The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is preparing to launch radio ads in the districts of 12 vulnerable Republican incumbents, and lookie who’s on the list: Rep. Dave Reichert. “This August we’re going district by district to urge Republicans to stop obstructing progress and work with us to end the war in Iraq,” says DCCC chair Chris Van Hollen. TPM Cafe’s Election Central has the details and the audio.
The ad will run locally during drive time on KING, KIRO, KIXI, KMTT, KOMO, KPTK, KTTH and KVI. And considering the coming lane closures on I-5 North, folks will have plenty of time to listen.
There’s a reason why President Bush is coming out here to raise money for Reichert, the first congressman to receive that “honor” this cycle. Reichert is desperate. And you can’t get much more desperate than inviting Bush to come out and campaign for you.
I’m glad you said “desperate,” because vulnerable doesn’t begin to cover it. Dave’s gonna lose his Beltway stylist and start getting the South King County $5 haircuts come November/January 20.
I’m not sure which is worse, actually, not having Bush come out and campaign for you, or having Bush come out and campaign for you. Many Republicans are backpedaling as fast as they can to distance themselves from The Deciderer, and here ol’ Mr. 25% is cozying up to a vulnerable Representative.
Bwahahahahaaaaaaaaa!
Why doesn’t Cathy McMorris quit Congress to stay home with her baby? She’s a bad mom!
Contrary to wintnuts’ beliefs, voting for Republicans like Dave Reichert doesn’t lower their taxes. Oh, they may get a nominal tax cut, but they’ll pay it (with interest) anyway as an Inflation tax.
Wingnuts don’t want less government. They simply spend taxpayer money on different stuff. Namely, war and weapons. How much weaponry do we need? We spend more on arms than the rest of the world put together!
The wingnuts must be preparing for space invaders, because no military on earth can beat ours, except ragtag guerillas with rifles and dynamite can kick our ass, as demonstrated in Vietnam and Iraq.
So if you want more BOOM! and less health care, vote for Reichert. If you want government to spend your taxes on stuff that helps you and your family, vote for Darcy!
Besides, Darcy hugs rabbits! http://tinyurl.com/opkdy After 3 1/2 years in Congress, do-nothing GOP congressman Reichert STILL hasn’t hugged a rabbit. What a dork!
I can’t believe Hairdo is so bad off he’s willing to let the AWOL Pretender and Thief stand next to him at a fundraiser. The last time this fool had his picture taken with Monkeyface it almost cost him an election.
I think it’d be funny if the whole fund-raising event was populated by people who were, one by one, disruptive enough to get thrown out. Until, at the end, there was only Reichert and Bush and an empty room.
I wonder if any of the wingnuts out there are prepared to give Davey the Dim a job when he loses his current job next November. Given his level of incompetence, the highest position he could aspire to would be that of the circus employee who gives the elephants enemas so they don’t shit while under the big top during the main event.
Anywhere Reichert and Bush are is an empty room.
7 PL
You must mean the Discovery Institute.
DL @ 8
Man, that’s the definition of empty–GW and Davey the Dim alone in a room. The two combined would not have the intellectual firepower to find the exit.
Ummm, Goldie, I know its a good thing that Reichert is on the DCCC’s 12 most vulnerable list… But if that is what they are going to be producing, I think it would be better if they just sat this cycle out here.
Bad day for you moonbats…
On the “global warming” front, gummint downgraded the hurricane season estimate. So far, there have been ummm…. zero hurricanes this year. And there were ummm… zero last year too. So much for algore’s dire predictions.
On the engineering front, you guys were fucking wrong again in your engineering analysis. You were as full of shit on this as you were on the crane collapse in Bellevue. Looks like the bridge failure was caused by too much weight from the repaving construction equipment and was NOT GWB’s fault as you guys had said. And all the bullshit about emptying The Producers wallets to pay for “infrastructure repair” isn’t the solution at all.
Losers…
Fucking idiot @ 12 [whose post should be deleted as off-topic–what is it Redneck that you don’t understand about off-topic? Do you wake up dumb and mean or do you just work at it all day long?]
Take a look at last week’s Newsweek. The global warming denial machine is exposed in its full glory. How do you feel about being such a sucker?
@12 Yeah, the weather’s real placid this summer, only 3 tropical storms in the Caribbean so far. And the super-typhoon that hit Okinawa last month doesn’t count because either it’s on a different planet, or Redneck is. And the other Pacific typhoons don’t count either, for the same reason. Pay your fucking gambling debt if you want posting privileges here, welsher!
There’s more to global warming than hurricanes. Redneck forgot to mention this summer’s heat waves, the fierce rainstorms across the northern hemisphere that brought flooding to Texas and Great Britain, etc. Redneck is either stupid, or intellectually dishonest, or both.
Both, RR.
Oh, and you forgot morally bankrupt, btw. :)
@18 Not to mention deadbeat and misogynist … :(
Yep, Redneck is inadequate in so many ways; but in no respect is he a bigger failure than in his unpatriotic, un-American, undemocratic HORSE FUCKING!!! He should let the horse be on top once in a while.
“The wingnuts must be preparing for space invaders, because no military on earth can beat ours, except ragtag guerillas with rifles and dynamite can kick our ass, as demonstrated in Vietnam and Iraq.”
Hey Rog, couldn’t disagree more..The only thing that is kicking “our ass” is the lack of spine and political will in DC. Our military is not being “defeated” in Iraq, nor was it “defeated” in Vietnam. Our civilian leadership may be defeated…Our “30 second soundbite” public opinion may be defeated, but the military isn’t.
@20: Apparently you are unfamiliar with the dictum that war is the extension of politics by other means. Politically and geo-strategically both Viet Nam and Iraq are disasters.
Clearly the military was defeated in Viet Nam and is being defeated in Iraq since it has been unable to achieve the political goals of the mission to which it was and\or has been assigned. If that is not failure, what is? So what is the problem? Fantasy goals or incorrect means? You tell me, wingnut.
Wingnuts: In a battle against carpenter ants they burn down the house and call it ‘victory’.
Fucking simpletons.
Goldy: Request that posts 12 thru (this one) be deleted as off topic. You’ll excuse me, I have to grab a beer and go outside to battle hurricanes in the south end.
I am all for the fight on global warming as long as it is on a volunteer basis. The soldiers in Iraq all volunteered. We also did not raise taxes for the Iraq war so we shouldn’t raise them for the war on global warming. You libs can do all the fighting while we repubs sit back a laugh while patting each other on the back on how patriotic we are. When can we start!!! heehehe
How nice of Congressman Hairspray to invite Bush to Bellevue right in the middle of the I-5 closures.
sparky @ 24
OM Gosh! Is that going to be an eyeful or what? Normally, they shut down the town during the shrub’s visits. Are people, sitting in the summer heat (frying their brains & burning their gas), going to be p!ssed or what!?! Thanks, I hadn’t even considered that. Unbelievable!
http://downwithjugears.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
The Madmen Who Rule Us Will Destroy The World
US Hegemony Spawns Russian-Chinese Military Alliance
by Paul Craig Roberts
”This week the Russian and Chinese militaries are conducting a joint military exercise involving large numbers of troops and combat vehicles. The former Soviet Republics of Tajikistan, Kyrgkyzstan, and Kazakstan are participating. Other countries appear ready to join the military alliance.”
I hope you wingnuts are happy. We’re WWII Germans in the world’s eyes.
Who was president in 1984? Ron ‘Big Bro.’ Reagan. The very thought of Reagan makes me want to puke. I hated that dumb head-bobbing pompadoured bastard like a Georgia Cracker hates Hillary.
re 23: …not the ‘heehehe’ again. It’s almost as disgusting as a picture of you blowing your best friend.
I think Reichert, and McMorris should both resign. They are both pretty much useless, and have zero clout in congress. The only thing “Doc” can be proud of is keeping the dogs off his buddy DeLay’s ass till he resigned in disgrace. I have not even heard Hasting’s name mentioned once in the last year. What could be more useless than Republicon Congresspeople from Washington State, which is turning bluer by the second.
Anyone still supporting these Republicons these days belongs in a nuthouse.
They (Hairspray, and McWorthless) would probably have more fun handing out $20 bills to cops for a little “pleasure” in the bathrooms at the park, like their Florida Republicon buddy did. Not to mention the head of the Young Republicons being arrested for going down on some dude while he slept. Class C Felony. My god, the dude was sleeping…. What is wrong with you freaks?
From what I hear, Duke Cunningham, and Jack Abramoff are singing like birds, and we all know when it is DeLay facing real time, he will turn on the rest of the pack. They are going to have to build a new federal prison to hold all these Republicon Congresspeople, Senators, and political operatives in the Justice Department.
You all read Gonzales now claims justice department officials attended political briefings (which is illegal) at the White House with Karl Marx Rove right? These crooks are going to be cooked soon.
‘Death Cab for Cutie’ great band
Hurricane watch day 710 since Katrina:
Geez, it looks like Algore is full of shit… as usual:
Quoting from the gawd of global warming: “Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced long-since a consensus that we will face a string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves and deal with the underlying causes of global warming. Ladies and gentlemen, the warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.” http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0912-32.htm
Unfortunately, the facts don’t support Algore’s ill informed alarmist predictions.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml
Decade Category 3,4,5 Hurricanes
1941-1950 10
1951-1960 8
1961-1970 6
1971-1980 4
1981-1990 5
1991-2000 5
2001-2004 3
2005 10
2006 0
2007 as of 8/9 0
2005 is what is known in the adult world as an “anomaly.
If Algore was right, we should have had at least 15 major hurricanes in 2006 and 2007. How many have we actually had? Umm…. Zero. None. Zip. Nada. So where is the “string of terrible catastrophes”?
Could it be that Algore is full of shit? Could it be that the link between hurricanes and global warming is weak at best? Could it be that there is no fucking “crisis”? Could it be that you koolaid drinkers need to re-examine your position? Nah….
Keep spewing the get out of Iraq loser crap, because when the report comes in that there is advancement since the surge, you will all look like the loser fools you are.
Keep it up!
Hottest year since 1880. Looks like Al Gore is as accurate and regular as your mom’s period.
re 32: …’the report’… like you can trust the government? Isn’t it YOU who says that you cannot trust the government ( only red-clay eating rednecks say gummint)?
Can’t wait for ‘Betrayus’ report.
Mark The Redneck-Goldstein says:
“Hurricane watch day 710 since Katrina:”
GWB’s finest air-guitar moment! Your life is a complete waste and failure. Too bad for you!
Get out of the way if you know what’s good for you.
re 26: Reality. deal with it.
@20 You mean we “won” in Vietnam? Really? A U.S. ally is running Ho Chi Minh City (formerly known as Saigon)?
Mark the fucked up asshole at too many for his own good:
The thread is about Sheriff Hairspray. I would like to know if you support him? If you have donated ACTUAL CASH to his campaign? If you have volunteered your time to help him mount his campaign?
In short asshole, I am wondering if you have done anything other than post here in an effort to make your penis appear larger than is actually is?
Do you take action, or as we all suspect, just talk.
Pay your debt.
There is a rumor going around that if Rossi takes a pass in 2008, Reichert may vacate his seat and try to run against Gregoire.
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
excuse me.
@20 It’s more than a little disingenuous for you to pretend that weak-willed politicians in Washington D.C. or Moscow lost the wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan, and the guerilla enemies’ ability to stymie and bleed the occupying armies had nothing to do with it. That had everything to do with it. The wingnut meme that protesters are responsible for losing wars is bullshit. Wars are decided militarily, period.
@21 It’s extremely difficult to defeat guerrilla insurgencies. History is full of examples, but naturally the lessons of history are lost on ignoramuses who refuse to read history. Cases in point:
Arab guerillas disrupted the Turkish Army’s communications in Mesopotamia and paved the way for its defeat by British forces in World War I;
During World War 2, Tito’s partisans not only tied down numerous Axis army divisions (Germans, Italians, and Hungarians) in the Balkans for 4 years, but also captured and held territory and formed a government;
In the Phillippines, Japanese occupiers were harassed throughout the entire war by Wendell Fertig’s guerrillas (Fertig, now considered a co-founder of the U.S. Army Special Forces, was a civil engineer without military training or experience who built a 38,000-man guerrilla army from scratch);
Governments in China, Cuba, and Nicaragua (among others) were overthrown and replaced by guerrilla insurgencies;
Basque separatists, Irish sectarians, and Palestinians waged guerrilla campaigns for decades against governments with standing armies who could not defeat them.
There are many other possible examples … the bottom line is that we can reasonably expect Iraqi insurgents to continue attacking American forces for as long as our forces are in Iraq, and our military does not have, and will not have in the future, the ability to defeat them or prevent attacks against our troops. So … how long are you willing to bleed in Iraq? And how much blood are you willing to lose there? For what? How do you justify this to the families of the dead?
The aim seems to be to prop up a U.S.-designed government on friendly to U.S. interests until it can stay in power and suppress civil violence by itself. I don’t think that aim is realizable in the case of Iraq. There are many reasons why it isn’t, not the least of which is that Iraq is not, and never has been, a country. What we call “Iraq” is actually three tribal regions arbitrarily thrown together by Europeans, and incapable of holding together except through brute force. That’s why Iraq ended up with Saddam. It took a thug to keep a lid on the tribal rivalries. We removed the lid, with predictable result.
If there’s a lesson here, it’s that putting wilfully ignorant jackasses in charge of our foreign and military policies is asking for trouble — and for defeat. When this fiasco finally goes down the tubes, no one will be responsible for it — or for the dead — except the idiots who dreamed it up. That’s you and your wingnut friends, pal — NOT those of us who have enough sense to know a turkey when we hear a gobble.
@42 is in reply to @20
@41 I mean
@41 is an expansion upon the statement @21 that “the military … is being defeated in Iraq since it has been unable to achieve … the mission …” which is an absolutely correct statement.
Failure to accomplish mission = defeat
The mission in Vietnam was to keep the communist government of North Vietnam from taking over South Vietnam. Today, the communists rule all of Vietnam, and we ended up with nothing except the refugees. If that isn’t defeat, then I don’t know what the fuck is.
And it was, I repeat, a military defeat. Not a weakness of will on the part of U.S. leaders, who displayed remarkable persistence despite domestic opposition. It was a defeat because the mission couldn’t be accomplished; the enemy had the ability to keep fighting forever, while the U.S. investment of treasure and lives was unsustainable. All they had to do was bleed us while waiting us out. That’s all any guerrilla army has to do. The lessons of history teach us that it works almost every time.
The result in Vietnam would have been the same, and for the same reasons, even if there had been no antiwar movement in the U.S.
@23 “I am all for the fight on global warming as long as it is on a volunteer basis.”
What dream world are you living in? Do you want to put traffic laws on a volunteer basis too? How about taxes? Should we ask people to voluntarily not rob banks? You are a dolt.
24, 25 Someone call the DNC to find out if they orchestrated this visit.
@23 “while we repubs sit back a laugh while patting each other on the back on how patriotic we are”
Don’t forget to pat each other on the back on how Christian you are, too …
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The wingnut theory of salvation works like this: There is a God, who forgives our sins, so we won’t get in trouble if we continue behaving like Republicans.
A Republican knows he went to Hell if Roger Rabbit is his roommate.
I behave like a Republican too, so I’ll probably end up in Hell, and one of those pigfuckers is gonna get yours truly as his roommate. Eternal damnation is not without compensations …
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Hey wingnuts! The only thing you have to look forward to is getting raped by a rabbit.
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(raucous bunny laughter in background)
@31 There’s more to global warming than Atlantic hurricanes, nitwit. But since you choose to focus on cyclonic weather events, I’d like to remind you that Okinawa was hit by a super-typhoon a measly four weeks ago.
@32 How do you define “advancement”?
Redneck, is there some reason besides intellectual dishonesty that you choose to ignore the torrential rainfalls and flooding in coastal Texas, and other recent weather aberrations?
@39 I’d love to see Sheriff Empty Suit take on Gregoire!
@39
Reichert is not vacating his seat. He’s getting dumped by his constituents. He is just looking for a new job somewhere where he doesn’t have to actually work for a living and Fake News Channel doesn’t have the room for many more publican losers. And to run against the Governor, he’d have to run on his Congressional record. Now that is funny.
Keith Olbermann just called it the Fixed News Channel…
Reichert’s going down faster than Bob Allen waving $20 bills in Harlem.
#27 headless lucy says:
You sure do hate a lot of people. What does that say about you?
#23 Dan Rather says:
Excellent point. Alas, democrats/liberals can’t do anything for themselves, they need the government to do for them.
Imagine if all the believers of global warming took personal responsibility for the better of society. The problem would be solved. Unfortunately the believers would rather talk the talk than walk the walk.