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DEL.ICIO.USPerdue still can clear GOP of political shame
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Reflecting on the General Assembly just past and the special session promised, the temptation is strong to quote the famous question posed by Casey Stengel in managing the ‘62 Mets to a 40-120 record: “Can’t anybody here play this game?”
Of those Mets he said, too, “We’ve got to learn to stay out of triple plays.”
Inordinate attention to the strikes and errors, to the triple plays and serial miscalculations, overshadow more important questions. Those include whether Gov. Sonny Perdue has vetoed himself into lame-duck status, whether House Speaker Glenn Richardson (R-Hiram) has the temperament to lead the House and whether Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle can govern through his gubernatorial ambitions.
The veto was a miscalculation. Republicans, three years into full control, have failed to define themselves. Regardless of the convoluted route the House, and then the Senate, took to get to a $142 million tax cut — a pittance compared to the $1.6 billion in increased spending — it is important in symbol and in fact.
It gave form to the promises spoken by Richardson and Senate President Pro Tem Eric Johnson (R-Savannah) when Republicans took control. Those promises, while vague, conveyed specific course directions, especially to conservatives. People who aren’t conservative tend to dismiss as sloganeering the rhetoric about government and taxes, families and personal responsibility. People who are take it as a contract. It’s not a Ronald Reagan Library cafe or pub pick-up line.
If the show stopped with Cagle and the Senate acting principally, according to their implied contract, to strip pork from the supplemental budget, Cagle would have had a leg-up in the gubernatorial sweepstakes. Had the two chambers stopped the show after agreeing to cut taxes, both Richardson and Cagle would have gone home winners.
But it didn’t stop there. The pork removal was show. Added borrowings dwarfed the rebate and, furthermore, meant that it was simply added to the taxpayers’ tab.
And then Perdue vetoed. That prompted the speaker to remind voters belligerently that Perdue had started off his first term by proposing a tax increase, and resurrected grumbling among rank-and-file legislators — not heard since he first took office — that he’s still a Democrat at heart. Perdue is, of course, a mainstream Georgia Republican, but the quick revival of negative characterizations reveals a serious breach that could make Perdue an early lame duck.
Actions that followed — with much-to-do made over technicalities about whether the veto message had been “transmitted” — had all the earmarks of a Cobb or Fulton County GOP party catfight. Bad scene.
Perdue holds the cards. There is a way to recover, to embrace principle and to affirm the fiscal conservative credentials of all. It is to call the special session to address two matters: the vetoed supplemental budget and Senate Resolution 20, the proposed constitutional amendment by state Sen. Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock) to put a flexible cap on the growth of government spending. That legislation passed the Senate with bipartisan support and is now in the House. It would require excess tax collections beyond the rate of government inflation and population growth to be used for one of four purposes: debt, reserves, education or tax rebates.
Taking back the $142 million property tax rebate without committing to future spending discipline seriously erodes the credibility of a majority that promised to be guided by conservative principles.
Despite the session’s misplays, there were make-a-difference successes, some of major importance that would never have come had conservatives not been in charge. Education reform initiated by Cagle (charter schools) and Johnson (special needs vouchers) are major achievements, the latter made possible only because Richardson cast the deciding vote in the House. Further reform is likely next year, with the tax initiatives coming from the House.
The effort to deal responsibly with entitlement-like programs, PeachCare and indigent defense, that have an uncapped appetite for new spending, is another area where fiscal conservatives make a difference.
The way out of this debacle is to return to principle with a commitment that future legislators will have a responsible plan, fixed in the constitution if voters agree, that will conserve — or return — excess collections.
• Jim Wooten is associate editorial page editor. His column runs Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays.
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By getalife
April 28, 2007 1:07 PM | Link to this
Still hating on the poor children Jim.
You poor, poor soul.
Sonny can.
Geez, good luck with that but we have a wacky wingnut named Jindal, the guy thinks he actually fought the devil.
By getalife
April 28, 2007 1:25 PM | Link to this
The Iraqis are turning on the police and their government is collapsing
Sign the freaking bill w.
Geez.
Jim,
Are you okay with cover ups?
Do you love being lied to?
Where does the buck stop?
By WootenDull
April 28, 2007 1:56 PM | Link to this
Jim: You are way too hard on this state government, while I agree with you in principle, think of how much worse this could be.
Just think if they spent all their time conducting show trials and witch hunts against the executive, they could completely ignore the business at hand to stage voter drives passing pointless legislation like “minimum wage,” they could be stabbing the country in the back and abandoning our troops in the field.
Like the democrats in Washington are doing.
No, it could be much worse here in Georgia, as it stands, we are the only sane legislature in the country.
Count your blessings.
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By aaron hume
April 28, 2007 1:57 PM | Link to this
I never realized how big a sin the Republicans committed by giving me back MY money! Must agree that Perdue, Cagle and Richardson all showed “their BACKSIDES” this year. Just SHOW ME MY $$$!
By Markus
April 28, 2007 2:08 PM | Link to this
“I never realized how big a sin the Republicans committed by giving me back MY money!”
Yeah, imagine the HELL out of that aaron. What gall of actually wishing Americans get back some of that upfront highway robbery, like socialist security deductions. If dumb@ssed liberal demoncat constituents are too stupid and uneducated to make their own investment decisions, then let them slowly bleed to death at that fine SS return of 4.5%.
No thanks liberal demoncat neoMarxists, I don’t need YOUR help with MY finances. Collectivist pigs.
By Markus
April 28, 2007 2:32 PM | Link to this
“I’m curious, if George Bush is responsible for each and every action of our soldiers at every level, why wouldn’t Shirley Franklin be the one responsible for Kathryn Johnston’s shooting instead of the cops?”
WD, now “Shirley” you wouldn’t expect collectivist leftists at the al Jazeera Constipation or elsewhere to understand that analogy now, would you? Do you think they are that intelligent to reason outside of emotionalism?
“Stop calling me Shirley.”
By catlady
April 28, 2007 2:37 PM | Link to this
I see where another (how many is this?) of Pres Bush’s boys (remember—the family values party—has resigned due to involvement with the Washington Madam group. God save us from these highly-principaled, highly qualified cronies that are making a mockery of the GOP! Of course, the clown makeup was already in place.
And hey, Democrats, I sure don’t see you making any real progress on the things you were elected to do! Why not? Seems like it is just more of the same. You’ll be on the bus back home in 2008 if you don’t get with it.
The American people (those who are sentient, anyway) are tired of being treated like idiots by both parties!
By getalife
April 28, 2007 2:39 PM | Link to this
Please Andy,
How many subpoenaes were issued for Clinton? Over 1000.
5 so far for w. Get a new talking point.
Geez.
By getalife
April 28, 2007 2:47 PM | Link to this
Actually catlady, the Dems. have done their job.
End the war, one signature away.
Min. wage, one signature away.
The rest of the first 100 hours are in committee.
It will take decades to clean up after w.
We will need patience and it is a damn shame w took us this far in the wrong direction with the gop rubber stamping his destruction of this country.
It is absolutely ridiculous to even consider a gop candidate after what they have done.
We must learn from this tragic mistake.
By Buy Danish
April 28, 2007 3:05 PM | Link to this
People who aren’t conservative tend to dismiss as sloganeering the rhetoric about government and taxes, families and personal responsibility. People who are take it as a contract.
Okay fine. But then we get:
It’s not a Ronald Reagan Library cafe or pub pick-up line.
Egads, I should hope not.
By getalife
April 28, 2007 3:18 PM | Link to this
Contractors have pulled off their ultimate scam
Geez.
By getalife
April 28, 2007 3:26 PM | Link to this
Its pretty evident that I have no friends,family or life. How the hell else can I stay on a blog 24 f*cking hours a day?
By Markus
April 28, 2007 3:29 PM | Link to this
“Actually catlady, the Dems. have done their job.”
Mmm huh. As someone else posted, gas prices are still jacked up and going higher, Osama is not caught, and other odds and ends the RAT pack spent ALL FREAKING YEAR last year saying they’d fix in 100 days and haven’t even mentioned a PEEP about lately.
Liberal demoncats are pathological liars. No question, no doubt.
By Markus
April 28, 2007 3:31 PM | Link to this
Don’t feel bad getalife. You and I could always get together and make flippy flop. Guess what I’m wearing.
By Markus
April 28, 2007 3:32 PM | Link to this
“…inspectors for a federal oversight agency have found that in a sampling of eight projects… seven were no longer operating as designed because of plumbing and electrical failures, lack of proper maintenance, apparent looting and expensive equipment that lay idle.”
Oh my bad. This is about Iraq. For a minute I thought they were talking about New Orleans reconstruction.
By Markus
April 28, 2007 3:35 PM | Link to this
3:31 ID jack. Our resident liberal ID jackal is up to no good. Facts and links cause a liberal demoncat neoMarxist pig to lose his or her mind and degrade to acting like a five year old.
By Markus
April 28, 2007 3:39 PM | Link to this
getalife,
I’m wearing chocolate panties just for you. We shouldn’t let our political differences get in the way of what we really want.
Don’t you wish your girlfriend was hot like me! Don’t you wish your girlfriend was a freak like me!
Don’t you?
By Markus
April 28, 2007 3:43 PM | Link to this
“If you’ve ever wondered why every single LGF post is buried at Digg, this thread will answer the question for you. Note that several of the Diggbats attack LGF for reporting the story (ham steak sandwich), even though our post was completely accurate. Because Fox News quoted a parody site incorrectly, they now assume that the entire story is false—and it is not. This is how leftist fables and distortions are planted in the moonbat base. The hatred is so strong in these people that they’re completely blind.”
Those words could not have been put together better. One small human error, and it’s ALL discredited by the diseased caged monkeyassed left. Meanwhile, Sandypants Berger lies and steals classified intel documents from the National Archives and the left licks his toes.
Note to gonzo: that case will N-E-V-E-R be closed because of D-E-S-T-R-O-Y-E-D evidence.
By Markus
April 28, 2007 3:46 PM | Link to this
ID jack 3:39. I must REALLY be getting to this liberal demoncat freakbat. Good. Maybe I can talk this pathetic liberal freak into slicing his wrists ala SAW II.
By Jigsaw
April 28, 2007 3:51 PM | Link to this
Hello Markus. I want to play a game.
For months you have spewed your ignorant right wing tirades on this blog with no regard to the faults that exist within your own party.
Redemption is needed for you. On this blog you will find the key for that redemption and it is hidden in a place where you would never suspect but you are very familiar with it. Only then will you come to the full realization of true politics.
Let the game begin.
By getalife
April 28, 2007 3:51 PM | Link to this
Sorry PF,
My girlfriend is a freak like me.
By WootenDull
April 28, 2007 3:53 PM | Link to this
“Iran’s nuclear program can be thrown back by years in a ten day attack using a thousand Tomahawk cruise missiles,” Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was quoted as saying in an interview published online by the German magazine Focus on Saturday.
Excellent idea.
In fact, why don’t we make it a 20 day attack and we’ll set those zipperheads back a decade.
What would that hurt?
Cowards.
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By Markus
April 28, 2007 3:55 PM | Link to this
(Someone has finally had their freakout here, as if I haven’t spent time TRASHING alleged Conservative Republicans on that I voted for on their policies starting with George W. Bush).
Anyway, more bad news from Iraq for the terrorist loving liberal demoncats in this nation and elsewhere. Man what a b!tch.
By getalife
April 28, 2007 3:58 PM | Link to this
Andy,
They need nuclear bunker buster bombs to penetrate that far deep into their bunker.
The nuclear fallout is not good idea.
Olmert is running his mouth probably to appease the Israeli wingnuts.
By Markus
April 28, 2007 3:58 PM | Link to this
We have a SAW fan amongst us. May I also recommend “Hostel?”
By Jigsaw
April 28, 2007 4:03 PM | Link to this
Markus,
Hostel is not on the same level as my depictions on film. Anyway, you are running out of time. Concentrate on the name of this blog and you will find the key to your redemption.
By Markus
April 28, 2007 4:08 PM | Link to this
Uh oh. Jigsaw is out for me. I wonder how he’ll feel if a crossbow shish kabobs his heart?
By getalife
April 28, 2007 4:12 PM | Link to this
Nice work Tillman family
God bless.
By Markus
April 28, 2007 4:13 PM | Link to this
More “bad” news from Iraq. I can see mangy liberal media mongrels just grinding teeth having to report news like this, IF they even do it at all. Good job in Syria BTW, Pelosivich. Stupid effin’ liberals.
By getalife
April 28, 2007 4:17 PM | Link to this
No stupid, this is the bad news
Then there is the attack in Pakistan .
Geez.
By Markus
April 28, 2007 4:21 PM | Link to this
One death is too many and bad news. Just like in 1776, 1812, 1861, 1917, 1941, 1951, 1969, 1991, 1996, 2003, and 2007.
Geez.
By Markus
April 28, 2007 4:43 PM | Link to this
Exhibit A:
Dumb@ssed liberal Holly-woodhead loves India.
Exhibit B:
Dumb@ssed liberal Holly-woodhead loves to tell Americans how nations like India are doing things right and we are doing things wrong.
Exhibit C:
Dumb@ssed liberal Holly-woodhead kissess some Indian scarlett which violates public obscenity law.
Exhibit D: AJC columnist and liberal (“center right” hehehehe) grand poobah Cynthia Tucker says we should just drop SPAM cans on Afhgans. Of course, we al know SPAM has pork. This is a class AAAAA example of the overemotionalism of liberalism. React first and think about the consequences later.
To think these brilliant monstrocities of collectivism on the left think they are the smartest people in the world. {{{{SNORE}}}}.
By Markus
April 28, 2007 4:54 PM | Link to this
John “Neckbrace bambulance chaser” Breckgirl Edwards: there is no global war on terror.
Such leadership. Such backbone. Such stamina. Such balls. Such a stand up guy. Such a man of the times we are in. Such a hero of Osama.
By WootenDull
April 28, 2007 4:56 PM | Link to this
This could be the end of that bit-ch:
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday she sees her sometimes Southern accent as a virtue. “I think America is ready for a multilingual president,” Clinton said during a campaign stop at a charter school in Greenville, S.C.
You’re not much of a deep thinker if you let ideas like this escape from your mouth.
This is a Sheryl Crow except that Crow had the excuse of probably being wasted when she gushed.
Pig “woman” was serious.
This idiot Hillary’s handlers must not have been close enough to stifle it, she must have warmed to the thought before they took notice.
You can’t hide for a year and a half, you freaking monster, freak show bull dyk-e.
This is gonna be Snowflake’s game before the end of the year.
Good riddance.
Cowards.
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By Midori
April 28, 2007 4:58 PM | Link to this
John “Neckbrace bambulance chaser” Breckgirl Edwards
sounds like a fat, pasty white bald guy with p*nis envy talking……….
You ridicule what you admire.
Ever think about checking out “HairClub for Men”?
By Buy Danish
April 28, 2007 5:03 PM | Link to this
A few gems of hyperbole from the true story of the hateful ham sandwich -
The school incident is being treated seriously as “a hate incident,” Levesque said. Lewiston police are investigating, and the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence is working with the school to create a response plan.
“We’ve got some work to do to turn this around and bring the school community back together again,” Levesque said.
If people think insulting Muslims with ham is OK, “More degrading acts will follow, until at some point we’ll end up having violence,” Wessler said.
By Markus
April 28, 2007 5:03 PM | Link to this
Anybody still up for some carbon credit stocks?
Anyone?
Anybody?
Hello?
Echo.
Echo.
Echo.
Echo.
By Markus
April 28, 2007 5:05 PM | Link to this
“sounds like a fat, pasty white bald guy with pnis envy talking……….”*
That’s RAT debating. Like herding cats. They sure are quiet around here on the weekends. Wonder why? Hehehehe.
By Markus
April 28, 2007 5:10 PM | Link to this
“Ever think about checking out “HairClub for Men”?”
Edumacation edumacation for liberals 101: quotations are “ALWAYS!” outside of wording and exclamation points. Just trying to help the ignoranus masses.
By Buy Danish
April 28, 2007 5:14 PM | Link to this
While politically correct idiots prepare a response plan for a hate crime involving a ham sandwich, across the world in the Islamic world an Egyptian blogger throws in the towel.
One of the chief reasons is the fact that there has been too much heat around me lately. I no longer believe that my anonymity is kept, especially with State Secuirty agents lurking around my street and asking questions about me since that day. I ignore that, the same way I ignored all the clicking noises that my phones started to exhibit all of a sudden, or the law suit filed by Judge Mourad on my friends, and instead grew bolder and more reckless at a time where everybody else started being more cautious. It took me a while to take note of the fear that has been gripping our little blogsphere and comprehend what it really means. The prospects for improvment, to put it slightly, look pretty grim…
By jbmlaw
April 28, 2007 5:14 PM | Link to this
Good afternoon all. Markus is on a roll again today, funny stuff. Special note to friends Danish and WootenDull - I am working through one of my own half-baked arguments, not really ready for publication, but I’d like to bounce it off of you. For years now our leftist friends have decried how W has destroyed our relations with the rest of the world, which always means with white Western Continental Europeans only. Now the largest and most anti-American of the anti-American countries is poised to elect a pro-American. Not just a pro-American, but a fellow who is inclined to embrace (if not necessarily contribute to) our strong stand against the Islamists. Would election of a Frenchman with W’s mindset on the international war against the Islamists be proof positive of the virtue of W’s policies, given the prior French opposition was the principal evidence of the “defect?”
By david corr
April 28, 2007 5:19 PM | Link to this
The only party that can save Georgia is the Libertarian Party.
By Markus
April 28, 2007 5:20 PM | Link to this
A Urinal subscription bot recently came by my neighborhood scrounging for business. I politely told the chick that A) I read online only and that B) I would never pay mostly neoMarxist liberals their salaries with a subscription. She had no idea what or who I was referring to.
By RW-(the original)
April 28, 2007 5:29 PM | Link to this
Markus,
I went into a grocery store the other day and there was an AJC table set up. The woman at the table asked if she could interest me in a paper. I said “That one?” She and I both had a hardy laugh so some of them know they’re peddling crap.
She was pretty nice though so I filled out a subscription card in Midori’s name. I figured the parrot could always use more cage liners for those times when gitmo and finch drop by.
By Markus
April 28, 2007 5:32 PM | Link to this
Careful JBM. We can’t have too many pats on each other’s backs around here. Gonzo will have a drool session. This blog is all he’s got (and others like C&L and muffingtonpost).
By Buy Danish
April 28, 2007 5:34 PM | Link to this
jmblaw,
Good question. That would be the logical conclusion, but of course the Left will not see it that way, but will conclude instead that Sarkozy is a tool of Karl Rove and the French voters are mindless puppets of the American Imperialist regime.
While I am very hopeful that Sarkozy will win I wouldn’t count your poulets yet. The Leftist opposition candidate is moving to the center in a Clintonian effort to fool all the people all the time.
By getalife
April 28, 2007 5:35 PM | Link to this
My goodness, the truth is finally coming out
I remember you wingnuts calling him a traitor.
Waxman started this investigation and we will find out who the real traitors are.
By Markus
April 28, 2007 5:37 PM | Link to this
LMAO RW. I also came across one of those Constipation bots at Frys some time ago, but never thought about helping the liboparrots with their cage decorations. All respect to Mr. Wooten of course. Someone has to paddle the canoe in that sea of liberalism.
By getalife
April 28, 2007 5:37 PM | Link to this
I would say that is full baked fake law.
Geez.
By RW-(the original)
April 28, 2007 5:39 PM | Link to this
jbmlaw,
There’s always a chance that seeing cars burned by the thousands while their appeasement government stood idly by has opened a few French eyes. Of course, there’s also a poll out that says the French people hate French people worse than we do so the American left may spin this as the French simply punishing themselves for being French by forcing themselves to live under the same fascist rule as Bushhitler.
By Markus
April 28, 2007 5:40 PM | Link to this
Did someone mention BikiniWaxman here? Oh look, it’s Turban Durbin who effetively called our troops nazis. Yes, let’s listen to what he has to say people.
By Buy Danish
April 28, 2007 5:42 PM | Link to this
Speaking of the French election, LOL as they say:
[In an effort to broaden her appeal, Ségolène Royal engaged in a televised debate on Saturday with a man who is no longer even a candidate for the presidency of France…Never before has a candidate who made it into the runoff debated one of the losers.] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/world/europe/29france.html?hp)
The debate before hundreds of journalists in a Paris hotel ballroom was not aired live on a major French television station because of election broadcast regulations requiring equal airtime for the candidates.
It was not clear how many French voters saw or heard their exchange, which was shown live on BFM TV, a tiny 24-hour news channel, and on RMC, a major radio station. Many French viewers could not gain access to the debate on the television station’s Web site, which apparently was overloaded.
By Buy Danish
April 28, 2007 5:47 PM | Link to this
RW,
Those riots could be the tipping point. As much as the French love to go on strike, how many of them are keen on having their cities burned in riots, and their women raped by gangs of thugs - all the while having to walk on eggshells so as not to offend their tender sensibilities.
By getalife
April 28, 2007 5:49 PM | Link to this
First you hate France, french fries to freedom fries (sic) and now you love them.
Talk about flip flop, ya’ll have nothing on Kerry. BTW, the bashing on his joke has come back to haunt McLiar and Rush. Karma.
Brace yourself wingnuts, you are in for a rude awakening.
By Markus
April 28, 2007 5:51 PM | Link to this
I asked this question last weekend during Earth Day, but thought I’d toss it out again for kix:
If a Corvette Z06 does a massive burnout, what carbon credits are given to getting rid of rubber without said rubber eventually having to go to a tire recycle facility? What carbon debits are given to the smoke? This is a hypothetical question of course.
By Markus
April 28, 2007 5:55 PM | Link to this
“ya’ll have nothing on Kerry.”
God I hope so. I couldn’t live with myself trashing America after getting some fake Purple Heart wounds and filming it all while people like McCain are REALLY getting tortured.
“BTW, the bashing on his joke has come back to haunt McLiar”
Not that long ago McCain was the left’s God compared to Bush, including the media’s God.
My how times, and liberal estrogen, change.
By RW-(the original)
April 28, 2007 5:56 PM | Link to this
getalife,
I stand solidly for redemption, so if the French want to admit that President Bush is one of the few world leaders that has been right and elect one of their own I’m all for it.
Should Sarkozy be elected one of the first test will be to see how he holds up to the screeching onslaught of the European Moonbat. I think they’ve been emboldened by the short term success of the North American Moonbat so it should be a testy first few weeks for him.
Crown and Cohiba time? I think I’ll go take a layer off of my finely manicured lawn.
By getalife
April 28, 2007 5:57 PM | Link to this
Check out this toon
Timing is everything.
w will veto on the day he declared mission accomplished.
Amazing, simply amazing.
Geez.
By Markus
April 28, 2007 5:58 PM | Link to this
Nobody hates France. It’s the people (especially those “students” who know everything) in it that are the issue.
Geez.
By getalife
April 28, 2007 5:58 PM | Link to this
cut and run.
By RW-(the original)
April 28, 2007 5:59 PM | Link to this
getalife,
On that day of the veto a few Conservatives here will happily point out to you what was said in the President’s speech the day that banner was flying. As usual the substance is on our side and the symbolism is on yours.
By Markus
April 28, 2007 6:01 PM | Link to this
The mission of removing Saddam WAS accomplished. How many effin’ times do we have to ‘splain this to the overestrogened scaredybritched liberals?
By WootenDull
April 29, 2007 8:33 AM | Link to this
As I always say, if you live in Tikrit and Ramadi, the Iraq issue is about Iraq. But, if you live anywhere else on the planet, Iraq is about America. In Tehran, Pyongyang, Khartoum, Caracas, Beijing, Moscow and the South Sandwich Islands, they watch Harry Reid & Co. on the 24/7 cable channels and draw their own conclusions about American will. The Defeaticrats are being opportunist: They think they can calibrate the precise degree of U.S. defeat in Mesopotamia that will bring victory for them in Ohio and Florida.
Just curious, do the libs really believe the terrorists won’t nuke Miami if it has a democrat senator?
{{{In the Democratic presidential candidates’ debate, Sen. Barack Obama was asked what he personally was doing to save the environment, and replied that his family was working on changing their light bulbs.}}}
Such dedication, such commitment. We he also put this much effort into our national security, if given the chance?
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The libs still haven’t made the connection between the shooting of Kathryn Johnston and Shirley Franklin, like they would have if Bush was Atlanta’s mayor, but this part of the Urinal scare story I find quite interesting:
{{{Parts of the northwest Atlanta neighborhood at times resemble an open-air drug market. Blocks are peppered with vacant or burned out homes that have been all but abandoned by the property owners and now serve as drug stashes and crack houses. The area is so infested with drugs and crime that it is one of the few in metro Atlanta targeted by local and federal authorities under a program called Project Safe Neighborhoods, which brings increased drug and gun enforcement.}}}
This example of fine living brought to you by the same people that want to tell us how to run the federal government.
I guess screwing up their own city ain’t enough for them, they need the whole country to be ruined.
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The woman can’t even comprehend the thing she says, no I’m not talking about Hillary or Sheryl, it’s Queen Pinko:
{{{That same strategy was key to President Bush’s victory in 2004. The president and his surrogates painted Democrats as weak-kneed defeatists, appropriated the imagery of 9/11 and used all the tools of the presidency to frighten voters into believing al-Qaida lurked just around the corner — waiting for the return of a Democrat to the Oval Office.}}}
This^^ written in a column that insists that we return to the pre 9/11 mindset of ignoring the threat from Al Qaeda.
In other words, Bush and Guiliani are absolutely right to point out the democrats would “fight” the war on terror with their heads stuck where the sun don’t.
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By SIS
April 29, 2007 8:45 AM | Link to this
Sonny Purdue is still walking around with a great big smile with plenty of fresh meat hanging out of his teeth,and plenty of padding in his pocket. That he continues to take from all georgia tax payers the people that voted him in.Dont worry he will retire and still get a check for the rest of his days with a great big smile.This man should be fired for making BUTTS OUT OF GEORGIANS.
By @@
April 29, 2007 9:50 AM | Link to this
The Defeatocrats are being opportunists.
Never has a truer statement been made. Harry Reid proved that when he said this:
“We’re going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war. Senator Schumer has shown me numbers that are compelling and astounding.”
I can just see it now…
A bunch of “greedy” democrats in a backroom…on the agenda???
Reports from General Petraeus showing successes resulting from the surge. They push the reports aside vowing to review them later because there are more important things to discuss.
One of them turns to another and says, “Feel my heart pumping, isn’t it exciting?”
The other one replies, “I know, I know…I just wanna pee my pants when I think about how successful we might be in the next election.”
A third dem chimes in…”My esteemed colleagues, let’s get back to the task at hand.” Looking around the table, he sees Reid and Schumer sitting side by side.
“Senator Reid…Senator Schumer…hand…job?”
Harry looks surprised…”Task what task? The challenge before us is to win in ‘08.”
The “third” dem responds with “What about Iraq?”
Chuck Schumer says “What about Iraq?” “We’ve got to force a loss in Iraq, so we can win the election in ‘08.” “What part of that don’t you understand?”
“Who are you, anyway?” asks Harry.
“I’m one of the newest members, I was elected in November” he responds.
“A damn newbie!” says Chuck. “Well son, it’s time you learn about our strategy” he continues.
“That’s why I’m here” Senator Schumer, to discuss General Petraeus’s new strategy.” “Why are you here?”
“You arrogant little pi$$ ant, I’m here to talk about the only war that matters.” “The Democrats WAR against the Republicans.” “Screw Iraq.”
Harry Reid’s comment was disgusting, the dems are definitely beginning to reveal their hand.
The American people will be looking over the dems shoulder and saying…”LOSERS!”
By WootenDull
April 29, 2007 9:51 AM | Link to this
The official EU declaration demands changes to animals’ diets, to capture gas emissions and recycle manure. They warned: “The livestock sector presents the greatest threat to the planet.” The proposal will be looked at by the 27 member states.{{{Nice advertisement, by the way.}}}
Wait until they find out how much you fart.
And you thought the “one square” idea was bad.
Hey, how about if we get those low rent pinko®s that throw the AJC’s trash into my yard every Thursday and have them run a hose up some cow’s as-s and suck it dry?
Then we’ll all be happy.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.
By WootenDull
April 29, 2007 10:00 AM | Link to this
Our allies:
At least 300,000 secular Turks waving the red national flag flooded central Istanbul on Sunday to demand the resignation of the pro-Islamic government. “We don’t want a covered woman in Ataturk’s presidential palace,” said Ayse Bari, a 67-year-old housewife. “We want civilized, modern people there.”
There is hope for all of the Middle East in those words.
We should bring them what they want.
Then we’ll all be happy.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.
By WootenDull
April 29, 2007 10:02 AM | Link to this
Tony Snow, slam dunk:
{{{“I am actually enjoying everything more than I ever have,” he said. “God hasn’t promised us tomorrow, but he has promised us eternity.”}}}
Amen.
By Fatina
April 29, 2007 10:05 AM | Link to this
Feed your head, Dull, Feed your Head!!
By WootenDull
April 29, 2007 10:05 AM | Link to this
Democrats Decry Bush, Iraq During California Campaigning
The “genius” democrats campaigning against Bush, a man not running in 2008.
Could someone tell them that?
Give them the short list even, Guiliani or Thompson, y’all.
Duh.
Cowards.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.
By zeke
April 29, 2007 10:39 AM | Link to this
What idiots! It is the socialist democrats, starting with FDR, that have and are ruining this country! They spout populism and class warfare to try to intimidate the successful and at the same time play on the stupidity of the poor and uneducated to get votes! The “grants” and “funding” by the Federal Government is an atrocity! The money doled out is money illegally confiscated from the taxpayers! The Constitution clearly lays out the roles of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of government, and, what the legal things that the Federal government has authority to do! The Legislature is trying to acquire the role of the Executive, the Courts are taking the role of the Legislature by making laws from their ridiculous rulings, which is not their duty or authority! The President, by Constitution, is THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF and the actions of the military are AT HIS COMMANDS AND AUTHORITY ONLY, not that of a socialist, liberal purely political Congress! It is time for the courts to start ruling the actions of the congress unconstitutional when it comes to new social programs, entitlements, taxes to redistribute wealth, actions to destroy to culture of our society, eminent domain, government ownership of lands not necessary for government business and limiting the actions of organizations like the aclu, the sierra club, peta, various conservation groups, so called civil rights and other activists groups and move on.org!!!
By getalife
April 29, 2007 10:44 AM | Link to this
Most Katrina Aid From Overseas Went Unclaimed
Well, the State Dept. was busy with the hookers.
Andy,
Remember the Webb aide gun charge?
It was dropped.
I was right again but you know I am always right.
BTW, the gop candidates are running on w’s failed policies so the Dems will attack him.
Geez.
By getalife
April 29, 2007 10:49 AM | Link to this
zeke,
Please answer these three questions honestly?
Are you okay with cover ups?
Do you love being lied to?
Where does the buck stop?
By getalife
April 29, 2007 10:55 AM | Link to this
@@,
Do you have a link to that obvious lie you posted?
By getalife
April 29, 2007 11:01 AM | Link to this
@@,
This is not a lie:
“DC madam’s list includes White House, Pentagon officials:
“There are thousands of names, tens of thousands of phone numbers,” Ross said. “And there are people there at the Pentagon, lobbyists, others at the White House, prominent lawyers — a long, long list.” Ross added that the women who worked for the service, potentially as prostitutes, “include university professors, legal secretaries, scientists, military officers.”
How many more will resign?
By Downtown guy
April 29, 2007 11:02 AM | Link to this
FYI gang, just got off of the phone with a friend of mine in Paris..Seems the love that you conservatives have for Sarkhozy is appropriate.
Your pick for the next leader of France refused to debate the #2 and #3 challenger and used his power to keep the debate (that he refused to attend) off of the free national channels thereby preventing everyone from being able to see the debate.
Your man may have the right stuff when it comes to reforming French national labor and employment policy….but he’s no stranger to Putin-like autocracy.
Sounds like he’s a man you conservatives could really like.
By Political Foreskin
April 29, 2007 11:22 AM | Link to this
If 911 changed everything, including the game plan, and if the democrats can only play defense, then W is playing “wrong way Harrigan”, and moving the ball toward his own goal line, just like the crazylegged gimper he truly is. I wouldn’t let Bush be the waterboy, cause I know for a fact Bush couldn’t resist peeing in the waterbucket).
Like a baseball game, which could theoretically go on forever, we are trapped in the extra innings of an Iraqi World Series, out of pitchers, and out of batboys, (cheney is a vampire, does that count)?
We are trapped in a war that will end up costing trillions and trillions, all of which is being sunk into a hole in the sandy deserts of ancient mesopotamia.
Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. Those who ignore getting proper lunch are doomed to repeat that too, just ask anyone who’se eaten a bad burrito……ew!
Feed your heads, neo-bloggers, Feed your heads.
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By Buy Danish
April 29, 2007 12:01 PM | Link to this
Rudi Guiliana stated that the Democrats are playing defense on the War on Terror, an accurate statement that was met by shrieks, howls and squawks of protest.
I’d like to ask any Democrat or Independent (or foolish Republican) who supports Senator Obama, what offensive policy he has in light of this debate question and his feckless response:
Q: From Brian Williams -
Senator Obama, if, God forbid a thousand times, while we were gathered here tonight, we learned that two American cities have been hit simultaneously by terrorists and we further learned, beyond the shadow of a doubt it had been the work of Al Qaida, how would you change the U.S. military stance overseas as a result?
A: From Senator Obama -
[Obama: Well, the first thing we’d have to do is make sure that we’ve got an effective emergency response, something that this administration failed to do when we had a hurricane in New Orleans. And I think that we have to review how we operate in the event of not only a natural disaster, but also a terrorist attack.//The second thing is to make sure that we’ve got good intelligence, a., to find out that we don’t have other threats and attacks potentially out there, and b., to find out, do we have any intelligence on who might have carried it out so that we can take potentially some action to dismantle that network.//But what we can’t do is then alienate the world community based on faulty intelligence, based on bluster and bombast. Instead, the next thing we would have to do, in addition to talking to the American people, is making sure that we are talking to the international community.//Because as already been stated, we’re not going to defeat terrorists on our own. We’ve got to strengthen our intelligence relationships with them, and they’ve got to feel a stake in our security by recognizing that we have mutual security interests at stake.] (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18352397/)
Finally, can anyone tell me what methods Sen. Obama is willing to use to gather “intelligence” after our cities have been destroyed?
Thanks!
By catlady
April 29, 2007 12:01 PM | Link to this
I am tired of corruption at the local, state, and federal level. I am even tireder of watching us put up with said corruption or dismiss it or say “Well, the other guy did it, too.”
By getalife
April 29, 2007 12:05 PM | Link to this
Mr. Ross, Please post the list. Posted by: Joe Wilson
Bwa.
By Downtown guy
April 29, 2007 12:10 PM | Link to this
Danish,
re Obama…I agree. He’s still too “green” for this particular presidential race…He’ll need some seasoning in the Senate.
But did you notice what Hillary said?
If I were a bettin’ man, she sounded like she woulld be ready to strap on a bazooka and start taking names…. Maybe she’s America’s version of Britain’s Iron Lady Thatcher.
Hillary is more hawkish than folks give her credit for…After all she WAS a Goldwater girl in her past life. We’ll see….
By Midori
April 29, 2007 12:14 PM | Link to this
Getalife: I suppose that Tobias was Bush’s abstinence chief has been lost on the, er, “masses”.
Bwa, indeed.
By getalife
April 29, 2007 12:14 PM | Link to this
BD,
Senator Obama and Senator Clinton both did a little war mongering on Iran in that debate.
They both want to go after OBL (remember him?) like the rest of the Dems.
Your security argument does not meet the facts. Your party has destroyed that argument with the Iraq occupation, not securing our borders and the enemy in Pakistan. Terrorism has increased.
That is a losing argument.
Next.
By getalife
April 29, 2007 12:18 PM | Link to this
Midori,
Just another hypocrite like the rest of the wingnuts.
The new saying is “just use protection”.
Wingnuts think they change human nature.
Idiots.
By Buy Danish
April 29, 2007 12:18 PM | Link to this
Downtown Guy,
Your friend does not require much in the way of facts to back up allegations:
A meeting initially set for this morning was called off by the television channel Canal Plus, which cited French rules on sharing airtime between the two finalists.
The pair alleged, without providing proof, that Mr Sarkozy had dispatched his lieutenants to pressure Canal Plus and other channels, as well as regional press leaders, into not holding the debate.
It should be pretty easy to confirm what the existing “rules” are and whether or not Canal Plus was following the rules or inventing new ones.
If there are rules in place, how can you fault Sarkozy for asking that they be enforced - if this is even what happened?
As an aside, this is a cautionary tale about what happens when the Government limits free speech in the interest of “fairness”.
By getalife
April 29, 2007 12:22 PM | Link to this
Midori,
BD and her friends love France now.
Flip flop.
Too funny.
By Buy Danish
April 29, 2007 12:25 PM | Link to this
Shoot, let me try that link to MSNBC again. I’m using Firefox and while it is a million times faster than IE, it has a really annoying way of entering URLs by scrolling all the way to the right.
MSNBC debate transcript.
getalife,
This insistence on going after OBL while ignoring his soldiers who are bombing Shiite locations day in and day out, and terrorizing even Sunni neighborhoods in Iraq, is a bit like saying that we should have let the German Army proceed without stopping them because the only thing that mattered was getting Adolph Hitler.
By Buy Danish
April 29, 2007 12:33 PM | Link to this
Downtown Guy,
Catching up to your Obama response.
She is trying to pretend that she is like Lady Thatcher and apparently that p.r. campaign is working with you - or you’re a Hillary campaign consultant.
In the very first question that Williams asks her she states that we need to get out of Iraq and let the Iraqis fight their own war. Gosh, would Lady Thatcher take that approach or would she insist that we remain on the offense against Al Qaeda in Iraq?
Hillary is one of the biggest freaking phonies that ever walked the planet, and even if she was telling the truth about going after terrorism, what good does it do if the entire Democrat Party, with the exception of a few outcasts like Lieberman oppose her?
Democrats cannot be trusted with our national security.
Period.
By Buy Danish
April 29, 2007 12:36 PM | Link to this
Getaclue,
{{{As an aside, this is a cautionary tale about what happens when the Government limits free speech in the interest of “fairness”.}}}
Do you understand what that means, dumba$$?
It means that I do not like the French Socialist government system and I sure as hell don’t want their Stalinist tactics to get anymore of a foothold here than they already have in this country thanks to the willing assistance of Useful Idiots like yourself.
By WootenDull
April 29, 2007 12:53 PM | Link to this
{{{By getalife April 29, 2007 10:44 AM Andy, Remember the Webb aide gun charge? It was dropped.}}}
Check this out:
1) The dude was caught with the gun, not a mirage, not a plastic water pistol, your boy had an actual gun and he was Cho’ed up with 2 extra high capacity clips, full loaded.
2) He had no license to carry this weapon. It’s not maybe he had a license, it’s no license.
3) The D.C. district attorney “concluded” that there was not enough evidence to charge the guy with carrying a weapon without a license.
4) News of the D.A.’s “findings” were released on Friday afternoon, so it would be real hush hush and out of the news cycle before Monday rolls around.
Think about this for a second.
The D.A. is apparently a “Republican,” appointed by Gonzales, that was the first thing I checked.
The only logical conclusion that I can arrive at in relation to this obvious travesty of justice is that George W Bush is really a democrat.
It’s all come clear to me.
Scooter Libby didn’t do a f’ckin thing wrong, nothing, zero, and the Cons fell on him like a Dracula on a fair maiden.
Berglar left out of the archives with evidence pinpointing blame for the biggest intelligence failure in the history of the United States, a real failure that cost 3000 people their lives and the Cons slapped his wrist, barely, he walks today, complicate in mass murder by neglect of his duties, he destroyed the evidence and walked.
Reid, Feinstein, Clinton, Kennedy, Jefferson, I’m so pis-sed I can’t remember all the names, they are all crooks, all of them, busted with enough evidence to get convictions right here and now, they all walk, free as a birds.
Bush is a democrat.
It is the only possible conclusion.
WTF did the cops give this guy a seat in jail for if he didn’t have a gun or he did have a permit?
Do you “Republicans” really think that we are this stupid?
Or are you a bunch of craven, sniveling cowards, spineless little worms burrowing into the Earth where it’s safe?
You sceered of Suckie Face Waxman coming after your punkas-s?
McKinney, no charges, punching a cop in the mouth, she walks free.
WTF?
There needs to be some changes made here, now.
Right now.
This is getting old.
By For the Record ...
April 29, 2007 1:09 PM | Link to this
Just out of curiosity:
Jmblaw, Andy, Danish, RW, Markus, TFTT/Scum — what is your favorite novel, and why?
(and, if you’re so motivated, what is your favorite equation, and why?)
By WootenDull
April 29, 2007 1:23 PM | Link to this
Let’s just go ahead and say that there really wasn’t enough evidence to bring charges against Webb’s aide.
That means one of several things and these questions need to be asked-
1) The arresting Capital Officers that brought the weapon and permit charges and took the guy to jail; did they falsify documents, did they lie about the evidence they had, was it a false arrest.
If the D.A. can’t find, then there has to be some wrongdoing.
2) If not and they can produce a gun and he can’t produce a permit, who blackmailed, obstructed or extorted the District Attorney?
3) Who was bribed or provided favors for this free pass?
Which one of these is it?
These questions need to be asked.
Right now.
Which is what I’m doing, every freaking email address I can find, this ain’t gonna go away quietly.
You libs want accountability, then let’s go get some.
By getalife
April 29, 2007 1:26 PM | Link to this
BD,
I see you bought the lie of who is bombing in Iraq.
It is the Iraqis idiot. The military cover ups and lies leaves them with no credibility.
Geez, you folks are gullible.
Andy,
Cho was another dangerous wingnut .
Own him, he is yours.
We should Gitmo open to luck you dangerous souls.
By jm
April 29, 2007 1:27 PM | Link to this
zeke@10:39 - try reading the constitution sometime, particulary article 1, section 8 before you spout off such drivel about the role of congress regarding the military.
By getalife
April 29, 2007 1:28 PM | Link to this
Oops,
We should keep Gitmo open to lock up you dangerous souls.
Geez.
By getalife
April 29, 2007 1:31 PM | Link to this
The case was dropped Andy.
Lets move on to the current scandals just opened.
Brace yourself, it is going to get ugly.
By getalife
April 29, 2007 1:58 PM | Link to this
One way to predict what will happen is listening to this great American patriot:
Murtha: “There are three ways - four ways to influence a President, and one is popular opinion, the elections, third is impeachment and fourth is-is uh, fourth is the uh-uh the purse.”
Schieffer: “Are you seriously talking about contemplating an impeachment of this President by Congress?”
Murtha: “What I’m saying is there are four ways to influence a President -“
Schieffer: “And that’s one of them?
Murtha: “One of them is impeachment -“
Schieffer: “That’s an option that is on the table?”
Murtha: “I’m just saying that’s one way to influence a President. The other way is the purse and the purse is controlled by the Congress who is elected by the public and in the last election the public said we want the Democrats in control.”
He has not been wrong yet and is very credible.
By Buy Danish
April 29, 2007 1:58 PM | Link to this
Getalife,
Are you taking the position that Al Qaeda is not in Iraq?
You have a hell of a lot of nerve using the word “idiot” to describe anyone but you own sorry self.
jm,
Is the War Powers Act in Article 1, section 3?
Even with this interpretation - Congress does not, and cannot, micro-manage the military. Such management would require instant decisions. Congress can only enact a law or an act if they reach a consensus, and that requires discussions and votes. Because Congress is slow, the presidency has been Constitutionally vested with the authority to run the military. Even the president can’t micro-manage the military, so he passes much of the authority to military leaders under him. In Yugoslavia, during the war to depose Milosevic, General Wesley Clark, as leader of NATO forces, made many of the military and even civilian decisions., it’s time this act be tested by the Supremes.
By getalife
April 29, 2007 2:02 PM | Link to this
BD,
My position is that the military leaders tried to cover up several times, lies and are pushing our troops to the limit.
You are an idiot blinded by your bias.
By jbmlaw
April 29, 2007 2:05 PM | Link to this
Dear For The Record @ 1:09, favorite novel (you did sat novel, not book) Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, as it is a clever demonstration of the ultimately dispiriting world of the leftists. Favorite formula: strange question, but I keep a proof of 2=1 on my dry erase, as a mathmatical reminder of GIGO, and to remain true to the facts, without regard to where they lead.
By getalife
April 29, 2007 2:08 PM | Link to this
Monica Goodling Instructs DOJ Officials to Delete Documents
Told ya it is going to get ugly.
By Buy Danish
April 29, 2007 2:11 PM | Link to this
Arrrggh.
Link to War Powers Act.
Getalife,
Even The Code Pinkos could do better than that lame response.
Answer the freaking question: Is Al Qaeda in Iraq or not?
By @@
April 29, 2007 2:12 PM | Link to this
Getalife???????
@@,
Do you have a link to that obvious lie you posted?
What’s your address Getalife? I’m gonna come to NO and kick your a$$!!!
Not really. I’ve got a list of things to do today, and you aren’t on it.
I’ll just give you the link you asked for and wait on you to come groveling for my forgiveness.
That wasn’t the original source, but it’s even better than the original. Just so everyone can see:
That glee is very telling. It would be one thing for lawmakers to conclude regretfully that America’s campaign in Iraq has failed and that bringing the troops home is the least bad option left. Were that the case, voting to pull the plug would be a sad and painful duty, one no member of Congress would carry out with “glee.”
Yet when the House of Representatives voted last month to force a withdrawal from Iraq, Democrats were jubilant.
“Many House Democrats stayed on the floor, reveling in their victory,” reported The Hill on March 23. “House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey and Representative John Murtha hugged each other while a smiling [majority leader Steny] Hoyer shook every hand he could find… . [majority whip James] Clyburn joked with members as [Speaker Nancy] Pelosi kissed and hugged her colleagues.”
The New York Times noted that in conversations with “dozens” of Democrats, Pelosi’s argument for the bill was overtly political: “Did they want a headline saying, ‘Congress is standing up to President Bush,’ or ‘Congress gives President Bush free rein?’ “
Senator John McCain, adamantly supporting the current “surge” in Iraq, says he would rather lose a presidential campaign than a war. Democrats, all smiles, prefer to lose the war and win the campaign. They’re not alone. In Iraq, Al Qaeda is smiling, too.
To be more clear, the Boston Globe link quoted Harry Reid as saying this:
“We are going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war,” Reid said candidly at an April 12 press conference. “Senator Schumer has shown me numbers that are compelling and astounding.” To which Schumer, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, added: “The war in Iraq is a lead weight attached to their ankle… . They are looking extinction in the eye.” He spoke those words, Congressional Quarterly observed, “making no attempt to hide his glee.”
Harry and Chuckie are just “deadweight”, plain and simple.
They’re gonna pull your party down with them Getalife.
Out to the pool.
By jbmlaw
April 29, 2007 2:12 PM | Link to this
Dear RW and Danish, thanks for your arguments yesterday afternoon, will continue to refine. (And thanks Getalife - since you had no substantial come back, persuades me that the argument may be good.)
By Show of Hands
April 29, 2007 2:16 PM | Link to this
Condi Rice on This Week w/George Stephanopolous! Even she’s stopped defending the rocket tubes and wmd story. Eye opening interview! Condi comes across as a pretty-haired lady. (oh dont reach for that one, Imus, it’s way over your head)
On Meet the Press, Biden thinks there’s an inevitability about a confederated Iraq, that is, a three state country of shia, sunni and kurd.
All the round tables have concluded that Bush will eventually realize his mistake and relent on a withdrawal.
THe war in Iraq ends with a whimper? Our leader reduced to a sniveling, weasly, little nose blower? Say it aint so, George.
What IS the mission of US troops in Iraq?
Anyone. In four years of war, I’ve never got an answer to that question. If you dont know, or if you’ve got an answer that matches the criteria for deranged sociopath, (BD, Dull, Markus, @@, TFTT), then dont bother answering.
What is the mission of US troops in Iraq? Babysitting? Hand holding? Resource Allocation? Cheney enriching? To bring on Armeggedon as the Evangelical Right sees it happening?
Mission in Iraq! What is? Are we there to build 711’s on every corner so the Shia can get all the beef jerky they want? Is there a 711-Iraq connection? What’s the 411 on that? Thank Allah for 711.
Rudi went where only a fool would go about the next 811 on US soil by terrorists. He’s toast. If he had a chance he just blew it.
I wonder if the terrorists had used model planes and crashed those into leggo houses, would it be called, 111?
I wonder how stupid Bush really is, I mean, behind the scenes, is he some sort of organizational genious keeping everyone on their toes and articulating policy like he’s Jack Kennedy? Or is that bongo playing monkey face the real bush?
Two guesses.
By getalife
April 29, 2007 2:19 PM | Link to this
Jeff Jacoby?
Hahahaha wingnut.
Can you find a credible source to that garbage @@?
I bet you can’t .
Geez.
By getalife
April 29, 2007 2:24 PM | Link to this
fakelaw,
I tend to focus on our country.
I do find it an amazing flip flop on France by the same wingnuts who cheered on “freedom fries”.
Geez.
By getalife
April 29, 2007 2:29 PM | Link to this
Condi will testify on the tubes and that is why she is flip flopping.
That investigation is getting ugly.
By Buy Danish
April 29, 2007 2:36 PM | Link to this
Getalife,
What part of supporting the conservative candidate for the French election do you not understand?
If you support the anti-American Socialist candidate, I am left to conclude that you don’t support the United States.
You are weaving a very tangled web.
By Hands Across Baghdad
April 29, 2007 2:39 PM | Link to this
Jessica Lynch’s testimony in front of the committee investigating battlefield action reports. Who revised the details of the report?
I dont think we have to look any further than the clown who wrote the mission accomplished speech.
Miss Lynch shined and gave a very moving account of her ordeal. She became a hero in front of that committee. That’s for sure, THAT’S for dang sure.
Buy Danish, Buy a Gun, and Feed your Head, you’re no Jessica Lynch, she makes you look like Tokyo Rose, or Burka Bertha, (Osama’s nappy headed ho)
Bwa
By Buy Danish
April 29, 2007 2:40 PM | Link to this
@@,
What is said at Press conferences is not enough “evidence” for Getalife. He chooses to use the technique of shooting the messenger rather than deal with the substance of what is on the record.
Remember, this is the same person who insists that Partial Birth Abortions don’t occur, so we’re not dealing with the brightest bulb here.
By getalife
April 29, 2007 2:43 PM | Link to this
Always frisk the wingnuts, they spew lies.
Which part of not having credibility and need proof do you not understand?
Geez.
By Buy Danish
April 29, 2007 2:55 PM | Link to this
Hands Across Bagdhad,
Nice job reporting from AQ headquarters. Here’s what really happened according to Richard Lowry who spent 2 years investigating this:
Following her rescue, unsubstantiated reports abounded, the media made a variety of assertions: Jessica Lynch was a pretty teenage girl who had been subjected to the ravages of an unjust war. She had been sent into battle with inadequate equipment and protection. After taking a wrong turn, Iraqis feigning surrender had ambushed her unit. Yet, she bravely fought off the enemy until she could resist no longer. Because of the incompetence of the leadership in Washington, D.C., she had been taken prisoner by evil Iraqis who did unspeakable things to her.
This was the type of story that had “legs.” Every news producer in America salivated when they read the first copy. They knew that their ratings would skyrocket when the story of this fragile American girl was told. This was the type of story that would go down in history. There was only one problem—most of the story wasn’t true.
America’s news media did not seem to care. They repeatedly ran every story they could about America’s new princess-prisoner. At the same time, the U.S. military was trying to play down the story. They knew Jessica was being held captive and they immediately started plans for her rescue. Many Iraqis had come to Marines and embedded reporters to tell of a female soldier being held captive in a Nasiriyah hospital. Kerry Sanders of NBC was asked to not speak of Jessica’s captivity. The commanders in the field feared that if word leaked of her captivity, she would be moved, or worse, before they could get to her.
It seems to me that Congressman Waxman and his committee should be investigating how the media perverted the story to build its ratings. It is appalling how little regard some of today’s journalists have for the truth. CENTCOM immediately announced Jessica’s rescue. It was good news. But, it was the American media that ran the 15-second video of her rescue over and over and over and over again. It was the American media that turned her rescue into a propaganda event. And they did it for the worst of reasons.
By Eric
April 29, 2007 2:55 PM | Link to this
getalife, when will taxes be high enough for you? I know they’re not high enough now, surely you want more for your pet projects/charitable causes, but you just don’t want to write the check yourself.
Markus, the Reps are just as bad. They’re just conning well intentioned people into believing they’re doing something different. Why has spending gone up more in the past 8 years than it did in the previous 40? Why is Hannity backing a fiscal “moderate”/social liberal for president? Because he wants us to remain the world’s policeman? Iraq was better off with Saddam, he was no threat to us and at least it wasn’t anarchy. When is Bush going to actually do something about saving an unborn life in this country before spending all of my dollars to fund rehab projects in other countries?
By jbmlaw
April 29, 2007 2:59 PM | Link to this
Follow up to “for the record” @ 1:09, if I misperceived, here is the proof of 2=1 (an old math trick)
x = y Given
xx = xy Multiply both side by x
(xx)-(yy) = (xy)-(yy) Subtrack (y*y) from both sides
(x+y)(x-y) = y(x-y) Factor
x+y = y Divide both sides by (x-y)
y+y = y Substitute “y” for “x”, as they are given equals
2y = y Simplify
2 = 1 QED
While each step is factually true, the gross violation of mathematical laws makes the “false” true. Reminder that we must keep the big picture in sight.
By jbmlaw
April 29, 2007 3:02 PM | Link to this
Sorry for typo @ 2:59
By Dusty
April 29, 2007 3:05 PM | Link to this
BD and @@,
Don’t waste your time with getalife. He isn’t even sure Iraq is a country.
Just tell him it is a suburb of New Orleans and he will want to send money, troops and cigars there immediately.
By getalife
April 29, 2007 3:10 PM | Link to this
Eric,
I am fiscally conservative and believe in a much smaller government.
I think prosecuting the fraud of the Iraq occupation (big oil and the defense complex) and contractors will recoup billions.
Send them to Gitmo.
By Burka Jerka
April 29, 2007 3:12 PM | Link to this
I wonder if BUY DANISH sees Rocket Tubes as a Phallic Symbol, and thats why she clings so tight to them?? Ditto @@!
Grind, BD!
bwa!
There’s an expose on TV right now about The Iraqi-911 connection that proves Bush/Cheney knew they was lying his way to war, and that they need to be impeached, and then tried for treason, and if found guilty, hanged.
The way to enrich uranium requires a massive facility that couldn’t possibly be hidden, and rocket tubes are for @@ and Buy Danish to grind P with, and couldn’t be used to enrich uranium.
Condi, you get a slap on the wrist for that. Now admit Bush forced you to lie by threatening you, and we’ll let you run for P in 2012! You’ve got my vote, so you have no reason to lie.
DO IT!!
CHENEY went on and on about the rocket tubes on television too!! Wow!!! I had forgotten.
This is MUST SEE TV.
I order BD and @@ to watch now.
@@2
By RW-(the original)
April 29, 2007 3:12 PM | Link to this
What a great replacement for the current cartoonist this guy would make
getalife,
He captured your homeboy to a T.
jbmlaw,
Please quit inducing algebra flashbacks.
By For the Record ...
April 29, 2007 3:19 PM | Link to this
Thanks jmblaw. I was betting a friend that at least one of the right-wingers who post here has “Atlas Shrugged” as their favorite novel (was expecting better out of you for favorite equation, but no matter …)
I did ask for your “favorite” novel, not an opinion as what you consider the “best” novel to be. However, given your taste in Wooten wingnuts (TFTT, Markus, Andy, et.al.), I infered that you consider Rand’s fiction to be the “best” — aesthetically speaking, that is.
I read Rand a long time ago, and found “The Virtue of Selfishness” to be her best work. As a novelist, let’s just say … she had quite a few flaws — and that this is not the place to discuss them.
By getalife
April 29, 2007 3:21 PM | Link to this
I like this one
Yep, home boy is on a roll.
By getalife
April 29, 2007 3:28 PM | Link to this
This is a good book
By Jelly Jam
April 29, 2007 3:31 PM | Link to this
William Saphire of the NEW YORK TIMES and Judith Miller wrote dozens of articles about Saddam’s WMDs in support of Cheney/Bush. They made it all up. They were BLOGGING with as much credibility and research as BD gives her grinding P.
I blogged with some research and mucho deductions and I scooped the New York Times about the truth about Cheney/Bush and WMDs. It was the first time in history that a blogger became a defacto journalist, and a journalist became a blogging liar and all around general jackazz. Shame on William Saphire and Judith Miller, who conspired with Cheney about these made up lies because Cheney pointed to the NEW YORK TIMES as a source about the aluminum tubes on the very morning the stories came out, (on Meet the Press).
The Washington post wrote a million words in support of WMD/Saddam connection. They made it all up. They blogged.
These lazy bums still have jobs? That’s why we’re finished. We let incompetence rule, the Peter Principle lives.
Kudos to Phil Dohahue who also was skeptical.
The consequences of our Iraq invasion has not yet been fully realized. Stay tuned for what’s dead ahead for the US, Iraq, and the world because Bush is a liar, a fool, and a traitor who needs to be given a fair trial and then, if convicted, HANGED as a traitor in time of war.
Those aluminum tubes are the key. The intel folks had no background in nuclear weaponry and they simply made it all up. The by the book method to sell this war was hacked from Goebel’s propaganda text book. (true) Wolfawitz and Rove are experts on Goebels. THEY’VE adapted nazi techniques to get candidates elected and to sell policies. True! True! TRUE!!!
TREASON!!! In time of war = hanging.
By Buy Danish
April 29, 2007 3:33 PM | Link to this
{{{I did ask for your “favorite” novel, not an opinion as what you consider the “best” novel to be.}}
For the Record,
GFY!!!
For the most part, I prefer the genre of non-fiction. That helps explain why I am not a Democrat.
As for my favorite equation, it is “He who ASSumes is an A*”.
By getalife
April 29, 2007 3:37 PM | Link to this
Freaking idiot,
You as-sume they are telling the truth.
Yes, it made an a-ss of you.
Gullible cultist freaks.
Geez.
By For the Record ...
April 29, 2007 3:43 PM | Link to this
Danish, everything that needs to be known about you in terms of class, eloquence, and erudition derives from the fact that you take your name from * Michelle Malkin*.
By For the Record ...
April 29, 2007 4:07 PM | Link to this
Where is Markus? Favorite book? Favorite equation? Favorite tooth left in his wife’s mouth?
By WootenDull
April 29, 2007 4:11 PM | Link to this
How liberals “help” the world:
DDT had already helped eradicate malaria in the United States and Europe. But the disease still sickens 500 million people a year and kills 2 million, mostly African women and children. Since 1972, tens of millions have died who might well have lived had their countries been able to keep DDT in their disease-control arsenals.
Now they want to work their magic on global warming, gee, thanks.
How many millions will die from these bright ideas?
{{{Two billion people rarely or never have electricity for lights, refrigeration and cooking, water treatment plants, hospitals, schools, offices, shops and factories. Women and children are plagued with lung infections caused by wood and dung fires, and by acute intestinal diseases caused by tainted water and spoiled food. Up to 10 million die from these causes every year. But instead of helping them get abundant, reliable, affordable electricity, Rainforest Action Network, Environmental Defense and other pressure groups block efforts to build coal and gas generating plants, because they would release greenhouse gases. Up to 95 percent of people in Sub-Saharan countries have no electricity, Al Gore personally uses more electricity in a week than 25 million Ugandans do in a year and activists tell Africans the biggest threat they face is hypothetical climate change.}}}
Mass murdering Cowards.
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By WootenDull
April 29, 2007 4:24 PM | Link to this
Telling it like it is:
Mr. Murtha has good intentions, but he’s got it exactly wrong. If U.S. forces lack the equipment or training they need, it’s his job, as the chairman of the one subcommittee specifically responsible for originating defense appropriations, to make sure they get it. If legislators really don’t believe we should continue in Iraq, they need to come clean, shut down the war—and accept the risks, and take responsibility for the consequences. Otherwise, they need to provide U.S. forces the means to carry out their missions.
Maybe if he wasn’t a Coward?
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By getalife
April 29, 2007 4:28 PM | Link to this
Focus on this slaughter Andy:
At least 60 people have been killed and 170 wounded in a suicide car bomb attack near a Shia shrine in the central Iraqi city of Karbala.
Saturday’s blast occurred at a checkpoint not far from the shrine which is located in a busy area close to shops and restaurants in Karbala, which is 100km southwest of Baghdad, Iraq’s capital.
“Many of the wounded are women and children,” said Salim Kadhim, a spokesman for the Karbala health department.
Iraqi television images showed a man running down a smoke-filled street holding a dead baby above his head.
Smoke was rising from the child’s body.
[..]Elsewhere in Iraq, at least another 19 people were killed on Saturday in the ongoing carnage.”
Like w will stop the genocide in Darfur.
Geez.
By WootenDull
April 29, 2007 4:29 PM | Link to this
John As-s, I mean Kass, Kisser, sucking up to the pig monster:
‘I think America is ready for a multilingual president,” said Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-Bill) last week. I happen to think she’s correct. America is ready for a president of multiple accents. President Bush talks cowboy when he wants. So why can’t Hillary channel multiple Southern women if she so desires?
multilingual–adjective 1. using or able to speak several or many languages with some facility.
Duh.
Are all you libs retarded?
WTF?
Cowards.
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By jm
April 29, 2007 4:30 PM | Link to this
Buy Danish - I will leave the argument on the constitutionality of the War Powers Act to the lawyers, though I am surprised wikipedia left in the obvious opinion that you cited. That being said, neither you or Zeke has cited any reference, aside from article two, section two which merely states that the president is commander in chief of the army and navy that the conditions congress is setting for funding the boondoggle in Iraq are unconstitutional.
By WootenDull
April 29, 2007 4:34 PM | Link to this
{{{By getalife April 29, 2007 4:28 PM Focus on this slaughter Andy: At least 60 people have been killed and 170 wounded in a suicide car bomb attack near a Shia shrine in the central Iraqi city of Karbala.}}}
gitmo: Do you also admire the things that Cho did?
Instead of being so proud of these scumbag suicide bombers, instead of promoting their evil deeds like they want you to, maybe you libs could join the rest of the civilized world in condemning these atrocities, or would that cost you some votes in the election?
You know, the “important” stuff.
Coward.
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By Buy Danish
April 29, 2007 4:37 PM | Link to this
For the Record,
Why thank you! Michelle Malkin is an eloquent, brilliant and “classy” lady so I take any comparisons to her as a compliment, but that is not where I took my name from.
When the Danish cartoon riots first occurred, before they had progressed to the point that they ultimately did, and way before the story had any attention in the MSM, I sent out an email to my friends and suggested that they “Buy Danish”.
It’s really wasn’t very difficult to come up with, anymore than suggesting that we “Boycott France”.
By getalife
April 29, 2007 4:37 PM | Link to this
Its in the Iraq bill that w will veto.
All needed and more.
You should write w and tell him to sign the bill to feed your thirst for more blood.
Gravel came up with a good idea. Just keep bringing up a vote to override the veto.
By getalife
April 29, 2007 4:40 PM | Link to this
Carville taught her to speak cajun too.
Just think Andy, Bill Clinton back in the White House is the ultimate karma.
Bwahahahahahaha!
By For the Record ...
April 29, 2007 4:42 PM | Link to this
Andy, I cannot understand why you and jmblaw and TFTT and RW defend corporate polluters who dump poison into the air and the water system?
Bush/Cheney, AEI, they get paid off by the oil companies and the polluters. But you aren’t making a dime on the polution industry, are you?
Are ignorant fools like Bush/Cheney worth your grandchildren’s health?
Don’t you care that your grandchildren will be born with big hairy arms exuding from the small of their backs — assuming they live at all - because people like Ken Lay need more yachts?
By getalife
April 29, 2007 4:43 PM | Link to this
Cho was one of yours Andy.
You need to start owning up to reality.
Geez.
By Downtown guy
April 29, 2007 4:43 PM | Link to this
BD,
Just catching back up to your Canal + and Hillary comments after spending four glorious hours in the sun at the Inman Park festival… You should get out more…
I can easily admit that at times Hillary is as fake as the cornpone accent the Connecticut Yankee W throws on when he’s trying to shore up his sheeple.
I could never so much as put blind faith into HRC as GWB…however you find it easy to line up behind the chimp when it’s clear that he hooked many Americans into his Iraq debacle at the moment he gave us misleading information about Iraqi WMD and alleged “yellow cake” in Niger. Maybe he was duped as well…but don’t you find that troubling that he’s taken so long to get his act together in the face of all of his miscalculations?
In the same amount of time FDR and Truman had the Nazis and Japan in the can. Meanwhile W keeps bumping around on the bottom. Americans like results and reward competence and merit. He and his party are not currently doing well in our meritocracy. Some were fired in the last election…That what happens to bad employees. Some may be rehired in the next election…maybe more will be fired.
If what W is up to is what you call competent national security, you’ve been spending too much time patting yourself on the back in order to hold our leaders to any level of accountability.
You’re so blinded by your faith in W and your hatred of the Democrats that you’ve lost all intellectual capacity to call him on his crap.
And as far as my friend in Paris is concerned, her information is good….Sarkhozy is no innocent. France may need a dose of his medicine, but at what price.
By getalife
April 29, 2007 4:51 PM | Link to this
Check out this new video
By For the Record ...
April 29, 2007 4:52 PM | Link to this
Danish,
Michelle Malkin is, along with Hannity, Coulter, Limbaugh, O’Reilly, and — yes — Michael Moore — the reason we Americans want to kill each other over political issues.
There are talented, intellectual conservative columnists out there. Why emulate half-bright trash like Michelle Malkin?
By Buy Danish
April 29, 2007 4:52 PM | Link to this
jm,
Please cite for me any time in the history of our nation where the Congress of the United States has micromanaged the conduct of a war to the point of including arbitary withdrawal deadlines that were not established by the commanders in the field or the Commander in Chief in an emergency spending bill.
By RW-(the original)
April 29, 2007 4:57 PM | Link to this
because people like Ken Lay need more yachts
I was thinking this clown was One Punk, but if he would only have used Maserati in that sentence we could nail this one as the stoner.
By jm
April 29, 2007 5:02 PM | Link to this
Buy Danish I will answer your question, when you answer mine.
By Alan
April 29, 2007 5:02 PM | Link to this
Markanus:
Go to Iraq - fight and give your life for your beloved W - you piece of filth.
By Buy Danish
April 29, 2007 5:11 PM | Link to this
For the Record,
I don’t “emulate” anyone.
You are obligated to substantiate your claim that MM is “trash”, but be forewarned that photoshopped photos using someone else’s body in a bikini are not admissable “evidence”.
Downtown Guy,
What is it with you Libs giving people unsolicited advice about their private lives like, “you should get out more”?
You don’t know what I’ve done today (or any day for that matter) or where I’ve been, so it is remarkably presumptuous of you to assume that I can’t manage to “get out” and still stop by a blog from time to time - not that it is any of your freaking business.
As for your implication that your friend knows something from the inside that I am unable to divine for myself - in addition to reading about the elections, my sister has lived in Paris for many decades, I was born there, and I have many friends who live there (and elsewhere in Europe). I was also raised a Democrat.
In other words, I have my own routes and sources for getting information on the political situation there. I surely do not need to rely on what your friend says.
But then again, that one phone call probably does suffice as “proof” for a Lib.
By For the Record ...
April 29, 2007 5:18 PM | Link to this
Danish — despite the lies told by the right-wing — by “intellectuals” like Buchanan, Gingrich, and our very own blogHog, jmblaw — in 1973 the US Congress passed the bipartisan and veto-proof Case-Church amendment, which prohibited further US involvement in SE Asia without Congressional approval. At the time, 1973, polls showed that 61% of the American people wanted us to end our involvement in Vietnam.
The contemporary right-wing, especially the chickenhawks, now blame the nation’s rejection of the Vietnam war on the “liberals”, and are trying to draw absurd parallels with Iraq.
Question: what percentage of the people must reject the Iraq war before the dittoheads realize that it is not just the “liberals” who want us out? How about 80%? We are almost there …
By jbmlaw
April 29, 2007 5:24 PM | Link to this
Dear For the Record @ 3:19, had you asked “best book” I would have answered “The Best of Their Times.” A brilliant idea, executed brilliantly, flawlessly, but nonfiction, thus does not fit your question. Had you asked best constructed fiction, I would have answered, “Arrowsmith” which is familiar to nobody today, although it was a Nobel literature winner. Had you asked best play, I would have answered “Caeser and Cleopatra.”
By jbmlaw
April 29, 2007 5:30 PM | Link to this
Dear For The Record @ 5:18, certainly it was the lunatic left that seized control of the country during Watergate and held it until the Randian collapse of the US economy in 1979. The upside is that when the moonbats start to implement their policies, even ultra-Conservatives like Reagan become electible. Watch.
By WootenDull
April 29, 2007 5:32 PM | Link to this
This ought to make getalife happy, harp like a seal gitmo:
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber trying to assassinate Pakistan’s interior minister detonated his explosives in a crowd surrounding the official Saturday, killing 22 people and wounding 35.
There might be some way to pin this on Bush, eh?
Funny, I didn’t know that the United States was “occupying” Pakistan, what’s up wit da suicide bombin? (see, now I’m black, just like Hillary is a redneck)
I thought these people would stop killing each other if we just left their country??
Why, I’m confused.
Cowards.
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By Buy Danish
April 29, 2007 5:34 PM | Link to this
{{{The contemporary right-wing, Bespecially the chickenhawks BLAH BLAH BLAH, now blame the nation’s rejection of the Vietnam war on the “liberals”, and are trying to draw absurd parallels with Iraq.}}}
For the record,
You’re the one who just made the Vietnam comparison, moron.
You also may want to keep in mind that the Constitution does not change depending on poll numbers, and our Constitution invests certain powers in the Executive Branch that Congress is trying to claim for the Legislative.
By getalife
April 29, 2007 5:39 PM | Link to this
Andy,
I told you the enemy is in Pakistan.
Geez.
By jbmlaw
April 29, 2007 5:45 PM | Link to this
I suspect the “For the Record” and his leftist friends may find one additional difference between Vietnam and Iraq. In Vietnam, the communists in the North were not committing atrocities against the US anywhere else in the world, and had no particular desire. The US public is likely to punish the leftists in a few years, and for a long time, for giving the terrorists time to regroup and rearm.
By Buy Danish
April 29, 2007 5:47 PM | Link to this
WootenDull,
This is a great website that tracks every single jihadist attack on a monthly and weekly basis since 9/11.
We have nothing to do with the actions of these freaks.
By Buy Danish
April 29, 2007 5:57 PM | Link to this
Getalife,
The enemy is in India, Pakistan, Thailand, Algeria, Chechnya, Morocco, Algiers, Afghanistan, Turkey, The Philippines….
Wait, this will take too long. Name one country where the enemy is not.
Thanks!
By getalife
April 29, 2007 5:58 PM | Link to this
We know terrorism has increased since the occupation of Iraq.
Duh.
Geez.
By WootenDull
April 29, 2007 6:01 PM | Link to this
{{{That glee is very telling. It would be one thing for lawmakers to conclude regretfully that America’s campaign in Iraq has failed and that bringing the troops home is the least bad option left. Were that the case, voting to pull the plug would be a sad and painful duty, one no member of Congress would carry out with “glee.”
Yet when the House of Representatives voted last month to force a withdrawal from Iraq, Democrats were jubilant.
“Many House Democrats stayed on the floor, reveling in their victory,” reported The Hill on March 23. “House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey and Representative John Murtha hugged each other while a smiling [majority leader Steny] Hoyer shook every hand he could find… . [majority whip James] Clyburn joked with members as [Speaker Nancy] Pelosi kissed and hugged her colleagues.”
The New York Times noted that in conversations with “dozens” of Democrats, Pelosi’s argument for the bill was overtly political: “Did they want a headline saying, ‘Congress is standing up to President Bush,’ or ‘Congress gives President Bush free rein?’ “
Senator John McCain, adamantly supporting the current “surge” in Iraq says he would rather lose a presidential campaign than a war. Democrats, all smiles, prefer to lose the war and win the campaign. They’re not alone. In Iraq, Al Qaeda is smiling, too.}}}
Sick, sick, sick.
Cowards.
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By jm
April 29, 2007 6:17 PM | Link to this
Buy Danish - I see you are unable to answer the question I posted at 4:30. To show that I am a good sport, I will answer the question you posted at 4:52. I can cite no specific examples for you. However, everything that this congress is attempting to do is consistent with the powers granted under article 1 section 8 of the constitution.
By RW-(the original)
April 29, 2007 6:24 PM | Link to this
Could it be that Buy Danish didn’t answer the question from jm at 4:30 because there was no question posed by jm at 4:30?
By Buy Danish
April 29, 2007 7:01 PM | Link to this
RW,
At least jm admitted that what Congress is doing now is unprecedented in this nation’s history.
By RW-(the original)
April 29, 2007 7:44 PM | Link to this
Buy Danish,
Perhaps, but I think jm is trying to say this Congress has it right.
What kills me is the staggering leftist hypocrisy. Clinton took us into a preemptive, unprovoked war where there was most certainly no threat to us and he did it without the UN or Congress approving, yet they hail him as some kind of hero. I guess the meaning of Constitutional clauses is dependant on which party controls which branch at any given time. Somehow I missed that in the Federalist papers.
By Jim's a Cherry Picker
April 30, 2007 8:41 AM | Link to this
Conservative principles?
Ha..ha…hahahahahah..he..heehehehheheheh. That’s a good one Jim.
Ohhh…whew.