Clinton:
Obama:
McCain:
This is an open thread, beyotches.
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Ok – Norm Dicks, Christine Gregoire and WHO is that with the obscene T shirt that mispells diabetes?
Dino Rossi didn’t suddenly get old and grow a mustache….maybe all that whining about losing the last election is having health effects….
Wilford Brimley for Quaker Oats?
Ah yes, thought it looked like a Photoshop deal. Compare: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilford_Brimley
“WHO is that with the obscene T shirt that mispells diabetes”
You didn’t know Wilford Brimley has diabeetus? And is perpetually encouraging you to get your diabeetus checked out? And he oddly manages to pronounce it correctly when he talks about the American Diabetes Association?
Will, it’s ‘Who’s for whom’. If we lose the objective case, the terrorists have already won :(
How do you like them oats?!
Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell are both in line behind Hillary Clinton. I know Cantwell has benefited from Clinton fund raising over the years.
will–
That picture of Dicks is about 25 years old!!
Also, you must have Photo Edited his enormous Toad-Head.
And Gregoire’s pic??
Looks like she ate lemons & is preparing to scold someone for disagreeing with her.
And the other dude??
What in the hell is that crawling on his top lip?
Live blogging Barack!
Filled up the Key Arena with 3000 overflowed listening to speakers.
No I’m not there. Watch NWCN for the live feed!
Gregoire’s up! Talking Boeing, Microsoft, Starbucks and Farm products pride!
She’s firing up the crowd!
Dicks is about 40 pounds to light in that pic.
The fierce urgency of NOW!
We cannot wait!
A new politics!
Folks we elect a politician.
@ 5:
Is that the infamous Mr. Cynical of BIAW fame???
The bed wetter with G.I. Joe action figure bed sheets who still lives in his mommy’s basement?
Hater of Gold Star mothers whose sons have paid the ultimate price in Iraq and has yet to serve his country?
Is that realllllly you??
The name George W. Bush will not be on the ballot!
SEIU is in the house!
(Key Arena that is)
Clueless Idiot@13,14: Son and his UW buds are there en masse. I’ll get the scoop.
You deliver poop. Smelly poop that is…
@ 13:
I beg to differ. John McCain = a 3rd term for the Bush presidency.
McCain sucked Bush’s dick so much his left cheek is permanently swollen.
I’m not buyin’ that cancer surgery crap either.
Wuz up, Apollo.
Come to get your daily fill of left jabs??
Notice the old skuul donkey are for Heilery.
Patty Murray – probably owes her senate position to Heilary.
Maria CanThinkWell – owes her political life to Heilary.
Clinton/Obama.
Take it to the bank.
Obama in 2016.
Son and his UW buds are there en masse.
You mean he’s not in Iraq fighting for your Dear Leader?
http://www.goarmy.com
Sign him up Stupes. After all you wear the “pants” in your family.
You don’t want the wife to wear a burqa, right?
We should never negotiate out of fear but we should never fear to negotiate.
GBS: Rocky, check back on an early thread… you were Reeling on the ropes. A leetle Rope-A-Dope action!
Lets go back into history and change our names. I’ll be Aaron Pryor, Larry Holmes, Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Robinson and you’ll be Rocky Marciano, Rocky Graziano, Gerry Clooney, Gerrie Coetzee?
GBS No, Obama/Heilary. Get it correct. You are smarter than the average donkey here.
You deliver poop. Smelly poop that is…
Nope I’m not serving up right wing bullshit. I have no interest in enabling your addiction.
We are going to close Gitmo!
Stupes, is this guy a “moonbat”?
The same old folks doing the same old things and somehow expecting a different result.
Clueless Idiot: And you can get your American History knowledge through Go Get Your GED! You can do it!
You can’t be afraid to talk to the other side.
He’s going to talk to you Stupes!
I know what you’re going to say to him:
Get thee away “Moonbat”! I have to check first with right wing bullshit central!
you can get your American History knowledge
What about American History Stupes? You mean that Eugenics crap you keep trying to paste on today’s Progressives?
Here’s a some up to date “history”.
You are full of shit..
Puddybud @ 22:
Whatever name you want to be called make no difference to me, the beat down you take is all the same.
You’ll want to pick a more appropriate name, though, like Roberto “no mas” Duran.
Clinton/Obama.
9/11 used to scare up votes..
Stupes’ vote for sure.
GBS@12 IS THAT THE SAME GBS WHO WAS BOOTED BY THE NAVY,HOWS THAT BCD WORKING OUT FOR YA.
This is our moment. This is our time!
We will change the country and we will change the world!
Obama 2008!
Not good news when even people on the extreme left stop believing the hype.
“Let’s put the Obama activist and donor numbers in perspective – 650,000 donors is a lot, but John Kerry had around 2 million donors”
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3740
Wanna know who the Democrati primary ends?
Obama will hold his lead until no later than April 23rd. After that Clinton will have a the lead and will not relinquish it.
However, neither candidate will have enough to go over the top. We will have a brokered convention and due to the historical significance of this primary the delegate leader will get the Super Delegates.
Hillary, not being the clear winner will ask Barak to be her VP. Barack will accept and together the stability of the old with the enthusiasm of the new future will spur the Democrats to a victorty with 300+ electoral votes for the Clinton/Obama ticket.
I’d ask you to bet lunch on it, but I don’t want to wait until 2010 to get paid.
Me, me.
BCD?? You mean, Big Cock Dragging the ground.
It’s working out quite well for me. You know, I’m part black, right?
From my belt to mid thigh.**
**Disclaimer: Racial joke apporved by Puddybud in 2006.
Hey, how’s your mushroom cap for a penis working out? It must be a bitch to piss on your finger and thumb every time you take a leak.
It’s going to be fun to watch who the nomination is. After all, it’s not going to be determined by the voters but by political insiders. No need leaving it to the stupid people to decide. Leave it to the people that know better. And you’ll like it or else.
Caucusoids: There’s been some pewling about The Oath, the cert required for a ballot to be counted (Republican) or “counted” (Democrat on the 19th. Seems that Independents feel they’re being squeezed between coercion and disfranchisement.
So who’s to blame? Silly Rabbits … that’s easy! Blame Doorknob Dan Savage, the fine fey man who gave us Iraq (in mid-2002 Savage made the cogent and compelling case for war that Bush was unwilling or unable to make, so Bush was persuaded by Dan’s logic and marched on in).
In Y2K, more or less, Savage smirked about crashing the GOP caucus and getting himself elected as precinct leader. Then he crashed Gary Bauer’s campaign HQ and licked the doorknobs. Ergo oaths. Stranger than Stranger fiction, but true. Now you know.
(Democrat) on the 19th.
Vote for Hillary and I will be your next ‘Shadow’ President maintaining control over the Oval Office (and not having to worry about impeachment!!! :-) )
GBS: Your head is exploding. Shame on you!
HEY GBS MY COCK MAY NOT BE BIG BUT YOU DONT WANT IT ON YOUR NOSE AS A WART.HOWS THE JOB AT BURGER KING WORKING OUT FOR YA.ITS NOT EVERYONE AT THIS SITE CAN SAY THEY WERE THROWN OUT OF THE NAVY.LOSsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssER
Because the Taliban wing of our Broadway Gay community is malignantly confused, let’s help ’em out.
This (http://www.bigsibling.com/wp-c.....phelps.jpg) is shit. This (http://athletics.uwa.edu/Sport.....herson.jpg) isn’t.
This (insert picture of Broadway-Joe-Gay-Taliban pig fucking bigot here) is shit. This (http://slog.thestranger.com/fi.....ad-220.jpg) isn’t.
Any questions?
Those of us on the Irgun wing of the born-again Jewish community can dream that Reverend Hutcherson takes a break from his love-the-sinner theology, and reverts briefly to the NFL bone crusher who stomped wimpy white boys into the ground. We can dream that an unreconstructed Hutcherson takes a walk on the wild side of Broadway, finds the dickwads who think he resembles Phred Phelps, and instructs them toward a more nuanced understanding.
But, alas, Reverend Hutcherson is a Christian, fair game for every brainless bigot and Savage Stranger that this place so plentifully emits.
Well at least Time peeps are fessing up.
http://www.time-blog.com/tuned.....eport.html
Hey libruls let’s look at the taxes paid by ExxonMobil since you all think they are such an evil company, more commonly called class warfare.
http://www.taxfoundation.org/U.....-690px.jpg presents the picture of all the states with their gas taxes.
I understand the reduced capacity state of a librul, so I’ll make it simple for you…
The U.S. Department of Transportation estimates the average family of four pays $1084 in fed, state & local gas taxes each year. Yet I don’t hear any donkey kong crying about this tax. Where is the Clueless Idiot on this issue? Oh… it’s above his minuscule brain power.
So for you leftist pinheads who claim I never bring anything to this blog here’s another of my many PuddyStudies.
If ExxonMobil pays $30 Billion for 2007 the Fed extracted a lot more in tax revenue. But how much?
Let’s assume the average American price for gas is $3. ExxonMobil 2007 pretax profit was $70.6 Billion. They paid $30 Billion in taxes for 2007. I doubt you’ll hear this from the liberal donkey led MSM. So if gas is $3/gallon and they make 9.5 cents per dollar that’s 28.5 cents per gallon. Well if we take $70,600,000,000 and divide by $0.285/gallon = 247,719,298,245.61 gallons of gas and we multiply that by $.46 excise taxes/gallon = $113,950,877,192.98.
Ummm donkey breaths, that $113 Billion in taxes from mostly the leetle peeples. The Feds get 18.4 cents/gallon and the rest is state and local. so if the Feds get 18.4 cents = $20,966,961,403.51 in tax revenue from selling gas.
If I am wrong in my calculations please point out where. So the small amount of tax credits the BIG EVIL oil companies get allow them to explore, drill and pump the crude out, and this is more than offset by the tax revenue taken in by the feds.
But this is a class warfare issue for the donkey party who never look at the big picture and don’t want you to investigate it.
And Clueless Idiot, Proud Leftist etc. I did this on my own. No right wing site to help me.
A lefty MSMer can denigrate GWB all he wants but when he talks about Chelsea kablammm he’s suspended…
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvn....._77059.asp
I guess you can’t pimp the ex-first girl.
I bet he was suspended with pay of course!
Obama/Edwards 2008!
Or maybe Clinton as VP, and Edwards as Attorney General.
Man, 2009 onward is going to be great, unless you are a neocon kool-aid drunk Repug.
Edwards is a non starter, dude.
5:
Cyniclown:
The asshole returns. What a pleasure to have you back (sarcasm). You once bid us adieu, promising to never post here again. Typical Republican. Lying out your ass and every other orifice that God gave you.
Please, crawl back under your rock.
When I delivered my PuddyStudy on biofuels earlier I was scoffed at by the 16%ers. I discussed the dead rivers and the Gulf dead zone and the amount of fertilizer used and the Ogallala Aquifer I was chastised byt the Minions. Once again Puddy was ahead of his time on his PuddyStudy, and right again.
http://www.businessandmedia.or.....50836.aspx
But as always when a 16%er gets a thought into their small cranial orifices, it rattles around for a long time before becoming sentient thought.
Here you go:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....04230.html
But Puddy, but Puddy you … were… right!
re 45: No one looks at your calculations because you go into the project with the result pre determined in your large, round , shiny noggin.
If the numbers don’t fit your dogma, you change the numbers.
Puddy,
You must have some sense of pride or accomplishment in either the growth of our country to accept, or in Obama himself, for being not just a candidate for president, but a bona fide contender for the highest office in the land. Puddy, a black man who is not a religious leader is moving people to emotionally invest his thoughts, in his words, in his ideals. He is inspiring in a way not seen in this country since John F. Kennedy. I am proud to tell you that I cast my vote for Barack Obama. I firmly believe that his message of hope and change is what this country needs at this moment.
Surely you can acknowledge that this is an extraordinary time, indeed a watershed moment, for this country and her history as we move forward. We can never go back now. Barack has changed this country and how we view PEOPLE. I did not see color before he came along. I recognize that others do. But Barack Obama has, just by his presence, a powerful and forceful presence I might add, changed how we look at one an other. (Tennessee is an exception and the entire state should be ashamed).
Do you see that, or does the conservative in you deny what your lying eyes are seeing?
MLF
Hey Will Hyphen-Name
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....rats_women
Do you feel sorta left out that they’re only “wooing” the girls and not you hyphen named girly men?
Hey libruls let’s look at the taxes paid by ExxonMobil
They don’t pay enough. They get special treatment and they don’t hardly need it. Let them pay at the same rate as a light manufacturer or other struggling small business.
Headless Racist Baril: Stop with the 15th name so far and just be who you are a racist librul!
Clueless Idiot@56: Nothing is enough for you. I guess that Chevy Chevette has to keep carrying your sorry ass around for many more years!
Headless Racist Baril: The numbers are slanted?
Well then Mr 24/7 show me where they are wrong…
Or as I suspect, you are talking out your nether region again hence I call you a HorsesASSHole!
Carl, have you been paying attention? I said I would vote for Obama. Only cuz he’s black and this glass ceiling has to be broken. I know my friends whom think right will be upset, but so be it. Heilery NEVER!
Now I will with all my fiber help elect a Republican Senate to keep him honest. I don’t see the House going right again and the knee-jerkism is still in play.
Racist Creighton Baril: Even MSNBC carried it:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23057867/
Study: Corn ethanol worse than gasoline – Greenhouse emissions much higher if land use factored in, researchers say
@56: Exxon Mobil just made more money than any other corporation in history – obscene profits for the second time in 3 years – while the average person is seeing a depression, sagging wages, job losses and a falling dollar – and we are supposed to be happy about that?
Go Obama! He filled Key arena today and they had to turn people away – meanwhile, Hillary was whining for money at UPS. I ain’t voting for him just cause he is black – but he sure amkes good sense when he speaks and I don’t get the nagging feeling he is lying to me – like when I hear Hillary speak.
Puddy @ 45: “And Clueless Idiot, Proud Leftist etc. I did this on my own.”
I am so proud of you. I’m sending you an online gold star.
60:
I must admit I don’t come here everyday and I must have missed your posts on Obama. Sorry.
I am not a Clinton fan either. I will vote for her in the general election if she is the nominee. I disagree with you about the senate. It is going to move further to the left. I am afraid the Bush/Rove/Cheney triumvirate has doomed your party for the next 20 years.
How will you vote should Obama be the choice for VP?
@56…YippyLil’Boy…
I’ve got a better tax plan crafted with you in mind: you should pay more.
Since you think high tax rates are the bees knees, then the more you pay, the more moral you are. Don’t be a piker! And since you probably leach ever so much off the gub’mint teat, then why not make the teat that much sweeter by layin’ it all down for the man!
You yearn for all to be slaves to the government, so let’s see you take the lead!
The Piper
@61…Puddy…
Speaking of MSNoBodyCares…
MSNastyBunchofClowns reporter/sometime host David Shuster made a dispariging comment about Chelsea Clinton contending that her Momma’s campaign in having her reach out and touch someone for campaign moolah “pimped out” the lass.
Hiya, fat cat donor, new in town?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....bc_clinton
Shuster’s broadcasting career has been put on temporary hiatus.
So much for the lib’s favorite cable network’s decorum and objective journalism.
Is Keith Olbermann next?
The Piper
@18
Actually, Murray and Cantwell owe their positions to the people of Washington state that voted overwhelmingly for them.
2004 Patty Murray 1,549,708 55%
George R. Nethercutt, Jr. 1,204,584 43%
2006 Maria Cantwell 1,184,659 56.9
Mike McGavick 832,106 39.9
Spank!
You fling the charge of racism so casually. Is it your only weapon, when it comes down to it?
The world will put up with an angry young black man, Mr. PibbyBub, but no one likes a manipulative, bitter, middle-aged black man whose final line of intellectual defense is always: “You are a racist.”
I got news for you. Being black is not some kind of red badge of courage that you can wave in another man’s face when you can’t overcome his arguments with facts and logic.
@ 66:
Seeing how MSNBC recently extended his contract for years I doubt very much is next. Unless, of course, you mean anchoring the national nightly news.
Sucks to have a real news man telling the unfettered truth. Unlike anything on Faux News.
Michael, who came out here to campaign for Maria CantVoteWell?
Both Clintons. You have no political memory, so I have to prove it to you:
“The Clintons have done favors for which they can call in chits.
Cantwell, who endorsed Hillary Clinton early this month, has cited the Clintons’ help in retiring her 2000 campaign debt. Bill Clinton raised $330,000 in a Seattle visit. Hillary Clinton opened her Embassy Row mansion in Washington, D.C., for a Cantwell fundraiser.
Hillary Clinton did a 1998 fundraiser for House candidate Jay Inslee at Dale Chihuly’s glass sculpture studio. Bill Clinton wrote the foreword to Inslee’s recent book “Apollo’s Fire.”
Inslee is a co-chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in Washington.
Both Clintons campaigned here for Cantwell in 2006. Bill Clinton did a fundraiser to benefit Rep. Jim McDermott’s legal defense fund. McDermott fought a decadelong legal battle with Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, over the leak of an illegally taped conversation between House Republican leaders.
Hillary Clinton has been soliciting McDermott’s support in a battle for the hearts and minds of Seattle liberals.
She has twice been the keynote speaker at Murray’s annual Golden Tennis Shoes awards ceremony and fundraising lunch.
Murray praised Clinton’s “steeliness and courage” in the face of a hostile crowd turned out by right-wing radio hosts in 1994 when the first lady launched a “Health Care Caravan” in Seattle. ”
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/.....oel31.html
Fair use and copyleft to the URL owner.
Puddy seldom forgets.
So, I went to the Obama rally today, and actually got in.
I walked away asking “Where’s the beef?”.
He’s a great Orator, but this rally speech was big on ideas and small on specifics.
I came out smiling, but as I thought about it, i realized there was no substance to the rally. I felt like maybe I had just been to a scientologist indoctrination.
So I went, I listened with open ears, and after all that, I have been unmoved, and am still convinced that I am caucusing for Hillary tomorrow.
GBS: Yeah he told the truth about pimping Chelsea and he was suspended. I bet with pay as I wrote earlier today…
And, PibbyBub. There is a literary reference in #68 that you might do well to ponder before spouting off again with your unfounded accusations.
headless lucy: just be yourself. I can at least understand you as you are. When you post under 15 different names on this blog, you eventually slip up and say something stupid which you said before. Then I prove to everyone who you are again. I will continue to embarASS you till the end of the world.
You talk from the nether regions hence you are a HorsesASSHole – and as Ann Robinson said “Goodbye”.
Headless lucy: At least I got you out of the closet again. You argue with facts and logic? waaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaa
Give me a break. I’m still waiting for you to prove my ExxonMobil calculations wrong. I challenged you since you said: “If the numbers don’t fit your dogma, you change the numbers.”
I posted the links on how I got the numbers HorsesASSHole. The racist bile you spew needs corking, a cork up your ASS!
Remember GBS: This one’s on your side!
Sorry
Puddybud, I mean, Roberto, I wasn’t clear. I was referring to the Keith Olbermann comment of being “next.”I haven’t gotten to the news about David Shuster yet. I’ll have to read about it this weekend.
Okay
GBSGerry B (Silent S) SClooney. Take your time and read it.@70
Yes, both the Clinton’s helped Cantwell and Murrary on their campaigns, and W and a host of other Republicans helped Mike! and Nethercutt. And in the end people voted overwhelmingly for Cantwell and Murrary.
The people of Washington State seem to like the Clinton’s much better than the Bush’s.
Hey, Puddybud, Roberto, the Gerry Clooney thing wasn’t funny!!!
Yeah, it was. Good one.
So give me the quick scoop without the hyperbole, what’s with David Shuster?
@70
See, what matters in the end is who wins the election and Cantwell and Murray seem to be much better at doing that than your Republican buddies.
Piper: I seem to remember GBW in his last state of the Union Address he told Clueless Idiot where to make out his extra tax payment check.
Well Clueless Idiot, just send back your rebate check, no one will know except the IRS and you. Send it back so you “pay” your fair share.
Hmm… I seem to remember getting a pre-recorded message form one of the Bush daughters back in ’04. She sounded drunk…
J/K
hey Dusty, Mr. “So I went, I listened with open ears”?
Didn’t you claim in an earlier post to have given the max($2300) to the Clinton campaign?
If you deny it, I will find it, and repost it along with a pointer to it. If you do not deny it, you really are not listening “with open ears”, and just a fucking liar.
GBS: David Shuster talked about the “pimping” of Chelsea to improve her image. Apparently the word pimp isn’t acceptable to the Clinton Crime Campaign Participants(CCCP) so they blew a ‘rhoid and now you see Shuster is on “sabbatical”.
Michael: Never said this wasn’t FUWA the blue did I? All I did as always was provide PuddyFacts, plain and simple.
PuddyFacts are available to you as MichaelFacts if you stop drinking the kool-aid and researched things…
PuddybudRoberto, belay my last at 80.I just read the article on Shuster.
That’s uncalled for and I’m glad MSNBC took the high road and punished him for it. That’s not something you’d see on FOX News.
MSNBC has a track record of punishing and/or punishing their on air personalities. I seem to remember some dude named, let’s what’s his name, OH YEAH, Don Imus, lost his job over calling some black girls nappy headed ho’s.
I rember when Rush had a TV show and when Chelsea was a young girl living at the White House when they got Barney the dog. Rush said something to the effect that “here’s the Clinton’s new dog” and the next shot was Chelsea.
The only time Rush got in trouble for running his mouth that I can recall was his racial comments about Donavan McNabb and the media.
Ahhhh yes busdrivermike, a search engine genius…
PuddyIdiot – I’m doing with the rebate what was intended and what most americans will do and have done at this stage in the business cycle: pay down debt.
The silly rebate was nothing more than a bailout of the banks.
It isn’t going to do anything for the economy!
GBS: Didn’t someone else say Donovan McNabb was overrated and got a pass?
Again, Gerry B. SClooney, Puddy seldom forgets:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/n.....E_ID=34910
See ya…
Damn GBS, I’ll call PacMan and we can do lunch sometime. You making the big bucks now so you buy?
Clueless Idiot:
Sorry bub Idiot is your name.
Being stupid is your game.
Leaving diarrhea is your fame!
Shit, it’s Friday and I can’t type worht a shit!
PuddybudRoberto that 420 you sold me is really po-tent.Thanks!!
Bing “bong”
PuddyBUDRoberto calling. “Around here, at Normandy and Western, we call this a twen, twenty!”“Friday” I love that movie.
PuddyBUDRoberto @ 90.You wanna say it now, or do I have to make you say it?!?!
Hey, yeah,
PuddyBUDRoberto. The three of us can do lunch again.Why not? I just dropped $2,200 on the Porsche last week what’s another $50?
Fuck Bosch turbo air mass meters are EXPENSIVE!
michael @ 67
Please…George *crazy man* Nethercutt and Mike *I am the Insurance Industry* McGavick?
And they got as many votes as they did?
Cantwell is on shaky ground and she knows it. I won’t forget her attempt to bypass the citizens vote by committing before the state had it’s say.
Murray is ok, but not great enough to buy into the machine keeping her in power in a year when the public is railing against the machine.
The pipeline needs to be improved…on both sides…drastically. I’m sick of picking between the lessor of all evils.
I’ve got a better tax plan crafted with you in mind: you should pay more.
The tax cuts for the rich should expire and any middle class tax cuts should stay – the middle class has gone nowhere for years.
Loopholes and breaks for corporations should be expired. Put all outfits on an even playing field.
The government should start collecting a carbon tax balanced with payroll tax cuts and energy assistance for the poor (“fuelstamps”). The monies collected can help pay for medicare for all and jumpstart a green economy.
Yes, let the rich pay off the debt of Bush’s stupid war. Maybe they’ll remember this and won’t let another idiot get into the White House along with a lot of rubberstamps in the Congress.
In the meantime the poor and the middle class will work to build the new green economy and clean up the mess left by the right wing looters and pillagers.
If you breakdown the word “psychotherapist” you actually can form the words “Psycho the Rapist.” Neat, huh?
What you guys really should start taxing is wealth, not income. Just think of it: you could hit-up Bill Gates and others for billions each year, based on their accumulated wealth.
Hey, why not ake a certain percentage of those pesky retirement accounts? You could use the money to prop up the Ponzi scheme of social (in)security. Or maybe we cod give it to the UN and hold hands and sing “Kumbaya” Wouldn’t it be nice to feel that wonderful aura of granola-based moral superiority? And all you have to do is start taxing what people own, not what the earn! Piece of cake, dontcha think?
Our Constitution is under threat and the most basic principle of checks and balances is being undermined. Not since Watergate has a president so openly disregarded the will of Congress.
During hearings in the Judiciary Committee yesterday, I told Attorney General Michael Mukasey that I called for impeachment hearings because of the stonewalling and blatant abuses of the Bush Administration. He responded by stating that he will NOT enforce a contempt of Congress citation against Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten for refusing to testify before Congress. The video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7M9sjRLCtQ
Alberto Gonzales may be long gone, but the Bush Administration continues its executive overreach with the new Attorney General.
We can debate the need for Impeachment hearings. We can argue its effects on the election or our agenda. But one thing is abundantly clear:
If Congress’ right to require testimony is undermined, then our country’s leaders – Democrat, Republican, or Independent – will be immune from accountability.
The power of the subpoena – to call officials before us – is one of the most fundamental safeguards in our system of government. To have it effectively discarded – by virtue of the President instructing Administration officials to ignore a congressional subpoenas and not even appear before Congress – is unprecedented. The idea that the Attorney General would willingly defend this position – despite Congress’ constitutional right to call such witnesses, is outrageous.
Impeachment hearings could render this moot: The President, Vice President, and all officials under them would no longer invoke executive privilege. There would be no more smokescreens.
In one week, I will be delivering my letter calling for impeachment hearings to Chairman John Conyers. Already, 16 Members of Congress have joined my call, including 3 Judiciary Committee members. I am hopeful for more in the coming days, but it is important for you to reach out to your representative in Congress to express how you feel. You can view the current list of signers, here: http://www.wexlerforcongress.c.....ItemID=230
I do not know how Congress will react, but I do know this: I will pursue this course aggressively. I will not compromise away the constitutional role of Congress. Your support is invaluable. Please know that I am working everyday to ensure that the Bush Administration is held accountable.
Please continue to support this movement at http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com.
Yours truly,
Congressman Robert Wexler
@101 The one thing you pud slappers seem to forget is that “politics” is cyclical. Always! The Republicans had forgotten that, and are about to get another very unpleasant reminder. You dims seem to have forgotten it already, with your talk of destroying the Republican party and so on. You might get a decade or so of doing what you want, but guaranteed, unless you outlaw dissent or something equally draconian, the wheel will turn at some point. I’m hoping that by the time it does folks will be ready for a serious try at Libertarianism. Either way, however, Liberalism has a limited half-life, which you’d best remember.
This isn’t talk about destroying the Republican party. This is talk about holding criminals accountable for their behavior. The fact that these people are Republicans is beside the point. Or at least would be if the republicans had policed themselves when they were in power. Your problem is you are more loyal to your party than to your country and it’s constitution and rule of law.
@103 No, my problem is that I’m an adherent of a political philosophy for adults – Libertarianism, living in a country inhabited by (mostly) spoiled children.
And yes, there is plenty of talk on this site about destroying the Republican party. You don’t even have to look very hard. If your radical wing has the influence that they claim to have – read DU, or KOS, it’ll actually go a lot farther than just eliminating the Republican party. The word ‘Pogrom’ comes to mind, for some reason…
@104 you responded to 101 and I responded to you at 102. I don’t give a shit if you are a libertarian or a vegeatarian. If a powerful politician breaks the law he/she should be held accountable. Bush and his ilk have attacked this country in so many ways it would take pages to detail them all. They have been helped in their lawlessness by compliant Republicans in congress and spineless democrats. Your argument at 104 is just the usual straw man bullshit that passes for rightwing wacko reasoning on this blog. Since you bring it up: considering the damage the republicans have done to this country in the past seven years the destruction of their party could hardly be a bad thing. “Pogrom”! Fuck! you make Piper Scott sound reasonable. I don’t know what DU is and I don’t read KOS. I’m a progressive. his touting of the Democrats holds little appeal for me.
@105 You’re right, I didn’t address *one* of your contentions – that of accountability. I agree with its necessity. However, I don’t concede the need for widescale action until/unless there are actual convictions, in a court of law. You think the President on down are guilty of various crimes, and you may even be right. Once it passes through the courts, then provided that there is actually anything of substance for conviction, I’ll be happy to join in calling for their heads.
Unless your reading comprehension is severely lacking, you mentioned two other items which I did answer in 103. Strawman? I think not. It is easy to find talk of destroying the Republican party, of which you even mention the desire to do yourself. And your spurious claim that I am more loyal to party than to the constitution. Seems to me its the exact opposite.
Don’t try to ride in a horserace when all you’ve got is an old nag.
Candidate “Feel-good” Obama is proposing the Americans with No Abilities or Ambition (AAWNAA)to give special staus to those who choose to get No Education and sit around on there asses looking for handouts and impregnating or being impregnated out of wedlock….and everything else to buy votes. Obama has become a rock-star for Hollywood & lazy asses.
On foreign policy, Feel-good will “negotiate with everyone!!”. Isn’t that what Neville Chamberlain did with Hitler & the Munich Pact?? That worked out well. Isn’t that what Svoboda of Czechoslavakia did in 1968 with Breshnev of Russia….and 3 weeks later they were invaded.
Happy days are here again!!