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By Mike Luckovich | Thursday, March 6, 2008, 07:52 AM

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By Georgia 74

March 6, 2008 8:06 AM | Link to this

Funny.

By IN THE NEWS

March 6, 2008 8:12 AM | Link to this

Bush And McCain: Photo-Op Friends Forever

AND

{{{{McCain forgets the press Posted: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 4:15 PM by Domenico Montanaro Filed Under: 2008, McCain From NBC/NJ’s Adam Aigner-Treworgy After McCain’s meeting at RNC headquarters, the traveling press rushed back onto the bus to find a boxed lunch and no staff. So with no direction, the press waited at the bus assuming McCain was still inside meeting with RNC staff. An hour and a half later, press secretary Brooke Buchanan called wondering where the press bus was. The campaign staff had traveled back to the airport without telling the press. At that point, McCain was more than half an hour late for a 6 pm fundraiser in Florida. As one writer joked, “I told you McCain would forget about the press after he won the nomination.””””

Early Onset Oldtymers?

AND

McCain Attacked Bush in 2000 Over Anti-Catholic Endorsement

By AJC Management

March 6, 2008 8:19 AM | Link to this

I like the way David Warren thinks:

{{{{I see no reason why the Democrats, given that they are not only Democrats, but Democrats at the current stage of political degeneration, will not choose Barack Obama as the candidate more likely to unite them. He has captured the hearts of a large constituency of very naïve people, together with the glitter of “identity politics.” A victory for Ms. Clinton would make all those people sad, and persuade many of them not to vote in the general election.}}}}

{{{{Mr. Obama emerged, late last fall, when he suddenly caught fire rhetorically. Prior to that, he had been a rather bland speaker with nothing substantial to say. His Senate track record was similarly undistinguished: no sign of leadership on any question of policy. His attraction was novelty and a specious charm.}}}}

{{{{And will the question, “Whom do you trust as Commander-in-Chief?” - a fair question for the electorate of the world’s pre-eminent superpower - advance to the front burner? For that is a question that knocks Mr. Obama out of consideration, and he can only hope to win as long as people can be persuaded not to think about it.}}}}

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{{{{There is often a silver lining in political defeats, and Republicans had no trouble coming up with one Wednesday after Democrats killed House Speaker Glenn Richardson’s much-ballyhooed plan to eliminate property taxes on cars.}}}}

{{{{It was a huge legislative defeat for Republican Richardson, who has crusaded against property taxes for the past year.-Urinal}}}}

A “huge defeat” for Republicans?

How about a huge defeat for the people of Georgia?

We will make that distinction perfectly clear for everybody to see.

By Glenn

March 6, 2008 8:23 AM | Link to this

W. does Burning Man? Pagan sex and movement nostalgia?

I don’t think so.

By Copyleft

March 6, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this

Now, now. I don’t see why an endorsement from the Worst President in History would do anything but cause a “surge” in McCain’s popularity!

Among the brain-dead 19-percenters, that is.

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 6, 2008 8:29 AM | Link to this

Another tasteless cartoon from a crude, boorish jerk who would be the first to complain if the shoe were on the other foot - or in this case in his mouth. Well, you can’t buy class, as the old (and very bad) prime time soaps so beautifully illustrated!!!

AJC Management - I agree, the people of Georgia did lose, and it was a nasty loss. Property taxes of any kind are a vestige of that oldest form of socialism, feudalism, which should have gone the way of the Dodo when we passed the first income tax in this country. You cannot truly be free if you do not actually own your own property, even your rolling stock, if in reality you are renting it from the government.

By PisnAndMoaningGOP

March 6, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this

I love it! Bush passes the albatross to McCain.

Thanks, Gov. Bush!

By FRANKLEEDARLING

March 6, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this

sonny&cagle are a defeat of choice in Georgia.They think the government should be involved in my time management.

McCain is a loose cannon,damaged goods a flip flopping geezer who wants to ride on the coattails of our worst prez ever.proof that the man lacks the sense of judgment to run our country.

Mccain=old, tired and wrong for America

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 6, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this

IN THE (ONE SIDED) NEWS - Bill and Hitlery Clinton attack the ‘excesses’ of the 1980s and then use every trick in the book when justly investigated for fraudulent land deals, questionable commodities deals and general corruption during that same period.

News flash, Barak Obama refuses to denounce his racist and anti-Semitic pastor.

You live in a glass house.

By Paul

March 6, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this

ITN 8:29

You don’t “outsource” acquisition of military equipment. Outsourcing refers to having private contractors perform a function, such as maintenance, payroll, serving food, that was formerly done by a government organization.

Sen. McCain is correct - the Dept of Defense does not exist as a social welfare program (“creating” jobs for Americans).

The challenge is because the AF awarded the contract, based upon cost and performance, to a company that’s foreign (BTW- Alabama’s going to receive thousands and thousands of jobs as a result of this - they just won’t be Boeing jobs).

For years the military’s had need for equipment, available from foreign sources (German, Israeli, couple cases of what was then South Africa) but couldn’t buy it - Buy American rules stopped that.

A question to illustrate: US forces enter combat. Don’t have enough, or inadequate, body armor. A foreign company has units ready to ship. Do we put it on hold so an American company can ramp up production?

Besides which, the Democratic Party has historically championed “free trade” (in spite of the Ohio-Texas rhetoric). So it seems it’s one more issue that gets down to money and power (jobs in certain districts).

If the challenge stands, it’s a perfect illustration - some wonder how I can say we can cut the Defense budget without endangering our troops or endangering missions.

By Cindi

March 6, 2008 8:53 AM | Link to this

Oh to look forward to November..Eight long years of national embarrassment finally come to an end..

By Paul

March 6, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this

ITN

BTW- two congressmen leading the criticism: one from Washington, one from Kansas. Care to guess where Boeing has a major presence (and where a lot of campaign contributions come from)?

From Military dot com:

“Air Force officials said the Northrop Grumman-European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. bid outpaced the one from Boeing in most areas. EADS is the parent company of Airbus, Boeing’s main rival in the global commercial airplane market.

“More passengers, more cargo, more fuel offload, more patients that we can carry, more availability, more flexibility and more dependability,” Gen. Arthur Lichte, the commander of the Air Mobility Command at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois, said of the Northrop Grumman-EADS KC-45A tanker. “

So - a question right in the spirit of this blog: You noted the phrase ‘more patients we can carry’? Buy the Boeing version, the AF can transport fewer casualties back to a major medical facility.

So you’re willing to have countless servicemen die just so a person can have a job in one part of the country (Kansas) and not another (Alabama)?

By Andy

March 6, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

I wish someone would play with me. I always end up playing with myself.

By Georgia 74

March 6, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

One thing we can all take solace in, Demos and Repuds alike, no matter who in our wildest dreams, read about in all of literature, heard about in song, seen on film and heard about by word of mouth and experienced in life, they will not be as bad as what we have today.

By Mark In Marietta

March 6, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

Great one, Mike! The “little emperor who couldn’t” burns the next bridge for the GOP! Woo-Hoo!!

By reebok

March 6, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this

McCain promises 4 more years of Bush’s failed presidency…plenty enough reason to vote Dem…whoever it turns out to be.

By FRANKLEEDARLING

March 6, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this

Paint Georgia blue get rid of sonny purdue

HA HA i amuse myself

By Paul

March 6, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

reebok

Sounds a little sound-bitish - so do you really think Bush opposes torture, wants to close Guantanamo, wants to provide a pathway to citizenship for illegals, works for strict campaign finance bribes, er, contribution reform, believes in a woman’s right to choose?

By golly, that’s not the Bush I read about!

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 6, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

This is the Bush failed presidency - no further domestic attacks since 9/11. The lowest average unemployment rate over any six year period since records have been kept. Low inflation as well during that period. A prescription drug program for the elderly (I don’t like it, but many do consider it an accomplishment, none the less). He has not been indicted for perjury like his predicessor. The one ‘scandal’ of his administration was so minor that it can only be considered a miscarriage of justice. Clinton on the other had is a confessed and convicted perjurer. He had more members of his administration indicted and convicted than did Richard Nixon.

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 6, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

This is the Bush failed presidency - no further domestic attacks since 9/11. The lowest average unemployment rate over any six year period since records have been kept. Low inflation as well during that period. A prescription drug program for the elderly (I don’t like it, but many do consider it an accomplishment, none the less). He has not been indicted for perjury like his predecessor. The one ‘scandal’ of his administration was so minor that it can only be considered a miscarriage of justice. Clinton on the other had is a confessed and convicted perjurer. He had more members of his administration indicted and convicted than did Richard Nixon.

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 6, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

This is the Bush failed presidency - no further domestic attacks since 9/11. The lowest average unemployment rate over any six year period since records have been kept. Low inflation as well during that period. A prescription drug program for the elderly (I don’t like it, but many do consider it an accomplishment, none the less). He has not been indicted for perjury like his predecessor. The one ‘scandal’ of his administration was so minor that it can only be considered a miscarriage of justice. Clinton on the other had is a confessed and convicted perjurer. He had more members of his administration indicted and convicted than did Richard Nixon.

By Linhasxoc

March 6, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

Yeah… anyone who Bush endorses is not my first choice for anything. Still, at least McCain could properly manage the war.

By Bosch

March 6, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this

Mr. Headcase,

Fraudulent land deals, questionable commodities deals, and general corruption? Were the Clintons ever indicted for anything?

The only criminal charges ever brought up on either Clinton was Bill’s impeachment charges, which he was tried and found not guilty, and gave up his law license after it was over.

Can you find any sources to back up your accusations of fraudulent land deals or corrupt commodities deals?

Thanks in advance.

And you call ITN, one sided?

You wingnuts point out to all if anyone brings up Bush’s questionable activities or any of his cronies questionable activity — well, were they indicted? Convicted?

Sorry, Mr. Headcase, you don’t get to scream foul, either.

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 6, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this

Robert ‘Sheets - KKK’ Byrd is back in the hospital. Satan may soon call the old crook on home.

By RB from Gwinnett

March 6, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

By reebok 9:08 AM

{{{McCain promises 4 more years of Bush’s failed presidency}}}

And the dems promise to take that 11% approval rating from congress to the white house. They’re promising the same garbage they promised when they took over the senate in ‘06 and you’ll get the same pathetic result. You dimwits keep bashing Bush and his low approval rating while touting a couple of losers who are part of a group with HALF the approval rating. Are you not very good with math or are you just plain dense?

By Bosch

March 6, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

I’ll bet Mr. McCain was thinking yesterday while at the White House, “Oh great, maybe people will forget about this in a few days.” It’s the price to pay when you sell your soul.

By IN THE NEWS

March 6, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

McCain touts endorsement by racist TN GOP

By Demokkkrat National Kommittee

March 6, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

Greetings fellow goons and klansmen:

If you have not heard thee good news yet, I am pleased to inform you that the Great and Marvelous Ku Klux Rodham has arisen from her early grave and is once again rampaging across this great land plotting and scheming upon thee black man and thee federal treasury.

Was Tuesday not a historic night for our exalted Klan? Thee look upon thee black man’s face when he saw the swift and terrible sword of justice cutting into his delegate lead was more exciting than any lynching or church burnin that I have ever attended to. I could sense the look of fear upon his face, as though some good klanner had set dogs upon him and it made me get real hard.

Now to the business at hand, you jackbooted hacks. Our idiot voters and thee other moron demokrat kandidates fell for our scheme in Florida and Michigan and now we must whine and shriek like little sissies until they award us those delegates. I need you mouth breathers to whine as though your welfare checks are a day late. Call your Congressman and whine, call our “news” paper reporters at the AJC and tell them to whine, call our people at PMSNBC and tell them to whine even louder than usual.

Thee next several months are crucial and could be a chance for us to be rid of Those People once and for all. If we beat this crack dealing Muslim terrorist Hussien like a dog, Those People will hate us and leave our beloved demokrat party in droves, and then we will have all of thee Government Benefits to ourselves.

I know what you goons are thinking, if Those People leave, then who will we have to chase through the streets and hate on? Do not worry, you clods, we are working night and day to replace them with thee Latino people, and after we no longer need the Latino vote, then we will turn you hooligans and your hate upon them.

Are we not just so wicked and devious?

So hop up on your horsies, put your little pointy cap on top of your empty skulls and ride, you hacks, ride into the glorious night of hate and sickness.

Seig Heil!

By RB from Gwinnett

March 6, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this

But then again, maybe you’re not as dense as us idiots who voted TWICE for a AWOL, C-Average, coke-snorting, alcoholic loser like Bush…

By Soothsayer

March 6, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

To those who think eliminating property taxes on cars is good: Guess whose property taxes would have gone up to offset the loss of revenue? That’s right—homeowners. There is no free lunch.

By Abomi Nation

March 6, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

RB, its obvious why Congress has such low ratings. The obstructionist Republicans.

Feb 10 Gallup shows 55% of registered voters plan on voting for a Dem in the November Congressional election. Only 41% plan on voting Republican.

Nice try though.

Btw, hows that Bush stock market you were bragging about? Oh, and the real estate billboard? Can you tell us what it says about the current market.

By IN THE NEWS

March 6, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

NAFTA-gate’ story takes unexpected turn

By Goldie

March 6, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this

Yes, Lucko — love this toon!

I also thought it was interesting that McInsane showed up late for his lunch with Dubya yesterday… payback time! He literally left Dubya on the steps doing a shuffle in front of the news reporters — too funny!

By RB from Gwinnett

March 6, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this

Bosch,

Clinton {{{ gave up his law license}}}??? You’ve got to be kidding!! I guess you think Saddam Hussain “gave up” his reign in Iraq too?

Why is it so hard for you to admit the man is a serial woman abuser/chaser and a liar? He admitted to it, Bosch, and you still can’t bring yourself to. Do you also think he was telling the truth about Flowers, Jones, and all the others?

BTW, that has nothing to do with Bill Clinton the President. That’s purely a reflection of the man he is. If that many women accused your husband of raping them and then he admitted to the last one (only after the evidence sold him out), would you still swoon over the man the way you do over Bill?

Talk about blind sheep….

By Goldie

March 6, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this

{{This is the Bush failed presidency - no further domestic attacks since 9/11.}}

Head Case — why not tell the citizens of London, Madrid and Indonesia how proud you are of Dubya’s success in spreading “freedom” throughout the Middle East? I’m sure they’d eagerly agree with you…

By Paul

March 6, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

RB from Gwinnett namejacker:

AWOL: so I guess you’re one of those accusing the military chain of command of dereliction of duty, making false official statements, etc for not bringing charges for criminal acts? Are you really?

C-average: plenty of info out there - was about on a par with Kerry. I suppose he never should have run?

coke-snorting: you’re talking about Obama? I thought this was a Bush attack.

alcoholic: guess you don’t think of alcoholism as a disease? Or have much respect for people who enter treatment and stay sober? Pity.

By Goldie

March 6, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this

reebok @ 9:08 — I saw an ad on TV where the faces of Dubya and McCain are inter-meshed, and the ad keeps referring to McCain as “McBush” and “McSame”, stating that he will continue the same policies as Dubya… that’s gonna scare the majority of American voters in October and November!

By Truthman

March 6, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this

If you’re black or if you’re blue, Sonny Perdue don’t care about you!!

Oh BTW, Impeach Bush/Cheney!

By AmVet

March 6, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this

This is the Bush failed presidency: (beginning with the first 6 months)

On the day of George W. Bush’s inauguration, Chief of Staff Andrew Card issues a sixty-day moratorium halting all new health, safety, and environmental regulations issued in the final days of the Clinton administration.

On the twenty-eighth anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, Bush reinstates the “global gag rule” barring U.S. funding for abortion counseling abroad.

Bush suspends Clinton’s “roadless rule” protecting nearly sixty million acres of forests from logging and road-building.

Bush abandons his campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

Bush administration moves to overturn a Clinton regulation reducing the allowable level of arsenic in drinking water.

Bush backs out of Kyoto treaty on global warming.

United States Department of Agriculture proposes lifting a requirement that all beef used in federal school lunch programs must be tested for salmonella; the proposal is dropped two days later.

Department of Interior proposes a limit on lawsuits seeking protection of endangered species.

Bush administration abandons international effort to crack down on offshore tax havens.

Vice President Dick Cheney’s task force releases its “National Energy Policy” report, calling for weaker environmental regulations and massive subsidies for the oil and gas, coal, and nuclear power industries.

And guess what? At this point, he’s only getting started! Things get worse, MUCH worse, as he “finds his feet”.

By GOPher Think

March 6, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this

NEW YORK - A small bomb caused minor damage to an empty military recruiting station in Times Square early Thursday, shaking guests in hotel rooms high above “the crossroads of the world.”

Now, if King George and his band of Republican merrymen ever found out that this was a TERRORIST bombing, does ANYBODY imagine for one minute that the filthy lying little pudfuckers would tell us so?

Not a snowballs chance in a Republican administration!!! Not on the Chimperor’s watch!!!

Now we know the REAL TRUTH!!! Republican policies are INVITING terrorist recruitment and activity abroad and now at home. These little shiitebirds have been stirrin up a hornet’s nest they can’t handle instead of letting em kill each other off and now we, the American public, have to pay the price.

….and now they want to give us another 8 years of McSAME!!!

GOPhers don’t just stick their HEAD in the sand, they have to go whole hog and stick their whole damnable filthy lying little child molesting, bathroom trolling BODIES in the dirt they love so dearly!!!

By Paul

March 6, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this

Goldie

Welcome back. I posted last week - attended a rally, stood face to face with Pres Clinton, shook hands. Then went to an Obama rally at a convention center, full an hour ahead of time, he spoke for over an hour, no notes. Crowd was a cross-section of America. Same weekend I could have seen Hillary and McCain but had to catch a flight. Two for four ain’t bad. But I’ll catch the other two. A past Pres, a future Pres. Not a bad couple of days.

By RB from Gwinnett

March 6, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

By Abomi Nation 9:53 AM

{{{RB, its obvious why Congress has such low ratings. The obstructionist Republicans.}}}

Why don’t you tell us what grand legislation the R’s have prevented your beloved Pelosi and co. from enacting? I’m sick of your empty rhetoric and just plain outright lies. Bring the goods dimwit.

By RB from Gwinnett

March 6, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this

By Abomi Nation 9:53 AM

{{{RB, its obvious why Congress has such low ratings. The obstructionist Republicans.}}}

Why don’t you tell us what grand legislation the R’s have prevented your beloved Pelosi and co. from enacting? I’m sick of your empty rhetoric and just plain outright lies. Bring the goods dimwit.

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 6, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this

Goldie - how you love to pick and choose. Yes, there was an attack on Britain, caused in part by their complacency about their domestic Muslim population. The attack in Spain was a despicable act which resulted in the Spanish voters and government bowing to the will of the terrorists. We have not done so, and I hope that we won’t. Even Obama says he will go back to Iraq if there is an al-Qaeda base there. Well… he will just have to stay, poor fool. They have a base there. Indonesia is a Muslim country and full of radical Islamists. This was not the first attack nor will it be the last for them. But the fact remains, we have not had another domestic attack since Septebember 11, 2001. If Bill the B-stard were still messing around in the Oval Office then such a record would not exist. He and all of you liberals speak the same language - surrender!

By Truthman

March 6, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

Oh AmVet, you can’t expect the neo-conmen and women to let facts interfere with their propaganda, now can you???

By RB from Gwinnett

March 6, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this

By Abomi Nation 9:53 AM

And with regard to the housing market and the economy, you just go on whining about it and crying about the sky falling. You and the libs have been crying doom and gloom from day 1 of Bush’s term. You have a losers mentality, dude. I suspect thats had a profound effect on your position in life. Try a mirror.

By Bosch

March 6, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

Um RB,

So, did you wake up today and decide to just start making s** up? Or do you do that everyday?

My goodness you make absurd, presumptuous assumptions with no basis for such. I shouldn’t expect more from you though.

How the hell do you know what I can bring myself to admit and what I can’t admit? That is mighty arrogant of you.

How the hell does your circular logic work so that you can post such inaccuracies about what I think based on what I just posted?

Oh, I know, you just hate liberals and everything associated with Bill Clinton - and if anyone challenges accusations made like the ones earlier from Mr. Headcase, you go into your neo-con brainwash programmed mind and start making up s** so you’ll feel better on the inside. Please spare me, the b******.

By Goldie

March 6, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

Paul @ 10:07 — I was at Obama’s rally at GA Tech last April, but could not get close enough to shake his hand… there were over 20,000 people in attendance even way back then! I did however get interviewed about the event by a local news channel afterward and I got that news segment recorded on videotape when I got home that evening — pretty cool.

By RB from Gwinnett

March 6, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

By Abomi Nation 9:53 AM

And with regard to the housing market and the economy, you just go on whining about it and crying about the sky falling. You and the libs have been crying doom and gloom from day 1 of Bush’s term. You have a losers mentality, dude. I suspect thats had a profound effect on your position in life. Try a mirror.

By @@

March 6, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

I love dem marshmallows burned ml. Makes them all the sweeter when consumed.

While the conservatives are “gooeying” McCain, the Democratic candidates will be “bloodying” one another in the process.

Mmmmmmmmmmm.

Works for me.

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 6, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

Goldie - Congress has much lower approval ratings than the President right now. I think Americans are more terrified of what the neo-Socialist, surrender-firsters wish to do than they are of continuing the policies of lower taxes, pro-economic growth and a strong national defense.

By Paul

March 6, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

ITN 10:11

You really are starting to sound like all the right-wingers attacking Clinton during the 90s. And later - many of them just couldn’t let go. Different time, different messenger, same message.

And some wonder why Obama with his message of change (read: not a lot of difference between many Dems and Reps) has such appeal?

By GOPher Think

March 6, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this

luckovichisaheadcase

See the 10:06. GOPhers don’t seem to know that Times Square is in America. Pull your head outta the sand AND your azz, dimwit!!!

By Abomi Nation

March 6, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this

No you bring the goods RB. You said that Americans are not happy with the Democrats in congress.

Why on earth would 55% still vote for Dems if they were that upset with them. You would think more than 41% would back Republicans.

You need to back up your statement with some facts.

If this 11% approval rating for congress were the fault of the Dems don’t you think the voters would want to see Republicans take over? Yet only 41% plan on voting Republican.

Sounds like a Dem landslide in the congressional races this November.

You sure like to have your questions answered. Start answering some yourself. Stock market? Real estate billboard? Congressional elections?

We’re waiting…………….

By AmVet

March 6, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

Truthman, if Paul is correct (a HUGE if BTW) and there is a new face ahead for the GOP - one that is socially moderate, fiscally conservative and able to compromise - perhaps some will listen to reason and understanding that Bush’s legacy is going to be viewed as pretty awful.

That McCain is the Republican nominee is the first baby step in that direction towards a competent, sane GOP. And though the voters have CLEARLY seen the light and are kicking these fake and bumbling conservatives to the curb en masse, I don’t yet see any new/young Republicans who are ready to forswear this twisted neo-con agenda and plot a new course for that party.

And MUCH of how the nation will choose him or not, rides on McCain’s choice for VP!

By Bosch

March 6, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this

Paul,

“You really are starting to sound like all the right-wingers attacking Clinton during the 90s. And later - many of them just couldn’t let go. “

Um, you mean like RB and Mr. Headcase? They even like to tell us what WE are thinking too. Gee, I wish I had that superpower ability.

By RB from Gwinnett

March 6, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this

But then I could try looking out from my ivory tower and see the US dollar fall lower than the Canadian dollar for the first time in over 30 years, and seeing how oil is tied to the dollar, we are all royally screwed, not to mention the housing market taking a dive, I guess I’m just pulling answers outta my you-know-what…

By GOPher Think

March 6, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

Sorry folks, I ain’t a mornin person. Try it again…

luckovichisaheadcase: “But the fact remains, we have not had another domestic attack since Septebember 11, 2001.”

See the 10:06, headcase. GOPhers don’t seem to know that Times Square is in America. Pull your head outta the sand AND your azz, dimwit!!!

By AJC Management

March 6, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

What do you expect from someone who lives in Gwinnett, intelligent answers? ha ha ha ha ha

Yeah, right.

By AmVet

March 6, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

More of This is the failed Bush presidency: (2nd six months)

Cheney refuses to release records of energy task force meetings to the General Accounting Office.

Bush threatens to veto McCain-Kennedy patients’ bill of rights legislation.

Attorney General John Ashcroft announces a policy that would require gun records be destroyed one day after a background check rather than ninety days later.

Bush administration opposes UN treaty to curb international trafficking in small arms and light weapons.

Bush administration rejects international treaty on germ warfare and biological weapons.

(Aug. 6) Presidential Daily Briefing warns “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.”

Bush limits stem cell research to “existing lines.”

(Sept. 11) Terrorists crash hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing thousands.

Bush signs $15 billion airline bailout.

Bush signs the USA Patriot Act.

Justice Department acknowledges but won’t identify more than one thousand individuals, mostly immigrants, detained since September 11 attacks.

Ashcroft authorizes monitoring of attorney-client conversations in terrorism investigations.

By RB from Gwinnett

March 6, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

Whoops I forgot one. Natural gas prices have increased 25% in Georgia this winter although supplies were more than adequate and there were no natural disasters. Thats a good thing, right?

By Goldie

March 6, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

We can always count on some trolls like DUH and HeadCase to post the same whinery day after day, which usually goes something like this:

“BLAH BLAH BLAH, Bill Clinton, BLAH BLAH BLAH, socialists, BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH, libruls, BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy, BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH…”

How boring, and what a waste of blog-space Monday through Friday.

By Goldie

March 6, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

GOPher Think — I guess the trolls believe a “terrorist attack” can only come from Arabs… such small minds!

By N-GA

March 6, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

Mike Lukovich - You are da bomb!!!

By IN THE NEWS

March 6, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

Second hotel checked in Vegas ricin probe

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 6, 2008 10:44 AM | Link to this

Bosch - I am almost always right when I tell you folks what I think that you are thinking. I have talked to too many of you and I have listened to way too much NPR. It isn’t a matter of having supernatural powers, it’s just a matter of knowing how (and what) you sychophants think! I really do believe that NPR must just take its ‘news’ verbatum from the DNC website!!

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 6, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

Goldie - I note that you never counter the FACTS that I give back to you every day in reply to your inane rantings. Why is that? Is it that you have NONE to support your contentions that pacifism and socialism would work if only everybody would just think alike and do what the brilliant left-wing leaders tell them to do? Sychopant.

By Bosch

March 6, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this

Mr. Headcase,

Thanks for pointing out to everyone what kind of person you really are. Now we can all dismiss your posts of inane rants and scroll past them like we do Andy’s.

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 6, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

Ah, but then I’m reminded of the NYU study of conservatives and liberals, how conservatives failed because they, like insane people, use the same tactics over and over expecting different results. I guess that’s why the deficit has grown over the past 30 years of Republican administrations, why the job market has shrunk, and why Democrats always bail us out.

By Lib-E Loons

March 6, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

Supply, demand and gas prices

When crude-oil prices rise, so do gasoline prices. When oil companies’ tax bills rise, so do gasoline prices.

Fortunately, this blatant political ploy has scant chance of becoming law. President Bush vowed last week to veto the bill if it also passes the Senate, and the 236-182 House margin fell far short of the two-thirds needed to override that.

However, the basic forces elevating them over the long term will remain in place. Removing nearly $2 billion a year in tax credits from Big Oil would hurt, not help. As a letter on this page points out, the oil industry would pass along its rising tax bills through increased costs to consumers.

The House legislation does provide tax credits for alternative energy development — a positive step. But the punitive tax hike on Big Oil would likely limit the industry’s overdue exploration and development of new domestic oil sources.

Yet global demand keeps growing. Over the long term, our best strategy against the economic menace of oil-price inflation remains the three-point plan of lowering our consumption of oil, raising our domestic oil production, and developing alternative energy sources.

That doesn’t mean we can drill or conserve our way out of this mess. It does mean common-sense changes are in order. Our attempts to solve our energy problems can’t succeed unless we find and develop more domestic sources — including oil — and intensify conservation.

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 6, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

Bosch - must have hit a nerve, right?

By RB from Gwinnett

March 6, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

By Abomi Nation 10:24 AM

Abomi, a simple “I have no idea, I just heard that on CNN” would be fine next time.

You already supported my position of the 11% approval rating. That’s a fact. You disputed that fact saying it was because of R’s. Back it up.

The stock market numbers are available at yahoo, google, etc. Look it up. They go up and they go down. They’re up from 2001 when Bush took office. They’re down from this time last year. What is your point? Do you want some kind of communist guarantee they will always go up and never go down? Electing a Dem president won’t change your loser mentality, Abomi. Only you can change that.

By Lib-E Loons

March 6, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

..a week ago, President Bush touted tax breaks for oil companies that have just posted the largest profits in the history of American business. Yet he was dumbstruck when asked about the prospect of $4-a-gallon gasoline, a price that will force many families to choose between food and basic travel. “Wait — what did you just say?”, the president asked after a reporter solicited his advice for Americans facing that price, which was predicted by many analysts. “Oh, yeah?” Bush said. “That’s interesting. I hadn’t heard that.” He doesn’t get out much, understandably. But had the president been in California over the weekend, he would have found consumers paying what he apparently has yet to fathom — more than $4 a gallon at some stations. And then on Wednesday of this week, oil reached its all-time, inflation-adjusted high on the global market: $104 a barrel. Remember that number. Because when oil was half that price, three years ago, Bush said the market alone was sufficient incentive for Big Oil to make added investments. But now that the price is over the $100 mark, Bush wants to continue giving breaks to oil companies rather than shift those incentives to alternative fuels, as many in Congress would do.

By Lib-E Loons

March 6, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this

For Exxon Mobil, there was $40.6 billion in incentive. That was their profit last year — earning $77,220 a minute. Fine. Greed is good. All hail the free-market and shareholders who are seeing a nice return on their oil stocks. But asking the American taxpayer to indirectly subsidize this is grand folly at a time when the world’s oil reserves will soon be in decline. Bush implied that the oil industry would not build new refineries without tax breaks. Wait a minute — they haven’t built a refinery for 32 years. What they have done is take refineries out of commission. Scarcity is also good, as Enron showed when they ginned up the phony California energy crisis seven years ago.

By Lib-E Loons

March 6, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this

You libs are so fearful you’ll lose one thing that you’ll sacrifice all.

Idiots.

By mm

March 6, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this

RB,

You are the dense dunce. Congress’ approval rating would be much higher if we didn’t have the GOP filibustering on a daily basis and Bush vetoing every bill.

The GOP political game is backfiring and the morons don’t even realize it.

By AJC Management

March 6, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

{{{{Just after Barack was elected to the United States Senate, Michelle received a large pay increase—from $121,910 in 2004 to $316,962 in 2005. “Mrs. Obama is extremely overpaid,” one citizen wrote in a letter to the editor of the Tribune, after the paper published a story questioning the timing of the award. “Now, what is the real reason behind such an inflated salary?” Her bosses at the University of Chicago Hospitals vigorously defended the raise, pointing out that it put her salary on a par with that of other vice-presidents at the hospital. (As it happens, Obama has spent most of her life working within the two institutions for which she most frequently claims a populist disdain: government and the health-care system.)}}}}

Gee, and we wonder why health care costs are so high.

~~~~~

{{{{But amid the screaming, raucous throng, the fact remains: Her message is a downer. It is completely negative. She helps predisposed audiences to bring their resentments into sharp focus, and explode. Any sense of achieving, or at least feeling, something new or fresh is what Mr. Obama brings to the table. She doesn’t. Other than tenacity, there isn’t much truly positive that wells up from Ku Klux Rodham. It may yet turn out that this woman and hard times are a strong match to win the Democratic Party’s nomination. If she does, that one big question will remain: Will the whole country want her?}}}}

~~~~~

The big lie, repeated over and over again:

{{{{But al-Qaida in Iraq has about as much to do with al-Qaida in Afghanistan as the San Diego Padres have to do with the Catholic Church. It’s a separate, independent and largely homegrown group that is focused on slaughtering Iraqi Shiites, not targeting American cities. And here’s a newsflash for McCain: It didn’t exist until our invasion created conditions favorable to violent insurgency.}}}}

Easy to deceive, that’s our libs:

{{{{The Recent Capture Of Al Qaeda In Iraq’s Most Senior Iraqi Official Reveals That The Group Is Led By Foreigners Who Are Trying To Deceive Others Into Thinking They Are Iraqis.}}}}

By Lib-E Loons

March 6, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

It’s hardly surprising that Bush had a bar-scan moment similar to his father’s befuddlement over something any first-grader could explain at a supermarket counter. But a man who is clueless about the price of a commodity so elemental to everyday life should not be giving advice on the value of that commodity. And it says something about the industry’s smarts if Bush, whom many Americans already see in the past tense, is the best advocate they’ve got. The world oil cartel snubbed him again this week on his pleas for more production. But no amount of Saudi hand-holding and pathetic groveling is going to change anything so long as we remain the top customer for their product.

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 6, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

mm - you are in denial. Congress’s ratings are in the dumps because the policies espoused by Pelosi, Ried and Co. are unpopular in the extreme with the American people and their leadership is ineffective. Clinton pulled that same blame-game back in 1994 and it cost you folks control of Congress for 12 years. Wanna try the same failed policies and tactics again?

By AmVet

March 6, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

More of This is the failed Bush presidency (beginning Nov 2001 which should have been in the previous post):

Bush issues executive order blocking the release of presidential records.

Bush orders that “enemy combatants” be tried in military tribunals.

Justice Department issues regulations allowing illegal immigrants to be detained indefinitely if their release could pose “serious adverse foreign-policy consequences.”

Bush informs congressional leaders that he intends to pull out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty unilaterally.

Bush repeals “responsible contractor rule” that had required scrutiny of safety and environmental law violations in the awarding of federal contracts.

Cheney refuses to provide details of his multiple meetings with Enron officials.

In a memo to the president, White House counsel Alberto Gonzales writes that “the new paradigm” of the war on terror “renders obsolete” the Geneva Conventions’ “strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.”

White House unveils its “Clear Skies” initiative calling for voluntary reductions of three major pollutants; the plan would delay by a decade reductions required under existing law.

IRS records reveal increases in audits of the working poor; audits of large corporations and the rich drop to all-time lows.

News reports reveal that Bush activated a “shadow government” after September 11 attacks without telling Congress; civilian administrators are being sequestered in underground bunkers in case of a terrorist attack.

Bush’s welfare reform proposal advises paying “workfare” recipients less than the minimum wage.

Pentagon’s “Nuclear Posture Review” calls for new, “low-yield” nuclear weapons and lists seven “rogue” nations as possible targets for a nuclear attack.

Bush signs McCain-Feingold bill banning soft money behind closed doors, then departs immediately for a fund-raising trip.

Bush administration opposes the reappointment of climatologist Robert Watson as head on the UN Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change.

Office of Management and Budget prevents the EPA from declaring a public health emergency over dangerous asbestos fibers that come from a Montana mine and are used in insulation throughout the country.

Bush officials express support for the ouster of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez; a day after Chavez retu

By Bosch

March 6, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this

Mr. Headcase,

I would have to take you serious in order for you to hit a nerve. Please don’t flatter yourself on my account.

You’re a flaming hypocrit as demonstrated daily with your inane posts of GOP slobber.

Here’s a question for you? When have you ever supported anything you’ve said with a fact? Do you know what a fact is?

Here, I’ll help you out:

a. something put forth that is objectively real (do you know what objectively real means?)

b. something with real, demonstrable existence: actuality.

Can you grasp that concept?

Thanks in advance (as RW and Danish like to write).

By Copyleft

March 6, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

The snag of the Republican leadership choosing a moderate THIS election season is that they’re going to lose anyway…. and that’ll give ammo to the far-right nuts who will declare that “They lost because they weren’t conservative ENOUGH, like me!”

It would’ve been best for America if they nominated a Bush clone to go down in humiliating, inevitable defeat. That woud send a clearer message to the far-right nutzis that their day is done. As it is, they have a denial strategy ready to deploy in November.

By RB from Gwinnett

March 6, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

By luckovichisaheadcase 10:47 AM |

When I challenge Bosch’s mealy mouth garbage, I never get anything either. But I do ge the “how dare you” response just like I got earlier today.

Bill “gave up” his law licens