Not One More Dollar, Howard

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Friday September 07, 2007 · 2:07 PM PDT

2007/09/07 · 14:07

I'm sick of a few things:
-The war in Iraq
-The billions intentionally wasted there
-The uninvestigated crimes of George W. Bush
-The uninvestigated crimes of his friends and cohorts
-The fear and failure of the Democrats in Congress

These issues seem to make everything else take a backseat. Universal health care. Renewable energy. Poverty. Jobs. The federal deficit.

While fellow Americans are in the line of fire in the desert under orders of war of choice by an administration of lies and partisan manipulation, billions wasted every week being laundered into corporations ripping off the taxpayers, nothing else has a higher priority than getting out of Iraq and commissioning hearings to investigate the crimes of our president.

Congress has the power of the purse, but they fail to exercise it. So what can we do? How about exercising the power of our purse.

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Thursday November 02, 2006 · 4:27 AM PST

2006/11/02 · 04:27

Dear Senator Kerry,

Forget the botched jokes. Forget jokes. Stop joking. Just say what you really mean. Talk tough. Don't smile. Bush got us into Iraq because he is stupid. He fucked up. He should apologize to America and the troops, not you, sir. You shouldn't bend to their manipulation as you already have.

Regards,
~Your constituent

Hastert Does What's Wrong

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Thursday October 05, 2006 · 4:57 AM PDT

2006/10/05 · 04:57

Embattled House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) has told conservative activist Paul Weyrich that he would resign if it would help the Republicans, Congressional Quarterly is reporting.
"He said if he thought that resigning would be helpful to the Republicans maintaining the majority, he would do it," Weyrich said in an interview. "But he did not think it would helpful for Republicans."

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GOP Activists in the DLC?

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Tuesday September 05, 2006 · 5:07 PM PDT

2006/09/05 · 17:07

Not that I'm particularly surprised but I'm a 'benefit of the doubt' kind of guy, most of the time. But when reading an article by the Christian Science Monitor, I noticed this profile about one of their members, a former GOP Activist: Read More

The Ford Boycott and dKos

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Friday December 16, 2005 · 12:45 PM PST

2005/12/16 · 12:45

Most of us are familiar with the waffling of Ford between bigotry and reality. But what will this mean to constituents of the Daily Kos? You love polls, so help us find out!

Tell us what you drive. Sister companies of the brand are in (parentheses). If you don't drive but household owns one of the vehicles, feel free to vote that way too.

Filibustering the USA PATRIOT Act Reauthorization

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Thursday December 08, 2005 · 11:26 AM PST

2005/12/08 · 11:26

Senator Feingold has been quite a sport with providing diaries here on dkos about the USA PATRIOT Act's reauthorization. And most recently, he suggested that he would filibuster the House & Senate joint conference committee's agreement to reauthorize all the provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., announced that the negotiating committee had reached an agreement that would extend for four years two of the Patriot Act's most controversial provisions -- authorizing roving wiretaps and permitting secret warrants for books, records and other items from businesses, hospitals and organizations such as libraries. Those provisions would expire in four years unless Congress acted on them again.

Pentagon Releases Iraqi Casualty Numbers(!)

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Sunday October 30, 2005 · 5:47 PM PST

2005/10/30 · 17:47

I can't believe I saw this at the bottom of Google News, in a corner, wanting to be swept away on a Sunday evening:

(CNN) -- A recent U.S. military report estimates that nearly 26,000 Iraqis were killed or wounded by insurgent attacks from January 1, 2004, through September 16, 2005.

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Favorite Harriet Miers Quotes

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Friday October 28, 2005 · 6:20 AM PDT

2005/10/28 · 06:20

Now that Bush has imploded and bowed to his radical base of anti-privacy reproductive-rights-hating wingnuts with a Miers withdrawal, let's parley the reaction on the flip...

Poll after the flip, for fun, because everyone loves polls. Read More

BREAKING: Watch the Colbert Report, Bitch [UPDATED][POLL][NOFACTZONE]

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Friday October 14, 2005 · 3:28 PM PDT

2005/10/14 · 15:28

NEW YORK -
Stephen Colbert's right. He's always right -- however much logic and common sense say otherwise. And those who disagree with him are wrong.

It's that simple (and funny), as viewers know from Colbert's hilarious commentaries since 1997 as senior correspondent on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with
Jon Stewart."

Now his No-Fact Zone has expanded into a half-hour spinoff, "The Colbert Report." It will air Mondays through Thursdays at 11:30 p.m. EDT, right after "The Daily Show," starting next week.

And not a moment too soon, figures Colbert (the gifted humorist-performer, that is -- not the make-believe blowhard who shares the same name).

"My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned but an idiot," Colbert explains. "So we said, `Let's give him a promotion.'"

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Bush Pardons Drug Dealers, Bombers, Liars & Bootleggers

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Thursday September 29, 2005 · 12:42 PM PDT

2005/09/29 · 12:42

President Bush granted pardons Wednesday to 14 people, including a member of the mineworkers union who was convicted for his role in bombings at a West Virginia coal mine, a counterfeiter and a bootlegger.
Jesse Ray Harvey of Scarbro, W.Va., was given a 25-month sentence in 1990 after his conviction for using explosives to damage Milburn Colliery. The mine had been the target of a long strike by about 45 members of a United Mine Workers local.

Isn't that terrorism? Oh well, there's more... Read More

Did Brownie completely fail what he Pledged to do? (Video&Transcript)

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Friday September 09, 2005 · 8:38 AM PDT

2005/09/09 · 08:38

This is a diary about the 2002 hearing chaired by Joementum Leiberman on the topic of Michael Brown to be Deputy Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency

Some samples:

BROWN: ...My pledge would be that just as we have good partnering relationships with State and local government, I will do my best to expand that partnership attitude, those partnership relationships to all aspects of law enforcement that may be involved in first response.
Chairman LIEBERMAN. Thank you very much. That is a good answer.

Um, Brownie, I think you failed your 'pledge'

More pledges on the flip... with Video and PDF transcript. Read More

Second-Rate White House, Run By Political Hacks and Cronies

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Wednesday September 07, 2005 · 8:49 AM PDT

2005/09/07 · 08:49

The criticism of FEMA is mounting. However, that is merely an apple, fruit borne from the tree of failure. It is the branch of the tree, and to stop the fruit of failure from ripening, you must simply cut down the tree. You must strike the root.

The tree is the White House. It is a second-rate White House, run by political hacks.

WASHINGTON - Michael Lindell knew things were going downhill at the Federal Emergency Management Agency when President George W. Bush appointed Joe Allbaugh as head of the U.S. federal agency responsible for disaster management in 2001.

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