Comments on: No Crony Left Behind http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/14/no-crony-left-behind/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:21:08 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: JoyB http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/14/no-crony-left-behind/#comment-505354 JoyB Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:01:42 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/14/no-crony-left-behind/#comment-505354 <p><a href="#comment-505017"><em>MarkusQ @ 1 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Ftiz!</p> <p>(On edit: Drat…My first zero, and it’s a typo! And I even read the story before I posted.)</p></blockquote> <p>MarkusQ, I just seriously needed the good laugh you gave me!</p> MarkusQ @ 1

Ftiz!

(On edit: Drat…My first zero, and it’s a typo! And I even read the story before I posted.)

MarkusQ, I just seriously needed the good laugh you gave me!

]]> By: Adie http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/14/no-crony-left-behind/#comment-505233 Adie Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:07:50 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/14/no-crony-left-behind/#comment-505233 <p>HotFlash at 44</p> <p>Thanks for the background, I think.<br /> Very discouraging.</p> <p>We’re not stupid people.<br /> We’re neither lazy nor frivolous.<br /> We work hard to be honest and fair to others.<br /> We try to pull our own weight, and to save for the future.</p> <p>We are terribly terribly discouraged by today’s financial system.<br /> It seems so utterly corrupt and unfair.<br /> I don’t like Lou Dobbs & his egotistical, tub-thumping crusades, but I do believe it when he says the middle class is under attack.</p> <p>What can we do to protect ourselves and our families from today’s empire-builders who don’t give a %*@## for anyone or anything beyond their own personal collections of “brightshinythings”?!</p> <p>Of course all the above is trumped by the maniacal war-mongers, neglect of the poor and needy, attacks upon our environment through greed and ignorance.</p> <p>Oh doom & gloom.<br /> Don’t mind me. I’m just having another of my “moments”. </p> <p>Thanks for being there, pups.<br /> A population of folks who DO care about others.<br /> You give me hope. At least the world will know we’ve been here, fighting the good fight, eh? ;-</p> HotFlash at 44

Thanks for the background, I think.
Very discouraging.

We’re not stupid people.
We’re neither lazy nor frivolous.
We work hard to be honest and fair to others.
We try to pull our own weight, and to save for the future.

We are terribly terribly discouraged by today’s financial system.
It seems so utterly corrupt and unfair.
I don’t like Lou Dobbs & his egotistical, tub-thumping crusades, but I do believe it when he says the middle class is under attack.

What can we do to protect ourselves and our families from today’s empire-builders who don’t give a %*@## for anyone or anything beyond their own personal collections of “brightshinythings”?!

Of course all the above is trumped by the maniacal war-mongers, neglect of the poor and needy, attacks upon our environment through greed and ignorance.

Oh doom & gloom.
Don’t mind me. I’m just having another of my “moments”.

Thanks for being there, pups.
A population of folks who DO care about others.
You give me hope. At least the world will know we’ve been here, fighting the good fight, eh? ;-

]]> By: ifthethunderdontgetya http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/14/no-crony-left-behind/#comment-505208 ifthethunderdontgetya Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:39:42 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/14/no-crony-left-behind/#comment-505208 <p><i>Try Feith for treason? Yes, along with all these pond scum who lied us into the debacle in Iraq. Georgetown ought to be ashamed of itself for giving this neoconman a job.</i></p> <p>By ifthethunderdontgetya | Feb 14, 2007 7:45:23 AM | Request Removal</p> <p>That was my own little contribution to the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/comments/display?contentID=AR2007021301092&start=121">Feith Fest</a> this morning.</p> <p>What is sad is <a href="http://www.geocities.com/ifthethunderdontgetya/congratulations_fred_hiatt.html">Fred Hiatt and the WaPo</a> keep giving more column space to the people who were dead wrong about Iraq than to those who were right.</p> Try Feith for treason? Yes, along with all these pond scum who lied us into the debacle in Iraq. Georgetown ought to be ashamed of itself for giving this neoconman a job.

By ifthethunderdontgetya | Feb 14, 2007 7:45:23 AM | Request Removal

That was my own little contribution to the Feith Fest this morning.

What is sad is Fred Hiatt and the WaPo keep giving more column space to the people who were dead wrong about Iraq than to those who were right.

]]> By: Titanyum http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/14/no-crony-left-behind/#comment-505193 Titanyum Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:13:05 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/14/no-crony-left-behind/#comment-505193 <p>The performance by Bush at todays presser reminds us again what overreaching power is conferred on the POTUS. He can lie over and over again, he can mismanage a war, he can start a new war with Iran by pretending to protect our troops in Iraq. The Congress is too much awed by presidential power so it is letting the Commander in Chief command in mischief. It is high time for the House to do the right thing and impeach this man who does not do the peoples business.</p> The performance by Bush at todays presser reminds us again what overreaching power is conferred on the POTUS. He can lie over and over again, he can mismanage a war, he can start a new war with Iran by pretending to protect our troops in Iraq. The Congress is too much awed by presidential power so it is letting the Commander in Chief command in mischief. It is high time for the House to do the right thing and impeach this man who does not do the peoples business.

]]> By: egregious http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/14/no-crony-left-behind/#comment-505192 egregious Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:12:04 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/14/no-crony-left-behind/#comment-505192 <p>HotFlash at 44 “I have seen this sort of thing happening since I started working (late ’60’s) and it wasn’t new then. Rayne was describing the procedure the other day, part of the build-up is to extend the credit to max. It’s sort of like putting a lemon in the microwave for a 30 sec before you squeeze it, more juice that way. I believe that Big $ is just extending their game, this time they’re doing it with a whole country. When the US is an empty husk they’ll just move on to Paraguay. We’ll stay here and life will be nasty, brutish and short.</p> <p>They are a parasite that kills the host.”<br /> [end quote]</p> <p>Then we are the antibodies.</p> HotFlash at 44 “I have seen this sort of thing happening since I started working (late ’60’s) and it wasn’t new then. Rayne was describing the procedure the other day, part of the build-up is to extend the credit to max. It’s sort of like putting a lemon in the microwave for a 30 sec before you squeeze it, more juice that way. I believe that Big $ is just extending their game, this time they’re doing it with a whole country. When the US is an empty husk they’ll just move on to Paraguay. We’ll stay here and life will be nasty, brutish and short.

They are a parasite that kills the host.”
[end quote]

Then we are the antibodies.

]]> By: HotFlash http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/14/no-crony-left-behind/#comment-505187 HotFlash Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:09:22 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/14/no-crony-left-behind/#comment-505187 <p><a href="#comment-505175"><em>bellesouth @ 112</em></a></p> <blockquote><p><a href="#comment-505170"><em>Redshift @ 109</em></a></p> <blockquote><p><a href="#comment-505121"><em>bellesouth @ 69</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>One of the first statements that Bushie made was that the troops that the Iraqis were supposed to have there have fallen short as of today. WTF?</p></blockquote> <p>It may be a response to the Iraqi government having failed the first “benchmark” since the SOTU — they were supposed to have troops in Baghdad to support the “surge,” but they’re way under strength. There have been no consequences of this failed benchmark, of course, just like all the previous ones.</p></blockquote> <p>Exactly. And no one asked him about this. First benchmark has not been met.</p></blockquote> <p> Well c’mon! If we actually kept score, we’d like, know how we were doing. It’s <a href="http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Nook/2990/cb_rules.htm">Calvinball</a>!</p> bellesouth @ 112

Redshift @ 109

bellesouth @ 69

One of the first statements that Bushie made was that the troops that the Iraqis were supposed to have there have fallen short as of today. WTF?

It may be a response to the Iraqi government having failed the first “benchmark” since the SOTU — they were supposed to have troops in Baghdad to support the “surge,” but they’re way under strength. There have been no consequences of this failed benchmark, of course, just like all the previous ones.

Exactly. And no one asked him about this. First benchmark has not been met.

Well c’mon! If we actually kept score, we’d like, know how we were doing. It’s Calvinball!

]]> By: politicalpolyanna http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/14/no-crony-left-behind/#comment-505186 politicalpolyanna Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:09:12 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/14/no-crony-left-behind/#comment-505186 <p>POTUS press conference couldn’t have gone too well for the Bush/Cheney/Rove team. Fox News is already covering a high-speed chase in Miami. lol</p> POTUS press conference couldn’t have gone too well for the Bush/Cheney/Rove team. Fox News is already covering a high-speed chase in Miami. lol

]]> By: Redshift http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/14/no-crony-left-behind/#comment-505183 Redshift Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:08:30 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/14/no-crony-left-behind/#comment-505183 <p><a href="#comment-505173"><em>perris @ 111</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>I didn’t want to go off topic up there so I’m gonna post this down heir</p> <p>fieths op ed, over 17 pages of response so far and man, I am having a ball reading them</p> <p>forgive the lenght, but this is just the first page;</p></blockquote> <p>My favorite:</p> <blockquote><p>Tommy Franks was right.</p></blockquote> <p>:-)</p> perris @ 111

I didn’t want to go off topic up there so I’m gonna post this down heir

fieths op ed, over 17 pages of response so far and man, I am having a ball reading them

forgive the lenght, but this is just the first page;

My favorite:

Tommy Franks was right.

:-)

]]> By: Stephen Parrish, CPA http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/14/no-crony-left-behind/#comment-505182 Stephen Parrish, CPA Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:08:20 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/14/no-crony-left-behind/#comment-505182 <p>New thread from Marcy</p> New thread from Marcy

]]> By: GSD http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/14/no-crony-left-behind/#comment-505178 GSD Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:07:34 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/14/no-crony-left-behind/#comment-505178 <p>Bush: The Democrats are attacking the McCain Escalation Plan that they haven’t even allowed to be implemented.</p> <p>Bush: I won’t negotiate with the Iranians because it won’t yield any results.</p> <p>-GSD</p> Bush: The Democrats are attacking the McCain Escalation Plan that they haven’t even allowed to be implemented.

Bush: I won’t negotiate with the Iranians because it won’t yield any results.

-GSD

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