Hmm. Anybody notice the latest Survey USA poll that shows Gov. Gregoire now enjoying a 48% to 44% approval/disapproval ratio less than a year since Dino Rossi’s frivolous election contest was dismissed with prejudice?
Hmm. Looks like voters are starting to evaluate her on the job she does, rather than the lies they were told about the election. So much for all that backlash we were promised.
I think it was John Quincy Adams who said:
“All you haters can suck me, bitches!”
Rossi was all about image (big hat, not cattle). Gregoire’s strength is in her skills, smarts, dedication and hard work. It just took a year for the voters to switch over from beauty pageant mode to appreciating what real leadership is all about (hint: it’s not about writing a cheesy, cliched / motivational / self-promotional book)
Chris gets shit done. Plain and simple. Water rights, med/mal reform, payin for roads… list goes on.
Richard Pope is working on a thread as we speak that uncovers several shocking things about Gov. Gregoire.
1) She got straight As in law school.
2) She once had a traffic ticket.
Yet surprisingly, she does well in the polls. Imagine that?
Wow 48%. Bush can’t remember the last time he saw 48%! What is he in the polls now? Negative 12%?
Hey…I wrote a post like this one one month ago. That’s ok…the point definitely bears repetition! :-)
[Er,………(Voter Advocate]………………Can we add selling missile targeting tech to the commie Chinese [see Loral and Jewboy Clinton hack Bernie Swartz [sp]] to the list of trash the Clinton’s gave us? Remember the commies gave Clinton funds through Charlie Trie??] Can we add Hagwomen Mattie Halfbright giving nuke info to the North Koreans and dancing with the little commie mother fucker Dear Leader while the SOB is killing millions?? Yeah, mother fucker Voter Advocate, you libs are really something!!!!!!]
Democrat Illegal Voter Fraud Advocate, …………….A little Hawai’i background news. The New Orleans Levy Board [ALL Democrat….mostly black] LOVED to have their “conference” in Kapalua, Maui each and every year. [very expensive] The “civil servants” were well armed with “guvment” credit cards and spent taxpayer money like water at the PGA golf courses and the Plantation Estate for expensive meals and entertainment. Nothing like black “civil servants” with “guvment” credit cards to run up huge bills and ass fuck the New Orleans Levy Board for the cost. THis is how the Democrats spent the Levy funds prior to Katrina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Still the libs will say………………… Voter Fraud Advocate, “Somehow Bush is at fault!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” [hehe] Fuck you, dumb ass lib, JCH
@ 5
I remember Bush being at 48% a few months ago… 48 Percent negative that is…
Oh, snap!
Democrat dumb ass idiot commie libs: No nukes!! No drilling in ANWR, or the rest of Alaska, FL, off California, or the Gulf. No new refineries!! No wind power off Kennedyland!! No LNG ships!! More taxes!! Add 50 cents more gas tax!!! Al Gore needs to fly in on a private Gulfstream G5 [30,000 gals JP5], take a V8 limo, and give a speech to the Democrat sheep about “global warming” and the use of fossil fuel. Oh, BTW……… it’s Bush’s fault gas is $3.25 a gallon and going higher!! And it’s Bush’s fault we import 60% of our crude from the Middle East!! [What a bunch of dumb ass Democrat libs!!!!]
Unlike the Antarctic continent spread around the south pole, the Arctic has no formal international treaty to regulate activities. And while howling winds, drifting icebergs and months of freezing darkness kept prospecters at bay, there was little activity to regulate. /break/ The US Geological Survey surprised some experts when it declared that a quarter of the world’s undiscovered reserves lay under the Arctic Ocean………………………………………………………………….[Hey, dumb ass lib Democrats!!!!Let me be the first to predict what the stupid wacko Democrat libs will say!!! “No drilling in Antarctica!!!!!!!!!! Stop the evil oil companies!!! Save the penguins!!!!!!! Bush lied!!!!!!!!!” [hehe]
Ron Sims wants another increase in the regressive sales tax to be on the November 2006 ballot:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....ax18m.html
WHAT A HYPOCRITICAL PIECE OF SHIT!
The only time Sims ever complained about the sales tax being regressive was when he ran for Governor, and hoped to get an edge over Christine Gregoire.
Otherwise, Sims has supported every single sales tax increase in King County since he was first elected to the King County Council back in 1989.
Richard:
Even if Sims believes the sales tax is regressive, that is pretty much the only option available. He has to work with the tools he has. If he was to wait until the legislature changed the tax code, he would be dead and gone before anything ever got done. Since he is putting it up for a vote, I don’t see the problem.
Richie Pope @ 12: “Ron Sims wants another increase in the regressive sales tax to be on the November 2006 ballot..”
“Regressive”? You’re straying off the reservation, Richard.
Poor JCH, sitting on his Rascal scooter in his Kent double-wide. His Bushie heros have been outed, and exposed for being the traitors they’ve always been, so the sad little gimp is left reciting Richard Mellon Scaife’s most scurrilous hits on a president who has been out of office for five years.
But, even at his lowest ebb during the impeachment, Clinton was far more popular than GWB.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/app.....JZC2Gg7ju0
Did you know that Ron Sims once got a traffic ticket?
Now, Christine’s numbers have been on the upswing for seven months. Must be tough on the resident crank.
You think that 44% approval ratings is something to be proud of? At least higher than Bush? News flash: Bush is a lame duck. And so is Gregoire.
Well, Gregoire has a 48% approval rating, and Bush would kill for the same (and likely will.)
Chris will beat your asshole in 2008, too.
Carl Bernstein tells the GOP that the only chance for them in November is to have bipartisan hearings investigating the Bush presidency.
The first fundamental question that needs to be answered by and about the president, the vice president, and their political and national-security aides, from Donald Rumsfeld to Condoleezza Rice, to Karl Rove, to Michael Chertoff, to Colin Powell, to George Tenet, to Paul Wolfowitz, to Andrew Card (and a dozen others), is whether lying, disinformation, misinformation, and manipulation of information have been a basic matter of policy
http://www.vanityfair.com/feat.....0417fege08
But the wingnuts prefer to play their greatest hits while the nation swirls in the drain. Good to know they won’t take the steps to save themselves.
She’s doing a great job.
Bush death threat tied to PU student
By Danielle Braff
Post-Tribune staff writer
A Purdue University graduate student was arrested and charged with threatening to kill President George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Vikram Buddhi allegedly posted the detailed and threatening messages on an online message board.
Buddhi has been studying industrial engineering at the university, having moved temporarily from India to his new home in West Lafayette 10 years ago on a student visa. He was originally hired as a teaching assistant in the math department but was removed from that position and is now a teaching assistant in the industrial engineering department.
Since this is a very busy time for college students, being immersed in studying for their upcoming finals, Buddhi’s attorney John Martin said he hopes his client will be released from jail Wednesday following his detention hearing so he can return to studying.
Buddhi told investigators he posted the message, along with other derogatory messages aimed at the president, but Martin said Buddhi’s actions should be covered by the First Amendment since Buddhi would have never actually carried out his threats.
In the various messages posted, Buddhi urged the Web site’s readers to bomb the United States and for them to rape American and British women and mutilate them, according to court documents. Other messages called for the killing of all Republicans.
“What was allegedly said certainly is derogatory and may be inflammatory,” Martin said. “But there’s no real serious threat more than it was chat on the Web.”
Buddhi allegedly posted his messages on a Yahoo finance board dedicated to Sirius Satellite radio, a site that receives 2 million to 3 million hits a day, Martin said. A concerned citizen contacted the Secret Service office in Dallas to report that a subject was posting threatening messages about Bush, according to the criminal complaint filed in Hammond’s federal court and unsealed Monday.
Buddhi was arrested Friday and told investigators he is not suffering from any mental illnesses nor is he taking any illegal or prescription drugs.
http://www.suntimes.com/post-t.....ws_15.html
There is no way the current Congress is going to open any investigations into the Bush administration. Too much info will blow back on them.
Yet they know that if the Democrats win either the House or Senate, then we will start to have some real investigations into Iraq, Katrina, the Plume affair, oil executive lobbying, etc. (rather than the whitewash shows the Republicans put on).
The only hope the Republicans have is to dig in, throw as much dirt on their opponants as they can and hope some sticks, and pray that they can still hold onto just enough seats to control both houses of Congress after Nov. 2006 elections. If they do, they can prevent any real investigations for another two years – enough time for Bush to pardon them as one of his final acts before leaving office.
Conyer’s babysitter and contributions from tribes seems slim pickens for sticky scandal.
Maybe that’s why the experiments with Darcy’s resume.
Teddy Kennedy, John Kerry, George Soros, Hillary Clinton, Ralph Nader – as Schweitzer documents, all these scolds of capitalist greed and champions of the down-trodden have done very well manipulating the system to increase their own power and privilege so that their money doesn’t end up in the government’s hands to finance the social justice schemes they loudly champion.
On racial issues too, these progressives may talk like angels, but they live like men. For all their professed love of “people of color” and anguish over racism, few of America’s most visible liberals actually live around or hire minorities – even Cornel West, Princeton professor and wannabe rap star, lives in Newton, whose black population is about two percent, meaning Professor West is unlikely to be hanging out with the brothers in the backyard.
When the Clintons came to Washington, they could have sent a powerful message of support for D.C. public schools by enrolling Chelsea in a neighborhood school like Jefferson or Hine. But of course, they enrolled her instead in the super-elite Sidwell Friends. Chomsky, who claims to be fond of fraternizing with the working class and “‘those considered to be riff-raff,’” as he puts it, has no intentions of actually living near any of them. About the time forced busing was imposed on the Boston area, Chomsky moved to the tony suburb of Lexington, buying a house worth nearly a million dollars. He also owns a vacation home in Wellfleet, worth $1.2. “Radical” author Howard Zinn “owns two homes in expensive lily-white Wellfleet and a third in multicultural Auburndale (minority population 3.3 percent).”
Like all rich people, rich liberals understandably want to live around and have their children associate with other rich people. But they at least can prove their commitment to diversity with their hiring choices, an opportunity on which most of them pass, including Congressional Democrats, who hire black employees at the same rate as Republicans do. Michael Moore has loudly chastised Hollywood for not hiring enough blacks. Yet Schweitzer’s survey of the 134 people who have worked on his films show a grand total of three black employees.
Comedian Al Franken has criticized Republicans for being indifferent to black unemployment. But of “112 people whom Franken either hired directly or had a strong influence in determining whether they would work on a project,” only one was black. Another hectoring liberal, Barbra Streisand, has hired one black producer out of sixty-three producers and directors she’s employed since 1983. Even for a documentary she produced about gang violence in Washington, D.C., the producers and the director were white.
On issue after issue, Schweitzer unmasks the reality behind the self-righteous preaching of America’s so-called progressives. Ted Kennedy decries “corporate welfare” and “giveaways,” but he still takes depletion allowances and drilling deductions on his family’s oil holdings. Ralph Nader loves unions, but not for the staff of his publication the Multinational Monitor. Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi has received the Cesar Chavez award as a champion of labor, but none of the workers picking grapes on her $25 million Napa Valley vineyard are from Chavez’s U.F.W. Pelosi also owns a large share of an exclusive resort in Napa, and none of its 250 employees belong to a union. Nor do any of the 900 employees of Piatti, a restaurant chain Pelosi is a partner in.
Barbra Streisand has waxed lyrical on the need to limit our wasteful energy consumption that threatens the environment. Yet Streisand, whose foundation owns stocks in several oil companies, spent $22,000 dollars a year just to water the lawn of her Malibu home. And she has an air-conditioned twelve-thousand-square foot barn just to house her show business memorabilia. That’s a lot of greenhouse gases.
It is pretty funny – watching all the attempts to mis-direct on this board.
Pope wants us to investigate why Darcy went to Law School for a year. (Gee, if she went all three years, we might really have a scandal!). JCH wants to keep discussing Bill Clinton’s presidency. Now Pope wants us to imply that a traffic ticket following a fender-bender is a scandal for Darcy?
Definition of “Red Herring”:
….
“2 [from the practice of drawing a red herring across a trail to confuse hunting dogs]: something that distracts attention from the real issue.”
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dic.....ed+herring
Remember – they want us to be arguing about Clinton, etc., because it distracts from the real issues – their own candidate’s problems, and the dismal record of governance by the Republicans over the past six years.
There was understandable reluctance in the Congress to begin a serious investigation of the Nixon presidency. Then there came a time when it was unavoidable. That time in the Bush presidency has arrived.
http://www.vanityfair.com/feat.....0417fege08
JCH:
The Clintons did not enroll Hillary in a public school because the Secret Service advised them that they could not protect her in a public school. It wasn’t that there was anything wrong with the schools themselves, it is just that because they were “public”, they could not control who went in and out of the schools, they could not audit the status of employees or restrict which of them had access to Hillary, etc. A private school was the only real choice.
Jimmy Carter used to attend church every Sunday, and even teach Sunday School while he was President. Reagan, however, failed to attend while he was in office (except for a few ceremonial occassions. His press secretary said it was due to the problem of providing security for the President, which he feared would create a disruption of the church service.
Bill Gates had the same problem – he used to fly commercial flights, drive his own car to work every day, etc., eat at Dick’s Hamburgers, etc., but once he was published as being the richest man in the world and he started a family, he had to change his security practices. To do any less would be idiotic.
Of course, Bill Clinton’s post-presidential office is not in Manhattan, but in Harlam.
And are you really suggesting that Republican Senators, Congressman, and Presidents are doing a better job of living and working in the minority/poorer districts than the Democrats are?
Her numbers are up because she’s convincing Democrats, her own base, that she’s doing a fair job in office.
Republicans, on the other hand, won’t be so quick to forgive on the election fiasco.
And when voters really start to evaluate the job she’s done in office–all of the new spending and the fictious “lock-box” of rainy day savings–her numbers will slip again.
Anytime a troll , besides Richard Pope, prints anything that resembles lucidity, you know it’s a direct copy from somewhere.
I, for one, would appreciate knowing the source of some of these accusations. “Consider the source.” That is as true today as it ever was. So, Little[JCH]Eichmann, where did you copy your most recent comments from?
Voter Advocate:
Your point (comparison to Watergate) is noted, and I certainly want to see some real investigations, but I would point out two major differences:
(1) At the time of the Watergate investigation, the Democrats controlled the Senate (I think the House too, but I would have to check back on that to be sure).
(2) Also, back then (a) none of the Republican Senators really expected to find Nixon responsible for any wrongdoing, other than failure to supervise underlings in the re-election campaign, (b) the Senators themselves were not concerned about being investigated themselves.
With the Republicans in charge, and some of their number already under investigation, indictment, or in prison, and the lobbying scandal just starting to break open, I don’t see any of them pushing to a full investigation of anything, for fear of opening the floodgates.
What worries me is that this may be a replay of the 2004 election – where a majority of the incumbents win by a slim majority, only to have the scandals break open in the year following the election. Our best hope is to elect a Democratic Congress and Senate, which will give them the opportunity to investigate all these matters openly – including placing people under oath.
Clinton withstood six years of harrassment and investigation by the Republican majority in Congress (from 2002 on), and all they could come up with is that he lied about having sexual relations with an intern. I wonder how G.W. Bush and his cronies will fare after two years of Congressional investigations into his presidency?
25, 28
JCH should give credit to his ventriloquist
http://www.victorhanson.com/ar.....40206.html
re 25: All lies. Cite yiour sources.
re 25: What George Soros and Barbara Streisand do have nothing to do with no-bid Halliburton contracts , which is war-profiteering, which is treason.
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That’s why the Bush dictatorship is worse than Watergate. Not only are the crimes more widespread, so are the criminals.
where did you copy your most recent comments from?
Commentby headless lucy— 4/18/06@ 9:10 am …………………………………………………………………[Headless Lucy, Try not to end your sentences with prepositions. This shows your lack of education.]
Richard @12,
So… next time the tax restructuring issue is raised, are you going to join me in advocating for a progressive income tax? Or are you the real hypocrite here?’
Auntie @29,
Read the tabs. Her numbers are going up with independents too… almost the exact same trend as her numbers as a whole. That’s the number to watch.
Using the same poll Gregoire’s numbers were higher in 2005. In fact she was 10 points higher one year ago.
Does everybody hear just trust Goldy and not look at his links?
No, we know how to read a chart. I know it’s tricky where the blue line and the red line meet, but give it a try. Of course, you could just read the numbers from left to right, too.
My God…..
Will any Democrats go to see Universal’s new movie, “United 93″? Will Hillary allow libs to see this movie??
Al, you’re loopy. 48% is her high-water mark since May 05; 44% disapproval easily her lowest number as well.
As for Republicans, they’ve definitely come around. Over a 12 month period, support for Christine has nearly QUADRUPLED among the GOP.
By the way, nice diary over the weekend re: the most recent right wing plagiarism, tj.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/17/1246/06308
and
http://loadedorygun.blogspot.c.....arism.html
Oops, I just realized I had yesterday off, but it wasn’t the weekend. Sorry about that, tj.
It just felt like a Sunday…
Thanks, other TJ. As we speak I’m working on a summary of those articles, which show Anderson wasn’t just a one-shot plagiarizer…
I’ll come back and post the URL when I’m done. The party of (stolen) ideas, indeed!
You (go), smear merchant!
You’ll recall that James Guckert / Jeff Gannon was one of these Plagiarizers For Some Right-Wing Funded Website Nobody Gave a Crap About too. I hope this investigation doesn’t go in the same direction as that one. [shudder]
That’s “smear hobbyist” or “smear dilletante” to you, pal!
You’re a smear prodigy, then. If this is your half-assed smearing, I’d be interested to see what happens when you use your whole ass.
RE 36 : Little[JCH]Eichmann — It’s usually NOT wrong to end a sentence with a preposition. You are still an idiot!
Hey JCH, the corrupt, spendthrift, warmongering republican monopoly is about to have its ASS handed to it.
That’s you, homey. In for a penny, in for a pound. Your vote makes you party to all their crimes, and we won’t forget that when the roundup starts.
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