Hugh @4:

Here’s a good article about the blaming of Iran for “shaped charges” and attacks, generally.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/M…..6Ak04.html

Demonstrating that the scum rises to the top in Bush’s army, here is Odierno on Iran’s purported aims: “I think they want to influence the decision potentially coming up in September.”

Of course. Iran is sending a message to the Democratic Congress. One can only marvel at the transparent cynicism of it all.

Which makes me wonder why, if the Iranians are supplying the SHIITE MILITIAS with these shaped charges….why it is that the vast number of deaths of US forces that appear to be the result of these charges are occurring in the SUNNI TRIANGLE and other Sunni areas where it would be suicidal for a Shiite Bomb Squad to wander into and wait until the convenient US patrol is passing by?

These attacks are NOT predominantly occurring in Sadr City or in the areas around the Shiite Shrines…they are occuring in places like Baquba and Fallujah and al Anbar and south of Tikrit. These simply are NOT Shiite controlled or influenced zones.

In any case, the Republicans are the party of Lincoln, and that’s the winning legacy for contemporary race relations

This from the gentle writer who on his own site excoriates liberal jesters at length for their ‘chicken hawk’ gag? You DO have a sense of humor!

sorry i’m late to this, but…

Notice the framing of Donald “Duck” Douglas… “if you got the cojones…”

all macho, all the time. Typical fighting keyboardist.

hey donald – name the place. I’m in san diego. i’ll debate you, and I’ve “got the cojones…” amigo

foul-mouthed lib fem bloggers, indeed

Randiego’s talkin’ tough! Fight with the keyboard, if you’ve got any fight in you!

As for some of the others, at 29 and elsewhere: Redneck bigots are not exclusive to the GOP base. Reagan Democrats just took a long time switching parties, and a few have yet to do so. (Be consistent in your attacks.)

In any case, the Republicans are the party of Lincoln, and that’s the winning legacy for contemporary race relations

P.J. Evans: I agree on immigration, and I supported the Bush bill, which was not an amnesty.

marshen @ 169

I hope these are’nt made in China?

I hope the Republicans are starting to feel the pain and if she is elected, I hope she will do just that.

What pain? Hillary and Barack are triangulators not dividers.

Newt’s strategy seems very risky. Bashing illegals (lizard code for hispanics) will certainly get the lizard brains to the polls, but Newt is bashing (ergo – writing off) millions of legal hispanic voters.

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I think that Democrats would do well to court the latino vote. That would require some restraint on Labor Union style hyperbole.

Newt might “run for president”, but he isn’t going to be president. His primary job, apparently, is to stir up and divide the southwest electorate — to bring out the racist feelings in people.

Divide and conquer is a familiar tactic to Roverites.

Anti-imigration rhetoric resonates very strongly in the red areas of southern california. The local hate radio stations have been feeding this for some time now. (They have long ago ignored Iraq.) The progressive community needs to get out in front on this issue and not let folks like Newt do all the framing.
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I suggested that when the Bush immigration bill failed there should be a Dem version which would actually fix the ‘problem’. But, DLCer Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill) said ‘No’, we won’t see any legislation on that for about six years.

How he got the authority to decide such a thing I don’t know.

Apparently Progressive solutions just don’t cut it with Rahm.

Actually, the more I think about it, I think it’s obvious that the previous thread about the new Republican tactic of calling US hate sites, is just a cover for them catering even more blatantly to hate.

It’s been their tactic for years now to accuse the left of something that the right is actually doing , or is planning to do.

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Do you think it correlates with the recent transfer of Rove from D.C. out to the ‘heartland’?

Giuliani was for immigrants in the 1990s when he was NYC mayor.

Now he’s against them.

Republicans will admire him for ‘coming to his senses’ and having learned to hate just like the rest of them do.

Manipulating, coercing, forcing and other Republican practices are not governing. None of them is fit to govern, much less lead.