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By Mike Luckovich | Tuesday, March 27, 2007, 07:21 PM

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By LuckoDull

March 28, 2007 8:04 AM | Link to this

The Urinal cartoonist shows his understanding of politics^^.

The Urinal editorial board shows it’s knowledge of business:

Corporate executives who live in lavish homes tend to perform poorly for company shareholders, two university researchers have concluded.

The Urinal shows it’s learning in history:

{{{Ronald Reagan didn’t “defeat” communism. It defeated itself. Reagan just happened to be president at the time.}}}

Who needs SAT’s to prove that you are 50th in national education testing? We just have to listen to you.

(Whoever at the Urinal has a major raging gay thing for Jeff Francouer and feels the need to post his picture every single solitary day of the week, get over it. Grow up. Talk to rushncrap about stress relief. Ask Jeff out on a date. Spare all of the rest of us the moony eyed infatuation. I haven’t seen it this bad since some AJC pinko got the hots for Venus Williams. Calm the F down.)

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By regulator

March 28, 2007 8:05 AM | Link to this

Bush seems a little tall for me, Great Toon!

By Mrs. Godzilla

March 28, 2007 8:10 AM | Link to this

Don’t worry Mr. Bunny.

First, you are bigger than Mr. Bush and can “thump” him if required.

Second, you are not a political appointee so you can give eggs to any body you want.

Third, you might want to call the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus and all your buddies and warn them to expect pressure from Karl Roves office.

Peace.

By Kinja

March 28, 2007 8:13 AM | Link to this

Yawn. Mike, there has to be something else in the news you can ridicule for a while.

By Charles Aulino

March 28, 2007 8:17 AM | Link to this

Mike: you’re comments about the 30% of American’s who still support Shrub & his team of idiots is right on. The American voters have got to understand that this is what you get when you elect a Frat Boy to the White House. Please keep up the good work.

By Buy Danish

March 28, 2007 8:20 AM | Link to this

Huh?????What current event does this cartoon refer to?

Didn’t the Democrats just receive $124 Billion in bribes from Nancy Pelosi to vote for the Surrender Date Certain Iraq funding bill?

Aren’t those bribes the pretty eggs for the Dem’s baskets?

By IN THE NEWS

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

DAMN THOSE GOPers ARE LOYAL

GOP to Shift Blame to Bush for Blocking Withdrawal Bill

Unwilling to do the White House’s heavy lifting on Iraq, Senate Republicans are prepared to step aside to allow language requiring troop withdrawals to reach President Bush, forcing him to face down Democratic adversaries with his veto pen. Acknowledging the political risk of opposing a measure that, according to a new Pew poll, is supported by 59% of voters, Republican Thad Cochran said the GOP is setting itself up to be “part of the problem if [Bush’s Iraq policy] doesn’t work.”

By Performance Issues

March 28, 2007 8:47 AM | Link to this

GOPhers lied to us and slimed their way into the Presidency. Didn’t do em a bit o good cause once they got it they still had to perform and you know how it is with Republican men and performance issues.

Limbaugh wasn’t carryin those lil blue pills with him to the Dominican Republic to stiffen his eyebrows! He, also, wasn’t in the land of kiddie sex to write a sequel to “My Pet Goat”!

By IN THE NEWS

March 28, 2007 8:49 AM | Link to this

Is this what Republicans and Bush want America to support?

Off-duty Shiite policemen enraged by massive bombings in the northern town of Tal Afar went on a revenge spree against Sunni residents there on Wednesday, killing at least 45 men execution-style, police and hospital officials said.

The policemen began roaming the town’s Sunni neighborhoods on foot early in the morning, shooting at Sunni residents and homes.

A senior hospital official in Tal Afar said at least 45 men between the ages of 15 and 60 were killed with a shot to the back of the head and four others were wounded. He

By Group Hug

March 28, 2007 8:51 AM | Link to this

BAGHDAD - Shiite militants and police enraged by massive truck bombings in the northwestern town of Tal Afar went on a revenge spree against Sunni residents there Wednesday, killing as many as 60 people, officials said.

The gunmen began roaming Sunni neighborhoods in the city, shooting at residents and homes, according to police and a local Sunni politician.

Yup, everything is peachy keen with the Iraq surge. All the Iraqis are gonna get together for a group hug around the campfire tonight after which they will break off into a rousing chorus of “Kumbaya”!

Heard enough Bushshit for one day?

By @@

March 28, 2007 8:53 AM | Link to this

Well ml, let’s see what I’ve got in my little basket today.

I’ve got employees at a manufacturing plant in Cleveland, Ohio who have filed charges of intimidation against their UNION.

I’ve got Senators “Teddy” Kennedy and Barbara Boxer reintroducing the Equal Rights Amendment on behalf of women.

Living it up in the good ol’ 60’s again? Democrats will need some victims to win in ‘08.

And here’s some more victims for Democrats to champion.

Case of the ‘Flying Imams’ Prompts Congressional Action

Republican lawmakers mentioned CAIR’s lawsuit, warning it would have a “chilling effect” on passengers who might be less inclined to report suspicious behavior. But some Democrats argued that shielding people from such lawsuits would encourage racial profiling on the part of passengers.

But there ^^^ you are ml dancing with your two left feet.

“You shuffle to the left”

“Then you shuffle to the left”

“And then you HOP HOP HOP”

“Do the Dummy Hop”

By IN THE NEWS

March 28, 2007 8:58 AM | Link to this

THE NERVE OF SOME TWITS TO TALK ABOUT VICTIMS>>>>

FOCUS SMALL MINDED ONE

VICTIMS FOR REPUBLICANS

Honor the Fallen
The following fatalities were identified by the DoD on 3/26:

Cpl. Henry W. Bogrette, Lance Cpl. Trevor A. Roberts

Official DoD Count of Troops Killed in Iraq: 3228 Troops Killed in Afghanistan: 369 Wounded in Action: 25052

By LuckoDull

March 28, 2007 8:58 AM | Link to this

Count Ms. Goodling’s silence as one more unintended consequence of the Scooter Libby case. Mr. Libby made the mistake of cooperating with the investigation into a leak he had nothing to do with, and he later found himself charged with perjury based on little more than conflicting memories of who said what and when. The prosecutor never even charged anyone for the leak that started it all.

The candy as-s pinkos, realizing that they will never get their agenda passed through Congress like they promised all their voters before the election, have resorted to spending all their time trying to catch Republicans in these kindergarten level perjury traps, find something completely legal, call it a crime, have your mouthpieces in the lib media feign outrage and trump up the charges, and then hold show trials and kangaroo courts hoping to catch the slightest case of he said, she said and then send the Republican to prison.

Meanwhile ignore bald face and blatant democrat lies and actual criminal acts like the three blind mice.

Problem is, the Republicans aren’t near as stupid as the liberals are and have clammed up, which is what any sane person would do.

So what we are left with is basically paying for a full time legislature and getting a DNC field office instead, conducting political witch hunts and voter drives on the taxpayer’s dime.

Proud of your non vote in 2006, “Republicans?”

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By IN THE NEWS

March 28, 2007 9:06 AM | Link to this

WHOS AFRAID OF TWO THOUSAND EIGHT?

The Problem With Fred Thompson: Wait - I’m gone a week and Fred Thompson makes some noises about running for President and immediately jumps to third in the GOP primary polls? Now the easy thing would be to crack wise about this development, but Matt Yglesias, Daniel Larison and (especially) Vic Matus seem to have that well in hand, so let me attempt to develop a serious point instead: Specifically, that the Thompson boomlet bodes very ill for the GOP’s chances in ‘08, not because it suggests how weak the current field is (though it does), but because it suggests that the particular weaknesses of the Republican candidates will make it next-to-impossible for any of them to pull off both a primary win and a general election victory.

By Walt

March 28, 2007 9:14 AM | Link to this

“The free world gets weaker, the Islamic fanatics get stronger:

The latest report is that the Britons were ready to fight off their abductors. Certainly their escorting ship, HMS Cornwall, could have blown the Iranian naval vessel out of the water. However, at the last minute the British Ministry of Defense ordered the Cornwall not to fire, and her captain and crew were forced to watch their shipmates led away into captivity. The mullahs in Tehran clearly see the new pacifist trend in Britain not as a hopeful sign of future accord, but as supine surrender. Just as clearly, they have singled out Britain as the latest weak link in the Coalition fighting in Iraq and in the War on Terror.”

The Brits may have realized that firing on the Iranians might precipitate the Bush Cabal into attacking Iran.

Galling as it was, they had to hold their fire.

And people being people, can you blame the Iranians for seizing Coaltion perople when we seize theirs?

Walt

By @@

March 28, 2007 9:24 AM | Link to this

Walt:

Are you posting from Iran?

Is Iran your Utopia?

By Jesus

March 28, 2007 9:27 AM | Link to this

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!

By Truthsayer

March 28, 2007 9:30 AM | Link to this

For those of you leftwingers who scream about right-wing intimidation and indoctrination, I just want you to remember that your beloved teachers’ unions and the government have a monopoly on education - or indoctrination of our children. Read the following:

Banning LEGOs

Teachers at a Seattle day care center decided to ban LEGO building blocks — those colorful little bricks kids use to build such creations as robots, monster trucks, space ships and vast futuristic cities. The Hilltop Children’s Center bills itself as a nationally recognized, non-profit, non-religious facility. So why did the teachers toss the LEGOs?

We’ll let them explain: “We agreed that we want to take part in shaping the children’s understandings from a perspective of social justice. So we decided to take the LEGOs out of the classroom. The children were building their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys — assumptions that mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society — a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive.”

After months of what the teachers called “social justice exploration” — they let the LEGOs back in — but kids were only allowed to build “public structures” of standard sizes in a village dedicated to what they called “collectivity and consensus.”

By Walt

March 28, 2007 9:34 AM | Link to this

“By @@

March 28, 2007 9:24 AM | Link to this

Walt:

Are you posting from Iran?

Is Iran your Utopia?”

No. But I am a little upset that the Bush Cabal has eschewed diplomacy when the result has been to cost us 3,000 KIA and the loss of a war to boot.

I am like them in one way though.

I am tribal.

I don’t give a rat’s rectum if the Shia and Sunni have a blood bath. Saying we can’t leave to prevet that is just a dodge to keep our people in harm’s way so that Bush can claim to be a “war president.”

If Bush -ever- has to honestly answer questions about this, he will weep like a child - because he got caught.

Walt

By Most Credible

March 28, 2007 9:39 AM | Link to this

LONDON - Britain’s military said its vessels were {{{{1.7 nautical miles inside Iraqi waters}}}} when Iran seized the sailors and marines on Friday. Iran’s foreign minister said meanwhile a female British sailor held captive by Iran may be released later Wednesday or on Thursday, a Turkish TV station reported.

Hmmmmm. When Iran captures a female prisoner they let her go. When American soldiers capture one they lock her up, rape her, shoot her and all her family in the heads, and then cover it up. Remember Haditha, we got confessions now ya know?

OR

TEHRAN (Reuters) - The 15 British sailors and marines seized by Iran last week were {{{{0.5 km inside Iranian waters}}}} at the time, Iran’s embassy in London said in a statement on Wednesday, the official IRNA news agency reported. Earlier, Britain increased pressure on Iran by releasing evidence it said showed the 15 military personnel were operating in Iraqi waters when they were captured by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.

Who to believe? I’m going with the ones who have lied the least so far and who thereby have the most credibility, the Iranians! Hell, at this point, I’d trust the word of Billy Clinton before that of King George or any of his cronies.

By ed lorenzo

March 28, 2007 9:40 AM | Link to this

Looking Ahead – Tulsa, Oklahoma, March 2016

“James, are you going to the station this morning?”

Kay had been up since 5 am and was anxious to see ex-senator James Inhofe off to work. Not the fancy offices he had occupied in Washington DC some years back, or even the modest offices of the Oklahoma legislature in Oklahoma City. Now, it was the small Recharge station on the outskirts of the city of Tulsa. The gas stations of old remained a sweet memory for many, same as the availability of cars, buses, motorcycles and airplanes. James had been lucky to get a job at this Recharge Station after his forced exit from the government. For some years, Conservatives had played their cards without concern for logic, common sense and the well being of the nation. As a political philosophy, which – incidentally had only enjoyed sporadic injections of valid thought and substance – it had failed miserably having caused considerable damage to the republic and to the rest of the world. Their removal however had arrived too late. Some of the worst predictions had been fulfilled.

These thoughts crossed her mind as the ex-senator appeared in the kitchen door wearing his work green coveralls and his straw hat.

“Yes, I have station this morning. We are charging up some government sand crawlers.”

He looked out the window and could not hold the tears that flowed from his eyes at once. All he could see from his window was the outline of some of the university buildings sitting on the expanse of sand that had become the natural panorama of most of the United States.

“Damn you Al Gore!” he muttered and sat down to breakfast.

By Truthman

March 28, 2007 9:40 AM | Link to this

Ah, the blind 26 percenters are out bleating like sheep about us “bad old liberals and their hate of the Chimperor.

DEAL WITH IT, B-OTCH!

As long as you support abrogation of inalienable rights; as long as you support a man’s right to tell a woman what to do with her body; as long as you support terrorism by fight where it ain’t; as long as you support Bush’s version of white, christian supremacy, we on the right side of history will continue to call you out about it and destroy all of your hateful, paranoid theories.

Please move to Jesustan!! We’ll give you the south and Utah. Just give us a country where science and the rule of law are respected, and you can have your 15th century Jesustan and your University of Creationism!

Alberto Gone-zales!! He’s no better than a Nazi judge during the show trials of the 1930’s.

And your boy from the FBI yesterday saying “facts could be wrong.” Even Arlen Specter, a real conservative, was ticked off by that response.

Apologists for American Fascism. That’s what the haters of Clinton on this blog are!!

By @@

March 28, 2007 9:42 AM | Link to this

Six brave and courageous souls supported/protected by U.S. Coalition Forces and Iraqi soldiers.

“This job is very dangerous for us. It is dangerous to talk freely. But if I am scared and everyone is scared then who will help Iraq? Nobody.”

Leftists here in the U.S. keep talking about support for the minority. Well, here you go…six left after 51 succumbed to threats by the extremists. Threats against their “freedom of speech”. Threats against their right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”.

Well, like LuckoDull, I’m proud to be a member of the minority here in America. The group that stands behind the troops, their commitment to freedom, and the “brave” Iraqis.

By ummmm

March 28, 2007 9:42 AM | Link to this

and that truthsayer 9:27 was posted why?????? Who gives a flying freak.

By Scooter

March 28, 2007 9:49 AM | Link to this

Perhaps the democrats would give their eggs to the terrorist as a peace offering? Then they can have some eggs to go with the first piece of their Caliphate.

By Truthman

March 28, 2007 9:50 AM | Link to this

Hey ummmm,

Don’t get too mad. TS and @@ and Andy are chickenhawks - they talk and talk and talk, but you’ll never see them wear the uniform. You won’t even see them at the VA hospital in Decatur visiting our veterans (as I do twice a month).

As long as they get their antiseptic, FAUX News worldview, they don’t have to make ANY sacrifices for our courageous men and women they voted to put in Iraq where there were no terrorists.

Big talk, no action!!

They’d crap in their pants if they had to the fighting. You’d better bet they’d be on their way to Canada!

Chickenhawks! Chickenhawks all!!

Gone-zales esta un Punta!

By ed lorenzo

March 28, 2007 9:55 AM | Link to this

Looking Ahead – Tulsa, Oklahoma, March 2016

“James, are you going to the station this morning?”

Kay had been up since 5 am and was anxious to see ex-senator James Inhofe off to work. Not the fancy offices he had occupied in Washington DC some years back, or even the modest offices of the Oklahoma legislature in Oklahoma City. Now, it was the small Recharge station on the outskirts of the city of Tulsa. The gas stations of old remained a sweet memory for many, same as the availability of cars, buses, motorcycles and airplanes. James had been lucky to get a job at this Recharge Station after his forced exit from the government. For some years, Conservatives had played their cards without concern for logic, common sense and the well being of the nation. As a political philosophy, which – incidentally had only enjoyed sporadic injections of valid thought and substance – it had failed miserably having caused considerable damage to the republic and to the rest of the world. Their removal however had arrived too late. Some of the worst predictions had been fulfilled.

These thoughts crossed her mind as the ex-senator appeared in the kitchen door wearing his work green coveralls and his straw hat.

“Yes, I have station this morning. We are charging up some government sand crawlers.”

He looked out the window and could not hold the tears that flowed from his eyes at once. All he could see from his window was the outline of some of the university buildings sitting on the expanse of sand that had become the natural panorama of most of the United States.

“Damn you Al Gore!” he muttered and sat down to breakfast.

By IVAW

March 28, 2007 9:55 AM | Link to this

@@ doesn’t speak for us. We speak for ourselves!

IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR

By Walt

March 28, 2007 9:55 AM | Link to this

“Alberto Gone-zales!! He’s no better than a Nazi judge during the show trials of the 1930’s.

And your boy from the FBI yesterday saying “facts could be wrong.” Even Arlen Specter, a real conservative, was ticked off by that response.

Apologists for American Fascism. That’s what the haters of Clinton on this blog are!!”

Concur.

Funny how the term “show trials” crept into Bush’s comments the other day.

Of course they have taken so much from the Nazis, maybe it just slipped in.

Walt

By LuckoDull

March 28, 2007 9:56 AM | Link to this

{{{By Walt March 28, 2007 9:14 AM And people being people, can you blame the Iranians for seizing Coaltion perople when we seize theirs?}}}

The only way candy a-ss wally will ever figure this out is when the Iranians sieze his family and carry them away.

Until then, he’s going to continue spouting stupid socialist bullsh-it and propagandizing for suicide bombers and Islamic throat cutters.

It’s an ingrained ignorance that these left wing pervert idiots suffer from.

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By Paul

March 28, 2007 9:59 AM | Link to this

@@, ride-me-I’m-a-scooter, TS, LuckoLoon. Yep, you’re “behind the troops.” Waaaaay behind. Always has been that way w Repugs. Cowards & hate-mongers all. Bitter losers in life. Yawn.

By Paul

March 28, 2007 10:04 AM | Link to this

@@, ride-me-I’m-a-scooter, TS, LuckoLoon. Yep, you’re “behind the troops.” Waaaaay behind. Always has been that way w Repugs. Cowards & hate-mongers all. Bitter losers in life. Yawn.

By regulator

March 28, 2007 10:11 AM | Link to this

I think Andi is the one with the thing for Franceour, he doth protest to much.@@, you are a first class idiot.

By IN THE NEWS

March 28, 2007 10:16 AM | Link to this

ITS A LEGO CONSPIRACY

YOU KNOW THEY ARE MADE BY A

“DANISH” COMPANY

By getalife

March 28, 2007 10:17 AM | Link to this

The question is why in the world did the British not fight?

They said they were in Iraqi waters and could engage to protect themselves.

By Daniel

March 28, 2007 10:18 AM | Link to this

IVAW: Thanks for these posts.

By Goldie

March 28, 2007 10:29 AM | Link to this

I’m with Jesus when it comes to that peace-thingy.

By Truthman

March 28, 2007 10:33 AM | Link to this

I just read Jason Lemeiux’s well-thought out, cogent treatise about 4th generation warfare.

Excellent! Covered all the important points and showed in pure black and white why we can’t “win” in any traditional sense of “winning war.”

Blast all you want, neo-conmen and women, but we can’t win this war with guns and bullets.

Dump Zaxby “chickenhawk” Chambliss (pun intended) and Johnny Isakson in 2008. Bush rubberstampers for war!

By LuckoDull

March 28, 2007 10:34 AM | Link to this

{{{By getalife March 28, 2007 10:17 AM The question is why in the world did the British not fight?}}}

They were probably thinking that imprisonment and torture were easier routes to take then having to deal with a bunch of flaming candy as-s pinkos asking them why they killed all of the cutthroat Iranian terrorists, that’s what I’m figuring.

They were pretty much right to believe that.

Our pinkos are ready to fight anyone except the enemy.

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By Goldie

March 28, 2007 10:35 AM | Link to this

Boy, just imagine where America would be if Ray-gun had not dismantled all of President Carter’s plans to quit importing oil from the Middle East.
All of those terrorist-enabling countries would be broke today!

By Walt

March 28, 2007 10:35 AM | Link to this

”{{{By Walt March 28, 2007 9:14 AM And people being people, can you blame the Iranians for seizing Coaltion perople when we seize theirs?}}}

The only way candy a-ss wally will ever figure this out is when the Iranians sieze his family and carry them away.

Until then, he’s going to continue spouting stupid socialist bullsh-it and propagandizing for suicide bombers and Islamic throat cutters.”

We seized their people.

Why shouldn’t they seize ours?

Any special cachet from being the “city on the hill” or a fair broker or benevolent superpower has been -totally- p** away by these horrible scumbags in the Bush Cabal.

Can’t you see that?

Walt

By Walt

March 28, 2007 10:41 AM | Link to this

“Dump Zaxby “chickenhawk” Chambliss (pun intended) and Johnny Isakson in 2008. Bush rubberstampers for war!”

That would be sweet.

The governor and our officials in DC make this state a laughing stock.

Walt

By getalife

March 28, 2007 10:44 AM | Link to this

That is bs Andy.

Not engaging tells me they were in Iranian waters.

Once again, that credibility problem has reared its ugly head.

By Truthman

March 28, 2007 10:44 AM | Link to this

Goldie,

I’ve been saying that since Bush the elder (who actually fought in a war and is not happy the junior is killing our troops in Iraq).

If we had listened to Carter and weaned ourselves off of oil, the entire middle-east would be of no more consequence to our national security than say, the Bahamas!

By @@

March 28, 2007 10:46 AM | Link to this

Getalife:

The capture of the British naval personnel is a ploy by the Iranians. It comes right after the recent U.N. sanctions (unanimously supported). They’re hoping to provoke the U.S. and Britain into military action.

They know America’s leftists well. People like Walt who have sympathy for Iran and see them as victims of the U.S. The people who have no knowledge of the history of radical extremists.

They may therefore be calculating that any strikes by the UK (or the U.S.) will be on military or strategic sites; devastating, but survivable — particularly when Iran will be seen as the victim in such action.

I know you don’t want to see it, but too much progress has come about in surrounding Arab countries AGAINST Iran.

I don’t think Blair will undermine that progress. Unless, of course, he allows himself to be “victimized” by the terrorist appeasers in the U.K.

You know…the people like Walt.

By Lane

March 28, 2007 10:48 AM | Link to this

WE WILL BE GREETED AS LIBERATORS!!!!

By Truthman

March 28, 2007 10:51 AM | Link to this

Neo-conmen and women, please answer this question:

Why do you love money so much?

By Buy Danish

March 28, 2007 10:52 AM | Link to this

By IN THE NEWS

{{{March 28, 2007 10:16 AM

ITS A LEGO CONSPIRACY

YOU KNOW THEY ARE MADE BY A

“DANISH” COMPANY}}}

This^^^^^^gets the most irrelevant post of the week award.

The Marxists who run the daycare center where they brainwash young children to be good Communists are ANTI-Legos.

Sheesh.

By getalife

March 28, 2007 10:55 AM | Link to this

@@,

Sorry but it does not pass the common sense test.

If they were in Iraqi waters. they could engage to protect their troops.

With the US and Iran playing massive war games right next to each other, it might be a good thing that they did not engage.

Maybe the England did not want to start WWIII.

By Truthman

March 28, 2007 10:56 AM | Link to this

Oh the wicked web we weave…!!

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-03-27T215910Z01N27218781RTRUKOC0_US-USA-PROSECUTORS.xml

Poor little Alberto! CUTTING AND RUNNING!!

Punta!!

By IN THE NEWS

March 28, 2007 10:58 AM | Link to this

GOTTA ADMIT THEY TAKE SNEAKY TO A NEW LEVEL

There’s your answer. White House personnel appear to have been systematically avoiding using their government emails on the job because they knew they might some day be subpoenaed.

But as we noted earlier with Karl Rove, this may have been too clever by half. If the president’s aides were using RNC emails or emails from other Republican political committees, they can’t have even the vaguest claim

By Dusty

March 28, 2007 11:00 AM | Link to this

Well, somebody went to all the trouble of stealing Paul’s ID @ 9:59 and 10:04. It isn’t enough to insult @@ for her support of the troups, you have to throw in phony scurrilous remarks. Now that is a really really crooked way of getting your point across.

There are plenty of names for people who are a disgrace to this country. You know some of them by their blogs here. They are so twisted that they think losing the war is the way to save our country.

Listen to these hate America people: Make war funding a pork project for Democrats. Impeach Bush. Get a resignation. Declare Gonzalez a criminal without legal cause. Declare Cheney a would be murderer and warmonger. Go back and say Reagan did nothing. Declare presidential elections fraudulent. Demonize homeland security. Iran is better than the British. Why didn’t the British start another war? The list of liberal propaganda goes on and on to the detriment of our country, our troops and our allies.

I SUPPORT THE TROOPS. @@ supports the troops. Loyal Americans support the troops. All the trash from loco liberals will not change our love and support of this country.

By Walt

March 28, 2007 11:00 AM | Link to this

“They know America’s leftists well. People like Walt who have sympathy for Iran and see them as victims of the U.S.”

I have no sympathy for Iran.

But I know that nations don’t have morals. They have interests.

And I know that Bush and his handlers have been derelict in their duty by letting emotions enter in to the conduct of our national affairs.

Walt

By @@

March 28, 2007 11:08 AM | Link to this

Truthman:

(((By Truthman March 28, 2007 10:44)))

(((If we had listened to Carter and weaned ourselves off of oil, the entire middle-east would be of no more consequence to our national security than say, the Bahamas!)))

When you used the word “WE”, I guess you were referring to “YOUR” environmentalists who have done everything within their power to “STOP” domestic drilling and the development of nuclear energy sites in the U.S.

They must have been the “mouse” in your liberal pocket.

Or maybe it’s the other way around.

You and your Democratic party are the “mouse” in “THEIR” pocket.

By Truthsayer

March 28, 2007 11:10 AM | Link to this

Truthman - you really do need to get a new name! We conservatives do not love money so much. Otherwise, Ted Kennedy, Diane Feinstein, Herbert Kohl, Mark Dayton (ret), Jay Rockefeller, John Kerry, John Edwards and Maria Cantwell, just to name a few of the megamillionaires in the Senate, would all be Republicans. It is you liberals who think that money is the answer to EVERYTHING. The only time that you complain about spending is when it is YOUR money or it is being spent on the defense of this country.

Let me illustrate by listing a few Republican politicians who made it when they had not inherited their wealth or been members of a political dynasty - Abraham Lincoln, William McKinely, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Wendell Wilkie, Dwight Eisehnower, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, Mel Martinez, John Tower, Jeff Sessions and the list goes on and on and on. You can name a few Democrats too.

I will ask the question again: Why don’t all these megarich liberals - e.g. Al Gore - take all of their money and give it to the poor and go live in walk-ups in a working-class area of town? Your hypocrisy again speaks volumes!

By rushncap

March 28, 2007 11:10 AM | Link to this

Yes Dusty, we all know that you think you support the troops. We got it. The CAPS are extraneous. We realize you base your whole identity on your “support of troops” by posting on an obscure blog. Enough already. I think I speak for the majority when I say that we’re fed up with you telling us this every 5 minutes. At this point A-N Smith coverage seems tactful in comparison.

By Anonymous

March 28, 2007 11:21 AM | Link to this

rushnap - Did you mean EXTRANEOUS or SUPERFLUOUS? I suggest that your undereducated liberals with undeservedly high opinions of your own intelligence find dictionaries before you use multi-syllable words and then turn around a criticize a Republican who mangles a syllable or two when you don’t even know the definition of the words you are using!

By Anonymous

March 28, 2007 11:21 AM | Link to this

rushnap - Did you mean EXTRANEOUS or SUPERFLUOUS? I suggest that your undereducated liberals with undeservedly high opinions of your own intelligence find dictionaries before you use multi-syllable words and then turn around & criticize a Republican who mangles a syllable or two when you don’t even know the definition of the words you are using!

By Daniel

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

Truff, @@: Why are you always whining about leftists and liberals?

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

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

-=-

Heee - hee hee —- oh this is too much!!

[There were no predators. T-Rex had such big teeth, the museum explains, so it could open coconuts. Only after Adam and Eve sinned and were cast out of paradise did the dinosaurs start to eat flesh.]

This coming from the same kooks that at one time thought the Universe revolved around the flat earth. I guess that fossil fuel that they are using in their bus is blood from mother earth too!

-=-

Concerning the 15 captured British prisoners. The choices of what to do about the situation and events are England’s alone and not the US-of-A’s business. As a matter of fact if the USA entered into the argument here, then that would make it tougher on England in negotiating the captives returns.

As you may (or may not) realize, that we (The USA) have been bending and even violating the rules of the Geneva Conventions in Iraq. This includes the Iranians taken in Iraq as “Enemy Combatants” and not “POW’s”. This means now that any American taken by Iran (or any other Mid-East country involved in Iraq, can use the same rules in dealing with our troops (including torture sadly).

England can (for now) at least say they have not violated the Geneva Conventions, and should Iran violate the Geneva Conventions against their troops, then England has recourse within the world courts.

So we Amerikan’s should just butt-out when it comes to the British 15 “POW’s”.

Thomas/PNAC

By IN THE NEWS

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

COMPROMISE ANYONE?

Bush has the authority to engineer a change of direction in the war. But he lacks the credibility with the public to reestablish consent for his course.

Congressional Democrats, even after their seismic Senate victory Tuesday, ultimately lack the leverage to mandate a new course in Iraq. But they offer Bush his only possibility of rebuilding a public consensus over America’s role in the war.

Because neither side can set a sustainable course on its own, their choice is either to continue colliding in polarized confrontations like Tuesday’s Senate vote narrowly approving a time limit for withdrawal, or to seek agreement on a strategy for Iraq that a broader coalition in Congress and the country might support.

By @@

March 28, 2007 11:29 AM | Link to this

Walt:

Bush “HAS NOT” let the “emotions” of the Democrats and their anti-war liberals impact his decisions regarding Iraq.

A strong leader keeps his eye of “the objective”, not hysterical “emotions”.

The clock is ticking for our troops in the field,'' Bush said in a speech this morning in Washington.If Congress fails to pass a bill to fund our troops on the front lines, the American people will know who to hold responsible.”

There is nothing of value to be found in hysteria and emotional rhetoric. It takes you nowhere but around the block to where you started.

It’s that “victimhood” mentality that the Democrats are so fond of and dependent upon.

I’m off to work.

By rushncap

March 28, 2007 11:36 AM | Link to this

When you say “multi-syllable”, Dusty, do you mean “polysyllabic”? Or are you gonna tell us about just how edumacated you is?

@@, does the overuse of quotation marks make you feel wittier?

By @@

March 28, 2007 11:36 AM | Link to this

Oops! Just saw Dusty’s post.

Dusty: I hate to sound like some of the “self-promoting” liberal(s) on this site, but I must say….

I love the way you “sum ‘em up” (the liberals). Their disdain for this country and all that she represents can be disheartening, but only if we allow it.

I don’t, and neither do you.

In other words….ATTA GIRL DUSTY.

By @@

March 28, 2007 11:42 AM | Link to this

rushncap:

Did you have something of “”“”“”RELEVANCE”“”“”” that you wanted to say?

””“”“”AS USUAL”“”“”” it would appear “”“”“”NOT”“”“”“.

By Anonymous

March 28, 2007 11:44 AM | Link to this

rushnap - you are the one in need of an edumucation. Multi does mean more than one. Polysyllabic means many syllables. I was referring to your inablity to use words of more than ONE syllable! You still don’t know the difference between EXTRANEOUS and SUPERFLUOUS. You are the latter.

By Goldie

March 28, 2007 11:50 AM | Link to this

{{If we had listened to Carter and weaned ourselves off of oil}}

Truthman— that’s what America got with Ray-gun and Daddy Bush: no “vision-thing” for problem-solving and the continual supporting of terrorists nations in the Middle East.

The Repugnant Party is terrorist-enablers!

By getalife

March 28, 2007 11:52 AM | Link to this

Its a damn shame wingnuts do not want our troops, trained rested and well equipped to fight in the Iraq civil war.

Why do you hate the troops wingnuts?

Geez.

By LuckoDull

March 28, 2007 11:56 AM | Link to this

{{{By Sir Dullard March 28, 2007 11:23 AM As you may (or may not) realize, that we (The USA) have been bending and even violating the rules of the Geneva Conventions in Iraq. So we Amerikan’s should just butt-out when it comes to the British 15 “POW’s”.}}}

Thomas: You should “butt out” when the discussion concerns adults.

I only respond to you because you offer the perfect opportunity to show everyone exactly the kind of regime that you pervert socialists are propagandizing for on this blog:

On August 10, 1994, in the city of Arak, a woman was sentenced to death by stoning. According to the ruling of the religious judge, her husband and two children were forced to attend the execution. The woman urged her husband to take the children away, but to no avail. A truck full of stones was brought in to be used during the stoning. In the middle of the stoning, although her eyes had been gouged out, the victim was able to escape from the ditch and started running away, but the regime’s guards recaptured her and shot her to death.

You mofo’s sit in here and sh-it out of your filthy polluted mouths about America “torturing,” all on behalf of the REAL TORTURERS.

FY.

This is who you are, by speaking on behalf of these crazed murderers, you are no better than they are and give legitimacy for their actions.

There is no excuse for what you do, none, you are the scum of the Earth.

You need to be washed away.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

By rushncap

March 28, 2007 11:56 AM | Link to this

@@ — people who live in glass houses…

When was the last time you posted something relevant? “Lib’ruls suck” does not really count, sorry.

By Daniel

March 28, 2007 11:58 AM | Link to this

If we question Bush does that make us liberals? If I think Bush is not the sovereign, does that make me a leftist?

By Jeff

March 28, 2007 12:04 PM | Link to this

Past time to hang Bush and his goons.

By Goldie

March 28, 2007 12:05 PM | Link to this

Daniel @ 11:58— any deviation from the standard cult-worship that the extremist 29% has for W, brings out the slings and arrows… just sickening, and downright un-American!

By getalife

March 28, 2007 12:09 PM | Link to this

legalize it already

Did you know that the feds will not prosecute unless caught with over 500 pounds of weed smuggled over the border?

Tax it to help the deficit.

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

March 28, 2007 12:10 PM | Link to this

-=-

Andy! World Policeman at large - ! Woo - hoo! So you want the USA to be the World Empire setting the laws and rules of every nation and religion!

Ignorant Idiot!

-=-

Here are “More Words of Wisdom” from a great man..

Enjoy

Thomas/PNAC

—

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

—

You are remembered for the rules you break.

—

“The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.”

—

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

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The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

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No man is enitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

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It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

—

“Last, but by no means least, courage - moral courage, the courage of one’s convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle - the roar of the crowd on one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

—

“Could I have but a line a century hence - crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, - I would gladly yield every honor which has been accorded me in war”

—

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By Walt

March 28, 2007 12:13 PM | Link to this

“The Repugnant Party is terrorist-enablers!”

That’s true, but not intentional.

The Bush Cabal sold out to Israel and AIPAC. Tey co-opted our military for the securing of Israeli strategic objectives.

Unfortuately, Israel’s leaders are as bad as ours.

Walt

By Dusty

March 28, 2007 12:16 PM | Link to this

UH oh…five minutes are up..I have to tell rushncap that I SUPPORT THE TROOPS.(You know how he forgets.)

As to relevance, Anonymous put it so well: rushncap is SUPERFLUOUS.

By Power of Doom

March 28, 2007 12:18 PM | Link to this

Walt,

Too bad your boyfriend Patton isn’t in charge. He’d rescue those Brit soldiers in Iran, although you would probably try to sleep with them.

By Daniel

March 28, 2007 12:21 PM | Link to this

Goldie: They never answer my questions. It is why they lost the moderates and conservatives.

By Walt

March 28, 2007 12:34 PM | Link to this

“By Jeff

March 28, 2007 12:04 PM | Link to this

Past time to hang Bush and his goons.”

Now, now.

Only after due process.

Walt

By IVAW

March 28, 2007 12:38 PM | Link to this

Response to Bush’s Escalation Speech by Jason Lemieux Sat, 01/13/2007

In his recent speech, the President referred to tactics that many in the military are familiar with, including ‘clean and sweep’ and door-to-door home “visits” by U.S. military personnel. These approaches have failed miserably during the nearly four years of occupation, and have served to alienate and enrage the Iraqis against the U.S. presence in their communities. Clean and sweep operations haven’t worked, and they never will. The problem, contrary to what Bush states, is not that we have neglected certain areas or haven’t remained in one area long enough to ‘hold’ it after the sweep. The problem is that this is not a war of geography in which terrain can be “cleared” of resistance and “held.”

The people that Bush tries to paint as ‘terrorists’ are really local antagonists. They are citizens of Iraq who feel that the U.S. military is so oppressive that it is worth destroying one Humvee at a time. When sweeps are conducted the insurgents merely go to ground, sitting passively in their homes with their families as our soldiers rifle through their belongings in a vain attempt to find contraband that isn’t there, or is so well hidden that it would take far too long to uncover in the sweep of such a large area. They will always have more time to hide than we have to search. The entire time, American soldiers wearing full body armor and supported by armored vehicles and aircraft are breaking down doors, pulling up carpets and otherwise tearing the house apart. They will not, of course, put everything back in its place when they are done. The soldiers will speak directly to women, giving them orders and sometimes even making physical contact in order to get the women clustered together in one room, where they are easily controlled. The damage done to the familial and tribal honor by ignoring the patriarchal rules of this culture causes a hundredfold more harm than the success gained in these sweeps. There are hundreds of thousands of people who have had their houses tornadoed countless times in a vain attempt to find the ‘terrorists,’ and all of them are now supporters of the resistance.

To read the rest of the reasons that Jason thinks Bush’s escalation plan is FUBAR, follow the link to his complete article posted on our website.

By Midori

March 28, 2007 12:39 PM | Link to this

Every Man for Himself Bush administration discipline slips further

As George Bush’s tenure winds down, he has started thinking about building his presidential library. Somewhere off the Mission Accomplished Atrium he should put a boxing ring. An administration that came into office boasting of exemplary teamwork looks like it’s going to end in a hail of blame-placing, finger-pointing, and backbiting.

The Justice Department’s White House liaison, Monica Goodling, has refused to testify before the judiciary committee because she is worried she’ll be blamed for the controversy over the eight fired U.S. attorneys. Her lawyer explained in a press release that she would take the Fifth in part because one of her former bosses at the Justice Department was blaming his false testimony on her, claiming that Goodling “did not inform him of certain pertinent facts.”

The finger-pointing over the U.S. attorney firings comes just a few weeks after a long display of it in the Scooter Libby trial. The defense portrayed the vice president’s former chief of staff as the victim of a plot by his former colleagues to make him take the blame for outing a CIA agent. (Goodling mentioned the Libby example as the specter she fears; Democratic senators cited Libby when referring to Sampson’s role.) Like the U.S. attorney scandal, Scooter Libby’s trial was a forum for displaying years of bitter acrimony between different parts of the administration.

All administrations produce unhappy people in the second term. At the end of Bill Clinton’s tenure, George Stephanopoulos and Robert Reich wrote memoirs that were unflattering to some of their former colleagues. The Bush team has already had such disgruntled types: Paul O’Neill, David Kuo, and Richard Clarke. What has changed at this point, though, “is that it feels like it’s every man for himself,” says one former senior administration official.

By Walt

March 28, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this

“By Power of Doom

March 28, 2007 12:18 PM | Link to this

Walt,

Too bad your boyfriend Patton isn’t in charge. He’d rescue those Brit soldiers in Iran, although you would probably try to sleep with them.”

Patton was blessed to have civilian good leaders.

The civilian leaders we had at the end of the 1930’s were very good.

Seeing a new war coming, they advanced General George Marshall over @ 150 senior generals to be the Chief of Staff in 1940. He had his eye on Patton, Eisenhower, Clark and Bradley, among others.

Good civilian leadership will always trump good military leadership on the other side.

Just ask the Germans.

Walt

By Dusty

March 28, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this

Nuked,

Could you condense your propaganda a bit? You really should say whom you are plagiarizing with your “cut-n-paste” jobs.

You don’t have to post ALL the liberal material you receive at one time.

Luckovich has already “egged” the president in his usual political outbursts. Your outbursts are SUPERFLUOUS!! (I love that new word! It fits the liberals here so well.)

By Power of Doom

March 28, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this

Doom has endorsed Sen.Chuck Hagel for the Republican nomination in ‘08.

Barack Obama will win the democratic nomination.

By rushncap

March 28, 2007 12:43 PM | Link to this

Thanks Dusty. I bet you feel all nice and fuzzy about yourself. You can now feel that you’ve done your part. Certainly the families of all those who have died or have been injured in this useless war are sending you “Thank You” cards as we speak.

By rushncap

March 28, 2007 12:47 PM | Link to this

Man, is Dusty studying for the SATs a few decades too late?

By Daniel

March 28, 2007 12:47 PM | Link to this

Midori: The scandals are eclipsing one another. Everyone has forgotten Jeff Gannon. Rove knows who he is.

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

March 28, 2007 12:50 PM | Link to this

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Andy -

In your 11:56 post you compared my ideals with the horrible events of that Theocracy and their in-humane treatment of their own nations people.

No sir — I am totally against rulership by religion. I was in protest against the Taliban long before 9-11. I am the one who is outspoken against such a regime, whether it be Muslim, or Christian. And I certainly don’t want to see such things come to the United States.

You sir are the one pushing for merging church and state with religion taught in schools, and for a specific religion being the basis of our nation’s laws. You are the one pushing to make our country a Theocracy!

I fight for seperation of Church and State, and for the rights of every person to have the “FREEDOM” of worshipping (or not worshipping) as they see fit in