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DEL.ICIO.USRice outlines positive signs for U.S. in Iraq
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
En route to their goal of making Tuesday’s election a referendum on President Bush and Iraq, without any visible indication that they have any workable ideas or plans for handling the war on terrorism themselves, national Democrats had a nasty little diversion last week.
Those darn ’60s and that darn 2004 nightmare emerged again last week, giving the nation another look at the ghosts of a haunting past that the party on the outs simply cannot shake.
It started with U.S. Sen. John Kerry’s assertion to students in California that “If you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”
A quick apology would have abbreviated the damage. But Kerry can’t get past that era and the Swift Boat veterans, so he stumbled through a series of “I’m-sorry-you’re-stupid” efforts that destroyed in days his prospects of ever being on a major party ticket again. The Swift Boat veterans thus have thus beaten him twice.
It was a distraction that interrupted Democrats, who were determined to convert the national angst about the Iraqi phase of the war on terrorism into a free ride to control of the U.S. House and Senate. On national security and Iraq, the party out of power offers no appealing alternative. Americans may be frustrated, but they don’t want to exit on any timetable or in any way that makes our children’s world less secure.
The opportunity arose last week to speak to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who responded to questions about Iraq and measures of success there. She is, incidentally, an example of the calm, clearheaded leader the country needs in time of stress.
“I certainly think the president is capable of mobilizing the America people and mobilizing the system to support a policy that is really, when you think about it, very much where most Americans are,” said Rice. “Very few Americans want us to simply pick up and leave. They recognize the stakes. They know it is important. They want to know that it is possible to have a good outcome.
“So I think the real goal for the administration has to be to talk about how that outcome comes into being, how . . . the Iraqis get to a place they can defend themselves and govern themselves,” Rice continued. “There are a lot of challenges because of the violence, particularly the sectarian violence, but this is also a political system in Iraq that’s maturing and in which the Iraqis are determined to take more control . . . We have a government that really wants the reins, and that’s a very positive development.
“I think most people understand that we are not going to leave prematurely; we’re also going to make the critical adjustments that have to be made as circumstances dictate and as conditions on the ground change, and we’ve made some of those. . . . There’s been a significant recalculation of how to structure the Iraqi security forces — increase the number of army forces, for instance, because the army is emerging as an institution that does have national support, rather than the police. Most people see [the police] as more local and therefore more sectarian. . . .
“Of course, the goal is to make the adjustments that are necessary, but to keep very firmly in mind the goal, which is to get this job done.”
The task now is to convey indicators of success to Americans and Iraqis. “That is really the challenge because we had some very big indicators early on.” Rice mentions the elections, the constitution, the new government. “Now you’re into, at some level, a more routine sense of governing, which makes it harder to show progress, but that is one reason that I think the Iraqis themselves . . . have set out these goals, benchmarks, objectives, like the passage of a hydrocarbons law, which would demonstrate that the oil wealth is going to be shared in the country, the passage of a law on demobilization of militias, the passage of a law on de-Baathification, which would show how people that were once associated with the Baath Party would be treated.
“They will have provincial elections, so there are important political milestones that will be coming up, and I think showing that they are putting those forward and meeting them will be very important to the American people, but also to the Iraqi people,” Rice said.
Measures of success, yes. But premature withdrawal at our children’s peril.
Jim Wooten is associate editorial page editor. His column appears Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays.
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By We're Gonna.....Raise......Your......Taxes!!!!
November 5, 2006 08:04 AM | Link to this
That convention night in Boston was one of the freakiest presentations in contemporary politics: a man being greeted as a combination of Alexander the Great and the Duke of Wellington for a few weeks’ service in a war America lost.SunTimesSteyn
A vain thin-skinned condescending blueblood with no sense of his own ridiculousness, Senator Nuancy Boy is secure in little else except his belief in his indispensability. We’ve all heard the famous “joke” now: “You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.” (Rimshot!)
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Queen Pinko, left wing demagogue, out in left field, again:
The post-World War II economy guaranteed working men and women health care, a pension and a chance at home ownership.-PinkoTimes
Yep:
The number of people with health insurance increased by 1.0 million to 243.3 million between 2002 and 2003, and the number without such coverage rose by 1.4 million to 45.0 million.
And:
The Rise in Defined Contribution Pension Plans And The Stock Market Boom
Finally:
The US homeownership rate reached a record 69.2 percent in the second quarter of 2004.
Every single example I posted is a result of Bush’s policy causing a dramatic rise from the last democrat that was in office.
These libs will tell you about things that you will never see from them just so they can get your vote.
And no Mother Lib column would be complete with out a little psychosis: If that dream disappears for most Americans, what will hold us together? Will we become like fractious Latin American countries (think Venezuela), with a constant low-grade warfare between poor and wealthy? And in the same column- The economy — and the growing gap between haves and have-nots —needs just as much attention as the war.
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My goodness, the Atlanta Constipation has no shame, look at what their staff put in the vent:
Do people who listen to talk radio ever consider that they might not be hearing the whole story? Do they ever investigate to find a few facts?
This “news” paper not only skips the “whole” story, they make up “news” to match their views.
Example, how many of you pinkos know that there are 150,000 child molesting teachers in America but only 1,200 priests?
Ever wonder why that is?
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Now the notion comes roaring back to life in the NYT pages as a convenient pre-election cudgel. The story that Saddam’s “scientists were on the verge of building an atomic bomb, as little as a year away” shortly before the Gulf War — and that the tightly held, useful information undergirding this weapons program was intact and sufficiently advanced to be of use to regimes like Iran’s up to the present day. Any way this is sliced, it would mean that Iraq posed a WMD threat.-WashingtonTimes
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The conduct of the vast majority of the Iraqi people over the past few years tells a very different story. Iraqis have held up their end of the bargain. They have done everything possible to demonstrate their willingness - indeed, their eagerness, to seize control of their own futures and build a new kind of society in the Arab world.-NYPost
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By Chazman
November 5, 2006 08:12 AM | Link to this
150,000 child molesting teachers? Hmmmmmmm. Where did you hear that? Rush? O’Reilly? Savage? Who or where is your source on that number?
By Sailor
November 5, 2006 08:20 AM | Link to this
the sailor said Andi/e you’re a fine girl, such a good wife you would be…
Morning honey. Thanks for last night, and sleeping on the wet spot. You look so cute making my breakfast with my boxers on your head.
By Bi-polar? Bisexual?
November 5, 2006 08:24 AM | Link to this
Both.
Buy Danish.
By We're Gonna.....Raise......Your......Taxes!!!!
November 5, 2006 08:34 AM | Link to this
Ooops:
Today’s cartoon that doesn’t suck!
And:
By Chazman November 5, 2006 08:12 AM 150,000 child molesting teachers? Hmmmmmmm. Where did you hear that? Rush? O’Reilly? Savage? Who or where is your source on that number?
You’re right, dude, I didn’t get my numbers from the pinko press, they don’t hate the teacher’s union quite the way they do Christianity, so this is buried. Lucky for us, you can’t hide a Department Of Education report:
3.2 Prevalence in the United States. As a group, these studies present a wide range of estimates of the percentage of U.S. students subject to sexual misconduct by school staff and vary from 3.7 to 50.3 percent (Table 5). Because of its carefully drawn sample and survey methodology, the AAUW report that nearly 9.6 percent of students are targets of educator sexual misconduct sometime during their school career presents the most accurate data available at this time.
Any way you slice it, there are 3 million teachers in the U.S. it works out to 150,000 minimum child molestations per year.
Versus 1,200 in the Church.
Staggering.
And thanks for pointing out how stupid the mainstream media makes people who read it.
You’ve been agendized by them.
By Mid-South Philosopher
November 5, 2006 08:42 AM | Link to this
Good morning, Jim,
Probably never before in America’s history has the nation been so evenly divided between the “conservative” and “liberal” philosophies. The bank of undecided, independent voters is, at most, 6-8%. Sadly, among that number the percentage that feel “exercising the franchise” (i.e., voting)to beuseless is large. Consequently, the elections on Tuesday will turn on “turn-out.” If the Democrats really feel the passion and press relentlessly, they will likely take the House and have a shot at the Senate. If the Republicans come to realize that their fiefdom is on the brink of chaos and rally, they will likely retain the Senate and mitigate Democratic gains in the House.
If the Democrats take the Congress, likely George Bush will face a real chance of impeachment. Likely, it will not succeed, but it will neuter an already “nellie” administration.
The more likely scenario is for the Democrats to take the House, the Republicans maintain the Senate and largely gridlock to abound.
The real contest lies in 2008. The bottom line is the Iraq War. If we are no better off in Iraq at the end of 2007 than we are now, a “resurrected” Ronald Reagan couldn’t be elected on the Republican ticket!
“Georgie” Bush had better get his head out, dump Rumsfeld, and get a warrior in charge.
By We're Gonna.....Raise......Your......Taxes!!!!
November 5, 2006 08:46 AM | Link to this
This link works for the 8:34, the one I inserted was a MS Word document:
http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2004/06/06302004.html
By John
November 5, 2006 08:59 AM | Link to this
Your ed.gov link doesnt appear to be active anymore. I wonder why???
By Political Foreskin
November 5, 2006 09:03 AM | Link to this
GOP Elephants recognize themselves in the mirror? I thought creatures that drain the blood of others are invisible in mirrors.
Vietnam and Iraq are proof we need more supervision.
Lou Dobbs thinks that our democratic republic is the key ingredient in our free enterprise economy. WRONG.
War is the key ingredient in a free enterprise economy. Without it, we’d have no economy. War determines the viscosity of our liquidity. War is good. War works.
Rice thinks the mission is to stay put until the Iraqi Government can defend itself from the Iraqi people. I dont see any problem with that plan.
Fact: Those Iraqi people are going to hang every single person in that parliament who aint SHIA as soon as we leave.
I know it. Rice knows it. Bush is counting on it, (he has think tanks writing, “I told you so”, five hundred times each). Cheney is profiting from it. and Paris Hilton is voguing nude trying to top it.
We’ll always have Paris.
By jbmlaw
November 5, 2006 09:15 AM | Link to this
Good morning all, on my way to church, just a brief stop in. In a brief post yesterday, I slighted RW (the original) and We’re Gonna Raise, by omission. Good work guys, fun to read. Here’s proof that Republicans are superior, in that they can tell a joke. (That’s just a gentle jab, MidSouth, I know you can tell a joke also.)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nlRxv1TJDaI
By Political Foreskin
November 5, 2006 09:16 AM | Link to this
Elephants can recognize themselves in the mirror. Does that mean they know how fat they are?
What would a carnival fun-house mirror, you know, the kind that distorts everything, do to a elephant’s psyche? Would the elephant think it was watching scrambled porn?
The GOP elephant must have broke the mirror it was looking into. That would explain the seven year’s bad luck that started in 2000.
I predict a new rock band called the Dung Beetles will emerge in the GOP’s wake.
By Pope rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda I
November 5, 2006 09:24 AM | Link to this
Speaking of jokes, a shout out to all the silly rednecks of the Woo-ten Klan. What a bunch of clueless morons. Good morning, especially, to Major JBM “Butt Mustard” Law.
By Mallory
November 5, 2006 09:26 AM | Link to this
J.Wooten, When our institutions of higher learning find the Iraqis’ struggle a source of entertainment, is it any wonder why they’re so eager to surrender defeat.
They want to be able to say “See, I told you so,” but at what price.
US university president poses with ‘suicide bomber’
They don’t care about the Iraqi people. They only care about their image which has been sucking of late.
By Andi/e's Preacherman
November 5, 2006 09:28 AM | Link to this
That’s a pretty dress you’re wearing today, Andi/e. Meet me at the Motel 6 after church - bring the massage oil.
I’m gonna make you testify, son.
By Political Foreskin
November 5, 2006 09:31 AM | Link to this
Diebold fraud will assure the GOP majority.
Everyone knows it, so why are we kidding ourselves.
The Diebold story is very interesting. Google it. I dare you. Then maybe a FBI knock at your door, then maybe you dont feel so good.
Diebold Corp: It’s an anagram of “Benedict Arnold”!
I’ve cracked the “Davinci-Lewinski Code”!
By Curious Observer
November 5, 2006 09:35 AM | Link to this
Why, pray tell, would the Shiites cede any power to the Sunnis? It would be like asking Tom DeLay to agree to Democratic measures for the sake of harmony. It is absolutely idiotic to talk about “measures of success” when in fact a bloodbath is inevitable. And just to speed things up a little, a Shiite court has sentenced Saddam to death, thus provoking the insurgency to attack. The only forseeable outcome for Iraq is a Shiite theocracy allied with Iran, with suppression and ethnic cleansing of the Sunnis and a state of war between the Shiites and the Kurds. We will have spilled the blood of almost 3,000 dead troops and maimed more than thrice as many for nothing.
And here, a Democratic majority in the House will put a check on the cowboy in the White House. It has been a long time coming. Farewell to the tax cuts for the wealthiest among us; farewell to the long-held Republican wishes of eventually relieving big-business supporters of the burden of Social Security matching taxes; and farewell to the stacked deck against negotiating drug prices and providing health care for the poor and the middle class that’s about to be poor. We may have gridlock for the next two years, but even that is better than than the party-line dictatorship we have endured for the past six years.
So go ahead and drink the Kool Aid for the next two days, you neocons. The time is coming when you won’t be able to hide in your gated communities while you shift the tax burden to the lower classes and deny even a modicum of decent treatment to those less fortunate than you. You are about to get yours.
By Andi/e's Preacherman
November 5, 2006 09:36 AM | Link to this
Mallory, one of the fun games Andi/e like to play is letting me tie him to the bed frame and putting my dirty boxers on his head. He calls it Abu Ghraib for Sissies.
Then he “heals” my serpent.
By getalife
November 5, 2006 09:37 AM | Link to this
“I don’t remember anything being as shamelessly distorted as Kerry’s hapless attempt to tell a feeble joke about Bush’s I.Q.” — Christopher Hitchens
Jim is still lying about the botched joke while w botched the war.
Boner bashes the military, Jim said nothing.
Jim should retire.
By Al Qaeda's Concubine's School Teacher
November 5, 2006 09:39 AM | Link to this
You look so sweet in that little suit, young man. Did you bring me another apple?
We’re going to study putting on a condom today, again.
I’ll be the man!
By Political Foreskin
November 5, 2006 09:39 AM | Link to this
Did you know the highest Shia is called an Imam?
Did you know that Iraqi’s Kurds are funded by Iranian Kurds. That’s an ethnic bond, as opposed to a sectarian bond.
There are Turkish Kurds too. This ethnic bond is the key to Iraq’s destiny. It’s the wild card. It’s why we had no biz going into Iraq, and we’ve only just begun to realize how deep we are in it.
If the maps of Iraq are still the same in 2 years, I’ll eat the hat I threw in the ring yesterday.
By School Teacher
November 5, 2006 09:43 AM | Link to this
That bad Andy, now everybody knows why we want to teach your kids sex education in the 5th grade. It sets the mood for us.
Nothing like keeping a little boy late who’s not doing so well in sex education class.
So vote democrat November 8th, we’re running out of tax money!
By School Teacher
November 5, 2006 09:48 AM | Link to this
O.K. class, listen up. Today’s lesson is the horror of homosexuality and how bad, bad, bad it is unless it’s an election year and you’re talking to a bunch of fa-gs.
Then it’s good, good, good.
It’s especially good when I get caught doing it.
And remember, most of all, Republicans doing it, bad, bad, bad.
By Mallory
November 5, 2006 09:51 AM | Link to this
The distorted news that liberals thrive on.
The media’s vanity is unfair to the Iraqis.
But then the Iraqis aren’t their concern.
Telling the fabricated story of impending defeat is their WMD.
By ed lorenzo
November 5, 2006 09:51 AM | Link to this
THE WAY TO VICTORY
“Georgie, come to bed. It is two o’clock in the morning and is Friday, remember?”
“Yeah, I remember. Sorry I missed the evening prayers. I am too busy trying to write an outline for Condi”
“What? She looking for a job?”
“No, First Lady. She has a major press conference hours before the midterm elections and she must project a positive attitude.!”
“And you are writing the script? I think you are scooping too much fertilizer for your scoop, Georgie”
“Well she has to remind people that Iraq is on its way back. You see, a fleet of buses is now in operation again. All three of them. You can get camel meat almost anywhere; it might be a bit torn up because of the grenade launchers and the electricity is now back. Even if it lasts only 37 minutes a day. She must etch a few phrases in the minds of the voters, whether Republican, Democrat or New York Yankees We are definitely on a victory course. I trust Condi to deliver resounding facts and resounding phrases!”
“You mean another famous phrase like the one about the mushroom clouds before the invasion, Georgie?”
By getalife
November 5, 2006 09:58 AM | Link to this
“If you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”
Where does he say anything about the troops?
In an interview Wednesday on CNN, Boehner said, “Let’s not blame what’s happening in Iraq on Rumsfeld.”
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer replied, “But he’s in charge of the military.”
“The fact is, the generals on the ground are in charge, and he works closely with them and the president,” Boehner, an Ohio Republican, said.
Now that is bashing the troops.
By Buy Danish
November 5, 2006 10:03 AM | Link to this
Sybil Bon Gumby,
Mark Steyn must have had you in mind when he wrote this:
To be sure, like Kerry in 2004 deciding that the murderers and rapists were now his brave “band of brothers,” the left often discover a sudden enthusiasm for the previous war once a new one’s come along. Since Iraq, they’ve been all in favor of Afghanistan, though back in the fall of 2001 they were convinced it was a quagmire, graveyard of empire, unwinnable, another Vietnam, etc. Oh, and they also discovered a belated enthusiasm for the first President Bush’s shrewd conduct of the 1991 Gulf War, though at the time Kerry and most other Democrats voted against that one, too.* In this tedious shell game, no matter how frantically the left shuffles the cups, you never find the one shriveled pea of The Military Intervention We’re Willing To Support When it Matters.
*Everybody I know thought Operation Desert Storm was a just and noble cause
By Buy Danish
November 5, 2006 10:21 AM | Link to this
Getalife,
Regarding your tireless attempt to stir up the masses against Boehener -
Using your logic, everytime you bash Bush you are bashing the troops since he is their Commander in Chief.
Sheesh.
By Political Foreskin
November 5, 2006 10:29 AM | Link to this
That we are in the fifth day of KerryGate says all we need to know about the media and the bloggers here.
The biggest story since 911 is the weird bearded Shia guy’s “stand down” order over the US rescue mission to find our kidnapped soldier (which occured simultaneously with the Kerry gaff).
Fact: The enemy can call “time out. Simon says? Mother may I? Ali Ali income free”?
It’s over, over there, when Bush allows the Shia Militia to order our own troops around.
Bush Blinked, folks, but didn’t he push Kerry around? Wow. Too bad Kerry isn’t a Shia leader. We’d have won already.
But bush panders only to the enemy, (the shia militia), now targeting us troops and who have kidnapped an american GI.
But Bush sure did manhandle Kerry!! WOW!
Vote accordingly.
By Political Foreskin
November 5, 2006 10:33 AM | Link to this
Before Bush does anything in Iraq, he has to say, “Mullah, May I?”
Bush was told by the enemy to stop trying to rescue the missing US soldier, and he said, “Ali Ali, income free”.
Bush is waiting for the “Shia Imam Says” permission to do anything over there now.
Fact. BP Oil brokered the order, no doubt.
Vote accordingly.
By getalife
November 5, 2006 10:33 AM | Link to this
“You can support the troops but not the president” -Representative Tom Delay (R-TX)
“[The] President…is once again releasing American military might on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this operation will cost. And he has not informed our nation’s armed forces about how long they will be away from home. These strikes do not make for a sound foreign policy.” -Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA)
“If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy.” -Karen Hughes, speaking on behalf of George W. Bush
“I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us that it is often easier to make war than peace. This administration is just learning that lesson right now. The President began this mission with very vague objectives and lots of unanswered questions. A month later, these questions are still unanswered. There are no clarified rules of engagement. There is no timetable. There is no legitimate definition of victory. There is no contingency plan for mission creep. There is no clear funding program. There is no agenda to bolster our overextended military. There is no explanation defining what vital national interests are at stake. There was no strategic plan for war when the President started this thing, and there still is no plan today” -Representative Tom Delay (R-TX)
“Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?” -Sean Hannity, Fox News, 4/6/99
“Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is.” -Governor George W. Bush (R-TX)
“This is President Clinton’s war, and when he falls flat on his face, that’s his problem.” -Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN)
Really BD or are you just anoter hypocrite?
By Reverend Ted
November 5, 2006 10:34 AM | Link to this
I’m against gay marraige.
I want to play the field.
By Political Foreskin
November 5, 2006 10:44 AM | Link to this
Question 4 Rice: “Why aren’t we trying to fing that missing soldier?”
Rice’s answer: “The people that kidnapped him told us we couldn’t”
This has never happened in war before, people. the enemy sets the agenda for offensive campaigns?
Bush is tough on Kerry-lisps, soft on Terror-ists.
Vote accordingly
By Buy Danish
November 5, 2006 10:44 AM | Link to this
Getalife,
Do you have a quote from ME that makes ME a hypocrite?
By getalife
November 5, 2006 10:46 AM | Link to this
In real life, Kerry did not mention the troops but boner blamed them for Iraq.
This shows the pathetic hypocrisy of the gop and they have no shame.
These people are evil and have destoyed our country and our standing in the world.
Vote Dem to get our country back from these evil doers.
By bon scott
November 5, 2006 10:46 AM | Link to this
By Donut hole - November 5, 2006 10:03 AM - In this tedious shell game, no matter how frantically the left shuffles the cups, you never find the one shriveled pea of The Military Intervention We’re Willing To Support When it Matters.
Absolute rubbish. Simplistic thinking of the lowest order. Just because Steyn says it doesn’t make it true. Not at all.
Vote the Bush GOP out November 7th.
By Political Foreskin
November 5, 2006 10:49 AM | Link to this
Biggest story since 911: Bush coddles terrorists who kidnapped missing US soldier:
Bush had set up checkpoints to search cars. The terrorists said, “Get lost”. I’ll bet Bush had to apologize to the terrorists for trying to rescue that missing soldier, or else the terrorists would have ordered Bush out of Baghdad altogether.
Haliburton is making far far too much money to ever leave Baghdad.
Terrorists to Bush: “Get out, Infidel”. Bush to terrorists: “Thank you, Sir, can I have another?”
Vote Accordingly.
By getalife
November 5, 2006 10:49 AM | Link to this
BD,
Are you saying you have not spun the Kerry comment?
By Political Foreskin
November 5, 2006 10:52 AM | Link to this
Man oh manachevitz! Bush sure clobbered Kerry!
Too bad Kerry’s not a terrorist in Iraq, where bush has forgotten the missing us soldier.
Where is the Bush concern over the missing us soldier?
Oh yeah, the terrorists who kidnapped him told bush to stfu about it and leave.
Bush blinked. He coddled the kidnapping terrorists. he put our army in harms way by redeploying them on a terrorist’s timetable and route. They could have easily been ambushed, and probably were.
Bush is a coward and a liar, and he belongs behind bars. But at least Bush manhandled Kerry. Wowzee palzee!
Vote accordingly.
By Political Foreskin
November 5, 2006 10:53 AM | Link to this
WHERE IS THE MISSING SOLDIER?
WHERE IS THE MISSING SOLDIER?
WHERE IS THE MISSING SOLDIER?
WHERE IS THE MISSING SOLDIER?
WHERE IS THE MISSING SOLDIER?
WHERE IS THE MISSING SOLDIER?
Vote Accordingly.
By Markus
November 5, 2006 10:57 AM | Link to this
Well, it appears we had a cute little islamofascist POS wannabe at a halloween party at the home of the University Of Pennsylvania president. Not only that, but this punk liked to carry out mock hostage murders too. Not only does this POS think it’s cute to do that, the islamopig is an “engineering student” just like so many of those islamoterrorist bastards overseas. I’ll bet you that university president is a scumbag democrite, like most university presidents and faculty.
I think this little punk needs to have a knock on his door and then just kinda “disappear.” Why can’t I ever witness something this cool like that? I’d just love to see someone in front of me pretending to be a muslofanatic and mocking an execution of my people.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378324729&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Get out and enjoy the day you sorry@ssed liberals.
“You are the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human fing beings. You are nothing more than unorganized grabastic pieces of amphibian st.*”
HooRAH.
By Buy Danish
November 5, 2006 10:58 AM | Link to this
Sybil,
Try your shell game on someone who is dumb enough to fall for it. The votes are a matter of record, as are the statements of the elite intelligentsia (/sarc) and their dire predictions for Afghanistan.
In a battle of wits between you and Mark Steyn - you lose. That’s my dire prediction for you.
By bon scott
November 5, 2006 10:58 AM | Link to this
By Political Foreskin - November 5, 2006 10:29 AM - The biggest story since 911 is the weird bearded Shia guy’s “stand down” order over the US rescue mission to find our kidnapped soldier (which occurred simultaneously with the Kerry gaff).
Give this man a cigar. We have our grand prize winner.
Bush invaded Iraq to settle a grudge. National security had nothing to do with it:
The President has strong feelings about Saddam Hussein (you might too if the man had tried to assassinate your father, which Saddam attempted to do when former President George Bush visited Kuwait in 1993) and did not try to hide them. He showed little interest in debating what to do about Saddam. Instead, he became notably animated, according to one person in the room, used a vulgar epithet to refer to Saddam and concluded with four words that left no one in doubt about Bush’s intentions: “We’re taking him out.”
That’s bad enough. But launching a vendetta without the means to complete it is SO dumb:
The U.S. government conducted a series of secret war games in 1999 that anticipated an invasion of Iraq would require 400,000 troops, and even then chaos might ensue.
And there you have it. Bush ignored Colin Powell’s “overwhelming force” doctrine.
Instead adopting the Rumsfeld doctrine. Send in just enough troops to lose.
And for frosting on the cake, Bush is now deferring to Iraqi Shia PM Maliki and his good buddy, Shia cleril el-Sadr (head of the bloodthirsty Mehdi milita) in determining Iraq’s future. A bloody future.
Death squads? Violent anarchy? Bush doesn’t care. Just as he doesn’t care about kidnapped Americans.
Vote the Bush GOP out November 7th. They have no idea what they’re doing.
By getalife
November 5, 2006 11:08 AM | Link to this
Looks like PF and bon nailed the situation in Iraq.
If the neonuts would do a little research on their own, instead of reading Steyn, NRO, Ann, Rush and the rest of the neonut propaganda spin, they just might learn someting.
By bon scott
November 5, 2006 11:19 AM | Link to this
Donut Hole, you and your good buddy Steyn have something in common. You bleat huge lies about obvious truths, or simply make stuff up, thereby making you look extremely silly.
Show me a vote in Congress (any vote) where Democratic lawmakers united against the Afghanistan war on the Taliban and al Qaeda after 9/11. Votes by a handful of renegades don’t count.
Show me the MSM items urging hands off the Taliban after 9/11. Op Ed pieces by fringe types don’t count.
Show me the surveys concluding that these fringe types and renegades rallied Americans against the Afghanistan incursion in any significant numbers.
Good luck.
Vote the Bush GOP out November 7th.
By Buy Danish
November 5, 2006 11:26 AM | Link to this
Getalife,
Please, spare me. Your idea of “research” is comments from moonbats at KOS.
As for Kerry’s botched joke, I milked it but I did not need to spin it. He said what he said, and in one way or another he has said the same thing since 1971.
You must have been a delight in Literature class when your teachers got to discussing a novel’s “theme”:
But it doesn’t say that it is a story of good versus evil! Where does it say that?. Show me where it says that!
Sigh.
By Buy Danish
November 5, 2006 11:47 AM | Link to this
Sybil,
YOU mentioned the Gulf War yesterday as an example of your sterling support for American foreign policy and military action, but YOUR candidate for President was John Kerry WHO VOTED AGAINST IT, as did many other Dems. What does that say about your Party???
Steyn has it exactly right:
In the 2004 election, instead of coming to terms with it as a national security question, the Democrats looked at the war on terror merely as a Bush wedge issue they needed to neutralize. And so they signed up with the weirdly incoherent narrative of John Kerry — a celebrated anti-war activist suddenly “reporting for duty” as a war hero and claiming that, even though the war was a mistake and his comrades were murderers and rapists, his four months in the Mekong rank as the most epic chapter in the annals of the Republic.
Moreover, I said that the “INTELLEGENTSIA” (see New York Times, WaPo, Big 3 news networks - not “fringe” elements) had dire predictions of failure in Afghanistan.
I did not say that they “rallied against an incursion in significant numbers” (your way of admitting that some did, but I digress).
I did not EVER say that the Democrats were stupid enough to vote against going in to take out the Taliban.
They were not even stupid enough to vote against going in to take out the soon to be hanged Saddam Hussein. (Thanks W!)
They just wait until our troops get there and the nip nip nipping at their heels begins.
By RW-(the original)
November 5, 2006 11:53 AM | Link to this
Buy Danish,
Speaking of shell games, Sybil seems to be playing one now. He knows full well that Democrats were out bleating to the press that Afghanistan was an unwinnable quagmire, but he also knows they voted for it so he focuses on the vote and ignores the public statements.
The fact that Democrats would vote for a war they think is unwinnable really should be enough for most people to never vote for them again, but finch’s shell game marches on.
By jbmlaw
November 5, 2006 11:55 AM | Link to this
Happy Guy Fawkes day, to all of my conservative friends. Perhaps we will have similar cause to celebrate “failure to depose” Tuesday.
By RW-(the original)
November 5, 2006 12:12 PM | Link to this
jbmlaw,
Here’s another way to phrase it.
Rumors of a democrat tsunami are greatly exaggerated… On Wednesday there will be a new genre of writing - it’ll be called political fiction, poli-fi™, and for examples you’ll be able to look at almost every political article in the mainstream media throughout the last few months. The great tsunami of lies.
By Buy Danish
November 5, 2006 12:13 PM | Link to this
Oops. A dire prediction from Chuckie Schumer may be coming true.
He recently said that the Dems could not re-take the Senate without winning Rhode Island.
Get out your hankies Chuckie, because a new Mason-Dixon poll has Lincoln Chafee ahead (by 5 points?) and this was a race that the Republicans had just about given up on.
By Political Foreskin
November 5, 2006 12:17 PM | Link to this
The Republicans sentenced Kerry to hang today for saying the troops were stupid morons and halfwits who couldn’t make it to college and were chump enough to get stuck in Bush’s war for profit in Iraq.
By RW-(the original)
November 5, 2006 12:19 PM | Link to this
Buy Danish,
Have you heard all the talking head hand wringing this morning over the generic polls? We’ve been telling them for months that those polls were meaningless while finch’s cohorts in the antique media have been telling us they were a great predictor.
Today the generic poll is a tossup and the drive by media has finally come around to telling us how meaningless that poll is.
By dahreese
November 5, 2006 12:24 PM | Link to this
Quoting Jim Wooten, “Measures of success, yes. But premature withdrawal at our children’s peril.”
Did it ever occur to you, Jim, about our “children’s peril” before our “premature” attack of Iraq?
Not that it’s anything new from you, but it is a shame that a supposedly intelligent man in your position tries the spin that you have tried in this artice. It is a disgrace to your profession.
By Buy Danish
November 5, 2006 12:51 PM | Link to this
RW,
I didn’t bother to watch the pathetic hand -wringing but this is interesting.
Media Shocker: New WaPo-ABC News Poll Shows GOP Gaining Strength
By Pope rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda I
November 5, 2006 12:52 PM | Link to this
It’s actually quite hard for a bipolar bisexual to be a hypocrite, Buy Danish.
So you’re not a hypocrite, you’re just a crazee pervert. The heart and soul of the GOP!
By Pope rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda I
November 5, 2006 01:01 PM | Link to this
Get, I’ve decided that these morons here are not hypocrites. Hypocrisy requires a conscience that these animals have never ever displayed. Let’s face it, a pack of hyenas is a more moral organization than these Woo-ten Klanners, and the Luckovich losers are even worse.
I mean, look at this arseclown H(F)aggard. Trying to blame the “librul media” and the elections because he’s getting sodomized by a rentboy in a cheap Denver hotel every month for three years - where is the conscience in that?
These filthy hyenas have no shame.
By John Mark Karr
November 5, 2006 01:03 PM | Link to this
I thought I was the heart and soul of southern Republicanism…
By getalife
November 5, 2006 01:04 PM | Link to this
Do your country a huge favor cons.
Stay home on Tuesday.
By Pope rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda I
November 5, 2006 01:05 PM | Link to this
I’m still pretty confident that the GOP will retain control of both houses Tuesday.
Red staters aren’t getting any smarter, and they breed like flies, especially with all the bullsheet from the Bushes.
By Pope rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda I
November 5, 2006 01:16 PM | Link to this
Reverend H(F)aggard’s five children will have to deal with the fact that their daddy is a poof.
Like many, if not most, children of GOPers and fundies.
No wonder so many GOPers are hopeless and have no conscience.
By We're Gonna.....Raise......Your......Taxes!!!!
November 5, 2006 01:20 PM | Link to this
Hear those footsteps you panty waist pinko feminists?
The latest Reuters/Zogby poll has Mr. Corker leading the race, 53 percent to 43 percent. About three weeks ago, the momentum seemed to be in Mr. Ford’s favor. He was leading in the polls and had received key endorsements from prominent conservatives in the state. Some campaign watchers said Mr. Ford was running the best campaign in the country.
You’re fixin to get swamped by a red wave.
The machine is started and we’re gonna put a tire track on your metrosexual chest.
By Muffy The Libslayer
November 5, 2006 01:27 PM | Link to this
Do the nation a favor and stay home next Tuesday? In your wet dreams libs. You pontificating pinheads on the left have had an election practically handed to you on a platinum platter with plenty of help from the mainstream republican-hating media. If you can’t gain power come the morning of November 8, you just need to make like Alec Baldwin promised in 2000 and back your bags and haul a$$. You won’t be missed.
By Pope rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda I
November 5, 2006 01:32 PM | Link to this
Remember folks, whoever wins on Tuesday - the Woo-ten Klanners and the Luckovich Losers will still be angry whiny hate-filled losers - the election of Jesus Christ Himself couldn’t change that.
By getalife
November 5, 2006 01:34 PM | Link to this
“CNN just reported that Ted Haggard has put out a new statement saying he has deceived and is “guilty of sexual immorality”. This is a rather big hit two days before the elections”.
Lordy , lordy , meth makes him horny.
By Pinko Teacher
November 5, 2006 01:35 PM | Link to this
Reverend Haggard succumbed to the ways of the pinko.
We taught him well.
Now it’s time for us to teach your kids.
BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS Public employees teach kids ‘gay’ sex Workshops reportedly instruct youths in how to perform homosexual acts
By Pope rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda I
November 5, 2006 01:36 PM | Link to this
Muffy, if all the libs leave the country, whoes toilets are you rednecks gonna clean? Whose septic tanks are you gonna drain? Whose gonna pay you to wash their cars?
By RW-(the original)
November 5, 2006 01:37 PM | Link to this
Muffy The Libslayer,
Here’s what the libs would have to gain just to get into historical perspective.
This means that for Democrats simply to match the historical average gain for the party out of the White House during the first and second midterm, they would have to pick up 67 seats in the House and 11 seats in the Senate. They’re about 30 Mark Foleys short of having that happen.
By Buy Danish
November 5, 2006 01:41 PM | Link to this
Amerikkas al qaeda (Unevolved Worm),
I know you are drooling all over your slimy self thinking that this will somehow sink the Republican’s prospects on Tuesday, but no one except Haggard himself is responsible for Haggard’s actions.
Haggard’s children are not responsible for the actions of their father. Tragically the family will suffer because of his actions.
If you cared about children like you disgusting faux-compassionate Dems pretend, you’d be concerned for their welfare as innocents.
Because you’re nothing but POS worm, mercy is not a trait of human nature that you have inherited. And neither are brains.
By Mallory
November 5, 2006 01:46 PM | Link to this
Voters have two choices on Tuesday.
SUPPORT AMERICA & OUR MILITARY
Parents of fallen troops in surprise visit to Iraq
or….
VOTE DEMOCRAT & SUPPORT THE TERRORISTS
Mideast terror leaders to U.S.: Vote Democrat
I know what I’m doing. I’m voting for America & our troops. I’m voting REPUBLICAN.
By Buy Danish
November 5, 2006 01:56 PM | Link to this
Getalife,
So CNN is claiming that Republicans will take a hit because of what Haggard did?
Maybe that’s because CNN doesn’t have a clue about what Republicans think or believe.
By Bin-Laden
November 5, 2006 01:58 PM | Link to this
Absentee ballot for me baby! Yes indeed. I voted REPUBLICAN just like Mallory.
Thanks to Bush I’m still free! What a country.
By getalife
November 5, 2006 02:01 PM | Link to this
Fine Muffy.
Vote to keep destroying America and our standing in the world.
You hate America, you should move.
By Muffy The Libslayer
November 5, 2006 02:03 PM | Link to this
That’s funny al-Qaeda lover. The majority of republican voters make more money than the typical democratic constituency of the sloth filled, gimmie-gimmie left outside of hollywood and attorneys. What were you thinking, all those people the left hates so much who make more than $100k/yr are liberals or something? What a joke. Natalie Maines of the Dixie HOs was a Waffle House waitress, and now she thinks she knows enough to run the nation. I like your psuedo humor, al-Qaeda loverboy. It bespeaks volumes of your mentality, and the mentality of those you chill with. But hang loose there bro, because it’s going to get a lot chillier for you extremist leftocrats in the future.
By bon scott
November 5, 2006 02:07 PM | Link to this
By RW-(monkeyshines) - November 5, 2006 11:53 AM - He knows full well that Democrats were out bleating to the press that Afghanistan was an unwinnable quagmire, but he also knows they voted for it so he focuses on the vote and ignores the public statements.
So Democrats voted for it, even though they were against it? You just make stuff up, don’t you?
BTW, nice links (
Keep wasting valuable time and energy posting those polls here. We all know the only one that matters is Tuesday. Me? I’m busy rustling up more votes!
Vote the Bush GOP out November 7th.
By getalife
November 5, 2006 02:11 PM | Link to this
“TIME Poll: Registered Republicans Less Enthusiastic About Voting Than Democrats The G.O.P. also faces a stark drop-off in support from evangelicals and men, according to a new survey”
America hating losers.
By RW-(the original)
November 5, 2006 02:14 PM | Link to this
Sybil,
I know you think you’re rustling up votes, but even if you bring finch, seeker, mirror, seneca, bon scott, and the rest of the voices in your head, they’re still only going to let you vote once.
By getalife
November 5, 2006 02:16 PM | Link to this
Good for you Mallory.
Yep, your vote will keep the troops in Iraq in the middle of a civil war for oil even though they allied with Iran.
The North American Union for the corporate elites is not yet completed.
There is still Social Security left to rob.
Bravo, America hater and fascist lover.
By Buy Danish
November 5, 2006 02:18 PM | Link to this
Sybil,
RW is exactly right. Democrats vote one way to cover their butts for the Congressional record, and talk another when they’re out spinning their fables of doom and gloom to the chicken little media.
Here’s a dire prediction from Time Magazine from your link that I remember well:
But if Saddam waits for the conflict to come to Baghdad, this could be an urban, house-to-house battle unlike anything current U.S. troops have ever experienced.
By Corky Cobb
November 5, 2006 02:32 PM | Link to this
WOOOO-HOOOOO everyone! startrekrepublicans.com is now predicting a REPUBLICAN landslide victory on Tuesday!!!
What a comeback. VOTE REPUBLICAN
WOOO-HOOO
By We're Gonna.....Raise......Your......Taxes!!!!
November 5, 2006 02:32 PM | Link to this
Eeeuuwwwwhhhh, Time Ragazine:
As recently as January 1994, the supreme authority on matters environmental, Time magazine, wrote: The ice age cometh? Last week’s big chill was a reminder that the Earth’s climate can change at any time … The last (ice age) ended 10,000 years ago; the next one— for there will be a next on—could start tens of thousands of years from now. Or tens of years. Or it may have already started.
By getalife
November 5, 2006 02:36 PM | Link to this
“Conservative Richard Perle: I Didn’t Want Iraq Criticism Published Before Elections”
Whaaaaa.
Just another failure.
Loser.
By Dusty
November 5, 2006 02:40 PM | Link to this
Is there any purpose whatsoever to this blog? I read over the posts today around 2 PM. I would say that about 90% is NOT worth reading.
The few sensible contributors here are outnumbered by people who lie, exaggerate, misinform, and make rediculous claims. The lowest level of mentality, name-calling, is reduced even lower by perversion and insanity. Filthy acts are applied to people by accusers who do not even know the people they are accusing. Such ignominy goes unchecked.
Some of the noblest professions in the world such as teachers, doctors, ministers and “workers”. are vilified because of a few failed human beings.
Why stoop so low? It does not show intelligence or normality. Think twice before you show your own depravities to the world.
By getalife
November 5, 2006 02:44 PM | Link to this
Sullivan: Investigation “Is Proving That Hastert, Reynolds And Rove Knew Full-Well About Mark Foley For Years”
The gop can’t protect their own pages in their own house.
They post how to make an A bomb on the internet in Arabic.
They do care about protecting the people.
Vote Dem for real security.
By We're Gonna.....Raise......Your......Taxes!!!!
November 5, 2006 03:01 PM | Link to this
MUST SEE VIDEOs!! Visit Diane Irey To vote on the best Video! WHY IS JACK SCARED TO DEBATE? REASON NUMBER 3: HE DOESN’T WANT ANYONE TO KNOW HE SAID WE COULD SAFELY REDEPLOY AMERICAN FORCES FROM IRAQ TO … OKINAWA (WHICH IS IN JAPAN, A VEEEEEEEEEERY LONG WAYS AWAY)
By RW-(the original)
November 5, 2006 03:01 PM | Link to this
getalife,
Since finch won’t answer this why don’t you give it a try? How was that a dangerous document on the internet, but not dangerous when left in the hands of Saddam Hussein after sanctions were lifted?
By getalife
November 5, 2006 03:14 PM | Link to this
bon already answered that question RW.
I agree with bon because it is the truth.
Negroponte did not want to post it and closed the site as soon as the documents were known to contain bomb building instructions in Arabic.
W and the gop pushed him to fold and it backfired.
Lets hope Iran did not get a hold of it but they probably did.
By getalife
November 5, 2006 03:18 PM | Link to this
Looking forward to seeing a real American hero Murtha, as majority leader of the House.
Karma.
By RW-(the original)
November 5, 2006 03:19 PM | Link to this
getalife,
finch only answered with respect to sanctions still being in place. Try again.
By getalife
November 5, 2006 03:23 PM | Link to this
Give it a rest RW.
I read the spin at the right’s blogs.
The site is shut down, Iran got the plans to build their bomb.
End of story.
Just another gop disaster.
By getalife
November 5, 2006 03:32 PM | Link to this
Haggard: I’m a deceiver and a liar
“The fact is I am guilty of sexual immorality. And I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and a liar.”
By We're Gonna.....Raise......Your......Taxes!!!!
November 5, 2006 03:39 PM | Link to this
Bonus cartoon that doesn’t suck!
By Mallory
November 5, 2006 03:46 PM | Link to this
getalife, What makes you think Iran needed instructions for building a bomb? They’ve been well on their way for some time.
Were you upset when the NYTimes published methods we were using to track terrorist organization? Did you feel like that put our country at risk?
Your response to me yesterday that there is proof of a republican coverup in the Foley case wasn’t proof at all. It was YOUR DECLARATION of proof. So you don’t accept INNOCENCE UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY? With you it’s GUILTY AS CHARGED WITHOUT DOUBT. I hope you’re not eligible for jury duty.
By your standards all I’d have to say is — GETALIFE IS MENTALLY DERANGED AND NEEDS TO BE PUT IN A MENTAL ASYLUM AND IT WOULD BE DONE EXPEDIENTLY WITHOUT QUESTIONS.
By getalife
November 5, 2006 03:48 PM | Link to this
Who needs to apologize?
By bon scott
November 5, 2006 03:51 PM | Link to this
By RW-(monkeyshines) - November 5, 2006 03:01 PM - How was that a dangerous document on the internet, but not dangerous when left in the hands of Saddam Hussein after sanctions were lifted?
Not very tech savvy are you? Documents remaining in Saddam’s hands were dangerous, to be sure. If they were disseminated. There’s no evidence they were.
The same documents posted on the Internet? For anyone with a PC and a modem to see? And print out?
Surely even you can see the difference.
Please note that the sanctions against Saddam’s Iraq were never lifted. I’m guessing your question about sanctions was in error.
In summary, thanks a bunch, George Bush, aka Emperor Moran. You’ve just saved Iran and the brand new 6 nation Arab nuclear consortium years of trial and error.
Vote the Bush GOP out November 7th.
By getalife
November 5, 2006 03:56 PM | Link to this
Mallory,
Still think Haggard is innocent?
The Foley investigation will show the gop knew about Foley and did nothing.
You have been lied to, used and abused.
Our whole country loses due to the gop greed and incompetence.
Deal with it like the rest of us.
At least, we want change but you do not.
You will still vote gop no matter what.
Pathetic.
By getalife
November 5, 2006 04:02 PM | Link to this
Mallory,
I NEVER SAID GOD TOLD ME TO KILL LIKE W!
ARE YOU CRAZY LIKE W?
By Ditzty Malloy
November 5, 2006 04:07 PM | Link to this
Hey everyone, lets all say the Pledge of Allegiance!
VOTE REPUBLICAN
I always use my left hand to mark my vote. My right hand is for placing over my heart, with patriotism and proudness for America.
GOD BLESS YOU
By Mallory
November 5, 2006 04:10 PM | Link to this
Again with your declarations getalife?
You’re damn right I’m voting for the Republican & national security.
Al-Jazeera quotes Murtha. They also promote the terrorists.
Murtha may have served honorably but his balls have become pink, brittle, or shriveled. They just ain’t hangin’ right.
I’ll give my support to today’s modern definition of what it means to be a Marine. Committed to the mission.
By getalife
November 5, 2006 04:16 PM | Link to this
Neocons, National Review & the AEI — evading responsibility for their war
Cowards.
By Buy Danish
November 5, 2006 04:31 PM | Link to this
Mallory,
While Getalife babbles on and on about Haggard (and his point is ???), didn’t Abdul Kahn already give Iran (and Libya) blueprints for the Atomic bomb?
Getalife,
While researching the story of the missing Iraqi soldier I came across this, an excellent illustration of what our soldiers are up against and how they are bravely meeting the challenges of battling it out with terrorists, often with Iraqi soldiers at their side.
As you will see, the link it not to Coulter or Steyn.
By Mallory
November 5, 2006 04:33 PM | Link to this
DMZzzzzzz, We know where your allegiance is don’t we?
By getalife
November 5, 2006 04:40 PM | Link to this
Whatever you say psycho.
I will vote Dem to save some lives dying for nothing.
By We're Gonna.....Raise......Your......Taxes!!!!
November 5, 2006 04:45 PM | Link to this
A rat runs down the alley And a chill runs down your spine Someone walks across your grave And you wish the sun would shine No one’s gonna warn you And no one’s gonna yell ‘Attack’ And you don’t feel the steel Till it’s hanging out your back
PEW: Republicans Cut Democratic Lead in Campaign’s Final Days…
I’m your night prowler, I sleep in the day.
By Buy Yogurt; Pastries make Your Backside HUGE
November 5, 2006 04:46 PM | Link to this
In 1994, Newt Gingrich gave us some great ideas to bring integrity and accountability back to Congress. These ideas were outlined in specific action items – promises for something better. We believed in them.
It’s been 12 YEARS since the Republicans took the absolute majority and control. How many of these promises did they even attempt to keep?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.They’re not accountable until YOU make them so. Exercise choice on November 7th.
By Mallory
November 5, 2006 04:56 PM | Link to this
Buy Danish, Kahn was making the rounds for sure.
People can say what they want about Iraq but the Middle East has been a powder keg waiting to explode for as long as I can remember.
I’m glad the eyes of the international community are on them for everybody to see now.
It pushes them into proving that they are either for us or against us.
We didn’t accomplish much by ignoring the problem now did we?
That’s exactly what the Democrats want to return to. Democrats call terrorists a nuisance, a right-wing fear tactic, a fabrication for big oil conglomerates.
Can we really allow naive democrats to protect us? I think NOT.
By getalife
November 5, 2006 04:57 PM | Link to this
“Let’s impeach the president for lying
And leading our country into war
Abusing all the power that we gave him
And shipping all our money out the door
He’s the man who hired all the criminals
The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors
And bend the facts to fit with their new stories
Of why we have to send our men to war
Let’s impeach the president for spying
On citizens inside their own homes
Breaking every law in the country
By tapping our computers and telephones
What if Al Qaeda blew up the levees
Would New Orleans have been safer that way
Sheltered by our government’s protection
Or was someone just not home that day?
Let’s impeach the president
For hijacking our religion and using it to get elected
Dividing our country into colors
And still leaving black people neglected
Thank god he’s racking down on steroids
Since he sold his old baseball team
There’s lot of people looking at big trouble
But of course the president is clean
Thank God”
Neil Young.
By Buy Yogurt
November 5, 2006 04:57 PM | Link to this
Oh, and don’t forget: healthy, low-fat, high protein foods are good for your mind. If you eat processed pastries all day, (not naming any names here) not only will your backside be HUGE, but your mind will be mush. You’ll spend all your time making excuses for liars, thieves, perverts, and war-mongering rich kids too lazy and spoiled to bother learning about a country, (like there are people called Shias and Sunnis who’d like to kill each other, for example) before sending our fine brave troops into harm’s way. DOH!
Healthy mind, healthy backside, healthy country! Toss those pastries!
By Buy Danish
November 5, 2006 05:01 PM | Link to this
Buy Yogurt,
I don’t know what kind of junk you’re eating, but whatever it is it is really screwing up your synapses.
I’ll take mercy on you and will say no more except that it may have something to do with your culture.
RW,
Didn’t I say something about the “Culture of Yogurt” a very long time ago? Who knew that I was going to be proven right just before Election Day!
By Mallory
November 5, 2006 05:05 PM | Link to this
Huge A*,
DEMOCRATS CONTRACT WITH AMERICA
Trust us and we’ll pull our troops out of Iraq leaving the U.S. vulnerable.
We’ll bring that money home, raise everybody’s taxes and bring down the economy.
We just won’t guarantee how long you’ll have to spend it.
By Ah Break Wind
November 5, 2006 05:06 PM | Link to this
Positive direction my a*. Free Saddom, he is the only one who can keep Iraq from joining the fundamentalist Islamic faction. If the fundamentalist win, the west is toast, as their will be NO MORE ARAB OIL FOR AMERIKA. Al Sadr is wetting his panties hoping So Dumb Saddom is executed by soo very dumb bushie and his neo-scumies. Free Saddom Now, or face doom.
By Buy Danish
November 5, 2006 05:09 PM | Link to this
Getalife (really bad rapper)
There are few things worse than a white boy pretending to come from The Hood.
Yogurt,
“War-mongering rich kids?” Is this an attempt to re-write Kerry’s botched joke about our military?
By Mallory
November 5, 2006 05:10 PM | Link to this
No thanks, conservatives will pass on the pastries too.
Democrats are cupcakes.
By Buy Danish
November 5, 2006 05:10 PM | Link to this
Getalife,
I missed the Neil Young part. He’s a really bad rapper too.
By getalife
November 5, 2006 05:12 PM | Link to this
BD,
That is a song by Neil Young.
And this is Andy
By Buy Danish
November 5, 2006 05:19 PM | Link to this
Buy Yogurt,
Guess who! And just like you he fancies himself a writer of great epics!
His breakfast consists of yogurt, toast and tea,
Awww. Too freaking bad. It will never be published,” said Rubin. “That would make it a collector’s item for fanatics – rather like having a first edition of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.”
By Buy Danish
November 5, 2006 05:23 PM | Link to this
Getalife,
Like I said, white boys make really bad rappers.
These last gasp attempts to sway the voters are quite something to witness. It’s zero hour and you’ve resorted to quoting Neil Young rapping - badly, and linking to Ho Hum cartoons.
By RW-(the original)
November 5, 2006 05:24 PM | Link to this
Sybil,
Since you can make the very giant leap that Saddam’s documents were an aid to anyone, I can make the very tiny leap that sanctions would have been lifted. Oil for food was a cesspool of corruption with it’s goal of getting them lifted and the useful idiots here at home, of which you are a charter member, were pushing the phony line that our sanctions were starving the Iraqi children of food and medicine.
It’s a virtual certainty that sanctions would have been lifted and Saddam could fire up the weapons plants in no time.
I realize that you’re too stupid to understand all this, so go back to marshaling the voices in your head for that big election day stampede of yours.
Buy Danish,
You did indeed dub them The Culture of Yogurt before they decided to make good on the name. Good call!
By We're Gonna.....Raise......Your......Taxes!!!!
November 5, 2006 05:28 PM | Link to this
Hahahahaha:
Neil Young’s newly recorded protest album “Living With War,” including a song calling for the impeachment of President Bush, will be posted for {{{{{free}}}}}} Internet streaming next week.
They can’t sell it, hahaha.
Liberal dumba-sses.
By getalife
November 5, 2006 05:31 PM | Link to this
Hoekstra, R-Mich., complained the U.S. intelligence community hadn’t properly declassified the documents. “Well, you know, we have a process in place. It looks like they screwed up,” he said on CNN’s “Late Edition.”
Idiots.
By Buy Danish
November 5, 2006 05:32 PM | Link to this
Awwwwww. Ramsey Clark got thrown out of court before the verdict was read.
We know the Judge’s English was good enough to utter two words, “Get out!”
By Mallory
November 5, 2006 05:32 PM | Link to this
getalife, Since you appear to be the only lib on the board, I’ll add some food for thought.
Murtha could be packing cream-filled twinkies in his BVDs. Maybe pink snowballs.
All I know is he isn’t packing heat.
Murtha is a DEMOCRAT.
By Mallory
November 5, 2006 05:36 PM | Link to this
getalife, In all fairness to Murtha, I’ll give him a couple of ding dongs.
You know, when there’s no serious commentary from the libs, this becomes fun.
By We're Gonna.....Raise......Your......Taxes!!!!
November 5, 2006 05:37 PM | Link to this
WASHINGTON (AP) - The head of the GOP Senate campaigns on Sunday sought to deflect growing criticism about the war in Iraq, saying her party will prevail in Tuesday’s elections partly because “Democrats appear to be content with losing.”
By Buy Danish
November 5, 2006 05:38 PM | Link to this
RW,
I believe that Sybil the Cowboy used the word “rustling” to describe his plans to rope in the electorate.
Isn’t “rustling” stealing? Maybe it was a Freudian slip.
By getalife
November 5, 2006 05:39 PM | Link to this
Mallory,
You are a perverted freak supporting criminals:
WASHINGTON - “The new chief of the FBI’s Criminal Division, which is swamped with public corruption cases, says the bureau is ramping up its ability to catch crooked politicians and might run an undercover sting on Congress”
Culture of corruption indeed.
By Ditzty Malloy
November 5, 2006 05:39 PM | Link to this
Now that President Bush has proven that Dan Quayle is not too dumb to be President, its time to officially put Quayle’s name on the ‘08 Republican short list.
Quail and Rice on ‘08
By RW-(the original)
November 5, 2006 05:42 PM | Link to this
Moonbats erupting in anger
I guess they really hate seeing one of theirs go down.
By getalife
November 5, 2006 05:42 PM | Link to this
Where is Hasturd
Speaker Pelosi has been campaigning but Hasturd is hiding.
Wonder why?
By We're Gonna.....Raise......Your......Taxes!!!!
November 5, 2006 05:43 PM | Link to this
This has been posted on the Internet since Thursday, where’s the liberal outrage?:
NEWARK, N.J. — Prosecutors want a former Newark teacher accused by a student of infecting him with the virus that causes AIDS to be tested for the disease. Hassan Vann, 29, a former music teacher at West Side High School in Newark, was indicted Thursday, accused of sexually abusing a student who now has AIDS, the Essex County prosecutor’s office said.
Isn’t this far, far worse then anything Haggard or Foley did???
I wonder, gee, gosh, what could be the difference that would cause the pinko liberal democrats to overlook this and drag Haggard’s corpse around, huh, huh?
By Buy Danish
November 5, 2006 05:45 PM | Link to this
Getalife,
What makes you so sure that they don’t have a sting operation in mind for Harry Reid?
By getalife
November 5, 2006 05:45 PM | Link to this
Speaking of quail, Cheney is going hunting on election day.
Wonder who he will shoot this time?
By Mallory
November 5, 2006 05:47 PM | Link to this
DMZzzzzz, I’ll take the quell on Tuesday and leave you some leftovers.
By We're Gonna.....Raise......Your......Taxes!!!!
November 5, 2006 05:48 PM | Link to this
Look at this looney lib:
“I’ll own this town,” Stark, a first-year University of Virginia law student, was overheard telling sheriff’s deputies as he was led away from the rally at Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport. On Saturday, Allen supporters formed a human wall to block Stark’s access to the senator, who is in a tight election race with Democrat Jim Webb. As Stark tried to sidestep the wall, he brushed the side of a supporter, who fell. A deputy sheriff grabbed Stark, put his arm behind his back and led him away to the cheers of about 100 Allen supporters.
Attacking a senator?
What the hell is wrong with you pinkos?
Anybody seen RE?
By RW-(the original)
November 5, 2006 05:50 PM | Link to this
Buy Danish,
Can you imagine someone as effete as finchie bon Sybil doing any rustling? Even when he set the wheels in motion for the threats on our lives he disappeared for a couple of months.
By getalife
November 5, 2006 05:51 PM | Link to this
RW,
I was posting at the HP and someone named “eliminateislam” was pimping the lgf.
They bashed the poor guy and he cut and ran.
I wonder if it was Charles.
By We're Gonna.....Raise......Your......Taxes!!!!
November 5, 2006 05:52 PM | Link to this
In the wake of the press release (Vanity Fair article)– which has gotten considerable play on the Internet – some of those “neoconservatives” highlighted in the article have responded to the excerpts and its misrepresentations, in some cases, of what they said. We collect some of those reactions — including from Eliot Cohen, David Frum, Michael Ledeen, Richard Perle, and Michael Rubin — below.
By Janine
November 5, 2006 05:58 PM | Link to this
This blog is getting more bizarre every dayIt’s difficult to follow , much less participate with so many incoherent diatribes [from both left and right} spattered throughout…I’ll check back later.
By We're Gonna.....Raise......Your......Taxes!!!!
November 5, 2006 05:59 PM | Link to this
And its bad, bad leroy brown The baddest man in the whole damn town Badder than old king kong And meaner than a junkyard dog
Polls: Surge for GOP in Montana, Rhode Island, Tennesse- Republicans are seeing a last minute surge, according to a series of Mason-Dixon polls for McClatchy Newspapers-MSNBC. “Twelve new state-by-state polls show a surprise shift in the political battleground to the north as Republican incumbents clawed their way back in two states frequently written off as lost to them — Montana and Rhode Island,” McClatchy newspapers reported early Sunday. Republican Sen. Conrad Burns is now in a dead heat with Democrat Jon Tester, both tied with 47 percent of the vote. Burns had been trailing badly just weeks ago.
By RW-(the original)
November 5, 2006 05:59 PM | Link to this
getalife,
Are they still talking about you at Charles’ place? Maybe you can get signed back on as “Saddam’s Little Buddy.”
By We're Gonna.....Raise......Your......Taxes!!!!
November 5, 2006 06:01 PM | Link to this
A Man who respects our troops, like he should:
“Saddam Hussein was one of the most brutal dictators the world has ever seen. President Bush is particularly proud of our men and women in the United States military. Without their sacrifice, today’s verdict would have never happened,” presidential counsel Bartlett said.
I’m particulary proud of you, Mr. President.
By Buy Danish
November 5, 2006 06:06 PM | Link to this
RW,
Maybe that certain cowboy movie that was such a hit amongst the elites last year is his inspiration for the cowboy jargon. Maybe he’ll rustle himself up a cowboy while he’s rustling up votes.
Janine,
If it’s incoherent it’s not from “the Right”.
By Buy Danish
November 5, 2006 06:08 PM | Link to this
Andy,
It occured to me that Stark could be our very own Stalker Boy OOTMVOD.
By bon scott
November 5, 2006 06:08 PM | Link to this
This election is about Iraq, all right. Remember what this nation stands for.
The reasons for voting the Bush GOP out are as plentiful as they are powerful:
Remember the president’s congressional accomplices and enablers, some of them arrogant bullies, some of them blind mice. Remember those who didn’t challenge his specious reasoning and used patriotism to fan the flames of war. Remember those complicit in the profiteering. Remember those who clucked about our brave troops and denied them body armor, who cashed checks from contractors and watched the war gut the U.S. Army.
“Mission Accomplished” was an insult to Americans in and out of uniform 3 years ago. “Stay the Course”? Well, we all know what happened to THAT cliche. So first we give the Bush GOP a ballot box wakeup. And then?:
It’s time to try something different in Iraq. It’s time to sit down with Mr. Maliki and his government and create a sense of urgency. Pull U.S. troops back over the horizon, enlist international help and let Iraq become Iraq’s responsibility. It will be ugly and violent, but it’s already ugly and violent. The U.S. presence, tragically, is prolonging the agony.
“Stay the course” has morphed into “spinning our wheels”. Stupid is as stupid does.
This election is about Iraq, all right. Remember what this nation stands for.
Vote the Bush GOP out November 7th. Send a message to them. You’re incompetent. You don’t know what you’re doing. And anything is better than what you’re offering.
By RW-(the original)
November 5, 2006 06:19 PM | Link to this
Why do I always hear Judy Garland in the background of these moonbat posts?
Somewhere over the horizon
Way up high,
There’s a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby.
Just over the rainbow err… horizon
By regulator
November 6, 2006 09:20 AM | Link to this
I wish just once a Republican would get caught with a woman, man its tough knowing all our leaders are f*.
By richard dobkin
November 6, 2006 02:14 PM | Link to this
I seldom read your articles because of your political “bent” but with the Democrats poised to regain at least one of the houses I thought I would. The first paragraph remark: “En route to their goal of making Tuesday’s election a referendum on President Bush and Iraq, without any visible indication that they have any workable ideas or plans for handling the war on terrorism themselves”
applies more to the the current administration than to the Democrats.
From a Secretary of State who is incompetent to a President who can not govern except with hubris to a Secretary of Defense and Vice President who in the words of fellow Republicans, are “dysfunctional” it is beyond me how you reach the conclusions you do. I will wait another few years to read you again but I gather you learn little from history and even less from age.