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Willard seems convinced that the way to beat back the Huckevangelists and win the GOP nomination is to worship at the altar of Bush. First, he demanded Huck apologize to W. for writing in Foreign Affairs that the Bush administration had a "arrogant, bunker mentality." What’s the deal? Isn’t that a compliment to a neocon?
Now, Willard pens this love letter to W., exclusively for Townhall.
As Americans prepare for the holidays with their families and loved ones, we have many challenges to face but also many reasons to be thankful. We are thankful we live in a nation that is still a land of freedom, hope and opportunity. And we can be thankful that President Bush has kept us safe.
Boy, has he ever. I mean, that awful Bill Clinton just sat around and let 9/11 happen. But when Bush took over, he’s really protected us. No catastrophic attacks or calamities on his watch at all. Whew.
In the wake of 9/11, the President took unprecedented steps to keep us safe and defend Americans at home and abroad. We revamped our homeland security apparatus, passed new laws that allowed us to listen in when al-Qaeda was calling, cleared out terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and successfully toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein.
What was the law that prohibited us from listening in on al-Qaeda? And, unfortunately, those terrorists in Afghanistan — and the Taliban — are still there. Bummer. But it is true that Bush got Saddam Hussein, who we all know did 9/11. So he’s got that going for him.
A half century ago, our mothers and fathers in the Greatest Generation came together to defeat fascism and communism, promote freedom and civil rights, and build a strong and prosperous country that is the envy of the world.
Bzzzzzzzt! So sorry, Willard, but it turns out that the communists were on our side when the Greatest Generation defeated fascism. And, sadly, the armed forces were still segregated. But way to tie up the American Century into one pretty big dumb bow for the Bushbots at Townhall.
Hey, for Willard right now — this isn’t a bad plan. 70% of America might hate Bush, but 70% of Republicans still love him. But good luck with that in the general.
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Blue Texan!
Exclusive? K-lo must be swooning!
I wonder if TBogg finally struck paydirt.
http://tbogg.blogspot.com/2007…..rs-to.html
What a fucking dork he is. Typical draft dodger.
Indeed, Jane. I guess Hugh has more pull with Willard than K-Lo.
Nice Post, BT.
Is everyone listening to our wonderful leader? He is bragging about blocking a middle class tax hike? What was this about? The AMT? He is admonsishing Congress now. I am laughing out loud. Bush is actually trying to come off as a Fiscal Conservative. This must play to his base. Because any moron knows that he has spent like a drunken sailor for the last 7 years. Boy it is the same ol speech. Does he actually think this will work? I guess. Bush says Boo and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi roll over and piss on themselves.
W “won” on the ignorance ticket… …it didn’t work out too bad (for him).
one of the main reasons, i guess, i like the blog format because it reads more like a script, like reading a play.
of course little boots would take to the airwaves to smear poo in the feckless dems eyes….DONT GIVE IN TO HIM DEMS!!1 NEVER GIVE IN
As we saw at College Station, he’s got Poppy’s lurv. Guess he wants to keep it all in the family.
i was an evil child and i trained my mom’s dog to do that on command. not a pretty sight D:
met a woman on the checkout line bragging about voting twice for chimp…everybody else on line was mocking her….ahhhhhh the diehards…too dumb to live
[emphasis mine]
I guess Willard doesn’t read Paul Krugman blog.
I hope the Dems portray this push from Bush that the intelligence community needs the tools to keep us safe. You mean Mr. President, that we have to sacrifice the constituion to keep us safe? You mean the tools that previous generations used to end the cold war and defeat fascism will not work against some radical cave dwellers? Is is that your administration is so incompetent that we have to break the rule of law so you can get the job done? I am sick of Bush saying Boo and Dems rolling over.
George Bush talks to us like we are all 2nd graders. He holds the book up to us and says, “See little children…this is how it is?” and then won’t allow questions from the us kiddos! Spit.
This morning when I checked my e-mail, I got the following from Ted Kennedy:
I signed the petition, and added this when it asked me what I wanted to say to Bush:
The obedient press took one shot at a question about the CIA tapes and was whacked on the nose. by the Crawford Caligula They quickly ran into the corner and began licking their collective nuts.
-G
Funny, I had a dog as a kid that would do that on his own anytime you would yell.
Agreed, great post, Blue Texan. Thanx to you, Irish Jim, & all who are doing a play-by-play on the GWB presser. I can’t stomach even looking @ him w/mute on anymore.
Bush presser on my local NPR station. What a pathetic remnant of a man. He is incapable of any coherent answer.
At Thanksgiving I had chance to sup with an aunt. She’s a Republican. She’s the nicest person you could know; would never hurt a fly.
She believes Mexicans will give us diseases and if we don’t torture Muslims we’ll all be killed.
I tried. But these people are impervious to logic.
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The “defeat of communism” was accomplished by our aiding and abetting those Islamofascists that we have to burn our Constitution for in order to protect ourselves.
Bush claiming Iraq has functioning Government. Points out that our legislatures wait to the last minute to get things done. Mad that people are saying nothing is happening. Guess they hit a nerve.
alfred e newman was appointed pretzledent…the office is forever degradesd
Ah, but did she know she was being mocked!
I am tired of the smug lectures from this dissipated dry-drunk.
-G
And now Pooty-Poot is making them Ruskies stronger than ever, and they have unlimited energy resources, whilst we have a economy on the edge of collapse. Nice going, idjits.
You’re shitting me. He said that about Iraq’s government? And compared it to te US Congress? Ave Maria.
you must try harder…take her to a Mexican Res…and give her a Marguerita,and extol the virtues of the humble chili pepper!lol
Refried beans and some Tecate. Then let her sit in her own beerfarts.
I listened to the man-child bully anyone who dares question him. As a bully, he uses every tool to humiliate and it is painful to watch. What a sociopathic pathetic creature, a man who,lies to himself almost as much as he lies to everyone else.
except for a handfull of good dems…im sick of them all!
Yay, us.
We’re Number 1! We’re Number 1!
Enemies? We create them, then we fight them.
Heckuva way to run an empire.
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romney’s “thank God president bush has kept us safe” ranks up there with guiliani’s “thank god bush is our president”
How safe I feel… it should be a dirge…
romney has an ear for the absurd …. and even then he is playing off key
roflmao
Bush droning on that presidential candidates need to ask themselves how they plan to get the unvarnished truth from advisors because what looks like no big deal today can become a big deal tomorrow.
You don’t think he’s calling his Torture Advice ‘varnished’ do you?
Bush’s ‘affect’ is toned down at this presser. He’s lightly slurring his words and rambling ‘conversationally.’
tooooooooooooooooo funny! lol
Deciderating is hard work.
I think Bush is shifting into his statesman mode now that he is at the end of his term. It manages to be dull and frightening at the same time.
I just don’t get it. My nephew, a normally very smart, very savvy guy, actually likes Romney. He says he’s not nearly as conservative as he appears these days.
To which I say, “WHYYYYYYYY?!” Why does the dimwit feel the need to be so…so…McCain-like?
I like my nephew, and in the interests of family harmony, I’m not going to say it. But I’d love to say, “Dude, we’ve already had 7 years of a guy who would say *anything* to become president. Look how well that’s working out.”
yeah, it’s physiological conditioning :/
Romney:
Thanks be to God. BIG BROTHER IS LISTENING and keeping us safe.
Sandra Day O Conor,has reeked this creature on the whole world!!!!
Yep! He hunted down all those ANTHRAX terr’ists quite successfully with his warrantless wiretaps. Not onlt did he prevent their initial attack, but he stopped the subsequent attacks they had planned as well! RIGHT!
Wait! Nope, that’s not right! So maybe they needed to BROADEN their phone taps and computer data harvesting. After all, anyone looking up the word “
Amtrack” Anthrax in the wake of the foiled attack MUST be suspicious, copy cat terrorists!Same with all those 9/11 “investigators” who wanted to check up all the Stats on the World trade Centers. What conceivable reason would these so-called TRUTHERS want with all that information. It was clear that they were planning a “return attack”…after the WTC complex was rebuilt. But the Bush Administration thwarted that! They designed a completely different set of towers! Smart, these Republicans!
And don’t forget the wonderful idea of how they put all of Saddam’s Secret documents on the internet and asked all those who spoke Arabic out there to look for information about Nuclear, Biological or Chemical Weapons. And the plans and schematics that were turned over after Gulf War #1 happened to be in there…available to any Al Qaida terrorist or other lunatic to download. We can thank Rep. Hoekstra and Senator Roberts for THAT lame-brain idea…although it was approved by Condy and the White House.
And talk about protecting our troops in Iraq? Rumsfeld and the Bushies had such a meagre invasion force that they couldn’t even guard the Armories and Weapons Depots of Saddam….so they were looted of the explosives and weapons used to arm the Shiite and Sunni Militias, as well as foreign insurgents that entered Iraq from the unguarded borders!
invoking sheer terror here!
I seriously doubt the dry-drunk is all that dry anymore. Those long vacations aren’t because he’s overworked.
After being married to a hard core drunk you learn the signs and the tricks. They are extremely nasty people when separated from their drug. Most of that is so you will let them drink just so you can have some peace.
And BTW, alcoholics do coke because it counters the sleep effect and they can drink more without passing out.
what a joke!!!!!the little fukker has been listening since the week he took office…HE DID NOT PROTECT US…………jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez!
Bush remains totally divorced from reality. He talks about the universality of freedom. Not sure how he ties in all of his efforts to spy on us with that.
you got it 100%
Bush moving into his ‘bringing Democracy to the Middle East’ stump speech.
Now getting excited about ‘ideological enemies’ being confronted by Liberty. It’s neccessary work, Hard Work, and we will prevail! We have the ultimate weapon, Freedom!
OT I mentioned signing 3 petitions this morning on the previous thread. Elliott and Marie Roget asked for links. I signed and sent them to the trash. This is the one for the EPA’s California emissions decision, and I’m trying to find the one for HUD and the FEC decision. Will put up links when I figure out how to find them again.
http://action.environmentaldef…..xzp775j6bx
Sorry to have left the thread to mix up Christmas cookies.
He most certainly did. He is yelling now about an idealogical struggle. Invoking 9/11 again. idealogical struggle. Claiming we have freedom on our side, yet he argues that we must give up freedoms so our people can have tools to defeat the islamic evil doers.
She believes Mexicans will give us diseases
Did y’all know that the US used to (until the 1960’s) douse Mexican immigrants with gasoline and friggin’ Zyklon B???
OOT
TLANTA, Georgia (AP) — Former Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney, who was ousted from office last year after a headline-grabbing scuffle with a Capitol Hill police officer, has decided to seek the presidency — as a Green Party candidate.
In a video posted on the Internet on Tuesday, McKinney criticized the war in Iraq and complained about Democrats and Republicans, saying both parties are beholden to corrupt corporate interests. She called the Green Party “my new political home.”
McKinney, 52, registered to vote in California after a group called Run! Cynthia! Run! began drafting her as the Green Party’s candidate there. Since then, she had made campaign appearances in Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
“The Democrats do not speak for us,” she said. “The Democrats are no different than their Republican counterparts.”
i would seriously consider giving a thousand bux to any reporter that asked him on air….WHERE IS OSAMA BIN LADEN?
Oh my. Did you see the one who is still convulsing in the corner? It’s pathetic!
“My view of the economy is that the fundamentals are strong.”
He will work to help “credit-worthy” homeowners stay in their homes, i.e. if you don’t need our help we are willing to offer it to you.
Don’t remind me about the 80’s ever again!
-G
by never connecting one thought with another!
Thanks for that link, carmen. Cookie mixing/baking excuse always allowed here, I believe.
Bush says the Economy is doing fine.
We aren’t going to ‘bail out’ anyone. We aren’t going to aid speculators, either.
The difficulty in the housing market is that the lender doesn’t own the mortgage, it’s been bundled and sold-off into the market, and so we don’t want put our efforts in the wrong place.
thank you carmen!
He meant to say the fundamentalists are strong.
-G
bush would report the titanic was doing fine… from the lifeboat even
We can’t rely on corn in George’s world….not even to eat.
BT,
Thanks to the corporate PR department, Romney’s narrative will sound about right to far too many voters.
‘08 ain’t gonna be easy.
WHAT HAVE WE DONE TO DESERVE THIS ODIOUS LITTLE PISSANT?
He was against Teaoto. That is the drinkable version of Kyoto.
I was hoping nobody would figure that out *g*
Of course, lighting a building on fire on the White House campus to destroy evidence is NOT….I repeat….is NOT contributing to global warming in the DC area!
Ahhhh, the Bracero Program.
Yay! Slavery!
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The pitching machine is almost out of softballs.
-G
sadly Cynthia is mostly correct
Be afraid, be very afraid of stopping global warming. It can make you broke. And nooocular power is the solution.
What a cogent analysis of the situation. What a strong logical thought process. We are so lucky to have this man as our leader.
“You can’t deal with greenhouse gases if you are broke.”
Of course, if you don’t deal with greenhouse gases, you are going to end up broke.
How about taxing the wealthy only in our country to pay for what Georgie (the top 5%’s Charlatan Puppet Boy) wants? No way! Not in The New America Order. Uh ah. That’s not how it works, people.
Bush’s cocky posturing makes my skin crawl
Ditto!
Oh, He did not just say that until China does something about Global Warming, then we are not. I thought the US were supposed to be leaders, not followers. Damn Republicans are reactionaries. Cannot do anything proactively.
*catching a foul ball and throwing it back to the press*
Wait for the next pitch!
Bush rotely rattling-off his policy points, not very lively.
He wants China to get right on emmissions!
Bush says our standard of living can’t stay high and we deal with greenhouse gasses effectively, if we are broke! Fixing the environment is expensive, and should come second to our standard of living as long as polluters like China are around.
Wonder if Ms. McKinney knows who said that first?
“There is not a dime’s worth of difference between the Democrat and Republican Parties!”
Alabama Governor George Wallace, candidate for President, 1968
President Scumbag, why was Karl Rove getting phone calls from felons in NH on election day in 2002?
-G
Bush has a strategy on global warming:
Bring others to the table
Develop goals later this summer
And then leave office before anything gets done. It is after all not like he has been in office for 7 years. Oh, wait.
He’s back on the “work is hard” jag. How does he know? He’s never tried it.
I can’t wait till bush has left office and realizes he won’t be able to go anywhere without pickets showing up! And I hope they will do so in great numbers!
CIA Tapes question – are you concerned about ‘criticism’ from the World?
Bush: Let’s wait and see what happens with the investigations, first.
Yes M’am.
What is that weird thing he does while he’s pretending to think? The one where he purses his lips? I thought only old women did that.
“Get it?” He actually just said that. So insulting.
Assad if he is listening doesn’t need a phone call. He knows what Bush is thinking.
he looks like a poor imitation of Mussolini
http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/nov…..lini-l.jpg
Look at the press corps just sitting there with dumbfounded expressions. Like little kids being scolded by daddy. Why are they so afraid of him?
howdy – anyone watching the the HJC hearing on c-span1 now? it’s on the cia torture tapes.
Why the surprise?
Bush/authoritarianism + China -Maoism = God’s Own Heaven!
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he does!
Freedom—is detentions without redress.
Peace is war.
-G
Key O Toe.
Thanks explains the timing of the chimp’s presser.
Bush claims he goes around the world spreading goodwill now. That is like claiming Bush is a fiscal conservative.
And the Europeans struggle to save their economies which they fear are too entrenched with the US Economy.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/mon…..com119.xml
s/Thanks/That
Want my edit back!
he is a FECAL conservative
The White House press corps is paid not to ask tough questions and they were out there really earning their money today. Nothing Bush has said makes sense and they call him on none of it. They just let him ramble on and string non sequiturs together.
W has access to Rove’s special polls. Confident the Rs will hold the WH & gain seats in House & Senate.
well, perhaps when bush leaves…. people feel such a relief … it’s like taking off tight shoes… so maybe in bush’s strange way, he could imagine he spreads “good will”
Protect us from harm? Who was the one who did nothing from January 2001 to September 11, 2001 but ignore the warnings that an attack on our nation was coming in the form of commercial airliners being used as missiles and then proceeded to read a book while these planes were doing circles in the sky and their occupants were dying?
Anyone? George Bush, do you know whom I speak of?
Oh yes. He is the Goodwill Ambassador for the Fascist Message. See?
Here, CSPAN-1 has the Bush presser.
CSPAN-3 has Treatment of Prisoners Hearing.
And, the military is really laying into Senator Dayton. Yikes, I haven’t missed Rumsfeld.
remember him saying to the intelligence officer…”ya covered your ass?” they let it happen!
I think the relevant quote for Mitt (and Bush) on how “we” all came together for civil rights is from Spinal Tap:
bush always thinks his “greatest duty” is to protect us. NOT! his greatest duty is to protect the constitution.
so when it comes to “protection” – the guy has done more than any other president to be a DESTROYER – not a protector.
Yes. It’s on CSPAN2 here due to presser. It seems odd to see & hear Daschle after all this time…
Can’t one of these sonambulist fluffers throw a pen down, scream ‘bullshit’ and run from the room cursing to themselves?
-G
His primary job, explicated in his Oath, to to protect and defend the constitution. We pay plenty of qualified others to “protect Americans from harm.
Bush giving his usual loony tunes answer on raising taxes. If the government has money it will spend it. (tax cuts for the rich and unnecessary wars). When you say you are taxing the rich, you are taxing hard working people.
The original question was actually a good one on not paying for a lot of these things, Iraq, the AMT, tax cuts for the rich. Bush blew it off. There was, of course, no follow up to ask about his borrow and spend policies.
bad career move in UTOPIA
bush… the Destroyer
CSPAN 1 has the President on, are you talking about the hearings from 5/7/04 with Rumsfeld on CSPAN 3?
feed for CSPAN 3
Bush doesn’t want to “bail out anyone”…so those who took on these loans may as well start collecting cardboard to sleep on. And the problem is that the lenders don’t own the mortgages (ahem…that’s because the Bush Administration allowed them to be bundled and sold on). Not to mention dropping any regulation of who COULD obtain these sub-prime mortgages…those who wouldn’t have met the financial constraints established in prior Administrations, and those that restricted multiple-unit speculation.
707.
but who will protect us from HIM?the press ….right!
Ooops. Watch out for O’Reilly tonight criticizing W for his war of Christmas. Wished everyone happy holidays.
Bush closes his presser with an open declaration of war on Christmas!
“Happy holidays’!
Call O’Reilly stat!
-G
“I unnerschand, I unnerschand…”
Aggghhhh!!!!!
Yep, they let it happen, but from what our Dear Leader just said, he was protecting us from harm……….and still is!
Be afraid. Be veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery afraid.
Great call!
read an article …will look for it…people are putting heating oil on their credit cards…a tear just welled up in my eyes…for real
Conservative political correctness dictionary:
Torture=enhanced interrogation techniques.
-G
It should also be noted taht it was Michael Hayden who heard two of the hijackers talking to each other the night before 9/11 and did nothing to stop it. Oh, but that’s okay! He said a day or two ago that he wasn’t in charge when the CIA was destroying the torture tapes. Phew!
Now we have the detainee hearings on CSPAN 1
feed for CSPAN 1
nevermind selise lol!
“… I go around the world spreading goodwill…”
A new world record for narcissistic self-delusion.
Romney has opened a door he’s going to wish he had closed. Huckabee is not going to back down on the Bush-bashing, and he touches a deeper vein among the primary Rethug voters than Romney can. The Huckster only has to ask where’s Osama, to make his point. The anti-war sentiment among the non-villagers runs pretty deep now, especially since they are the ones sendsing their kids to be maimed and killed. The Huckster can make hay by going right at Romney, who will get bottled up in a Bush embrace just like McCain. Not a pretty sight. Yuk.
Double Speak is what has allowed the Bush Regime to survive.
yea him and Lieberputz….no wonder they get along so well
There are so many dynamics to the housing crash that one hardly knows where to start. Fraudulent appraisals, fraudulent loan applications, and on and on and on.
I thought he stiff-armed everyone at the presser to buy time.
Also, for no good reason, I also felt that he was ’sitting on’ bad news that may break either today or tomorrow.
the liberal press,has sent us down the garbage disposal
When is it?
If Romney kisses up sufficiently, the Bush family will have the voting machines tilted his way.
But lotsa swell fees were made. None of which will be returned.
Yeah, they just finally switched over to HJC hearing on 1. Pakistan election hearing w/Daschle & others testifying still on CSPAN2 here.
We got lazy, apathetic, and complacent, and much too easily manipulated!
Exactly. Liberals don’t want accountability of the Bush Regime! Damn them. /snark
in what area do ya think?
yeah, lame, all we get here is cspan1 n a crap selection on pbs
when a glen beck,and a sheppard smith make 10,000,000 dollars a year
rush 30,oleily 26 mill….we are doomed
To what extent might our retirement plans have invested in these “instruments”?
I have long had doubts that our boob of a prez doesn’t drink. Reading Graydon Carter’s editor’s letter in the Jan Vanity Fair, Carter mentions an excerpt from the new book “The Hubris Syndrome” by Lord Owen where he talks about booby’s pretzel choking event. ‘The presidential head hit a table on the way to the floor….and a blood sample was rushed to Johns Hopkins, in Baltimore. Owen says he was told by a British Doctor who had visited Johns Hopkins that lab techs there found that the blood contained significant amounts of alcohol.’
Who knows if this is true but it wouldn’t surprise me at all.
a perfect storm i guess….sad sad sad
and peeps say they cant keep a conspiracy quiet
It’s fear of retribution from the Bush Crime Family that keeps things quiet.
CIA Agent Karioke. He just sings the lyrics that were written out for him.
-G
Of course he drinks. He very bored since he is just a Cerimonial Preznit.
Lamar Smith: Pelosi given virtual tour of CIA interrogation facilities, including waterboarding, and no objections were raised. The enhanced interrogation techniques were classified top secret so that AQ would not know what we’re doing.
Oh sure, AQ would not think for a nanosecond that the U.S. doesn’t torture. And since there are limited number of ways to torture, chances are AQ is well prepped on all of them.
No, Rep. Smith, torture is kept secret so U.S. voters don’t know about it. And that’s the only reason.
Lamar Smith going on with the endless litany of alleged Al Qaeda plots.
Terrorists, terrrorists, terrorists!
-G
It’s quite amazing, that even with reporters who drink W’s word like champagne, and he still finds so many ways to look like a snickering bully. Just for those global warming comments, the man proves he is a rectum of black hole proportions.
Keith is THE ONLY ONE with a set of…..
That’s an excellent question. The current FL local government investment pool dustup is a case in point. There are still questions as to whether or not state government retirement money is implicated also. This whole business has the potential for a whole lot of long-term pain.
Nadler up for opening comments.
sadlyyes@148:
I’ve lost count of the times I have watched booby & thought that if he’s not close to shitfaced, he is on something. Sober people just don’t behave like that.
I don’t get the point of all this. Whether he drinks or not he is the same person.
Thanks to the Reagan Years and our current fascists in the White House…we’ve been doomed for a long time. The 4th Estate will no longer be a combination of newspapers, radio shows, television news, and Internet access owned by different individuals. Nope. It will be a daily telephone call made by the one and only media company existing and left in the country and this daily phone call from THEM will tell us what the fascists want us to know while leaving out what they don’t want us to know. See?
Creepy.
man to get things back to semi-normal…we have to neutralize all the high paid shills….talk about HARD WORK!
The use of waterboarding on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed produced information that led directly to the arrest of a terrist who planned to carve “osama wuz heer” into the base of the Statue of Liberty with a nail file.
Everybody is doomed…always.
all the top NAZIS were on speedballs…love to know if he does HILLBILLY heroin like Cheneys BFF Rushbo…..the war on drugs missed the leading EXPONENT!!!!
I’ve told my son who seems to believe in “trickle down” theory that it’s voodoo economics and basically that a Dem will not raise his taxes (not much, anyway) but will raise the taxes of the rich. His usual reply is that that would prevent the rich from developing the capital to create the companies to create the jobs and the money formations that we need for financing, etc. etc. etc. So I tell him that the key is to put the money into the hands of the lower and middle classes that will give them the wherewithal to buy products and the products will come as the demand increases. I don’t know what else to tell him. He thinks Keynesian economic theory is passe’, so I don’t know enough to know where to go from there.
LMAO! Oh wow. I was wondering who did that to The Lady!
About 70% of gooper voters still approve of the job clusterfuck is doin. This means that goopers need to praise the clusterfucker during the primaries or lose to an ass kisser. More interesting, they will have to wheel on their heels and declare him the devil incarnate once they win the nomination. Romney’s just the guy who can do it.
The “debates” with Kerry provided three very different Dubya’s. It would appear that various “cocktails” are used to tune Dubya’s instruments.
Ann in AZ, you might want to get a copy of Paul Krugman’s new book: The conscience of a liberal. It’s very well written and easy to follow, and would probably provide you with some ammunition to counter your son’s arguments. I’m sure you could borrow a copy from your local library.
raven@159:
Dangerous people are even more dangerous if under the influence. What little judgement left is even more impaired.
Here’s one thing I always notice about the top 5% of the country who own large businesses and who have a republican president on their side:
Their businesses stop growing and I see it as intentional. Why? Well, it’s nice having those tax cuts! Hire more employees to allow more work to pay more taxes in the end? No way! Vacation time for the top 5%! And when the economy starts tanking and things are looking grim for everyone else…that’s okay! They’re making the same amount of money they’ve always have even without the tax cuts! See? It’s all very simple.
kinda cool thing about OLPC, they have a mesh network. the higher concentration of units in an area the network has a greater range and is more robust.
Thanks, I’ll try that.
You can’t do much more than what you’ve done. Your son has swallowed the wingnut theology hook, line & sinker. The wingnut destruction of Kenyes was required to justify giving the rich everything. And they are unmoved by evidence because they have created their own reality.
But you might try the evidence anyway. Clinton raised taxes on the rich, balanced the budget & had a much better economy than W.
Or you might try the reductio ad absurdum. Imagine an economy with 0% government and 100% investment.
…and the opposite of this is when we have a Democratic president. Suddenly the corporations of America feel the need to work hard and buck up! See? It’s good to have a Democratic president for America. ;-)
living wages….we must push for this…the disparity between rich and poor is growing huge
Christy has a new thread upstairs.
My theory is that LLC’s, Subchapter S and corporations have already
gamed the system. (i.e. minimized their taxes thru loopholes, cash payments
and other slimy methods). So, everything else thrown to them by the Repugs
is gravy…
the other great book on this is WHATS THE MATTER WITH KANSAS
Clinton actually had people on welfare working themselves off welfare in two years. How? Because the economy was good (gas was low, food prices were low, and it didn’t cost $1 million for a 1 bedroom home with a 1/2 bath) and jobs were available. When companies have to pay their taxes when the big bad Democrats tell them to, they wake the hell up!
They never act like ‘responsible fathers’ when a republican is in charge of our nation.
With George Bush & his neocons in charge, the top 5% of the country who own businesses aren’t expanding, paying their fair share of the taxes, and good paying jobs are pretty much non-existent…all of which is hurting the poor and middle class. But that’s okay! The top 5% is all set. Spit.
Christy has a great post up on this above. ;-)
Guys!
This is what I mean when I say that the goopers are up shit creek. Can you imagine what Edwards or Obama will do with the kind of demented bullshit that Romney is so frantically spouting off?
I will guaranTEE you that someone on John Edwards’ campaign staff has carved into stone, for the general, that quote of Romney demanding an apology from Huck for his speaking a precious few REPUBLICAN words of truth about george bush’s bloody-handed retreat into fantasy-land, just in case the GOP sacrificial lamb turns out to be Romney. :o)
Bush is crazy. The level of denial in the white house is waaayyy past Nixonian. They-are-fucking-nuts…and the only way their insanity can be vetted and sustained, is if other people become crazy with them.
Which Mitt Romney has just shown his willingness to do. :o)
(No smileface big enough…)
Y’all keep in mind;
Huckabee, a rattlesnake-twirler and flat-earther of impeccable credentials, :o) has just whacked C+ Augustus with some of the EXACT same words that we’ve been hitting him with for lo, these several years.
With 11 lonnnnngggg months to go in the election if that aint a harbinger of things to come, I don’t know what is. :o) :o) :o)
Chaos theory!
I had a similar experience watching a nutty woman talking loudly about Bush in the post office. There had to be about 15-20 people watching and they all ignored her. I was angry and at the same time felt sorry for her mental condition.
Curiously, if it’s true that there is really only about 1:9 or 1:19 who favors Bush, then he should’ve lost reelection by about 10:90 or 5:95 percent.
One has to wonder about our elections.
Nobody knows. It’s like asking whether your bank or your mutual fund or your state retirement fund is invested in some particular stock. I suppose the only sure way would be to ask. Perhaps if you had a fund which only invested in bonds or only invested in stocks, then something like this ‘paper’ wouldn’t be part of their portfolio.
But, you can’t just guess with any certainty.
If it were true that the supply of capital which funded the creation of new companies was only coming from the wealthy, then he could be right. But, today the number of small investors who provide capital makes that relatively moot. Small investors today includes people who invest in mutual funds and retirement funds and together create a mind-bogglingly large capital base. The wealth controlled by the Rich isn’t any different in terms of how it’s used. It’s just controlled by a smaller number of individuals (and families).
So, the availability of capital is very significant for capital formation. But, the stated necessity for that wealth to be in the hands of a few, rather than the many, is a flawed argument, if not completely wrong.
On the other hand, the problem with wealth being focused in the hands of a few is more manifest. It allows a few to control our entire Society in ways the founders of this great republic never imagined or wanted. It turns our society into their plaything and the rest of us into near slaves. Look at the take-over of the mainstream media for one of the clearest and most powerful examples. Look at how the Rich (including corporations) use lobbying to subvert the political system. Look at how the stripping away of wealth from the working class of America leaves them vulnerable to the slightest breeze in the economy. This is not the indication of a wealthy people. And, it leaves everyone vulnerable to the weakest among us. Look how we’ll suffer if some people lose their homes in this mortgage crisis. Do you think companies going bankrupt as a result isn’t related to the working class living on the edge (financially)? It’s a direct connection. Give the worker more money, he’ll pay his mortgage and there would be no crisis resulting in corporate bankruptcies and the resultant job losses there.
A truly strong economy would be one where no link is so weak that real estate prices in Tokyo could devastate us. A truly strong economy would be one where no link is so weak that some conmen running S&Ls could devastate us. A truly strong economy would be one where no link is so weak that some market manipulators could destory us all.
As with Republican political divisiveness there are economic vultures devouring us and not worrying about the effect on the whole society.
Our working class has been pushed to the edge intentionally. As they say, the only purpose of the modern corporation is to make money. It has no social conscience.
In government, Republicans are to blame. Now they must step aside and let some Democrats try to fix problems — before we are all pushed off into the abyss of another Great Depression for the amusement of a handful of Rich bastards who can’t control themselves.
The question of whether a Republican candidate supports Bush or doesn’t is pretty fundamental and important for America. If the one who supports Bush can get the nomination it means the electorate is still crazy and can’t make good decisions. It would probably be very good for Dems in the ‘08 election, but it doesn’t bode well for the following four years. Too many in Congress would still feel the urge to fight a Dem president tooth and nail.
If the Repub candidate who distances himself from Bush is made the party’s nominee, then it means the electorate is one step closer to sanity. That would be better for the country and for the next president, regardless of party.
I’d prefer the latter, even if it was going to make the general election tougher. I think we can still win handily (providing not too much election fraud) and govern with less dissent.
MarkH, if we are smart enough to nominate a candidate who will get up on HIS hind legs (caps intentional; Hillary Clinton does NOT make the cut.) in the general, and who will read the fucking riot act about ALL of the shit which the the bloggers like Jane and Christy, etc, are doing such a great job of keeping front and center, then, friend, there won’t be enough goopers in congress TO fight tooth and nail.
The shit is just piling up daily; things like Jamie Jones’ allegations; SERIOUS allegations of being roofied and gangraped by Halliburton/KBR firefighters, with the other women starting to come forward…
The destruction of the torture tapes…
Bush’s absolute TAUNTING of congress, today…
I promise you, guys. It’s all hanging by a thread, and we can help break it. And it won’t be pretty when it goes, and it won’t be “bi-partisan”, but why SHOULD it be; we can force these people to their political knees, and
Christ, I can’t even remember them all.
I know the democratic candidates don’t want to use up all their “ammo” before the general, but they needn’t worry; there will be PLENTY more coming down the pike. Time for those press-conferences with Jones and the other women, dear candidates, and for an insistence on a REAL investigation into the destruction of the torture tapes. And for putting Iraq and all of it’s sick, insane, spin-offs, squarely on the table, for the american people to make a decision as to who is responsible, and for how we salvage something relatively humane and intelligent, out of it.