God I Love Republicans (+ Open Thread)

Isn’t it wonderful how they think? We can just work, work, work ourselves to death while they reap all the benefits. They are so similar to Marie Antoinette aren’t they? Who is in favor of wiping the cobwebs off the guillotine? Anyone?

I’m laughing out loud. Oh my god.

I don’t have the transcript, but Fred Thompson was like that on CNN today, interviewed by Wolf Blitzer who kept asking him about Americans worried about the price of milk. And Fred kept talkin’ about giving them tax credits. Like when’s the last time Fred’s bought milk, let alone worried about the price? And that’s how he acted.

P.S. I’m adding a YouTube from Steve Clemons’ site — it’s pretty funny.

That interview had a very tight shot of Fred Thompson in a bus. He looked like the Jolly Green Giant in a doll house. Reminds me of a Basset Hound “And that’s how he acted”

Sentencing of Scooter Libby
By Fred Thompson

The sentencing of Scooter Libby was the last in a series of acts that has resulted in a shocking injustice – one created by and enabled by federal officials. As I’ve been saying for many months, this is a “he said-she said” case about political infighting that would have never been brought in any other prosecutor’s office in America.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FredThompson/2007/06/07/sentencing_of_scooter_libby

Mitt Romulan:

As bad as that is, he now thinks former White House aide “Scooter” Libby deserves a full pardon by President Bush based on a false belief that prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald abused his power and nailed the wrong guy during his investigation of who was criminally responsible for leaking the identity of former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson to the media in 2003.

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/01/05/132031.php

Glenn Beck the other day called FDR an evil son of a bitch and claimed that if FDR hadn’t been president back during the Great Depression, it wouldn’t have lasted for ten years. Riiiggghhhttt.

The whole purpose of FDR’s New Deal was to increase cash flow throughout our financially distressed, finsncially depressed society. Increasing the cash flow required getting as much money as possible into the hands of as many American citizens as possible. FDR’s sensible policies set in motion the recovery of our nation from the Great Depression.

So, what would have happened if someone had been president like, let’s say, Glenn “Tax cut, tax cut, tax cut” Beck had been president back then? Someone whose whole purpose in life is to concentrate the wealth in the hands of the wealthiest? Someone who offers with one hand one-time tax rebates for the majority, while offering with his other hand permanent tax cuts and tax breaks for the wealthiest?

Well, for one thing, our nation would have been in much worse, much poorer shape at the beginning of World War II, because anything that a president like Glenn Beck would have come up with to address the Great Depression would have made matters worse, not better, for American citizens in the 1930s. As it was, with FDR at the helm, we at least had a fighting chance.

Which means today, that anyone like Glenn Ford, with their get-rich-quick and stay-rich-forever schemes (but only for the already rich), can only make things worse, not better, for struggling U.S. citizens, and actually ends up hurting our nation’s national security. Creeps. Cretins. Take your pick.

McCain:
STEPHANOPOULOS: How do you respond to Mr. Johnson?

“Thanks, Larry!” McCain replied. We present his full response below.

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh072505.shtml

MCCAIN (7/21/05): We all know why Karl Rove spoke to the reporters, because—at least we know this, that he believed Wilson was putting out false information concerning whether Dick Cheney sent him to Africa, which he didn’t; whether there was actually contacts between Saddam Hussein’s regime and Niger on yellowcake, which the British still maintain that there was; and several other subjects that were just simply, according to a study by our Intelligence Committee, were false, statements that Ambassador Wilson made. And so it’s understandable why Rove would say to a reporter, “Hey, look, the Vice President did not send Wilson to Niger, it was done at the request of his wife, etcetera etcetera.”

Ruddy G:

Former mayor Rudy Giuliani said the case “argues more in favor of a pardon,” calling today’s sentencing “way out of line” and “grossly excessive.” Giuliani said the case against Libby was “incomprehensible” because “ultimately, there was no underlying crime involved.”

I could only watch about two minutes of that annoying video before clicking it off. I must say, if one more person touts Obama’s experience as being “the same as JFK’s” I’m going to have to go visit the Obama campaign headquarters and take a leak in the middle of their office rug.

Alert to Obamaniacs: Obama has exactly TWO YEARS of national political service under his belt. That’s it.

JFK spent FOURTEEN YEARS in the Congress!

Over and out.

shoe … let me know the time and the place and i might be able to join you for the great american “piss in” LMAO.

as to the gop “less taxes for rich and more work for the middle class” plan … it reminds of when dubya while running for president in 03, asked a single mother about her life … she informed him she was working three different jobs … bush smiled at her and stupidly pointed out that was part of the beauty of american democracy. yep, the gop vision of america is all about the middle class working more and more hours while becoming more and more vunerable.

finally, isnt it just utterly amazing how the repigs, because of blind stupidity and allegiance to dubya, are still supporting the treasonous acts surrounding the outing of a CIA agent. everyone involved in outing joe and valerie should be in prison IMHO. rudy/trudy, mr. noun, verb and 9-11, should also join them for being an ignorant asshole.

Who is in favor of wiping the cobwebs off the guillotine?
-Hope | 2008-01-16 23:57:13

As a staunch opponent of capital punishment I cannot bring myself to return Madame la Guillotine even for human trash like this. Although it’s tempting, I agree.

I could, however, bring myself to support re-opening the Bastille and its oubliettes.

Your exception to capital punishment is hereby respected and noted. Thank you for your beliefs.

I don’t happen to share them in toto; I would, however, be delighted to take your turn at pulling the lever, as well as my own.

Consider it one patriot taking on a larger share of the dirty, necessary work of running a government of, by and for the people.

Forget tax credits, herein a modest proposal.
Set the minimum taxable income level to $100,000.
Total income under that amount from any and all sources is to be taxes at 0%. Savings, wages, tips, dividends, capital gains all treated exactly the same. Add them up, if the total is less than $100,000 you owe nothing. Next taxable year, index the minimum to inflation. We can expect about 10% real inflation next year so next years non-taxable base income would be $110,000.
Simple, sane, easy to administer, fair, beneficient to wage slaves, service industry providers, savers, small trust fund inheritors, small investors, social security retirees, people who try to make ends mmet with the income from blogging.

wonder if Karl has the redactor eraser? I’m told it’s called “taking the fifth”.

The editor of KARL ROVE’S memoir will be PRISCILLA PAINTON, who has been deputy managing editor of Time and yesterday was named editor in chief of the Simon & Schuster adult trade imprint

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http://dyn.politico.com/playbook/

Shoe,

Leahy thinks he has enough experience and endorses him.
So Hillary still has the support of Bob Johnson…and these folks

Hillary Clinton is the favorite US presidential candidate at Itzik Nir’s tiny juice stand at the corner of King George St., a veritable neighborhood listening post where opinions pile up as quickly as the signature orange-banana-passion fruit blends are served.

Customers giggle trying to pronounce Mike Huckabee’s name and see Barack Obama as an unknown. They’d rather stick to Clinton, who they see as a sure thing for Israel, Nir said.

Of course we are all following the elections: This is going to be our president, too,” said actor Michael Koresh, speaking only slightly tongue in cheek. He, too, is rooting for Clinton.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1200475901567&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Pelosi ditched any chance of impeachment, at a presser on the hill. Keep calling your members (C-span)

What else is going on? Iraqi farmers are growing opium to make ends meet…add that little item to Bush’s long list of Iraqi successes.

On the plus side, at least Clinton AND Obama agree on one thing: Any agreement Bush tries to foist on Iraq ought to be agreed to by Congress. In other words, no executive orders outlining America’s future commitments with Iraq, beyond Bush’s term in office, without Congressional approval.

Yes, isn’t it wonderful that people have to work two or more jobs just to make ends meet. While CEOs, earning what is it now 60 times an average worker’s wage, are given golden parachutes as their companies go belly up. [See Citibank, etc.]

This opium growing is not good at all. The financial needs of ageariean society in Iraq will be easy pickings for the opium trade.

(shaking ny head)

“They’d rather stick to Clinton, who they see as a sure thing for Israel”

If anybody would be better for Israel – and worse for the Palestinians – than Bush, it would be Hillary “her heart is in the human rights of women and children, except for Palestinian or Iraqi or Lebanese women and children” Clinton. At least Obama used to appear to care about the Palestinians. She never has given a damn.

Forget about it. This Congress would approve just about anything Bush put on the table about Iraq.

Oh, and by the way, all that yapyapyap between Bush and the imported puppets in the Green Zone about a permanent relationship, etc. (read permanent occupation), is in violation of the Iraqi constitution. Under that document only the Iraqi Parliament can make those kinds of agreements, not that Bush cares.

appear to care

Lip service costs nothing.

She never has given a damn

The next president will have no choice but to give a damn or no matter what kind of umbrella one has it won’t stop the carnage that will rain down on us.

Isn’t it ironic that, that is the same with the US constitution?

Has anything come of the idea to have Afghan farmers grow poppies for legitimate drug use? I read that months and months ago in Harper’s or the Atlantic, i forget which.

This morning I listened to some of Tuesday night’s debate, and it was very clear that both Clinton and Obama intend to keep a contingent combat troops in Iraq indefinitely. Obama said something about “no permanent bases”, which prompts the question of where he is going to keep all those troops if not on the permanent bases that are already there. He’s going to leave Bush’s multi-billion-dollar permanent bases complete with miniature golf courses and bowling alleys empty and put the troops in tents?! Hillary, perhaps more honestly, has never, as far as I know, said no to permanent bases.

Edwards made the point that as long as the United States has troops in Iraq beyond what is needed to guard the “embassy”, and in particular as long as there are any combat troops at all, there is an occupation. Therefore, neither Clinton nor Obama intends to end the occupation. I could not agree more. I would go further, and suggest that as long as that “embassy” is inhabited by Americans, and operational, there is an occupation.

Yup.

And, of course, it is hardly a coincidence that they are completely ignoring this part of the Iraqi constitution in bypassing the Parliament completely. The reality is that the chances that the Parliament – the only piece of the Iraqi “government” that is even quasi-elected – would agree to what Maliki and the other puppets are agreeing to is slim to none.

Agriculture used to be Iraq’s second largest industry. Iraq could not only supply its own needs, but exported rice, and was THE world source for dates (Iraq has always been very famous for its dates – the Americans’ habit of destroying date groves in Iraq is sacrilege equivalent to the Israelis’ history of collectively punishing Palestinians by destroying their olive trees). I believe I also recall that Iraq exported some truck crops and fruits to nearby countries back in the ’50′s, 60′s and 70′s.

Oh fudge/crap!!!
Matthew has Allan Raymond, a convicted felon on his show making light of his phone jamming in New Hampshire. Matthews saying it “great of him to come on”. and..”Tell us how you did that little trick” WTF!? by “trick” do you mean crime? Did we ever find out who he was calling in the white house?

The jerk has a book out called “How to Rig an Election”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_New_Hampshire_Senate_election_phone_jamming_scandal

Wired – GOP Figure Contracted to Deliver E-Voting Machines in Maryland

A family-owned trucking firm that has a contract to deliver Diebold electronic voting machines to 14 voting districts in Maryland is headed by the former chairman of Maryland’s Republican party, Wired News has learned.

Office Movers, which is owned by The Kane Company in Elkridge, Maryland, received the contract from Diebold Election Systems to transport the company’s machines from warehouses to the polls for the state’s Feb. 12 primary and November general election.

John M. Kane, president and CEO of The Kane Company, was chairman of the Maryland Republican Party from the end of 2002 until December 2006. He is also a member of the statewide steering committee for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. According to one news report, Kane has been tasked since last month with raising money for Romney in Maryland, a Democratic stronghold. His wife is a delegate on the Republican primary ballot for Romney rival Rudy Giuliani.

Even in this tumultuous election season, the company’s political affiliations might not raise conflict-of-interest questions were it delivering old-fashioned voting machines. But the Diebold touch-screen voting machines used in Maryland produce no paper trail and have experienced glitches that have invited close scrutiny after previous elections. A report compiled by the elections office in Montgomery County, Maryland, (immediately northwest of the District of Columbia) after the 2004 presidential election revealed that 189 machines (7 percent) there failed on election day. Of these machines, 58 wouldn’t boot up and were taken out of service, and another 106 experienced frozen screens. Other counties have experienced problems with the machines as well.

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Here’s Johnny!

http://johnkane.net/whatsnew.html

OOps! Missing emails, missing votes who ya gonna call?
and this is priceless:

Providing Document Destruction You Can Trust
Office Shredding, a specialized division of The Kane Company assures secure, confidential document destruction for commercial and government customers. Our uniformed personnel will collect documents from provided security containers on a regularly scheduled basis, transport them in locked and sealed vehicles, and have all designated materials shredded in accordance with your requirements.

http://www.kanecompany.com/KaneCommunicator.pdf

I can’t wait until the wind shifts this way.
Does Huckabee campaign have a hand in sketchy “push-polls”?

A nonprofit group accused of using aggressive telephone “push-polling” to attack opponents of GOP hopeful Mike Huckabee shares major donors with Huckabee’s official presidential campaign, according to government records.

The nonprofit also reported that it had paid out more than $4,000 on Jan. 2, 2008—the day before the Iowa caucuses—to a suburban Washington, D.C., firm called CC Advertising, whose Web site says it specializes in conducting marketing and political surveys using automated calling systems equipped with voice-recognition software…calls to prospective voters using what he described as “artificial-intelligence dialogue.”

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http://www.newsweek.com/id/88754/output/print

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