Really. I’ll donate $5 is she does a bra model cumshot scene.

Anybody else?

Hell, I’ll go twenty bucks if burner does a bra model cumshot lezbo scene with the 99th most influential senator and the 5 time winner of the no rocket scientist award, but only if Baghdad Jim is in the background jacking off.

Who’s with me?

Geez, Goldy, can you turn off the spam? OR do you want to see it too?

As a public service, I hereby provide Mark The Redneck’s voting guide:

Initiative 920: Repeal of death tax
Yes.
Rationale: I vote for all tax cuts and against all tax increases.

Initiative 933: Stop government theft
Yes
Rationale: Stop fucking private property owners.

Initiative 937
Yes
Rationale: The global warming stuff is bullshit of course. But I’m voting yes because the use of natural gas for electricity has driven up the price to the point where the fertilizer plants in the midwest that use natural gas for feedstock have shut down. We now rely on foreign countries to sell us fertilizer. Our food supply is now dependent on whether foreign countries like us or not, and I think that’s a bad idea.

GE has developed wind turbine technology that can produce power for about 7.5 cents per KWH compared to current rates of about 6 cents per KWH. So it’s in the ballpark.

HJR 4223: Increase tax exemption
Yes
Rationale: I vote for all tax cuts and against all tax increases.

King County Prop 1: Who the fuck knows what this is about?
No
Rationale: Ron Sims can’t be trusted.

King County Prop 2: More empty buses.
No
Rationale: We already have enough empty buses.

5

Another family-values Republican …

O’Reilly is an articulate guy, very polished on TV, and even affable and witty at times. But then, he’s a highly-paid professional talking-head. Letterman, a comedian and late-night show host, took O’Reilly apart.

For example …

O’Reilly, unlike Sheriff Davey, isn’t merely a rubberstamp for Bush and the neocons. O’Reilly admits the Iraq war was a mistake. If we had known Saddam didn’t have WMDs, we shouldn’t have gone in, he says. But, he says, the problem is what do we do now. And then he asked, “Do you want America to win?”

Define winning, Mr. O’Reilly.

And then O’Reilly presents a false dichotomy. He says our choices are a stable democracy (what he calls “victory”) or an Iraq run by Iran.

Bullshit.

A stable democracy is not attainable in Iraq. A democracy was never a realistic goal, and stability went out the window when America removed the strongman who kept the lid on Iraq’s feuding factions by force. With Saddam gone, there was nothing to keep the Shiites and Sunnis from slugging it out — and U.S. troops got caught in the crossfire.

I’m not so sure Iran can just walk in there. Iraq and Iran fought a bloody, bitter 8-year-long re-enactment of the World War I trench war only 20 years ago. I have a feeling if Iranian troops went into Iraq, they would get the same reception U.S. troops are getting — 20 times over. Probably the best Iran could hope for would be to carve off the Shiite sector from Iraq and incorporate it in their empire. Then they can have the fun of dealing with Iraq’s Shiites. Yeah, it’s too bad Saddam butchered Shiites by the thousands — but that doesn’t mean the Shiites were nice guys themselves. That was partly a do-it-to-them-before-they-do-it-to-us deal.

Yeah, O’Reilly has his head up his ass in a major way. His basic problem is that he suffers from the same limitation afflicting all wingnuts: He sees the world in black-and-white. As Letterman said, in response to an overly simplistic, leading O’Reilly question, “I’m a thoughtful person.”

The implication being, of course, that O’Reilly isn’t. And that’s O’Reilly’s whole damned problem. And that’s the wingnuts’ whole damned problem, too.

Yet ANOTHER fucked up republican asshole goes to jail – where he belongs.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....ist28.html

I’ve lost count – is this republican asshole #8222928282 or 8222928283 to get caught during the illegal Bush regime?

Geez, 22 comments and only 7 of them with any useful content.

re 10: Were you in favor of the Reagan administration doing away with the tax advantages that were instituted for solar energy during the Carter administration and if so, why?

Put on your thinking cap!

re 30: Another Republican Patriot for ……… big business over the best interests of the United States.

VOO-DOO ECONOMICS!!! Who said that?

Since nobody else is on topic…

What about silly Sims
a) championing >$4bb overruns for Sound transit (slow trains to nowhere)
b) now wants to swap our airport for some rail tracks
c) but wait, rather than use EXISTING rail for rail, he wants to make them trials

Hey libs; heres an idea; use the train tracks to run commuter trains. Yeah, save billions on right of way, and spend a billion on trains, whatever, and hey, you have good transit

Naw, too logical

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15454263/from/RS.1/

Here’s another perfect example of the morals of the right wing Christian republicans.

Got kids? Vote Dem!

ok Barelli

Train track now runs from Woodinville to Kirland to Bellevue to Renton and i guess on to Tukwilla, etc.

I’d call that a major congested area, and certain 405 traffic confirms that.

I’ll gladly wager and compare the need for relief on 405 corridor to the stupid train down Rainier. Anybody wanna serve up traffic counts.

Biggest stupidity in this is the right of ways are always the toubh part. Here we have a right of way, that is flat enough for trains (no 200 foot deep tunnels in capitol hill, ahem) and it also mimics current traffic pattterns.

I know Caltrains etc, and I recall traking trains from Mtn view to SF was no big thril (slow). And in a perfect world, i’d make our transit fast, underground, etc…not based on old freight routes. But since Sound Transit screwed the poooch so to speak (sucked up all the $$s), heck , here you have a unique asset, why not use it

I’m also a critic of when we basically gave away the Interurban right of ways in the 1980’s …we had great train route along north end of Lake W that we could have used.

For you Greens out there, note that in many pretty and clean places, they run nice electric trains along beautiful lakes…e.g. almost any large lake in Switz or Germany for that matter.

your turn

Nobody answered the question about Reagan squelching solar power in the 80’s. Why is that OK with you?

Are you just haters or do you believe your ideology?

It’s one or the other.

Commentby righton— 10/28/06@ 9:03 am

Actually, the corridor we’re discussing might well make a good addition to a regional mass transit system, and several community leaders have apparently proposed just that.

Unfortunately, while it is in an area that would make a good secondary line, it is not in the area where the system is most needed, and would be (my opinion here) ineffective without the primary line between Seattle and SeaTac.

In order to use it, there would still need to be a primary system in place, and that’s what SoundTransit is currently working on.

The additional funding isn’t currently available to use the land for mass transit, but a situation exists where the land can be aquired for some public use, rather than have the land broken up and sold piecemeal.

In a perfect world, we could just wave a magic wand and have the whole system appear, without cost or inconvenience.

As to swapping Boeing Field for the land, it makes some sense, and could head off more of the sillyness that lets the airlines play off the two airports against each other, while getting the city out of the airport business, turning that over to folks that do that sort of thing for a living.

2

If you’re not good for $100, why should we believe you’re good for $5?

28

As to swapping Boeing Field for the land, it makes some sense, and could head off more of the sillyness that lets the airlines play off the two airports against each other, while getting the city out of the airport business, turning that over to folks that do that sort of thing for a living.

Commentby John Barelli— 10/28/06@ 10:46 am

Not really. First of all, the city doesn’t own (or run) Boeing Field, the county does. Port of Seattle is the LAST outfit I’d want owning (or running) it. That would be a disaster for all the south end homeowners. The port officials are totally mercenary — at least Ron Sims has to run for election, and we can get rid of him if he makes life too intolerable for residents. Well, in theory anyway, although how well that works in practice is debatable, especially when the Groping Old Perverts party runs a mother-beater against him. No, I like the way things are, more or less — the county should keep Boeing Field and swap Norm Maleng for that land.

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Roach — there’s another soft-on-crime Republican! If she walked the talk, she would have had her son executed. Now he’s gonna be the GOP’s next candidate for King County Executive! And we’ll be stuck with Ron Sims for ANOTHER four years.

Lori Sotelo got a free pass, so why shouldn’t Stephen Roach get an early out? They both live in soft-on-crime King County.

I just want to remind everyone that Lori Sotelo endorsed Toby Nixon. When you vote, you might want to keep in mind who Nixon hangs out with. Doesn’t say much for his judgment, does it? https://www.tobynixon.com/endorsements.htm

Hey — Republicans pull this guilt-by-association crap all the time — so why can’t I? Republicans want a monopoly on every fucking thing!

Hey Nixon — I know you read this blog! Why isn’t Stefan going to share the proceeds of his lawsuit against Dean Logan and KCRE with the generous donors to his “legal action fund” who helped pay for the lawsuit? Maybe because Stefan’s full of shit and LOST the lawsuit?! I see that Sharkansky (sic)* endorsed you, too. https://www.tobynixon.com/endorsements.htm#families

* Sharansky, like most wingnuts, can’t even spell his own fucking name!

You have no freedom of speech on the shop floor or the corporate office. Change things now!

Contribute to Darcy Burner and Ned Lamont.

How can anyone NOT support http://tinyurl.com/opkdy ? You’d have to be a Republican!

Republicans = sociopaths

My brother and his wife are going to be giving, but I can’t guarantee it will be though your site. I sent the link, though. He’s just sort of an independent cuss. You know—a Democrat.

We (my wife and I) are going through our budget and re-examining our priorities. Our ancestors gave their lives and fortunes in several wars (civil war – both sides, WWI, WWII, Korea), so the least we can do is give some money toward the ideals in which we believe.

On the chopping block – video/DVD rentals, movies, meals out in excess of a couple times a month, no outside lunches other than business-related ones. It adds up several hundred dollars a month, a couple of thousand dollars a year. I think we can do without that for the next six months or so to finance a change in Congress.

Mark1

Funny but the NRCC and the RNC seem to know very well who she is.

Harry Reid is not only clearing up any misunderstanding on the part of the overly-dense Republicans about who owned the land he sold, but is taking a numbers of extra, not-even-required steps on even pettier matters to insulate himself from further attack.

That is so UNlike a Republican, like Duke Cunningham, who had a menu of favors and their cost in donations printed up for his bribers.

Do you all REALLY think that the Religious Right will be a stable, reliable Republican voting bloc now that we all know that the GOP is crawling with homos?

When is Dave Reichert going to come out to his wife and family?

Hee hee, I was talking to a Republican guy at my finess club about all the problems his party is having with Foley, etc. He expressed a hope that Harry Reid’s problems would hit the news and make it a little better for Republicons. I told him that I doubt if it would matter unless Harry Reid was seducing teen-age boys. He looked kinda shocked and I almost felt sorry for him.

21 Anonymous

Have you asked her one?

re 21: Great debate format! Only Yes and NO answers. Something that will fit in a bumper sticker.

I’ve gone to a townhall meeting for Darcy Burner and found her to be intelligent and forthright in her answers. She was even polite to a person who challenged her answer to what she would do to dishonest contractors in Iraq and NOLA.

The person’s question was: “How is holding Halliburton financially reponsible for their overcharging different than what we’re already doing?”

Quick: Yes or No!

Darcy Burner says she will not accept any pay raises as Representative until the minimum wage is increased. I’ll take that as a Yes.

Dave Reichert is a failed lifetime politician who does not deserve a second term to screw us again.

I sure wish I could hear Bush on the day he realizes that he has lost one or both houses of Congress. Damn, that would be a good one.

Yakima fishwrap endorsed McGimmick in its Sunday edition. Guess who owns the Yakima fishwrap?

#36, Yakima HP was a hero here on this blog when it came out against I-933, now its fishwrap? Could it be because it sometimes shows balance, something the PI is lacking?
Farmer Fred

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Read her resume at http://www.darcyburner.com/about.php and this time notice the numerous errors and the changes over time.

On behalf of everyone that holds democracy dear, I want all you leftwing nutjobs to give EVERYTHING in your futile attempt to plug the gaping hole in the SS Titanic Burner. She a goin’ down and the more money you can throw at the gaping hole the better!

C’mon you libs! Give till it hurts! Mortgage the house, sell the kids if you must! SS Titanic Burner needs your money now.

“So please, send out a few emails and pick up the phone, and prove to the old guard at the Seattle Times what people-powered politics can really do.”

Aw hell Goldstein, why don’t you pull out all the stops ang give them the REAL speech?

“Communists the world over are wiser than the bourgeoisie, they understand the laws governing the existence and development of things, they understand dialectics and they can see farther The bourgeoisie does not welcome this g truth because it does not want to be overthrown.

As everyone knows, our Party passed through these twenty­eight years not in peace but amid hardships, for we had to fight enemies, both foreign and domestic, both inside and outside the Party. We thank Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. This weapon is not a machine­gun~ but Marxlsm­Leninisn,….

The Russians made the October Revolution and created the world’s first socialist state. Under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin, the revolutionary energy of the great proletariat and labouring people of Russia, hitherto latent and unseen by foreigners, suddenly erupted like a volcano, and the Chinese and all mankind began to see the Russians in a new light. Then, and only then, did the Chinese enter an entirely new era in their thinking and their life. They found Marxism­Leninism, the universally applicable truth, and the face of China began to change….

There are bourgeois republics in foreign lands, but China cannot have a bourgeois republic because she is a country suffering under imperialist oppression. The only way is through a people’s republic led by the working class….

Twenty­four years have passed since Sun Yat­sen’s death, and the Chinese revolution, led by the Communist Party of China, has made tremendous advances both in theory and practice and has radically changed the face of China. Up to now the principal and fundamental experience the Chinese people have gained is twofold:

1. Internally, arouse the masses of the people. That is, unite the working class, the peasantry, the urban petty bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie, form a domestic united front under the leadership of the working class, and advance from this to the establishment of a state which is a people’s democratic dictatorship under the leadership of the working class and based on the alliance of workers and peasants.
2. Externally, unite in a common struggle with those nations of the world which treat us as equals and unite with the peoples of all countries. That is, ally ourselves with the Soviet Union, with the People’s Democracies and with the proletariat and the broad masses of the people in all other countries, and form an international united front.

“You are leaning to one side.” Exactly. The forty years’ experience of Sun Yat­sen and the twenty­eight years’ experience of the Communist Party have taught us to lean to one side, and we are firmly convinced that in order to win victory and consolidate it we must lean to one side. In the light of the experiences accumulated in these forty years and these twenty­eight years, all Chinese without exception must lean either to the side of imperialism or to the side of socialism. Sitting on the fence will not do, nor is there a third road. We oppose the Chiang Kai­shek reactionaries who lean to the side of imperialism, and we also oppose the illusions about a third road.

“You are too irritating.” We are talking about how to deal with domestic and foreign reactionaries, the imperialists and their running dogs, not about how to deal with anyone else. With regard to such reactionaries, the question of irritating them or not does not arise. Irritated or not irritated, they will remain the same because they are reactionaries. Only if we draw a clear line between reactionaries and revolutionaries, expose the intrigues and plots of the reactlonaries, arouse the vigilance and attention of the revolutionary ranks, heighten our will to fight and crush the enemy’s arrogance can we Isolate the reactionaries, vanquish them or supersede them. We must not show the slightest timidity before a wild beast.

“Victory is possible even without international help.” This is a mistaken idea. In the epoch in which imperialism exists, it is impossible for a genuine people’s revolution to win victory in any country without various forms of help from the international revolutionary forces, and even if victory were won, it could not be consolidated. This was the case with the victory and consolidation of the great October Revolution, as Lenin and Stalin told us long ago.

“We need help from the British and U.S. governments.” This, too, is a naive idea in these times. Would the present rulers of Britain and the United States, who are imperialists, help a people’s state? Why do these countries do business with us and, supposing they might be willing to lend us money on terms of mutual benefit in the future, why would they do so? Because their capitalists want to make money and their bankers want to earn interest to extricate themselves from their own crisis-it is not a matter of helping the Chinese people.

“You are dictatorial.” My dear sirs, you are right, that is just what we are All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people’s democratic dictatorship, that is, to deprive the reactionaries of the right to speak and let the people alone have that right.

“Who are the people?” At the present stage in China, they are the working class, the peasantry, the urban petty bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie. These classes, led by the working class and the Communist Party unite to form their own state and elect their own government they enforce their dictatorship over the running dogs of imperialism-the landlord class and bureaucrat­bourgeoisie, as well as the representatives of those classes, the Kuomintang reactionaries and their accomplices-suppress them, allow them only to behave themselves and not to be unruly in word or deed. If they speak or act in an unruly way, they will be promptly stopped and punished. Democracy is practised within the ranks of the people, who enjoy the rights of freedom of speech, assembly, association and so on. The right to vote belongs only to the people, not to the reactionaries. The combination of these two aspects, democracy for the people and dictatorship over the reactionaries, is the people’s democratic dictatorship.

“Why must things be done this way?” The reason is quite clear to everybody. If things were not done this way, the revolution would fail, the people would suffer, the country would be conquered.

“Don’t you want to abolish state power?” Yes, we do, but not right now; we cannot do it yet. Why? Because imperialism still exists, because domestic reaction still exists, because classes still exist in our country. Our present task is to strengthen the people’s state apparatus-mainly the people’s army, the people’s police and the people’s courts-in order to consolidate national defence and protect the people’s interests. Given this condition, China can develop steadily, under the leadership of the working class and the Communist Party, from an agricultural into an industrial country and from a new-democratic into a socialist and communist society, can abolish classes and realize the Great Harmony. The state apparatus, Including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument by which one class oppresses another It is an instrument for the oppression of antagonistic classes; it is violence and not “benevolence”. “You are not benevolent!” Quite so We definitely do not apply a policy of benevolence to the reactionaries and towards the reactionary activities of the reactionary classes. Our policy of benevolence is applied only within the ranks of the people, not beyond them to the reactionaries or to the reactionary activities of reactionary classes….

Here, the method we employ is democratic, the method of persuasion, not of compulsion. When anyone among the people breaks the law, he too should be punished, imprisoned or even sentenced to death; but this is a matter of a few individual cases, and it differs in principle from the dictatorship exercised over the reactionaries as a class.

As for the members of the reactionary classes and individual reactionaries, so long as they do not rebel, sabotage or create trouble after their political power has been overthrown, land and work will be given to them as well in order to allow them to live and remould themselves through labour into new people. If they are not willing to work, the people’s state will compel them to work….

Such remoulding of members of the reactionary classes can be accomplished only by a state of the people’s democratic dictatorship under the leadership of the Communist Party. When it is well done, China’s major exploiting classes, the landlord class and the bureaucrat­bourgeoisie (the monopoly capitalist class), will be eliminated for good. There remain the national bourgeoisie; at the present stage, we can already do a good deal of suitable educational work with many of them. When the time comes to realize socialism, that is, to nationalize private enterprise, we shall carry the work of educating and remoulding them a step further. The people have a powerful state apparatus in their hands-there is no need to fear rebellion by the national bourgeoisie….

The people’s democratic dictatorship is based on the alliance of the working class, the peasantry and the urban petty bourgeoisie, and mainly on the alliance of the workers and the peasants, because these two classes comprise 80 to 90 per cent of China’s population. These two classes are the main force in overthrowing imperialism and the Kuomintang reactionaries. The transition from New Democracy to socialism also depends mainly upon their alliance.

The people’s democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most farsighted, most selfless and most thoroughly revolutionary. The entire history of revolution proves that without the leadership of the working class revolution triumphs. In the epoch of imperialism, in no country can any other class lead any genuine revolution to victory. This is clearly proved by the fact that the many revolutions led by China’s petty bourgeoisie and national bourgeoisie all failed….

To sum up our experience and concentrate it into one point, it is: the people’s democratic dictatorship under the leadership of the working class (through the Communist Party) and based upon the alliance of workers and peasants. This dictatorship must unite as one with the international revolutionary forces. This is our formula, our principal experience, our main programme. …

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union is our best teacher and we must learn from it. The situation both at home and abroad is in our favour we can rely fully on the weapon of the people’s democratic dictatorship, unite the people throughout the country, the reactionaries excepted, and advance steadily to our goal. “

The reason to send Reichert home and send Darcy to Washington is obvious:

WASHINGTON (CNN) — A poll conducted for CNN over the weekend suggests support among Americans for the war in Iraq is dwindling to an all-time low. Just 34 percent of those polled say they support the war, while 64 percent say they oppose it.

Women led the opposition, with seven in 10 saying they oppose the war. Twenty-eight percent say they support it, which is the lowest support among women in any CNN poll taken since the invasion more than three years ago.

A vote for Dave Reichert is a vote for more of the same failed policies, and everyone knows it.

39 sillyguy

“Harry Reid broke the law and is now trying to fix it.”

It’s not even clear if Harry Reid violated Senate Ethics requirements. But he IS trying to fix it, and going way beyond in order to make sure that there is no doubt about his transparency. Compare to Dennis Hastert’s “transparency” over HIS land deal. Has he amended a disclosure?

Of course, he IS pretty busy hanging onto his position and his seat. But then, Harry’s busy preparing to become Majority Leader and HE found the time.

Mark Dybul, the nation’s new global AIDS coordinator, is openly gay. Condi Rice just referred to his partner’s mother as Dybul’s “mother-in-law” at an event. Do you think the Christian Right didn’t notice?

Oh, they most definitely noticed.

Mark Foley was an openly gay Republican

Small correction. Foley wasn’t out. He was, however, the most ineffectively closeted gay man in the history of western civilization. Seemingly everyone knew it, but he hadn’t admitted it publicly (which he did only after the scandal broke).

re 1 meaning jch

OK, I’d give more, but how does one give without using a credit card? Let me know if that is possible, please. Actblue only takes cards….

E-3 GBS, Captain’s Mast after XO’s inquiry, and busted to E-3. For you to comment on my military service is a joke, E-3 “mess cook” GBS.

Headless Lucy: Hanoi Jane?

Just found the answer myself: there is no good reason. Contributions via ActBlue are not tax deductible and, if you use a credit card, Darcy gets your contribution minus 3 or 4 per cent.

Smeg’ll do it too. She’s all Bush Military . . . you know, the torturers.

Senator Barbara Boxer
112 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington DC , 20510

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Dear Senator Boxer,

As a long time California resident, not to mention an excellent customer of
the Internal Revenue Service, I am writing to ask for your assistance.

I have contacted the Immigration and Naturalization Service in an effort to
determine the process for becoming an illegal alien and they referred me to
you.

My reasons for wishing to change my status from U.S. Citizen to illegal
alien stem from the bill which was recently passed by the Senate and for
which you voted. If my understanding of this bill’s provisions is
accurate, as an illegal alien who has been in the United States for five
years, what I need to do to become a citizen is to pay a $2,000 fine and
income taxes for three of the last five years.

I know a good deal when I see one and I am anxious to get the process
started before everyone figures it out. Simply put, those of us who have
been here legally have had to pay taxes every year so I’m excited about the
prospect of avoiding two years of the last five years taxes in return for
paying a $2,000 fine. Is there any way that I can apply to be illegal
retroactively? This would yield an excellent return for me and my family
because we paid heavy taxes in 2004 and 2005 and I estimated a gross
savings approximating $72,000. After the fine this would yield me a net
savings of $70,000.

In addition, I would reap the other benefits of being an illegal alien such
as free healthcare, avoidance of paying Social Security taxes, buying
automobile insurance, serving on jury panels, etc.

If you would provide me with an outline of the process to become illegal
(retroactively if possible) and copies of the necessary forms, I would be
most appreciative. Thank you for your assistance.

Your Loyal Constituent,
JCH
San Diego, CA

Hi, Goldy – just dropped in and saw your plea for Darcy and Goldmark – I’m going to his fundraiser next Wednesday, but I kicked in an extra $25 anyway. Have a good evening, and thanks for helping Peter retake Foley’s (Tom, not that self-hating gay in Florida)old seat!

Re: 14.

Wow…J Craig Herman want to give up his citizenship?!? I’ll raise a glass to the notion of that un-American asswipe being off the island (Big Island, in this case).

Hey…once he formally renounces his citizenship, maybe I can (1) collect a nice bounty for turning him in as a ferrin’ terrorist, and (2) get his ass the torturing it deserves.

I’ll never learn to love—or even like—this new American value called torture the way the Wingnuts do, but I can still appreciate a particular instance of it in action. :-)

I’ll never learn to love—or even like—this new American value called torture the way the Wingnuts do, but I can still appreciate a particular instance of it in action.

The accented one addresses this feeling in a nice little post.

I wonder how the right wingers are going to feel when President Hillery inherits all these new laws ?

97 Reasons Democrats Are Weak On Defense And Can’t Be Trusted To Govern In Wartime
INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY

Posted 9/29/2006

Today’s Democrats are nothing like Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy, who with courage and decisive action kept on top of their jobs and aggressively confronted one national defense crisis after another.

Jimmy Carter, elected during the Cold War with the Soviet Union, and (1) believing Americans had an inordinate fear of communism, (2) lifted U.S. citizens’ travel bans to Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia and (3) pardoned draft evaders.

President Carter (4) also stopped B-1 bomber production, (5) gave away our strategically located Panama Canal and (6) made human rights the central focus of his foreign policy.

That led Carter, a Democrat, (7) to make a monumental miscalculation and withdraw U.S. support for our long-standing Mideast military ally, the Shah of Iran. (8) Carter simply didn’t like the Shah’s alleged mistreatment of imprisoned Soviet spies.

The Soviets, (9) with close military ties to Iraq, a 1,500-mile border with Iran and eyes on Afghanistan, aggressively tried to encircle, infiltrate, subvert and overthrow Iran’s government for its oil deposits and warm-water ports several times after Russian troops attempted to stay there at the end of WWII. These were all communist threats to Iran that Carter never understood.

Carter (10) thought Ayatollah Khomeini, a Muslim exile in Paris, would make a fairer Iranian leader than the Shah because he was a religious man. (11) With U.S. support withdrawn, the Shah was overthrown, and (12) the ayatollah returned and promptly proclaimed Iran an Islamic nation. (13) Executions followed. Palestinian hit men were hired to secretly eliminate the opposition so the religious mullahs couldn’t be blamed.

Iran’s ayatollah (14) then introduces the idea of suicide bombers to the Palestine Liberation Organization and paid $35,000 to PLO families whose young people were brainwashed to attack and kill as many Israeli citizens as possible by blowing themselves up. This inhumane menace has grown unchallenged.

The ayatollah (15) next created and financed with Iran’s oil wealth Hezbollah, a terrorist organization that later bombed our barracks in Beirut, killing 241 Marines and sailors. With Iran’s encouragement this summer, (16) Hezbollah attacked Israel and started a war that damaged Lebanon and (17) diverted the world’s attention from Iran’s nuclear bomb program.

In November 1979, Iranians, including (18) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, their current puppet president who was elected in an unfree, rigged election in which opponents were intimidated into not running, (19) stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held 52 U.S. personnel hostage for 444 days.

Carter, after nearly six months, (20) belatedly attempted a poorly executed rescue with only six Navy helicopters (three were lost or disabled in sandstorms) and Air Force planes with Delta Force commandos. The mission was aborted, but foul-ups on the ground resulted in a loss of eight aircraft, five airman and three Marines. The bungled plan was never put down on paper for the Joint Chiefs to evaluate. There were practice sessions, but no full dress rehearsal, and pilots weren’t allowed to meet with their weather forecasters because someone in authority worried about security.

America (21) can thank the well-meaning but naive and inexperienced Democrat, Jimmy Carter, for a foreign policy that lost a strong military ally, Iran, and (22) put the U.S. at odds with a gangster regime that was determined to build nuclear bombs to wipe Israel off the map and threaten the U.S. and other nations. Iran also has a working relationship with al-Qaida, which also wants nukes. Care to connect the dots?

Shortly after a meeting at which Carter kissed Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev on each cheek, (23) the USSR invaded Afghanistan. Carter the appeaser was shocked. “I can’t believe the Russians lied to me,” he said.

During the Carter Democrat period, (24) communism was on a rampage worldwide. In an unrestrained country-capturing spree, communists took over (25) Ethiopia, (26) South Yemen ( (27) located at the mouth of the Red Sea where they could block Mideast oil shipments and access to the Suez Canal), (28) Afghanistan, (29) Angola, (30) Cambodia, (31) Mozambique, (32) Grenada and ( 33) Nicaragua.

Compared to the pre-Vietnam War defense budget in 1964, Carter requested in fiscal 1982’s defense budget (34) a 45% reduction in fighter aircraft, (35) a 75% reduction in ships, (36) an 83% reduction in attack submarines and (37) a 90% reduction in helicopters.

The Soviets for years (38) consistently spent 15% of their GDP on defense; (39) in 1980 we spent under 5%. As a percentage of our government’s spending, defense was lower than before Pearl Harbor. No wonder a Republican, Ronald Reagan, had to vastly increase defense spending to help us win the 45-year-old Cold War and relegate the USSR to the ash heap of history — an astounding feat no one (except Reagan) believed possible.

In addition to a communist enemy rapidly expanding its territorial conquests, Reagan (40) inherited from Democratic management a 12% inflation rate (highest in 34 years), (41) 21% interest rates (highest since Abraham Lincoln was president), (42) a depleted military and (43) a serious energy crisis.

For eight years (44) congressional Democrats ridiculed and fought with Reagan and were on the wrong side of nearly all his defense and economic policies. They said he wasn’t bright — an “amiable dunce,” as party elder Clark Clifford (45) put it. They maintained his tax cuts wouldn’t work, (46) that he insulted the Soviets by labeling them the “Evil Empire” (47) and that he was going to start World War III by putting missiles in West Germany to counter new Soviet SS-20 nuclear missiles installed in East Germany. (48) John Kerry wanted a nuclear freeze that would guarantee the Soviets overwhelming tactical nuclear superiority in Europe. (49) Kerry seemed to constantly advise retreating, giving up and handing our enemies what they wanted — a recipe for us to lose every war.

Democrats waffled (50) on Reagan’s request for support of Contras who were fighting to stay alive and take Nicaragua back from Daniel Ortega’s communist Sandinistas. Each month, the Soviets poured $50 million worth of Russian tanks, anti-aircraft weapons, Hind attack helicopters and munitions into that central American country.

Democratic leaders (51) all dismissed as a ridiculous pipe dream Reagan’s plan for the U.S. to develop a missile that could shoot down incoming enemy missiles. (52) Showing no vision, Democrats mockingly called it Star Wars.

Democratic politicians (53) were proved wrong on virtually every vital Reagan policy. (54) His tax cuts set off a huge seven-year economic boom that created 20 million new jobs. (55) Interest rates tumbled from 21% to 7 1/2%. (56) Inflation nose-dived from 12% to 3%. And (57) oil prices collapsed when — contrary to warnings from Democrats — he removed price controls on natural gas.

Reagan’s motto was “Peace through Strength,” (58) not peace through weakness and accommodation. With his steadfast determination and perseverance, the communists were kicked out of Grenada and defeated in Nicaragua, Ethiopia and Afghanistan. And for the first time in history Soviet expansion ended.

Reagan (59) never quit exerting pressure on the Soviets. In Berlin, he demanded that Gorbachev “tear down this wall,” and in time the Berlin Wall fell. In the end the communist Soviet Union dissolved. The Reagan-Bush administration had won the Cold War.

Years later, (60) a group of Russian generals were asked about the one key that led to the collapse of the USSR. They were unanimous in their response: “Star Wars.” Gorbachev feared it would render the Soviets’ nuclear missiles obsolete for an overwhelming first strike, and they could not afford to build the hundreds more that would be needed or hope to match America’s great technical ability. (61) So Gorbachev threw in the towel after Reagan held firm at Reykjavik and refused to stop SDI research. Years later (62) Gorbachev said he didn’t think it could have ever happened if Reagan hadn’t been there.

In July 2001, (63) the U.S. military used an SDI missile launched thousands of miles away and flying at near bullet speed to blow a test missile out of the sky. (64) Democrats from Dukakis to Gore to Kerry all said this would be impossible and that missile defense would never work. They were all wrong. Reagan was right.

The current terrorist threat (65) to U.S. national security did not begin on 9/11, but in the early 1990s. Bill Clinton was elected November 1992. (66) The first bombing of our World Trade Center on Feb. 26, 1993, killed six people and injured 1,000. Terrorists hoped to kill 250,000. (67) Some of the apprehended terrorists were trained in bomb making at the Khalden terrorist camp in Afghanistan.

October 1993. (68) A Somali warlord, with help from weapons and top trainers sent by al-Qaida, shot down two U.S. Blackhawk helicopters. Eighteen Americans were killed and 73 wounded. Clinton, under pressure from a Democratic Congress, ordered retreat and withdrawal of all U.S. forces. Said Osama bin Laden: “They planned for a long struggle, but the U.S. rushed out in shame.”

January 1995. (69) Philippine police discovered Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing, had a plan to blow up 12 American airliners over the ocean and fly a plane into CIA headquarters. They informed Clinton’s government of the plot.

Bin Laden (70) tried to buy weapons-grade uranium to develop a weapon that would kill on a mass basis — like Hiroshima. (71) In November 1995, a car bomb exploded at a Saudi-U.S. joint facility in Riyadh, killing five Americans.

June 1996. (72) Khobar Towers, which housed U.S. Air Force personnel in Saudi Arabia, was blown up by Saudi Hezbollahs with help from Iran and some al-Qaida involvement. Nineteen Americans were killed and 372 wounded.

July-August 1996. (73) The U.S. received from senior level al-Qaida defectors intelligence on the creation, character, direction and intentions of al-Qaida.

February 1998. (74) Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri issued a fatwa declaring “war on America” and making the murder of any American anywhere on earth the “individual duty” of every Muslim.

May 29, 1998. Finally, (75) after a long series of deadly bombings carried out since 1992, and bin Laden calls to attack the U.S., Clinton’s CIA created a plan to raid and capture the al-Qaida leader at his Tarnak Farms compound in Afghanistan. After months of planning, consultations with senior officials in other departments and numerous full rehearsals that went well, the raid was called off at the last moment by CIA Director George Tenet and others worried about possible collateral damage and second-guessing and recrimination if bin Laden didn’t survive.

Aug. 7, 1998. (76) Al-Qaida blew up U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, five minutes apart, killing 200, injuring 5,000.

Now (77) Clinton’s team, wanting to take stronger action, decided to fire Tomahawk missiles at bin Laden’s training camps as well as a Sudan aspirin factory. (78) But the administration gave up to 48 hours notice to certain people, including the chief of staff of Pakistan’s army, so India wouldn’t think the missiles were aimed at them. Somehow forewarned, bin Laden and his terrorist leaders all left — no terrorists were killed, but U.S. ineffectiveness was on full display.

Dec. 20, 1998. (79) Intelligence knew bin Laden would be at the Haii house in Kandahar but again passed up the opportunity due to potential collateral damage and the risk of failure. (80) Clinton approved a plan by his national security adviser, Sandy Berger, to use tribals to capture bin Laden. But nothing happened.

Next, (81) the Pentagon created a plan to use an HC 130 gunship, a more precise method, against bin Laden’s headquarters, but the plan was later shelved. Lt. Gen. William Boykin, deputy undersecretary of defense, told the 9/11 Commission “opportunities were missed due to an unwillingness to take risks and a lack of vision and understanding.”

Feb. 10, 1999. (82) The CIA knew bin Laden would be at a desert hunting camp the next morning, the 11th. But the military failed to act because an official airplane of the United Arab Emirates was there and it was feared an Emirate prince or official might be killed.

May 1999. (83) Detailed reports from several sources let the CIA know that bin Laden would be in Kandahar for five days. Everyone agreed it was the best chance to get bin Laden. But word came to stand down. It was believed Tenet and Clinton were again concerned about civilian collateral damage. A key project chief angrily said three opportunities were missed in 36 hours. October 2000, (84) the USS Cole was bombed, killing 17 U.S. sailors. No action was taken due to concerns expressed by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

Americans must learn from history and costly mistakes. Sadly, (85) Democrat Jimmy Carter, a Southern peanut farmer, became our Neville Chamberlain, creating the specific conditions that have brought us the three greatest threats to our national security today: 1) (86) Iran’s nuke-bound terrorists; 2) (87) al-Qaida and other terrorists; and 3) (88) North Korea and its nuclear weapons.

Carter’s (89) inability to deal with the Soviet communists emboldened them to invade Afghanistan. A 23-year-old bin Laden also was drawn there to recruit young Muslim fighters and build a network to raise money for the anti-Soviet jihad that later became al-Qaida.

Years later, (90) civilian Carter took it on himself to go to North Korea and negotiate a peace agreement that would stop that communist country from developing nuclear weapons. He then convinced Clinton and Albright to go along with it. (91) The signed piece of paper proved worthless, as the Koreans easily deceived Democrats and used our money, incentives and technical equipment to build nuclear bombs and increase the threat we face today.

The Clinton administration (92) had at least 10 chances to get bin Laden, but it repeatedly could not make the decision to act. There were too many people and departments involved, too much confusion and no strong leader to make the tough decisions to act. They were too timid and concerned about repercussions if they failed.

Contrast this inability to take action with Harry Truman’s ability to make sound decisions and get results on complex defense issues — from dropping the bomb to end WWII to helping Iran and Turkey stave off the Soviets, from defending Greece from communist takeover following WWII to confronting and beating the Soviet’s Berlin blockade with a 14-month night-and-day Berlin airlift, from taking on the North Koreans to ultimately firing the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur for insubordination.

Further Democratic incompetence in matters of defense emerged from Clinton’s attorney general, Janet Reno, and her deputy, Jamie Gorelick. (93) They built a legal barrier that in effect prevented the CIA from sharing intelligence with the FBI before 9/11.

Democrats in the Clinton administration (94) allowed the selling of important defense technology and secrets to the Chinese, who are now engaged in a massive military buildup.

Estimates are that (95) 10,000 to 20,000 terrorists were trained in bin Laden’s many camps in the years before 9/11.

Oil is also vital for our national defense. In 1952 we produced 93% of the oil we consumed. Now we depend on the Mideast and others for 66%. Democrats have been largely responsible for this because they have blocked all efforts to drill in Alaska and certain offshore areas estimated to contain 10 billion to 20 billion barrels of crude.

Democrats (96) in Congress condemn current efforts to intercept terrorist phone calls, to mine data to ferret out future attacks against us, and to trace the movement of terrorist money through banks. All the while they want special treatment for enemy prisoners captured on the battlefield. This helps the enemy and undermines our troops in the field.

We’re in a war. Something always goes wrong in a war, and our military leaders have made mistakes in Iraq. But quitting and leaving would amount to defeat for the U.S. in the global war on terrorism and create chaos. Quitters never win.

Here’s the problem: America needs two strong, sound political parties. As far as domestic policy is concerned, it really doesn’t make much difference if Democrats or Republicans are in power. Ours is a free, entrepreneurial society where anyone can do anything he or she wants if they have a positive attitude and the desire to work, learn and achieve. Ambitious people come from all over the world to take advantage of this tremendous opportunity. This is one reason our economy is so resilient, continually bouncing back from periodic setbacks, driven by new inventions and achievements.

However, (97) when it comes to which party has proved more capable in acting to defend and protect Americans from foreign enemies, there is only one choice. From Johnson to Carter to Clinton, virtually all the defense policies and decisions made by Democratic administrations have been unsuccessful. And in many cases, they have unintentionally but materially increased the danger to our national security and the safety of all Americans.

Craig @ 21

“Darryl, You need to come for a short visit. Do you surf?”

I don’t surf, but after you carry out your plan to renounce your citizenship I’d be happy to take up harpooning. I’m sure an “open season on aliens” bill is just weeks away….

Warning: If you are a young male page working in congress, please, please be careful, there are Republicans around. When working as a page do not, ever bend over in front of a male republican, or smile at him. Do not even make eye contact, or mention anything they are wearing. If you catch their attention they may creep you out. These Republicans are dangerous, and should be treated with extrems caution. If any Republican makes sexual advances to you, or any of your friends, please report it to THE DEMOCRATS. Reporting inappropriate behavior to Republicans would be a waste of time, and probably only lead to more sexual advances.

Tree hugger!…
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> A woman from Los Angeles, who was a tree hugger and anti-hunter,
>purchased a piece of timberland. There was a large tree on one of the
>highest points in the tract. She wanted a good view of the natural
>splendour of her land so she started to climb the big tree. As she neared
>the top she encountered a spotted owl that attacked her. In her haste to
>escape, the woman slid down the tree to the ground and got many splinters
>in her crotch.
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> In considerable pain, she hurried to the nearest doctor. She told
>him
>she was an environmentalist and anti-hunter and how she came to get all the
>splinters. The doctor listened to her story with great patience and then
>told her to go into the examining room and he would see if he could help
>her.
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> She sat and waited three hours before the doctor reappeared. The
>angry
>woman demanded, “What took you so long?” He smiled and then told her,
>”Well, I had to get permits from the Environmental Protection Agency, the
>Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management before I could remove
>old-growth timber from a recreational area.”
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> “I’m sorry, but they turned me down.”
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> GOD BLESS AMERICA….

Jesus came to down to Earth and started walking.

He met a woman crying. Jesus asked the woman why she was crying.

The woman said “I lost my job because the WTO and Bush’s policies shipped my job to India. The only job I can get is as cleaning MTRs travel trailer that he lives in and beats the prostitutes he hires to service his 2 inch dick in. Meanwhile, Bush cuts the inheritance tax for the top 0.01% of America.”

Jesus then waved his hands and gives the woman a job that she has qualifications for and deserves. Jesus also starts taxing the wealthy for their unearned inheritance.

Jesus walks further in America and finds a man crying.

“Why do you cry?” Jesus asked.

“I have worked hard all my life, I was laid off and now work as a contract worker with no insurance. My wife got sick and there was no way to pay for the medical expenses. My wife is dead and me and my children are living in the streets.”

Jesus waved his hands and the man had his highly skilled off shored job back with full benifits and security for his children.

Jesus walked on and found a redneck crying.

“Why do you cry Mark?”

I paid $500,000 in a divorce settlement to the first woman that would have sex with me, and I am a Republican.”

Jesus said “You are a Republican?”

“Yes” Mark the Redneck wept.

Jesus sat down with the redneck and cried with him.

Kofi, Spike and Blade will be among the pupils arriving at primary schools in four years time, all with Democrat parents. Also popular in Democrat minority communities are “MoFo”, “GuvCheck” and “Marlboro”.

Ahhh for the good old days when chillrens were named LaShonda, Aquavelva, Chlymidia, LaChammonique, Rawanda, and Shaniqua….Yes, These names would take a young Democrat far!!!!

re 33: It is doubtful that GWB ever piloted more than a prop trainer plane. How do you equate joy riding over the US with your flying instructor to actually doing something(one way or the other ) about Vietnam.

Liberal: “GWB used his fater’s power and influence to get out of serving in Vietnam.”

Bush Lover: “Oh,yeah! Well he flew around in airplanes in the US the whole time the war was on!”

Do you see where your reality disconnect lies? You can get professional help for that!

Mark1

“Most people don’t know or give a shit who Darcy whats-her-name is anyway.”

Little Miss Whats-her-name is outraising Reichert and is tied with him in three independent polls. How well do you think she’ll do when more people know who she is?

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