cutting through the fat of this world
“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”
George W. Bush hosting one of his Social Security “Town Hall” meetings in Greece, NY on May 24, 2005.
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At the close of yesterday’s rant, I provided links to a couple other blog posts that offered a different opinion-that the Democrats got the better part of the deal. Today I read a column by Robert Kuttner titled “Bush and Frist got what they wanted” that is closer in sentiment to what I wrote [...]
While I think that political cartoons are a great forum to get people thinking about what’s going on in the world, I think that this one may have gone too far…
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I’ve been mulling over the Senate compromise to avert the Republican proposed rule change that would prohibit filibusters of Bush’s judicial nominees, and I’ve come to the conclusion that we kind of got hosed. As I’ve written in previous posts, the Democrats united and agreed to use the filibuster to block the appointment of [...]
It’s his 64th birthday.
Happy Birthday Bob.
Oh God said to Abraham, “Kill me a son”
Abe says, “Man, you must be puttin’ me on”
God say, “No.” Abe say, “What?”
God say, “You can do what you want Abe, but
The next time you see me comin’ you better run”
Well Abe says, “Where do you want this killin’ done?”
God says, [...]
Republican Senate Majority leader Bill Frist says he’s “made it clear what the principle is, a fair up-or-down vote.”
Republican Senator Bill Frist joined an unsuccessful Republican filibuster in 2000 to block Richard Paez, a Clinton nominee.
Democratic Senator Tom Harkin recently said of the filibuster, “for more than two centuries… it has been essential to America’s [...]
A new report published by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy confirms what most of us knew already. The Administration’s plan for invading Iraq was poorly planned because of a tug-of-war between civilian and military planners, and when we went into Iraq there was no plan to get out.
Here are excerpts from a [...]
Donald Rumsfeld summed it up best when he was asked about planning for Iraq in a February 2002 news briefing.
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don’t [...]
Follow the money. Here are excerpts from the Center for American Progress website.
FORD: A more tragic case is the case of Willie Searcy. A defective seat belt left the teenaged Searcy paralyzed and in need of constant medical care after a car slammed into his Ford pickup. A jury awarded his family, which did [...]
I have been informed that this story about a fight between a team of 42 Cambodian midgets and a wild African lion that I commented on yesterday is a hoax, so I have removed it, but I’ll still be waiting for X-Box or PlayStation to release the video game version.
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