Random noise, incoherent thoughts, whatever.
Way to go Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN)! You must be one proud asshole having successfully blackmailed the entire legislative branch to get a pork barrel bill added to the Port Security bill at the last minute and guaranteeing nobody would ever read it before voting on it.
C|Net and Politech’s Declan McCullagh has more on similar sneaky senate tactics.
Somehow I don’t think this is exactly the way the founding fathers imagined the process when they came up with it.
-TPP
So Fox News reports on the Mark Foley scandal, and runs a ticker underneath stating Mark Foley is D-FL.
Malicious mudslinging or a revelation of the subconscious of Fox News producers? Who knows.
They claim that it was a honest mistake, of course. But how on earth could you make a mistake about that? It’s IMPOSSIBLE to not know he’s a Republican.
-TPP
These bigoted asses in the Republican party just can’t keep their mouths shut, can they?
It’s good that they can use us immigrants as a wedge issue and all, but Virginia Senator George Allen probably wished he hadn’t had the press there when he called a person of Indian ethnicity a monkey. It’s good to know we have people like him representing us in the US Senate.
After all, there’re way too many brown and yellow people in the country already. Right Mr. Bigot?
-TPP
Ned Lamont, who is against the Iraq war, won the Democratic party primary for the Connecticut State Senator seat recently. His opponent was a fence sitter Joe Lieberman, who supports the war.
The Vice President felt compelled to comment on the primary results with the following:
The thing that’s partly disturbing about it is the fact that, the standpoint of our adversaries, if you will, in this conflict, and the al Qaeda types, they clearly are betting on the proposition that ultimately they can break the will of the American people in terms of our ability to stay in the fight and complete the task.
It must be very stressful to constantly lie to the American public. No wonder the lying sack of shit has had multiple heart attacks.
The Washington Post has an excellent discussion on Cheney’s orchestrated propaganda campaign.
William Greiger writes in his blog:
An evil symbiosis does exist between Muslim terrorists and American politicians, but it is not the one Republicans describe. The jihadists need George W. Bush to sustain their cause. His bloody crusade in the Middle East bolsters their accusation that America is out to destroy Islam. The president has unwittingly made himself the lead recruiter of willing young martyrs.
More to the point, it is equally true that Bush desperately needs the terrorists. They are his last frail hope for political survival. They divert public attention, at least momentarily, from his disastrous war in Iraq and his shameful abuses of the Constitution. The “news” of terror–whether real or fantasized–reduces American politics to its most primitive impulses, the realm of fear-and-smear where George Bush is at his best.
Paul Krugman writes in New York Times:
We now know that from the very beginning, the Bush administration and its allies in Congress saw the terrorist threat not as a problem to be solved, but as a political opportunity to be exploited.
-TPP
Dickishness is my favorite word (can you tell?).
It’s the perfect word to describe what the Republicans just did to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that was designed to guarantee Republicans^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hracist bigots wouldn’t manage to keep minority voters (blacks) out of the polls come election day.
The act is set to expire next year unless it’s renewed.
Speaker Dennis Hastert was to introduce the renewal, but he was overrun by his fellow Republicans, who refused to support the renewal, because, apparently, it would encourage hispanic voting.
The Republicans couldn’t have said it any clearer: Republicans don’t want any brown people in the US.
And, if by any chance all of them illegal immigrants manage to con the US Government to give them US citizenship, by God, it’d be quite awful, if they all voted. They wouldn’t vote for us racist bigots, that’s for damn sure. So let’s make sure we don’t lift a finger to help making voting easier for Spanish speaking voters.
Democracy! Ah, such a wonderful thing.
-TPP
Lou Dobbs rips the (pseudo-)conservative Republicans a new one over the idiotic pandering constitutional amendment initiative to ban gay marriage. He says:
It’s an insult to the intelligence of every voter, Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative.
Couldn’t agree more.
-TPP
Here we go. Scott McClellan “resigns”, Karl Rove is reassigned.
Sure, both of them had a credibility problem outside of the White House, but at least in the case of Scott McClellan, he was forced into that position by his boss.
Too bad you can’t reassign the president or the vice president. That’s where the credibility problems stem from after all.
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I sure am glad I gave the oil companies $10B last April, because they were having such a bad year with Katrina and all.
Could I get some of that back, please? The poor people in New Orleans kinda need it.
-TPP
All the noise about tax cuts and cutting Government spending apparently means nothing to the Republicans when they’re out to reward their most loyal campaign contributors.
The Washington Post article describes how in a closed-door meeting, from which all Democrats were barred, the Republicans managed to save the healthcare industry some $22B USD during the next 10 years.
I’m sure they’ll find some other programs to cut to get the $22B USD back. Education, foodstamps, social services…who needs them!? Republicans sure don’t.
One has to wonder how the Republicans continue to get their strongest support from the poorest and oldest demographics while the Republicans keep on asking them to bend over and take it, over and over and over again.
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