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  2. Dame tight ass Ted was all over the TV news tonight.

    I herd his favort but buddys were going to Colorado to snuggle up with Ted in his hour of need. Bush and Channy are headed to colorado. rofl

    yeah you guys just snuggle in there with old teddy

  3. I think there gona lead sadum out and shoot him on monday to help the republicans get elected tuesday

  4. “I am Republican – I lie, steal and cheat when I’m not being a family man or a hypocrit.” – Ted Haggard. I bet all my fellow Republicans are really proud of me. HAIL HITLER!

  5. Vote with your heart. The only chance these United States have to try and regain our once lofty position in the world order is to gut GWB’s rubber stamp congress and hold him accountable. Now is the time to stand up for your rights and vote Democratic.

  6. You are onto something MrRainier. The only way to regain our place in this world is to indict, convict, and incarcerate all the criminal scum running our country right now.

    Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and the rest of the WHIG etc.

    Once the scum are behind bars, we can work on our image…..

    Oh I need to throw a bone to the wingnuts. Yes wingies what the other 5 BILLION people on this planet thinks of us does matter….

  7. And stop being a bunch of right-wing closeted homosexual homophobia. Get out of that closet and because a lefty or at lest a log cabin republican you will feel a lot better about your self and you will probably get laid a lot more .

    It is not the gay party we don’t like it is the hypocrisy part .

  8. Just saw one of burners’s ads on TV… I don’t get it… Apparently voting for a strong economy, low unemployment, national security, and fixing global warming is a bad thing. Seems to me she is making Reichert’s case for him.

    Somebody gottta explain her ads to me…

  9. I wuz perty biizzy taday… did jon cary git a perpel hart fer shoting hisef inna foots?

  11. Somebody gottta explain her ads to me…

    It’s little surprise to the rest of us that you don’t understand Burner’s ads. After all, you still don’t grok the fact that fractions have both a numerator and a denomnator.

  13. I don’t know why Darcy is only campaigning on the time for change theme.

    I think America could stand a little more Republican control. You know, no accountability, no honesty, no integrety, no control, no taking responsibility, no competence, and no end to the lies, corruption, and criminal behavior.

    Anyone supporting Reichert has more Denial than the Sahara has sand. The Pacific has water.

  14. Loser Yellowback:

    Apparently voting for a strong economy, low unemployment, national security, and fixing global warming is a bad thing. Seems to me she is making Reichert’s case for him.

    Reichert wasn’t a congresman when Clinton was President. Get off the meth.

  15. “I am Republican – I lie, cheat and steal when I’m not crying about how bad everyone else is or taking money from Mr. Abramhoff (I’d like to suck his cock too)”.- Rep. Bob Ney

  19. Sorry, Socialist, but it might just be a bit beyond you as well. We’re talking about rational numbers.

    No offense intended. I just couldn’t resist.

  21. Geez, it looks like Algore is full of shit… as usual:

    Quoting from the gawd of global warming: “Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced long-since a consensus that we will face a string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves and deal with the underlying causes of global warming. Ladies and gentlemen, the warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.” http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0912-32.htm

    Let’s see… how many major hurricanes have we had so far this season? Hmmm…. hmmmmmm…. shit… the answer is FUCKING ZERO !!!!!!!

    Some “string of terrible catastrophes.” A string of ZERO !!!!!!!

    And you fucking idiot kool aid drinkers were all in a lather about his stoopid fucking movie when it came out. Do you feel stoopid now?

    Despite his track record of impressive achievements in network technology, he obviously doesn’t know jack shit about science.

  23. I’m calling for Darcy Burner tomorrow — mostly because I really feel like paying more taxes.

    It’s fun and the kids love it. Won’t have time for crystal meth and a gay prostitute, though.

  24. As we reported back in February, Ann Coulter, 45, committed voter fraud in a town council election earlier this year. Now, it’s going to prosecutors — Florida Justice: swift and brutal.

    The offense (knowingly voting in the wrong district) is punishable by up to five years in prison! And now that… you know, christ, not even we are interested in this woman anymore. Sorry.

    Holly Crap were do you lock up old broken down scanky ass transexuiles

  25. Here’s what moonbats are running against:

    1) Record high employment.
    2) Record low interest rates.
    3) Record high stock market
    4) Zero attacks since 911
    5) Global warming fixed
    6) Home ownership at all time high.

    Campaigning against peace and prosperity. How’s that going?

  26. I wonder what they serve for communion at Ted Haggard’s mega church? Probably white bread and grape juice. Anything more and it would cut into his drugs and whoring.

  27. Yeah and now that I got my new job at Walmart, I might be able to afford a double wider like yours Mark – things are really looking up. But I’m not worried because I’ll find a way to cheat or steal to make ends meet if need be. Thanks for the Job.

  29. re 28: It’s going great! You know why? Because Bush’s spiritual advisor is a crack smoking whoremonger.

    I guess the great news about everything else kind of gets lost when people ponder that.

  31. Nobody mention to Loser Yellowback the constant string of wild fires in California this year because of the very hot drought they are having. We wouldn’t want him to know that it is a system, not just one event, that has been thrown out of skew by global warming.

    Sort of like thinking that you accomplish something against Al Qaeda by attacking Iraq.

    Sheesh Yellowback, are you just currious what it would be like to be a total idiot, or does it come naturally?

  32. How typical of a bunch of lib Dem scumbags to go around buying whores and drug dealers to spew their garbage; homosexual prostitute dope dealers are a major part of the Dem base. The more depraved the behavior the more libs think it’s great.

  33. Thought I’d post the latest vote counts before the weekend. 158260 ballots are in in King County.

    County___ BallotsCast___ LastMatchback
    Adams__ 1974 ballots___ 11/3/2006 10:50:59 AM
    Benton__ 21171 ballots___ 11/3/2006 10:50:59 AM
    Chelan__ 5981 ballots___ 10/27/2006 4:26:47 PM
    Clallam__ 16408 ballots___ 11/3/2006 3:17:49 PM
    Clark__ 59383 ballots___ 11/3/2006 5:06:53 PM
    Columbia__ 1240 ballots___ 11/3/2006 11:56:15 AM
    Cowlitz__ 11770 ballots___ 11/3/2006 11:45:11 AM
    Douglas__ 6307 ballots___ 11/2/2006 5:08:57 PM
    Ferry__ 1217 ballots___ 11/2/2006 7:16:40 PM
    Franklin__ 5495 ballots___ 11/2/2006 5:08:57 PM
    Grant__ 9872 ballots___ 11/2/2006 5:08:57 PM
    Grays Harbor__ 10769 ballots___ 11/2/2006 12:57:11 PM
    Island__ 10750 ballots___ 11/2/2006 5:08:57 PM
    Jefferson__ 9229 ballots___ 11/2/2006 2:26:27 PM
    King__ 158260 ballots___ 11/3/2006 10:50:59 AM
    Kitsap__ 43861 ballots___ 11/2/2006 7:16:40 PM
    Kittitas__ 5237 ballots___ 11/2/2006 7:16:40 PM
    Klickitat__ 388 ballots___ 10/23/2006 7:11:58 PM
    lewis__ 13246 ballots___ 11/3/2006 10:50:59 AM
    Lincoln__ 2562 ballots___ 11/3/2006 10:50:59 AM
    Mason__ 10964 ballots___ 11/2/2006 10:12:48 PM
    Okanogan__ 6901 ballots___ 11/2/2006 5:08:57 PM
    Pacific__ 2740 ballots___ 11/2/2006 7:16:40 PM
    Pierce__ 75660 ballots___ 11/3/2006 4:06:36 PM
    San Juan__ 3606 ballots___ 11/2/2006 12:00:11 PM
    Skagit__ 22634 ballots___ 11/3/2006 3:58:52 PM
    Snohomish__ 79346 ballots___ 11/3/2006 4:47:51 PM
    Spokane__ 89504 ballots___ 11/3/2006 4:47:27 PM
    Stevens__ 4652 ballots___ 10/31/2006 2:59:15 PM
    Thurston__ 37385 ballots___ 11/3/2006 11:45:11 AM
    Wahkiakum__ 1049 ballots___ 11/2/2006 8:10:14 PM
    Walla Walla__ 7130 ballots___ 11/3/2006 5:16:28 PM
    Whatcom__ 35193 ballots___ 11/3/2006 5:13:17 PM
    Whitman__ 6149 ballots___ 11/2/2006 6:49:10 PM
    Yakima__ 28083 ballots___ 11/2/2006 8:15:51 PM

  34. As we reported back in February, Ann Coulter, 45, committed voter fraud in a town council election earlier this year. Now, it’s going to prosecutors — Florida Justice: swift and brutal.

    The offense (knowingly voting in the wrong district) is punishable by up to five years in prison! And now that… you know, christ, not even we are interested in this woman anymore. Sorry.

    Holly Crap were do you lock up old broken down scanky ass transexuiles

    Commentby The Socialist— 11/3/06@ 7:34 pm

    Yeah what was that story again, she was not a citizen….no she voted twice. No that’s not it that,is what democrats do. hehehe

  35. You know the other day I said on the news that I didn’t know a Mike Jones, but you know now that I think of it he’s the guy who gave me my massage – you see, I pulled a muscle jogging so I needed a massage (my fat whore wife wouldn’t do it)and Rush Limbaugh told me how crystal meth would help out the pulled muscle too, but when I found out its what the black people take, I prayed to Jesus and decided the pain would be better. Amen. And Hail Hitler!

  36. amerikkkafirst:

    How typical of a bunch of lib Dem scumbags to go around buying whores and drug dealers to spew their garbage; homosexual prostitute dope dealers are a major part of the Dem base. The more depraved the behavior the more libs think it’s great.

    Uhhh…, hate to tell you this, but Haggard is one of your guys. Talks with the president every week, don’t you know.

    And we probably don’t want to talk about GWB’s coke habit either. Or Limbaugh’s drug problems…, or getting picked up with Viagra after a sex vacation to the Caribean. Or Mark Foley.

    And how can you be against people who go around “buying whores and drug dealers to spew their garbage.” Without that, there would be no talk radio for wingnuts.

  37. And how can you be against people who go around “buying whores and drug dealers to spew their garbage.” Without that, there would be no talk radio for wingnuts.

    Commentby JDB— 11/3/06@ 8:00 pm

    Damn, you make it sound like they are taking money from little boys and girls and then turning around and claiming bankruptcy. Hey that sounds familiar. hehehehee

  38. 38#

    we don’t have any illegal immigrants here except Canadians that get lost on the way home after a few to many Mollsons at the bar.

    and im not sure if Canadian no how to vote . so we have no worries up here on the northern tear you just don’t worry your little Californian republican head about it .

    I mean you do have the terminator as your governor so I hardly think you have any thing to say about any other state sheesh.

  39. Here is what Loser Yellowback supports:

    1) Killing American Soldiers

    2) Incompetently run wars

    3) Manipulating Intelligence

    4) Spying on Americans

    5) Getting rid of Habeas Corpus

    6) Never firing those who mess up their job, better to give them the medal of freedom

    7) Terrible growth in real wages

    8) Gigantic debts and deficits

    9) Never investigating wrong doing.

    10) Molesting teenage boys

    11) Doing meth before getting it on with a male prostitute

    Loser, why do you hate America so?

  41. 46

    Hey I admire you up there in KC. You just flat out steal elections with no questions asked. Why the hell do you think we got Logan down here now. Why go out and have illegals vote when you can just find a bag or two of ballots.

  42. 7) Terrible growth in real wages

    Wow, that is not good. Of course this is countered by terrible growth in real taxes.

  43. Here’s what rightwing traitors are running on:

    1) Record high under-employment
    2) A reduction in earning power
    3) A stock market that’s hardly any better off than it was six years ago when Baby Bush stole his office.
    4) Unsolved anthrax attacks since 911
    5) Highest trade deficits in history
    6) Highest trade deficits in history
    7) A world that’s less safe because of the war in Iraq (according to Bush’s own intel)

    I can tell you how that’s going for the righties….just look at the polls. They’re getting their asses kicked.

    How’s it feel to be a traitor, a closeted gay republican man, a coward AND to be on the looooosing side Mark The Cowardly Redneck?

  44. Francine:

    If you are talking about the ’04 election, you have been mis-informed. A judge found that the only illegal votes were for Dino Rossi, the Republican. But fortunately the system worked, so they were not able to “steal” the election as you say. So you shouldn’t accuse them of that like you do.

  45. 5) Getting rid of Habeas Corpus

    Ooooh the horror. geeesh. hehehehe

  46. oh gosh im sorry I no you republican get so up set at any one counting the votes . At lest we didn’t have the supreme count appoint or candidate. and we actually counted all the votes in the whole state and made sure they were counted accurately im sorry if that bothers you.

    And our secretary of state a republican certified the election was fair and accurate.

  47. If you are talking about the ‘04 election, you have been mis-informed. A judge found that the only illegal votes were for Dino Rossi, the Republican. But fortunately the system worked, so they were not able to “steal” the election as you say. So you shouldn’t accuse them of that like you do.

    Commentby JDB— 11/3/06@ 8:20 pm

    You mean the ballots they found at the second….. wait was that the second count….. no Rossi won….. oh that is right the third count were all illegal votes for Rossi? Wow that is news to me.

  48. Silly Francine, those were legal votes. As the Judge said. Remember, Rossi would not appeal that decision. And that is why you have recounts, to find votes that should have been counted but were not.

    Or are you in favor, like the GOP, of preventing people from voting if they don’t agree with you. Wow, how Soviet of you.

  49. Silly Francine, those were legal votes. As the Judge said. Remember, Rossi would not appeal that decision. And that is why you have recounts, to find votes that should have been counted but were not.

    Funny how all those votes went to one candidate…. wait no it isnt. hehehehe Keep on spreading frosting on that turd of an election. You guys up there are awesome though. You put Chicago to shame. heheehe

  50. re 58: Well. We won and you lost. Do you get it now? I sure hope you do because if your side pulls another Diebold stunt there’s gonna be blood in the streets.

  51. re 58: Well. We won and you lost. Do you get it now? I sure hope you do because if your side pulls another Diebold stunt there’s gonna be blood in the streets.

    Commentby harry poon— 11/3/06@ 8:43 pm

    Better get ready. This Tuesday you will be blaming it on diebold. Better be careful what you wish for, republicans carry guns.

  52. Poor DOOFUS – the train’s coming down the track and the idiot can’t move his sorry butt off the rails!

    Maybe the Reverend Ted Haggard can “minister” to the poor man.

  53. Comrade Francine:

    Funny how they were not all for one candidate. They broke the same as King County as a whole. Just as you would expect.

    Perhaps you should know something ’bout what you are saying next time. Go read Judge Bridge’s opinion. Here’s the link:

    http://www.seattleweekly.com/n.....cision.php

    And here is a good time line of events:

    http://www.nwprogressive.org/p.....lenge.html

    I know facts are not a big thing to Republicans, but you might find knowing the truth to be more interesting than repeating old, discredited GOP talking points.

  54. Funny how they were not all for one candidate. They broke the same as King County as a whole. Just as you would expect.

    So out of 40 counties most of which are republican the biggest liberal county just happen to find ballots on the second recount. Wow, interesting huh. hehehehe More frosting .. hhehehehe

  56. I’m tellin’ you this election stealing by Republicans has gone far enough. If people object to a totalitarian regime and you Republicans start pulling guns on them there is going to be chaos and you will be crushed.

    If someone like you is strutting around with a gun thinking to intimidate , some one like me will take it from you. You don’t know what you are playing with.

  57. Bill Maher was Awesome tonight (comes back on later)
    The opening skit is perfect, but the final new rule rocks.

    PS I haven’t read the string, but go to hell you Nazi’s anyway.

  58. I’m tellin’ you this election stealing by Republicans has gone far enough. If people object to a totalitarian regime and you Republicans start pulling guns on them there is going to be chaos and you will be crushed.

    If someone like you is strutting around with a gun thinking to intimidate , some one like me will take it from you. You don’t know what you are playing with.

    Commentby harry poon— 11/3/06@ 9:13 pm

    Blah,blah. When a donk says an election was stolen they are just being a sore loser. More hot air from a blathering liberal. As far as the threats go I will borrow a line from your side, BRING IT ON.

  59. REPUBLICAN TRIES TO KILL IRAQ FRAUD INVESTIGATIONS

    “Senators Push to Keep Iraq Fraud Investigator
    “By ANNE PLUMMER FLAHERTY
    “AP

    “WASHINGTON (Nov. 3) – Senate supporters of an investigator’s office that has unearthed waste and fraud in the rebuilding of Iraq say they will try to keep it alive, setting up a potential showdown with a Republican lawmaker who helped pass legislation to shut it down. …

    “The agency’s work has resulted in four criminal convictions and, most recently, evidence that a Halliburton subsidiary exploited federal regulations to hide details on its contract performance. …

    Earlier this year, (Sen.) Collins pushed through the Senate a measure that would … (keep) the IG office in business. But that provision … was stripped … (by) Rep. Duncan Hunter, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. …

    “Democrats said the office was being killed by Hunter, R-Calif., and other administration loyalists to bury bad news.”

    This article is quoted under Fair Use; for complete story and/or copyright info, vote for me or click on http://tinyurl.com/yf9hqc

    Roger Rabbit Comment: Only 4 more days! Investigations! Subpoenas! Frog Marches! Trials! Pink Jumpsuits!

    Mike?! McGavick is the problem, not the solution

  60. McGavick claims in his mailer that he “isn’t afraid to buck his own party when it comes to making the hard decisions to control federal spending.” Sooooooo …

    … if Mike?! represented us in the U.S. Senate, would he vote FOR or AGAINST continued funding for the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, then he’s FOR waste, fraud, and abuse — and PROTECTING corrupt Republican politicians and crooked Republican contractors!

    Would somebody please ask him at his next campaign appearance?!

    Mike?! is the problem, not the solution.

  61. Would Mike?! McGavick LIE about ratting out a bus driver with a twitchy finger like Rubberstamp Reichert did? I bet he would! He LIED about privatizing Social Security and he LIED about Cantwell raising taxes on Social Security benefits! You just can’t trust Republican liars.

    Mike?! is the problem, not the solution.

  62. Comrade Francine:

    No, really, read the links I gave you. Many other counties found votes too. Strangely enought, the most populous county found the most votes. But per capita, there were many Rossi Counties that found more.

    Come on. Are you completely ignorant. Even the most foolish of U(sp)poster gave up on these old arguements a long time ago.

  63. Comrade Francine:

    No, really, read the links I gave you. Many other counties found votes too. Strangely enought, the most populous county found the most votes. But per capita, there were many Rossi Counties that found more.

    Come on. Are you completely ignorant. Even the most foolish of U(sp)poster gave up on these old arguements a long time ago.

    Commentby JDB— 11/3/06@ 9:34 pm

    Yeah, most other counties found maybe one or two. How did KC do in reconciling votes cast to registered voters? hehehehe

  64. Same old tired DOOFUS bullcrap…

    Why couldn’t Dino get more votes? Win by 1000? Because people caught on to his phony moderate act.

    He’s the BIAW’s man. Dino’s a whiner. He doesn’t have a prayer in 2008.

  66. http://www.GOP.com/72hour

    For nearly six years, I have worked with the Republicans in Congress to protect Americans by strengthening our homeland security and pursuing terrorists where they live. Together, with a Republican majority, we passed tax relief that spurred unprecedented growth and now need to make that relief permanent. And, working with Republican leaders in the Senate, we confirmed two extremely qualified Supreme Court Justices who faithfully interpret the Constitution instead of legislating from the bench.

  67. This week, Ted Kennedy and John Kerry dumped $1 million from their campaign war chests into Democrat coffers. They answered the call of liberal groups who are pressing Democrats to pour tens of millions into a final push to gain control of Congress.

  68. Funny how all those votes went to one candidate…. wait no it isnt. hehehehe Keep on spreading frosting on that turd of an election.” Commentby Francine Busby-Democrat Cali— 11/3/06@ 8:32 pm

    Funny how you’re lying through your nose! Let’s fact-check this turd of a post:

    Net Change of Votes

    1st recount: Gregoire +1289, Rossi +1070, Bennett +69
    2nd recount: Gregoire +919, Rossi +784, Bennett +49

    Funny how ALL 3 candidates GAINED votes! Why do you suppose? Because the first two counts were done by machines, and machine counts aren’t 100% accurate. If there’s a smudge or speck of dirt on a ballot, the machine can’t read the ballot. Should a voter’s ballot be thrown out because of that? I DON’T FUCKING THINK SO!

    The 2nd recount was by hand. Every ballot in the state was counted by a Republican and a Democrat — in King County, at least 3 times and by up to 7 different counting teams. The hand recount is not off by even 1 vote.

    “Francine” is blowing smoke through his/her/its ass.

  69. Andrew Sullivan: This isn’t an election – it’s an INTERVENTION!

    Sorry Reichart and McGavick – maybe in saner times you could get elected – but not now.

  72. BOSTON – A radio talk show host was fired Friday after he made a derogatory comment about the weight and sexuality of the Green-Rainbow party candidate running for Massachusetts governor.

    WRKO-AM pulled host John DePetro from the air after he made the comments Thursday. It announced Friday that he had been fired.

    “In the context of what he said and the tone with which he said it, the comments were completely inappropriate, derogatory and will not be tolerated,” said Jason Wolfe, the vice president of AM programming and operations for station owner Entercom Boston.

    DePetro did not immediately return an e-mailed request for comment Friday, however, he told The Boston Globe in a story posted Friday on its Web site that he was “stunned” that he had been fired.

    He said he had called the candidate, Grace Ross, to apologize for calling her a “fat lesbian.”
    The host, who calls himself the “Independent Man,” said he made the remark because he was exasperated that Ross and independent candidate Christy Mihos were eating up time during a debate earlier in the week that included Republican candidate Kerry Healey and Democrat Deval Patrick.

    He said it was then that he told listeners he wished someone would “tell the fat lesbian to shut up.”

    “I just think both her and Christy have served their purpose and I had a problem with them still thrusting themselves into the debate,” he told the Globe. “I think I vocalized what a lot of people were thinking – will you just shut up and let them go at it. I added a little more.”

    Ross, who is openly gay, laughed when she heard about it but said the comment was offensive.

    “Big, fat? I guess that’s supposed to be his way of saying he doesn’t like somebody,” she said.

    After hearing DePetro had been fired, she said: “I think that the comment was offensive in general, so I hope that many people in the state were offended by it and will help set a standard of what political debate is supposed to be about.”

    DePetro had also been reprimanded by station management in July for using a slur often aimed at gays in reference to Matt Amorello, the former chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority.

    Wolfe said that after DePetro was suspended in that case, the host was warned that “any further comments of this kind would be dealt with in a severe way.”

  73. “It’s sad. So sad.
    It’s a sad, sad situation
    And it’s getting more and more absurd
    It’s sad. So sad. Why can’t we talk it over?
    Oh it seems to me
    Sorry seems to be the hardest word.”
    — Elton John

    What is wrong with John Kerry? What is missing from the Massachusetts senator’s makeup that will not allow him to admit that he’s human? And why did he wait so long to clean up a political mess that hurt his party in the short run and damaged his own long-term presidential prospects?

    This is, after all, a guy who called the secret service member assigned to protect his life a “son of a bitch” for colliding with him on a ski slope. When asked later by a reporter about falling down, Kerry angrily declared, “I do not fall down.”

  74. If the Republicans were on the right side of issues they would not have to lie about everything……

    Why doesn’t the GOP tell the truth for once.

    Let’s do it for them.

    We the Republicans care about 2 things. Staying in power by any means necessary, and helping the super rich become super duper rich. Nothing else matters to us. Politics of destruction is all we know. Now shut up and suffer some more America!!!!!

  75. 1st recount: Gregoire +1289, Rossi +1070, Bennett +69
    2nd recount: Gregoire +919, Rossi +784, Bennett +49

    Funny how ALL 3 candidates GAINED votes!

    So gregoire got more vote on both counts. Whoah what are the odds. Were they counting the same ballots from the first count? There were more ballots added in KC on the second recount. Actually quite a bit more. Did you find out how far off KC was on the reconcillation between votes cast and registered voters? Just more evidence that KC stole the election.

  76. 75

    “For nearly six years, I have worked with the Republicans in Congress to protect Americans by strengthening our homeland security”

    Let’s recap: Republicans voted AGAINST homeland security!

    Nov. 14, 2001: Senate Democrats propose $15 billion for homeland security; the White House warns against “permanent spending on other projects that have nothing to do with stimulus and that will only expand the size of government.”

    Dec. 4, 2001: Senate Appropriations Committee votes 29-0 in favor of $13.1 billion for homeland security; the next day, Bush threatens to veto it.

    Dec. 6, 2001: Senate Republicans reduce homeland security funding by $4.6 billion.

    Dec. 19, 2001: Under pressure from White House, House-Senate conferees eliminate another $200 million of funding for airport security, port security, nuclear facility security, and postal security.

    June 7, 2002: Senate votes 71-22 for $8.3 billion of homeland security funding; the next day, Bush’s advisors recommend a veto.

    July 19, 2002: Under White House pressure, homeland security funding is further reduced by cutting money for food security, cyber security, nuclear security, airport security, port security, drinking water security, coordination of police and fire radios, and lab testing to detect chem-bio weapons.

    Aug. 13, 2002: Bush decides not to spend $2.5 billion appropriated for homeland security on the grounds of “fiscal responsibility.”

    Jan. 16, 2003: White House reacts to Democratic efforts to increase homeland security funding by stating, “The Administration strongly opposes amendments to add new extraneous spending.” Later that day, Senate Republicans vote against funds for smallpox vaccine.

    Jan. 23, 2003: Senate Republicans cut security funding for the FBI, FEMA, INS, TSA, Coast Guard, and National Nuclear Security Administration.

    Feb. 3, 2003: Bush submits a 2004 budget cutting homeland security funding by nearly 2 percent.

    Feb. 14, 2003: Senate Democrats request money for smallpox vaccine, police and fire radios, and public transportation security; no Republicans support it.

    March 21-25, 2003: Republicans defeat 7 amendments to bolster homeland security.

    April 2, 2003: Senate Republicans reject Democratic amendment to provide $1 billion for port security.

    April 3, 2003: Republicans reject protection of commercial airliners from shoulder-fired missiles and four other pro-homeland security amendments.

    June 2003: House Republicans reject Democratic proposal to raise $1 billion for homeland security by reducing tax cuts for 200,000 millionaires by an average of $5,000 each (from $88,000 to $83,000).

  77. It doesnt matter in the long. At least the right man won the Presidency in 2000 and 2004 despite rampant voter fraud from the dems in both elections.

  78. Editorial
    The Great Divider
    Published: November 2, 2006

    As President Bush throws himself into the final days of a particularly nasty campaign season, he’s settled into a familiar pattern of ugly behavior. Since he can’t defend the real world created by his policies and his decisions, Mr. Bush is inventing a fantasy world in which to campaign on phony issues against fake enemies.

    In Mr. Bush’s world, America is making real progress in Iraq. In the real world, as Michael Gordon reported in yesterday’s Times, the index that generals use to track developments shows an inexorable slide toward chaos. In Mr. Bush’s world, his administration is marching arm in arm with Iraqi officials committed to democracy and to staving off civil war. In the real world, the prime minister of Iraq orders the removal of American checkpoints in Baghdad and abets the sectarian militias that are slicing and dicing their country.

    In Mr. Bush’s world, there are only two kinds of Americans: those who are against terrorism, and those who somehow are all right with it. Some Americans want to win in Iraq and some don’t. There are Americans who support the troops and Americans who don’t support the troops. And at the root of it all is the hideously damaging fantasy that there is a gulf between Americans who love their country and those who question his leadership.

    Mr. Bush has been pushing these divisive themes all over the nation, offering up the ludicrous notion the other day that if Democrats manage to control even one house of Congress, America will lose and the terrorists will win. But he hit a particularly creepy low when he decided to distort a lame joke lamely delivered by Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. Mr. Kerry warned college students that the punishment for not learning your lessons was to “get stuck in Iraq.” In context, it was obviously an attempt to disparage Mr. Bush’s intelligence. That’s impolitic and impolite, but it’s not as bad as Mr. Bush’s response. Knowing full well what Mr. Kerry meant, the president and his team cried out that the senator was disparaging the troops. It was a depressing replay of the way the Bush campaign Swift-boated Americans in 2004 into believing that Mr. Kerry, who went to war, was a coward and Mr. Bush, who stayed home, was a hero.

    It’s not the least bit surprising or objectionable that Mr. Bush would hit the trail hard at this point, trying to salvage his party’s control of Congress and, by extension, his last two years in office. And we’re not naïve enough to believe that either party has been running a positive campaign that focuses on the issues.

    But when candidates for lower office make their opponents out to be friends of Osama bin Laden, or try to turn a minor gaffe into a near felony, that’s just depressing. When the president of the United States gleefully bathes in the muck to divide Americans into those who love their country and those who don’t, it is destructive to the fabric of the nation he is supposed to be leading.

    This is hardly the first time that Mr. Bush has played the politics of fear, anger and division; if he’s ever missed a chance to wave the bloody flag of 9/11, we can’t think of when. But Mr. Bush’s latest outbursts go way beyond that. They leave us wondering whether this president will ever be willing or able to make room for bipartisanship, compromise and statesmanship in the two years he has left in office.

    http://tinyurl.com/u7q98

    (Quoted under Fair Use)

  79. Stop the presses. Bill O’Reilly is lashing out at the New York Times.

    But this time the King of Cable News is not going after the Newspaper of Record for slanted news coverage on Iraq, Republican scandals or culture wars. This time O’Reilly’s angst is reserved for the Times’ book review staff.

    The man who built Fox News primetime into a ratings juggernaut is a hard guy to ignore. O’Reilly is everywhere.

  80. Mike?! McGavick runs attack ads against Sen. Cantwell saying he wants to end partisanship in Washington D.C.

    Mike?! McGavick is a Republican (although he doesn’t want you to know that).

    The Republicans in Washington D.C. have run the most nakedly partisan administration and congress of the last 100 years.

    Mike?! McGavick is the problem, not the solution.

  82. I have been reading with interest everything I can about I-933. A couple of things seem to be at the core of the issue.

    First, even the opponents acknowledge in the voters’ pamphlet that the initiative would affect only those regulations passed since January 1996. This means that the state’s Growth Management Act would remain intact. The GMA is a set of statewide regulations designed to regulate urban growth and protect rural areas. It is a very thorough set of restrictions and has generally been working very well. To say I-933 would do away with land-use regulations is simply untrue.

    Second, I-933 targets legislation like the CAO, which is an extremely restrictive set of regulations that applies only to rural, unincorporated lands and can absolutely decimate the value of rural homeowners’ properties. Ironically, those who are hurt most by the CAO are those who have best protected the natural vegetation and habitat. A wooded, rural property with a stream recently sold for $49,000 instead of the $225,000 it would have brought were it not encumbered by the CAO. This is absolutely unfair! The end does not justify the means.

    If we want environmental protections (and I hope we do), then we all have to be willing to pay our fair share. A vote for I-933 is a vote for fair funding of environmental preservation.

  83. I but the wingnuts didn’t bother to watch HBO last night with the voting lines a half mile long in metropolitan areas of Ohio, and voting machines galore in rural Ohio. As long as Bush won (sic) that’s all that counts right wingnuts? A couple million uncounted Kerry votes boo hoo right? Stealing Americans right to vote is the worst crime I can think of. That and protecting pedophiles.

    Fascist Traitors.

    Americans are sick of Republican Scum.

    Even Republicans are sick of Republican Scum.

    I should know, I used to be one of them.

    I think Vlad the Impaler has the proper treatment for the disease of being Republican.

    I think impalement is too good for the average Republican. The crime of treason, which is what calling yourself a Republican these days amounts to should carry a penalty far worse than impalement.

  84. re 75: Did you work with Mark Foley? Are any of the other fine Republicans you worked with in jail?

    Do you see a connection between all this “Homeland” crap and the German “Fatherland ” propaganda of the German Nazi era. I see it.

    How do you “lose” $8 billion of our tax dollars in Iraq.. Bechtel is pulling out after charging American Taxpayers $2.5 billion for work they never did.

    Republicans are a criminal disgrace and a bunch of domineering jackbooted thugs and if you steal this election you will get what’s coming — of that you can be sure.

  86. You work hard, pay your taxes, invest in your business and die happy, knowing you have created a legacy that can be carried on and grown by your heirs.

    Not so fast.

    If you have had the good fortune to be successful in building up a business, contributing to the economy, paying personal and business taxes and employing dozens of workers, your heirs may inherit something that could jeopardize everything you built up: a huge bite called the estate tax, or death tax.

    A measure to repeal the state death tax is on this year’s ballot. I-920 is a reasonable approach and should be supported. It’s only fair.

    Money raised through the death tax goes to the Education Legacy Trust Account created last year by the Legislature to pay for education needs. Despite the fact that our state constitution mandates that a fundamental duty of the state is to provide adequate funding for education, we still find our schools wanting.

    So instead of making the hard decisions, by focusing on the priorities of government and funding them first — and putting education at the top of the list — our legislators look for creative ways to pick the pockets of taxpayers.

    Instituting a death tax was a smart move, pitting the rich against school kids, the perfect political cover.

    The truth is, while the death tax will only fall on a few — those estates worth more than $2 million — the result is one more negative factor in our state’s business climate.

    The estate tax deserves to be repealed. Vote “yes” on I-920.

  89. What is really funny is how Republicans worship tax dollars (cuts) (deferrments actually) more than anything, but can’t stand the thought of one single auditor in Iraq……

    The Republican’s only true god is THEIR OWN GREED!

  91. BOSTON — By now you may think that “San Francisco Liberal” is her last name. “Nancy Pelosi San Francisco Liberal” is being used to frighten voters everywhere from Indiana to Georgia to Scarborough Country. She’s caricatured as “Michael Moore,” “a specter hanging like a cloud over America,” and a woman waiting to rule the country with “illegal immigrants” and a “radical homosexual agenda.”

    But if being demonized is the price for power, Pelosi is willing to pay it. The Democratic leader may not be renowned for delivering the party message, but she’s great at keeping the House Democrats on message. And if they win a majority next week, she will become the first woman speaker of the House, two heartbeats away from the presidency.

  92. LONDON: George Bush is considered nearly as dangerous as America’s bete noire, Osama bin Laden, by ordinary people on the streets of America’s closest political and military ally, Britain.

    Meanwhile, three other US neighbours and allies confirmed they regarded the planet’s only hyperpower a threat to world peace, in a damaging indictment of the US president’s track record post-9/11.

    The international survey of public opinion, carried out in the UK, Canada, Mexico and Israel, showed high levels of distrust of President Bush in particular and America in general, five years after the so-called ‘war on terror’ began.

    The poll, conducted by Britain’s Guardian newspaper, Canada’s La Presse and Toronto Star, Mexico’s Reforma and Israel’s Haaretz, comes four days before Americans vote in their mid-term Congressional elections

  93. Wow! Goldy posted nothing and this thread already has over 100 comments! That’s more than the pathetic little competing blog gets even when Stefan posts something.

  95. By Kevin Tillman

    Editor’s note: Kevin Tillman joined the Army with his brother Pat in 2002, and they served together in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pat was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004. Kevin, who was discharged in 2005, has written a powerful, must-read document:

    It is Pat’s birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after. It gets me thinking about a conversation I had with Pat before we joined the military. He spoke about the risks with signing the papers. How once we committed, we were at the mercy of the American leadership and the American people. How we could be thrown in a direction not of our volition. How fighting as a soldier would leave us without a voice… until we get out.
    Much has happened since we handed over our voice:
    Somehow we were sent to invade a nation because it was a direct threat to the American people, or to the world, or harbored terrorists, or was involved in the September 11 attacks, or received weapons-grade uranium from Niger, or had mobile weapons labs, or WMD, or had a need to be liberated, or we needed to establish a democracy, or stop an insurgency, or stop a civil war we created that can’t be called a civil war even though it is. Something like that.

    Somehow America has become a country that projects everything that it is not and condemns everything that it is.

    Somehow our elected leaders were subverting international law and humanity by setting up secret prisons around the world, secretly kidnapping people, secretly holding them indefinitely, secretly not charging them with anything, secretly torturing them. Somehow that overt policy of torture became the fault of a few “bad apples” in the military.

    Somehow back at home, support for the soldiers meant having a five-year-old kindergartener scribble a picture with crayons and send it overseas, or slapping stickers on cars, or lobbying Congress for an extra pad in a helmet. It’s interesting that a soldier on his third or fourth tour should care about a drawing from a five-year-old; or a faded sticker on a car as his friends die around him; or an extra pad in a helmet, as if it will protect him when an IED throws his vehicle 50 feet into the air as his body comes apart and his skin melts to the seat.
    Somehow the more soldiers that die, the more legitimate the illegal invasion becomes.
    Somehow American leadership, whose only credit is lying to its people and illegally invading a nation, has been allowed to steal the courage, virtue and honor of its soldiers on the ground.
    Somehow those afraid to fight an illegal invasion decades ago are allowed to send soldiers to die for an illegal invasion they started.
    Somehow faking character, virtue and strength is tolerated.
    Somehow profiting from tragedy and horror is tolerated.
    Somehow the death of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people is tolerated.
    Somehow subversion of the Bill of Rights and The Constitution is tolerated.
    Somehow suspension of Habeas Corpus is supposed to keep this country safe.
    Somehow torture is tolerated.
    Somehow lying is tolerated.
    Somehow reason is being discarded for faith, dogma, and nonsense.
    Somehow American leadership managed to create a more dangerous world.
    Somehow a narrative is more important than reality.
    Somehow America has become a country that projects everything that it is not and condemns everything that it is.
    Somehow the most reasonable, trusted and respected country in the world has become one of the most irrational, belligerent, feared, and distrusted countries in the world.
    Somehow being politically informed, diligent, and skeptical has been replaced by apathy through active ignorance.
    Somehow the same incompetent, narcissistic, virtueless, vacuous, malicious criminals are still in charge of this country.
    Somehow this is tolerated.
    Somehow nobody is accountable for this.
    In a democracy, the policy of the leaders is the policy of the people. So don’t be shocked when our grandkids bury much of this generation as traitors to the nation, to the world and to humanity. Most likely, they will come to know that “somehow” was nurtured by fear, insecurity and indifference, leaving the country vulnerable to unchecked, unchallenged parasites.
    Luckily this country is still a democracy. People still have a voice. People still can take action. It can start after Pat’s birthday.

    Brother and Friend of Pat Tillman,
    Kevin Tillman

  96. re 95: I don’t know why you cut annd paste a bunch of propaganda. We’ve deconstructed every piece of crap you are laying down on this thread.

    There is no reason on this earth or in the Constitution of this great land that gives anyone the right to tie up the wealth of this nation in the hands of the few.

    Your “legacy” is pain, want, hunger and thirst, disease, drought and the ruination of this planet.

    I’ve worked all my life to build my life. I see no reason why a man should work for 20 years and pay taxes on a million dollars and another should inherit a million and pay none.

    Your father paid taxes on the money — not you. There’s no free lunch.

  97. We live in a world of curious euphemisms. There are things we want to say at times but cannot. So we say them in different ways.

    For instance, whenever we say Pakistan, what we really mean is Muslim. When we say Pakistan is behind something, what we actually mean is: These Muslims are behind it. But since it’s still politically incorrect to blame an entire community, and a minority one at that, we blame it on Pakistan. Pakistan , to the average Indian, incorrectly I dare say, represents all that is wrong with Islam. Every time we blame Pakistan, we are actually blaming Muslims.

    For we, or at least a very large section among us, are veering around to the belief that a secular India is not a place for Muslims- for Muslims owe allegiance, first and foremost to Islam, not to any nation.

    While this may not be entirely true, as I know many Muslims who swear by India and secularism just as I know many Arabs who swear by Palestine, not Islam, the truth is also that, worldwide, Muslims appear to be firming up in their belief that their faith is more important than their nationality. That Allah is more important than India or UK or Saudi Arabia. We read about this daily. We watch it on TV.

  98. The estate tax deserves to be repealed. Vote “yes” on I-920.

    Commentby For the Clueless— 11/3/06@ 10:17 pm

    —————–

    Truly clueless.

    And better yet let’s let all of America’s wealth trickle up to a few rich families that have used their fortunes to leverage their influence at the expense of millions of Americans. Then we can have a society like Fuedal England! A few dozen lords calling the shots, running our country, and the rest of us living in squalor.

    Did I hear anyone exclaim “let them eat cake” from their ivory tower?

    Yee Haw!!!

    The rich have every advantage, and at death they can pay society back for the advantages their wealth afforded them. Sounds fair to me? Bill Gates makes more off interest in a day than I will make in my lifetime. Of course we should pay the same in taxes right? Wingnuts. Nothing against Mr. Gates.

    Why should multi millionares help pay for the education of “regular” Americans children? There are enought McDonalds hiring to go around…..

    If you don’t believe me, try raising 3 kids on $15 an hour with no benefits…. Wait till one of them gets sick….. Wait till your job gets outsourced and you have to train your $2 an hour replacement or lose your severance pay….

    Reaganomics = Death to Democracy

    Bushonomics = Death to all living brain cells

  100. 84

    Did you find out how far off KC was on the reconcillation between votes cast and registered voters? Just more evidence that KC stole the election. Commentby Francine Busby-Democrat Cali— 11/3/06@ 10:08 pm

    It’s not evidence of anything and shows how ignorant you are about election procedures! There was NO LIST that could be used to reconcile “votes cast” and “registered voters.” That’s because registration lists are continuously updated and the list available after the election is not the same as the voters entitled to vote in the election. Fucking idiot.

  101. Two years later and the gooper crybabies are still whining about losing an election. Sore loooooosers! Sheesh. Grow up.

    … and Mark1 calls ME “juvenile and immature”?

    (sarcastic bunny laughter)

  102. 95

    Why should heirs get income without paying income or capital gains taxes when workers and small investors don’t?

    I agree, repeal the Estate Tax — and tax inheritances as ordinary income with the same exemptions and deductions that people who EARN their money get!

  103. 100

    And if they win a majority next week, she will become the first woman speaker of the House, two impeachments away from the presidency.

  104. Ted Haggard is an allegory of the Republican character that resonates with every man woman and child in this country who hasn’t sold their soul for a mess of pottage.

    Ted Haggard is a man who, although gay himself, made a life persecuting other gays in the name of God for his own profit. Is Ted Haggard the Good Samaritan who reached out with the hand of Christian love to the person he perceived as a sinner. He most certainly is not!

    Ted Haggard, like Republicans everywhere, hypocritically inflamed the credulous against those who just were who they were. He exploited a prejudice to line his own pockets all the while cynically practicing that which he taught others to loath.

    And all on the taxpayers’ (his paishioners) dime!

    YOU ARE INDEED A GENERATION OF VIPERS!!

    And if you don’t know who I’m quoting here, I feel sorry for you…

  105. President Pelosi. Get used to saying it!

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  106. 4 MORE DAYS

    INVESTIGATIONS! SUBPOENAS! FROG MARCHES! TRIALS! PINK JUMPSUITS!

    HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR

  107. There’s nothing the cheap labor conservatives would like better than to get their riches tax-free!

    No income tax. No capital gains tax. No estate tax. No tax, period.

    And they didn’t work for it. It came from other people’s work. The whole point of being a Republican is to live off other people’s labor so you don’t have to work!

  108. Republicans have betrayed America, our soldiers, and the voters.

    Commentby Roger Rabbit— 11/3/06@ 10:32 pm

    How have republicans betrayed the soldiers? They are not the party trying to keep them from voting.

  109. This is worth repeating:

    Editorial
    The Great Divider
    Published: November 2, 2006

    As President Bush throws himself into the final days of a particularly nasty campaign season, he’s settled into a familiar pattern of ugly behavior. Since he can’t defend the real world created by his policies and his decisions, Mr. Bush is inventing a fantasy world in which to campaign on phony issues against fake enemies.

    In Mr. Bush’s world, America is making real progress in Iraq. In the real world, as Michael Gordon reported in yesterday’s Times, the index that generals use to track developments shows an inexorable slide toward chaos. In Mr. Bush’s world, his administration is marching arm in arm with Iraqi officials committed to democracy and to staving off civil war. In the real world, the prime minister of Iraq orders the removal of American checkpoints in Baghdad and abets the sectarian militias that are slicing and dicing their country.

    In Mr. Bush’s world, there are only two kinds of Americans: those who are against terrorism, and those who somehow are all right with it. Some Americans want to win in Iraq and some don’t. There are Americans who support the troops and Americans who don’t support the troops. And at the root of it all is the hideously damaging fantasy that there is a gulf between Americans who love their country and those who question his leadership.

    Mr. Bush has been pushing these divisive themes all over the nation, offering up the ludicrous notion the other day that if Democrats manage to control even one house of Congress, America will lose and the terrorists will win. But he hit a particularly creepy low when he decided to distort a lame joke lamely delivered by Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. Mr. Kerry warned college students that the punishment for not learning your lessons was to “get stuck in Iraq.” In context, it was obviously an attempt to disparage Mr. Bush’s intelligence. That’s impolitic and impolite, but it’s not as bad as Mr. Bush’s response. Knowing full well what Mr. Kerry meant, the president and his team cried out that the senator was disparaging the troops. It was a depressing replay of the way the Bush campaign Swift-boated Americans in 2004 into believing that Mr. Kerry, who went to war, was a coward and Mr. Bush, who stayed home, was a hero.

    It’s not the least bit surprising or objectionable that Mr. Bush would hit the trail hard at this point, trying to salvage his party’s control of Congress and, by extension, his last two years in office. And we’re not naïve enough to believe that either party has been running a positive campaign that focuses on the issues.

    But when candidates for lower office make their opponents out to be friends of Osama bin Laden, or try to turn a minor gaffe into a near felony, that’s just depressing. When the president of the United States gleefully bathes in the muck to divide Americans into those who love their country and those who don’t, it is destructive to the fabric of the nation he is supposed to be leading.

    This is hardly the first time that Mr. Bush has played the politics of fear, anger and division; if he’s ever missed a chance to wave the bloody flag of 9/11, we can’t think of when. But Mr. Bush’s latest outbursts go way beyond that. They leave us wondering whether this president will ever be willing or able to make room for bipartisanship, compromise and statesmanship in the two years he has left in office.

    http://tinyurl.com/u7q98

    (Quoted under Fair Use)

  110. You got one thing right, republicans have betrayed the illegal voter. No big loss, they all vote democrat anyways.

  111. you have been out drinking with the lma agien haven;t you rabit

    Well I guess it is friday night :-)

  113. The estate tax deserves to be repealed. Vote “yes” on I-920.

    Commentby For the Clueless— 11/3/06@ 10:17 pm

    Yep, did that.

  114. No income tax. No capital gains tax. No estate tax. No tax, period.

    Amen

    No income tax. No capital gains tax. No estate tax. No tax, period = no goverment. Save the military and police though.

  115. I just won’t put up with any more.

    Commentby harry poon— 11/3/06@ 10:21 pm

    Hold that thought. Let’s see how you feel Wednesday morning. Ah that is going to be funny. heheehe

  116. why did you do that buttnuts ? what so you can pick of the tax tap from the rich cheap skates.

    If that passes you property tax are going to go way up.

  117. Mike?! McGavick is a Republican (although he doesn’t want you to know that).

    Really, so he acts like a tax and spender? Yeah right. I voted for him as well. On Tuesday I am oging to vote for him again in KC. Hey if the dems can vote twice why cant we.

  118. why did you do that buttnuts ? what so you can pick of the tax tap from the rich cheap skates.

    If that passes you property tax are going to go way up.

    Commentby The Socialist— 11/3/06@ 10:55 pm

    I vote for Eyeman initiatives as well. I am sure there will be more in the future. Not worried.

  119. The Churches are just big business’s. The like of Haggard, Dobson, Falwell and Robertson selling fear of a life after.
    They are just like the Life insurance industry, selling crap that does you no good in this life. All the while the executives are lining their pockets….and it’s TAX FREE. Maybe it’s the best business going, but just a business.

  120. Welcher,

    “Isn’t the employment fraction a little over 96 out of a hunnerd?”

    As a matter of fact yes. And, as a matter of fact, the employment fraction, as a fraction, used to be a tad smaller than that. The question is, which number changed, the numerator or the denominator?

    Keep pressing that campaign strategy of trying to convince people that they’re really better off than they think they are. We’ll find out how well it’s been working on Tuesday.

    Oh, and pay your debt to Goldy, asshole.

  121. re 123: If giving the rich tax breaks means we actually collect more taxes, then not taxing them at all would mean that nobody would have to pay taxes.

  124. If you pay people less and less to produce more and more goods that no one can afford, it spreads democracy to third world countries.

  125. Go a head a vote twice buttnuts and you will end up in jail like man coulter.

    Commentby The Socialist— 11/3/06@ 11:00 pm

    No I won’t, I found a Kerry/Edwards button. heehhee

  126. If you subsidize corporate farms in the US and then sell the produce in Mexico cheaper than the indigineous farmers can produce it, you kill off the indigineous Mexican farms. Then you jack up the price of the American produce that is subsidized by the American taxpayer and you squeeze the poor people of Mexico even harder tan before.

    That’s Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” at work.
    Some would call that racketeering on a grand scale.

    Republican’s call it : “Free Enterprise.”

  127. There should be no inheritance tax so that wealth can be concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.

    That’s patriotism.

  129. yeh but if you show up with a kerry edwards button some right wing goon will think you are a demercrat beat you up to keep you from voting butnutz

  132. Bush’s personal pastor is a cocksucking, buttfucking crack smoking whoremonger.

    PRAISE JESUS FOR THIS GIFT HE HAS GIVEN US JUST DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION!

  133. But what I don’t like about him is his hypocrisy. I think the worst punishment for a man like that would be to TAX HIS ASS OFF!

  135. Can you imagine the uproar in this country if John Kerry’s pastor turned out to be what Tim Haggard is? You’d never hear the end of it.

  136. Why are rich Floridians so sanguine about sending a child molesting pervert to Congress? Where’s the outrage?

  137. from the SPUSA Statement of Principles
    The SOCIALIST PARTY strives to establish a radical democracy that places people’s lives under their own control — a non-racist, classless, feminist, socialist society in which people cooperate at work, at home, and in the community…A society based on radical democracy, with power exercised through people’s organizations, requires a socialist transformation from below. People’s organizations cannot be created by legislation, nor can they spring into being only on the eve of a revolution…Our tactics in the struggle for radical democratic change reflect our ultimate goal of a society founded on principles of egalitarian, non-exploitative and non-violent relations among all people and between all peoples…Our aim is the creation of a new social order, a society in which the commanding value is the infinite preciousness of every woman, man and child

  138. I think people are finnaly sick of the republicans.

    It like a old county remidy for keeping a dog from killing the chickens any more. You tie a dead chicken around there neck and leave it there till it rottes off.

    The dog will never kill another chicken agien.

  139. 117

    How have republicans betrayed the soldiers? They are not the party trying to keep them from voting. Commentby Francine Busby-Democrat Cali— 11/3/06@ 10:45 pm

    Want to bet?*

    * (Given the lousy track record of trolls in paying off lost bets, all bets made by trolls must be backed by cash in escrow.)

    “AFRICAN-AMERICAN SOLDIERS SCRUBBED BY SECRET GOP HIT LIST

    “by Greg Palast
    “As reported for Democracy Now!

    “The Republican National Committee has a special offer for African-American soldiers: Go to Baghdad, lose your vote.

    “A confidential campaign directed by GOP party chiefs in October 2004 sought to challenge the ballots of tens of thousands of voters in the last presidential election, virtually all of them cast by residents of Black-majority precincts.

    “Files from the secret vote-blocking campaign were obtained by BBC Television Newsnight, London. They were attached to emails accidentally sent by Republican operatives to a non-party website.

    “One group of voters wrongly identified by the Republicans as registering to vote from false addresses: servicemen and women sent overseas.

    “Here’s how the scheme worked: The RNC mailed these voters letters in envelopes marked, ‘Do not forward’, to be returned to the sender. These letters were mailed to servicemen and women, some stationed overseas, to their US home addresses. The letters then returned to the Bush-Cheney campaign as ‘undeliverable.’

    “The lists of soldiers of ‘undeliverable’ letters were transmitted from state headquarters, in this case Florida, to the RNC in Washington. The party could then challenge the voters’ registration and thereby prevent their absentee ballots being counted.

    “One target list was comprised exclusively of voters registered at the Jacksonville, Florida, Naval Air Station. Jacksonville is third largest naval installation in the US, best known as home of the Blue Angels fighting squandron.

    [See this scrub sheet at http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.g.....038;size=o ]

    “Our team contacted the homes of several on the caging list, such as Randall Prausa, a serviceman, whose wife said he had been ordered overseas.

    “A soldier returning home in time to vote in November 2004 could also be challenged on the basis of the returned envelope. …

    “The BBC obtained several dozen confidential emails sent by the Republican’s national Research Director and Deputy Communications chief, Tim Griffin to GOP Florida campaign chairman Brett Doster and other party leaders. Attached were spreadsheets marked, ‘Caging.xls.’ Each of these contained several hundred to a few thousand voters and their addresses.

    “A check of the demographics of the addresses on the ‘caging lists,’ as the GOP leaders called them indicated that most were in African-American majority zip codes.

    “Ion Sanco, the non-partisan elections supervisor of Leon County (Tallahassee) when shown the lists … said: ‘The only thing I can think of – African American voters listed like this – these might be individuals that will be challenged if they attempted to vote on Election Day.’

    “These GOP caging lists were obtained by the same BBC team that first exposed the wrongful purge of African-American ‘felon’ voters in 2000 by … Katherine Harris. Eliminating the voting rights of those voters — 94,000 were targeted — likely caused Al Gore’s defeat in that race.

    “The Republican National Committee in Washington refused our several requests to respond to the BBC discovery. However, in Tallahassee, the Florida Bush campaign’s spokespeople offered several explanations for the list.

    “Joseph Agostini, speaking for the GOP, suggested the lists were of potential donors to the Bush campaign. Oddly, the supposed donor list included residents of the Sulzbacher Center a shelter for homeless families.

    “Another spokesperson for the Bush campaign, Mindy Tucker Fletcher, ultimately changed the official response, acknowledging that these were voters, ‘we mailed to, where the letter came back – bad addresses.’

    “The party has refused to say why it would mark soldiers as having ‘bad addresses’ subject to challenge when they had been assigned abroad. …

    “The GOP mailed the letters first class, at a total cost likely exceeding millions of dollars, so that the addresses would be returned to ‘cage’ workers.

    “’This is not a challenge list,’ insisted the Republican spokesmistress. However, she modified that assertion by adding, ‘That’s not what it’s set up to be.’

    “Setting up such a challenge list would be a crime under federal law. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlaws mass challenges of voters where race is a factor in choosing the targeted group.

    “While the party insisted the lists were not created for the purpose to challenge Black voters, the GOP ultimately offered no other explanation for the mailings. However, Tucker Fletcher asserted Republicans could still employ the list to deny ballots to those they considered suspect voters. When asked if Republicans would use the list to block voters, Tucker Fletcher replied, ‘Where it’s stated in the law, yeah.’

    “It is not possible at this time to determine how many on the potential blacklist were ultimately challenged and lost their vote. Soldiers sending in their ballot from abroad would not know their vote was lost because of a challenge.

    “For the full story of caging lists and voter purges of 2004, plus the documents, read Greg Palast’s New York Times bestseller, ARMED MADHOUSE: Who’s Afraid of Osama Wolf?”

    http://tinyurl.com/jv9nf

  140. 151

    What kind of SCUMBAGS would challenge the voting rights of SOLDIERS DEPLOYED IN IRAQ?

    Republicans.

    P.S., what the GOP did to those soldiers was also racist and a federal felony.

  141. Got any more smartass cracks about military votes, “Francine”? Let me ask you something.

    Why do Republicans work so hard to keep American soldiers from voting in their own country, yet they’re willing to squander those same soldiers’ lives to give “democracy” to Iraqis?

  142. This is worth repeating:

    Editorial
    The Great Divider
    Published: November 2, 2006

    As President Bush throws himself into the final days of a particularly nasty campaign season, he’s settled into a familiar pattern of ugly behavior. Since he can’t defend the real world created by his policies and his decisions, Mr. Bush is inventing a fantasy world in which to campaign on phony issues against fake enemies.

    In Mr. Bush’s world, America is making real progress in Iraq. In the real world, as Michael Gordon reported in yesterday’s Times, the index that generals use to track developments shows an inexorable slide toward chaos. In Mr. Bush’s world, his administration is marching arm in arm with Iraqi officials committed to democracy and to staving off civil war. In the real world, the prime minister of Iraq orders the removal of American checkpoints in Baghdad and abets the sectarian militias that are slicing and dicing their country.

    In Mr. Bush’s world, there are only two kinds of Americans: those who are against terrorism, and those who somehow are all right with it. Some Americans want to win in Iraq and some don’t. There are Americans who support the troops and Americans who don’t support the troops. And at the root of it all is the hideously damaging fantasy that there is a gulf between Americans who love their country and those who question his leadership.

    Mr. Bush has been pushing these divisive themes all over the nation, offering up the ludicrous notion the other day that if Democrats manage to control even one house of Congress, America will lose and the terrorists will win. But he hit a particularly creepy low when he decided to distort a lame joke lamely delivered by Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. Mr. Kerry warned college students that the punishment for not learning your lessons was to “get stuck in Iraq.” In context, it was obviously an attempt to disparage Mr. Bush’s intelligence. That’s impolitic and impolite, but it’s not as bad as Mr. Bush’s response. Knowing full well what Mr. Kerry meant, the president and his team cried out that the senator was disparaging the troops. It was a depressing replay of the way the Bush campaign Swift-boated Americans in 2004 into believing that Mr. Kerry, who went to war, was a coward and Mr. Bush, who stayed home, was a hero.

    It’s not the least bit surprising or objectionable that Mr. Bush would hit the trail hard at this point, trying to salvage his party’s control of Congress and, by extension, his last two years in office. And we’re not naïve enough to believe that either party has been running a positive campaign that focuses on the issues.

    But when candidates for lower office make their opponents out to be friends of Osama bin Laden, or try to turn a minor gaffe into a near felony, that’s just depressing. When the president of the United States gleefully bathes in the muck to divide Americans into those who love their country and those who don’t, it is destructive to the fabric of the nation he is supposed to be leading.

    This is hardly the first time that Mr. Bush has played the politics of fear, anger and division; if he’s ever missed a chance to wave the bloody flag of 9/11, we can’t think of when. But Mr. Bush’s latest outbursts go way beyond that. They leave us wondering whether this president will ever be willing or able to make room for bipartisanship, compromise and statesmanship in the two years he has left in office.

    http://tinyurl.com/u7q98

    (Quoted under Fair Use)

  145. GOP READIES CHALLENGE TO TENN. VOTE

    Republicans, anticipating a loss in Tennessee, aren’t waiting for election day to claim voting fraud.

    “(T)he GOP is planning to declare fraud after next Tuesday’s election. As initially linked by DRUDGE (which should tell you almost all you need to know) earlier today, the GOP is laying the groundwork:

    “Several electronic voting cards, used to cast ballots, are missing from a polling place in Memphis, according to the Tennessee Republican Party.

    “In a letter to the Shelby County Election Commission, state GOP chairman Bob Davis Jr. charges the ‘lack of oversight and control’ over the so-called Smartcards ‘has created a situation which could allow for voter fraud.’

    “The situation is not ‘lack of oversight and control’ of these smart cards. It’s lack of oversight and control of our electoral system such that we’ve come to a place where there are so many access points to the system, it’s virtually impossible, with this equipment, to have any kind of security that could ensure a legitimate vote.

    “You’ll also note this unsubstantiated allegation from the AP coverage of the claims in TN:

    “Davis sent his letter one day after Gibbons said he asked the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation to look into allegations two people each cast two ballots during early voting in Shelby County.

    “Looks like the GOP is in good shape in Tennesse at this point. If they lose, they can make whatever claims they like: Fraud by Electronic Voting, or Voter Fraud by those nasty double-voting Dems. … ”

    BLOGGED BY Brad ON 11/3/2006 5:58PM PT

    http://www.bradblog.com/

  146. Pretty revealing huh? The vote hasn’t even been held yet and the Goopers are already screaming “FRAUD!”

  147. I almost don’t dare hope for it, but it appears that the right may indeed lose control of Congress next Tuesday. If so, they’ve brought it on themselves by believing their own bullshit.

  149. Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorials for this Sunday:

    General election endorsements. Notice that they are not making any endorsement in the Northeast District Court race:

    http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/.....raped.html

    My opponent sent out a mailer to promote his candidacy and knock mine. His mailer prominently featured excerpts from the 09/24/2006 Seattle P-I editorial, where they commented on my first place finish in the primary. Given all that, it is very interesting that they have decided that his candidacy isn’t worthy of endorsement either.

    In other views, the Seattle P-I comments on the lawsuit over special education funding, and the anemic approach to education funding in this state in general:

    http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/.....suited.asp

  150. LOS ALAMOS DATA COMPROMISE ‘DEVASTATING’
    Documents Found In Drug Raid Reveal How To Unlock Nuclear Weapons

    In a recent drug raid, police found documents and computer disks from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in a trailer belonging to a lab employee.

    CBS reports that a “federal official recently briefed on the issue says ‘It’s devastating'” because the material includes instructions and codes to unlock nuclear weapons.

    CBS says, “If a nuclear weapon were stolen, the information ‘would tell the terrorists everything they need to do to get a weapon to fire.'”

    This article is quoted under Fair Use; for complete story and/or copyright info see http://tinyurl.com/ylclh8

    Roger Rabbit Comment: Don’t sweat the small stuff, Richard! The Bush administration is doing such a crappy job of safeguarding us from potential terrorists that you probably won’t live long to lose your judicial election.

  151. RECRUITERS TELL KIDS IRAQ WAR IS OVER

    From ABC News:

    Cameras Show Army Recruiters Misleading Students

    (Nov. 3) — An ABC News undercover investigation showed Army recruiters telling students that the war in Iraq was over, in an effort to get them to enlist.

    ABC News and New York affiliate WABC equipped students with hidden video cameras before they visited 10 Army recruitment offices in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

    “Nobody is going over to Iraq anymore?” one student asks a recruiter.

    “No, we’re bringing people back,” he replies. “We’re not at war. War ended a long time ago,” another recruiter says. …

    One Colorado student taped a recruiting session posing as a drug-addicted dropout. … The recruiters … helped him cheat to sign up.

    During the ABC News sessions, some recruiters told our students if they enlisted, there would be little chance they’d to go Iraq. But Col. Robert Manning, who is in charge of U.S. Army recruiting for the entire Northeast, said that new recruits were likely to go to Iraq. …

    ABC News found one recruiter who even claimed if you didn’t like the Army, you could just quit. …”

    Quoted under Fair Use; for complete story and/or copyright info see http://tinyurl.com/yjm3v4

  152. IRAQ WAR? WHAT IRAQ WAR?

    “WASHINGTON (CNN) — As she fights for her political life, Ohio Republican Rep. Deborah Pryce distanced herself Thursday from the Iraq war, telling CNN Radio, ‘What’s happening in Iraq is not a direct reflection on me.’

    “The seven-term representative is the House Republican Caucus chairwoman, the fourth highest-ranking position in the House … experts say her current race with Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy is a toss-up.

    “Pryce made the remark Tuesday in an interview at a Columbus, Ohio, factory. When pressed by CNN on whether her position as a House leader connected her to the volatile situation in Iraq, Pryce objected to the interruption of her remarks and said the interview was over.”

    Quoted under Fair Use; for complete story and/or (c) info see http://tinyurl.com/y7qvb4

    Roger Rabbit Comment: Yeah, cupcake, THAT war. Your party OWNS this turkey! You fucking voted for it, so don’t pretend you had nothing to do with it.

    P.S. – are you one of those Republicans who questioned the patriotism of people who thought this war was a BAD IDEA? I hope you fucking LOSE on Tuesday, bitch.

  154. Roger:

    I have a feeling that Francine is just JCH’s working name. Note the same lack of facts, the same inability to do anything but repeat lies and talking points.

    So, Comrade Francine, we have given you tons of facts. Got a single one that supports anything you said?

    No. Thought not. I love how wingnuts always claim that the Dems are out to stop the military from voting, but have no proof, and yet are perfectly happy to stop everyone else from voting.

    Why do you hate America so Comrade Francine?

  155. LOL! Pope-A-Dope you really are impressed with yourself aren’t you. Your shit little race doesn’t warrant the attention of an endorsement. Besides they sure weren’t gonna endorse you so be thankful.

    I predict this will be number 15 on your list of failed attempts. But hey, you got close once. That can be your fish that got away story.

  157. Had an interesting conversation with a bar owner last weekend. His lawyer and he are planning on getting payment from the state for the smoking ban if I-933 passes.

  159. To Roger Rabbit and his friends, there are only two worlds left: terrorist free or terrorist controlled. Apparently are for the latter. Why? Below is an article with real names, not one with anonymous entries from unnamed sources!

    “Terrorists love Democrats: “By Aaron Klein
    © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

    JERUSALEM – Everybody has an opinion about next Tuesday’s midterm congressional election in the U.S. – including senior terrorist leaders interviewed by WND who say they hope Americans sweep the Democrats into power because of the party’s position on withdrawing from Iraq, a move, as they see it, that ensures victory for the worldwide Islamic resistance.

    The terrorists told WorldNetDaily an electoral win for the Democrats would prove to them Americans are “tired.”

    They rejected statements from some prominent Democrats in the U.S. that a withdrawal from Iraq would end the insurgency, explaining an evacuation would prove resistance works and would compel jihadists to continue fighting until America is destroyed. Of course, donk and islamofascists think alike!

    They said a withdrawal would also embolden their own terror groups to enhance “resistance” against Israel.

    “Of course Americans should vote Democrat,” Jihad Jaara, a senior member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group and the infamous leader of the 2002 siege of Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, told WND.

    “This is why American Muslims will support the Democrats, because there is an atmosphere in America that encourages those who want to withdraw from Iraq. It is time that the American people support those who want to take them out of this Iraqi mud,” said Jaara, speaking to WND from exile in Ireland, where he was sent as part of an internationally brokered deal that ended the church siege.

    Jaara was the chief in Bethlehem of the Brigades, the declared “military wing” of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party.

    Together with the Islamic Jihad terror group, the Brigades has taken responsibility for every suicide bombing inside Israel the past two years, including an attack in Tel Aviv in April that killed American teenager Daniel Wultz and nine Israelis.

    Muhammad Saadi, a senior leader of Islamic Jihad in the northern West Bank town of Jenin, said the Democrats’ talk of withdrawal from Iraq makes him feel “proud.”

    “As Arabs and Muslims we feel proud of this talk,” he told WND. “Very proud from the great successes of the Iraqi resistance. This success that brought the big superpower of the world to discuss a possible withdrawal.”

    Abu Abdullah, a leader of Hamas’ military wing in the Gaza Strip, said the policy of withdrawal “proves the strategy of the resistance is the right strategy against the occupation.”

    “We warned the Americans that this will be their end in Iraq,” said Abu Abdullah, considered one of the most important operational members of Hamas’ Izzedine al-Qassam Martyrs Brigades, Hamas’ declared “resistance” department. “They did not succeed in stealing Iraq’s oil, at least not at a level that covers their huge expenses. They did not bring stability. Their agents in the [Iraqi] regime seem to have no chance to survive if the Americans withdraw.”

    Abu Ayman, an Islamic Jihad leader in Jenin, said he is “emboldened” by those in America who compare the war in Iraq to Vietnam.

    “[The mujahedeen fighters] brought the Americans to speak for the first time seriously and sincerely that Iraq is becoming a new Vietnam and that they should fix a schedule for their withdrawal from Iraq,” boasted Abu Ayman.

    The terror leaders spoke as the debate regarding the future of America’s war in Iraq has perhaps become the central theme of midterm elections, with most Democrats urging a timetable for withdrawal and Republicans mostly advocating staying the course in Iraq.

    President Bush has even said he would send more troops if Gen. George Casey, the top U.S. commander in Baghdad, said they are needed to stabilize the region

    The debate became especially poignant following remarks by Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., the 2004 presidential candidate who voted in support of the war in Iraq. Earlier this week he intimated American troops are uneducated, and it is the uneducated who “get stuck in Iraq.”

    Kerry, under intense pressure from fellow Democrats, now says his remarks were a “botched joke.”

    Terror leaders reject Nancy Pelosi’s comments on Iraqi insurgency

    Many Democratic politicians and some from the Republican Party have stated a withdrawal from Iraq would end the insurgency there.

    In a recent interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, stated, “The jihadists (are) in Iraq. But that doesn’t mean we stay there. They’ll stay there as long as we’re there.”

    Pelosi would become House speaker if the Democrats win the majority of seats in next week’s elections.

    WND read Pelosi’s remarks to the terror leaders, who unanimously rejected her contention an American withdrawal would end the insurgency.

    Islamic Jihad’s Saadi, laughing, stated, “There is no chance that the resistance will stop.” – Moonbats how come the CNNs of the world could not find these Muslims? Or I think they didn’t want to show America the real enemy. They were scooped!

    He said an American withdrawal from Iraq would “prove the resistance is the most important tool and that this tool works. The victory of the Iraqi revolution will mark an important step in the history of the region and in the attitude regarding the United States.”

    Jihad Jaara said an American withdrawal would “mark the beginning of the collapse of this tyrant empire (America).”

    “Therefore, a victory in Iraq would be a greater defeat for America than in Vietnam.”

    Jaara said vacating Iraq would also “reinforce Palestinian resistance organizations, especially from the moral point of view. But we also learn from these (insurgency) movements militarily. We look and learn from them.”

    Hamas’ Abu Abdullah argued a withdrawal from Iraq would “convince those among the Palestinians who still have doubts in the efficiency of the resistance.” Did you say cut and run emboldens their resistance?

    “The victory of the resistance in Iraq would prove once more that when the will and the faith are applied victory is not only a slogan. We saw that in Lebanon (during Israel’s confrontation against Hezbollah there in July and August); we saw it in Gaza (after Israel withdrew from the territory last summer) and we will see it everywhere there is occupation,” Abdullah said.

    While the terror leaders each independently urged American citizens to vote for Democratic candidates, not all believed the Democrats would actually carry out a withdrawal from Iraq.

    Saadi stated, “Unfortunately I think those who are speaking about a withdrawal will not do so when they are in power and these promises will remain electoral slogans. It is not enough to withdraw from Iraq. They must withdraw from Afghanistan and from every Arab and Muslim land they occupy or have bases.”

    He called both Democrats and Republicans “agents of the Zionist lobby in the U.S.”

    Abu Abdullah commented once Democrats are in power “the question is whether such a courageous leadership can [withdraw]. I am afraid that even after the American people will elect those who promise to leave Iraq, the U.S. will not do so. I tell the American people vote for withdrawal. Abandon Israel if you want to save America. Now will this Happen? I do not believe it.”

    Still Jihad Jaara said the alternative is better than Bush’s party.

    “Bush is a sick person, an alcoholic person that has no control of what is going on around him. He calls to send more troops but will very soon get to the conviction that the violence and terror that his war machine is using in Iraq will never impose policies and political regimes in the Arab world.” – Now where did he hear that except from the fringe moonbats!

  160. More thoughts for you Roger Rabbit:

    Democrats: ‘No comment’
    on terrorists’ endorsement
    DNC, Clinton, Pelosi, Kennedy decline
    to discuss jihadists’ vote of confidence

    ——————————————————————————–
    Posted: November 3, 2006
    5:00 p.m. Eastern

    By Bob Unruh
    © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

    National leaders in the Democratic Party, including Howard Dean’s Democratic National Committee, potential House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, possible presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and longtime party stalwart Ted Kennedy don’t want to talk with WorldNetDaily about an endorsement their party has received.

    The endorsement came via a WND article by Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein, who interviewed leaders of several prominent Mideast terrorist organizations, including Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and Islamic Jihad.

    “Of course Americans should vote Democrat,” Jihad Jaara, a senior member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group, and infamous leader of the 2002 siege of Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, told WND.

    “This is why American Muslims will support the Democrats, because there is an atmosphere in America that encourages those who want to withdraw from Iraq. It is time that the American people support those who want to take them out of this Iraqi mud,” said Jaara, speaking to WND from exile in Ireland, where he was sent as part of an internationally brokered deal that ended the church siege.

    Jaara and others told WND that they believe if the Democrats come into power because of the party’s position on withdrawing from Iraq, that ensures victory for the worldwide Islamic resistance.

    Together with the Islamic Jihad terror group, the Brigades has taken responsibility for every suicide bombing inside Israel the past two years, including an attack in Tel Aviv in April that killed American teenager Daniel Wultz and nine Israelis.

    Muhammad Saadi, a senior leader of Islamic Jihad in the northern West Bank town of Jenin, said the Democrats’ talk of withdrawal from Iraq makes him feel “proud.”

    “As Arabs and Muslims we feel proud of this talk,” he told WND. “Very proud from the great successes of the Iraqi resistance. This success that brought the big superpower of the world to discuss a possible withdrawal.”

    But WND was unable to get a single comment from dozens of telephone calls made over two days and messages left with various leaders’ offices and press secretaries.

    “I’ll see what we can do,” was the best response WND obtained when asking for a comment on the endorsement, and that came from Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Hammill in Pelosi’s office. It came on the third call to that office.

    The Democratic National Committee was approached at least six times, and multiple messages were deposited on a voice mail system handled by the courteous Rosemary, who said, “We’re extremely busy,” but there was no response, even after one spokesman in Sen. Barack Obama’s officer referred WND to the DNC because such a question would be in “Chairman Dean’s” territory.

    The Democratic Leadership Council’s response to multiple phone calls was similar, a promise to call back later.

    At least three messages left with Sen. Clinton’s office went unreturned after a receptionist forwarded the calls to an answering machine, which informed WND that, “No one is available to take your call at this time.”

    Calls to Sen. Kennedy’s office actually reached a live person, who listened to the request and promised, “If we’re able to we’ll shoot you something. We can’t promise.”

    Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar’s office generated a merry-go-round of telephone numbers. A call to his Washington office generated a referral to a Denver office, which generated a referral to a press office, which generated a referral to a cell phone. When a spokesman answered that number, the caller was referred back to the press office, which had an answering machine attached to the line. Leave a message.

    A call to Sen. Harry Reid also allowed the caller to leave a message.

    On the Republican side, Sen. Tom Tancredo, of Colorado, said those Mideast leaders are right – in one way.

    He told WND that the assessment by terrorists who suggested U.S. voters choose the Democrats on Tuesday because they believe an expected removal of U.S. troops from the Mideast would hand their factions victory is hard to dispute.

    “I guess the conclusion to which anyone could come … maybe they recognize that both the general nature of the Democratic Party and the people who are at its head are folks that would rather cut and run than stand their ground on an issue of this nature,” he said.

    “They’re right. I also worry about a lot of things, the way the war has been prosecuted. But beyond Iraq, here’s what I believe. I believe that there are more Republicans than Democrats that understand we are in a clash of civilizations.

    “In fact the idea that Western civilization has advantages over other civilizations, that is not a concept that most Democrats would buy into and I think the radical Islamic groups recognize that,” he said.

    The president’s recent statements also have given those factions reason to hope for better results under a Democrat Party leadership than the existing decision-makers.

    “Our goal in Iraq is victory,” Bush said during a campaign stop this week. “Victory in Iraq will come when that young democracy can sustain itself, and govern itself, and defend itself, and be a strong ally in the war against terrorists.

    “The fighting in Iraq is tough, and I understand it’s tough, and you know it’s tough, and so does the enemy. They have no conscience. They kill innocent men, women and children. They film the atrocities, they broadcast them for the world to see. They offer no hopeful vision. The only thing they know is death and destruction.

    “But they hope these violent images will cause us to lose our nerve. They make a big mistake. They do not understand the true strength of the United States. We don’t run in the face of thugs and assassins, we’ll defend ourselves,” he said.

    Of course Goldie is a no show on this. This blows apart any further consideration who supports cut and run and who is supportive of cut and run!

  161. Next for your review Roger Rabbit. This is the real world. Something you and your furballettes do not live in:

    “ELECTION 2006
    Lawmaker: Terrorists
    right about Democrats
    GOP congressman reacts to militants’
    endorsement of ‘party of cut-and-run’

    ——————————————————————————–
    Posted: November 3, 2006
    12:41 p.m. Eastern

    © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo.

    Leaders of Mideast terrorist organizations such as the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and Islamic Jihad are right – in one way, according to Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo.

    Terrorists interviewed by WorldNetDaily suggested Americans should vote for Democrats Tuesday, because the party’s plan to remove U.S. troops from the Mideast would hand their factions victory.

    Tancredo today told WND the assessment is hard to dispute.

    “I guess the conclusion to which anyone could come … maybe they recognize that both the general nature of the Democratic Party and the people who are at its head are folks that would rather cut and run than stand their ground on an issue of this nature,” he said.

    “They’re right. I also worry about a lot of things, the way the war has been prosecuted. But beyond Iraq, here’s what I believe. I believe that there are more Republicans than Democrats that understand we are in a clash of civilizations.

    “In fact the idea that Western civilization has advantages over other civilizations, that is not a concept that most Democrats would buy into, and I think the radical Islamic groups recognize that,” he said.

    Multiple messages left over the course of two days seeking comment from the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Leadership Council, the offices of Sens. Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton and others were not returned to WND.

    The Republican National Committee also did not return a message asking for comment.

    The president’s recent statements also have given the terrorists reason to hope for better results should the Democrat Party leadership be in power rather than the existing decision-makers.

    “The fighting in Iraq is tough, and I understand it’s tough, and you know it’s tough, and so does the enemy. They have no conscience. They kill innocent men, women and children. They film the atrocities, they broadcast them for the world to see. They offer no hopeful vision. The only thing they know is death and destruction,” Bush said during a recent campaign stop.

    “Our goal in Iraq is victory,” Bush said. “Victory in Iraq will come when that young democracy can sustain itself, and govern itself, and defend itself, and be a strong ally in the war against terrorists.

    “But they hope these violent images will cause us to lose our nerve. They make a big mistake. They do not understand the true strength of the United States. We don’t run in the face of thugs and assassins, we’ll defend ourselves,” he said.

    His comments were on the same subject being discussed by those terrorist leaders this week.

    “Of course Americans should vote Democrat,” Jihad Jaara, a senior member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group, and infamous leader of the 2002 siege of Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, told WND.

    “This is why American Muslims will support the Democrats, because there is an atmosphere in America that encourages those who want to withdraw from Iraq. It is time that the American people support those who want to take them out of this Iraqi mud,” said Jaara, speaking to WND from exile in Ireland, where he was sent as part of an internationally brokered deal that ended the church siege.

    Jaara and others told WND that they believe if the Democrats come into power because of the party’s position on withdrawing from Iraq, that ensures victory for the worldwide Islamic resistance.

    They rejected statements from some prominent Democrats in the U.S. that a withdrawal from Iraq would end the insurgency, explaining an evacuation would prove resistance works and would compel jihadists to continue fighting until America is destroyed.

    They said a withdrawal would also embolden their own terror groups to enhance “resistance” against Israel.

    Jaara was the chief in Bethlehem of the Brigades, the declared “military wing” of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party.

    Together with the Islamic Jihad terror group, the Brigades has taken responsibility for every suicide bombing inside Israel the past two years, including an attack in Tel Aviv in April that killed American teenager Daniel Wultz and nine Israelis.

    Muhammad Saadi, a senior leader of Islamic Jihad in the northern West Bank town of Jenin, said the Democrats’ talk of withdrawal from Iraq makes him feel “proud.”

    “As Arabs and Muslims we feel proud of this talk,” he told WND. “Very proud from the great successes of the Iraqi resistance. This success that brought the big superpower of the world to discuss a possible withdrawal.”

    Bush’s comments came on a campaign swing through southern states, where he was stumping for Republican candidates in a mid-term election that could leave either Republicans or Democrats in control of Congress, and terrorists a focal point of many debates.

    “We will defeat them,” he promised. “We’ll defeat them because our commanders on the ground have all the flexibility necessary to make sure that we constantly stay ahead of the enemy. We’ll defeat them because we got a fantastic United States military,” he said.

    “We will succeed in Iraq because the Iraqis want to live in a peaceful society. Twelve million – nearly 12 million defied car-bombers and assassins and terrorists and went to vote. … And I believe strongly that they’ll become a government of the people, and by the people, and for the people.

    “As a matter of fact, I believe the only way we cannot succeed is if we leave before the job is done,” he said.

    Bush said Democrats have talked a lot about different plans to deal with terrorism.

    “They’ve come up with a lot of creative ways to describe leaving Iraq before the job is done. Sometimes they say, ‘immediate redeployment.’ Sometimes they say they wouldn’t spend another dime on our troops. Sometimes they say the idea that we’re going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong. However they put it, the Democrat approach in Iraq comes down to this: the terrorists win and America loses,” he said.

    But in a statement on their website, the Democrats said, “We will protect Americans at home and lead the world by telling the truth to our troops, our citizens and our allies. We believe in a strong national defense that is both tough and smart, recognizing that homeland security begins with hometown security.”

    “Democrats have a plan that is comprehensive – from repairing our military, to winning the war on terror, to protecting our homeland security, to ensuring success in Iraq and freeing America of its dependence on foreign oil – and it will finally prepare America for the security needs of the 21st Century. And we honor the sacrifices our troops, their families and veterans by making sure we take care of them when they come home,” the statement continued.

    A new New York Times poll also indicated that Americans believe the U.S. will pursue a “quicker exit from Iraq” should the Democrats be in control. The survey said Americans believe the Democrats “have coalesced around a general position of finding a way to reduce or end American involvement in Iraq” but it also noted “there is substantial disagreement among Democratic Congressional leaders and candidates about exactly how to accomplish that.”

    “Nearly 75 percent of respondents, including 67 percent of Republicans and 92 percent of Democrats, said they expected that Americans (sic) troops would be taken out of Iraq more swiftly under a Democratic-led Congress.”

    The poll said 41 percent of respondents said they expected that troop levels would decrease if Democrats won control, while 40 percent said the party would seek to remove all troops. Forty-one percent said that they expected troop levels to remain the same if Republicans won, while 29 percent said they thought the United States would send more troops if the Republicans continued to control Congress.

    Vice President Dick Cheney has reinforced Bush’s plans:

    “Time and time again, we’re seeing examples of Democratic Party leaders apparently having lost their perspective concerning the nature of the enemy we face, and the need to wage this fight aggressively,” he said in a campaign stop this week. “No sharper example can be found than the Democratic Party chairman himself, Howard Dean, who said the capture of Saddam Hussein didn’t make America any safer.”

    Abu Abdullah, a leader of Hamas’ military wing in the Gaza Strip, told WND the policy of withdrawal “proves the strategy of the resistance is the right strategy against the occupation.”

    “We warned the Americans that this will be their end in Iraq,” said Abu Abdullah, considered one of the most important operational members of Hamas’ Izzedine al-Qassam Martyrs Brigades, Hamas’ declared “resistance” department. “They did not succeed in stealing Iraq’s oil, at least not at a level that covers their huge expenses. They did not bring stability. Their agents in the [Iraqi] regime seem to have no chance to survive if the Americans withdraw.”

    Abu Ayman, an Islamic Jihad leader in Jenin, said he is “emboldened” by those in America who compare the war in Iraq to Vietnam.

    “[The mujahedeen fighters] brought the Americans to speak for the first time seriously and sincerely that Iraq is becoming a new Vietnam and that they should fix a schedule for their withdrawal from Iraq,” boasted Abu Ayman.

    Many Democratic politicians and some from the Republican Party have stated a withdrawal from Iraq would end the insurgency there.

    In a recent interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, stated, “The jihadists (are) in Iraq. But that doesn’t mean we stay there. They’ll stay there as long as we’re there.”

    Pelosi would become House speaker if the Democrats win the majority of seats in next week’s elections.

    WND read Pelosi’s remarks to the terror leaders, who unanimously rejected her contention an American withdrawal would end the insurgency.

    Islamic Jihad’s Saadi, laughing, stated, “There is no chance that the resistance will stop.”

    He said an American withdrawal from Iraq would “prove the resistance is the most important tool and that this tool works. The victory of the Iraqi revolution will mark an important step in the history of the region and in the attitude regarding the United States.”

    I guess John Murtha is right? Wrong!

  163. 36 Americ afirst

    “How typical of a bunch of lib Dem scumbags to go around buying whores and drug dealers to spew their garbage”

    Hey, the real score was when our secret Democratic crack whore operatives got the president of the American Evangelical Assocation to admit to it. Well, that and the e-mails and tapes.

  164. “I am Democrat – I have no clue about islamofascism. When shown the thoughts of islamofascists in writing, I bury my head in the sand. Nancy Pelosi is right – the islamofascists will stop. They are wrong. When I say I support cut and run, I don’t understand why we just can’t get along. When I say I support cut and run it doesn’t leave Israel in real danger. Why should I care about Israel? I am Democrat. That’s the job for neocon losers. I only care about getting into your pocketbook. I like taxes. All kinds of taxes. I want to be like many European socialist states. I really like France. Those muslim riots are great stories. I care less about what happens overseas. Yes, I am careless! I care less about religion. Hitler was right about religion. Karl Marx was right about religion. That’s why I am Democrat, I hate religion. I have the MSM in my pocket.”

    “Finally, my actions always are louder than my words.”

  168. That’s fair. It’s both sides of the issue. The president’s minister is a crack smoking gay whoremonger and Kerry has bad timing on a punchline.

    You got 3 days to spin that.

  169. I think my three posts say it all about the cause and how moonbats don’t see the world.

  170. Breaking news:

    Mike Mcgavick declares himself a ” Mcgavick Republican”.

    Dave Reichart states that he will get that bus driver fired, even if it takes 20 years and a DNA test.

    Republicans declare November national “natural colon exam month”

  171. How have republicans betrayed the soldiers? They are not the party trying to keep them from voting. Commentby Francine Busby-Democrat Cali— 11/3/06@ 10:45 pm

    Want to bet?*

    Sure, the disenfranchisement of the military voter is explained in the following article:

    From Navy Seals.com
    http://www.navyseals.com/commu.....fm?id=6536

    By Chad Miles

    A recent report issued by the National Defense Committee, a nonprofit organization that supports the U.S. military and encourages veterans to run for elective office, recently found that 25 percent of ballots cast by military personnel in the 2004 presidential election went uncounted. Incredibly, that rate of disenfranchisement could be even higher due to the fact that the study relied on voluntary disclosure of information from local election officials.

    Unfortunately, the issue of soldiers being disenfranchised during an election is nothing new. We all remember the 2000 Florida recount fiasco and the events surrounding it. During that election, the rate of uncounted ballots cast by members of the armed forces was even higher at a staggering 29 percent nationwide.

    In Florida, which turned out to be the pivotal state in determining the winner of the 2000 election, around 1,400 military absentee votes were left uncounted, largely because of the role of lawyers working for the Democratic Party at local canvassing boards who followed a directive from the party to challenge all military ballots on the premise that they likely were votes for Republican nominee George W. Bush.

    Although many lawmakers vowed that the level of disenfranchisement seen in the aftermath of that election would never happen again, it looks like it did.

    According to the committee’s study, “Military and Overseas Absentee Voting in the 2004 Election,” the largest problem in managing military absentee ballots is not hostile attorneys, but rather what military historians call “the tyranny of distance” – the unavoidable difficulties inherent in getting ballots to our deployed military people serving overseas.

    During the election in 2000, the study found that, 30 percent of military personnel did not receive their ballot in time to cast a vote. When you combine that figure with the number of votes that were tossed out for various reasons – including arriving to the absentee voters via snail mail past voting deadlines – you can see that the scope of the problem is enormous.

    The challenge of getting ballots to soldiers was even worse during the 2004 election due to the post-9/11 deployments of military units to Iraq, Afghanistan and dozens of other countries in support of the Global War on Terror, the committee found. Units frequently on the move and mail delays caused by local threats such as the danger of roadside bombs made the task of getting ballots to the troops even more daunting.

    However, military absentee voters once again in 2004 found themselves the target of partisan political maneuvering as had happened in Florida four years earlier.

    Recognizing the fact that more time would be needed to count all of the military ballots arriving from overseas, the Pennsylvania legislature in 2004 requested that Gov. Edward G. Rendell authorize a two-week extension for the acceptance of military ballots to compensate for the issues surrounding the wartime situation in which our soldiers are now engaged.

    However, in Pennsylvania in 2004, as in Florida in 2000, political operatives were motivated by their longstanding knowledge that a strong majority of military voters generally supports Republican candidates.

    Rendell, a Democrat, initially refused the request to assist military absentee voters. But it later was discovered that he had launched an aggressive “get out the vote” information campaign within the state’s prison population, informing inmates of voting rights and providing them with absentee ballots for the election. Other studies have shown that a majority of the prison voting population supports Democratic candidates. The adverse publicity prompted Rendell to approve the extension for military overseas voters.

    In Washington state, the U.S. Justice Department threatened to sue less than a month before the 2004 election because election officials had yet to even mail out absentee ballots to military personnel overseas. What may have been bureaucratic incompetence may well have altered the outcome of that state’s gubernatorial election.

    The Washington state governor’s race between Republican nominee Dino Rossi and Democratic nominee Christine Gregoire turned out to be even tighter than the Florida presidential vote count in 2000. The Republican candidate won the first two re-counts but ultimately lost the third by 128 votes. With a total of 31,910 overseas ballots mailed out for that election, it’s easy to see that even a few lost, late or missing military votes made a huge impact in the election, ultimately deciding the race.

    When it was time for Congress to ratify the 2004 election results and electoral vote count for the offices of President and Vice President during a joint session last December, two Democratic legislators challenged the results on the basis of voting irregularities and disenfranchisement. Was someone finally going to raise the issue of one-fourth of our deployed military men and women not having a voice in the democratic process? No.

    The challenge concerned votes cast in the state of Ohio, which turned out to be the pivotal state in 2004 with enough electoral votes to swing the election and the Presidency to John Kerry. The challenge centered on disqualification of a newly created provisional ballot, not the military vote, and was nothing more than a symbolic protest by the party that had lost the presidential election.

    It appears that once again the rights of military overseas voters are no longer an issue within the political establishment.

    We should not have to still be struggling with this issue. Before the 2004 election, the Department of Defense launched an online voting system called the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE), designed to give military personnel deployed around the world the ability to vote instantly online. This would have obviously corrected the problems surrounding the reliance of postal mail for balloting, and put an end to the partisan shenanigans we saw in Florida with Democratic Party lawyers targeting military voters for ballot rejection.

    Alas, DoD officials opted to shut down the SERVE program before the election due to security concerns dealing with the sensitive nature of the data and the possibility of illegitimate votes being tabulated. Since DoD manages to send thousands of classified messages daily around the globe, many of them stamped “Top Secret,” it is hard to imagine that these security and privacy concerns cannot be resolved.

    It is ridiculous to have our troops filling out paper ballots and placing them in the mail in a day and age when publicly available technology allows you to take a picture and send it to someone on the other side of the world with a small cellphone. The disenfranchisement on the scale that we have seen in recent years is unacceptable, but it is definitely correctible.

    If DoD officials take the time to develop a secure and dependable electronic voting system, some election results may be drastically different in the years to come – but unlike the number of contested elections we have seen since 2000, the results will more likely reflect the judgment of all of the voters – including those serving in harm’s way to protect our freedoms.

    Contributing Editor Chad Miles is a U.S. Army veteran who served with the 82nd Airborne Division and the 5th Special Forces Group during the 1990s. He founded the website WhoServed.com, which tracks the military service of previous and current U.S. government leaders, and is currently pursuing a degree in political science from the University of Michigan – Dearborn. He can be reached at chad@whoserved.com. Send Feedback responses to dwfeedback@yahoo.com.

    I get my facts straight from the military, not lying proganda from some lefty, moonbat site.

  172. Webbsterino, there’s just one problem with your three posts. “Winning” in Iraq, at least in the military sense, is no longer possible. Why, because the Commander in Chief that you helped to elect has been the most incompetent CiC in our history.

    Read this:
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11...../newsweek/

    Or, better yet, read this:
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15.....?nav=slate

    You see, sport, before you can make this whole “cut and run” argument stick, you have to define “winning” in such a way as to make it achievable. You and the right-wing clowns whom you let do your thinking for you have never adequately defined what “winning” means.

  174. Hey! My last true post yesterday was at 9:52 pm then some jerk-off (probably DOOFUS or WOS) started posting in my name.

    I bet it was ASS. Sounds like something she’d do.

    These wingnuts are getting super desperate.

  175. You suck Mike Webb.

    What do you three cut and pastes say? We interviewed terrorists and they want Democrats because they want us out?
    Well fucking Duh!
    Even if these interviewies didn’t have their testicles attached to a car battery in Abu Garib.
    They know as well as all of the fucking world, that there is no dealing in anyway to come to a solution with this administration.
    They will have to keep dying as well as our young people. Because this fuckwad only knows diplomacy with killing.

    And now to find out about the war profiteering going on while 1000’s of people are dying. This group is gonna have a lot of splainen to do. Now the reconstruction theifs want to bail, without doing fucking anything but stealing money.
    Speak of Cut and Run. Go fuck up Iraq, kill their people, promise reconstruction then don’t do it, then tell them them you need to put a democracy in this cesspool we have left you. We have made enough profit for now.
    Fucking Treasonous war profiteers.

    Everyone is tired of this war including those on the make for 73 virgins…they are running out of virgins.

    They want democrats, because they know that we are going to have to make YOUR Mia Culpa for making the mideast a cesspool.

    They know we are the ones who are going to try to mend relationships with the rest of the world, that Bushco has fucked up.

    Just like anytime we have a GOP President, it takes the next Democrat to fix the fucking mess you leave, we have to raise taxes to pay for YOUR irresponsible credit card spending.

    So next time you want to say Democrats are ‘obstructionists’
    We’ll reply ‘Thank you’. somebody has to be there to slow down the carnage that you leave for us to fix. Both abroad and domestically.

  176. WOS – if your Preznit is so hot why are these guys still ALIVE giving interviews?

    Could it be the wingnuts need these guys for their propaganda against Democrats?

    You are such an idiot WOS!

  177. I am still Republican – I still cheat, lie, and steal when I’m not crying about being a hypocrit and a family. I hate liberals, but I want to liberate Iraq. Weep, weep, weep….I have to pay taxes – why cant’t everything in life be free like the poor black folks get it…boooh hoooo hoooo. HAIL HITLER!

  178. Hey WOS – the way you deal with terrorists is kill them, cut off their funding, eliminate the need for people to join their causes. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

    The way wingnuts deal with them is to publish their views in wingnut publications, spreading fear for the purpose of maintaining power.

    All you guys care about is power. And once you get it, you abuse it and screw everything up. That’s why you have to go.

  179. Well now even the military papers are saying Rummy must go. I suppose they are all part of the liberal media?

    Hey righties – it must suck to be so wrong all the time. HE HE. Let’s see where you cum drunk inbred right wingers are Wed. Weeping in your oatmeal no doubt!

  180. On Terrorism:

    The Democratic Party believes in an ounce of prevention: homeland security, follow the money, foreign economic and security aid, limited military intervention.

    The extreme right wingers believe in a ton of cure: endless wars, tens of thousands dead and maimed, more hate and ill will toward the United States.

    The Democratic way decreases violence and death and encourages peace – the other way spirals hate and violence out of control.

    Do the smarter thing. Vote Democratic

  181. Almost forgot. The extreme right-wingers believe in a huge helping of corruption for their benefit to go along with their endless wars and death.

  182. I am a senior citizen.
    During the Clinton Administration I had an extremely good and well paying job.
    I took numerous vacations and had several vacation homes.
    Since President Bush took office, I have watched my entire life change for the worse.
    I lost my job.
    I lost my two sons in that terrible Iraqi War.
    I lost my homes.
    I lost my health insurance.
    As a matter of fact I lost virtually everything and became homeless.
    Adding insult to injury, when the authorities found me living like an animal, instead of helping me, they arrested me.
    I will do anything that Senator Kerry and Senator Kennedy want to insure that a Democrat is back in the White House.
    Bush has to go.

    Sincerely,
    Saddam Hussein

  184. Kuddos to Anonymous #207 – for outlining the plight of one individual vs the masses. Spoken like a true lieing, cheating and stealing Republican.

  185. 184

    Terrorists give interviews to journalists? Last I heard they were cutting journalists’ heads. Whatever happened to Islamic head removal? Are terrorists all democrats now? You amuse me. Thanks.

    HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR

  186. Anonymous, like most Republicans, cares more about some rich guy than the soldiers that the GOP have sent to die in a foolish war of choice.

    Typical Republican, cannot talk about the real issues.

  187. 191

    John Kerry can’t tell a joke. Commentby For the Soulless— 11/4/06@ 8:25 am

    Tell us something we don’t know.

  188. 212

    That’s Bill Gates-speak for “quit wasting my time; if you can’t do better than that, leave the room.”

  189. Doofus Limbaugh:

    You do realize the article you post mostly blames the Republican Congress for not making it easier for the military oversees to vote?

    According to the committee’s study, “Military and Overseas Absentee Voting in the 2004 Election,” the largest problem in managing military absentee ballots is not hostile attorneys, but rather what military historians call “the tyranny of distance” – the unavoidable difficulties inherent in getting ballots to our deployed military people serving overseas.

    During the election in 2000, the study found that, 30 percent of military personnel did not receive their ballot in time to cast a vote. When you combine that figure with the number of votes that were tossed out for various reasons – including arriving to the absentee voters via snail mail past voting deadlines – you can see that the scope of the problem is enormous.

    I guess it is the Republicans that don’t want the military to vote, since they are the ones that set the laws.

    Thanks for making that clear Doofus.

  190. Sucks Mike Web:

    Strange how you forget to mention the Al Qaeda missive that talked about how great Bush was for them by starting the war in Iraq which increased their recruiting.

    And isn’t the proof of your lie the fact that Al Qaeda has not attacked this week? After all, if they wanted to get Democrats into office, they would show how weak Bush is. Instead they are laying low this election. Actual Proof that Al Qaeda wants Republicans to win.

  191. How have the Republicans betrayed the soldiers? I can sum that up in two words:

    Operation Helmet

    Folks — really now … when a Hollywood star has to raise money from the public to buy BATTLE HELMETS for soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan doesn’t that tell you something about the priorities of the people who sent them there?

    Operation Helmet has distributed over 27,000 helmet kits and still needs contributions — the current backlog of requests is over 500 kits.

    Note that these kits are only sent to soldiers who REQUEST them. Why do they request them? Because they can’t get them from the government.

    One more thing: Not one trollfuck has contributed a fucking dime to http://www.operation-helmet.org/ I sent $99. All the trollfucks put together haven’t sent $0.01. Whoooooo supports the troops? I do. Do they support the troops? Noooooo … just blowing smoke.

    Just blowing pink smoke out of their asses. Blowin’ wind. Their faux “patriotism” is blowin’ in the wind.

  195. 84 Francine

    “How did KC do in reconciling votes cast to registered voters?”

    Reconcilation is not and never has been intended to provide a 1:1 match between registeredvoters and ballots cast. Voter registration rolls are always in flux, while ballots cast are a snapshot. The meaning you attach to the discrepancy is an expression of your ignorance.

  196. Wow, I go to a funeral for a friend’s father and you all get whipped up in a lather. Amazing what islamofascists for moonbats does for ya.

    Now let’s clear the air. No one, and I mean no one, discussed the lack of monnbat leadership response to the terrorists wanting them to win. What is amazing is these moonbatnuts here got their testicles in a knot because the terrorists tell the truth!

    THE TERRORIST SAY TEY WILL NOT STOP THEIR TERROR! In fact they say cut and run strengthens their hand. Of course moonbats are in shock. But the moonbat Pelosi said they will stop. She knows. She understands them. NOT! That’s the truth! The verdict is out!

  197. This and the NYT admitting Saddam was within a year of a nuclear weapon, really puts moonbat speak in jeopardy!

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