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Loyalty To Bush Above The Needs Of The Country!
2007-07-24 23:18:00
See Originl StoryWatch senators grill the attorney general »Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., grilled Gonzales on whether the attorney general provided misleading statements when he said there had been no dissenting views in the administration on the domestic surveillance program that then operated without warrants. "How can you say you should stay on as attorney general when we go through exercises like this?" Schumer asked. "You want to be attorney general, you should be able to clarify it yourself."How can this manner of man respresent this country when his loyalty is to President George Bush ?
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Bill Maher On George Bush
2007-07-22 06:22:00
During the stand up comedy of Bill Maher on HBO, he called President Bush a clown and proceeded to ridicule him.
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Pentagon To Hillary Clinton: You're Helping The Enemy
2007-07-20 08:14:00
Part 1Part 2See Original StoryThe Pentagon told Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton that her questions about how the U.S. plans to eventually withdraw from Iraq boosts enemy propaganda.In a stinging rebuke to a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Undersecretary of Defense Eric Edelman responded to questions Clinton raised in May in which she urged the Pentagon to start planning now for the withdrawal of American forces.A copy of Edelman's response, dated July 16, was obtained Thursday by The Associated Press."Premature and public discussion of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq reinforces enemy propaganda that the United States will abandon its allies in Iraq, much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia," Edelman wrote.He added that "such talk understandably unnerves the very same Iraqi allies we are asking to assume enormous personal risks."Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines called the response "at once outrageous an...
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A Country Under Siege
2007-07-19 06:58:00
Reid said today, ?Because Republicans continue to block votes on important amendments to the Defense Authorization bill, we can make no further progress on Iraq and this bill at this time. For these reasons, I have temporarily laid aside the Defense Authorization bill and have entered a motion to reconsider.But let me be clear to my Republican colleagues ? I emphasize the word ?temporarily?. We will do everything in our power to change course in Iraq. We will do everything in our power to complete consideration of a Defense Authorization bill. We must do both.Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Jon Kyl (R-AZ) raced to the television cameras this afternoon to offer hyperbolic attacks against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, following Reid?s decision to pull the entire Defense Authorization bill from consideration. McCain and Kyl were quick to dishonestly politicize Reid?s maneuver, after obstructing passage of the bill over opposition to an Iraq redeployment amendment.The Republicans hav...
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Surging The Surge
2007-07-18 13:24:00
Gen. David Petraeus, has repeatedly said that the United States must wait until September to assess the success of the President?s escalation policy in Iraq. General Pace said the joint chiefs are developing their own report and thinking about another surge or a decrease in the Military troops in Iraq.Reid accused conservatives of ?protecting the President rather than protecting our troops? by ?denying us an up or down vote on the most important issue our country faces.? He stated "We have no alternative except to keep them in session to explain their obstruction," Thanks to the Senate Republicans, most Americans now know the Senate needs 60 votes to over turn anything that President Bush wants to do and at this time this President will continue with his failed strategy and just might resurge the surge.
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Senator's Jim Webb And Lindsay Graham Have It Out
2007-07-16 23:36:00
Yesterday on Meet the Press, Senator Jim Webb and Senator Lindsay Graham had it out on the Troops in Iraq and the Presidents surge. This is a must see!Republicans have always out talked Democrats to get their point accross and yes, in the past the Democrats would allow them to do just that. Now there's a new day and a new sheriff in town. The Democrats are having none of that anymore as Senator Graham found out from Senator Webb.

The Schmooze Award
2007-07-15 19:45:00
According to Mariuca, schmoozing is the natural ability ?to converse casually, especially in order to gain an advantage or make a social connection.? Good schmoozers effortlessly weave their way in and out of the blogosphere, leaving friendly trails and smiles, happily making new friends along the way. They don?t limit their visits to only the rich and successful, but spend some time to say hello to new blogs as well.Here are my 5 recipients of the Power of Schmooze Award :JollyRoger of Reconstitution 2.0: A great Blog with very good writing. This is one site that has a great political opinion and up to date news of today, I make a trip to this site daily.Lizzy of The OCD Gen X Liberal: I think I make a visit to this site everyday, because Lizzy has a way of making one feel welcome and her posts are sometimes lite in humor, it's just a site with writing you would enjoy reading and coming back to again and again.DivaJood of Journeys with Jood: Another lite humor site with very go...

Bush's Urge To Surge
2007-07-14 01:59:00
I know I said that I would have my picks for the Schmooze Awards in my next post. Excuse me, but I had to post this story on Bush before it got old.Bush has told lawmakers that they had no business trying to manage the war and warned that moving toward withdrawal now would risk "mass killings on a horrific scale." The Democrats, tired of Bush's tuff talk, responded by voting almost totally along party lines to require that the United States withdraw most combat troops from Iraq by April 1, 2008.Even though the Democrats are trying to fight, there is just not much they can really do accept threaten this President. Since there are not 60 votes in the Senate, Bush will have his way.What this should tell us is, we need more Democrats in the Senate really to make a difference. By the way the Bush administration has a new slogan...We need a surge of facts. This by Snow who said also "That's one of the things we're going to be working on."Now comes the lie that Bushes are pushing...
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The Schmooze Award
2007-07-13 12:11:00
According to Mariuca, schmoozing is the natural ability ?to converse casually, especially in order to gain an advantage or make a social connection.? Good schmoozers effortlessly weave their way in and out of the blogosphere, leaving friendly trails and smiles, happily making new friends along the way. They don?t limit their visits to only the rich and successful, but spend some time to say hello to new blogs as well.I?ve been awarded the Schmooze Award by Leo, over at Lionboi Blues & News. I just want to say, thank you so much Leo, it?s an honor. I will be handing it out to some of my favorite blogging friends during my next post.

Bush To House and Senate, Just Wait!
2007-07-10 22:08:00
See Original StoryPresident Bush , facing new pressure to start bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq, said Tuesday he won't consider it until hearing a fresh assessment from his top commander there this fall."That's what the American people expect. They expect for military people to come back and tell us how the military operations are going," Bush said. "And that's the way I'm going to play it as commander in chief."Gen. David Petraeus is due in September to present a progress report to Congress on the effects of the recently completed troop buildup in Iraq. Frustration in Congress among leaders of both parties has led to calls for changes in strategy before then."We see little evidence of reconciliation and little progress toward meeting the benchmarks laid out by the president," said McCain. A U.S. withdrawal, he said, would increase "the potential for genocide, wider war, spiraling oil prices and the perception of strategic American defeat."McCain's comments contrasted with t...
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Senate May Call Patrick Fitzgerald
2007-07-09 04:27:00
See Original StorySen. Schumer said "I?ve spoken to Sen. Leahy about this and what we?re thinking of doing is calling Patrick Fitzgerald?the prosecutor before us?.he did interview the President and Vice President?not before a grand jury and he might have some very interesting things to say."The special prosecutor in the leak case, Patrick Fitzgerald, took issue with Bush's claim the prison term was excessive.The question now is can they call Fitzgerald since Bush and Cheney weren?t under oath?What say you?
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Commuter In Chief
2007-07-04 22:53:00
America, here's your Comm uter in Chief .... What say you?
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Libby Sentence Commuted
2007-07-03 13:08:00
"I respect the jury?s verdict. But I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive. Therefore, I am commuting the portion of Mr. Libby?s sentence that required him to spend thirty months in prison."This from the man America voted into office as the President of the United States. Bush said his action still "leaves in place a harsh punishment for Mr. Libby."The president left intact a $250,000 fine and two years' probation for his conviction of lying and obstructing justice in a probe into the leak of a CIA operative's identity. The former operative, Valerie Plame, contends the White House was trying to discredit her husband, a critic of Bush's Iraq policy.former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani applauded President Bush's decision to commute the prison sentence of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.Fred Thompson said "I am very happy for Scooter Libby. I know that this is a great relief to him, his wife and children. While for a long time I have urged a pardon fo...
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Executive Privilege vs Congressional Investigators
2007-06-30 14:57:00
See Original StoryIn a letter to White House counsel Fred Fielding, the heads of the Senate and House Judiciary committees demanded an explanation in 10 days of why the White House claimed executive privilege on subpoenaed documents and vowed to invoke "the full force of law.""The veil of secrecy you have attempted to pull over the White House by withholding documents and witnesses is unprecedented and damaging to the tradition of open government by and for the people that has been a hallmark of the republic," Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., and Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., told Fielding.They gave the White House until July 9 to furnish the factual and legal bases for the executive privilege claim and documentation that President Bush personally signed off on it.Whether or not the White House meets the deadline, "we will take the necessary steps to rule on your privilege claims and appropriately enforce our subpoenas backed by the full force of law," Leahy and Conyers wrote.The problems a...
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El Cenizo, Texas And The Immigration Bill
2007-06-28 13:06:00
Welcome to El Cenizo, Texas USA, a border town where Spanish is the official language and nobody bothers illegal immigrants. In May, 2006, El Cenizo, with a population of 6500 people, became a Spanish speaking town. In 2000, the population was 80.73% White, 0.28% African American, 1.07% Native American, 0.06% Asian, 14.67% from other races, and 3.19% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 98.90% of the population. Today our Senate refused to close debate and advance the legislation, thereby defeating President Bush's plan to overhaul immigration laws. America has to look at the fact that our agriculture States depend on Mexican workers, therefore America depends on Mexican workers. I am not judging which position is correct on this issue, there is enough of that going on around this country already. When you look at El Cenizo, what comes to your mind and does it bother anyone that this Texas city is a Spanish speaking city in America? Here's a video to put a l...
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Cheney And The Big Joke
2007-06-27 02:44:00
The rest of the World looks at America and the people running this country and call us a big Joke . Once again here's Comedy Central's Jon Stewart, giving us all the facts and the joke.
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3.8 Million Dollars Bonus To VA Employees
2007-06-24 02:54:00
See Original StoryThe Veterans Administration are getting bonuses in the tune of 3.8 million dollars, while soldiers are still waiting for payments.Freshman Congressman Phil Hare (D-IL), who serves on the House Veterans Affairs Committee, last week called for the resignation of VA Secretary Jim Nicholson. Hare and others are steaming over the latest reports that $3.8 million in bonuses were given to senior officials at the embattled Veterans Administration in 2006. Among those given bonuses?as much as $33,000 each?were regional directors who wrote the VA's faulty 2005 budget, which government investigators have concluded was laden with misleading accounting that included claiming for false savings of $1.3 billion. On Friday, Rep. John Hall, Democrat of New York, chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Disability Assistance, said he was introducing legislation that would freeze all future bonus payments to VA officials until the department cuts the backlog of veteran ...
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Case In Point Part 6/Conclusion
2007-06-21 14:31:00
To understand this post one must read Case in point Part one through five. I do not usually write a large post because I know that most readers skip through such things.Listed below are one through five:CASE IN POINT Part1CASE IN POINT Part2CASE IN POINT Part 3CASE IN POINT Part 4/MILLER KNEW, DID BUSH?CASE IN POINT PART 5/ "WE'RE GOING TO CATCH THE GUYS THAT KNOCKED DOWN THESE BUILDINGS"We went from doing the right thing about the people who committed 9/11, to something very shocking.?Eight days after the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, Osama bin Laden possibly charters a flight to whisk his family out of the country, and it?s not worth more than a luggage search and a few brief interviews?? asked Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. ?Clearly these documents prove the FBI conducted a slapdash investigation of these Saudi flights. We?ll never know how many investigative leads were lost due to the FBI?s lack of diligence.?The document states: ?ON 9/19/01, A 727 PLANE LEFT L...
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Presidential Records Act May Be Extensive
2007-06-19 14:35:00
See Original StoryThe House Oversight Committee said Monday. E-mail records are missing for 51 of the 88 White House officials who had electronic message accounts with the Republican National Committee."Given the heavy reliance by White House officials on RNC e-mail accounts, the high rank of the White House officials involved, and the large quantity of missing e-mails," the report said, "the potential violation of the Presidential Record s Act may be extensive."This is what we get when WE the people allow a President to go unchecked by a Republican House and Senate. They have let this President and his Administration have its way with America and its laws.Republicans said there is no evidence that the law was violated or that the missing e-mails were of a government rather than political nature.Tony Snow said of the claim: "That's an allegation. We will respond to it in due course."The report said the House committee may need to issue subpoenas "to obtain the cooperation of the Bus...
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A Lie Is A Lie, Even Three Months Later
2007-06-16 14:25:00
This is how Bush lied to us and The White House press corps did nothing as they are doing now... Thanks to Comedy Central's Jon Stewart, this lie did not stand.
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What About The Immigration Bill?
2007-06-15 00:21:00
What about the employers who hire these people and get away with cheap labor and break the law. They avoid paying minimum wage, payroll taxes, worker's compensation insurance, overtime and other legally mandated employee benefits, these Illegal Employers profit at the expense of taxpayers and honest Business owners. I think this is the main reason most Republican's in the senate went against President Bush on this Bill . This is called taking care of your "BASE" and the Republicans do this better than anyone.Andrew Speaker was infected with tuberculosis and went through Czech airlines to Montreal to the Canadian border with a passport that had been flagged by CDC and should have been detained and isolated. How could this man come back to America and get pass a check point with a flagged passport with ease?How can we count on a computer and a border patrol to process 12 million people with temporary work visa's, when we cannot control one man who's passport has been flagged?How ma...
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Which One Of The Two Would Be Grounds For Impeachment?
2007-06-08 07:10:00
Imagine someone in the year 2020 watching these two video's, which one of the two would they say were grounds for impeachment?I recall Rep. McKinney speaking out against this President in the House for the last time and telling us what some did not know.She was made out to be the bad person by both the Republicans, the media and others... I will admit, she had her own problems, but she gave us the truth and a lot of us ignored it.Imagine someone in the year 2020 watching this video and wondering, what was wrong with the American People?What say you?
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America, Bush and Iraq
2007-05-28 05:15:00
America has always had brave men and women who rose to the challenge when called to defend this country. That is why I am so angry at the conservative's, the Republican's, the Neo cons, the evangelical Christians , the chicken hawks, and even the media.Why, you ask? Because we allowed these people to threaten us as traitors if we spoke out against this war. We allowed these people to challenge anyone who had the will to speak out as not giving a true statement.We set back and allowed people to loose their jobs and their will to speak out in fear of being called traitors by these folks.Our consciousness has lost the ideal of freedom of speech, it know longer exist in this country because of this madness.On October 11 2002, the US House of Representatives authorized war-making powers to this President. The vote was 296-133 in favor in the Congress and 77 to 23 in the Senate. Congress agreed that the threat from Saddam Hussein caused them to give this President the right to go to war...
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Moqtada al-Sadr Urges U.S. Withdrawal While President Signs Bill
2007-05-26 03:43:00
Moqtada al-Sadr Urges U.S. Withdrawal while a nation is mad and confused about the scrapping withdrawal timelines on funding for the Iraq war.A lot of Democrats voted for this Congress to get us out of Iraq. The bill was signed at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland. I guess Bush is now on vacation."I think the president's policy is going to begin to unravel now," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who expressed disappointment that the bill did not force an end to U.S. participation in the conflict.Democrats are really hot under the collar on this one, but so are some Republicans.What say you?
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What the Constitution Means To Our President
2007-05-24 22:01:00
See Original StoryThe Const itution has stood for two centuries as the defining document of our government, the final source to determine - in the end - if something is legal or right.Every federal official - including the President - who takes an oath of office swears to "uphold and defend" the Constitution of the United States.Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says he cringes when someone calls the Constitution a "living document."Well Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, what would you say if I told you that President Bush thinks the Constitution in his own words; "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"The way this man treats our citizen's, I guess we are not too much better than the Constitution...
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I Got Tagged - Blogs That Make You Think
2007-05-21 11:42:00
I got tagged by Reconstitution, It's an honor to be placed in such a Tag Award, and I'll try to give the sites that makes one think.The rules, created by The Thinking Blog, are thus:1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think,2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,3. Optional: Proudly display the 'Thinking Blogger Award' with a link to the post that you wrote (here is an alternative silver version if gold doesn't fit your blog).Below are the five blogs I chose that makes you Think.1. Who Hijacked Our Country - This site is by Tom Harper, who seems to come up with information that most readers never knew about. I would say that I read his post's almost daily.2. VARIOUS ECSTASIES - snave is the author of this site.... when I stop by and read what has been posted for the day, it's as if I've dictated to him what I wanted to say, but he writes it much better than I ever could.3. Major Confli...
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"Holy Cow Batman" Bush Don't Think Troops Need Bigger Pay Raises
2007-05-18 03:58:00
Troops don?t need bigger pay raises, Bush budget officials said the administration "strongly opposes" both the 3.5 percent raise for 2008 and the follow-on increases, calling extra pay increases "unnecessary."It was so necessary to get the billions to waste in Iraq, but not necessary to raise the pay for the troops.The Bush administration had asked for a 3 percent military raise for Jan. 1, 2008, enough to match last year?s average pay increase in the private sector. The House Armed Services Committee recommends a 3.5 percent pay increase for 2008, and increases in 2009 through 2012 that also are 0.5 percentage point greater than private-sector pay raises.The slightly bigger military raises are intended to reduce the gap between military and civilian pay that stands at about 3.9 percent today. Under the bill, HR 1585, the pay gap would be reduced to 1.4 percent after the Jan. 1, 2012, pay increase.Bush budget officials said the administration ?strongly opposes? both the 3.5 percent ...
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Who You Gonna Call
2007-05-06 10:15:00
Click PhotoSee Original StoryIt seems every time Bush has a problem with the war in Iraq and things are just not really going his way.... we get a new video from his ENEMY.It's as if he gives these folks a call and they come to his aid in some type of way.al Qaeda's No. 2 leader mocks President Bush and legislation requiring the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, saying the bill would rob the group's fighters of the chance to kill more Americans.This is enough, how long are we going to be stuck on stupid... am I the only one that sees a pattern?
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The Veto
2007-05-02 12:40:00
Four years ago our President declared "major combat operations" in Iraq were over, yesterday President Bush vetoed a bill that calls for the start of a withdrawal of American troops from Iraq.President Bush's Administration have already started their talking points-- saying the Democrats will be to blame for any hardships suffered by U.S. troops and their families.Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reid addressed the media yesterday in respond to President Bush's veto.Congress appropriated more than $100 billion to support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. It would seem that it's now up to this President to explain to the American people why he would veto the appropriation. See: Let's Talk About It; Bill Maher and Donald Trump's view on Republican Presidential Candidates and Bush.
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Say It Ant So George
2007-04-29 06:10:00
See Original StoryAccording to the Washington Post, While television sets worldwide showed images of New Orleans residents begging to be rescued from rooftops as floodwaters rose, U.S. officials turned down countless offers of allied troops and search-and-rescue teams. The most common responses: "sent letter of thanks" and "will keep offer on hand," the new documents show.Overall, the United States declined 54 of 77 recorded aid offers from three of its staunchest allies: Canada, Britain and Israel, according to a 40-page State Department table of the offers that had been received as of January 2006.You've just got to read this story to believe it...In one exchange, State Department officials anguished over whether to tell Italy that its shipments of medicine, gauze and other medical supplies spoiled in the elements for weeks after Katrina's landfall on Aug. 29, 2005, and were destroyed. "Tell them we blew it," one disgusted official wrote. But she hedged: "The flip side is just t...
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