The guy President Bush calls “the architect” disagreed with the premise, but the New York Times noted that this midterm election campaign was the last hurrah for Bush and adviser Karl Rove. If you don’t count Tuesday, when Bush was not on the ballot, they won every campaign they ran together, since Bush’s first gubernatorial bid in Texas in 1994.
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Yeah all based on lies even back then. How sad it took some so long to see what they’re all about. It’s not like it wasn’t obvious all along or anything. Liberals all along knew how bad these men were.
Sometimes the best place to hide something is in plain sight. They used partianship, lack of interest and apathy to undermine the system.
I predict Rove will be hired by John (”I will pay any price, pledge to support any mantra, in order to be elected President”) McCain. Or maybe Brownback will beat him to the hire.
“Yeah all based on lies even back then.” Posted by: political_mom | November 11, 2006 at 05:34 AM
Oh really?
JM–
Really.
Look at Bush’s record in Texas.
He did unto them as he did unto us.
Cut taxes for the rich and ran up the deficit.
Posted by: CapnAmerica | November 11, 2006 at 08:59 AM “Really. Look at Bush’s record in Texas. He did unto them as he did unto us. Cut taxes for the rich and ran up the deficit.”
You are so busy concentrating on the negative, the only thing you breathe in is your own venom.
Yeah but JM, IT’S TRUE!!If venom = truth,then bring the venom.
JM,
“You are so busy concentrating on the negative, the only thing you breathe in is your own venom.”
JM, please list some of the positives that Bush did as guv in TX.
Allowing polluters to “voluntarily” reduce their pollution? Claiming education imrovements that were started by previous guvs? Failure to fully use CHIPS?
Bush/Cheney/Rove have proved themselves to be experts in social sciences: psychology (mass propaganda, manipulating people by instilling fear), political science (how to temporarily substitute dictatorship for democracy) and economics (how to enrich friends through deficit spending and leave the little people with the tab).
It’s too bad they are Hillbilly-ignorant about natural sciences, though. When global warming triggers massive human migrations unseen since the end of the last Ice Age, “Islamofascism” will be rendered completely irrelevent. This has been a decade in which we could have done something to start to moderate global warming, and move towards reversing it. A decade utterly wasted by pimple-brained political hacks, who captured office by manipulating people who know that the Rapture is just around the corner. Hmm, what if it ISN’T? I mean it’s nice to believe that very soon, some of us are going to heaven, while the heathens and apostates are going to burn in hell, but suppose that notion is FALSE. What then? This isn’t the first time in history that some people believed that Jesus was going to return in their lifetimes. Actually, some started believing this shortly after he left. Others in the 10th century, and the 13th, and the 18th. And the 19th. They were wrong. So how can today’s Rapturists be so certain they are right?
Rove BTW, is reportedly an agnostic. Cheney’s wife wrote a book “Sisters” about a lesbian relationship, and his daughter is one. He is reputedly the main brain in this administration who up until recently has allegedly been the real power behind the throne–I mean Oval Office.GW campaigned at Bob Jones University in 2000, taking some flack, but did he send his own daughters to an evangelical college? No, they went to Yale and U-Texas Austin, extremely liberal institutions with strong gay/lesbian rights stances. Yale may have more gay/lesbian faculty per capita than any other university. Its law school banned military recruiters until federal research funding was threatened. Both Yale and UT endorse federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research.
I just mention this because while BushCo was actively trying to mold the minds of the gullible Evangelical electorate, the mind-molding he and Laura sought for their very own children was fundamentally opposite.
Hypocrisy? I don’t think so. I’d surmise it was something more akin to calculated shysterism. It’s not just this, it’s little things like losing a Texas congressional race speaking New Englandese, then taking lessons to learn to sound Texan. It’s projecting yourself as a southern good old boy, after being born in Connecticut and schooled in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts, and vacationing every summer in Maine. His younger childhood years were spent in Texas, that is, in Yankee-entrepreneur-inhabited Midland and Houston enclaves.
Buying a Texas ranch, renaming it “Prairie CHAPEL Ranch” and cutting firewood in front of TV cameras, just after he decided to run for the presidency. (Reagan bought a horse ranch long before he ran, and TV never even showed this until AFTER he was elected, when he took vacations as president.)
Creating a “Faith-Based Initiative” that disbursed tens of MILLIONS of dollars. Out of a federal budget of $2.3 TRILLION dollars. Less money was allocated than was going to be spent on the single “Bridge to Nowhere” in Alaska.
Here is what David Kuo, who worked on this project has said in a recent book:
He says some of the nation’s most prominent evangelical leaders were known in the office of presidential political strategist Karl Rove as “the nuts.”
“National Christian leaders received hugs and smiles in person and then were dismissed behind their backs and described as ‘ridiculous,’ ‘out of control,’ and just plain ‘goofy,’” Kuo writes.
More seriously, Kuo alleges that then-White House political affairs director Ken Mehlman knowingly participated in a scheme to use the office, and taxpayer funds, to mount ostensibly “nonpartisan” events that were, in reality, designed with the intent of mobilizing religious voters in 20 targeted races.
Nineteen out of the 20 targeted races were won by Republicans, Kuo reports. The outreach was so extensive and so powerful in motivating not just conservative evangelicals, but also traditionally Democratic minorities, that Kuo attributes Bush’s 2004 Ohio victory “at least partially … to the conferences we had launched two years before.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15228489/
The estate tax repeal, that was NOT designed to protect small businesses and family farms, but WAS designed specifically to support permanent “American aristocracy” dynasties. Do you know what the ultra-wealthy did before the “death tax” repeal? First, they set up trusts that ensured their progeny were well provided for. Secondly, they tended to give very large donations to private charitable, including church, organizations. They sowed money into beneficent endeavors. What was wrong with that?
Why is Rove called a genius anyway? He’s just a racist who knows how to appeal to racists and suppress votes in minority neighborhoods.
Doug, only the Archie Bunkers of the world call him genius.
bush 43 will go away much as his father did. He will speak to the occasional fringe group of wistful neocons. But mostly he will just disappear.
Rove is a different matter. The man is a thug. His troubled background and psyche compel him to lash out and destroy. You don’t retire from that.
As angry and frustrated as Republicans are just now and given that their party currently has no head (Ken Mehlman resigned/canned) could Karl Rove be their new leader?
heart, a social policy goal of the estate tax was to make sure that there was not a moneyed aristocracy created in the United States. The examples you point to as how the “ultra-wealthy” used their wealth were also tax favored mechanisms to achieve this social policy. Other than the use of trusts, given a disadvantage by the Generation Skipping Transfer Tax, these continue today.
What I would like to see is an estate tax that taxes estates greater than, say, $1 million, at high rates. The unlimited marital deduction would continue, allowing transfers of great amounts between spouses with no tax cost. The $1 million figure could be adjusted for inflation. This would encourage the charitable gifting, etc. you and I agree is beneficial to society as a whole.
Plus, it would provide an additional argument for those who feel that the only way that one should get ahead is through his or her own efforts, by knocking out (at least partially) any reason for one to live off the successes of the prior generations without materially contributing to one’s well being through one’s own efforts.
Oh, BTW, the “estate tax repeal” is only for one year, under present law: 2010; in 2011, the law reverts to its status in 2001. What is currently happening is a graduated increase in the amount of a taxable estate which may pass free from federal estate tax. The tax has not been repealed; it has, for the short term, been made less onerous.
Jim Nicholson, the RNC’s chairman in 1999 was also a piece of work.
Nicholson falsely attacked Al Gore. He arrived at the luxury hotel, Westin Fairfax, in a mule-drawn wagon — and then gave a tour of what he claimed was Gore’s former suite.
Facts:* Gore HAD done very hard farm work during the summers when young.* The hotel had been remodeled TWICE since Gore lived there many decades earlier.
The media lazyily reported Nicholson’s version as the truth.
http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh080802.shtml
Last Election for Shrub and his turd blossom???
THANK GOD THANK GOD THANK GOD
Hey, y’all, I just had a thought; why couldn’t GW follow the other son of a President who was also elected President, namely John Quincy Adams, and run for the House of Representatives? Are we guilty of grossly exagerating rumors of his (political) death (with apologies to Mark Twain)?
Obscurity is too good for Dubya. Isn’t there some place really out of touch with the real world we could send him? Texas, for instance?
Speaking about Tejas, too bad Kinky didn’t win the goverorship.
Wish there were adults to talk to on this blog.
What? And ruin a perfect record?
Dennis,
Texas is becoming less “out of touch with the real world”.Perry only got 39% of the vote. Bell(D) might’ve won if Grandma and Kinky had dropped out.
“The architect” on what happened:
http://time-blog.com/allen_report/2006/11/the_architect_speaks.html
offered for your consideration, interpretation and argument.
Making fun of Texas is like making fun of Mississippi. It is too easy and I should be ashamed. I’ve enjoyed my times in both states.
Still…
Texas is a great state – wonderful people – lots of beautiful scenery – fantastic Tex-Mex food – great music in Austin.
Just stay away from the bigots in East Texas and the state government and it is just fine.
Oh, yeah, Bush is not from Texas, the all-hat-no-cattle cowboy is from Connecticut.
In the “no-shit” category – did you know that GWB is afraid of horses?
Yeah, you see him clearing brush, but you never seem him on a horse.
And all-hat, no-cattle is the greatest put-down ever. I laugh every time I hear it.
Hey JM, how about you back up what you say…that’s what adults do.
Yes, oh really, it was well documented, Bush lied about his education numbers among the other things that were mentioned.
So how about it, got something to prove us wrong? Or weren’t you paying attention then? Or worse, did you just ignore it and vote for him anyway?
I don’t think the people are that ignorant to elect another bush to any office. Especially if we get to important papers before the shredder gets them…
Wonder why the shredder truck has been at cheney’s house for a week???
Karl Rove is a bad American. He is a bad man. He has no regard that the power he weilds can hurt people.Did you know that Karl’s step-dad, the dad that raised him, was gay. True. The man died recently and Karl uninvited the man’s gay friends. It was a funeral with no respect for the dead.
I think you’re right Pam, I think everything will be shredded long before we’re able to get to them.
“Yeah, you see him clearing brush, but you never seem him on a horse.”
Considering the fact that he falls off of bicycles and Segways (purported to be untippable), can you blame him?
Besides, what horse would have him?