Monday, February 02, 2004
Kent Conrad, Comments on the Budget
"this President is taking us on a reckless course" "it's worse than we anticipated" "there is no talk about fiscal security of this nation, and this president is putting it all at risk, in the most dramatic and fundamental way" "the most fiscally irresponsible president in the history of the country"Correctly Assessing a Republic
It's not enough to support America because America is a Republic, a Democracy. You must correctly understand the parts of the Republic, so that changes don't violate their spirit. He also said the party was not calling on the electorate to stay away from the polling booths, as this was "their sovereign choice.", from Channel News Asia.Misinformation From Josh Bolten, White House OMB Director
Let's face it, making political payoffs look like sound budget policy is the same as dressing up shit with roses. Let's take a look at those roses. The OMB Director was asked about roads & bridges funding. Recent studies have shown that America's bridges are really in terrible shape. Well, I don't hear about them falling down, but they need a lot of repairs (and I'd wager we'd save money by repairing them before it gets too late, in many cases). Mr. Bolten replies that the next six years should have an average increase of 21% over the last six year average. Let's ignore Bolten talking about budgets over which he shall have no control, i.e. the 2006 and beyond budgets, and just look at transportation funding over as many previous years as we can find. I'm still waiting for whitehouse.gov to cough up the budget, since right now the office White House web site gives me a swoa-e5.eop.gov not found.Lord Hutton on Short List
This is fucking surreal. President Bush gets us into a bogus war, and when confronted, gets to personally appoint the people investigation. Bush-fawners, CNN, repeat David Kay's claim that "we were all wrong." That's a lie. Many inside the intelligence community were speaking the truth. Doug Feith, and the DoD (congressionally funded?) secret Office of Special Plans, were pushing the lies. Scott Ritter was in no way wrong. But loser, partisan, slimy David Kay, or at least CNN's cut of Kay's comments, makes us all out to be wrong. Folks, I left my $180K/year job the day this monstrosity broke the fuck out. I wasn't wrong, David Kay and CNN. The Presidents case ignored numerous facts on record. The dutiful press ignored the same facts.Liberal Media Revealed!
As anyone who watches any media knows, the whole thing is run by a bunch of liberals, which in case you didn't know, means they are 100% beholden to the Demcratic Party. As proof of this claim, which the President believes, we need just look at the role of Senate Minority Leader, Tom Daschle of South Dakota. No Democrat in Washington has nearly the power of a Senator Daschle, his fellow traveller House Democrats can exercise no power with their minority status, but in the Senate, Tom Daschle can use his 48 Democrats and 1 Independent to stop the god-fearing plans of our Holy and Just, True Defender, George "Washington" Bush. We all know that every time we turn on the news we see Tom Daschle. The media regularly spends hours in a row parroting the agenda of Senator Daschle. Haven't we had enough already? Call your local news outlet. Demand that they stop their sycophantic attitude towards the Senate Minority Leader. Demand that they pull their heads out of their butts, and realize that the only True Hero of the United States(R)(tm) is George Walker Bush.Whoops! I did it again
Halliburton rips off Americans, yet again. Cheney must have really led a corporate culture of integrity.Sunday, February 01, 2004
Dean and the Net
Why did Dean attract an Internet following? The answer is far clearer than one might think, and uniquely tied to the war. No matter which news agency you watched, you were likely to hear an almost uniform beating of the war drums before the Iraq War. Many people wonder about the lies, when it is obvious they emerged from Ahmed Chalabi and Doug Feith at the Office of Special Plans, but that is not the point. The point is that "left" or "right," the media was not willing to seriously address the idea that the UN was completely succesful in disarming Iraq, that the sanctions, under the auspices of the UN were misapplied. That the US/UK bombing during the sanctions period was ill-advised, uniting Middle Eastern anger against us. Much the same with the recent war. The internet allowed the voice of the non-mainstream to be heard. The relative truth of the idea that Saddam was not a threat to the United States is now established, and this probably means the Dean campaign for truth is over. Watching Haley Barbour, a very smoothe man, makes me think Dean should be learning from him.Spinefull posturing
If you say the right things, and stand up for liberty and freedom, but then sit back down, you still get some credit.. Of course, the U.S. paper doesn't quite follow Khameini's power, calling it ultimate, when it really amounts to a veto and the right to vet candidates. These powers are central to governnance, but it falls far, far short of "ultimate" power. Majjls=Iranian Parliament. Khameini=Lifetime Clerical LeaderThey turned our Islam into the Islam of the Taliban," resigning lawmaker Rajab Ali Mazrouie charged during the unprecedented and insulting rebuke of the hard-line Guardian Council. "Elections whose results are predetermined violate the rights and ideals of the nation." "Destroying people's rights is the greatest sin in Islam," Majlis speaker Mehdi Karroubi said after piling the resignation letters the members handed him one-by-one into a foot-high stack. He called on Khamenei to "intervene to solve this problem," adding that he is still optimistic the acrimonious dispute can be resolved. When the frustrated reformers asked Karroubi to grant them leave from the parliamentary chamber, he refused. So they remained, embarking on further diatribes against the Guardian Council. The live broadcast that was carried uninterrupted on Majlis Radio, which routinely broadcasts parliamentary sessions, was a rare glimpse for ordinary Iranians into the brewing political crisis that the broadcast media has so far censored. The three-week sit-in by members each day was never shown on television, nor were key reformers interviewed.
Reagan, Alzheimer's 2nd Rate Actor
Apparently, 12 economic advisors were before Reagan. Jack Kemp, apparently, was the main convincer, according to Irving Kristol. Jack Kemp, in case you don't know, should be admired for his anti-racist stance. But, as a football player, and a 2nd rate intellect, it is pretty obvious that we had a moron (Reagan) having a moron (Kemp) convincing intellectuals of the right of this idea. For the record, Reagan was a hateful, spiteful racist, who went out of his way to rub salt in the wounds of the 1950s and 60s.Irving Kristol
This retard actually said that "Carter didn't exist for me." If any utter condemnation of the bankrupt morality of the neo-conservative movement can ever be stated, it is in that sentence. President Carter didn't kiss OPEC butt. Ronald Reagan prayed, on his knees, for the OPEC dictator bastards to pull him out of the fire. Reagan was the consumate sell out, demanding complete obedience to the white supremacists, the oil fucks, and OPEC. Kristol is fucking moron.Saturday, January 31, 2004
The New President
The New American President will spend months of each year, maybe even three or four, overseas, each year. Like it or not, the power of the American President can impact much of the world. Yet billions of non-voting constituents never get a visit. In 1900, this would have been absurd. How could a President communicate? Such an overseas adventure would lead to fair charges of domestic neglect. But today, with the kind of communication/conferencing equipment available within the White House budget, nothing of the sort need happen. Air Force One has served as a communication center for decades, but once it lands, it is as immobile as a building.
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