Comments on: Late Nite FDL: Disconnected http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/10/late-nite-fdl-disconnected/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:21:08 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: idahojim http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/10/late-nite-fdl-disconnected/#comment-415789 idahojim Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:26:55 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/10/late-nite-fdl-disconnected/#comment-415789 <p>on thanksgiving in 05 I made tha prediction to my family that we would be leeving Iraq by the end of 06.boy was I wrong.things are worce than what I thought it would be,but the american people still arnt willing to stand up and force our government to pull out of Iraq.The soldiers have done there job,we never should have went and then we should have left the miuet we got saddam.what the hell is wrong with people,how do you cantinue to alow americans to die in a forien countrys civil war.Our troops have no buisnes being there.They did there job,bring them home now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p> on thanksgiving in 05 I made tha prediction to my family that we would be leeving Iraq by the end of 06.boy was I wrong.things are worce than what I thought it would be,but the american people still arnt willing to stand up and force our government to pull out of Iraq.The soldiers have done there job,we never should have went and then we should have left the miuet we got saddam.what the hell is wrong with people,how do you cantinue to alow americans to die in a forien countrys civil war.Our troops have no buisnes being there.They did there job,bring them home now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: AngryOne http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/10/late-nite-fdl-disconnected/#comment-415386 AngryOne Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:17:19 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/10/late-nite-fdl-disconnected/#comment-415386 <p>If a period of days can be said to mark the end of the era, this past week almost surely heralded the demise of the Bush Doctrine. On Wednesday, the Iraq Study Group dealt a death blow to the Bush foreign policy’s three pillars of no safe havens, preemptive war and democracy expansion. But it is the passing on Thursday of the neo-conservative Cold Warrior Jeane Kirkpatrick that perhaps best symbolized the closing of the book on Bush’s ill-conceived experiment with militant idealism in foreign affairs.</p> <p>For the story, see:<br /> <b><a href="http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/000497.htm">“Jeane Kirkpatrick and the Death of the Bush Doctrine.”</a></b></p> If a period of days can be said to mark the end of the era, this past week almost surely heralded the demise of the Bush Doctrine. On Wednesday, the Iraq Study Group dealt a death blow to the Bush foreign policy’s three pillars of no safe havens, preemptive war and democracy expansion. But it is the passing on Thursday of the neo-conservative Cold Warrior Jeane Kirkpatrick that perhaps best symbolized the closing of the book on Bush’s ill-conceived experiment with militant idealism in foreign affairs.

For the story, see:
“Jeane Kirkpatrick and the Death of the Bush Doctrine.”

]]> By: Gles http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/10/late-nite-fdl-disconnected/#comment-415273 Gles Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:37:35 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/10/late-nite-fdl-disconnected/#comment-415273 <p>So why is it called the Baker report? </p> <p><a href="http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2006/12/10/23239/971">One Old Timer’s Take On The Baker Report</a></p> <p>Just how stupid do they think we all are?</p> So why is it called the Baker report?

One Old Timer’s Take On The Baker Report

Just how stupid do they think we all are?

]]> By: Jesus B. Ochoa http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/10/late-nite-fdl-disconnected/#comment-415168 Jesus B. Ochoa Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:12:14 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/10/late-nite-fdl-disconnected/#comment-415168 <p><a href="#comment-415048"><em>Louisiana Girl @<br /> 215 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Those of us in Louisiana are not very happy with MyDD and DailyKos. The comments published on those websites stating that we do not deserve recovery because we did not elect their candidate are unacceptable. Perhaps if they bothered to consult those of us who understand Louisiana politics they would not have such problems. But one cannot reform racist and classist bloggers.</p></blockquote> <p>Amen to that, LA girl.</p> Louisiana Girl @
215

Those of us in Louisiana are not very happy with MyDD and DailyKos. The comments published on those websites stating that we do not deserve recovery because we did not elect their candidate are unacceptable. Perhaps if they bothered to consult those of us who understand Louisiana politics they would not have such problems. But one cannot reform racist and classist bloggers.

Amen to that, LA girl.

]]> By: Bookwoman http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/10/late-nite-fdl-disconnected/#comment-415158 Bookwoman Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:04:16 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/10/late-nite-fdl-disconnected/#comment-415158 <p>Maybe something a little more positive comes from SFGate Blog: The Ross Report.</p> <p> <b>An American Coup</b></p> <blockquote><p>An unwitting, or equally possible, witting of forces that have effectively stripped the president of his capacity to do much of anything at all, except to occupy a sterile office. “An emperor with no clothes”, as a high ranking official in a previous Republican administration described him, in a local paper.</p></blockquote> <p>Further on Ross continues:</p> <blockquote><p>Whether the report does, or does not make any difference to how events unfold in Mesapotamia may be immaterial. Its overriding effect is political…a “startling repudiation of “a president’s policies in the middle of a war”..<br /> The report amounted to the ultimate slicing administered to presidential knees that were already bleeding heavily.”</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p>The president of the United States has been put in a box. Or, more starkly, in restraints. The red-colored needle on the reservoir of support for the president in the country is heading towards “E”. The once fearsome power of those who spouted through megaphones on his behalf now more closely approximates the artificial wind of the Wizard of Oz. The “political capital” the president so generously said he would spend…has been spent. And the president has become what his hated predecessor swore he would not be after his defeat in an earlier set of midterms–”irrelevant”.</p></blockquote> Maybe something a little more positive comes from SFGate Blog: The Ross Report.

An American Coup

An unwitting, or equally possible, witting of forces that have effectively stripped the president of his capacity to do much of anything at all, except to occupy a sterile office. “An emperor with no clothes”, as a high ranking official in a previous Republican administration described him, in a local paper.

Further on Ross continues:

Whether the report does, or does not make any difference to how events unfold in Mesapotamia may be immaterial. Its overriding effect is political…a “startling repudiation of “a president’s policies in the middle of a war”..
The report amounted to the ultimate slicing administered to presidential knees that were already bleeding heavily.”

The president of the United States has been put in a box. Or, more starkly, in restraints. The red-colored needle on the reservoir of support for the president in the country is heading towards “E”. The once fearsome power of those who spouted through megaphones on his behalf now more closely approximates the artificial wind of the Wizard of Oz. The “political capital” the president so generously said he would spend…has been spent. And the president has become what his hated predecessor swore he would not be after his defeat in an earlier set of midterms–”irrelevant”.

]]> By: Christy Hardin Smith http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/10/late-nite-fdl-disconnected/#comment-415058 Christy Hardin Smith Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:34:32 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/10/late-nite-fdl-disconnected/#comment-415058 <p>Morning gang — <a href="http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/11/hope-floats/">fresh thread</a>, up and ready. Coffee’s on here…</p> Morning gang — fresh thread, up and ready. Coffee’s on here…

]]> By: Rayne http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/10/late-nite-fdl-disconnected/#comment-415056 Rayne Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:27:48 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/10/late-nite-fdl-disconnected/#comment-415056 <p>‘Morning, FirePups. Supposed to be working on deadline, but I need a mental health break.</p> <p>Just another Manic Monday, from the looks of things.</p> <p>[sigh]</p> ‘Morning, FirePups. Supposed to be working on deadline, but I need a mental health break.

Just another Manic Monday, from the looks of things.

[sigh]

]]> By: looseheadprop http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/10/late-nite-fdl-disconnected/#comment-415055 looseheadprop Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:17:57 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/10/late-nite-fdl-disconnected/#comment-415055 <p>I didn’t even attempt the threads. Just scanned the front pages. I’m sure Imissed a lot of the good stuff, but tempis fugit.</p> I didn’t even attempt the threads. Just scanned the front pages. I’m sure Imissed a lot of the good stuff, but tempis fugit.

]]> By: rumi http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/10/late-nite-fdl-disconnected/#comment-415052 rumi Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:11:17 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/10/late-nite-fdl-disconnected/#comment-415052 <p>I’m not a good one to answer that. Around here, I feel that if I blink I miss something. I average anywhere from 2-4 hours reading on a normal thread to catch it all. Time being what it is, I feel woefully uninformed.</p> I’m not a good one to answer that. Around here, I feel that if I blink I miss something. I average anywhere from 2-4 hours reading on a normal thread to catch it all. Time being what it is, I feel woefully uninformed.

]]> By: looseheadprop http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/10/late-nite-fdl-disconnected/#comment-415051 looseheadprop Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:00:19 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/10/late-nite-fdl-disconnected/#comment-415051 <p>Mornin Pups,</p> <p>Been away from my laptop for a couple days. have to go back and catch up now. Did I miss anything good?</p> Mornin Pups,

Been away from my laptop for a couple days. have to go back and catch up now. Did I miss anything good?

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