Um… I guess the good news for President Bush is that he’s still more than twice as popular as Vice-President Dick Cheney.
Political reversals at home and continued bad news from Iraq have dragged President Bush’s standing with the public to a new low, at the same time that Republican fortunes on Capitol Hill also are deteriorating, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll.
The survey found that 38 percent of the public approve of the job Bush is doing, down three percentage points in the past month and his worst showing in Post-ABC polling since he became president. Sixty percent disapprove of his performance.
[…]
A majority of registered voters, 55 percent, say they plan to vote for the Democratic candidate in their House district, while 40 percent support the Republican candidate. That is the largest share of the electorate favoring Democrats in Post-ABC polls since the mid-1980s.
This grim news for the GOP is offset somewhat by the finding that 59 percent of voters still say they approve of their own representative. But even these numbers are weaker than in recent off-year election cycles and identical to support of congressional incumbents in June 1994 — five months before Democrats lost control of Congress to Republicans.
The emphasis is mine… and well deserved.
Way to go GOP! Way to go Mr. Preznit!
The man is not even popular among Republicans now. He has his highest negs ever among the faithful… Nice. Can’t blame this one on the terrorists!
Darcy “Burn Rubber” Burner endangers public with reckless disregard for traffic law
Goldy, since you’re so cozy with Darcy’s campaign, how about you post an explanation of:
Burner, Darcy Gibbons (Defendant)
King County District Court
Case #IS0112494
File Date: 06/15/2005
Why is the case is still open?
Just how fast was she going?
Did she hurt anyone? Herself? Any property?
And the good news for Dick Cheney is he’s still (slightly) more popular than bird flu.
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Maybe the case is still open because she’s contesting a bogus ticket given to her by a redneck cop who wants the Republican to win?
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Of course, I’m just speculating, but then so was Bush when he invaded Iraq because he thought Saddam had WMDs.
Goldy, you should file a lawsuit against Mark the Redneck for the $100 he owes you. Yeah, yeah, I posted that you can’t get a court judgment for a gambling debt, but collecting the money isn’t the point. While it’s pending, Redneck will have a District Court case number, too.
Then, if Redneck decides to run for dogcatcher, you can count on Richard Poop and/or Surreal Mark to take him out.
Moonbatian economic theories: Moonbats, please contribute your gems. I’d love to hear them…
Government exists to make private wealth possible.
Commentby Belltowner— 3/12/06@ 4:15 pm
I like Castro’s system better. He confiscates the employer’s property, shoots the employer, and the workers get quality health care for free. We need something like that in America.
Commentby Roger Rabbit— 3/19/06@ 3:42 pm
…the oil industry is a zero sum game ( like checkers )
Commentby headless lucy— 4/9/06@ 2:56 pm
“…higher PRODUCTIVITY means fewer jobs…”
Commentby Donnageddon— 4/9/06@ 4:06 pm
NBC News quoted an oil analyst today as saying if Bush attacks Iran, $200-bbl. oil could be “on the table.” If that happens, gas will cost $6, maybe $7 a gallon — maybe even $8 a gallon.
So if Bush is gonna pull the trigger, let’s hope he does it before the election. That should make things interesting for Republican incumbents trying to get re-elected.
Of course Bush can’t, and won’t, get congressional authorization to nuke Iran. He’ll get his Alberto puppet to say, “The president has inherent authority to nuke Iran!” And Mark the Redneck will say, “If the president does it, it’s legal!”
Wow! This thread is already up to a dozen posts! That’s more than Stefan’s sucky little blog gets in a week.
Mark the Commie @8
Hey Mark, you LIKE Castro’s system, yes? “If the leader does it, it’s legal!” So why NOT shoot employers? Why NOT wiretap dissidents and critics? Why NOT nuke Iran? If Bush does it, it’s legal! I can tell you’re a big admirer of the J.V. Stalin/KGB system. Fucking commie.
So, Redneck, why did you turn commie?
If Bush does it, it’s legal. — Mark the Redneck
Government exists to make private wealth possible.
Commentby Belltowner— 3/12/06@ 4:15 pm
MTR, you mongoloid, you should at least cite the source text:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ.....8;n=283155
“Ummm…. if the President says it… it’s not a “leak”. A “leak” is disclosing information without authorization. Since the President is the boss, it is by definition not a leak since he can authorize whatever the fuck he wants. That’s how things work when you’re boss.” Commentby Mark The Redneck— 4/10/06@ 3:06 pm
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here it is again:
“Ummm…. if the President says it… it’s not a “leak”. A “leak” is disclosing information without authorization. Since the President is the boss, it is by definition not a leak since he can authorize whatever the fuck he wants. That’s how things work when you’re boss.” Commentby Mark The Redneck— 4/10/06@ 3:06 pm
re 8: MTR: Beyond RR’s statement, which was tongue in cheek, what do you find so laughable about the other statements. Be specific.
Man only the nuttiest of the wing nuts could be in the 38% of the idiots who still support the regime of GW Bush. He’s a traitor and a coward and so is anyone who supports him – and when we take over the Congress, we’ll impeach his lying, draft-dodging, AWOL, bin Laden-lovin’ ass!
Here is a look at how the unions spend the money they extort from millions of their members
http://www.unionfacts.org/news.cfm?id=16
20- ‘…..bin Laden-lovin’ ass’
Funny there is never any hateful comments towards bin Laden on this board. Hmmm……
Here’s an example of MARKET FREELOADER ECONOMICS:
“In 1992, eight years after the state of Colorado had issued an operating permit to Galactic Resources, the company declared bankruptcy and closed the mine on less than a week’s notice, leaving a large local tax bill unpaid, laying off its employees, stopping essential environmental maintenance, and abandoning the site. A few months later, after the start of the winter snowfalls, the heap-leach system overflowed, sterilizing an 18-mile stretch of the Alamosa River with cyanide. It was then discovered that the state of Colorado had required a financial guarantee of only $4,500,000 as a condition for issuing the operating permit, but that the cleanup would cost $180,000,000. After the government extracted another $28,000,000 as part of the bankruptcy settlement, taxpayers were left to pay $147,500,000 through the Environmental Protection Agency.”
— Collapse, by Jared Diamond (Penguin Books, 2005), p. 456.
(Dr. Diamond is a geography professor at UCLA whose awards include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a National Medal of Science, and a Pulitzer Prize.)
I’m sure REDNECK will explain to us how the theory of MARKET FREELOADER ECONOMICS works.
George W. Bush is a big fan of MARKET FREELOADER ECONOMICS. He likes the 1872 mining law just the way it is! His mining industry buddies get the profits, the shareholders get the shaft, and the taxpayers get the bill.
And the local residents get a huge, unsightly, poisonous hole in the ground.
only the nuttiest of the wing nuts could be in the 38% of the idiots who still support the regime of GW Bush. He’s a traitor and a coward and so is anyone who supports him
Cant you moonbats ever get your proganda straight. When has it is now up to 38%? I thought is was 32% a month ago. Well with this trend in another 3 month Bush will be over 50%. You donks are hilarious.
Dicksucker at 27 – read the fucking post by Goldy asshole. While I do think 38% has to be high, that’s the basis of this thread and the comments herein. Perhaps reading is too hard for you? Probably get all your news from that drug addict and draft dodger Lush Flimbaugh.
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Please link the post where you saw “32%.” All the posts I’ve seen have quoted polls saying 36% to 38%.
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REPUBLICAN = FREELOADER
Republicans are
F R E E L O A D E R S
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You give flaky klake too much credit. He’s a fucking liar.
19… uhhhh… that they’re stoopid maybe? yeah, that’s it…
So Loocy, tell me… if gas was $500/gal would oil companies make more money than they do today. No bullshit. Just answer the fucking question yes or no.
So Redneck – what do you think of all the Republican Pervs that are guided by the “Invisible Hand”?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories.....0874.shtml
My mistake. A little over a month ago is was 34% from CBS. There is little difference between SeeBS and ABC, they are all mouthpieces for the democratic party.
Rufus the doofus: you’d make a great suitor for this Republican “lady”.
You and MTR can compete for her hand under the big tent of Republicanism.
Rufus the doofus: Here is a more intimate shot of “her”.
Mouthpieces for the democratic party = “lying sacks of shit” for all those independents out there.
April 11, 2006
Media Selectively Recycles Old News
By Jack Kelly
We journalists are environmentally friendly. We recycle. We’ve been recycling old news all weekend, without, of course, telling you it’s old news.
“A senior administration official confirmed for the first time on Sunday that President Bush had ordered the declassification of parts of a prewar intelligence report on Iraq in an effort to rebut critics who said the administration had exaggerated the nuclear threat posed by Saddam Hussein,” reported David Sanger and David Johnston in the New York Times Monday.
For the first time? Here’s the AP’s Tom Raum on July 20, 2003: “The White House declassified portions of an October, 2002 intelligence report to demonstrate that President Bush had ample reason to believe Iraq was reconstituting a nuclear weapons program.”
“The unusual decision to declassify a major intelligence report was a bid by the White House to quiet a growing controversy over Bush’s allegations about Iraq’s weapons programs,” wrote Dana Milbank and Dana Priest in the Washington Post the day before.
Mr. Sanger and Mr. Johnston must have slept through that month. Why the recycling? In a court filing April 5, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald reported that I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, told the grand jury that Mr. Cheney had authorized him to disclose portions of the National Intelligence Estimate to Judith Miller of the New York Times a couple of weeks before its general release.
The NIE was declassified to rebut charges by Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV that President Bush lied when he said in his 2003 State of the Union address that “the British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium in Africa.”
Mr. Libby has been indicted by Mr. Fitzgerald for lying to the grand jury about whether he told Ms. Miller that Mr. Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, worked at the CIA, and was responsible for dispatching him on his now famous trip to Niger.
Dafna Linzer and Barton Gellman of the Washington Post should be grateful no legal jeopardy is attached to lying to their readers. In their story Sunday they said: “the evidence Cheney and Libby selected to share with reporters had been disproved months before.”
The opposite is true. In July of 2004, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence concluded unanimously that it was Mr. Wilson who was lying. He had been sent to Niger by his wife, and he told the CIA officers who debriefed him that Iraqi officials had approached Nigerien officials about buying “yellowcake.”
Also that month, a parliamentary panel which investigated British claims about Iraqi WMD, the Butler Commission, concluded that the statements that Saddam had tried to buy uranium in Africa were “well founded.” Perhaps Ms. Linzner and Mr. Gellman slept through that month.
Most of the recycled stories this weekend described the release of portions of the NIE as a “leak,” a word that was not used in July of 2003 when the NIE was made public. For good reason. A leak is an unauthorized disclosure of classified information.
“President Bush was right to approve the declassification of parts of a National Intelligence Estimate about Iraq three years ago in order to make clear why he had believed that Saddam Hussein was seeking nuclear weapons,” said the Washington Post in an editorial Sunday, one which noted the holes in Mr. Wilson’s story which Ms. Linzner and Mr. Gellman somehow overlooked. “Presidents are authorized to declassify sensitive material, and the public benefits when they do.”
The weekend’s feeding frenzy was based on the little bit of news that Judy Miller had been briefed on the NIE before its general release. Hardly earth shattering or uncommon stuff. But many journalists saw an opportunity to imply the president had done something wrong, and to repeat charges made years ago which subsequently were proven false.
We’re more reluctant to reexamine old news even when there are new developments, if the new developments run counter to journalistic memes. Here’s a story you didn’t read on the front page: Among the captured Iraqi documents recently released to the public is a March 17, 2001 memo from an Iraqi air force brigadier general soliciting volunteers from his command for a suicide mission to “strike American interests.” Gee, in what sort of suicide mission would pilots have been useful?
Another document, released Friday, has not yet been translated from Arabic, but notations on it indicate it describes the movement of chemical and biological weapons.
But Saddam had no ties to terror groups, and he had no WMD. We told you so.
Anti-Goldy: how about these Republican pervs? Is the tent really that big?
How strangely silent are doofus, MTR and Anti-Goldy.
Not gonna take the bait-but nice try changing the subject.
Anti-Goldy: how about these Republican pervs? Is the tent really that big?
Commentby PLUCRs Suck Huevos— 4/10/06@ 9:54 pm
That is nothing compared to the public schools and the teachers union. Can you say union protected child molestation. Shit these donks have to be reminded all the time on where they come from don’t they.
Question of the day
Identify the following person:
He “has insisted that leakers thwart the proper functioning of government. In certain cases, they commit “treason.” He has described leakers as low-level, frustrated bureaucrats who feed their own egos by passing along juicy tidbits to mangy reporters.”
He once said “somebody in our government wanted to show off to his family or her family in between Christmas and New Year’s by leaking information in the press … I don’t know why people do that. I guess either to make you [the press] feel good and/or to make themselves feel good.”
Do you know who this person is?
http://www.slate.com/id/2139469/
i give you wingnut meltdown
Hey PLUCRs Suck Huevos you like my post on 43 do ya.
Hehehehehe Look who’s silent now beyotch. You donks can never win can you? Hehehehehehehe
Yellow Elephant @ 39:
Let’s see, no link, story gets its facts wrong…,
Yep, smells like a Right Wing Farce.
And it is.
First, you are confusing the White House following procedure to release the small portions of the NIE that were favorable to them. That is not at issue. They did it right and released it to everyone. That is not what Scooter Libby is talking about.
He is talking about the White House, in the person of Vice President Cheney with the authorization of the President leaking select portions of the NIE before it was publicly disclosed to the New York Times in a “”concerted action” by “multiple people in the White House” — using classified information — to “discredit, punish or seek revenge against” a critic of President Bush’s war in Iraq.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....00916.html
Different things. One was political and foolish, but not a leak. The other one was political and foolish and a leak. What is being reported now is the leak.
Do they not teach you any critical thinking skills at that college of yours? Or have you been around the wingnuts around here so long that you have forgotten how to think logically? Keep thinking like that and you will keep getting truth-slapped.
Oh, before I forget, Jack Kelly, your source on this who got everything wrong. Why is that no surprise? Oh, that’s right:
Seven weeks into an examination of former USA TODAY reporter Jack Kelley’s work, a team of journalists has found strong evidence that Kelley fabricated substantial portions of at least eight major stories, lifted nearly two dozen quotes or other material from competing publications, lied in speeches he gave for the newspaper and conspired to mislead those investigating his work.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/2.....main_x.htm
You know, you are right up there with Wrongboy, Flake, Doofus, [Just another Chicken Hawk], Mark the Welching Yellowback and Ms. Chicken Hawk with your sourcing. Now go join the Army, they may not be able to make a man out of you, but they will at least teach you to be honest. You won’t be a Republican anymore, but at least you will be an honor to your country instead of being an embarrassment to your school.
Let me get this straight Anti-America @ 39
You referenced Jack Kelley (although you misspelled his name)as a source confirming WMD transfer and ties to Al Queda to Iraq.
-USA TODAY reporter faked major stories
By Blake Morrison,USA TODAY
Seven weeks into an examination of former USA TODAY reporter Jack Kelley’s work, a team of journalists has found strong evidence that Kelley fabricated substantial portions of at least eight major stories, lifted nearly two dozen quotes or other material from competing publications, lied in speeches he gave for the newspaper and conspired to mislead those investigating his work
http://www.usatoday.com/news/2.....main_x.htm
I can see how the PLUCR’s are gonna be a big source of Rovian lies.
Keep up the BAD work!
Rufus: Those documents are being privately translated too. So the donk MSM can’t say it was a fake translation. When they are finally completed it will be interesting.
Librul moonbats: Here is a sentence that will repel the most ardent protester back the the president’s side: “Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi”. That scares the SHIT out of many people! Even my friends in donkofornia get sick over that prospect. Watch when the ads come out moonbats!
What is wrong with our wingnuts? I know the truth is very depressing to them right now, with the President either lying or leaking, most of their leaders under investigations and the polls in free fall and most people just laughing when they reach into their old playbook and say the same lies that haven’t been working for them for two years now. It has to be painful, and it must be so much easier to live in a delusional world.
But come on, I’m starting to think you want to be truth-slapped. Is this some weird sense of masochism, you want to be found out. Its as if the years of lying and having to say two plus two equals five have sapped you of all your strength. All that you have left is your fantasies, and in a few of your cases, your racism to keep you warm.
I pitty you, I truly do. But that doesn’t mean I’m not going to truth-slap your asses when you have nothing but truthism to back up your arguments. I suggest you read William Buckley and see what a principled conservative is like.
JustDumbBozo: Presidents don’t leak. By the nature of their position they can’t leak. They are at the head of the documentation chain! But keep up the leak mantra. Look into the spinning top and say over and over Leak! Leak! Leak!
Wrongboy at 49:
What is wrong with you? Are you reduced to running on negatives. Do Republicans have no ideas to run on?
Oh, that’s right, they don’t. And the guys you relied on are going on perp walks.
Sucks to be you!
You know moonbats you are playing out your hand well. What will you have to say different during the Summer and in September? What happens when the president and his men come out firing on all cylinders the last six weeks of the campaign? This will be fun.
Remember this sentence: “Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi” Watch!
What is your plan JustDumbBozo? The cut and run crowd voted 403 to 3 as I remember, then complained about the motion. The censure crowd ran away. Hilary is dropping in the polls. Tax and spend; is that your zero sum economic game?
Bush’s DICK leaks from what he got the last time the hooors from Odessa went to Crawford. They’re lucky Cheney wasn’t there that time.
Have you noticed Nancy Pelosi is basically missing in action lately? Why is that, JustDumbBozo?
Remember this sentence: “Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi” Watch!
Do Republicans have no ideas to run on?
Oh, that’s right, they don’t. And the guys you relied on are going on perp walks.
Commentby JDB— 4/10/06@ 10:51 pm
Speaking of which what do democrats stand for? Did they come out with it yet or are they still running focus groups?
Hey rufus the doofus: I don’t care much for the way you and your fellow Republicans spread democracy.
Wrongboy:
Boy, you really like being Truth-Slapped, don’t you.
“Main Entry: 1leak
Pronunciation: ‘lEk
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English leken, from Old Norse leka; akin to Old English leccan to moisten, Middle Irish legaid it melts
intransitive senses
. . .
transitive senses
1 : to permit to enter or escape through or as if through a leak
2 : to give out (information) surreptitiously
– leak•er /’lE-k&r/ noun ”
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/leak
Let’s see, the President authorized Scooter Libby to give out information surreptitiously to Judith Miller of the New York times in an effort to “discredit, punish or seek revenge against” a critic of President Bush’s war in Iraq.” Sure as hell sounds like a leak to me. Who says the President can not leak? It is well known that the Ship of State is the only ship that leaks from the top.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....00916.html
Boy or boy, you must be seeing starts after being Truth-Slapped that hard! And, boy oh boy, are you, as ever, WRONG.
Comment#55. Now that’s a real brain fart. A dull knife in action, deeds, and words. Rugrat what is a hooors? Is that what you visit in the Bellevue hood? Is that what whitey calls it? Planning on getting your fix tonight?
Do they still have the same linguistics coach at “camp donko” to teach all the dems on what to say?
Like my last comment PEE-DOOKIE?
That’s about as relevant as you are on the board.
What a fucking liar. What a fucking moron. I feel sorry for klake ’cause he’s obviously developmentally disabled. You’re just stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid. Like your wack-o christianist pals. Go have a bake sale for Pat Robertson. Your idealogical guru. Get Ralph Reed a real job…if he doesn’t go to prison with poor litle persecuted Tommy DeLay. You cretins and your dumbshit agenda have just about wrecked this country. Hope you’re happy asshole.
Hey rufus the doofus: I don’t care much for the way you and your fellow Republicans spread democracy.
Commentby PLUCRs Suck Huevos— 4/10/06@ 10:58 pm
No no no… That how we hug terrorists.
How can the president give out information “surreptitiously”, JustDumbBozo? Please regale us on this tidbit of bullshit?
This was released on July 18th 2003. Didya miss the fucking memo? Oh that’s right the MSM says it was leaked. Leaked when it was declassified 2.75 years ago? JustDumbBozo, welcome to the dull knife movement. With the above post you just joined FTC, Drivel, Rugrat, & Donnageddon.
http://www.fas.org/irp/cia/product/iraq-wmd.html
http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2003/07/wh071803.html
Rugrat: Apparently you missed the memo. Google me on ASSes and see where I have repeatedly said I don’t like Reed, Robertson, Dobson, or Falwell. I see you like to bring them up so they MUST be your HEROES! I realize you and donnageddon buck for the weekly dullest knife award, so I can excuse your ignorance. But I still laugh when you thought Dulles Airport was in Dallas, Tx. Damn, that still makes me LMAAOTP.
Good post puddy. Only a donk would complain almost 3 years after the fact. Their selective memory amazes me.
Why is it that the rightys are still trying to justify the war in Iraq? I do not remember Franklin Roosevelt having to justify our sacrifice in WW2 at this time in that war. He didn’t have to: we knew.
And why is it that the rightys best retort is simply to challenge the patriotism of anyone who disagrees with them?
Now JustDumbBozo, when did Bob Novak write his article? July 14, 2003. http://www.townhall.com/opinio.....60881.html
Hmmm…? My calendar says July follows June. Is the fog clearing yet JustDumbBozo or do you enjoy accusing other of being wrong when your calendaring skills are suspect?
Will, are you plain stupid? Look at what the NY Times wrote leading up to WWII? Google it Will. Take your time Will. Maybe you are jealous of the dull knife movement and you want to join?
No no no… That how we hug terrorists.
Oh I get it. That’s why that particular “terrorist hugger” is in jail now.
@ 51 “Presidents don’t leak. By the nature of their position they can’t leak. They are at the head of the documentation chain!”
Boy, where have we heard that before? Oh, yeah, it is the wingnut talking point for the day! Trumpeted by MTR and PuddyBud.
Too bad it doesn’t negate that Bush leaked information concerning sensitive intelligence at a time of war.
He can claim “executive privilege” until the noose is around his traitorous neck!
“Comment by puddybud – Remember Moonbats, GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT!”
And the same can be said for many an evil bastard throughout history. And in the end some of them get hung.
Rufus: The donk do not read for themselves. Rabbit Pellet regurgitates what he sees on URLs. JustDumbBozo relies on the WaPo and NY Times. I use the Federation of American Scientists. I remember people places and things. That’s why I can find stuff and use it. I don’t need Free Republic. But I will visit it now that Pellet and Cluesless ok’d it!
Rufus: I love to visit the Federation of American Scientists website. Their header: “The Federation of American Scientists is endorsed by 67 Nobel Laureates in chemistry, economics, medicine and physics as sponsors.” Brainy people, those not found in the Goldy Northwest Division of Librul Moonbats! I wonder how many Mensa candidates are in the Goldy Northwest Division of Librul Moonbats? Do I hear zero? Is that your final answer? Yes!
Pud- why don’t you link it for me.
You can’t debate without insults. And Pud, you’re a church-goin’ man. After WW2 started, we were all on board, even the Paper Of Record. Why, a liberal President won the war!
MTR & Rufus: With post #71 now you can see why donnageddon usually wins the dull knife of the week award! I just posted to JustDumbBozo the declassified NIE and what does this prime moonbat specimen write? THE SAME BULLSHIT!
Donnageddon let me repeat it to you. It was declassified in June 18, 2003. How can it be leaked you DUMBASS when it was previously declassified? Explaining something to donnageddon and his four dumb knife brothers is like talking to a brick/cement block wall. All you hear back is your echo because nothing penetrates the block!
PuddyBud, looking at your recently more and more deranged posts. I am struck by how modest you are.
I am really thinking you should promote yourself. Maybe to “commander”!
Yes, yes. “Commander PuddyBud” really suits you!
Thank you for your intelligent posts like the one @ 72.
Thank you Commander PuddyBud! Bravo!
Will sorry bub not doing it. You need some searching skillz. Yes, a conservative librul won the war. He was way right of your libruls today. And the Republicans did not bad mouth him at all. Not like you nutz today!
Will apparently you don’t read this blog too much. Insults, that’s the only way you get read here. For the Clueless wanted me banned because I called him out with an anecdotal story about how his daughter could him the facts of life! FTC, why not post the whole thread for Will to read (not just my snippet) so he can view the chronology up to my comment?
Commander PuddyBud stated @ 72
“Donnageddon let me repeat it to you. It was declassified in June 18, 2003. How can it be leaked you DUMBASS when it was previously declassified?”
Because Novak published the information on June 14th, 2003.
How did Novak release leaked “declassified” information on June 14th, 2003, when it was declassified on June 18th, 2003″?
Hmmm.?
The noose is tightening.
Before I go to bed here on the EDT, please tell me how the president leaked something already declassified? Chronologically speaking Donnageddon, tell me how that works! Oh the MSMS says leaked so it must be true. That’s why you are NOT a Mensa candidate Donnageddon! You can’t think for yourself!
Donnageddon, I just posted Bob Novaks article. It was JULY 14, 2003. Get it. Post #68
The winner of this weeks dull knife award is donnageddon!
Donnageddon, does not fucking read.
Donnageddon, does not fucking comprehend.
Donnageddon, does not fucking get it.
Donnageddon, does win the dull knife of the week!
RUFUS @ 27
“Cant you moonbats ever get your proganda straight. When has it is now up to 38%? I thought is was 32% a month ago. Well with this trend in another 3 month Bush will be over 50%.”
Here is some friendly advice for you, RUFUS. Let other folks deal with the statistical analyses….
(*snicker*)
You got me Commander PuddyBud!
You really got me!
Your timeline of the “declassification of June 18th threw me off.
Unfortunately for you, the actual “declassification” of sensitive intelligence information in a time of war actuall happened July 18th. Novak released the information on July 14th. 4 days after the information was officially “declassified”
I aoplogize, COmmander PuddyBud.
Bush declassified the information only 4 days after he leaked it.
Get the rope ready. Make sure it is strong. We need to hang a President!
“Mr. Bush’s alleged instruction to release the conclusions of the intelligence estimate appears to have been squarely within his authority and Mr. Fitzgerald makes no argument that it was illegal. While Mr. Libby said he gave that information “exclusively” to the Times reporter at their breakfast meeting at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington, many of the findings of the estimate were formally declassified and discussed at a White House press briefing ten days later, on July 18, 2003.”
http://nysun.com/timesleak.php
The noose tightens ever more.
Actually it was leaked 10 days before it was “declassified”, but it was a published leak only 4 days before it was “declassified”.
Can you fell the noose biting in your NeoCon Leaders neck now, Commander PuddyBud?
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“Nearly $1.5 million in union members’ dues money was spent on golf. The Ironworkers AFL-CIO Local Union 40 spent $52,879 on a new Cadillac for a retiring president. $7.9 million of employee dues money went to resort expenditures. The Boilermakers AFL-CIO Local 374 spent $8,800 of employee dues money on Christmas gifts at Wal-Mart, despite the labor movement’s smear campaign against the retailer. Between six AFL-CIO locals, over $50,000 of employee dues money was spent at a single D.C. steakhouse.
The AFL-CIO alone spent over $49 million on political activities and lobbying—much of which is spent quietly on in-kind political expenditures like pro-Kerry brochures and websites. That’s almost $20 million more than it spent on representation activities.”
Hmmm … speaking of extravagance …
How much did corporations spend on golf?
How many corporations gave their presidents PRIVATE JETS? (Apple Computer, for one.)
How much of corporate shareholders’ money was spent on resorts?
How much did corporations spend at TIFFANY’S on gifts for their executives and board members?
How much did EXXON spend on political activites, lobbying, and BRIBES paid to officials and heads of foreign governments?
Dufus = fucking hypocrite.
PuddyBud stated that the NSE was “declassified” on June 18th.
I would call him a liar, but that is too obvious.
Commander PuddyBud is just drunk on Kool Aid.
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“Funny there is never any hateful comments towards bin Laden on this board. Hmmm…… Commentby AlGore— 4/10/06@ 8:43 pm”
You must be new here. Lots of posters have noted the BUSINESS CONNECTIONS between the BUSH FAMILY and the BIN LADEN FAMILY. Other posters have noted that, after 9/11, when every other plane in the U.S. was grounded, the BIN LADEN FAMILY was given clearance to fly out of the country.
Commander PuddyBud was just a month off. So was I initially.
We all make mistakes.
But now that we have the timeline straightened out, lets get to the gallows building, and give Bush a speedy trial.
For treason.
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“So Loocy, tell me… if gas was $500/gal would oil companies make more money than they do today. No bullshit. Just answer the fucking question yes or no. Commentby Mark The Redneck— 4/10/06@ 9:31 pm”
So Redneck, tell me … if Bush nukes Iran and oil hits $200/bbl, will our economy survive, or will America collapse?
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“Mouthpieces for the democratic party = “lying sacks of shit” for all those independents out there. Commentby RUFUS— 4/10/06@ 9:45 pm”
You’re right, Dufus — I LIED. In a misguided effort to be kind, I called you a “fucking liar,” which is a LIE because you’ve never been laid in your life! Who would have you?? Not even Sam Walls wants to fuck you! The truth is, you’re an “unfucking liar” or a “virgin liar,” not a “fucking liar.”
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“mangy” … yes, that applies to Bush. Even monkeys get mange. Some get it really bad. Bush is a really, really mamgy monkey.
I can just imagine Commander PuddyBud dancing a victory dance @ 79- 83
Then when he awakes tomorrow, his horror at realizing he had it all wrong, and he suddenly comes to the reality that his great leader GWB is actually the most villanous traitor to the US in the last 50 years.
Man I would enjoy seeing that.
Hey! Anti-America, you got any more posts referencing that “Jack Kelley” guy!?
I always love a good fiction story!
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“Librul moonbats: Here is a sentence that will repel the most ardent protester back the the president’s side: “Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi”. That scares the SHIT out of many people! Even my friends in donkofornia get sick over that prospect. Watch when the ads come out moonbats! Commentby puddybud – Remember Moonbats, GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT!— 4/10/06@ 10:43 pm”
Ya know, the really interesting thing about this comment is, if the Democrats win big in November, Pelosi becomes Speaker, then Bush and Cheney get impeached, you’ll be practicing saying:
President Pelosi
Librul moonbats: Here is a sentence that will repel the most ardent protester back the the president’s side: “Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi”. That scares the SHIT out of many people! Even my friends in donkofornia get sick over that prospect. Watch when the ads come out moonbats!
Commentby puddybud – Remember Moonbats, GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT!— 4/10/06@ 10:43 pm
Librul moonbats: Here is a sentence that will repel the most ardent protester back the the president’s side: “Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi”. That scares the SHIT out of many people! Even my friends in donkofornia get sick over that prospect. Watch when the ads come out moonbats!
Commentby puddybud – Remember Moonbats, GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT!— 4/10/06@ 10:43 pm
Librul moonbats: Here is a sentence that will repel the most ardent protester back the the president’s side: “Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi”. That scares the SHIT out of many people! Even my friends in donkofornia get sick over that prospect. Watch when the ads come out moonbats!
Commentby puddybud – Remember Moonbats, GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT!— 4/10/06@ 10:43 pm
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Eat elephant shit, turdblossoms!
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“I can just imagine Commander PuddyBud dancing a victory dance @ 79- 83 Then when he awakes tomorrow, his horror at realizing he had it all wrong, and he suddenly comes to the reality that his great leader GWB is actually the most villanous traitor to the US in the last 50 years. Man I would enjoy seeing that. Commentby Donnageddon— 4/11/06@ 12:19 am”
I like the scenario better where Puttybrains wakes up to find out we have a new president and her name is Nancy Pelosi!
Wrongboy:
You are what is wrong with most lunk headed conservatives. You take such pride in ignoring the truth and science, you have lost all contact with reality. Or do you just like being publicly humiliated? (Come on, admit it, it’s the humiliation, isn’t it?)
First of all:
sur•rep•ti•tious
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin surrepticius, from surreptus, past participle of surripere to snatch secretly, from sub- + rapere to seize — more at RAPID
1 : done, made, or acquired by stealth : CLANDESTINE
2 : acting or doing something clandestinely : STEALTHY
synonym see SECRET
– sur•rep•ti•tious•ly adverb
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/surreptitiously
Sheesh, so if the President tells his aid to leak very select portions of the NIE to the New York Times, and to be identified as a “Former Hill Staffer,” which is how Stewart Libby had Judith Miller source him, that doesn’t sound like acting or doing something clandestinely to you? Boy, you might be wrong, but can’t be that dumb, are you?
And how can the President leak something that has been declassified? Is that the best you can do?
Easy, he leaked it first, then declassified it. Have you not read anything that has been reported on this case? (That would explain your logic though.) As Mr. Libby stated:
“[Libby] testified in the grand jury that he understood that even in the days following his conversation with Ms. Miller, other key officials-including Cabinet level officials-were not made aware of the earlier declassification even as those officials were pressed to carry out a declassification of the NIE,
http://news.nationaljournal.co.....406nj1.htm
Wait, why did the President have people working on declassifying portions of the NIE if he had already declassified it so Libby could tell Judith Miller? Oh wait, that’s right, he just told Libby to leak it.
And why? Not because he thought it was true because he had long before been informed that it was not .
(See, Wrongboy, this logic only works if the order is correct, Bush knew that the NIE sections were not truthful because he was told in January 2002 that they were not. Your logic, it could not be leaked because he latter declassified it. Do you see the difference?)
No, they leaked the information because as
Fitzgerald reported for the first time this week that “multiple officials in the White House”– not only Libby and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, who have previously been identified — discussed Plame’s CIA employment with reporters before and after publication of her name on July 14, 2003, in a column by Robert D. Novak. Fitzgerald said the grand jury has collected so much testimony and so many documents that “it is hard to conceive of what evidence there could be that would disprove the existence of White House efforts to ‘punish’ Wilson.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....916_2.html
But you would have know that if you had read your own posts:
Wrongboy @ 64: “This was released on July 18th 2003.”
Wrongboy @ 68: “when did Bob Novak write his article? July 14, 2003.”
But you are right, July follows June, and we know that Scooter leaked this in June, before it was released in July.
(Wrongboy, do you have a lot of problems with before and after? Sesame Street can help).
So, the President took select portions of the NIE that he knew were untrue and told Scooter Libby to tell a few select reporters the information, but source himself as a “Former Hill Staffer.”
Sure the hell sounds like a leak to me.
Now, do you have anything intelligent to add, or do you want me to look up any other long words that you do not know so that I can truth-slap you when you make a fool out of yourself? Really, other than “declassified” I don’t think any of them are that hard, although judging from your previous posts, you might have problems with the words, “justice,” “honest,” “evidence,” and “truth.”
I thought you were wrong before, but in comparison to how wrong you are now, you were right. Boy oh boy, it is amazing how you are always wrong.
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“What happens when the president and his men come out firing on all cylinders the last six weeks of the campaign? This will be fun.”
Are you having FUN yet, puttybutt?! You ain’t seen nuthin yet! Wait til the TSUNAMI shows up in November!!! Are you ready to RIDE THE WAVE?!!!!
Well written, JDB.
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B-b-b-b-b-u-t … as Redneck says,
“Ummm…. if the President says it… it’s not a “leak”. A “leak” is disclosing information without authorization. Since the President is the boss, it is by definition not a leak since he can authorize whatever the fuck he wants. That’s how things work when you’re boss.” Commentby Mark The Redneck— 4/10/06@ 3:06 pm
Oh, and maybe Redneck also will explain MARKET FREELOADER ECONOMICS for us, too.
Can you imagine what it would be like if MTR was the boss?
“Why did you not do what I didn’t tell you to do before I didn’t tell you to do it? I am the Boss!! I do not have to be sane, logical, or even correct to be Boss!!”
I think Presidents and Bosses that fink on their own people should be hung.
Quickly and on television.
It would serve a greater good.
Like no more attempts at Dictatorship in the USA.
Wrongboy:
Now that you have had a chance to sleep it off, and you wake up to find what a fool you are, do you want to appologise?
Yes, June follows July, but the release of select portions of the NIE did not occur until July 18, 2003, long after Scooter Libby had started to the information to a few friendly journalist.
You even had it right initially, as I showed above. But you were so sure that you were right, you deluded yourself into thinking that it was released in June, which was just plain wrong.
And even then, it wouldn’t have matter, because Libby started leaking it as a “Former Hill Staffer,” even before June 18th. So even when, in your heart of hearts you thought you were right, you were just plain wrong.
And, even better, after doing your little dance about how for once you sited to a real source, your very source actually proves that you are just plain wrong.
“I remember people places and things.” Wrongboy at 72.
Yeah, but dates, and the basic concept of before and after, that you apparently have problems with.
“I wonder how many Mensa candidates are in the Goldy Northwest Division of Librul Moonbats? Do I hear zero? Is that your final answer? Yes!” Wrongboy at 72.
Well, I don’t know much, but I’m pretty sure that to qualify for MENSA, you need to know that July 18th comes after July 14th, and long after Scooter Libby started to leak the information.
Boy, are you wrong.
But thanks, I’m going to bed laughing my head off. And you, Wrongboy, you just went to bed being wrong.
Thanks Wrongboy!
Yes JDB: I am man enough to admit my dates mistake.
http://www.strategicvision.biz.....033106.htm
It would seem that your fair haired governor has close to the same rating and she has 2008 to confront…
RUFUS, a small addendum. IT is SeeBS, ABC, AND FOX that they are “all mouthpieces for the Democratic party. ”
http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm
ABC/Washington Post 38% approve 60% disapprove
CBS 37% approve 56% disapprove
FOX/Opinion Dynamics (registered voters) 36% approve 53% disapprove
Anon @ 107
I’d call you wrong here. It seems that according to the Republican Strategic Vision poll, Gregoire does not have “close to the same rating.”
1. Do you approve or disapprove of Governor Christine Gregoire’s job performance?
Approve 39%
Disapprove 52%
3. Do you approve or disapprove of President Bush’s job performance?
Approve 32%
Disapprove 58%
Christine’s approval rating is 21% higher that president Bush’s (that is, the seven percentage points from 32%-39% constitutes 21% of Bush’s 32% rating).
Strategic Vision is a Republican polling firm. Johnson, the company’s founder and CEO, worked on former Sen. Bob Dole’s (R-KS) 1988 presidential campaign. Johnson’s personal website — which identifies Johnson at the top as a “Republican conservative” — further notes that while working “at Associated Industries of Florida, he assisted in the development of the association’s political operations department that played a pivotal role in Republicans capturing the State Senate in 1994 and State House in 1996.” Johnson was also involved in Republican Florida governor Jeb Bush’s first gubernatorial campaign. Most media outlets identify Strategic Vision as a “Republican polling company,” such as a March 13 Philadelphia Inquirer article. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel noted on March 12 that Strategic Vision “has a Republican history,” and the company’s hometown paper, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, noted in a March 13 article that the “polling firm lists to the GOP side.”
SurveyUSA shows Gregoire at 44% approve 49% disapprove
becausre they’re not Republican.
http://www.surveyusa.com/50Sta.....proval.htm
Roger, you just have TOO much fucking time on your hands, pardner. Why don’t you do some volunteer work or something. Anything to stop your pontificating distribe!
PuddyBud @ 106 “Yes JDB: I am man enough to admit my dates mistake.”
But not honest enough to admit the implication is that GWB is a TRAITOR!
Well done RR, Donnageddon, JDB and others who completely disassembled the wingnut’s Rube Goldberg defense of their lying idol, GW Bush.
See Shrub Spin down the drain:
http://www.pollkatz.homestead......age001.gif
I hope the Pols. both Dem. and Rep. aren’t flogging this immigration thing so that they can create enough civil disorder to declare martial law.
My gut feeling is that this is exactly what they are doing.
The head honchos on both sides of the political wheel in America are, when all is said and done, owned lock, stock , and barrel by corporate interests. Never lose sight of the fact that we live not in a democracy or even a republic, but in a state/corporatist nightmare that will do everything in its power to prtect itself and ensure its survival.
“You’re either with us or against us.” GW Bush
I’m against him.
harry poon @ 116
So you think that peaceful demonstrations across our contry consitute “civil disorder?” Only to a Republican.
Riechert is toast.
dreamsonempty at Kos reports on some demographic information. It appears that, when you look at Bush approval by county and legislative district, interesting things emerge.
As ‘dreamsonempty’ says:
“If I were running as a Rubber Stamp Republican, I might be a little worried that I’d have to work hard if Bush’s approval ratings were estimated to be 55% or below in my district. At 50% or less, I’d be nervous. At 45% or less, I’d be sweating. And 40% or below, I’d have ulcers.”
Turns out that WA-8 is right smack dabin the middle of ulcer territory. And you won’t FIND a more Rubber-Stamp-y Republican that Davey boy. He’d better stock up on the Mylanta this year.
Thanks to Evergreen Politics blog
http://www.evergreenpolitics.c....._reic.html
Republican Reichert’s Chances Dying with Bush’s Numbers?
Well polls are just polls and it’s the elections that matter but anyone with a brain (sorry republicans – that excludes you) can see the GOP is in BIG trouble. Even the GOP talk radio talking heads are admitting it. And if you can get that inbred bunch of chickenhawk America-haters to say the truth – then you’ve really accomplished something.
Impeachment proceedings will start in January 07 after we take over Congress and I CAN’T FUCKING WAIT!
re 118: And Lieberman Democrats, too.
121.
Did you see Lieberman’s threat to run as an independent if he loses the primary?
http://www.journalinquirer.com.....#038;rfi=6
Party loyalty, team play, ensuring a Democratic majority … That’s all fine to these pols, unless they might lose, that is.
One poster on another blog made the point that the lowest any President has ever gone in an opinion poll is 25%. 25% of the people will approve of the sitting President NO MATTER WHAT. So, he subtracts them out. (Bush currently) 38 – 25= 13. By this reasoning, Bush REALLY only has a 13% approval rating. Sounds good to me.
As Bush and the Republicans falter, Democrats have emerged as the party most Americans trust to deal with such issues as Iraq, the economy and health care. By 49 to 42 percent, Americans trust Democrats more than Republicans to do a better job of handling Iraq.
Democrats also hold a six-percentage-point advantage over the GOP (49 percent to 43 percent) as the party most trusted to handle the economy. Their lead swells to double digits on such as issues as immigration (12 points), prescription drug benefits for the elderly (28 points), health care (32 points) and dealing with corruption in Washington (25 points).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....rrer=email
http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....ing11.html
Phone records show people in election phone jamming called White House.
How fucked do things have to get before we can IMPEACH???
here’s a nice hit from (Bush’s favorite newspaper) the WaPo:
Saturday, April 8, 2006; A22
THE U.S. COURT of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a troubling opinion last week in a case involving two prominent Republican leaders in the House of Representatives — one who preceded and one who came after Tom DeLay.
The case involves the illegal interception of a cell phone call featuring then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich by a Florida couple in 1996 and the disclosure of its contents to the New York Times by Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.), to whom they gave a tape.
One of the participants in the call was the man who recently became House majority leader, Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio). He sued Mr. McDermott under a law that forbids unauthorized recording of telephone communications or the disclosure of such recordings. The case has been kicking around for years, but the D.C. Circuit by a divided vote recently handed Mr. Boehner a big and dangerous win.
The Supreme Court has addressed this question before, in a 2001 case similar to the Boehner-McDermott fight. In that case, the court wrote that “a stranger’s illegal conduct does not suffice to remove the First Amendment shield from speech about a matter of public concern.” Yet the D.C. Circuit contends that this case is different because Mr. McDermott knew the tape had been made illegally — whereas in the high court’s case, the person who passed it along had received it anonymously.
Yet, as Judge David B. Sentelle argued in a compelling dissent, this distinction is far less clear than it may seem. For one thing, the tape in the Supreme Court’s case quite clearly had been illegally recorded as well. What’s more, Judge Sentelle rightly points out that under the majority’s reading, the newspapers that published the story were just as legally culpable as Mr. McDermott: “For that matter, every reader of the information in the newspapers also learned that it had been obtained by unlawful intercept,” so any of these readers would violate the same law if they “communicate[d] on this topic of public interest because of the defect in the chain of title.”
This ruling can’t be right; the full court ought to intervene.
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The full text of the Washington Post editorial may be found at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....22_pf.html
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(From AmericaBlog.com)
124.
That 12% lead the Democrats have on immigration is a kick, considering that Shrub tried to beat Harry Reid over the head with the stalled immigration bill on Saturday:
Unfortunately, this compromise is being blocked by the Senate Democratic leader who has refused to allow Senators to move forward and vote on amendments to this bill. I call on the Senate Minority Leader to end his blocking tactics and allow the Senate to do its work and pass a fair, effective immigration reform bill.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/swee....._in_r.html
The millions of people out on the street yesterday don’t likely share the president’s opinion.
Bush Admin. “Scandal du Jour”:
Records in N.H. Case Show White House Ties By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writer
Tue Apr 11, 9:47 AM ET
WASHINGTON – Key figures in a phone-jamming scheme designed to keep New Hampshire Democrats from voting in 2002 had regular contact with the White House and Republican Party as the plan was unfolding, phone records introduced in criminal court show.
The records show that Bush campaign operative James Tobin, who recently was convicted in the case, made two dozen calls to the White House within a three-day period around Election Day 2002 — as the phone jamming operation was finalized, carried out and then abruptly shut down.
The national Republican Party, which paid millions in legal bills to defend Tobin, says the contacts involved routine election business and that it was “preposterous” to suggest the calls involved phone jamming.
(from YahooNews via DailyKos)
Newt Gingrich is now in favor of the Murtha Plan:
Newt Gingrich, the former Republican Speaker of the House, told students and faculty at the University of South Dakota Monday that the United States should pull out of Iraq and leave a small force there, just as it did post-war in Korea and Germany.
“It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy that country after June of 2003,” Gingrich said during a question-and-answer session at the school. “We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it.”
http://www.argusleader.com/app.....10311/1001