AM | Link to this

Georgie Girls,

Are you Pervert Pete too? No wonder you mix your metaphors, you have so many personalities - all crying for attention.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 4, 2006 10:20 AM | Link to this

The Conservative gracefully pays his respects:

By RW-(the original) September 4, 2006 02:33 AM Crocodile hunter, Steve Irwin, dead at 44. What a crying shame. Rest in peace, Steve and God bless.

The pinko lashes out in stupid bitter mindless hatred:

By Mary September 4, 2006 08:31 AM Glad to know that he didn’t take his baby along for a P.R. stunt.

You liberals suck.

By getalife

September 4, 2006 10:32 AM | Link to this

Neocon madness

By Crock-O-Shat Hunter

September 4, 2006 10:56 AM | Link to this

I happen to know that the Sting Ray what kilt Crikey Boy was a Neo-Pod from the same party as that Grizzly what ate that blonde couple who were videotapin’ all dem bars. Crikey boy was a blonde too. Seems like folks should know better than to let blondes near dangerous animal godzilla types like that. I saw a catfish swallow a dog once in a lake in Michigan, no lie, it was paddlin one minute and up and gone the next. Just goes to show yew that nothin aint safe no how.

Seems a damn shame too.

By bon scott

September 4, 2006 11:00 AM | Link to this

It won’t be just the incredibly expensive and deadly Iraq mess that sinks the GOP in November, it’ll be the economy too.

The rich get richer. The old earn their bloated pay on the backs of the young. Productivity is up, but pay overall is down. And a $10/hr job just doesn’t cut it unless you’re living 3 to a studio apartment or with your parents.

Entry-level wages for college and high school graduates fell by more than 4 percent from 2001 to 2005, after factoring in inflation, according to an analysis of Labor Department data by the Economic Policy Institute. In addition, the percentage of college graduates receiving health and pension benefits in their entry-level jobs has dropped sharply.

Americans will be trekking to the polls in November not just because of the ludicrous Iraq war, and a Bush cabal that ignores Osama and his friends while they plot more attacks.

They’ll be voting the GOP fools out to show their anger over a plutocratic system that sees nothing wrong with paying far less for more work.

Ask yourself these questions… is the US better off than it was 4 or 6 years ago? Are YOU better off than you were 4 or 6 years ago??

No??

Vote the greedy, bloodthirsty SOBs out.

By bon scott

September 4, 2006 11:03 AM | Link to this

You mean THE Steve Irwin??

The one who used his baby son for crocodile bait??

Click here to see the photo

I hate to see anyone die, but Stevie boy ranks down further than Michael Jackson after he dangled his kid over a Paris balcony.

You neocons sure have weird role models.

Andy, how’s the planning for that suicide mission goin’?

By Sushi R People 2

September 4, 2006 11:17 AM | Link to this

Few people realize that when Michael Jackson dangled his baby over the balcony, Ramsey Stalker Karr was below in the crowd with his evilness.

EEVAWL! EEVAWWLL! EEVUUUUULLLLL!!!

By bon scott

September 4, 2006 11:28 AM | Link to this

The BushBots calling critics of the “war on terrah” appeasers is laughable on so many levels! Not just that photo of Rummy shaking hands with Saddam as the US sold him WMD components.

It’s the whole Islamofascists are like Hitler fanatics song and dance.

Reality check.

To review a bit of history: in 1938, Adolf Hitler launched what became a world war not merely because he was evil but because he was in complete control of the strongest country on the planet.

Iran does not even rank among the top 20 economies in the world. The Pentagon’s budget this year is more than double Iran’s total gross domestic product ($181 billion, in official exchange-rate terms). America’s annual defense outlay is more than 100 times Iran’s. Tehran’s nuclear ambitions are real and dangerous, but its program is not nearly as advanced as is often implied. Most serious estimates suggest that Iran would need between five and 10 years to achieve even the modest capacity North Korea has today.

Yessiree, the BushBots want us all to panic. Not for our own protection. For their power and profit.

Are you REALLY better off than you were 4 or 5 or 6 years ago?

Thought not.

By Dusty

September 4, 2006 11:49 AM | Link to this

What in the world happened? Did Labor Day let loose every weirdo from school and worksite? And they all want to get out and preach their pernicious peculiarities to everyone?

And politics!! We aren’t fighting a war against terrorism. We are fighting a stupid war against other Americans. It boggles the mind.

The petty, ludicrous, anti-American sentiments on here sound like they came straight out of terrorist headquarters. Blame Bush, Chaney, Rumsfeld and make this country sound like a quagmire. Talk about “running” and you know in what direction. It is getting hard to tell who is the enemy because they don’t all wear turbans and burkas. Shameful.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 4, 2006 11:53 AM | Link to this

By bon scott September 4, 2006 11:03 AM Andy, how’s the planning for that suicide mission goin’?

Suicide mission?

Apparently we have some confusion here regarding me and Iraq.

1) If I ever did go to Iraq, I dam’n sure wouldn’t be toting a camera around with me.

2) I would, however, have the 40 caliber Smith in the front and the 9 millimeter Ruger in the back.

3) Both of them would be slap full of Speer Gold Dots(tm.)

4) My rules of engagement would be somewhat more liberal (hah) then those you pinkos have handcuffed our military with. I.E. the first clown who made hand gestures at me that I didn’t understand might live long enough to see his guts splayed out on the ground behind him. Any other potential head chopping a-ssholes in the area would get the message.

5) Therefore, by me NOT going to the region, I am actually helping the democrat party cause, because fewer enemies of United States are in mortal danger.

Comprende?

By George

September 4, 2006 11:57 AM | Link to this

Gee Dusty, the opposite describes the Republican party. Noone is to blame, sh*t happens, people die, vote for me.

By Sushi R People 2

September 4, 2006 12:11 PM | Link to this

No, Andy, he means he wants you to feed the lions at the zoo….the seigfeild and roy lions! (burb)

By More Republican Fibs

September 4, 2006 12:14 PM | Link to this

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A popular Iraqi soccer star was kidnapped and 35 bullet-riddled bodies were found in Iraq on Monday, a day after Iraqi officials touted the capture of al-Qaida in Iraq’s No. 2 leader as a move to reduce violence in the country.

‘Last throes’, ‘al Qaida Serious leadership crisis’, ‘not a civil war’, yaada, yaada, yaada. Anybody want to hear any more Republican fairy tales ? ? ?…….Mission accomplished, smaller government, less government intrusion, fewer government regulations, get big government off our backs, reduce pork-barrel spending, yaada, yaada, yaada.

If Republicans were Pinnochio, America could corner the world market on wooden broom sticks.

By The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight

September 4, 2006 12:17 PM | Link to this

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Two U.S. warplanes accidentally strafed their own forces in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing one Canadian soldier and seriously wounding five others in southern Afghanistan, NATO and the U.S. military said.

With friends like America, who needs enemies ? ? ?

By Republicans SHOULD be Ashamed

September 4, 2006 12:27 PM | Link to this

WASHINGTON - Republicans who were once cozy with President Bush are distancing themselves from both the president and their party in campaign ads.

Consider Rep. Deborah Pryce (news, bio, voting record), the fourth-ranking House Republican struggling to hold onto her seat in an evenly split district in central Ohio, near Columbus.

In 2004, her campaign Web site featured a banner of her and Bush sitting together, smiling. But in her latest television ad, Pryce is described as “independent.” The spot also highlights how she “stood up to her own party” and the president to support increased federal funds for embryonic stem-cell research.

Among some of the ads:

_In Pennsylvania, Republican Rep. Jim Gerlach (news, bio, voting record) tells voters: “When I believe President Bush is right, I’m behind him. But when I think he’s wrong, I let him know that, too,” Gerlach is in a close contest with Democrat Lois Murphy, who nearly beat him in 2004.

_In Minnesota, where an open Senate seat is at stake, Republican Rep. Mark Kennedy (news, bio, voting record) has an ad titled, “Crossing Party Lines,” in which he says: “I’m a Republican. On issues like taxes and spending, I vote like it. But on other issues, I cross party lines.” In 2002, in his run for the House, a Kennedy ad showed him walking and shaking hands with Bush at the White House. Today, he lists the issues on which he has split from the president.

_In South Florida, heavily populated by retirees, Republican Rep. Clay Shaw criticizes the president’s stalled plans to change Social Security and says in his ad, “I represent the state of Florida, not a political party.”

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Well at least it looks like Republicans ARE ashamed of their party at this point ! ! ! Maybe they can dig up a little contrition to go along with their shame, now.

By WashingtonState

September 4, 2006 12:28 PM | Link to this

Our Resident Racist strikes again:

“4) My rules of engagement would be somewhat more liberal (hah) then those you pinkos have handcuffed our military with. I.E. the first clown who made hand gestures at me that I didn’t understand might live long enough to see his guts splayed out on the ground behind him. Any other potential head chopping a-ssholes in the area would get the message.”

Way to go. Just when the Pentagon is starting to realize that force alone will not win the war on terrorism, along comes the echo chamber of Republican talking points putting an exclamation point on just how out of touch with reality the Republican Party really is.Check on what the War College is teaching the future leaders of our Armed Forces. It is the diametric opposite of your statement.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 4, 2006 12:38 PM | Link to this

The Pentagon is only right when you stupid a-ss pervert depraved liberals want it to be.

That’s a real nice argument, coming from a race baiting piece of sh-it.

If anyone else can point out the racism in my statement I wil leave from here and never post again.

F you, Washington State, filthy loser.

By WashingtonState

September 4, 2006 12:42 PM | Link to this

Anyone besides me care to point out the obvious to Andy?

By Save Andy for Future Study of an Extinct Species

September 4, 2006 12:56 PM | Link to this

Hey WS,

Please don’t run Andy off. We need an example of a real Republican for future generations to preserve and study what went wrong at the start of the 21st millenia. You know, like TomKat’s bronzed first baby poop! Courtesy Faux news.

By Sushi R People 2

September 4, 2006 12:57 PM | Link to this

Andy is the troll over on Wooten’s blog: Timeforthetruth. If that’s not Andy, then the 1 in a million chance of two equal rinse-wads being on the same newspaper’s blogs has been fulfilled, which is one of the Seven Seals of Doom required for Armeggedon, man.

By @@

September 4, 2006 01:06 PM | Link to this

Huge:

You left a late comment Friday and I didn’t have an opportunity to respond. You said:

{{{Nobody doubts reports of lots of great stuff happening in Baghdad. But explain to us, what the h&ll does that have to do with Pentagon lies?}}}

I think that Andy just answered that question at 12:38 in his reply to Washington State.

Huge, I’ve never heard you comment on any of the good things happening in Iraq.

You also “assumed” I brushed aside the unfortunate story on Pat Tillman’s death. You were wrong, I didn’t brush it aside, I researched it. There did seem to be some misinformation out of Iraq, but I’m not convinced that the Pentagon officials in Washington were complicit. Punishment for the misinformation could have been more severe, but then I don’t think you or I may have “all” the facts surrounding the circumstances.

Anyway, I read [this article](http://www.oregonlive.com/editorials/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/editorial/115655550377870.xml&coll=7 during my research. It seems like some good came out of the whole thing. The Pentagon will be reviewing the circumstances of “all” deaths that occurred in Iraq.

I also found this radical left-wing perspective of Pat Tillman’s death. Now that ^^^ makes Pat’s death a waste.

If it’s negativity you’re looking for, you can find it in the radical left. I won’t be offering you any.

BTW, thanks for the compliment. I think Dusty is a breath of fresh air here and she always maintains her integrity.

By Dusty

September 4, 2006 01:09 PM | Link to this

George,

I know where Republicans stand and you don’t have to explain anything to me. It is also obvious where you stand and that is what is sad.

Washington State,

You are another sad one, even preaching that our War College is teaching something different from our present military procedures. What? Teaching the liberal tactic of “cut’n’run”? I think not. But you want to act like that is true and desirable.

Why don’t you say you are smearing our military and get it over with? Be honest. You don’t like our government, our president, our military, the war. Then tell us about your great patriotism. Sorry. That is an unholy mix that doesn’t go together.

And to the poster of many names (Fibs,Shoot Straight & Ashamed )

Did you spend all morning digging up what you consider negative complaints about Republicans? Don’t try so hard. The DNC will give you all you want. Fortunately, the country is still being run by Republicans while Democrats look for complaints.

Maybe one day you can search for the Democratic “plank” for the next big election. That has been missing for some time and is still lost in the utter fog of Democratic politics. There is no goal. Trying to ruin the country is not acceptable..

By @@

September 4, 2006 01:18 PM | Link to this

Huge:

Oops! Let me try that first link again.

Hope it comes through for you. It’s a compassionate perspective on the possible motivations.

By WashingtonState

September 4, 2006 01:26 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

As always, you miss the point. Left to its own devices, the Pentagon would most likely have properly planned and executed the war in Iraq. Politicized by Bush and Rumsfeld, it has been a mismanaged mess from day one. I don’t like Bush and I don’t like what the Republicans are doing to our country. If that makes me a traitor in your eyes, so be it. Facism is the doctrine of one party, one leader, one truth. I believe in democracy.

By Midori

September 4, 2006 01:33 PM | Link to this

Bravo to you Washington State.

Bravo.

{{{{{If that makes me a traitor in your eyes, so be it. Facism is the doctrine of one party, one leader, one truth. I believe in democracy.}}}}}

By getalife

September 4, 2006 01:53 PM | Link to this

“5) Therefore, by me NOT going to the region, I am actually helping the democrat party cause, because fewer enemies of United States are in mortal danger.”

That is a great way to say you are a coward, pure and simple.

A yellow elephant, all talk and no spine.

By Dusty

September 4, 2006 02:00 PM | Link to this

Washington State,

What you don’t understand is your stand on this war and this government. You have boiled it all down to a Republican mess. It isn’t the country at war, it is what you call a Republican mess.

You seem to have forgotten that Congress voted for this war with the same information the president had. Democrats are a part of that Congress and they voted for what they and the president thought was the right course of action.

If this war is having difficulties, that is not unusual. This is a most extraordinary fight. Our military is having to battle terorists in the form of men, women and children, not to mention out of uniform, with no “rules” of any kind.

You overlook the tough birth of democracy in Iraq. But it happened. You are not looking for the good things, only the failures.

You believe in democracy but you don’t support the one you have. What are you going to support when that is gone? Better decide because you are working for defeat.

By bon scott

September 4, 2006 02:00 PM | Link to this

There’s the real world. And then there’s AndyWorld! After posturing in his wingnut-macho way that IF he went to Iraq, he’d be a locked, loaded killing machine, he explains why he’ll never go:

By You’re Right, Where Is Osama? - September 4, 2006 11:53 AM - 5) - Therefore, by me NOT going to the region, I am actually helping the democrat party cause, because fewer enemies of United States are in mortal danger.

Welcome to AndyWorld, where rules of logic and common sense never apply.

Where cowardice and racism reign.

Usually, he doesn’t get this drunk until 4pm or so, but I guess since it’s Labor Day, he’s giving his bar a holiday workout!

You know he’s tanked when his “elegant” arguments start ending with “F you”, “FO” or “blow me”.

The real reasons he’s not going to Iraq include fear, and the knowledge that getting his MDR of alcohol would be hard there. He’d have the shakes so bad he’d never be able to aim a gun OR a camera.

Meanwhile, 10s of millions of Americans, looking at the waste in Iraq and their shrinking paychecks, are preparing to give the Republican traitors the boot.

Is this a great country or what?

By bon scott

September 4, 2006 02:02 PM | Link to this

ah getalife! Geniuses think alike!

And morans don’t think.

By bon scott

September 4, 2006 02:10 PM | Link to this

Dear Republicruds. It’s not just the wasteful war on “terra”. It’s the ECONOMY stupid!

Between 2001 and 2005 the income of the typical, or median, household actually fell by 0.5 percent after accounting for inflation, even as workers’ productivity grew by 14 percent.

The Bush regime. Making the world less safe, one country at a time. Making America less prosperous, one worker at a time.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 4, 2006 02:11 PM | Link to this

Only in the mind of a liberal:

By getalife September 4, 2006 01:53 PM “5) Therefore, by me NOT going to the region, I am actually helping the democrat party cause, because fewer enemies of United States are in mortal danger.” That is a great way to say you are a coward, pure and simple.

Let me get this straight, the pinkos want me to fly over to Iraq and just start killing people.

Nice.

Never mind the implications this would have with world opinion, aren’t these liberals the same people that freak out and shreik at the very thought of the United States Armed Forces killing our enemies?

getalife, your mind is a puree.

By getalife

September 4, 2006 02:27 PM | Link to this

“You overlook the tough birth of democracy in Iraq. But it happened. You are not looking for the good things, only the failures.”

Once again, crusty refuses to see the big, fat elephant in the room.

Iraq supports Iran stupid!

Lebanon supports Iran stupid!

This is the middle east democracy stupid!

The neocon plan is a failure stupid!

Do you get it now, stupid!

By getalife

September 4, 2006 02:30 PM | Link to this

No, Andy.

We know you will never go to Iraq.

You are all talk, as long as others die for your ignorant mindset.

Coward.

By Midori

September 4, 2006 02:37 PM | Link to this

Gee,

It’s kinda hard seeing the “good things” going on in Iraq thru all of that black smoke billowing around blown up body parts.

Perhaps I need a new prescription for my glasses??

By bon scott

September 4, 2006 02:39 PM | Link to this

Not only does Andy NOT want to go to Iraq…

He wants to throw more money down the Iraq rathole… BORROWED money (because Bush won’t cut spending or raise revenue)…

The children of ours who aren’t killed by his policies will be paying for them for the rest of their lives…

By RW-(the original)

September 4, 2006 02:57 PM | Link to this

What a collection of losers we have infesting this place today. Don’t you guys have some flags to burn or some ‘Little Red Books” to peddle?

bon scott,

Revenues to the treasury have been consistentantly going up. Did you want them to have a bake sale too?

By Dusty

September 4, 2006 03:03 PM | Link to this

Midori,

You can’t SEE two new democratic nations, Afghanistan and Iraq?

And speaking of body parts flying, when did you lose your head?

By WashingtonState

September 4, 2006 03:08 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

I am not going to get into an argument with you about the right or wrong of the war. That is water under the bridge. I will maintain that most of the reason the war has been a fiasco is because of Rumsfeld’s insistence on micromanaging. Right now I see ourselves in a pretty untenable position and think we need new blood to manage things before we get any deeper.

By Midori

September 4, 2006 03:16 PM | Link to this

It’s Crusty, isn’t it?

Perhaps you should wipe the crust off of those rose-tinted glasses.

At least my head isn’t planted firmly up my rectum.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 4, 2006 03:20 PM | Link to this

By getalife September 4, 2006 02:30 PM No, Andy. We know you will never go to Iraq. You are all talk, as long as others die for your ignorant mindset.

I did my time.

And you?

That’s what I thought, you’ve had your hand out, but that’s it.

Sitting around getting stoned does not make you a patriot.

You let “others kill for you” or what ever feminist slogan you threw at me, your just too weak and stupid to know it’s the terrorists that kill for you.

bon scott: It does not surprise me at all that you would take the nickname of someone who died getting so drunk that they drowned in their own vomit.

I’ll bet your a real dumna-ss too.

By Midori

September 4, 2006 03:22 PM | Link to this

Washington State,

Those morons don’t know “right from wrong”.

They’ve drank so much Kool Aid, I suspect they are suffering from sugar overload.

It truly must suck to be them. They endlessly cheerlead failure, yet, want to verbally attack any and everyone who points it out.

Losers.

If Afghanistan and Iraq are “democracies” then my name is Jim. Just because they have undergone farcical elections does not make them “democracies”. Well, I suppose only in Dusty’s warped mind.

Afghanistan is back in the poppy business, and I understand that it is booming. So is the Taliban’s presence. Iraq is now Iran’s b *tch.

Mission Accomplished?

By Goosesteppers

September 4, 2006 03:25 PM | Link to this

When is the Right and the Left going to realize that cut-and-run or stay-the-course is moot now. Iraq is evolving independently of the US presence. What we will be facing is a new middle east, with new maps, and new constitutions written by revolutionaries.

None of you get it, nor could you ever get it, you’re all stuck in the media-spun disinformation of group-think, in which you were told what to think, how to criticize, what to criticize or support, and how to argue with each other, all the while the real story goes on right under your noses.

You let them waltze you in and you’ll let them waltze you right back out again, just like in Nam. You never learn you american sheep. Your women remind me of the shorn goats of Lahdrahamar, in Southern Tripoli. I speet on your women and your sheep.

Baaaaa

By getalife

September 4, 2006 03:30 PM | Link to this

We could have at least won Afghanistan.

I would not be surprised to see major corruption stemming from the heroin trade like cocaine.

War on drugs is very lucrative especially when you do not have to worry about the laws.

By George

September 4, 2006 03:31 PM | Link to this

bon scott, Haven’t you seen the TV ads where they tell you the more you spend, the more you save! It doesn’t make sense to you and I but the Republicans really do think like that.

By getalife

September 4, 2006 03:33 PM | Link to this

Lets hope Andy gets a call back like the 60 year old security guard did to serve again in Iraq.

Karma.

By RW-(the original)

September 4, 2006 03:46 PM | Link to this

Andy,

There was also a poster here with an avian sounding name that used to brag about “seeking” a drink with Bon Scott.

By RW-(the original)

September 4, 2006 03:52 PM | Link to this

Midori,

The poppy business wouldn’t be booming if you drug addled losers would put down the needle and start becoming productive members of society.

By N-GA

September 4, 2006 04:04 PM | Link to this

Notice all the Republi-Con politicos “cutting-and-running” from the Bush administration while they “flip-flop” about the war in Iraq. Irony? Hypocrisy? Karma?

By N-GA

September 4, 2006 04:05 PM | Link to this

Why do you neo-Republi-Cons hate our troops?

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 4, 2006 04:20 PM | Link to this

RW: How true, the pinkos wouldn’t be pushing the “war on drugs” if we were talking about their stash.

The Afghanis spent the last decade raping young children, stoning to death “adulterers,” crushing homosexuals and shooting men that strayed from the teachings of Islam, you never heard one complaint from the liberals.

Now the Afghans grow some smack, you’d think they were dissing Bill Clinton or some other democrat blasphemy, the way these loser democrats are carrying on.

By Dusty

September 4, 2006 04:33 PM | Link to this

N-GA

I’ve seen a lot of Democrats flip-flopping about the war in Iraq and all of them voted to fight there.

I guess they hate our troops.

Why do Democrats want defeat for our country?

By N-GA

September 4, 2006 04:46 PM | Link to this

Well Dusty…you neo-cons hate our troops because you oppose the draft. The Democrats tried to get the draft restarted so that we wouldn’t have to send our troops back to the middle east for 2, 3 or 4 combat tours. But your neo-con congressmen (& women) shot it down because it would have been political suicide. So the administration forces servicemen to extend their enlistments, extend their combat tours, etc. because they oppose the draft but can’t get enough people to enlist.

Congress did not vote to go to war. They voted to give Bush the option to go to war. Bush and his fellow neo-fascists misled Congress and the American people in order to start the war, then mismanaged the war to the point of negligence. And people like you are complicit in it all.

By N-GA

September 4, 2006 04:50 PM | Link to this

BTW Dusty,

We Liberals are in the process of saving America from the likes of you. This great event has already started and will take the next big step forward in November. We neither want nor expect thanks from all you neo-fascists. We just want the law and history to judge Bush, Rove, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the rest.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 4, 2006 04:55 PM | Link to this

I like Debra Saunders:

The Democrats, who hold the overwhelming majority of legislative seats, are a gaggle of far-left loonies who concoct politically correct legislation — for example, requiring that textbooks laud gay contributions to California history — while failing to enact reforms needed to balance the budget. Rather than do their job to run state government, they want to butt into the business of how other people raise their kids.-RealClearPolitics

By Huge

September 4, 2006 05:04 PM | Link to this

“But I guess we can agree that the Pentagon does not withhold information no matter how discouraging it may be.”

“I think that Andy just answered that question at 12:38 in his reply to Washington State.”

@@, I couldn’t disagree more. I agree with Andy’s assertion; anybody can find good news or bad news coming from any organization, as they see fit and as they use their blinders.

Even so, his statement has absolutely nothing to do with Pentagon lies. They exist, they have always existed and they probably always will. It’s not unpatriotic to point that out.

As to Tillman’s death, somebody originally covered up the facts. Whether the Pentagon OK’d that or not, I don’t know. My point is that many are conditioned in this country to swallow hook, line and sinker everything that comes out of there. That is just naive and dangerous, IMO. Also, typically the big wigs and the brass never take the heat for any of it.

I found the link you included pretty disturbing. Obviously, I have a very different opinion. Tillman by his actions before and during the Army inspires me a great deal. And yes, many on the far left are extremely negative. I’ve said before that clearly some are insanely anti-Bush, no matter what. But you are fooling yourself if you think it is not a a trait of the far right, as well. Just look at the evidence on this blog from that sphere. It is also very, very negative. It’s just wrapped in red, white and blue.

I have a very good friend who just got back from three years in Baghdad, so I know a bit more than most about what is really happening there. Every time a new school is opened, everytime a life saving surgery is performed or every time a hungry child is fed, it’s reason to celebrate. I’ve said here before that I truly hope I’m wrong about my pessimism. And that this grand experiment, cloaked in half truths and lies, and run by seemingly marginally competent men, to export democracy to such a h&ll-hole works. Time will tell…

By Dusty

September 4, 2006 05:33 PM | Link to this

N-GA

If you don’t mind, I will let the government and the Bush administration save this country. They are already doing that. There is no need to be rescued, ‘specially by liberal losers.

If you want to save something, try saving your own party of Democrats. They couldn’t fight their way out of a paper bag or win an election.

We have a volunteer army because that is what Americans want and also what the military wants. Sorry you are so out of step with everything. But then again, you are a liberal.

By Huge

September 4, 2006 05:38 PM | Link to this

Re: the 11:03 post

You have got to be kidding me!

Likening Steve Erwin to Michael Jackson is perhaps the dumbest comparison I have read in ages!!

One is a freak who made a ton of crummy music and is a suspected pedophile.

The other has spent his entire life educating people and winning honors for protecting the world’s environments:

Erwin was a passionate conservationist and believed in promoting environmentalism by sharing his excitement about the natural world rather than preaching to people. He was concerned with conservation of endangered animals and land clearing leading to loss of habitat. He considered conservation to be the most important part of his work: “I consider myself a wild-life warrior. My mission is to save the world’s endangered species.”

Granted, he made a real bone-headed PR move with his son, but if you look at that one incident and dismiss the entire body of his incredible work, that is truly sad.

He was role model for many, regardless of political stripe.

By RW-(the original)

September 4, 2006 05:52 PM | Link to this

Huge,

I’m afraid the outburst from finch err… bon scott is my fault for complimenting Irwin. If I would have said something derogatory then finch err… bon scott would have said something nice. It’s kneejerk liberalism at it’s best and can’t even be put aside for a decidedly non-political event.

By bon scott

September 4, 2006 06:01 PM | Link to this

By Dusty - September 4, 2006 05:33 PM - If you want to save something, try saving your own party of Democrats. They couldn’t fight their way out of a paper bag or win an election.

Man, take it from me. Or take it from Andy, whose love affair with CH3CH2OH shines every time he posts. Stay away from the firewater. It only leads to grand delusions like fantasies of a GOP triumph over the Democratic Party in November.

Okay, maybe you’re just kidding. That’s it. You can’t be that dense.

By Huge

September 4, 2006 06:43 PM | Link to this

RW,

Like Erwin, I believe educating people is the key. Just present the facts persuasively, if you’re truly convinced that they are true, and then let people decide for themselves. He was a master of this and I especially loved how he got children interested in his efforts to better this world. Because of him, I’m guessing many will follow in his steps.

By RW-(the original)

September 4, 2006 06:55 PM | Link to this

Huge,

Spelling his name wrong isn’t one of your tricks is it?

The documentary Irwin was working on was one about deadly sea creatures. My guess is that there will be a natural reaction to stop the production, but I hope they go through with it. They can do a memorial tribute during the film and put the funds toward continuing his work. It will seem a little morbid to some, but continuing his work showing respect for nature and conservation could use the boost.

By Dusty

September 4, 2006 06:59 PM | Link to this

bon Scott,

If you think Democrats are going to win, pray tell who is going to be your candidate? Let’s see. There’s Gore, Dr. Deanie Meanie,the blue ribboned Flip Flopper and who else? And Hillary? Oh please. Talking about joking. You are making me laugh.

By Huge

September 4, 2006 07:09 PM | Link to this

RW,

I guess there are a bunch of folks out there besides me misspelling his name! Thanks for pointing it out!

I agree with you about going on with the deadly sea animals production. Morbid or not. My guess is that he would definitely have wanted it to show. Sad that he’s gone now, but at least he got to check out doing what he absolutely loved and wanted to do.

By N-GA

September 4, 2006 10:25 PM | Link to this

Dumb Dusty,

All the posts were about the November 2006 election. I hate to be the one to break it to you, but the office of the president isn’t available just yet. This year will be the start of the government of the USA returning to sanity.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 5, 2006 05:23 AM | Link to this

Some of our {{{media celebrities}}} have tried to make the Plame game a national obsession ever since columnist Robert Novak, having taken the leak from Mr. Armitage, first publicly identified her as a CIA operative in his column on July 14, 2003. The great anvil chorus on the left has been chanting the dirge that the White House “outed” Valerie Plame to punish her husband for criticizing the use of intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war. Three years and a continuing special counsel investigation later, Mr. Wilson has been discredited as a partisan hack who can’t shut up even though he doesn’t have anything to say. No one in the White House or any other house has been charged or even credibly accused of “outing” Mrs. Plame. Whatever “cover-up” there was was at the State Department, then presided over by Secretary of State Colin Powell.-WashingtonTimes

Cut

It is the party that tried to steal the presidential election in 2000, then convinced itself that Republicans did steal it — and has been paralyzed with bitterness and conducting revenge politics ever since. It is the party that demands bipartisanship and reconciliation, but whips President Bush with the olive branch he extended at their behest. It is the party whose ex-presidents routinely violate the long-standing tradition against criticizing their successors — and even do so on foreign soil.-TownHall

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 5, 2006 05:23 AM | Link to this

This is what you’ll get for voting democrat:

Reducing oil consumption, in an effort to weaken oil-producing nations and combat global warming, is a perfectly sensible idea. But asking the government to decide the best alternatives is like asking the government to decide what products Home Depot should stock. A better way is to raise the price of oil through stiff excise taxes — and then let competitors fight it out to see who can offer the most practical, affordable substitutes. That’s making use of the approach that has made our economy so prosperous.-WashingtonTimes

It would be just too easy to drill, wouldn’t it?

Cut

Jimmy Carter the nuclear engineer who was afraid of his shadow decided that nuclear was too scary. (This all happened before Three Mile Island.) In his energy speech of 1977, given three months after taking office, Carter said we should double our coal consumption and that’s exactly what we’ve done. We burned 500 million tons of coal a year in 1977. Today we consume over a billion. Every ton of carbon in coal produces three tons of carbon dioxide.-AmericanSpectator

It looks like liberals are the real cause of “global warming.”

By Dusty

September 5, 2006 08:11 AM | Link to this

N-GA,

If you don’t think the DNC is bracing its broken bridges and polishing up its’s big cannons for the presidential election, you are sipping too much “mountain dew” at the still.

Just because you deal with the penny-ante politics doesn’t mean they do. Wake up, boy. Big times ahead and you are drawing pictures in the dirt with a stick.

Democrats are going to lose but have fun while you can. You can always dream.

By w00t

September 5, 2006 08:20 AM | Link to this

Global warming is everyone’s fault.

The real tragedy would be not doing anything about it. It would not be smart to continue our use of oil as we have. We need to start using newer energy sources that make us less dependable on foreign oil supplies. We need to go back to Nuclear, we need to get homeowners to put solar panels on their homes, and we need them to drive fuel efficient or hybrid cars. We need to do what we can to reduce our need on oil in general and find ways to reduce or green house emissions.

Where will we be in the future as a country that is still fighting over oil supplies with countries like India and China? Our middle class, and especially our poor, will not be able to withstand high gas prices for extended periods. Shipping cost would go up, manufacturing costs, milk, and anything else you could think of that takes oil to make or ship. It would hurt our economy as a whole. Yes, gas prices may be coming down, but only for the end of summer peak. Look at the overall trend, prices have been steadily going up over the past several years. It was just only in 2000 that we were paying under a dollar, and we will probably never see that again.

By The Watcher

September 5, 2006 08:22 AM | Link to this

Instead of a football pool this fall… We’ve got an Osama Pool. Do you think the administration will be able to pull this rabbit out of their hats before the mid-terms?

Pick a day out of the next 60 or so and toss a sawbuck in the pot…Then sit back and enjoy the raw smell of fear, fear and more fear.

By Political Foreskin

September 5, 2006 08:38 AM | Link to this

“If only the shadow knows, then only the watcher sees, and only the scratcher itches, and only the groper feels. I like to feel things. I can feel things real good. I’m good at feeling things. Let me feel”. (peter lorre, 1933, in his debut movie, “Hands Off Kate Smith”)

By w00t

September 5, 2006 08:45 AM | Link to this

Looks like the US is tired of the Neocon BS and ready for some change for the good of the country

“More than 60 percent of those surveyed said government policies need either major changes or a complete overhaul, while 30 percent said minor changes were needed. Only 7 percent said no change is necessary.”

By Dusty

September 5, 2006 08:57 AM | Link to this

Yes, Watcher, that is just great. Way to go!

While our troops are laying their lives on the line in Afghanistan, you are playing Osamabama-rabbit in the hat. Figures. Just another bunch of liberals supporting the military in their own sweet way.

With patriots like this, who needs enemies.

By Political Foreskin

September 5, 2006 08:58 AM | Link to this

What part of global warming is a cyclical fact of nature that occurs in waves that obey the mathematics of chaos dont you liberals get? We cant even aggravate global warming. Our earth itself spews off more toxic gas from it’s bowels in one tectonic fart than we have spewn in the last ten thousand years. Go soak your head with the global warming.

Find a real blog-topic. Like, gee, lets pick something relevant that occurs here in the real world that we CAN actually aggravate or fix…oh, i dont know, could it be….The fact that our prez and VP are both puppets for the M.I.C. (Ike’s target)????? or IRAQ (Osama’s Deux Ex Machina)???????? (but then I repeat myself: M.I.C. = Iraq).

In fact the discussion should be: is it possible to be an elected rep of the people in the USA and still remain independent of the M.I.C.? (Mr Smith goes to washington is as fresh today as it was in the 30’s)

Gridlock? Did you say, “Gridlock”? Was it gridlock when we voted in those 1.6 gallon flush commodes? HELL NO!! Was it gridlock when we voted to legalize pot in Seattle? HELL NO!! And it’s not gridlock now! How many of us would be in prison in Seattle cause we cant flush our pot down those 1.6 gallon commodes? Remember, when the going gets tough, the tough get…filibustering!!

Who’s with me? LETS DO IT!!!!!!

By Pinko Liberal

September 5, 2006 09:01 AM | Link to this

Friendly fire kills Canadian in Afghanistan- U.S. warplanes mistakenly fired on Canadian troops fighting Taliban forces Monday in southern Afghanistan, killing one soldier and wounding five in an operation that NATO said also has left 200 insurgents dead.

Yea! Woo-hoo! Another soldier protecting my life and freedom got killed! And they did it to themselves! Double bonus!

By Dusty

September 5, 2006 09:08 AM | Link to this

Political Foreskin,

Would you mind rephrasing that rant again? It kinda wobbles around all over the place and I couldn’t tell whether you were a political nut or an environmental nut? Please differentiate unless you are both.

By Conservative Appalled

September 5, 2006 09:24 AM | Link to this

How often am I gonna come into this site to see a moronic Pinko Liberal celebrating the death of a coalition soldier to further their political agenda.

Can Pinko Liberals get any lower or were they just born under a rock and can’t crawl out of the slime?

By N-GA

September 5, 2006 09:24 AM | Link to this

Dusty….tell us all how it feels to be in the minority. You are just goose-stepping into your vision of the future. Yup, another big-boned aryan gal looking for some seed to reproduce what? Another little goose-stepper?

To borrow your bridge metaphor, the neo-Republi-Cons are dismantling their bridge of corruption one strut at a time. Just look at all the politicos who don’t want Bush’s support. They are running as fast as their corrupt little legs can carry them. Even Bush’s “leadership” of the solution to illegal immigrants can’t draw support. Social Security hasn’t been fixed. Medicare hasn’t been fixed. Healthcare is still in the ditch. The Federal Deficit is getting bigger every second. We are squandering the lives of American soldiers on Bush’s personal war in Iraq. The U.S. dollar is headed for oblivion. And America is producing another generation of graduates with degrees but no knowledge.

When this administration gets flushed, you will slide down the crapper with it while the rest of us try to put this country back the way it was given to us by the founding fathers…of the people, by the people, and for the people.

By Buy Danish

September 5, 2006 09:36 AM | Link to this

Dusty,

I think that Polly actually makes sense on global warming and mandatory low-flow toilets, but the rest is just conspiracy theory 101 stuff.

WooT,

Here’s a great idea: Let Big Auto work on improving Hybrid car technology (or other options) to the point where it is affordable, safe, and efficient for everyone, including the poor, and drill in ANWR and offshore at the same time.

N-GA,

You are the expert on minority status. And if you want to bi*tch about Social Security not being fixed, contact the AARP and your Dem reps in Congress who cater to that “special interest group”.

By RW-(the original)

September 5, 2006 09:46 AM | Link to this

There goes N-GA again. In one breath he’s whining that the government won’t pick up the tab for his health care and in the next squawking about the deficit. Then he says the dollar is worthless anyway. From there he gives us an accurate description of how worthless our government schools are except he probably thinks the answer is to give them more money to fritter away.

Once clowns like N-GA get their message out, the poll that counts will be far different than the phony “news: polls.

wOOt,

Count me among your 60% that isn’t thrilled with the direction of our government. If you think that means I want more panicky libs running around Washington think again.

By Dusty

September 5, 2006 09:47 AM | Link to this

N-GA

Sure, you’re putting the country back. Pulling it back. Every day. Hacking away at it. Tearing it apart. Telling the enemy exactly what they want to hear.

If you are talking about politics, Republicans haven’t been a minority for a very long time. You do hate to recognize what the majority of “the people” voted for. Your memory is short. Your depression is long. Your name calling is infantile. But…keep trying.

By w00t

September 5, 2006 09:48 AM | Link to this

“Here’s a great idea: Let Big Auto work on improving Hybrid car technology (or other options) to the point where it is affordable, safe, and efficient for everyone, including the poor, and drill in ANWR and offshore at the same time.”

What kind of incentive is that going to give the American people and car manufactures if we continue to drill and use oil? We need to curve the use now for companies to make new technologies. If there isn’t a demand there for new energy sources then newer tech isn’t going to happen. Why else do you think US Big Auto is failing? Because the fail to see the changes and wants of the consumer. Consumers want fuel efficient cars instead of gas hogging SUVs and trucks that American car makers have relied to heavily on for the past decade.

By Political Foreskin

September 5, 2006 10:00 AM | Link to this

Sorry, Woot, but Americans still want big SUVs for safety. What good is saving ten miles per gallon if you’re dead: (that’s the logic, and I agree).

You have my permission to drive a little skateboard/car hybrid, look out! Watch out for that 90 year old lady in the 82 Olds turning left right into you…….

SPLAT!~

now that’s a damn shame.

Please reblog, if you’re going to post against the grain, mister woot. Hey, is Woot, short for Wooten? My we think alot of ourselves, dont we? Wooten is a great journalist. You are a commenter on a blog. See the diff?.

Gas is still cheaper than 1973 oil embargo. Nothing bad happened then. We’re still cool. Like fonzie. Cool..

By Dusty

September 5, 2006 10:06 AM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

Polly makes sense on something? I must have missed that. A conspiracy nut??

Maybe he will write long winded James Bond sequels about serious political intrigues. Now that would be less boring than low flow toilets.

By w00t

September 5, 2006 10:07 AM | Link to this

RW, serious question, what direction would you like to see this country go in, and how would we get there?

By Political Foreskin

September 5, 2006 10:11 AM | Link to this

Pledge/Sell Swedish: I knew “deux ex machina” would topple your little minds.

Iraq Invasion by Bush saved the Islamists. Just as it appeared nothing could save them from our afghanistan attack and the other global measures we were taking to combat terrorism, along come this miracle out of nowhere, almost like GOD intervened: Deux ex machina (We invaded Iraq and the Jihad lives stronger than ever and happily ever after). It’s a cheap, hack device in story telling to end the story and let the main characters win.

If you would read more, then you might get read.

If you would read more, (and I’d suggest some quantum physics, oddly enough), then you might get read.

Write that 50 times on a chalkboard, then clean the erasers, and empty the trash can.

You only got Detention this time you two, but what you dont realize is that you have both been on double secret probation for months. One slip up, and you’re through….

Believe it.

By RW-(the original)

September 5, 2006 10:13 AM | Link to this

wOOt,

I’m walking out the door, but that is a question that deserves an answer. I’ll get you one later.

By getalife

September 5, 2006 10:13 AM | Link to this

OMG, RW finally spews this:

“Count me among your 60% that isn’t thrilled with the direction of our government.”

Wow, he is risking our government calling him a fascist, Al Qaeda type American with Gitmo waiting.

Welcome to the real world.

By w00t

September 5, 2006 10:16 AM | Link to this

SUVs are not safe. People are more prone to die in SUV crashes than cars.

http://www.suv.org/safety.html

In another blow to one of automakers’ most popular and profitable product lines, the top U.S. auto-safety regulator said sport/utility vehicles and pickup trucks aren’t safe enough due to rollover risks and consumers should think twice about buying them, according to a published report Wednesday.

By Writing on the wall

September 5, 2006 10:17 AM | Link to this

w00t - It’s very interesting to see that the CNN survey shows more people rank the nation’s stumbling economy as the top issue, and Iraq comes in 2nd.

This analysis reaches a similar conclusion:

Flat wages and rising debt nationally have converged to leave millions of middle-class households feeling acutely vulnerable to bumps in their financial planning. The most visible of these are rising energy prices and a softening housing market.

A less obvious but powerful variable is the interest paid by people carrying credit card debt or mortgages whose monthly payments vary with interest rates. People buffeted by these trends have given rise to a new and volatile voting block. - Washington Post](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/04/AR2006090401108.html)

This rising anger is easy to explain. While the war is a disgrace on moral and philosophical as well as geopolitical levels, it doesn’t affect most of us so close to home as rising prices and shrinking incomes do. I’m not for an instant trying to marginalize the deep concern of people who have friends and family in the Persian Gulf or Afghanistan or any other hot-spot. It’s just that the dismal Wal-Mart economy affects all of us, day in and day out, like the migrane that just won’t go away. That’s powerful stuff.

And here we have a clueless President who not only says the war on “terra” is progressing (while we have stunning evidence it isn’t), but who also claims that the economy is “strong” and “flourishing when we all know damn well from personal experience that just the opposite is true.

These are the twin traps that the Bush cabal have set for itself. This will help put the House in Democratic hands 2 months from now. With hard work and a little luck it will put the Senate there as well.

I can’t wait.

BTW - Isn’t it ironic that the Washington Times, Andy’s favorite “Christian” “newspaper” is now calling for a fuel excise tax to curb energy use?? Hell just froze over. Film at 11.

By @@

September 5, 2006 10:18 AM | Link to this

A pragmatic approach to something that has yet received unanimous confirmation by the science community.

Knee-jerk reactions can be harmful. They only serve political agendas and nothing more.

Look before you leap. It puts us smack dab in the middle of sanity, which is where we should all want to be.

Conservatives linger there and observe. The radical left-wing sacrificed their sanity long ago.

By w00t

September 5, 2006 10:22 AM | Link to this

[There will be an estimated 70,000 SUV rollovers in 2002, in which it’s estimated 2000 people will die.

In the 10-year period during which Ford-Firestone related rollovers caused some 300 deaths, more than 12,000 people — 40 times as many — died in SUV rollover crashes unrelated to tire failure.

A Ford Explorer is 16 times as likely as the typical family car to kill occupants of another vehicle in a crash.

1 out of 4 new vehicles sold in the U.S. is an SUV, making it the most popular type of vehicle in America. The Ford Explorer is the most popular SUV in the world.](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/rollover/etc/before.html)

By Midori

September 5, 2006 10:22 AM | Link to this

By N-GA

September 4, 2006 10:25 PM | Link to this

Dumb Dusty,

All the posts were about the November 2006 election. I hate to be the one to break it to you, but the office of the president isn’t available just yet. This year will be the start of the government of the USA returning to sanity.

Told you she was an idiot.

By w00t

September 5, 2006 10:27 AM | Link to this

Writing on the wall, I completely agree with you. It is sad in a way how this country has progressed and how our Presidents and administration treats their people.

By George

September 5, 2006 10:38 AM | Link to this

Count me among your 60% that isn’t thrilled with the direction of our government.

RW, I thought you were a lost cause like Andy. I was wrong.

Congratulations for being able to think for yourself.

By Dusty

September 5, 2006 10:50 AM | Link to this

Gosh, Midori

Such winning ways, such originality, such prevarications, such a large vocabulary of vulgarities and always a generous array of trivia. You are amazing. Who would have thought you could produce so much?

By bon scott

September 5, 2006 10:53 AM | Link to this

Bush reveals his dark side.

President Bush once daydreamed about blasting Bill Clinton’s presidential library to smithereens…

“When he stopped to gaze at the river, where Secret Service agents were stationed in boats, the guide said: ‘Usually, you might see some bass fishermen out there.’ Bush replied: ‘A submarine could take this place out.’”

That George! What a jokester. And how about party animal Karl Rove?

“‘You’re not such a scary guy,’ joked his guide. ‘Yes, I am,’ Rove replied. Walking away, he muttered deliberately and loudly: ‘I change constitutions, I put churches in schools.’”

George and Karl must be looking ahead to November. I think this is called “gallows humor”.

By getalife

September 5, 2006 10:55 AM | Link to this

I think RW has been wanked.

He would never admit our country is heading in the wrong direction.

It is intellectually honest and wingnuts always argue intellectually dishonest.

I am not buying it.

By Buy Danish

September 5, 2006 11:00 AM | Link to this

Getalife,

I too am unhappy with the way our so-called representatives are doing their jobs, particularly our Senate whose immigration proposals are disastrous.

I have absolutely no fear of being called names by anyone, nor do I fear being taken to the woodshed for disagreeing with the Leftward leanings of some RINO Republicans.

The House is far closer to the reading the hearts and minds of conservatives and I don’t hear anyone calling conservative house members “al qaeda types” and your fantasy that that could happen is just more moonbattery.

It is your party that crucifies anyone who doesn’t toe the party line 100% and Joe Lieberman proves it. He is with your party on every single domestic policy issue, but he dared to differ on Iraq so you threw him overboard. Hilary is also on tenterhooks.

It is amazing to me that you continue to brand US as the facists. Rage has fried your brain and clouded your vision.

By Paying Attention?

September 5, 2006 11:06 AM | Link to this

I’ve heard RW on more than one occasion express his dissatisfaction with the government on some issues.

Could it be that liberals just don’t listen? They’re too anxious to play the blame game?

It always looks like it.

Don’t get too excited wOOt because earlier RW said ” If you think that means I want more panicky libs running around Washington think again.”

By Dusty

September 5, 2006 11:08 AM | Link to this

bon Scott,

Your quotations reveal your dark side. They are about as phony as quotations can be.

Find some “truthful humor” for a change. You know. “Honesty is the best policy.” Try it.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 5, 2006 11:09 AM | Link to this

By w00t September 5, 2006 10:16 AM SUVs are not safe. People are more prone to die in SUV crashes than cars.

woot: The people that die in SUV crashes are in the OTHER vehicles.

You, my friend, can let the feminists talk you into a Prius with your bad little metrosexual self, I’m going to stick with my Z71 Silverado 4X4, thank you very much.

Don’t hit me if you want to live.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 5, 2006 11:15 AM | Link to this

By bon scott September 5, 2006 10:53 AM George and Karl must be looking ahead to November. I think this is called “gallows humor”.

Dumna-ss: Bush and Rove aren’t up for election in November.

No wonder the only people you libs can beat at the polls are in your own party, like Leiberman.

By Buy Danish

September 5, 2006 11:17 AM | Link to this

Polly,

I think you’ve been reading too many paperbacks with Fabio’s picture on the cover.

The idea that the War in Afghanistan and “other global measures” was headed to a miraculous and instantaneous defeat of Islamofascists is the sort of happy ending only a consumer of romance novels and daytime Soaps would fall for.

To use a mythological metaphor, The army of Islam did not spring out of Bush’s head fully clothed and armored.

By w00t

September 5, 2006 11:21 AM | Link to this

Andy, whatever, you’re delusional. Did you even read what I posted?

People are more likely to die IN a SUV when they are involved in a crash, especially in a rollover.

So I guess what you’re saying now, too bad for the guy that was killed by an SUV, that isn’t held to the same safety standards or bumper standards, when he was in his car.

Try not to hit anyone yourself. Selfish pr!ck.

By bon scott

September 5, 2006 11:22 AM | Link to this

Dear resident Idiot.

Without a GOP Congress, George and Karl will be rudderless in Washingyon..

No mandate. No legacy. None that they can control, that is. Heehee!

Dombas-s.

BTW - When’s your Baghdad mission begin? Will you be blogging from the Green Zone or will you be imbedded? Can’t wait!

By getalife

September 5, 2006 11:30 AM | Link to this

My goodness.

It is your party in total power and totally to blame.

Once you start to accept this fact, then there will be honest debate.

As usual, it is all bs.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 5, 2006 11:36 AM | Link to this

By w00t September 5, 2006 11:21 AM Andy, whatever, you’re delusional. Did you even read what I posted?

This is taken directly from YOUR link, you little feminist wanna be:

Light trucks crashing into cars accounts for the majority of fatalities in vehicle-to-vehicle collisions 2,000 people would still be alive if their vehicles had been hit by a heavy car instead of an SUV 80 percent of car and SUV owners strongly that automakers should make safety changes to SUVs that would make the roads safer for car occupants Link up there^^.

Don’t you read your own links?

And I am not near as “selfish” as all of these a-ssholes out there that put my life and my family’s life in danger over some stupida-ss cellphone conversation.

I protect myself from ignorance, if you don’t like that, tough titty.

By Jesus

September 5, 2006 11:39 AM | Link to this

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 5, 2006 11:42 AM | Link to this

By bon scott September 5, 2006 11:22 AM Dear resident Idiot. Without a GOP Congress, George and Karl will be rudderless in Washingyon..

I never said you were wrong, tosser. In fact, I prefer that you attack Bush, Rove and Leiberman.

Have at it.

All the dumna-ss democrats like getalife and woot will show up at the ballot box in November looking to vote against Bush, Rove and Leiberman.

But their names won’t be on the ballot and they won’t know what to do.

Another Republican victory!

By getalife

September 5, 2006 11:49 AM | Link to this

Andy,

Wrong as usual, Joe will be on the ballot but should not be. Are you ever right about anything?

Vote Dem. for accountability for w.

Plain and simple.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 5, 2006 11:51 AM | Link to this

The real “racists:”

September 5, 2006 — A string of anti-Semitic rants about Sen. Joe Lieberman have popped up on the liberal MoveOn.org’s open forum Web site, drawing criticism from the Anti-Defamation League.-NYPost

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 5, 2006 11:57 AM | Link to this

getagrip: Joe will be on the Connecticut ballot.

Good luck getting into the poll.

Perhaps that doesn’t matter to the no voter ID party?

By bon scott

September 5, 2006 11:57 AM | Link to this

Dear resident Idiot,

I can’t speak for getalife or w00ten, but even dumb Republican voters are smart enough to see the (D) after a candidate’s name on the ballot. The smart Republicans won’t need that reminder.

They’re ticked off about the economy as well as the phony war in Iraq. See above. No amount of lipstick pumped out by the White House or the Wall Street Journal will disguise the pig that is Bushonomics. More Americans have fewer pennies to pinch. They know it. I know it. Only you and the terminally idiotic don’t.

I hear the Green Zone and most major US bases in Iraq have excellent satellite TV facilities. You’ll be able to watch the GOP November debacle there, in between your shifts playing Rambo in Sadr City.

When are you leaving again?

By The Vent

September 5, 2006 12:02 PM | Link to this

Fascism is a system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism. Republicans might want to rethink using this as their new buzzword.

By get real

September 5, 2006 12:05 PM | Link to this

The anti-Semitic posts at Moveon are obviously the work of Rovian GOP psychos. Anybody can post there. ANYBODY. And the neocons are legendary for their dirty tricks.

What else would you expect from the same gang that turned “swiftboated” into a household word and spread the rumor in 2000 that John McCain fathered a child with a black mistress?

By Political Foreskin

September 5, 2006 12:06 PM | Link to this

Andy is winning me over. He is so passionate about the Bush spin. Doesn’t mean I agree with him, just that how can you fault a guy who truly believes what he’s typing? Maybe someday I’ll have the time to actually read what he’s saying. (but there’s so much to read, do you have that kind of time?)

But nonetheless, he deserves credit for being king tard. “Old king tard was a Kerry poll mole who blogged like no tomorrow. He blogged and blogged and blogged and blogged, his point made sense to sparrows. Oh a tweet tweet tweet and a toot toot toot his flock did faithfull follow. And late at night when the moon is right he spits what he should swallow..

checkmate

By bon scott

September 5, 2006 12:07 PM | Link to this

Andy, is it true you’ve been posting at MoveOn?

Or were you just too drunk to remember doing it?

By Repub Sep'orter

September 5, 2006 12:07 PM | Link to this

Blame Bush,Chaney, Rumsfeldand make this country sound like a quagmire. Talk about “running” and you know in what direction. It is getting hard to tell who is the enemy because they don’t all wear turbans and burkas.*

How great is it that the biggest admin supporter here can’t even spell their names correctly!

This speaks volumes about the average intellectual capacity of those who support this admin’s policy. It’s know wonder these people love and buy into simplistic sounbites like “stay the course” and “cut and run.” And believe terrorist will be walking our streets if we vote a democrat in office.

These people are so dumb and naive and this is wonderful, irrefutable evidence. I’m just surprised “bush” was spelled correctly!

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 5, 2006 12:08 PM | Link to this

By bon scott September 5, 2006 11:57 AM Dear resident Idiot, I can’t speak for getalife or w00ten, but even dumb Republican voters are smart enough to see the (D) after a candidate’s name on the ballot.

I know Republicans are smart enough to distinquish their candidate from the opposition’s, you clod, that’s why I was talking about the mental gimp democrats.

Shees.

When are you leaving again?

I do more to damage America’s enemies right here where I’m at.

When I win this war, maybe I’ll go over there.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 5, 2006 12:13 PM | Link to this

I missed this:

By bon scott September 5, 2006 11:57 AM More Americans have fewer pennies to pinch. They know it. I know it. Only you and the terminally idiotic don’t.

I have more money than I did under Clinton. My friends have more money than they did under Clinton.

Maybe the reason you’re broke just might be that you are a failure, no?

Bush ain’t a miracle worker. Some people are just too screwed up to help.

By Political Foreskin

September 5, 2006 12:17 PM | Link to this

Midori, you have exposed dusty in the gentlest way humanly possible as a total idiot. It’s rare when a woman can stay feminine and still point out to a Freudian Research Project like dusty just what a special creature she is.

Dusty, take the hint: you stink.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 5, 2006 12:17 PM | Link to this

By Political Foreskin September 5, 2006 12:06 PM Andy is winning me over. He is so passionate about the Bush spin. Doesn’t mean I agree with him, just that how can you fault a guy who truly believes what he’s typing? Maybe someday I’ll have the time to actually read what he’s saying. (but there’s so much to read, do you have that kind of time?)

Polly knows what I’m saying without reading it?

Only in the mind of a pinko.

By Nucular

September 5, 2006 12:38 PM | Link to this

Momentarily the alcoholic I-wanna-be-a-Fuhrer will address his Portolet followers. Stealing WW II terms such as “Fascist” and “appeasement” (see Republican party in 1930’s & 40’s)in another attempt to hustle his Iraq/Middle East blunder. Watch, listen to this fumbling, bumbling fool in another worldly embarrassing attempt to sell his fear package around the corner and up your…block. He is your leader. Stand proud. God bless Murcuh!!

By Political Foreskin

September 5, 2006 12:49 PM | Link to this

Bingo: you finally get it!! Now I am a fan of yours, Andy, truly!! I know exactly what your blogs say without reading them because, my fine friend, you are a hack.

I know what the Right is saying. I stay informed. I read everything. Listen to Cspan. I crave input. Ann Coulter. Elizabeth Dole. Katherine Harris. Most of what fox news spews. Rush, Kimmer, Oreilly. Horrowitz. (Any and all of the right).

I feel that any voter must necessarily listen to both sides, and stay current, or else his opinion becomes emotion, just like what’s happened to you.

And I think it’s a damn shame that your mother didn’t raise you to be a nicer girl, Andy.

And furthermore, Andy, if you would think things out for yourself, and I know you can do it, then maybe you wouldn’t come across as such a hack.

Like the WMD question in Iraq. Do you think Bush or Rumsfeld or Cheney is stupid enough to send our army into a region where it could possibly suffer a WMD attack? Think it out for yourself. They knew there were no WMDs. They only knew that “WMD” was something that everyone could agree on as a justification for war. See how different that is? The bigger the lie, the more apt grieving nations are to believe it.

Now read more and you’ll get read.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 5, 2006 01:03 PM | Link to this

By Political Foreskin September 5, 2006 12:49 PM Like the WMD question in Iraq. Do you think Bush or Rumsfeld or Cheney is stupid enough to send our army into a region where it could possibly suffer a WMD attack?

5 minutes of this metrosexual’s depraved masturbatory bullsh-it I had to suffer through to get to one little tiny glimmer of intelligence, albeit a weak, ignorant one:

It’s called a MOPP suit and a gas mask. The amount of training that the Army spends preparing to operate in a CBR environment (chemical, biological, radiological for you civilians) virtually guarantees that we would suffer minimal casualties.

So in short, you little feminist, the United States would have went in and preempted the threat no matter the assessment.

The country is run by men, not liberals.

But I don’t expect an “intelligent” “well read” “knowledgeable” “genius” like you to have to be told these things, right. You were just checking me, I’ll bet.

By getalife

September 5, 2006 01:09 PM | Link to this

Now we will see the cowards cut and run

Thank you Mr. Murtha!

By rushncap

September 5, 2006 01:56 PM | Link to this

Somebody change li’l andy’s diaper, please. I’m 2 states over, and even I am beginning to get a bit nauseous from the smell.

By w00t

September 5, 2006 01:56 PM | Link to this

Looks like foreskin hit a nerve with Andy.

“minimal casualties”…. nice.

We would have no casualties if we hadn’t gone there in the first place.

By The Defining Moment...

September 5, 2006 02:11 PM | Link to this

wOOt gets to define casualties? Is that a partisan privilege of the Democrats?

Nice…..

By Alice in wonderland

September 5, 2006 02:15 PM | Link to this

“The new propaganda strategy is right out of Alice in Wonderland. If we leave the country that had nothing to do with 9/11, then 9/11 will happen again.”

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 5, 2006 02:15 PM | Link to this

rushncrap: If my “diaper” is filled with anything it’s liberalism, politcal correctness and feminism.

So yes, metrosexual, it would be great to get it “emptied” out.

That sh-it needs to be flushed.

By w00t

September 5, 2006 02:15 PM | Link to this

This should make everyone happy for the moment.

“Chevron and its partners have successfully extracted oil from a test well in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, an achievement that could be the biggest breakthrough in domestic oil supplies since the opening of the Alaskan pipeline.”

By w00t

September 5, 2006 02:21 PM | Link to this

Here we go with the 9/11 links and Iraq…

How many in Iraq have died?

Why are we in Iraq and what has it done for the world and the United States? What has it done for the people for the United Sates other than the breading of MORE terrorist and hatered. Has it done anything at all for the situation in Iraq and its people? Hell no.

Bush turned Iraq into a terrorist magnent. At least our troops can die over there so we dont have to die over here, right? We’ll just send them over for 2, 3, or 4+ tours.

By Midori

September 5, 2006 02:22 PM | Link to this

Breaking News: Rummy is in the hospital.

By Hold those party favors

September 5, 2006 02:31 PM | Link to this

Midori, Rumsfeld had elective shoulder surgery. Better save those balloons for Rove’s indictment. Oh wait that’s not going to happen, I guess you can throw a 9/11 party.

By Just like a liberal reporter

September 5, 2006 02:41 PM | Link to this

Skews the headline. Leaves out the pertinent facts.

By Midori

September 5, 2006 02:42 PM | Link to this

what’s your address, HTPF?

I’ll send you an invitation.

I’ll even dig up some bones from the local cemetary for you to dance around on.

See? I aim to please.

By Midori

September 5, 2006 02:45 PM | Link to this

What Valerie Plame really did at the CIA

By Midori

September 5, 2006 02:47 PM | Link to this

Just like a POS right wing douchebag

The details were not available as of that posting - that’s all the crawl on the televison stated.

By Buy Danish

September 5, 2006 02:47 PM | Link to this

HTPF,

Is Midori telling us that she practices Voodoo on the side?

By Morbid Midori

September 5, 2006 02:51 PM | Link to this

Why am I not surprised that Midori likes to dance on graves at cemetaries and dig up bones?

By Midori

September 5, 2006 02:54 PM | Link to this

Danish,

why not ask in your native tongue by bleating “ribbit”?

By Buy Danish

September 5, 2006 02:59 PM | Link to this

Midori,

Do you kill frogs too as part of your voodoo ceremonies?

Freaking freak.

By @@

September 5, 2006 03:02 PM | Link to this

I guess it cements your commitment if you’re on the frontlines.

Puzziferri said September 11 had tightened bonds between New York firefighters and intensified their drive to protect people. “All of us can distance ourselves from it but, I have to be honest with you, it takes one second to go right back,” he said.

I’m glad they’re doing better.

By Buy Danish

September 5, 2006 03:03 PM | Link to this

“I can’t speak for getalife or w00ten, but even dumb Republican voters are smart enough to see the (D) after a candidate’s name on the ballot. The smart Republicans won’t need that reminder.”

Finch,

Yeah, too bad the dumb democrats in Florida couldn’t figure out which hole to punch on their Dem designed butterfly ballot. I bet a few people will be confused by that (I)by Lieberman’s name. Can we expect a protest from Ned Lamont (with Al Gore and John Kerry at his side) when he loses?

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 5, 2006 03:03 PM | Link to this

Such videos have serious consequences. They are used as a powerful propaganda weapon across the Muslim world, to show aspiring fanatics how spineless Westerners are. And that video in particular was priceless, for the degree of prostration it exhibited…. To which I reply, that I cannot know how I will behave in such a situation, until I am in it. But if I capitulated, from fear of pain and death, I would be deeply ashamed of what I had done. And this shame would haunt me for the rest of my life. I would not be appearing all smiles on TV, I would not be accepting the accolades of my colleagues, and I would surely have the decency to contradict anyone who dared call me “brave” for saving my own skin.-RealClearPolitics

You must not be a pinko.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 5, 2006 03:09 PM | Link to this

Today’s cartoon that doesn’t suck!

By Dusty

September 5, 2006 03:09 PM | Link to this

Awwww, should I bother with poor Polly aka Mr. Foreskin,

Naw, ignorance is bliss so I won’t bother him. Being a liberal is tough enough so let’s not add to his misery.

Bye, Polly. Be nice now. Lucko should have a new cartoon soon and you can go wacko again.

By Goldie

September 5, 2006 03:18 PM | Link to this

That’s funny— “Conservative Appalled”… you should change your blog name to “Man Without a Party” instead because the Repugnant Party has been taken over by the “neo-conservatives”, and they really have nothing whatsoever to do with the term conservative. It’s appropriate that they call themselves the neo-cons, with the emphasis on “cons”… too bad your party has sided with that group of evil-doers.

By Dusty

September 5, 2006 03:32 PM | Link to this

Goldie,

” A party of evil-doers!” Conservatives? Come on, Goldie. Can’t the DNC give you any better lines than that?

The last time I heard of a party of evil-doers was at Halloween and you were bobbing for apples. Could it be, Goldie, that you have your parties mixed up?

By N-GA

September 5, 2006 03:41 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

Perhaps it would be better if, instead of “a party of evil doers” we use Bush’s “axis of evil” with a little modification.

Does “as-sholes of evil” work for you when describing this administration?

By getalife

September 5, 2006 03:48 PM | Link to this

Andy is always wrong because his wingnut propaganda is always wrong.

“Was she merely ananalyst—as Bob Novak and others have claimed? Was she only a desk-jockey—as Jonah Goldberg of The National Review insisted? No. She was operations chief of the Joint Task Force on Iraq (JTFI), a unit of the Counterproliferation Division of the clandestine Directorate of Operations.”

Go figure.

By Goldie

September 5, 2006 04:02 PM | Link to this

Ah, yes— the photo evidence:

An appeaser calling the kettle black

Way to go, Rummy— supplying all that nerve-gas to Saddam Hussein back during those glorious Reagan years!

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 5, 2006 04:03 PM | Link to this

By getalife September 5, 2006 03:48 PM She was operations chief of the Joint Task Force on Iraq (JTFI), a unit of the Counterproliferation Division of the clandestine Directorate of Operations.”

Thanks, man, that’s what I’ve been saying all along.

Now we know who “lied.”

It wasn’t Bush, he was kept in the dark by the elite pinkos, like Colin “you break it, the CIA will lie to you about it” Powell.

Maybe if Plame had done her job instead of trying to backstab Republicans all of those soldiers in Iraq wouldn’t have had to die.

By getalife

September 5, 2006 04:03 PM | Link to this

If you want to see what really happened in Iraq up to the “Mission Accomplished” speech watch the documentary “Contol Room”.

By RW-(the original)

September 5, 2006 04:04 PM | Link to this

Midori,

Since David Corn is the one that is always revealing actual details about Valerie Plame/Wilson, don’t you think somebody ought to be locking him up? First Rove and now Rummy, do you ever get embarrassed by these premature outbursts of yours?

wOOt,

Getting back to your question, ml’s limits aren’t going to let this have the depth it deserves and if I do it piecemeal the nitpickers will be jumping in at every point, so here’s a brief synopsis.

I want to see the Federal government get back to what it’s core responsibilities are. That would be basically National defense and interstate commerce/transportation. We will never get all the way back there, but a start would be to elect people that aren’t afraid to say we need to slash the budget by getting the Feds out of every last area of our life. Bush has done a very poor job in this area although he never really stated that as a priority so I can’t be too upset about it. On the other hand, his opponents both laid out a litany of new and expanded government programs that would dwarf the deficit we have now. They wouldn’t suffer the inevitable consequences because they would cut defense and raise taxes making things look fine in the short term. As always they would leave us vulnerable and in a recession, but would point to how peachy things had been while they were in office.

If I get motivated to do it later in the week, maybe I’ll lay it out issue by issue on my blog where I would have the space and the ability to show emphasis. I’ll let you know if I do.

By w00t

September 5, 2006 04:11 PM | Link to this

Yes, we defiantly need to look into interstate commerce/transportation. The roads in the US are getting worse and can no longer handle the volume of traffic. Trip times are becoming higher for everyone in America and especially in Atlanta. We have some of the highest trip times in the country. One major problem with getting anything done with transportation is all the Bureaucratic BS that we must go through to get a road approved for construction. By the time it is approved it is already obsolete.

By Buy Danish

September 5, 2006 04:12 PM | Link to this

Getalife and Voodoo woman,

I read your poorly sourced David Corn link. A CIA person here, a state department person there, but nothing more substantive to offer.

A question: How long have Corn and Isikoff known that Richard Armitage was the culprit? Just waiting to cash in before they spilled the beans?

It is curious what secrets journalists decide to keep under wraps and which they choose to divulge, such as NSA programs essential to our national security.

I also find it amusing that Ms. Plame intended to get a job in “personnel management”. What a perfect opportunity to keep her husband in the thick of things - where he did not belong.

I also found this troubling - {{“We knew nothing about what was going on in Iraq,” a CIA official recalled. “We were way behind the eight ball. We had to look under every rock.”}}

Why was that do you suppose? Not a priority for Clinton/Berger/Albright despite their frequent town meetings to plead with us about the dangers that Hussein posed to the world, including but not limited to WMDs?

By Midori

September 5, 2006 04:13 PM | Link to this

RW,

my premature “outbursts” as opposed to your boot licking, kool aid drinking, logic twisting, sh*t eating, fact mangling, cheerleading for your criminal heros?

Put down the bloody pom poms already.

By Dusty

September 5, 2006 04:13 PM | Link to this

N-GA

The Republican Party and the Bush Administration don’t need to hide behind any cute little concoctions.

Maybe you better work on something for the Democrats. Cut-n-Run is kinda stale. Purple hearts-a-la-four is passe’. More Gore Instore makes voters run like crazy. And Hillary Dillary! Even Libertarians would bolt on that one.

By Goldie

September 5, 2006 04:16 PM | Link to this

“Maybe if Plame had done her job instead of trying to backstab Republicans all of those soldiers in Iraq wouldn’t have had to die.”

Grasping at straws again, Andy? What the h@ll are you talking about now — please do tell us all when Plame was “trying to backstab Republicans”… was this after she had been outed by Cheney and the White House, in retaliation for Joe Wilson’s column that he wrote about Niger? What a bunch of treasonous @ssholes, and you’re defending those criminals!

By Midori

September 5, 2006 04:21 PM | Link to this

Gee,

must suck to have a man leave you for another man.

How did you cope with it Dusty?

And what about you, Danish?

By RW-(the original)

September 5, 2006 04:22 PM | Link to this

Midori,

If you knew the first thing about facts OR logic that statement would have a little more meaning. Am I reading you right that all you saw was a news ticker about Rummy and started into your parrot routine without even attempting to find out why he was in the hospital?

By RW-(the original)

September 5, 2006 04:25 PM | Link to this

Somebody load the latest update into Goldie2000. Even the freaking New York Times is starting to figure out that Fitzmas is never coming.

By Midori

September 5, 2006 04:26 PM | Link to this

RW,

You might want to lose the skirt, too.

Not your color.

By Midori

September 5, 2006 04:28 PM | Link to this

RW, is that you in the middle?

By getalife

September 5, 2006 04:29 PM | Link to this

Don’t bother RW, it is all crap just like I said it was.

If you notice, Andy is always wrong and I am always right.

This is because I do not read the wingnut propaganda anymore. It is all crap like RW’s bs.

By Ebony and Ivory

September 5, 2006 04:30 PM | Link to this

Madori has the right on the run today. Wow. She gets better with every comment.

I think we are witnessing something historical, the end of an era of the lunatic fringe rule, and it appears that our long national nightmare is coming to an end.

Bravo, midori.

By Pinko Mating Ritual

September 5, 2006 04:41 PM | Link to this

By {{{Ebony and Ivory}}} September 5, 2006 04:30 PM Madori has the right on the run today. Wow. She gets better with every comment.

Notice how they play the race card even as they try to get some?

Like a big fat turkey trying to show off it’s diversity plumage.

You probably should watch the spelling of your intended loved ones name, though, Ace.

By getalife

September 5, 2006 04:42 PM | Link to this

I have a bad feeling, this will happen in November

Mexico is in trouble with their democracy too.

By Pinko Mating Ritual

September 5, 2006 04:43 PM | Link to this

Did I say “Ace?”

I’m sorry, I meant to say “Huge.”

By get real

September 5, 2006 04:46 PM | Link to this

Let’s take a moment here to cheer on those vibrant GOP cheerleaders, those two flagbearers of the Republican Party, the pair of “Christian” neocons who best display the all encompassing fulsomeness and enormity of the Bush record!

I’m talking about (drum roll!) Katherine Harris! (applause!!)

Harris has incurred so many self-inflicted wounds that Democrats for the most part have kept quiet and stayed out of the way. Her campaign has suffered from two en masse walkouts of staffers who describe her as erratic and abusive to staff and who often go on to dish insider tales to the media.

And her Capitol Hill comrade in obtuse ineptitude, Rick Santorum!

Mr. Santorum also praised the leadership of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and President Bush. Asked if he would join calls for Mr. Rumsfeld’s resignation, Mr. Santorum said that the defense secretary had “done a fine job”

Right. No wonder he’s so far in the whole.

Oh, I almost forgot! There’s that GOP guy who’s running for the Senate seat in Connecticut. The casino shyster with the alias?

The one his party is ignoring??

What’s his name again??

Morans.

By Cindy

September 5, 2006 04:50 PM | Link to this

All you right wing females: what do you think of Andy putting down people by giving a negative connotation to “feminist”. Basically he is telling you (as well as me)to get off this blog because our input is not equal to the male input. Or do you too, believe what you say is of lesser value than what he has to say?

By rushncap

September 5, 2006 05:01 PM | Link to this

Cindy, I know I’m not a female, but I strain to think of anything at all on this planet of lesser value than what li’l andy says.

By Dusty

September 5, 2006 05:03 PM | Link to this

Midori, poor thing,

Maybe if you could MYOB you might not be such a loser and enjoy a husband and children like a lot of us. Is that why you are so bitter? Sounds like it.

By Midori

September 5, 2006 05:14 PM | Link to this

dusty, you ignorant slut

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 5, 2006 05:14 PM | Link to this

By Cindy September 5, 2006 04:50 PM All you right wing females: what do you think of Andy putting down people by giving a negative connotation to “feminist”.

Actually what I’m saying is that the feminist movement is responsible for some of the most depraved and morally corrupt ideas that have been put forth in the last half of this century.

They alone are the cause of our school’s failings, teaching our children contrived feel good nonsense, that has turned them into empty headed politically correct robots.

At least the ones the liberals are “responsible” for.

The great nation of the United States is no longer the world leader that we once were because of this, unless you consider our sex obsessions, filthy entertainment industry and the abortion trade.

And you can quote me on that.

The one thing you cannot say for me is that I consider Conservative women to be cut from the same cloth as you liberal failures have been.

Laura Bush is ten, no, make that one hundred times the woman that Hillary Clinton is.

By Midori

September 5, 2006 05:19 PM | Link to this

Laura Bush is ten, no, make that one hundred times the ENABLER that Hillary Clinton is.

Of course, he couldn’t have become the drunken, drug addled sot that he is without her help.

Take a bow, Laura.

By Midori

September 5, 2006 05:20 PM | Link to this

Andy is ten, no, make that one hundred times the moron that Dusty is.

By bon scott

September 5, 2006 05:33 PM | Link to this

What Andy really means is that women shouldn’t vote, shouldn’t be in the workforce, and shouldn’t have any say in household matters like finances, children’s schools and family planning.

Barefoot and pregnant, right Andy?

Moran.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 5, 2006 05:33 PM | Link to this

So Midori thinks that Bill Clinton got that vein busted red face from worrying over her welfare checks and not from ten year old scotch.

What a sap.

Hillary really kept his a-ss in line to, boy, that dude has NEVER strayed.

By Buy Danish

September 5, 2006 05:43 PM | Link to this

Voodoo Woman AKA MADori,

I don’t know exactly what you expect my response to be, but If Karl Rove’s father was a homosexual then I feel EMPATHY for him because, notwithstanding liberal propaganda to the contrary, it must be difficult growing up with a gay father, particularly for a boy.

If you thought that I was going to cross myself and denounce Rove as the Devil’s spawn, then you are wrong.

I see that the comments from the kind-hearted, tolerant liberals whose ideas flourish at HuffPo’s are replete with predictably nasty remarks.

Freaking tubscum.

By Political Foreskin

September 5, 2006 05:45 PM | Link to this

One hour till Katie Courik.

I forbid anyone from watching her broadcast.

It becomes the lowest point in broadcast network news history.

She will FAIL!!!! (stink eye, voodoo curses, weird music in background)

By Buy Danish

September 5, 2006 05:48 PM | Link to this

Cindy,

If you care so much about feminist causes then you should be a big supporter of George Bush and the Republican Party.

While we don’t put a premium on bra-burning, or resort to heckling to get our points across, we believe in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as an inalienable rights endowed by our creator on ALL MANKIND.

By Erica

September 5, 2006 05:49 PM | Link to this

One recommendation: Next time you drawy Willard Scott, he always wears a flower on his lapel. Can’t imagine why you’d be drawing him again, but just in case…

By Buy Danish

September 5, 2006 05:55 PM | Link to this

Bon Scott the woman’s advocate,

No backstage BJs for Bon Scott? As a rocker and a lush, you’d have been a rare exception to the norm if you treated eager groupies like finch with tremendous respect and never took advantage of them.

By rushncap

September 5, 2006 05:56 PM | Link to this

Danish, your party’s definition of “life” is killing tens of thousands of Iraqis. Its definition of “liberty” is spying on its own citizens without so much as a warrant. Its definition of “persuit of happiness” has left one country in ruins, one city full of poor people to fend for itself, and the poor all over the nation to pick up the tab for the rich (tax cuts). And you no more care about “all mankind” than you care about that sting ray off of Australia.

By a pox on them both

September 5, 2006 06:07 PM | Link to this

When it comes to the status of women, “Christian” propagandist Andy and Wahhabi Islam devotee Osama bin Laden have a lot in common.

Scary.

By Buy Danish

September 5, 2006 06:45 PM | Link to this

rushncap,

Maybe you should stick to physics. That response to my comments about spoiled brat Cindy’s concerns with “femimism” was utterly pathetic and does not deserve any more “parsing”. I’ll spare you the embarrasment of a thorough knock down.

By Echo and the Bunnymen

September 5, 2006 06:51 PM | Link to this

If you care so much about feminist causes then you should be a big supporter of George Bush and the Republican Party.

Excuse me while I throw up.

By rushncap

September 5, 2006 06:55 PM | Link to this

Danish, honey, yelling “oh, if I ever catch you, watch out!” as you are running away is not very convincing.

On the upside, you’ve finally given up trying to stand up to me or debate me. Glad you realize you can’t hang in there. Smartest move you’ve made in a while. Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?

Now play dead!

By Sell Cannoli

September 5, 2006 10:43 PM | Link to this

This blog is stank.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 6, 2006 05:04 AM | Link to this

By bon scott September 5, 2006 05:33 PM Barefoot and pregnant, right Andy?

Yea, Laura Bush is the very epitome of “barefoot and pregnant.”

Look at all the little socialists come running to the rescue of their fellow greivance monger, the bull d** nation that would just as soon do with out the little socialists coming to their rescue.

The funny thing is, if the feminists had their way, these little punk a-ss liberals metrosexuals in here would be the ones who were “barefoot and pregnant.”

By Cindy

September 6, 2006 12:01 PM | Link to this

By Danish, HA! HA! Yeah Andy is a great example.