Boy, is that a relief!
Posted by iamcoyote at September 28, 2007 05:48 AMY'all, I'm a true Left Coaster now, I'm out here in Seattle! It's wet, cold and it sure ain't Alabama!
Are you guys breathless with anticipation at the Diane Sawyer interview sometime this evening or tomorrow or whenever with Jena Bush and Diane asking her about...ooooh, the prospect of a White House WEDDING!
Can you imagine Bush walking Jena down the aisle?
Posted by Mal Feasance at September 28, 2007 06:08 AMThe only way one could support it, is if every state joined the process.
But since the repukes just wanted to cheat, lie, and steal the electoral votes from that last bastion of liberalism in San Francisco and Hollywood serves them right.
Posted by Seven of Six at September 28, 2007 06:09 AMGlad to see the GOP minority outreach program getting some much deserved publicity.
Posted by snark at September 28, 2007 06:35 AMNow, that was funny snark!
Posted by Seven of Six at September 28, 2007 07:16 AMSnark, you beat me to it. Rudy, Mitt, McOld and Fred all skip an important debate. At least they were properly represented by empty podiums. It's probably a good thing because Fred doesn't know anything about the Jena 6 case. Must not be in his daily script.
And another thing about this debate, Ron Paul was consistently receiving the most applause after his answers to questions. Is there a Libertarian streak out there that I don't know about, or is he just the protest candidate of choice right now?
And what was Alan Keyes doing there? He's running? Or does he just want a rematch with Barack?
Posted by Jeff Dinelli at September 28, 2007 07:21 AMJeff, RP (if you say his name three times, groupies will show up to cheer) has learned that if you only say things you know people want to hear, you'll get applause. He's got a very organized following, and it's kinda scary to see some progressives fall for his shit. 'Course, some people will follow the first person who says what they're thinking, never mind the all-important question "will he do what he says?"
Posted by iamcoyote at September 28, 2007 07:47 AMReady for some comfort? Naomi Wolf has, well actually it's a terrifying diary up at DailyKos.
In little noticed news, Blackwater, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Arinc were recently awarded a collective $15 billion -- yes, billion -- from the Pentagon to conduct global counter-narcotics operations. This means that Blackwater can be deployed to engage with citizens on a whole new level of intimacy anywhere around the world -- including here at home. What is scarier than scary is that Blackwater’s overall plans are to do more and more of its armed and dangerous ‘security’ operations on U.S. soil.
For a quick sketch of what we might someday soon be up against, In an interview of Jeremy Schahill by Amy Goodman:
Well, here we are a decade later, and it’s the most powerful mercenary firm in the world. It has 20,000 soldiers on the ready, the world’s largest private military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, including helicopter gunships. It’s become nothing short of the Praetorian Guard for the Bush administration's so-called global war on terror. And it’s headed by a very rightwing Christian activist, ex-Navy Seal named Erik Prince, whose family was one of the major bankrollers of the Republican Revolution of the 1990s. He, himself, is a significant funder of President Bush and his allies.
How appropriate to refer to Blackwater and the MANY other security firms as the Preatorian Guard for our little naked Emperor. You really all should give these pieces a read. One of the first and most important resources nascent fascist movements need is a brutal and threatening cadre of enforcers, who are NOT accountable to ordinary forces in society. Remember the "scare" before the FISA vote, where Congress critters were warned of the danger to their own safety if the mean terr'ists aren't stopped by the Jack Bauer NSA? They sure caved and left town in a big hurry! Constitution? What Constitution.
Maybe there's been some writing of the bathroom walls going on in Washington. We're just one big crisis away from the President declaring a "national emergency" and we may be living in a bad Mel Gibson movie.
According to Daniel Ellsberg, in a charming little piece called: A coup has occurred,
If there’s another 9/11 under this regime … it means that they switch on full extent all the apparatus of a police state that has been patiently constructed, largely secretly at first but eventually leaked out and known and accepted by the Democratic people in Congress, by the Republicans and so forth.
Perhaps we now have a rational explanation for our "Majority" leaders to endure 11% ratings and the rage of their activist supporters and ALWAYS drop their drawers (or raise their skirts) and bend over while firmly grasping their ankles. Unless of course, they see themselves as beneficiaries of these conditions. We sure live in interesting times! Damn those Chinese and their curses!
Coyote it sounds like you are talking about Hillary. She talks one way and votes another way. I still say voting for Hillary is voting for more of the same.
Posted by JohnT at September 28, 2007 08:13 AMHere's a couple of numbers for all of you:
$9.815 trillion
$5.6 trillion
The first numbeer is the amount the Senate just approved which finalizes increasing the ceilng on the debt limit, the fifth increase since Bush took office. And the second number is the amount of debt at which Bush started out his presidency. Does this mean that the Dems plan on giving Bush another blank check for his war? I want to see this figure plugged into a graph of the national debt for the last 70 years.
Posted by Julie at September 28, 2007 08:43 AMI friggin' pray Jenna Bush cannot reproduce. Gawd, do I pray, and I'm an atheist. It's bad enough that the Britney thing has kids!
Posted by tempus at September 28, 2007 10:59 AMJena can go take her honeymoon in Baghdad
Posted by Gay Veteran at September 28, 2007 11:06 AMJulie - the empire will soon be bankrupt, but not before Bush's buddies finish looting the U.S. Treasury
Posted by Gay Veteran at September 28, 2007 11:09 AMTempus....hilarious! I laughed out loud at my desk here. We atheists have the best sense of humor.
Posted by Jeff Dinelli at September 28, 2007 11:58 AMIf we don't have Gawd, we better have a sense of humour, Jeff!!
Posted by tempus at September 28, 2007 02:03 PM