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AP – The Bush administration said in a new report Monday that Social Security is facing a $13.6 trillion shortfall and that delaying needed reforms is not fair to younger workers.
That George. Always looking out for us.
2 maybe
Twain @ 3
Not even!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :P
George W. Bush and Scooter Libby. No creeps left behind.
The entire Planet can do quite nicely without one, as well!
There’s a reason I coined the term “Credit Card Conservatives” back five years ago. I also posited at the time that our National Debt would become a National Security issue with much of it being owned by countries inimically unfriendly to the US in many ways.
Another republican president will only continue those policies, which is why we can’t afford another one. Now don’t get me started on the Moral Issues of Modern Republican-ism (aka NeoCon Moral Relativitism)… A subject for a whole ‘nother blog post.
that video makes the point, sharply
Shorter Repugs: “If we couldn’t lie, we’d have nothing to say.”
Man, I’m going broke.
I’m a little suspicious of two statements:
1. Rove: Clinton is a fatally-flawed candidate. (candidate?)
2. Bush: Clinton will be the candidate, but a Republican will “keep” the Whitehouse.
Hmmm….I wonder if they are planning on leaving at all.
my ideal president
pzazz of John Kennedy
political know-how of LBJ
basic intelligence of Nixon or Clinton I
SOB-ness of Nixon
character of Jimmy Carter
Is that ad on TV or just UTube?
Powerful ad! Love Bradley Whitford! I sure hope they don’t succeed in stealing another election.
Jonathan @ 12
Compassion and Vision of FDR.
solai @ 15
and the sense of the state of George Washington
Who is Bradley Whitford?
Not enough energy is being spent on guaranteeing a fair election. That should be a new Senate Committee. Concentrate on that one issue and the next pres will be a democrat.
Today is the 50th anniversary of President Eisenhower sending the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas. Maybe the last time a
Republican President did the right thing for the Country.
Steve-AR @ 19
Nixon did the right thing for the country when he resigned.
Karl Rove is a busy boy these days. What with his electoral vote bidness in Cali and the rest. And this evil thug is still running loose. The difference between Rove and Atwater? One has had his judgement day. The other has not
Elliott @ 16
Ya’ll couldn’t possibly expect an individual with half of those traits to run for public office do ya? Hmmm… ;-)
neurophius @ 17
Josh Lyman from the West Wing series.
I have a WW cap with his autograph on it. Got it in a church auction—his brother is a member of my home church and donated it.
One of my prized possessions.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 21
yet.
neurophius @ 17
Former actor on ‘The West Wing’, I loved his role…!!!
solai @ 15
Wisdom of Lincoln …
manly-Old Spice scent of Franklin Pierce … sex appeal of Warren Harding … soft bunny-like feely-goodness of T Roosevelt … YouTube presence of Calvin Coolidge … Colgate-Crest smile of Washington … beer making ability of Adams … beard-growing ability of Nixon … compassion for fellow humans of Hoover … dancing abilities of Polk …
OT –
Not sure if this was live or taped, but did anyone see the HUGE gotcha by Shuster on MSNBC. Congresswoman Blackburn couldn’t tell him the name of the last soldier in her district to die in the Iraq war, but she could recite everything about the MoveOn ad in the NY Times.
Ouch
Well, I thought I’d take the advice from the video ad and go to the site, but “No Server” was found. However, there is this; it seems to be the same organization.
When Bush was ‘elected’ my only hope was that the Media would be at least as perspicacious about examining the man and his administration as it had been for Clinton.
I could not imagine that they would fail in such an obvious and seemingly coordinated way, and with such arrogance.
We need someone with the grit of Truman who said “I told the truth and they”(the Republicans)”called it hell.”
RagingGurrl @ 27
Isn’t she the one who did the kiss and hold with W at the SOTU?
RagingGurrl @ 27
Yes, and she didn’t seem to have much of a problem about Limbaugh calling Sen. Hagel “Senator Betrayus” on the air.
dear fans of jane (yes i know that’s all of us),
pbs’s to the contrary has just posted their podcast of friday’s show, featuring…. jane hamsher! enjoy.
RevDeb @ 24
And… he will have it.
CTuttle @ 25
Aerosmith’s second guitarist is Brad Whitford. Is this the same guy?
neurophius @ 20
I doubt he did it for the good of the Country, anymore than Ford giving the pardon was for the good of the Country. In retrospect, it would have been better if had stayed on, been removered from office and then prosecuted.
selise @ 33
selise! thank you I missed that Sunday.
RevDeb @ 30
That was a different wingnut.
RagingGurrl @ 37
Oh yeah, Bachman I think, from MN . . . . ?
RagingGurrl @ 37
That was Bachman … and when Georgie showed up in Minneapolis to tour the bridge collapse, he wanted another kiss and she brushed him off.
HumboldtBlue @ 26
short iron game of Ike
RevDeb @ 38
So many wingnuts in congress, it’s hard to keep track of them!
:-)
punaise @ 40
Napping ability of Reagan
Ann in AZ @ 28
Here is a presentation.
neurophius @ 17
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0925966/
punaise @ 40
Joe Wilson
Steve-AR @ 35
amen
my bold
RagingGurrl @ 27
I loved it. Can’t wait to see her again. Even sent her an e-mail applauding her for “being so Republican.”
“I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends… that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.” Adlai E. Stevenson
I want a president who will grow in office.
Not a finished product entering office.
But someone with the capacity for good growth.
LS @ 45
No, no, no…I made a mistake….sorry Joe Wilson, didn’t mean it…wrong…yikes…
Steve-AR @ 35
You are certainly right about the Ford pardon, notwithstanding the current MSM conventional wisdom that it was good for the country.
And I agree with you as far as Nixon’s motives are concerned. I just remember being really glad when he was gone.
If the Dem’s cave and investigate the NY Times over running the frigging Move On ad I think my head will explode.
Jonathan @ 12
The last two on your list are not compatible; they cannot exist in the same person at the same time.
AnnieW @ 52
They would have to investigate Giuliani too.
Democrats with courage? Where!
http://www.wqad.com/Global/link.asp?L=259460
this quiz failed to pick up on my doomed pre-disposition for Gore; otherwise it says Dodd’s my guy.
pretty good ad but Goddamn it! even our own guys can’t get it straight. we were NOT rushed into war over faulty intelligence, Bush rushed us into war knowing damn well there were NO WMD.
“CBS) When no weapons of mass destruction surfaced in Iraq, President Bush insisted that all those WMD claims before the war were the result of faulty intelligence. But a former top CIA official, Tyler Drumheller — a 26-year veteran of the agency — has decided to do something CIA officials at his level almost never do: Speak out.
He tells correspondent Ed Bradley the real failure was not in the intelligence community but in the White House. He says he saw how the Bush administration, time and again, welcomed intelligence that fit the president’s determination to go to war and turned a blind eye to intelligence that did not.
“It just sticks in my craw every time I hear them say it’s an intelligence failure. It’s an intelligence failure. This was a policy failure,” Drumheller tells Bradley.
Drumheller was the CIA’s top man in Europe, the head of covert operations there, until he retired a year ago. He says he saw firsthand how the White House promoted intelligence it liked and ignored intelligence it didn’t:
“
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories…..7749.shtml
we need to ram the whole truth down the publics throat, we need to talk louder than the Republicans. we need to shout louder than the neo-cons on NOT going to war with Iran and we need every one of us to continue screaming the truth…
is this change in cali primary rules certain to pass? and are cali dems mobilizing? i’m on the east coast so not up on cali poli…
punaise, that link didn’t work for me :(
Ann in AZ @ 53
more precisely, i want someone who can be ruthlessly tough when needed (e.g., facing the KKK)
I am so disgusted with Reid and Pelosi.
I’d settle for Bobby Kennedy right about now.
Oh, this is good. Pat Buchanan thinks that the Iranian President did very well for himself in that session at Columbia, and that he looked all the better for the poor way he was treated by the hosts. Chris also thought the way the host treated the Pres. of Iran was very bad and totally unfair.
Hey, are we still on topic? I say, that is a really great ad!
punaise @ 56
lol it thinks WebKit is a mobile.
AnnieW @ 52
What is this about?
hate2haggle @ 47
You know that’s gonna leave a mark!
Wasn’t that about the sweetest television you’ve seen in awhile? Republicans don’t give a damn about the soldiers – it’s all about political milage, and it proves how they’re trying to make the Ad more important than the actual troops.
VERY telling. This video should be used in an opponents campaign ad to get her ousted from office.
punaise @ 56
I took a similar one awhile back and Kucinich is my guy…! Did I answer the questions wrong…??? ;-)
Mr. Bill at 29: “perspicacious”? You are surely joking. Most of the so-called media think that is what the Current Occupant has on his shirt after biking through Rock Creek Park on a July afternoon. Anyway, now I remember why I liked “The West Wing” so much. Even some of the GOPers had integrity (Ainsley the lawyer, played by Emily Proctor).
CTuttle @ 68
is it the same quiz?
This is just a web ad. Whitford wrote the script himself and it was shot in his house.
Here is the No Dirty Tricks site.
Glad folks like it.
” SOB-ness of Nixon
character of Jimmy Carter
The last two on your list are not compatible; they cannot exist in the same person at the same time. “
You don’t know my dad.
Dirty tricks? The Nixonites are still in control of the Republican Party. Kissinger is but one example.
ON the subject of POTUS and the race therefor:
POTUS ‘08: 24-Hour, Commercial-Free Election Coverage on XM Satellite Radio
Starting today, XM Satellite Radio customers can listen to the first national radio channel dedicated to the presidential election: POTUS ‘08. The 24-hour channel, created in association with C-SPAN and other media outlets, will feature news updates and events covering all aspects of the presidential campaign: candidate interviews, complete speeches, debate coverage, latest polling results, fundraising status, and live call-in shows.
Now through inauguration, the channel will provide free airtime for presidential candidates to speak to voters. You’ll hear from new media outlets like bloggers and podcasters, too. You can also listen to archival audio of historic moments from past campaigns, tapping C-SPAN’s rich political archive.
POTUS ‘08 will be located at XM Channel 130. The channel will be streamed to the web site XM Radio Online at http://listen.xmradio.com.
Ann in AZ @ 63
My daughter is a student at Columbia.
Her shorter take:
the guy is a skilled, intelligent politician
he doesn’t understand the U.S. well
he presents himself in a western way
he’s out to lunch on a number of points
but EVERYONE is agreed: war with Iran would be a big fucking mistake
Oklahoma kiddo @ 62
He probably was the President…it’s too bad he never had the chance to be President in his own right.
Julia Rosen @ 71
I think the ad is very good and I had no idea who Whitford is.
punaise @ 56
1 Kucinich
2 Dodd
3 Gravel
4 Obama
Ann in AZ @ 28
Here it is, nodirtytricks.com
solai @ 66
Over at TPM they say that Tom Davis-R is calling for investigative hearings into the NY Times for running the Move On ad at a discounted price. LS is right in saying that they will also need to investigate Guiliani’s ad for the same reason.
Here’s a quote from Matt Stoller “I’m a little worried about upcoming fights over funding for Iraq, inasmuch as they might distract us from discussing the Moveon ad.”
Elliott @ 74
I’m hoping that MediaMatters will be listening in—just in case.
Everybody see Earmark Watch yet?
RagingGurrl @ 27
Excellent. Marsha Blackburn is most irritating. Sorta like a cross between Kay Bailey Hutchison and Kathleen Harris (before Harris cracked). Mean lady with a grating accent, spewing study group talking points. Always.
Notice how the Democrats have forgotten all about Karl Rove.
Jonathan@75
I think he will get a lot of international mileage out of the rude treatment he received. As you know, in most parts of the world, there are certain standards of decorum that must be observed with any guest. Many will be appalled.
Eureka Springs @ 78
Ditto, for me, except there’s a three-way tie for fourth(Obama, Edwards, and Hill!)!!!
1 thing we can be sure of…. repugs are always on point…to a man or woman… otherwise – its out to the woodshed
The question for the next election shouldn’t be, “which candidate would you have a beer with”, but more like “to which candidate would you lend your car ?” …
nonplussed @ 85
I hope so.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 84
I doubt that, OKK.
CTuttle, I failed to notice Obama and Clinton tied for fourth on mine with 57 pts.
CTuttle @ 86
if it’s the same test, Kucinich was my guy, three
Good ad! Very pointed. And many more sharply worded ads will be required. No More TeleTubby Dem ads I say!
AnnieW, thanks for the info. And I just had to let that quote be repeated.
oh, how you say?
SWEEEEEEEEET!
Spiritcatcher @ 88
How about drive your car with you and the kids in it in a snow blizzard with zero visibility?…..
Eureka Springs @ 91
Heh, they only scored a 38 in my results…!!! ;-)
Ha Ha Ha Ha.
Naw, he’s the guy who used to do the Quaker Oats commercials and the diab*tes commercials.
Also played in a couple of Sam Elliotts westerns.
punaise @ 56
Just took the quiz. Apparently my candidate is Adlai Stevenson.
“a petty and cruel dictator” Who would that be? I suppose we could consult the Iraqi people on that. Or the Red Crescent perhaps.
flex @ 57
I was a bit miffed by that, too. I mean, if you’re going to bother to make this ad–say it like it is!
Still, it was a pleasure to break in my new credit card with a small contribution to nomoredirtytricks.com
Thankfully, here in CA I don’t think this initiative stands a chance. Nice try by the Rethugs’s, though.
CDP (California Democratic Party) information page on Initiative No. 07-0032—the Presidential Election Reform Act
Funded by Swiftboat financier and Bush supporter Bob Perry
link
Hill and Bill must be getting a laugh over that.
By Chris Colin, Special to SF Gate
Monday, September 24, 2007
Steve-AR @ 104
just a chuckle ;)
Step up to a new post
Thanks for the quiz…Kucinich is my guy, followed closely by Gravel and Richardson. Hmmm, that kind of suprises me.
What really cracks me up is I agree more with Ron Paul than Joe Biden. Who knew?
Huckabee and Brownback rate dead last for me, and it’s amusing that I respect these two for at least being honest about their beliefs than the majority of the Republican candidates.
RagingGurrl @ 27
Oh, boy, Schuster cleaned her clock. I already emailed her to tell her how much I enjoyed watching it, and knowing that America was sharing the experience with me. Sweet little Marsha.
Actually, on that quiz Kucinich was the high guy at 39. Brownback was the low man at 3. Fun to do but I still like Dodd, Kucinich, Edwards, and Richardson in no particular order.
Curiously, both Obama and Hillary were tied at 29.
Dodd was my choice.
Spiritcatcher @ 88
The Gores, a famously close-knit family, could laugh at the coverage some. They joked around at the nonstop talk about which president you’d want to have a beer with. The Gore’s middle daughter, Kristin, pointed out, “Gee, I want the designated driver as my president.”
http://www.vanityfair.com/poli…..rentPage=6
punaise @ 56
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punaise: Very interesting. It picked Kucinich for me, with a score of 63 points. Gravel and Dodd were second and third. Dead last was Duncan Hunter, with…3 points.
CD @ 112
Interesting. Duncan Hunter did not appear on my list at all. A zero?
Hugh @ 114
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Hmmm. My list showed 8 Dems, 8 Repugs. Tops in the latter category was Ron Paul with 31…Bottom of the Dems was Biden at 36.
And yet there is a poster at DKos who maitains that 4-8 years of Newt is preferable to Hillary because that would give decades to the DLC. Yes, it is said right over there. Hillary is flawed and by no means my first choice, but this kind of bizarre logic fails me.
Jane! This is what you guys do better than anyone else:
Corner the bastards in the sewers, chewing on their asses like you were mutant alligators.
Love it. Get ‘em, hon. :o)
http://rawstory.com//news/2007….._0924.html
Giuliani adviser Podhoretz predicted Bush ‘will hit’ Iran before term is up
RockPaperScizzors @ 112
Gore is watching and waiting.
With his power to purge so-called “fraudulent” votes, power to intimidate, power to wrongfully indict, power to secretly wiretap with executive privilege, Attorney General Mukasey (Gonzo II) WILL hand the presidency to Giuliani.
And there’s not a godddammm thing we can do about it.
This was a very powerful message, so much so that I am eagerly awaiting Democratic denunciations.