As we are entering the season where the focus shifts to the next election, we see a group of Republican candidates espousing the ongoing war and comparing themselves to their view of the perfect President Ronald Reagan.
As progressives maybe we need to quote Ronald Reagan from time to time in addressing the issues of today. Reagan asked a famous question during the debates of the 1980 election season that brought him to prominence. This question applies today as well.
Are you better off today than you were six years ago? Do you feel that your job is secure now that gas prices have risen well above three dollars per gallon and predictions that they will reach four dollars seem very real?
Are you better off today with the President having the country bogged down in a war in Iraq with no end in sight? Have you gained any benefit from the war in Iraq, or has it cost this country in ways we will never recover?
Are you better off with the majority of the world turning against us and those in the Middle East planning to bring the United States down? Are you safer with the choices that this President and his Republican allies have made in foreign policy?
Are you better able to afford college costs for your children under the economy of George W Bush? Are you confident that your children will be able to afford a home, or raise a family with the direction our country is going?
Are you confident you and your family will have affordable health care in the future, or has the decisions of deficits and war brought that confidence to an end? Are the forty seven million Americans without health care better off today than they were six years ago?
Are the thirty seven million low-income Americans living in poverty better off today than they were six years ago? Are the twenty six million Americans receiving food stamps better off or do they face a Food Stamp program in peril?
Are we better off as a nation to have many of our privacy rights taken away? Are we confident we can trust those in government to protect our identities and our privacy or will we continue to see computers disappear, personal records compromised and our privacy in peril?
Are we winning any of the wars this President has started? Are we better off to coax a war with Iran? Have we seen oil prices fall from the take over of Iraqi oil? Do we have more allies today that we had six years ago?
These are but a few questions that as an American you can ask. These questions go to the basic principle of life in America today. As you hear the Republican candidates espouse war and claim the moniker of Reagan, ask your self the Reagan question. Are we better off today under Republican leadership than we were six years ago.?
As progressives maybe we need to quote Ronald Reagan from time to time in addressing the issues of today. Reagan asked a famous question during the debates of the 1980 election season that brought him to prominence. This question applies today as well.
Are you better off today than you were six years ago? Do you feel that your job is secure now that gas prices have risen well above three dollars per gallon and predictions that they will reach four dollars seem very real?
Are you better off today with the President having the country bogged down in a war in Iraq with no end in sight? Have you gained any benefit from the war in Iraq, or has it cost this country in ways we will never recover?
Are you better off with the majority of the world turning against us and those in the Middle East planning to bring the United States down? Are you safer with the choices that this President and his Republican allies have made in foreign policy?
Are you better able to afford college costs for your children under the economy of George W Bush? Are you confident that your children will be able to afford a home, or raise a family with the direction our country is going?
Are you confident you and your family will have affordable health care in the future, or has the decisions of deficits and war brought that confidence to an end? Are the forty seven million Americans without health care better off today than they were six years ago?
Are the thirty seven million low-income Americans living in poverty better off today than they were six years ago? Are the twenty six million Americans receiving food stamps better off or do they face a Food Stamp program in peril?
Are we better off as a nation to have many of our privacy rights taken away? Are we confident we can trust those in government to protect our identities and our privacy or will we continue to see computers disappear, personal records compromised and our privacy in peril?
Are we winning any of the wars this President has started? Are we better off to coax a war with Iran? Have we seen oil prices fall from the take over of Iraqi oil? Do we have more allies today that we had six years ago?
These are but a few questions that as an American you can ask. These questions go to the basic principle of life in America today. As you hear the Republican candidates espouse war and claim the moniker of Reagan, ask your self the Reagan question. Are we better off today under Republican leadership than we were six years ago.?
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Chrysler has been sold to a private group today.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't look good for the workers there.
More of the Bush economy.
The U.S dollar continues to fall against the Euro.
ReplyDeleteMore of the Bush economy.
Three U.S solders were killed today in Baghdad.
ReplyDelete"Surge" on Bush.
Sixty were killed in a truck bombing today near Baghdad.
ReplyDelete"Surge" on Bush.
Two U.S solders were killed today by a Pakistani officer during a meeting over a border clash near Kabul.
ReplyDeleteEXCELLENT questions Larry...........I've asked all of those for quite a while and I think the Economy and "are you better off today" will come front and center as we enter a recession towards the end of the year.
ReplyDeleteWhen gas is $4 a gallon and inflation is running at closer to 8% than the bogus 3% claimed and people start losing jobs and the value of their homes declines...........these will become front and center campaign issues just as the War in Iraq is today!
Well, clearly, Larry, we are not. The only people better off than they were six years ago are the very wealthy.
ReplyDeleteThe rest of us are getting hammered.
Voltron said...
ReplyDeleteI got misty reading that, so I dedicated a thread to mothers day too.
"To The Shallow Genetic Pond That I Emerged From" doesn't sound particularly romantic, Widdle Twucker...
Hi Lydia!
ReplyDeleteI hope you had a nice Mother's Day! :)
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ReplyDeleteHi Larry, Mike and Carl! :)
ReplyDeleteThe Bush economy is the worst in our history and he is the worst pResident ever in our White House.
Bush is a failure all the way around!
Ultra neo-con Newt Gingrich says it is very possible he will make a run for the White House next year.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that kind of him to paste himself into our lives again?
42 have been killed and 37 wounded in another bombing near Baghdad.
ReplyDelete"Great Surge" Bush!
The military has blocked U.S soldiers from viewing You Tube and Myspace.
ReplyDeleteAre they afraid of what they might see, or what they might report in Iraq?
Sunni Arab guerrillas set off a massive bomb in front of the HQ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the small town of Makhmur southeast of Mosul. The KDP was holding a security conference at the time, and police and judicial officials were among the 67 dead and 70 wounded (Al-Hayat in Arabic]. The town falls in Ninevah Province, on the border with Iraqi Kurdistan. Some nationalistic Kurds have made a map that shows Kurdistan annexing parts of provinces where there are substantial Kurdish populations, including parts of Ninevah. Moreover, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have been deployed for security purposes by provincial authorities. So it seems likely that the Sunni Arab attack had several goals. It stopped the security conference, it struck at Kurdish Peshmerga helping with the imposition of security and fighting the guerrillas, and it marked Ninevah as an Arab province where Kurds are imperilled. The guerrillas probably hope that Kurdish families will desert Makhmur and move to Irbil, thus forestalling the plans of Kurdish nationalists to annex parts of Ninevah.
ReplyDeleteLooks like the surge ain't gonna solve any problems especially since it NEVER deals with the roots of the three way civil war, with the Sunni, Shiite and Kurds factions fighting each other in different places for control and separate factions of each fighting amonst themselves where they do have complete control like the inter Shiite struggle in Basra for control or the fighting between separate factions of Sunnis for control of Anbar province.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution says sources close within the military, say several active U.S generals will openly critize the Bush war on Iraq if things aren't calm by August.
ReplyDeleteLarry said...
ReplyDeleteThe military has blocked U.S soldiers from viewing You Tube and Myspace.
Are they afraid of what they might see, or what they might report in Iraq?"
They are afraid they might see the TRUTH Larry......That Bush and his Neo Con Lackeys are liars and criminals clinging to an illegal failed treasonous policy!
Larry said...
ReplyDeleteThe Atlanta Journal Constitution says sources close within the military, say several active U.S generals will openly critize the Bush war on Iraq if things aren't calm by August."
Bush will just silence and replace them............because just like the Nazi's he doesnt tolerate dissent!
The Bush reich has had only one successful program. No millionaire left behind
ReplyDeleteThe military has restricted the soldoers from viewing blogs and now You Tube and Myspace.
ReplyDeleteBush claims he is bringing freedom to the Iraqi's but he takes the freedom from the U.S soldiers who he has placed in danger.
There have been 234 bodies dumped around Baghdad in the first 11 days of May.
ReplyDeleteSmooth talking Tony Snow said there has been a no increase in violence since the "surge" began that violence has leveled off.
Can't he even lie with a little truth mixed in?
Bush claims he has a plan to limit gas consumption by 2008.
ReplyDeleteWhat is this plan $6 per gallon gas prices?
More of the Bush oil economy.
Larry & Lydia, don't faint when you see me posting here! I just had to respond to this one, because yes, I am better off than I was six years ago. Certainly I might not say that if I'd had a loved-one killed in Iraq, but on the other hand, although you won't find them posting here, there are mothers, fathers, wives... who feel such a sacrifice was not in vain. There are several sides to that issue, in fact so many that I still am not clearly decided where I come down on that one. I am very clear though on the economic issue, at least personally. Financially, I am definitely better off than six years ago. Now I'm sure you're wondering about my income category -- am I rich? Honestly, I'm not sure which category my net worth gets me into, but I will admit to being sure I'm not poor. The great news is: Neither is my housekeeper. She drives a $40,000 SUV and owns a nice condo -- single African-American woman, by the way. Another thing I'm sure of is that I have more money than my parents did. Still, back in the 1960s my mother also had a housekeeper -- maids, as they were called, were easier to afford back then -- and her situation was a bit different than a housekeeper of today. SUV? Neither my mother's maid Rosa nor Rosa's husband who worked full-time at the sawwmill owned a car at all. Condo? Compare that to a mill-camp house with no indoor plumbing. Hmm...maybe that trickle-down thing works better than you realize. Y'all have a beautiful day, and Lydia, you're going to hear from me again in just a second! Love, Victoria
ReplyDeleteDEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL PAUL MCNULTY, CLOSELY INVOLVED IN THE FIRING OF EIGHT U.S. ATTORNEYS, IS RESIGNING,
ReplyDeleteJUSTICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS SAY
Good for the resignation and now where are his leaders?
ReplyDeleteHe only had one leader Larry and that was Gonzo.
ReplyDeleteHe was Gonzo's second in command, and clearly wants to distance himself from the quagmire of the attorney firings.
Victoriah.
ReplyDeleteWe're glad you have a new mini van and life is good for you now.
But if you think, as an American, that you are better off now, then you're living in a dreamworld.
As an American, you are now a member of the most hated country in the world.
7 years ago, you were a member of the most loved country in the world.
And thats just for starters.
Are we learning yet?
As a country, thanks to Mr Bush, we now have the blood of between half a million to a million people on our hands.
ReplyDeleteOf course, maybe red's your color.
Worfeus, VH might not feel so well off if (she) realized Pakistan is melting down politically and the extremists in that country are the most organized to take control of it, especially if they are able to topple Musharraf, and still have Bin Laden and the Taliban using parts of the country as training and logistical areas. They might see handing a nuke or two to the Taliban-Bin Laden cabal as payment for services rendered especially if both promise not to detonate a nuke in Pakistan.
ReplyDeleteIf Musharraf falls Iraq is not going to matter much because what Bush claimed about Iraq would be true in Pakistan, too bad we would no longer have a military to do much about it since Bush has it stuck in a quagmire in Baghdad ET AL. Idiots like dolty, TT FF and VH would just screech about how much they need another tax cut before the second sun exploded over their heads.
Thats right Clif.
ReplyDeleteI wrote extensively in here and TP about the dangers of a goverment collapse in Pakistan.
The terrorists would then have nuclear missles, and that would be bad.
The reason Bin Laden hasn't attacked us is because he sees us destroying ourselves without any mroe help from him.
ReplyDeleteWe're doing a good enough by ourselves.
Bin Laden is watching the U.S destroy themselves with the arrogance and greed of one group of neo-cons.
ReplyDeleteDick Cheney will greet shareholders at the Halliburton meeting on May 16th.
ReplyDeleteWasn't he supposed to sever all ties?
Isn't this an indication of collusion for Iraqi money, and a conflict of interest?
And so now we see why I've never posted here before -- and never shall again. Lydia, I KNOW you're a lovely human being, and you,too, Larry. It's just a shame that those who post here apparently don't even bother to really read a post if it seems to make a point counter to their own. First: I stated clearly that I was not commenting on the war. Second: I don't have a new minivan -- my housekeeper does, and my only point was that her situation, thank the Lord, is vastly better than it would have been in years past. She's not screeching for more tax cuts and neither am I. We don't complain about anything. We know we're blessed, especially to be living in the USA, even though, you're right, it is the most hated nation. But that's been true since way before any of us were born. I grew up hearing my grandmother's indignation at how the world repaid our generosity with hate. And yet America prevails...God bless you all, Victoria
ReplyDeleteIsn't this an indication of collusion for Iraqi money, and a conflict of interest?
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Larry:
It most certainly is!
Halliburton burnt the U.S. taxpayers and are now running off to the UAE.
This is Halliburton's Farewell party!
ReplyDeleteVictoriaH said...
ReplyDeleteAnd so now we see why I've never posted here before -- and never shall again."
You've said that before honey........but then you've spewed lots of lies before......but if you really shall NEVER post here again.............I wont be shedding any tears.
sorry victoriaH but if you come ion here screeching about having the ability to have a house cleaner and claiming that trickle down economics work your an idiot reichwinger we don't need OK?
ReplyDeleteThe vast majority of this country is worrying about them losing purchasing power and if they will have a job after down sizing and out sourcing, and your blabbering about how well your house keeper is doing since you must be so rich,
Goodbye and good riddance.
Victoria H said "First: I stated clearly that I was not commenting on the war. Second: I don't have a new minivan -- my housekeeper does"
ReplyDeleteVictoria H said " Certainly I might not say that if I'd had a loved-one killed in Iraq, but on the other hand, although you won't find them posting here, there are mothers, fathers, wives... who feel such a sacrifice was not in vain. There are several sides to that issue, in fact so many that I still am not clearly decided where I come down on that one.
More lies and incoherent BS............YOU were the one who brought up the war and BTW it was a $40,000 SUV and not a minivan that YOU brought up like that is supposed to impress us or something.
BTW Victoria, the OVERWHELMING majority of people ARE NOT doing better today than 6 years ago, and are not doing better than their parents.
ReplyDelete30-40 years ago the majority of both parents did not HAVE to work to survive, in fact for the most part ONLY 1 parent worked not both the middle class and poor have lost purchasing power and their tax burden has stagnated while wages for the ultra wealthy have risen exponentially and their tax burden has been cut in half..........its wonderful YOU are doing so well financially but its also blatantly clear you ONLY care about yourself and dont care about the overwhelming majority who are not doing better economically.
Clearly your just here to pick apart and undermine those you dont like and push your Reich Wing agenda!
Victoria H said "It's just a shame that those who post here apparently don't even bother to really read a post if it seems to make a point counter to their own.
ReplyDeleteeven though, you're right, it is the most hated nation. But that's been true since way before any of us were born. "
Look at her trying to undermine and subtlety attack, while PRETENDING to be a friend just like her buddy Goo Goo does............note how she "THOSE" who post here just like Goo Goo and FF say "You Libs" lumping everyone into a single category to undermine.
Also notice how SHE minimizes and deflects from what GWB has done by saying YEAH BUT" we've always been the most hated nation on earth"...............so its not REALLY GWB's fault.
like the troills this person has NO credibility............notice how she CLAIMS she stated "CLEARLY she was not talking about the war when she actually said this "Certainly I might not say that if I'd had a loved-one killed in Iraq, but on the other hand, although you won't find them posting here, there are mothers, fathers, wives... who feel such a sacrifice was not in vain.
Lets just say VictoriaH is a dishonest shrill for the reichwing who doesn't see how OUT OF TOUCH (she) is like most of the rest of the reichwing uber-rich who claim since THEY are doing well everything is just rosey....
ReplyDeleteafter all they have enough money to blow on a house keeper and all unlike most people here.
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ReplyDeleteClif I think if we took a survey on what % of the population had a housekeeper it would be the vast minority............MOST of the population are concerneed with paying their bills, getting enough to eat and keeping their jobs not having a housekeeper with a $40,000 gas guzzling SUV.
ReplyDeleteSee people driving $40,000 gas guzzling SUV's is the problem NOT the solution.
Now that we are at Peak Oil we need need Progressives with the forsight to end our dependency on imorted foreign oil from countries that hate us not brag about housekeepers driving $40,000 gas guzzling SUV's like it is some kind of prestigious status symbol to be admired.
Again it MAY be admired by the ignorant greedy Neo Cons...........but that type of thinking is part of the PROBLEM, NOT the solution!
Victoria, my apologies, I assumed you were someone else...........however I stand by the majority of what I said..........Most people are NOT better off and SUV's and the ingrained thinking that they are some kind of prestigious status symbol are part of the problem NOT the solution!
ReplyDeleteYes, Mike, I totally agree about SUV's and what they represent. However, that's another point, not the one I was making, which was all about how well most people actually are doing in this country compared to years ago, when, indeed, most women did not work outside the home, but I think, not because they didn't need the extra money, but for many other reasons, which would be better covered in another post. Do you really know A LOT of people who are in true need today? Consider TRUE NEED before you answer. They're out there, but MOST Americans are doing fabulously well compared with the rest of the world. And, yes, I can afford a housekeeper, but I've been broke -- completely broke -- and even then I knew I was blessed, and even though I didn't own a home or a car, I knew I had all I NEEDED. That was during the Carter administration. I admired him then and now, and it never occurred to me to blame him or anyone else for my situation. Thanks, Mike, for recognizing the identity confusion -- and especially for the apology -- they're not always easy.
ReplyDeleteVictoriaH said...
ReplyDeleteDo you really know A LOT of people who are in true need today?
Yes. There are 40 million people living below the poverty line in the richest coutry in the world.
Which part of that isn't clear to you? And please, PLEASE, be more original than to trot out that bromide of how our poor are better off than theirs, because THEIRS don't pay for food to be delivered with $4 a gallon gasoline, mmmmmmmmK?
Are we better off with the Bush economy six years later?
ReplyDeleteHmmmmm....
I think we can all answer that question pretty easily. It's fairly obvious.
VictoriaH said...
ReplyDeleteLarry & Lydia, don't faint when you see me posting here! I just had to respond to this one, because yes, I am better off than I was six years ago.
We'll be sure to throw you a party...
However, there are 8 million more people without health insurance, there are 30 million more people who filed bankruptcy, and another 10 million who would if the Congress hadn't tightened bankruptcy laws. There are now more people below the poverty line than in 2000.
So YOU may be lucky, but don't for one minute believe you are "typical".
Hey Victoria,
ReplyDeleteI am glad you are here. Mike and Clif thought you were someone else so they responded in that matter.
I understand what you are saying. There are some who are extemely blessed, while many others are not.
Please don't stay away.
Funny victoria tou claimed to have enough when you were broke when Jimmy Carter was president,
ReplyDeleteBUT had to earn enough to get somebody else to clean your house cause your too lazy?
have too much else to do?
Can't be bothered let the poor do it for you?
Sounds like you didn't have all you needed, because for some reason you have a need to pay somebody else to clean your house or where ever you live..............................
Hey Jacq,
ReplyDeleteGlad you are here also. I was just on your blog and glad you decided to answer the Reagan question.
Victoria said "Do you really know A LOT of people who are in true need today? Consider TRUE NEED before you answer. They're out there, but MOST Americans are doing fabulously well compared with the rest of the world"
ReplyDeleteDo "I" know a LOT of people in true need?
The answer would have to be no, and yes as a nation we may be doing fabulously well compared to most of the world.............howver that does not negate the fact that most of us are less well off than we were 6 years ago.............good paying middle class jobs are being outsourced overseas, and our standard of living as a nation is declining.......we are on the WRONG track as a nation and the next generation will have a lower standard of living due to the greed and incompetence of this administration regarding trade, tax equity, the national debt and outsourcing of labor and manufacturing.
I think it is OUR responsibilility to insure that the next generations, our children and grandchildren do not have a declining standard of living.
Victoria said "which was all about how well most people actually are doing in this country compared to years ago, when, indeed, most women did not work outside the home, but I think, not because they didn't need the extra money, but for many other reasons, which would be better covered in another post."
ReplyDeleteVictoria you may be right that there were OTHER reasons as well why women did not work outside the home 30-40 years ago............however that does not negate the simple fact that they did not NEED to for financial survival then............im almost positive if we polled the vast majority of our nation today and asked most households if they could survive on one income today the overwhelming answer would be NO!
Triple A reports that gas prices are at a record high.
ReplyDeleteI think it is OUR responsibilility to insure that the next generations, our children and grandchildren do not have a declining standard of living.
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Hi Mike!
That is exactly the reason for taking our country back!
Our nation now has the highest foreclosure rate of homes in 40 years!
ReplyDeletehopefully it happens sooner rather than later SQ!
ReplyDeleteJoe Lieberman will raise money for GOP candidates.
ReplyDeleteIs this a surprise?
The only way Lier-man could surprise me was to publicly admit what a POS he was and resign from congress and move to Israel the country he really works for now a days.
ReplyDeleteCheney defends Wolfowitz today saying he has worked closely with him for years and he should remain as head of the World Bank.
ReplyDeleteLarry:
ReplyDeleteThat's because they are in the PNAC together.
PNAC=
Party of Neocons And Crooks
Suzie:
ReplyDeleteGood definition for them and they are knee high in trouble.
It will happen soon my friends.
ReplyDeleteThe old establishment will fall away to make room for the new workers paradise.
We will remove the corrupt neo-cons and all their enablers, and then our dreams will come true.
No one should be allowed to subdue others to clean their houses.
ReplyDeleteThose who have such excess money will see it given to the poor and needy and everyone will live as equals.
Larry according to ICCC they have reached 3401 US casualties as of today.....
ReplyDeleteHeck of a job Georgie and to the stupid people who think that is something to send MORE to be killed for.
3,401 U.S soldiers and the war has no end in sight.
ReplyDeleteThe "surge" has made it worse than ever.
Yes, the armies of the imperialists have met their match. Soon they will conquer no more.
ReplyDeleteVictoriaH said...
ReplyDeleteAnd so now we see why I've never posted here before -- and never shall again
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Why?
Because someone dared to disagree with you?
oh my.....
VictoriaH said...
ReplyDeleteI don't have a new minivan -- my housekeeper does
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Sounds rough.
Apparently your housekeeper apparently earns more than the average American family.
ReplyDeleteWell, just make sure she's not bringing any of her relatives across the border in that thing.
ReplyDeleteGood definition for them and they are knee high in trouble.
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Larry:
I just made it up but it seems to fit them. :)
Queen Victoria said...
ReplyDeleteDo you really know A LOT of people who are in true need today?
Yea. They're called "Homeless".
And they're everywhere.
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Don't get out of the villa much do we?
TAMING THE GIANT CORPORATION:
ReplyDeleteA National Conference on Corporate Accountability
Presented by Ralph Nader and
The Center for Study of Responsive Law
June 8, 9 and 10, 2007
1530 P Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
The multinational corporation is the dominant institution in the global political economy. The toll it inflicts on people and the planet — high drug prices, sweatshops, global warming, and on and on — is well documented.
But too little attention has been focused on the corporation itself, and the evolving forms of corporate power. “Taming the Giant Corporation” aims to identify, examine and classify the changing manifestations of corporate power.
The conference’s central, pioneering task is to facilitate discussion, debate and strategic thinking about how to subordinate corporate power to the will and interests of the people. How do we replace the excessive corporate privileges and immunities entrenched in law and the economy?
Corporations were originally chartered by the states in the early nineteenth century to be our servants not our masters.
How can we displace corporations (e.g., with national health insurance, by keeping information and knowledge in the public domain, or by expanding and strengthening the commons)? What tools and approaches can empower communities to set parameters on corporate activity? What countervailing institutions should be nurtured to offset concentrated corporate power?
“Taming the Giant Corporation” will be an opportunity to learn, debate, meet leading advocates and activists, and grapple with the questions that must be answered if we are to strive for a just and livable world.
McNulty may testify about the deep involvement of Karl Rove.
ReplyDeleteMike said...
ReplyDeleteVictoria, my apologies, I assumed you were someone else...........
Well she's certainly something else.
Someone needs to tame the Giant Corporations.
ReplyDeleteAnd in case anyone thinks I am being hard on Ms Victoria, allow me to point out, that in this country, there are currently MILLIONS of homeless people, most of whom are not only impoverished, but just do not possess the skills, visages or persona's needed to succeed in todays high tech world.
ReplyDeleteI am not talking about a handful. Estimate range from 3 and a half million to 15 million, depending on the study. And more than FORTY PERCENT of these are FAMILES!!!!!
And that doesn't take into consideration those incarcerated who if not in prison, would otherwise be indigent and homeless.
It is unseemly that anyone boasting of their maids new minivan would brag about how few people of need there are in this country.
Lydia just did an article a few months back on the growing homeless population in this country, and the increasing poverty levels we are seeing.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Victoria should read it.
Queen Victoria said...
ReplyDeleteStill, back in the 1960s my mother also had a housekeeper --
maids, as they were called, were easier to afford back then
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Hmmm. My father worked full time as a carpenter, and we didn't have a maid.
In fact, no one I went to school with had a maid.
For that matter I've never had any friends, or known any of their friends who had maids.
I am not sure I've ever seen a maid other than like "mighty maids" or something.
Or on TV.
I do remember "HAZEL" though.
ReplyDeleteShe was a maid.
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And the Brady's.
ReplyDeleteThey had a maid.
Her name was Alice.
Interesting;
ReplyDeleteUnconfirmed report: Libyan leader Gaddafi in coma
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was rushed to the hospital Sunday after a blood clot was discovered in his brain, and is now in a coma, Israel Radio reported. According to the report, Gaddafi's children, who reside in Europe, were recalled to his bedside in Tripoli.
Corporations are evil. That much power should not be amassed in private hands. It should be held in the public trust for the good of the workers.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of "better off"..... tonight we are taking a look at something our Chimpromised MSM seems scarcely to have noticed.
ReplyDeleteOur bestest buddy in the War on "Tur" is about to be neutralized.
This is big stuff. Perhaps as big as anything else we're facing.
Victoriah's life certainly doesn't sound like my life, or anyone else's life that I ever knew.
ReplyDeleteHousekeeper? Methinks Victoriah is a member of that class Chimpy caters to.
(Oh, and I am in the upper tenth percentile, income wise. So I'd rather skip any arguments about who is benefitting-I'm damn sure not. In some ways I got by easier when I was poor.)
The homeless situation in this country is disgusting! Just like health care, they need to be provided with housing and food, and a monthly stipend to be as equals with their neighbors.
ReplyDeleteThis problem needs to be addressed urgently. Society has failed these people.
The homeless situation in this country is disgusting! Just like health care, they need to be provided with housing and food, and a monthly stipend to be as equals with their neighbors.
ReplyDeleteWe need to reinstate the mental-health system that used to exist in this country.
The #1 provider of mental health services in the United States of America is the Los Angeles County Jail system. If that doesn't tell you all you need to know, I don't know what would.
Yes, I agree, the richest most powerful country in the world shouldn't have homeless and poverty level citizens!
ReplyDeleteI want my country back!
I cannot believe ANOTHER member of the DOJ has resigned their position in the wake of the Attorney firing scandal, and yet Gonzo still is in charge.
ReplyDeleteHis appointed inferiors are his moral superiors.
3 members of the DOJ have now resigned in the wake of the attorney firings.
ReplyDeleteOne pleaded the FIFTH!
The other two were from the TOP.
The very top.
In fact, the only one higher than Sampson and Mcnulty is Gonzales himself!
Soren said...
ReplyDeleteCorporations are evil. That much power should not be amassed in private hands. It should be held in the public trust for the good of the workers."
That is a rather bizare blanket sweeping generalization that sounds more like a Neo Con sweeping generalization from Fascist Fan than a reasoned progressive statement based on facts.
To say that "ALL" corporations are evil and that amassing wealth in private hands is ALWAYS bad is riddiculous and reeks of communism..........Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and George Soros are richer than almost ALL the Neo Cons and do Great good with their assets while not being corrupted by greed.
Saying everything should be held in the public trust for the good of ALL workers is fascist......all we need is more equitable policies for ALL not just the top 1%.
But Only Neo Cons and trolls deal in absolutes and blanket one size fits all generalizations........and on that note...........methinks you are a troll bud!
Congress NEEDS to IMPEACH that lying Piece of shit Worf.........all he's doing is obstructing justice and spitting in the face of the checks and balances.............The DOJ is an Oxymoron with that partisan criminal heading it up!
ReplyDeleteNo matter how good they may seem, one person cannot be trusted with that much wealth which equals power.
ReplyDeleteDoes any of Bush's close buddies have a shred of integrity.
ReplyDeleteI don't think so.
If it were nationalized, it could be used for the good of all.
ReplyDeleteMike said...
ReplyDeleteCongress NEEDS to IMPEACH that lying Piece of shit Worf.........
You know it.
Did you see Maxine Waters ripping him a new asshole today?
As moo moo would say, she was ripping his turban.
Or in this case, his Sombrero.
:o
LOL
Once they indict all the Justice dept. then Rove will have a glass house to hide in.
ReplyDeleteMore good news for the Bush administration.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Tenet will testify under oath to Congress on the NIGER yellow cake lie.
Thats right.
Finally, THIS chicken, is coming home to roost.
I've been waiting for this one for a long time.
The NIGER incident is the bitch of the bunch.
ReplyDeleteIts the ballbuster.
Its the one Bush and RiceMarschall Rice never wanted to go before public hearings.
ReplyDeleteIts the one they fear.
And who gets to decide HOW much wealth or power is TOO much???
ReplyDeleteSorry Soren..........but communism is NOT THE ANSWER!!!!!
All we need is to embrace more equitable policies that benefit the MANY rather than the elite few!
Scrapping democracy for communism is not the answer..........we just need to embrace sound policies like those of FDR and Bill Clinton. policies that benefit the majority of Americans rather than the just the Wealthy Elite..........we need to abandon Fascism.........but that doesnt mean embracing communism............like I said before ONLY Neo Cons and trolls deal in absolutes.
BTW you mind giving us a little background on where you came from and how you found your way into this blog?
More good news for the Bush administration.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Tenet will testify under oath to Congress on the NIGER yellow cake lie.
Thats right.
Waxman wasn't kidding. A book tour under oath :)
The whole Iraq lie is about to be exposed...Bush knew it was false intelligence when he said those 16 words in the SOTU in 2003.
ReplyDeleteThe pResident lied to us!
Waxman and Leahy are like the ONLY ones in Congress woth a damn............if it werent for Waxman the Dems would have thrown in the towel months ago!
ReplyDeleteNow heres the rub.
ReplyDeleteThey rescheduled Condogreeza Rice's testimony till next month, so they can have her testify WITH George Tenet on the Niger incident.
But Condi says she'll ignore the subpeona, which is absolute proof of the Bush administrations abuse of power, and disregard for the laws of this land.
Her refusal to honor a subpeona that ANY of us would be forced to honor, is clear and irrefutable proof of her guilt.
The DOJ is about to come undone too...
ReplyDeleteOh, how I love Truth & Justice!
Those Evildoers are all going down! The House of Bush is crumbling! :)
And who gets to decide HOW much wealth or power is TOO much???
ReplyDeleteSorry Soren..........but communism is NOT THE ANSWER!!!!!
All we need is to embrace more equitable policies that benefit the MANY rather than the elite few!
Scrapping democracy for communism is not the answer..........we just need to embrace sound policies like those of FDR and Bill Clinton. policies that benefit the majority of Americans rather than the just the Wealthy Elite..........we need to abandon Fascism.........but that doesnt mean embracing communism............like I said before ONLY Neo Cons and trolls deal in absolutes.
Ideology never fed a starving kid, never mended a fence, never planted a crop. Ideologues suck, no matter their ideologies.
The essential purpose of any Government is to look out for the welfare of all of the governed-Government should be an evenhanded arbiter among all forces within a society. When a Governmnent starts serving one segment of society to the detriment of all others, that Government has no legitimate reason to exist.
Mike:
ReplyDeleteHe was on here last week for a comment that sounded very familiar in a horrid sort of way.
Get my drift.
Congress needs to have her arrested and brought before the committee in handcuffs.
ReplyDeleteCondoliesalot Rice should be arrested for her first set of perjuries a couple of years ago.
ReplyDeleteYou can bet if they get her under oath again, she'll lie. Lying, screwing up, and buying shoes are all she knows how to do.
Thanks, Larry! No problem!
ReplyDeleteThey need to DRAG her there in handcuffs.
ReplyDeleteNo one has the right to ignore a federal subpeona.
Mike:
ReplyDeleteI think the cow has left the northern barn and seeped its way into this pasture.
If you get my drift.
Bush's close buddies have a shred of integrity
ReplyDeleteYes Barney, but then again he ain't talking much either
She is snubbing the laws of the land.
ReplyDeleteThe laws that any citizen must comply with.
She needs to be dragged their in an orange jumpsuit and leg irons.
8:45 PM
ReplyDeleteANTIPIOUS WORFEUS said...
Congress needs to have her arrested and brought before the committee in handcuffs."
EXACTLY.........the only problem with that is they HAVE to remove Gonzalez FIRST because its up to him to issue the subpoena..........but if he FAILS to issue a subpoena thats impeachable!.........and thats the ballgame for ALL these clowns!
Jacq,
ReplyDeleteWon't it be something to watch as Justice Dept. officials testify against each other.
I KNEW is Goo Goo...........I could smell his stench a mile away...........that and his halfwit retarded posts!
ReplyDeleteHe sounded like him last week before the phony commie talk.
ReplyDeleteThe little troll is following the same modus oprendi it used from the beginning........pretend to be an ally but derail the discussion with silly BS..........take your communist BS Goo Goo and shove it up your troll Ass!
ReplyDeleteclif said...
ReplyDeleteBush's close buddies have a shred of integrity
Yes Barney, but then again he ain't talking much either"
Yeah Barney probably craps on the White House lawn just like GWB, Gonzalez and Cheney crap on the Constitution, the Checks and Balances and the concept of Justice for All!
I bet Gonzo is indicted before he resigns.
ReplyDeleteI certainly think thats possible Larry.
ReplyDeleteTheres got to be lots of real DOJ people out there, and prosecutors and such who won't stomach this type of corruption ruining the name and reputation of their agency for the next 3 decades.
I think that there are people behind the scenes working on it while we speak.
It appears Gonzo and Wolfowitz are staying to the bitter end.
ReplyDeleteI think the real inner circle will never leave.
PM
ReplyDeleteANTIPIOUS WORFEUS said...
I certainly think thats possible Larry.
Theres got to be lots of real DOJ people out there, and prosecutors and such who won't stomach this type of corruption ruining the name and reputation of their agency for the next 3 decades.
I think that there are people behind the scenes working on it while we speak."
I certainly hope so!!!!!...........I would not be remotely acceptable to just shrug and and do nothing as the Neo Cons smirk and spity on true justice!
Gonzalez NEEDS to go or our Justice system will be a joke and laughingstock to the world and a symbol of partisan corruption!
ReplyDeleteHow long can Condi avoid a subpoena?
ReplyDeleteHow long could an average citizen?
An average citizen COULD'NT.
ReplyDeleteWe'd be dragged their in handcuffs.
ReplyDeleteAnd cited with contempt.
Too bad if Gonzo goes the damage he and Goodling have done hiring non appointed lawyers for the DOJ from reichwingers will live beyond their tenure and will affect the DOJ for years to come.
ReplyDeleteCondi will never answer that subpoena and what are they going to do about it?
ReplyDeleteWell First they have to Get rid of Gonzalez then get a REAL Attorney General who enforcers Justice rather than obstructs it!
ReplyDeleteI doubt that Bush would appoint any Attorney General that wasn't in his inner circle.
ReplyDeleteGonzo can't go because the replacement for John Mitchell Elliot Richardson made guarantees to congress he would approve a independent council for Watergate which started the investigations which uncovered the true scope of the cover up and the attempt by Nixon known as the Saturday Night Massacre was the real reason so many turned on Nixon and his claims of innocent, because if he had nothing to hide he wouldn't be trying to stonewall Archibald Cox, and asking people to fire him, which a certain DOJ third in charge named Robert Bork finally did.
ReplyDeleteIf Gonzo is unseated the US senate gets to "approve" Bush's replacement and Rove knows if that happens then much is open to asking like getting a new special prosecutor from the DOJ which the President can't claim executive privilege from like Nixon could not.
So Bush backs Gonzo to the bitter end hoping the congress wastes their time trying to impeach him, and runs out of time before it can get enough evidence to actually hold impeachment hearings against dead eye and the id-jet himself.
Bush met with James Dobson and other notable "religious right" leaders to get their support for a war with Iran, and his Iraq policy.
ReplyDeleteNow that the Dobson's and Falwell's are on board get ready for another war.
The little troll is following the same modus oprendi it used from the beginning........pretend to be an ally but derail the discussion with silly BS..........take your communist BS Goo Goo and shove it up your troll Ass!
ReplyDeleteThis is one of the standard Chimpleton bait and switch cons. The other common one is "I was a JFK dem, but they abandoned me-so now I'm a Chimpleton."
Bush met with James Dobson and other notable "religious right" leaders to get their support for a war with Iran, and his Iraq policy.
ReplyDeleteNow that the Dobson's and Falwell's are on board get ready for another war.
Don't bet the farm on it. There is a critical mass being reached with the brass in the Army and Marine Corps-it has gone from "unheard of" to "likely" that they are going to start refusing to obey Chimpy's orders, something which the Constitution gives them the right to do if they feel the Constitution is being violated.
Jolly Roger said...
ReplyDeleteVictoriah's life certainly doesn't sound like my life, or anyone else's life that I ever knew.
*raising hand*
Sorry. Sometimes it gets embarassing.
Soren said...
ReplyDeleteCorporations are evil. That much power should not be amassed in private hands. It should be held in the public trust for the good of the workers.
Corporations are neither evil nor good. It's the people who run them and the government that refuses to oversee them that are dangerous.
Yes, money is power and concentrations of money are concentrations of power.
The trouble came when some idiot sitting on the Supreme Court decided that, corporations being legal entities, they should benefit not only from the rights written for them, but also from the rights any natural born citizen enjoys, like free speech.
That was evil.
Home foreclosures are up 62% over the last year............THATS the Bush economy.
ReplyDeleteBTW, is 62% a lot??????????
Do you think people are better off today than 6 years ago when home forclosures have increased 62% in ONLY one year............isnt home ownership the American Dream??????????
looks like home ownership turned from the American Dream to a nightmare for a certain 62%!
Jerry's gone, and the Constitution he tried to strangle is probably going to follow him shortly.
ReplyDeleteI paid him a fitting tribute.
Friends of mayor Bloomberg say he will shell out as much as 1 Billion dollars if he decides to run for President.
ReplyDeleteAnd how much of our tax dollars does he expect in return for his investment?
I guess God finally told Jerry to STFU,
ReplyDeletegood riddance, another lying huckster for Jebus gone....
Falwell's dead!
ReplyDeleteYAY!
They say he died of a heart attack.
Must be one of them "phantom limb" things that I keep hearing about...
Larry,
ReplyDeleteBloomie's a pretty good guy and a decent mayor. I think he'd make a good president, but I don't think he's going to run.
Carl:
ReplyDeleteI am not as familiar with Bloomberg as you, but I assumed he was part of the Guiliani clique since they were friends at one time.
I guess Falwell did have a heart.
ReplyDeleteBloomberg was a Democrat until he ran for mayor in 2001. He and Giuliani were not that close.
ReplyDeleteHousing Market Index falls to a 15 year low.
ReplyDeleteThis indicates how poorly builders view the construction economy.
More of the Bush economy.
*raising hand*
ReplyDeleteSorry. Sometimes it gets embarassing.
I make a big distinction between people like yourself (or Lydia, or even Warren Buffett) who are appreciative of what this country gave you. You want others to have the same opportunities. Chimpy, by contrast, wants to establish a permanent peerage to oversee modern-day serfs.
The Chimpletons want it all-they want their great schools, and their paved highways, and their wars, and their prisons-but they want SOMEONE ELSE to pay for it all. Chimpletons are without a doubt the most expensive entitlement class in the history of this country-it's always me, me, me with them. I doubt 5 of the worst "Welfare Queens" of a Limbaugh fantasy cost us as much as one entitlement-class Chimpleton does.
Jolly Roger said...
ReplyDelete*raising hand*
Sorry. Sometimes it gets embarassing.
I make a big distinction between people like yourself (or Lydia, or even Warren Buffett) who are appreciative of what this country gave you. You want others to have the same opportunities. Chimpy, by contrast, wants to establish a permanent peerage to oversee modern-day serfs."
A PEFECT summary of what the Chimps followers desire...........but what these mental midgets fail to realize is that THEY will be serfs as well the top 1% has benefitted disproportionately and unfairly under GWB, that means that 95%-99% have lost ground economically with GWB and since MOST people are NOT the top 1% that means close to 95%-99% will or the overwhelming majority of this country are not doing better than they were 6 years ago in REAL terms just like the DOW has LOST purchasing power in REAL terms (inflation adjusted) under the Chimp the last 7 years.
Hey Dolt, why is your site so hateful????
ReplyDeleteDo YOU condone personal attacks and hateful lies on your site?
Do you condone dishonesty Volt?
BTW Volty hows your closet communist Soren/AKA Goo Goo.
ReplyDeleteDo you condone dishonest sock puppets that embrace communism Volt?
Mike:
ReplyDeleteGo to Jolly's blog and see his tribute to Falwell.
Your blog is one cesspool of hatefullness, personal attacks and dishonesty Volt..........yet YOU have the audacity to TRY and claim the higher moral ground and play holier than thou with people on THIS blog.
ReplyDeleteYOU cant have it BOTH ways Volt..........although thats what you repugs like when you talk out of both sides of your mouth.
But bottom line you either have to live in reality and concede the PRETENSE of holding the higher moral ground or else ACTUALLY practice what you preach and find the delete button to delete all Goo goo's lies, hatefull personal attacks and dishonesty!
See Dolty you cant piss and whine like a little girl about Clif and others being allowed to attack YOU on THIS blog when YOU do the very same thing and ALLOW the retarded Goo Goo do do the VERY SAME THING on your "blog"
ReplyDeleteTHATS A HIPPOCRITE Volty.........But then hippocrite and repug should be interchangeable!
Guiliani apologized to the family of poor farmers in Iowa who had an event for Guiliani planned at their farm, and Guiliani cancelled when he found out they weren't wealthy enough to make a large contribution.
ReplyDeleteFunny how apologies flow from bad press on his arrogance.
I just read that Larry...........I also really liked JR's post about McNulty resigning........to bad it was most likely a move to thwart the investigations and attempt to prop up Gonzalez.
ReplyDeleteJolly has a unique way of slamming the Repugs.
ReplyDeleteYeah, he makes them look like the FOOLs they truly are!
ReplyDeleteChrysler being sold and housing falling to disasterous levels point to the prediction of a major recession later this year.
ReplyDeleteOh and Volt I could care less what YOU delete in that cesspool YOU call a "blog"...........but i'm not going to allow YOU to be a hippocrite and try to claim the higher moral groound when YOU allow in your blog that which you decry here...........so go piss and whine about how mean and hateful people are somewhere else you hippocrite...........cause NO ONE is buying the BS your TRYING to sell.
ReplyDeleteOh and BTW Volt are YOU and your trolls THAT desperate for a hacker that you are willing to tolerate Goo Goo and put up with his ignorance...........partisanship and politics first aye Dolty?
ReplyDeleteLarry said...
ReplyDeleteChrysler being sold and housing falling to disasterous levels point to the prediction of a major recession later this year."
Yes it does when over 40% of the economy is in Housing related industries........that does not bode well for consumer spending or employment!
Chrysler workers will regret the day they gained a different employer.
ReplyDeleteI just read that Larry...........I also really liked JR's post about McNulty resigning........to bad it was most likely a move to thwart the investigations and attempt to prop up Gonzalez.
ReplyDeleteThat was actually ascap_scab, the other main Reconstitution contributor. But I definitely agree that they are going to go the "thousand cuts" route in an effort to save Electrode Al. Because once Al's gone...
.but i'm not going to allow YOU to be a hippocrite and try to claim the higher moral groound when YOU allow in your blog that which you decry here...........so go piss and whine about how mean and hateful people are somewhere else you hippocrite...........cause NO ONE is buying the BS your TRYING to sell.
ReplyDeleteIt's called "projection," where they scream about someone doing precisely what they, themselves, gleefully engage in. They were allowed to get by with it for a long, long time-but even with the aid of the MSM, they aren't getting by with it anymore. The only ones listening are the "twenty percenters," for whom the motto "the ends justify the means" is a guide for life.
Today was a good day.
ReplyDeleteLots of truth came out, and lies died. The father of lies that is.
Or at least the uncle.
Jerry Falwell is dead, as I see some of you have already noted, so allow me to just say, THANK GOD.
The earth feels a little kinder today.
A little more Christian.
But if anyone knows where his grave is at, please let me know.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to urinate on it.
Just for "old times sake".
ReplyDeleteOld Testament times that is.
And if anyone wants to cry about me being cold to him in death, let me remind them, that when people died in this country and abroad, this greasy son of a bitch told them they deserved it, because of their supposed sins.
ReplyDeleteFalwell was garbage. The worst in us all. He was steeped in Priestcraft (clergy for money) and he led millions carefully down to hell with him.
The world is better off without Jerry Falwell.
And thats all I have to say about that.
ReplyDeleteForrest Gump
Hi Guys!
ReplyDeleteJustice is coming and it will take the NeoCons in many different ways...
Falwell was a false Christian and a mockery of God..
The Evildoers will be crying to God before Justice is done.
Falwell brought the sword, nothing more.
ReplyDeleteHe twisted the gospel into a message of hatred, oppression and bloodshed, and the world is better off without him.
If I had to imagine the expression on his face right now, I'd have to say "shock and awe".
ReplyDeleteAnd I'll bet theres about a half million Iraqi souls waiting there for him.
ReplyDeleteTo kick his fat ass straight down to hell.
Where it belongs.
Hi Worf:
ReplyDeleteWhich do you think Bush will be impeached for?
Attorneygate or illegal wiretaps?
I think it will be a combination of several factors.
ReplyDeleteI think one KEY factor in the Articles will be the false reporting on the Niger Yellow Cake incident.
Yes.
I think the Niger Yellow Cake incident will be foremost in the removal of Herr Busch.
I the tampering with the US Attorney's will play a role, and I think the two weeks the White House ran the spying program WITHOUT DOJ approval, will likewise play a key role.
ReplyDeleteAs it turns out, John Ashcroft may have been a flake, but he turns out to have some redeeming character.
ReplyDeleteAshcroft told Bush they were acting outside of the law (right after saying that he got mysteriously ill) and Bush replaced him with Gonzales for his trouble.
Ashcroft may turn out to have some moral character after all.
His song was kinda catchy too.
ReplyDeleteAshcroft told Bush they were acting outside of the law (right after saying that he got mysteriously ill) and Bush replaced him with Gonzales for his trouble.
ReplyDelete---------------
Worf:
Yes, that was strange... It seems to happen to a lot of people who disagree with Bush & the Neocons.
Do you remember Powell got sick too? It was in Aspen at the same time Ken Lay died..
Powell was rushed to the hospital because he was very ill after eating at someone's home. I don't recall who he had dinner with that night though.
Worf:
ReplyDeleteAshcroft's song? LOL
"Where Eagles Soar"..
something like that..
let the Eaaaaaagle soar.....
ReplyDeletelike he's never soared before......
from rocky coast, to golden shooooorrrrrrrre.....
let the mighty eagle sooooooarrrrrrr
Larry:
ReplyDeleteWatching the Justice Dept officials testify against each other will be jolly good. Can't wait.
Jacq,
ReplyDeleteIt will be jolly good and hopefully we will see it all unfold soon.
Let's see, Victoriah...
ReplyDeleteI am a divorced, college educated woman in my mid 30s who had a fairly decent job, made a good living for myself and up until the holidays of 2006 was in my last job for 4 1/2 years before losing it to 'at will' employment, budget cuts and whatever other reason they could come up with. I work in the nonprofit sector, and well, we all know how Bushie just LOVES cutting funding in that area.
Since then, I've been living on my savings/annuity and unemployment for the last five months, have been on three job interviews, with no job in sight. Am I better off now than six years ago? HELL NO. Ask me again when Bush is out of office. I'll be happy to let you know.
Keith Olbermann should be on for two hours.
ReplyDeletePerle has turned against Bush now, calling him a failure.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait for the Daily Show.
ReplyDeleteStewarts got a LOT to talk about tonight.
Suzie-Q said...
ReplyDeletePerle has turned against Bush now, calling him a failure."
Well it certainly takes one to know one and Perle and Bush arte both failures and losers!
Worf:
ReplyDeleteStewart always has a lot of stuff to talk about. The Bush administration is full of funny idiots! LOL
Hi Mike!
ReplyDeleteYes, they are both failures!
I think Perle just wants to be the "Commander Guy"!
LMAO
Wolfowitz must have a death wish...
ReplyDeleteSounding more like a cast member of the Sopranos than an international leader, in testimony by one key witness Mr Wolfowitz declares: "If they fuck with me or Shaha, I have enough on them to fuck them too."
That quote I got from this news article:
ReplyDeleteAngry Wolfowitz in four-letter tirade
As it turns out, John Ashcroft may have been a flake, but he turns out to have some redeeming character.
ReplyDeleteHe does. Asscrock actually tried to stay within the law, although his interpretation of the law was often stretchy, to say the least.
His buttons were being pushed more than we know I think. From what we are seeing now, its possible Aschroft actually fought with the Administration on a somewhat ongoing basis.
ReplyDeleteI will be anxious to see if he has anything to say on the matter.
Man did you guys watch Jon Stewart?
ReplyDeleteTim Russert was clearly just FED UP, and tired of being neutral.
He railed on the administration and their unwillingess to talk to the congress or the people.
Howard Fineman railed on Gonzo on Countdown for his "smirking" attitude while snubbing his nose at congress and the American people.
Its getting close now.