“The outcome of the elections has changed the balance of power in Congress, yet the priorities for keeping our country safe and prosperous go beyond party labels,” President Bush wrote in an op-ed piece in today’s Wall Street Journal. Among the priorities that Bush listed: Continue to fight terrorists, help Iraq defeat extremists, make tax cuts permanent, authorize the line-item veto, move to greater energy security and pass comprehensive immigration reform. “The American people have entrusted us with public office at a momentous time for our nation,” Bush wrote. “Let them say of these next two years: We used our time well.”
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Democrats in Congress should forge ahead with their agenda and invite Bush to join them. Then, if he chooses to stonewall, seek moderate Republicans in Congress to override.
With brown-nose Roberts gone maybe now we can get a REAL investigation in the Senate Intelligence Comm.
Typical liberal-speak: let’s investigate someone!
I wonder if this would have been Bush’s tone if the Republicans had kept their power? NOW he wants to work with the Democrats? Why wait until his last 2 years of presidency?
Typical conservative-speak: let’s cover it up.
As I recall, nutz, the Republicans did alot of investigations during the Clinton years. And wasn’t Pat Roberts going to release that second part of the investigation into the run-up to Iraq War? Whatever happened to that report?
So before you go blaming liberals for investigating everything you might want to look at the Republicans past behavior.
heh heh
I LIKE the picture.
That and bush’s little composition is sorta like him talking to us over his shoulder; while he whizzes on the Constitution.
lucee,
Facts, schmats. KSGolfnut has an ideological delusion to uphold, after all. And anyway, accountability is such a liberal Democratic value. Being a “Republicant” is like being rich or white: it means never having to say you’re sorry.
As for W’s ghostwritten ‘commentary,’ heee-larious. Fuck him. It’s going to be great to watch him crying like the spoiled little bitch he is every time the Democratic Congress stands up to him and actually PASSES LEGISLATION–neither of which the Republican-led Congress could bring itself to do.
Lucy,I don’t disagree. Both sides have spent too much time/effort/money investigating. If there’s credible data – fine. But no fishing expeditions.
I thought this new congress was about change and moving ahead. Que no?
CF,There are kids that read this blog.
KSGolfnut,
And it’s their parents’ job to supervise them–not mine.
More to the point, get real. If the word ‘fuck’ is good enough for Dick Cheney to use on the floor of the U.S. Senate (as in when he told Senator Patrick Leahey to “go fuck himself”) it’s good enough for CF.
Frankly, I find obscenity more objectionable than profanity. And I regard the lies, murder, and unconstitutionality of the Bush Administration to exemplify the former.
The Dems are going to find out real soon, just like the Repubs did, that governing with razor thin majorities is not a walk in the park. This is a far cry from the bad ole days when the Donkeys had huge working majorities and ruled Washington with an iron fist. The left/center split of the Democat party is right around the corner as leftist activists and bloggers cry out for endless investigations and impeachment, while centrists and Senate presidential wannabes want a go slow, pragmatic approach. The Repubs would do well to just sit back and watch the Dems implode.
“But no fishing expeditions”
How many millions for Ken Starr?
Vice President Cheney apologized for using it, too. It was a moment of heated discussion – unlike a blog where you have ample time to consider your thoughts before turning them into text.
But, to each his own. Like my Grandmother said to me “Anyone can use filthy language. It doesn’t make him bigger or smarter. It just makes him look less intelligent.”
Amen, Grandma – RIP.
Chris – there is a much deeper split among the repubs with only 12 of 49 senators supporting Bush’s splurge.
One of the new, incoming Congressmen is Keith Ellison (D – Minnesota) Mr. Ellison is the first Muslim to be elected to Congress. While Congress people are sworn in in mass by simply raising their right hands and taking the Oath of Office, most choose a photo-op swearing in on a holy book afterwards.
Keith Ellison will have his photo taken with his hand on a copy of the Koran.
The copy of the Koran that Mr. Ellison will use belonged to one Thomas Jefferson, one of our Founding Fathers and a former President of the Untied States. The book is notated in the margins by Jefferson himself.
The copy of the Koran is on loan to Ellison for the ceremony by the Library of Congress.
Take that, Virgil Goode.
I’m taking the wait and see approach to the Democrats control of Congress. I am not beholding to any party, I am a registered Independent.
As for the Democrats wanting to impeach Bush, right now there are not enough votes for that and the Dems know it. But I believe that if Bush keeps ramming his policies forward without the support of his own party, he might just find himself in the position that an impeachment might just be warranted and the votes will be there to get him out.
CFMT,
Here’s the difference: the Democrats know how to govern as a majority party; Republicans don’t. Conversely, Republicans know how to be a minority party, and the Democrats never did.
The Blue Dog / Yellow Dog split doesn’t play out in the same way as do the splits in the Republican Party between conservatives and moderates, and the religious and the business folks. Blue and Yellow aren’t natural enemies in the same way, and the internal politics of the Democratic Party haven’t unfolded as a series of purges and a constriction.
So, granting that managing the majority is never easy, I don’t see implosion on the horizon. I think Pelosi actually did well enough in playing each side off against the other in the Leadership fights, even if the DC-media didn’t paint it that way.
KSGolfnut,
It’s simply not true that Cheney apologized for his remark. If you’re going to claim he apologized, give evidence.
Your larger rationale about why it’s OK to say “fuck” on the floor of the Senate but not a Weblog is similarly ludicrous and self-serving.
KSGolfnut,
And here’s Cheney on the incident, to Fox News (sic):
“‘I expressed myself rather forcefully. I felt better after I did it,’ Cheney told Neil Cavuto.
When pressed on whether the vice president had actually dropped the F-bomb on the Vermont lawmaker, Cheney responded: ‘That’s not the kind of language I usually use.’
Members of Leahy’s staff and several other senators overheard the exchange, according to Senate sources. Cheney said he was most upset by what he described as Leahy’s counterfeit charm after having made attacks on his integrity.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,123810,00.html
The impeachment talk is stupid. On what grounds would he be impeached? It’s all Lib crap.”I’m a registered Independent”More crap. Call me when you can make up your mind on anything.
Whoever ghost-wrote that for him has a great sense of humor — for example:”Yet we must always remember that when people are hurting, they need a caring person, not a government bureaucracy.”
Like the people in New Orleans? You’re doing a heck of a job, Brownie!
And while he mentions “energy security”, he ignores the huge global climate crisis issue. Is that why he wants line-item veto?
SOB,I know her IRL – she’s a very nice lady – and quite MILFy
Posted by: KSGolfnut | December 08, 2006 at 02:59 PM
Thanks Nutz, for serving up our daily dose of conservative hypocrisy. I am sure that _none_ of those kids you are so concerned about would understand your words above. [/sarcasm]
JR–THAT’S FUNNY!I can imagine him talking to his new CIA man, his Pop’s old pal:
“Lookie here, look! That’s one manly war president prick, ain’t it? Chip off the ol’ man huh?I’m the decider, and I decided this is a war peter, It can do whatever it wants in time of war, right Dick?Ahhhh….now that’s better,get me another beer Condi,and somebody get the constitution off my desk….it smells like war peter piss!”
I think you have your presidents confused. Who was it who pulled it out in the oval office?
WSC – we all know Jefferson was a commie terrorist-loving Sadaamer!
The people in New Orleans got what they deserved. In fact, they re-elected him. If only they would have had skool buses ready to go. Damn it, man!
golfnuts,
Did your Grandma teach you the MILF acronym?
Many In Lib Fairyland?
What’s wrong woody?No sense of humor?Aw, come on, he’s not your Dad.Laugh!
Oh, yeah.I forgot.BILL CLINTON!BILL CLINTON!!
Fleettwood–
What’s your number?
I’d like to call you and let you know that I’ve made up my mind that YOU and people like you are what’s wrong with this country.
You continue to support a man who even “a beast, that wants discourse with reason” can see is the worst president ever.
This letter to The Journal is a desperate plea for mercy.
“Can’t we all just get along?” asks the man who sent 3,000 Americans to their deaths on a pack of lies.
No mercy, no quarter.
This is Act Five in the Revenge Tragedy, the part where the despicable Machivellian bastard reaps what he has sown.
golfnuts,
They had “skool(sic) buses” and city buses — but many of the drivers had evacuated earlier.
The response afterward was so slow that Al Gore paid $50,000 for 1 of 2 charter flights to rescue patients from a hospital. Gore fought thru the FEMA, FAA, etc red tape, and also helped load and unload both flights.
Yeah that tree huggin Gore is a real creep, huh cos?
cosmos-That is so much crap. You don’t have to start making stuff up.
from the AP no less:
Friday, September 9, 2005
Al Gore airlifts Katrina victims out of New Orleans
By Duncan Mansfield / Associated Press
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Al Gore helped airlift some 270 Katrina evacuees on two private charters from New Orleans, acting at the urging of a doctor who saved the life of the former vice president’s son.
Gore criticized the Bush administration’s slow response to Katrina in a speech Friday in San Francisco, but refused to be interviewed about the mercy missions he financed and flew on Sept. 3 and 4.
However, Dr. Anderson Spickard, who is Gore’s personal physician and accompanied him on the flights, said: “Gore told me he wanted to do this because like all of us he wanted to seize the opportunity to do what one guy can do, given the assets that he has.”
An account of the flights was posted this week on a Democratic Party Web page. It was written by Greg Simon, president of the Washington-based activist group FasterCures. Simon, who helped put together the mission, also declined an interview.
On Sept. 1, three days after Katrina slamed into the Gulf Coast, Simon learned that Dr. David Kline, a neurosurgeon who operated on Gore’s son, Albert, after a life-threatening auto accident in 1989, was trying to get in touch with Gore. Kline was stranded with patients at Charity Hospital in New Orleans.
“The situation was dire and becoming worse by the minute — food and water running out, no power, 4 feet of water surrounding the hospital and … corpses outside,” Simon wrote.
Gore responded immediately, telephoning Kline and agreeing to underwrite the $50,000 each for the two flights, although Larry Flax, founder of California Pizza Kitchens, later pledged to pay for one of them.
“None of the airlines involved required a contract or any written guarantee of payment before sending their planes and volunteer crews,” Simon wrote of the American Airlines flights. “One official said if Gore promised to pay, that was good enough for them.”
He also recruited two doctors, Spickard and Gore’s cousin, retired Col. Dar LaFon, a specialist in internal medicine who once ran the military hospital in Baghdad.
Most critically, Gore worked to cut through government red tape, personally calling Gov. Phil Bredesen to get Tennessee’s support and U.S. Transportation Secretary Norm Mineta to secure landing rights in New Orleans.
About 140 people, many of them sick, landed in Knoxville on Sept. 3. The second flight, with 130 evacuees, landed the next day in Chattanooga.
Where’s the apology, Fleet?
Where’s KFG when you need some crow cooked real quick-like?hehehe
Senate Intelligence is an oxymoron.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_al_gore_katrina.htm
e-mail excerpt:
Al Gore, private citizen with, certainly, a certain clout, began an initiative on Thursday, September 1st. He personally and privately rented and American Airlines jet and crew, got a doctor friend of his and several nurses, and on Saturday morning, he flew to Louis Armstrong airport in New Orleans, gathered up 140 elderly and ill people from the triage center there and flew them to the Knoxville, Tennessee airport.
Comments: True. According to press accounts, former vice-president Al Gore arranged and at least partially paid for the airlift evacuation of 270 patients from Charity Hospital in New Orleans on September 3 and 4, 2005 after being notified of desperate conditions at the facility by Dr. David Kline, a neurosurgeon who once treated Gore’s son after an automobile accident. The first group of 140 patients was transferred to Knoxville, Tennessee, while the second group, numbering 130, was airlifted to Chatanooga.
To date, Gore himself has not spoken publicly of these actions.
*****
I knew there was some reason that a majority of Americans voted for this man to be president.
While you KKKonservatives were sitting back and GLOATING, blaming the victims for their poverty, Al Gore got up and got going and helped people.
If you want to live like a Republican, you have to vote Democratic.
*****
It’ll be interesting to see how Hotwood spins the fact that he was totally wrong and revealed his ignorance by spouting an opinion that had no basis in fact.
These guys (Hank, Hotwood, GoofNuts) are nothing if not past masters at justifying wrong-headed nonsense.
Let the contortions in logic begin and . . . pass the popcorn.
“cosmos-”That is so much crap. You don’t have to start making stuff up.”
It is just so difficult, as Tracy just showed us, to stand up to such skilled rhetoric.
Ah, Tracy beat me to it. Good job, dude.
So, now that Hotwood sees he was totally wrong about this, he’ll admit that maybe he could be wrong about a few other things too, right?
Yeah, when pigs fly . . .
Like CONservatives everywhere, he won’t even admit he was wrong even after it’s in black and white for everyone to read.
TRACY, Capn, thank you for posting the facts.
fleet?
Why don’t you do some research, BEFORE accusing me of “making stuff up”?
Also a bit here, 6:14 PMhttp://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/12/katrina/main834011.shtml
Man, you can hear those crickets a-chirpin’ can’t you . . .
Fleetwood? . . . yo, ho, Fleet . . . wood?
Looks like Fleetwood had to pound out a desperate e-mail to Rush and is still waiting for a reply.
I wonder what wine one would serve with crow?Bitter?
Fleetwood, I’m a registered independent because that way I don’t totally believe either party. perhaps that is where you went wrong with Bush – you picked the wrong horse in the race?
And the impeachment talk was not started by myself. If the Republicans pushed for impeachment on Bill Clinton’s sex lie as perjury, then I’m sure there could be some charges found for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney both.
My point was, if you were smart enough to read it, was that if Bush doesn’t start to listen to his OWN party, then his head might be on the chopping block and no one will run in to save him – unless his momma is in town.
Ok that is the first I had ever heard of this Al Gore story.
So we may forgive fleetwood his ignorance here.
The conservative media clearly fell down on reporting the story.
Twice rebuked fleetie.
JR, you are human and capable of compassion for a winger.I won’t tell.
OK OKI will grudgingly say good for Gore.lucee-Make up your mind. Calling yourself an Independent doesn’t make you sound as smart as you seem to think.There are no charges to bring against Bush. If there were, the Dems are obligated to bring them, but they can’t. Only the far left call for that (and one “Independent” called Lucee)If Bush had listened to his own party he wouldn’t have allowed as much spending, or he would have come with a stronger illegal immigrant bill.
Actually, fleetwood, Independent Lucee isn’t the only one calling for impeachment – but as she points out, if we can impeach a president for lying about a blowjob, then why can’t we impeach a president for lying about something that got us into a WAR that has cost thousands of lies? And don’t give me the same old “he didn’t lie” drivel, because it has been shown MORE THAN ONCE, that Bush was fully aware that there were no WMD’s in Iraq when he used them as the excuse to invade (not saying there weren’t ever any, just saying there weren’t any there when he claimed there were) Now, I don’t think that there is a Democrat, Liberal, or Independent out there who won’t tell you that yeah, we think Saddam was a danger and EVENTUALLY we should have gone after him, but FIRST we should have taken care of Bin Laden, since he had proven his grudge against the US and taken US lives – but NOOOO, Bush was too busy fighting his Daddy’s war to worry about the REAL threat to our nation…. and nowhere in there do you think that there may be grounds for impeachment??? Boy, you people really are the blind leading the blind, aren’t you? (And by the way, I am a registered voter who is registered as non-party affiliated because honestly, i think that both major parties are full of it, and I would rather not be associated with either so that I can make my choices well informed and unbiased and elect who is BEST to serve our country REGARDLESS of what party they belong to….)
Another non-party voter? What, ashamed of the Dems? You sure sound like one. There are no grounds for impeachment. Period.Clinton swore to tell the truth, the whole truth…and he didn’t. That is impeachable. You people like to make it about a BJ, cause the truth is worse.If there are grounds, then the Dems aren’t doing what the Constitution requires.
It’s not about lying ABOUT anything. It’s about lying under oath.
The end.
Fleet, were you and Nutz all fired up to impeach presidents when Reagan and Bush I defied the law to fund the Contras by selling arms to Iran despite the ban on trading with a terrorist nation?
Drug Addict,Straw man argument.
That dog won’t hunt.
Nice try, Nutz. Don’t let your hypocrisy get in the way of a good debate.
Why is impeachment necessary for Clinton for parsing his answer in sworn testimony, but violating US law, trading with a terrorist nation and supporting a terrorist group in South America is not impeachable?
I guess it WAS about the blow job…
It’s my recollection that Iran-Contra was about helping the good guys beat a bunch of the you people types (commies). The you people in our congress wouldn’t help beat their own kind (commies), so Reagan and other right thinking Americans decided to try to help.
“Reagan and other right thinking Americans decided to try to help.”
The government of Nicaragua was a democratically elected government. What right did Reagan have to interfer in the internal affairs of a sovereign nation?
What right did Reagan have to circumvent the Congress of the United States to sell arms illegally to a terrorist nation – one that had held 54 American citizens hostage just a few years before.
What happened to the rule of law for you Republicans?
Isn’t that you all were screaming during the impeachment of Clinton – you had to impeach because it was the rule of law?
“bunch of the you people types (commies).”
Yea fleetwood, people types who believe in elections. As opposed to your type who prefer terrorism to overthrow an elected government.
Hey, Golf Nutz, I think my dog just bit your ass!
throat clearing sounds
I’m the stupidest bitch on the face of this planet. Someone, somewhere, sometime, take advantage of me. I’m ripe for the picking.Wendy
Monitors,A poor unfortunate troll messed his pants on this aisle, could we have a clean up please?
Right you are, WSClark.
Remember how BushCo used the UN (and I mean USED the UN) to justify attacking Iraq?
The UN passed sanctions on us when the CIA mined Nicaraguan harbors in violation of practically every international law you can name.
Using Bush logic, various Central American countries would have been perfectly justified in a military strike against the US gov’t because we flouted UN sanctions.
Oh, wait, this is another example of IOKIYAR (it’s okay if you’re a republican).
Fleetwood – in your mind the Iran-Contra Affair was a good thing because Reagan and other right thinking ‘good’ guys beat the ‘bad’ guys.
And who determined that Reagan was the good guy? Did God speak to Pat Robertson and tell him that Ronald Reagan was a ‘good’ guy?
As I recall, when questioned about the Iran-Contra Affair, Reagan simply said many times that he couldn’t remember. Don’t tell me he wasn’t proud of the fact that he was one of the good guys that went after the bad guys.
Typical right-winger logic – I’m good and everyone else is bad.
Bush and Cheney have both managed to testify without being under oath. Until that is rectified and they are forced to do what all the others did and had to do, the “lying under oath” thang is a moot point for them.
Another tricky Dick?
Bush hasn’t been brought up on charges because a republican Congress chose to look the other way. Hopefully, the new Congress won’t. Eventually the truth will come out and we can impeach this SOB.
By the way, fleet, I’m regestered as unaffiliated.
Today is the day, I’m ready to watch the Dems kick ass and take names! Whee dawgiees.
In going for more troops, Bush is picking an option that seems to have little favor beyond the White House and a handful of hawks on Capitol Hill and in think tanks who have been promoting the idea almost since the time of the invasion.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/09/AR2007010901872_pf.html
So who is running the show?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/4354269.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article2132467.ece