Dear Nancy,
“With his veto threat, the President offers only an open-ended commitment to a war without end that dangerously ignores the repeated warnings of military leaders, including the commander in Iraq, General Petraeus, who declared in Baghdad this week that the conflict cannot be resolved militarily.”
You GO girl!
Categories: Pelosi
Think about it — if you were an al qaeda insider, and you knew that Bush had outed Plame, would YOU agree to cooperate with the CIA now?
Categories: Libby · Plame · corruption · terror is worse
A comment at the TPM Election Central website:
“If FOX had/has any intentions of becoming more neutral, FOX would have moved from the far right and more to the center a long, long time ago.You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.”
Ouch!
Categories: polls
Think about it — if you were an al qaeda insider, and you knew that Bush had outed Plame, would YOU agree to cooperate with the CIA now?
Categories: Libby · Plame · corruption · terror is worse
Check out this from Henry Waxman’s House Oversight Committee.
“Committee Will Hold Hearing on Disclosure of CIA Agent Valerie Plame Wilson’s IdentityChairman Henry A. Waxman announced a hearing on whether White House officials followed appropriate procedures for safeguarding the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson. At the hearing, the Committee will receive testimony from Ms. Wilson and other experts regarding the disclosure and internal White House security procedures for protecting her identity from disclosure and responding to the leak after it occurred. The hearing is scheduled for Friday, March 16.
In addition, the Committee today sent a letter to Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald commending him for his investigation and requesting a meeting to discuss testimony by Mr. Fitzgerald before the Committee.
The Oversight Committee will webcast the hearing live at www.oversight.house.gov.”
The fun is just beginning, folks.
Categories: Libby · Plame · corruption
From our trusty friends at Snopes Urban Legends:
“On 26 February 1993, a car loaded with 1,200 pounds of explosives blew up in a parking garage under the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring about a thousand others. The blast did not, as its planners intended, bring down the towers — that was finally accomplished by flying two hijacked airliners into the twin towers on the morning of 11 September 2001.Four followers of the Egyptian cleric Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman were captured, convicted of the World Trade Center bombing in March 1994, and sentenced to 240 years in prison each. The purported mastermind of the plot, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, was captured in 1995, convicted of the bombing in November 1997, and also sentenced to 240 years in prison.”
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/clinton.htm
Categories: Clinton did nothing · terrorism
Those of you who’ve read up on Social Security know that it’s a defined benefits program. That is participants have a schedule of benefits defined for them, and they know exactly what to expect to receive in the way of benefits.
Bush wants to phase out this program and replace it with a defined contributions plan. That is, where you decide now much to put into the program and then hope like hell there’s money there when you need it. Think “ENRON.”
So, for those who argue that Bush isn’t trying to phase out social security, remember this comment by Bush shortly after the election of 2004 when he thought he had a lot of “political capital.”
The “question is whether or not our society has got the will necessary to adjust from a defined benefit plan to a defined contribution plan. And I believe the will will be there.”
Don’t tell ME these guys aren’t out to destroy Social Security.
Categories: Social Security
Going through some old files, I came across this bit from my mother’s priest. He sent this to us in an email shortly after the 2000 Florida debacle.
Bush to be smitten later today
In a rare public appearance God holds forth on the GOP shenanigans in Florida. This morning, in a stunning development, God invoked the “one nation, under God” clause of the Pledge of Allegiance to overrule the Supreme Court decision that handed the White House to George Bush. “I’m not sure where the Supreme Court gets off,” God said this morning on a rare Today Show appearance, “but I’m sure as hell not going to lie back and let Bush get away with this bullshit.”
“I’ve watched analysts argue for weeks now that the exact vote count in Florida ‘will never be known.’ Well, I’m God and I DO know exactly who voted for whom. Let’s cut to the chase: Gore won Florida by exactly 20,219 votes.”
Shocking political analysts and pundits, God’s unexpected verdict overrules the official Electoral College tally and awards Florida to Al Gore, giving him a 289-246 victory. The Bush campaign is analyzing God’s Word for possible grounds for appeal.
“God’s ruling is a classic over-reach,” argued Bush campaign strategist Jim Baker. “Clearly, a divine intervention in a U.S. Presidential Election is unprecedented, unjust, and goes against the constitution of the state of Florida.”
“Jim Baker’s a jackass,” God responded. “He’s got some surprises ahead of him, let me tell you. HOT ones, if you know what I mean.”
God, who provided the exact vote counts for every Florida precinct, explained that bad balloting machinery and voter confusion were no grounds to give the White House to “a friggin’ idiot.” “Look, only 612 people in Palm Beach County voted for Buchanan. Get real! The rest meant to vote for Gore. Don’t believe me? I’ll name them: Anderson, Pete; Anderson, Sam, Jr.; Arthur, James; Barnhardt, Ron . . .”
God went on to note that he was displeased with George W. Bush’s prideful ways and announced that he would officially smite him today. In an act of wrath unlike any reported since the Book of Job, God has taken all of Bush’s goats and livestock, stripped him of his wealth and possessions, sold his family into slavery, forced the former presidential candidate into hard labor in a salt mine, and afflicted him with deep boils. Dick Cheney will reportedly receive leprosy.
More later.
Categories: Uncategorized
