Thinking Right

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

October 6, 2006 08:08 AM | Link to this

REPUBLICAN CONTRACT WITH AMERICA As Republican Members of the House of Representatives and as citizens seeking to join that body we propose not just to change its policies, but even more important, to restore the bonds of trust between the people and their elected representatives. That is why, in this era of official evasion and posturing, we offer instead a detailed agenda for national renewal, a written commitment with no fine print.

This year’s election offers the chance, after four decades of one-party control, to bring to the House a new majority that will transform the way Congress works. That historic change would be the end of government that is too big, too intrusive, and too easy with the public’s money. It can be the beginning of a Congress that respects the values and shares the faith of the American family.

Like Lincoln, our first Republican president, we intend to act “with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.” To restore accountability to Congress. To end its cycle of scandal and disgrace. To make us all proud again of the way free people govern themselves.

On the first day of the 104th Congress, the new Republican majority will immediately pass the following major reforms, aimed at restoring the faith and trust of the American people in their government:

FIRST, require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress; SECOND, select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse; THIRD, cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third; FOURTH, limit the terms of all committee chairs; FIFTH, ban the casting of proxy votes in committee; SIXTH, require committee meetings to be open to the public; SEVENTH, require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase; EIGHTH, guarantee an honest accounting of our Federal Budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting.

By jbmlaw

October 6, 2006 08:14 AM | Link to this

Good morning, all. Radical idea on the juror no-shows: why don’t we abolish to the right to trial by jury. I see far more unjust stuff with juries than with judges alone; I always ask for a bench trial. But I don’t do a lot of trials, and I do nothing on the plaintiff side. I infer plaintiffs like to sway the stupid with emotional pleas, to jack up the prize; same with prosecutors. Southern Democrat writes as if he has been in the courthouse a few times (read that as my self-amused understatement), maybe he can contribute some thoughts there?

I would include rap stars, movie stars, and professional athletes on my list of “pedophiles (and didn’t one blogger yesterday introduce us to the term ‘hebephile’ or something like that? My spell check gives me only “peephole” as an alternate spelling!) in power positions.” I cannot improve on anything else Jim wrote. May get back around lunch, otherwise have a great day, all.

By Flatlined

October 6, 2006 08:18 AM | Link to this

Green energy and White Elephants. Last nite I saw a white elephant in my pajamas……alright, you get the bit.

Pay prisoners who are detained past their sentence? How about we pay people to stay in the pews throughout the entire Mass, instead of joining the Krispy Kreme stampede that starts immediately after communion?

One way to get the immigrants to stampede back to Mexico may be to have the fat balding baby boomers dust off and sport their old 1950’s Davey Crocket coonskin caps. The sight of that alone will scare most of them back across the Rio Grande.

If any of you baby boomer women dont want to do jury duty, then answer the summons with a pair of knitting needles and knit furiously during your interview. Look anxious, and keep repeating, “I know what a guilty man looks like, plain and simple, ‘nuff said”.

By Jeff

October 6, 2006 08:24 AM | Link to this

Great column, Mr. Wooten!

All I can say about South GA at this point is that I’m watching every EDUC-type movie dealing primarily with minorities that I can get my hands on trying to glean some ideas. Coach Carter is a current fav… got an idea for a “Challenge: Fear” competition based off that one.

By Flatlined

October 6, 2006 08:24 AM | Link to this

Jim’s a cherry picker: Your manifesto style declaration of sweeping change reads suspiciously like the preamble to Chairman Mao’s “Cultural Revolution” encyclical in which he outlined the changes he had in mind for China.

I’ll know more in a half hour if I get the urge to read your comment again.

By Realist

October 6, 2006 08:26 AM | Link to this

People in power positions — jail guards, police officers, teachers and congressmen — who take sexual advantage of vulnerables, and especially of children, should go to jail, then rehab. Or vice-versa.

Sorry Jim, but when Phd’s, behavior specialists and councelors say that these people cannot be reformed and are 90% likely to re-offend, I say throw away the key. Its one case where I feel my tax dollars are well spent.

And regarding the jury thing, thats quite a conundrum. One side would say that the 47% percent who dont have the ability/integrity to report are not the type you would want deciding important matters in the first place. Then you have the typical defendent, who in certain parts of Atlanta, would say those 47% are EXACTLY the peers he/she would want deciding thier destiny. Funny.

By Realist

October 6, 2006 08:30 AM | Link to this

Heard an interesting take on the Foley scandal last night. Some say angry fiscal conservatives were already planning to stay home in November. They wanted to send a message to the party that the out of control spending was not going to be tolerated. Now it appears as though that message is lost. When the house gets turned over the to the dems, which it most certainly will now, it will be blamed on Foley, not wreckless spending. Thanks Mark. Thanks alot.

By Flatlined

October 6, 2006 08:51 AM | Link to this

Our country was founded upon a principle of conflict of interests, that is, land and business owners setting up a laize faire government for land and business owners. (that’d be white elephants for green grass and greener money)

The trickle down theory in 1776 was “coonskin caps” for everyone. That was a big deal back then because there weren’t no roadkill laying around back then to easily find and skin. (No roads or cars).

Well, they did manage to get us our coonskin caps (nine score and two years late) thanx to Fess Parker and Walt Disney. So the country is a success after all. Maybe a way to win in baghdad is to include coonskin caps in the vestment paraphanalia that adorn the swaddling attire most iraqis wear when they’re approaching US convoys acting like they aint doing nothing. (oh, you fooled us, ahkmed, say hello to my little friend…BOOM)… sited mullah, tanked same…hey, just trying to make it easier for our boys to pick out the badguys. you can spot a coonskin cap a mile away.

By modestd

October 6, 2006 09:17 AM | Link to this

Who are these fiscal conservatives? When some one says that it makes me want to beat their head in. You are a libertarian. Because if you do not believe in the magic hocus pocus of the relgious right why do you continue to vote along with them? The republican party is drunk on power. The same way the democrats will be in a decade of controling the house and probably senate soon as well. Lets stop this self defeating cycle and start voting the way your mind wants you too. SAY NO TO THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS! I dont care if you vote libertarian, green party, or even the American Socialist Party. But lets send a message to these idiots in Washington. I think we are all fed up, but we continue to vote for them because they tell us too. Screw that!

By Realist

October 6, 2006 09:34 AM | Link to this

molestd, Im not a fiscal conservative. I just thought it was an interesting viewpoint. I am however a rightwing extremist christian conservative drunk on power. Lets be clear.

By Bogus Hocus Pocus

October 6, 2006 09:36 AM | Link to this

When some one says that it makes me want to beat their head in. You are a libertarian.

So that is your strategy. Beat your ideas into the people. Probably would get you more supporters than the current strategy.

By Chazman

October 6, 2006 09:43 AM | Link to this

Wooten left one more “power position” off his list, and I guess jbmlaw did too. Priests and/or preachers. Guess he didn’t want to upset the base.

By time for the truth

October 6, 2006 09:43 AM | Link to this

If the towel head terrorists in Iraq were given vile yankee “blue belly” uniforms and the US, UK ,Iraqis and other allied forces all fought in the historic noble Confederate Grey that might make things morally and militarily more acceptable. Given the innate superiority of the Confederate Forces - at least one to one with very similar weaponry - the towel head cowards (great rhyme there) would run every time the lads whistled Dixie!! Coon skin hats would be a good addition to our side, although the racebaiting NAACP and their ilk might whine for a while. The towel heads would no doubt insist on NYY hats and hopefully kill each other over the right to wear a “my brother/father/mullah/kidnapper and beheader went to Abu Ghraib and I all I got was this poxy T-shirt.

I say let B Campbell out of jail and immediately send him to Iraq for the rest of his sentence and let him run a small town terrorist loving in the Sunni triangle. He could make enough money there to pay his tax avoidance fine and then we could nick him again for more tax avoidance AND do him for treason afterwards. And if he ever cheated El Al Quayyyeeeeeeda at cards - its another one of America’s Funniest Videos on Al Jazeera!!

If we sent McKinney over to Darfur - with only her cop beating cell phone as a weapon (gedditt??), does anyone think she’d stop the genocide. Any thing this hateful and nakedly aggressive stands a chance at least. Notionally (that kind of means hypothetically feminazi JK) she couldn’t blame the jews or whites for any thing!! But then again …

Jury duty in Fulton County!!! … smirk what the bleeding hell is that?? They must be running out of folks that are even eligible by now!! I suppose a sweep of the waiting room of the ER at Grady might find a couple more.

A note of hearty thanks to unhinged foreskin for not soiling the forum this week - cheers mate … your selfless sacrifice has not gone unnoticed.

By Th

October 6, 2006 09:45 AM | Link to this

Ron Suskind quoted CIA oficials by name in his most recent book that the assessment of the intelligence community regarding the Osama tape released just before the 2004 election was to help Bush win. Wonder why Osama wanted Bush and not Kerry?

By Southern Democrat

October 6, 2006 09:50 AM | Link to this

Jbmlaw, I wholeheartedly agree with you on the jury question in the civil context… the problem with Georgia judges, though, is due to their having to run for election, members of the bar can always try to “pay to play.” As I have told several clients (and I’d hope you’d agree), “I’m not your hired gun. The facts are the facts and the law is the law. Let’s work together to achieve the best possible result.” I think that you are correct regarding plaintiff’s lawyers, though… tort reform anyone?

I do think we need juries in the criminal context, though. I truly believe it keeps prosecutors honest… I’ve heard many DA’s and AUSA’s say regarding evidence or testimony, “It’s legally okay, but will a jury buy it?” A powerful, loaded question.

I do take issue with Mr. Wooten’s nonchalant casting off of the “green energy” program… the sooner we all come around to the seriousness of this issue, the sooner we can address it in a way that won’t cripple our economy and that we can all benefit from it both morally and economically. (I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… we sign on to Kyoto, push China and India to sign within 5-10 years… we become major players on the Chicago Carbon Emissions Exchange… it’ll be amazing how quickly technology will advance and we’ll be able to profit).

Many people forget that Republicans used to be strong advocates for the environment (fellow hunters and fishermen in particular), and that Nixon was behind our best and most-lasting environmental initiatives. President Bush and (more pointedly, Vice President Cheney’s) “Clean Skies” initiatives are insulting to voters and, more importantly, our children. Dismissing Al Gore and others and citing obscure scientific studies (like Senator Inhofe) while 99.999999999% of the scientific world recognizes the seriousness of the issue does not make the problem go away.

By Keith Olberman

October 6, 2006 09:56 AM | Link to this

While the leadership in Congress has self-destructed over the revelations of an unmatched, and unrelieved, march through a cesspool …

While the leadership inside the White House has self-destructed over the revelations of a book with a glowing red cover …

While the leadership in Congress has self-destructed over the revelations of an unmatched, and unrelieved, march through a cesspool …

While the leadership inside the White House has self-destructed over the revelations of a book with a glowing red cover …

While the leadership in Congress has self-destructed over the revelations of an unmatched, and unrelieved, march through a cesspool …

While the leadership inside the White House has self-destructed over the revelations of a book with a glowing red cover …

The president of the United States — unbowed, undeterred and unconnected to reality — has continued his extraordinary trek through our country rooting out the enemies of freedom: the Democrats.

Yesterday at a fundraiser for an Arizona congressman, Mr. Bush claimed, quote, “177 of the opposition party said, ‘You know, we don’t think we ought to be listening to the conversations of terrorists.’”

The hell they did.

One hundred seventy-seven Democrats opposed the president’s seizure of another part of the Constitution.

Not even the White House press office could actually name a single Democrat who had ever said the government shouldn’t be listening to the conversations of terrorists.

President Bush hears what he wants.

Tuesday, at another fundraiser in California, he had said, “Democrats take a law enforcement approach to terrorism. That means America will wait until we’re attacked again before we respond.”

Mr. Bush fabricated that, too.

And evidently he has begun to fancy himself as a mind reader.

“If you listen closely to some of the leaders of the Democratic Party,” the president said at another fundraiser Monday in Nevada, “it sounds like they think the best way to protect the American people is — wait until we’re attacked again.”

The president doesn’t just hear what he wants.

He hears things that only he can hear.

It defies belief that this president and his administration could continue to find new unexplored political gutters into which they could wallow.

Yet they do.

It is startling enough that such things could be said out loud by any president of this nation.

Rhetorically, it is about an inch short of Mr. Bush accusing Democratic leaders, Democrats, the majority of Americans who disagree with his policies of treason.

But it is the context that truly makes the head spin.

Just 25 days ago, on the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, this same man spoke to this nation and insisted, “We must put aside our differences and work together to meet the test that history has given us.”

Mr. Bush, this is a test you have already failed.

If your commitment to “put aside differences and work together” is replaced in the span of just three weeks by claiming your political opponents prefer to wait to see this country attacked again, and by spewing fabrications about what they’ve said, then the questions your critics need to be asking are no longer about your policies.

They are, instead, solemn and even terrible questions, about your fitness to fulfill the responsibilities of your office.

No Democrat, sir, has ever said anything approaching the suggestion that the best means of self-defense is to “wait until we’re attacked again.”

No critic, no commentator, no reluctant Republican in the Senate has ever said anything that any responsible person could even have exaggerated into the slander you spoke in Nevada on Monday night, nor the slander you spoke in California on Tuesday, nor the slander you spoke in Arizona on Wednesday … nor whatever is next.

You have dishonored your party, sir; you have dishonored your supporters; you have dishonored yourself.

But tonight the stark question we must face is — why?

Why has the ferocity of your venom against the Democrats now exceeded the ferocity of your venom against the terrorists?

Why have you chosen to go down in history as the president who made things up?

In less than one month you have gone from a flawed call to unity to this clarion call to hatred of Americans, by Americans.

If this is not simply the most shameless example of the rhetoric of political hackery, then it would have to be the cry of a leader crumbling under the weight of his own lies.

We have, of course, survived all manner of political hackery, of every shape, size and party. We will have to suffer it, for as long as the Republic stands.

But the premise of a president who comes across as a compulsive liar is nothing less than terrifying.

A president who since 9/11 will not listen, is not listening — and thanks to Bob Woodward’s most recent account — evidently has never listened.

A president who since 9/11 so hates or fears other Americans that he accuses them of advocating deliberate inaction in the face of the enemy.

A president who since 9/11 has savaged the very freedoms he claims to be protecting from attack — attack by terrorists, or by Democrats, or by both — it is now impossible to find a consistent thread of logic as to who Mr. Bush believes the enemy is.

But if we know one thing for certain about Mr. Bush, it is this: This president — in his bullying of the Senate last month and in his slandering of the Democrats this month — has shown us that he believes whoever the enemies are, they are hiding themselves inside a dangerous cloak called the Constitution of the United States of America.

How often do we find priceless truth in the unlikeliest of places?

I tonight quote not Jefferson nor Voltaire, but Cigar Aficionado Magazine.

On Sept. 11th, 2003, the editor of that publication interviewed General Tommy Franks, at that point, just retired from his post as commander-in-chief of U.S. Central Command — of Cent-Com.

And amid his quaint defenses of the then-nagging absence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, or the continuing freedom of Osama bin Laden, General Franks said some of the most profound words of this generation.

He spoke of “the worst thing that can happen” to this country:

First, quoting, a “massive casualty-producing event somewhere in the Western World — it may be in the United States of America.”

Then, the general continued, “the Western World, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we’ve seen for a couple of hundred years, in this grand experiment that we call democracy.”

It was this super-patriotic warrior’s fear that we would lose that most cherished liberty, because of another attack, one — again quoting General Franks — “that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass-casualty-producing event. Which, in fact, then begins to potentially unravel the fabric of our Constitution.”

And here we are, the fabric of our Constitution being unraveled, anyway.

Habeus corpus neutered; the rights of self-defense now as malleable and impermanent as clay; a president stifling all critics by every means available and, when he runs out of those, by simply lying about what they said or felt.

And all this, even without the dreaded attack.

General Franks, like all of us, loves this country, and believes not just in its values, but in its continuity.

He has been trained to look for threats to that continuity from without.

He has, perhaps been as naïve as the rest of us, in failing to keep close enough vigil on the threats to that continuity from within.

Secretary of State Rice first cannot remember urgent cautionary meetings with counterterrorism officials before 9/11. Then within hours of this lie, her spokesman confirms the meetings in question. Then she dismisses those meetings as nothing new — yet insists she wanted the same cautions expressed to Secretaries Ashcroft and Rumsfeld.

Mr. Rumsfeld, meantime, has been unable to accept the most logical and simple influence of the most noble and neutral of advisers. He and his employer insist they rely on the “generals in the field.” But dozens of those generals have now come forward to say how their words, their experiences, have been ignored.

And, of course, inherent in the Pentagon’s war-making functions is the regulation of presidential war lust.

Enacting that regulation should include everything up to symbolically wrestling the Chief Executive to the floor.

Yet—and it is Pentagon transcripts that now tell us this—evidently Mr. Rumsfeld’s strongest check on Mr. Bush’s ambitions, was to get somebody to excise the phrase “Mission Accomplished” out of the infamous Air Force Carrier speech of May 1st, 2003, even while the same empty words hung on a banner over the President’s shoulder.

And the vice president is a chilling figure, still unable, it seems, to accept the conclusions of his own party’s leaders in the Senate, that the foundations of his public position, are made out of sand.

And amid his quaint defenses of the then-nagging absence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, or the continuing freedom of Osama bin Laden, General Franks said some of the most profound words of this generation.

He spoke of “the worst thing that can happen” to this country:

First, quoting, a “massive casualty-producing event somewhere in the Western World — it may be in the United States of America.”

Then, the general continued, “the Western World, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we’ve seen for a couple of hundred years, in this grand experiment that we call democracy.”

It was this super-patriotic warrior’s fear that we would lose that most cherished liberty, because of another attack, one — again quoting General Franks — “that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass-casualty-producing event. Which, in fact, then begins to potentially unravel the fabric of our Constitution.”

And here we are, the fabric of our Constitution being unraveled, anyway.

Habeus corpus neutered; the rights of self-defense now as malleable and impermanent as clay; a president stifling all critics by every means available and, when he runs out of those, by simply lying about what they said or felt.

And all this, even without the dreaded attack.

General Franks, like all of us, loves this country, and believes not just in its values, but in its continuity.

He has been trained to look for threats to that continuity from without.

He has, perhaps been as naïve as the rest of us, in failing to keep close enough vigil on the threats to that continuity from within.

Secretary of State Rice first cannot remember urgent cautionary meetings with counterterrorism officials before 9/11. Then within hours of this lie, her spokesman confirms the meetings in question. Then she dismisses those meetings as nothing new — yet insists she wanted the same cautions expressed to Secretaries Ashcroft and Rumsfeld.

Mr. Rumsfeld, meantime, has been unable to accept the most logical and simple influence of the most noble and neutral of advisers. He and his employer insist they rely on the “generals in the field.” But dozens of those generals have now come forward to say how their words, their experiences, have been ignored.

And, of course, inherent in the Pentagon’s war-making functions is the regulation of presidential war lust.

Enacting that regulation should include everything up to symbolically wrestling the Chief Executive to the floor.

Yet—and it is Pentagon transcripts that now tell us this—evidently Mr. Rumsfeld’s strongest check on Mr. Bush’s ambitions, was to get somebody to excise the phrase “Mission Accomplished” out of the infamous Air Force Carrier speech of May 1st, 2003, even while the same empty words hung on a banner over the President’s shoulder.

And the vice president is a chilling figure, still unable, it seems, to accept the conclusions of his own party’s leaders in the Senate, that the foundations of his public position, are made out of sand.

There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

But he still says so.

There was no link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaida.

But he still says so.

And thus, gripping firmly these figments of his own imagination, Mr. Cheney lives on, in defiance, and spreads—around him and before him—darkness, like some contagion of fear.

They are never wrong, and they never regret — admirable in a French torch singer, cataclysmic in an American leader.

Thus, the sickening attempt to blame the Foley scandal on the negligence of others or “the Clinton era”—even though the Foley scandal began before the Lewinsky scandal.

Thus, last month’s enraged attacks on this administration’s predecessors, about Osama bin Laden—a projection of their own negligence in the immediate months before 9/11.

Thus, the terrifying attempt to hamstring the fundament of our freedom—the Constitution—a triumph for al Qaida, for which the terrorists could not hope to achieve with a hundred 9/11’s.

And thus, worst of all perhaps, these newest lies by President Bush about Democrats choosing to await another attack and not listen to the conversations of terrorists.

It is the terror and the guilt within your own heart, Mr. Bush, that you redirect at others who simply wish for you to temper your certainty with counsel.

It is the failure and the incompetence within your own memory, Mr. Bush, that leads you to demonize those who might merely quote to you the pleadings of Oliver Cromwell: “I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.”

It is not the Democrats whose inaction in the face of the enemy you fear, Sir.

It is your own—before 9/11 - and (and you alone know this), perhaps afterwards.

Mr. President, these new lies go to the heart of what it is that you truly wish to preserve.

It is not our freedom, nor our country—your actions against the Constitution give irrefutable proof of that.

You want to preserve a political party’s power. And obviously you’ll sell this country out, to do it.

These are lies about the Democrats — piled atop lies about Iraq — which were piled atop lies about your preparations for al Qaida.

To you, perhaps, they feel like the weight of a million centuries — as crushing, as immovable.

They are not.

If you add more lies to them, you cannot free yourself, and us, from them.

But if you stop — if you stop fabricating quotes, and building straw-men, and inspiring those around you to do the same — you may yet liberate yourself and this nation.

Please, sir, do not throw this country’s principles away because your lies have made it such that you can no longer differentiate between the terrorists and the critics.

By Van

October 6, 2006 09:59 AM | Link to this

jbmlaw,

Bench trials and jury trials.

My stepdad was a superior court judge in Los Angeles, he had an old saying, if you have a strong case, go for a bench trial, if it is weak ask for a jury.

By Van

October 6, 2006 10:05 AM | Link to this

Keith Olberman,

Wow, that was a lot of nothing - I think you picked every democratic talking point. Did you get these from Soros or did you gleam them from the AJC?

By CJ

October 6, 2006 10:14 AM | Link to this

TFTT,

Good morning Great One. I hope you’re rested and feeling well today.

Hey, I’m contacting you because I’m a little remorseful about waiting until the very last minute before Wooten closed shop yesterday before responding to JD’s gay-bashing. I’m concerned that JD didn’t see my response to his “facts” and “figures” on gay child-molesters. It was rude of me to call him out on his “facts” and then not stick around to hear him out. I’m not sure if I’m can be around much today, so I was hoping that you’d let him know that I methodically discredited him @5:56 yesterday. It’s still out there if he’s not afraid to take a look.

I had also noticed that the person who operated under the catchy pseudonym “JD’s girlfriend, Miss Information” had previously provided stellar data repudiating JD’s “facts”. Like JDgMI, I too had my doubts about the sources that JD named. Would you believe that JD actually provided very credible sources for his “facts”, Dr. Gene Abel and the National Institutes of Health, and shamelessly used their good reputations to rationalize his insecurities about his own sexual identity? Of course, if he had provided the links that he used to collect his “facts”, we all would have seen that JD’s actual sources were no more credible than jbmlaw’s favorite “thinker”, Ann Coulter. (I provided a deep-link in my post yesterday to www.stopchildmolestation.com where JD can see Dr. Abel’s real statistics about both heterosexuals and homosexuals molesting young boys.)

Actually, JD seemed like a decent guy except for his obsession with spreading despicable and previously discredited lies about homosexuals. How did you like the one about the violent gays scaring the folks at the American Psychiatric Association so much that the APA removed homophilia from their manual of mental disorders? Realist may be psychotic, but he ain’t got nothin’ on those violent gays.

Anyway, it’s no wonder that many of the GOP’s own backers are angry with House leaders for their inaction on the Foley thing after years of Republican “family values” and gay-bashing rhetoric. Yet another scrap on the mountain of evidence that, despite their rhetoric to the contrary, the GOP’s only core-values are greed and gluttony.

TFTT, I apologize for coming back to the Foley man-on-boy thing again. I understand you’re sick of hearing about it a week later. I feel ya man. We liberals are still hearing about the Clinton/Lewinski thing eight years after.

Make it a great day Truth Man!!!

By Realist

October 6, 2006 10:17 AM | Link to this

Van, I think you just nailed the Demoncratic Party Slogan for 08.

” A LOT OF NOTHING “

By Van

October 6, 2006 10:24 AM | Link to this

Regarding “green” energy -

This sounds like the deregulation of natural gas.

Georgia power is supplying you with energy - right?

If you pay the premium is $4.50 per 100 kilowatt hours, you will get diferrent power??? How insane is this - we already share in any “green” power generated already, why pay more just to say so. It sounds like Gerogia Power wants a rate increase and the libs are going to line up to buy “green” energy.

This is a typical liberal slant, just like the “green” hybrids. It take more dirty energy to create a hybrid then the hybrid saves during its life.

By Pope rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda I

October 6, 2006 10:26 AM | Link to this

Realisp, what do you think the Dems should do to reach out to you cowards?

By getalife

October 6, 2006 10:28 AM | Link to this

How is that Drudge prank bs working out for you gullible idiots?

Lets face it folks, the only thing the gang of perverts can manage is the elections.

By getalife

October 6, 2006 10:30 AM | Link to this

KO. Just awesome comment.

So frigging true, so frigging sad.

By Dr J

October 6, 2006 10:39 AM | Link to this

Wow, Jim. Your silence on the Foley scandal is deafening. Any chance Hastert and his cronies looked the other way for so long because Foley raised so much money for the GOP?

By Realist

October 6, 2006 10:41 AM | Link to this

I think they should have met me for that cup of coffee. I waited and waited, and hoped perhaps today could see one of the greatest friday beatings since my HS football days. But nobody came. Cowards.

By RW (the aboriginal)

October 6, 2006 10:43 AM | Link to this

MIchael Jackson is making a comeback. Not with a song or a tour, but instead he’s running for a senate seat. Being a white pedophile he should make a fine majority leader.

Hastert should have been suspicious of Foley during the last election when Foley’s campaing headquarters was the Neverland Ranch.

The molested page was interviewed on Oreilly last night. He said that he saw an elephant in his pajamas many times, yet how Foley got in there he’ll never know. ‘

Then Oreilly started shouting at him and banned him from the show, “An elephant cant fit in your pajamas, what are you saying? You’re insane you little twit! Get out of here!”

Ann Coulter weighed in on the molested pages: “They are Senate groupies enjoying their molestations with shrill cries for attention. Why cant they stfu? Nothing bad really happened to them, why, in Japan, man/child love is accepted with a wink and a nod….and get your minds out of the gutter.”

By RW (the aboriginal)

October 6, 2006 10:46 AM | Link to this

Ann Coulter weighed in on the molested pages: “What are they complaining about? They got to interface with powerful men and they got to be in the Senate chambers. They’re nothing more than Senate groupies enjoying their molestation. Why cant they just stfu? If they were 911 widows they’d be demanding an investigation. So what? Nothing happened to them. In Japan this type of thing is accepted, why not here?”

By Corky Cobb

October 6, 2006 10:50 AM | Link to this

The Republican slogan in ‘08……”Winning the War on Christmas”

By getalife

October 6, 2006 10:53 AM | Link to this

The wingnut melt down is a great sight to behold. It gets betrer everyday. All this crap is documented and archived, giving the future a glimpse of reality when the gop were in power.

It will show them to never make the same mistake the voters made and never allow the gop power again. You just can’t trust them. Period.

By Fur Bearing

October 6, 2006 10:58 AM | Link to this

Ann Coulter has written a new book already about the molested pages entitled, “Sons of the 911 Widows”. (cowritten with Ralph Reed).

In the book, Ann Coulter explains why the child sex trade in Thailand is so important: our senate can molest them over there, so they dont have to molest them here.

Quoting Ralph Reed, Ann points often to the junket resorts in the islands where Reed and Delay and now convicted felon lobbyists like abrahmoff often frequented during legislative bribe sessions.

Ann Coulter’s best line comes in chapter seven: “The problem is that the average page wears enticing clothes and walks in ways that make them pervert magnets , and it doesn’t help things when female babe teachers have sex with their male students. Foley sees that and thinks that he can do the same, which is a natural reaction. If anything, Foley’s is the victim of the liberal sex machine which unfocuses our legislature and stops them from winning the war on terror.”

By getalife

October 6, 2006 11:05 AM | Link to this

Realterrorist,

Why do you and Van support a party destroying our country?

Are you an American or a terrorist?

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

October 6, 2006 11:07 AM | Link to this

REPUBLICAN CONTRACT WITH AMERICA

As Republican Members of the House of Representatives and as citizens seeking to join that body we propose not just to change its policies, but even more important, to restore the bonds of trust between the people and their elected representatives.

That is why, in this era of official evasion and posturing, we offer instead a detailed agenda for national renewal, a written commitment with no fine print.

This year’s election offers the chance, after four decades of one-party control, to bring to the House a new majority that will transform the way Congress works. That historic change would be the end of government that is too big, too intrusive, and too easy with the public’s money. It can be the beginning of a Congress that respects the values and shares the faith of the American family.

Like Lincoln, our first Republican president, we intend to act “with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.” To restore accountability to Congress. To end its cycle of scandal and disgrace. To make us all proud again of the way free people govern themselves.

By jbmlaw

October 6, 2006 11:14 AM | Link to this

Realist @ 9:34, funniest line of the day, so early. I wish I had written that.

Chazman @ 9:43, your critique is fair, and I agree with you.

CJ @ 10:14, I see you are still in the “don’t confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up” group (condemning an idea because of the source rather than the content.) Don’t “approach” every “argument” with “prejudice;” “you” can “learn” even from those you “dispute.”

Dr J @ 10:39, where were you yesterday? Or are you asking Jim for his perspective now that we know it was all a practical joke? I see poor Getalife is still in denial, cannot believe this is another Democrat practical joke on the voting population.

For the motivated-bored among us, seven strong essays today in the WSJ. 90-year-old Milton Friedman reasonably forecasts atrophy in Hong Kong, Peggy Noonan documents irony in the Bush-Iraq policy (Dana, if you are out there, you should love Peggy Noonan, she often sounds like you, to me), and Dan Henninger has a marvelously funny perspective of the bizarre case of Congressman Foley. The foregoing are all found at http://www.opinionjournal.com/. Additional essays on freedom of thought, the end of education, Sufi, and the Saggy-Baggy Elephant at http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/.

May not be back, stirring up trouble everywhere I go. Have a great weekend all.

By Brian Curtis

October 6, 2006 11:18 AM | Link to this

Wooten makes a good point! I’m sure Zawahri would love to see a failure and liar like Bush securely in office and free to wreak more havok on our country.

Me, I’d prefer some sort of competent truth-teller like Wooten suggests… guess I know who to vote for, eh?

By time for the truth

October 6, 2006 11:31 AM | Link to this

Mine is inded a heavy cross to bear, I am thankfully now only intermittently stalked by the homo canus, but sadly like clockwork flaccidly berated by the pathologically bewildered nutter NAMBLA and now I have this sad lonely strange woman CJ hitting on me.

CJ I really do suggest that you try hitting on someone actually likely to actually respond to your clumsy advances. But first get your husband to buy you something real nice in the plus plus plus section from Victoria’s Secret. Woody Allen, Mike Tyson, OJ Simpson, Rosie O’Donnell - even sick Willie Klinton I’m sure would all welcome your Monica like forwardness … You might even find that Foley is now anxious to “rehabilitate” his sexuality and if you’re really as desperate as you seem - then with the lights and out and your eyes closed try Cynthia …

I note the rather queer and obsessive nature and content of the rest of your post - there is actually a name for ladies like you - I believe its f a g h a g.

By Realist

October 6, 2006 11:31 AM | Link to this

Why do you and Van support a party destroying our country?

Because we are only destorying the likes of you getalife, and you all simply dont matter.

Im actually doing quite well.

By Dusty

October 6, 2006 11:33 AM | Link to this

What goes with all the long winded sleaze this morning? Somebody even went to the cut-n-paste trouble of reprinting one of Keith Olbermann’s tirades. Olbermann is not a blogger but a news anchor, commentator and radio sports caster who should have stuck to sports. Can’t liberals think for themselves or must they reprint? A little bit of SHORT originality this morning would be nice for a change. Try it. You’ll like it.

By getalife

October 6, 2006 11:41 AM | Link to this

So am I Realist.

Money is not everything in life.

Crusty,

It was well written and real American patriots agree, it is all lies and no accountability.

Truth hurts?

By getalife

October 6, 2006 11:45 AM | Link to this

Oh BTW crusty,

You should tell Andy the same thing about spamming wingnut propaganda lies.

Or are you a hypocrite?

By Van

October 6, 2006 11:45 AM | Link to this

getabrain,

Destroying what???

The economy is up, the Market is up, not today though, everything is looking up.

Unemployment is down from 4.7% to 4.6% for September, for those that want to work, hourly wages are up .2% for September and the housing balloon is not collapsing as quick as first thought.

As a nation we have a hig standard of living and produce about 25% of the worlds wealth.

As it is, we are growing at a good rate and expect the future to be better.

Now, I know that good news for the nation is bad news for the democrats and will leave you minor little issues to use against the republicans.

The only thing being destroyed these days is the lefties sanity.

By Van

October 6, 2006 11:51 AM | Link to this

What is interesting about the Foley incident is how well the democrats faked the outrage. At least on the conservative side our outrage at Foley wasn’t faked.

The democrats seems to have learned how to fake outrage while they had to appear to be interested in National Defense and Security matters.

You lefties are doing better, but we can still pick up your faked emotions.

By getalife

October 6, 2006 11:58 AM | Link to this

“There’s only one way to get
this information. Send Foley,
Hastert, Boehner, and the rest
of them to Gitmo and torture
the information out of them.”

By Lisa

October 6, 2006 12:04 PM | Link to this

Crusty Dusty, the wigger Realist, the “is he gay or just English” TFTT, Liberal arts degree jbmlaw (try being a intellectual prop. attorney, loser), Van “only good bush is Dubya Bush” f*, are all not true conservatives. No jobs, lazy workers, closet homo’s, affirmative action beneficiaries (Crusty Dusty), dick in the booty a*, punk a*, losers! ahahahaha! Jim, you should pay these losers for their comic relief.

By Markus

October 6, 2006 12:05 PM | Link to this

First of all, someone needs to remove that cut-n-paste pig stye by that liberal pig Keith Olberman.

No, Jim’s got it wrong about people in power positions like politicians needing to go to jail for sexual innuendoes that turn physical. That’s only for Republicans. No, for Democrats, it’s ok. The other day I posted a list of no less than NINE Democrits (ELECTED TO OFFICE, not some half-assed lobbyist political hacks that some liberal here countered with about Republicans) who went WAY beyond what Foley did that we know of. Yet, even after that memory jogger, there was no condemnation by the left now any less than when those nine clowns committed their heinous sexual acts then. And no, this is not throwing the Foley debacle back at the left saying “see! see! they did it too!,” it’s just pointing out blatant two-sided rules for the Democrit party of the Jackass: we can do what we want and get away with it, but by damned you will not and we’ll tell all of you to resign if one person does something immoral or wrong!

Republicans left and right have called for Foley’s resignation and said he disgraced them, the office he holds, and put minors in jeopardy. I take it even further: throw his sick molesting gay @ss in jail. Not so with the Democrit Nine like Studds who did some pole-polishing with a minor overseas and was re-elected THREE TIMES. Hell who’s complaining. If Foley were a Democrat, the Pelosi’s would be rushing to his defense. The party of the Jackass keeps re-electing someone who should have been charged with manslaughter at minimum and someone else who was a KKK Kleagle. Democrits have no shame or standards, yet expect everyone else to, all the while shouting from the mountaintops for leadership to resign because of one sick hypocrite Republican. Dirtbags.

Hmmm… so we have had 40,149 “refugees” settle in metro Atlanta over the past 21 years and nobody has complained about government discrimination yet race preferential treatment is in effect. Well, considering I don’t know of any majority-white Christian Anglo-Saxon nations in turmoil and in civil war, discrimination accusations won’t be applicable there either. I don’t ever recall Somalians or Iraqis or Cubans claiming “racism” amongst their own factions. It’s just more useless feel-good policies of the dementia of liberalism. Thanks for nothing, girlie men.

Uh-oh. NOW Jim has done it! He called FanPlex a white elephant. FanPlex was a monstrosity waste of money to draw the suburbanites back into the city. Now, since most suburbanite families are white and decided going all the way in town to play video games, goofy-golf, and drink booze wasn’t worth it (because they could do it right around the corner from their homes), it’s RACIST to say that. RACIST!! I expect a protest by Emma Darnell & Co. soon… maybe even Jesse “Corporate Shakedown” Jackedson will speak his mind about it too.

“Few things are more dangerous to taxpayers than politicians who are going to “make” something happen in a free market with somebody else’s money.”

This defines the sickness of socialist neomarxist liberalism to a T. Flail America can’t even make it in the free market with INVESTOR money. Crappy ideas are always crappy ideas.

It’s nice to see that accountability for government assistance is not dead. Now if we can just get all those deadbeats still getting SS checks from dead relatives and welfare frauds under control; now if we can just get all the dead people voting sent back to the cemetaries…

That al-Qaida is using Democrit talking points is not news any more than the heroes of the loon left, Chevez and Ackhmadinejad, using Democrit talking points.

Let the greenick liberal suckers pay extra if they want to feel better about their energy usage. Those of us who graduated out of caves and a jackass & cart don’t want to have a FORCED fee increase so some furry rat might live longer. Clean yes, FORCED clean being FORCED to pay for it, no; hybrid car yes, FORCED hybrid car being FORCED to pay for it, no.

A university blows money on a “study” that church pews are not empty. What were they trying to prove? Americans going to church less? (That would make liberals happy). More of your hard-earned tax dollars p** away for university “studies” as ususal.

Fulton County is the epitome of government incompetence, and MARTA is the epitome of government-subsidized incompetence. If MARTA were a private entity, it would have been bankrupt long ago. Who the hell is running these monstrocities of incompetence and unaccountability?

So US car makers make $2400 less than Japanese cars? Yep, the Right has been saying for decades now that unions have jacked the corporations. Labor costs annually at GM and Ford are in the BILLIONS. Just think, this is the route the party of the Jackass wants to go to give everyone a “living wage with benefits.” Implement that liberal feel-good policy now and worry about the aftereffects later!

By Dusty

October 6, 2006 12:12 PM | Link to this

Brian Curtis,

We know the crowd you would choose from to be the great competent Democratic truth teller president.

Let’s see. There’s Dr. Howler Dean (Ya hooo),Swift Heart Ketchup Kerry, Gore the Bore, Shumer the Boomer, petulant Pelosi and Hillary Dem Dillary. What a circus.

Americans shudder at this crowd. And by the way, what is the great Democratic Plan? The plan??? The Plan?? WHAT PLAN???

By Markus

October 6, 2006 12:12 PM | Link to this

Funniest democrit comment of the day comes from our resident neopig liberal wallet-thief, gitmolife:

“Money is not everything in life.”

BULLSHEET. Money IS everything in the life of a liberal:

“the rich”

“big evil corporate profits”

“corporate tax breaks-welfare”

“the poor don’t get any tax refunds”

“the rich don’t pay enough in taxes”

“the rich are greedy in wanting to keep more of their money via tax cuts”

HORSE SNOT. The ENTIRE philosophy of liberalism is rooted in money.. OTHER people’s money. Democrits.

By Lisa

October 6, 2006 12:17 PM | Link to this

Oh! I can’t forget about Marc “short penis, boyfriend told him to make it hurt, so he screwed 2 times and hit him in the head with a brick” anus. Lay off the male enhancements pills…the anger it causes you will give you a stroke..and not the good one like your boyfriend.

By Dusty

October 6, 2006 12:26 PM | Link to this

Lisa,

How great it is that you have a crystal ball that gives you propaganda and personal information about people you don’t know. You witches have it made with such things.

But it isn’t Halloween yet so fly back to your dead Dem darkness. We’ll have all the goodies ready for you on your favorite holiday. Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble for you, wandering one.

By Ditzty

October 6, 2006 12:27 PM | Link to this

Please join me in the Pledge of allegiance.

Now, don’t forget, us Republicans love you. We are the party of Bush, Delay, Stevens, Foley, Limbaugh, Coulter, Robertson, Dobson, Cunningham, Ney, Reed and Santorum.

By Markus

October 6, 2006 12:27 PM | Link to this

This story says it all why the pig Democrits need to stay the hell out of power:

“We must share the benefits of our wealth”

It’s NOT YOUR MONEY socialist pigs. Yep, there proves that it all IS about money with liberals.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061006/aponelge/pelositime_1

By Markus

October 6, 2006 12:29 PM | Link to this

Another reason to keep liberals out of power.

By Markus

October 6, 2006 12:32 PM | Link to this

Awe, whatsamatta wittle wiberal Wisa? Your cat get run over or something? What a shame. Another bedwetting Democrit using homosexual innuendoes at insulting a Conservative. You sick hypocritical whineyassed liberal garbage.

By Fur Bearing

October 6, 2006 12:34 PM | Link to this

Ann Coulter has already written a book about the molested pages entitled, “Sons of the 911 Widows”. (the subtitle is, “Earmarked pork and Queermarked pages”)

Excerpts: “…these pages wont shut up! They’re obviously enjoying their molestation and profiting from it…”

By Corey

October 6, 2006 12:38 PM | Link to this

“One way to get the immigrants to stampede back to Mexico may be to have the fat balding baby boomers dust off and sport their old 1950’s Davey Crocket coonskin caps. The sight of that alone will scare most of them back across the Rio Grande.”

Careful Flatlined, you too may be a member of a despised group. Think about it.

By getalife

October 6, 2006 12:47 PM | Link to this

macaca,

Keep flipping those burgers and they may just raise the minimum wage after the Dem landslide.

By Van

October 6, 2006 12:49 PM | Link to this

Lisa,

What the heck are you talking about??? Take that burrito out of your mouth and speak plainly.

By Chazman

October 6, 2006 12:59 PM | Link to this

The economy is up, the Market is up, not today though, everything is looking up.

The only thing being destroyed these days is the lefties sanity

Van, when you say everything is looking up, did you ignore Iraq? And the only thing being destroyed these days is the lefties insanity? You left out something. How about the 23 soldiers we have lost in the 1st 4 days of October? How about the families lives of those 23 soldiers? They are destroyed too.

By TFTT likes widdle boys

October 6, 2006 01:04 PM | Link to this

Come on Mr. Truth

You always accuse others of not debating…

CJ has proved wrong the latent homo JD, who you agreed with…

CJ provided arguments…why don’t you refute them…here’s your chance to prove how good you are at debate…

Are you chicken…or does the subject of moist cheeked young boys somehow cause you some type of anxiety…a stirring in the loins perhaps?

Please support JD’s statements from yesterday or refute CJ’s…othewise stfu!

By Lisa

October 6, 2006 01:08 PM | Link to this

Hahahaha! Dusty’s response was a valiant try..but I’m not part of the anti-Harry Potter crowd. Do you really waste your time believing in witches and ghosts? O moi

Van, tell Crusty what O moi is…and stop eating your neighbors dogs and cats!

By Joe T

October 6, 2006 01:14 PM | Link to this

I now see wherte Bill Clinton is going to get the junk food out of our schools. Leave the chips and cokes alone and get the drugs and guns out. But you know he never could tellthe less important from the most important.

By getalife

October 6, 2006 01:16 PM | Link to this

Told ya w is a fascist dictator

Our very first one and you cheer him on.

Amazing unAmerican pathetic people.

By Mallory

October 6, 2006 01:23 PM | Link to this

J.Wooten,

Juries? The way I see it, you’ve got jury-rigging and then you’ve got redrawn district rigging. Isn’t it possible that one can affect the other? I’ll take a conservative jury any day. Harsh on crime, but then you won’t catch me in the defendant’s chair. Right and the wrong (left) is clearly defined for me.

When it comes to sexual predators, the left can hab ‘em and rehab ‘em all day long. I want ‘em all locked away for life.

Fraud & Abuse? That’s exactly why ID’s should be required for immigrants and voters. It’s so simple but not simple enough when put before liberals for a vote.

Zawahiri sure has the liberal talking points down, doesn’t he. What’s that the libs say about Bush? If you repeat it often enough, the sheeple will follow? I wonder how the lunatic left feel about being the leader for Al Qaeda?

The greenies decline to endorse? Taking action is a foreign concept for a dem. Kinda like the foreign tongue-thrusting frenchies.

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

October 6, 2006 01:37 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

Here’s the plan:

REPUBLICAN CONTRACT WITH AMERICA

As Republican Members of the House of Representatives and as citizens seeking to join that body we propose not just to change its policies, but even more important, to restore the bonds of trust between the people and their elected representatives.

That is why, in this era of official evasion and posturing, we offer instead a detailed agenda for national renewal, a written commitment with no fine print.

This year’s election offers the chance, after four decades of one-party control, to bring to the House a new majority that will transform the way Congress works. That historic change would be the end of government that is too big, too intrusive, and too easy with the public’s money. It can be the beginning of a Congress that respects the values and shares the faith of the American family.

Like Lincoln, our first Republican president, we intend to act “with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.” To restore accountability to Congress. To end its cycle of scandal and disgrace. To make us all proud again of the way free people govern themselves.

By Realist

October 6, 2006 01:43 PM | Link to this

*Budget deficit drops to $250 billion *

By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer 17 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The federal budget deficit estimate for the fiscal year just completed has dropped to $250 billion, congressional estimators said Friday, as the economy continued to fuel impressive tax revenues.

The Congressional Budget Office’s latest estimate is $10 billion below CBO predictions issued in August and well below a July White House prediction of $296 billion.

The improving deficit picture — Bush predicted a $423 billion deficit in his February budget — has been driven by better-than-expected tax receipts, especially from corporate profits, CBO said.

At $250 billion, it would be the lowest since the $158 billion figure in 2002, the first deficit following four years of surpluses.

Now here is the cold water from the left

even as Democrats pointed out that at $250 billion, the deficit is still “one of the largest” in history.

By Rah

October 6, 2006 01:53 PM | Link to this

Only to a Foley Republican is a quarter of a trillion dollar deficit a good thing.

By getalife

October 6, 2006 02:03 PM | Link to this

More Foley from hot air

I can’t take it anymore!

Whiny wingnuts!

By Dana

October 6, 2006 02:10 PM | Link to this

I was going to enter in and comment on one or more of today’s subjects - but my eyeballs are singed from reading the flames in here!

Happy Friday you bunch of fruitcakes.

By Chazman

October 6, 2006 02:13 PM | Link to this

Realist - thanks for putting in bold the fact that in the last 4 years of the Clinton years, we had a surplus, not a deficit. Now go back to celebrating your $250 billion deficit.

By Realist

October 6, 2006 02:20 PM | Link to this

Rah, Thats not the point f*******. The point is that the republican tax cuts are working as planned, despite the dems saying it would not work and woudl harm the economy.

Not to mention, we are at war numbnut. A war the dems supported and voted for. With that vote of support, comes a known price to the economy. For the economy and deficit to be showing so much improvement during this very expensive war is a huge win for the President and his plan.

By getalife

October 6, 2006 02:27 PM | Link to this

They are using Enron, old syle accounting.

It is just another lie.

By Pope rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda I

October 6, 2006 02:35 PM | Link to this

Greetings, decent folks and pedofoley GOP rednecks, it is We, Pope rednecks - Amerikkka’s Al Qaeda I.

Lost in the shuffle and bustle and the smoke and mirrors of denial from all the poll smoker GOPers like tftt/tommy, realisp, etc. etc. etc. ad nauseum ad infinitum (since We are Pope We thought We’d throw in a little Latin for you plebeians), is the brutal murder this week of 5 young Amish girls by a sex-crazed Republican pervert. Good caring giving Christian people who only want to live peacefully in community with their fellows are brutally invaded by a sex-crazed Dumbya voter.

Lord, hear our prayer - deliver us from the myriad perversions and violence of the Bush voters, send them to Hell where they belong, let them slow roast in billowing flames fanned by their stupidity and hypocrisy. In Your only begotten Son’s Name we pray, Amen

By Chazman

October 6, 2006 02:36 PM | Link to this

Drop in polls affects Corker campaign staff By John Rodgers, jrodgers@nashvillecitypaper.com October 02, 2006

After squandering an early lead in the polls, the campaign of Republican U.S. Senate nominee Bob Corker has undergone major changes in the past few days, including the firing of its campaign manager.

Ben Mitchell, who was Corker’s campaign manager, was let go Saturday. To replace Mitchell, Corker asked Tom Ingram, Sen. Lamar Alexander’s chief of staff and a political veteran in the state, to serve as campaign chairman.

In addition to Ingram, Tennessee’s U.S. senators have come to Corker’s aid, lending Corker two Alexander staffers and one from Bill Frist’s office to serve in high-level positions.

Corker has also moved his campaign’s main operating office from Chattanooga to Nashville for the capitol city’s increased political resources.

The moves come after Corker’s lead against his Democratic opponent, U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-Memphis), evaporated. In different polls in July and early August, Corker led Ford by double-digits.

Now, according to a new Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc. survey, Ford leads Corker 43 percent to 42 percent. A Rasmussen poll released Monday says Ford leads 48-43.

When Harold Ford, Jr. gets elected, he will become the first African-American elected to the Senate in the South. I bet that will hurt. Ouch!

By Rev. R. Hugh Jackinit

October 6, 2006 02:48 PM | Link to this

What’s the crime in IM teens about how long their schlongs are, as long as a the person who’s IMing is a Godly Republican?

By getalife

October 6, 2006 03:04 PM | Link to this

Rove’s big October surprise is:

Blame it on the Dems.

Pathetic.

By Matt Drudgepacker

October 6, 2006 03:14 PM | Link to this

As an objective news source, I think we need to move on to something else besides the Foley thing.

By Van

October 6, 2006 03:21 PM | Link to this

Matt Drudgepacker,

We did, he is out of office and an investigation is in progress. Casa closed until after the investigation.

By Van

October 6, 2006 03:24 PM | Link to this

Chazman,

No I did not forget Iraq. From the troops arriving back, we are making great progress.

It seems the boots on the ground think we are winning, now were would they get that idea, I thought you lefties had all the answers.

By Dusty

October 6, 2006 03:27 PM | Link to this

What a wasted afternoon. No wonder Jim doesn’t show up often. I wouldn’t claim this blog either.

Liberals are still excited over Foley. There’s Lisa, who would make anybody believe in witches. Chazman who found a Republican that MIGHT not win. Whoopee!! More excitement. Ask for THE Democratic Plan for the future and you get some kind of Republican thing posted. And then Rednecks, aka Milwaukee Mike aka Captain Freedom and anybody else born in a tavern, is loose again. Afraid to be himself, he is all for imposters. If only he were a mime with no voice.

Van, I commend you for speaking with a sensible voice in the midst of this babble. Nice to find one. Have a good weekend.

By Van

October 6, 2006 03:35 PM | Link to this

Lisa,

I have no idea what you are saying, try forming complete sentences. As for O moi, I am sorry, my spell checker kicks that one out, phonetically it makes sence, but in French it just says “O me”, now if you had said mais oui, I would have understood better, but you still need to make complete sentences - or are you a typical liberal democrat, you know, there are no right or wrong answers, unless a republican offers one.

By Van

October 6, 2006 03:57 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

Same to you.

By Bart

October 6, 2006 04:07 PM | Link to this

This Just In…

FOX News says the GOP’s private polling data
says the Fascists could lose 20-50 House seats if the Sweaty Wrestler is allowed to remain as Speaker

By Van

October 6, 2006 04:08 PM | Link to this

Chazman,

While I admit I know little about Ford jr., I do know about his family.

One uncle, State Senator John Ford, was picked up in a sting operation called, Tennesse Waltz, a corruption probe.

His father, while never convicted of anything, was constantly under suspicion, ever since his suprise come from behind election in 1972.

By CJ

October 6, 2006 04:22 PM | Link to this

jbmlaw @11:14 – “I see you are still in the “don’t confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up” group (condemning an idea because of the source rather than the content.) Don’t approach every argument with prejudice; you can learn even from those you dispute.”

If you were the pillar of intellectual honesty that you claim, then before commenting, you would have looked at the original posts I referenced to see that I (and others) did, in fact, debunk the “facts” that you happily absorb without question. In this case, the downward spiral of the true source’s credibility took care of itself (as I demonstrated, JD cited false sources).

jbm, with all your years of experience pretending to be a lawyer, you should know that the credibility of any witness is an important factor for any judge or jury. Yet, you repeatedly advise me and others to blindly accept facts presented and address arguments made based on such facts from questionable sources, rather than condemn the source — ironic advice coming from someone on the right.

But, it’s also silly advice in the instances you cite. When a person or pundit repeatedly reports false information as truth and repeatedly draws conclusions based on falsehoods, then you can’t expect folks to continue accepting his or her assertions or considering his or her ideas. This also holds true for pundits who have a losing record with their prognostications. (e.g. “Clinton tax increases will take us into a recession.”, “Bush tax cuts will grow us out of deficits.”, or “Iraqis will greet us with sweets and candy.”) This also holds true for pundits and others who claim certain values while their actions indicate otherwise. (e.g. Serial-adulterer and exposed hypocrite Newt Gingrich has the gall to continue his charade about losing our rights to acknowledge our Creator.)

You know that so-called facts and ideas propagated by the likes of Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and WSJ editorial page regulars have been discredited time and time again. Unfortunately, that doesn’t stop them from spreading their misinformation, nor does it prevent you and your friends from repeating it as truth.

To give another example of your discredited sources, you’re also well aware that the big economic theories of Milton Friedman (another genius you refer others to) were enacted by the murderous Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet. Friedman’s theories successfully increased Chile’s GDP for over the course of ten years. The trouble was that his theories also increased unemployment, homelessness, poverty, disease and income inequality. The rich got richer and the middle class disappeared altogether (both literally and figuratively). Friedman’s economic policies also led to the stock market collapse in Chile where millions lost their privatized pensions, similar to the kind of private savings accounts that President Bush is advocating. If Americans want to take a look at the future that Bush and the Republicans really see for our country, then they should read about the life of Chileans under Pinochet during the 1970s and 80s.

No Mr. law — those of us in the business of thinking (i.e. liberals) don’t consider the arguments of discredited pundits, economist, opinionators or other such haters. Nor do we blindly accept their “facts” as truth, as you seem to do. If you hope to persuade, then you’re going to have to do better than Ann Coulter, Milton Friedman and the WSJ.

Once again, I apologize for the slow response.

By Pope rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda I

October 6, 2006 04:46 PM | Link to this

Hey tftt/tommy - We heard that the GOPers were going to come up with a new education plan modeled after the British system - No Child Left Unbuggered

ROFLMAO!

By Fur Bearing

October 7, 2006 09:00 AM | Link to this

Foley’s writing his autobiography. It’s working title is, “Dont ask, Dont tail”.

Other titles being considered: “Pages and the men who B*tch Slap Them”

Possible titles include: “That darn twink: I’m gay, but he’s a fink”

Excerpts: “I’ve never known a cigar to be just a cigar, and neither has Clinton or Al Gore, who is most at fault for inventing the internet with which I stalked young pages!”

By I Report, You Whine

October 7, 2006 09:11 AM | Link to this

[There was “no personal relationship” between Foley and Edmund, who served as a page in 2001 and 2002 when he was a high school junior, the attorney said. “I’m certain there was no physical involvement between Jordan and Mr. Foley,” Jones said, adding that the messages “read like some of the novels that are on the market, but I don’t know if they’re true or they have been edited.”-CNN

Looks like you libs are going to have to start smearing risqué novels now, the same as you’ve been doing to homosexuals.

The way you pinkos are ripping all the sinners up now, we’ll have you into Church before long, hahahaha.

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Check out the Homophobic Times reasoning as to why Foley had homosexual relations; because he was a repressed Republican!!

For most Republicans, being photographed in a compromising position with a young woman could be scandalous. But in the sometimes strained world of gay Republicans, it was an asset.-AJC

I thought we were “covering this up” for him, huh, huh? That’s some horrifying form of discrimination the Republicans employ to keep their congressman “repressed,” Sweeping Things Under The Rug!!! why, who could blame Foley!!!

Can’t keep your fables straight, Urinal?

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CREW members say they turned copies over to the FBI in July. But they didn’t turn them over to responsible authorities in the House (the page board, for example, or any one member of it), as they could have. From what I have read, Foley IMs, or at least the ones we have seen, probably wouldn’t justify a prosecution under federal criminal law; that requires some act rather than just words. Democrats or their sympathizers can withhold information politically damaging to Republicans until a time when disclosure seems likely to do the most damage. But is it ethical to withhold information when its earlier disclosure might serve to protect young people from harassment? I should think not.

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The Atlanta Urinal business section, mired in economic depression:

Market falls on jobs report!

A gigantic 16 point “crash!” Sell! Sell!

Jobs data worst in a year- But separate survey drops unemployment to 4.6%

Go figure, the job numbers are lower then expected when first reported, as always, until they get revised upwards like they always do.

So take political advantage of nothing, Atlanta Constipation, like your readers are stupid or something.

What’s up libbie, did you max out all the credit cards and they won’t let you go bankrupt anymore? They’re expecting you to pay them back?

That is depressing.

Can’t the pinkos realize that in these times of economic prosperity, that shrieking about how bad things are only labels you as a loser?

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Real World:

Deficit Drops to $250 Billion- The federal budget estimate for the fiscal year just completed dropped to $250 billion, congressional estimators said Friday, as the economy continues to fuel impressive tax revenues.

Let me guess, deficits don’t mean nothing now, right, pinko?

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In interviews, figures as diverse as Clinton, Vice President Cheney and White House strategist Karl Rove spoke about their experiences navigating the highly polarized and often downright toxic political and media environment that blossomed in the 1990s and reached full flower in recent years. (Name a Conservative fake memo, huh, huh?) Their comments, and those of their associates, underscore just how dramatically changes in media culture have influenced the strategies and daily routines of leading political figures. Cheney said he often starts his day by listening to radio host Don Imus, whose trash-talking style has given him legions of fans and made his show a frequent stop of politicians. Cheney’s wife, Lynne, people close to her say, is an avid consumer of Matt Drudge’s online Drudge Report, which often either breaks or promotes stories with a salacious angle and in recent days has bannered every new disclosure in the Foley case.-WashingtonPostCryingJag

Waaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Listen to the little pinkos whine, the Washington Post and this filthy rag Al Jazeera Times are nothing but toadies of the democratic party, always have been.

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I wonder if the pinkos will be quoting Buckley this week:

The flurry is one of many that will happen before there is anything that can be classified as consolidated Democratic policy on Iraqi leadership. “The Democratic Party’s single biggest foreign policy liability is not that Americans think Democrats are soft. It is that Americans think Democrats stand for nothing, that they have no principles beyond political expedience. So? Hate Bush. Is that truly enough as the agenda of the Democratic Party?

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Today’s cartoon that doesn’t suck!

By I Report, You Whine

October 7, 2006 09:27 AM | Link to this

Link to first article^^, excuse me:

There was “no personal relationship” between Foley and Edmund, who served as a page in 2001 and 2002 when he was a high school junior, the attorney said. “I’m certain there was no physical involvement between Jordan and Mr. Foley,” Jones said, adding that the messages “read like some of the novels that are on the market, but I don’t know if they’re true or they have been edited.”-CNN

Looks like you libs are going to have to start smearing risqué novels now, the same as you’ve been doing to homosexuals.

The way you pinkos are ripping all the sinners up now, we’ll have you into Church before long, hahahaha.

By Van

October 7, 2006 09:36 AM | Link to this

Fur Bearing,

Since humans do not bear fur, I can only assume you are a missing link. A very missing link.

Like Lisa, you make no sense whatsoever. Good bye.

By GodHatesTrash

October 7, 2006 09:53 AM | Link to this

I see the pro-dirt pro-pervert pro-incest anti-education pro-bestiality redneck GOPers are still defending that animal Foley.

Pigs. Trash.

By Fur Bearing

October 7, 2006 09:57 AM | Link to this

This just in: A lady in Peoria has sued the Library of Congress for exhibiting patriotic documents that are inspiring our youths to become pages.

She wants all the copies of our bill of rights burned in a midnight ceremony of full moons, naked dancing girls, and eye of newt.

By getalife

October 7, 2006 10:02 AM | Link to this

Hey Andy,

Is this part of Rove’s plan?

Pervert appeaser.

By Seriously

October 7, 2006 10:02 AM | Link to this

Dear AJC, would you please open the Luckovich blog on the weekends so the lonely man can stop defiling this blog with nonsense.

Thanks in advance.

By I Report, You Whine

October 7, 2006 10:10 AM | Link to this

By TrailerParkTrashFromArkansas October 7, 2006 09:53 AM I see the pro-dirt pro-pervert pro-incest anti-education pro-bestiality redneck GOPers are still defending that animal Foley.

By getalife October 7, 2006 10:02 AM Hey Andy, Pervert appeaser.

Homophobes.

By Fabb4eyes

October 7, 2006 10:19 AM | Link to this

Fabb4eyes is “Fat Aging Baby Boomer with Glasses”, which happens to be the demographic group I dwell in. (The Fab Four was the early media tag the Beatles earned, and being a Fabb4eyes makes me more like Paul McCartney than my hair did in the sixties, man. I never could quite get my Beatle’s do right. I hate my hair, I’ve always hated my hair. I hate my face too, it’s too round and square at the same time…aw, I hate everything).

Anyway, I always wanted to be a freak. I was the guy who started the naked conga line at the original Woodstock. (true). I led about 40 thousand people into a cow pond, where most of them came down with dysentery. I’ve been hiding ever since, but I swear I wasn’t the one who sold people the bogue brown acid.

Anyhow, back when pot was harmless fun, we had pot parties where people really relaxed and got a little crazy. However, there was always one guy who ruined the atmosphere. He would shout out loud during a lull in the cacophony, “I didn’t get off on the mushrooms, man, it’s a ripoff”. We called him Captain Bringdown, because that’s what this genre of individual did, (it was always a different new guy, I dont know where these clowns came from, but they sniffed out the party, the girls and the pot, and there they were.)

Now flash forward to 2006, when most Fabb4eyes have weaned themselves off of drugs, and on to herbal supplements. You’ve seen these health pills at Wallmart, drugstores, everywhere: Ginko Biloba, St John’s Wort, etc.

So I was in Wallmart last week looking at a shelf filled with dozens of different herbs and I saw one that claimed to “increase circulation” and I thought, “That would help me!”, when all of a sudden, I heard a guy complaining to the clerk, “I didn’t get off on the Kava Kava, man, it’s a ripoff!”

By Andie's Potty Mouth

October 7, 2006 10:24 AM | Link to this

Andie, it’s me Sailor.

Don’t try to kiss me with that mouth, piggy girl.

By The AJC Is A Filthy Anti American Rag

October 7, 2006 10:38 AM | Link to this

Who’d ever have thought that a few joke emails could lead to the revival of the morality agenda in the U.S?

By Fur Bearing October 7, 2006 09:00 AM Possible titles include: “That darn twink: I’m gay, but he’s a fink”

We got the liberals in here sounding like Baptists and saying the same exact things that Pat Robertson does.

Can I get an Amen?

By GodHatesTrash

October 7, 2006 10:39 AM | Link to this

Homophobe?

I’m not afraid of you, nancy.

Filthy pro-pervert pro-inces anti-soap garbage.

By getalife

October 7, 2006 10:46 AM | Link to this

Andy,

Rove’s plan is pathetic

Lets face facts Andy, you just can’t trust them to do the right thing. I thought you were a Christian.

By getalife

October 7, 2006 10:51 AM | Link to this

Andy,

Watch Pat trying to turn it into a “flamer” issue.

It is not a gay issue, it is a trust issue. You just can’t trust them. Period.

By getalife

October 7, 2006 10:58 AM | Link to this

See, they lie. No credibilty. No trust

Do you still trust them Andy?

By The AJC Is A Filthy Anti American Rag

October 7, 2006 10:58 AM | Link to this

By getalife October 7, 2006 10:46 AM Andy,Rove’s plan is pathetic Lets face facts Andy, you just can’t trust them to do the right thing. I thought you were a Christian.

Amen, gitmolife, amen. You and Jerry Falwell have shown me the error of my ways. I “repent.”

Tell me some more about that “fire and brimstone” that the homos are going to get.

By getalife

October 7, 2006 11:03 AM | Link to this

What does trust have to do with this?

Tell me some more about that “fire and brimstone” that the homos are going to get.

Focus on the trust issue.

By The AJC Is A Filthy Anti American Rag

October 7, 2006 11:11 AM | Link to this

gitmolife: Do you have a copy of Pat Robertson’s sermon about the “Teletubbies.” You know the one where he exposes, er, you liberals teaching real young chidren about deviant homosexual behavior, before you became homophobes just recently?

I’d like to hear that one.

By The AJC Is A Filthy Anti American Rag

October 7, 2006 11:24 AM | Link to this

By getalife October 7, 2006 11:03 AM What does trust have to do with this? Tell me some more about that “fire and brimstone” that the homos are going to get. Focus on the trust issue.

gitmolife: I know you can’t trust homosexuals around children, I’ve been telling you that for years.

Why are you preaching to me now?

Amen, Brother, Amen.

By getalife

October 7, 2006 11:34 AM | Link to this

You can’t trust the gop to protect the children from gop politicians in their own house.

Can I get an amen to that Andy?

By getalife

October 7, 2006 11:46 AM | Link to this

Amen.

So, if you can’t trust the gop to protect the children from gop politicians in their own house, you can’t trust them to protect people from terrorism.

Can I get an amen for that Andy?

By The AJC Is A Filthy Anti American Rag

October 7, 2006 12:01 PM | Link to this

gitmolife: Brother, thou art recommending we discriminate against homos now?

Amen, Brother, Amen.

By zzzzz

October 7, 2006 12:03 PM | Link to this

A lady in Peoria has sued the Library of Congress to remove all the historical and patriotic documents on display, like the Declaration of Independence, because it is inspiring our young men to become pages.

News Flash: Foley’s working autobiography’s title is now, “All I really need to know about sex, I learned in Kindergarten”.

By ATICO

October 7, 2006 12:17 PM | Link to this

It’s reported that about 5 percent of our elected officals in Washington are convicted felons, and other deviates, and are from both sides of the Isle. So I say shut the hell up about the GOP being such bad people. Foley’s actions were no worse than some of the F* on the Deomcrat side in the past. We have a a screwed up electorate voting for the only type of scum bags that will run for office. Both sides get their share of no good crappola. Sign up good canidates at the grass roots and things will change.

By The AJC Is A Filthy Anti American Rag

October 7, 2006 12:17 PM | Link to this

Hey ZZZZ, you mean an education like this:

Will Spongebob make you gay?- Keith Olberboy- Two Conservative Christian groups are attacking the cartoon character for allegedly being part of a “pro-homosexual video aimed at young children”

Amen, Brother, Amen.

By zzzzz

October 7, 2006 02:14 PM | Link to this

An old lady in Peoria, not wearing a burka, but still representing the decay of support from the core of the christian right, has filed a lawsuit in federal court to ban the Library of Congress from displaying any historical documents like the Bill of Rights or the Declaration of Independence because they inspire young american males to become senate pages.

Dennis Hastert did not answer questions, but he did want to IM the lady to find out where she gets her girdles. “She looked great”, he remarked.

By zzzzz

October 7, 2006 03:06 PM | Link to this

A lady in Georgia has filed a lawsuit to ban Harry Potter books in libraries because they inspire young american males to become warlocks. (okay, I made that one up)

By getalife

October 7, 2006 03:16 PM | Link to this

[Written last month, this straightforward account of life in Iraq by a Marine officer was initially sent just to a small group of family and friends. His honest but wry narration and unusually frank dissection of the mission contrasts sharply with the story presented by both sides of the Iraq war debate, the Pentagon spin masters and fierce critics. Perhaps inevitably, the “Letter from Iraq” moved quickly beyond the small group of acquantainaces and hit the inboxes of retired generals, officers in the Pentagon, and staffers on Capitol Hill. TIME’s Sally B. Donnelly first received a copy three weeks ago but only this week was able to track down the author and verify the document’s authenticity. The author wishes to remain anonymous but has allowed us to publish it here — with a few judicious omissions.

All: I haven’t written very much from Iraq. There’s really not much to write about. More exactly, there’s not much I can write about because practically everything I do, read or hear is classified military information or is depressing to the point that I’d rather just forget about it, never mind write about it. The gaps in between all of that are filled with the pure tedium of daily life in an armed camp. So it’s a bit of a struggle to think of anything to put into a letter that’s worth reading. Worse, this place just consumes you. I work 18-20-hour days, every day. The quest to draw a clear picture of what the insurgents are up to never ends. Problems and frictions crop up faster than solutions. Every challenge demands a response. It’s like this every day. Before I know it, I can’t see straight, because it’s 0400 and I’ve been at work for 20 hours straight, somehow missing dinner again in the process. And once again I haven’t written to anyone. It starts all over again four hours later. It’s not really like Ground Hog Day, it’s more like a level from Dante’s Inferno.

Rather than attempting to sum up the last seven months, I figured I’d just hit the record-setting highlights of 2006 in Iraq. These are among the events and experiences I’ll remember best.

Worst Case of Déjà Vu — I thought I was familiar with the feeling of déjà vu until I arrived back here in Fallujah in February. The moment I stepped off of the helicopter, just as dawn broke, and saw the camp just as I had left it ten months before — that was déjà vu. Kind of unnerving. It was as if I had never left. Same work area, same busted desk, same chair, same computer, same room, same creaky rack, same… everything. Same everything for the next year. It was like entering a parallel universe. Home wasn’t 10,000 miles away, it was a different lifetime.

Most Surreal Moment — Watching Marines arrive at my detention facility and unload a truck load of flex-cuffed midgets. 26 to be exact. We had put the word out earlier in the day to the Marines in Fallujah that we were looking for Bad Guy X, who was described as a midget. Little did I know that Fallujah was home to a small community of midgets, who banded together for support since they were considered as social outcasts. The Marines were anxious to get back to the midget colony to bring in the rest of the midget suspects, but I called off the search, figuring Bad Guy X was long gone on his short legs after seeing his companions rounded up by the giant infidels.

Most Profound Man in Iraq — an unidentified farmer in a fairly remote area who, after being asked by Reconnaissance Marines if he had seen any foreign fighters in the area replied “Yes, you.”

Worst City in al-Anbar Province — Ramadi, hands down. The provincial capital of 400,000 people. Lots and lots of insurgents killed in there since we arrived in February. Every day is a nasty gun battle. They blast us with giant bombs in the road, snipers, mortars and small arms. We blast them with tanks, attack helicopters, artillery, our snipers (much better than theirs), and every weapon that an infantryman can carry. Every day. Incredibly, I rarely see Ramadi in the news. We have as many attacks out here in the west as Baghdad. Yet, Baghdad has 7 million people, we have just 1.2 million. Per capita, al-Anbar province is the most violent place in Iraq by several orders of magnitude. I suppose it was no accident that the Marines were assigned this area in 2003.

Bravest Guy in al-Anbar Province — Any Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician (EOD Tech). How’d you like a job that required you to defuse bombs in a hole in the middle of the road that very likely are booby-trapped or connected by wire to a bad guy who’s just waiting for you to get close to the bomb before he clicks the detonator? Every day. Sanitation workers in New York City get paid more than these guys. Talk about courage and commitment.

Second Bravest Guy in al-Anbar Province — It’s a 20,000-way tie among all these Marines and Soldiers who venture out on the highways and through the towns of al-Anbar every day, not knowing if it will be their last — and for a couple of them, it will be.

Worst E-Mail Message — “The Walking Blood Bank is Activated. We need blood type A+ stat.” I always head down to the surgical unit as soon as I get these messages, but I never give blood — there’s always about 80 Marines in line, night or day.

Biggest Surprise — Iraqi Police. All local guys. I never figured that we’d get a police force established in the cities in al-Anbar. I estimated that insurgents would kill the first few, scaring off the rest. Well, insurgents did kill the first few, but the cops kept on coming. The insurgents continue to target the police, killing them in their homes and on the streets, but the cops won’t give up. Absolutely incredible tenacity. The insurgents know that the police are far better at finding them than we are — and they are finding them. Now, if we could just get them out of the habit of beating prisoners to a pulp](http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1543658-1,00.html?cnn=yes)

By I Report, You Whine

October 7, 2006 05:56 PM | Link to this

That squishing sound you hear is Mr. Turner’s prediction ground into pulp. FNC hammers CNN in the ratings all day, every day. That is not making the liberal Turner and his fellow travelers very happy, and that is the heart of this matter.

By I Report, You Whine

October 7, 2006 06:06 PM | Link to this

Disgraced former Congressman Mark Foley had two excellent job offers in the private sector this year when Rep. Tom Reynolds, National Republican Congressional Committee chairman, talked him into seeking a seventh term.-Novak

On behalf of Karl Rove, hehehe.