Scorp, You are incredibly self-deluded. Clinton passed legislation in '95 to authorize the rebuilding of the levees around N.O. and to shore-up the Gulf Coast, as well to formulate a detailed evacuation plan for these regions. In '03 Bush oversaw the destruction of these plans and funding of the rebuilding so that the funds could go to Iraq. Now we stand on the verge of having helped to create a new fascist theocracy bound by history and culture to Iran. What a piece of crap! FEMA reports to and takes orders directly from the President of the United States. There is …
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Susie Q
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You are absolutely right, Tim. This is the beginning of the end for the Bush Crime Family. Wait until Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald drops the bomb on the Rove/Plame investigation. It's going to dovetail in nicely with the Downing Street Minutes, and the truth will be there for everyone to see-- Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, et al lied LIED LIED LIED, and continue to lie to the American people and Congress. Not just a mantra, as Scorp would like to believe, but cold, hard facts. Can we spell I-M-P-E-A-C-H-M-E-N-T hearings?
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Note to those who want to blame those NOT in charge of FEDERAL disaster response: Sen. Landrieu said: “Yesterday, I was hoping President Bush would come away from his tour of the regional devastation triggered by Hurricane Katrina with a new understanding for the magnitude of the suffering and for the abject failures of the current Federal Emergency Management Agency. 24 hours later, the President has yet to answer my call for a cabinet-level official to lead our efforts. Meanwhile, FEMA, now a shell of what it once was, continues to be overwhelmed by the task at hand. “I understand that …
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It's nice to see that someone out there is cognizant of the term "blow back". I just am shocked that people like "Isthisthingon" still blindly bow to the altar of the anti-Christ Bush. He is so opposite of Chrisitanity, it is deeply saddening to realize that most Americans bowing before him have no clue what Jesus even said. If they did, he'd be out on his ass. To go into Iran will only consolidate the bond between the Iraqi Shiites and the Shiite government in Iran. We will only castrate and isolate ourselves further with an invasion. Of course, Bush has …
Posted to Give Iranian Nukes a Chance
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Reading Scorp and IsThisThingOn's responses make me laugh. How easy it is to call everyone who disagrees with this Administration a "liberal". We know that we've been lied to via the DSM's and the Plame affair. It will be fun to see all the filth come out in the laundry as time goes on. How wrong you are ITTO, to believe I am a pacifist. I am not. I would have gladly gone myself into Afghanistan with our troops to catch and quarter Osama bin Laden. But at 47, that's not too likely. I own several guns and love to shoot …
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Scorp, Still stuck on the GOP talking points? What you fail to understand is that the resolution by which we voted to go to war has now been proven to be a sham. There were no terrorist organizations active in Iraq besides the Baathists, according to the CIA. Now, they state it is a "training ground" for terrorists. Life is FAR worse today for the average Iraqi, especially women. Sadaam's mass murders were a concern, but it was a political issue within his own borders and many prior presidents have been reticent to transcend those borders. How can you even say …
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Reading ITTO's responses, I am struck by an overall lack of anything of import in his statements. He is far more concerned with disrupting the thread than in actually saying something that is profound or insightful. Just the same old talking points that America is finally waking up to. 1,600 demonstrations around the country last night. Lots of Vietnam and Iraq vets involved. I heard one Iraq vet say he never felt so supported in his career as since people have started openly questioning the validity of Bush's justifications for war. It's beautiful to see the neocons twisting in the wind. …
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Like I've said before, until we Democrats craft a well-explained set of our goals and how they are to be achieved, something not unlike Gingrich's "Contract with America", people are left floundering for a leader. Lots of people are obviously disenchanted with Bush Co., just look at his numbers. But where is the new Captain? I know Harry Reid is saying that they are floundering so badly that it's to our advantage to let them sink their own ship, but I think we really must be more proactive than that. If people could see a clear plan for a better way, …
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Wow, it's great to see a little liberal continuity in a thread! I'm so used to seeing neocons with their heads up you know where messing up the line of thought on each issue. I think we absolutely must become more aggressive and relentless in presenting our plans and viewpoints. We have to be fearless in putting it out there and just letting Republican potshots roll off our backs like water on a duck's. We see, as the author astutely points out, that that tactic did work for Social Security. The Republican spin machine that keeps droning on about how we …
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Joe, When a cabinet member of such power as Karl Rove can out an active, covert CIA officer and most people are believing a lying administration that this is really "irrelevent", you can bet this administration has castrated the "free" press of our country. In no prior administration has the press been so cowed, and in any other Democratic administration, they would have impeached/removed. Bush Co. has created a perfect scenario for fascism in our country. The press is not really free to report the actions of the govt. for fear of retribution by Rove, et al. Let's see, he's smeared …
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So am I to assume you are Libertarian or an Independent?
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Joe, While I agree that both parties are almost hopelessly corrupted by corporate money and power, the hope for a viable third party here is still very slim. It would be great, in my opinion, to have another option. But we don't. Therefore, it behooves us to work to restructure the party with whom we best identify. As a Democrat, I am putting my efforts into getting more progressive representation into DC, as well as speakers who have some bravado and will face the GOP Goliath with David's faith and determination. I was just at an old-folks' wedding last night, and …
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Natalie, Nice try, but no cigar. I am admitting nothing. When I was explaining to Beth that Valerie Plame was "hot", I used the phrases to explain what hot meant. She may or may not have been actually out of the country at that moment, but all her contacts/moles were "hot". Also, according to the special prosecutor, Mr. Fitzgerald, this is a high crime, one that is a felony and also is called treason. So sorry that you got it wrong on that count. I don't give a monkey's what the press says, the courts say differently. Of course, Rove, being …
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p.s. Some jerkwad stole my name so when I tried to log on, it said it was already taken. So I've had to go back to my childhood nickname, but it is me, Margaret.
Posted to Downing Street: A Dead-End In American Media
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Natalie, You are so far-off base, it's really sad. A CIA agent who has ongoing, current covert activities is HOT. It is not a question of her geographic location. You seem unable to understand the concept that when she was outed, she could no longer, or ever again, move within those covert circles to gather intelligence of extreme importance to our country. Rove imperiled national security by his outing. Also, the Rove case was on the upper-half fold of the Washington Post today. It also will be on CSpan for at least 4 hours tomorrow. CNN plans on covering the demonstrations …
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Natalie, Did you watch the coverage on CSpan? It seems that all the former CIA Case Managers and the very, very highly qualified and distinguished retired military men that were on the panel said that irreperable damage has been done to American intelligence and that decades of setting up contacts to be our eyes in the African/Middle East arena have been permanently lost because of Rove/Novak. They verified everything I have said on this thread. Now, an atomic attack of the U.S. could be in the work in that region, and we now have no eyes or ears because of that …
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Here are some transcipts of that hearing, just for your convenience. It may be quite eye-opening for you to hear what someone who actually knows what they're talking about gives the straight story instead of the GOP "Talking Points" that are being delivered all over the media by people like McCain and Bush. http://www.davidcorn.com/2005/07/a_cia_vets_mess.php
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Thanks for the concise update, Richard. Hopefully the woefully misled may finally start to see some light through that dark veil they've placed over their own eyes.
Posted to Downing Street: A Dead-End In American Media
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Natalie, If you're so concerned about squaring the treatment of the CIA, why aren't you outraged at the disassembling policy currently underway by Porter Goss, Bush's appointee, who now has no real power at all? It has been given to Negroponte, that purveyor of Central American death squads. You are really getting desparate. Do us all a favor and follow the news for the next month and see what Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald comes up with in indictments. Seems to me that obstruction of justice and perjury are exactly what your party got Clinton on for his blow job. Fortunuately, no one …
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