Atlanta Opinion

By Luckoduh

February 7, 2008 8:03 AM | Link to this

So what did you pinkos do with Billy Klux?

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Since the Urinal only reports enemy propaganda designed to create American “atrocities,” please allow the Duh Report to bring you the evil deeds of the real terror masters:

{{{{Coalition Force Soldiers, working with intelligence from Iraqi Police in Northern Iraq, liberated two men locked inside a large storage container being used as a subterranean prison in the Al Jazeera desert near Samarra Feb. 4. Coalition Forces arrived at the prison site and found two men inside the buried container. After receiving medical attention at Forward Operating Base Brassfield-Mora near Samarra, the men were questioned. They said, while in captivity, there were up to nine other people held prisoner. The two men didn’t know what happened to the others, but mentioned five of them were from a Sons of Iraq group in Bayji.}}}}

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The libs weep and whine for the cut throat terrorists but do they ever cry for the truly oppressed?

{{{{A 37-year-old American businesswoman and married mother of three is seeking justice after she was thrown in jail by Saudi Arabia’s religious police for sitting with a male colleague at a Starbucks coffee shop in Riyadh.}}}}

{{{{Yara, who does not want her last name published for fear of retribution, was bruised and crying when she was freed from a day in prison after she was strip-searched, threatened and forced to sign false confessions by the Kingdom’s “Mutaween” police.}}}}

{{{{Her story offers a rare first-hand glimpse of the discrimination faced by women living in Saudi Arabia. In her first interview with the foreign press, Yara told The Times that she would remain in Saudi Arabia to challenge its harsh enforcement of conservative Islam rather than return to America.}}}}

Why bother taking on the toughies of the world when you can “bravely” dog America from the safety of her shores, eh, AJC?

Kowards.

By Luckoduh

February 7, 2008 8:06 AM | Link to this

{{{{“I think we will have a nominee sometime in the middle of March or April. But if we don’t, then we’re going to have to get the candidates together and make some kind of an arrangement,” said Howard “Screaming” Dean, Demokratic National KKKommittee chairman, who failed in his bid for the party’s nomination in 2004.}}}}

An arrangement?

Without the consent of the voters?

And what is he talking about, a nice janitor’s job at headquarters for Obama?

Or will these White Power demokrat bigots just throw him under the bus?

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{{{{McBushie is exactly what a GOP that treats the natural moral law as negotiable deserves. The natural law is the philosophical core of conservatism. Any party that abandons or downplays it becomes just another species of liberalism. Most “conservative” positions today are little more than the liberal positions of yesteryear, from Bill KKKlinton’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy to No Child Left Behind — a PC conservatism that Mitt Romney and McBushie perfectly embody.}}}}

{{{{If McBushie isn’t sitting on a three-legged stool, that’s because GOP activists threw it away a long time ago. They set up in its place a Big Tent and McBushie crawled into it. Their whining is a generation too late.}}}}

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{{{{The idea of a concession on national security by conservatives is especially troubling. After six years of blood and treasure, and with the counterinsurgency working, to consciously turn over Iraq to Ku Klux Rodham or Barack Obama … words fail.}}}}

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{{{{Ku Klux Rodham and Barack Obama agree on most policy issues, but that makes their rare differences all the more revealing. To wit, their running scrap over Mrs. KKKlinton’s “individual mandate” for health care, which Mr. Obama has now had the nerve to expose for its inevitable government coercion.}}}}

{{{{The news here is that all of this is being exposed now, and by a fellow Democrat. Many Americans are uncomfortable with the coercion of the mandate — and not all of them are Republicans. The California health-care overhaul was recently done in by liberals concerned about its consequences for the working poor.}}}}

Even the libs in Kalifornia don’t want government meddling in health care.

By RW-(the original)

February 7, 2008 8:07 AM | Link to this

This morning I’d like to officially come out as a selfish, preening know-it-all and general SOB.

Thanks for your attention.

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 8:08 AM | Link to this

A Democrat in the White House, with a strong Democratic majority in the House and the Senate. It�s the only thing that matters now � and if you don�t believe that, think long and hard about the alternative � because if that doesn�t give you nightmares, you obviously don�t understand what�s at stake.

By Luckoduh

February 7, 2008 8:09 AM | Link to this

{{{{The agency only used this technique of simulated drowning three times since 9/11, saving it for terror leaders who have posed the utmost threat to our security, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, mastermind of attack on the USS Cole, Abu Zubaydah, the brains behind the thwarted millennium attacks, and Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who directed 9/11 — as deserving a trio of barbarians as any waterboardist can imagine. From these brutes — and in the wink of an eye — Hayden reports that CIA got a quarter of all the human intelligence it obtained from 2002 to 2006. Now we also know that this impressive interrogation technique was undertaken not only with the knowledge of the Bush administration but also the knowledge of then House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and then ranking Senate Intelligence Committee member Jay Rockefeller.}}}}

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 8:09 AM | Link to this

The 50 Year Strategy: A New Progressive Era (No, Really!… Today’s progressives face a political opportunity as great as any seen since. The election of 2006 may well have marked the end of the conservative ascendancy that began with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. George W. Bush now has the potential to do what Herbert Hoover did in the 1920s�tarnish his party’s brand for a generation or more.)

By Luckoduh aka INTHENEWS

February 7, 2008 8:10 AM | Link to this

You can call me Andy. I’m sorry for posting all the slanted propaganda, but I have nothing else to do, since my insurance doesn’t cover my meds, so it’s only lithium for me these days.

By Glenn

February 7, 2008 8:12 AM | Link to this

Join the club.

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this

Please, somebody, help me find my integrity. I seem to have lost it in the Reagan years..

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 8:14 AM | Link to this

Wonkish Clinton may never match Obama’s soaring rhetoric about hope, but the media should not underestimate the strength of her campaign.

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 8:15 AM | Link to this

How Obama Could Create a Long-Term Democratic Majority

By Buy Danish

February 7, 2008 8:16 AM | Link to this

Ann Coulter makes me all hot and sweaty.

By @@

February 7, 2008 8:16 AM | Link to this

Hillary’s “wheel” of fortune could have used a vowel.

“E”.

Democrats are dull tools.

Hammer it home.

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 8:19 AM | Link to this

Dear Namejacker:

1: Awful early for your breakdown isn’t it?

2: With La’ Spears released there’s room for you.

3: See you wigged out last night too.

4; I appreciate those of sound mind who so readily recognize the childish handiwork of andyRBzellheadcase.

Jackie-poo, you always validate me.

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 8:21 AM | Link to this

The real story of the night, when you look at their rallies and their turn-out numbers, is that the Dems have two strong candidates either of whom could lead a united party to victory. Forget the gaseous platitudes: in Dem terms, their choice on Super Duper Tuesday was deciding which candidate was Super Duper and which was merely Super. Over on the GOP side, it was a choice between Weak & Divisive or Weaker & Unacceptable. Doesn’t bode well for November.

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 8:23 AM | Link to this

I’m so confused. I don’t know who I am anymore. Fox News, Bill O’Reilly, Rush, please…TELL ME WHAT TO THINK!!!

By Goldie

February 7, 2008 8:24 AM | Link to this

HA — I love this ‘toon, Lucko!

What should we think of Hillary and Bill mismanaging so many MILLIONS OF $$$ during this campaign, and what kind of budget consultants and finanical whizzes allowed this to happen???

Boo-hoo for Hillary…

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this

Courtesy of Kos.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith

Our ‘neoconservatives’ are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell. Edward Abbey

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

By God, Family & Country

February 7, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this

Guns, Gawd, and Government Raped By Corporate Criminals — that’s the country for me.

By RW-(the original)

February 7, 2008 8:30 AM | Link to this

Never served, never will. I prefer to have the children of the working poor die for my oil.

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 8:33 AM | Link to this

Basic Budget Training

How ‘bout that Bush budget! Fiscal conservative my @ss!

By RW-(the original)

February 7, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this

“The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself.”

“I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what’s moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves.”

“I’m the master of low expectations.”

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

Veterans have no legal right to specific types of medical care, the Bush administration argues in a lawsuit accusing the government of illegally denying mental health treatment to some troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

By God, Family & Country

February 7, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this

Does anyone outside of the old folks homes really use the word “pinko” anymore??

By NOW

February 7, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this

The National Organization of Women does not recognize the right of the American businesswoman Yara Doe to sit publicly among men in places where such practices are forbidden by law.

NOW also wishes to note that the nation in question was the home of fifteen of the nineteen all-male 9/11 hijackers. That nation is indisputably a paternalistic sovereign realm sustained by despotism supported and sustained by the Bush Administration.

NOW therefore regards Yara Doe as yet another tragic casualty of President Bush’s war.

By RW-(the original)

February 7, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this

I suddenly feel like a dinosaur, about to become extinct.

By Glenn

February 7, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

Welcome to the club.

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

Three Republican Candidates Awaken in a Secret Laboratory

By Glenn

February 7, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this

You’re doing God’s Work, Luckoduh, as usual, but I gotta hand it to the brainless Kosbot for posting that 8:39 link to the SFC bulletin on Bush screwing veterans. Thanks, ITN, really!

This situation is effing reprehensible, and the President is to be rebuked and denounced for it (or however one puts that in present-day vernacular; RW and I are dinos). The way the Executive is structured, the orders to screw the vets had to come directly from Bush in a face-to-face with his Attorney General (and Solictor General, as the case will go swiftly from 9th Circuit -> Appellate -> Sup. Ct.), the boss of the General Counsel of USDVA.

Bottom line is that the 9th will find for Plaintiffs, the vets. The simple rule of law is that the vets are being deprived of property without due process of law. The property is their possessory interest in the healthcare to which they are entitled (a textbook “entitlement”.)

Bush could wave his wand and make this all go away with the stroke of a pen, and he has control over the resources necessary to make it so. Like I say, this is effing reprehensible.

By Truthman

February 7, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this

Isn’t it just great how Lush and Vannity and Boredtz are turning on McCain for being too liberal?

How the jackals turn on their own!! know their time is coming to an end.

GOOD RIDDANCE!!!!!

Bwahahahahahaha

By Truthman

February 7, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

Isn�t it just great how Lush and Vannity and Boredtz are turning on McCain for being too liberal?

How the jackals turn on their own!! They know their time is coming to an end.

GOOD RIDDANCE!!!!!

Bwahahahahahaha

By Luckoduh

February 7, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

{{{{Some on the Right advise their readers and listeners to vote Democrat or sit home. My advice is exactly the opposite: Get off the couch and walk the walk for conservative candidates and officeholders who need all the help they can get defending free markets, free minds, and secure borders�no matter who takes the White House in November.}}}}

By Political Foreskin

February 7, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

Luckovich correctly depicts the fact that any Republican who would vote for McCain would never vote 4 any other GOP candidate.

O’billary landslide is inevitable, no matter how many cannons the right wing fires into the snowy hills.

Oh dont reach for that one, duhng, that’s WAY over your head.

Dream team. The only question is who will be prez. If it’s Obama, then expect a 16 year democrat white house dynasty because Hillary will win it easily in 8 years after obama’s 8 years.

Change. A zeitgeist shift is occurring B4 our eyes. Dittoheads will be assaulted in the streets like obvious gay men once were assaulted. That’s how badly the conservatives have ruined our country. People gonna be PO’d.

So never wear a grey or blue suit carrying a briefcase down a dark alley near where soccor moms or truckers frequent.

Look at the remnants of the conservative movement blogging here on this cartoon forum. Read Wooten today. Would you have believed that it was his authorship just six months ago? Look past his inexplicable change in style and wonder at his bewilderment. Change is not unstoppable. All the GOP has going 4 it is the syntactical rhyme of Obama and Osama. Yes, that’s enough 4 the pointed heads on this blog, but the GOP will not get 35% of the vote next november.

Justice. In my lifetime! Quantum change. Expect the fleeing pirates to rifle wall street, our treasury, and any big fat industry just sitting there real nice and pretty like.

By Truthman

February 7, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this

“MOBY DICK - 2008”

Starring:

Hillary Clinton as “The Whale”

Rush and Sean Vannity co-starring as Capt. Ahab.

John McCain as Ishmael.

Barack Obama as “The Preacher.”

and GWB as Queeg Queeg.

“Thar she blows!!” shout Rush and Vannity in unison. And lo! The mighty beast raised from the water like a white angel of death, destruction and universal health care!!

By Luckoduh

February 7, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this

{{{{One measure of his task is that more than 14.6 million Democrats went to the polls on Tuesday and only 9 million Republicans — indicating a vast enthusiasm gap between the parties.}}}}

How many of those 14.6 million were Republicans, democrats and Independents voting specifically against Ku Klux Rodham?

Duh.

Yes, dimwits, there is “change” in the air.

By getalife

February 7, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

Actually, she raised another 5 million on her site and has 20 million not spent.

She punked the media to match Obama’s funding.

Obama agreed to 1 out of 4 debates because he loses debates.

Don’t get punked by the RW media like Rush, they will fall in line behind McInsane for the Supreme Court openings.

She will win on superdelegates.

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

Imagine Barack Obama

By Luckoduh

February 7, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

Gee, I thought Republicans were the ones fighting each other and eating their own:

Michael Moore: Morality Prohibits Vote for Sen. Clinton

Bwa.

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this

AndyDUHZellRBHeadcase

Please enlighten us.

How many of those 14.6 million were Republicans, democrats and Independents?

Please remove number from rectum and post here!

(I may be wrong, you may have documentation on this, so let’s see it. I know 2 Obamacans, maybe you know a few too)

By Goldie

February 7, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this

Sen. Obama does not “lose debates”… his answers are both thoughtful and concise, as compared to Hillary who talks on and on for 15 mins. about anything from her standard stump speech. Also, how would a debate “loser” ever get selected for the Harvard Law Review???

By Goldie

February 7, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

I suggest that Hillary needs to stop paying such high-priced consultants and lobbyists for her campaign, and then maybe she wouldn’t have such a mis-managed budget crisis to deal with…

By Truthman

February 7, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this

Luck-o-less,

Vis-a-vis Michael Moore (a great American if there ever was one!).

That’s why I and so many others are voting for Obama.

It’s all about the “O!”

I’m an Obamaniac (Similar to a Hulkamaniac, but w/o the steroids and personal baggage).

By Truthman

February 7, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

Goldie,

They’re just scared, little grumpy white men who see their grip on the throats and wallets of America slipping away!!!

Pay them no heed!! They will soon join the Dodo bird and the Carrier Pigeon on the extinct list.

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

DuhAndyRBZELLheadcase

SPECIAL REPEAT FOR THE INTELLECTUALLY CHALLENGED FROM TNR.

The real story of the night, when you look at their rallies and their turn-out numbers, is that the Dems have two strong candidates either of whom could lead a united party to victory. Forget the gaseous platitudes: in Dem terms, their choice on Super Duper Tuesday was deciding which candidate was Super Duper and which was merely Super. Over on the GOP side, it was a choice between Weak & Divisive or Weaker & Unacceptable. Doesn�t bode well for November.

ALSO THIS FROM YESTERDAY

Though close, the exit polls suggested that the Democratic base is not bitterly divided over its choice. Nearly two-thirds � 72 percent � of Democratic voters said they�d be satisfied with Clinton as the nominee, and 71 percent said they�d be happy with Obama.

Maybe it’s time you thought about this?

By RB from Gwinnett

February 7, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

By Truthman 11:00 AM

You know what else will be extinct if the Dems win? American pride, American productivity, and a moral foundation for the future of this country.

Do you really look forward to it being legal for 2 men to have sex in the stall next to your kids?

You mention grip on wallets. Interesting. Is that your party platform? To get into the wallets of the American people? More than you are already. Where does that trend end in your world?

Productivity. Can you tell me of a socialist country with a produtive workforce? Can you show me one without a crumbling infrastructure? Can you find one with “free” healthcare and no lines for basic services? Ever seen what dental care looks like in Europe?

Why in the hell do you want that for us? Why? Is it not obvious to you clowns that socialism doesn’t work? Are you that greedy and so envious of what others have that you’re just dying to vote yourselves the right to take it from them? That’s just plain pathetic.

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

Sheryl Crow - “God Bless This Mess”

By getalife

February 7, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this

Moore is talking about her vote on Iraq.

Obama is weak on national security and if he is the nom. they will lose for the third time on the same freaking issue.

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this

RB plays the “Socialist” Card!!!!

He is a frightened man ain’t he.

By rushncap

February 7, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this

Yes he is, ITN, yes he is. Also a bit deranged.

By RB from Gwinnett

February 7, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

What I meant to say is that eight years of Bush/Cheney raping the middle class have already diminished American pride, American productivity, and a moral foundation for the future of this country.

Pride gone over an illegal and heavily mismanaged war, over 25,000 veterans injured and not helped, escalating costs.

American Productivity replaced with overseas and south of the border labor.

Moral foundations rotten from double-speak and outright lies.

By AmVet

February 7, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

ITN, GREAT quotes at 8:25!

One of the more enjoyable aspects of exposing these “conservative” frauds has been the question I often asked, but never got answered: “What are the specific components and hallmarks of true American conservatism”?

MANY months ago, I gave up on these posers trying to cogently answer that question, Neither the nads nor the intellect, I suppose. I did get one moronically vacuous response along the lines of “Peace through Strength”.

But one thing that is crystal clear is that their charade is no longer working with the vast majority of Americans.

Most reasonable people now see their fake conservatism (at last!!) for what it truly is - a pathetic facsimile.

And it is going to cost them dearly this year. And likely for years to come.

By RW-(the original)

February 7, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this

Our well-woven web crafted by our leaders has us trapped in room 1408, the clock radio blaring “We’ve Only Just Begun” over and over again, and the only way to get out is to jump through the window.

By MomCat

February 7, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this

By getalife February 7, 2008 10:36 AM | She will win on superdelegates

If she doesn’t win, the D’s are sunk! Does anyone in their right mind believe all those votes in Georgia and some other areas Tuesday were African American votes? “IDIOTS” They were R White Males and their idiot spouses voting for Obama because they know Hillary has the most potential to kick their butts in November. Obama is not HAROLD FORD from Tennessee. I wish Harold Ford from Tennessee was in the race!!! All I can say is “LORD HELP US.”

By Georgia 74

February 7, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this

RB RB, Just think how happy the Repuds will be if men can legally have sex in a public bathrooms, half the Repud members of congress will be jumping with joy.

By Truthman

February 7, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

Hey RB,

Why are you wingnuts so obsessed with sex, and especially homosexual sex. Talk about moral fiber. You can’t legislate morality RB. Your type needs to get over that old, Puritanical BS.

Apple don’t fall far from the tree, eh!?!

Answer: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France all care more about their citizens than about oil. Their standard of living is much higher than ours. Live births: Higher; Life expectancy: higher; more vacation time and sabbaticals from work.

Yep, that all sounds terrible

By RB from Gwinnett

February 7, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this

By IN THE NEWS 11:18 AM

You can call where the dems want to take this country “progressive” if you want to, but the dictionary defines it as socialism. The fluffy title doesn’t change the reality of what it is and it won’t change what it does to this country. It will do what it has done to EVERY LAST COUNTRY IT’S BEEN TRIED IN. There are no exceptions anywhere on the planet.

You can call that fear if you want to, but a better description might be “paying attention to history”.

What do you think your version of socialism will do differently to keep it from happening to us?

By RB from Gwinnett

February 7, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

By IN THE NEWS 11:18 AM

You can call where the dems want to take this country “progressive” if you want to, but the dictionary defines it as socialism. The fluffy title doesn’t change the reality of what it is and it won’t change what it does to this country. It will do what it has done to EVERY LAST COUNTRY IT’S BEEN TRIED IN. There are no exceptions anywhere on the planet.

You can call that fear if you want to, but a better description might be “paying attention to history”.

What do you think your version of socialism will do differently to keep it from happening to us?

By RB from Gwinnett

February 7, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this

By Truthman 11:36 AM

I spent a month in Sweden on business when I worked for Volvo several years ago. I beg to differ on the “standard of living” issue. The working people there are fed up with paying more than 50% in taxes. Their wages are very similar to ours, but the cost of living is nearly double. A $4 McDonalds meal here is $7.50 there. Same income. They don’t live in homes, they can’t afford them. Apartments. Very few of them who came to the US for job asignments ever went back.

I can’t speak from experinece to Norway Denmark and France, but you’re completely wrong on Sweden. And France just voted the likes of YOU out of office because they’re tired of socialism too. Wake up and pay attention.

By RB from Gwinnett

February 7, 2008 11:57 AM | Link to this

By Truthman 11:36 AM

I spent a month in Sweden on business when I worked for Volvo several years ago. I beg to differ on the “standard of living” issue. The working people there are fed up with paying more than 50% in taxes. Their wages are very similar to ours, but the cost of living is nearly double. A $4 McDonalds meal here is $7.50 there. Same income. They don’t live in homes, they can’t afford them. Apartments. Very few of them who came to the US for job asignments ever went back.

I can’t speak from experinece to Norway Denmark and France, but you’re completely wrong on Sweden. And France just voted the likes of YOU out of office because they’re tired of socialism too. Wake up and pay attention.

By getalife

February 7, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this

“WASHINGTON�Republican presidential candidate John McCain skipped a difficult Senate vote Wednesday on whether to make 20 million seniors and 250,000 disabled veterans eligible for rebate checks as part of a proposed economic stimulus package.”

It failed by 1 vote but McInsane is a failed leader. He should resign from the Senate and has missed all the votes while the Dem candidates have voted.

Voting gop and expecting something to change is the definition of insanity.

By RB from Gwinnett

February 7, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this

Who needs healthcare? Who gives a d about anyone else as long as I can drive my SUV, deplete national resources, and contribute to global warming? It’s my right as a selfish POS to be an angry white man, like the man I fantasize about on my closet door, Dick Cheney.

By Copyleft

February 7, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this

RB: You’ve convinced me… when we take over, we won’t institute socialism.

Instead, we’ll just restore democracy. Happy now?

By ThomasPaine

February 7, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this

RB, you ignorant slt. It’s the nature of people everywhere to complain about their world. Fact is, the Swedish are generally more content with the government than Americans are, by about 5%. People everywhere complain about taxes. Americans complain about everything, but then they’ve had it so good for so long, they don’t realize how bad things can get.

By George

February 7, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this

Sen. Obama does not �lose debates�� his answers are both thoughtful and concise, as compared to Hillary who talks on and on for 15 mins. about anything from her standard stump speech. Also, how would a debate �loser� ever get selected for the Harvard Law Review???

Goldie, don’t forget adding the word change at least 2 or 3 times a sentence. Paraphrasing Biden, all she needs is a noun, a verb and the word change to make a sentence.

Good Grief! She has had her 35 years in public life to change and it hasn’t happened yet.

By FRANKLEEDARLING

February 7, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

Dems are socialist? Wow repugs really are out of touch. The right have gone so far right that, even the middle looks like commies under he bed to them

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

RB

You can call where the dems want to take this country �progressive� if you want to, but the dictionary defines it as socialism.

Mr. FACTS, please provide them.

I challenge that statement as OPINION.

FACTS, show us FACTS

You claim you show us facts, so shoe us FACTS

By Truthman

February 7, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this

We all know there are only two things the Repugs care about: Their money and their perverted version of god.

Why is Socialism bad? Because repugs want to keep all their money, and Socialism is set up to provide for all citizens. ISN’T THAT AWFUL!?!

Perverted version of god: Pro-war, pro-rich, pro-white, pro-corporate welfare, anti-hispanic, money-worshipping; anti-family planning; anti-environmental. YEP, THAT’S THE god THEY WORSHIP.

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this

Scuttlebutt at CPAC Romney to drop out today….

By getalife

February 7, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this

�A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man�s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith

Our �neoconservatives� are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell. Edward Abbey

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving. Elizabeth Cady Stanton�

It is time to move forward cons to clean up the w disaster.

McInsane will finish off our country with more wars, borrowing more trillions from China and does not have a clue about the economy.

�It takes a Clinton to clean up after a Bush�.

Stay home cons.

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this

A Georgia state employee could face criminal charges after admitting that he faked dozens of inspection reports for bridges that he never inspected, state officials said.

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this

Merriam Webster Main Entry: so�cial�ism
Pronunciation: \ˈsō-shə-ˌli-zəm\ Function: noun Date: 1837

1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods

2 a: a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b: a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state

3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done

THIS OLD “SOCIALIST” OWNS 3 CARS, A NICE BIG SUBURBAN HOUSE AND A STOCK PORTFOLIO.

THIS OLD “SOCIALIST” MAKES TOO MUCH $$$ TO BE INCLUDED IN THE ECONOMIC STIMULUS PACKAGE (McCain was in DC for the vote, but didn’t show)

THIS OLD “SOCIALIST” TAKES VACATIONS ON THE BEACH AND ABROAD.

THIS OLD “SOCIALIST” THINKS THE GOP and RB THROW THE TERM SOCIALIST AROUND TO HIDE THE FACT THAT THEY ARE FASCISTS.

fas�cism
Pronunciation: \ˈfa-ˌshi-zəm also ˈfa-ˌsi-\ Function: noun Etymology: Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces Date: 1921

1often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition

2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control

THIS OLD “SOCIALIST” THINKS RB HAS A LOT TO LEARN.

By Goldie

February 7, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this

Obviously RB is resorting to arguing with himself again… who else ever rants on and on about the need for socialism on this blog???

Oh, and RB— you might want to think first before posting about “crumbling infrastructure”… which brings up another thought: what exactly has your Party done to help resolve America’s problems lately???

By Goldie

February 7, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

{{The working people there are fed up with paying more than 50% in taxes.}}

I’ll bet that RB managed to meet up with the 4 or 5 Sweden-haters living there while he was working with Volvo — LMAO!

By Bosch

February 7, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

Uh oh…….RW will be so upset.

Romney to drop out!

Looks like McCain has it in the bag now (for the nomination that is).

RB,

Calling Democrats socialists is a terribly futile exercise and just horribly counterproductive.

We could just as easily call you neo-cons fascists. Which is better?

By George

February 7, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this

BREAKING NEWS - WASHINGTON (AP) - John McCain effectively sealed the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday as chief rival Mitt Romney suspended his faltering presidential campaign.

By Devastator

February 7, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this

Now, if Hillary can take a que from Romney, we can all move forward.

By Goldie

February 7, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this

The Big O still has the big mo’:

Buoyed by strong fundraising and a primary calendar in February that plays to his strengths, Obama plans a campaign blitz through a series of states holding contests this weekend and will compete to win primaries in the Mid-Atlantic next week and Hawaii and Wisconsin the following week.— He campaigned in Louisiana Thursday, vowing to help New Orleans recover from Hurricane Katrina by improving levees, schools and health care, and closely overseeing the Federal Emergency Management Agency if he becomes president. The state holds its contest Saturday.

By rushncap

February 7, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this

Hey RW, so what will “President Romney’s” first act in office be?

By Goldie

February 7, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

In the News @ 12:43 — “autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition” — pretty much sums up the Neo-conservative agenda, yes?

By RW-(the original)

February 7, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

Cut-and-run.

By getalife

February 7, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this

Clinton/Obama vs McInsane/Gomer.

Bring it on.

By Goldie

February 7, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this

It says a lot about Obama’s supporters, in that they’re amongst a huge wave of contributors who love America enough to keep funding his campaign for real change in how Washington works! Say no to lobbyist contributions and take it to da People!

By AmVet

February 7, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this

So Slick Mitt, the flip-flopper, is giving up the ultra-expensive charade? What a businessman. What a leader.

Man, this neo-con demolition derby just keeps getting better and better and better.

I’m not sure which will be more entertaining - the less than “conservative” pronouncements of the “conservative” Senators and Congressmen up for election this November. Excluding those here in the obvious Moron Belt. (Speaking of which, “Blood & Guts” Saxby will hopefully get kicked to the curb along with Cornyn (Tx), Roberts (Ks), Alexander (Tn), McConnell (Ky) and Graham (SC), among others)

Or the lamentations and endless painful teeth gnashing of those who exemplify the worst of the right wingers, the arrogant frauds and hate-filled posers, along with their oracles and talking heads, who blindly supported these “leaders”.

Any bets we see lots and lots of Bush apologists and assorted GOP cut and runners trying desperately to convince the “faithful” they are still relevant, but “reformed”, before November?

Way to go America! I knew you could do it!

By Goldie

February 7, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

“Cut-and-run.” — RW, just like your guy Ray-gun did in Lebanon back in ‘83? Or are you still hurtin’ because ole Ray-gun could’ve started a never-ending quagmmire in the Middle East 20 years before Dubya did?

By Bosch

February 7, 2008 1:13 PM | Link to this

It looks like Romney’s sons got tired of campaigning and want to keep their inheritance intact.

Another comment on socialism:

Germans are famous for complaining about the government and everything else for that matter. But the Germans I know are ferociously nationalistic and, if they are proud of anything else, it is the fact that they are German above anything else.

RB,

One thing you’ve got to realize is that no country in the civilized world is a purely capitalistic, socialistic, or anything else, because neither work in their pure form. Most are hybrids. European countries have more grains of socialism in their government and yes, more Europeans as compared to Americans live in apartments or small houses and don’t have cars, etc. But this is due to things like space (their countries are alot smaller than ours), taxes, and the cost of fuel. Their governments invested more in public transportation infrastructure, and government sponsored health care for all its citizens. Many European countries have different levels of health care, they even have private insurance options. Europeans value their fellow citizens above driving SUVs.

In other words comparing European countries to the U.S. is (again using the old cliche) comparing apples and oranges. Our cultures are different and so are our priorities and values.

It doesn’t mean that I, as a liberal, think these systems are better.

However, as a tree hugging liberal, I would like to see more tax money going toward public transportation infrastructure to cut out gas emissions from vehicles, and would like to see our tax money being spent here in our country.

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 1:13 PM | Link to this

Iraq Benchmark Report Card One Year After the Surge January 24, 2008 Total Benchmarks: 3 of 18 Accomplished

By rushncap

February 7, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this

Hey RW, so what will “President Romney’s” first act in office be?

By Luckoduh

February 7, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this

{{{{It was only about six weeks ago that President KKKlinton was lamenting the possibility that Mayor Bloomberg would spend some of his own money on a presidential run. “We are very frustrated because we have a Supreme Court that seems determined to say that the wealthier have more right to free speech than the rest of us,” Mr. KKKlinton said in Iowa, according to Politico, complaining that such spending violates “the spirit of campaign finance reform.”}}}}

Uh-huh:

{{{{KU KLUX KLINTON WILL GO FOR BROKE PUTS UP HER OWN $5M AS TOP AIDES GO WITHOUT PAY}}}}

And without health insurance.

Hehehehehehehe.

By Truthman

February 7, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this

It’s just too easy today!!

Now the neo-conmen and women know how an imploded building feels!!

By Glenn

February 7, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this

RW-(t.o.) @ 11:48:

Yeah, it is rather like that Room 1408 simulacrum of a David Lynch nightmare of reality.

The land that We and our leaders—-including George Bush, Hillary Clintons, Barack Obama and John McCain—-is also very much like Room 101, in which it is disclosed at last that “The Party seeks power for its own sake.”

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this

McCain Skipped Stimulus Vote, Other Senators On His Plane Returned To The Floor In Time……McCain�s move was certainly not a profile in courage. His spokeswoman said that the senator would have voted against the package anyway. By missing the vote, however, he didn�t have to go on record denying benefits to 20 million seniors and 250,000 disabled vets � both key blocs of support for his campaign. As ABC�s Jake Tapper notes, �In fact, in the 110th Congress, out of 450 votes, McCain missed 56.7% of them. The only one who missed more was a senator who had a brain hemmorhage.�

By Apocalypse

February 7, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this

David Plouffe just sent out this email…

Friend —

I was writing a note to you about the state of the race after Super Tuesday when we got some startling news.

The Clinton campaign just announced that Hillary and Bill Clinton injected $5 million of their personal fortune into her campaign a few days ago.

This is a dramatic move, and a clear acknowledgement that our campaign has the momentum. We saw undeniable evidence of that last night as the results came in.

Barack Obama won the most votes, the most states, and the most delegates on February 5th.

We have gotten to this point thanks to an unprecedented outpouring of support from ordinary Americans.

To date, more than 650,000 people like you have taken ownership of this campaign, giving whatever they can afford.

The Clinton infusion of $5 million — and there are reports it could end up being as much as $20 million — will give them huge resources for the next set of primaries and caucuses.

Thanks to you, we have raised more than $3 million since the polls closed on February 5th. But we have no choice — we must match their $5 million right now.

We’re going to do it the right way, with small donations from people like you. It’s never been more urgent that you make a donation of $50 right now:

https://donate.barackobama.com/results

Just two weeks ago we were behind by double-digits in many of the states that voted yesterday, but Barack won 13 states to 8 states for Hillary Clinton, with one state (New Mexico) still counting votes.

This is an enormous victory, and it’s all thanks to you.

We won yesterday because thousands upon thousands of individual supporters canvassed their neighborhoods, talked to their neighbors and friends, and made phone calls to remind their fellow supporters to get out the vote.

And we accomplished all of this with a campaign funded by ordinary people giving only what they can afford.

Yesterday was proof that America is ready for change — and that you are the force to make that change happen.

But there’s still a long way to go before Barack becomes the Democratic nominee. In the next week alone, six more states will hold their primaries and caucuses.

We need to match this $5 million personal contribution from the Clintons immediate

By RW-(the original)

February 7, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this

Cut-and-run, again.

By RW-(the original, original)

February 7, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this

For what it’s worth this is my very first post today.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

If anybody heard Romney’s speech he did a fine job with the reasoning. Romney knew all he could hope to do was fight on to the convention and if he got that far McCain would get the nod anyway since McCain the establishment choice.

So rather than selfishly fight on and damage the chance of a Republican that will fight the war against Islamic fascism and ensure a Democrat that will spend day one surrendering, he suspended his campaign.

I know it’s a foreign concept to most of the left here, but that’s called putting your country before yourself.

Great job, Mitt, and I’ll look to support you down the road.

By ForGlenn

February 7, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this

Much like the party in 1984.

By getalife

February 7, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this

“Mukasey: No, I Will Not Investigate Warrantless Wiretapping Or Torture.”

Geez.

By RW-(the original, original)

February 7, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

Unlike myself, who has only put myself before my country, my God, and after money.

By Luckoduh

February 7, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this

Many, many pinkos will weep over this…..good news:

{{{{Islamic preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri will be extradited to the United States to face terror charges…}}}}

If we’re lucky, maybe they’ll waterboard this mofo.

By RW-(the original)©

February 7, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this

It would be nice to stay and discuss this latest event in the Presidential race but the infantile namejacker seems overly persistent today.

Later!

By Dubya

February 7, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this

Ahh, the Repugs.
They doth bring to center stage freak after freak after freak. Reagan. McCain. The Bushes. Dole. Quayle. Jesus & God in the form of Hickabee. And the Repug masses do lap them up and wolf them down hungrily! Have you ever wondered how many OTHER ways the Repugs can further destroy America? You should be thinking about that. God Bluss Murcuh. Allah Akbar!

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this

“”I know it�s a foreign concept to most of the left here, but that�s called putting your country before yourself.”“

Romney: Dem victory would �mean attacks on America.

Something that’s not foreign to the left, fearmongering from the right.

By Glenn

February 7, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this

If we’re lucky, they’ll stop off in Egypt and waterboard him—-and far worse, if necessary—-before he gets to Cuba. Allah knows what exigent lifesaving information he may have in his kippered head that requires our action THIS DAY.

By getalife

February 7, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

BS, you post first every morning.

He cut and run because his chickenhawk sons were whining he was wasted their inheritance.

By getalife

February 7, 2008 2:06 PM | Link to this

That’s a shame about Romney.

He was almost as cute as Obama.

We would have made a nice threesome.

By AmVet

February 7, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this

If one were to read the thoughts of the “conservatives” here, one would be hard pressed to believe the events, as regards the Republican candidates, over the past few months.

Yes, the extremists and lunatic fringe are notoriously loathe to admit, much less learn from their mistakes, but apparently most Republicans are not such slow learners with a nagging penchant for self-abuse.

I’m interested to hear why exactly have these so-called conservatives been so decimated in this years Republican campaign?

Bueller? Anyone?

By Luckoduh

February 7, 2008 2:12 PM | Link to this

Now this defines torture:

Today’s cartoon that doesn’t suck!

Bwa.

By Prez

February 7, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this

I see HOMODUH is his active self again today. How’d ya like ta have “a life” like that, folks? Imagine his stringy-haired, downbeaten wife and the pathetic minds of the unfortunate results of her cohabitation with HOMODUH. It is enough to make one scream out for help from - Huckabee and Dobson. Praise thee Lord!

By getalife

February 7, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this

And of course, the wanker supports Obama.

Go figure.

Later.

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this

Romney�s Top 10 Greatest Campaign Hits

By RB from Gwinnett

February 7, 2008 2:24 PM | Link to this

My my, the socialists don’t like being called socialists, do they? I thought the definitions you provided for socialism fit perfectly with the desires of the Dem party. Thanks for providing evidence.

{{{Why is Socialism bad? Because repugs want to keep all their money, and Socialism is set up to provide for all citizens. }}} Sounds like a great plan if you’re a do-nothing sit on your a@@ and collect from people who work person. If I was a loser, I’d think it was great too.

{{{they�ve had it so good for so long, they don�t realize how bad things can get.}}} If the dems take the WH, I’m sure we’ll find out how bad things can get pretty quickly. And whats wrong with having things good anyway?

{{{THIS OLD �SOCIALIST� MAKES TOO MUCH $$$ TO BE INCLUDED IN THE ECONOMIC STIMULUS PACKAGE}}} If you have so much money and feel compelled to help those less fortunate, then do so. There’s nobody stopping you but your own greed. But stop trying to tell everybody else they have to provide cradle to grave support for everybody else when you won’t put your own money up for it. You’re awelfully generous with other people’s money, but I suspect you’re not doing a damn thing with your own. How many poor kids healtcare could you buy with that vacation money? Put up or shut up.

The end of democracy will be when those on the take from the government outnumber those providing to it. Those on the take will never vote themselves out of a free ride. We’re becoming a nation driven not by the productive doers of the nation, but the the unproductive takers. The problem with that SHOULD be obvious.

By Glenn

February 7, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this

I see ITN is back to keeping the eye on the ball.

Keep it up!

By FRANKLEEDARLING

February 7, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

MCcain’t and Sucka’ me Huckaee

Why wait they should just team up now

the GUNS&GOD across America platform

WHOO WE hillbilly heroin for everyone

better living through PTSD

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this

RB

Can’t wait for the next time you go off on FACTS…..everybody will remind you that you showed up to play today and you got NO GAME.

Always willing to hear your OPINION RB.

By Luckoduh

February 7, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this

{{{{Rasmussen 01/25 - 01/27- 1200 LV 48%- McCain 40%- Ku Klux Rodham. McCain +8%}}}}

Bwa.

By Anointed One

February 7, 2008 2:36 PM | Link to this

BM from Gwinnett: You forever vomit forth the same excrement I’ve been hearing since the 1950’s. Is it THAT impossible for you inferiors to move forward in ANY way?? Same old words, agenda, propaganda, dogma. Shameful. The arrogance of ignorance.

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 2:36 PM | Link to this

RB

Are you as cute as Romney?

If so, then I’ll definitely hear your opinion.

smooch

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 2:44 PM | Link to this

CPAC to all CPAC-ers: Don’t boo McCain

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this

The US has learned that the British are seeking to restart their nuclear weapons program. Can a US invasion of England be far behind?

By IN THE NEWS

February 7, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

The Democrats had Jackie O!

The Republicans have name Jackie Duh!

Oh, baby VALIDATE ME ONE MORE TIME!

By RB from Gwinnett

February 7, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this

By Anointed One 2:36 PM