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So, the Washington State Ferry system used $800,000 in federal tax money to install a wi-fi network, and then the private contractor which manages it wants to charge passengers $29.95 per month to use it?
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/.....rry25.html
Man, I’ve got to start paying more attention to those Requests for Bids published in the Daily Journal of Commerce. It looks like a license to print money, when you take a public operation and turn it over to a private company to operate. I should get in on that act. Maybe I can get a contract to collect money for the IRS (no, wait, the Republicans have already contracted that out, too).
Wait a minute. Isn’t that pretty much what Mike McGavick is proposing to do with Social Security, create a new government agency to decide which private investment firms get to manage the “private” portion of our accounts?
Mooooooooooooslim terrorists For Democrats!!
Exactly. No more of Bush’s “tough and dumb” – it is time to give “tough and smart” a try. Bye-bye, Dave Reichert.
Now all of a sudden time tables are okay. They are only “artificial” timetables it seems if the Dems set them. If the Bush regime sets them it’s okay. Cut and run seems to be replacing Bush’s sales pitch of stay the course. Man you have to be as fucking dumb as that retarded, inbred moron JCH to believe this horseshit.
Goldy – can you do some cutting and running on all this comment spam?
Goldy it is time to get the info out on this Idiot again. I know you have some personal affinty for this guy. But hopefully you understand the dangers of giving him a Judgeship.
Please do your magic, and get the truth out on the Dope.
Dope on the rope is out their digging up sleaze on people again over at (U)sp
I think we need to address this unqualified candidate.
Here he attacks the people who want to uphold the constitution.
We want this as a Judge?
Why is he always trying to leave his Law practice, to get elected?
Is it hard work Richard?
Or like any Republican, you feel the big money is working in government, and getting the lobbyist money for your retirement.
Here’s what I posted over at Sleaze central. They don’t have values to post on, only fear.
As for Dope on rope Pope at 24
Maybe as private citizens they don’t want the sleaze like you and the guppy prying into their personal lives in attempt to ruin them.
(Hey maybe that’s why they want to protect the constitution?)
As for you, you ARE running for office, and when you put up sign with your name on them enough time, you gain name recognition.
At least this time you were smart enough not to put the ® like your pals Mike! and Sheriff Hairdo don’t want to do either.
So why is it that Goldy likes you? I don’t know. You’re an often reprimanded attorney, and a perenial candidate for any position out there.
This probably leads to your failure to give adequate council to your clients. (I’d love to see your referral list, mostly from jail I suspect) Goldy must relate to you because you are both single fathers.
But you are a Candidate. So did you kill your wife, or beat or cheat on her? Are your divorce or murder trial papers open for us to look at?
Where can I go look them up, and get them published?
You want to be a Judge with those qualifications?
What is it a Daddy Bush thing? You want to get back at them for beating the hell out of an unqualified attorney as a Judge?
Come on Repugs, we know you love money more than anything, can you imagine the cost of appeals from this judges rulings?
Any attorney would be a fool not to file on a Pope ruling, the odds are in their favor, he does not know the law and is most likely wrong.
Come on, how about a little public disclosure on you. Let everyone know that you are a professional candidate with a worse record than the 62 Mets. You have multiple reprimands for failures in court, and that you beat your wife.
I can’t believe that those little red signs are doing the trick for you. It is definetely not your ACTUAL qualifications.
I think if you get in, It just shows how lazy the populice is in finding out about the candidates.
I think I will file my grievance now, that your signs are still out on the streets well after the time, by Law (the thing your running for, in case you didn’t know) need to be removed.
I think those come with a cash penalty per sign.
Yours and the guppies dirty sleaze hunts, make it why good people don’t run for office. Then we are left with the likes of you.
YUK
Commentby danw— 10/24
Cut and Run COWARDS…
Anonymous spews:
Iraqis Want Americans To Stay
Rove’s reached back into his bag of dirty tricks, and now has ads running in Indiana:
“EVANSVILLE, Ind. – An embattled Indiana congressman has launched a new campaign ad that warns a vote for his Democratic opponent could trigger a shift in House leadership and advance a “homosexual agenda.”
In the one-minute radio ad paid for by Friends of Rep. John Hostettler, an announcer impersonating Clint Eastwood’s “Dirty Harry” character says a vote for challenger Brad Ellsworth would be a vote for California Democrat Nancy Pelosi as House speaker.
“Pelosi will then put in motion her radical plan to advance the homosexual agenda, led by Barney Frank, reprimanded by the House after paying for sex with a man who ran a gay brothel out of Congressman Frank’s home,” the narrator says.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15413853/from/RS.1/
I don’t think it will work this time. The people know that the emperor has no clothes:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/.....sp?id=1407
Pelosi is running around with no clothes?
Ick
naked empress
ICK ICK
All politicians lie. Just look at all the election promises we’re hearing. Some 90%+ will be shown to be lies, just like in the past…
Since the Republicans are losers on every single issue, they can’t campaign on issues. They especially can’t campaign on their record, because their record is sickening on every level. They can only smear Democratic candidates, and lie about them, and what they will do once elected.
Republicans are vermin, and their supporters are worse. Unless of course you are a billionaire, or crooked defense contractor. Then Republicans rule!!!
I suggest you watch the film Iraq For Sale.
Let the wingnuts see where their precious tax dollars really go.
It has been both interesting and stomach-turning to witness the evolution of wingnut fantasies paraded through here. One crock of excrement after another: Bush “Derangement” Syndrome, Ted Kennedy, taxes and now Nancy Pelosi.
RNC and Faux Snooze barks – wingnuts wag their tails.
Since the Republicans are losers on every single issue, they can’t campaign on issues. They especially can’t campaign on their record, because their record is sickening on every level. They can only smear Democratic candidates, and lie about them, and what they will do once elected.
Perhaps, but we don’t have to take it lying down anymore. We can hit them with their own words, argue forcefully and effectively, or simply show the effects of their policies. The facts are on our side. Pound the facts.
Boy, with all the voter registration drives and get out the vote efforts, everyone seems to want you to vote.
Well, everyone except George Soros and the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. They don’t want you to vote on government spending limitations. They don’t want you to vote on initiatives that stop eminent domain abuse. And they hope that if they can block votes on those issues that you’ll simply stay home and not vote for candidates, either.
That way, their candidates have a better chance.
Soros has poured millions into this Ballot Initiative Strategy Center to hire blockers to harass petitioners and voters and prevent them from collecting enough signatures to make the ballot. In many states, BISC and related groups spent as much hiring harassers as the initiative campaigns themselves spent.
Kristina Wilfore, the group’s executive director, says, “progressives have gotten savvier earlier in the process by organizing legal and educational efforts to prevent harmful initiatives from getting on the ballot.”
I don’t know that I’d call screaming at people trying to sign a petition at K-Mart, savvy or educational. In fact, since the judge in Nevada made them stop these tactics, I don’t think they’re legal either.
In many states, voters overcame the Soros-funded anti-democratic gauntlet so they can vote to limit government spending or protect property rights. Nonetheless, thanks to Soros and the democracy destroyers at BISC, there may not be as much to vote on this election as we’d like.
But vote anyway. It annoys them.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
How could I forget – another paranoid crock of crap from the tail-wagging right: George Soros.
Bush’s “Stay the Course” mantra has now officially been changed to
“Whatever.” In announcing this shift, the primary presidential
prevaricator, Tony Snowjob, stated that, “We feel this new characterization
of our Iraq strategy provides us with the flexibility necessary to adapt
to political winds and trends here at home. We feel that the Democrats
have unfairly and maliciously demanded that we have some articulable and
principled position concerning our Iraq strategy. Such demands fail to
recognize that the president’s most important task is to ensure a
continuing Republican majority. How petty of those cut-and-runners to expect consistency if consistency means we don’t get to do what we want to do.”
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(I know, I know…it’s an oldie but a goodie)
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“Cut and run cowards?” It seems here that you assert that someone wants to “cut and run,” but neither define what you mean nor offer any proof that any real person wants to. Then it seems that you assert that such nonexistent people are cowards, again without support for either that conclusion or any causal link between the “cut and run” policy recommendation and cowardice. For example, what if someone is personally a coward but wants to “cut and run” for what everyone would agree are brilliant strategic and tactical reasons? Not very convincing.
Nor is a poll of Iraqis from 2003 convincing when they didn’t know enough yet to understand that the Bush administration had no plan and doesn’t give a damn if half a million of them die. They understand very well now.
2004
“Only a third of the Iraqi people now believe that the American-led occupation of their country is doing more good than harm, and a solid majority support an immediate military pullout even though they fear that could put them in greater danger, according to a new USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll.”
2006
“A newly released poll of Iraqi public opinion finds that seven out of 10 Iraqis want the United States to withdraw its military forces within one year. The poll was conducted by the University of Maryland. “Basically, we asked which of the following would you like the Iraqi government to ask the U.S.-led forces to do? And 37 percent say they would like them to withdraw within six months,” said Steven Kull. “Another 34 percent say they would like them to make a commitment to withdraw according to a timeline, within a year. So, a total of 71 percent say they basically want the U.S. out within a year.” In other findings, the poll found 78 percent of Iraqis felt the U.S. military presence in Iraq is provoking more conflict than it is preventing.”
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Gee, I think just because someone is countering the GOP strategy of mobilizing its base through divisive and simplistic “hot button” iniatives, you’re getting peeved. Good.
The polling post was mine too.
Shorter Bush:
“Stay the course? I never said ‘stay the course.’ And when I did not say it, I mean stay until victory is achieved. Yeah, that’s it, victory. Because leaving equals losing. And ya gotta know that this means that staying equals winning. And that’s how we’ll win—by staying. Staying in Iraq, I mean, not staying the course. Because I never said stay the course. And when I did, I meant we’ll be flexible.”
Daddy Love @ 23
Did you get to hear GW’s press conference today? He made clear that “benchmarks” are honorable while “timetables” are for cut-and-runners. He defined benchmarks as, get this, “well, benchmarks.” (I might be paraphrasing slightly.) Maybe I don’t have an ear for the president’s gift of nuance, but I didn’t quite grasp his distinction between benchmarks and timetables. I guess we should all just take his word for it that there is such a distinction, and, moreover, that it’s a really big distinction.
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I didn’t hear it all except for a couple of radio clips, but his “plan,” if you can dignify it with that name, is clearly to stay the course while denying it.
He says they’ll be trying something in Baghdad. Well, they tried bringing in 70,000 Iraqi troops, but that didn’t work. They tried bringing in a few thousand more Amercian tropps from elsewehre in IRaq, but THAT didn’t work. Things got worse in Baghdad AND the rest of the country. And all of that was still “staying the course.”
So what now? More troops? Where would we get them? Ah, remember the good old “Coalition of the Withdrawing?” No help there. More Iraqis? We brought in their best 70K guys and it did nothing. Of course, they ARE part of the problem, because we had the government just fold in whole independent militias lock, stock, and barrel so what we could claim progress in building the “armed forces.” So now the guys we shipped to Baghdad are actively creating the killing floor. Yeah, we need more of them.
And I agree with you that his semantic plaoys are bullshit. “As the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down” he has said (over and over again, in that cute little way of his of talking to us like we’re five years old), but if we give the Iraqis a timetable for standing up, we WON’T stand down? Is he a liar? Does he think we’re idiots?
So Iraqi troops will pick up the heavy burden of “keeping the peace” (despite repeated failures) in addition to their regular job of running death squads, and we won’t stand down because that would be a timetable, and the Iraqis should be happy as clams about all that, and everyone will get all calm-like. uh-huh.
The Republicans are really screwed now!
Look at this just posted on P-I Website!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/.....byist.html
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McGavick is running TV ads calling Cantwell a liar for saying he wants to privatize Social Security. It all depends on what your definition is. It’s true McGavick didn’t propose privatizing the Social Security Administration — he only proposed privatizing our Social Security money.
Get your bumper stickers while supplies last!
“McGavick – He’s the problem, not the solution”
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No, Goldy doesn’t censor JCH, and that’s not in our best interests. As a spokesperson for Republicans everywhere, JCH is an irreplaceable asset for us.
BTW, in a previous thread Mark1 called ME “juvenile and immature” – while never mentioning JCH.
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Would somebody please remind Mark1 this is a liberal blog, and wingnuts like him are allowed to post here only to provide entertainment for us!
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Yes, I too find it interesting that all the Republican candidates this year don’t want voters to know they’re Republicans. The “R” label is tarnished.
DL
And, how aggravating was his continual reference to our need to stay until “the job is done.” Defining “the job” would seem critical to defining the mission, but I don’t believe our boy in the White House has a clue what “the job” is. I watched most of the conference with my 17 year-old son–who will turn 18 a couple days before the election and will then pridefully cast his first straight Democratic ballot. Though I knew it was a painful experience for the boy to have to listen to the tortured grammar, syntax, and “reasoning,” I felt it important that he see for himself how lacking our man at the top is. He just shook his head in wide-eyed wonder about Bush’s inability to communicate.
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“Cut and Run COWARDS…” Commentby Anonymous— 10/25/06@ 9:17 am
Yup, Bush is showing his true colors, just like he did during Vietnam! I wonder what he’s going to say to the families of all the soldiers whose lives he squandered in vain. Probably, “I can’t talk to you right now; I’ve got brush-cutting to do!”
More Cindy Sheehans are being made every day.
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And Mark1 calls ME “juvenile and immature?”
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B-b-b-but I thought they LOVE billionaires?!
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I thought rightys were against “nuance.” You know — is a blowjob sex? Well, how is a “benchmark” not a “timetable?” Oh, I get it, it’s a “flexible timetable.”
These guys think a blowjob is a bigger deal than a war.
Geez, I never ever thought I’d be defending what Clinton did. Really, I’m not. I was appalled by Clinton’s romping antics – at the time, I thought he deserved to be impeached for debasing the office of POTUS like that … and still think so. But these fucking Republicans are making Clinton look like a choirboy by comparison. At least Clinton didn’t wasn’t a warmonger, murderer, torturer, and thief.
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Just posted? Old news, been on this board for a couple days now. And of course Stefan Sharansky (who can’t spell his own fucking name right) is dipping his paws in this sleaze. No reputable journalist would publish the contents of a sealed court file that was erroneously opened by a pro tem court commissioner and within days ordered resealed by a real judge – but Sharansky gleefully plastered it on his web site and slobbered all over it. Stefan has no conception of professional ethics at all – absolutely none. He’s a hack.
Enough of the play-acting “tough and dumb” Republicans. Any two-bit tinhorn cowpoke can puff out his chest and yell “dead or alive”, but it is going to take real men and women of strength AND INTELLIGENCE to get us out of this mess. Time to get “tough and smart”. Vote Democrat.
Impeach Bush. End his ridiculous “ropa-dopa” foreign policy. The axis of evil in in Wa. DC, and they call themselves “republicans”.
They’re easy to spot–they talk out of both sides of their mouth, and they preface all their remarks with “I never…..” or “I am not…..”
In New Jersey, the Supreme Court just ruled that the NJ legislature must make “the rights and benefits of civil marriage…equally available to same-sex couples.” Call it marriage, call it a duck, but protect equal protection under the law.
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You’re citing a poll from 2003, idiot.
http://www.commondreams.org/he.....509-08.htm
It’s about as relevant to October 2006 as a poll showing John Kerry with a lead over George Bush.
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Of course, it’s not idiocy, it’s Republicanism. Lie and run.
It’s Republicans who have cut and run on honesty. It’s Republicans who have cut and run on good government. It’s Republicans who have cut and run on NOLA and the Katrina victims. It’s Republicans who have cut and run on senior citizen precscriptions. It’s Republicans who have cut and run on campaign finance. It’s Republicans who have cut and run on government oversight. It’s Republicans who have cut and run on warrantless surveillance. It’s Republicans who have cut and run on civil liberties. It’s Republicans who have cut and run on equipping the troops. It’s Republicans who have cut and run on treating our veterans with the best health coverage. It’s Republicans who have cut and run on balancing the budget.
It’s Republicans who have cut and run on honesty.
Everyone’s favorite Republican Joe Lieberman handed out $387,000 in cash in the final two weeks before the Connecticut primary election – we’re talking cash here – and then he failed to disclose where it went to reporters or anyone else by using the petty cash account. He is restricted by law from disbursing over $100 at a time from petty cash, but instead he handed out hundreds of thousands at a time.
Wouldn’t you think that good government groups who care about campaign finance laws and disclosure would be slightly interested? I would. Yet since Lieberman finally revealed this on his FEC forms late last week, only the Lamont campaign has been willing to file an FEC complaint.
If Lieberman gets away with this, FEC laws are effectively meaningless, and so are state election laws. Can you imagine if Bob Menendez did this in New Jersey? The good government groups would be all over it. Or Tom Kean Jr? You’d see a press conference with Reid and Schumer the next day. And yet, because it’s Joe Lieberman, he’s handing out hundreds of thousands in cold hard cash before the primary to undisclosed individuals, there’s no outside groups calling foul. If Lieberman is allowed to shovel hundreds of thousands of dollars without consequence through his petty cash account, then next cycle you’re going to see every Senate, House, and Presidential campaign use it to avoid disclosure requirements. Their claim can simply be ‘Lieberman did it’, and they will be absolutely right.
Oh, and from teh same linked article:
“Two weeks before midterm elections, Republicans are losing the battle for independent voters, who now strongly favor Democrats on Iraq and other major issues facing the country and overwhelmingly prefer to see them take over the House in November, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll…The independent voters surveyed said they plan to support Democratic candidates over Republicans by roughly 2 to 1 — 59 percent to 31 percent — the largest ratio in any Post-ABC News poll this year.”
For all the poll results of Iraqis being bandied about by either side, I have to ask: How in the hell can you conduct a reliable poll in Iraq? If I was an Iraqi and somebody knocked on my door and asked my opinion regarding whether the Americans should stay in Iraq, how would I know whether the poller really worked for a legitimate polling service, the U.S. government, the Iraqi government, or any number of Shiite or Sunni militias. The wrong answer could get you and your family killed before the night is over.
You can’t have reliable public opinion polls during a religious civil war.
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Good point. When you think about it, polling in Iraq is a rather absurd proposition, isn’t it?