The East Coast Prep School Cheerleader narrative

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Tuesday January 24, 2006 · 10:29 AM PST

2006/01/24 · 10:29

The spin:

Yesterday, yet again, Bush got mileage out of the Texas rancher narrative. Even though it was in the context of denying knowledge of a popular movie about gay ranchers during a public event in very red-state Kansas (while out of DC for the 6th straight time during a Roe v. Wade anniversary), the media wrote and commented ad nauseum that Bush himself is a rancher.

The facts:

George W. Bush is the most privileged sitting president we have ever had. He is the first president to completely inherit a party apparatus directly from his father. He was raised on the east coast he so derides. (If Massachusetts is un-American, what does that make Texas?) He went to prep school there. He was a cheerleader in college. His ranch has no animals. He bought it in 1999. Read More

GOP admits 9/11 "on their hands"?

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Saturday January 21, 2006 · 1:28 PM PST

2006/01/21 · 13:28

Yesterday, I saw a CNN broadcast of GOP / Bush administration attacks on people who question secret domestic spying by the president. Their talking point was that if there is another attack on US soil, it will be on the hands of people who opposed secret domestic spying because that could have helped avoid the attack.

The line reminded me of a Daily Show episode, where John Stewart recently summarized how the White House had a Presidential Daily Briefing warning of Bin Laden plots to attack the US, and information on Al Qaeda plans to use commercial airplanes, the identities of at least two of the hijackers, and CIA information on flight training of suspicious persons who turned out to be hijackers.

With all this information, the Bush Administration failed to take the necessary measures to protect America (instead, Bush set a record for amount of time a sitting president spent on vacation in one year--he's since broken his own record). So, with their new talking point, is the GOP admitting that the 9/11 attack is on the hands of their party's leader, President Bush?
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Filibuster on Bush v. Gore

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Thursday January 12, 2006 · 10:18 PM PST

2006/01/12 · 22:18

The Bush v. Gore decision pretty much put lie to our presumption that the conservative majority Supreme Court would stay out of political or non-federal issues like they are supposed to. Conservatives to this day refuse to talk about what happened--constantly dismissing the issue or changing the subject. But this is not a frivolous issue: Having seen how conservative Supreme Court judges behave, we now need to have guarantees from candidate that they will not subvert basic principles of judicial deference (principles espoused by conservatives) in order to thwart the public will in favor of their own political preferences. That is, conservative Supreme Court judges have shown that they will put their own personal politics above the law.

Considering that the conservative majority even stated that its decision in Bush v. Gore should not be followed as precedent, it is dead law, so there is no excuse for not answering questions about it. Read More

SC Nominees MUST answer Bush v. Gore question!!!

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Wednesday January 11, 2006 · 9:16 AM PST

2006/01/11 · 09:16

We've had two Supreme Court nomination hearings since Bush v. Gore. And we've had two refusals to comment on Bush v. Gore.

That opinion was patently partisan and anti-democratic. Its writers were too ashamed to even put their name to it. And they even went so far as to say that their opinion should not be followed in the future.

Considering that Bush v. Gore did not set a precedent for anything (the opinion itself said so), there is no excuse to avoid answering the question.

Refusal to answer questions on Bush v. Gore should, by itself, be cause for filibuster.

This is not a Democrat vs. Republican issue; it is a DEMOCRACY vs. Anti-Americanism issue.

"I like guys who got five deferments...."

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Thursday November 17, 2005 · 4:14 PM PST

2005/11/17 · 16:14

Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa) hit on a fact that has bugged me more than everything else about the media's compliance with the Bush-Cheney attacks on those who ask for accountability from elected politicians: Bush and Cheney are cowards. They claim to stand with the troops, but only do so in the safety of photo-ops. They have no idea about sacrifice. Of all the quotes from Rep. Murtha's statement today, the most important, in my mind, is this sarcastic rebuttal to Dick Cheney's repugnant attack on the elected leaders who actually care about the troops' suffering:

"I like guys who got five deferments and (have) never been there and send people to war, and then don't like to hear suggestions about what needs to be done," Murtha said.

This is the point that needs to be made every time these cowards smear the friends and family of the young and men and women who are actually facing the consequences of the Bush-Cheney cluelessness and photo-op bravado. Read More

Bill Frist OKs Torture: the moron who keeps giving

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Thursday November 10, 2005 · 11:48 AM PST

2005/11/10 · 11:48

I just read this at cnn.

Here's what Bill Frist had to say about the revelation that the Bush administration has secret torture prisons in Eastern Europe:

Frist was asked if [his focus on the leak regarding the torture centers instead of the fact of torture in America's name] meant that he was not concerned about investigating what goes on in detention centers.

"I am not concerned about what goes on and I'm not going to comment about the nature of that," Frist replied.

This guy is amazing. Considering that Frist is an unofficial Rove appointee and that he has made Congress completely subservient to the Bush administration, I take solace in the fact that this moron is yet another idiot Bush proxy who can't keep his foot out of his mouth.

Kaus agrees with Dionne: The Real Cover-Up Conspiracy

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Wednesday November 02, 2005 · 2:43 PM PST

2005/11/02 · 14:43

I saw in Slate today that Mickey Kaus--that crazy right-wing uber-apologist--agrees with E.J. Dionne: The White House Leakers have probably known for a while that they could lie to Fitzgerald and the Grand Jury with impunity: Bush will pardon them anyway. Kaus's money-quote:

Q--Would Libby really have been dumb enough to contradict his own notes (which the prosecutor has had from the start) under oath?
We now think we know the answer to that question, which is that Libby wasn't dumb enough to contradict his own notes. Instead he was dumb enough to avoid contradicting his notes by concocting a wildly implausible story about how he forgot what was in his notes! That story is non-believable on its face, whether Tim Russert testifies or not. ... Who would take such an idiotic risk before a much-feared special prosecutor? One answer: Someone who knows he'll be protected in the end. Someone who knows, for example, that he'll be pardoned. Maybe even someone who had represented a client who'd been pardoned in similarly controversial circumstances. It's easier to be a highwire daredevil when you know you have a safety net.

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Friday October 28, 2005 · 9:30 AM PDT

2005/10/28 · 09:30

I know that there is a thread going on right now about Michael Steele's attack on one person's depiction of how he behaves on behalf of minorities, specifically, the fact that Steele simply doesn't do anything to defend minorities' dignity.

I'm posting this now because I want the headline of the diary thread on the issue to reflect the real issue. I read the Washington Post article about liberal blogger Steve Gilliard today. Michael Steele is trying to use race in a statement to cover up its message.

Here's the ACTUAL MESSAGE, and it is SHOCKING:

Gilliard defended the item in an interview, saying Steele invited the portrayal by failing to criticize Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s (R) decision to hold a fundraiser at an all-white country club.

"That's the kind of thing that says to black voters that black Republicans are untrustworthy and unreliable," Gilliard said.

As a non-white Maryland resident familiar with Michael Steele's idiocy, I am not surprised that he would stoop to such lows. But as a non-white US citizen, I am still shocked by this black politicians' disdain for black Americans' diginity.

EJ Dionne's great column on VA Gov race

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Friday October 21, 2005 · 10:19 AM PDT

2005/10/21 · 10:19

I haven't seen any posts about this, and I don't know all the fancy tricks for linking and excerpting articles, so I will just give the address and link (hopefully, it works) here:

LINK:
Dionne on VA Gov choice.

ADDRESS:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/20/AR2005102001644.html

The link is to EJ Dionne's column in today's Washington Post. He sums up the choices and their implications incredibly:

Kilgore = backward-looking political opportunism that isn't consistent with itself and even flouts the ethical requirements of his own profession.

Kaine = refreshing, guts honesty and forward-looking problem-solving.

Dionne writes way more eloquently than this summary can show, so just check him out today! Since NYT put up the pay wall on its columnists, I have belatedly discovered EJ Dionne: His columns over the past couple of months have all been incredibly insightful--I just hope he ends up being actually right.

Democrats' answer to the Flag-Burning amendment: "STAFF PUKE"

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Wednesday August 03, 2005 · 8:58 PM PDT

2005/08/03 · 20:58

Yesterday, as we all know, Paul Hackett was defeated in his bid to be the first Iraq War veteran to serve in Congress.

We also all know that the Republican party and its adherents instinctively took to insulting his service. Though I fear this issue is already slipping past MSM's attention, I think we must do all we can to raise it whenever we can. The smears on Paul Hackett's service by Rush Limbaugh and the craven Jean Schmidt's campaign staff present another example of the disgusting depths the Republicans will go to insult our troops.

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The new important SC nom question:

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Wednesday July 20, 2005 · 6:08 PM PDT

2005/07/20 · 18:08

Do you believe that Florida's application of its state election laws in its administration of the 2000 election presented a federal issue?

That is the question I most want John Roberts to answer. We must not forget that the single most egregious act of judicial overreach by the Supreme Court of the last 50 years was the Supreme Court's desperate attempt to rationalize its decision to stop the Florida recount and hand the election to George W. Bush.

It is one thing to have a certain philosophy and stand for it. The conservatives on the Supreme Court--including Sandra Day O'Connor--put their partisanship above states' rights because it served their party's interests. The Supreme Court revealed much about itself with that decision. I think it would be pertinent to know if Judge Roberts would join the conservative Justices in putting politics above the law.

His answer to that one question would tell the Senate everything it needs to know about how he will decide all of the major issues.

Blame the Troops Watch . . .

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Sunday July 17, 2005 · 9:38 PM PDT

2005/07/17 · 21:38

Don't let this issue go unnoticed!

[A] newly released military investigation . . . shows the tactics were employed there months before military police used them on detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

The techniques [were] approved by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld . . .

The report's findings are the strongest indication yet that the abusive practices seen in photographs at Abu Ghraib were not the invention of a small group of thrill-seeking military police officers. The report shows that they weere used . . . several months before the United States invaded Iraq.

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