Monday, September 25, 2006

The Republican Disgrace

Republicans need to grow up and start taking things seriously. They apparently link it's all a game; that tit-for-tat gotcha politics is a legitimate way to spend their time.

Democracy and our country are in peril, from within and without, but smug, cynical Republicans spend their energy and time on name-calling and obscene misinformation campaigns.

Instead of facts, faith-based mythology dominates their rhetoric. Their negligent inattention to reality and worshipping of Limbaugh-Fox-O'Reilly propaganda shows that they aren't paying attention to what's going on in the world.

Glib, flippant, smirking and cynical, to them it's all about weaseling another Republican dominated election, using "terror" to cow the electorate into voting for them. Their priorities are tax cuts for Paris Hilton and pleasing the Christian-Taliban - not securing our country or preserving our Constitution.

They are war-profiteers, liars, and traitors, and so are their followers.

AND, they are turning the country into a Theocracy. It's not paranoia, it's reality. See: http://www.theocracywatch.org/

Sunday, September 17, 2006

I can tell by his jargon he's from the other side. . .


"Democrat," as opposed to "Democratic" - as in "Democrat Senator," instead of "Democratic Senator," is a dead giveaway to a Rush-Cultist. Also when they talk about "haters" and "Bush-haters," you can be sure they've been drinking the Limbaugh Juice.

They are passionately misinformed. And proud of it. Hell yes.

Here's a nice summation of Bush so far from Noemie:

Some of the ravages that the Bush administration has inflicted on this beautiful country: the crushing of the middle class and poor, the trashing of our economy and environment, the shaming of our nation through state-sponsored torture, the corruption of hearts and minds of soldiers who trusted their military superiors, stolen elections, a war on false pretenses, manipulated media, secret propaganda used against the American people, science twisted and suppressed, death threats against judges who charge them with illegal acts, the undermining of state sovereignty across the nation, a ruined American city through gross and possibly purposeful negligence. Karl Rove is right at the center of this, the potential dawning of a Dark Ages for our country...

Friday, September 15, 2006

Simple Math


One Million Seconds is 11 and a half days...

One Billion Seconds is 32 and a half years...

One Trillion seconds is Thirty-two-thousand, five hundred years...

We are spending almost 2 Billion dollars
a week on Dubya's botch-job in Iraq, all on credit, indebting ourselves to the Chinese.

Bush's response to Islamic terrorism is making it worse, not better.

Going into Afghanistan was the right thing to do, but we should have finished the job instead of going into Iraq [for oil].

Bush's "Bull in a china shop" approach is disgusting and ineffective. Being aggressive is great, but only if you're smart. Being
aggressively stupid, like Bush, is a disgrace.

His supporters are credulous fools. Democrats will have to straighten
this mess out one way or the other, why not start in November, instead of waiting until 2008?

Bush has put the national tit in a wringer, and there are no silver
bullets to solve the situation. But with military leadership in the Pentagon, instead of draft-dodging corporate board room hacks running things, there could be hope.

We need to maintain a strong presence in the area [Kurdistan]
and let the chips fall where they may in Iraq.

Bob Ney, Ohio Republican, has pled guilty to bribery and corruption charges,
after arrogantly denying any wrongdoing for months. The Republicans are rotten to the
core, and the White House urgently needs to be fumigated.

The few Republicans with morals are finally standing up to the rot
in the Oval Office, Thanks be to God.

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Bush/Rove/Limbaugh have divided the country to serve their own ends. The division they have defined and deepened is between those who believe, and those who seek the truth.

As believers, their biggest enemy is the truth. Today, Bob Ney finally told the truth. Many more Republicans and the American People will soon face more painful truths.

A recent Republican talking point is that "Bush is taking the long view," and "that in 20 years all of this will seem like brilliant, strategic prescience."

This convenient, phony excuse/evasion attempts to conceal the incompetence and hubris that created the fiasco in Iraq. When they first lied us into this mess, they said it would take 90 days at the most. Now they are trying to say it's a decades-long struggle. They want it both ways.

Donald Rumsfeld is on record, we learned this week, as having said he "would fire" the next person to demand a follow-up plan in Iraq. He was worried that if the American People were made aware of what was really involved they wouldn't permit Bush to invade.

We are now stuck in a civil war that we allowed to happen. Whoever we side with, half the country will hate us. Peter Galbraith, former US ambassador to Croatia, and currently senior diplomatic fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, is the author of The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End (2006), which argues that the U.S.'s "main error" in Iraq has been "wishful thinking" and advocates acceptance of a "partition" of Iraq into three parts as part a new U.S. "strategy based on the reality of Iraq" (The End of Iraq, pp. 4, 12, 222, 224).

Here's his latest op-ed.

Here's a piece about how the Neocons thought of themselves as being "creators of history" and scorned those of us in the "reality-based world":

Keith Olbermann is emerging as a powerful voice of truth. Here's his blog.

Sydney Blumenthal is always really good.

Thursday, September 07, 2006

CBS polishes Dubya's turds...


They had Rush Limbaugh spewing his lies on prime time evening news. He made some glib, cynical swipes at those who question "a few little incidents at Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo" and then returned to the mantra of "good against evil, free against totalitarian" that has been used to lie us into this rhetorical armageddon that's been concocted by the Bushies to keep us cowed and to divert the debate from the failed Bush presidency.

Here's the letter I just fired off to CBS:

"I am FURIOUS to see how you have become nothing more than a mouthpiece for the Bush administration. Giving prime, “first in a series” airspace to a pretend-pundit demagogue like Rush Limbaugh is disgraceful.

It is an inflammatory gesture, and blatant pandering. Your fig-leaf of fairness left with Bob Shieffer. In his short screed, Limbaugh defamed the patriotism of more than 60% of the country and based his slander on distortions and omissions. Questioning the criminal negligence and war-profiteering of the Neocon occupiers of our government is our patriotic duty, and your propping up of a traitor who says otherwise is shameless, disgraceful, and treasonous.

You are giving credibility to a proven liar, and a close advisor to our most partisan president. In doing so, you are aligning with them and are obvious shills. I used to like CBS, now I hate you. You are traitors.

I will make a point to boycott all of your advertisers – though I don’t use pharmaceuticals, SUVs, or insurance, the three entities that own the Bush administration, and as we long expected, you."

And this emerged in conversation last night:

The War on Poverty [1968]
The War on Drugs [1981]
The War on Terror [2001]

Three disasterous Republican rhetorical "wars" that really stand for:

The War on the Poor
The War on non-corporate drug users
The War on Reason

There is a war going on - a war between Islamic Jihad-fury and Western bungling - with Bush as the ugliest American.

Monday, September 04, 2006

RAVE: Gore-Clinton in 2008

Al Gore for President, Bill Clinton for Vice-President. They'd win in a landslide, and it would be constitutionally legal. And the Repiglicans would go NUTS.