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Home > Opinion > Mike Luckovich > Archives > 2008 > June > 12 > Entry

Iraq solution

By Mike Luckovich | Thursday, June 12, 2008, 07:09 AM

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By AJC/DNC Management

June 12, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this

Geez, already the libs have changed their lie about McBushie:

{{{{McCain: Goal in Iraq is to reduce casualties-Urinal/PMS}}}}

Yesterday they snatched one word out of context and got busted, today they snivel and whine.

Sickos.

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{{{{U.S.-led forces dropped more than a dozen bombs in and near Pakistan’s tribal regions Wednesday in an attack that >>>>dramatically exacerbated tensions along the Afghan border<<<<< and, according to authorities here, killed 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops, blah, blah, blah, they were just tending their sheep, blah, blah, then evil Bushie flew over, blah, blah, al Qaeda upset and angry, blah, blah, bad America-Urinal/DNC}}}}

Uh, we got pictures:

{{{{The grainy, monochrome images show about a half-dozen men firing small arms and rocket-propelled grenades from a ridge at coalition troops off-camera in the valley below.}}}}

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{{{{Democrats are going to have to grow up. The oil-rich areas they want to leave untouched are accessible with minimal environmental disturbance, thanks to modern technology. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita flattened terminals across the Gulf of Mexico but didn’t cause a single oil spill. As for anticarbon theology, oil will be indispensable over the next half-century and probably longer, like it or not. Airplanes will never fly on woodchips, and you won’t be able to charge your car with a windmill for some time, if ever.}}}}

Yeah, right, dhimmokrats “grow up.”

Never happen.

{{{{The Democrats’ climate-change bill collapsed last week under the weight of brutal cost realities. It was a wake-up call. This is the year Americans joined the real world of energy costs. Now someone needs to explain to them why we - and we alone - are sitting on an ocean of energy but won’t drill for it.}}}}

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Aaahhh, yes, another scumbag emerges from the wordwork of the Obambi campaign:

{{{{We can only wonder if Eric Holder, who is also among Mr. Obama’s veep vetters, will be the next to join this club. As Deputy Attorney General in the Clinton Administration, he played a role in the Marc Rich pardon that also deserves to be fully vetted - all the more so if Mr. Holder is on the short list to be Mr. Obama’s Attorney General.}}}}

Maybe Bruno was right about this guy not being fully vetted.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 12, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this

The Bush legacy that will be remembered, part 1:

{{{{When the Taliban were driven from power in 2001, they left Afghans to build a society from nothing. But working in partnership with the United States and other nations, the Afghan people have made amazing progress. Since the fall of the Taliban, Afghanistan’s infant-mortality rate has been reduced by almost 25%. Its per capita GDP has increased by 70%. In 2001, only 8% of Afghans had access to basic health care. Today, that number is 85%. In 2001, fewer than a million Afghan children were in school - all of them boys. Today, more than six million Afghan children are in school - about a third of them are girls.}}}}

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{{{{Arlen Specter departed from Senate self-congratulation: “The American people live under the illusion that we have a United States Senate. The facts show that the Senate is realistically dysfunctional. It is on life support, perhaps even moribund. The only facet of Senate bipartisanship is the conspiracy of successive Republican and Democratic leaders to employ this procedural device known as filling the tree. It is known that way to insiders, and it is incomprehensible to outsiders.”}}}}

{{{{The device was used last week when Reid called up the bill to control global warming, producing the state of futility that has haunted Reid’s year and a half as majority leader. Characteristically, Reid neither found support to pass this bill nor attempted a compromise with opponents. Debating an energy tax as gasoline prices hit four dollars defied political logic. But Sen. Barbara Boxer, chairman of the Environment Committee, insisted. Reid bowed to her.}}}}

The “Do Harm First” United States Congress:

{{{{Congress proposes to seize money from the oil companies whenever prices are high. This is a formula to keep supplies tight and prices high. Essentially, Congress, having made oil prices higher, wants to punish oil companies for those prices being so high, a move which will keep prices high… and inspire Congress to punish oil companies even more later.}}}}

By IN THE NEWS

June 12, 2008 8:08 AM | Link to this

In Debate Over Permanent Bases In Iraq, U.S. Seeks Authorization For War In Iran…..The reason the White House is so hell-bent on signing a long-term agreement may have less to do with Iraq and more to do with Iran. According to press reports of the ongoing negotiations, the Bush administration is seeking the “power to determine if a hostile act from another country is aggression against Iraq.” Ali al Adeeb, a leading member of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Dawa party, confirmed:The Americans insist so far that is they who define what is an aggression on Iraq and what is democracy inside Iraq…if we come under aggression we should define it and ask for help…..The administration’s request would seemingly allow the U.S. to brand Iran as an enemy of Iraq and attack Iran in the name of defending Iraq pursuant to a legal obligation under the status of forces agreement.

AND

How Iran Has Bush Over a Barrel…..If wasn’t clear before it should be now: the Bush administration can’t afford to attack Iran. With gas already at $4 a gallon and rising almost every day, Iran figuratively and literally has the United States over a barrel. As much as the administration is tempted, it is not about to test Iran’s promise to “explode” the Middle East if it is attacked. ….The Iranians haven’t been shy about making clear what’s at stake. If the U.S. or Israel so much as drops a bomb on one of its reactors or its military training camps, Iran will shut down Gulf oil exports by launching a barrage of Chinese Silkworm missiles on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and Arab oil facilities. In the worst case scenario, seventeen million barrels of oil would come off world markets. ….. One oil speculator told me that oil would hit $200 a barrel within minutes. But Iran’s official news agency, Fars, puts it at $300 a barrel. I asked him if Iran is right, what does that mean?

By IN THE NEWS

June 12, 2008 8:09 AM | Link to this

McCain in ‘05: I’m ‘totally in agreement’ with Bush on ‘the most important issues of the day.’

LET’S SEE….IN 05 CQ says he only voted with Bush 77% of the time….

AND AS OF THIS MOMENT…he’s at 100%

By Goldie

June 12, 2008 8:14 AM | Link to this

Yes, McBush’s attempts to spin our occupation as “not too important” is very telling to our troops — “you’re home already, guys, so stop your complaining and demanding more benefits!”

The Repugs lose big-time in November!

By Copyleft

June 12, 2008 8:16 AM | Link to this

Another funny cartoon! At least it would be a “maverick” idea from McLame!

By IN THE NEWS

June 12, 2008 8:16 AM | Link to this

WSJ/NBC Poll Shows Change Trumps Experience

YEP, THAT EXPERIENCE THING.

16 MONTHS AGO OBAMA TOLD US WHAT WE HAD ALREADY FIGURED OUT. WASHINGTON DC IS BROKEN, NEEDS TO BE CHANGED.

A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO McCAIN STARTS TALKING CHANGE TOO.

SO WHY DID IT TAKE McCAIN 24 YEARS – 4 SENATE TERMS – TO FIGURE OUT THE SAME THING?

CAN YOU SAY – BAD EXPERIENCE????

By Steven Daedalus

June 12, 2008 8:20 AM | Link to this

Once again the massacre begins. Andi’s already on his knees.

By reebok

June 12, 2008 8:35 AM | Link to this

Stop picking on McCain. When you’re 90 years old, you’ll say a lot of stupid stuff too.

By M. R. Biggins

June 12, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this

SAME SH!T, DIFFERENT DAY.

By kevin

June 12, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this

Again we bash the president n for his job if we could drill r get oil from here n off shore n if the donkey party would cave in let happen gas would drop alot….and no oil companies make little gains no matter what Obama are clinton say…now i repeat the story say if a donkey party did same as bush is doin u all would clap n sing n say great job u did….Now take other if some one from the elephant party complain of it u hear u are un-american n stuff u get me drift…U understand it if not well u were taugh in a Goverment school…

By Bosch

June 12, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

Yes, Luckovich, all this mess can be explained away with a simple change in definition of words.

I had a very similar personal experience yesterday - “no, it’s not this, it’s actually that - see, doesn’t that make sense now?”

The only problem is that the people who change the words assume that the people they are trying to explain the problem away too, have the brain function of a slug. Too bad for them, huh?

Jedi mind tricks only work on the weak minded.

By Bosch

June 12, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

Actually, kevin, no we wouldn’t be singing his praises.

And can you please explain how drilling for oil here in our country will help the global oil crisis? Isn’t that alot like giving a cocaine addict meth instead?

I was taught in a government school (through high school, not college), and I learned how to spell relatively well.

By Ignorant Liberal

June 12, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

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needsalife, Yet your candidate doesn’t even know very much about his OWN country. What a loser of a candidate the left has

If he knows this little about his homeland, what makes you think he knows squat about any foreign country?

By RW-(the original)

June 12, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

In early May in Oregon Obama told the crowd he had been to 57 states so far with one to go and his staff wouldn’t let him go to Hawaii or Alaska. 57+1+2=60, and at the time he was telling us that he had kept his pledge not to campaign in Florida or Michigan, If we were to believe that then Obambi thinks there are 62 United States of America.

Two years ago Obambi breezed through Iraq for a photo op, so it would appear there’s a good chance he already thinks Iraq is one of our states even before the scribbler came up with this lie about McCain.

By the way, the YouTube video of that Oregon speech has been flushed down the memory hole. Are you moonbat(ic)s® still operating under the illusion that Obamba will be running an open government when he even makes his gaffs disappear?

With that I’ll be out for the day, feel free to obsess over me anyway, Oozy.

By Bosch

June 12, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this

RW,

I guess none of the candidates you’ve supported, say, misspoke before? Sure, that’s a big thing to misspeak, but please, do you really want to bring up gaffes that politicians have said?

Here are some of my favorite Bush blunders:

“I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.” —Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000

Human beings and fish coexisting peacefully! That’s classic. Love that!

“You work three jobs? … Uniquely American, isn’t it? I mean, that is fantastic that you’re doing that.” —to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005

“Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country.” —Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004

“They misunderestimated me.” —Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000

“Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?” —Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000

By IN THE NEWS

June 12, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this

57 STATES?

KINDA LIKE SPENDING A WEEK AT R.W. McMULTINAMES HOUSE ONE DAY!

By IN THE NEWS

June 12, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this

R.W. McMULTINAME OUT

SURROGATES APPEAR NOW

By Bosch

June 12, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this

ITN,

I’d much rather a presidential candidate make a goof about 57 states than to make a goof about Sunnis and Shiites, al-Qaeda, and whose doing what in Iran, how ‘bout you?

By IN THE NEWS

June 12, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

TAKE A PEEK AT THIS SILLINESS

RAPTURE TRIGGERED E-MAIL?????

NOW THAT”S SOME HOLY SPAM!

By @@

June 12, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this

If we go with the 57 states that Obama thinks we already have, we could squeeze in a few more middle eastern countries.

Oh Nooooooo! He didn’t. This reminds me of those ambulance chasing lawyer commercials you see on local T.V. stations.

Burdened by credit card debt? It may not be your fault. Sen. Barack Obama says in many cases, the credit card companies are to blame for “pushing” financially strapped Americans “over the edge.”

((Obama says the sour economy is forcing Americans to put more and more of their debt onto credit cards. (The American Banking Association on its Web site debunks a number of “myths,” including the notion that Americans are “up to their eyeballs” in credit card debt. In fact, the ABA says, only about 46 percent of all families carry a credit card balance while 54 percent pay their outstanding balance in full each month. The ABA also points to a Government Accountability Office study showing that credit card balances as a percentage of total household debt have been declining since the mid-1990s.))

((Obama said he’ll propose a credit card bill of rights that would ban unilateral changes to credit card agreements. “You should pay the rate you signed up for. If the credit card company wants to raise that rate, you should be able to opt out of the agreement.”))

((According to the American Banking Association, if consumers are unhappy with the interest rate or other terms, “there are thousands of issuers that would be happy to accept their business.” The ABA says the consumers’ “power of choice” to transfer outstanding balances “cannot be overstated.” It notes that hiking the interest rate allows credit card companies to “avoid taking on risks that are too high to maintain.”))

Now I don’t mean to be harsh, but Obumbler just insulted your intelligence.

But he IS a shiny shyster. When I went to Google News there were pictures of Obumbler putting on his shades…putting on his jacket…getting into his car…waving out of the car window.

Very hollywood(ISH).

By Goldie

June 12, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this

One Iraq photo-op that tops all photo-ops:

McCain Wrong on Iraq Security, Merchants Say

By IN THE NEWS

June 12, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this

Bosch,

I’m with you….

57 states ( a joke I think) versus “not too important” or “100 years” spoken by a joke.

By Midori

June 12, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

LOL, Bosch and ITN — you have “confused” RW, the original Retard.

Watch him come back with something completely irrelevant and stupid.

BTW - the wingers keep howling about drilling off Florida.

Last time I looked, Florida has had TWO GOP governors, back-to-back. Wouldn’t the governor have something to do with the non-drilling for oil off its coast?

And do you think it has dawned on the ninnies that it will take at least 10 YEARS to get what oil there is out of ANWAR? It has been predicted that that oil will reduce the cost of a barrel by a whopping total of .75 a barrel.

the problem with those morons is they just keep repeating the standard issued GOP talking points and don’t bother to research the issues themselves. It just sounds good to them.

By Midori

June 12, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this

Fox News calls Michelle Obama “Obama’s Baby Mama”

RW/@@: Is this the new “meme”?

By GMAN

June 12, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this

AJC/DNC Management, you are back at it again, you long winded gas bag. Please shorten your posts if you want anyone to read them. Until then, they are just another form of self-gratification (if you know what I mean).

By Bosch

June 12, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this

Midori,

No, I don’t think it’s occured to them, nor has it occured to them that the oil that comes out of the ground will not necessarily be used to benefit the consumers in this country.

But I do agree with what Paul said yesterday, that if the U.S. were to announce plans to start drilling, that would have an effect (or affect? didn’t learn that in my government school) on prices. However, I feel like the problem is with the use of oil, but I feel pretty confident that most people are now beginning to see what needs to be done.

Again, Jedi mind tricks only work on the weak minded. I wish I was a Jedi, or a non-Muggle (actually, I think I’m a Squib) - I could get some things DONE!!!

By IN THE NEWS

June 12, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this

Midori,

Jeb told George NO in 2005.

Crist also opposes it!

AND HEY…I am not taking responsibility for confusing R.W. McMultiname…..I can’t be held accountable for his goofiness.

No way, not me.

By GMAN

June 12, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

Ignorant Liberal, the “57 states” remark by Barak Obama, the next president of these United States, was a slip of the tongue and anyone with half a brain knows this, that includes the wingnuts of the knuckdragging party. Where’s Mr. McGoo this morning?

June 12, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

<<>>

needsalife, Yet your candidate doesn’t even know very much about his OWN country. What a loser of a candidate the left has

By Copyleft

June 12, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

So now Faux is relying on racism, “Obama’s baby mama.” Yesterday was the “terrorist fist jab.”

Really, watching that channel should be a badge of shame. It’s certainly an indicator of profound retardation.

By IN THE NEWS

June 12, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this

[SECRET HISTORY OF THE CREDIT CARD, Even if you make your credit card payments on time, the credit card bank can raise your interest rate automatically if you’re late on payments elsewhere — such as on another credit card or on a phone, car, or house payment — or simply because the bank feels you have taken on too much debt. This practice is called the “universal default” clause and increasingly is becoming a standard clause in credit card agreements. According to credit card executives, the logic behind universal default is that the bank is not being unreasonable in raising rates when it has reason to believe that the risk of being repaid by the customer has increased. Note: Credit card banks can now easily track your everyday financial activities and monitor your credit score — see below ….

AND

So You Support Usury, Senator?

AND

“love ye your enemies, and do good and lend, hoping for nothing again.”

GUESS WHO?

Y’ALL PROBABLY HEAR OF HIM.

By Bosch

June 12, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this

The Fox News graphic said “Outraged Liberals: Stop Picking on Obama’s Baby Mama”

So are they trying to insinuate that outraged liberals are calling her that?

I’d like to know who are these “outraged liberals.” Or is that a clever juxtaposition Fox used to throw blame off of their blatant unprofessionalism.

Hmmmm….knowing Fox, it was a clever juxtaposition, so they can say, “Oh we ACTUALLY said it was the ‘outraged liberals who said that, not us” of course they’ll never be able to explain who these so called “outraged liberals” are, or when they said it.

But that’s just me.

By IN THE NEWS

June 12, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this

Analysts say Obama offers three times the tax break for middle class

BUT McCAIN WILL MISLEAD ABOUT IT 33 TIMES MORE!

By getalife

June 12, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

“Veto my beer?”

Out of my cold, dead hand.

By IN THE NEWS

June 12, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

TALK ABOUT VETTING VP CANDIDATES…..

BUT WHAT TEAM IS CONSIDERING

AN EXORCIST FOR VICE PRESIDENT?

By Paul

June 12, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this

ITN-Midori

I believe that’s called “NIMBY” - Not In My Backyard. Works regardless of party, regardless of Reps with offshore drilling or Dems opposing wind farms.

Bosch

As I’ve mentioned, O’Reilly’s been railing against not just Big Oil but - ahead of anyone else - speculators for months. Even when guests have reported “Govt Agency X investigated and found no link” BOR responded with “I’m not buying it.”

Now, the talks is the effect of speculators. Dick Morris was on last night - pointed out speculator investment in petroleum is Twenty times now what it was in 2000. Referenced head of Oppenheimer Fund, who said “the price does not reflect market forces and speculation has a significant impact.” George Soros said essentially the same thing before Congress a month or so ago. Of course, Morris being Morris, he had to get in his dig that hedge fund managers donate 2 to 1 Dems vs Reps.

O’Reilly then had on Dennis Kucinich (see why some people watch this show?) who discussed his impeachment resolution (BOR thought it was a waste of time - took away from other good things K could do) - then they argued over windfall profits - then Kucinich was shocked when he said he was working on commodities futures problems and BOR told him to go after the oil speculators. K asked if BOR would work with him on it and BOR said he was with him.

Talk about real change. Kucinich has the smarts to realize the advantage he can get by leveraging with BOR and his huge audience.

See why I like source material, not agenda-driven website commentary as the only look?

Here’s the entire interview (not just a few clips without the before and after):

Link: (O’Reilly and Kucinich - let’s work together](http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2008/06/12/bill-oreilly-to-kucinich-im-your-best-friend/)

By Paul

June 12, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this

Link: O’Reilly and Kucinich - work together

By @@

June 12, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this

Midori:

(((RW/@@: Is this the new “meme”?)))

Meme works for me, but I thought that’s what some people call their grandmothers.

Meme Michelle it is!

By Midori

June 12, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

you know Bosch - that curious senario could backfire: they (OPEC) could take that bluff as a signal to go buck wild and shoot the prices thru the roof and cash in even more while they can.

wingnut ideas need to be throughly thought thru. after all, exactly WHAT have they been right about? Huh?

and why do we base our foreign policy on bluster and bullying? trying to scare them into lowering prices???

why can’t we find alternative energy sources here in the US? We can’t drill our way out of this crisis. My god - did we not put a man on the moon??

By Bosch

June 12, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

Paul,

The oil crisis is, in my opinion, like most things, a combination of many factors.

There’s the oil speculators, the instability in the Middle East, and increased global demand.

Now, I don’t know if what the oil speculators have done is legal, but I’m assuming it is, slimy, and unethical in my opinion, but still legal.

The other two? Never going to change.

Now, I try real hard to not lay blame on one party/person/thing, but the war in Iraq? Yes, I blame solely on Bush and his administration. Which, in my opinion has only exasperated the instability in the Middle East. Well, Osama bin Laden did that too, but I can’t do anything about that, except hold those accountable who have done little to actually catch him, and I can certainly hold those accountable who got us into an unneccesary war, and not vote for those whose policy will be to keep us there instead of actually doing something more aggressive to put an abrupt end to Bin Laden.

But I digress.

Global demand? That’s not going to change in the short term, but my hope is that we will find viable alternatives, relatively soon, that will enable us to put our eggs in more than one basket, if you know what I mean. It will take a while, sure, there are no real quick fixes.

Out for a while.

By Bosch

June 12, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this

Midori,

Sorry, didn’t see your post.

Good point. I’ve often said that we should find a way to transform body fat into oil - we could give tax breaks for liposuction.

But I agree, there are ways around oil, but I feel there are no quick fixes. And I agree that your analysis of what OPEC would do is just as plausible. Instability is instability, and, in my opinion, we have one small group of bungling idiots to thank for that part of the equation.

Out again.

By Goldie

June 12, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this

Midori @ 11:04 — I’m still wondering why we can’t use satellite technology to power our cars today? Or why production of the electric and hydrogen cars has been delayed or completely cancelled? Maybe because the Big Oil companies are in cahoots with the auto industry?

Our autos are using the same source of energy (black goop) on which they were based 100 years ago… and yet we get new technology and updates for our video games and cell phones every 6 months or so???

By phil Greene

June 12, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

Iraq would be the fifty second state. Israel is the fifty-first.

By Ignorant Liberal

June 12, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

So gman, 10:01- Let see if I got this right, a liberal says something really stupid and it is just a ‘slip of the tongue and anyone with half a brain knows this’ BUT if a conservative says something stupid, it just goes to show and proves that he is an uneducated fool.

So if a person is ignorant about his own country, what makes you think he knows anything about any foreign country? Blind faith, or just wishful thinking?

By Paul

June 12, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

Bosch

I agree with the multiple-cause explanation. I am of the camp, though, that says this day was inevitable - and I will say, even if Iraq had never happened. We got a preview of it with the first Arab Oil Embargo. So all these factors - and the complete failure of every administration and Congress since Carter - all contribute to what we have today. We’ve seen a complete lack of leadership there as well as a huge dose of hedonism from the American populace.

But we still haven’t seen political cooperation or the putting aside of political self interest for the common good. Dems this week prevented any expansion of drilling. They allege there are plenty of drilling places available right now. Rep opposition this week meant the provision to crack down on speculators will not happen.

I think Obama had a point about peoples’ acceptance of a condition when it is gradual vs when it happens rapidly.

Don’t believe me? Ever seen how a person views a 30-lb weight gain over six years compares with a person who had a 30-lb weight gain in one year? One is a vague awareness that something’s changed. The other is more along the lines of “Holy !@@#!”

By Paul

June 12, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this

Goldie 11:22

GM’s Volt (all electric for a long range, then gas; also flex fuel) is slated for production within two years.

Honda’s running hydrogen-powered cars in southern California. They’re production-level cars, are on special leases to customers to get feedback and get ready for production.

After the Oil Embargo Brazil began a crash course on sugar-based ethanol. They mandated production for vehicles that ran on only that. Most are used in urban areas. (We still have a tariff on Brazilian ethanol to protect Agribusiness). So the technology exists.

I saw the following proposals - make sense to me.

* All American made vehicles must get 30MPG by 2010 or pay a major tax surcharge to the government. * Oil and commodity speculators must put up 50% of their transactions in cash. That would weed out some of the gamblers who are manipulating the market. * American oil companies must supply the federal government with a written explanation every time they raise the price of gas and oil. * Americans would be asked to cut back at least 10% on leisure driving and not to buy gas at all on Mondays.

Of course, if you base your opinion of an idea not upon the idea but upon the messenger, you may not like the proposals.

Link: Boiling Oil

By AJC/DNC Management

June 12, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this

{{{{By GMAN June 12, 2008 9:51 AM AJC/DNC Management, you are back at it again, you long winded gas bag. Please shorten your posts if you want anyone to read them. Until then, they are just another form of self-gratification (if you know what I mean).}}}}

GirlieMAN: I don’t care if you beat your meat while read my posts, you sicko.

I know, you just had a slip of the tongue, right, you “old” fool?

Moron.

By AmVet

June 12, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this

A possible running mate for John McCain, along with key members of Illinois’ Republican Party Thursday night talked about how to revive the G-O-P in Illinois.

They were at the Lincoln-Reagan Day dinner in Bloomington.

And in a state now controlled by Democrats some say the Illinois Republican party is in need of a makeover.

(SOME???)

It’s trying to cultivate and get new blood, new ideas and people who still stand for the republican principals but are open minded in other areas,” says Republican State Representative Dan Brady of Bloomington.

The goal behind the Lincoln-Reagan Day dinner is to strengthen the Republican Party.

But in order to do that some say changes need to be made. “I think we have to get back to making some people understand what our values our and do a better job marketing. We have to reach out to young people. We need to have more diverse candidates. We have to do a better job with women so there’s a lot to do,” said Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota.

Yes gov, no doubt your innumerable and enormous problems are all do to a poor job of marketing the neo-con agenda!

Bloodbath part Deux, Coming to an election near you this November. (Just for the ballerina).

By geezUS

June 12, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this

To AJC/DNC guy. You are pathetic. The basis of your entire existence is to spew your self worshipped opinion in this space. Indeed a long winded gas bag. I’m crying little teeny liberal tears for one so pathetic.

By Paul

June 12, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

Well well.

Democratic Representative Serrano of NY and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus have told Obama that if he doesn’t support amnesty for illegals he won’t get the Latino vote.

Historically, a Rep candidate needs only about 35 percent of the Latino vote. Obama polls at about two-thirds now among Latinos. Now this threat.

Still seems that some of the Dems’ worst enemies for getting a President elected are found within their own party.

Link: Dem Latinos warn Obama

By AJC/DNC Management

June 12, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this

{{{{By geezUS June 12, 2008 12:31 PM To AJC/DNC guy. You are pathetic. The basis of your entire existence is to spew your self worshipped opinion in this space. Indeed a long winded gas bag. I’m crying little teeny liberal tears for one so pathetic.}}}}

Who are you, hideous little troll, GirlieMAN’s butt buddy?

Freak.

By getalife

June 12, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this

And now for some really great news;

Weed Potency Hits 30-Year High

Awesome.

By AmVet

June 12, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this

Paul,

Re your 12:34, I ma always ultra-suspicious when I see the word amnesty used regarding immigration.

From what I have seen, it is yet another of the many “conservative” lies posed as truth.

The excoriated work toward citizenship fiasco that McCain was involved in some while back was never about amnesty.

But that doesn’t keep the cretins from trotting out that term.

You understand I’m sure.

What exactly are the details regarding this supposed “amnesty”?

By AmVet

June 12, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this

getalife,

Ronnie Raygun and Ed Meese must be rolling over in their graves!

(Ed Meese isn’t dead yet?! You coulda fooled me!)

By @@

June 12, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this

Gas emissions? or Gas “O”missions?

By gadem

June 12, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

I was reading what the liar RW was saying about Afghanistan is such a wonderful place now, but we he left out…I am sure intentionally…since the Taliban left, Opium production is back in the swing…Heroin use in on the increase in the US, and most of it is coming from Afghanistan…I am sure you overlooked that RW/Andygirl

By GMAN

June 12, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

Poor Ingnorant Liberal (closet wingnut)

You know that Mr. McGoo doesn’t know who the different factions are in Iraq and their positions, just as you probably don’t. However, something as serious as war, which effects the lives of thousands of our men and women directly and millions indirectly cannot be spoken of lightly. Please think before you attempt to make foolish comparisons.

By Paul

June 12, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this

AmVet

That was a most excellent point. Nearly every commentary I saw characterized the Hispanic Caucus position as “amnesty.” And in all cases, overtly or subtly, it seemed pejorative.

Even reprints of articles carried the word “amnesty” in the reference link.

Here’s what the Caucus says they work for:

As part of its stated mission to support what it calls “comprehensive immigration reform,” the Congressional Hispanic Caucus desires “a tough, fair, and workable path to legalization for the undocumented.” The website for the group argues that “the only practical and humane solution is to set up a program that gives individuals a chance to come out of the shadows, register with the government, submit to security screenings, pay restitution, learn English and U.S. civics, and maintain a clean work and criminal record.”

If that’s amnesty, I’m all for it.

But the other story is there’s a Democratic interest group who, if their platform does not get the attention they want, seem to be saying “well, then, we’re not going to work hard to get you elected.”

I suppose such is what happens when groups can’t see beyond their own agendas.

BTW - doesn’t the Dem Hisp Caucus platform sound a lot like what McCain proposed a while back?

By IN THE NEWS

June 12, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this

WELL, WELL

FOR ALL THE TALK OF SOURCE MATERIAL…

WE ARE SERVED:

“Democratic Representative Serrano of NY and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus have told Obama that if he doesn’t support amnesty for illegals he won’t get the Latino vote.”

THE MONEY QUOTE HOWEVER IS:

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) must commit to helping illegal immigrants achieve citizenship or else risk losing the vital Latino vote in the general election, Hispanic Democratic lawmakers are warning.

If he does not promise so-called comprehensive immigration reform, the lawmakers say, the only other way to win over Hispanic supporters of his erstwhile rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.), may be to pick her as his running mate.

SEE THE WORD AMNESTY ANYWHERE?

GO BACK AND CHECK THE WHOLE LINK - DON’T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT

BTW, SINCE WORDS MATTER

am·nes·ty Audio Help /ˈæmnəsti/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[am-nuh-stee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, plural -ties, verb, -tied, -ty·ing. –noun 1. a general pardon for offenses, esp. political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction.
2. Law. an act of forgiveness for past offenses, esp. to a class of persons as a whole.
3. a forgetting or overlooking of any past offense.
–verb (used with object) 4. to grant amnesty to; pardon.

LET’S AGREE TO TELLING THE TRUTH

IT AIN”T AMNESTY IT”S “SOME FOLKS DON”T THINK THE PENALTIES ARE TOUGH ENOUGH”

By @@

June 12, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this

(((Heroin use in on the increase in the US, and most of it is coming from Afghanistan)))

Kill the addicts?

Getalife:

You be careful now…

(((The director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which funded the study, warned that the stronger weed could trigger changes in the brain leading to addiction and —->mental illness.<—-)))

You may have to cut back.

(((users tend to adjust to stronger marijuana by smoking less of it.)))

By AmVet

June 12, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this

Paul, to me it is more than just a little ironic that when GWB supported one of the few really sensible ideas in his entire Presidency he was absolutely flamed by the “base”.

As, of course, was McCain.

Both showed a lack of courage, independence AND leadership IMHO by submissively backing down at the demands of the Republican right wing’s most rabid lunatic fringe.

Yet more evidence that pragmatism will never get in the way of an entrenched partisan ideologue.

I have theory about this and I am not saying with ANY certainty that I am correct.

But I suspect that in many cases, especially here in the Deep South, much like the Muslims have replaced the Jews, the Latinos have replaced the blacks as the favorite whipping boys of the poor white trash.

And I believe this has virtually NOTHING to do with the Islamofascists and associated national security concerns regarding them.

Oh by the way, I support a fence along the southern border and REALISTIC immigration reform to address a growing and serious multifaceted problem.

In other words, I’m no neo-con…

By GMAN

June 12, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this

AJC/DNC Management aka “Ye Ole Gas Bag”, you are quite the intellectual, NOT! It appears that without cutting and pasting from one wingnut community newsletter after another, you really don’t have a lot to say on an intellegent level. Therefore, I rule out having a battle of wits with you because I don’t go to war with unarmed opponents! Nov08 “The end of an error!”

By Kevin

June 12, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this

Hey Bosch yes i do spell bad at times sorry.But if we were to drill where is alot Opec would see this n say Man we need lower are price….now i say maybe will.we just need new refineiers(sorry spellin bad)also coal could be made off shore drillin new areas on gulf n west coast Ughed i hate when get nervous i spelled bad….any way McCain will win in landslide so yes and i bet UN will say it Racist also….I hope u understand me Bosch….Bye

By getalife

June 12, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

@@,

One hit will do.

Also, I have noticed my opiates are stronger thanks to the occupation of Afghanistan.

God bless America.

By AmVet

June 12, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this

ITN, hey man, I’m supposed to be the naive one here!

If you think for one second the rabid right is going to start actually using words, phrases and terms correctly, I have a bridge I can sell you!

Their entire modus operandi for many years now has been to substitute lies for truth, nonsense for reason and amazingly the “faithful” have gobbled it ALL up hook, line and sinker!

We’ve all seen the countless fake conservative examples from Mission Accomplished to The Clean Skies Act to Homeland Security to yes, amnesty.

Look no further than this blog for such rubbish…

By Goldie

June 12, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this

Paul @ 11:48 — GM had an electric car about 10 years ago and stopped production… too much pressure from Big Oil to continue (“a profit barrier).

Who Killed the Electric Car?

By jethro bodine

June 12, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this

It doesn’t take much to knock Andi off center, especially when you mention those deviant sexual issues. When I was a kid there was a Catholic priest who taught the catecism class who would positively come unglued when anyone would dare to ask a question about sex. Turns out he was one of those pedophiles.

Seems to me ole Andi has some serious issues lurking within him. Just like his hero Bush who is behaviors are dictated by the fact that he is an untreated alcoholic and addict.

How disgusting and pathetic our ole buddy Andi is.

By Bosch

June 12, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this

Well Kev,

Midori’s good point a while back was, OPEC COULD do the exact opposite.

But I expect you’re polifore, so anywho.

Paul,

Since the cartoon topic of the day is about closer analysis of words (I should have posted what I wrote about the word “willing” today) - I agree with what you say about the word “amnesty.”

I’m all for that too.

Interesting point too about what you said about gradual change v. instant change.

I remember the other Bosch and I last year discussing “Where in the hell did all this immigration sh!t hitting the fan come from?” Hell, haven’t people been looking around? Did people just wake up yesterday and notice all their new neighbors?

It seemed like one day, everything was fine, then the next day (and everyday since then) idiots like Lou Dobbs have been rabid foaming at the mouth Hispanic bigots.

My mother, God bless her, is a subtle rascist, you know, whites don’t date blacks, that kind of thing (because I’m sure SOMEWHERE in the Bible it says so), but has for years been rolling her eyes at all the “Mexicans” in the Wal-Mart. How dare they!

I have to remind her that the “Mexicans” (which for her is a catch-all phrase for anyone Hispanic regardless of their actual nationality) need toothpaste too. I mean, really, do we want illegals running around with rotting teeth and bad breath while they are in the process of being illegal? That’s just rude.

She just puffs at me when I say stuff like that.

Amvet,

Loved this because I’ve said the same thing to many of my subtlely (?sp)rascist relatives (and some friends):

“much like the Muslims have replaced the Jews, the Latinos have replaced the blacks as the favorite whipping boys of the poor white trash”

EGGGGS-zactly.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 12, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this

{{{{By GMAN June 12, 2008 1:24 PM AJC/DNC Management Therefore, I rule out having a battle of wits with you because I don’t go to war with unarmed opponents!}}}}

GirlieMan: I never took you as the type that would cut and run.

Oh, wait a minute, yes I did.

~~~~~~

{{{{By jethro bodine June 12, 2008 1:45 PM Seems to me ole Andi has some serious issues lurking within him.}}}}

Yes, early on I was afflicted with the knowledge that liberals suck and lie.

I’ve struggled my whole life carrying this burden, although I really haven’t made any attempts to treat it.

I will tell you, stroke, people like you exacerbate my condition, and I find that to be rather discriminating against me.

So if you would just STFU, we would all be better off, no?

By FRANKLEEDARLING

June 12, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this

some one give DUH a warm glass of milk i think his p vssy hurts

By GMAN

June 12, 2008 2:52 PM | Link to this

Poor dillusional AJC/DNC Management aka “Ye Ol’ Gas Bag”, Your lack of intelligence is unvailed once again to the surprise on very few and your use of trite wingnut phrases indicates a deficit in originality as well. There is hope for you however in the form of deprogramming from the 7 1/2 years of listening to Retardican Bull* and regarding it as truth. Now take a deep breath, count to ten, and take your head out of your A!

By TW

June 12, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this

getalife - in an effort to reach across the aisle, please do not share your latest opiate information with Cindy McCain…

By Bosch

June 12, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this

Paul,

I just ordered a friend of mine a “Frak Me” T-Shirt for his birthday :-)

By IN THE NEWS

June 12, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

TODAY’S ENRON

ONE PIECE OF LEGISLATION IS WHY OIL IS THROUGH THE ROOF Lay, DeLay, Gramm, Gramm & Clinton

[PART ONE] (http://www.star-telegram.com/104/story/651928.html)

[PART TWO] (http://www.star-telegram.com/ed_wallace/story/659081.html)

By jethro bodine

June 12, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

My, we’re getting a little testy, aren’t we Andi. It’s tough when your life is so small and meaningless that all you can do is blog away aimlessly. No job, no meanfingful relationships, no life.

Tap tap tap,tap tap tap.

By jethro bodine

June 12, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

My, we’re getting a little testy, aren’t we Andi. It’s tough when your life is so small and meaningless that all you can do is blog away aimlessly. No job, no meanfingful relationships, no life.

Tap tap tap,tap tap tap.

By jethro bodine

June 12, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this

My, we’re getting a little testy, aren’t we Andi. It’s tough when your life is so small and meaningless that all you can do is blog away aimlessly. No job, no meanfingful relationships, no life.

Tap tap tap,tap tap tap.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 12, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this

{{{By FRANKLEEDARLING June 12, 2008 2:49 PM some one give DUH a warm glass of milk i think his p vssy hurts}}}

Funny coming from a lib with a big sandy vagina. Do the world a favor and go f yourself.

You lefty pukes are good at that stuff.

~~~

{{{By jethro bodine June 12, 2008 3:23 PM My, we’re getting a little testy, aren’t we Andi. It’s tough when your life is so small and meaningless that all you can do is blog away aimlessly. No job, no meanfingful relationships, no life.}}}

Laugh it up lib. While you and your buddies have fun bending each other over, I’m having fun with my lady.

Choke on it puke.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 12, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this

So what if I like to take it up the a$$.

Its my business!

You libs are hypocrites.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 12, 2008 4:17 PM | Link to this

Aahhh, yes, the wittle baby namejackers are back.

Po thing.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 12, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this

Sucking is my business and business is good!

By AJC/DNC Management

June 12, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this

RW,

Are you in need of some mouth to mouth recesitation?

I’ll wear cherry flavored chapstick this time.

By getalife

June 12, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this

TW,

The c-unt (as her husband calls her) is still on the oxy’s.

I can see it in her glazed eyes.

Laura just got back from Afghanistan so she will share some real opium.

By truthman

June 12, 2008 4:42 PM | Link to this

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.” - Theodore Roosevelt

By FRANKLEEDARLING

June 12, 2008 4:47 PM | Link to this

fortunatly MR.DUH i am one of those big dick liberals who could go F myself if i so choose. you should try it yourself sometime ,you might just find out where your heads really been all this time

By truthman

June 12, 2008 4:47 PM | Link to this

So, AJC/Zell/Duh was in bed with his c-unt!!

How totally gross!!!

STFU, Dunce-boy!! You are a muslim extremist, aren’t you.

HEY EVERYONE, DUNCE IS A SECRET MUSLIM!!!

By AJC/DNC Management

June 12, 2008 5:05 PM | Link to this

Franklee: Are you trying to tell us you can suck your own c@ck?

By AJC/DNC Management

June 12, 2008 5:08 PM | Link to this

Franklee,

Wow. Sounds interesting. Tell me more about yourself.

By Paul

June 12, 2008 5:14 PM | Link to this

ITN 1:16

Your 1:16 directly following my 1:08 to AmVet, particularly in light of the discussion, seems a bit weak, don’tcha’ think?

I’m kinda’ waitin’ for you to put up a definition of “source material.”

I don’t think it’s on a hypertext link -

But to the other issue - no reaction from a Democratic organization telling Obamaa, in effect, do what we want or lose our vote?

I guess part of his working with the opposition forces means working with other Democrats?

AmVet 1:21

Well, if that’s what you want to call yourself. Personally, in light of what you wrote, I’d pick a word like “sensible.”

I was really disappointed by the backing down. As I said at the time, the result will be months with little action - and here we are. Maybe back then someone should have told Prs Bush it was a spending bill - a big one - then he would have pushed it through!

But not just the south - next time you swing through the northeast, check the attitudes - especially from those who constitute the upper-class liberal base. I was pretty surprised.

AmVet 1:32

I believe ITN was trying to ding me for using the word “amnesty” - guess he/she wasn’t following our conversation too closely. Just trolling for a “gotcha” moment.

Goldie 1:36

I know much has been made of the EV-1, but my understanding is the battery pack wasn’t all that great and the production costs were way high - much, much higher even than the costs Toyota absorbed with the first-generation Prius. The cars were destroyed, not to hide anything, but because to have sold them (GM had them out on leases) but because of the legal liability of warranty support.

Plus, look at the populace back then - any form of economy - didn’t sell. People were snapping up SUVs and pickups and 300 horsepower cars. But the times have changed, big-time.

I’m seriously thinking about the 2009 redesigned Honda Fit, due out this fall. Most sensible.

Link: 2009 Honda Fit

Sorry that wasn’t “sourced” to a Honda site, ITN. They’re not putting much out now.

By Paul

June 12, 2008 5:20 PM | Link to this

ITN 2:53

I still haven’t received any reply from anyone on why basing troops absent casualties in Iraq should be viewed any differently that the other 131 countries where we have troops.

It just seems philosophically inconsistent.

Or political.

Then again, you seem to want troops out of just Iraq. I, on the other hand, have called for a massive pullback from many, many other countries.

I need to go and doublecheck the meaning of ‘neocon.’ Something to do with resistance to change, I think…

Bosch 3:08

That is so frakkin’ cool! Ummm, can I be your friend,too? My birthday is… tomorrow… or whenever UPS delivers…

By @@

June 12, 2008 5:30 PM | Link to this

Dang! It was interesting to watch a socialist dictatorship unfold. Interesting while it lasted anyway…

(((Venezuelan state-run oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) is up to four months behind in payments to a host of energy industry contractors, El Universal reported June 10. Although the delays officially have been blamed on technical malfunctions, there is some evidence that PDVSA may be at serious risk of financial ruin, spelling grave implications for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s regime.)))

(((In addition to covering its own costs and debts, PDVSA is also responsible for a host of social and economic programs that are the basis for many of Chavez’s policies, and upon which he relies for public support. These include farming, food production, food distribution and oil industry equipment production. (PDVSA is also in the process of acquiring control of Venezuelan electric utility Corporacion Electrica Nacional.) These policies extend abroad to include foreign oil and general assistance programs in Latin America that have been key to Chavez’s foreign diplomatic strategy.))) and Cuba?

(((Cuba’s egalitarian wage system put in place by Fidel Castro is no longer viable, The Associated Press reported June 11, citing Cuban Vice Minister of Labor and Social Security Carlos Mateu. Mateu reportedly said that the system has become ineffective, marked by low pay, waste and corruption. He said the problems could be eased by paying workers more for better work. Mateu added that salary caps for productive workers have been eliminated by many government companies and will be eliminated by all of them by August.)))

Hard to shape the worker or an economy when people come from government’s “cookie press”.

Merit pay…..what a novel idea!

By AJC/DNC Management

June 12, 2008 5:37 PM | Link to this

@@,

What have you done with RW?

You stay away from my man homewrecker!

By AJC/DNC Management

June 12, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this

{{{{“The Nation will live to regret what the Court had done today,” Justice Antonin Scalia writes at the end of his dissent in Boumediene v. Bush, the case in which a bare majority of the Supreme Court, for the first time ever, extended rights under the U.S. constitution to enemy combatants who have never set foot on U.S. soil.}}}}

Enemy?

When did the libs consider al Qaeda the enemy?

That was one of Bin Laden body guards that the libs let walk today, from here on out, you can STFU about fighting the “right” war on terror or any war on terror for that matter.

These sorry mofos let an al Qaeda attorney punk America today.

Who needs any more proof of what side these POS are on?

By AJC/DNC Management

June 12, 2008 5:46 PM | Link to this

The only thing these mofos is good for is helping me marry RW.

That’s right. RW and I have had a longstanding affair while you pinkos are spreading your germs.

Passing the gay marriage act is the only thing you’re good for!

By TW

June 12, 2008 6:01 PM | Link to this

Please. The only question left is whether the GOP made bin laden wear a rubber…

There is doubt whatever cave in which bin laden resides at this very moment, there is a glossy 8 X 12 of Republican George W. Bush on the mantel…

By Paul

June 12, 2008 6:01 PM | Link to this

AJC/DNC Management

A 5-4 gives you a real good feeling that the top Court sees the issue as clear-cut, yes? Regardless, it’s now the law.

From the majority decision:

” Our holding with regard to exhaustion should not be read to imply that a habeas court should intervene the moment an enemy combatant steps foot in a territory where the writ runs. The Executive is entitled to a reasonable period of time to determine a detainee’s status before a court entertains that detainee’s habeas corpus petition. The CSRT process is the mechanism Congress and the President set up to deal with these issues. Except in cases of undue delay, federal courts should refrain from entertaining an enemy combatant’s habeas corpus petition at least until after the Department, acting via the CSRT, has had a chance to review his status.”

Well, that’s something, at least.

From Justice Roberts dissent:

“Today the Court strikes down as inadequate the most generous set of procedural protections ever afforded aliens detained by this country as enemy combatants. The political branches crafted these procedures amidst an ongoing military conflict, after much careful investigation and thorough debate. The Court rejects them today out of hand, without bothering to say what due process rights the detainees possess, without explaining how the statute fails to vindicate those rights, and before a single petitioner has even attempted to avail himself of the law’s operation. And to what effect? The majority merely replaces a review system designed by the people’s representatives with a set of shapeless procedures to be defined by federal courts at some future date. One cannot help but think, after surveying the modest practical results of the majority’s ambitious opinion, that this decision is not really about the detainees at all, but about control of federal policy regarding enemy combatants.”

Ya think?

ITN: Source:

Link: Boumediene

By @@

June 12, 2008 6:03 PM | Link to this

Well Hugo didn’t waste any time. Turning to evil capitalists for aide.

((Standing before a forum of business leaders, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced an economic stimulus package late June 11 designed to ease the financial burden on corporate Venezuela.))

((Chavez said he would make it easier for companies to operate in the country by eliminating a 1.5 percent turnover tax on financial transactions. He also said that he would introduce new currency control measures, and he pledged to expedite all pending requests for currency conversions of $50,000 or less from businesses importing primary materials or capital assets. In his speech, Chavez made it a point to reach out to Venezuelan business leaders, calling on them to join the state in a “strategic alliance” to form public-private projects in key sectors, including food, oil and manufacturing. To help boost the country’s food supply, he said he would use a $1 billion fund for joint ventures with the private sector, increase agricultural subsidies and help pay off debts owed by food producers.))

By Paul

June 12, 2008 6:08 PM | Link to this

From Justice Scalia’s dissent:

“Today, for the first time in our Nation’s history, the Court confers a constitutional right to habeas corpus on alien enemies detained abroad by our military forces in the course of an ongoing war. THE CHIEF JUSTICE’s dissent, which I join, shows that the procedures prescribed by Congress in the Detainee Treatment Act provide the essential protections that habeas corpus guarantees; there has thus been no suspension of the writ, and no basis exists for judicial intervention beyond what the Act allows. My problem with today’s opinion is more fundamental still: The writ of habeas corpus does not, and never has, run in favor of aliens abroad; the Suspension Clause thus has no application, and the Court’s intervention in this military matter is entirely ultra vires.”

Justice Scalia begins his opinion with the sentence “America is at war with radical Islamists.” Contrast that with one of the liberal Justices, who, in an earlier related hearing, asked the government witness “what do you mean, we’re at war?!!?”

“It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed. That consequence would be tolerable if necessary to preserve a time-honored legal principle vital to our constitutional Republic. But it is this Court’s blatant abandonment of such a principle that produces the decision today.”

He continues with more real-world assessmnets of what will occur.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 12, 2008 6:11 PM | Link to this

{{{{By TW June 12, 2008 6:01 PM There is doubt whatever cave in which bin laden resides at this very moment, there is a glossy 8 X 12 of Republican George W. Bush on the mantel…}}}}

Yes and he introduces it to his guests as “behold the Man that wiped out my entire organization, while he fought the candy as-s left in America at the same time, awe inspiring, ain’t it?”

“He made me into the cave dwelling weak horse, bwa.”

“And now they’ve gone and forced him to take no prisoners.”

“Wonderful.”

By Paul

June 12, 2008 6:15 PM | Link to this

My prediction: tomorrow’s cut and paste links will be to sites with some variation of “Supreme Court Deals Bush Administration Stunning Blow” or “Supreme Court Tell Bush Administration to Follow the Constitution” or some such claptrap that completely misreads the issues.

By @@

June 12, 2008 6:19 PM | Link to this

Back to America’s future under the far-left Democrats, errr I mean Cuba…..

Since Fidel Castro left his position at the helm of the country, Cuba has undergone a series of significant changes. These have included:

Reforms to the agriculture industry in an attempt to boost food production in the face of rising world prices;

Moves toward addressing human rights concerns;

Diminished media restrictions;

A debate on lifting travel restrictions on Cuban citizens;

Permission for Cubans to purchase cell phones and stay in hotels.

The change Mateu announced represents another dramatic step away from economic policies that have shaped the Cuban economy.

Cubans currently earn close to $17 worth of Cuban pesos per month. These pesos are used at government-run stores that often run low on products or carry only basic necessities. Imported commodities are sold in dollar-denominated stores, which sell goods largely too expensive for most Cubans to afford.

The fundamental problem with equalized wages across all professions is that this leaves no incentive to have skills when much more money made in the black market tourist industry. Why would anyone study to be a doctor when one can earn the same amount of money as a taxi driver, not to mention the greater amount of money to be made on the side?

Why subject America to it in the first place? Skip the socialism! On to a greater America.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 12, 2008 6:27 PM | Link to this

{{{{“The 21st century is going to be the century which determine[s] whether we live or die as a sustainable species,” Gleick said. “As populations grow, as our use of resources grows, I think we get closer and closer to that edge, blah, blah, blah.”-A BS “News”}}}}

The wankers just come out of the woodwork, don’t they?

{{{{ The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970’s the world will undergo famines—hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate, although many lives could be saved through dramatic programs to “stretch” the carrying capacity of the earth by increasing food production. But these programs will only provide a stay of execution unless they are accompanied by determined and successful efforts at population control. Population control is the conscious regulation of the numbers of human beings to meet the needs, not just of individual families, but of society as a whole. The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich- 1968}}}}

Street corner hysteria, mainstreamed.

By TW

June 12, 2008 6:29 PM | Link to this

Never in bin laden’s wildest wet dreams could he have known how easy it would be to get ‘w’ to turn the US military upside down for him…

BTW - Several of the chimps at the ATL Zoo have filed suit in court claiming their comparison to ‘w’ demeans both their integrity and IQ…

By AJC/DNC Management

June 12, 2008 6:30 PM | Link to this

{{{{Do they really want to tell a man who turned down early release and spent five and a half years in a POW camp that he is insensitive to the desires of returning home? Do they really want to tell a man whose father and grandfather are military heroes that the most important thing is returning home? Do they really want to tell a man whose own son has signed up and fought in Iraq about the importance of coming back home?}}}}

By @@

June 12, 2008 6:37 PM | Link to this

In a June 10 press conference, Rehman Malik, the internal affairs advisor to Pakistan’s prime minister, reported that a suicide bombing plot had been thwarted when Pakistani authorities arrested nine individuals and seized four apparent vehicle-borne improvised explosives devices (VBIEDs) containing a total of over 1,100 kilograms of explosives.

Three of the VBIEDs were recovered by authorities on June 6. Of those, two vehicles contained 400 kilograms of explosives, while the third carried a 200-kilogram load, Malik said. On the same day, authorities advised that they were searching for a fourth VBIED, which appears to be the one they recovered June 9. According to Malik, it contained 180 kilograms of explosives.

At this point, however, it appears that al Qaeda, the TTP and other militants can operate with a large degree of freedom and that the Pakistani government does not have the ability to consistently prevent them from planning and launching attacks. From the intent and effort displayed by al Qaeda in the last several days, we anticipate more attempted attacks in Islamabad — including attacks on hard targets — in the foreseeable future.

So how long before they wear out their welcome in Pakistan too? The Pakistani parliament has already withdrew their plans to negotiate with the militants.

By Paul

June 12, 2008 6:37 PM | Link to this

AJC/DNC Management 6:30

The US military, has, for decades, separated soldiers and airmen from their families for year-long or longer tours in Korea, Turkey and elsewhere.

For decades. I’ve tried Googling to find sites where it’s referenced Liberals have fought to put an end to this horrible, inhumane military practice because of the desire of soldiers to return home. But I haven’t found any. Could you possibly help me out?

By AJC/DNC Management

June 12, 2008 6:44 PM | Link to this

Paul: Some soldiers fought against Germany in WW2 for 4 years solid, with no year or two off, and, after they won, got sent to Okinawa to prepare for the invasion of the Japanese homeland.

Oh, I’m sorry, that was a dhimmokrat president that did that, never mind.

By TW

June 12, 2008 6:52 PM | Link to this

Getalife - If McCain called his wife a c-unt back in ‘92, it probably had something to do with her addiction. I think his involvement in the Keating Five Scandal hit her pretty hard.

By @@

June 12, 2008 6:54 PM | Link to this

I’m sorry too Paul.

Just posting away I was, before I realized you were offering a play by play on the SCOTUS ruling.

Oops!

By Paul

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

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Well, after all the weeping and wailing over the corrupt Supreme Court (Bush V Gore - Florida decision) it’s so good to know that the lefwing sites can finally respect the Court again and say it’s okey-dokey if they want to render decisions on law.

By TW

June 12, 2008 7:18 PM | Link to this

If ‘w’ really cared about our security he’d step down.

By moonbat betty

June 12, 2008 7:32 PM | Link to this

you neocons forget two things:

Hope and Change.

HOPE AND CHANGE FOR THE END IS NEAR!

If gore would have been appointed to office in the 2000 elections, we would still be in the dot com boom, bin laden’s head would be displayed at the Smithsonian institute, gas@.99/gal, we’d be loved by all countries of the peaceful world and everyone would enjoy free health care.

the fall of this once great nation will fall directly on one man: gw bush.

But now we must turn to Hope and Change to reverse this downward spiral that the neocons have forced upon us.

Obama is Hope and Change.

and that is good enough for me.

By John Prater

June 16, 2008 6:12 PM | Link to this

McCain says its the 51st state, or is it the 58th state like Obama wants it to be?

 

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