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A more humble abode

By Mike Luckovich | Wednesday, May 23, 2007, 06:24 AM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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By LuckoDull

May 23, 2007 8:03 AM | Link to this

Why is it no surprise to me that luckobit-ch looks up to Jimmy Carter?

Geez.

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{{{Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said that the benchmark proposal was “extremely weak,” but it wasn’t “a blank check.”-Urinal}}}

It just seems like one, right Harry?

If you buy this filthy rag “news” paper, if you are not afraid to expose your self to the diseased agenda of the pervert left, you may have seen this phrase getting quite a bit of publishing lately, usually attached to some story about Arab savages killing innocent children:

{{{despite the 3 month old security crackdown.-AJC.}}}

Last time I checked, and I know that I have better access to more informed sources then the AJC does (Geez,) the security crackdown hasn’t even been fully manned up yet. Are you candy as-sed sniveling Cowards taking advantage here, to advance your pre conceived notions?

Anybody really believe the results of the surge will get a fair hearing within the pages of the Urinal, you know, an objective look at the facts? Hahaha. Hell they won’t even give it a chance before it starts. And you’re telling us that Bush is lying?

Geez.

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By LuckoDull

May 23, 2007 8:03 AM | Link to this

{{{Gen. Giap defeated the French empire — in 1954 at Dienbienphu. But America’s defeat was on the home front and in the halls of Congress. Hanoi achieved final victory with a 2,500-year-old blueprint for victory — Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War.” The template was undermining home front morale. In Hanoi in September 1972, this reporter met two French communists who bragged about organizing antiwar demonstrations in the United States.}}}

Ever notice that all the placards waved by the “anti war” protestors always can be traced back to some socialist front group?

Subverting the government from within?

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{{{“So the bottom line is that each of these households receives about $30,000 in government benefits, pays about $10,000 in taxes, at a net cost of around $19,000 per year [after rounding]. That’s the equivalent of buying each of these households an automobile and every year of their lives as long as they’re in the United States.” He easily debunks the myth that amnesty will “contribute to solving Social Security’s actuarial crisis.” Precisely the opposite is true; it is certain to exacerbate that crisis and many of this country’s other fiscal problems. “What we found was that this type of household is in net fiscal deficit — the benefits exceed their taxes — at every year from the point they enter the United States. There’s no year where they pay more in taxes, on average, than they take out in benefits.” When these people retire, they pay just $5,000 a year in taxes and get $37,000 a year in benefits. That’s some contribution to a solution.}}}

Harry Reid wanted to shove this down your throat before the end of the week, I guess so he could get back to blaming Bush for the deficit, Geez.

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{{{As the media runs stories of candidates getting into trouble for donating to Planned Parenthood, it’s noteworthy to mention how much the controversial organization receives on the public dole. In 2005 Planned Parenthood got $272 million in our taxes, twice the money it made from its 255,000 surgical abortions. Since 1987, Planned Parenthood has taken in $3.2 billion in taxpayer funds for its deadly agenda. So, since 1973 Planned Parenthood has aborted 3.8 million babies with the help of over 3.9 billion tax dollars.}}}

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By George

May 23, 2007 8:03 AM | Link to this

Actually he should be building a prison cell for Dubya.

By Mrs. Godzilla is Never Dull

May 23, 2007 8:07 AM | Link to this

Jimmy Carter speaks the truth. He’s not alone.

{{{“Most presidents are ranked “average” or, to put it less charitably, mediocre. Johnson, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Richard M. Nixon occupy the bottom rung, and now President Bush is a leading contender to join them. A look at history, as well as Bush’s policies, explains why.”}}}

{{{ GEORGE W. BUSH’S PRESIDENCY APPEARS HEADED FOR COLOSSAL HISTORICAL DISGRACE……., THERE SEEMS TO BE LITTLE THE ADMINISTRATION CAN DO TO AVOID BEING RANKED THE VERY WORST PRESIDENT IN ALL OF AMERICAN ON THE LOWEST TIER OF U.S. PRESIDENTS}}} {{{ Herbert Hoover may have triggered the Great Depression, but he didn’t invade another nation on false pretenses, authorize torture of prisoners, or try to stack the courts.}}}

{{{ Lee knows the score and knows what needs to be done, check out what Lee says here: “Am I the only guy in this country who ’s fed up with what’s happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We’ve got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff.”}}}

{{{ The Donald has never been known to mince words. And he certainly didn’t in an interview with CNN today. The star said that President Bush is “probably the worst president in the history of the United States.”}}}

{{{(CBS) PRESIDENT BUSH HAS BEEN NAMED AS THE WORST PRESIDENT SINCE THE END OF THE WORLD WAR II IN A NEW NATIONAL POLL. }}}

{{{ Let’s hope by now you’ve seen our President’s Day cover story by Jay Tolson heralding Bush? Well, the history on the 43rd president the 10 worst presidents of all time….. That’s because Zogby tells us that Bush is considered by voters the biggest presidential failure in the past 60 years. His failure rating: 30.2 percent, far more than Nixon’s 23 percent}}}

{{{“He is the worst president of that country that I’ve seen in my lifetime. I’m willing to forgive Ronald Reagan and Nixon, because he is so atrocious and does so much harm that I have never seen anything comparable in terms of stupidity, arrogance and ignorance. This has been a catostrophic presidency and is still causing very dangerous situations in the world,” said the author.}}}

Impeachment Indictment Incarceration Why wait for 08?

PEACEPEACEPEACEPEACEPEACEPEACE

By ABS

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

Great toon Mike! Say what you will about Jimmy Carter, but King George has him beat as the worst!

By Mrs. Godzilla

May 23, 2007 8:10 AM | Link to this

Whew….just made it in under the word limit.

Y’all have fun today and try and keep it clean.

By JC

May 23, 2007 8:11 AM | Link to this

Did anyone else here see the 44th President of the United States on Larry King Live last night?

By who_really_cares_anyway?

May 23, 2007 8:18 AM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla, Your posts are one of the few here that keep me coming back.

You are sooo right!

I think we must be sisters, somehow related!

By Shawny

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

Can we trade Jimmy for a player to be named later? If not, can we give him away?

John Conyers, in this piece, says “We don’t have to stand by and watch OPEC dictate the price of gas,”

Now, how friggin stupid is that? First of all, oil is cheaper, but gas higher than a year ago. For the perfect illustration of this, see this toon

Why no new refineries? What are we waiting on? Why no exploration of new oil sources? Why no incentives for hydrogen, nuc-u-lar power, and othes? Forget that corn fuel…it is crap.

By Funny pictures...

May 23, 2007 8:24 AM | Link to this

Our “nucular” president

By @@

May 23, 2007 8:25 AM | Link to this

ml, if you had Carter setting up a “pot” in which he could boil his own homegrown “peaNUTS” on the front lawn of the WH, it would be more accurate.

Worse yet was the administration’s supine response to the seizure of the American Embassy in Tehran later the same year. When Carter hinted that he might use military force to end the crisis and free the 52 US diplomats being held in captivity, he was mocked by the Ayatollah Khomeini. “He is beating on an empty drum,” Khomeini sneered. “Neither does Carter have the guts for military action nor would anyone listen to him.”

Funny, I don’t think the Ayatollah is saying ^^^ that about Bush.

What irritated me more about what Carter did was he criticized our allies in the U.K.

By Mike

May 23, 2007 8:25 AM | Link to this

Well gee, Mikey. Jimmy said that he really didnt mean to say such a thing, he was just misquoted (and misrecorded) by the interviewer.

If Mikey wasn’t guided soley by rigid partisanship, the cartoon would be about Carter’s absurd and cowardly claim that he was misrepresented.

By IN THE NEWS

May 23, 2007 8:26 AM | Link to this

Bush Authorizes New Covert Action Against Iran

By Buy Danish

May 23, 2007 8:33 AM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla,

The Donald is who you rely on for punditry? His qualifications as a historian are what exactly?

No wonder you loons fall for Global Warming Fairy Tales. You don’t know the difference between a real estate developer and a historian.

Moreover, how many of these “voters” that were surveyed can name the last 3 Presidents and Vice Presidents, never mind know enough to go back 60 years and make an informed judgement?

PEACE~STRENGTH~PEACE~STRENGTH~PEACE

By Brian Curtis

May 23, 2007 8:36 AM | Link to this

Maybe Jimmy can take over Delay’s old nickname of “The Hammer”—because Bush has been NAILED.

Heck, even Nixon’s family must be breathing sighs of relief now that Gee Dubya’s taken the heat off.

You can be a patriot who loves America, or you can keep supporting Bush—but you can’t do both.

By Paul

May 23, 2007 8:39 AM | Link to this

Clever cartoon - Carter’s background with building homes for unfortunates with Habitat for Humanity - so he’s building a house - a doghouse, so Bush’s in the doghouse.

Same situation, different rendition that sums up what a lot here have said:

Link: Jimmy Marguiles’ Take on Carter

By Eric

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

Hilarious! Hooray for Jimmy Carter for speaking the absolute TRUTH. And hooray for Mike Luckovich for every cartoon he draws. And Andi, you’re so far below Jimmy and Mike and almost everybody else, except dubya, you’d need a telescope just to see their backsides.

By Buy Danish

May 23, 2007 8:42 AM | Link to this

Hat Tip: LuckoDull

Similarly, Giap, who once said the United States could not be defeated militarily, conceded the 1968 Tet Offensive was an unmitigated disaster for Hanoi. And he was astonished to see that Walter Cronkite, America’s most trusted newsman, had declared Tet a decisive defeat for the United States. Most of the Saigon-based press corps followed “Uncle Walter’s” lead.

Contest idea! What American newsman/chick best deserves the “Walter Cronkite Useful Idiot award” for the best MSM misinformation?

Keith Olbermann is such a hack he doesn’t count. Any other suggestions?

By Bosch

May 23, 2007 8:44 AM | Link to this

No Buy Danish, But we know the difference between a real estate developer and a scientist.

I’ll take Jimmy Carter over Dubya anytime! Jimmy is great! He is old enough now to finally be speaking his mind and the neos can’t handle the truth.

Go Jimmy Go! Hell of a cartoon Mike!

By Paul

May 23, 2007 8:44 AM | Link to this

Brian Curtis 8:36

G’morning. Isn’t “You can be a patriot who loves America, or you can keep supporting Bush—but you can’t do both” a domestic version of Bush’s “you’re either with us or against us” - for which he received so much criticism? Or, for some with longer memories or who read history, an updated version of the “right’s” answer to the Vietnam antiwar movement “America: Love it or Leave It.”

By Funny morons...

May 23, 2007 8:46 AM | Link to this

BD calls Olbermann a hack and LOVES Coulter. What a twisted POS.

By Goldie

May 23, 2007 8:48 AM | Link to this

Great ‘toon, Lucko! And it’s nice of President Carter to build the dog-house for our failed president. He got it right in his comments the first time and was speaking of what is on the minds of 70% of America today…

By JC

May 23, 2007 8:51 AM | Link to this

Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are such hacks that they don’t count.

By Jesus

May 23, 2007 8:52 AM | Link to this

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!

By Brian Curtis

May 23, 2007 8:53 AM | Link to this

Paul: Yes, it is. I never claimed to be tolerant of people trying to destroy America and the Constitution, as the Bush crowd is doing.

By Buy Danish

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

Bosch,

How old are you? (Rhetorical question). Did you stand in the gas lines during Carter’s Presidency? Do you recall the Iran Hostage Crisis? How about the interest rate on a mortgage? Do you remember the inflation rate?

What exactly did Carter do that benefited this country then and now?

I’m betting you’re a wet behind the ears indoctrination candidate at one of our institutions of higher propaganda.

Either that or you spend a lot of time watching the Uncle Walters of the 21st Century.

Later….

By Truthsayer

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

This cartoon could be taken both ways. Ole Jimmy could in fact be building a house for himself as he tried to lie his way out (as usual) when he put his size 9 foot in his ugly, nasty, low-IQ mouth. Without a doubt, by any objective standard, Ole Dummy Carter had the worst record of any president (including Warren Harding) of the 20th century. But all of you sychophants will praise the fool. I just pity the fool!

By IN THE NEWS

May 23, 2007 8:56 AM | Link to this

Nine U.S. warships in Gulf for show of force

By Paul

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

Brian Curtis 8:53

Well, you do put your view right out there. I’m more in agreement with the idea embodied by the “Love it or Leave it” response: “America - Love it or Change it.”

Defining “acceptable” political thought as a true test for what constitutes a “patriot” used to be the bastion of the far right. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

By IN THE NEWS

May 23, 2007 9:01 AM | Link to this

Is the Public Finally Beginning to “Get it”?

By Buy Danish

May 23, 2007 9:02 AM | Link to this

Before I go, you all can compare the credentials of Keith Olbermann and Ann Coulter.

KEITH OLBERMANN:

…attending and graduating from the Hackley School in Tarrytown alongside future ESPN broadcaster Chris Berman. Olbermann then earned his bachelor of science degree in communications arts from Cornell University in 1979 while serving as sports director for WVBR, a student-run commercial radio station in Ithaca, New York. As a teenager, Olbermann was a prolific writer of articles about baseball card collecting, appearing in many sports card collecting periodicals of the mid-1970s. He is credited in Sports Collectors Bible, a 1975 book by Bert Randolph Sugar, which is considered one of the important early books for card collectors.//Olbermann began his professional career at UPI and RKO Radio before joining then nascent CNN in 1981. In 1984, he briefly worked as a sports anchor at WCVB-TV in Boston, before heading to Los Angeles to work at KTLA and KCBS. His work there earned him eleven Golden Mike Awards, and he was named Best Sportscaster by the California Associated Press three times.

VERSUS

ANN COULTER:

As an undergraduate at Cornell, Coulter helped found The Cornell Review, and was a member of the Delta Gamma national women’s fraternity. She graduated cum laude from Cornell in 1984, and received her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School, where she achieved membership in the Order of the Coif and was an editor of the Michigan Law Review. At Michigan, Coulter founded a local chapter of the Federalist Society and was trained at the National Journalism Center.//After law school, Coulter served as a law clerk for Pasco Bowman II of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Kansas City.After a short time working in New York City in private practice, where she specialized in corporate law, Coulter left to work for the United States Senate Judiciary Committee after the Republicans took control of Congress in 1994. She handled crime and immigration issues for Senator Spencer Abraham of Michigan, and helped craft legislation that made it easier to deport aliens convicted of felonies. She later became a litigator with the Center For Individual Rights.

See ya…

By Bosch

May 23, 2007 9:06 AM | Link to this

Yes, Buy Danish as a matter of fact, I did stand in line for gas during the Carter Administration and I cried when I saw the Iran hostages come off the plane when they were released. I already had a home with a fixed mortgage so I didn’t have to worry too much about the interest rate, but yes, damn that inflation rate was certainly high!

Now, I’m paying 3.30 cents a gallon for gas, seeing people in droves loose their house and file for bankruptcy because of predatory lending practices, watching an ever increasing corrupt administration cripple our country, watching day after day the human suffering this false war has caused, not to mention our environment being corroded by pollution and CO2 gases.

So, Buy Danish, how old are you? Yes, by the way, I did go to college, where I learned to think critically. By your remarks, it appears you do not like our institutes of higher learning, why is that? Couldn’t cut it?

Go Jimmy Go! Neocons can’t handle the truth!

By RW-(the original)

May 23, 2007 9:09 AM | Link to this

I wonder what the cartoon would be if we had rampant unemployment, double digit inflation, 20% interest rates, a few hundred hostages being held in one of our embassies, gas lines going around several city blocks, and a President that said our only hope for survival was to put on 16 sweaters and tough out the cold.

I think that was during the global cooling hysteria so Mr Peanut may have been duped by the “scientists” at Time magazine on that last one.

Oh and whats with mocking the way W say nuc-u-lar when Carter is in the same toon?

By Can't Resist

May 23, 2007 9:10 AM | Link to this

Ann Coulter’s Beauty Secret

By Can't Resist

May 23, 2007 9:11 AM | Link to this

Two Ply?

By Scooter

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

Whatever.

“Hello media, do you know you indirectly kill American soldiers every day? You inspire and report the enemy’s objective every day. You are the enemy’s greatest weapon. The enemy cannot beat us on the battlefield so all he does is try to wreak enough havoc and have you report it every day. With you and the enemy using each other, you continually break the will of the American public and American government.

“We go out daily and bust and kill the enemy, uncover and destroy huge weapons caches and continue to establish infrastructure. So daily we put a whoopin on the enemy, but all the enemy has to do is turn on the TV and get re-inspired. He gets to see his daily roadside bomb, truck bomb, suicide bomber or mortar attack. He doesn’t see any accomplishments of the U.S. military (FOX, you’re not exempt, you suck also).

You tell’em Sir!

By Brian Curtis

May 23, 2007 9:17 AM | Link to this

Paul: Fine, but consider this on the “fair and balanced” seesaw.

http://www.idrewthis.org/d/20040908.html

By Truthsayer

May 23, 2007 9:18 AM | Link to this

I was in college when Dummy Carter was president and I remember not only (for the time) very high gas prices, but shortages and lines, the hostage crisis, the low esteem in which this country was held by its enemies and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and his panty-waste response. He also blamed the American people for the ‘malaise’ in the country. He tool no responsibility for the abject failures of his administration. He was, is and always will be a great anomoly in American history - a president who believed that the problem was America and those in the world who had problems with us were automotically right. Interest rates topped out at 21.5%. Inflation was at 13%! Unemployment was at 8%.

In conclusion, for Dummy Carter to call anyone else a failure is like Luciano Pavarotti calling Dom DeLouise fat. He is just a hypocrite.

By Brian Curtis

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

Truthsayer: And what REALLY must be getting your goat is… he was right.

America didn’t want to hear that we invite attacks and cause a lot of our own problems, but it doesn’t change the truth. Time for our country to grow up a little—and last November, we started doing just that, step by tiny step.

By candide

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

Carter wasn’t much of a president, but he didn’t get us into a useless war, he doesn’t have the blood of thousands on this hands, and he did not lie repeatedly.

A dog house is too good for Bush. It insults our best friends.

By Bosch

May 23, 2007 9:26 AM | Link to this

Let’s see, I wonder what Bush is going to do after he is president, I’ll bet he goes back into the oil business where he has been a complete failure before.

What’s Jimmy done? Habitat for Humanity, Presidential Medal of Freedom, OH yeah, Nobel Peace Prize, written over 20 books, won countless awards, been awarded too many academic awards and other very high awards to count. The list could go on and on.

By Bosch

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

I agree candide. Carter was way too good to be president. He wasn’t mean enough, couldn’t cut it. Way too nice of a guy. Have you ever met him? Great guy.

You are also right on target about our furry companions. That is quite an insult.

By Edwin Williams

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

I’m back

By Paul

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

Brian Curtis 9:17

I’m not much for the nonjudgemental school - the “all cultures are morally equal, one shouldn’t label them as good or bad” crowd. What I was addressing was the absolutist school of thought - whether conservative or liberal - that says “this is how I define how you support America, and if you disagree you are not a patriot.”

I just think there are people who “support” Pres Bush - who are “patriots.” Even if one disagrees with the handling of the Iraq war one can still “support” the Presidency.

Those who do not “support” Pres Bush can be “patriots,” also.

By Bosch

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

I guess no none wants to hear that the bad economy of the 70s was due to our incredibly long involvement in Vietnam and that our country was practically bankrupted because of that “conflict.”

Nah, I guess no one wants to think about that.

By Fuddy Duddy

May 23, 2007 9:34 AM | Link to this

Heck, I never left

By Truthsayer

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

Bosch - you also must have forgotten the high bankruptcy rate because of the inflation in the late 1970s and you must have overlooked the fact that as a percentage, bankruptcies are actually down among people who have mortgages. The fact is, despite all of our problems today, America has a stronger economy and is stronger militarily than it has been since Eisenhower was president.

By RW-(the original)

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

Paul,

The problem with the absolutists in the Brian Curtis vein is they are being deliberately dishonest. I don’t know anybody either in person or on a blog that supports President Bush in lockstep. It’s just that if you recognize the fact that we face a global enemy and support that we’ve found a place to battle that enemy, then you’re just dismissed as a blind follower of all things Bush.

It’s easier for mental lightweights to debate that way.

By LuckoDull

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

Speaking out against a sitting president when you are a former president goes against 230 years of civility, honor and protocols of respect, but what do you expect from a bunch of baby killing degenerate pornographers?

This world is their filthy disrespectful playground.

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{{{By Not Dull May 23, 2007 8:27 AM I thought W despised the UN?}}}

Make note that Koffi Annan is no longer available to obstruct the righteous agenda of the United States.

And now you dullards are going to dog Bush for reaching out and working with our allies?

Geez.

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{{{By Bosch May 23, 2007 9:06 AM Blah, blah, blah, sniff, sniff, boo, hoo, hoo…. watching an ever increasing corrupt administration cripple our country, watching day after day the human suffering this false war has caused, not to mention our environment being corroded by pollution and CO2 gases.}}}

Facts: Carbon dioxide is not the major greenhouse gas (water vapor is).2- Carbon dioxide accounts for less than ten percent of the greenhouse effect, as carbon dioxide’s ability to absorb heat is quite limited.

You should question everything these liberals say, unless, of course, you enjoy being fed unmitigated bullsh-it designed to scheme tax dollars from the U.S. Treasury.

You know what I mean?

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By Edwin Duddy

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

My psuedo-logical approach is to determine whether or not the process is rightly covered by all sources and idioms.

Blathering useless nonsense, I remain an idiot.

By Dusty

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

Paul,@ 9:00

Brian Curtis gets all hot and bothered any time you mention “patriot”. Just mention support of the President as Commander-in-Chief and “Support the troops” and he gives us his Patrick Henry imitation of “Give me free speech so I can undermine the country and call you names”.

This comes because he wants to say that all war is wrong, our war is lost, the President is stupid, the “surge” is stupid, the country is imperialistic, and there are no terrorists except Christians and Iraq wasn’t so bad under Saddam.

BUT he, Curtis, “supports the troops”and wants them to drop their guns and run on home. Then everything will be hunky dory and Nancy Pelosi will be president after Democrats impeach Bush. C’est la vie a la Curtis..

By Truthsayer

May 23, 2007 9:47 AM | Link to this

Bosch - yes that might be an argument except for the fact that when Ford left office the inflation rate was at 4% and unemployment was at 6%. Carter said that this ‘misery index’ of 10% was completely unacceptable. The Soviet Union was not in Afghanistan and the Shah was still in power in Iran. The Democrats had pulled the rug out from under the South Vietnamese, and Carter continued the weakening of our military and our image in the rest of the world. Don’t try to defend that which is indefensable. Carter is one fool throwing stones in his own glass house.

By RW-(the original)

May 23, 2007 9:47 AM | Link to this

Yes Bosch and it was sheer coincidence that those problems vanished when Reagan took office.

Perhaps there’s a grain of truth to what you say and the tax cuts erased those problems by bringing more money into the treasury. I guess you support the Bush tax cuts, which you realize makes you an unpatriotic, blind follower, Bushbot, Neocon.

By Bosch

May 23, 2007 9:47 AM | Link to this

Truthsayer, I’m not saying the economy wasn’t bad in the 70s, on the contrary, it was horrible. But if you think our economy is the strongest it’s ever been? Where have you been getting your facts from? Fox News? Seriously, we have a deficit that will take years to pay off and any good indicator of the economy is useless because of that. It’s the same as saying you have a lot of money because you have 100 credit cards. Get your head out of the sand.

By Fuddy Williams

May 23, 2007 9:47 AM | Link to this

Specifically, I post partially digested revisionist historical rhetoric with a twist of Falwellian flavor. The view of my kidneys - from where my head is- is excellent, and completely the best thing right wing politics has ever done for me.

I am a fool and quite proud of it!

By Paul

May 23, 2007 9:50 AM | Link to this

RW-(the original)

I’ve lost track of the number of times on this blog I’ve read someone say something mildly supportive of a Pres Bush action or even say “well, think about it this way” and the avalanche of “you’re a neocon idiot who really loves Bush and wants to take away our liberties and spy on us and blah blah blah” happens. Come to think of it, many of the responses remind me of an Olbermann monologue. Go figure -

Talk with you later tonight - projects call -

By Scooter

May 23, 2007 9:53 AM | Link to this

Oh good, people are going to talk about balance sheets and leveraging debt to ones advantage… I mean demise. Nah, probably not.

By Dusty

May 23, 2007 9:55 AM | Link to this

Hmmm

I thought bosch was Russian cabbage soup. Was I wrong?

By IN THE NEWS

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

{{{The U.S. military said nine soldiers and Marines were killed in five separate roadside bomb and shooting attacks across Iraq on Monday and Tuesday.

Eighty soldiers have now been killed since the beginning of the month and 3,431 since the U.S. invasion.}}}}

By DebbieDoRight

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

“I hope to follow in Ann’s (Coulter) footsteps and attend the Barbizon School of Law.”

By Truthsayer

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

Bosch - our debt, as a percentage of our GDP and our national worth, is better than any of the developed nations. We are running a deficit because we are at war and because we are spending too much money (I’m not happy at all about that, and none of the conservatives I know is either). However, the Demoncrats will raise spending and taxes and the deficit will not go down. In fact our national debt will continue to grow because they will keep adding entitlements to the budget.

The problem is that politicians love to buy votes with the federal treasury. Thomas Jefferson warned about this over two hundred years ago and few are listening even today.

By RW-(the original)

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

Paul,

You just committed a cardinal sin of leftist dogma. Don’t you know you’re supposed to just vanish and let people wonder why you aren’t responding?

steve-0,

Don’t read beyond this arrow.<———-

.

I’m leaving too, see you all at Happy Hour.

By Bosch

May 23, 2007 10:01 AM | Link to this

Truthsayer, I will defend Jimmy Carter until I go into the grave. I’m not saying he was a great president, but he is certainly more of a man than the idiot we have now. He speaks his mind and speaks the truth, you neocons can’t handle it. Brian Curtis was right in his post earlier, it’s time for our country to grow up.

Do you honestly think that Carter did more damage to our image to the rest of the world than Bush? Are you serious?

By Paul

May 23, 2007 10:04 AM | Link to this

Dusty 9:44

Thanks for the background. Actually, I don’t really mind hearing that all war is wrong - as long as it’s said by a radical Muslim.

Regarding “Bosch” - aside from a maker of some really neat appliances, the word was also used derisively by the French to refer to Germans during WWI.

“Borsch” is a Russian soup using beets as the foundation. Usually eaten cold.

Many cultures have cabbage soup. It’s really good - but the uninitiated should probably eat Beano along with it. Or you’ll experience what you see here every day.

Now I really am outta here -

By Bosch

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

As usual Dusty, yes you are wrong. You are thinking of borscht which is a BEET soup, not cabbage.

Bosch is a name.

As usual you can’t defend your argument without trying to name call. Pretty typical of an uneducated hillbilly.

By Funny morons...

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

“…a few hundred hostages being held in one of our embassies.”

Iran captured 52 American hostages. With Republican fuzzy math that equals a few hundred.

“Oh and whats with mocking the way W say nuc-u-lar”

Because Carter can pronounce it correctly.

What a moron you are RW.

By Truthsayer

May 23, 2007 10:08 AM | Link to this

Bosch - I know Jimmy Carter, and I have know that fool since before he was elected governor. I cannot imagine a person who is a bigger liar and hypocrite than he. He is a vendictive little man with a weird Napoleon complex (he wants power but is afraid to use it, at least wisely or decisively). George W. Bush is at least decisive and he is at least HONEST! Carter is a fool and not even an honest one. He is a hate-America-firster and a defeatest. His mother was also one of the most obnoxious people I have ever had the misfortune to wait on in a shoe store!

By RW-(the original)

May 23, 2007 10:08 AM | Link to this

Trurhsayer,

One last post before I hit the links err…road. The only problem with your 10:00 analysis is that when the Democrats raise taxes the deficit will briefly disappear because there will be an instant surge in revenue right before the inevitable recession it will cause when economic activity stalls out.

As always they will use smoke and mirrors to make it look like there is no deficit while cutting away at defense and military readiness. Then we will elect a Republican that will lower taxes to get the economy moving again and we will go into a deficit while we build our defenses back up.

Then of course the cycle will repeat ad infinitum.

By Funny morons...

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

BD sez: Before I go, you all can compare the credentials of Keith Olbermann and Ann Coulter.

If it’s all about credentials, Republicans lose. ESPECIALLY militarily.

By RW-(the original)

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

{{{{{{{Because Carter can pronounce it correctly.-By Funny moron}}}}}

Really? What a moron indeed.

By rushncap

May 23, 2007 10:12 AM | Link to this

Paul, your point would be much more powerful if someone could figure out a single thing that Bush did right in his Presidency. I can’t think of anything. Got ideas?

By Dusty

May 23, 2007 10:13 AM | Link to this

IN THE NEWS

Are we supposed to thank you for telling us every bit of bad news you can scape up about the Iraq War?

Are we supposed to be pleased that you undermine the morale of the country and the troops every single day?

Are we supposed to be surprised and non-caring that some of our troops fighting for THIS country are killed in action?

Are we not supposed to know that every time terrorists get a victory they look forward to killing Americans right in our own country, the USA?

Are we not supposed to know that terrorist are spreading worldwide and have already attacked USA, UK, Spain, Lebanon, Turkey and others?

Please tell us why you continue to support the efforts of terrorists.

By Edwin Fuddy Truth

May 23, 2007 10:13 AM | Link to this

When dissecting the unilateral spectrum of ideologies, where the truth runs perpindicular to the waves in Lay’s, we find that Aaron Neveill Chamderlien was absolutly correct in his observations that pandering is exclusive to the chattering masses.

By rushncap

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

How many “one last posts” are you gonna have, RW?

By Brian Curtis

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

Thank you, Dusty, for immediately proving RW wrong when he says there’s “no one” who blindly supports Bush in everything and whines about patriotism being defined solely by allegiance to Bush.

Dusty is the embodiment of that exact level of brainless mooing, as she proves here every day. “Intellectual lightweight” indeed. Thanks, Dusty! (Try again, RW.)

By Truthsayer

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

Thanks RW. You are of course right, but these people on this blog who think that Marxism has always failed whenever tried simply because the wrong people tried it will never admit that supply side economics - i.e. market economics - work when ever tried. I too have to scoot. I won’t be back for quite a while. TATA!!

By rushncap

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

Guess ol’ Dusty started drinking a wee bit early this morning.

By getalife

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

Then Carter caves like the Dems.

Geez.

Another Monica will testify todaybut nothing will happen.

Another dog and pony show.

By IN THE NEWS

May 23, 2007 10:17 AM | Link to this

[It is time for unauthorized truth-telling.

Citizens cannot make informed choices if they do not have the facts – for example, the facts that have been wrongly concealed about the ongoing war in Iraq: the real reasons behind it, the prospective costs in blood and treasure, and the setback it has dealt to efforts to stem terrorism. Administration deception and cover-up on these vital matters has so far been all too successful in misleading the public.](http://www.antiwar.com/news/?articleid=3565)

By Bosch

May 23, 2007 10:17 AM | Link to this

Truthsayer, Are you telling me that Lillian was mean to you at a shoe store? Boo hoo. I’ve had people be mean to me too. Yes, I’m sure you’ve known Jimmy for a while now.

Unfortunately, history will paint Carter and Dubya in much different light.

Yes, we are in a deficit because of outrageous spending and this war. But like I said, you can’t claim our national worth is well, worth anything. What about the trade with China? How much goods from China are we bringing in? How much of our goods are going there?

By MM

May 23, 2007 10:19 AM | Link to this

Isn’t there a statute of limitations on rightwingnuts using the phrase “Democrats will increase taxes and increase spending”.

At least the Dems understand basic economics! Spending more than your income creates a deficit. We need a law to prevent this practice once and for all so that the GOP will not be able to break the bank everytime they win the White House.

And the GDP argument is so lame.

By IN THE NEWS

May 23, 2007 10:19 AM | Link to this

[CHANGING TIMES DEMAND TELLING THE TRUTH IN WARTIME]http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2007/04/25/changing-times-demand-telling-the-truth-in-wartime/)

By IN THE NEWS

May 23, 2007 10:22 AM | Link to this

CHANGING TIMES DEMAND TELLING THE TRUTH IN WARTIME

OOPS

By Yada Yada

May 23, 2007 10:22 AM | Link to this

George W Bush did in fact make Jimmy Carter the second worst President ever. W would be living in a trailer park outside of Austin if it were not for the fact that he was born to George and Barbara. W is the most inept individual I have ever witnessed and that includes the wino that hangs out in fron of the QT that I pass on the way to work.

By Bosch

May 23, 2007 10:24 AM | Link to this

Dusty, Unfortunatley there is much more bad news than good right now. Can you tell me why there have been terrorist attacks in those countries? Because we have created more American hating terrorists by our failed foreign policy and this failed war. The reason they attack European countries is because they have helped us in this war and are easier targets. The terrorists don’t have as far to go to attack them, there isn’t a big giant ocean in between them and us.

By Williams Duddy Sayer

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

As the Al Bundy candidate for butt-munch in chief, I see the alternate universe in categorically diverse shapes and colors that all represent the denial of righteous indignation.

Thomas Jefferson Airplane said it best. One pill make you bigger and one pill makes you small and the one that Bushies give you don’t do anything at all. Go ask alberto, when he’s 10 feet small.

By getalife

May 23, 2007 10:26 AM | Link to this

There is something wrong when the stock market is breaking records when gas prices are too.

I am guessing there will be a massive sell off when we attack Iran.

By IN THE NEWS

May 23, 2007 10:29 AM | Link to this

REBUPLI-CHICKS NEED HIS NUMBER? 1-800-WAR-SLUT

{{{Wolfowitz loses his job…and his girlfriend. Outgoing World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz and his love interest, Shaha Riza, have split up. Riza was reportedly “upset by all the publicity and the implication that she was getting ahead with the help of a powerful man.”}}}

By Yada Yada

May 23, 2007 10:31 AM | Link to this

How can the Republicans even hope to capture the White House in 2008 with a President that has a 20% approval rating? Oh, I get it.

He will pull a Richard Nixon and declare victory and end the war in Iraq right before the election. What’s a few more American lives if it means the Republicans keep the White House?

By Right-wing nut job in full glory

May 23, 2007 10:45 AM | Link to this

I agree with Dusty. There is no reason for us to know anything but good things about the war. I don’t think the military ought to release any info regarding the death or dismemberment of our troops as it is liable to make our troops feel bad and the terrorists feel good. I think that the press ought to report that everything is going great in Iraq and that the terrorists are still in the “last throes” and in fact they are no longer “bringing it on.” Further, Congress ought to be sent home by the President because they seem to only be interested in undermining the commander in cheif in war time further emboldening our enemies.

Anyone who questions the president or his policies undermines the troops and emboldens the enemy. Therefore, we should eliminate free speech and the free press so that we can maintain freedom. If we are to remain free we are going to have to not be free until the President decides that it is in our best interest to not be in a war that, by necessity, gives the President complete and total authority. I think we can trust this President to tell us when he would like to have his power checked.

The simple truth that Dusty reveals is that our nation simply isn’t strong enough to take on a few thousand suicidal idiots while being allowed to hear or speak negative thoughts. We have to have the courage to recognize our collective cowardice.

Again Dusty, you great American patriot, you are right. We simply are a weak, feckless people who will surrender to the terrorists at the first signs of trouble. I’m glad you have the guts to say what needs to be said about your wimpy countrymen.

RWNJIFG

By Mrs. Godzilla

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

Right-wing nut job in full glory

Today YOU are a hero! Great Post.

By Dusty

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

Ho Hum, liberals on the move this morning. I think they have all been eating “borscht” with the results that Paul mentioned. Yep, get the beano!!

Curtis, you still don’t have any allegiance to our country and our government other than free speech. I’ll be glad when you grow up and find how to support and protect your own nation. Right now you are pulling the other way.

rushncap,10:15

Right! I have been drinking and the coffee was delicious with a demitasse of orange juice. You should try it sometimes. Might improve your disposition.

Well, liberals, I, too, bid you a fond farewell for many hours. Now eat your borscht, open your windows and smile. Let a little sunshine into your dark, dismal lives. You need it.

By @@

May 23, 2007 10:51 AM | Link to this

I know Paul said he’s offline to attend to projects, but…

PAUL, take a trip around the world with Stratfor’s “Intelligence Guidance” dated May 22, 2007.

Damn, it’s a big globe with a whole bunch of strategic players.

The trip to Chavez’s Venezuela was predictable. Hell, you didn’t even have to be a “strategist” to determine he was a thug, a punk, a jerk, a wiseguy; but many of the liberals here just LOVE THE GUY because he HATES BUSH and sports a set of “cajones” THEY ADMIRE?

Eeeewwwwww…

By Miss Lillian

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

Some people can’t even sell shoes….

From the Times article, headlined “When Former Presidents Assail the Chief”:

Nothing rattles Washington quite like a good violation of unwritten rules, especially when the violator and the violated are both presidents (past and present, respectively).

[…]

“I love how because of our short memories, we come up with these eternal rules that don’t really apply,” said the historian Tim Naftali, the director-designate of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.

Indeed, there have been several instances of “when ex-presidents attack” over the years. As recently as a few months ago, former President Gerald R. Ford criticized Mr. Bush’s Iraq policy, albeit from the grave. In an article in The Washington Post, Bob Woodward quoted from an interview he conducted with Mr. Ford with the understanding that he could only publish Mr. Ford’s remarks after he died.

Eisenhower was critical of John F. Kennedy’s domestic policies, the first President Bush pounded on Bill Clinton, now his pal, for his Haiti policy, and Nixon chided the first President Bush (for comparing himself to Harry Truman in his 1992 re-election campaign).

Theodore Roosevelt was brutal in his assaults on Taft and Woodrow Wilson, said Patricia O’Toole, author of “When Trumpets Call,” a book about Roosevelt in the years after he left office. She pointed out, however, that Roosevelt would run for president again, putting him in something of a different category than Mr. Carter (who by all accounts will not).

Still, Mr. Carter did not call President Bush a “puzzlewit” and a “fathead” as Roosevelt did Taft, according to “When Trumpets Call.”

By gttim

May 23, 2007 10:57 AM | Link to this

How old are you? (Rhetorical question). Did you stand in the gas lines during Carter’s Presidency? Do you recall the Iran Hostage Crisis? How about the interest rate on a mortgage? Do you remember the inflation rate?

Remember Carter was the guy who said we needed to become energy independent so we were not held hostage by the Middle East. The oil company owned GOP did not let that happen. If it had we would not be paying over $3 a gallon now and sending soldiers to die for oil company profits. Argentina is no energy independent because they did what Carter said we should do.

Iran? When the GOP went behind Carter’s back and negotiated with Iran to keep the hostages until after the election? They released them right when Reagan was being sworn in? Yeah I remember that.

Inflation? Yeah, you remember Ford running on the campaign slogan “WIN - Whip Inflation Now?” Why do you think he did that? Because Nixon and Ford had screwed up the country so bad inflation and unemployment was in a death spiral. Inflation was not Carter’s fault, but he was trying to solve it. The high interest rates also carried over from the damage Nixon and Ford did.

Why are Republicans so reality challenged? Always blaming others for the damage they do.

The GOP’s “trickle down” or “let the rich pay no taxes” philosophy has never worked. In England they call it “P** on the Poor” because that is what “trickle down” really is. If you are not making over 1 million a year and are supporting the GOP, you are not rich and are just a rube.

By rushncap

May 23, 2007 11:06 AM | Link to this

Dusty — how much crack is in that demitasse? BTW, “demitasse” is a French word, you’re not allowed to use it, according to BillO.

Right wing nut job — awesome post. Well done.

By Julia Child

May 23, 2007 11:14 AM | Link to this

Orange juice served in a demitasse?

OOOOOH! NOOOOO!

You know you’re supposed to use the Flintstone jelly jars!

OJ in a demitasse, the foods gods are rumbling.

By LMAO

May 23, 2007 11:15 AM | Link to this

You people don’t give Bush near enough credit. Before being “elected” back in 2000 he has done the impossible. He has accomplished something I thought I would never see in my lifetime.

It turns out Dan Quayle wasn’t too dumb to be president! You can even be dumber!

Quayle in ‘08

By Jesus

May 23, 2007 11:17 AM | Link to this

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!!

By LuckoDull

May 23, 2007 11:22 AM | Link to this

{{{By Goony gttim, mouth breather May 23, 2007 10:57 AM Because Nixon and Ford had screwed up the country so bad inflation and unemployment was in a death spiral. Inflation was not Carter’s fault, but he was trying to solve it.}}}

Huh, when Carter took office in Jan 1977 inflation was at 5.22% and when he left in Dec 1981 it was 13.58%, so yes, it must have been Nixon’s fault.

Geez.

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By rushncap

May 23, 2007 11:24 AM | Link to this

LMAO — he’s also getting very close to doing another thing, something he promised in his campaign. Remember, he’s a “uniter, not a divider”. He’s pretty damn close to uniting the whole country in opposition to his corrupt, incompetent, bordering on — if not way past — criminal regime. Uniter indeed. We gotta give him credit for that. When was the last time over 60% of Americans agreed on something?

By IN THE NEWS

May 23, 2007 11:24 AM | Link to this

POETRY CORNER

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, was originally a Unitarian minister who left the ministry to have a career in writing, public speaking. He encouraged independent thinking. He was a well-known American author, poet, philosopher.)

What makes a nation’s pillars high And it’s foundations strong? What makes it mighty to defy The foes that round it throng?

It is not gold. Its kingdoms grand Go down in battle shock; Its shafts are laid on sinking sand, Not on abiding rock.

Is it the sword? Ask the red dust Of empires passed away; The blood has turned their stones to rust, Their glory to decay.

And is it pride? Ah, that bright crown Has seemed to nations sweet; But God has struck its luster down In ashes at his feet.

Not gold but only men can make A people great and strong; Men who for truth and honor’s sake Stand fast and suffer long.

Brave men who work while others sleep, Who dare while others fly… They build a nation’s pillars deep And lift them to the sky.

By Not an Idiot

May 23, 2007 11:38 AM | Link to this

gttim - I don’t know what planet you have been living on, but it isn’t Earth! You are one of these wingnuts who believes that crap put out there by Larry Sick which was even debunked by incompetents like Dan Rather!

By the way, ‘trickle down’ economics does work and when you raise taxes on business and the rich you are also indirectly raising them on all consumers. It is a basic economic fact which seems to be beyond the mental capacity of most liberals to process.

Carter was (is) a failure.

By Bosch

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

Wow, it’s not even lunchtime and all the neo-cons are gone. They must be googling their brains out.

By Bosch

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

Not an idiot? Carter is not a failure. He’s done more in his 80 plus years than any of us could dream of doing. Criticizing Carter just shows that you are jealous.

Of course, anyone can criticize. Tell me, what have you accomplished in your lifetime?

By That '70s Show

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

Jimmy doesn’t need to build GWB a ‘Worst President’ dog house.

He can just change the name on the dog house he earned on his own.

By Not an Idiot

May 23, 2007 11:55 AM | Link to this

Bosch - not that it is relevant to this discussion, but I have accomplished much without causing the damage that Carter caused during his mispent political career. I have run a business successfully with my family for the last 21 years and raised to beautiful daughters and managed to stay married without driving my wife crazy.

Carter simply ran the economy into the ground; he destroyed our military effectiveness; he weakened the United States in the eyes of both our friends and our enemies. He has made a fool of himself repeatedly since he was fired by the American people. Remember, he was the one who negotiated that nuclear disarmament deal in 1994 with those peaceful and trustworthy North Koreans and their enlightened leader Kim Jong Il.

Carter was (is) a failure.

By getalife

May 23, 2007 11:56 AM | Link to this

“Loser Wolfowitz gets dumped by his girlfriend:

Paul Wolfowitz has really had a bad couple of weeks. He not only lost his job, he lost his girlfriend, too.”

The lone wolf.

By French Guy

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

Since a pro-American, pro-free market fellow is now the President of France we can go back to using franglais!

By Brian Curtis

May 23, 2007 12:12 PM | Link to this

LMAO: Got that right!

http://www.idrewthis.org/d/20040517.html

By Midori

May 23, 2007 12:15 PM | Link to this

“not an idiot” certainly doesn’t live up to his/her name……..

By Not an Idiot

May 23, 2007 12:27 PM | Link to this

Midori - What facts did I get wrong? My wife just informed me that I made several typos. I said I am not an idiot; I did not say I was perfect. Are you?

By Hey, Moron

May 23, 2007 12:35 PM | Link to this

Not an Idiot,

First, I think you should let everyone know that your name is ironic because what you wrote is highly suggestive that you are in fact an idiot.

For some reason that I cannot understand the North Korean nuclear issue has been misstated repeatedly, especially by those on the right.

Here are the actual facts:

1) The North Koreans began a nuclear program in the late 1980’s during the time of the Soviet Union’s collapse. Apparently, the North Koreans felt that thier security was threatened because we had nukes in the South, as well as an unparalleled nuke sub fleet, and the Soviets were no longer a counter threat to that force.

2) After discovery of the violations of the Non-Proliferation Treaty by the North Koreans as well as a number of North Korean threats to withdraw from the treaty and repeated failures to cooperate with UN inspectors, the US entered into negotiations with the North Koreans. The agreed terms were that we would give financial assistance and assist in them in replacing nuclear reactors capable of producing weapons grade material with light water reactors which do not produce weapons grade material and they would agree to inspections and continue in thier obligations to the NPT, etc… This agreement was in 1994. Of course, in Jan of 1995 the Republicans take over Congress. They disagree with the agreement reached and refuse to fund our end of the agreement. Aid is not as promised or not supplied at all. Assistance in developing light water reactors is delayed or not supplied. In any event we choose to not do what we would say while insisting that the North keep thier end of the deal. Of course they don’t. Years go by and they get a weapon. A rudimentiary one but a weapon nonetheless and then Bush earlier this year agrees to essentially the same deal that was agreed to 13 years ago.

These are facts. I welcome you to research it. Or you could listen to Rush, Hannity, O’Reilly or some other idiot tell you BS.

The reality is that the position of the 1995 Republican Party was the beginning of the regime change policy. In other words we would overthrow goverments that we didn’t like and replace them so there was no need to negotiate. Having tried that once with let’s say “limited success”, they have gone back to negotiating with at least the Norh Koreans while taking the no talk approach to Iran. That lo

By Bosch

May 23, 2007 12:36 PM | Link to this

Not an idiot? I guess you didn’t read my earlier post. Our country was BANKRUPT after Vietnam. We had no money. We had no money for military build up. We had no money for anything. The military destroyed itself, Carter refused to spend money we simply didn’t have to rebuild it.

Yes, in 1994, Carter went to North Korea and got them to agree stop their nuclear program. What happened since then? Yes, the North Koreans have nuclear weapons now (since Bush has been in office), I guess they lied. He went on a diplomatic mission and suceeded. I would hardly call the 1994 Korean deal a failure.

I would hardly say as well, that he has weakened us in the eye of the world. If anything, he’s the one American who is respected around the world. Can you say that about Bush?

Congratulations on your successful business and your 21 year marriage and I’m sure your daughters are great, most daughters are, but Carter has a lot more successes in his column than Bush and to simply criticize him as president is not looking at the whole picture.

If chosen to be remembered as a good president or a good man, I’d take the good man. History will not be so kind to Bush.

We have Jimmy, you have Bush. I’ll take that any day any time.

By be careful

May 23, 2007 12:39 PM | Link to this

Not an idiot. Midori does one of two things on here. When she’s not patting her liberal friends on the azz she’s flexing her balls and claims to kick azz.

She’s the perfect blog joke but too ignorant to realize it.

By Bosch

May 23, 2007 12:44 PM | Link to this

In the News, Yes, the economy did suck, and when the Democrats take back the White House in ‘08, the poor soul who wins will also inherit another economy travesty like we had in the 70s.

By Not an Idiot

May 23, 2007 12:45 PM | Link to this

Hey Moron - I could say the same for your pseudonym, but I think we both understand what sarcasm is and that it is a dig at those on the left who have repeatedly made outlandish statements today. However, you are great at revisionist history. You are also an apologist for the North Koreans. They have used “security” as an excuse in the same way that the Iranians have. That is bogus and almost any ‘idiot’ should be able to see that.

The assertion that a policy favoring regime change started with the Republican Congress in 1995 is just plain fallacious. That was a Clinton policy, pure and simple. It was also a policy which was favored from time to time by other Presidents, including Carter, although on a selective basis.

I disagree with making any deal with the North Koreans because they have already proven that they will not abide by any deal they make. Dealing with Kim is always making a deal with the devil. He won’t abide by it.

Carter negotiated a bad deal that fell through. That isn’t the only mistake he has made in his life. His mistakes are legion. He is a fool. He is a failure.

By LuckoDull

May 23, 2007 12:52 PM | Link to this

{{{By IN THE PROPAGANDA May 23, 2007 12:37 PM Jimmy Carter served as president from January 20, 1977 to January 20, 1981. Significant foreign policy accomplishments of his administration included the Panama Canal treaties,}}}

He gave away the whole freaking Panama Canal, geez.

{{the Camp David Accords,}}}

Yes, that did a lot of good, the Jews and Arabs have been in love with eachother ever since.

{{{the SALT II treaty with the Soviet Union,}}}

Delayed the collapse of the Soviet Union for a decade, a time in which they killed severeal more million innocent people, gee, thanks.

{{{and the establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China. He championed human rights throughout the world.}}}

Tell that sh-it^^ to all the political prisoners that China still has locked away in jail.

{{{On the domestic side, the administration’s achievements included a comprehensive energy program conducted by a new Department of Energy;}}}

Which immediately regulated nuclear power out of existence and brought coal burning with all of it’s pollution and acid rain into full bloom, geez.

{{{deregulation in energy}}}

Bullsh-it, the man is famous for regulating gas prices and oil embargos, geez.

{{{major educational programs under a new Department of Education;}}}

I believe this is the exact time frame that America fell from #1 to #28 most educated nation in the world.

{{{and major environmental protection legislation, including the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act.}}}

Which is why gas is 3 dollars a gallon, because we can’t drill in Alaska now.

Carter was a bigger failure than you are, Prop.

Geez.

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By Bosch

May 23, 2007 12:52 PM | Link to this

Not an idiot? Say what YOU want, but history disagrees with you.

So, you have mentioned the legion of mistakes that Carter has made. Got a list?

Are you without mistake? You make a list of Carter’s mistakes and I’ll debate them with you, until then, just saying it doesn’t make it so.

By IN THE NEWS

May 23, 2007 12:56 PM | Link to this

BOSCH

YOU ARE RIGHT

I HAVE KIDS JUST GETTING STARTED ON THEIR OWN.

ITS REALLY TOUGH

I JUST HOPE THEY DON’T GET INVOLVED WITH THE KIND OF PEOPLE WHO THINK JIMMY CARTER IS A FAILURE AND HOLD BUSH, CHENEY AND THE REST OF THAT GANG UP AS HEROS.

I DON”T WANT ANY KNUCKLEHEADS MARRYING INTO THE FAMILY

By Red Skull

May 23, 2007 12:56 PM | Link to this

LickoDull,

If Carter was responsible for $3 a gallon gas prices, I think it would have have happened a little sooner than 30 years dumba$$! That’s just an excuse for not admitting that the instability that your president has created in the middle east is responsible.

You can’t be that dumb.

By LuckoDull

May 23, 2007 1:00 PM | Link to this

Yeah, this guy is a real moonbat, geez, you libs are fooling yourselves:

{{{Sarkozy announced that France will join the official US-led struggle against head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei, who recommended that Iran be allowed to enrich uranium in some of its nuclear plants.}}}

Bush, bringing the world together.

I guess he really is a uniter and the libs are really a bunch of whining as-s dividers.

Cowards.

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By Redneck

May 23, 2007 1:02 PM | Link to this

Bosch, I too remember the hostages coming home but I cried when “ole yeller” could not come up with the backbone to allow me and my fellow servicemen go get them and restore Americas sovientry. Based on the incomes being made today that $3.30 gas in a better buy than the $.75 you paid during “the Jokes” presidency. Stupid is as stupid does. If those dumb college friends are not smart enough to not get involved with the so called “predatory lenders” then they deserve what then get. My ole pappy said you can’t save people from their own stupidity. If the sleaze and corruption of the previous small state governors administration did not destroy this nation then nothing will.
Global Warming, CO2!!!!! What a laugh. You went to college and you ain’t smart enough to see a con like the enviroterrorist are trying to pull on the American people? What liberal arts, pap spewing, institution did you graduate from?

By Redneck

May 23, 2007 1:04 PM | Link to this

Bosch, I too remember the hostages coming home but I cried when “ole yeller” could not come up with the backbone to allow me and my fellow servicemen go get them and restore Americas sovientry. Based on the incomes being made today that $3.30 gas in a better buy than the $.75 you paid during “the Jokes” presidency. Stupid is as stupid does. If those dumb college friends are not smart enough to not get involved with the so called “predatory lenders” then they deserve what then get. My ole pappy said you can’t save people from their own stupidity. If the sleaze and corruption of the previous small state governors administration did not destroy this nation then nothing will.
Global Warming, CO2!!!!! What a laugh. You went to college and you ain’t smart enough to see a con like the enviroterrorist are trying to pull on the American people? What liberal arts, pap spewing, institution did you graduate from?

By Redneck

May 23, 2007 1:04 PM | Link to this

Bosch, I too remember the hostages coming home but I cried when “ole yeller” could not come up with the backbone to allow me and my fellow servicemen go get them and restore Americas sovientry. Based on the incomes being made today that $3.30 gas in a better buy than the $.75 you paid during “the Jokes” presidency. Stupid is as stupid does. If those dumb college friends are not smart enough to not get involved with the so called “predatory lenders” then they deserve what then get. My ole pappy said you can’t save people from their own stupidity. If the sleaze and corruption of the previous small state governors administration did not destroy this nation then nothing will.
Global Warming, CO2!!!!! What a laugh. You went to college and you ain’t smart enough to see a con like the enviroterrorist are trying to pull on the American people? What liberal arts, pap spewing, institution did you graduate from?

By Redneck

May 23, 2007 1:04 PM | Link to this

Bosch, I too remember the hostages coming home but I cried when “ole yeller” could not come up with the backbone to allow me and my fellow servicemen go get them and restore Americas sovientry. Based on the incomes being made today that $3.30 gas in a better buy than the $.75 you paid during “the Jokes” presidency. Stupid is as stupid does. If those dumb college friends are not smart enough to not get involved with the so called “predatory lenders” then they deserve what then get. My ole pappy said you can’t save people from their own stupidity. If the sleaze and corruption of the previous small state governors administration did not destroy this nation then nothing will.
Global Warming, CO2!!!!! What a laugh. You went to college and you ain’t smart enough to see a con like the enviroterrorist are trying to pull on the American people? What liberal arts, pap spewing, institution did you graduate from?

By Red Skull

May 23, 2007 1:06 PM | Link to this

LickoDull,

Please, Please, Please stay off the drugs man. “Bush, bringing the world together?” God, what planet are you on? We’re hated around the world because of Bush. Perhaps you are just posting just for the f^ck of it, if that’s the case, fine. The least you can do however, is post something that closely resembles rational thought and truth. Please? For me.

By The Peoples for a Nuked Amerika' Century~!

May 23, 2007 1:06 PM | Link to this

-=-

Hey not an idiot -

The agreement/treaty Carter did with NK kept us out of full scale war with North Korea. Keep in mind the leader wasn’t “Crazy Kim Jong” that we have now but was his father.

Clinton was preparing to attack North Korea’ due to the Nuke research they were doing. The deal made by Carter put the reactor and the resulting plutonium under locks and UN camera monitoring. The Deal included USA supplying oil for North Korea’s power until we could get 2 light water reactors built to supply their power and permanently close down the heavy water reactor they already had.

After it was discvered that NK was still (paper) researching nuke tech, Bush stopped the oil supply and ended that treaty. NK re-started their reactor in response and quickly developed real nukes. they did their test, and as they say the Genie is now out of the bottle.

Carter at least delayed such a development of an actual nuke, and prevented a long war between the USA and North Korea which would have been far costlier than even this farce of a war in Iraq. North korea actually has decent weapons to fight with unlike Iraq.

As to the hostage BS I’m seeing here -

Carter inherited the garbage in Iran and even though it turned out bad for him politically - he did the right and honorable thing by supporting our ally the “Shaw of Iran”. He also did the right thing in allowing the Shah medical treatment in the USA which was the reason for the Iranians raiding the USA embassy and taking the hostages.

The mess between the Shaw and the Islamist was already at breaking point due to Nixons’s Operation AJAX to restore the Shah’ into power in the first place…

Carter did the right and proper thing and paid the price politically. But that was a powder keg anyway.

Thomas/PNAC

By Midori

May 23, 2007 1:07 PM | Link to this

oh, I see — “by be careful” is the true idiot.

crystal clear.

got it.

thanks.

By Not an Idiot

May 23, 2007 1:08 PM | Link to this

IN THE NEWS - I see you don’t let facts get in your way! You must get all of your ‘news’ from AP or CNN? The Panama Canal Treaty was a mistake negotiated with a group of thugs we didn’t rid ourselves and Panama of for over a decade. It was negotiated by Ford. It was a mistake for him and for Carter. The SALT II was never ratified by the Senate because it was so flawed. That is a fact, go look it up. Even John Glenn was opposed to it.

His recognition of the Peoples REPUGNANCE of China was a stab in the back of a long-time friend and undermined us with other allies during the Cold War because it showed we could not be trusted, at least as long as Carter was in office.

Burdening us with more bureaucracy by establishing two new cabinet level departments has done little to solve our dependency on fossil fuels and foreign sources thereof, and the Education Department is one colossal joke. Scores have continued to decline and the red tape just gets worse.

The only thing actually even partially deregulated under Carter was the airline industry. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Communications were deregulated and ATT’s monopoly was broken up under Reagan. That was in 1983-1984 when it was completed.

Finance still has not been deregulated to the extent it could be. Real banking reform did not come until after Fort Worthless Jim Wright was shamed out of office for being a crook on the take from S&L’s. He thought it stood for Stealing and Looting.

The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act is a travesty. We cannot drill in ANWR and thus we are hamstrung and dependent on foreign sources of oil. And please don’t give me all that c** and bull about developing alternative sources. Until those sources are developed, we need to use the ones we know we have or we will just starve to death in the dark without the opportunity to develop alternative sources of energy.

Carter was (is) a failure.

By LuckoDull

May 23, 2007 1:08 PM | Link to this

“Global warming” my as-s:

{{{THE icy weather of snow, hail and heavy rain that has swept across South Africa over the past few days has set 54 weather records. The South African Weather Service said 34 new records were set on Monday and another 20 yesterday. Almost all records were for the lowest maximum and minimum daily temperatures in towns across the country.}}}

Geez.

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By LuckoDull

May 23, 2007 1:09 PM | Link to this

Yeah, this guy is a real moonbat, geez, you libs are fooling yourselves:

{{{Sarkozy announced that France will join the official US-led struggle against head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei, who recommended that Iran be allowed to enrich uranium in some of its nuclear plants.}}}

Bush, bringing the world together.

I guess he really is a uniter and the libs are really a bunch of whining as-s dividers.

Cowards.

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By MM

May 23, 2007 1:09 PM | Link to this

OMG. Now Luckodull is giving Bush credit for a regime change in France. Oh yeah, the country famous for retreat is now going to stand up to the big, scary Islamists.

By Midori

May 23, 2007 1:10 PM | Link to this

by be careful,

the difference is I don’t root for people who constantly disrupt and spam the blog with a bunch of right wing nonsense and talking points.

also, i happen to KNOW what I’m talking about, which apparently can’t be said about the likes of you.

sure you and Andy aren’t related?

By Bosch

May 23, 2007 1:11 PM | Link to this

I’m going out for a bit, I look forward to debating Carter’s legions of mistakes when I return.

By Midori

May 23, 2007 1:11 PM | Link to this

{{{{His mistakes are legion. He is a fool. He is a failure.}}}}}

that pretty much describes Bush to a “t”.

By irodiM

May 23, 2007 1:14 PM | Link to this

But I love IN THE NEWS and he can spam the board all day long while I drool on myself.

I’m a hypocrite you see, oh and I’m dumb as a bag of hammers.

By @@

May 23, 2007 1:15 PM | Link to this

Paul, another thing…check out Stratfor’s Geopolitical Diary dated May 23, 2007. “U.S. Military in Africa”.

Oh chit!!! Do you think it’s possible that “behind closed doors” Biden is really a WARMONGER and OIL WH-ORE?

Oh chit, and (Insert smile here.)

By Not a Useful Idiot

May 23, 2007 1:16 PM | Link to this

Did someone mention “Predatory Lending”?

John Edwards looks pretty darn bad here, which must make him Bosch’s ideal candidate.

Monday we told you about John Edwards’ work for a hedge fund — which he sayswas a way to learn how financial markets relate to poverty. Now the Washington Post is reporting that the company — Fortress Investment Group — is also heavily involved in the subprime lending business — offering the kind of high-risk mortgages to the poor that Edwards has loudly criticized as predatory.+ Edwards says he was unaware of the connection — and says he can’t remember what the firm told him about that part of their business when he signed on

“Meanwhile a researcher from Emory University has come up with a price tag on all the campaign promises Edwards is making — $125 billion/year.+ The Associated Press reports that Edwards’ plans on health care, energy and poverty reduction would add up to more than $1 trillion if he were president for two terms.”

By Not a Useful Idiot

May 23, 2007 1:23 PM | Link to this

Bosch -

Are you ready to defend Carter’s book, where he condones Palestinian suicide bombings?

Carter Center Advisers Resign Over New Book

By IN THE (REAL) NEWS

May 23, 2007 1:23 PM | Link to this

Edwards has just denounced the War on Terror as “bumper sticker” stuff. I guess he has decided that 9/11 never really happened. With all he’s proposing and his wacky foreign policy stands, he is making me miss George McGovern!

By IN THE NEWS

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

President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian Chief of Government Omar Torrijos signed the Panama Canal Treaty and Neutrality Treaty on September 7, 1977.

NOT AN (andy) IDIOT….

{{{{ I see you don’t let facts get in your way! You must get all of your ‘news’ from AP or CNN?}}}

HERE”S A SOURCE THAT DID NOT COME OUT YOUR BUTT WITH ALL THEM FLYING FIGHTING 101ST KEYBOARDER MONKEYS

IGNOR-ANUS!

By IN THE NEWS

May 23, 2007 1:30 PM | Link to this

IS THIS WHAT NIXON THOUGHT WHEN HE WENT TO CHINA?

{{{{{His recognition of the Peoples REPUGNANCE of China was a stab in the back of a long-time friend and undermined us with other allies during the Cold War}}}}}

By Buy Snails

May 23, 2007 1:31 PM | Link to this

We are glad to announce the end to the great “French Fry Rebellion.”

Yes we can once again enjoy a big plate of french fries to go along with our big pitchers of kool-aid.

Your sacrifice was extreme. Giving up French Fries was difficult. Who says Republicans haven’t made any sacrifices for the war? It could have been much worse. At least Bush didn’t bomb the Leaning Tower of Pizza. A pizza boycott would have been unbearable.

Remember everyone, the Taco boycott starts on Saturday. We must turn this into a peoples war since our politicians abandoned us on immigration. We are not fighting a single bean folks. We are fighting the whole burrito.

Our French Fry boycott has changed the world. It forced the French to see things our way. Lets flex our muscles with a taco.

Also, do your patriotic duty! Boycott Taco Bell until they change their name to “Freedom Bell”….The future of our nation depends on it! God Bless America. LMAO

By Midori

May 23, 2007 1:31 PM | Link to this

hahaha,

a delusional, whining wingnut, being “all that he or she can be” @ 1:14.

you morons are better entertainment than watching this Goodling idiot’s testimony.

go a problem with “in the news”?

you’re a big boy or girl - why don’t you confront the person you obviously have a problem with, rather than try to score points by trying to belittle me? typical bully wingnut tactic.

can’t stand the heat?

get the f*ck out of the kitchen.

By Peter

May 23, 2007 1:36 PM | Link to this

Thank you Miss Lillian.

By The Peoples for a Nuked Amerika' Century~!

May 23, 2007 1:36 PM | Link to this

In The News —

Here is more info on caging!

By MM

May 23, 2007 1:36 PM | Link to this

9/11 occurred because the Bush administration ignored intelligence that terrorists would attack the US via passenger planes.

Twenty diehard radicals (the cause of 9/11) attacking the US does not stoke up fear in me.

Oh, you say there are millions of them. What are they gonna do, hijack a bunch of warships and attack us again?

We’re in more danger from the radicals living in this country (American or foreign) than the ones overseas.

By IN THE NEWS

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

I GOT YOUR SPAM RIGHT HERE!

By TripMaster Monkey

May 23, 2007 1:45 PM | Link to this

The Peoples for a Nuked Amerika’ Century~!

Why didn’t you give me credit for linking that Palast interview in the comments at IN THE NEWS link?

Are you trying to look impressive by stealing someone else’s research?

By Midori

May 23, 2007 1:48 PM | Link to this

In the news,

You’re great.

you post many educational and timely links chock full of current events - unlike Andy the Unablogger who digs up crap from 30 years ago, and tries to make it pertinent in the “here and now”.

All of his crap has a central theme (the ABC’s of the Republican party):

Always

Blame

Clinton

Keep up the good work.

By THE TRUTH

May 23, 2007 1:52 PM | Link to this

For truth challenged MM especially.

{{{We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a —— service in 1998 saying that Bin Laden wanted to hijack a U.S. aircraft to gain the release of “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel Rahman and other U.S.-held extremists.}}}

{{{Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.}}}

{{{The FBI is conducting approximately 70 full-field investigations throughout the U.S. that it considers bin Laden-related. CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our embassy in the UAE in May saying that a group or bin Laden supporters was in the U.S. planning attacks with explosives.}}}

Of course MM should now tell us what she would have done with that information, but she won’t.

By IN THE NEWS

May 23, 2007 1:54 PM | Link to this

MIDORI THANKS I APPRECIATE IT

I POST ‘EM AS I SEES ‘EM - YOU MAY NOT AGREE OR BELIEVE -BUT ALL POSTS COME FROM REAL SOURCES - NOT FROM THE ALIMENTARY CANAL AS WE OFTEN SEE HERE …..

I TRY NOT TO ENGAGE THE OTHER SIDE I ALWAYS FEEL SO “DIRTY” AFTERWARDS

BUT SOMETIMES MY IRE GETS RAISED

AND SOMETIMES I’M BORED AND JUST WANT TO POKE THE BEAR FOR FUN.

By irodiM

May 23, 2007 1:57 PM | Link to this

I love being spoon fed liberal lies by IN THE NEWS. It’s so much easier than thinking. Did I mention I’m dumb as a box of rocks, but not as shapely?

By LuckoDull

May 23, 2007 2:00 PM | Link to this

{{{And it’s good for vote-hungry presidential hopefuls. Iowa is a key state in the presidential-nomination sweepstakes, and we all know what they grow in Iowa. Sen. Clinton voted against ethanol 17 times until she started running for president. Coincidence?}}}}

Geez.

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By IN THE NEWS

May 23, 2007 2:00 PM | Link to this

“I ROD ‘IM”

SOMEWHAT SEXUAL NAME DON’T YOU THINK?

ANDI’S A BRITISH POOF!

By IN THE NEWS

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

OOPS LET ME FIX THAT

AND I’S A BRITISH POOF!

By Not an Idiot

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

IN THE NEWS - I know that you know it all (NOT), but although the Panama Canal Treaty was signed by Carter and Trujilloin September of 1977, Ford did negotiate it. It was a huge issue during the Republican Primary between him and Reagan. Carter just followed through with it. You also are quite presumptive. I am not “Andy” and I would not want to be. He’s almost as rude as you!

By au contraire

May 23, 2007 2:13 PM | Link to this

irodiM, Midori shapes up to be quite Lumpy IMO.:)

By The Peoples for a Nuked Amerika' Century~!

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

-=-

Yah I found the Freedom Fries thing to be ridiculous too.. And all the other French -=> Freedom named items too…

Lets see: Freedom Vanilla Ice Cream Freedom Latte’ Freedom (whatever)!

Of course you also have to consider that I will be “Freedom Kissing” my Girlfriend while she wears that “Freedom Maids Outfit” right before I put on my “Trojan Freedom Tickler” and do my famous “Freedom - ” —— err - better skip that part eh?…

Cheers - Thomas/PNAC

By IN THE NEWS

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

OH BOY

THAT SECOND POST WAS NOT ME….

SOMEBODY IS TRYING TO BE FOXY!

Not an Idiot

WHY WOULD YOU EVER THINK I THINK I KNOW IT ALL? I HAVE NEVER STATED THAT. I CAN PRODUCE EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY!! (I BOUGHT BETA) I CAN HOWEVER DO RESEARCH, WHICH IS WHAT PEOPLE WHO REALLY ARE NOT IDIOTS DO WHEN THEY WANT INFO>

I DON’T PRESUME YOU ARE ANDY…. I PRESUME YOU ARE NOT THE SAME IDIOT AS ANDY

YOU MISTAKE RUDE FOR MAD

AS IN MAD AS HELL AND NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE.

By Midori

May 23, 2007 2:19 PM | Link to this

1:57 and 2:13,

here, let me fix that

feel better now?

perhaps that will give you the courage to post as yourself now.

glad to help.

anytime.

By Not an Idiot

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

Midori - you are great at plucking up really left-wing sources and headlines which distort and in this case are a lie. She has not admitted to breaking the law. I linked to muckraker and then read the article. I can read. She never admitted to breaking the law. That is the headline, but it is a LIE. In fact, political hiring and firings are done all of the time. She admitted to being caprecious, not criminal. You however are either a LIAR or a USELESS IDIOT!

By MM

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

I’m a male, and what the heck does it matter what I would have done with the intelligence?

You change the subject as usual.

By Midori

May 23, 2007 2:26 PM | Link to this

wow, talking about the pot calling the kettle black.

you are not only an idiot, but a completely brain dead moron to BOOT.

Stupid scumbag - educate yourself, then you would have the privilege of just adressing me.

can you f*cking READ???

{{{Both in her opening statement and in further testimony, Goodling admitted to weeding out candidates for assistant U.S. attorney positions because they were not Republicans.}}}}}

AGAIN

{{{{Both in her opening statement and in further testimony, Goodling admitted to weeding out candidates for assistant U.S. attorney positions because they were not Republicans.}}}}}

Cherry pick all you want, retard.

Don’t fault me if you can’t reason adequately.

Don’t fault me if you have serious comprehension skills.

Filth.

By IN THE NEWS

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

Monica Goodling Admits She “Crossed the Line”

By French teacher (ret)

May 23, 2007 2:28 PM | Link to this

Midori - just to inform your little misinformed self: Latte is ITALIAN!

By Bosch

May 23, 2007 2:29 PM | Link to this

Oh yes, Not and Idiot, I’m ready. Please read the following:

Reiterating the Keys to Peace

Tell me what you think.

By The Watcher

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

Goodling needed immunity for being caprecious?

Goodling took the fifth because she was caprecious?

She cried for 45 minutes in an associates office because she was caprecious?

Who’s the idiot?

By Not an Idiot

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

Midori - you really are stupid. Nowhere in the article or in her testimony did she admit to breaking the law. AS I SAID, THAT IS A LIE. You are the carrot calling the pumpkin orange here! I stated that she admitted to being caprecious (making a ‘snap judgment’). You CANNOT READ!

By steve-o

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

MM,

Your 1:36 post was dead on. The neoCONs, especially trolls like LuckoDork, like to throw out words like “coward” when they clearly have been the pu$$ies all along. Why do some people get so damn scared? If the feds do their jobs instead of stretching the truth to justify a stupid war, then we’ll be alright.

Not an idiot,

You need to be asking for sources and evidence from that idiotic child-king that got us stuck in a stupid and ill-advised war rather than trolling around for evidence here.

By Not an Idiot

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

By the way Midori do you think that Bill the Bastard and Hillary the Cow Puncher’s W**r never weeded out candidates because they were Democrats?

She said she crossed the line, she did not say she committed a crime. I would ask for immunity too on such a witch hunt!

By Luckovich Censors KKKowards

May 23, 2007 2:37 PM | Link to this

I’m too scared to go to Iraq, but not too scared to blog all day.

Cut

I’m Andie, a silly poof that loves Dumbya.

Cut

A filthy stupid moron is what I am.

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By The Watcher

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

” weeding out candidates for assistant U.S. attorney positions because they were not Republicans”

happens to be against the law.

Take a peek at the Hatch Act

By IN THE NEWS

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

OKAY

NOT AN IDIOT

PROOVE THIS…..

“”By the way Midori do you think that Bill the Bastard and Hillary the Cow Puncher’s W**r never weeded out candidates because they were Democrats? “”

PUT UP OR SHUT UP YOU TWIT

ALSO IT WAS SOMETHING OF A *RUDE* WAY TO DESCRIBE A FORMER PRESIDENT AND SERVING US SENATOR< DON’T YOU KNOW!

By Not an Idiot

May 23, 2007 2:48 PM | Link to this

Watcher - the Hatch Act applies to CIVIL SERVICE employees, not political appointees. You need to go back and do a little more research. United States District Attorneys are political appointees and are not under civil service. That is why it was not illegal to fire them on a whim. That is why Clinton replaced all 93 when he became president. Hiring works the same way. Elections have consequences.

By Hey, Moron

May 23, 2007 2:48 PM | Link to this

Yes you are an idiot:

You say that North Korea and Iran have not pursued nukes for security reasons. Please tell me why a country would want nukes if not for security reasons? I am at a loss for why any country would want nukes unless it was for the sole purpose of projecting to the world that a confrontation could come at great cost. The offensive use of of nukes, or risking giving them to terrorists who are liable to rat them out, would be suicide for either nation and thus unlikely to happen.

So idiot, enlighten me. North Korea and Iran want nukes because……?

By I'll bet

May 23, 2007 2:49 PM | Link to this

Midori started drooling when she spotted those rocks in her 2:19. Not being able to reach the glass ceiling makes her want to go higher higher higher so she cracks.

By Bosch

May 23, 2007 2:51 PM | Link to this

Not an Idiot- To be honest, I haven’t read that book, so me debating that would be like that crazy mother in Gwinnett County who wants the Harry Potter books removed even though she hasn’t read them.

I gave you that link because I read that editorial when it came out and I thought it had a lot of merit to it.

I don’t think for one minute that Jimmy Carter condones or agrees with suicide bombers. But considering that the Palestinians were thrown out of their homes and their lands occupied, it is easy to see why some radicals would do that. They have nothing to loose. They are fundamental extremists, and they are dangerous. We have our dangerous fundamentals too.

Jimmy Carter is simply stating what many around the world have known for years. Our country continues to live with it’s head in the sand about Israel because of the religious connections. We’ll protect Israel at any cost and unfortunately, that cost has been incredibly high. Israel has it’s share of terrorists as well. We call it “defending,” the Arab world calls that terrorism. T** for tat.

By LuckoDull

May 23, 2007 2:52 PM | Link to this

You know, Midori, irodiM has a point.

You do kind of remind me of a potted plant with a parrot perched in it.

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Remember, Midori is a lib, same as GoldiEdwards is:

{{{John Edwards Calls War on Terror Bush’s ‘Bumper Sticker’ Slogan}}}

Geez, would somebody tell these people?:

{{{1 in 4 U.S. Young Muslims OK With Homicide Bombings Against Civilians}}}

Cowards.

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By Bosch

May 23, 2007 2:54 PM | Link to this

Oh, but I am still waiting on that list. I see you’re busy with others at the moment, I’ll wait.

By Hey, Moron

May 23, 2007 2:55 PM | Link to this

Yes you are an idiot,

The allegation isn’t that the admin hired Republicans to be USA’s. Of course they did. However, there is evidence that the admin wanted to send the message that the Republicans who were put in place would seek political objectives in their official capacity. This may not be a crime, but it certainly is slimy. Further, there is evidence that main Justice interfered with the hiring of staff attorneys, who are not political appointees, by insisting that USA’s hire Republicans. That is a crime. That is why Goodling pled the Fifth and wanted immunity. If she had testified truthfully w/o immunity she would be going to prison.

By Not an Idiot

May 23, 2007 2:56 PM | Link to this

Hey Moron - you are one. Tell me who was threatening either Iran or North Korea with a nuclear attack? We have had nuclear weapons for over sixty years now and not used them once to even threaten either nation, although we have been provoked. Iran especially is interested in one thing - aggression towards neighbors, especially Israel.

IN THE NEWS - yes it was rude. so are the Clintons. And how about all of the crap you spew every day about Bush and any other Republican you can think of? You really aren’t one to talk.

By IN THE NEWS

May 23, 2007 2:58 PM | Link to this

Iglesias filed a Hatch Act complaint against several White House officials, likely leading to the Office of Special Counsel probe.

APPARENTLY ON OF THE TOP (FORMER) USA’S DOES NOT AGREE WITH “NOT AN IDIOT”

I TRIED TO READ THE WHOLE HATCH ACT…. BUT HELL I AIN”T THAT PATIENT!

By Not an Idiot

May 23, 2007 2:59 PM | Link to this

Bosch - you can add ant-semite to your list of faults as well. I now see why you love Jimmy so much. Y’all have the same KKK background in common. Yeah, just blame the Jews. Folks like you just make me sick.

By IN THE NEWS

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

OK SO WE AGREE

NOT AN IDIOT,

WE ARE BOTH RUDE A*******HOLES…..

RIGHT?

(OH CRAP< IF THAT AINT A STRAIGHT LINE THAT SOME FOLKS WILL JUMP ON>>>>OH WHAT THE HELL)

By Midori

May 23, 2007 3:03 PM | Link to this

in the news,

don’t waste good brain cells on that filth.

it appears it has its hands full, juggling stupidity, ignorance and mental retardation all at once.

By THE TRUTH

May 23, 2007 3:04 PM | Link to this

MM

THANKS FOR ADMITTING YOU’RE A CLUELESS SNIPING WINGBAT AND THAT PDB GAVE NO SUCH INFORMATION AS YOU PRETENDED IT DID EARLIER.

By IN THE NEWS

May 23, 2007 3:04 PM | Link to this

NOT AN IDIOT

HATE TO BREAK IT TO YOU

BUT YOU ARE WRONG

YOU ARE AN IDIOT

THE WORST KIND

NOW YOU ARE TAKING A DEFENSE OF JIMMY CARTER AS ANTI_SEMITE?

YOU ARE TRYING TO BAIT FOLKS HERE WITH SUCH SILLINESS

YOU ARE IN FACT A MASTER BAITER!

By Bosch

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

Not an Idiot? Ummmmmm, where did I blame the Jews in my post?

Are you calling me an anti-semite or Carter? Because you are wrong on both sides. People like you make me sick because you refuse to see the other side of a problem. You refuse to see the world through the eyes of someone else. You wrap your eyes with Old Glory and are blinded by the consequences. You can’t see the forest for the trees. Are you getting my point?

I’m trying to point out another perspective and instead of an honest debate you call me an anti-semite. Much of the same has happened to Carter. You neo-cons just can’t handle the truth.

By IN THE NEWS

May 23, 2007 3:08 PM | Link to this

OK ENOUGH

JUST USED A GOOD ANTI BACTERIAL SOAP….

ON WITH IN THE NEWS

Check out the Falwell fundie wannabe bomber’s Myspace page

By IN THE NEWS

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

DEADLIEST “FRIEDMAN UNIT” YET.

By Bosch

May 23, 2007 3:16 PM | Link to this

Finding Nemo? Alice in Wonderland? Lion King? Beauty and the Beast?

Fight Club? (Well, I really liked that movie too)

Country, Hip Hop, and Worship music?

Oh my God! Did he think nobody would read that? I agree with some poster from that page that wrote something to the effect that we can’t have gay people in the military, but oh, yes, we can let cooks like that in.

Oh Ha haha hahahahahahahahahahaha

By irodiM

May 23, 2007 3:17 PM | Link to this

I’m really just the reflection in the mirror above my water dish. That’s why my name is backwards. Did I mention I’m molting? Oh and that I’m as sharp as a marble.

By Hey, Moron

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

Yes you are an idiot,

Is our sponsorship of the MEK, a terrorist group, in trying to overthrow Iran’s government a security threat? I would think so. Is an array of military personnel North Korea’s border, nuclear subs off the coast, etc… a security threat? Yes, I would think so. The idea that the only time that a rational country would pursue nuclear weapons would be after a direct threat is preposterous. Did we wait until the Germans got a nuke before we tried to develop one? Did we hesitate to use it we when we needed to? Twice? We have a vast stockpile of nukes. Why? Who has threatened us in the last 15 years where we need to have the capacity to kill every living thing on the planet in less than a couple of hours? The bottom line is we have them and we are going to keep them. Why? Just in case. You don’t want to find yourself in a gun fight holding a knife do you? Neither do we nor should expect anyone else to. What we have done is set up NPT to discourage countries from seeking the technology. Meanwhile, we say to the world that God wishes that they be free and that it is our mission to make sure they are. What does that say to those countries who have no interest in freedom? It says that their treaty obligations may not be in their best interests and some of them decide to hedge their bets. Once they do then we have to figure out how far we are willing or able to go to stop them. Its all pretty simple, logical, global diplomacy. There is no bumper sticker logic like “they are evil doers” that solves things. The truth is that each government in the world wants to be in power and stay in power. The extent that they are willing to go in keeping it obviously changes. Different countries have different issues. Is anybody questioning why Saddam ran Iraq the way he did now? I wouldn’t think so. He did what he had to do to stay in power. Kim and the mullahs in Iran will do the same. The complications come in when you have countries like our own and Iran who seem to have an additional interest in dictating how other countries conduct themselves. That is the game that we need to get out of. I agree with Ron Paul. Bring the troops home. Be friends with everyone we can. Conduct trade with whoever we can and if anyone screws with us they get “Trumaned.”

By Bosch

May 23, 2007 3:21 PM | Link to this

OH, I forgot one — Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer? Poor thing, all of the other reindeers, used to laugh and call him names, they never let poor nutjob join in any reindeer games.

By Goldie

May 23, 2007 3:21 PM | Link to this

I wonder how many of the trolls here believe that their guy Bush could’ve ever sold the occupation of Iraq to the Congress and the American people, if he had told any truths about what we were facing by invading that country??? Where was the truth about Iraq in Oct. 2002 as Bush put forth his lying sales job on the American people?

By MM

May 23, 2007 3:22 PM | Link to this

The Truth

I have no idea what you are talking about and obviously from all of your postings you don’t either.

Which post exactly are you referring to?

By Just Popped In

May 23, 2007 3:23 PM | Link to this

Do the rethug’s get their butts kicked like this everyday?

I may have to read this more often.

By Bosch

May 23, 2007 3:24 PM | Link to this

Can I get an AMEN for Hey Moron’s 3:19 post?

Right on!

Go Jimmy Go!

By Goldie

May 23, 2007 3:24 PM | Link to this

Won’t it be great in ‘08 when a Dem is elected to move into the White House again, and support for America all around the world will immediately go sky-ward? Bring on Nov. ‘08!

By Buy Danish

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

{{{{Both in her opening statement and in further testimony, Goodling admitted to weeding out candidates for assistant U.S. attorney positions because they were not Republicans.}}}}}

Midori,

BWAWK BWAK BWAK BWAK BWAK. Squawk!

SO WHAT?

Do you think those of us who voted for Bush did so so he could appoint Democrats to serve under him?

But hey, if Hillary or Barry Obama get elected, we’ll be right on your case demanding that they appoint Republicans, and why stop with AGs?

By The Watcher

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

No we dont think those of you who voted for Bush did so so he could appoint Democrats to serve under him?

We figured y’all were just more greedy, immoral, unethical, ignorant, unevolved, fake christian liars!

How much have you made on this war?

By steve-o

May 23, 2007 3:34 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

Clinton appointed a Republican as Secretary of Defense…an extrememly important cabinet post. He also had David Gergen as an advisor, who had also served the same capacity to several Republican presidents.

By IN THE NEWS

May 23, 2007 3:37 PM | Link to this

WORTH A READ

By THE TRUTH

May 23, 2007 3:41 PM | Link to this

{{{9/11 occurred because the Bush administration ignored intelligence that terrorists would attack the US via passenger planes.}}} WRITTEN BY MM AT 1:36 AND IT’S A LIE

By Midori

May 23, 2007 3:45 PM | Link to this

I see Buy Danish has finished gumming knobs (is that why Not an Idiot is so testy?)

We all know what an incompetent licker she is.

So now she wants to take her frustrations and inadequacies on it me.

Dang, Danish - get with the program. Isn’t there some self-help videos out there you can rent?

Steve-o,

you can try to present the facts to these morons until your knuckles turn blue.

She will never, ever admit that her party is the party of divisiveness, hate, incompetence, fear mongering, bullying, antagonism, lying, cheating, exclusiveness and just plain un Christian like.

I mean, just look at her

why do you think she’s always squawking and making references to fouls?

She’s upset that her feathers are as wrinkled and inadequate as she is.

By Buy Danish

May 23, 2007 3:46 PM | Link to this

steve-o

You forgot about George Tenet. So what?

Midori is squawking that there is something criminal in the fact that the AGs that the Bush Administration appointed were Republicans.

By THE TRUTH

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

Just popped in at 3:23

THIS IS THE BEST IT GETS FROM THE WINGBATS AND THE REPUBLICANS AREN’T EVEN PLAYING THEIR A B OR C TEAMS TODAY. ENJOY YOUR NEXT VISIT LOSER.

By IN THE NEWS

May 23, 2007 3:50 PM | Link to this

{{{9/11 occurred because the Bush administration ignored intelligence that terrorists would attack the US via passenger planes.}}} WRITTEN BY MM AT 1:36 AND IT’S A LIE

POSTED BY SOMEBODY CALLING THEMSELVES THE TRUTH

I’M GONNA GO HAVE A COLD DR>PEPPER AND LET ALL THE REST OF YOU GOOD PROGRESSIVE PATRIOTS SHOW THAT GOOFBALL THE PDB AND THE DOWNING STREET MEMO

By irodiM

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

I love liquored up ducks too. They’re almost as sexy as IN THE NEWS.

Have I mentioned how stupid I am? I mean, the wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.

By Bosch

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

Come on THE TRUTH, get your terminology right. WE are the MOONBATS, you are the WINGNUTS, at least if your going to be insulting, get your insults right!

By Buy Danish

May 23, 2007 3:54 PM | Link to this

I wonder if MM is aware of what Senator Kerry ignored in his home state of Massachusetts? This was actionable intelligence:

(A) Boston TV station (Fox-25) aired reporter Deborah Sherman’s story on an undercover investigation at Logan that Sullivan and another retired agent helped set up. In nine of 10 tries, a crew got knives and other weaponsthrough security checkpoints - including the very ones the 9/11 hijackers would later exploit./ The next day, Sullivan fired off a two-page letter to Kerry highlighting the systemic failures./”With the concept of jihad, do you think it would be difficult for a determined terrorist to get on a plane and destroy himself and all other passengers?” he warned. “Think what the result would be of a coordinated attack which took down several domestic flights on the same day. With our current screening, this is more than possible. It is almost likely.” The toll from such an attack would be economic, as well as human, he predicted with chilling accuracy./Sullivan followed up by having the undercover videotape hand-delivered to Kerry’s office./More than 11 weeks later, Kerry finally replied to his well-informed and anxious constituent. “I have forwarded your tape to the Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General [DOT OIG],” he said in a brief July 24, 2001, letter, a copy of which I’ve obtained./Yet Sullivan had made it clear in his letter that going to his old agency was a dead end. He and other agents had complained about security lapses for years and got nowhere. “The DOT OIG has become an ineffective overseer of the FAA,” he told Kerry. Sullivan suggested he! show the tape to peers on committees with FAA oversight. He even volunteered to testify before them.But he never heard from Kerry again.

By Just Popped In

May 23, 2007 3:54 PM | Link to this

By THE TRUTH

THIS IS THE BEST IT GETS FROM THE WINGBATS AND THE REPUBLICANS AREN’T EVEN PLAYING THEIR A B OR C TEAMS TODAY. ENJOY YOUR NEXT VISIT LOSER.

That’s pretty funny stuff.

How do they get all those teams out of just 28 people out of 100?

By THE TRUTH

May 23, 2007 3:55 PM | Link to this

IN THE NEWS

I ALREADY POSTED THE PDB MORON. THAT’S WHAT PROVES MM AND NOW YOU ARE LIARS.

By MM

May 23, 2007 3:56 PM | Link to this

The Truth

It has been reported many times that there was evidence that intelligence showed that there were foreigners training to fly in FL, and intercepted messages about attack via passenger planes. If not ignored, this intelligence was not taken seriously.

You rightwingnuts would probably have seen it if you watched real news instead of Fox (GOP propaganda) News.

I’ve got to go now, but I’ll dig up the stories for tomorrow.

By THE TRUTH

May 23, 2007 3:57 PM | Link to this

BOSCH

THE TRUTH SEES WINGS ON BOTH SIDES. ONE WING IS BATS THE OTHERS IS NUTS. IS YOU A BAT OR IS YOU A NUT IS ALL THAT MATTERS.

By Buy Danish

May 23, 2007 3:58 PM | Link to this

Midori,

Squawk. Bwak. You sure can talk and say a whole lot of nothing.

What’s the problem with hiring Republican AGs? You repeated it no less than two times because you found it oh so important, but all you can do is respond with your usual vulgar outburst.

One more time: SO WHAT?

Bwak!

By Hey, Moron

May 23, 2007 4:01 PM | Link to this

THE TRUTH:

You are right. MM is lying, which is being wrong whether intentional or not. This is why when we say “Bush lied us into War” it doesn’t mean that the lies were intentional it is that he was simply wrong in many cases and reckless with facts in others. But I digress. MM is wrong because 9/11 wasn’t caused by simply ignoring the warnings like in the 8/8 PDB which said “Bin Laden determined to strike in US.” On the contrary the most significant factor in contributing to 9/11 was the Bush administration’s complete failure to respond to the USS Cole attack. As those who are familiar with the facts know the Cole was attacked in the 2nd week of October 2000, just a couple of weeks before the election. On the week before Bush was inaugurated, the CIA and FBI certified that Bin Laden was behind the attack. Bush’s response in Feb? Nothing. March? Nothing. April? Nothing? May? Nothing. June? Nothing. July? Nothing. August? Nothing? Sept? Hey maybe we got a problem. The fact is that simply doing the right thing in responding to the Cole could very well have disrupted the 9/11 attack. But I guess Clinton should have ordered the attack on Afghanistan after he left office right?

By Buy Danish

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

MM,

Be sure to read my 3:54, while you’re doing your “research”. Also be sure to refresh your memory about the wall of separation that Janet Reno and Jamie Gorelick erected between the FBI and CIA.

btw, speaking for the conservatives here, there is not going to be anything that you find that we don’t already know ad nauseum.

By steve-o

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

Midiori,

I believe that that breed of parrot has become more and more extinct over the past couple of years. At this rate, they’ll be on the endangered species list by late 2008.

Buy Danish,

I believe that Midori was referring to the alleged unethical firings of several attorneys in the Justice Department.

By Bosch

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

THE TRUTH, What? I think you need to go lay down.

By Buy Danish

May 23, 2007 4:07 PM | Link to this

I just love the way the Libs blame Bush for not responding to the USS Cole attack which occurred under Clinton’s watch.

Clinton did nothing in October, nothing in November, nothing in December, and nothing before Bush was sworn in in January - and he had had 8 years in office to respond to all the previous Bin Laden attacks.

And let’s not forget that Clinton wouldn’t allow Bush to begin his transition until the Florida mess was settled, so it’s not as if Bush walked into the White House with his ducks in a row - as is the normal procedure.

By THE TRUTH

May 23, 2007 4:08 PM | Link to this

HEY MORON

HOW FITTING! MM IS INTENTIONALLY TELLING A LIE IN THAT HE KNOWS WHAT HE IS SAYING IS NOT TRUE. I HAVE NO TIME FOR THE REST OF YOUR WINGBAT NOTIONS UNLESS YOU ARE SAYING THAT A FULL SCALE ATTACK OF AFGHANISTAN WAS CALLED FOR BEFORE 9/11. HOWEVER THE TRUTH ALREADY KNOWS HOW YOU WOULD HAVE RESPONDED TO THAT SO P** OFF.

MM

70 FULL FIELD INVESTIGATIONS DOESN’T SOUND LIKE SOMETHING THAT WAS BEING IGNORED. YOU SIR ARE AN IDIOT.

By Buy Danish

May 23, 2007 4:09 PM | Link to this

steve-o,

Duh. I know what she was referring to.
So far all Midori has come up with is that they didn’t hire Democrats. What law is that a violation of exactly?

By @@

May 23, 2007 4:09 PM | Link to this

Hey Moron:

I just wanted to say

BLESS YOUR LITTLE UTOPIAN HEART.

It never hurts to dream, but you’re sleepwalking through life’s uncertainties which will lead you right off of the cliff.

Again…BLESS YOUR LITTLE UTOPIAN HEART though!

By IN THE NEWS

May 23, 2007 4:09 PM | Link to this

SORRY TO STEP ON YOUR TOES THERE MR.TRUTH SIR

BUT JUST WHERE DID YOU POST THE PDB

YOU KNOW THIS ONE

By Bosch

May 23, 2007 4:10 PM | Link to this

And Bush still doesn’t have his ducks in a row. It’s all Clinton’s fault! Damn, I knew it!

By Buy Danish

May 23, 2007 4:14 PM | Link to this

IN THE NEWS,

Do you see the dates on that PDB? 1997 and 1998? Who was in office then?

Sheesh.

By THE TRUTH

May 23, 2007 4:17 PM | Link to this

IN THE NEWS

SEE 1:52. EVERYTHING WITH RELEVANCE TO MM”S LIE IS THERE IN ALL IT”S GLORY. PERHAPS YOU WOULD LIKE TO TAKE YOUR FULL AND IMPERTINENT COPY AND SHOW US WHERE ANY OF IT SAYS PASSENGER JETS WERE ABOUT TO BE HIJACKED AND FLOWN INTO BUILDINGS.

By TW

May 23, 2007 4:18 PM | Link to this

Trying to figure out why bin laden didn’t discuss sending his top lieutenant to Iraq PRIOR to our invasion. Anybody? Anybody?

By Midori

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

Dick Cheney’s bastard grandson has been born.

Under Virginia law, Mary’s partner of 15 years, Heather Poe, “will have no legal relationship with her child. She can’t adopt as a second parent. She won’t have her name on the birth certificate.”

ain’t being a hypcritical scumbag the greatest thing in the world?

Danish?

Buy Danish?

Buehler?

By IN THE NEWS

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

TRUTH YOU ARE RIGHT BY GOLLY IT DOES NOT TAKE GEORGE BUSHS HAND AND WALK HIM DOWN THE ROAD TO SENSE>

SHEESH!

By Hey, Moron

May 23, 2007 4:22 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

Again, it wasn’t confirmed that Bin Laden did the Cole until a week before Bush was sworn in. It was Bush’s responsibility. Even if you want to say Clinton should have attacked without confirmation as to who did it how do you justify Bush doing nothing after the crime had been solved? Also Clinton did act against Bin Laden. Each time he was criticized by people on the right many of whom thought that focusing on Bin Laden raised his profile and thus his importance which may explain the complete lack of attention to the matter.

You can’t say that Bush didn’t drop the ball on Bin Laden. Even if you say Clinton failed you must also insist that Bush failed. I mean the guy did absolutely nothing for 9 months knowing that the guy responsible for killing 17 sailors was roaming around Afghanistan.

By THE TRUTH

May 23, 2007 4:22 PM | Link to this

THE TRUTH NEVER RESTS BUT THE TRUTH DOES STOP AT HOOTERS FOR A PLATE OF WINGS AND A COLD BEER. THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONCERN AND GOOD DAY TO YOU.

By getalife

May 23, 2007 4:26 PM | Link to this

Only Dick will not stand up for his family.

Scared of his base of haters.

Coward.

Geez.

By THE TRUTH

May 23, 2007 4:26 PM | Link to this

IN THE NEWS

NOT ONLY DOESN’T IT TAKE GEORGE BUSH’S HAND AND WALK HIM DOWN THE ROAD IT DOES NOTHING AT ALL. BILL CLINTON GOT A VERY SIMILARLY NAMED PDB IN 1998 AND SUPPOSEDLY FIXED THE AIRLINE SCREENING SO THIS COULDN’T HAPPEN. I GUESS IT DIDN’T WORK. GOOD DAY TO YOU TO AND YOU SHOULD REALLY STICK TO SPAMMING, INTERACTION DOESN’T WORK FOR YOU.

By THE TRUTH

May 23, 2007 4:30 PM | Link to this

THE TRUTH REGRETS THAT HE FAILED TO ADDRESS HIS 4:22 TO BOSCH.

By Goldie

May 23, 2007 4:31 PM | Link to this

The PDB I read plainly states at the bottom “For the President Only— August 6, 2001”, and I do believe that the dictator-prez we have now is the one sitting at the White House in Aug. 2001.

BTW— who in the Bush administration has ever been held “accountable” for ignoring the warnings received from Tenet and the CIA regarding the high level of “chatter” intercepted from known al-Qaida terrorists, during the summer of 2001? NOBODY, did you say? Nobody at all held accountable? Even Condi admitted before the 9/11 Commission that she knew about the PDB stating “Bin Laden DETERMINED TO STRIKE IN THE U.S.” and she did nothing — NOTHING!

By getalife

May 23, 2007 4:34 PM | Link to this

w blew off the memo and 9/11 is his.

Now he is back to playing the fear card.

You will hear screaming from the wingnuts because they are scared again.

Same ole crap.

Edwards and Gore are looking good.

By THE POWER OF WHATEVER

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

I see I have transmogrified again.

By getalife

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

“ZAHN: The American public, by and large, didn’t think John Kerry was the guy to do that.

KERREY: That’s correct, because the president had a case, a very simple case to make: I am the commander in chief. I won the war in Afghanistan, even though John Kerry supported it, even though, by the way, there’s a credible case that the president’s own negligence prior to 9/11 at least in part contributed to the disaster in the first place.

ZAHN: But what we continue to hear from this administration is that the threat was much too diffuse. There was no way you could zero in on the fact that al Qaeda was going to use jets as bombs and ram them into buildings.

KERREY: That is a straw man…You knew in July they were inside the United States. You were told again by briefing officers in August that it was a dire threat.

And what did you do? Nothing, so far as we could see on the 9/11 Commission. Now, that’s in the report. And we took an oath not to talk about it during the campaign, I think correctly so, to increase the capacity of that commission’s report to be heard by the people’s Congress.”

Enough already.

Geez.

By IN THE NEWS

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

Oedipus Wrecks

By Paul

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

By Hey Moron 4:01

To paraphrase Rudy, I’ve heard a lot of outlandish statements about 9/11 but never that one.

First, though, your “lying, which is being wrong whether intentional or not” - please tell me you’re not serious. The ““Bush lied us into War…” doesn’t mean that the lies were intentional it is that he was simply wrong in many cases and reckless with facts in others…” seems like a pretty weak explanation to justify the use of the word “lie.”

Regarding your assertion that the proximate cause of 9/11 was nonresponse to the Cole attack: again, you’re really serious? Source? Senate Intelligence Committee? The House’s report? The Assessment on Prewar Intelligence? I’ve read the Congressional reports, funny how I never saw the assertion. I thought it was more along these lines:

According to closed-session testimony by CIA, FBI and NSA heads, al-Qaeda began planning the 9/11 attacks in 1998. [USA Today, 6/18/2002] In a June 2002 interview, 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed also asserts that planning for the attacks begin at this time. [Associated Press, 9/8/2002] However, it appears the targeting of the WTC and pilot training began even earlier.”

We’d had embassies attacked, US citizens killed, a prior attack within the homeland - the escalation continued as our responses were assessed. No where was it reported the Cole response would be a “go/no go” decision point.

By Midori

May 23, 2007 4:47 PM | Link to this

Yesterday the wingnuts had a major hard on for Bob Kerrey, and kept posting an op ed he wrote for the WSJ.

Getalife just posted an excerpt from his appearance on Paula Zahn.

Will you guys be quoting and linking THAT?

Buehler?

Buehler?

By steve-o

May 23, 2007 5:02 PM | Link to this

AC Milan are the champions of Europe after whupping Liverpool in the Champions League final a few minutes ago. How the hell did they managed to dominate first Manchester United then a talented Liverpool FC, one will never know.

Back to politics…if there is one thing to learn from the past seven years is that the only thing we have to fear is incompetence itself. That and extremism. 2008 will be a great year indeed.

By Midori

May 23, 2007 5:04 PM | Link to this

happy Memorial day

By LuckoDull

May 23, 2007 5:07 PM | Link to this

Look at the kooks^^, they are BACK to arguing over the Presidential Daily Briefing that said some Islamic males were thinking about attacking the United States someday, gee, what a wealth of information that was, Bush should have immediately started strafing Syria and threw a big net over the World Trade Centers, geez.

Or maybe implemented al-Gore’s airplane security initiative, ooops, that was implemented, my bad.

The Bush knocked down the WTC moonbats are awful quiet here recently, after they all saw that gasoline fire take out the whole entire approach ramp to the Bay Bridge, melting the steel into a big knot.

That didn’t fit in very well at the fever swamps.

Cowards.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.

By Paul

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

steve-o

Manchester United? The Great have fallen. Just as in politics, dynasties (in the interest of consistency within topic, that is pronounced “di(short ‘i’)nasties) all pass.

Now if we could do the same with a bunch of politicians and political families we’d be on to something.

By Paul

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

Midori 5:04

Memorial Day is a solemn day of remembrance for all those who have died in service to our country. To use it, and the memories of those fallen, as just another springboard to attack Pres Bush is so….

typical.

By Bosch

May 23, 2007 5:17 PM | Link to this

Liverpool lost? Damn. Those damn Italians have done it again. Oh well, you can’t have everything. I have the game taped. Don’t tell me the score!

So true Paul, so true.

By steve-o

May 23, 2007 5:19 PM | Link to this

LuckoDork, You know…it’s funny…

…you’re the President and while on vacation you’re handed a memo clearly titled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US”, that also states that suspected terrorists are making preparations for hijackings. What do you do? Stay on vacation and show off your golf swing in front of cameras? Or how about chopping down a few trees to show you’re a true common ‘Murican?

Now I don’t blame anyone but AlQaeda for the attacks. But I want you neoCONs to realize that your favorite child-king fell asleep at the wheel before desperately attempting to sling mud and point fingers in other directions.

By steve-o

May 23, 2007 5:24 PM | Link to this

Paul,

There was no excuse for ManU to have gotten manhandled the way they did against AC Milan a couple of weeks ago. Especially considering that ManU had FIFA Player of the Year Cristiano Ronaldo, as well as other talent such as Wayne Rooney.

Oh well, Silvio Berlusconi lost the Italian elections last year, and was berated by his own wife in the newspapers for being a flirt with other women, but at least his team are champions of Europe.

By LuckoDull

May 23, 2007 5:24 PM | Link to this

Keep in mind that this is one of the more “less dull” libs on this blog:

{{{By Lord Help Us September 11, 2006 08:27 AM Devlin reports that there are no functioning Iraqi government institutions in Anbar, leaving a vacuum that has been filled by the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq, which has become the province’s most significant political force, said the Army officer, who has read the report. Another person familiar with the report said it describes Anbar as beyond repair; a third said it concludes that the United States has lost in Anbar. Please, we need one of the koolaid drinking wingnuts to tell us how successful our misadventure in Iraq has been…HURRY!!!}}}

Uh-huh:

{{{There is good news from Iraq, believe it or not. It comes from the most unlikely place: Anbar province, home of the Sunni insurgency. The level of violence has plummeted in recent weeks. An alliance of U.S. troops and local tribes has been very effective in moving against the al-Qaeda foreign fighters. A senior U.S. military official told me—confirming reports from several other sources—that there have been “a couple of days recently during which there were zero effective attacks and less than 10 attacks overall in the province (keep in mind that an attack can be as little as one round fired). This is a result of sheiks stepping up and opposing AQI [al-Qaeda in Iraq] and volunteering their young men to serve in the police and army units there.” The success in Anbar has led sheiks in at least two other Sunni-dominated provinces, Nineveh and Salahaddin, to ask for similar alliances against the foreign fighters. And, as TIME’s Bobby Ghosh has reported, an influential leader of the Sunni insurgency, Harith al-Dari, has turned against al-Qaeda as well.}}}

You sniveling Cowards don’t know sh-it, do you?

Remember what I told you punk as-s wasters back then, do not count out the United States against a bunch of cut throat terrorists.

I was right.

As always.

Watch closely as victory unfolds.

Just like I said it would.

Cowards.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.

By Gonna Love 08

May 23, 2007 5:26 PM | Link to this

From Buy Danish:

” just love the way the Libs blame Bush for not responding to the USS Cole attack which occurred under Clinton’s watch.

Clinton did nothing in October, nothing in November, nothing in December, and nothing before Bush was sworn in in January - and he had had 8 years in office to respond to all the previous Bin Laden attacks.”

Kinda like Reagan did nothing to the terrorists that bombed flight 103..

By The Peoples for a Nuked Amerika' Century~!

May 23, 2007 5:27 PM | Link to this

Thats iT!!!

The President is Bart Simpson!

“I didn’t do it!”

(lol)

Oh! - Has - @@ - finished using the handle “Not an Idiot” for the day?

-=-

By LuckoDull

May 23, 2007 5:32 PM | Link to this

{{{By steve-o May 23, 2007 5:19 PM Now I don’t blame anyone but AlQaeda for the attacks. But I want you neoCONs to realize that your favorite child-king fell asleep at the wheel before desperately attempting to sling mud and point fingers in other directions.}}}

Yeah, sure thing stevie, he should have attacked Saudi Arabia, I’ll bet you libs would have got right on board with that.

Or maybe he could have increased domestic surveillance, what do you think?

I know, he could have built a holding prison for Bin Laden at Guatanemo Bay, that’s it!

Geez.

Coward.

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By Paul

May 23, 2007 5:34 PM | Link to this

steve-o 5:24

Games like that leave one scratching one’s head, wondering if it was all a dream. Even watching a replay doesn’t help.

You can’t beat Italian politicians for pure entertainment value (or Limoncello for a good digestif). Your time on the Continent is showing with the “team are” construct!

BTW - the area in which I live has numerous sports fields for residents - baseball fields, 6, 8 at each location. Several have an equal number of soccer (“proper” football) fields - and they are packed with young, young players several times a week. Progress!

By steve-o

May 23, 2007 5:43 PM | Link to this

LuckoDork,

Coward? OK. Let’s go over this again.

Where the fuuck are you? Sitting your fatass behind a computer and blogging nonsense. Take your silly arse to Iraq if you’re so fearless!

You’re like the little punk that starts fights than hides behind his big brother because he can’t fight his own battles.

How does it feel to be a punk, LuckoDork? Enlighten us so that we may raise our kids how not to be such a miserable, insufferable bastard like you.

As to your recommendations…

Attacking Saudi Arabia?

WTF?

Increased domestic surveillance?

There was obviously enough surveillance for a PDB entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US”, explicitly stating that AlQaeda were making preparations to stage hijackings. There was even intelligence about suspected terrorists in flight schools. I dunno, LuckDork…maybe you really mean that your favorite child-king needed a wet nurse to help him with the obvious.

Building a holding prison for OBL at Gitmo?

Well, it would be nice if we actually had OBL. But I guess for a neoCON in full glory like you, throwing any bearded man speaking Arabic in a cramped cell in Cuba and torturing the sh!t out of him is just as effective. Due process and Geneva Convention be damned!

You’re a funny man, LuckoDork! A true comedian!

By Bosch

May 23, 2007 5:48 PM | Link to this

I wonder if Rooney and Ronaldo ever had words for the red card he got for tripping Ronaldo in the World Cup. I thought it was funny to see that fat a* Rooney get thrown out. Berlusconi is a mobster, he doesn’t deserve that win. He’s more corrupt than Bush and his minions, but at least he’s honest about it.

By steve-o

May 23, 2007 5:48 PM | Link to this

Paul,

Yeah…the “teams are” thing is a bad habit picked up from reading Brit sports pages. IMHO, Americans have perfected and spiced up the damn language very well!

And no, you can’t beat Italian politics. It’s some of the screwiest stuff you’ll see. I think they had a porn star at one time in their parliament. Now if only Congress could get a porn star…that would boost CSpan viewership significantly.

It’s good to see young kids playing soccer more and more. There’s no reason that we can’t become a major player with all of the athletic talent that we have in this country!

By RW-(the original)

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

I can’t believe you moonbat(ic)s® are back to this August 6 PDB fairy tale.

steve-0,

The memo ends by saying there are SEVENTY full field FBI investigations going on looking into the contents of the freaking PDB.

The only thing President Bush could have done at that point that would have prevented the attacks of 9/11 would be to round up all Muslims and shut down any air travel in the US while that was being done. And the PDB itself wouldn’t have that as foolproof because in it’s reference to hijackings it said to use them to gain prisoner release. The attacks it said were being watched for were with explosives and it mentioned that Federal Buildings in New York were being cased, so he probably should have shut down all air travel, rental trucks, fertilizer sales, closed all Federal buildings AND rounded up all Muslims while attacking Afghanistan in a preemptive strike.

Somehow I don’t believe you would have been down with that.

Now that would have prevented 9/11, but none of us would ever know it and Bush would have been impeached and removed from office before Christmas break with about 99% of the country supporting his impeachment.

It would be nice to think this blog is the last refuge for the stupidest liberals in the gene pool, but this is mainstream liberal thought. Simply put you guys are complete idiots.

By Buy Danish

May 23, 2007 5:52 PM | Link to this

Item One:

{{{{By TW May 23, 2007 4:18 PM |

Trying to figure out why bin laden didn’t discuss sending his top lieutenant to Iraq PRIOR to our invasion. Anybody? Anybody?}}}}

TW,

Um, Zarqawi was in Iraq before the invasion.

Before the invasion of Iraq, Zarqawi ran a “terrorist haven” in Kurdish northern Iraq, and organized the bombing of a Baghdad hotel. According to a March 2003 British intelligence report, Zarqawi had set up “sleeper cells” in Baghdad before the Iraq war. The report stated “Reporting since (February) suggests that senior al Qaeda associate Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has established sleeper cells in Baghdad, to be activated during a U.S. occupation of the city…These cells apparently intend to attack U.S. targets using car bombs and other weapons. (It is also possible that they have received [chemical and biological] materials from terrorists in the [Kurdish Autonomous Zone]),…al Qaeda-associated terrorists continued to arrive in Baghdad in early March suggests that senior al Qaeda associate Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has established sleeper cells in Baghdad, to be activated during a U.S. occupation of the city…These cells apparently intend to attack U.S. targets using car bombs and other weapons. It is also possible that they have received [chemical and biological] materials from terrorists in the [Kurdish Autonomous Zone]),…al Qaeda-associated terrorists continued to arrive in Baghdad in early March](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AbuMusabal-Zarqawi#AttacksinsideIraq)

Anything else?

I shall return!

By steve-o

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

Bosch,

Hell yeah…Burlusconi IS a shameless bastard.

I bet Rooney and Ronaldo had some words over that red card in the WC. Especially since Ronaldo allegedly winked at the ref. Given Rooney’s rough background, I’m sure he had something to say little old Cristiano. That was one of the most entertaining matches of the tournament.

By LuckoDull

May 23, 2007 5:54 PM | Link to this

How come these libs get so upset whenever you say good things about the United States?:

{{{By steve-o May 23, 2007 5:43 Pm LuckoDork, Coward? OK. Let’s go over this again. Where the f888 are you? Sitting your fatass behind a computer and blogging nonsense. Take your silly arse to Iraq if you’re so fearless! You’re like the little punk that starts fights than hides behind his big brother because he can’t fight his own battles. How does it feel to be a punk, LuckoDork? Enlighten us so that we may raise our kids how not to be such a miserable, insufferable bastard like you.}}}

Geez, honey, let’s not burst any blood vessels here.

Maybe you really are enough of an as-shole to believe that Bush could have went after Bin Laden without you candy as-sed liberals throwing a huge whining hissy fit, but I’m not.

You know what I mean?

Coward.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.

By lea

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

steve-o please e-mail ldonosky@ajc.com

By RW-(the original)

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

{{{{{The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead}}}}-by irodiM

OMG! That’s hysterical!

Goldielocks,

“”Bin Laden Determined to strike in the US”” was the title of the PDB. Anybody that didn’t know that by August 6, 2001 could hide their own Easter eggs.

By the way, do you recall the title of the one Clinton got on December 4, 1998? Here’s a hint “Bin Laden preparing to hijack U.S. aircraft and other attacks.”

By Bosch

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

Oh I forgot, seeing Beckham blowing chunks was pretty entertaining too.

By steve-o

May 23, 2007 6:02 PM | Link to this

RW,

No…YOU’RE the complete idiot. YOU choose to blindly follow one of the most incompetent Presidents in history.

As I said before, I don’t blame anyone for the attacks except for AlQaeda. My point is that before some of you neoCONs try to sling mud at “liberals” about national security, look at the guy you voted into the White House. Even the 9/11 Commission stated that a lot of suspected terrorist activity was noticed by the Feds following up to the attacks.

What’s worse than you just being an idiot RW, is that you’re an idiot that will follow our idiot child-king off a cliff and not ask why.

By LuckoDull

May 23, 2007 6:03 PM | Link to this

Look at this moonbat finding out the hard way what Bush has been saying all along:

{{{Iran Detains Iranian-American Man Working for George Soros’ Open Society Institute

Being naive does have it’s drawbacks, don’t it you sniveling Cowards?

stevie^^ would make a good hostage, him and the cut throats could sit around the fire at night telling anti Bush stories.

Cowards.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.

By Paul

May 23, 2007 6:03 PM | Link to this

steve-o 5:48

[[I think they (Italians) had a porn star at one time in their parliament. Now if only Congress could get a porn star…]]

Well, I think Congress already has several prostitutes - and it seems “we the people” keep getting screwed. Let’s see, the amount I paid it taxes last year, divided by the number of times I got screwed by Congress, equals… hmmm, according to Congress’s way of thinking on a “cost per screw,” I’m probably getting off cheap.

By steve-o

May 23, 2007 6:03 PM | Link to this

LuckoDork,

One more time…

Why haven’t you enlisted in the military yet?

By Buy Danish

May 23, 2007 6:05 PM | Link to this

Proof that RW is right and “this blog is the last refuge for the stupidest liberals in the gene pool, but this is mainstream liberal thought. Simply put you guys are complete idiots”.

Presenting GoldieDhimmie, starring in Dumb and Dumber:

{{{By Goldie

May 23, 2007 4:31 PM

The PDB I read plainly states at the bottom “For the President Only— August 6, 2001”, and I do believe that the dictator-prez we have now is the one sitting at the White House in Aug. 2001.}}}

Goldie dear, the events referred to in the vastly overrated PDB were in 1997 and 1998 which was when Billy Jeff was in the White House*. Do you think that this was all a great big secret until Bush took office?

Bin Laden issued public fatwas declaring his intention to destroy the United States (and Israel) and turn Iraq into a Caliphate.

Why is it that even I knew that Bin Laden was determined to strike within the United States BECAUSE HE BROADCAST THOSE INTENTIONS TO THE WHOLE FREAKING WORLD but you moonbats are positively shocked by that news?

*Sorry to state the obvious, but we’re dealing with Goldie here.

By Bosch

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

Oh my God Paul, that was a brilliant observation!

Steve-0 and Paul, the ajc just dropped my last post, but I wrote about a book that I read last year, it’s called “How Soccer Explains the World” I can’t remember the author, but it’s about how intertwined football clubs are in European politics (and around the world). It makes our athletes look like whiny babies.

I was pulling for Germany to win and I hated seeing those crooks on the Italian team take that cup.

By getalife

May 23, 2007 6:09 PM | Link to this

Only an idiot would bring up OBL when he is running free, planning his next attack on your watch when he spewed that crap on the bull horn.

Geez.

By RW-(the original)

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

steve-0,

It’s noted that you didn’t dispute one item in my post you simply huffed and puffed and tried to blow me…down.

By the way, I wouldn’t ignore that request to email Lea if I were you.

By Buy Danish

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

Tsk Tsk - look at the “emotional outburst” from steve-o at 5:43.

Hasn’t he been a chauvinist pig on numerous occasions and chastised me in that misogynistic way of his for my “emotional outbursts” (over absolutely nothing, but I digress)?

By getalife

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

Okay, stop bashing the Italians.

BTW, real football is starting soon.

By @@

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

Thomas/PNAC:

You’re kidding right?

The GUY posting as Not an Idiot is a “GUY” who said:

(((I have run a business successfully with my family for the last 21 years and raised to beautiful daughters and managed to stay married without driving my wife crazy.)))

I work FOR somebody Thomas; I have ONE daughter, and I drive my HUSBAND crazy.

That GUY knew way too much about history. I’m not into history past, I like to watch it in the making. I’ve been out at the pool most of the day, only to come in briefly to check out history being made in the Middle East.

Thanks for the compliment though.

Really!!!!!

By mountain man

May 23, 2007 6:17 PM | Link to this

Its really neat that Dumbya has three ardent supporters; his wife Laura “Stepford” Bush, that damn little rabid dog of theirs, and Luckodull, perhaps the blindest of the blind.

Jimmy Carter has really stated out loud what many of us have been thinking for a long time. How this great nation could elect such an abject f&ck up for our leader is beyond me. I guess the Bell curve is telling us that for every insightful, intelligent person we have in the country, we have an equal number of low intelligence morons, thank you Mr. Morondull.

If we stay on “the way forward” as we have been, we might as well stick our national head between our legs and kiss our a#s goodbye.

By LuckoDull

May 23, 2007 6:18 PM | Link to this

{{{By steve-o May 23, 2007 6:03 PM LuckoDork, One more time… Why haven’t you enlisted in the military yet?}}}

I got one leg, stevie.

Am I no longer allowed to speak for my country because I can’t fight stevie, is that how it works in your world?

Should I be herded into a camp and silenced so that I no longer disturb your subversive activities against the United States?

Should I hop into battle in front of the troops, maybe provide a brief distraction for the real attack?

Would you wheel me towards the terrorists stevie, would you?

Geez.

Coward.

By Buy Danish

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

Attention Moonbats! Here is something we need to be prepared for. What do you suggest we do?

Source: ABC who Aids and Abets the Enemy by releasing classified info about our plans to destabilize Iran, but I digress…again.

Al Qaeda has a new opening graphic for its propaganda tapes: the U.S. Capitol under “attack.” /”The Islamic State of Iraq…March Toward Washington” reads the headline in English superimposed over a digitally created scene of the U.S. Capitol under attack in the introductory sequence of one tape released on the Internet this week.

P.S.

Please note the bit about Al Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq. I’ll be happy to explain it if you’re lost and confused.

By Bosch

May 23, 2007 6:21 PM | Link to this

Oh please, get a life, real football is not played in this country, at least not on a competitive scale. The MLS will have Beckham now, and I have mixed emotions about that, but Italian clubs are all crooked. Real men play soccer/football, not that American equivalent where those pansies run around in helmets and pads.

By RW-(the original)

May 23, 2007 6:22 PM | Link to this

WHAT?????

Hey Moron,

Are you telling us that Billy Jeff had to calmly wait for an investigation into the Cole bombing since he didn’t know if OBL was behind it? The same Bill Clinton, that went into an absolute rage at Chris Wallace and with veins popping and spittle flying told Wallace that he had been after Bin Laden every waking hour for years, to the point of obsession???? That Billy Jeff??

So once we really are attacked he needs an investigation even though he’s been watching every move and chasing OBL around every corner for years????

Face it, your hero just kicked the ball down the road for somebody else to deal with. The Clown Prince of Egomania paraded that other terrorist Arafat around in search of a legacy for his last few months in office.

9/11 IS Bill Clinton’s legacy.

By steve-o

May 23, 2007 6:23 PM | Link to this

Bosch,

I got the book at home. It’s a very good read! I was actually pulling for (gasp) France to win because I’m a big Zidane fan and a Theirry Henry fan.

Paul,

Yup, there are prostitutes in Congress indeed.

RW,

I answered your post. Obviously, you chose to dismiss everything I said…again. Oh Massa RW, what’s ole Steve-o gots to do to please ya??!!?

BTW, RW, who the hell is Lea and why should I email some troll posing as Lea?

By Paul

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

Bosch 6:08

That little tome was by Franklin Foer and it’s still widely available. I do agree with one thing he said - the soccer hooligan element - particularly Brit - make any US football, basketball or baseball rowdies look like choirboys.

BTW - I have to say I was struck by the absolute irony in your 10:06 broadside with a poster with whom you were having an argument:

[[As usual you can’t defend your argument without trying to name call. Pretty typical of an uneducated hillbilly.]]

Pls say you were trying to be funny -

By getalife

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

BD,

w leaked that , ABC asked if it was ok.

They are trying to get Iran to attack with more war games off the Iranian shore.

Geez you are gullible.

“House defeats bid to reprimand Murtha:

House Democrats rejected a Republican bid Tuesday to reprimand Rep. John Murtha, a senior lawmaker accused of threatening legislative reprisals against a GOP member who had crossed him.”

Hahahahaha.

Go grandpa!

By Buy Danish

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

Mountain Man,

I guess you missed the part where LuckoDull called W a liberal because of his immigration policies and said it was fine with him if he dumped a wimp named Gonzales.

And I agree! I must be a “blind” LuckoDull supporter. /sarc.

Just because we support Bush on the War on Terror, tax cuts, and judicial appointments does not mean that we are in “lockstep” with Bush by any means. If we were the immigration bill would have been signed a year ago.

btw, I don’t believe that your assessment of the Bell Curve is correct either.

By steve-o

May 23, 2007 6:28 PM | Link to this

LuckoDork,

You have one leg? Wow.

And no, I’m not the one to advocate silencing critics and herding people into camps. I think W and his boys have that covered already.

Bosch,

I meant to say that I was cheering for the US first and foremost…especially during the Italy match. I’ve never been so amped. But after we bowed out, I was pulling for the Frogs.

By @@

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

Buy Danish:

Oh chit! The headline on that Al Qaeda propoganda video is written in English?

I think the liberals already know what they’re supposed to do…

report for duty to Al Qaeda.

By Buy Danish

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

Paul,

I noted the same “irony” with Bosch’s hypocritical “hillbilly” post but didn’t have time to comment on it.

That was classic! Thanks for the reminder.

By getalife

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

In the history books, 9/11 will be on w’s watch.

The end.

By RW-(the original)

May 23, 2007 6:30 PM | Link to this

steve-0,

Actually all you did was have a really hysterical breakdown. What would President Steve done based on that PDB? Please be specific, I was.

Suit yourself, but you should email her because she’s in charge of this blog and that’s her real email address. If you were using a real email address yo u would probably have heard from her privately.

Lea,

As I suggested before you really should get them to post your comments in blue so you don’t get called a troll and then get ignored on your own blog.

By steve-o

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

{{{9/11 IS Bill Clinton’s legacy.}}}

See what I’m talking about? neoCON troll extraordinaire RW slings mud about 9/11 by blaming Clinton, but little does he know that he’s making himself look like a total arse. Something tells me that he’s accustomed to playing that role…

By Hey, Moron

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

RW-

Why does Bush have no responsibility? I haven’t said that Clinton was perfect. I haven’t said that he did all he could do. I am willing to believe that all leaders of all stripes make errors. You on the right are so religously tied to Bush questioning him is like questioning God. What is wrong with you sick morons? Fine Clinton screwed up. Should have done something. Whatever. Accepted. What should Bush have done given that Clinton did nothing? Is also doing nothing ok?

By getalife

May 23, 2007 6:35 PM | Link to this

Well Bosch,

I have played soccer and I have played real football.

I prefer real football with real contact.

By Buy Danish

May 23, 2007 6:41 PM | Link to this

Oh oh! Time to buy stock in Prozac.

{{Americans will be choosing change in 2008, if a group of Maryland voters is any indication. Whether the next president will be a Democrat is another question, though./Sen. Barack Obama drew the most positive responses, while Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton came in for rough treatment, during the first in a national series of focus-group discussions sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania’s nonpartisan Annenberg Public Policy Center.}}

But when the area voters were asked who would be the safest choice to lead the country in these uncertain times, nearly all, including Democrats and independents, picked Republicans: former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, Sen. John McCain or former Gov. Mitt Romney. Only two chose Democrats: Obama and former Sen. John Edwards. None mentioned Clinton.

Midori,

I just heard the other Monica being grilled. Hang on and fasten your seat belt - she admitted to crossing the line of some civil service rules.

This is what we’ve waited months for?

Bwahahahahahahahahaha.

By Paul

May 23, 2007 6:43 PM | Link to this

@@

Thanks for the Stratfor reminders earlier. Very good articles. And anyone who’s surprised at Chavez need only look at Castro. Wait, they’re not surprised. And admire Castro. Well, what do you expect when so many form their viewpoints on such Hollywood masterpieces as “The Motorcycle Diaries.”

We’ve heard all the cliches about China’s long-term planning (“long term” meaning longer that an election cycle). But - care to guess the best selling (?) “luxury” car over there? Buick.

BTW - heard BoR once say during a talk with Pres Bush he was asked “where are you getting this stuff you ask me about?” and BoR said “Stratfor.” An aide was taking notes - maybe CIA/DoD could contract out some of their estimating programs?

By RW-(the original)

May 23, 2007 6:45 PM | Link to this

Hey Moron,

Last time I checked Bush threw out the Taliban and chased OBL into a cave while freeing Afghanistan in record time.

His administration was in the process of looking at ways to change how we approach terrorism and sure it would have been nice if we somehow lucked out and stopped 9/11, but I don’t think there was much chance of getting a full scale war in Afghanistan approved over the Cole bombing. Chances are a stepped up missile campaign would have been blamed for being what motivated 9/11 since a small scale push might have disrupted Al Qaeda, but not to the point of stopping a plot that was ready to go.

Seriously the only means that would have stopped 9/11 at that point would have been drastic and draconian, but you use the value of hindsight where you already know the plot, the players, and the timeline. People like you are entertaining but ultimately worthless.

By @@

May 23, 2007 6:45 PM | Link to this

Oh noooo! They’ve sentenced some “ecoterrorists or animal rights activists” up in the Pacific Rim.

(((Meyerhoff and his co-conspirators admitted to belonging to the group they called the Family, which committed actions under the mantle of both the ALF and ELF. Meyerhoff and other captured members of the group have pleaded guilty to a string of 20 direct actions committed between Dec. 25, 1995, and Oct. 15, 2001. Their actions spanned five western states and caused property damage in excess of $40 million, though no deaths or injuries resulted.)))

But it’s alright. They’re defense attorneys said they DIDN’T INTEND BODILY HARM, AND NOONE WAS INJURED???

I feel much safer now. Unless, of course, I happen to be living in the forests they might want to torch in order to save the environment.

By LuckoDull

May 23, 2007 6:46 PM | Link to this

Here’s the Queen of the sniveling Cowards:

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s deputy campaign manager wrote a memo this week making the case for the Democratic presidential candidate to bypass the Iowa caucuses and focus on later contests in the nomination fight.

Click the link with caution! I’m warning you!

Cutting and running from Iowa, geez.

Cowards.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.

By Paul

May 23, 2007 6:47 PM | Link to this

getalife 6:35

I once walked past a college-age guy about the size of a Mack truck holding a newborn. I looked at the guy and said “future football player?” He looked down at me with an unsmiling face and a missing tooth and said “rugby.”

Now that’s REAL football.

(For the rest of you, rugby’s a ombination of soccer and American football with no pads, helmets or rules).

By RW-(the original)

May 23, 2007 6:47 PM | Link to this

steve-0,

9/11 was the culmination of eight years of failure by Clinton. Grow up and deal with it.

By Buy Danish

May 23, 2007 6:48 PM | Link to this

steve-o,

Regarding Clinton’s legacy mattering with 9/11, here’s an analogy you might understand -

If someone adopts an 8 year old out of control child with all sorts of pre-existing behavioral problems, do you expect the adoptive parent to miraculously turn that kid around immediately?

By RW-(the original)

May 23, 2007 6:51 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

The smoking gun, for the moonbat(ic)s®, from the Goodling show trial seems to be about some possible infraction of HIRING practices. Wasn’t this witch hunt about FIRING practices?

By Hey, Moron

May 23, 2007 6:53 PM | Link to this

RW,

Genius. Clinton should have done more, but there was nothing for Bush to do. How about try? He could have asked Congress for authority. He could have sent in Special Forces. He could have and should have done a lot of things. You idiots ability to reason hypocritically and inconsistently is simply amazing. If the truth is that there were no military options, stop b itching about Clinton. If there was a military option then Bush had all the time in the world to exercise it. You can’t have it both ways dumbazz. So either say is wasn’t preventable or it was and both are at fault, but it can’t be both.

By @@

May 23, 2007 6:54 PM | Link to this

Oops, make that “they’re” a “their”.

You’re welcome Paul. Checking Stratfor for info is essential to starting my day. The thing I like most about it is it ain’t “Rosey” ALL THE TIME.

I like it when the guy Friedman, Freeman? from Stratfor makes a personal appearance. He looks like the devil himself.

Like you always say…”it’s in the details”.

By N-GA

May 23, 2007 6:54 PM | Link to this

1999 Vieux Chateau Certan

cheers!

By Buy Danish

May 23, 2007 6:54 PM | Link to this

RW,

Maybe they should get The Donald to conduct the inquiries.

By LuckoDull

May 23, 2007 6:54 PM | Link to this

{{{In the end, it’s not conservative issues or ideology that defines the Republican coalition today. Instead, the framework around which the party is built is principally demographic, focused on the South, select suburbs, rural areas and traditional families (i.e., households with a daddy, mommy and kids). These building blocks of the party are not under the same siege that afflicts conservatism. So even though issues like Iraq and immigration are roiling the waters of Long Island or Chicago’s Lakefront, they’re not cracking the bedrock of GOP support in climes like {{{Atlanta’s northern suburbs}}} or rural Iowa’s farm communities. GOP fortunes were more threatened in the Reagan years, when GOP support in the rural Midwest was eroded by rural opposition to the Gipper’s farm policies. Southern support of the GOP was under greater duress when the first Bush raised taxes than under the current Bush.}}}

Having a city full of sniveling Coward pinko®s right next door will make for a strong Republican coalition, like us.

People like us are going to carry the day.

And you’re gonna hate 08®.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.

By Bosch

May 23, 2007 6:55 PM | Link to this

Yes, you caught me. I was being a hypocrit. Sorry about that. I called Dusty a hillbilly in almost the same sentence. I noticed that too right as I hit the Post button.

Okay, I’m glad that you guys have read that book, I enjoyed it. I still prefer the “real” football.

Later!

By RW-(the original)

May 23, 2007 6:55 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

Nice analogy and it reminds me that we keep hearing from the apologists for the new Democrat Congress that they can’t be expected to fix anything immediately.

By RW-(the original)

May 23, 2007 7:00 PM | Link to this

Hey Moron,

Tell Clinton to quit trying to have it both ways, fool. Either he was after him like he claims or he had an attorney preparing a subpoena.

If you were capable of following what I typed you would see that I don’t believe their would have been the stomach for a full military assault on the country of Afghanistan over the actions of some terrorists there. Clinton would certainly have had more standing to ask for it based on years of running the show than Bush coming in cold and asking to immediately start a war though.

By Paul

May 23, 2007 7:00 PM | Link to this

N-GA 6:54

Thbppptttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Buy Danish

May 23, 2007 7:01 PM | Link to this

Speaking of genetically stupid Moonbats, Presenting Rosie.

By Bosch

May 23, 2007 7:02 PM | Link to this

Getalife, Obviously you’ve never played a real game of soccer if you think there is no contact :-)

By Hey, Moron

May 23, 2007 7:03 PM | Link to this

RW-

They admit to NOT hiring independents or Democrats thereby admitting that their personnel decisions are politically motivated, but you think that such an admission does not suggest that the firings could have also been politically motivated.

You idiots are setting a very bad precedent with your positions on this thing. When prosecutions are political everybody will eventually get hurt, including you and yours. If you’ve ever lived in a state where the AG’s office is political and when it changes hands it changes targets then you would know how dangerous that kind of thing can be.

By RW-(the original)

May 23, 2007 7:03 PM | Link to this

And in the spirit of @@, make my their a there.

By Paul

May 23, 2007 7:04 PM | Link to this

Bosch 6:55

Welcome to the human race - we’ve all done it. You’re one of the few to admit it - congrats.

By ken

May 23, 2007 7:05 PM | Link to this

Luckovich, please with the cartoon of Jimmuh building the dog house for the President….JC had hi chances and blew ALL of them. Now all he can do is pander to the Nobel committee, wander around shaking hands where he can and ‘dis’ing our country and it’s achievers. Back to Plains boy, where they may understand you, your peanuts and Billy Beer!

By Gonna Love 08

May 23, 2007 7:06 PM | Link to this

Ah once again the GOP lovers dont respond to posts that make their party look bad. Buy Danish and Lucko Dull,, The problem is you dont love this country, you love the GOP more. If you loved this country you would be able to pull your heads out of your rears and see what a sorry state this country is in. The difference between me and you is that i would be talking bad about the President whether he was GOP or Dem or Independent if he was screwing up as bad as Dubya. So now we all know who the real cowards are YOU.

By ken

May 23, 2007 7:07 PM | Link to this

Luckovich, please with the cartoon of Jimmuh building the dog house for the President….JC had hi chances and blew ALL of them. Now all he can do is pander to the Nobel committee, wander around shaking hands where he can and ‘dis’ing our country and it’s achievers. Back to Plains boy, where they may understand you, your peanuts and Billy Beer!

By ken

May 23, 2007 7:07 PM | Link to this

Luckovich, please with the cartoon of Jimmuh building the dog house for the President….JC had hi chances and blew ALL of them. Now all he can do is pander to the Nobel committee, wander around shaking hands where he can and ‘dis’ing our country and it’s achievers. Back to Plains boy, where they may understand you, your peanuts and Billy Beer!

By LuckoDull

May 23, 2007 7:09 PM | Link to this

Guess who:

{{{The people who make arguments about “jobs Americans won’t do” are never in a line of work where unskilled immigrants can compete with them. Liberals love to strike generous, humanitarian poses with other people’s lives.

Something tells me the immigration debate would be different if we were importing millions of politicians or Hollywood agents. You lose your job, while I keep my job at the Endeavor agency, my Senate seat, my professorship, my editorial position or my presidency. (And I get a maid!)

The only beneficiaries of these famed hardworking immigrants — unlike you lazy Americans — are the wealthy, who want the cheap labor while making the rest of us chip in for the immigrants’ schooling, food and health care.}}}

Word up.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.

By Hey, Moron

May 23, 2007 7:09 PM | Link to this

RW,

Even you know that’s weak. If Bush was azz raping your daughter you’d say he just tripped and fell. It didn’t have to be immediate he had 9 damn months to do something, anything and he did nothing. Are you glad he did nothing? If Clinton had started a war in Oct. you don’t think that you all would have been screaming that it was simply a ploy to hand the office to Gore? If Clinton did it in Dec. don’t you think you all would be screaming about leaving a new president with a war?

Come on. Your guy could at least point to 1 thing he did in 9 months. Just 1. Please just name 1.

By RW-(the original)

May 23, 2007 7:10 PM | Link to this

Hey moron,

Try to follow this, if they don’t hire non-Republicans how did they have non-Republicans, that they hired, on their payroll to fire? If somebody changed political affiliation and was fired for it would we really need to shut down the whole US government to find that out?

The only political prosecution I’ve seen lately was Scooter Libby.

Man you are thick, thick, thick™

…and nothing but a name caller too. You know what they say about you name callers that can’t debate with logic don’t you?

By getalife

May 23, 2007 7:11 PM | Link to this

Paul,

I could argue that our friendly games of Sunday no pads tackle football was a form of rugby.

Bosch,

I played goalie and got kicked in the face a few times but played linebacker in football and kicked some a-ss.

See why I prefer real football?

By RW-(the original)

May 23, 2007 7:23 PM | Link to this

Lea,

If you’re really policing the blog how about taking a look at that 7:09 from Hey Moron.

Hey Moron,

After that little comment about having my daughter a-ss raped this will be the last comment I make to you unless you would like to express your fantasy about my daughter in person you little punk.

Neither President could have gotten the go ahead to start a full scale war with Afghanistan over the Cole bombing. For the reasons you claim it would be difficult for Clinton, but it would have been impossible for Bush. How many freaking ways does this have to be explained to you?

With the plot already in place 9/11 probably would have happened anyway and our “rush to war” in Afghanistan would have gotten the blame for it.

Now apologize or go away, although right at the moment I would prefer the in person meeting for you to discuss my daughter being raped you sad little pos.

By Buy Danish

May 23, 2007 7:47 PM | Link to this

{{{The difference between me and you is that i would be talking bad about the President whether he was GOP or Dem or Independent if he was screwing up as bad as Dubya}}}

Gonna Love 08,

I just got finished saying that most of us don’t support Bush’s immigration policies, and citing what we do support, and all you can do is squawk and bwak about how we are more devoted to the GOP than this country.

I’m a conservative with conservative principles, and those principles include a steadfast love for and allegiance to this country - in sharp contrast to you libs who can’t stop saying how much America sucks.

By @@

May 23, 2007 8:12 PM | Link to this

Oh my goodness. steve-o did bust his corset at 6:02.

RW:

Please don’t cinch steve-o up so tight next time.

Too many “emotional” outbursts from the liberals here as it is.

By RW-(the original)

May 23, 2007 8:35 PM | Link to this

@@,

I don’t know what got stevie-0’s panties in a bunch at 6:02 but I’ll try not providing so much detail next time and see if it helps. It could be that seeing all those facts made his head explode since liberals only like emotional arguments or maybe somebody uttered the t-word in his presence and he just naturally lashed out at me.

If the latter is the case then I’m happy to have provided that public service.

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