Mike Luckovich

By Mad As Zell

October 26, 2007 7:37 AM | Link to this

Come on everybody, sing-along!:

Hitlery-and-Osama-sitting-in-a-tree, P-I-$-$-I-N-G!

Sorry, just kidding, that’s not true about Hitlery at all because everybody knows that Hitlery wouldn’t pi$$ on a Conservative if they were on FIRE. Oh wait! California is on fire now, but those are all liberal anti-war democrap supporters whose houses are on fire. I guess Californians can get ready for one of Hitlery’s politically-biased Golden Showers. Maybe when Hitlery gets into the White House in 2009 she’ll discontinue waterboarding on real terror suspects. Instead, she’ll use all of her golden-tinted “moonbat juice” for waterboarding Conservatives who speak out against her Socialist “Nanny-State” Agenda. I guess that means the end of talk radio if “Queen Femminazi” is elected.

Oh, I can hear the slimy pinko roaches whining now: “Republicans name-call too much, Conservatives play too rough, Mad As Zell hits the liberals too hard, your spraying too much Raid (political truth) in Lucko’s blog, wah! wah! wah! Change my diaper, I want my mommy, Conservatives don’t play fair” That’s right, THE TRUTH KILLS LIBERALISM ON CONTACT. Just consider the truth as “Raid” for pinko cochroaches.

By Mad As Zell

October 26, 2007 7:55 AM | Link to this

Actually, the fire seems to be in the heads of liberals like Jay Bookman (who fulfilled his left-wing bomb-throwing quota today with his weekly anti-Bush molitoff cocktail) and Mike LuckoVICK (who would do to Conservatives what Michael VICK does to dogs if he could get away with it. Instead, Mike settles for lambasting everything not far-left-extremist in his politically-biased psychobabble scribble on paper that he likes past off to brainwashed “Urinal” readers as “cartoons”).

LuckoVICK: change your diaper becuase your liberal bias stinks!!!!

By Luckoduh

October 26, 2007 8:03 AM | Link to this

democrats- They believe that the reason scholastic test scores are so low in Washington, D.C, is because of all the minorities that live there, they draw racist editorial cartoons of minorities they disagree with, they fought against Republicans in a failed attempt to keep slavery in the South, they publish disparaging photos in their “news” papers of the most accomplished, honorable black woman that has ever achieved high office not through extortion or whining, but through education and hard work:

Democrats question Rice on Iraq woes-Urinal

You have to buy the litter box liner to see their shi-tty little picture, if you do see it, isn’t your first thought that the scumbags that are employed by the AJC can go to hell?

And ask yourself why do minorities keep voting for these race haters, modern day Klanners?

Rice is a Republican and a Conservative and we should all have immense pride that the face of American foreign policy is represented by this distinguished woman, but no, we hate her cause she’s not a democrat.

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My Lord, the Atlanta Urinal Constitution must think that their readership is the stupidest people in the world:

{{{{$1 trillion plan would end alternative tax-Urinal}}}}

Is there anyone out there that doesn’t see the outlandishness of this statement?

Maybe it’s the reporter that is stupid, no?

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Again, you have to buy the paper, these libs don’t know how to post photos to their sorry website, but look at the front page and the glamour picture of the enemy troops ready to try and kill Americans:

{{{{The Guards are an elite branch of Iran’s military, created in 1979 in the wake of the country’s Islamic revolution to provide a counterweight to the then U.S.-trained military.}}}}

Ever wonder how the AJC gets a picture of the enemy troops so quick?

And only has photos of U.S. troops getting shot at?

Which side are they embedded in?

Geez.

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 8:08 AM | Link to this

Straitjacket Bush The president’s warmongering remarks on the Iranian threat suggest he is psychotic. Really. ……………………….. But all this creates a conundrum. What’s a constitutional democracy to do when the president and vice president lose their marbles? ……………….. The U.S. is full of ordinary people with serious forms of mental illness — delusional people with violent fantasies who think they’re the president, or who think they get instructions from the CIA through their dental fillings………………….. The problem with Bush is that he is the president — and he gives instructions to the CIA and military, without having to go through his dental fillings …………………………………………………………………….. Still, don’t lose hope. By enlisting the aid of mental health professionals and the court system, Congress can act to remedy that constitutional oversight. The goal: Get Bush and Cheney committed to an appropriate inpatient facility, where they can get the treatment they so desperately need. In Washington, the appropriate statutory law is already in place: If a “court or jury finds that [a] person is mentally ill and … is likely to injure himself or other persons if allowed to remain at liberty, the court may order his hospitalization.”

Duh, too.

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 8:11 AM | Link to this

BLUFFTON, South Carolina (CNN) — At a campaign stop in South Carolina Wednesday, Fred Thompson said that the Iraqi insurgency is made up of “a bunch of kids with improvised explosive devices,” and suggested that the appearance of losing to such an enemy would harm U.S. national security.

By Luckoduh

October 26, 2007 8:27 AM | Link to this

Whining will only get you so far:

{{{{Louisiana has been at or near the bottom of “quality of life” lists for so long that you start to believe that there’s something genetically wrong with its residents. For 15 out of the past 17 years, Louisiana has been either America’s Least Livable State or runner-up in the annual Morgan Quitno research firm’s comprehensive rankings, which combine educational, economic, health, environmental and crime statistics. No wonder Louisiana has for at least two decades experienced a steady out-migration of young professionals.}}}}

At some pint in time you actually have to make an effort.

Jindal will help you fix it, whether you like it or not, al-Gitmo.

By Mad As Zell

October 26, 2007 8:35 AM | Link to this

In regards to Jay Bookman’s editorial (Poppin’ Jay Boogman who, as we all know, is a highly-trained certified expert on foreign policy): Jay Boogman and everyone else knows that the best possible U.S. foreign policy approach to dealing with despotic and tyrannical regimes anti-American would be to simultaneously take Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong EEL, Hugo Chavez and that Syrian slime, whatever the hell his name is, and turn their thick, hard-headed skulls into long-distance drive-thru lanes for hot .50-caliber slugs. At this point we could literally sneak in to Fidel Castro’s hospital room and just turn-off his life-support respirator, so dealing with him wouldn’t be much of a problem. Not to forget our friend, Vladimir Putin who loves to play with radiation poisoning, especially around political dissidents. Maybe Vlad’s meals could be served with a little “vitamin supplement” to add a little “glow” to his diet to help him understand the true meaning of democratic governing.

By Analchord

October 26, 2007 8:38 AM | Link to this

Mad as zell: you missed a bit w/Molotov Cocktail. Certainly you can find a third reich parallel construct, or mixed metaphor that sounds like or is spelled like molotov cocktail. Or some other way to indicate the left lunatic fringe. there it is! the Molunative Cocktail! no, that stinks, you’re much better at this than me. Go for it! YOu can do it!

Seriously, Mad, you will get read if you can manage to provide an entertainment/cleverness payoff for a reader. That’s why everyone reads every word I write, and virtually nothing that you write. Simply write with the puns you have, not the puns you want, and you’ll be perfect.

alles sprechen der muffinhosen

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By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 8:44 AM | Link to this

Attack Iran and you attack Russia

By reebok

October 26, 2007 8:45 AM | Link to this

It’s sickening to watch the Alcoholic-In-Chief use California’s fires as a photo op. That slimy little frat-boy grin of his never gets any less disgusting. For comic relief, I enjoy hearing him babble about World War III and Iran’s “Nookyular” program.

By Larry Mischik

October 26, 2007 8:46 AM | Link to this

Lukawitch’s bush photo has thrown me over the AJC edge. It is AJC hate and igorance at its finest.

I have canceled you and now will be getting USA Today sent right to my front door. Good by Socialists.

By Analchord

October 26, 2007 8:52 AM | Link to this

Pakistan has 20 thousand schools teaching millions of children “I am Death to America and so can you” (Madrass Schools). Bush badgered Pakistan to crack down on these schools and Pakistan complied. Hundreds were keeled. The results backfires. Enrollments surged.

Foreign Policy should be: “Hawk Softly and Carry a Big Schtick”. Bush thinks foreign policy should be “Let them eat yellowcake”. (see what I did there, mad? Learn. Learn well, my fine friend) It will be nothing less than a miracle if Pakistan doesn’t go all Iran on us now.

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By Mad As Zell

October 26, 2007 8:53 AM | Link to this

Analplug:

We’re talking about ridding the world of some of its worst anti-human slum and all you’re worried about is how the correct spelling of the weapons to be used? This is war, not grade school! And what is that German for, are you practicing your Nazi-speak for when Hitlery takes over the White House? If if was up to liberal pacifists we’d all be speaking German and Japanese now because they wouldn’t have had enough spine to take out Hitler and the Emperor in WWII. That German-speak just shows how much liberals like Analsord love Nazis, tyrants and others of their ilk.

By Bosch

October 26, 2007 8:57 AM | Link to this

I almost feel sorry for Bush.

Okay, glad that feeling has passed.

ITN,

I read that story you posted about Bush being psychotic, and you know, I really think he is. Does he really WANT to start a World War? Sometimes I think he does, that he has some kind of Napoleon complex.

Can we please just get him out of there?

To all the wingnuts out there:

Do you think going into Iran is a good idea?

By Luckoduh

October 26, 2007 9:04 AM | Link to this

If there was ever any doubt which political party the terrorists support, it Has Bin laid to rest:

{{{{“All Americans must vote Democrat,” insisted Jihad Jaara, an exiled Al Aqsa agent who commanded 2002’s siege of Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity.}}}}

{{{{“We see Hillary and other candidates are competing on who will withdraw from Iraq,” said Abu Jihad of Al Aqsa’s Nablus unit. “This is a moment of glory for the revolutionary movements in the Arab world…”}}}}

{{{{Al Aqsa’s Nasser Abu Aziz, considered it “very good” that there are “voices like Hillary and others who are now attacking the Iraq invasion.”}}}}

{{{{Islamic Jihad’s Abu Ayman felt “emboldened” by Clinton’s demands that America retreat from Iraq. He said: “It is clear that it is the resistance operations of the mujahideen that have brought about these calls for withdrawal.”}}}}

Wonderful, isn’t it?

By @@

October 26, 2007 9:04 AM | Link to this

Getalife, resident of NOLA was recently declared “a popsicle” so maybe he can explain…

(((Jordan, the city’s first black district attorney, violated employment discrimination laws when after taking office he ordered the wholesale firing of white employees and replaced them with black workers, a jury found more than two years ago.)))

(((Jordan wanted Duval to freeze the $3.7 million award until the city has a chance to approve a new budget that includes enough money to pay off the legal debt, but that didn’t occur.)))

What is it about NOLA officials? freezing money seems to be a favorite pastime.

and then you have Nagin and Blanco whose first response to the devastation of Katrina was to declare a day of prayer? A Democratic Governor and a Democratic Mayor have to give permission to pray?

How sad is that?

By Analchord

October 26, 2007 9:07 AM | Link to this

I love the Tiger tank. I love the Fockwolfe. (Wow, the Fockwolfe). I love the Schtucka Dive Bomber. I love the Luger. (give me that machined pistol). The helmets. I love world war two. nazi? they had a platform? I thought it was just blitzkreig. Please tell us, mad, what is a nazi, but blitzkreig?

If only you were clever, mad. If only you could see yourself as the mess that a reader simply refuses to wade through. I’m telling you bluntly, sir: nobody reads you. It’s torture. You only can express hate, and even that is obvious, trite, hacked, and the same every day. You read Madaszell on monday, you’ve got him for the whole week.

Alles sprechen der muffenhosen

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Blogging 101…. First class. Hello, students of Blog: “Write something. Delete it all. Write a second draft of it. Delete it all. third draft. delete. fourth. delete. fifth maybe keep one line”.

Then go stick you head in the toilet.

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 9:08 AM | Link to this

Bush on the Couch …….If one of my patients frequently said one thing and did another, I would want to know why. ………For the last three years, I have observed with increasing alarm the inconsistencies and denials of such an individual. But he is not one of my patients. He is our President………Responsibility is something this president flees at all costs. ……..The untreated alcoholic who has simply stopped drinking treats anxiety as an enemy, and with good reason………..

By Mad As Zell

October 26, 2007 9:09 AM | Link to this

Bosch:

We don’t have to go “into” Iran, Iraq-style. We should just carpet-bomb it a zillion times over then park a couple of hot .50-cal slugs in Ahmadinejad’s thick skull. And kill those crazy Mullahs too!

Or maybe just kill Ahmadnutjob and those psycho Mullets and hold on the bombings until we have more info, but definitely make Mahmoud and Friends’ heads explode. Ditto for Chavez and Kim Jong EEL.

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 9:11 AM | Link to this

Katrina: What Happened When September 16, 2005 Updated: November 8, 2005 It will take months to get the full story, but meanwhile here are some of the key facts about what happened and when officials acted.

By Analchord

October 26, 2007 9:16 AM | Link to this

Today’s cartoon was George W Bush as Dumb Blonde. Sen Craig must be very happy to see the cartoon. Oh, dont reach for THAT one, mad, it’s WAY over your head.

bwa

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By John in Tampa, Fla

October 26, 2007 9:20 AM | Link to this

I wonder if ML will take any shots at Gov Schwartzenpecker and his response to the fires?

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 9:21 AM | Link to this

Psychology researchers, including some who advise politicians, have reached the same conclusion. “I do think there is denial on Bush’s part in his running of the war,” says Kerry Sulkowicz, clinical professor of psychiatry at New York University Medical Center. “He seems unmoved by the extent of the evidence that things are far worse than he believes. The tip-off for denial is perpetual optimism, a pathological certainty that things are going well.”

By Mad As Zell

October 26, 2007 9:22 AM | Link to this

Analsore:

You mean it’s torture like waterboarding, is that what you wanted to say? Why don’t you finish your snobby elitist WHINE and cheese and then go back to that drinking out of the toilet thing you were crowing on and on about. With sanitary habits like that no wonder your name is analcord.

Analsord, the SELF-APPOINTED grammatical editorial snob of the blog.

By Mad As Zell

October 26, 2007 9:32 AM | Link to this

Analsore:

You can get some penicilin for that, you know. You’re a talking contradiction- liberals say don’t read my blogs yet somehow, without reading, they’re angry enough to respond to what I said, word-for-word.

By Analchord

October 26, 2007 9:38 AM | Link to this

I think I first saw “Whine” vs “Wine” in the third grade. That’s why nobody, and I mean nobody reads you except your own sock-gerbil aliases.

This was too easy. He’s neutralized himself with hacked quickcuts.

Sighted dud. Sank same.

(it would be embarrassing for me to spend another comment on mad and run up the score).

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By Butch

October 26, 2007 9:38 AM | Link to this

Would all of you nut case libs rather fight and finish the war in Iraq, Afganistan and Iran or here in the USA? Will all of you cower and run to Canada if the terrorists were to show up on American soil to kill all the men, women and children that don’t believe in their religion and cause? I wonder??? Just keep bashing Bush and pushing your agenda. History will again prove you wrong.

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 9:39 AM | Link to this

All of this is done in the name of tax “fairness,” but it’s hard to see how this would make the U.S. code more equitable. Millions of those who’d receive the tax credits already pay no income tax, so they would merely be getting another government subsidy. The group that gets slammed hardest is the entrepreneurial class. Tax Foundation data show that three of four taxpayers in the highest income tax bracket are small business owners or farmers. If Mr. Rangel’s plan ever becomes law, look for millions of Americans and small-businesses to “incorporate” themselves so they can pay the lower corporate rate. Previous tax reforms have tried to keep the corporate and top income tax rates equal precisely to avoid this kind of tax gaming.

By @@

October 26, 2007 9:51 AM | Link to this

Let’s take a closer look at the “PROVEN” psychosis of denial…

(((HOW could she have not known? How could such an intelligent woman have believed her husband’s denial of infidelity, knowing his past history? Could she really have believed that being in the White House had persuaded Bill to mend his philandering ways? Or could she simply not conceive that he would be so stupid, so breathtakingly reckless as to jeopardise his presidency - and legacy - over a squalid entanglement with an infatuated intern? Or was it easier to live with denial than confront the truth?)))

Useful tools of the left hear ^^^ that and it gains their respect?

Someone who knows Hillary well and is NOT a useful tool…

(((Dick Morris, who acted as an adviser and pollster to the Clintons for nearly 20 years, put it bluntly: “Did Hillary believe her husband’s denials? Come on. Get real. For Hillary to pretend injured innocence at this point has only one motive: she needs to somehow justify her strident public defence of her husband. She can’t admit the truth: that she defended him because she didn’t want him forced from office - ending both their political careers -because he’d been unfaithful to her.)))

The left suffers from psychosis — unable to accept the truth but eager to create and embrace a lie.

By Mad As Zell

October 26, 2007 9:54 AM | Link to this

Butch:

No, the libs won’t run to Canada, they’ll just willfully submit, bend over and take it up the “Analchord” while the rest of us go on the offensive to kill and cut the terrorists’ heads off. A few of the pacifist snobs, like the above mentioned, would actually probably take the time to agonize over which way the surrender note is spelled and what shade of white, the white flag is while its waving and blah, blah, blah. Or like you said, they’d probably just turn into olympic sprinters enroute to Canada.

Analsore:

You’re right. Every word you write does get read, but dogs really don’t do too much reading while dumping on the toilet paper on which your handwritten leftist psychobabble usually resides.

By Mad As Zell

October 26, 2007 9:55 AM | Link to this

Butch:

No, the libs won’t run to Canada, they’ll just willfully submit, bend over and take it up the “Analchord” while the rest of us go on the offensive to kill and cut the terrorists’ heads off. A few of the pacifist snobs, like the above mentioned, would actually probably take the time to agonize over which way the surrender note is spelled and what shade of white, the white flag is while its waving and blah, blah, blah. Or like you said, they’d probably just turn into olympic sprinters enroute to Canada.

Analsore:

You’re right. Every word you write does get read, but dogs really don’t do too much reading while dumping on the toilet paper on which your handwritten leftist psychobabble usually resides.

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 9:57 AM | Link to this

How to fix the world in one east step. At least as the Daily Kos is concerned.

While it appears from more than one point of view that the War in Iraq and the War on Terror are situations from which we may never be able to extricate ourselves, from the mountains of Pakistan comes a very simple solution: convert to Islam. //Before we reject this out of hand, lets seriously consider it for a moment: Osama Bin Laden promised the wars would be over if Americans convert to Islam.

To the Koz Kidz around here. What’s with the poll that only has a yes option?

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 10:00 AM | Link to this

Cafferty File viewers: Let’s start another revolution

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 10:01 AM | Link to this

@@,

For Hillary to think that Bill wasn’t having an affair with that woman, Miss Lewinski, would take a willing suspension of disbelief.

Maybe she threw in a little projection when she tried to smear General Petraeus.

By Bosch

October 26, 2007 10:03 AM | Link to this

Butch,

One of the problems with your theory is that the number of countries keep growing. What does that tell you?

It tells me that our plan isn’t working.

If the terrorists were to show up at my door, then yes, I’d say, let’s fight them, and no I wouldn’t run to Canada - it’s too cold up there.

History will show that Bush is the worst president to ever occupy the position, but you keep up that cheerleading for him. He needs it.

Think for a minute of the number of soldiers we’ve had killed since this war began. Think how many are permanently injured. We are facing another generation of soldiers who will require help for the rest of their lives and rightly deserve it. How are we going to pay for that?

We are facing another Cold War, or worse.

We have bankrupted our economy to pay for this war and are now indebted to China and India.

We don’t have the manpower anymore to defend our own borders (you know, to keep the terrorists out) or to be there in the case of a natural disaster like Katrina or these wildfires.

Those are some of the realities we are facing these days.

Speaking of fear tactics, I’ve been reading some of the ghost stories on the Chatter Blog, they are pretty creepy!

By Blackadder

October 26, 2007 10:04 AM | Link to this

I see that the most rabid wingnuts still can’t follow direction or abide by rules and are posting prior to 8:00am. Just shows the sorry nature if their character.

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 10:08 AM | Link to this

Where Does the Right-Wing End and the Media Begin?

By Bosch

October 26, 2007 10:10 AM | Link to this

That’s just really crazy to think that some of these fires were set by arsonists. Now those are some people who really deserved to be tortured. Yes, waterboarding, electric shock to the genitalia, whatever.

That’s just really hard to get your head around.

By Corky Cobb

October 26, 2007 10:12 AM | Link to this

Butch, lead the way! Its great to see that a Bush loving Republican has decided to encourage Republicans to do some actual fighting for a change.

Its about time! Millions of Republicans have decided to sit this one out. School, career and family are more important right now. Canada luckily is not necessary this time, conservatives have been sitting this war out from the comfy confines of their living rooms. Great Internet speeds are good for blogging about wanting others to do the fighting conservatives don’t want to do!

Conservatives have not been lining up at the recruitment centers but you give us hope. Please use your influence here because EVERY SINGLE Bush war loving conservative here has an excuse for not being in Iraq. Help them see the light.

Every single Bush loving war supporter on this blog please list your excuses for not fighting in Iraq. Everyone of you has one.

Its time. The threat is real right? We need to fight them over there right? Republican war dodgers, what are you waiting for?……

ENLIST!

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 10:14 AM | Link to this

{{{{We don’t have the manpower anymore to defend our own borders (you know, to keep the terrorists out) ———>or to be there in the case of a natural disaster like Katrina or these wildfires<———-.}}}}}

Boschsh!t! Haven’t we already been through this? Even Barbara Boxer said she was wrong about that statement.

Sheesh

Blackadder,

Did you pop back up just to cry and whine in public again?

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 10:17 AM | Link to this

Comic Relief

By Buy Danish

October 26, 2007 10:17 AM | Link to this

RW,

Did you see the original “Mother of all tax hikes” press release?

The bill will add a 4% surtax on Americans earning more than $150,000 a year ($200,000 for couples).——> That is on top of the scheduled expiration of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts<———.

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 10:19 AM | Link to this

Potrero, California, the town that has gained national attention for standing up against Blackwater Worldwide’s plan to build a private military-style training camp in their pristine backcountry community east of San Diego, now faces an even more formidable force. The Harris wildfire which began outside Potrero early Sunday morning has ravaged the small rural community, where many residents remain trapped without supplies four days after the fire began.

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 10:21 AM | Link to this

{{{{{{That’s just really crazy to think that some of these fires were set by arsonists. Now those are some people who really deserved to be tortured. Yes, waterboarding, electric shock to the genitalia, whatever.}}}}}

How many leftists, or anybody for that matter, agree with that sentiment? Keep in mind that this statement goes along with a belief that if an Islamofascist terrorist had knowledge of a nuclear weapon getting ready to be detonated in the middle of an American city this same poster would say you could only ask and if the terrorist didn’t want to talk you would just hand him back his Koran and walk away.

Bosch,

As horrific as the fire damage is, you’re talking about taking someone into custody for a crime and then torturing them out of nothing but sadistic pleasure. How’s that square with the Constitution?

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 10:22 AM | Link to this

LOS ANGELES (AP) — As wildfires were charging across Southern California, nearly two dozen water-dropping helicopters and two massive cargo planes sat idly by, grounded by government rules and bureaucracy.How much the aircraft would have helped will never be known, but their inability to provide quick assistance raises troubling questions about California’s preparations for a fire season that was widely expected to be among the worst on record.

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 10:28 AM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

What I’m really surprised at is that Democrat leaders didn’t slap Rangel silly and lock him away until after the 08 elections.

All that tax code manipulation, income redistribution, and class warfare sure does make the FairTax look better though.

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 10:37 AM | Link to this

FEMA Meets the Press, Which Happens to Be … FEMA………………………..Reporters were given only 15 minutes’ notice of the briefing, making it unlikely many could show up at FEMA’s Southwest D.C. offices. They were given an 800 number to call in, though it was a “listen only” line, the notice said — no questions. Parts of the briefing were carried live on Fox News, MSNBC and other outlets. ……………………………The reporters were lobbing too many softballs. No one asked about trailers with formaldehyde for those made homeless by the fires. And the media seemed to be giving Johnson all day to wax on and on about FEMA’s greatness……………………………Of course, that could be because the questions were asked by FEMA staffers playing reporters. We’re told the questions were asked by Cindy Taylor, FEMA’s deputy director of external affairs, and by “Mike” Widomski, the deputy director of public affairs. Director of External Affairs John “Pat” Philbin asked a question, and another came, we understand, from someone who sounds like press aide Ali Kirin.

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 10:39 AM | Link to this

House members hoping to spend quality time with their families during the holiday season got some bad news this week: they may be in Washington days before both Thanksgiving and Christmas.

By Bosch

October 26, 2007 10:41 AM | Link to this

OH, RW,

You are just way too serious. Lighten up. I said they deserve it, which they do.

How’s that square with the Constitution? It’s not. Not for sadistic arsonists or for sadistic terrorists.

I think the firefighters who have been fighting these fires would agree with that statement though.

And I really don’t care what Boxer said or didn’t say, I think all the National Guardsmen/women need to be home, here, helping Americans, not in Iraq. One troop, or one piece of equipment over in Iraq, is just one less troop and piece of equipment we could be using for disaster relief or protection here.

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 10:41 AM | Link to this

Democrats Reintroduce Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Legislation

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 10:43 AM | Link to this

Supreme Court frees Genarlow Wilson

By Dusty

October 26, 2007 10:43 AM | Link to this

Ho hum,

the same ol’ stuff AGAIN that has been rehashed, denied, and psyched out.

The National Guard was and is adequate in New Orleans and California. The local and state governments of Louisiana were inadequate.

Dr. Gerberding, herself, said her speech was not censored. “Rediculous” was her comment.

Soldiers have died in every war we have fought. Fighting aggression takes lives. Our military takes that chance every day, just for us.

Bush has won in Afghanistan and is gaining in Iraq. (Remember terrorists. We are fighting them.) I give Bush the credit because liberals bestow blame on him. They would love to indict Bush but cannot find anything illegal. But they keep trying—over and over. Maybe they will find out one day that Bush is not doing ANYTHING illegal.

All you libs in deep depression—2008 is going to make you feel even worse. Better get help NOW!

By Buy Danish

October 26, 2007 10:45 AM | Link to this

{{{By Blackadder

October 26, 2007 10:04 AM

I see that the most rabid wingnuts still can’t follow direction or abide by rules and are posting prior to 8:00am. Just shows the sorry nature if their character.}}}

Hey Adder Dude,

Since you’re such a stickler for rules, what do you think about what happened last night at Emory University?

“I’ve spoken at Emory University several times and I’ve never seen it this bad,” said Horowitz responding to the crowd as they shouted and jeered. “This is exactly what the fascists did in Germany in the 1930s.” The loud chants, sign-waving, and disruptive gestures continued to escalate from audience members until the atmosphere was so chaotic that even the police present were unable to subdue the crowd. Horowitz was led off stage and left the campus under tight security, and the event came to an abrupt end. After Senior Vice Provost for Community and Diversity Ozzie Harris announced that audience members should sit down and let the speech continue or risk being forcibly removed, protesters shouted, “Everybody stand up, they can’t take us all!” and “Stand up in solidarity!” At the end, when Horowitz’ speech could no longer continue, chants of “This is what democracy looks like” shot up throughout the audience.

This was one of my favorites:

{{{Are we going to talk about who killed JFK?”}}}

Wouldn’t it be more on topic to ask why Sirhan Sirhan killed RFK?

But I digress.

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 10:49 AM | Link to this

Dusty 10:43

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 10:50 AM | Link to this

{{{{{I think the firefighters who have been fighting these fires would agree with that statement though.}}}}}

Bosch,

I don’t. People that go into the military or police and fire services are overwhelmingly the bravest and most law abiding among us. It’s leftist scum that always wants to portray them as barbarians that would torture and kill just for a little quick revenge or amusement.

By mm

October 26, 2007 10:50 AM | Link to this

A new day, same wingnut crap.

We have to fight them over there or we’ll have to fight them over here.

Dems want to cut and run.

Bill and Hillary, blah, blah, blah.

Psycho Duh and his mini-me Mad. Senseless drivel from stark raving lunatics.

More pathetic photo-ops from Bush and his crony congressman.

Ah, a new item to attack. Randel’s tax plan. Just like any other bill the dems come up with, the wingnuts make up lies and prevent it from being voted on. Then the wingnuts take essentially the same plan, put their name on it, and try to claim they are saving society.

The countdown to the 08 Dem landslide continues.

By Lovely Lucy

October 26, 2007 10:50 AM | Link to this

By @@ October 26, 2007 9:51 AM | Link to this Let’s take a closer look at the “PROVEN” psychosis of denial… (((HOW could she have not known? How could such an intelligent woman have believed her husband’s denial of infidelity, knowing his past history? Could she really have believed that being in the White House had persuaded Bill to mend his philandering ways?

WHO? WHO? Would be so stupid as to care what the heck Hilary thought about Bill’s infidelity? Who just gives a rip? Most intelligent people are concerned about ending a war (based on lies), a decent health care system, jobs and scores of other issues! Get over it! Are you unable to think of something your hubby could do worse than ‘have a girlfriend?’ If not, God help you!

By Buy Danish

October 26, 2007 10:51 AM | Link to this

{{{{By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 10:39 AM }}}}

Waaaaah! You know, if House Dems didn’t waste so much time pushing legislation which they know in advance will be vetoed, or conducting endless investigations that lead nowhere, maybe they’d get something done.

Of course, only government bureaucrats think Thanksgiving Holiday starts the Saturday before Thanksgiving anyway.

By Blackadder

October 26, 2007 10:52 AM | Link to this

On the 5th anniversary of the death of Senator Paul Wellstone let us remember his words:

“The future will not belong to those who sit on the sidelines. The future will not belong to the cynics. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” -Sen. Paul Wellstone

“Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.” -Sen. Paul Wellstone

By Buy Danish

October 26, 2007 10:54 AM | Link to this

Dusty,

ITN, our resident joke, is torturing you with a clip that sounds a lot like Shrillary Clinton.

Here’s the real Shrillary. Contrast and compare.

By Blackadder

October 26, 2007 10:54 AM | Link to this

Sorry - I meant to post Senator Wellstone’s words yesterday.

By luckovichisaheadcase

October 26, 2007 10:55 AM | Link to this

Buy Danish - You are right. But the fact is this is not what democracy looks like, it is what Nazi Germany looked like, or the Soviet Union. They want to tear up anyone who does not agree with their views, and on top of it, like most liberals, the last thing they want to hear are views which are contrary to their own. Liberals are really a bunch of ignorami.

By Blackadder

October 26, 2007 10:57 AM | Link to this

If this new tax law gets passed, corporations will no longer be allowed to use certain “Enron”- type accounting methods. And hedge fund managers will be limited in their use of offshore tax havens. In other words Bush will have a signing statement at the ready.

By Bosch

October 26, 2007 10:58 AM | Link to this

RW,

Calm down. You know I don’t really think that. Good grief. Lighten up, it’s Friday and all that stuff, okay? To quote getalife: Geez!

Dusty,

HOLY SH!!TT - We’ve won in Afghanistan? Holy S**!!! Have we defeated the Taliban again (the second time around) and found Osama bin Laden? Did I miss the news story this morning?

That’s great news!

Why don’t your sons who work for AT&T in their little cubicles sign up to go fight the terrorists?

And, circumstantial evidence is admissable in court. We’ll see how the whole “Bush has done nothing illegal” bit works out. I hope the scum rots in jail with the likes of Eric Rudolph. One can always have hope.

By Buy Danish

October 26, 2007 10:59 AM | Link to this

{{{By mm

October 26, 2007 10:50 AM

Ah, a new item to attack. Randel’s tax plan. Just like any other bill the dems come up with, the wingnuts make up lies and prevent it from being voted on. Then the wingnuts take essentially the same plan, put their name on it, and try to claim they are saving society.}}}}

(M)endacious (M)alaprop,

Name the lie.

Ask ITN for help if you need it. Neither of you are able to back up any of your statements individually, but maybe a little teamwork will do the trick.

By Buy Danish

October 26, 2007 11:04 AM | Link to this

{{{By Blackadder

October 26, 2007 10:52 AM | Link to this

On the 5th anniversary of the death of Senator Paul Wellstone let us remember his words…}}}

Adder Dude,

It would be wise for you Dems to remember that using a funeral service as an opportunity for political demagoguery is a really bad idea, but I always appreciate being reminded of how shameless and crass Libs are.

By WTF?

October 26, 2007 11:05 AM | Link to this

Does Mad as Zell even know southern California? That area hit hard by the fires in San Diego County is actually very conservative. In fact, Fallbrook, very close by and also hit by fires, was the headquarters for the Neo-Nazi fellow who ended up in Washington State, Tom Messinger and his son.

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 11:06 AM | Link to this

Why is that every time you expose leftist scum for being leftist scum they tell you to calm down?

Trust me Bosch, nothing is more calming than exposing leftist scum and their true feelings toward the best and bravest among us. Maybe you don’t really feel that way, but it’s remarkable how easy it is for you type a sentiment like that and how often you do it if those aren’t your true feelings.

By Lovely Lucy

October 26, 2007 11:08 AM | Link to this

By Bosch October 26, 2007 10:03 AM | We have bankrupted our economy to pay for this war and are now indebted to China and India.

Bosch, that’s the idea! Bankrupt the country! Destroy it from within! When we are BANKRUPT, there’s no $ for anything but the WAR! Eventually we have a ‘Rich and Poor’ class of people, just as we had prior to the New Deal! Idiots play on the abuses. Of course there are abuses, but the objective of caring people should be to ‘fix’ the abuses as much as posible, and that does not include passing more laws to punish! The role of government should be to help people help themselves! PLEASE! No tirades about what should be done with the murderers and rapists etc! We’re on the same sheet of music with this!

By @@

October 26, 2007 11:08 AM | Link to this

That’s funny RW. Hillary’s projects…Hillary’s projection.

Was it ITN applying definitions of “superiority complex” to conservatives yesterday?

When you look up “inferiority complex” you get this:

Sensitivity To Criticism: Although people who feel inferior “know” they have shortcomings, they do not like other people to point this out. They tend to perceive any form of criticism, regardless of how sensitively or constructively it is presented, as a (((personal attack.)))

:-OMG, that sounds like every liberal on this board. Put that alongside Hillary’s “vast right-wing conspiracy” claim and it’s no wonder the left is on board with Hillary.

Hypercritical Attitude: These people cannot feel intelligent, attractive, competent, etc., unless they are the most intelligent, attractive and competent person around.

:-OMG, that’s PoliFore…AmVet/Huge…rushncap.

Inappropriate Response To Flattery: This can work two ways. Some people are desperate to hear anything good about themselves and will be constantly fishing for compliments.

:-OMG, that’s any number of liberal sockpuppets who come in and compliment themselves under a different ID.

Lovely Lucy:

When ITN spends time posting psychoanalysis of Bush with no foundation to support the diagnosis, my tendency is to give him a proven case study for reference.

Don’t get all defensive. Look up and see if you fit any of the criteria for “inferiority complex”. I believe you do.

By RB from Gwinnett

October 26, 2007 11:08 AM | Link to this

By Corky Cobb October 26, 2007 10:12 AM

Corky, since you seem new to this blog, or you haven’t been here for a little while, please let us explain something to you. When you post things as stupid as your comments about R’s sitting out of the wars, one of us, and this time it’s me, is going to call you on in and ask you to provide facts that support your idiotic statements. If, like most of the left wing bloggers here, you are unable to provide any FACTS to support your idiotic claims, we will toss you to the garbage heap with Goldie, mm, and Mrs. G who are also never able to support their nut case comments with facts.

So, here goes…
In the recent elections, have the military votes been more heavily for R’s or for D’s? Look it up. Don’t bring opinions, bring data.

By rushncap

October 26, 2007 11:11 AM | Link to this

Man, right wing nuts are out in full force today. What, is Ann Coulter summer camp on recess or something?

By WTF?

October 26, 2007 11:13 AM | Link to this

Tom Messinger should have been Tom Metzger.

The W.A.R. Board Neo-Nazi boards began springing up in the United States as early as 1984, when a loose coalition of BBSs went online in California, North Carolina, and Illinois. One of the earliest, the W.A.R. Board (an acronym for White Aryan Resistance), began in the semi-rural town of Fallbrook, California, located halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego.

Tom Metzger, a blue-collar entrepreneur who owns and operates television repair shop in Fallbrook, started the W.A.R. Board from his home in 1984 using a Commodore 64 and a 300 bps modem. Its single phone line was constantly busy, indicating the high demand for online white- supremacist material and the number of neo-Nazis with the technology to access such information.

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 11:15 AM | Link to this

[TP: one of America’s ‘most dangerous organizations.’ The conservative front group Family Security Matters (FSM) today released its list of “The Ten Most Dangerous Organizations in America.” ThinkProgress earned the 10th spot in the rankings. FSM writes that these 10 “hate” organizations are “growing powerful in the world of politics” and share a common “unwillingness to bend in their strictly biased view of the world.” FSM’s board of advisers includes Frank Gaffney, Barbara Comstock, and Laura Ingraham. Here are 10 most dangerous organizations:

10) ThinkProgress

9) Muslim Student Association

8) CodePINK

7) American Civil Liberties Union, National

6) Family Research Council

5) Center for American Progress

4) League of the South

3) MoveOn.org

2) Universities and Colleges

1) Media Matters for America

Watch your back, Universities and Colleges. We’re coming after you.]

Proudly involved with 7 out of ten!

By getalife

October 26, 2007 11:15 AM | Link to this

Poor Gates having to beg for money and troops for NATO to fight Afghanistan. He is much better than rummie.

The GA. Supreme Court ruled to release Wison for getting a bj.

Weird how bj’s are an outrage with the gop unless it is with another man.

Sick.

w spewing that he will veto SCHIP again was sick too.

What a disgusting creature. Has he done anything to help the people?

No, he gets off on blowing up babies just like Stark said.

Geez.

By Buy Danish

October 26, 2007 11:18 AM | Link to this

rushncap,

So nice to see you! Tell me, how is it that a brilliant scientist like you can make a boneheaded statement like this?

{{{By rushncap October 25, 2007 6:42 PM

RW, there are enough people who believe that life does NOT begin at conception. You have no right to define that for them. If it is your personal opinion, fine. But you cannot enact laws which enforce it upon others, any more than I can enact laws enforcing my opinion of when life begins upon you. End of story. }}}

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 11:22 AM | Link to this

It would be easy to dismiss Ted Rall as a fringe kook if we didn’t get so much daily evidence of how widespread his mindset is on the left

I couldn’t agree more with the commentary from Weasel Zippers.

By @@

October 26, 2007 11:22 AM | Link to this

Let’s review this one in depth:

Hypercritical Attitude: These people cannot feel intelligent, attractive, competent, etc., unless they are the most intelligent, attractive and competent person around.

That’s ^^^ the Democrat’s Political approach to their constituents/useful tools for “crying out loud”.

Translation for those who just don’t get it — “If you are dumb and unable to achieve your goals then WE your intelligent Democrat leaders can take care of that for you.”

By IN THE NEWS

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

With record low approval ratings for the Bush/Cheney regime and the albatross of an unpopular war hanging from the GOP’s neck, do you think that a Democratic presidential candidate will win the White House, get us out of Iraq, and end our long national nightmare? Think again – the mighty election theft machine Karl Rove used to steal the US presidency in 2000 and 2004 may be under attack, but it is still in place for the upcoming 2008 election.

By Dusty

October 26, 2007 11:25 AM | Link to this

To the poisonous blogger @ 10:58 who is almost too infantile to address by name..

My oldest son has ALREADY served many years in the USA ARMY. The others are not eligible. How about your college bound son signing up for ROTC??

Now call your doc. The fact that you are wrong all the time should not make you depressed and aggressive.

By Buy Danish

October 26, 2007 11:26 AM | Link to this

ITN,

Since colleges and universities will allow genocidal maniacs like Ahmadinijead to speak, but won’t return the favor with men like David Horowitz, isn’t it reasonable to conclude that they are enabling fascism and anarchy - which is “dangerous” to our country?

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 11:26 AM | Link to this

Once again, the country’s largest voting machine vendor, Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S) has failed in yet another state certification process

By mm

October 26, 2007 11:26 AM | Link to this

BD,

One lie is the one I caught you spewing last night about adults being able to use SCHIP.

I’m not going to waste my time with you.

Your post about the tax bill is from the Wall Street Journal, which is owned by Murdoch, who also owns Faux News Corp. The tax bill eliminates the ATM and also pays for its elimination.

You wingnuts are laughable concerning the presenting of facts.

You wouldn’t know a fact if it hit you in the face. Oh, never mind. We present facts everyday, you just deny them.

By Lovely Lucy

October 26, 2007 11:26 AM | Link to this

Don’t get all defensive. Look up and see if you fit any of the criteria for “inferiority complex”. I believe you do.

Please note the definition of bigot: “Unreasonably wedded to a particular religious creed, opinion, or practice…bitterly intolerant of those who believe differently.” As I said earlier, who just gives a poop about this Bill and Hillary issue? No one, unless they are mentally challenged!

By getalife

October 26, 2007 11:27 AM | Link to this

“Oil rallied to a fresh record high above $92 a barrel on Friday as the dollar tumbled to a record low, Washington imposed new sanctions on Iran and gunmen shut more oil production in Nigeria.”

Geez, looks like RE was correct.

By Goldie

October 26, 2007 11:27 AM | Link to this

Bush has a definite problem with being “relevant” or even “factual”, starting with his declaration of “Mission accomplished!” in 2003, all the way forward to our current mess of an occupation in Iraq… going on 5 years in occupying Iraq now and still no signs of the Iraqi gov’t doing any hard work necessary to govern.

And the photo-ops for Dubya’s pursuit in finding any relevance is just downright sad. Good riddance to the Repug Party in ‘08!

By Bosch

October 26, 2007 11:30 AM | Link to this

Leftist scum? Wow, RW, you’ve cut me to the quick. I assure you, I don’t think firemen and policemen are bad people.

Exposed me? Please. You don’t even think that firemen and policemen should be paid, isn’t that right? They are part of the socialist plot to spoil America, aren’t they?

Why RW, Why do you hate our brave men and women that work so hard to keep you safe?

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 11:32 AM | Link to this

[A U.S. military strike against Iran would have dire consequences in petroleum markets, say a variety of oil industry experts, many of whom think the prospect of pandemonium in those markets makes U.S. military action unlikely despite escalating economic sanctions imposed by the Bush administration. The small amount of excess oil production capacity worldwide would provide an insufficient cushion if armed conflict disrupted supplies, oil experts say, and petroleum prices would skyrocket. Moreover, a wounded or angry Iran could easily retaliate against oil facilities from southern Iraq to the Strait of Hormuz.

By RB from Gwinnett

October 26, 2007 11:33 AM | Link to this

Are you libs planning to convert to Islam before or after you surrender?

By RB from Gwinnett

October 26, 2007 11:36 AM | Link to this

Are you libs planning to convert to Islam before or after you surrender?

By Bosch

October 26, 2007 11:38 AM | Link to this

Dusty,

I thought you were ignoring me by the way. You lied Dusty!

They aren’t eligible, they aren’t eligible, whine, whine, whine, excuses, excuses, excuses, can they hold a gun? Then sign ‘em up!

What’s the matter, did they hurt their knees playing football?

By anna

October 26, 2007 11:38 AM | Link to this

If I were just entering the political arena, and I had no idea whether I were a democrat or a republican, I would look at recent history and I would look at cold, hard facts. I would not get these “facts” from Bill O’Riley. I would see that years after the storm, New Orleans is still a wreck. I would look at the current forclosure situation and who Bush appointed as his Secretary of the treasury. I would look at the rising costs in Iraq moving into the Trillion catagory. I would look at the pathetic state of health care in this country. After seeing what has gone on in this country since Bush was elected, I don’t think I could physically ever be a Republican. I’m not trying to hate on the party here, I’m really really not. There are lots of republicans-ok not lots-but some republicans that I respect. But how can any intelligent person look at this nation and the crap hole we’ve dug for ourselves and still stand with the party of the president? I’ll never know.

By Buy Danish

October 26, 2007 11:40 AM | Link to this

By mm

{{{October 26, 2007 11:26 AM | Link to this

BD,

One lie is the one I caught you spewing last night about adults being able to use SCHIP.}}}

Just the facs (M)a’a(m)!:

Some states use SCHIP funds mostly for adults. Wisconsin covers almost twice as many adults as children — and spends 75 percent of its SCHIP funds on them. Minnesota spends 61 percent on adults, Illinois 60 percent, Rhode Island 57 percent, and New Jersey 43 percent./ This year, 13 percent of SCHIP funds will go to adults other than expectant mothers. Nearly 30 percent of these adults are not even parents. /Of the 14 states that were projected to exceed their federal SCHIP allotments in 2007, five cover children not considered low-income, and five cover adults other than expectant mothers.

I don’t blame you for not wanting to deal with me. The truth hurts, doesn’t it?

By Corky Cobb

October 26, 2007 11:41 AM | Link to this

Hey RB from Gwinnett, I could care less what political party our soldiers belong to. That is far from the point.

If this threat is as great as you war lovers claim it is, why have so many of you decided to place this threat so far down on your list of priorities? The Islamo-Fascists are coming to get you! Its Islamo-Fascist week! Thousands of college students are participating in the fun. Why haven’t these students enlisted? Haven’t they been listening to their own Islamo-Fascist week speeches? The threat is real?

Our forces are depleted and we have this “Great Threat” and you neo-patriots decide to sit it out?

Sounds to me the terrorists have been on the Internet and found out our warriors have decided to hide! Look at the aid you War Loving bloggers have given the enemy. They don’t seem to be very scared of your blogging.

You chicken hawks have it much easier than those from the Viet Nam era. You war dodgers don’t have to pick up and move to a foreign country anymore. You can blog all day about the war from home.

What a great life.

By BAMF from Gwinnett

October 26, 2007 11:41 AM | Link to this

Are you con’s going go over and fight this war or sit in your Lazy Boys playing wank the winkie?

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 11:44 AM | Link to this

Democrats tweak SCHIP in effort to override veto…….House Democratic leadership aides said that the new bill has addressed the three principle Republican complaints made about the original five-year, $35 billion expansion, which President Bush vetoed earlier this month…………………..The revised measure will include provisions prohibiting coverage of adults, preventing families with incomes of 300 percent of the poverty level from qualifying for the program, and making it harder for illegal immigrants to sign up for the program.

By Goldie

October 26, 2007 11:48 AM | Link to this

{{Are you libs planning to convert to Islam before or after you surrender?}}

It’s too bad that the Neo-cons are still spending so much time hatin’ on 72% of America, instead of working to end our occupation of Iraq, whose gov’t has stated many times that they want ALL FOREIGN OCCUPIERS out of their country.

And it’s too bad that the Neo-con wingnuts have caused the Repug Party to freefall for the next decade or two. The Neo-con mantra is “so much hatred, so little time left to expend it all”…

By Bosch

October 26, 2007 11:49 AM | Link to this

How old are you RB? Why aren’t you over there fighting the Islamo-fascists?

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 11:49 AM | Link to this

McCain Calls Waterboarding ‘A Horrible Torture Technique,’ But Will He Vote Against Mukasey?

By RB from Gwinnett

October 26, 2007 11:50 AM | Link to this

By anna October 26, 2007 11:38 AM

Sorry sweetie, but I wouldn’t reccomend you EVER get into the political arena. Why? Because you’re an idiot.

Please tell us all how Bush has ANYTHING to do with stupid lenders making bad loans to people who can’t afford what they’re buying?

And when you’re done, please tell us what’s wrong with the best healthcare system IN THE WORLD other than it’s not provided for you for free by “rich” people.

As for Iraq. Freedom isn’t free, sweetheart. It never has been and it never will be. YOUR freedom to sit here today and make shallow comments was paid for by soldiers just like the ones over in Iraq who fought and died so this nation would have a future. Or when Japan attacked us and killed roughly 3,000 of our soldiers and citizens, we could have taken the liberal approach and said “this costs too much”, crawled in a hole, learned to speak Japanese and ceased to exist.

You’re inablity to think beyond the latest headline is glaring, Anna.

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 11:54 AM | Link to this

State officials have decided not to publicize their list of polling places in Pennsylvania, citing concerns that terrorists could disrupt elections in the commonwealth.

By Dusty

October 26, 2007 11:57 AM | Link to this

To the blogger who is too infantile to mention his name @11:38,

Did your son hurt his pinkie playing tiddly winks and can’t sign up for ROTC at the university?

Since you are so interested in everybody’s military records, why don’t you tell us about YOURS?

By @@

October 26, 2007 12:01 PM | Link to this

(((Please note the definition of bigot: “Unreasonably wedded to a particular religious creed, opinion, or practice…bitterly intolerant of those who believe differently.”)))

How dare me believe that EVERY INDIVIDUAL has tremendous capabilities within themselves. That’s so damned disgusting. /sarc/

Actually Lucy(???), if I had your attitude I wouldn’t have pursued my career of working with “disabled” children. I would have been a bigot and just seen them as “incapable” and burdensome. They surprise me every day.

They are my inspiration — meeting challenges and successfully overcoming them. Great role models for any adult who thinks they face insurmountable disadvantages.

By getalife

October 26, 2007 12:08 PM | Link to this

“House Budget Committee held a hearing today to discuss the $2.4 trillion price tag. Republican lawmakers on the committee didn’t show up.”

Yes, they were busy trying to cut American childrens health care.

$2.4 trillion makes their sprending arguments pathetic as usual but have the guts to not and run from the hearings cowards.

Geez.

By mm

October 26, 2007 12:14 PM | Link to this

BD at 11:40,

You lied again. You are talking about the existing SCHIP program. I am talking about the proposed program.

Please refer to my post yesterday at 5:49 or the ITN post at 11:44 today.

By getalife

October 26, 2007 12:23 PM | Link to this

anna,

I would add the gop’s war on the rule of law and the Constitution.

A gop candidate had to write this bill because he is an American:

“The American Freedom Agenda Act would bar the use of evidence obtained through torture; require that federal intelligence gathering is conducted in accordance with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA); create a mechanism for challenging presidential signing statements; repeal the Military Commissions Act, which, among other things, denies habeas corpus to certain detainees; prohibit kidnapping, detentions, and torture abroad; protect journalists who publish information received from the executive branch; and ensure that secret evidence is not used to designate individuals or organizations with a presence in the U.S. as foreign terrorists.” Ron Paul was the first of all the presidential candidates, red or blue, to step up in this way — and all credit is due to him for getting there first. May the others of both parties race to follow his lead.”

The rest of the gop will stay the course. Then there is their war on the middle class while giving away corporate welfare. That $2.4 trillion is a nationalized expense but reeps private profits (corporate welfare).

By Lovely Lucy

October 26, 2007 12:29 PM | Link to this

By @@ October 26, 2007 12:01 How dare me believe that EVERY INDIVIDUAL has tremendous capabilities within themselves. That’s so damned disgusting. /sarc/

@@-I don’t believe the discussion was about those with varying capabilities. I was disgusted with your reference to Bill and Hillary, and their personal life. Of course all individuals have varying degrees of capabilities, and many meet and overcome tremendous obstacles.

By Lovely Lucy

October 26, 2007 12:29 PM | Link to this

By @@ October 26, 2007 12:01 How dare me believe that EVERY INDIVIDUAL has tremendous capabilities within themselves. That’s so damned disgusting. /sarc/

@@-I don’t believe the discussion was about those with varying capabilities. I was disgusted with your reference to Bill and Hillary, and their personal life. Of course all individuals have varying degrees of capabilities, and many meet and overcome tremendous obstacles.

By Lovely Lucy

October 26, 2007 12:32 PM | Link to this

By @@ October 26, 2007 12:01 How dare me believe that EVERY INDIVIDUAL has tremendous capabilities within themselves. That’s so damned disgusting. /sarc/

@@-I don’t believe the discussion was about those with varying capabilities. I was disgusted with your reference to Bill and Hillary, and their personal life. Of course all individuals have varying degrees of capabilities, and many meet and overcome tremendous obstacles. @@, I really wish you the best in your work with disabled children! They are truly precious, and some will accomplish more than we can imagine!

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 12:32 PM | Link to this

(m)ental (m)idget,

If the AMT was a mistake that is collecting taxes it was never meant to collect why do we need to raise taxes to offset it’s elimination? I thought the government wasn’t supposed to be collecting those taxes in the first place.

Bosch,

Don’t flatter yourself into thinking I was singling you out. Examples of statements like yours, that our firefighters would instantly resort to torture if nobody was looking, are rampant among your political fellow travelers.

By Buy Danish

October 26, 2007 12:35 PM | Link to this

(M)endacious (M)alefactor,

{{{MYTH: The Majority’s latest SCHIP bill serves children only – not adults.}}}

FACT: Though the legislation phases childless adults out of the program within one year, parents are still eligible permanently. Even the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says 10 percent of SCHIP enrollees will be adults in FY 2012. With 700,000 adults currently enrolled in SCHIP – even though a half million eligible children are not currently enrolled in the program

{{{And according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) the bill even COSTS MORE and COVERS FEWER CHILDREN than the Majority’s original SCHIP legislation.}}}

Here’s another fact byte:

{{{MYTH: The Majority’s latest SCHIP bill only covers low-income American children, not illegal immigrants.

FACT: The legislation weakens Medicaid citizenship verification standards included in the Deficit Reduction Act by adding Social Security Numbers – a method even the Social Security Administration admits does not prove citizenship eligibility. It also includes an “Express Lane” program that removes inadequate citizenship verification safeguards in an effort to sign people up faster, no matter their legal status. }}}

Your fellow Dems are very sneaky those Dems, but not sneaky enough.

This bill will be vetoed, as it deserves to be.

By getalife

October 26, 2007 12:36 PM | Link to this

Check this out wingnuts

Outraged?

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 12:37 PM | Link to this

What the Media Won’t Tell You: The Military is supporting Anti-War candidates

By Bosch

October 26, 2007 12:38 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

You nasty little liar you! You said you were going to ignore me! I guess we just can’t trust you wingnuts, can we?!?

I don’t give a rats a$$ about military record, nor your sons, but I’ve always found it so fascinating that people who want to engage in a war, aren’t willing to fight in it themselves.

So, it would be okay for my son to go off and fight in a war, but not yours?

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 12:39 PM | Link to this

LONDON (Reuters) - The United States has entered a recession, according to highly-regarded investor Jim Rogers, who told Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper on Wednesday he was switching out of the dollar and into yen, the yuan and the Swiss franc.

By Lovely Lucy

October 26, 2007 12:40 PM | Link to this

Geez Whiz- 12:29PM- I do apologize for whatever is going on with multiple postings…..

By Bosch

October 26, 2007 12:46 PM | Link to this

RW,

Examples of statements like yours, that our firefighters would instantly resort to torture if nobody was looking, are rampant among your political fellow travelers.

Really? Where?

Oh and Dusty,

You call me infantile and use the word pinkie and tiddly winks? Rich. You are not only a liar, but a hypocrit as well, what are we to do with you?

By getalife

October 26, 2007 12:48 PM | Link to this

The Growing Politicization of America’s Intelligence Services

She is writing some great posts at the HP.

The Clintons will put her and her husband back to work.

Talk about karma.

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 12:55 PM | Link to this

Bosch,

We can start with your 10:41 statement.

{{{{{I think the firefighters who have been fighting these fires would agree with that statement though.}}}}}

That statement being that they would love to torture any arsonist they came upon.

Now I’ll grant you that most quotes from leftist scum don’t include the firefighters the way you did. Normally they stick to sliming the troops like the Ted Rall “cartoon” I posted for you at 11:22.

How about this one?

{{{{If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime—Pol Pot or others—that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.}}}}}-Dick Durbin (Leftist Scum-Ill)

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 12:58 PM | Link to this

New Poll Suggests Stephen Colbert Should Be Frontrunner Within a Month!

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 12:59 PM | Link to this

Or this?

{{{{{ And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the—of—the historical customs, religious customs. Whether you like it or not—}}}}}

Terrorizing kids and children and breaking sort of the customs! Didn’t “Jenjis Khan” used to do stuff like that in Vietnam? Note, too, that Kerry isn’t against this per se; he just thinks Iraqis should be doing it. It’s highly reminiscent of Vietnam, only back then Kerry’s words carried some weight because he sold himself as a veteran against the war, whereas now he’s just the junior senator from Massachusetts.

By Luckoduh

October 26, 2007 1:01 PM | Link to this

{{{{A major reason why the fires spread so quickly was the universal presence of all those dead trees, tinderbox-dry underbrush, assorted weeds and all-but-dead grass that has been allowed to exist because the preventive controlled burning of this flammable material has been stopped dead in its tracks by the tree huggers and spotted owl-lovers who routinely put critters above humans.}}}}

Duh.

And if you need further proof of the unbridled, ignorant, rampant dangers of junk science environmentalism, just look in wonderment at a federal agency that drains the drinking water supply of 5 million people so that they can “save” a few little fishies.

What else do you expect from a bunch of liberals?

By Analchord

October 26, 2007 1:02 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish must have one of them new English Language Funk and Wagnalls….what a do……no, I will not criticize. I’m glad she got a new dictionary. I have one, and sometimes I need to look something up too.

Blog on, Fair Damsel, for you rocketh the house.

I dont know what’s wrong with me sometimes. It gotta be my childhood. At 18 months I developed rudimentary progress toward mouthing the vowel sounds I would need later in elementary school to communicate in pig latin. At 36 months, my parents drilled me daily in the different fungal rashes ravaging the country, so I became indispensable in the jock itch outbreak of 1962.

If I could have had one normal moment growing up, none of this would have happened.

So sorry, Buy Danish, blog on, my fine friend.

By Say It Ain't So

October 26, 2007 1:02 PM | Link to this

Lies Lies and more lies from the left!

-Tax cut for the rich, only if you are clueless about how the cuts work… Lefties!

Bush stole the elections in 2000 and 2004, only if you’re a sore loser and ignore the facts presented in the many recounts.

Bush claimed Mission Accomplished in 2003 had NOTHING to do with the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, unless you want to use it as propaganda. The Mission Accomplished was for the return of the aircraft carrier that HAD completed its mission of delivering men and supplies to the middle east. But hey, it fits your agenda better to claim that it was about the whole war!

As for the “war based on lies”, how about the war based on gutted intelligence from the Clinton years? That has a lot more ‘truth’ than war on lies.

**A Veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to “The United States of America”, for an amount of “up to and including my life.”

That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.**

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 1:06 PM | Link to this

White House Leak: Cheney’s Plan for Iran Attack Starts With Israeli Missile Strike

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 1:07 PM | Link to this

How Bad Will the Next Recession Be? If our government really is a corporation and Bush is its CEO, we’re all likely to be self-employed contractors out of a job.

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 1:09 PM | Link to this

{{{{{“Now you have narco drug lords who are helping to finance the Taliban, so we’ve got to get the job done there, and that requires us to have enough troops that we are not just air raiding villages and killing civilians, which ——->is causing<——- enormous problems there,’’ Obama-(Leftist scum-Ill) said.}}}}}

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 1:11 PM | Link to this

That Was Quick: Times Tackles Rudy Story

By moonbat betties

October 26, 2007 1:16 PM | Link to this

This is rich. corky cobb declares that Republicans don’t serve, then later comes back to say:

“”Hey RB from Gwinnett, I could care less what political party our soldiers belong to.”“

This is even better from bosch:

“I don’t give a rats a$$ about military record, nor your sons, but I’ve always found it so “”fascinating”” that people who want to engage in a war, aren’t willing to fight in it themselves.”

oxymorons

bam da lam

By @@

October 26, 2007 1:18 PM | Link to this

Lucy:

It’s not the sexual indiscretion — it’s the lying “poop”. One is an assumed lie and one is an admitted lie. I’m inclined to go with an “admitted liar” before assigning the label psychotic like ITN did.

(((Most intelligent people are concerned about ending a war (based on lies))) or “denial of facts” whatever you, ITN and Hillary wanna call it.

I guess ^^^ that was your subtle way of insulting my intelligence for supporting a war based on your assumptions that Bush lied? My apologies but I will not tolerate speculation in place of facts.

Thank you for your best wishes. I will put them to good use.

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 1:19 PM | Link to this

Limited same sex marriage comes to Florida

By lorraine

October 26, 2007 1:26 PM | Link to this

San Diego is full of rich Republicans whose houses I am sure burned. I hope they remember why.

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 1:27 PM | Link to this

Beyond belief: Yemen releases Cole bomber after he promises to ix-nay the ihad-jay

By Bosch

October 26, 2007 1:30 PM | Link to this

RW,

You are so predictable. I wrote so in my Outlook notes at 12:47.

Yet, your team on the right don’t even think they should get paid for all their hard work.

Sad, so sad.

Oh, please tell me I didn’t just read this, please say it ain’t so:

“The Mission Accomplished was for the return of the aircraft carrier that HAD completed its mission of delivering men and supplies to the middle east”

Oh, is that what it was for?

Come on everyone, read along with me:

Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 1:31 PM | Link to this

{{{{{I hope they remember why}}}}}

Would you like to enlighten us, lorraine? Why DID those houses burn?

By getalife

October 26, 2007 1:32 PM | Link to this

RW,

Why are you posting wingnut issues that only wingnuts care about?

We have real issues and major problems to solve ya know.

Geez.

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 1:33 PM | Link to this

{{{{{Yet, your team on the right don’t even think they should get paid for all their hard work.}}}}}

OK Bosch, your turn. Let’s see some backup on that one.

By Goldie

October 26, 2007 1:36 PM | Link to this

Dubya’s lying photo-ops are for the history books:

May 1, 2003- “Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. And now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that country.” (while standing below the Mission Accomplished banner)

May 1, 2003- “The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We have removed an ally of al-Qaida, and cut off a source of terrorist funding. And this much is certain: No terrorist network will gain weapons of mass destruction from the Iraqi regime, because the regime is no more. ” (note: Saddam Hussein was never “an ally to Al-Qaida” as they were enemies of each other; and tell that other lie about WMDs to the Al-Sadr delegates in the Iraqi parliament, why dontcha???)

By RB from Gwinnett

October 26, 2007 1:38 PM | Link to this

OK, so Anna goes on the trash heap with Goldie, mm, and Mrs. G. Nothing to back up her ramblings.

I love how you libs always throw the “why aren’t you and your kids signed up to go”? routine out there? Didn’t all the people who ARE over there sign up for this? And there are more signing up every day. You act like you’re doing them a favor by getting them out of a place they don’t want to be, but the truth is they believe in what they’re doing there. But to answer your questions, I absolutely would pick up a gun and defend this country if need be. And I’m reccomending my HS aged son look into going to the Air Force Academy along with the 5 yrs of service that come with it. Is that good enough for you spineless cowards or should I just teach the young man to beg for handouts and wave a white flag like you people?

By Say It Ain't So

October 26, 2007 1:39 PM | Link to this

The banner stating “Mission Accomplished” was a focal point of controversy and criticism. Navy Commander and Pentagon spokesman Conrad Chun said the banner referred specifically to the aircraft carrier’s 10-month deployment (which was the longest deployment of a carrier since the Vietnam War) and not the war itself, saying “It truly did signify a mission accomplished for the crew.”

By moonbat betty

October 26, 2007 1:39 PM | Link to this

yeah, stick to real topics like colbert should be the front runner in a month.

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 1:39 PM | Link to this

getalife,

Like this one?

The next man at the mike was a disheveled suit waving a book emblazoned with the title “The Israeli Lobby.” He said he would follow Dennis around until he interviewed the authors on his show about the fact that Jews were running American foreign policy and that Jews like Dennis formed a “fifth column” loyal only to Israel. Dennis took it well, but called the man an antisemite for such ignorant views, which so enraged the man that the police officers who were at every exit slowly moved to surrounded him. Someone yelled ——->“Don’t tase him, bro!” and everyone laughed. Then Dennis yelled “Tase him, tase him!” and the laughter doubled<——-.

By Goldie

October 26, 2007 1:42 PM | Link to this

Bosch @ 1:30 — the lies from the Bush administration is all too apparent to everyone around the entire world, and the Bush robot-cheerleaders are now proud members of the 24% Club… somehow they’ve managed to lose 5% of their own club members in the past few months! They must’ve realized that they were only enabling the terrorists around the world by hanging with Dubya!

By moonbat betty

October 26, 2007 1:44 PM | Link to this

goldie, haven’t we all heard before that the Mission IS accomplished and we should just pull out?

now where have we heard that??

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 1:44 PM | Link to this

{{{{{{Saddam Hussein was never “an ally to Al-Qaida” as they were ———>enemies of each other<———}}}}}}

Any proof of that Goldielox?

By getalife

October 26, 2007 1:48 PM | Link to this

No RW,

That is an attack not an issue.

Can you wingnuts discuss an issue with an attack?

Geez.

By mm

October 26, 2007 1:52 PM | Link to this

BD,

That was a Republican response. So it is BS.

RW,

You twist the truth as bad as BD. The AMT was not a mistake.

The AMT was created in 1969 to ensure that a very small number of wealthy people couldn’t use tax breaks or deductions to eliminate their entire tax liability. But the tax was not indexed to inflation, and every year more people are exposed to it. Nearly 4 million taxpayers were subject to the AMT in 2006, and the number is expected to multiply in 2007.

The mistake was that it ensnared tax payers it was not intended to. But you can’t just eliminate it. The permanent repeal of the tax would cost nearly $800 billion over 10 years. So the dems added a tax that actually does hit the wealthy as an offset.

But that’s what you wingnuts do. Cut taxes but you don’t cut spending.

That’s called deficit spending. But in defense you wingnuts start spouting out your percentage of GDP BS.

Twist, lie, deny.

By Goldie

October 26, 2007 1:53 PM | Link to this

RB — and in case our occupation of Iraq ends in ‘09, you be sure to encourage your son to go fight those commies — er, I mean terrrrrists — over in China, Russia, N. Korea, Darfur, France, Waco, or wherever…. cause there’s plenty o’ killing to be done all over this world, yes??? Why, he better get to signing up with some good war profiteer like Blackwater real soon, before they get their guns taken away from ‘em!

And if YOU’RE really interested, I hear that our military is currently looking for some ole geezers like you to help out RIGHT NOW — it’s all about privatizing our military operations and making a PROFIT on WAR — and the more lawless gun-toters the merrier!

By Corky Cobb

October 26, 2007 1:54 PM | Link to this

””. corky cobb declares that Republicans don’t serve, then later comes back to say:…..”“

I’ll take it even further. When Bush looks back at his failed presidency, he will understand that it was his most vocal supporters that ultimately destroyed his presidency.

The Bush supporting war lovers were the ones saying, “Yeah, lets kill them over there so they don’t get us here!” When Bush said lets go his big bad warriors said “not so fast.”

Bush knew he would eventually lose the liberals. He wasn’t expecting the abandonment he received from his own supporters. When Bush asked for help to defend the country from the Islamo-Fascists his backers told him they had more important things to do, but they sure would blog for him. If Bush had a full army things would have been different in Iraq.

Can you imagine an Islamo-Fascist Awareness Week at all those college campuses without an army recruitment effort to go with it? Preposterous.

Then there are the blowhards on Fox. You think they could get a least have a Recruitment Telethon during Islamo-Fascist weekend?????

Just think, you chicken hawks could have Iraq in order in no time. That big bad threat is real, isn’t it?

You made Bush think you were behind him, then told him you had better things to do. Its you chicken hawks that he is going to blame.

By getalife

October 26, 2007 1:54 PM | Link to this

Like this issue of toture and International law RW:

DONALD RUMSFELD CHARGED WITH TORTURE DURING TRIP TO FRANCE Complaint Filed Against Former Defense Secretary for Torture, Abuse at Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib

He cut and ran.

By Bosch

October 26, 2007 1:54 PM | Link to this

RB,

If need be? Dammit man, there are terrorist everywhere! If need be? Pick up your gun now and go over there and shoot them, shoot them, shoot them!

RW,

I’ve been highly entertained today watching your frenzy. I’ve been reminded of Barney Fife on the Andy Griffith Show - you know, that face he’d make when he’d get real mad. If only Barney had had a keyboard back then!

Say It Ain’t So:

Yeah, I’ve heard that same garbage before. You keep thinking that, I’m sure you need all the justification for this mess we call Iraq that you can get.

Gotta run! Have a great weekend all!

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 1:58 PM | Link to this

(m)ental (m)idget,

Tax increases like that don’t hit the wealthy, they hit the achievers. We have an INCOME tax you know?

So if it started hitting all these people it wasn’t supposed to hit then it wasn’t meant to collect that money from them and shouldn’t have to be offset with some new scheme to soak the job providers in this country.

By moonbat betty

October 26, 2007 2:00 PM | Link to this

get off of it getalife.

this is your idea of discussing an issue:

“By getalife October 25, 2007 1:00 PM | Link to this

They are pro death penalty and pro blowing up babies while cutting childrens health care. Pro death is evil.

Repent.”

“By getalife October 25, 2007 1:08 PM | Link to this

They are pro torture, reditions to torture to death, pro locking people up without a lawyer or trial and torturing them. They are evil, so stop with the pro life crap duh. Repent.”

“By getalife October 25, 2007 1:23 PM | Link to this

They want rape victims and women to die in their pro life bs. They are from pro life, it is just something to hate. They have to hate to make them happy.

Sick.”

By Goldie

October 26, 2007 2:00 PM | Link to this

RWanker— because you’re still too lazy to do your own research, here’s just one example:

“Al Qaeda-Hussein Link Is Dismissed”

The staff report said that bin Laden “explored possible cooperation with Iraq” while in Sudan through 1996, but that “Iraq apparently never responded” to a bin Laden request for help in 1994. The commission cited reports of contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda after bin Laden went to Afghanistan in 1996, adding, “but they do not appear to have resulted in a collaborative relationship. Two senior bin Laden associates have adamantly denied that any ties existed between al Qaeda and Iraq. We have no credible evidence that Iraq and al Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States.”

Too bad you’re still cheerleading for this war-mongering administration — what a waste of cow manure.

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 2:01 PM | Link to this

Glad to help Bosch,

Now back up your lie about right wingers not wanting to pay people who serve this country lest you be dismissed as another airheaded moonbat(ic)®.

getalife,

Where do you come down on the Dawg/Gator clash?

By @@

October 26, 2007 2:01 PM | Link to this

Playing off ml’s cartoon title, John Edwards is “Ready to help” by raising OUR taxes.

John Edwards says if he’s elected president, he’ll institute a New Deal-like suite of programs to fight poverty and stem growing wealth disparity. To do it, he said, he’ll ask many Americans to make sacrifices, like paying higher taxes.

(((Edwards, a former Democratic senator from North Carolina, says the federal government should underwrite universal pre-kindergarten, create matching savings accounts for low-income people, mandate a minimum wage of $9.50 and provide a million new Section 8 housing vouchers for the poor. He also pledged to start a government-funded public higher education program called “College for Everyone.”)))

I love the way the top three are waging their own personal war against each other.

By Terry Sciavo

October 26, 2007 2:07 PM | Link to this

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=458_1193332347

Dick Cheney sleeping during a meeting on the california fires. He cares so much he’s napping. What great leaders!

The only thing positive i can say about them is that they expanded the presidential powers greatly for when Hillary become president. I think she’ll be the most powerful president of all time… bring the country back to the far left.

By Bosch

October 26, 2007 2:12 PM | Link to this

RW,

You think I’m an airhead moonbat anyway, so what does it matter?

Seriously, I don’t think that, no more than I think that you think I think firemen like to torture people, unless, of course, you do think that (and I don’t think that), and you’d be wrong.

So again, it doesn’t matter.

What does matter to me at the moment is that I need a nap, and I am off to take one, then I’m off to enjoy my weekend.

Bye again!

By getalife

October 26, 2007 2:14 PM | Link to this

RW,

As an LSU fan, I will be cheering the dawgs but think the gators will win easily.

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 2:15 PM | Link to this

Goldielox,

I even used arrows for you, but alas you must have missed them. (or chosen too) Anybody can find the silly stories that say they weren’t actively working on the same plots.

I want the PROOF that Saddam and Al Qaeda were ENEMIES, which was what YOU said they were.

By Analchord

October 26, 2007 2:16 PM | Link to this

I like @@’s reference to the nude eel.

There, there, @@.

Today’s cartoon shows bush in that temeritous pout that only a well-intentioned wrong-way harrigan could muster. He’s simply as clueless as his father about foreign policy and the domestic

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 2:18 PM | Link to this

{{{You think I’m an airhead moonbat anyway, so what does it matter?}}}}

True! Have a good weekend and try to stay away from sharp objects.

By Goldie

October 26, 2007 2:19 PM | Link to this

Even after Cheney’s pal “Curveball” was revealed as a crazy liar, Dubya still kept beating the drums for war, war, and MORE WAR:

“US relied on ‘drunken liar’ to justify war”

The defector, given the code-name Curveball by the CIA, has emerged as the central figure in the corruption of US intelligence estimates on Iraq. Despite considerable doubts over Curveball’s credibility, his claims were included in the administration’s case for war without caveat.

All you Neo-con terrorist enablers have so much to be proud of.

By Mike

October 26, 2007 2:20 PM | Link to this

Well gee. If Bush was to blame for the poor handling of Katrina, then he must get credit for the dtrong effort in San Diego right?

Only if you have any intellectual honesty.

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 2:21 PM | Link to this

{{{{{RW, As an LSU fan, I will be cheering the dawgs but think the gators will win easily.}}}}}

This is why we have to stick with other issues. I agree with that 100%, right down to being an LSU fan.

By @@

October 26, 2007 2:27 PM | Link to this

Oh crap, here’s another “Bob” and weave Barker.

Krugman Veers to Left, Longs for a New New Deal: Caroline Baum

I saw this Krugman guy go up against a free-market conservative once. He melted like candle wax when asked “How”?

Sorry PoliFore/Analchord, I saw the @@ but I stopped reading your posts. Will you go back to namejacking my @@ since I’ve lost interest?

You being the blogfarter and all!!!

By Dusty

October 26, 2007 2:34 PM | Link to this

Oh good, bosch has gone.

Maybe I won’t get called a liar. Maybe I won’t hear that my son, husband and father who have been in the military are not enough for our family. And maybe I won’t hear bosch calling Bush a “traitor”. And maybe I won’t hear that I have a “thing” for bosch because I answer his accusations. UGGGHHH..

bosch keeps asking about my family’s military record but will NOT mention his. That is strange when he is so interested in enlisting other people. Well, so much for the obnoxious old bonehead who wants to enlist my other sons but NOT HIS. Figures..

By Buy Danish

October 26, 2007 2:37 PM | Link to this

RW,

Did you notice how unusual it was that one of the (M)ental (M)idget’s paragraphs was well-written?

That’s because she lifted it in it’s entirety from [MSNBC.}(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21471941/)

Could it be that her brain is so (M)onstrously (M)alformed she either has not learned about quotation marks, or cannot understand how easy it is to spot a plagiarist?

By anti-RB

October 26, 2007 2:40 PM | Link to this

RB,

The Air Force Academy? Yeah, like your son is gonna be able to kill any terrorists while in the Air Force. You wimp! He needs to be a big bad Marine! Semper Fi you fvck.

He’ll be wasting his time in class learning stupid stuff like math and science when he can be out there shooting terrorists.

Every day your son is in the wimpy-a$$ Air Force Academy and you are whining around here making excuses for not fighting the Islamo-Fascist is another day that they go free and could be dead!

Sign up to be a Blackwater fighter. They’d probably even take a sorry a$$ idiot like you.

By Buy Danish

October 26, 2007 2:42 PM | Link to this

Woops. (M)ega (M)oron’s plagiarized content was lifted from MSNBC

By mm

October 26, 2007 2:44 PM | Link to this

RW,

It doesn’t matter where the offset comes from, but it has to come from somewhere.

A person making $300,000 a year would only have to pay an extra $4,000 in taxes. Wow, that sounds so unfair.

Maybe they should leave corporate taxes at the current rate to pay for the offset.

Instead of the current headbutting, maybe there should be a compromise.

Maybe a flat tax rate for all? We know what the budget is. I’m sure some of the “bright” minds in Washington could find a way to pay for it with a simplified tax code.

But there are too many shenanigans and paybacks going on.

By Goldie

October 26, 2007 2:44 PM | Link to this

RWanker, you lazy doofus:

The CIA learned in late September 2002 from a high-level member of Saddam Hussein’s inner circle that Iraq had no past or present contact with Osama bin Laden and that the Iraqi leader considered bin Laden an enemy of the Baghdad regime, according to a recent Senate Intelligence Committee report.

Oh, and be sure to post your e-mail address where I can send you my bill.

Lazy wanker.

By Goldie

October 26, 2007 2:47 PM | Link to this

RWanker, did you notice how even your Repugs on the Senate committee say the same thing? Right there, published in plain English:

{{“Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) and two GOP colleagues on the committee disclosed this information for the first time in the panel’s report on Iraq released last week. They wrote in the “additional views” section of the report that the Cabinet-level Iraqi official “said that Iraq has no past, current, or anticipated future contact with Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda” and that the official “added that bin Laden was in fact a longtime enemy of Iraq.”}}

Lazy no-gooder.

By Analchord

October 26, 2007 2:49 PM | Link to this

I am well chastised, @@. I believe you about not reading a word I write. Ikinda cool, that there’s someone out there that can resist me. I’m not supposed to win everybody over, why, it’s not natural. But then, nothing for me has ever been natural. I’m almost certain that my upbringing is the root of my….my…..you know.

You see I was homeschooled, but it was a student exchange program, so I spent my entire middle school years on the Concorde. At age five, I was molested by a mime who was acting out Munchauser-by-Proxy syndrome.

I hope that explains certain things about me…… there’s more, but…..you’re not reading this anyway, and brevity is a blogger’s duty…..so a fond farewell to a most worthy opponent, who in the end, won fair and square, and sent me to the rear and on the ash-heap of blog history. I regret that I only had one ID to give for my punditry. Adieux. Adieux. To you and you an yieux…..I go now…off….tell my maw I always liked her apple pie……oh dont make me go, @@, I’ll be good, honest. No really, you’ll see. Why I’ll back up everything you say. I’ll flame your detractors. I’ll even let Buy Danish hug and kiss me……ew..

Blogfarter…….see?

By Midori

October 26, 2007 2:51 PM | Link to this

Bosch,

can you imagine the damage he’d do if he had that single bullet? :)

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 2:51 PM | Link to this

Rumsfeld hit with torture lawsuit while visiting Paris

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 2:53 PM | Link to this

Democrats have votes to hold two White House officials in contempt by full House vote: report

By Buy Danish

October 26, 2007 2:55 PM | Link to this

@@,

Thanks for the link to the Paul Krugman piece. The only thing I find puzzling is the idea that he has suddenly veered to the Left since he has been a Lefty for a very, long time.

What I find so unbelievable about these Marxists is that we actually have history to look back on to remind us how this impoverished thinking always leads to miserable failure.

I could understand if no one had thought up these ideas of wealth redistribution and punitive taxation before and wanted to try it out, but Governor Bradford figured out that these economic models were a failure in the 1600s yet it keeps getting pushed on us, and others.

I guess for some people the dream never dies, no matter how much of a nightmare it is in reality.

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 2:55 PM | Link to this

Democratic Federal Communications Commission member Michael Copps asked FCC chairman Kevin Martin to open an inquiry into News Corp.’s purchase of The Wall Street Journal.

By L

October 26, 2007 2:57 PM | Link to this

Mr Luckovich? I think you spelled “wildfires” wrong.

By Gonna Love 08

October 26, 2007 3:02 PM | Link to this

Luckodumb,

We hate Rice not because she isnt a democrat, which i dont care which party she or you are, she is hated because like her boss she is an idiot who cannot think for herself. Her and Dubya sure do give higher education a real bad name….

By The Apocalypse

October 26, 2007 3:11 PM | Link to this

ATTENTION ALL LIBERALS:

Yesterday, I did not fulfill on a promise I made to you. I did not go out and murder children so that women won’t be inconvienced. Sorry about that.

From now on, I will do my best to uphold my civic duty to please you.

By anna

October 26, 2007 3:14 PM | Link to this

The best part of the Republican party, however, is their strong “family values”….hmmmm….if you have such STRONG family values, please explain how your love for bathroom same sex rendevous fits in? Or your solicitation of young boys? I can’t wait until God judges you hypocritical biggots and I hope hell is a giant room full of Hillary Clintons who spit in your lying faces. RB, if you had a point-or anything near a point you infantile, probably self-hating homosexual a*, you wouldn’t feel the need to patronize people in your posts. I guarentee you’ve tapped your foot under a stall at Hartsfield Jackson.

By Gonna Love 08

October 26, 2007 3:15 PM | Link to this

Luckodumb,

Here is a reason why Rice is hated: “after 18 months in which the administration has touted the virtues of collective action against Iran by the United States and its allies, the sanctions are a major turn toward unilateralism.

“The shift represents a tacit acknowledgment that the diplomatic strategy pressed most vigorously by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been ineffective.”

As you can see she has NO diplomatic skills. What has she accomplished since she became Secratary of State?

By Seeny

October 26, 2007 3:16 PM | Link to this

Jay Bookman’s October 25th article hit the nail square on the head.

By Goldie

October 26, 2007 3:21 PM | Link to this

I guess you Neo-con trolls even hate on your own party members for having the audacity to not buy into your radical religious extremism:

“There is significant anger and frustration among fair-minded Republicans. For too long, we have watched as the radical right hijacked our party. Today fair-minded Republicans are fighting back, and this fight has just begun,” concluded Guerriero.

There must be at least 4 or 5 true conservatives still clinging to your Repug Party.

By getalife

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

Time for ya’ll to correct a mistake

chickenhawk bushie vs a great American patriot vet.

By Buy Danish

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

(((By Gonna Love 08

October 26, 2007 3:02 PM |

Her and Dubya sure do give higher education a real bad name….}}}

Classic!!

GL08,

Is that an example of what higher education did for you? I hope you didn’t go into debt to get those results.

By Bella

October 26, 2007 3:26 PM | Link to this

RB in response to your comments to “By Anna” it’s funny because you site Japan and their attack on Pearl Harbor and, from what I can gather, try and equate that with our war in Iraq. Not a single person on the planes crashing on 9/11 were from Iraq. I’m sure to you a brown person is a brown person-as long as they don’t look like you, them is the terrorists! But it isn’t right to attack a nation-one you previously gave money to-for the crimes of another. Your lack of a brain is glaring, azzhole.

By Analchord

October 26, 2007 3:30 PM | Link to this

Point of order. It was the Germans who bombed Pearl Harbor.

Just FYI.

Blog on.

By moonbat betty

October 26, 2007 3:33 PM | Link to this

hey anna,

have you drove off any bridges drunk or crashed into the capitol in the wee hours of the morning and got off scott free lately?

i gurantee you that you’ve gave a lewinski to your boss while he’s working who is 40 years older than you. it’s ok you know.

By The Apocalypse

October 26, 2007 3:33 PM | Link to this

Goldie,

Do you accept my apology for not murdering any children yesterday? I’m afraid that there might be some women who are inconvienced walking around here as a result.

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 3:35 PM | Link to this

{{{{{They wrote in the “additional views” section of the report that the ———->Cabinet-level Iraqi official “said<————- that Iraq has no past, current, or anticipated future contact with Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda” and that the official “added that bin Laden was in fact a longtime enemy of Iraq.”}}}}}

Baghdad Bob perhaps? Oh and do you know what the “additional views section” is for Goldielox?

Google “boogie to Baghdad” and see what you come up with.

By getalife

October 26, 2007 3:37 PM | Link to this

“Attack Iran and you attack Russia”.

A vote for Rudy with his neocon advisors is a vote for WWIII.

By anti-moonbat betty

October 26, 2007 3:38 PM | Link to this

The Democratic Party doesn’t hypocritically preach family values, like your closet homo party, you sick, deranged, idiot.

They drive around drunk with pride and if you don’t watch out for them, they’ll run over you.

They don’t hide things in their closet, they wear it on their sleeve, you sick deranged, idiot.

By getalife

October 26, 2007 3:39 PM | Link to this

Repugs don’t like me ‘cause I’m gay.

What I do with my lover is nobody’s business.

Homophobes.

Geez.

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 3:39 PM | Link to this

Right Wing Enraged: Laura Bush Is A ‘Butt-Kisser’ For Wearing Headscarf In Mideast

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 3:41 PM | Link to this

(m)ental (m)idget,

FairTax. Then you even get to tax the wealthy the most, regardless of their income.

Buy Danish,

The hard to believe part is that there was a well written paragraph at PMSNBC.

By anna

October 26, 2007 3:42 PM | Link to this

Moonbat Betty (kudos to the really lame name by the way),

In the future, please try and use the English language correctly because No I did not “Drove off” any bridges recently.

Kisses, Anna

By Gonna Love 08

October 26, 2007 3:43 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

Nope i went to public school in Texas before Dubya took over as Gov and wrecked our education system that Ann Richards spent a long time cleaning up… After watching him strut around the ballpark claiming to be the majority owner of our ball club (he owned 1%) i knew then i didnt need higher education to outdue that Harvard/Yale grad…

By AmVet

October 26, 2007 3:44 PM | Link to this

Good Friday afternoon, all.

From today’s liberal rag.

The Vent: Say what you want about Bush, he’s still the best court-appointed president we’ve ever had.

Funny but true.

And this:

{WASHINGTON — Republican strategists hope a volatile electorate will save the party from congressional losses in 2008 that appear possible due to a string of setbacks.}

{Democrats are holding clear edges in raising money, limiting retirements and deflecting public anger.}

{In the latest sign, the party’s House campaign committee said Wednesday it has about $25 million to spend on targeted races next year; its Republican counterpart is in debt.}

The GOP lost 30 House seats last November and are desperate to try and avoid a repeat performance.

But I believe the country is so fed up with the neo-cons, the Party of Lincoln will be lucky to keep the bloodletting to a minimum.

And the lingering stench of Abramoff doesn’t help.

Closer to home:

We’ll see if Larry, Moe and Curly, I mean, Charlie, Bob and Sonny can actually accomplish something of great import regarding water rights and consumption in the Southeast, but apparently their past meetings have been comprised of little more than useless rhetoric and intransigence.

That sounds vaguely familiar, doesn’t it?

Did I miss the memo or is this just the Republican Party’s modus operandi?

By Goldie

October 26, 2007 3:45 PM | Link to this

Apock-of-lips, And I apologize for not hating on Americans who don’t share my religious views.

By The Apocalypse

October 26, 2007 3:45 PM | Link to this

IN THE NEWS,

Since you’re to much of a coward to say how you feel, I’ll just assume that you agree with your post release. Why do you call L.Bush a butt kisser for respecting the tradition of that god awful region? Did you call Clinton a butt kisser when she talked “black” in Selma,AL last year? I’ll bet you didn’t.

By Buy Danish

October 26, 2007 3:48 PM | Link to this

{{{By anti-moonbat betty

October 26, 2007 3:38 PM

They don’t hide things in their closet, they wear it on their sleeve, you sick deranged, idiot.}}}

No kidding!!! Some of them give new meaning to the word “pride”.

Look at what a great job they do of it too, especially for the little children they care so much about.

By @@

October 26, 2007 3:48 PM | Link to this

Danish:

Unlike you, I’m not a history buff but watching Chavez in Venezuela has been a rude awakening for me.

Too often the leftists have claimed that Bush’s creation of a common enemy is what leads to fascist rule. But it was BIN LADEN and AL QAEDA who declared themselves our enemy long before Bush took office.

Nope…I’ve visited websites of Anti-capitalists and those people, like Chavez, are what creates a fascist leader. They’re violent in their pursuits as they were in Georgetown recently.

Champions of the poor and disenfranchised will cultivate a mindset within the populace that a person NEEDS government assistance to succeed. THEIR common enemy are the producers of income. Once they’ve convinced people with their propoganda, the reaping begins. The leader will begin to confiscate money and property in the interest of ALL like Chavez is doing now.

When the money makers begin to exit as they’re doing in Venezuela the people are left only with what the government can provide based on the miniscule income of those that are left and the cycle begins anew.

The poor revolt and the government shuts them down. Rewrites the constitution allowing the paranoid leader to rule till death like Chavez has or is attempting to do.

I haven’t checked in on Chavez lately. I’ll have to do that soon.

By The Apocalypse

October 26, 2007 3:53 PM | Link to this

Goldie,

I accept your apology. Hopefully, when you die, you will go where you are evidently dying to go.

By The Apocalypse

October 26, 2007 3:56 PM | Link to this

World peace will only be achieved when we are rid of that satanic religion called Islam. The establishment of a christian and democratic government in that region will bring happiness for everyone.

By The Watcher

October 26, 2007 3:58 PM | Link to this

Somebody couldn’t get a foursome today.

By Goldie

October 26, 2007 4:00 PM | Link to this

There’s beaucoups evidence that Dubya ignored any reports which stated that Saddam Hussein was no “ally to Al-Qaida”, because then how could he ever convince America that Iraq was responsible for Sept.11th??? He had to keep on lying to America instead… you war-mongering Repugnants are OVER in America in ‘08!

[Bin] Ladin generally opposed collaboration [with Baghdad]. (p. 65)— According to debriefs of multiple detainees — including Saddam Hussein and former Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz — and capture documents, Saddam did not trust al-Qa’ida or any other radical Islamist group and did not want to cooperate with them. (p. 67)— Aziz underscored Saddam’s distrust of Islamic extremists like bin Ladin, stating that when the Iraqi regime started to see evidence that Wahabists had come to Iraq, “the Iraqi regime issued a decree aggressively outlawing Wahabism in Iraq and threatening offenders with execution.” (p. 67)

By Buy Danish

October 26, 2007 4:01 PM | Link to this

@@,

While you’re checking up on Chavez, you may want to take a look at Argentina too which appears ready to elect a woman President, Cristina Fernadez.

On the energy front, Fernandez has signaled she will put more power plants online and continue her husband’s close alliances with socialist President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela—a source of petrodollar largesse—and with leftist Evo Morales of Bolivia, which exports natural gas to Argentina.

Isn’t that great!

By Cindy

October 26, 2007 4:01 PM | Link to this

AmVet,

I had to wince reading your quote “the party of Lincoln”. His party is gone; dead. In its place is nothing resembling the old Republican party. When Lincoln was in the Republican party, it was the progressive party.

I am extremely happy to see that more and more traditional Republicans are trying to wrestle the Republican party from the Neocons.

By getalife

October 26, 2007 4:02 PM | Link to this

The Watcher,

Funny you should mention a foursome.

I’m going to have one with a black, latin, and asian guy tonight.

You must have ESP or something.

Wow.

By Buy Danish

October 26, 2007 4:05 PM | Link to this

Happy Birthday Hillary Clinton!

One thing about Bill and Hill - they sure have perfected the art of surrounding themselves with “professional liars”.

I so look forward to more of the same.

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 4:07 PM | Link to this

A pack o lips

being called a coward by a war supporter who is behind a keyboard and not in a foxhole is pretty damn funny.

by the way, I KNOW WHO YOU ARE! (all of you)

Such fun in weeks to come!

Go Dawgs!

By Goldie

October 26, 2007 4:07 PM | Link to this

getalife,

I thought I was the only homo here! I’m getting together later with my girlfriend and we’re going to incorporate my dog into the act. Beastiality really isn’t that bad. The repugnants are just trying to stop us from enjoying our lifestyles.

Happy screwing.

By Goldie

October 26, 2007 4:11 PM | Link to this

Even the few remaining true conservatives in America know that Dubya and Cheney ARE LIARS.

From the friggin’ Cato Institute, no less:

But the administration’s strongest sound-bite on Iraq is also its weakest argument for war. The idea that Saddam Hussein would trust Al Qaeda enough to give Al Qaeda operatives chemical or biological weapons — and trust them to keep quiet about it — is simply not plausible.— Bin Laden, who views the rigid Saudi theocracy as insufficiently Islamic, has long considered Saddam Hussein an infidel enemy. Before Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, Bin Laden warned publicly that the Iraqi dictator had designs on conquering Saudi Arabia. When Iraq invaded Kuwait, Bin Laden offered to assemble his mujahedeen to battle Hussein and protect the Arabian peninsula.

Even the true conservatives know that Bush has played right into the hands of Al-Qaida and has enabled the terrorists to grow exponentially around the world:

Al Qaeda wants the Hussein regime overthrown. There’s also good reason to believe they want to incite a U.S. invasion of Iraq to draw new recruits into the Al Qaeda campaign against a so-called “Crusader”-Israeli alliance aimed at conquering the Middle East. Provoking a crackdown by the enemy has been a key terrorist strategy for as long as there have been terrorists.

Too bad the Repug Party tied its boat to the Neo-cons and will pay dearly for it in ‘08!

By The Apocalypse

October 26, 2007 4:13 PM | Link to this

IN THE NEWS,

Who am I genius? Lets start the gussing game, I’ll go first: You also use RE and Right wing nut job in full glory IDs. You may also be, dare I say: getalife!

Go Gators!

By Goldie

October 26, 2007 4:16 PM | Link to this

So much hatin’ on Americans from the Neo-con trolls today… it’s obvious that too many staff members at Ga. Regional have been laid off this year.

By Analchord

October 26, 2007 4:17 PM | Link to this

Good job, today bloggers!

Blog on, Garth.

By AmVet

October 26, 2007 4:18 PM | Link to this

Cindy, trust me I too winced when I wrote it.

Just like the millionaire prima donnas and the billionaire owners have hijacked pro baseball in this country, some of us more naive and loyal fans long for a day when the greatest traditions of the game are restored and the game is played by men who love the game more than the money and act accordingly.

And I still have hope that the GOP can someday reinvent itself and become a sane, healthy political party that gives us men of vision, courage and true leadership, like Lincoln.

I know - you’re probably thinking man, what a dreamer! And I can’t disagree, but it is good to have a dream, no?

By The Apocalypse

October 26, 2007 4:21 PM | Link to this

The Apocalypse is over for today folks.

Save your idiotic responses for another time. Meanwhile,I will be continuing to perform my liberal duties. I’m not a liberal(thank God), but I’m going to attempt to be one over the weekend: I’m going to kill innocent babies, brainwash blacks, increase taxes, and release all violent criminals. Thank you for your time.

By IN THE NEWS

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

it don’t take much “gussing”

you are losing your touch.

you are much more obvious the angrier you get.

you are having more trouble keeping the personalities apart

be carefull, cause soon everybody will see it.

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 4:24 PM | Link to this

4:21 too many clues

By getalife

October 26, 2007 4:28 PM | Link to this

doomed,

Stop wanking like you said you would.

Geaux Tigers!

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 4:38 PM | Link to this

Oil Hits New High… Dollar Hits New Low

By Cindy

October 26, 2007 4:39 PM | Link to this

AmVet, What do we become when we have no dreams?

By IN THE NEWS

October 26, 2007 4:40 PM | Link to this

Before Fires, Bush Cut Fire Preparedness Budgets, Outsourced Forest Service Work

By Luckoduh

October 26, 2007 4:42 PM | Link to this

{{{{By mm October 26, 2007 2:44 PM A person making $300,000 a year would only have to pay an extra $4,000 in taxes. Wow, that sounds so unfair.}}}}

M is for moron: A 4% surcharge on $300,000 would be $12,000, dumbas-s.

Did you go to the same public school as RE did?

~~~~~

{{{{By Gonna Hate 08 October 26, 2007 3:15 PM Luckodumb, Here is a reason why Rice is hated: As you can see she has NO diplomatic skills. What has she accomplished since she became Secratary of State?}}}}

I know! Aren’t those people just so stupid?

I’m with you, I think this “idiot woman” should just ignore Iran, just like Madeline Al”bright” did with Al Qaeda.

That worked out really well for the United States.

Or maybe we could surrender to Iran and be their friends, no?

By AmVet

October 26, 2007 4:49 PM | Link to this

TRUMP: Well, I think you have different people. I think Rudy would do a very good job. He would be much more militant. I think Hillary would have — Hillary’s always surrounded herself with very good people. I think Hillary would do a good job. I think Mitt Romney would be very good.

I think different people for different reasons could do the job, but the key is they have to get the right people to negotiate. We have a bunch of third rate people doing our negotiating for us. We have diplomats nobody ever heard of and they’re not negotiators.

BLITZER: Well, you have Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today; she rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange at 9:30 this morning.

TRUMP: Give me a break. You think she’s a negotiator? She’s a wonderful woman, a lovely woman. I tell the story, she waves. She waves hello. Has she made one deal? What has she done? Has she done one thing since she’s been in that position? Not one. So it’s very, very sad. The whole thing with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is very sad.

BLITZER: Is there anybody in the current Bush administration that you think is qualified to make a deal?

TRUMP: There are many — not many people, but there are people within this country that are qualified that could do a great job of negotiating. And we don’t use our best people. That’s the problem we have in this country. They use their best people and they’re against amateurs. That’s why people are talking about China. They’re talking about India, they’re not talking about the United States anymore.

BLITZER: Hugo Chavez, the leader of Venezuela, is going to be here in New York as well. Remember, last year when he Spoke at the U.N. general assembly he referred to President Bush as the devil. What do you make of this guy, Hugo Chavez?

TRUMP: Well, he’s obviously very cunning and he’s obviously — seems to be a lot smarter than our president. Because he’s killing him in every way. I mean he’s beating our president at every step of the game, giving out his free oil to a family in the Midwest who’s having a hard time paying for their oil. I mean this guy is some great promoter.

By @@

October 26, 2007 4:50 PM | Link to this

Man that Breitbart article on Argentina’s Kirchner sounds eerily similar to Hillary Clinton. She’s even compared to Hillary.

Kirschner’s gonna continue her husband’s legacy? Isn’t that what put the people in the poorhouse to begin with? A failed economy?

Now outside investors are hesitating due to a lack of confidence in Argentina’s ability to bounce back?

Poor people scribbling notes of desperation and handing them to her? She hands them off to her aides making no immediate promises. Yet people seem to believe she will respond.

My favorite part…In an interview with a pro-government journalist broadcast Wednesday on La Red radio, Fernandez didn’t announce any specific proposals and brushed off comparisons to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

I still haven’t seen any specifics from Hillary as to how she plans to support HER proposals either. Arkansa’s “Hope” won’t buy you much but if it springs eternal Hillary’s ambitions will be satisfied.

Useful tools for Hillary.

By Luckoduh

October 26, 2007 4:51 PM | Link to this

Good news on the America front:

{{{{But it’s not as damning as this 2003 post from economist/blogger Brad DeLong, a liberal who worked on the task force:}}}}

{{{{My two cents’ worth—and I think it is the two cents’ worth of everybody who worked for the Clinton Administration health care reform effort of 1993-1994—is that Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far away from the White House for the rest of her life. Heading up health-care reform was the only major administrative job she has ever tried to do. And she was a complete flop at it. She had neither the grasp of policy substance, the managerial skills, nor the political smarts to do the job she was then given. And she wasn’t smart enough to realize that she was in over her head and had to get out of the Health Care Czar role quickly… .}}}}

{{{{Hillary Rodham Clinton has already flopped as a senior administrative official in the executive branch—the equivalent of an Undersecretary. Perhaps she will make a good senator. But there is no reason to think that she would be anything but an abysmal president.}}}}

{{{{The overall tone of the Times story is much less hard-hitting than this—indeed, we would go so far as to describe it as positive. It’s a bit reminiscent of the early coverage of the John Kerry campaign, which painted him as a war hero. Lulled into complacency by this simplistic puffery, the Kerry campaign had no idea how to respond when the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth exposed the complexity of Kerry’s actual Vietnam record. It’s quite possible something similar will happen to Mrs. Clinton by next summer.}}}}

Hat tip, Taranto.

By next summer incompetence will be the least of her worries.

Hahahahahaha.

By getalife

October 26, 2007 4:59 PM | Link to this

Fema thinks we are all gullible wingnuts holding fake press conference.

Pathetic.

“What do we become when we have no dreams?”

Haters like the wingnuts who have to hate others to be happy.

No thanks, I will dream for a government that is not broken and the Clintons will get back to where we were before the w disaster.

Clintons 08 to clean up the bushies mess again!

By @@

October 26, 2007 5:03 PM | Link to this

:-OMG, AmVet is helping The Donald promote Chavez as cunning…

People don't know what to expect regarding private property, monetary policy and the legal framework,'' said Ana Maria Di Leo, an economist at VenEconomia, a research company in Caracas.All this uncertainty is leading people to seek refuge in the dollar.”

You’re easily duped aren’t you AmVet? A useful tool…

By AmVet

October 26, 2007 5:15 PM | Link to this

Leave it to the least observant to yet again miss the salient points, in this case that neer-do-well Trump’s that Condi Rice is completely useless as a negotiator and Bush lacks the intelligent to be found in a common ruthless thug.

If these neo-cons were at the watch during the Titanic’s maiden voyage, they would probably say, “Wow! Look at those pretty shades of blue and white on that BIG iceberg!”

By getalife

October 26, 2007 5:17 PM | Link to this

More like useful fool:

Risk of World War III? Music to Mr. Chávez’s Ears

w is helping him complete his agenda and $100 oil is giving him more billions and power.

By @@

October 26, 2007 5:21 PM | Link to this

(((The reform plan, which would implement “economic socialism,” would also widen the president’s decision-making powers regarding military affairs, the national reserves and monetary policy.)))

(((The president’s opponents accuse Chavez, who was first elected in 1998, of seeking to follow in the footsteps of his mentor, Cuban leader Fidel Castro, by trying to stay in power forever through the new constitution.)))

(((The current constitution, which was approved under Chavez in 1999, allows only two successive presidential terms.)))

(((Thousands of university students marched to the National Assembly this week to demand that the referendum be postponed until at least February to allow more time for debate among the population. But their request was rejected by the parliament.)))

(((“They arrived too late,” said National Assembly deputy leader Desiree Santos.)))

Now see how it works in Venezuela?

Whoops, sorry too late.

Fortunately, here in America, there’s plenty of time to stop Hillary’s march towards socialist tyrrany.

By getalife

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

Hell, Condi could not negotiate for other countries to sanction Iran.

We are on our own with Iran.

She is miserable failure like the rest of them.

If they any patriotism for their country, they would resign in disgrace.

By Paul

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

Little drunken bush continues to push for war w Iran. Be interesting if Iran sends some troops against our paper tigers.

It’s almost time for you Repug wimps to leave your full-time jobs on this blog and head for your big guy sports bars. Don’t forget your gangsta clothes and caps and shaved heads…and tough-talk.

By Midori

October 26, 2007 5:24 PM | Link to this

Getalife,

now we know what @@, Dusty, RW and BD’s day jobs are: fake FEMA reporters.

By @@

October 26, 2007 5:29 PM | Link to this

AmVet:

You and The Donald used Hugo to “trump” Bush’s intelligence. Although you may be a big fan of socialism and Hugo, many in his country are not.

Why don’t you move there and give him the support he needs. You’re always out earning money to support the war. Go and support Hugo’s war against his own people why don’tcha.

BTW, would your admiration for Chavez have anything to do with the similarities in your personas…Huge/Hugo?

Huge, the blog terrorist!!!!! “No…no it’s not me, Huge, it’s that other guy Andy!!!”

Phpppbbbbbtt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By getalife

October 26, 2007 5:33 PM | Link to this

Midori,

Yes, I watched that report and thought they would participate.

A fake news conference, wow. Our governments thinks the media and the people are as gullible as those wingnuts.

Unbelievable.

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 5:37 PM | Link to this

{{{{{{By IN THE NEWS October 26, 2007 4:07 PM | Link to this by the way, I KNOW WHO YOU ARE! (all of you) Such fun in weeks to come!}}}}}

Sound familiar to anybody?

By @@

October 26, 2007 5:41 PM | Link to this

Pssssttt Getalife, Midori:

Have you guys heard from Jason Leopold lately?

By getalife

October 26, 2007 5:41 PM | Link to this

RW,

If you are doing nothing wrong, you should not worry about it.

Hiding much?

By getalife

October 26, 2007 5:47 PM | Link to this

@@,

Yes, he is still writing and more credible than Novak.

By Midori

October 26, 2007 5:50 PM | Link to this

PSSSST, @@,

Have you heard from Jeff Gannon lately???

Maybe he’s busy doing a threesome, huh?

So THAT’s where he develops his “softball” questions, huh?

By Midori

October 26, 2007 5:54 PM | Link to this

heck, Peter Pan is more credible than Novak.

By getalife

October 26, 2007 5:55 PM | Link to this

I wonder if Gannon was in that fema fake news conference.

Novak committed treason publishing her outing ya know.

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 6:03 PM | Link to this

getalife,

David Corn was the first “journalist” that “outed” her.

She and her pimp, Joe, are the ones that should be tried for treason.

By Butch

October 26, 2007 6:07 PM | Link to this

Can’t afford the war? Another generation of woulded soldiers to take care of? Where in the crap do you people come from? UNBELIEVEABLE!!!! This Nation was built on mans sacrifices to protect our FREEDOM. It’s plain to see sacrifice is not in the liberal lefts vocabulary. I am stunned when I hear this hand-wringing thought process. Amazing.

By Butch

October 26, 2007 6:07 PM | Link to this

Can’t afford the war? Another generation of woulded soldiers to take care of? Where in the crap do you people come from? UNBELIEVEABLE!!!! This Nation was built on mans sacrifices to protect our FREEDOM. It’s plain to see sacrifice is not in the liberal lefts vocabulary. I am stunned when I hear this hand-wringing thought process. Amazing.

By getalife

October 26, 2007 6:08 PM | Link to this

RW,

I doubt you have seen the damage report from the CIA but I would guess Novak screwed up many operations including Iranian nukes.

Probably some CIA agents killed.

That is treason pure and simple.

By Gonna Love 08

October 26, 2007 6:09 PM | Link to this

Luckodumb,

I see you didnt display any great achievements or any achievements that Condi has done for our great country. Oh Madeline Albright ignored Al-Queda eh…HMMMM if im not mistaken the first thing Dubya was told when he took office was Al-Queda was a major threat to this country, and in August 01 was given a PDB with the title “Al-Queda to strike the US using airplanes”. Instead of following up on the report he was to busy clearing brush for the press.. So who really ignored Al-Queda????????

By @@

October 26, 2007 6:10 PM | Link to this

Psssstttt Midori:

In all honesty I have no idea who Jeff Gannon is. I’ve seen his name mentioned by leftists here.

Is he a journalist, a gay man?/prostitute? or all three?

Does he offend you in some way? and if so…in what way?

By getalife

October 26, 2007 6:13 PM | Link to this

Hey Butch,

You live in Texas?

By AmVet

October 26, 2007 6:14 PM | Link to this

Laughable histrionics and a total lack of comprehension skills at 5:29 aside, I’m not sure what else to do to but state the ultra obvious - NO ONE, not Trump, myself or anybody else here, that I’m aware of, “are big fans of socialism and Hugo”.

Perhaps another language might work better? Because standard written English seems to go well beyond someone’s grasp.

Trump posits an opinion that countless Americans agree with - our President is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Arguably by Presidential standards at least. And that his Texas crony, Dr. Rice, is as equally ineffective in her role.

And based on the “results” over the past few years, I and much of the nation, simply concur.

And the fact that the undeniably brilliant and successful negotiator, Mr. Trump says that a dictator from an impoverished third world country is a lot smarter than the leader of the free world, merely puts it in perspective.

By Luckoduh

October 26, 2007 6:17 PM | Link to this

((((Polls still show a hangover from November 2006, with Democrats having an advantage. But history suggests that may not hold up. Winning control of Congress doesn’t necessarily signify much about the next presidential contest. The last time Congress flipped was 1994—and that GOP sweep was followed by a Bill Clinton victory in 1996. Democrats took back the Senate (and thus control of both bodies of Congress) in 1986, and George H.W. Bush won easily in 1988. Voters like checks and balances.}}}}

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 6:17 PM | Link to this

getalife,

She let her pimp write an Op-Ed in the New York Times six months after she sent him to sip tea in Niger and openly contributed to the Kerry campaign while her pimp was working for Kerry.

Yes, it should be treason, but since Jane Fonda isn’t swinging from a rope it doesn’t appear to be a concern in this country anymore. Val and Joe will get to happily yammer on while saps like you lick it up and never have to worry about facing the charges.

By getalife

October 26, 2007 6:19 PM | Link to this

@@,

Google him, it is an interesting story.

By anti-Butch

October 26, 2007 6:22 PM | Link to this

Do you know how to read moron? It’s plain to see that sense is not found in the neo-con vocabulary.

It’s also plain to see that neo-cons don’t know simple economics either. We are borrowing money for the war from China. China, you idiot, think about it if you are capable of thought.

Bush and Cheney are planning for another war, when they have two unfinished ones, that are going really bad, they obviously aren’t the smartest war planners, it’s plain to see that neo-cons are completely absurd, unrealistic, and delusional psychopaths.

We come from a place called REASON. Where the hell do you come from?

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 6:27 PM | Link to this

GL08,

Exaggerate much? Bin Laden Determined To Strike in US has now morphed into “Al-Queda to strike the US using airplanes”?????

I went through it line by line ages ago here.

That site of mine, much like nearly every blog or website in the entire world, has a site visit counter on it.

For some reason there are idiots here that think that’s a nefarious thing although they link to dozens of sites a day that also have site visit counters.

By Luckoduh

October 26, 2007 6:28 PM | Link to this

{{{{By Gonna Hate 08 October 26, 2007 6:09 PM Luckodumb, I see you didnt display any great achievements or any achievements that Condi has done for our great country. Oh Madeline Albright ignored Al-Queda eh…HMMMM if im not mistaken the first thing Dubya was told when he took office was Al-Queda was a major threat to this country, and in August 01 was given a PDB with the title “Al-Queda to strike the US using airplanes”. Instead of following up on the report he was to busy clearing brush for the press.. So who really ignored Al-Queda???}}}}

Yes, I’m sure in your little fairy, uh, tale world the planning for 9/11 took place the day after George Bush took office, didn’t it?

{{{{From 1989 through March 1991, the period of German reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, Ms. Rice served in the Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender — Integrated Training in the Military.}}}}

Not only did she help take out the Soviet Union, now she’s kicking al Qaeda’s as-s all over the Middle East.

My Lord, you liberals are stupid.

By getalife

October 26, 2007 6:29 PM | Link to this

RW,

She did not send him, her boss did but don’t let the facts get in the way of your hatred.

Your right though, treason for the ones who outed her will never face charges. The damage report from the CIA will come out later and then you will spin it another way.

By Gonna Love 08

October 26, 2007 6:30 PM | Link to this

I exaggerate like Luckdumb does. Doesnt matter the title. Point is Dubya was told the day he took over about the threat of Al-Queda and chose to ignore it…

By AmVet

October 26, 2007 6:33 PM | Link to this

Support for Rudy Giuliani represents a return to liberal Republicanism that would strip the GOP of its hard-won progress on moral, social and cultural issues, warns Pat Buchanan.

In his new column “Conservatism is a Tower of Babel,” the GOP strategist and one-time presidential candidate examines Giuliani’s political record, concluding that the former New York City mayor and federal prosecutor is certifiably a liberal Rockefeller Republican.

He describes Giuliani as a, “McGovernite in 1972 [who] boasted in the campaign of 1993 that he would ‘rekindle the Rockefeller-Javits-Lefkowitz tradition’ of New York’s GOP and ‘produce the kind of change New York City saw with … John Lindsay.’ ”

Buchanan points out that Giuliani ran on the Liberal Party ticket and supported Mario Cuomo in 1994.

“Pro-abortion, anti-gun, again and again he strutted up Fifth Avenue in the June Gay Pride parade and turned the Big Apple into a sanctuary for illegal aliens,” Buchanan writes. “While Ward Connerly goes state to state to end reverse discrimination, Rudy is an affirmative-action man.”

Rudy, Buchanan notes, has attracted “those inveterate opportunists, who see in Giuliani their last hope of redemption for their cakewalk war and their best hope for a long war against Islamo-fascism.”

Buchanan maintains that a Giuliani presidency would represent a return and a “final triumph of the Republicanism that conservatives went into politics to purge from power. A Giuliani presidency would represent repudiation by the party of the moral, social and cultural content that with anti-communism once separated it from liberal Democrats and defined it as an institution.

“Rudy offers the right the ultimate Faustian bargain,” writes Buchanan. “Retention of power at the price of one’s soul.”

By getalife

October 26, 2007 6:34 PM | Link to this

w spewed you covered your as-s now and went on a coke binge.

By Luckoduh

October 26, 2007 6:35 PM | Link to this

{{{{By AmVet October 26, 2007 6:14 PM Trump posits an opinion that countless Americans agree with - our President is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Arguably by Presidential standards at least. And that his Texas crony, Dr. Rice, is as equally ineffective in her role.}}}}

Hahahahaha:

{{{{Born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, Ms. Rice earned her bachelor’s degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her master’s from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, the University of Notre Dame in 1995, the National Defense University in 2002, the Mississippi College School of Law in 2003, the University of Louisville and Michigan State University in 2004.}}}}

{{{{She was a member of the boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors. She was a Founding Board member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California and was Vice President of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula . In addition, her past board service has encompassed such organizations as Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Rand Corporation, the National Council for Soviet and East European Studies, the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED, public broadcasting for San Francisco.}}}}

Tell us more, genius DimVet, tell us more.

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 6:36 PM | Link to this

RICHARD CLARKE: Actually, I’ve got about seven points, let me just go through them quickly. Um, the first point, I think the overall point is, there was no plan on Al Qaeda that was passed from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration.

By AmVet

October 26, 2007 6:38 PM | Link to this

There are 3 choices in dealing with Iran. We can engage them. We can isolate them. Or we can attack them.

These sanctions could be part of any of the 3 strategies. The sanctions themselves can only be evaluated within the context of the overall policy. Currently, the administration has chosen a path of isolation with the threat of an attack.

This is the wrong strategy. The Bush-Cheney Administration’s failure to use diplomacy in conjunction with these sanctions is unlikely to change Iran’s behavior.

The AP reported that Condoleezza Rice says Washington remains committed to “a diplomatic solution” and open to negotiations with Iran. Yet the Bush Administration refuses to speak with Iran unless the Iranians pre-emptively surrender their interests. This is not likely to happen, and the Administration will be left with two options: a nuclear Iran or war.

Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) stated yesterday:

“Unilateral sanctions rarely, ever work…I just don’t think the unilateral approach and giving war speeches helps the situation. It will just drive the Iranians closer together…It escalates the danger of a military confrontation.”

Diplomacy is about carrots and sticks. Unfortunately, the Administration seems to believe it only has sticks. They have continued their saber-rattling, and without diplomacy, the announced sanctions only serve to escalate the tensions between the U.S. and Iran.

By rushncap

October 26, 2007 6:41 PM | Link to this

Wow, I’m missing a lot today. @@ pretending to not know Jeff Gannon, RW blowing a gasket I didn’t even know he had…. so much to catch up on.

By getalife

October 26, 2007 6:43 PM | Link to this

About that fake fema news conference:

The story is spreading like… well, you know.

The Associated Press:

“One way to get decent coverage in this rough-and-tumble city is to arrange to have your own employees interrogate you at your news conference.

That would seem to be the strategy of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, much maligned for its sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina over two years ago.”

E&P:

“It appears the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has found the answer to nosey reporters in the two years since Hurricane Katrina: have a press conference and have your own people ask the questions.”

Wonkette:

“Neat trick! Next time, though, you might want to ring up Jeff Gannon. He’s cheap! And that will free up the staff to concentrate on more important duties, like going on Starbucks runs and arranging dramatically backlit photo-ops.”

Rolling Stone:

“Somebody needs to be fired for this.”

By Luckoduh

October 26, 2007 6:47 PM | Link to this

{{{{By AmVet October 26, 2007 6:38 PM Diplomacy is about carrots and sticks. Unfortunately, the Administration seems to believe it only has sticks. They have continued their saber-rattling, and without diplomacy, the announced sanctions only serve to escalate the tensions between the U.S. and Iran.}}}}

Well, well, aren’t we just so lucky tonite to have the code pinkos giving us pointers on foreign policy, quite everybody, I don’t want to miss a word!

Geez, the audacity, the last few fiascos the democrats authored resulted in a blown up Chinese Embassy, the once proud United States army fleeing from Somalia and 3 million dead Vietnamese and Cambodian civilians.

It’s like thanks, but no thanks.

We got it.

With friends like you who needs enemies?

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 6:48 PM | Link to this

Speaking of saber rattling

By AmVet

October 26, 2007 6:53 PM | Link to this

Would someone please send Andy the link to the definition of the word EFFECTIVE? Thank you in advance.

He seems terribly confused and I am tired of providing him a free education in language arts.

Do all of the neo-cons here have this same major problem - a basic incapacity to read and understand standard written English?

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 6:57 PM | Link to this

rushncap,

If I was any more peaceful and serene a gaggle of you moonbat(ic)s® would swarm in and demand that nourishment be withheld until I died.

By @@

October 26, 2007 6:58 PM | Link to this

AmVet:

It’s the nuance “nancy”.

I wouldn’t use a thief like Chavez to make a political point. I have higher standards than that.

The guy steals the oil fields right out from under the companies who paid for their development. What does Hugo do after that? He uses his people’s resources to launch an anti-American agenda through socialist propoganda.

You and Donald can choose the methods you respect as intelligent and I’ll choose mine.

I wonder how The Donald would feel if he owned an oil field in Venezuela prior to Hugo’s rise to power? Would have been another one of Donald’s many failed endeavors.

By Buy Danish

October 26, 2007 7:03 PM | Link to this

{{{He seems terribly confused and I am tired of providing him a free education in language arts.}}

This, coming from the Biggest Bloviating Blowhard of them all.

By Luckoduh

October 26, 2007 7:07 PM | Link to this

{{{{By AmVet October 26, 2007 6:53 PM Would someone please send Andy the link to the definition of the word EFFECTIVE?}}}}

I was willing to let this go but now we’re just going to have to lecture you.

“Effective” diplomacy via Conservatism: Eliminate the Soviet Union and their nuclear threat allowing the next lib president to claim “economic success” by cutting the defense budget to the bone.

You’re right, DimVet, someone is going to have to explain your definition of “effective” to me.

Let’s revisit an earlier quote from “Teach:”

{{{{They have continued their saber-rattling, and without diplomacy, the announced sanctions only serve to escalate the tensions between the U.S. and Iran.}}}}

Having the 3rd Infantry Division residing on your Eastern border and the 10th Mountain division occupying your western frontier, for some reason, I can’t blame the Iranians, the same country that has attacked us since 1979, for being “on edge.”

Good for us.

By RW-(the original)

October 26, 2007 7:07 PM | Link to this

Blowhard,

Generally speaking when one wades into one of your posts they find their head bouncing off the desk in sheer boredom.

I keep a pillow-like stack of mousepads handy.

However as a practical matter you go from calling the President stupid in one sentence and go on to say Dr. Rice is EQUALLY ineffective. So one has to decide if you meant to say ineffective in both cases or stupid in both cases. The third option is that you have no idea how to structure a comparative.

By @@

October 26, 2007 7:08 PM | Link to this

Getalife:

If I google Jeff Gannon and discover some sexual escapades it shouldn’t be of any concern to me. Right?

I’m really not interested in who Jeff Gannon is.

Are you in the mood to talk dirty or something?

I only do that when rushncap seeks to engage and even then I worry about what I might be doing to the poor reclusive teaching assistant who spends countless hours in the closet.

I obviously wear him out. It doesn’t take much before he declares himself impotent.

By getalife

October 26, 2007 7:13 PM | Link to this

“With friends like you who needs enemies?”

Yes, Putin is really warmongering isn’t he?

McOld said he looked into his eyes and seen KGB.

Not a peep from w about Putin.