Mike Luckovich

By Mad As Zell

March 23, 2007 5:04 AM | Link to this

Well, I see that Mike LUCKOPUNK, Poppin’ Jay BOOKMAGGOT, Cynthia Sucker a.k.a. Jihad Cindy a.k.a. QUEEN PINKO and the overwhelming majority of the sorry excuse of an editorial staff of the Atlanta URINAL-CONSTIPATION are once again shamelessly pedaling their brand of angry left-wing, bomb-throwing, moonbat, anti-American, socialist, secular, communist, pinko, atheist lying propagandist smut to a captive audience. Nice little cartoon LUCKOPUNK, but you should be one to point your grubby little maggot finger(s) and accuse the administration of “Imcompetence”, “Corruption”,”Dishonesty” and “Spin” when those four “horsemen” are everyday integral part of the operation at the Atlanta-Urinal-Constipation a.k.a. the Al-Jazeera-Constitution. Those four horsemen you speak of sure do sound like you (Luckopunk), Jay Bookmaggot, Cynthia F—ker and Angela Suck of the lowly esteemed New Yuck Times South/ Atlanta Urinal-Constipation editorial board of pro-Castro, pro-Chavez, pro-Al-Qadea, sellout left-wing lowlife scum. Why don’t you atheist pinko maggots just tell the truth and say that you support HITLERY CLINTON and/or BORAT OSAMA in the great pinko dilemma for the Democrappic nomination for President in 2008 and that you want America to pull out of Iraq in disgrace and lose the “War on Terror”? You Benedict Arnold-flunkee-pinko-atheist-maggot-traitors at the “Ache-J-C” and other assorted left-wing liberal media outlets are a menstrating-soaked, manure-soiled bloodstain on the journalistic profession and a shameful disgrace and embarrassment to the American People. Why should the American People have to read through left-wing flame-throwing, assassination of character, lies, distortion and liberal spin just to try and stay informed. You (Luckopunk, Bookmaggot, Tucker and Suck) and your commie propagandist rag you call a newspaper have the blood of all 3,000-plus soldiers on your hands and are just as responsible, if not more responsible, as the idiots who have ran this damn war into a quagmire. You and your left-wing flame throwing hitmen assassins can take your anti-American, anti-family, pro-slavery apology, pro-reparations, anti-South,pro-abortion, pro-homosexual, pro-deviant, pro-socialized medicine, pro-Hugo Chavez, pro-North Korea, pro-Castro, pro-Iran, pro-Socialist, pro-atheist, pro-Al-Qadea lies and propaganda, stick them where the sun don’t

By Mad As Zell

March 23, 2007 5:07 AM | Link to this

Well, I see that Mike LUCKOPUNK, Poppin’ Jay BOOKMAGGOT, Cynthia Sucker a.k.a. Jihad Cindy a.k.a. QUEEN PINKO and the overwhelming majority of the sorry excuse of an editorial staff of the Atlanta URINAL-CONSTIPATION are once again shamelessly pedaling their brand of angry left-wing, bomb-throwing, moonbat, anti-American, socialist, secular, communist, pinko, atheist lying propagandist smut to a captive audience. Nice little cartoon LUCKOPUNK, but you should be one to point your grubby little maggot finger(s) and accuse the administration of “Imcompetence”, “Corruption”,”Dishonesty” and “Spin” when those four “horsemen” are everyday integral part of the operation at the Atlanta-Urinal-Constipation a.k.a. the Al-Jazeera-Constitution. Those four horsemen you speak of sure do sound like you (Luckopunk), Jay Bookmaggot, Cynthia F—ker and Angela Suck of the lowly esteemed New Yuck Times South/ Atlanta Urinal-Constipation editorial board of pro-Castro, pro-Chavez, pro-Al-Qadea, sellout left-wing lowlife scum. Why don’t you atheist pinko maggots just tell the truth and say that you support HITLERY CLINTON and/or BORAT OSAMA in the great pinko dilemma for the Democrappic nomination for President in 2008 and that you want America to pull out of Iraq in disgrace and lose the “War on Terror”? You Benedict Arnold-flunkee-pinko-atheist-maggot-traitors at the “Ache-J-C” and other assorted left-wing liberal media outlets are a menstrating-soaked, manure-soiled bloodstain on the journalistic profession and a shameful disgrace and embarrassment to the American People. Why should the American People have to read through left-wing flame-throwing, assassination of character, lies, distortion and liberal spin just to try and stay informed. You (Luckopunk, Bookmaggot, Tucker and Suck) and your commie propagandist rag you call a newspaper have the blood of all 3,000-plus soldiers on your hands and are just as responsible, if not more responsible, as the idiots who have ran this damn war into a quagmire. You and your left-wing flame throwing hitmen assassins can take your anti-American, anti-family, pro-slavery apology, pro-reparations, anti-South,pro-abortion, pro-homosexual, pro-deviant, pro-socialized medicine, pro-Hugo Chavez, pro-North Korea, pro-Castro, pro-Iran, pro-Socialist, pro-atheist, pro-Al-Qadea lies and propaganda, stick them where the sun don’t

By TW

March 23, 2007 8:06 AM | Link to this

Pull off the hoods, Mike! Left to right – Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, James Dobson, Karl Rove…YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE - HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

By LuckoDull

March 23, 2007 8:09 AM | Link to this

They want a Commander-In-Chief in the White House who’s sitting tall in the saddle in the war on terror and who isn’t going to stand there and take it, day after day, when the Democrats flog him like a rented mule. The Democrats are hubristic, they’re overreaching, and this phony baloney “scandal” over the fired US attorneys shows that they’re not going to let the truth get in the way of attacking George Bush. Fighting back against people like that would only make George Bush more popular. That’s why he needs to get into the habit of standing up for himself, standing up for Republicans, and standing up for the war on terrorism that we’re currently winning in Iraq and across the world. If Bush is willing to defend himself and give the Democrats hell for the way they’re acting, conservatives and the rest of the American people will respond positively to it.

You’re dam-n right we will.

Now let’s lock this Plame bitc-h up.

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By Charles

March 23, 2007 8:12 AM | Link to this

Before we go there, the Congress needs to subpeona the Clintons on why they fired 93 U.S. Attorneys (but we know why - among the reasons that they were investigating THEM). But that’ll never happen - it doesn’t fit into the Democraps agenda. They’re pathetic!

By Mrs. Godzilla

March 23, 2007 8:12 AM | Link to this

Just how much pleasure does this President get from these guys?

Does it delight him when incompetence lets a city die?

Was the corruption of Nye, Cunningham and Abramoff exciting?

Did he find the dishonesty in the run up to war to be erotic?

Does he light up a smoke after watching Fox media?

This cartoon speaks the truth. The ever increasing reality based community sees it. Some of the last 30% are most certainly unbalanced. Those who have any doubt need only look at the first 10 posts here this morning.

President Bush has the Four Horsemen, but last November, Americans voted in the cavalry.

Peace.

By CARTERJ

March 23, 2007 8:14 AM | Link to this

Dear Mad as Zell;

You certainly are mad, as in deranged. How deluded and crazed with hatred can you become? Open your eyes, realize that your country has been hijacked by Bush and Company crazy, and let a little light into your seriously dark world. Sir, you, like Zell, scare me if you are even remotely serious.

By Corey

March 23, 2007 8:15 AM | Link to this

Hey, Mad as Zell, Pinko is so 20th century. Get over yourself. Wake up and smell the coffee.

By Corey

March 23, 2007 8:15 AM | Link to this

Hey, Mad as Zell, “Pinko” is so 20th century. Get over yourself. Wake up and smell the coffee.

By regulator

March 23, 2007 8:17 AM | Link to this

Incarcerate Andi Now!

By CARTERJ

March 23, 2007 8:19 AM | Link to this

Dear Mad as Zell;

You certainly are mad, as in deranged. How deluded and crazed with hatred can you become? Open your eyes, realize that your country has been hijacked by Bush and Company crazy, and let a little light into your seriously dark world. Sir, you, like Zell, scare me if you are even remotely serious. This is a great, world-class cartoon. Luckovich is the country’s best editorial cartoonist, along with Mr. Fish. As Jack Nicholson would say, you can’t handle the truth.

By Truthsayer

March 23, 2007 8:20 AM | Link to this

Luckodull, you really got one off today. Good blog. However, you must understand, the libs here betrayed themselves yesterday. They believe any liberal Jacka** party sin can be excused as long as “he/she means well.” Well, so did Attila the Hun! They excuse the blatant racism of Robert C. Byrd, the murdering Ted Kennedy, even though he is an active DRUNK, and all of the corruption and lies of the Clinton Administration and repeated protestations by Billery of “I can’t recall!” All of this is excused because they are committed socialists who are just trying to do their best for us poor fools who are too child-like and stupid to make our own financial decisions, so our taxes must be raised and our medical decisions made for us and our children educated (oops, I mean indoctrinated) in government schools run by incompetents who keep the bad teachers and fire the ones who are actually trying to teach (a regular event in Cobb County in places like Kell High School where 1/3rd of the faculty left at the end of one year in disgust).

Yes, all sins can be excused by the simple statement: “But he means well, even if he is wrong.” The plain stupidity of that speaks volumes.

INDICT WILSON AND PLAME NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

By Reece

March 23, 2007 8:28 AM | Link to this

Something must be in the water today, the Renamblicans are in an absolute tizzy.

By Eric

March 23, 2007 8:29 AM | Link to this

Wow! Miss Thang has gone off the deep end today. You need to get some help….soon.

By Eric

March 23, 2007 8:34 AM | Link to this

This is one of your best efforts, Mike. That’s saying something.

By Buy Danish

March 23, 2007 8:38 AM | Link to this

Heh. O’Reilly uncovered this factoid last night - Feinstein complained to Attorney General Gonzales about Carol Lam because her guidelines to prosecute illegal immigrants was too restrictive - i.e. - too few were being prosecuted.

Now Feinstein is singing in the Parrot Choir.

LuckoDull,

I believe the fired U.S. Attorneys were Bush appointees. That does not change the fact that his administration has the right to fire attorneys if they are not effectively pursuing their priorities.

Moving right along -

France finally does something right, although the mere fact that Editors can be prosecuted for this at all is pretty scary. Gosh, it’s not as if they leaked national security secrets to WaPo, er, Le Monde.

Paper wins Mohammed cartoon case.

By IN THE NEWS

March 23, 2007 8:41 AM | Link to this

ITS NOT SO MUCH THE ONES THAT GOT FIRED

ITS THE ONES THAT CAVED…

Federal prosecutors took the first steps toward reducing the prison sentence of former Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff, currently scheduled for release in 2011 for a Florida fraud conviction.

Documents filed in federal court say Abramoff has provided “substantial assistance” in a separate Washington corruption scandal investigation and continues to work with investigators from his prison cell in Cumberland, Md.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul F. Schwartz did not recommend how much Abramoff’s sentence should be cut.

Given what’s come out about the US Attorney purge in the last few weeks, this should raise a few alarms. Shall we wait to see if any indictments/convictions result from Abramoff’s “substantial assistance”?

By IN THE NEWS

March 23, 2007 8:43 AM | Link to this

FROM ROBER RIECH

The Other 85 U.S. Attorneys

The real question isn’t whether the eight U.S. attorneys were fired because they refused to carry out the Republicans’ political agenda. It’s obvious to anyone with a brain capable of processing information that’s exactly why they were fired.

The real question concerns the other eighty-five U.S. attorneys who are still there. What kind of political vendettas have they engaged in, in exchange for keeping their jobs? Until all the information is out about the White House’s and the Attorney General’s political operation, a cloud hangs over the entire federal prosecutorial system. Senator Pat Leahy, whom Dick Cheney suggested copulating with himself, and who now runs the Senate Judiciary, should bear this in mind.

By The Power(lessness) of 'Republican' Thinking

March 23, 2007 8:47 AM | Link to this

All we ever hear from Republicans are negative comments about what Clinton did or didn’t do. They can’t point to positive accomplishments that they have made cause they haven’t made any.

If Republicans directed their energy into actually accomplishing what they had contracted to do (The Republican contract with America]) maybe the general public wouldn’t have the impression that they are a bunch of bad losers whose only attribute is the ability to whine the loudest while they haven’t the competence or integrity to do what they say they will do!

Self Help for Republicans: “The Power of Positive Thinking” by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

By candide

March 23, 2007 8:55 AM | Link to this

Bush is the most incompetent president, bar none, we have ever had. His administration is one of the least able, most untrustworthy ever.

He should be impeached.

By LMAO

March 23, 2007 9:00 AM | Link to this

We saw the results of this trend in November. The GOP is losing a lot of its members. In fact people have been leaving the party in droves since 2002.

A recent Pew research poll has found a dramatic shift in party identification.

50% of those surveyed identified with or leaned toward Democrats, whereas 35% aligned with Republicans.

In 2002 the Dems and Republicans were about even, each around 35% each

Bush and Co. have destroyed the Republican party. The Bush groupies are so out of touch with reality. Look at the desperation of them here, its so sad.

By Blackadder

March 23, 2007 9:08 AM | Link to this

Excellent ‘toon Mike. Best one in a while!

Geez the wingnuts are really off their meds this morning aren’t they?

All we can do is point and laugh.

By Joel K. Jones

March 23, 2007 9:14 AM | Link to this

Why would a paper with the distinction of being one of the best in the South publish so much trash from one basher of possibly one of the best cartoonists in all of the U.S? Of course, he shows just how much ignorance is in the Great State of Georgia. And speaking of Zell, he is the biggest embarrasment that has ever happened to the State of Georgia. He completely ignored all of those people who worked so hard to get him elected. My name for his is Republicrat.

By RW-(the original)

March 23, 2007 9:15 AM | Link to this

Wow! Finally a cartoon about Democrats. The scribbler even captured the fact that President Bush is playing these fool liberals like a drum. Good job, mikie!

LuckoDull,

It does appear that the adder is all alone in his incompetence. I suppose he’ll be off the blog and on the phone crying to the AJC staff all day today. Although it is Friday so he may want to puff up his chest and claim he wants to punch anybody that won’t let him post at 4:05 in the afternoon which, to that ward of the state government worker, is after hours.

By Kinja

March 23, 2007 9:19 AM | Link to this

Mad As Zell: All I can say is, Wow! Very entertaining rant ;-)

By Truthsayer

March 23, 2007 9:19 AM | Link to this

Powerless - Here it goes then. I guess you don’t actually ever listen to the Republicans. You only listen to your Demogog friends who only focus on the negative. Lets look at the positive things that the Republicans have done: (1) lowered taxes across the board (2) passed the most sweeping welfare reform ever (3) passed a comprehensive medicaide prescription drug program (4)during the Clinton years they balanced the budget even over the objections of Clinton and his chief economic advisor Laura D’Andrea Tyson (5) strengthened the military after eight long years of neglect.

You might not agree with all of these accomplishments, and they are often in the eye of the beholder in poltics, but the fact is we talk about accomplishments all of the time and you are the ones who denegrate them. Clinton even tried to coopt them during the 1996 campaign. He went so far as taking credit for seven of the items on the Contract with America even though he had opposed all of them.

I have been very disappointed in much of what has happened with Bush’s domestic agenda - just as I was with Nixon and Ford. Just way too big government for me. But as far as national security and defense, I think he is much more on target than the cowards and appeasers who constitute the leadership of the Democrat “poddy.”

By LuckoDull

March 23, 2007 9:21 AM | Link to this

Weeks ago, Pelosi proposed attaching a requirement that U.S. troops come home from Iraq before September 2008 to an emergency $100 billion military appropriations bill. When it became apparent she didn’t have enough votes, she responded by adding $24 billion in pork, often in the form of agricultural subsidies used to win over rural Democratic lawmakers who tend to be more deferential on war policy. This is disgusting. That Pelosi insists this extra spending doesn’t qualify as pork is bad enough. But the idea that taxpayer funds are being doled out by the multibillion for unrelated domestic programs to influence a profoundly important vote on Iraq should offend everyone. What does it say for the dozens of House members that this tactic apparently swayed? That on any issue, there is a price at which their convictions are for sale?

Danish: What I was saying^^ is that the “4 horsemen” were holdovers from the Clinton administration and Bush fired them too.

Lock the Plame bitc-h up now!

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By @@

March 23, 2007 9:22 AM | Link to this

So that’s ^^^ your view of the Republicans ml?

I guarantee you…America is watching the Democrats and this is what THEY see.

They’ll be “serving” up their usual “stink”. They never muck out their own stalls.

By RW-(the original)

March 23, 2007 9:23 AM | Link to this

Joel K Jones,

I worked on Zell’s last campaign and didn’t feel betrayed in the least. Anybody that felt that way is an uninformed fool because Zell didn’t hide a thing about himself or his views when he ran to keep Coverdale’s seat in November 2000.

The reason I was willing to work for his campaign was because I didn’t want to see a good man bounced out just because Roy Barnes had betrayed the voters by naming a Democrat to take a Republican seat.

By regulator

March 23, 2007 9:24 AM | Link to this

Put Andi away, he needs assisstance, please help.

By COMMENT FROM TOWNHALL

March 23, 2007 9:25 AM | Link to this

TEX writes: Thursday, March, 22, 2007 2:07 PM Is Edwards Pimping Wife for Votes? If Mrs. Edwards has a recurrence of breast cancer, we should keep her and her children in our prayers. But I would not put it past her sleazebag, slip-and-fall shyster husband to announce this to get the female vote. Here’s what is suspect about this announcement:

Timing. It’s less than a year before the dem primaries and Obama and Clinton have been getting a great deal of press. Furthermore, Mrs. Edwards announced that she had breat cancer during the same year that her husband ran for president last time. I don’t doubt the original 04 announcement, but I do doubt this announcement.

Shamelessness. Democrats are notorious for using people they believe should be immune from criticism as human shields. In the 04 election, they rolled out triple-amputee Max Cleland. Same for Kerry with his ‘I was in Veitnam’ line.

Deflection. This could be to take the heat off of Gore’s absurd testimony about the myth of global warming, to steal attention from the Hillary/Obama ad flap.

By Buy Danish

March 23, 2007 9:30 AM | Link to this

LuckoDull,

First we had the Oil for Food bribery scandal, now we have Pork for Votes.

VETO TIME.

Later folks…

By @@

March 23, 2007 9:31 AM | Link to this

Is there a problem with the server today?

I’ve attempted to post five separate times, and they’re not getting through.

Same problem yesterday.

By LMAO

March 23, 2007 9:33 AM | Link to this

Now granted many in that poll lied. I mean what would you do if you were asked “Are you a Republican?” How embarrassing! I wouldn’t answer yes either. What if family or friends found out?

A good friend of mine, a closet Republican, says he tells people he is a Libertarian, says it saves him much embarrassment and snickering. LMAO!!!

By Blackadder

March 23, 2007 9:36 AM | Link to this

Ricky Wingnut - Obsess much? I’m flattered that I play such an important part of your daily life but one day you’ll have to realize that there is so much more in this wonderful world of ours. Get out. Explore. You’ll be better for it. You might even see things in a different light and join the sane left.

By RW-(the original)

March 23, 2007 9:36 AM | Link to this

LMAO,

I can’t imagine why you wouldn’t tell a pollster that you’re a Republican. Maybe it’s because you’re a card carrying moonbat!!

Now I’m LMAO!

By IN THE NEWS

March 23, 2007 9:40 AM | Link to this

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST

WASHINGTON — Former Deputy Interior Secretary Steven Griles will plead guilty to one count of obstruction of justice in the Jack Abramoff corruption investigation, The Associated Press has learned.

Griles, an oil and gas lobbyist who became an architect of President Bush’s energy policies while at the Interior Department between July 2001 and July 2005, is the highest ranking Bush administration official implicated in the Washington lobbying scandal.

The former No. 2 official at the Interior Department has agreed to a felony plea admitting that he lied five times to the Senate Indian Affairs Committee and its investigators about his relationship with Abramoff, people involved in the case told the AP.

By RW-(the original)

March 23, 2007 9:41 AM | Link to this

Blackadder aka raving hypocrite and self important moron,

Would you care to glance back to early in the week when you were whining about me day after day while I wasn’t here?

You really should stay in the aviary. You don’t fare well when you get out of your comfort zone of preening parrots. Should we expect another suicide note from you soon?

By the way, I’ll be leaving in a few minutes and won’t be back until late afternoon. Flame away child.

By Night Train

March 23, 2007 9:42 AM | Link to this

RW, you called this one correct!

My first thought upon seeing this toon was “what is luckovick thinking, pointing out the true colors of the democrats like this. The lefties are going to hang him or they will try and spin this to the right”.

This toon is a major slam on the left. Corruption and Dishonesty are definitely characteristic of the current Congress. Spin is the hallmark of the Democratic party. However, Incompetence describes almost ALL politicians both left and right.

By Play that funky music whiteboy

March 23, 2007 9:43 AM | Link to this

I got to say this, even though I loved President Clinton, you could have run the same cartoon 8 years ago - only replacing “Incompetence” with “Interns” and switched the mouse ears with a nice set of chesticles. Remember, the only ones that gave their lives for their country during the Clinton years were a few knuckle-children on a blue dress.

By Walt

March 23, 2007 9:44 AM | Link to this

“But as far as national security and defense, I think he is much more on target than the cowards and appeasers who constitute the leadership of the Democrat”

Bush has played right into al Qaeda’s hands.

He has done exactly what OBL wanted us to. OBL was very surprised when we made -no- reaction to the attack on the USS Cole, which was 3 months before Bush took office.

That is when he authorized the “Planes” operation.

By invading Iraq, we played to the side of the Arab mind that said America is nothing but of latte drinking SUV driving infidels.

And -Bush- made it impossible for moderate Arabs to defend us against such charges.

We can’t possibly kill al Qaeda operatives as fast as we create them. Thanks Schrub.

Nor can we make any return on what it costs us to kill the few al Qaeda operatives that we do catch. We are spending 2-3 billion dollars a month in Iraq.

OBL’s plan is to bankrupt us the same way he bankrupted the USSR.

With the horrible “leadership” we’ve had for the last 6 years, he is on a good course to do it.

I am not sure you can use ignorance as an excuse.

Walt

By regulator

March 23, 2007 9:48 AM | Link to this

@@, click on post. It works every time. Concentrate, I know you can do it.

By RW-(the original)

March 23, 2007 9:51 AM | Link to this

Ptfmw,

First World Trade Center bombing, Somalia, Khobar Towers, Embassy in Kenya, Embassy in Tanzania, USS Cole…to name a few. Just because you are scared to fight back doesn’t mean you aren’t at war.

By LMAO

March 23, 2007 9:54 AM | Link to this

Remember to adjust the Presidents approval ratings accordingly. If the poll says Bush has a 30% approval rating, subtract 10% for an adjusted approval rating of 20%.

Most polls go by the assumption that the parties are still equal in members, so they interview for those polls accordingly. They are not polling enough Democrats to make them accurate anymore, they are using outdated assumptions.

The current approval rating for Bush is 18%.

By Isaac Asimov

March 23, 2007 9:56 AM | Link to this

“My first thought upon seeing this toon was “what is luckovick thinking, pointing out the true colors of the democrats like this. The lefties are going to hang him or they will try and spin this to the right”.

This toon is a major slam on the left. Corruption and Dishonesty are definitely characteristic of the current Congress. Spin is the hallmark of the Democratic party. However, Incompetence describes almost ALL politicians both left and right. “

Now that’s science fiction.

By Blackadder

March 23, 2007 9:57 AM | Link to this

Today is an important day in our history. Today, the U.S. House of Representatives will pass the first binding legislation to set a deadline for withdrawal from the quaqmire in Iraq. The bill isn’t perfect, but it’s a start. This is what the American people voted for last November. This is the direction most Americans thought we’d take after the bi-partisan Iraq Study Group issued its report in December. There is a national consensus that the U.S. must get out of Iraq. The impediment is George Bush. He started this war without a plan. And, he still doesn’t have a clue. Congress has to act because our President won’t.

By Midori

March 23, 2007 9:59 AM | Link to this

I am simply LOVING this toon.

Fantastic job, Mike.

Who left the asylum doors open?

Every right wing looney and his or her momma have come out to bark at the moon via this blog.

By Walt

March 23, 2007 10:00 AM | Link to this

RW Sends:

“First World Trade Center bombing, Somalia, Khobar Towers, Embassy in Kenya, Embassy in Tanzania, USS Cole…to name a few. Just because you are scared to fight back doesn’t mean you aren’t at war.”

Do you recall how vehemently Bush opposed any commision to investigate 9/11?

Do you recall that he refused to testify under oath about the events prior to 9/11?

Do you recall that he refused to testify -alone-?

God Almight above — shame on you.

The 9/11 Commission Report showed that Bush did NOTHING to forestall an attack. Programs to fight al Qaeda he let lapse.

General Tony Zinni has amply been on the record that Iraq, at least, was thorougly contained by Clinton Administration policies.

Clinton probably did all that was possible giving the prevailing political conditions.

Bush did NOTHING before 9/11 to attack al Qaeda and he has done NOTHING effective since.

Walt

By Midori

March 23, 2007 10:05 AM | Link to this

Let’s see:

From left to right:

@@, Andy, Buy Danish and RW.

You wingnuts never looked better.

@@: love that hat, dear.

By getalife

March 23, 2007 10:05 AM | Link to this

Excellent toon Mike.

It will get worse before the worst administration ever is gone.

By Blackadder

March 23, 2007 10:06 AM | Link to this

I’m beginning to see a correlation between Bush’s poll numbers/new scandals and the anger and stupidity shown by the wingnuts on this blog.

The lower the poll numbers and intensity of scandals the nastier they become.

Let’s just sit back and watch them foam at the mouth for a while. I always find that entertaining.

By RW-(the original)

March 23, 2007 10:09 AM | Link to this

Night Train,

In reality this cartoon could apply nearly across the board to politicians of any political stripe. They probably apply less to President Bush than they do to this or the last Congress though.

LMAO,

While I’m gone how about finding the internals of one of these polls where you claim the samples are even between Republicans and Democrats.

L8R!

By Mrs. Godzilla

March 23, 2007 10:09 AM | Link to this

Blackadder

you are right on!

By Dusty

March 23, 2007 10:11 AM | Link to this

I am constantly amazed at these liberal Americans who consistently knock everything in the finest government in the world, that of the USA.

Somehow, they think that accusing the President of imcompetence, corruption, dishonesty and spin in no way affects the country. Luckovich draws wild horses which can only make me think of Democrats (Thank you, RW). Democrats are running wild and witless.

The first 100 days of “Democratic rule” have been like a street gang on the loose. Nothing but accusations, investigations, war resistence, troop demoralization (time tables and added pork to funding bills), topped off with the most blatant and rude inquisitions I have witnessed on TV (Waxman & Boxer).

Then there is the case against the Justice Department where nothing illegal has been done. The pathetic Plame adventure.

What is wrong with Democrats? Have they lost their minds and now want to lose the country?

The “New Horsemen” who are really donkey Democrats need to be tamed before they gallop off the cliff and try to take us with them.

By Walt

March 23, 2007 10:14 AM | Link to this

I wrote:

“By invading Iraq, we played to the side of the Arab mind that said America is nothing but of latte drinking SUV driving infidels.”

And at the behest of his Neo-con masters, Bush has until recently refused to talk to Iran or Syria.

Do you Bushbots -know- how STUPID that is?

Can you grasp HOW MANY American lives have been lost because Bush did not apply even the first concepts of diplomacy?

The Iraqis are Arabs.

The Iranians are Persians.

They fought a ruinous war against each other from 1980-88.

They hate each other.

Our NO-BRAINER policy from the first day was to drive them apart, and to engage the Iranians in a positive way.

But Bush didn’t do that. He drove them together.

The way to see this is that our military has had to swim against a strong tide of Bush Administration blithering incompetence.

They were set up to fail, and they have failed.

Walt

By RamblinLonghorn

March 23, 2007 10:15 AM | Link to this

http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=312

George W. Bush, savior of liberalism

By Night Train

March 23, 2007 10:15 AM | Link to this

Sorry blackadder, but the bulk of name calling and “nasties” are coming from the left not the right.

Just keep spinning it, you’re doing your party proud.

By Walt

March 23, 2007 10:16 AM | Link to this

Black Adder:

“I’m beginning to see a correlation between Bush’s poll numbers/new scandals and the anger and stupidity shown by the wingnuts on this blog.

The lower the poll numbers and intensity of scandals the nastier they become.”

Definitely concur.

Walt

By RW-(the original)

March 23, 2007 10:16 AM | Link to this

Walt,

Should I take from that little childish and uninformed rant that you were for a preemptive invasion of Afghanistan like Bob Kerrey was? If the answer is yes how do you know Iraq wasn’t a good idea?

By Blackadder

March 23, 2007 10:25 AM | Link to this

“Somehow, they think that accusing the President of imcompetence, corruption, dishonesty and spin in no way affects the country.” -Dusty

The sad thing is that you think Bush’s incompetence, corruption, dishonesty and spin in no way affects the country.

By TRY AGAIN DUMMY

March 23, 2007 10:25 AM | Link to this

By Night Train

March 23, 2007 10:15 AM | Link to this

Sorry blackadder, but the bulk of name calling and “nasties” are coming from the left not the right.

Did you miss mad as Zell’s repeat-o-gram?

LIAR

BTW some of it seems to have been scrubbed?

By Walt

March 23, 2007 10:30 AM | Link to this

Dusty:

“The first 100 days of “Democratic rule” have been like a street gang on the loose. Nothing but accusations, investigations, war resistence, troop demoralization (time tables and added pork to funding bills), topped off with the most blatant and rude inquisitions I have witnessed on TV (Waxman & Boxer).”

What has been hapeening in the last 100 days is the sort of healthy tension between the Branches of government that the Framers foresaw when they were writing the Constitution.

It is blowing itself out like a big hurricane that is pent up, and pent up and finally explodes in fury because having the corrupt Republican Party in charge of both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue backed up the sewer with scandal and sell-outs and scum and treason.

Shame on anybody who can’t see that.

Walt

By Walt

March 23, 2007 10:32 AM | Link to this

“Sorry blackadder, but the bulk of name calling and “nasties” are coming from the left not the right.”

The bulk of the scum and treason are coming from the right.

Walt

By Lord Doom

March 23, 2007 10:33 AM | Link to this

ATTENTION EVERYONE ON THIS BLOG:

Due to the shameless a*******whipping Doom applied to Buy Danish(@@) and others yesterday, it is now time for Doom to take the next step of online evolution. It will include a new ID and a more focused approach to how I deal with others and express my political views.

Doom is gone for now, I’ll be back later with further details on how this will impact everyone on the Luckovich blog.

By IN THE NEWS

March 23, 2007 10:36 AM | Link to this

IN CASE YOU DIDNT KNOW

GAO Faults US Military Over Munitions in Iraq By Ann Scott Tyson The Washington Post

Report says insurgents took unsecured explosives.

By Joe

March 23, 2007 10:41 AM | Link to this

After looking at the 4 horsemen cartoon, I was surprised. I didn’t know that Reid, Pelosi, Schumer, and Leahy served at the pleasure of the President.

By Lord Doom

March 23, 2007 10:41 AM | Link to this

Everyone please ignore the long unreadable post by IN THE NEWS AT 10:36. Doom’s post at 10:33 is much more relevant.

By Walt

March 23, 2007 10:42 AM | Link to this

“By RW-(the original)

March 23, 2007 10:16 AM | Link to this

Walt,

Should I take from that little childish and uninformed rant that you were for a preemptive invasion of Afghanistan like Bob Kerrey was? If the answer is yes how do you know Iraq wasn’t a good idea?”

Everything I have said is backed up by facts and common sense.

If you have some sort of problem with what I said, be -specific-.

But you won’t be, because you can’t gainsay anything I said.

Walt

By getalife

March 23, 2007 10:43 AM | Link to this

RW,

KSM aka “knuckleball” has admitted he did all those terrorist attacks.

War over.

Geez.

By getalife

March 23, 2007 10:48 AM | Link to this

“sad as hell” is a wingnut from the right.

By bon scott

March 23, 2007 10:48 AM | Link to this

A post so “nice”, the delusional Andy posted it twice:

[By Mad As Zell - March 23, 2007 5:04 AM - …You Benedict Arnold-flunkee-pinko-atheist-maggot-traitors at the “Ache-J-C” and other assorted left-wing liberal media outlets are a menstrating-soaked, manure-soiled bloodstain on the journalistic profession and a shameful disgrace and embarrassment to the American People. Why should the American People have to read through left-wing flame-throwing, assassination of character, lies, distortion and liberal spin just to try and stay informed.)[http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/luckovich/entries/2007/03/23/thenewhorseme.html#comment-1084229}

I particularly liked the line “menstruating-soaked”. So Andy. Ohhh, but it gets better. The most anti-American of the posters here can’t resist saying the Iraq mess and terror troubles WEREN’T ALL BUSH’S FAULT!! Medication isn’t enough enough for this schizo. Booze, as we know, is worthless. Only institutionalization will help:

I do give you credit for one back-door admission of responsibility concerning this mess.

{{The AJC has}} the blood of all 3,000-plus soldiers on your hands and are just as responsible, if not more responsible, as the idiots who have ran this damn war into a quagmire.

Sorry, the AJC didn’t send the US into a bloody wild goose chase in Iraq. For one thing, the paper didn’t have the money, the arms, the enlistees, or the authority to do it. And as I recall, the paper wasn’t exactly screaming for an invasion at the time.

The Bush gang did. And no amount of rationalizing and downright lying on your part is going to change that. The blood of those 3000 Americans are on Bush’s hands. You know, “the idiots who have ran this damn war into a quagmire”.

Oh yes. There’s blood on your hands, too.

By Truthsayer

March 23, 2007 10:56 AM | Link to this

IN THE NEWS - You pansies get it wrong all of the time. We did not go in with insufficient numbers. We won the war in less than three weeks. Mistakes were made afterward and maybe we should have raised numbers, and some Democrats were proposing that - e.g. Harry Reid in December, 2006!. However, nothing Bush or his team does will satisfy you and so you will complain if we win tomorrow.

Secondly, the Iranians have just taken British sailors in Iraqi waters. That is a clear provocation. Why did they do it? Because of people like you, Blackadder, Goldie, getalife etc… who loudly cry that we have no business over there, we need to cut and run and surrender now. You folks and the people who MISreport the news and spread DISinformantion and misinformation to the American people through outlets like the NY Times, the Washinton Post, the LA Times, the AJC, NBC, CBS, ABC, NPR, PBS and CNN (Communist and Nazi Newtwork) who have given the radical Islamofascists like Ahmadenijad the idea that we don’t have the national will to fight and we will not stand up for our allies, even such a close ally as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, our Mother Country! We gave Hitler and Tojo and Mussolini that impression in the 1930s with Lindbergh and Borah and other appeasers who insisted on having mass anti-War or “peace” rallies to let the world know we wanted no part in any “foreign” wars.

9/11 made all of this our business. Actually the first World Trade Center bombing and the bombings of the embassies in Africa and the USS Cole made it our business, but ole Billy Boy would have rather had trysts in the Oval Office than actually do something about the people attacking us. He decided it was a “law enforcement problem.” What a naive, cowardly twit he is. Now you and people like you still just want to “talk” to these jerks. You can no more reason with these nuts than you could have reasoned with Hitler. You need to sober up. Blind hatred of the President is not going to save this world from being thrown into a new Dark Age of dominance by Islamic radicals bent on destroying all of Western Civilization.

By IN THE NEWS

March 23, 2007 10:59 AM | Link to this

TRUTHSAYER

IF YOU ARE NOT A PANSY WHY ARENT YOU IN THE SERVICE?

By The Power(lessness) of 'Republican' Thinking

March 23, 2007 11:02 AM | Link to this

Truthsayer @9:19: Thanks for your list of positives, I’m impressed. Unfortunately I can only wholly agree with a couple of your claims.

(1) lowered taxes across the board- We were reminded yesterday that tax revenues are UP (ask LuckoDull). The current Republican administration has siphoned more tax revenue from the private sector than any administration at any time in the history of our nation, then they spent every last dime and borrowed more. Republicans have not cut taxes; they have simply redirected them to buy votes from their base. The amount of total amount of ‘tax’ money that they have seized from the private sector has actually increased.

(2) passed the most sweeping welfare reform ever- Done during Clinton’s watch. Bush’s record has been stagnant in that respect but I’ll grant that most of the fat had already been trimmed when he got the ball.

(3) passed a comprehensive medicaide prescription drug program- I agree 100%. The Democrats should hang their heads in shame. Since this is the largest entitlement program to come along since the ‘Great Society’ I’m frankly surprised that you list it as an accomplishment. I think that a large number of your co-partisans would disagree.

(4)during the Clinton years they balanced the budget even over the objections of Clinton and his chief economic advisor Laura D’Andrea Tyson- I remember Clinton shutting down government in order to get a balanced budget proposal, but let’s agree that this was actually a bipartisan accomplishment. Neither Clinton nor the Congress could have done so alone.

(5) strengthened the military after eight long years of neglect- This one the Republicans should hang their heads in shame over. The current administration embarked on a course of converting the military to a leaner more efficient fighting force with tragic consequences. This might come to be known as ‘Rummy’s Folly’ in the future. Sending our boys into combat without sufficient troop strength, armor, equipment, logistical support, and planning is IMHO the greatest failure of this administration.

Continued with my own list of positives—————————>

By The Power(lessness) of 'Republican' Thinking

March 23, 2007 11:02 AM | Link to this

My own positives list? Bush has a Presidential personna (at least until he speaks- LOL), he is tenacious and committed. He has reset the national mood to a more conservative focus (even Democrats are falling all over themselves to be more conservative these days). He has championed family values more positively than his predecessor. He has bucked his own faithful in order to find a responsible solution to the immigration crisis and the medicare Rx exclusions. He has many other positives, I challenge all here to find at least one thing they can say positive about Bush. If I can do it so can you.

By regulator

March 23, 2007 11:02 AM | Link to this

Andi, Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital is a nice public faclility, James Brown was once an inmate there, I know you don’t have a job, go to your local DFACS office, they will help you.

By Walt

March 23, 2007 11:07 AM | Link to this

“If the answer is yes how do you know Iraq wasn’t a good idea?”

Are you serious?

Attacking Iraq was an egregiously BAD idea and this was known in great detail -beforehand-.

And everything that has happened in Iraq was both predictable and predicted.

Didn’t you watch Senator Webb’s Democratic response to the State of the Union?

Didn’t you -know- that the CENTCOM plans - drawn up over ten years - posited that 380,000 US troops would be required to subdue Iraq?

Don’t you know -anything-?

But it looked like a no-brainer to the Bushies that if they got some of our guys killed and Bush looked presidential, it would help them in the 2004 election.

They wouldn’t have to depend on a crooked Supreme Court decision to hand them the election.

That’s why they FREAKED over Joe Wilson’s op-ed. Because exposing the false rationale for the war would hurt them in 2004, and they knew that unless they could deflect the truth, they might all wind up in prison.

And God willing, they will.

Walt

By Blackadder

March 23, 2007 11:08 AM | Link to this

“We won the war in less than three weeks.” -Truthsayer

Then why are we still there? And why do you wingnuts keep saying “We’re at war”?

By Walt

March 23, 2007 11:12 AM | Link to this

“…..he is tenacious and committed. He has reset the national mood to a more conservative focus (even Democrats are falling all over themselves to be more conservative these days). He has championed family values more positively than his predecessor.”

Hitler did all of that too.

Walt

By Blackadder

March 23, 2007 11:12 AM | Link to this

Walt 11:07

Absolutely true.

By Truthsayer

March 23, 2007 11:16 AM | Link to this

IN THE NEWS - You are making a big assumption there, DEMON-GOGUE!

Powerless - That was the Republicans under Gingrich who shut down the government and they paid a huge political price for it. Clinton opposed the balanced budget and even projected $200 billion deficits as far as the eye could see. You were completely wrong on that one. My sister was Newt’s deputy Chief of Staff at the time. I remember that one well. It was painful.

By IN THE NEWS

March 23, 2007 11:18 AM | Link to this

ITS NOT EASY BEING GREEN…

Los Alamos workers anonymously ask Congress for probe By Darren Goode, CongressDaily

A group of current and former employees at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico is asking Congress to investigate health, safety, security and management problems there, according to a government watchdog group.

It is unclear how many employees are asking for the investigation because they are not publicly revealing their involvement.

“Due to fear of retaliation by the Department of Energy management, we are sending you an anonymous letter and requesting that Congress initiate an investigation into mismanagement at the Los Alamos Site Office of the Department of Energy,” according to an undated letter to Congress widely distributed Wednesday by the Project On Government Oversight.

Pete Stockton, a senior investigator at POGO, said they received the letter two days ago and have been investigating similar claims for several years.

By Truthsayer

March 23, 2007 11:20 AM | Link to this

Powerless - Clinton signed the welfare reform bill because he had no choice. He had vetoed the IDENTICAL bill twice, but found that it was too popular, so he signed it the third time. He even told his radical supporters on the left that after the election when they won back control of Congress (they still lost) that they could just repeal it. It is still one fo the best pieces of legislation ever passed to undo the absolute miserable failure that was (and is) the Great Society Program.

By Kerry

March 23, 2007 11:21 AM | Link to this

Wow. this one’s a keeper. Mike, you have outdone yourself. My take on why these idiots are in rare form today is that they can’t combat the truth and genius of Mike’s toon. It overwhelms them. This happens a lot when faced on all sides by our administration becoming unhinged.

By Neal Summers

March 23, 2007 11:25 AM | Link to this

You knocked another one out of the park, Mike. From left to right: Dr. Strangefeld, Dick “Dr. Evil” Cheney, Al “Qaeda” Gonzalez and Fox “News”.

George W. Bush : the President Quayle we never had….

By Dusty

March 23, 2007 11:25 AM | Link to this

Truthsayer,

You do speak the truth. Democrats talk about “clearing up the mess” while making America weaker and more vulnerable.

Democratic hatred of Bush seems to blind them to what they are destroying. Unfortunately, our enemies are quite aware of Democratic efforts which are anything that attacks the Bush administration. The enemy is encouraged by our self annihilation.

Bush has made some mistakes but he has led us through tough times and is still a strong leader. I support his efforts. I see not one person in Congress who is a compelling leader able to lead our country.

By Walt

March 23, 2007 11:25 AM | Link to this

Truth Misnomer Sends:

“You pansies get it wrong all of the time. We did not go in with insufficient numbers. We won the war in less than three weeks.”

Oh, I hadn’t realized the uniformed Iraqi Army carried out the 9/11 attacks.

if the war had been only against the Iraqi Army, that would be peachy keen.

But it wasn’t and isn’t.

Walt

By Truthman

March 23, 2007 11:26 AM | Link to this

Gosh I love to watch the Republican house of cards come a’crashin’ down!!

It is now a regional reactionary party, mostly located in the South (gee, who would’ve thought…lol?) and Utah.

I’ll tell you what: We’ll let “Jesustan” secede from the Union and become the nation it was 145 years ago. We’ll even throw in Utah (watch out for Salt Lake City, though! I hear they believe science and logic).

Then y’all can have your University of Creationism and your Dick Cheney School of Laws I Don’t Have To Follow. You’ll even have Dr. Doom to lead the lynching of the gays and lesbians.

Please rise up and secede from my union.

“Jesustan Forever!”

By Alex Patrick Joyner

March 23, 2007 11:27 AM | Link to this

Brilliant ‘toon today.

Hey Bush lovers…where’re them WMDs? Ouch, that’s what I thought…

By Blackadder

March 23, 2007 11:28 AM | Link to this

The best line of Wednesday’s testimony by Al Gore came from Republican Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, obviously growing a little tired of Joe Barton’s (R-TX) incredulous line of questioning.

“It’s possible to be a conservative without appearing to be an idiot.”

Of course he’s wrong but it’s still a good line.

By getalife

March 23, 2007 11:29 AM | Link to this

Watching the debate about on the Iraq war, it is very clear that Mr. Murtha is a great leader.

The gop will vote against funding the troops.

By Alex Patrick Joyner

March 23, 2007 11:30 AM | Link to this

Brilliant ‘toon today.

Hey Bush lovers…where’re them WMDs? Ouch, that’s what I thought…

By RW-(the original)

March 23, 2007 11:32 AM | Link to this

Sheesh…I pop back in and find obfuscating Walt and his little pansy a-ss cheerleader, Balckadder, spreading even more misinformation.

Walt,

Since you never answered the first question the one that starts with “if the answer is yes” is irrelevant.

Bye again!

By Blackadder

March 23, 2007 11:32 AM | Link to this

“George W. Bush : the President Quayle we never had….” Neal Summers

LOL Very nice!

By Blackadder

March 23, 2007 11:34 AM | Link to this

“Democratic hatred of Bush seems to blind them to what they are destroying.” -Dusty

Wingnut loyalty to Bush seems to blind them to what they are destroying.

Dusty ALMOST gets it right every time. It’s just bass ackwards.

By Goldie

March 23, 2007 11:35 AM | Link to this

OMG— excellent ‘toon today, Lucko!

And the Mickey Mouse ears are too appropriate. Once again, I would laugh, but… too many dead because we have Mickey Mouse in the White House!

By IN THE NEWS

March 23, 2007 11:39 AM | Link to this

TRUTHSAYER

AND YOU AVOIDED THE SUBJECT

By Goldie

March 23, 2007 11:39 AM | Link to this

{{They excuse the blatant racism of Robert C. Byrd, the murdering Ted Kennedy, even though he is an active DRUNK, and all of the corruption and lies of the Clinton Administration and repeated protestations by Billery of “I can’t recall!”}}

Truth-Denier, yeah we may have some former KKK-ers and drunkards, etc. in our tent, but they are NOTHING COMPARED to the murderous thugs in the Repugnant Party: Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, Perle, Bremer, et al…. all Neo-Con murderers and mutilators… HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS have died because of the blood on their hands.

You must be so proud of your WAR PARTY!

By getalife

March 23, 2007 11:41 AM | Link to this

Mr. Murtha just got a standing ovation for his speech on the Iraq war.

What a great speech and a great leader.

The gop will vote against funding the troops and that is pathetic.

By Dusty

March 23, 2007 11:41 AM | Link to this

What a farce,

Democrats load so much “pork” on the war funding bill, the President may have to veto it to keep the greedy hands of Dems out of the country’s pockets.

This is the way Democrats “support the troops”. It is the most underhanded thing the Democrats have done yet. They ruin a bill for troop funding in order to spite the President. Some troop support!!!

By WHOS TRUTHSAYER

March 23, 2007 11:41 AM | Link to this

EDWIN? is that you?

FUDDY DUDDY? Is that you?

By Walt

March 23, 2007 11:44 AM | Link to this

“Since you never answered the first question the one that starts with “if the answer is yes” is irrelevant.”

The answer is no.

We never should have invaded Iraq.

Where we should have used diplomacy, we used military power.

Where we needed military power, we diverted it to a useless objective.

Walt

By Truthman

March 23, 2007 11:44 AM | Link to this

Another fine example of the care and concern by this administration towards our first responders…you know, the ones W has fighting in Iraq so they can’t respond to disasters here!!

http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msnbc.msn.com%2Fid%2F17704748%2F

Impeach the Rice B-itch now!!

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

By getalife

March 23, 2007 11:50 AM | Link to this

Way to support the troops funding by your hate party Dusty.

I will post their names after the vote.

Unpatriotic, non troop supporting failures.

Cheer them on Dusty to show how patriotic you really are.

Pathetic hypocrite.

By Goldie

March 23, 2007 11:50 AM | Link to this

Truthman— enjoyed your post @ 11:26!

By Night Train

March 23, 2007 11:59 AM | Link to this

Hey Goldie, 11:39 “Truth-Denier, yeah we may have some former KKK-ers and drunkards, etc. in our tent, but they are NOTHING COMPARED to the murderous thugs in the Repugnant Party: Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, Perle, Bremer, et al…. all Neo-Con murderers and mutilators… HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS have died because of the blood on their hands. You must be so proud of your WAR PARTY!”

Just more lies and misinformation from the left!

Facts?? “murderers and mutilators”? Who? Proof? Your delusional opinions do not make it a fact. Facts?? “Your war party” Sorry but the FACTS are that your party voted for this war also. So I guess that makes you a war monger and “murderers and mutilators” too!

What about Waco? Your party murdered woman and children! Where was your outrage?

Kennedy is just a “drunkard”, not a murderer? Nice double standard.

You ranting are getting wilder and wilder. This would be a funny blog if it wasn’t such a show place for the ignorant left propaganda.

By Blackadder

March 23, 2007 12:00 PM | Link to this

From Crooks and Liars:

During his intellectual showdown with John Bolton Tuesday, Jon Stewart argued that Abraham Lincoln was a successful President because he brought his rivals into the cabinet to ensure all points of view were heard. His point was that the Bush administration is comprised entirely of yes men that share the same world view which leads to stubborn and unpragmatic policies.

Bolton quickly shot this down, telling Jon his historical account of Lincoln was flat wrong. In order to verify the point, Jon called up Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of the book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.

“Unless Mr. Bolton knows a different Abraham Lincoln from our 16th President, which I suppose is possible, I can categorically say, and hundreds of historians will back us up, you are historically right and he is historically wrong.” -Doris Kearns Goodwin

By getalife

March 23, 2007 12:00 PM | Link to this

Captain Patrick Murphy is a rising star and giving a great speech on Iraq.

By Truthman

March 23, 2007 12:01 PM | Link to this

Thanks, Goldie, I enjoy your posts as well.

I can’t find 30 percent of anybody who supports Bush - and I work for the DoD!! The officers with whom I work are totally fed up…don’t even ask what the NCOs think as they are at the point of W’s misplaced spear!!

Non-fighting, draft-dodging, troop-hating, veteran-screwing a**holes!!

By LuckoDull

March 23, 2007 12:02 PM | Link to this

{{{By AntiRadical March 23, 2007 11:02 AM (1) lowered taxes across the board- We were reminded yesterday that tax revenues are UP (ask LuckoDull). The current Republican administration has siphoned more tax revenue from the private sector than any administration at any time in the history}}}

Spammie: May be that you have the brain power to comprehend this little nugget of information I’m fixing to share with you and, then again, maybe you don’t-

The tax cuts increased PROFITS and REVENUE which generated more taxes which is good for everyone involved.

I really don’t expect you little socialist candy as-ses to understand the workings of capitalism, I just wanted to shame your ignorant as-s.

Lock the Plame bitc-h up now!

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ (look here, truthweinie, go find your own gig.)

By moonbat betty

March 23, 2007 12:04 PM | Link to this

Good ‘toon luckovitch.

Very fitting of the new democratic party riding in on angry jackasses.

Btw, great post @ 11:50 Goldie.

Also, great post @ 11:32 Blackadder.

weeeeeee

By Goldie

March 23, 2007 12:05 PM | Link to this

Another Neo-con thug heads for the shower stalls:

Former deputy Interior secretary pleads guilty

“No crime too small, no dollars too big!”

By Goldie

March 23, 2007 12:11 PM | Link to this

{{Sorry but the FACTS are that your party voted for this war also.}}

Night-caboose, you may want to go back and look at what the Dems actually voted FOR in ‘92— and it was NOT to invade Iraq without allowing the inspectors do their jobs or without going to the U.N. first for approval. Neither of which your war-criminal president cared to do… you can twist and spin the resolution all you want, but the Dems did not go willingly into that quicksand in Iraq!

By getalife

March 23, 2007 12:13 PM | Link to this

Speaker Pelosi is rocking the House.

By Goldie

March 23, 2007 12:16 PM | Link to this

Night-caboose— as I posted earlier, your party criminals go WAY BEYOND whatever crimes you attach to certain Dems… oh, and you can add Colin Powell to the list of criminals, too— I inadvertantly left him off the named list and didn’t mean to.

Didn’t you just love when Powell went before the U.N. to make Bush’s case and he had to use cartoon drawings of those “mobile” WMD labs??? Oh, that was priceless!

By IN THE NEWS

March 23, 2007 12:16 PM | Link to this

VERY SAD

The number of deserters from the U.S. Army is higher than the military has reported.

A total of 3,196 active-duty soldiers deserted the Army last year, or 853 more than previously reported, according to revised figures from the Army.

The new calculations by the Army, which had about 500,000 active-duty troops at the end of 2006, significantly alter the annual desertion totals since the 2000 fiscal year.

WHY FUDGE THE NUMBERS

By IN THE NEWS

March 23, 2007 12:17 PM | Link to this

TRY THIS

This is David Obey’s speech on the floor this morning. Smackdown.

Speaker, yesterday a number of members on the Republican side of the aisle sought to belittle the legislation before us because in addition to funding the needs of the troops in Iraq it contains money to address a number of domestic priorities. To ridicule that legislation, they suggested — they tried to belittle items such as funding for levees in New Orleans and agriculture disaster payments . And in that they have been joined by editorial writers at papers such as “The Washington Post.”

Like The Post, the Republican speakers of yesterday indicated that their main objection to this legislation is the way it tries to create pressure to end our military involvement in an Iraqi civil war. Those speakers and the Washington Post editorial writers make no effort to understand why these additional items are there. They simply ridicule them for their own purposes…Let me submit to you the problem we have today is not that we didn’t listen enough to people like the Washington Post. It’s that we listened too much. They endorsed going to war in the first place. They helped drive the drumbeat that drove almost 2/3 of the people in this chamber to vote for that misguided, ill-advised war. So I make no apology.

If the moral sensibilities of some people on this floor, or the editorial writers of The Washington Post are offended because they don’t like the specific language contained in our benchmarks or in our timelines. What matters in the end is not what the specific language is. What matters is whether or not we produce a product today that puts pressure on this Administration and sends a message to Iraq, to the Iraqi politicians that we’re going to end the permanent long-term dead end babysitting service. That’s what we’re trying to do. And if The Washington P ost is offended about the way we do it, that’s just too bad. But we’re in the arena. They’re not. And this is the best we can do given the tools that we have. And I make absolutely no apology for it. And I would say one thing, those of us who voted against the war in the first place wouldn’t have nearly as hard a time getting us out of the war if people like The Washington Post and those who criticized us on the floor yesterday hadn’t supported going into that stupid war in the first place.

By Goldie

March 23, 2007 12:17 PM | Link to this

INDICT CHENEY & RUMSFELD, ET AL!!!

By IN THE NEWS

March 23, 2007 12:18 PM | Link to this

BUSH SAID HE DIDNT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS STUFF

Internal administration e-mails show that the Justice Department postponed the firings for nearly three weeks late last year while awaiting White House approval. The final consent came on Dec. 4, four days after Bush returned from an overseas trip, once several senior White House officials signed off on the plan. It is not known if Bush himself did.

Harriet Miers, then White House counsel, had warned in a Nov. 15 e-mail to the Justice Department that approval of the firings would be delayed if Bush had to OK the plan.

“Not sure whether this will be determined to require the boss’s attention. If it does, he just left last night, so would not be able to accomplish for some time,” Miers wrote in the e-mail, which was among a batch of e-mails and other internal documents related to the firings that were released by the Justice Department last week.

By Goldie

March 23, 2007 12:20 PM | Link to this

Blackadder @ 12:00 — thanks for that great link! I hope to see the replay tonight @ 8:00…

By moonbat betty

March 23, 2007 12:20 PM | Link to this

Goldie, Blackadder, or Truthman,

Did any of you go up to DC for the protests last weekend?

By So much for an honorable congress

March 23, 2007 12:25 PM | Link to this

Isn’t it great to be a Democrat? My only concern is why I didn’t get my share of the PORK from the spending bill. Oh I forgot, my taxes will now go up——Isn’t it great to be a Democrat? Barffffff

By Blackadder

March 23, 2007 12:32 PM | Link to this

The wingnuts probably won’t bother reading this all the way through because they have an inherent need to block out the truth. It does a great job of separating fact from fiction.

By Goldie

March 23, 2007 12:37 PM | Link to this

Even many “conservatives” today know that Bush & Co. are LIARS! Such as Andrew Sullivan:

“In other words, there was uncertainty; there was an internationally mandated program to reduce that uncertainty; that program did so; its results were consciously ignored, dismissed and ridiculed. Those who did so were wrong. They choose to believe and act on what they wished to be true, rather than on what the best available hard data told them.”

Instead, America is stuck with the cheerleading 30%-ers who won’t even consider the “best available hard data” and who continue to support this corrupt administration in the White House… so very sad!

By Walt

March 23, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this

“By So much for an honorable congress

March 23, 2007 12:25 PM | Link to this

Isn’t it great to be a Democrat? My only concern is why I didn’t get my share of the PORK from the spending bill. Oh I forgot, my taxes will now go up——Isn’t it great to be a Democrat? Barffffff”

Assuming you are a Republican, what are you most proud of right now?

Walt

By Buy Danish

March 23, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this

{{{By Midori

March 23, 2007 9:59 AM

Who left the asylum doors open?}}}

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Let’s see - it could have been Sybil Bon Scott, One Punk Pig, or the Deranged Doomster…

Do be sure to thank them Midori!

By Midori

March 23, 2007 12:46 PM | Link to this

{{{sniff, sniff}}}

one can always tell when Hag Danish shows up.

the blog is permeated with the smell of rotting fish.

I’ll be back after the fumigation.

In the meantime, I’m going to bleach my monitor.

By getalife

March 23, 2007 12:48 PM | Link to this

Only 2 hate party, unpatriotic, non troop supporting members voted to fund the troops.

The bill passed and the gop showed their true colors.

Excellent work Dems.

By moonbat betty

March 23, 2007 12:49 PM | Link to this

that’s just the smell of your upper lip midori.

By Night Train

March 23, 2007 12:50 PM | Link to this

Goldie…Goldie you poor ignorant person. Until a person is convicted of a crime, they are not a criminal. So your actuations that all those politicians are criminals are just your delusional lies!

Let’s slow this spin down a little goldie… What your party voted for in 1992 has no bearing on what the voted for in 2002. From 92 to 02 was plenty of time for the UN sanctions to work. Unfortunately they did not.

By Randy

March 23, 2007 12:53 PM | Link to this

Mikey - You’re big on the ears with Bush aren’t you?

Hows bout the ears on them dems?

Not Just the Ears

Not only is delay over this bill’s passage slowing the war effort in Iraq, but it also is sabotaging the war on the deficit.

Congress must fight wars on two fronts. One, by far the more important, is a military war to preserve our way of life and defend us from radical Muslims who seek to destroy us.

The second is a struggle against recklessly increased government spending and rising entitlements, and the higher taxes that necessarily accompany it. Higher taxes gradually destroy our economic power at home, as they have whittled away economic power in Europe, according to Nobel laureate economist Edward Prescott of Arizona State University.

Nevertheless, the Senate Budget Committee seeks to reassure us that “Congress will take steps to counter the effects of the expiration of tax cuts in 2010 …,” specifically that “Congress will take aggressive steps to close the tax gap, the amount of taxes owed under current law but not collected.”

This is hogwash. The IRS has been trying to collect unpaid back taxes for decades. It recently estimated that the tax gap for 2001 is $345 billion, and it expects eventually to collect $55 billion of that amount. Although it could collect slightly more than that, it’s not credible that an extra $400 billion could materialize by 2012.

The dems can’t even get their horses out of the gate. They’re dead in the water in 2008.

Read it and weep.

By Walt

March 23, 2007 12:59 PM | Link to this

“Goldie…Goldie you poor ignorant person. Until a person is convicted of a crime, they are not a criminal.”

That’s not much help when the presdident declares you an enemy combatant and locks you in solitary for 3.5 years the way Bush to an American citizen named Jose Padilla.

Bush should have been impeached just for that.

By Oh almost forgot

March 23, 2007 1:01 PM | Link to this

Great post Randy.

Thank you so much for your link Randy. It was very enlightening.

Spot on about the dems Randy.

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

You libs and your party are pathetic losers.

By IN THE NEWS

March 23, 2007 1:19 PM | Link to this

In arguing for property tax reductions for middle-class homeowners on the Senate floor this week, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) gave a speech that really puts the Bush economy into perspective. The GOP likes to rave about how wonderful things are in the U.S. economy and Sanders spells out exactly why only the wealthiest among us seem to feel all this euphoria, while most average Americans are sucking wind:

Here’s Senator Sanders:

“I wonder how the Bush administration can tell us how great the economy is doing when more than 5 million Americans have slipped into poverty since the President has been in office, including over 1 million children. That is not a booming economy.

“How can the economy be doing well when median income for working-age families has declined for 5 years in a row and when the personal savings rate in this country now is below zero, something which has not happened since the Great Depression?

“How can our economy be doing well when almost 7 million Americans have lost their health insurance since President Bush has been in office and when, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 35 million Americans struggled to put food on the table last year and hunger in America is increasing? If hunger is increasing, that, to my mind, does not sound like a booming economy.

“How can people talk about our economy doing so well when college students are graduating with about $20,000 in debt and some 400,000 qualified high school students don’t go to college because they can’t afford it? We all talk about education, education, education. Hundreds of thousands of young people cannot afford to go to college.

“How can our economy be doing great when home foreclosures have skyrocketed to the highest level in nearly four decades, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association, and when we have lost over 3 million good-paying manufacturing jobs since President Bush has been in office?

“How can our economy be doing so great when 3 million fewer American workers have pension coverage today than when President Bush took office, and half of private sector American workers have no pension coverage whatsoever?

“When the President of the United States and his administration tell us the economy is doing great, well, they are partially right. While the economy is not doing well for the middle class or working families of our country, i

By Daniel

March 23, 2007 1:24 PM | Link to this

Valerie Plame: Professional, articulate, dedicated, patriotic, honest, poised, athletic and beautiful. Rove: Political hack, overweight, awkward, dishonest, unpatriotic, crude and ugly.

By IN THE NEWS

March 23, 2007 1:25 PM | Link to this

When Al Gore appeared on the Hill yesterday to talk about global warming, James Inhofe was a complete **. I don’t mean just your average, run-of-the-mill, anti-science idiot, he went out of his way to be rude to Gore and bait him, carving out new territory in GOP public *holedom. On whose behalf was he appearing?

Good question. Over at Kos, Rp has the answer:

Top contributor for 2006 by industry sector, 1) Energy and Natural Resources: $604,965.

Top contributor for 2006 by industry: 1) Oil and Gas: $319,708, 2) Electric Utilities: $195,907.

Top individual contributors for 2006, 1) Murray Energy Corp: $22,800, 2) Koch Industries: $22,750

Travel Financed by Special Interests for 2006 Cycle: 34 trips

Total Cost of trips: $45,131.92

Sponsor of most trips: Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Assn.

Top contributor for 2004 by industry sector, 1) Energy and Natural Resources: $590,219.

Top contributor for 2004 by industry: 1) Oil and Gas: $304,156, 2) Electric Utilities: $188,713.

Top individual contributors for 2004, 1) Murray Energy Corp: $33,200, 2) Koch Industries: $22,750

Top contributor for 2002 Election by industry sector, 1) Energy and Natural Resources: $533,519.

Top contributor for 2002 Election by industry: 1) Oil and Gas: $284,706, 2) Electric Utilities: $162,213.

Top individual contributors for 2002 Election, 1) National Republican Senatorial Cmte $33,500, 2) Murray Energy Corp: $33,200, 3) Koch Industries: $16,750

By Night Train

March 23, 2007 1:28 PM | Link to this

Can we spell VETO?

Oh! the pigs will be squealing over all this lost pork!

By IN THE NEWS

March 23, 2007 1:40 PM | Link to this

NIGHT TRAIN

TWIT

CAN YOU SAY EXPECTED THE VETO

CAN YOU SAY RETHUGS NOW ON RECORD

CAN YOU SAY ANTI_RETHUG LANDSLIDE 2008

By Jesus

March 23, 2007 1:41 PM | Link to this

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!

By getalife

March 23, 2007 1:41 PM | Link to this

Veto funding the troops?

Not.

Idiot.

By Chuck

March 23, 2007 1:43 PM | Link to this

Time for Mad As Zell and all of his other like-minded believers to get back on their meds.

By Dusty

March 23, 2007 1:55 PM | Link to this

Pretty dark day when Democrats try to undermine our war efforts. The House is trying to give our enemies a time table while loading their home “table” with goodies. So let’s see how it went: 216 Democrats and 2 shameful Republicans voted for this cut’run’bill and billions of dollars of “Pelosi pork” for the Dems.

198 Republicans and 14 patriotic Democrats voted against this bill.

President Bush wil have to veto any bill that gives stength to the enemy. Democrats know that and will immediately launch into their planned “he doesn’t support the troops” mantra.

Democrats have given us a new kind of Americanism, the kind that openly expresses support for the enemy.

Our troops are not waving white flags. The Democrats (and 2 Republicans) are doing just that.

I commend the fourteen Democrats who cared more about the troops than their party’s offer of goodies. The rest I nominate for the Benedict Arnold Award.

By Richard Perle

March 23, 2007 1:58 PM | Link to this

In light of the emotional responses, from both sides, to this morning’s editorial cartoon, I thought it well to state the unvarnished truth regarding the Bush Administration vis-a-vis the Iraq War. Being a former member of the Defense Policy Board and and a long-time advocate for regime change in Iraq, among others nations, I am well-positioned to describe the events which lead us to this place in history.

Allow me to begin by addressing the oft made assertion that the Iraq War was of a Wilsonian character. That is to say that it was driven by liberal- leaning thoughts regarding the use of force to free people’s from tryants and tyranny. Nothing could be further from the truth. The mere fact that the effort appears in every respect to be based upon liberal ideology and academic theory rather than on actual, identifiable national security concerns, is of no moment. The reason that this war is based on conservative principles is simple. The President and those who support the war call themselves conservative. The people opposed are called liberals. Therefore, as you can see, the Iraq war is not liberal, even though it bears every identifiable trademark of the type of war (no exit strategy, no national interest, based on idealism rather than realism, etc…) that conservatives had, for generations, had called liberal. You see, 9/11 changed everything.

Next let me state that the so-called neo-cons were not wrong about everything. While we must admit that we were slightly off on the cost, the time needed to succeed, the being greeted with roses thing, the lean force thing, the disbanding the army thing, and the no sectarian violence thing and numerous others, we were right in that we said we would win the invasion. It seems to me that Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rummy, Bush and especially myself should receive credit for that prescience. I point this out to demonstrate that although we were wrong about most everything, it does not follow that we can’t be right now and then and therefore, while we may have created a complete disaster (some would call it a ‘disaster-f**k’) in Iraq, we certainly shoudn’t be ignored as we advise on the best way to move forward. After all, like a batter on a 0 for 23 run, we are due.

As a final note I would say that those who point out that self-described liberals won the war against the Nazi’s and the Jap’s in less time than it has taken Bush to secur

By getalife

March 23, 2007 1:59 PM | Link to this

dummy dusty,

Those dems vowed to cut the funding to stop this disaster idiot.

Geez.

By Walt

March 23, 2007 2:03 PM | Link to this

Dusty sends:

“Pretty dark day when Democrats try to undermine our war efforts.”

Bush has had 5 + years to run our “war effort.”

He’s made a total hash of it and no patriot can support him any longer.

Congress has GOT To act. That is what the people of the country clearly want.

You’re so bleeping stupid you support Bush when HE lost the Congressional majorities in both houses through extreme maladroitness.

If he had fired Rumsfeld on 1 October, the Repubs would likely have held both houses.

How can you be so -stupid-?

Everything Bush touches turns to crap.

Walt

By Blackadder

March 23, 2007 2:04 PM | Link to this

It’s been a while since I saw this photo but I never get tired of it. That’s our W! In case the wingnits miss the joke, the lens caps are on.

By Can you say

March 23, 2007 2:07 PM | Link to this

Bush’s support for the troops and their efforts has been on the front page of every newspaper for the last four years.

Just because the dumba-ss democrats are IN THE NEWS doesn’t mean the american people are as dumb as they are.

They’ll see right through the dems budget ploy.

dems=Clueless leaders.

By getalife

March 23, 2007 2:07 PM | Link to this

w is whining and will veto.

No funding for the troops, bring them home.

Nice work Dems.

The American people have been heard.

Thank you.

By Dusty

March 23, 2007 2:08 PM | Link to this

goofy getalife,

Those dems voted to give the enemy a time table and themselves generous portions of “Pelosi pork”.

Golly gee.

By Blackadder

March 23, 2007 2:09 PM | Link to this

My apologies - apparently the first site doesn’t like their photos linked.

It’s been a while since I saw this photo but I never get tired of it. That’s our W! In case the wingnits miss the joke, the lens caps are on.

By John Q Public

March 23, 2007 2:12 PM | Link to this

How’s this for idiotic?

“Pretty dark day when Democrats try to undermine our war efforts.”

Most of us want this war to end. We will work within the system, using every avenue to do so.

Who the hell are you to question the will of the people of this nation?

Why do you hate America and the values it stands for? Why do you deny the Constitution? Why do you support traitors? Why do you stand for torture? Why to you approve sending under-trained ill-equipped soldiers into a war zone? Why do you stand by and watch our troops come home and get treated like crap?

This is the United States of America. Love it or Leave it.

I bet there are a bunch of folks who would pay for your ticket.

By Walt

March 23, 2007 2:15 PM | Link to this

“No funding for the troops, bring them home.

Nice work Dems.”

That is exactly the way the Framers knew the system would operate.

Walt

By Blackadder

March 23, 2007 2:16 PM | Link to this

John Q. Public 2:12

Well stated!

By Dusty

March 23, 2007 2:18 PM | Link to this

By Walt @2:03

“Everything Bush touches turns to crap.”

Really?? And when did he touch you, Walt?

By getalife

March 23, 2007 2:20 PM | Link to this

Not to worry crusty,

w said he would veto the funding.

No funding, no war.

Brilliant.

Bwhahahaha.

The majority of the American people have been heard.

Thank you Speaker Pelosi and Mr. Murtha.

By 5th Grade Teacher

March 23, 2007 2:20 PM | Link to this

Dusty, you get back into class this minute!

By getalife

March 23, 2007 2:23 PM | Link to this

I think Dusty maybe one of @@’s kids.

Run along Dusty, adults talking politics here.

By Walt

March 23, 2007 2:25 PM | Link to this

“Those dems voted to give the enemy a time table and themselves generous portions of “Pelosi pork”.

DICK Cheney has received $40,000,000 in compensation from Halliburton.

Walt

By Walt

March 23, 2007 2:27 PM | Link to this

“By Dusty

March 23, 2007 2:18 PM | Link to this

By Walt @2:03

“Everything Bush touches turns to crap.”

Really?? And when did he touch you, Walt?”

When he took the oath of office.

He has dragged the Flag through the mud and made us comparable to the Nazis.

I don’t find any of that very pleasant.

Walt

By David

March 23, 2007 2:30 PM | Link to this

The cartoon accurately portrays the way things are. It shouldn’t come as any surprise to the idiots who elected these oil foxes into the government henhouse.

By Blackadder

March 23, 2007 2:30 PM | Link to this

“DICK Cheney has received $40,000,000 in compensation from Halliburton.” -Walt

You forgot to add “…since becoming VP”. I still find it funny that the wingnuts don’t see a problem with Halliburton’s no-bid contract awards.

By CAN YOU SAY THIS TOO

March 23, 2007 2:30 PM | Link to this

“”Bush’s support for the troops and their efforts has been on the front page of every newspaper for the last four years.”“

The names of the dead soldiers are WHERE?

The names of the dead Iraqis are where?

THE WMDS ARE WHERE?

By Dusty

March 23, 2007 2:31 PM | Link to this

getalife,

I’m sure you do have adults at the old folk’s home. They’re a good crowd. Enjoy!

5th grade teacher,

I thought you got fired last week for helping with the “bong” banner. There’s plenty of openings over at the fish factory. Hope you have the credentials to get hired.

By Blackadder

March 23, 2007 2:32 PM | Link to this

Another photo of bush desecrating our nation’s flag. Some patriot he is.

By RW&B

March 23, 2007 2:35 PM | Link to this

Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi says “let them eat cake” after scurulous attempt to deprive our troops of funding while they are at war. Laughing and obviously amused, Pelosi issued her remark to a nearby subordinate shortly after Democrats voted to betray the troops through sabotaging legislation needed to fund their heroic efforts.

This wanker should choke on her filthy vomit. Democrats are traitors to America and the world.

By Ellen Faust

March 23, 2007 2:35 PM | Link to this

WOW!!!

By 5th Grade Teacher

March 23, 2007 2:36 PM | Link to this

Fish used to be abundant in clean seas.

They don’t make them in factories.

I could as easily filet your weak arguments.

By Daniel

March 23, 2007 2:41 PM | Link to this

Blackadder: My personal favorite is the photo-op of Bush on the Aircraft Carrier! They gussied the thing up to pretend they were in the Gulf! Actually, they were just off San Diego! Bush had them manouver the Carrier so that his photo shot had the setting Sun in the background.

By Truthman

March 23, 2007 2:42 PM | Link to this

If China ever decides to value it’s currency against the Euro instead of the USD, then all the smug repugs on this site will see how good W’s economy is…you know, the one’s who won’t go fight because their prez didn’t think fighting in Vietnam was important!!

By Walt

March 23, 2007 2:42 PM | Link to this

“DICK Cheney has received $40,000,000 in compensation from Halliburton.” -Walt

You forgot to add “…since becoming VP”.

Did you see that on FOX?

Probably not.

Walt

By Walt

March 23, 2007 2:43 PM | Link to this

“DICK Cheney has received $40,000,000 in compensation from Halliburton.” -Walt

You forgot to add “…since becoming VP”.

Did you see that on FOX?

Probably not.

Walt

By Lord Doom

March 23, 2007 2:47 PM | Link to this

ATTENTION EVERYONE ON THIS BLOG:

As promised at 10:33, Doom is announcing his new ID: Due to the neverending verbal a*******whippings that I apply to Buy Danish(@@) and her cohorts on this blog, it necessary for Doom to embark upon the next online evolutionary step. I have chosen an ID that more adequately reflects the reality of what you all experience when dealing with me and what I represent on this blog. From now on I will go by the monicker ‘Power of Doom’.

By John Q Public

March 23, 2007 2:47 PM | Link to this

RW & B

You are an apt reprentative of your un-evolved species. Too smart to be a chimp, too greedy and ignorant to be a human being.

You may have interpreted Speaker Pelosi’s words as let them eat cake, but it was Cheney who said , Go ** Youself” and it is Bush who is taking food out of the mouths of monumentally increasing number of genuinely poor people in this country.

Soon you will find people avoiding you. Nobody wants to be near evil.

By radogaast

March 23, 2007 3:00 PM | Link to this

Cartoon reminds me of the 14 c. Roman de Fauvel. Rampant corruption! Bush = Fauvel (unfortunately portrayed as a ‘donkey’) with the corrupt vices waiting to Curry Fauvel - curry favor -

By NoMoreLies

March 23, 2007 3:00 PM | Link to this

Enough with all the lies. Here’s the truth. During the first two years in office, Reagan replaced 89 of the 93 DAs; Bush 41 replaced 88 of them; Clinton replaced 89 of them. These faux-conservatives are destroying the Republican party. $10 Trillion in debt is NOT conservative. Doubling the size of government is NOT conservative. Mr. Government Man in the bedroom, bathroom, doctor’s office, and so on is NOT conservative. If they argue with you by name calling instead of with better ideas, they are NOT conservative. All the pro-Bushies on this page are NOT conservatives. They are way the majority of true conservatives, like me, have turned their backs on Bush. Hopefully the Lou Dobbs conservatives will start pushing their weight around.

By Power of Doom

March 23, 2007 3:02 PM | Link to this

Passing a bill that orders troops home by next fall will result in decreased troop support between now and then. When additional resources are requested, the military and/or suppliers will respond by saying “What do you need them for? Your coming home soon.” This will, in turn, result in more deaths because of a like of adequate resources.

By Walt

March 23, 2007 3:06 PM | Link to this

“If China ever decides to value it’s currency against the Euro instead of the USD, then all the smug repugs on this site will see how good W’s economy is…”

Will Wal-Mart let them do that?

Walt

By NoMoreLies

March 23, 2007 3:09 PM | Link to this

Enough with all the lies. Here’s the truth. During the first two years in office, Reagan replaced 89 of the 93 DAs; Bush 41 replaced 88 of them; Clinton replaced 89 of them. These faux-conservatives are destroying the Republican party. $10 Trillion in debt is NOT conservative. Doubling the size of government is NOT conservative. Mr. Government Man in the bedroom, bathroom, doctor’s office, and so on is NOT conservative. If they argue with you by name calling instead of with better ideas, they are NOT conservative. All the pro-Bushies on this page are NOT conservatives. They are way the majority of true conservatives, like me, have turned their backs on Bush. Hopefully the Lou Dobbs conservatives will start pushing their weight around.

By Power of Love

March 23, 2007 3:14 PM | Link to this

Power of Doom says our troops will become slackers.

GI Joe says “We’re going home in a few months I’m not up to patrol today”

GI Jane says “I’m not going to do any house to house searches I need to do my nails”

You underestimate these great kids.

You may be right about the contractors.

By Dusty

March 23, 2007 3:15 PM | Link to this

John Q. Public,

Have you been on safari or something? Bush has been sending food supplies all over the world,(tsunmi, Katrina, Darfur,etc.) And poor people in this country get more help than anywhere in the world. Yet you say that Bush is taking food out of the mouths of poor people.

Is that why you Democrats have added TWENTY BILLION Pelosi-pork dollars to a bill that was supposed to be funding the troops?? You think that was for poor people? NOOO..just anybody who lives in pro-Democratic voting districts.

You might chalk up another “evil”: Presenting false facts as the truth.

By Power of Doom

March 23, 2007 3:19 PM | Link to this

Power of Love,

Doom was referring to the contractors and everyone else who provide services for the troops.

By Blackadder

March 23, 2007 3:25 PM | Link to this

“Passing a bill that orders troops home by next fall…” -Doom

I understood it to be the fall of 2008. Correct me if I’m wrong.

By John Q. Public

March 23, 2007 3:26 PM | Link to this

Dusty

Look at the published numbers for people living below the poverty level in this country.

Take careful not of the number in 2001 and the number in 2006.

After finding them, print them out, read them, attempt to understand their implications then tear them up into little pieces and chew them up.

See if you could live on that.

You are right about the pork.
Some Dems learned a thing or two from the GOP and got some votes for special projects.

If we got rid of the pork would you support an time table to end the war? Or is that what you are really mad at? Pork didn’t seem to bother you before now.

By Josh Marshall

March 23, 2007 3:27 PM | Link to this

I’ve said quite a few times now that this administration has a deep anti-constitutionalist bent. And now Tony Snow has come out and said it flat out.

This morning Snow told ABC News: “The executive branch is under no compulsion to testify to Congress, because Congress in fact doesn’t have oversight ability.”

By Power of Doom

March 23, 2007 3:28 PM | Link to this

Blackadder,

Yes, you are correct. Sept.1,2008.

By Josh Marshall

March 23, 2007 3:31 PM | Link to this

An example of some of the “pork” the wingnuts are crying about is a provision for medical care for our troops who suffer from head trauma. The Dems had to step in because Bush dropped the ball.

By RE

March 23, 2007 3:31 PM | Link to this

Walter Jones

This is one of the republicans who voted to set a timetable today. Why do you think he did that, because he doesn’t “support the troops”?

Check his district, he represents Ft Bragg, Camp Lejune, Seymor Jhonson airbase and cherry point.

This guy is all about doing what the armed forces want

By Buy Danish

March 23, 2007 3:32 PM | Link to this

Can any of you moonbats explain to me why the Idiot Dems loaded up their Iraq Spending Spree Bill with all this pork, since they knew Bush was going to veto it anyway?

Did these morons think that Pelosi’s bribes were actually going to result in more money for mangoes?

Just over an hour later, Bush appeared at the White House alongside veterans and family members of troops to accuse Democrats of staging nothing more than political theater that delays the delivery of resources to soliders fighting in Iraq. If the spending bill is not approved and signed into law by April 15, Bush said troops and their families “will face significant disruptions

Does Reckless Spending and Slow Bleed sound like a winning strategy to you?

Other than our IslamoFascist enemies, who is rejoicing over this so-called “Democratic victory”?

Is this what you want to run on in 2008??

By Josh Marshall

March 23, 2007 3:33 PM | Link to this

Josh Marshall 3:27

You would think that the White House spokesman would know the fundamentals of our Constitution but sadly, no.

By Truthsayer

March 23, 2007 3:33 PM | Link to this

John Q. Public - As the great Benjamin Disraeli said: There are lies, there are damn lies and then there are statistics. What we call the poverty level in this country is upper middle class in MOST of the rest of the world. 99% of “poor” Americans have electricity, television, radio and 77% have air conditioning. Only 10% of all people in France have air conditioning, and believe me they do need it in the summer time. Go around saying how awful this country is all you want, but I have lived elsewhere and rich or poor, I wouldn’t live anywhere else!

By Blackadder

March 23, 2007 3:39 PM | Link to this

Truthsayer - so poor Americans should be happy to have their situations worsened so they will be on par with the poor of other nations?

By John Q. Public

March 23, 2007 3:39 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish still drinks the kool aid.

Isn’t Bush using our troops as props AGAIN sound a bit like staged political theater?

Was there a banner put up/not put up by his handlers behind him that says Mission Accomplished?

All we want is to end this war.

All he wants is oil.

Wake up and smell the petroleum.

By Walt

March 23, 2007 3:39 PM | Link to this

“Have you been on safari or something? Bush has been sending food supplies all over the world,(tsunmi, Katrina, Darfur,etc.) And poor people in this country get more help than anywhere in the world. Yet you say that Bush is taking food out of the mouths of poor people.”

You make it sound as if the Katrina victims were foreigners.

That’s how Bush sees them too.

The amount of money initially pledged by Bush for tsuanmi relief was humiliatingly small, like $40,000,000.

Can you imagine how much good will we would have generated if we had fought the war on terror by showing that al Qaeda was -wrong- about us, instead of doing exactly what they expected, which is act like Nazis?

Stop and think. Don’t just listen to FOX. You exhibit every symptom of being a FOX devotee.

Walt

By RE

March 23, 2007 3:39 PM | Link to this

Love the TPM site, great work on persueing the attorney firing story.

By John Q. Public

March 23, 2007 3:47 PM | Link to this

Truthsayer

You tell a starving American kid how much better he has it than a kid in Darfur.

I just bet you would. Probably while shoving a McBurger in your face.

You go around pretending this country is perfect and accept the consequences.

I won’t. I believe in America and its destiny of greatness.

Why don’t you want America to be better? Why don’t you want to feed our hungry kids? Why don’t you want to educate our kids?

Why don’t you want America to work to be best in all things?

You sir, are no Patriot.

By Blackadder

March 23, 2007 3:49 PM | Link to this

The DOD regulations make clear that the White House cannot use uniformed military, active duty or veterans, as props in political events. But that’s what Bush did today when he used current or former troops in uniform as window dressing for his political press conference attacking the Democrats as un-American. Is this now the official policy of the US military, that Democrats don’t support the troops? What are we, a banana republic now?

By Blackadder

March 23, 2007 3:51 PM | Link to this

Let me quote the relevant regulations…

Regarding active duty troops, it is DoD policy that:

3.1. The wearing of the uniform by members of the Armed Forces (including retired members and members of Reserve components) is prohibited under any of the following circumstances:

3.1.1. At any meeting or demonstration that is a function of, or sponsored by an organization, association, movement, group, or combination of persons that the Attorney General of the United States has designated, under Executive Order 10450 as amended (reference (c)), as totalitarian, fascist, communist, or subversive, or as having adopted a policy of advocating or approving the commission of acts of force or violence to deny others their rights under the Constitution of the United States, or as seeking to alter the form of Government of the United States by unconstitutional means.

3.1.2. During or in connection with furthering political activities, private employment or commercial interests, when an inference of official sponsorship for the activity or interest may be drawn.

3.1.3. Except when authorized by the approval authorities in subparagraph

4.1.1., when participating in activities such as unofficial public speeches, interviews, picket lines, marches, rallies or any public demonstration, which may imply Service sanction of the cause for which the demonstration or activity is conducted.

By Blackadder

March 23, 2007 3:52 PM | Link to this

And regarding retired vets:

3.2. Former members of the Armed Forces, unless under another provision of this Instruction or under the terms of Section 772 of title 10, United States Code (reference (d)), who served honorably during a declared or undeclared war and whose most recent service was terminated under honorable conditions may wear the uniform in the highest grade held during such war service only on the following occasions and in the course of travel incident thereto:

3.2.1. Military funerals, memorial services, weddings, and inaugurals.

3.2.2. Parades on National or State holidays; or other parades or ceremonies of a patriotic character in which any Active or Reserve United States military unit is taking part.

3.2.3. Wearing of the uniform or any part thereof at any other time or for any other purposes is prohibited.

3.3. Medal of Honor holders may wear the uniform at their pleasure except under the circumstances set forth in paragraph 3.1., above.

So, no one can wear the uniforms at political events, which this most certainly was, vets can’t wear them at anything short of funerals, weddings and parades, and medal of honor winners can wear them at more events, but still not at political events, which this was.

But and the Republicans only like our veterans when they can use them, and when they have 4 limbs.

By John Q. Public

March 23, 2007 3:52 PM | Link to this

It’s like Joyce Rumsfeld asking if the injured troops were being hand picked for photo ops and being told yes.

Disgusting.

Using our fighting men and women for what is no more than personal gain.

By Power of Doom

March 23, 2007 3:53 PM | Link to this

Jesus said “the poor you will have with you always”. The difference between the poor in impoverished nations is they didn’t have a choice, and are typically born into the most hopeless of situations on earth. The poor kids here, are born into a system that provides the means for them to get out if they choose to. Continued left wing brainwashing is what keeps them there.

By Blackadder

March 23, 2007 4:02 PM | Link to this

I’m out - you all have a great weekend!

By John Q. Public

March 23, 2007 4:04 PM | Link to this

Jesus also said “Blessed are the Peacemakers” but I don’t see a whole lot of wingnuts paying much attention to that.

That tired old conservative talking point about the US creating its own poor just doesn’t fly.

Do you ask the poor starving man why he’s poor before you offer him a meal?

By Truthman

March 23, 2007 4:19 PM | Link to this

Power of Doom at 3:02:

yet another misuse of English in your last sentence;

…result in more deaths because of a “like” of adequate resources.

Now, that is not a typo, nor is it the correct word.

No more posts until you complete elementary grammer…back to school.

“Jesustan Forever!!”

By LuckoDull

March 23, 2007 4:20 PM | Link to this

{{{By John Q. Wanker March 23, 2007 4:04 PM Jesus also said “Blessed are the Peacemakers” but I don’t see a whole lot of wingnuts paying much attention to that.}}}

The Islamofascists have said that there will be peace on Earth after they have killed all of us.

If it makes you feel better inside your little belly to be their friend, then go ahead and show them your neck.

Jesus will let me know when it’s time to depart this world and I haven’t heard him calling yet.

And you damn sure don’t speak for him either.

Lock the Plame bitc-h up now!

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By Buy Danish

March 23, 2007 4:21 PM | Link to this

Wow! Snake worked until 4:02 today! I wonder if he will demand time and a half for the extra two minutes.

By Dusty

March 23, 2007 4:23 PM | Link to this

John Q. Public,

I think you are a bit confused. A family of four making up to forty thousand a year can be called impoverished in America. Their children are not starving. In fact, I have not heard of any starving children here except by criminal neglect.

Somehow you have misguided images in your mind, just like Walt who thinks I don’t know “Katrina” was in America.

Power of Doom tried to explain a real starving child of poverty in desperate places such as Darfur. They hardly have a chance as opposed to the children of “poverty” in America.

Americans are the most generous people in the world. You could at least give your own President and citizens a little credit instead of your poor perception of real life.

By LuckoDull

March 23, 2007 4:28 PM | Link to this

{{{By ma-sturbator March 23, 2007 11:02 AM Andi, Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital is a nice public faclility, James Brown was once an inmate there, I know you don’t have a job, go to your local DFACS office, they will help you.}}}

Look junior, I appreciate the assistance, I even got one for you. I know a place where you can go and be with your kind of people, shut the door behind you and just let it all hang out.

You needn’t worry over me at all, in fact, I’ll bet your new friends won’t give you much time to think of me at all.

It’s called Little Richards on Northside Drive, check it out.

Lock the Plame bitc-h up now!

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By Truthman

March 23, 2007 4:29 PM | Link to this

Shoot, Jesus called me on cellphone today.

Largest group of people receiving welfare:

White children of single, white mothers.

Largest group of people receiving corporate welfare:

Fat, white businessmen who vote Repug and sell our country to China and ruin our environment!

Of course, don’t let facts get in the way of the 30 percent of flat-earth Bush lovers!!

More Weed, less Bush!!

“Jesustan Forever!!”

By LuckoDull

March 23, 2007 4:33 PM | Link to this

James Taranto sums it all up nicely:

In conversations with dozens of lawmakers in recent weeks, often in her Capitol suite or in a late-night telephone call, Ms. Pelosi argued aggressively for the bill, even as she empathized with their anguish over how to vote. But in the end, participants said, her argument often boiled down to this: Did they want a headline saying, “Congress is standing up to President Bush,” or “Congress gives President Bush free rein?” Mission accomplished, Nancy: See the top of this item. But this tells you all you need to know about Democratic “leadership” in Congress. It doesn’t matter what’s good for the country or whether America defeats its foreign enemies, only that the headlines make the Dems look tough on their domestic adversaries.

It’s all that matters to them, just like I told you.

Lock the Plame bitc-h up now!

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By The Peoples for a Nuked' Amerika' Century~!

March 23, 2007 4:37 PM | Link to this

-=-

Mike L’

I definitly like this one — Great one!

I want a colored full poster sized one of this for my office wall..

Thomas

-=-

By Jeff Gannon/Guckert

March 23, 2007 4:38 PM | Link to this

Stepping of riding tall in the saddle, I rode Luckodull’s saddle loooong and tall last night - I left her crying and begging for more of my lovestick…

By Save the whales but kill the seals

March 23, 2007 4:41 PM | Link to this

And KILL KNUT ALSO!!

Mike Luckovich, great toon, you rock!

By RW-(the original)

March 23, 2007 4:41 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

When adder hits the pay window next week he’ll find a whopping $0.26 extra cents in the envelope for that 2 minutes at time and a half. Good for him!

By LuckoDull

March 23, 2007 4:46 PM | Link to this

{{{By Truthwoman March 23, 2007 4:29 PM Largest group of people receiving welfare: White children of single, white mothers.}}}

Truthwienie: Are you trying to say we need to get rid of welfare?

Welcome aboard! I’ll be sending you your Conservative Orientation Package in the mail. If you like no more welfare, you’ll really like some of the other things we’re working on.

Congratulations!

Lock the Plame bitc-h up now!

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By Buy Danish

March 23, 2007 4:49 PM | Link to this

RW,

Did you take into account what will be deducted for taxes?

I hope he doesn’t spend it all at once.

By RW-(the original)

March 23, 2007 4:49 PM | Link to this

My apologies for the redundant coinage description.

Did anybody see the smack down President Bush put on Congress today? Whoever the idiot was that posted the DoD regs, this was a war funding bill in a time of war by their Commander in Chief, hardly a political appearance.

RW OUT!!

By Socrates

March 23, 2007 4:51 PM | Link to this

Could one the pro-American conservatives explain to the America-hating lefties why it took self-described liberals (FDR and Truman) less time to defeat the Nazi’s and the Japanese then it has taken Bush to secure an 11th century city?

By Paul

March 23, 2007 4:52 PM | Link to this

BlackAdder 2:09

There’s a great website at snopes.com They debunk or validate urban legends. You may want to read their take on the Pres’s binocular photo:

Link:Presidents Clinton and Bush binocular photos

There’s a similarly good site at factcheck.org - they specialize in political ads - Both Dems and Reps are regularly loose with the truth - but then the allegations still get repeated.

3:49 DoD Regs prohibit the White House from using the troops at political events? Well, military regs prohibit military members from attending political functions while in uniform. I think it’s be difficult for military regs to dictate what the Commander in Chief can do or not do regarding meeting with his subordinates. Such events are just labeled “meeting with the troops.” All recent Presidents do this - SecDef Cohen (Pres Clinton’s SecDef - the one who said he and Pres Clinton were convinced Saddam had WMDs right up until they left office) was notorious for making lots of ‘visits’ (even tho a Republican) and for having tailored flight suits made for him and his wife - cost about two grand.

By Paul

March 23, 2007 4:55 PM | Link to this

Socrates

Welcome back - where’s Diogenes?

Possibly because he didn’t call in 600 B-29’s and drop firebombs on it and incinerate everyone there?

By RW-(the original)

March 23, 2007 4:57 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

Good point! I should have mentioned he will find that whopping $0.26 in his gross pay statement. I hope they don’t dock him for blogging and wading through the fever swamps though. The poor little fellow will owe them.

Now RW OUT! For real

By Buy Danish

March 23, 2007 4:59 PM | Link to this

Socrates @ 4:51,

Since you just outed yourself as not being “Pro-American”, why don’t you direct your irrelevant question to your fellow Anti-Americans?

By Buy Danish

March 23, 2007 5:01 PM | Link to this

Is it just me or does is the server even more sluggish than usual today?

RW,

Poor Snake must be one of the statistics from John Queen Public’s dog-eared poverty pamphlet.

By Paul

March 23, 2007 5:05 PM | Link to this

BD

After I hit “Post” I have to hit the “reload” icon in Intenet Explorer (icon on top right on IE 7, one curved arrow up, another one down) - then I goes through pretty quickly.

By LuckoDull

March 23, 2007 5:05 PM | Link to this

{{{By Suckrates March 23, 2007 4:51 PM Could one the pro-American conservatives explain to the America-hating lefties why it took self-described liberals (FDR and Truman) less time to defeat the Nazi’s and the Japanese then it has taken Bush to secure an 11th century city?}}}

Cause the libs won’t let us waste the Middle East like FDR did to Germany?

Give us the O.K. and we’ll make it happen.

Start fresh and all that.

Lock the Plame bitc-h up now!

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By Socrates

March 23, 2007 5:08 PM | Link to this

Paul,

I see that you admit that self-described liberals had a strategy (you limited it to fire-bombing whereas the truth is that there were a number of other strategic decisions made that won the war) that worked against the Nazi’s and the Japanese, yet you have failed to explain why your pro-America party has failed where the anti-American left succeeded. Despite the fact that it would seem that the threats faced by Germany and Japan were considerably greater than we face in Iraq. I mean the Axis powers had a Air Forces and Navies as opposed to rifles and car bombs. What I want to know is why your pro-American party is incapable of matching, or even coming close, to the perfomance of what you might call pinko f*?

By IE7

March 23, 2007 5:13 PM | Link to this

If you get tired of looking for Paul’s pretty pictures just hit F5.

By Truthsayer

March 23, 2007 5:13 PM | Link to this

Blackadder - I’m afraid that like most radical, left-wing extremists, you really miss the point! Of course I don’t want our poor lowered to the level of the poor in other countries. YOU want all of us lowered to the level of other countries, which is exactly what will happen if you adopt the economic policies that have stagnated the economies of Europe over the last several decades. Imagine with your vision of mass unionization and socialized medicine and cradle to grave nanny-state, we too can be a country with $7.00 a gallon gas and unairconditioned houses and waiting lists for by-pass surgery because some state board has declared it not “urgent”, and where everything is run like the post office. You are the one who wants us to look like the rest of the world. I want our idea of what is poor to be someone with one car and one television set as it is right now. Your policies would cause more misery and more poverty, but at least we would all be “equal.” Get a clue.

By Socrates

March 23, 2007 5:14 PM | Link to this

LuckoDull,

Ask Bush why he won’t “waste” Saudi Arabia, home 18 of 19 of the 9/11 highjackers the way dems like FDR and Truman would have.

By Walt

March 23, 2007 5:15 PM | Link to this

“Could one the pro-American conservatives explain to the America-hating lefties why it took self-described liberals (FDR and Truman) less time to defeat the Nazi’s and the Japanese then it has taken Bush to secure an 11th century city?”

Because the purpose is endless war.

But Bush’s handlers don’t want to admit that.

By Daniel

March 23, 2007 5:20 PM | Link to this

Long live Knut!

By Daniel

March 23, 2007 5:25 PM | Link to this

Valerie Plame is an American Hero! Our nation is so blesssed to have had such a courageous woman in public service. She is a beacon of honesty, dedication and fortitude. We are fortnate the Good Lord has seen fit to have her emerge at this critical time in our history.

By RW-(the original)

March 23, 2007 5:39 PM | Link to this

tgif. My fellow neocons, a whole 2 days off for the few of us who have jobs. 2 entire days to engage in nothing but hatred, bitterness, life’s failures. Something to live for.

By LuckoDull

March 23, 2007 5:41 PM | Link to this

{{{By Suckerates March 23, 2007 5:14 PM LuckoDull, Ask Bush why he won’t “waste” Saudi Arabia, home 18 of 19 of the 9/11 highjackers the way dems like FDR and Truman would have.}}}

Numbnuts: You got to be kidding me, right?

One soldier busted a cap in a possum playing terrorist that was fixing to blow up him and his buddies, you candy as-s pinkos threw a National Hissy Fit just like a bunch of diaper wearing bitc-hes.

Now you want to lay waste to an entire country?

Lock Plame’s as-s up.

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By Walt

March 23, 2007 5:45 PM | Link to this

“Ask Bush why he won’t “waste” Saudi Arabia, home 18 of 19 of the 9/11 highjackers the way dems like FDR and Truman would have.”

A ‘total’ war like WWII requires a lot of military power.

A limited war, like the one we have now, requires a large amount of diplomacy.

Power and diplomacy are always goingo to be functions one of the other.

Since Bush have pretty much totally eschewed a diplomatic approach, we are losing.

We’ll never get back all the fine young people lost because of the refusal to pursue the most common sense no-brainer policies.

That’s assuming that roiling up the mideast and the Shia-Sunni scism is not the policy.

If so, they’ve done a great job.

Walt

By Walt

March 23, 2007 5:47 PM | Link to this

“Long live Knut!”

Think he’d be getting that attention if he were a black bear?

Walt

By Liberal Texas Democrat

March 23, 2007 5:50 PM | Link to this

**By Socrates March 23, 2007 5:14 PM | Link to this LuckoDull,

Ask Bush why he won’t “waste” Saudi Arabia, home 18 of 19 of the 9/11 highjackers the way dems like FDR and Truman would have.**

That’s easy. Dubia Saudua Arabia is the new home to corporate headquarters of Halliburton, and The Saudi Royal Family is a principle investor in Pappy Bush’s arms investment schemes, the Carlyle Group. The Bush family has always made it’s fortunes trading with the enemy. W learned well at his grandpappy’s knee. They’ve been Yankee Traitors for years.

By Buy Danish

March 23, 2007 5:53 PM | Link to this

Paul,

I have no problem getting my comments to post, but after I hit the refresh button the little hourglass spins around for an interminably long time before the page fully opens.

Daniel,

Since you see divine providence in Ms. Valerie Plame Wilson, what exactly to you expect her to do?

Walk on water? Cure the sick? Make the crippled walk again? Cut interest rates?

Socrates aka Diogenes,

Thanks for taking a step to recovery and admitting that you are not PRO-AMERICAN. Only 11 more steps to go!

I think that fessing up to the lie that you and your friends “support the troops” would be a good one to get out of the way early on as you make amends.

One day at a time, Dio, one day at a time.

By Buy Danish

March 23, 2007 5:58 PM | Link to this

Oh no! Tex is back too!

Tex,

Um, Haliburton is relocating to DUBAI which is in the United Arab Emirates.

To borrow a phrase from Rush - for those of you in Rio Linda the UAE is not in Saudi Arabia.

By Paul

March 23, 2007 5:58 PM | Link to this

Socrates 5:08

A bit spun up, aren’t you? Couldn’t tell from the tone the response was a bit of a quip?

A bit of advice - you presume a great deal from a sentence. You’d further discussion by not assuming anyone who disagrees with a policy or program you favor is on “the other side.” Same’s true with references to “your pro-America party.”

If you’d like to have a serious discussion (I take it your interest is in the evolving nature of warfare, international standards of conduct, relative measures or national or military power and how that relates to the political arena), I’d be happy. If you tone down the rhetoric.

By Daniel

March 23, 2007 5:59 PM | Link to this

Valerie Plame: Lithe, charming, a mother, intelligent, A sterling example of a talented American Woman, a role model. “A star by night, a pillar of the clouds by day”.

By Liberal Texas Democrat

March 23, 2007 6:01 PM | Link to this

**By Buy Danish March 23, 2007 5:58 PM | Link to this Oh no! Tex is back too!

Tex,

Um, Haliburton is relocating to DUBAI which is in the United Arab Emirates.

To borrow a phrase from Rush - for those of you in Rio Linda the UAE is not in Saudi Arabia.** Thank you, close enough.

By Liberal Texas Democrat

March 23, 2007 6:08 PM | Link to this

**By Buy Danish March 23, 2007 5:58 PM | Link to this Oh no! Tex is back too!

Tex,

Um, Haliburton is relocating to DUBAI which is in the United Arab Emirates.

To borrow a phrase from Rush - for those of you in Rio Linda the UAE is not in Saudi Arabia.** Thank you, close enough.

By Buy Danish

March 23, 2007 6:08 PM | Link to this

One:

{{{Valerie Plame: Professional, articulate, dedicated, patriotic, honest, poised, athletic and beautiful.}}}

Two:

{{{Valerie Plame: Lithe, charming, a mother, intelligent, A sterling example of a talented American Woman, a role model. “A star by night, a pillar of the clouds by day”.}}}

Daniel,

Your descriptions of Ms. Plame describe me to a tee, except for that awkward “pillar of the clouds” bit.

Where is the love?

Ha Ha Ha.

By LuckoDull

March 23, 2007 6:08 PM | Link to this

{{{By Denise March 23, 2007 5:59 PM Valerie Plame: Lithe, charming, a mother, intelligent, A sterling example of a talented American Woman, a role model. “A star by night, a pillar of the clouds by day”.—->The only CIA agent in history that the libs don’t hate with a purple passion.<—-}}}

Lock the bitc-h up!

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By Daniel

March 23, 2007 6:12 PM | Link to this

BD: Oh, I don’t know what she’ll do. She is a mother of two school age kids. I had four of those. That is a job in itself. She is in her 40’s with an excellent work history. Be a good mother is enough.

By RW-(the original)

March 23, 2007 6:12 PM | Link to this

Daniel,

Deranged and sappy all at the same time. You’re developing some range, good for you!

I see that Blackadder sneaked back into his workplace to steal some soup for the weekend and couldn’t resist logging on to jack my name at 5:39. Freaking loser.

By Jeff Gannon/Guckert

March 23, 2007 6:13 PM | Link to this

I rode Luckodull all night until Karla Rove made me stop. S/he kept crying ‘don’t’ ‘stop’ but s/he didn’t mean it at all.

Now the silly b-itch won’t leave me alone, calling me crying and begging for just a little bit more.

Lock the bit-ch Luckodull up! S/he’ll love prison.

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

By Paul

March 23, 2007 6:14 PM | Link to this

Daniel

Well said. Too bad more don’t seem to value the role of a mother as being at least as important as… name your position.

Doing the math - I sure wouldn’t want to be heading towards 60 with a teenager!

By Paul

March 23, 2007 6:19 PM | Link to this

LuckoDull

You sure get a lot of coherent, rational, succinct, well-reasoned responses to your musings, don’t you?

For some of them, just remember, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”

By RW-(the original)

March 23, 2007 6:20 PM | Link to this

Hey Dio’s back!!! How’s Lucy?

Paul,

The math Valerie and her pimp Joe are doing at the moment is how many millions to charge for the movie rights for the film based on the book she’s already getting a few million for.

By Buy Danish

March 23, 2007 6:24 PM | Link to this

Paul,

The problem with people like Daniel is that they expect the government to give mothers a generous taxpayer funded stipend as a reward for raising their children.

You know the routine - chauffer, cook, laundress, tutor, nurse, blah blah blah - add it all up and, according to liberals, mother’s should be paid more than CEOs.

By RE

March 23, 2007 6:25 PM | Link to this

Post of the day has to go to zell today.

Fantastic work, really.

Well worded, every talking point and backended fear was used along with well phrased insulting name deviations. I see a future on the 1/2 hour comedy hour over at Fox News.

By Daniel

March 23, 2007 6:26 PM | Link to this

RW: Actually, it’s from Exodus. Look it up. I modified it a bit. No, your confusing Joe and Valerie with Newt and Rudy. Joe and Valerie are husband and wife, and have been so for a long, long time. Rudy slept around on his first wife, then had a boy fiend, then another girlfriend while he was with his second wife. Newt? Well, we all know about him. I understand your confusion. They’re all republicans. Joe and Valerie are “real” republicans.

By Buy Danish

March 23, 2007 6:26 PM | Link to this

Oh no! How will I ever live this down? I put an apostrophe after “mother” before the “s” by mistake.

Make it “mothers”.

RW,

Did you see that Tex is back too!

By beforeAmerikka

March 23, 2007 6:27 PM | Link to this

from “The Troglodyte Party”

What is it that will make them listen to a party of troglodytes? When a party of men makes a total mess of it.

In defending “Fredo” (an unfortunate Godfather reference, since we all know what happened to Fredo) today, our intrepid Shrub has to read carefully, because the words are not his own, and he’s beyond trying to figure this fracas out, so he flounders. Today, his tenor, tone and pace all reflect uncertainty and doubt, which is so much the speech of a liar and puppet speaker. “He has my confidence”, not such a boon when you can see on his face that he flat out has NO confidence. It’s too clear that he is under pressure and cannot adjust—the muscles in his face are giving him away.

There is no way any halfway awake person can believe a word that this idiot president has to say. Elitist, poor, gay, straight, single, married, everything—he and his cronies have lied to us all.

A thousand years from now, if there is such a thing as the human species, people will do research and wonder how in hell we put up with this in a so-called democracy? What has happened in this beautiful country has been possible because adults cannot be adults. Us, read WE, cannot take individual responsibility for the who, what, why and how of our lives. Shame and humiliation for anyone even remotely connected to this corrupt administration, yes, but we are complicit if we let it continue.

“I’m the decider!”, he says loudly. Who is he trying to convince? Cheney? It’s now time to make him The Impeached as well, because he serves at the pleasure of the PEOPLE, or if there is any honor or integrity left in them at all, his entire administration has no recourse but to resign en masse as soon as possible to save the republic. We’ve seen so far that they have none, so impeachment is the only answer.

We’ve only got this one chance. Let’s not blow it.

Note: Troglodyte refer to a term that was once used by a lobbyist to describe Native Americans.

By RW-(the original)

March 23, 2007 6:29 PM | Link to this

Daniel,

According to Valerie she and Joe are Democrats and that was under oath I might add.

Damn you can’t even compliment a liberal on their new found writing “skills” without them lashing out at you. A miserable lot you people are.

By @@

March 23, 2007 6:31 PM | Link to this

Midori ???:

(((By Midori March 23, 2007 10:05)))

(((@@: love that hat, dear.)))

I’m not surprised that you share Mike’s “ear fetish”.

I bet you fantasize about him “nibbling” on yours every night, don’t you?

Well, one good turn deserves another, I always say…..

I like your smile.

The old mule eating briars look. Maybe Mike will see it as your “come hither” look.

It suits ‘ya.

By Buy Danish

March 23, 2007 6:32 PM | Link to this

Tex,

The UAE is “Close enough” to Saudi Arabia? So is Iraq, dumbass.

Sheesh.

By Paul

March 23, 2007 6:32 PM | Link to this

RW - (the original)

Gasp! I’m shocked! Shocked! You’re not suggesting that this dedicated (ex) public servant and her husband would in any way, think ahead to, or be movitated by… money, are you? This was all about honor! And service! And the public trust! And being above politics in their service to their country!

To quote the inimitable getalife:

geeeeez

By RW-(the original)

March 23, 2007 6:32 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

I saw that, but Tex never has anything interesting to say. Now Dio, on the other hand, is a laugh a minute!

By Daniel

March 23, 2007 6:37 PM | Link to this

RW: So are Jim Webb and Wes Clark. They were once republicans, so were a lot of people. Once the creeps hijacked the republican party many bailed out. Paul: No, no one would have known who they were if our government hadn’t gone ape-sh*t. Valerie would be at work today, for our national defense.

By RW-(the original)

March 23, 2007 6:37 PM | Link to this

Paul,

I think you forgot your /sarc tag.

That’s all this was ever about and I bet they try to shelter as much from taxes as possible too. Where do you suppose the twins trust funds will be administered?

By Buy Danish

March 23, 2007 6:38 PM | Link to this

RW,

As long as Dio stays away from that third person stuff where she has imaginary conversations.

I find that a bit of a laugh stifler.

By Midori

March 23, 2007 6:39 PM | Link to this

Silly @@ - go find someone else to share your whiny “musings” with — any elementary school should do. They are both plentiful and full of people you can relate to. A real “win-win”.

I see HAG Danish is all excited about Tex showing up.

Watch out Tex - she’s feeling really amorous and wants to borrow one of your bulls — if you catch my drift.

To the normal people: everyone have a good weekend.

By Paul

March 23, 2007 6:39 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish

You may want to go over to dickmorris.com and signup for his analyses - free - his latest is on Dubai’s PR campaign to attract respectability and have the world forget about their racist policies. While a couple Republicans are involved, the one who takes the cake (make that 10 mil a year) is Pres Clinton. He brokered a deal involving the emir - and Hillary graciously told us on her disclosure form Pres Clinton received “more than $1,000” for his work.

So much for doing more than the bare minimum the law requires, transparency, etc ad barfum.

By Buy Danish

March 23, 2007 6:41 PM | Link to this

Daniel,

I hate to give you a spoonful of reality just before the weekend, but there are many former Democrats, and former Leftists (not necessarily one in the same) who are now Republicans.

For instance, does the term “neo-con” ring a bell at all?

By RW-(the original)

March 23, 2007 6:41 PM | Link to this

Daniel,

Thank God she isn’t still working for the CIA. Her job was WMD related, if you people weren’t so blinded by BDS you’d be calling for her head for being such a screw up.

Sonny Purdue used to be a Democrat, but he saw the light and is doing a bang up job as a two term Republican Governor. Zell’s still a Democrat though.

By Paul

March 23, 2007 6:44 PM | Link to this

RW - the original

Trust funds administered? Maybe the same place George Soros keeps his? Or the Kennedys? Pelosis? Kerrys? Okay, a few Republicans, too - but they’re not on the “rich are evil exploiters” bandwagon, so much.

Daniel

As I’ve said, politics. Don’t forget, though, it was a guy at State who was an Administration critic (and certainly not involved in their “conspiracy”) who was the “leaker.” Money, power - it always gets back to that.

By Daniel

March 23, 2007 6:48 PM | Link to this

BD: Abramoff put the “con” in neo-con! RW: Pulllleeeeze! Valerie Plame’s career was nothing but exemplery! You’re making this up. Three of the eight US Attorneys wer in the top ten in the US! You got lambasted in November. You complettely misjudge the pulse of the American people! Keep up the hate and lies; you gonna get hog walloped in 08. Gotta run. I have a date woth a gorgeous woman-my wife!

By Buy Danish

March 23, 2007 6:51 PM | Link to this

Paul,

I would love to spend some time at this location in Dubai.

The odds of it occurring are next to nothing, so my conscience shall remain clear.

By RW-(the original)

March 23, 2007 6:51 PM | Link to this

Daniel,

Try to keep from using terms like hog walloped on your date with Mrs. D.

By Paul

March 23, 2007 6:54 PM | Link to this

BD

Ah, a clear conscience. Unlike some who’ve been the topic of discussion today.

Have a relaxing weekend -

By Paul

March 23, 2007 6:58 PM | Link to this

Okay, it’s late Friday, so I’ll post this. Just arrived in my email. Remember, her name is Linda -

KILLER BISCUITS WANTED FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER (the actual AP headline)

Linda Burnett, 23, a resident of San Diego, was visiting her in-laws and while there went to a nearby supermarket to pick up some groceries. Several people noticed her sitting in her car with the windows rolled up and with her eyes closed, with both hands behind the back of her head. One customer who had been at the store for a while became concerned and walked over to the car. He noticed that Linda’s eyes were now open, and she looked very strange. He asked her if she was okay, and Linda replied that she’d been shot in the back of the head, and had been holding her brains in for over an hour.

The man called the paramedics, who broke into the car be cause the doors were locked and Linda refused to remove her hands from her head. When they finally got in, they found that Linda had a wad of bread dough on the back of her head.

A Pillsbury biscuit canister had exploded from the heat, making a loud noise that sounded like a gunshot, and the wad of dough hit her in the back of her head.

When she reached back to find out what it was, she felt the dough and thought it was her brains.

She initially passed out, but quickly recovered and tried to hold her brains in for over an hour until someone noticed and came to her aid.

Linda is a blonde and a Democrat, but I’m certain that’s irrelevant.

By LuckoDull

March 23, 2007 7:01 PM | Link to this

{{{“People are in fear of their lives. They’re looking for ways to feel safe again,”}}}

A citizen of Iraq?

Maybe an Afghani?

A prisoner at Club Gitmo?

No it’s a resident of Nawlins: said Mike Roniger, manager of Gretna Gunworks in Jefferson Parish.

Waiting for Bush to rescue them I’ll bet.

Lock Plame up now!

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

By @@

March 23, 2007 7:02 PM | Link to this

Midori:

Every day of every week, I have the great pleasure of engaging five year olds and under.

They’re “alive and well”.

I think you and rushncap like to call them “retards”.

By Buy Danish

March 23, 2007 7:28 PM | Link to this

Paul,

I didn’t understand the last bit about “Linda” and all I could think of was that it had something to do with “Rio Linda”, but now I get it, and I think we may have found Daniel’s gorgeous bride.

Here’s the link from November, 2006

By Blackadder

March 24, 2007 9:49 AM | Link to this

The POWER OF DOOM has consumed me. I now have the superhuman ability to hack the blog at all hours. Beware the POWER OF DOOM.

DOOM for President 2008.

*paid for by the Demoncratic National Committee to elect DOOM.

By Clem

March 24, 2007 4:10 PM | Link to this

It takes a special kind of idiot to think posting to a saved page takes super human abilities.

By Liberal Texas Democrat

March 26, 2007 8:23 AM | Link to this

“By Buy Danish March 23, 2007 6:32 PM | Link to this Tex, The UAE is “Close enough” to Saudi Arabia? So is Iraq, dumbass. Sheesh.” Well then, in matters of foreign affairs, geography, and naming the heads of state you put me in the same company as the guy for whom you voted...Which reminds one of the “foreign affairs quiz” to which George W Bush ?was subjected to during his campaign during 1999. The following is the ?transcript of Q&A between reporter Andy Hiller, and the then-presidential ?candidate, George W Bush: Hiller asked: “Can you name the president of Chechnya?” “No, can you?” Bush replied. Then again my little confusion over two similar sounding names has cost oh, how many lives? Go ahead sweetheart. Let your potty mouth rip out a good one. I expect nothing less.