The Seahawks are off today and I’m back with a vengeance, so strap on your helmut and get ready to butt heads with me on an action-packed “The David Goldstein Show” tonight on Newsradio 710-KIRO, 7PM to 10PM.
7PM: Is the Republican Party in the midst of major meltdown? University of Maryland associate professor of political science Thomas Schaller joins me to discuss the latest developments in the Mark Foley House Page scandal, and the impact it is having on Capitol Hill and in congressional races nationwide. Schaller’s just released new book, “Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South” seems downright prescient in light the suddenly competitive races in WA-05, ID-01 and other supposed Republican strongholds in the rural West.
8PM: Peace activist Cindy Sheehan joins me to talk about her new book, “Peace Mom: A Mother’s Journey through Heartache to Activism.” Sheehan’s dramatic month-long vigil outside President Bush’s “ranch” in Crawford, TX transformed her from a grieving mom into the symbol of a nascent anti-war movement, ultimately focusing national attention on the moral implications of our war in Iraq. Sheehan is one of those unusual figures who generates both heartfelt praise and sometimes vicious, hateful criticism. If you’ve got a question for the controversial activist, here’s your chance.
9PM: Lock your desk drawers KIRO colleagues, for local radio’s most hated snoop is in the building! Michael Hood of the much-despised, inside-radio blog blatherWatch will join me in the studio… but we won’t be engaging in any radio industry rumor mongering. Instead we’ll be discussing Rep. Dave Reichert, and his undeserved, self-inflated, law enforcement reputation. Fresh on the heals of the Seattle P-I’s excellent exploration of Reichert’s record in the King County Sheriff’s department, Hood will give us a sneak peak at his long awaited expose on “The Sheriff’s” real role in catching the Green River Killer.
Tune in tonight (or listen to the live stream) and give me a call: 1-877-710-KIRO (5476).
Hood will give us a sneak peak at his long awaited expose on “The Sheriff’s” real role in catching the Green River Killer.
I`m sure you really mean Rubber Stamp Reichert`s road blocking of a real investigation until it was favorable for him to “solve” the case
But I thought you said you were declared a terrorist and were going to be sent to Gitmo. I thought the Rightwing Nazi’s were going to shut you down. Yet here you are, day after day on your blog and on the radio.
You are a LIAR Clownstein – peddling fear to make yourself a media name.
Oh my dog! Everybody has to read that P-I story on Reichert…
How can anyone vote for that empty-suit self-promoter? Must be the hair..
Read it now!
Norm Maleng sings Reichert’s praises in that article. I’ve voted for Maleng for years.
After Sotelo and this article – no more! Will a Democrat please step up and replace this guy?
pbj shill @ 2 –
It’s up to Shrubya and Darth Cheney to pull the trigger on Goldy. Luckily for you this is a blue state and they probably don’t care. WA state is too away from the corruption in D.C. for those clowns to give it a second thought.
I think you should have the Man Boy Love Association on to find out just how many of their founding members are republicans.
Looks like your hero Fidel will be worm food in a few months. http://www.ibnlive.com/news/cu.....501-2.html The world will be a better place without him.
I think we should send a batallion of women soldiers to Cuber to take over the country and continue our proud tradition of spreading freedom.
Just a quick question, if Reichert is so bad, then how come he keeps getting the endorsement(s) of First Responder organizations, while Darcy gets endorsed from the usual suspects? Added to the fact, that these endorsements come from LABOR organizations. Don’t they usually endorse dems?
For the past five years, Sen. George Allen (news, bio, voting record), has failed to tell Congress about stock options he got for his work as a director of a high-tech company. The Virginia Republican also asked the Army to help another business that gave him similar options.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....NlYwNtdHM-
Just keeps getting worse and worse for the GOP. I wouldn’t be surprise if some of our friendly neighborhood wingnuts blow a gasket in the next few weeks. Heck, at this point, when Karl Rove gets around to his October Surprise, no one is even going to pay attention.
JDB you just beat me to the punch on that one. Looks like Allen is not just a racist, he’s a crook too.
Yet another shady operator Republican is caught – this time, cheating on his taxes.
Uh Duh…
Oh yeah, and MaMa Hate, before you start talking about how Reichert is bad, and us Firemen are to stupid to know what we are talking about when it comes to our own issues…
http://www.iaff.org/across/new.....206DHS.htm
Who’s name is that at the bottom? Oh yeah, it’s the guy who got endorse by the IAFF (International Association of Firefighters). Damn, don’t you hate it when you realize that your candidate couldn’t even get the endorsement of an organization that is part of the AFL-CIO.
Union endorsements don’t tell the whole story. I’ve rarely voted with my union on many candidates . . . I will usually stick with the left but not always with an endorsed candadate.
WASHINGTON – Democrats are hoping Hispanic voters will help them win control of Congress in midterm elections next month, and are promising help for immigrants in return. Turnout is historically low for this swelling segment of the US electorate, but the community showed its political potential with massive demonstrations on immigration reform earlier this year — and the Republican-controlled Congress has delivered little joy on their top issue. []……….No IDs are needed!! Just get out the illegal votes!!!!! hehe, JCH]
WASHINGTON – Democrats are hoping Hispanic voters will help them win control of Congress in midterm elections next month, and are promising help for immigrants in return. Turnout is historically low for this swelling segment of the US electorate, but the community showed its political potential with massive demonstrations on immigration reform earlier this year — and the Republican-controlled Congress has delivered little joy on their top issue. []……….No IDs are needed!! Just get out the illegal votes!!!!! hehe, JCH]
Hey, I just read that Seattle PI article and it wasn’t bad. Just the usual sour grapes from different sides . . . and some exaggerating. Par for the course for any politico or celeb!
In fact, I was surprised that I found myself liking Reichert better than before. He’s authentic . . . he was fully invested and caring. So, he gets really intense in everything and the everything is now “politics” folks. So, he’s doing up right! He is in a political world and he’s trying to learn from the guys that are there . . . not so stupid.
Except that he’s a little late to depend on the guys that are there . . . they’re about to be gone!
I like the guy. Ok?
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I see our friend Mr Cynical is back with a new monkiker. Welcome back Cyniclown. Ye were not missed!
21 MONIKER, Dammit.
Ms. Cynical has never left. The name’s different but the anti-american, cowardly point of view is the same.
News Item:
“Saturday, October 7, 2006
5 more GOP seats found at risk in election
Foley scandal cuts support among core groups, analysts say
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
THE NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON — At least five more GOP congressional seats are now in serious contention, analysts said Friday, an unwelcome development for Republicans as they begin trying to confront a political environment further darkened for them by the congressional page scandal….
Democrats need to capture 15 House seats to take control of Congress next fall; until the last week or two, about 40 Republican seats had been judged to be in play, of which 20 had been considered to be highly competitive. But analysts said at least five more — and as many as eight — Republican seats have now swung firmly into play, as part of the general souring of the electoral environment.”
Remember Rove’s aid, the one who just resigned because she had accepted multiple gifts from Abromahoff in excess of the $20.00 limit? At first she argued that the rules didn’t apply to her, because she didn’t consider him a lobbyist, but instead considered him a “friend”.
Gee, somehow that makes it better?
Time to ask the question Reagan made famous in 1980: Are you better off now than you were six years ago?
Since Bush has taken office:
The Dow Jones has taken six years to recover to the same level it held when Bush took office. The other stock indices are still below that level.
Unemployment is higher.
Inflation increased, and housing costs and oil have doubled (even with the latest price drop).
Our military is directly involved in a multi-year occupation role in a mideast country with a strong insurgency.
MTR,
Are you still enamored with those unemployment numbers? Have you not also noticed that payroll figures for the same period have gone down? What does that tell you?
By the way, the unemployment rate is a ratio, which means it has both a numerator and a denominator. One way for the unemployment rate to go down is if the denominator changes, i.e. if people actually leave the work force. Have you checked to see what any non-partisan Economists have to say these unemployment figures?
It must just be killing these right wing turds to be taking such a terrible beating. Personally, it’s been one of the best weeks of my life.
Union endorsements don’t tell the whole story. I’ve rarely voted with my union on many candidates . . .
Commentby skagit […..You, In a union? Gee, what a fucking surprise!!!! hehe, JCH]
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — Mexican fishermen captured a 7.5-foot crocodile in the Rio Grande, the river that divides part of Mexico and the United States, authorities reported on Sunday. Illegal migrants from Mexico frequently swim or ride inner tubes across the Rio Grande to reach the United States. Crocodiles do not normally inhabit the river, and authorities suspect it may have been brought to the area as a pet and then… [………………………………………………Can Jewish Democrat lawyers sue crocodiles for not respecting the civil rights of illegal alien Democrats-to-be? If the coc eats the illegal Mexican, can the illegal still vote Democrat from inside the crocodile? hehe, JCH]
Oh shut up Buttnutz
JCH:
Don’t worry about them Hispanics voting. We have the voting machines programed to throw out all the ethnic sounding names. Just good white people like us get to vote.
thats probibly the truth
Doctor Maf54 Kennedy, ESQ macockawitz
Doctor Maf54 Kennedy, ESQ macockawitz are u a Jeewww?
JCH:
Don’t worry about them Hispanics voting. We have the voting machines programed to throw out all the ethnic sounding names. Just good white people like us get to vote.
Commentby Doctor Maf54 Kennedy, ESQ.— 10/8/06@ 7:16 pm
You tell em Maf54. And remember just because you are illegal dont mean you cant vot…. I mean help.
Time to ask the question Reagan made famous in 1980: Are you better off now than you were six years ago?
Well I am sure the hell not. But again the last six years have been tough on us lying,leftist, democratic hacks.
The Dow Jones has taken six years to recover to the same level it held when Bush took office. The other stock indices are still below that level.
Actually it just hit a record, but we dont need to talk about it.
I wonder what the unemployment figures are for See BS,Air America, NY Times ect. The dems better do a bail out for the MSM soon because the liberal drivel isnt selling.
Union companies are laying off…………WAL-MART is hiring thousands. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm……………….
JCH:
Don’t worry about them Hispanics voting. We have the voting machines programed to throw out all the ethnic sounding names. Just good white people like us get to vote.
Commentby Doctor Maf54 Kennedy, ESQ.— [……….No ID, no vote. That should trim the illegal Democrat votes by a few million.]
Havana – The ailing Fidel Castro is not dying but is recovering from an illness, his younger brother and Cuba’s acting president said Sunday in response to rumors that the leader was on his deathbed. /break/ ”He is not dying like some of the press in Miami is saying,” Raul Castro told a youth congress in Havana. ”He is constantly getting better.” The younger Castro said Fidel has a telephone next to him ”and he’s using it more and more every day.” […………Organs may be needed to save “progressive” Fidel. Francine Busby-Democrat Cali, Why not donate anything but your brain for the “progressive [communist] cause???]
The Dow Jones has taken six years to recover to the same level it held when Bush took office. The other stock indices are still below that level.
Actually it just hit a record, but we dont need to talk about it.
Commentby Dan Rather […………..Dan, 9/11 never happened, but if it did, Nancy Pelosi has assured us that Bush and Newt were flying the planes.]
http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....ke08m.html
Give this guy a key to the city. He doing the job the police should be doing. I wonder if this guy cast his ballot before he got plugged? Well if he didnt I am sure the KCRE will cast one for him.
How much do you want to bet the crime around Westlake will go way down in the next couple months. It is amazing what one gun and one bullet can do to cut crime. heehehe
Good job, George W. We now know where the WMD are-
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Monday it has performed its first-ever nuclear weapons test. The country’s official Korean Central News Agency said the test was performed successfully and there was no radioactive leakage from the site.
Good job, George W. We now know where the WMD are-
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea said Monday it has performed its first-ever nuclear weapons test. The country’s official Korean Central News Agency said the test was performed successfully and there was no radioactive leakage from the site.
Commentby K— 10/8/06@ 8:50 pm
Yeah where is Carter and Clinton when you need them. We need to give billions to N Korea to stop this right now. hehehe
Will the left wing wacko Democrats protest the North Koreans for doing a nuke test??????????………Nooooooooooooooooooooo, because the Left Loooooooooooooves Communists.
I thought Bill Clinton’s Maddie Albright took care of the North Korean problem. [hehe, JCH]
If North Korean had a problem with the test, will Democrat Bernie Schwarzsteinberg of Loral lend them a hand?
One gun and one bullet can do more to solve crime then a city full of liberal,concerned,democrat guvmint workers. Just more proof that if you vote democrat you deserve what you get(crime).
I thought Bill Clinton’s Maddie Albright took care of the North Korean problem. [hehe, JCH]
They did, than GWB messed it up.
But let’s get our excuses down right with North Korea:
10) It’s Nancy Pelosi’s fault.
9) It’s Bill Clinton’s fault.
8) Rumsfeld was really, really hung over at the time, but we are checking him into rehab
7) Jimmy Carter!
6) George W. Bush was molested as a child.
5) Hillary!!!
4) Gay Marriage
3) Robert Byrd was in the Klan 60 years ago.
2) The Kennedys
1) It’s all Bill Clinton’s fault!!!
Of course now if it is proven that North Korea has a working bomb, we know what Bush will do:
Invade Venezuela!
I Hate Ronald Reagan
Corporate taxes under Reagan and now GWB have reached their lowest point since 1929. This fact alone should give any reasonable person a good idea where things are headed in this country and the world. Corporations, who DO use water, electricity, garbage collection services and all the other things provided by government through taxes, are now taxed at a lower rate than individuals are. They also receive special discounts on the resources that they use. This trend in America, for individual citizens to pay for the services used and the collateral environmental damage caused by corporations through their payroll taxes, began in the administration of Ronald Reagan. The now discredited theory used to describe this situation was aptly called the “Trickle Down Theory.” We were promised a trickle and we did not get even that. Real wages, after adjustment for inflation, fell in the Reagan years as they have in both Bush administrations. -(1)-
Labor was also hard hit during the Reagan administration
After Reagan fired all the air traffic controllers for striking for better working conditions and hired permanent replacements, corporate employers followed suit, thereby, for all intents and purposes, emasculating the Labor movement and turning the clock back on the decades of progress made for the American working man. Far from being upset by these developments the majority of voters inexplicably were enthused by them.-(2)-
So, during the Reagan years taxes were lowered on the upper 1% of the income tier, thereby increasing their wealth tremendously, and those in the lower income tiers received meaningless decreases accompanied by a DOUBLING of withholding on their Social Security. In addition, the Reagan administration could spend this “surplus” on whatever they chose. And they did– every cent of it– with no accountability to anyone but themselves. One of the things that they spent the money on was right wing death squads south of the border. They also spent the money that they acquired illegally through arms sales to the Iranians on similar projects south of the border. This was the famous Iran-Contra scandal that many of Reagan’s minions were convicted of master- minding and participating in. Reagan, of course, alleged that he had no memory of these dealings-(3)-, hence his other popular moniker: “The Great Forgetter”, a name that would prove to be ironically apropos in the ensuing years.
Reagan,as well as George W. Bush, ostensibly believe in smaller government, a strong military, lower taxes, and a balanced budget. However, both presidents have lowered taxes for the rich, increased military spending, and almost paradoxically created larger government and crippling budget deficits.-(4)- which they then leave for their successors to deal with. My belief is that these presidents did and do believe in a weak and small government and concurrent unanswerable and vast power in “private” multi-national corporations. The strategy now is to weaken our government,which is the only force powerful enough to control the corporations, by deliberately bankrupting it. There is no other reasonable explanation for their behavior.
This is why I hate Ronald Reagan.
Knowing these things, would you consider Reagan to have been a patriot, a knowing traitor, or an unwitting dupe of huge corporate interests? This fracturing of governmental power is a worldwide phenomenon and the way it’s being done is similar in many respects for the different countries involved. The power vacuum is, of course, being taken up by huge multi-national corporations. This is what is being referred to by scholars who know as “the New Feudalism.” But that is a topic for a different post.
-1- Mark Weisbrot,”Ronald Reagan’s Legacy”, Knight-Ridder,6-7-2002.
-2- Randy Schweitz, NATCA press release, 1-28-1997.
-3- P. Kunhardt, Jr., The American Presidency (NY, Riverhead Books,
1999), pp. 292-301.
-4- Joe Strupp, “Ronald Reagan: still the teflon president”, in Editor and
Publisher, 6-8-2004.
Air America…NOT looking too good, at the moment. Or for the last several moments…..
I thought Bill Clinton’s Maddie Albright took care of the North Korean problem. [hehe, JCH]
They did, than GWB messed it up.
Commentby JDB— 10/8/06@ 9:08 pm
Yep, they gave them lots of technology and money and stuck their heads in the sand and waited for the next guy to fix the problem. Of course in North Korea’s case it was to late. The dems dont fix problems they just make them worse.
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Speaking of which Reagan did an excellent job fixing this country after Carter. Carter was an absolute disaster. Thank god he only got four years.
Clinton road on the coat tails of the Reagan/Bush economy. Then he handed to GW when it was going down the toilet.
…social security mess Ronald Reagan’s fault!
The current mess with Social Security began in 1983 in the administration of Ronald Reagan. Under Reagan’s direction Social Security withholding was doubled. The excuse for doing this was that because of the size of the baby boomer generation a “surplus” of funds would be needed to take care of the BOOMERS in their retirement years. The surplus was supposed to be what Reagan called “a trust fund” which would enable the country to pay the baby boomers their promised retirement without unduly strapping the upcoming Generation-X. Reagan, of course, spent the money as fast as he could get it on unapproved and even illegal operations—- calling the funds a “surplus” that he was free to spend in any way he saw fit. Now we have another Republican president who wants to tamper with your retirement money. If you think you’ll ever see any of the funds you put into your “private SS account” you are seriously mistaken.
My sources for this information are:
Ronald Reagan, “Remarks on Signing the Social Security Amendments”-1983, from: The Public Papers of Ronald Reagan.
“Bush’s Financial Folly”, the New York Times”, 2-15-’05.
Why is that draft dodging coward Bush afraid of N. Korea? We went to war in Iraq because Saddaam WANTED a nuke. Hell the guy in N. Korea HAS a nuke. Why hasn’t baby Bush invaded N. Korea? Could it be that they don’t have any oil?
“Outposts of Tyranny”
“…Stripped of social coloring and modern legal restraints, the arrangement for work in modern America resembles the same terms that functioned during feudalism. But this is more than an echo from distant times. The employment system is the defining structure for maintaining a still dominant hierarchy among citizens, those with stunted rights and those with expansive power over others.”
“Where did citizens learn the resignation and cynicism that leads them to withdraw as active citizens? They learned it at the office; they learned it on the shop floor. The real-life education in who has the power and who doesn’t creates a formidable barrier to ever establishing an authentic democracy in which Americans are genuinely represented and engaged. The socialization of powerlessness is probably far more damaging to politics than the special-interest campaign money or the emptiness of television advertising.” William Greider from, “The Soul of Capitalism”
Maybe we should tend to our own garden before we attempt to tend to the rest of the worlds. What was it that that esteemed Republican president, Dwight Eisenhower, warned us against? He warned in his farewell to the nation address, in substance, to
beware the military-industrial complex!
Word to Conservatives: “Everything you Know is Wrong”
Here is a great quote from an interesting blog that I ran across:
“Given such severe cognitive deficits,Conservatives are prone to perseveration on a pathological level. Sadly,it’s all too easy to reduce the substance of Conservative arguments to these simple terms:
*Hillary
*Tax and spend Liberals
*You hate America
*Liberal Media
*Bill Clinton lied about a blow job
*Big Government
*Personal Responsibility
*Socialistic Program
*From my cold dead hands
*Gays are destroying the country”
To this list I would ad only one thing:
*Christian hating
When you are accused of this you’re not merely disagreeing with their politics, you’re gratuitously attacking their religion.
Each Wal-Mart employee costs you $2,000
According to the KEA Reporter, “the official letter of the Kent Education Association”:
“*Wal-Marts anti-union, low wage, low-benefit policies have left its employees in need of hundreds of millions of dollars in public aid for various health-care and social safety net programs such as food stamps, Medicaid and subsidized housing.
* A congressional report estimates that the typical Wal-Mart store costs the federal taxpayers $420,750 a year– more than $2,000 per employee.
* Many of our students and their families suffer harm as a result of Wal-Mart’s poverty level wages and benefits. The WEA Children’s fund is therefore at cross-purposes when members use the fund to shop at Wal-Mart.”
The only organization opposing the WEA is the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, an anti-union and anti public school organization that is partially funded by Wal-Mart through the Walton Family Foundation. The Olympia based organization is also partially funded by Richard Mellon Scaife, although the organization claims to be a grass-roots WA organization that is funded by in- state contributions.
Revoking the Corporation
Why do people think they need (must have!) corporations to survive?
People used to think they couldn’t have a government without sanction from a king, who presumably was granted his power to rule by God, and passed the authority on to others — like, the Sheriff of Nottingham. This is how effective corporate propaganda has been: that most people cannot envision life, order, and prosperity without gigantic corporations organizing every facet of it.
Consider this: In 1997 corporations worldwide caused $2.6 trillion dollars of damage, which they passed on to the world society at large. At the same time, they created $520 billion dollars of profit which they kept for themselves and their richest stock owners.
This is not good business on the part of world society and getting rid of these corporations is the highest priority we as world citizens have.
Monkey Jr. Pophalous, How much does each welfare food stamp Democrat loser cost the taxpayers? hehe, JCH
Maybe if Maddie Albright danced with the little Democrat mother fucker Kim Il-Jong again??? One Trident: problem solved.
And how did Democrats who served with a congressman named Gerry Studds now step forward and express shock over Mr. Foley‘s disgusting behavior? After all, their colleague, Chairman Studds, sodomized a 17-year-old boy [now poster GBS] in his Georgetown apartment, and then he took the congressional page to Portugal to carry on his illicit affair in Europe. [………………………………………………………………..GBS, how was Portugal?]
JCH:
Smart, distract them with a case from thirty years ago. Good ploy.
And why not make something up. Hell, I know, claim that Hillary Clinton called Dick Morris a jew bastard. That old lie might work one last time.
However, why are you projecting about gay affairs? Are you jealous that you are stuck servicing sailors? I bet if you tried hard enough, you could find a nice Republican to “plumb your depths.” [hehe]
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico – Mexican fishermen captured a 7.5-foot crocodile in the Rio Grande, the river that divides part of Mexico and the United States, authorities reported on Sunday. Illegal migrants from Mexico frequently swim or ride inner tubes across the Rio Grande to reach the United States. Crocodiles do not normally inhabit the river, and authorities suspect it may have been brought to the area as a pet and then… [……………..It may be hard for illegals to vote Democrat while in the middle of a crocodile “death roll”. Still, many dead Democrats vote, so I don’t see the DNC getting to worked up over this issue.]
“And why not make something up. Hell, I know, claim that Hillary Clinton called Dick Morris a jew bastard.”
Commentby Doctor Maf54 Kennedy Esq.— [The quote was “FUCKING JEW BASTARD!” Get it right!!!……BTW, Ask Dick Morris……]
Hey, JDB, can’t believe nobody else complimented you on that TOP TEN WHO TO BLAME list! It cracked me up! No rightwing teeny-tiny brainiac could possibly be so creative. Thanks for a laugh on the left!
Goldy,I’m sorry babe, but I don’t think many people were listening by the time your 9 pm hour came around. That 8 pm hour was pathetic! You really need to study radio sweetie. Remember the cub scout pledge? I think it was to “be prepared.”
I stuck around but it was because I was working and had little choice in the matter!
I like you and sure hope you can get it together!
When will your show be available as a podcast?
skagit,
Thanks!
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Reichert is one of them (that is, a so-called “first responder”), and he has promised to make their concerns a priority.
It looks like he received their endorsements before his cowardly cave-in to his party on his signature issue: passing legislation so that first reponders will all have the equipment and bandwidth to guarantee communication across organizational and jurisdictional boundaries (police with fire, Coast guard with police, etc.). Dave promised to make it a reality, but when the rubber met the road the Republicans cut it out of the Homeland Security bill (liek we needed to wait ’til 2006 for this anyway)and Dave folded like a K-Mart deck chair.
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Was the “MaMa Hate” comment directed at me? Wow, I had no idea I was up against the sharp ripostes of such an expert verbal swordsman. Ohh, ouch. Surely I cannot withstand your withering scorn and creative and colorful nicknames.
Thanks to a landmark agreement brokered by the Clinton administration, North Korea’s spent fuel rods were locked in a storage facility under the monitoring of international weapons inspectors from 1994 to 2002. But the Bush administration would have none of a successfully negotiated containment. After all, just because the Republican Congress stiffed NK on the light-water reactor and oil shipments we promised in 1994, they had no right to possibly begin the slow, expensive, painstaking process of enriching uranium.
Well, we showed them. After a few shrill diplomatic exchanges over the uranium enrichment (which they admitted), Pyongyang upped the ante. The North Koreans expelled the international inspectors, broke the locks on their fuel rods, loaded them onto a truck, and drove them to a nearby reprocessing facility, to be converted into bomb-grade plutonium.
The Bush White House stood by and did nothing.
And that, boys and girls, is the story of “how we got here.”
MaMa Hate,
And the link I gave you was recent. He is also praised in the latest edition of “International Firefighter”, our quarterly periodical.
So your basic arguement is that us poor dumb first responders don’t know what legislation we want passed? He has been endorsed by yet another firefighter local and at least 2 police locals since the legislation passed. Any idea how/why that would happen?
As far as us endorsing him because he’s a cop, then why did we endorse Dave Ross last time?
“One Trident: problem solved.
Commentby Doctor JCH Kennedy, ESQ— 10/8/06@ 11:04 pm”
There you go again, JCH, proving you can’t comprehend complex matters.
As President Clinton said “Strength and wisdom are not opposing forces, in fact, they go hand in hand.”
It’s this narrow minded, little dick syndrome type of thinking that has gotten the Untied States in the bind that we find ourselves in today.
In a few weeks, however, the adults with critical thinking skills will be back in power in congress to bring this train wreck to a halt.
JCH, the Republican party and people like you are about to become irrelevant in the political landscape of our great nation.
Nancy Pelosi, subpoena power and the force of law behind her, the Republican’s ultimate nightmarish Hell is about to come true.
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Why don’t you tell me? ARE you too dumb to know that Dave Reichert wimped out on his most strident campaign promise?
Union Firefighter
Followed your link. Too bad that when Bush signed the Homeland Security bill he added a “signing statement” stating that he could ignore it, particularly the provision that “ensures that FEMA will be headed by a experienced emergency manager.” Bush maintins that Bush maintains that “under his interpretation of the Constitution, the FEMA provision interfered with his power to make personnel decisions.” But you got the bill. Hooray. Too bad it’s meaningless.
And your boy Dave Reichert will just roll over for him when he DOES ignore it.
AND the IAFF left out the part where Dave’s pet project got cut. But of course they did. They’d look like idiots endorsing him if they mentioned it.
Good job on the endorsement.
Nice link, but where is Reichert quoted saying he agrees with the signing statement? Oh wait, I guess that would be when he pushed for David Paulison to head FEMA. David is the former director of the USFA and a great leader. Oh wait, he is a former fireman, so I guess he probally doesn’t know our issues as well as someone like you, huh? Once again, signing statement or not, it was enacted into law. Tell me once again where a member of the House of Reps, can tell the President he can’t issue a signing statement. I missed that day in Constitutional Law. Go crawl under you rock and realize that Firefighters and Police endorsed the best person for the Job. Want more proof? Contact the organizations that endorsed him and ask them personally. Or are you afraid that you may actually learn that Congressman reichert is the best person for the job?
JCH, the Republican party and people like you are about to become irrelevant in the political landscape of our great nation.
Commentby GBS […………………………………………….Er, GBS, The Republicans pay the bills. The Democrats welfare hacks, “guvment” employees, union thugs and illegals are all Democrat parasites and will starve when we, thge producers, become “irrelevant”. Atlas will Shrugged, and you libs will need to tax each other. That will be fun to watch.]
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Who said Reichert agreed with the signing statement? I said HE DOESN’T HAVE THE BALLS TO STAND UP THE THE PRESIDENT WHEN BUSH IGNORES THEIR LAW. That’s that I said.
And I don’t have a “rock.” I live in an Eastiside condominium unit. Volunteering for and voting for Darcy Burner.
Winter car care: Winter car care
Schaffner,Corinthian convulsion Apollo colonization ciphertext,overhang,text executional
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