US President Tim Kalemkarian, US Senate Tim Kalemkarian, US House Tim Kalemkarian: best major candidate.

Yeah, bokonon, he was a bright kid, but he was also pretty nuts. Stormfront and white supremacist territory. Advocated killing people who moved to the south to 'change the culture.'

Too bad.

Does anyone else here miss William? He was as screwy as the Three Faces of Zouk, but at least he didn't resort to playground level dialogue.

Chris, we repectfully request that you eliminate the poster known as . He is always posting profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material. Additionally, his entries are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author.

do us all a favor. Dump ignoRANT coward.

Please address my understanding of the facts on the ground in Iraq and correct me if I misstate.

1. There has been progress in Anbar in turning three Sunni extremist groups against Al Quaeda [source: Gen. Petraeus].

2. There has been no progress by the Iraqi government on oil sharing or on cutting a perceived "fair" deal with the Sunni Arab minority [source: all news services]. The "ministers" have, however, agreed not to take a two month vacation for the summer. They are still thinking of leaving Bagdad for 6 weeks, I have read.

3. In Bagdad itself, we do not have and cannot have enough troops to pacify the city [source: Colin Powell].

4. The Iraqi government has access to oil revenues but they are not spending on military hospitals to the point that wounded Iraqi soldiers are doomed to infection or death unless rescued by their families [source: NPR]. Iraqi ministers are thought to be stealing the oil money [source: I.G. Report as filtered through MSM].

My conclusions:

5. The Iraqis elected this government and they did not vote for USA favored candidates - so, arguably, the bad news is not of our making.

6. The Kurds still like us. JD suggested last week on one of these blogs that we should pursue a Kurd friendly strategy and leave Bagdad, perhaps reaching an accommodation with the Kurds to leave bases and troops in the north, and helping them to protect themselves from saboteurs. I would add that helping Sunnis against Al Quaeda might have some traction in Anbar.

But if the above assertions are our best take on the facts, why are my conclusions not appropriate and why should we not be pressing the Iraqis to clean their own house, while helping where we actually can? In other words, why are we policing Bagdad, itself?

Let's avoid calling each other "fascist warmongers" and "defeatists" and try to focus on what can actually be done.

Expect Ron Paul to gain more momentum tonight, despite the MSM media's efforts to marginalize him.

The Do-Nothing Democratic Congress and the inept, puppet of the multi-national corporations, President Bush, are battling for who can get the lowest approval ratings in the polls. The losers are the American people, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents.

Ron Paul is a longshot at best at winning the nomination and presidency, but worst case, his candidacy is exposing lots of Americans to libertarian ideas of limited government and restraining expeditionary military operations that serve no vital national interest beyond protecting the interests of the multi-national corporations.

Whether or not he breaks through into double digits in the polls, he is certainly gaining attention as measured by hits on his campaign web site, MySpace, and YouTube pages.

Most refreshingly, he is attracting disenfranchised college students and others turned off by the pandering candidates of both parties to his solidly consistent record, whether you agree with it or not.

There is nothing more pathetic than watching Clinton, Romney, Giuliani, and the other "major" candidates waffle on their positions and "change their minds." Don't be surprised if they "change their minds" again if they get elected.

GO RON PAUL 2008!

http://www.ronpaul2008.com/

delusional and paranoid and insane and vile

I was ordered by my shrink to stop bragging about my capabilites. He said I was aggravating my condition. I post my qualities anyway. He is not giving me enough of the prescriptions I need to stay sharp. screw him. i think he is in league with bush/zouk/condi/razor/cheney/oreilly/hannitty/coulter/limbaugh

they are out to get me because i speak power to truth.

Jane it is good to see you are in touch with your issues.

hey blarg- now's your chance to point out how pathetic and needlessly insulting Kane was for that last post. Or do you agree with him that anyone who disagrees with you is automatically insane, and their opinions should be ignored or belittled?

Should be great -=- Mitty the Breck Girl, versus Rudy the Hideous Hairpiece.

These 10 clowns are more neanderthall than the guys in the Geico ad. How pathetic the Republs have become...10 candidates and they all s*ck.

I am loathe to admit this, but yesterday, in a hopeless bit of star-gazing, I caught Mitt Romney's celebrated hair (snow white bottom, dark like an Oreo cookie up top, and high and smooth as a dollop of Miracle Whip) exiting the Paramount offices.

Mitt was nowhere in sight, but, rumor has it his coif is angling to essay the role of Rock Hudson's toupee in a bio-pic for Paramount's upstart All Hair-All-the-Time Channel.

I see 'Ann C' is just as delusional and paranoid and insane and vile as the real thing.

'The US is expected to pull significant numbers of troops out of Iraq in the next 12 months in spite of the continuing violence, according to the general responsible for near-term planning in the country.

Maj Gen Douglas Lute, director of operations at US Central Command, yesterday said the reductions were part of a push by Gen John Abizaid, commander of all US troops in the region, to put the burden of defending Iraq on Iraqi forces.

He denied the withdrawal was motivated by political pressure from Washington.

He said: "We believe at some point, in order to break this dependence on the . . . coalition, you simply have to back off and let the Iraqis step forward.

"You have to undercut the perception of occupation in Iraq. It's very difficult to do that when you have 150,000-plus, largely western, foreign troops occupying the country."

That was in August of 2005.

What would be nice is to see the candidates throw some meat on these seldom-watched bones.

The media is busy building up the tiny candidacy of Mitt Romney, who, I grant you, is the distant third of the candidates in the race. And he is a big money draw in some ways, but, please, he is not even the GOP version of an Edwards who truly is close to nipping at the heels of the two rock stars in the Democratic party.

All of it distracts from what I want to see: McCain vs. Giuliani, toe to toe. The Octagenarian (might as well be -- wait until you see the contrast if he debates Obama) scrapper versus the Machiavellian pit bull attorney general. When are these two going to bloody each other? I suppose they have much to lose in a slugfest -- but then why not stomp Mitt? Tear him a new one, Rudy and clear the field a mite -- I don't think there is much question as to where the walking coif's support will end up.

Mitt, the ultimate, flip-flopper, with his too-perfect hair and his lame answer to a lamer question about what he dislikes about America.

Where is Fred Thompson? Are you going to enter this thing to give us a choice between the Mayor and you, or are you Cuomo II: The Revenge of Hamlet?

As I understand it, the center of the supposedly America-hating world is France. But now it turns out even the French don't hate America as much as liberals do.

Au contraire! (We can say that again!) Our Georgie is the most popular American with the French since Jerry Lewis.

All over the civilized world, voters are turning terrorist-coddling liberals out of office and voting for politicians friendly toward Bush, the world's sworn enemy of Islamic fascism.

Those foreign leaders so admired by Democrats for hating George Bush and loving Saddam Hussein are being replaced by rulers who pledge their friendship to the United States.

Retrospectively, B. Hussein Obama's answer about our most important ally being "the European Union" may eventually become true, thanks to Bush's ceaseless ally-making.

In Germany, pro-American Angela Merkel crushed the mincing anti-American chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in 2005.

Last year, conservatives swept Canada, making Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper the prime minister. I haven't loved Canadians this much since the New York Rangers won the Stanley Cup.

Australian Prime Minister John Howard is both the longest-serving Australian prime minister and -- by his own account -- the most conservative. As The New York Times rooted for his defeat in 2004, claiming Australians were furious with him for his support of the Iraq war, he won a historic third term.

Along with Howard, Bush's staunchest ally in the war on terrorism has been Britain's Labor Party leader Tony Blair. He's about to leave office -- only to be replaced by a leader from the even more pro-American Conservative Party.
The Democratic Party is now officially the only organization on Earth that does not take the threat of Islamic fascism seriously. Between the Democrats and the media, America has gone from its usual position as the world's last hope to radical Islam's last hope.

You should catch today's extraordinary testimony by former deputy attorney general James Comey. Read it to get a sense of the dimensions to which top administration justice department appointees including Comey, Jack Goldsmith, Patrick Philbin, and ultimately Ashcroft came to believe that the White House did not have a legal basis for the warrantless NSA domestic spying program, after searching hard for one, a belief that informed then acting attorney general Comey's decision not to sign the presidential order that authorized the program as it had been run for almost three years. Comey then resigned. Comey: "I didn't believe that as the chief law enforcement officer in the country I could stay when they had gone ahead and done something that I had said I could find no legal basis for."

Lederman: "Most importantly: Can anyone think of any historical examples where the Department of Justice told the White House that a course of conduct would be unlawful (in this case, a felony), and the President went ahead and did it anyway, without overruling DOJ's legal conclusion?"

John Hinderaker? LOL -- so that's where you get your 'ideas' zouky--should have known.

With almost 18 months left until the general election, it is becoming painfully obvious to those who look through the media smokescreen that Barack Obama is not ready for prime time. A nice smile, two autobiographical and admittedly not strictly factual books, and a ready supply of feel-good bromides about fighting cynicism do not a capable president make.

John Hinderaker of Powerline has done an admirable job of exposing the sheer reckless mangling of facts by Obama (and his Media Matters defenders) when he attacked Detroit's Big Three and ludicrously claimed that Japan's automobile fleet gets an average of 45 miles per gallon, a claim that Toyota itself quickly refuted

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/05/obama_isnt_ready_for_prime_tim.html

Even poor Rudy will have to hold his nose and kiss the deceased reverend's butt tonight.

If you look at what I've done since the last election, it is true that I did consulting work for a hedge fund, part time," Edwards told The Associated Press in a brief interview.

"Please don't hold the fact that I had a job against me. I promise it will be the last job I ever have. I will do my best to see that none of you have jobs if elected."

''An angry and bitter Paul Wolfowitz poured abuse and threatened retaliations on senior World Bank staff if his orders for pay rises and promotions for his partner were revealed, according to new details published last night.

Under fire for the lavish package given to Shaha Riza, a World Bank employee and Mr Wolfowitz's girlfriend when he became president, an official investigation into the controversy has found that Mr Wolfowitz broke bank rules and violated his own contract - setting off a struggle between US and European governments over Mr Wolfowitz's future.

Sounding more like a cast member of the Sopranos than an international leader, in testimony by one key witness Mr Wolfowitz declares: "If they f*ck with me or Shaha, I have enough on them to f*ck them too."

We have staked our entire hillary presidency on losing this war. We can't wait around, america might win if given time. We need to abort now. We love to abort you see.

No, it's not that insulting, but you can't justify your statement at all. These people are doing exactly what you said that good elected officials should do. And you call them crazy, because you dislike their stance on the issue. Anyone who disagrees with you is automatically insane, and their opinions should be ignored or belittled. You can say that's not so bad. I say it's pathetic.

Yes, Leiberman thinks it's just fine to defy the will of the people--because he's a republican, and the concept of democracy means nothing to him.

Remember in 2000, when hordes of suitclad young republican staffers stormed the doors of voting stations, terrifying the Democratic vote-counters? They didn't want any Republicans in the room while they scoured for Al gore votes any way they could and destroyed R votes. In the end they were forced to allow equal representation.

that was vote counting worthy of any good Leninist.

BTW, the candidate for VP was Lieberman. What happened to him. Did he leave the party or did the party go insane.

35% thing bush knew about 911. Went insane

178 D congressmen voted to lose the war now, despite all consequences. that is thinking a problem through to its logical conclusion. - went insane.

EXCLUSIVE: PRESIDENT BUSH CHOOSES LT. GEN. DOUGLAS LUTE AS NEW 'WAR CZAR' TO OVERSEE CONFLICTS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.

Ah, I see Bush has finally hired someone to be Commander in Chief. Clearly, he's not up to the job.

More infamously, following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, Falwell generated attention for his remarks on the Christian Broadcasting Network's "700 Club." During the broadcast, he blamed the attacks on groups ranging from pagans to gays to the ACLU and said that the attackers had given us "probably what we deserve."

blarg -this is politics. "wacky" is not that insulting. sheesh. Bush & co. are certainly called a lot worse on a daily basis.

I applaud Senator Lieberman for calling the dems on not putting forth legislation to fund the troops.

"As the members of his party voted for defeat, he took to the Senate floor to plead for full funding of our troops: "Only a couple of months ago, the Senate confirmed a new commander to implement a new strategy in Iraq, General David Petraeus.

That new strategy is now being implemented, and it is achieving some encouraging, if early, signs of success. . . . Yet, now many in Congress would pull the plug on this new strategy and thwart the work of our troops before they are given a fair chance to succeed.

"I am aware that public opinion has turned against the war in Iraq. . But leadership requires sometimes that we defy public opinion if that is what is necessary to do what is right for our country. .

"Al Qaeda itself has declared Iraq to be the central front of their larger war against our way of life. . . . Our judgment can be guided by the polls and we can withdraw in defeat. [But] no matter what we say, our enemy will know that America's will has been broken by the barbarity of their bloodlust--the very barbarity we declare we are fighting, but from which we would actually be running."

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/629gdimk.asp?pg=2

Amid expanding FBI probes into public corruption in Alaska, the state's senior U.S. senator confirmed he is dropping support for a controversial program that is receiving scrutiny by federal investigators and prosecutors.

The decision not to push for millions in funding for the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board "was made months ago, and it has nothing to do with the ongoing investigations in Alaska," a spokesman for Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, told ABC News.

Stevens was instrumental in founding the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board in 2003 and has helped secure it more than $100 million in taxpayer funding since then, which the group has passed on to a handful of companies and industry organizations with ties to Stevens.

My tranquilizers have worn off. I am back to cutting and pasting furiously now. you may want to ignore most of my posts. I am becoming che. Just scroll past.

Rudolph Giuliani and his consulting company, Giuliani Partners, have served as key advisors for the last five years to the pharmaceutical company that pled guilty today to charges it misled doctors and patients about the addiction risks of the powerful narcotic painkiller OxyContin.

Federal officials say the company, Purdue Frederick, helped to trigger a nationwide epidemic of addiction to the time-release painkiller by failing to give early warnings that it could be abused.

Prosecutors say "in the process scores died."

Drug Enforcement Administration officials tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com Giuliani personally met with the head of the DEA when the DEA's drug diversion office began a criminal investigation into the company.

According to the book "Painkiller," by New York Times reporter Barry Meier, both Giuliani and his then-partner Bernard Kerik "were in direct contact with Asa Hutchinson, the administrator of DEA." Hutchison admits it.'

Wonder how many people Rudy was responsible for killing?

A former top CIA official steered an aviation contracting opportunity worth $132 million to a longtime friend, despite his friend's lack of experience in the field, according to federal prosecutors.

Onetime CIA Executive Director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo directed CIA employees to hire his childhood pal, Brent Wilkes, to provide covert civilian air travel for the agency, charge prosecutors in a new indictment.

The indictment is an offshoot of the investigation into former congressman Randall "Duke" Cunningham, who is now serving an eight-year sentence on corruption charges. Cunningham named Wilkes as one of his bribers in a November 2005 plea deal.

Prosecutors say Wilkes plied Cunningham with over $700,000 in gifts and cash to win favors from the lawmaker, including earmarking federal funding, intimidating Pentagon officials, and intervening in the immigration process for a foreign business partner.

Prosecutors faulted Foggo for pushing Wilkes to get the aviation contract even though he "had no prior experience in aviation." Wilkes did have some experience: one of his companies, Group W Transportation, owned a 1/8-share of a Lear Jet, which he used to fly himself and lawmakers, including Cunningham and former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, around the United States.

And these people believe they are doing what's right for the country. Cindy Sheehan has been arguing that we should bring the troops home for a long time, since before it was a popular sentiment. Isn't that willingness to do what's right even when it's not politically expedient?

What are the anti-war groups doing that makes them so "wacky"? They're advocating for a cause that they believe in, and supporting the candidate they most agree with. That's what all political interest and advocacy groups do. Can't you disagree with these people without needlessly insulting them?

Top Education Department officials, including former Secretary Rod Paige, allowed specialists to improperly encourage state and local officials to spend billions of dollars in federal grant money with a small group of companies, government investigators have concluded.

A major Texas fundraiser for President George Bush has made millions of dollars in profits from a federal reading program that critics say favored administration cronies at the expense of schoolchildren.

A company founded and owned by Randy Best, who raised $100,000 to qualify as a Bush "Pioneer" during the 2000 presidential campaign, received the lucrative contracts under a Bush administration initiative called Reading First.

(forgot to sign that last one)

Aussie - I don't agree with the dems who think the war is lost and want to throw in the towel. I don't agree with the others who support a a slower-bleed defeat, presumably seeking a bit more political cover.

What kind of courage does it take to say
"I voted for the war, then I voted for the surrender"?

I expect more from our elected officials. I expect them to have better ideas than giving up and handing over a victory to Al-Qaeda and the terrorists. I expect leadership and the willingness to do what is right for the country even when it is not politcally expedient.

Remember in 2000, when hordes of suitclad young republican staffers stormed the doors of voting stations, terrifying the vote-counters? That was intimidation worthy of any good fascist.

I disagree with the comment in the debate article that places "all eyes (again) on the three frontrunners" i.e. McCain, Giuliani and Romney. Part of the discontent in the GOP is due to these three getting all the attention.

Many eyes are still on the rest of those debating because they offer a real choice in any future contest with the Democratic nominee, and should not be counted out.

Someone who is not even in the "final ten" allowed to debate could also end up in the election finals. It wasn't until fairly late in the 1992 election countdown that "Bill who?" became known and elected as Bill Clinton.

"Wow. where to begin?"

Proud, what's so wacky about trying to bring the troops home by Christmas?

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Saw the Freepers do it every weekend along side Rock Creek Parkway during the Clinton administration.

Yes, prouod, that would be a horrible thing for you, I know -- to have the troops come home. We can't let that happen.

'Bush's approval rating has been higher than the Democratic Congress for most of this year'

If any of them go after the wacky dems who keep trying to outflank each other on the left, it will be a win imo.

More news from the left:

Peace activists from Code Pink and Veterans for Peace along with Cindy Sheehan and her team filled a small room in Washington yesterday to support 2008 presidential candidate Mike Gravel's call to end the Iraq war by Labor Day.

"It's guaranteed to work -- to end the war by Labor Day and to have our troops home, all of our troops home, by Christmas," Gravel said as the anti-war crowd roared with applause and cheers.

After hearing Gravel speak, Sheehan said she supported all of Gravel's ideas,
"... he didn't say one thing I disagreed with."

"I think he (Gravel) and Congressman Kucinich would really make a difference in this world if they got into a position. " Sheehan explained.

Wow. where to begin?

Well, Davel, I hope you'll listen to the republican debate on Air America. Oh that's right, the republicans refused. Guess they couldn't handle it.

'In return for the support of a group of industrialists and agrarians, Mussolini gave his approval (often active) to strikebreaking, and he abandoned revolutionary agitation; he dropped his earlier support for overthrowing the monarchy and transforming Italy into a "social republic.'

Mussolini's domestic goal was the eventual establishment of a totalitarian state with himself as supreme leader (Il Duce). In political and social economy, he passed legislation that favored the wealthy industrial and agrarian classes (privatizations, loosening of rent laws and dismantlement of the unions).

Over the next two years, Mussolini progressively dismantled all constitutional and conventional restraints on his power, thereby building a police state.

As dictator of Italy, Mussolini's foremost priority was the subjugation of the minds of the Italian people and the use of propaganda to do so; whether at home or abroad, and here his training as a journalist was invaluable. Press, radio, education, films -- all were carefully supervised to create the illusion that fascism was the doctrine of the twentieth century, replacing liberalism and democracy.

My question is when is the Democratic debate of FOX News? Oh wait, that's right. Democrats can't handle tough questions so they boycotted FOX News. How can a democratic candidate look a voter in the eye and say to them, "I can handle heads of state, our friends and enemies around the world, the different power centers in Wash DC but please don't make me debate on FOX - i can't handle that." I guess democrats can be known as both the "surrender" party and the "big baby" party.

As far as tonight goes, i just hope for some better questions. The format is similar so that won't improve. At least ask some real questions.

I'm sticking out of the partisan fight today and positing a question about the debates. Who has to shine tonight? I think of the big boys the only one who really has to do well is Giuliani. Romney and Captian Aggro will do fine in Place or Show, but Rudy has to win or I think he starts to flounder. That abortion think really kinda haunted him from the last one. Opinions?

Today, I ordered a hot dog with mustard. They put ketchup on my hot dog. FACISTS.

'If you are a contractor and you don't perform, you get laid off and look for a new project.'

Not if you work for a republican administration you don't. You just contribute to their campaigns and you get permanent access to the public trough. Look at the way every single project in Iraq has been mismanaged, behind schedule, cost overrun, and shoddy. But the same contractors are there -- and still getting contracts after 4 years and $80 bliion dollars that outright disappeared.

I've worked for both too -- and in a corporation, all you are doing is pushing for more profit, more profit, better bottomlines, no matter what the cost to the consumer, it's always, how can you squeeze the consumer more?

'Fascists are centralizers of power; we are decentralizers. Fascists are nationalizers of industry; we are free-marketeers. Fascists are collectivists; we are anti-collectivists. '

All lies. The Bush administration has centralized power like no other in the history of this country. The biggest industrialists in the US at the time backed Fascism; it was venomously anti-labor.

'Mussolini established a repressive fascist regime that valued nationalism, militarism, anti-liberalism and anti-communism combined with strict censorship and state propaganda.'

Sound familiar? You repubs should stop revising history to suit your agenda. Some of us know better.

At the end of the featured commercial, the speaker who earlier identified himself as a former Army officer makes a demand that

the Armed Forces be protected!!!!!!!!!

Excuse me, but isn't it their job to protect us not the other way around.

No wonder we are losing in Iraq.

Robert Chapman
Lansing, NY

bsimon,
"I wonder what's less efficient, a government bureaucracy, or a private contractor that has to skim 10-20% off the top as profit before they can deliver services?"
Having worked with both, a government bureaucracy is less efficient in most cases. With the government, managers get rewarded for growing the size of the project. If you are not meeting goals, it must be because you don't have enough money or resources. If it's not working, you evolve the project into something else or something more. At least with a private contractor, they can be replaced, rebid or have their resources cut. If you are a contractor and you don't perform, you get laid off and look for a new project.

I think it's just insane greed, proud.

nordlinger- interesting comments on Cheney. I greatly respect his record and his opinions on most things. The tide turned for me when Powell was marginalized -and Cheney seems to have taken on a darker persona of late...maybe something to do with being on a heart-lung machine a couple of times. They say it does something to people.

I am tormented by zouk. make the voices stop! why does he hate me?

Did you hear about the Syrian parliament? (Probably a more diverse place, philosophically, than the University of Michigan.) It declared a nationwide referendum for May 27. On that day, Syrians will decide whether Bashar Assad will remain as president. Wonder how it'll come out.

Of course, this is the compliment that tyranny pays to democracy: They know that they are wrong; so they imitate the forms of democracy. (Parliaments, referenda . . .) Perhaps one day Syrians will have the real thing. Perhaps.

And then there is "fascist": "Sarko, fascist!" All of us who are conservative, or classically liberal, have had to be called fascist. It goes with the territory. And yet it's no fun. I have been called fascist since I was in college. And those who do it are either malicious or ignorant -- sometimes, I guess, they are both (and what a brutal combination: malice and ignorance).

Ordinarily, it does no good to try to reason with people: Fascists are centralizers of power; we are decentralizers. Fascists are nationalizers of industry; we are free-marketeers. Fascists are collectivists; we are anti-collectivists. It is no use to say any of this: "Fascist" is an epithet used by mean or stupid people against those they dislike who are perceived to be "on the right." One result is that, when a real fascist comes along, there is no word left for him.

How odd that we who want to fight tirelessly against jihadists, or Islamofascists, are called "fascists"! How perverse that we liberal democrats, who wave the flag of universal human values, are called "fascists"! If you follow Jefferson and Locke and Lincoln and Churchill and Reagan -- why, you are a fascist, at least according to some (to many).

I've spoken many times about Dick Cheney's new reputation -- "new" as of about five years ago. For years and years -- all of my political life -- he was a universally respected moderate-conservative from the West. He was Ford's chief of staff, he was a congressman, he was a House leader, he was secretary of defense -- universally acclaimed and admired.

But now he is portrayed as Attila the Hun, a "scarier" right-winger than even George W. Bush (who is no right-winger, as we know -- but we're not talking reason here). And why should this be so? Basically, because Cheney thinks it's important to stand firm against religious fanatics and head-hackers, against the scorchers of populations and the stoners of homosexuals.

Funny, stupid ol' world.

Anyway, I saw an ad in New York the other day -- a poster. It was for a storage company. It said, "Your closet's so narrow it makes Dick Cheney look liberal." There was also something about Halliburton on the poster.

As I was saying, funny, stupid ol' world. And I guarantee that Cheney is less narrow than most of my neighbors on the Upper West Side who have been walking by that ad every day (no doubt chuckling).

bsimon - Yeah, I acknowledge the strategic importance of it, but still... the guy was so outrageous at times -his comments at times just gave fodder to liberal haters, and made a laughing stock out of Christians and Rs in general.

I am a little puzzled as to why Newt would do the commencement there- it's a pretty polarizing location.

Roswell boswell chicken pot pie, Bush sent Cheney to Katrina, to watch the peoples die, hostess ho ho ding dong twinkie, genocide in Darfur but they wont lift a pinkie, Condi said Bush wouldn't let us down, as the garbage trucks poluted the po' side of town, I am as smart as bsimon, as rational as rufus, why cant the wingers understand Gonzales is a dufus, white folk say Falwell is in heaven, Guiliani shot a brother just for robbing 7-eleven, tonights debate will be pie in the sky, I wonder what Obama will say when I die.

Louis Farrakhan

As a moderate, Jerry Falwell's influence on the Republican party often drove me to vote for Democrats. However, I think it is sick to be gloating over the man's death.

proudtobeGOP writes
"I sure hope that tonight's debate doesn't turn into the 'Falwell primary' with everyone mentioning his name ad nauseum like they did Reagan's last time."

proud, you oughta let that dream die now. With the Newt doing the commencement at Liberty U soon, the announced candidates have to cut him off now for support from that constituency.

God, zouk and his anonymous posts are all over today... a little too much caffiene... it's all him, btw. Notice his signature issues-- and cutting and pasting from Town Hall and republcan toadie [and son of arch winger b*tch Lucienne Goldberg ] LOL.

Posted by: BlueStateHooters | May 15, 2007 01:43 PM

I'm not going to repeat the trash you wrote, but thank you for validating my opinion that liberals are at least as vitriolic as the worst the conservatives have to offer.

Now that Jerry Falwell has died (God rest his soul) I sure hope that tonight's debate doesn't turn into the 'Falwell primary' with everyone mentioning his name ad nauseum like they did Reagan's last time.

Jerry Falwell is dead. I think I will go to the funeral just to make sure they put the ba***** in the ground.

If those anti-mormon pamphlets ever get traced to any republican (or dem for that matter) candidate I will have another candidate to place below the Kucinich line in my prioritizing of candidates from both parties in terms of who to vote for. So far only Tancredo, Brownback and maybe Huckabee (I had my reasons to dislike the first two before the evolution question and might let Huckabee redeem himself above that line, maybe) have made it below that line. Anyone Kucinich or below that I end up having to vote for gets a case of amnesia and random head-desking. Attacking someone for their religion is so 19th century, attack Romney for legitimate political reasons.

anonymous coward writes
"Generally can't do anything right... Compare and contrast."

I did. President Bush generally can't do anything right. The question is, will the GOP hopefuls continue that legacy, or distance themselves from it? In September we're going to see the GOP cut and run from the Bush legacy en masse.

'no facts' writes
"Obama reveals another plan to have the government take over every single component of every single federal program. God help us"

How irrational. Someone wants the government to run government programs. I wonder what's less efficient, a government bureaucracy, or a private contractor that has to skim 10-20% off the top as profit before they can deliver services?

Bush goes to war to save us from random subway bombings. carter barely avoids being savaged by an attack rabbit. fixes prices on gas and makes things worse. boycotts olympics to stop CCCP in afghanistan. Generally can't do anything right.

compare and contrast.

'more polls' writes
"It have [sic] got to have a reinforcing negative effect on Americans to hear their president is only liked by 33% of the country. Except, when you find out that the new Democratic Congress is only approved of by 29% of Americans."

Of course, what is conveniently overlooked is that Congress typically has low approval ratings; most poll respondents irrationally dislike Congress as a whole, but like their own representative. What is unusual about the above numbers is the ongoing trough in Presidential approval ratings. President Bush is running neck-and-neck with former President Jimmy "worst President ever" Carter.

The guy with $90,000 of bribe money in his freezer gets self-righteous with law enforcement.

http://www.townhall.com/News/NewsArticle.aspx?contentGUID=b7842b2f-7503-4473-bf72-2591335118fe

Obama and Clinton still testing public opinion before deciding on Iraq positions again.

Press hopes Giuliani's former gainful employment disqualifies him for presidential run, encourages Edwards-style non-employment and publicly funded pseudo-actvism.

Obama reveals another plan to have the government take over every single component of every single federal program. God help us.

http://www.townhall.com/blog#22cefd0d-e5cc-4bdd-8d22-179d267a3d8d

Surprise: Democrats less liked than Bush

The media can't seem to stop talking about Bush's pathetic approval/disapproval numbers. It seems to get inserted into every third or fourth story in the mainstream media as a way to discredit any position he takes. It have got to have a reinforcing negative effect on Americans to hear their president is only liked by 33% of the country. Except, when you find out that the new Democratic Congress is only approved of by 29% of Americans.

What you also might have missed is that except for a brief first-female-speaker-history buzz to kick of the Democratic Congress, Bush's approval rating has been higher than the Democratic Congress for most of this year. It also turns out that Gallup's numbers show that registered Democrats disapprove of the new Democrat Congress more than Repulicans disapproved of their own last year

How often have you seen conservatives or libertarians take to the streets, shouting angry slogans? How often have conservative students on campus shouted down a visiting speaker or rioted to prevent the visitor from speaking at all?

The source of the anger of liberals, "progressives" or radicals is by no means readily apparent. The targets of their anger have included people who are non-confrontational or even genial, such as Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.

It is hard to think of a time when Karl Rove or Dick Cheney has even raised his voice but they are hated like the devil incarnate.

Their greatest anger seems to be directed at people and things that thwart or undermine the social vision of the left, the political melodrama starring the left as saviors of the poor, the environment, and other busybody tasks that they have taken on.

It seems to be the threat to their egos that they hate. And nothing is more of a threat to their desire to run other people's lives than the free market and its defenders.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=the_anger_of_the_left&ns=ThomasSowell&dt=05/15/2007&page=2

majority (54%) of the 903 adults surveyed last week disagree with Reid's assessment that the war is lost, with 30% disagreeing "strongly." Meanwhile, 78% say Iraq should be stabilized before troops are withdrawn. Fully 48% believe this is "very important."

In short, the idea of stabilizing Iraq before withdrawing troops has universal appeal, and the idea could potentially unify support behind the president.

In fact, our poll shows this concept appeals not only to Republicans, 91% of whom agree with it, and Independents (80%), but to a solid majority of Democrats (66%). Even those who believe we have lost the war believe stabilization is important.

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=264035762651225

While hypocritical national Democrats and the MSM will ignore the Clintons' actual abuses of executive authority, though having savaged President Bush over false allegations concerning same, the antiwar base is not likely to be as forgiving.

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. speaks at Exeter Hospital in Exeter, N.H. Friday, May 11, 2007 during a campaign event where she called for health care for every child in America and urged Congress to pass the Children's Health First Act. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) As such, let's remind the base of Hillary and Bill's militarism and their utter defiance of Congress. Liberals can claim -- falsely -- that Bush duped Congress into supporting the Iraq war resolution, but the Clintons didn't even bother. They just went right on, without congressional approval, to make their war mischief -- unilaterally, to borrow a word from the liberal lexicon.

To whet the base's appetite, I refer it to an article by law professor John C. Yoo, "The Imperial President Abroad," appearing in "The Rule of Law in the Wake of Clinton" (Roger Pilon ed., CATO Press, 2000). In it, Yoo reminds us that, "When it comes to using the American military, no president in recent times had a quicker trigger finger,"

Even more noteworthy than the Clinton administration's frequent deployments of our troops in Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Haiti and his cruise missile volleys into Sudan, Afghanistan and Iraq, is that "in none of those cases did Congress provide authorization for the Clinton's decision to use force abroad."

Note that we're not debating the technicality of a formal declaration of war. Clinton didn't get congressional authority at all. I'm out of space, but the specific data on the Clintons' several deployments in the face of congressional disapproval is documented (including the damning vote counts) in the article

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=memo_to_dem_base_re_hillarys_quick_trigger_finger&ns=DavidLimbaugh&dt=05/15/2007&page=2

'concerned dem' -- AKA 'concern troll' -- donja have anything else to do with your time, zouky, except rant about pelosi and reid? poor pathetic creature.

MOST FAIR-MINDED readers will no doubt take me at my word when I say that a majority of Democrats in this country are out of their gourds. But, on the off chance that a few cynics won't take my word for it, I offer you data. Rasmussen Reports, the public opinion outfit, recently asked voters whether President Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks beforehand. The findings? Well, here's how the research firm put it: "Democrats in America are evenly divided on the question of whether George W. Bush knew about the 9/11 terrorist attacks in advance.

LAT - Jonah goldberg

Response - cue the crickets

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Ron Paul: Total Victory, Yet Censorship Continues
Texas Congressman trounces rivals in all polls but is deliberately pushed to margins by terrified corporate media

Prison Planet
Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Ron Paul emerged from last week's GOP debate as completely victorious according to every available benchmark and yet there is still a deliberate ploy to push the Texas Congressman to the sidelines on behalf of a terrified corporate media.

Every single major online poll shows conclusively that Ron Paul won the debate by a mammoth margin, trouncing the bought and paid-for shill Neo-Con candidates that the establishment press are sworn to uphold.

After just over 18,000 votes, the ABC News poll shows Ron Paul with 15,568 compared with nearest rival Mitt Romney who is on a paltry 245. After initially scrubbing Paul from the poll altogether, ABC were forced to add his name after a deluge of furious calls and e mails.

Ron Paul led MSNBC's poll right from the start and before it had even been widely circulated. ABC News claims that activist voting and multiple voting by individuals artificially inflated Paul's numbers, but both claims are demonstrably false. Keith Olbermann reported that Paul was ahead before the link was spread around message boards and blogs and to vote multiple times is impossible - the poll only allows one vote per IP address.

At time of press, Paul currently has 40% approval and 25% disapproval, compared with 43% disapproval and only 22% approval for Giuliani.

Capital News, an arm of CSPAN, had Paul leading his nearest rival Mitt Romney by 60% shortly before voting closed. Rudy Giuliani garnered just 6% of the vote.

Yahoo! News is still censoring Ron Paul by not including him in the list of candidates on their 2008 presidential coverage page, despite the fact that he is wildly popular and has trounced every other Republican candidate in ever online poll.

After receiving a flood of angry complaints, Yahoo promised to review the situation, but 24 hours later their page is still absent any mention of Ron Paul.

This whole fiasco underscores the reality that the President of the United States is not elected by the popular will of the people, but instead is selected from a highly restricted gaggle of pre-approved establishment lackeys.

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The corporate media offer the excuse that Ron Paul is not a mainstream candidate and has little chance of winning, therefore their decision to afford him little coverage is justified. But this is a chicken and egg scenario - if the media routinely ignore so-called marginal candidates then they are never going to attain the exposure of a Giuliani or a Romney, thus the media bias becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

If Ron Paul was afforded equal media coverage at every step of the way before the Republican nomination, and if America was still a free country with a democratic process that actually worked, then Ron Paul would be a shoe-in for the Oval Office.

But the fact remains, as is painfully underscored by the media's treatment of Ron Paul, that America is a banana republic where the president is not elected by popular will but selected by the corporate and military-industrial kingpins that for whom, upon inauguration, he becomes the puppet.

All the candidates should be "qualified" on their willingness and their eagerness to forge a bipartisan foreign policy

that would eliminate Pelosi. 178 cowards voted to surrender right away, ignoring the consequences. Dems on this blog response>>>>>

None. "Inconvenient truths are ignored here. We don't pass laws, we make political points aimed at winning the next election" - the Dems

Too bad the debate is on Faux News so no one will ask the three nuts who don't "believe" in evolution why they disagree with the scientific commmunity.

zouk and Razor have driven me over the edge. I am so used to going unchallenged with my idiotic statements. It's not fair that I can't get away with saying anything I want and being admired for it. John Kerry wrote me a letter once saying that this was a good way to get started in politics, but now I have been unable to get a job for so long. every time i go on an interview, they never call me back. why?

So i am left to shower you with my wisdom day after day. Lately i like to complain about other's using my tactics of flaming and running with no name and no facts. I demand others comply with the rules of this blog, but i will not.

What I am really upset about is razor and zouk. how dare they expose my rants and lies for what they are. this is a liberal blog.

so if you don't like my cute one liners, blame it on razor. He is evil.

The Employee Free Choice Act, sponsored by George Miller (D-Calif.) in the House and Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) in the Senate, would do away with secret ballot voting in the unionization process. Instead, employees would be allowed to unionize with a public "card-check" process, making unionization much simpler.

I oppose the EFCA - as an attorney representing employers, I see "card-check" as permitting undue pressure on employees by union organizers.

CBS news quoted a professor as saying EFCA would lead to the "rebirth of progressive politics".

EFCA marks the permanent fault line between Republicans and Democrats. Even when they agree on foreign policy, as they did during the Cold War, they will fight over this.

But now is the time to formulate a bipartisan foreign policy, again. All the candidates should be "qualified" on their willingness and their eagerness to forge a bipartisan foreign policy. We can afford to argue about EFCA, and the rest.

Republican have created an entire industry built around hate. From Hannity to Limbaugh to Coulter, raging and ranting about how 'liberals' are murderers, treasonous, weak, evil, etc.-- don't make me laugh about 'civility' or 'hypocrisy'.

You people just never have an original thought, do you? Posting and reposting the same old crap.. try to think, razor, i know it hurts your brain.

Last Friday, drindl said:

"which is why i wish the right would stop demonizing democrats. we are no different from you, we want the same thing for our kids -- a bright future. we may differ from you on the ways to achieve that, but that doesn't make us 'evil' or 'like the terrorists'. can you imagine how hurtful and insulting it is, when you love your country and volunteer, and try to change things for the better, to be constantly accused of treason?

but this is what we get, 24 hours a day, from places like fox and hannity and limbaugh and pretty much all republicans. i am tired of being trashed and assaulted and insulted. please stop.

Posted by: drindl | May 11, 2007 06:59 PM"

Yesterday drindl said:

"also think the fact that there's currently not much difference between the republican party and the mob is turning a lot of people off. It isn't just disparate cases of corruption -- everything they do is about ripping off taxpayers.

Posted by: drindl | May 14, 2007 11:35 AM"

How pathetic. What a hypocrite. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

drindl writes
"Judge, I read-- I think on the ABC website, that the anti-mormon flier was printed and financed by a 'christian' evangelical church."

As a youngster, my parents pulled me out of a Catholic school to attend a Christian school for the 'better education'. As a result I can somewhat sympathize with Mormons for being outcast as 'pariahs' or false christians. Though, in the end, have to agree that treating the words of the Pope or Joe Smith (or other LDS leaders) as the word of God is a little bizarre. In short: they're all a few cards short of a deck.

Mathews: what color lollipop do you prefer to steal from children?

Hume: cutting taxes sounds nice, what program will you cut in trade?

Judge, I read-- I think on the ABC website, that the anti-mormon flier was printed and financed by a 'christian' evangelical church.

I want punch!

'god-given female characteristics' -- like marrying their 40 year old uncle when their 15?

Who spiked the punch here today?

I want to leave an irrelevant comment too!

G.O.P = Greedy Oligarchs and Plutocrats

Shut UP, dill-hole.

Heh... Mormons are weird. But they get to do it with lots of women. Heh, polygamy, yeah, cool.

A FOX-sponsored debate with Hume asking the questions sets up a 90-minute commercial for the GOP's 10 white men.

http://whathappenedtomycountry.blogspot.com

OR A CRASH course in Mormon political power, consider the important role the LDS Church played in the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment, which would have guaranteed women equal rights under the law. Passed by the House in 1971 and by the Senate in 1972, the ERA enjoyed widespread national support and seemed destined to succeed. By 1976, 34 states had ratified it; only four more were needed to make it part of the Constitution.

Then the Mormons got involved. In October 1976, the LDS Church's First Presidency -- consisting of the church's three highest-ranking members -- issued a formal statement opposing the ERA: the amendment, the First Presidency warned, might "stifle many God-given feminine instincts" and lead to an uptick in homosexual activity.

"Take Americans Against Escalation In Iraq. The group will not only sponsor a 20-foot high mobile billboard -- reading "Republicans: Mission Accomplished?" -- that will circle the Koger Center for the during the debate..."

Won't people throw things? This will be a hoedown, a full blown jamboree of the Tiresome Twenty-Eight Percent who feel that Iraq is going really well and is a Shining Beacon of Democracy in the Middle East blah, blah, blah. I'd suggest that all loose items be tied down and any decorative stonework be covered. Especially loose stones as we all know this crowd loves to cast them.

"Meanwhile, the Spartanburg Herald-Journal reports that negative flyers attacking Mormonism have been showing up in Republican voters' mailboxes in advance of Romney's arrival in the state today."

Sounds like SC's resident McCain smearers have found a new sponsor or, at the very least, a new target for their bigotry.

"The ad will run only once, costing the organization roughly $25,000. It's designed to draw media attention for the group. But that attention could benefit McCain in a state like South Carolina, where most Republican primary voters still view Bush favorably and believe he is doing the right thing in Iraq."

Not sure I understand this logic. Isn't it just as likely that the ad will peel away some of the diehard support for the war?

This is big for Romney and Giuliani. Rudy needs to show the world that he's confident following his pro-abortion coming out. He must talk up 9/11 and terror; otherwise, he's dead.
http://political-buzz.com/?p=186

Romney is a plastic twerp that will get his comeuppance tonight. SC conservatives will see through his pathetic pandering for votes. He will fall off the radar in a few weeks.

The cowardly republican corporate media 'supporting' a man who served his country honorably for many years:

'Gen. John Batiste's consulting arrangement with CBS was terminated due to his participation in a VoteVets ad. In post entitled "Revisiting the Batiste Decision," the CBS News blog cites the following standard as a rationale for Batiste's firing:

Simply stated, it is the policy of CBS that it will not take any part in any partisan political process in any form.

This is the third different explanation CBS has offered for canceling Batiste's contract, and like the others, it is not a satisfactory explanation given the record. Batiste was fired for appearing in a VoteVets ad that did not advocate the election or defeat of any candidate. VoteVets itself is a non-partisan organization.

To recap, here are the previous faulty rationales offered by CBS for firing Batiste:

Reason #1: Batiste was engaging in 'advocacy.' CBS VP Linda Mason said Friday, "We ask that people not be involved in advocacy." But Greg Sargent revealed instances in which CBS News military consultant Michael O'Hanlon has engaged in advocacy for the Iraq escalation.

Reason #2: Batiste was 'raising money' for VoteVets. Mason later amended her statement, saying "It isn't just that he took an advocacy position. ... General Batiste took part in a commercial that's being shown on television to raise money for veterans against the war." But the VoteVets ad that Batiste appears is not a fundraising ad.

Reason #3: Batiste was taking part in the 'partisan political process.' In fact, Batiste consciously avoided engaging in partisanship. Newsweek reports, "Batiste says he remains a 'diehard Republican' and has no intention of wading directly into the presidential campaign. ... He took part in the VoteVets.org campaign, he says, because it's a 'nonpartisan group.'"

Were CBS truly concerned about not allowing its consultants to engage in the partisan political process, it would not have a McCain presidential campaign aide currently on staff.'

An open letter to Gonzales.
Gonzales' Harvard Law classmates take out an ad in the Washington Post today. They write, "Your country and your President are in dire need of an attorney who will do the tough job of providing independent counsel, especially when the advice runs counter to political expediency. Now more than ever, our country needs a President, and an Attorney General, who remember the apt observation attributed to Benjamin Franklin: 'Those who give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

CONGRESSMAN HAS STAKE IN XM-SIRIUS MERGER
U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) will personally benefit from a merger between satellite radio companies XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and Sirius Satellite Radio, Inc., public documents show.

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'Private conversations with Republicans throughout America reveal doom and gloom about a politically paralyzed presidency and party. The on-the-record observations are almost as bleak.
"There's a lot of nervousness up here," says U.S. Representative Ray LaHood of Illinois. "It's a very difficult time for Republicans." LaHood was one of 11 House Republicans who met with President George W. Bush this past week to tell him the party was in political peril.

"Unfortunately, the big issues will not be dealt with between now and the next election," says Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina.

"The country doesn't believe George W. Bush, it doesn't trust him, and with 19 months to go it's only going to get worse,'' predicts Ed Rollins, a Republican strategist who ran Ronald Reagan's 1984 presidential campaign. There is nothing the president can do to get his (poll) numbers back up."

In their own words...