Have to agree with Richardxx. Same stuff, different party. Clinton would have been more of the same for sure.

We just have to keep up the pressure. If we settle for status quo ante Bush we lose. Any elected rep who fails to work and vote for impeachment should go. Same goes for signing on to the ICC and turning the war criminals over to the world for trial. Anything less and we hand the following generations a huge loss.

Posted at June 20, 2008 1:53 AM in response to "The A Team": Who Forgot to Invite Mr. T?

Obama-Clinton is not a nightmare ticket - except for those who insist on holding resentments. Resentments are a total waste of time and energy. Get over it and get on with it.

Obama-Edwards would be awesome. Can you imagine eight years of Obama followed by eight years of Edwards? We might wind up with social justice and peace on Earth.

Posted at June 11, 2008 12:03 AM in response to Obama's Veep Vetting Team Discussing "Former Military Leaders," Other "Outside The Box" Names

Response to Kleefeld. You are right. Hagee is not anti-semitic in the classic sense. He is pro-Israel and pro-Judaism because the recipe for Armageddon requires a certain number of remaining Jews who will be converted when it happens.

There are a lot of people who, in their desperation, believe that the End Times are upon us. Unfortunately, in reality, all the ingredients do seem to be coming together and this just reinforces their belief system.

Who knows? Armageddon outtahere! ;-)

Posted at May 23, 2008 3:04 AM in response to McCain Rejects Right-Wing Preacher Rod Parsley, Too

North Korea sold Syria the materials, equipment and knowledge to make a nuke. Israel pre-emptively took out the plant before the Syrians could get one put together. No government around the planet complained. None. The same governments failed to complain loudly when Israel took out the Iraqi Osirak reactor in 1981. So we have twenty-seven years and two pre-emptive reactor take-outs by Israel and no major fuss made by other nations.

Therefore, according to the Bush Doctrine, he is justified in pre-emptively taking out the Iranian reactor before he leaves office. The Bush propagandists will paint this as a favor to the next president. Bush's popularity is not about to go up so he'll nobly take the hit in the polls and make the world a safer place on the way out the door.

Meanwhile, back in reality, he'll have poked another stick in another hornet's nest and American blood and fortune will vanish into the sand. BFD. He'll be working on plans for his library. And just think about it, except for Jordan there will be non-stop hostilities from the Israel-Gaza shorelines eastward to Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. If heaps of dead, burnt bodies are your thing, this is a major accomplishment. This will be his legacy.

Posted at April 26, 2008 2:27 AM in response to 5 Comments on the Syria-Israel-North Korea Revelations

"...and who has zero chance of _credibly_ declaring before Election Day that "peace is at hand." Credibility isn't even a speed bump to the Bush gang. Plus, in 2002-3 they used the "Armageddon (nuclear) is at hand" ploy. I wouldn't count that one out. Then there's the non-traceable electronic voting and today's eefort to kill a paper-trail ballot initiative. AQ is very close to getting its hands on some Pakistani nukes. It's definitely a different dynamic than 1972. However, one thing I learned then and get reminded of every day now is: Just when you think they can't go any lower, they do. For me, that is the immutable rule of right-wing Republican politics.

Posted at April 24, 2008 1:57 AM in response to Obama and McGovern

Cheney had the forklift drop off the palette of Banjamins at the guys feet. That changed his mind. More important than a sham election on Oct 1 would be Cheney getting the final touches on the oil legislation. He needs to get that deal signed off before he leaves office. The big western oil companies are all lined up to take over the Iraqi oil fields. The lest remaining barrier is that legislation. If Cheney can get that completed then the Iraq War will become the "phenomenal success" that he talks about.

This war has been about oil and nothing but oil since the original planning began in 1997.

Posted at March 20, 2008 2:14 PM in response to Today Must Read

Ralph Who? Is this the guy who announces he's selling used cars around Geo Washington's b'day every four years?

Posted at February 25, 2008 2:42 AM in response to Nader Who Doesn't Deserve Attention

Is it just me or does the name Hans von Spakovsky sound like a character from one of the Beach Blanket series of movies? I get the feeling that if I were a fiction writer and I had a character by that name that my editor would laugh me out the door.

Which brings me to my main point: you can't make shit like this up.

Posted at February 23, 2008 3:28 AM in response to McCain's FEC Problem

I wish him well in his recovery. Hopefully he embraces the rigorous honesty part and dimes out the entire crew around him.

Posted at February 11, 2008 11:30 PM in response to Ney Due to Be Released in August

They are scared shitless on this one! That tells me the muck feast of the century lies at the bottom of this. Watergate is starting to look like a grade school prank. Go long on book publishing companies if this starts to unravel on them.

Posted at February 6, 2008 3:38 AM in response to Bush: I Will Veto Any Surveillance Bill That Doesn't Protect Telecoms