David Corn

Mr Corn, you have it backwards - Zadari and Karzai have no confidence in Obama and have a better chance siding with the Taliban than Obama~

I thought that the world was automatically going to come together and peace on earth would occur after Obama swore in as President?

Are you telling me that the world is still as bad under Obama as it was under Bush even though the world hated Bush and loves Obama?

Where's Bruce Springstein when you need him?

Other big news of the day.........

BIG BUDGET BLOWOUT:
$3,400,000,000,000.00
SPENDS $11,300 FOR EACH AMERICAN...

Thank you Mr President !

DC,

"Karzai, who is up for reelection later this year, ought to be worried about his American allies."

I think I read his only real competition for president has dropped out? He will run for reelection without a meaningful opposition.

There are problems with his skill and abilities if he is really just the mayor of Kabul after all this time.

Maybe the honesty coming from the WH is understating their lack of confidence. If it is clear Karzai will win another term, it might be prudent to avoid trashing or praising him.

Afghanistan's divided opposition boosts Karzai's election bid

Kabul, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's unpopular President Hamid Karzai just registered Monday for his reelection bid. But already, he looks poised to easily win the August polls, as leading contenders drop out of the race and others fail to form viable opposition tickets.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0505/p06s07-wosc.html

Senior Afghan Opposition Figure To Back Karzai In Poll

KABUL (Reuters) -- A senior member of Afghanistan's main opposition has pledged to support President Hamid Karzai in August's presidential election, a party official has said, in a move seen as a blow to its hopes of unseating him.

http://tinyurl.com/c6fxp5

*****

Frankly, I'm surprised the WH is as cautious with their words as they have been. Looks like Karzai will win another term.

Lindsey Graham gets the Heismann from Tom Ridge

Just how disappointed are Republicans at Tom Ridge’s decision to sidestep a bruising primary battle with extreme conservative Pat Toomey?

Maybe we should ask South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham, who spent the last week touting Ridge as the savior of the Republican Party.

http://tinyurl.com/d9zbko

Dan Rather Dresses Up For "Daily Show" Sketch Mocking Media On Obama Burger (VIDEO)

Dan Rather joined Jon Stewart in mocking the media's coverage of President Obama and Vice President Biden's trip to Ray's Hell Burger Tuesday by dressing up as a 1973 newsman and creating a fake report of a Nixon/Kissinger burrito run.

"I'm standing outside Washington, DC's Cancun Mexican restaurant," Rather said, dressed in a wig. "Inside, President Nixon and Secretary of State Kissinger are enjoying some traditional Mexican entrees. I'm told the President ordered Mexicana Madness — that's a spicy chicken burrito — while Dr. Kissinger opted for a fish taco (lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, onions, and copious amounts of a substance known to locals as 'guacamole')."

Rather continued, reporting that Nixon and Kissinger got separate checks — "they're going Dutch on this!" — and joking that Nixon said he doesn't make his own burritos because, "I am not a cook."

http://tinyurl.com/cg8kv8

Robert Gibbs gets testy with NBC's Chuck Todd

By ALEXANDER BURNS | 5/7/09 4:54 PM EDT



In a briefing-room clash over the president’s budget with NBC reporter Chuck Todd, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs mocked NBC and its parent company, General Electric, for suffering in the down economy.

The exchange began when Todd challenged Gibbs on the relatively small size of Obama’s spending cuts, which constitute a tiny fraction of the federal budget.

“One half of one percent — how is this truly a tough decision?” Todd asked Gibbs, referring to Obama’s $17 billion in planned program reductions.

“I’ll resist the temptation —,” Gibbs began, but Todd cut him off.

“You want to have a money argument, but the percentage does matter,” Todd said. “People are cutting back their spending by 10 percent. Companies are cutting back by 5 percent.”

“NBC!” Gibbs interjected with a laugh. “The stock of GE!”

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This is embarrassing, could someone please tell Gibbs that mocking your employer (MSNBC & GE) is not a good thing!

This guy is the biggest idiot to ever be a press sec., gotta love love it that Obama is sticking with the fool.

Largest U.S. Banks Need Additional $75B in Equity, According to Stress Tests

By Neil Irwin and Binyamin Appelbaum
Washington Post Staff Writers

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More "Hope and Chains"

GM posts $6 billion loss for first quarter


May 7, 7:34 AM (ET)

By TOM KRISHER and KIMBERLY S. JOHNSON

DETROIT (AP) - General Motors Corp. says it lost $6 billion in the first quarter and spent $10.2 billion more cash than it took in, as a sales slump cut revenue by $20 billion.

The nation's biggest domestic automaker lost $9.78 per share, compared with a loss of $3.3 billion, or $5.80 per share, in the year-ago period.

GM has received $15.4 billion in federal loans and faces a June 1 government deadline to finish a restructuring plan or go into bankruptcy protection.

Revenue dropped 47 percent, to $22.4 billion from $42.4 billion in the year-ago quarter.

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Government Motors not doing so well under Obama, but Ford posts a profit without the Dear Leaders help!

"Chains you can believe in"

new website... FredoWatch

ooops, my bad, it's BachmannWatch (same thing?)

http://www.dccc.org/page/content/bachmannwatch

Republicans in Distress: Is the Party Over?

Representative Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, a conservative who keeps a bust of Reagan on his desk, surprised me by declaring that the Reagan era is over. Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts, he said. The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set.

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1896588,00.html

The vacuousness of their arguments and the dearth of any feasible or constructive alternatives other than to "just say no" reinforces the notion that today's conservatives simply cannot be taken seriously. Meanwhile, the people demand that thoughtfulness dictate solutions to crises that affect them and their neighbors in ways not imaginable to those who deride empathy as a vice, not a virtue.

What is equally disturbing about the apologists for the Bush Administration that are now being trotted out to protect their homespun legacy is that they seem to actually want our country to fail so as to justify their insatiable lust for validation or redemption. Some might be tempted to label them sore losers, or even traitors. I prefer to think of them as unpatriotic.

There is a meanness and vindictiveness there that is not in keeping with the current popularity of a president who enjoys widespread support for a proactive agenda seen as an honest attempt to make things better. Obama will not be sidelined or distracted from the efforts at hand and is almost dismissive of their ankle-biting tendencies. Luckily, at this point they are little more than an annoyance; we need to keep it that way.

http://tinyurl.com/cxfbn2

The origin of Mother's Day - Reclaim it!

Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation - 1870

Arise then...women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
"We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

From the bosom of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe out dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
At the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace...
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God -
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality,
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
And the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general interests of peace.

"The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children."

~ Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003

INDICTED MASSIVE FRAUD GROUP ACORN TO GET 20% OF FINANCIAL BAILOUT

Obamas Haliburton............

The party of pedophiles is now also the party of liars...........

CIA Says Pelosi Was Briefed on Use of 'Enhanced Interrogations'

By Paul Kane

Intelligence officials released documents this evening saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about the use of harsh interrogation tactics against al-Qaeda prisoners, seemingly contradicting her repeated statements over the past 18 months that she was never told that these techniques were actually being used.

The party of pedophiles and liars can also add the party of the unemployeed.......................

Jobs Report Giving Investors Mixed Picture On US Economy

CNBC.com With AP | 08 May 2009 | 11:56 AM ET

The latest jobs report gave a mixed picture of employment in the US, leaving investors without any clear sign that the economy is improving.

The pace of layoffs slowed in April when employers cut 539,000 jobs, the fewest in six months. But the unemployment rate climbed to 8.9 percent, the highest since late 1983, as many businesses remain wary of hiring given all the economic uncertainties.

“This is a truly awful report that will likely be taken as a good report because the job losses have slowed,” Joel Naroff of Naroff Economic Advisors, wrote in a note to clients.

Gates: Troops Facing Taliban Without Equipment

Thursday, May 7, 2009 3:40 PM

A U.S. soldier belonging to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on patrol near Bagram airbase. The United States is sending 21,000 troops to add to the 38,000 already in place, but many are arriving without necessary equipment.

CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan — Thousands of U.S. troops are being rushed to Afghanistan without the equipment they will need to fight an emboldened Taliban, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and military officials said Thursday.

The equipment delay is "a considerable concern," Gates said as he toured a dusty forward base in south Afghanistan where some 200 newly deployed Marines and sailors are arriving each day as part of the buildup of 21,000 new U.S. troops.

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Remember when the lefties went nuts on Bush for sending troops into Iraq without the proper equipment?

Wheres the same outrage for your "Dear Leader"?

There is a meanness and vindictiveness there that is not in keeping with the current popularity of a president who enjoys widespread support for a proactive agenda seen as an honest attempt to make things better.

Hmmm really?
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A new ABCNEWS/Washington Post poll finds Bush claiming a 63 percent job approval rating, boosted both by his work on the snarl with China and a letup in fears of impending recession. Some often-repeated criticisms — that he's not up to the job, relies too much on advisers or is more conservative than advertised — gain little credence in the public's mind.

Works both ways Capt~~~

Colbert Takes On Hannity's "Liberty Tree" (VIDEO)

http://tinyurl.com/rbj9n7

The US Economy lost 539,000 jobs in April.
The national unemployment rate climbed to 8.9%-- the highest its been in 25 years.

During his 100 Day Press Conference Barack Obama bragged that his administration had created or saved 150,000 jobs.

The US economy lost 598,000 jobs in January.
The US economy lost 706,000 jobs in February.
The US economy lost 742,000 jobs in March.
And, in April, 539,000 jobs were lost.

So, in other words Team Obama has lost 2,585,000 jobs so far this year and only created or saved 150,000 jobs.

Chains you can believe in~~~~~~

Tea Bag This

http://tinyurl.com/qvvtbx

Mike Malloy - Tellin' it like it is.

Fredo --

Do you mean that, after 8 years of ballooning defense budgets and off-budget wars, the Bush Administration STILL couldn't re-stock supplies and equipment sufficiently to equip our soldiers? Great...one MORE mess that Obama will have to fix!

Networks Tell Obama "STOP IT Your Killing Us !"

Hollywood Reporter/ 5/8/09

Its ironic that the industry that did it's best to elect Barack Obama to the presidency is now complaining that as President, he costing them too much revenue. But the Major networks are getting angry that President Obama keeps asking for so much time in the evening. As you may imagine, Primetime TV draws the largest audiences and ad revenue. Every time the President preempts the normal evening viewing the networks lose that ad revenue. It is estimated that in the first four months of Obama's presidency the four major broadcast networks lost a total of $30 Million Dollars

Antidote

Dude,

They have the supplies, but Obama got trigger happy and shipped the troops before the supplies. Duh!

You can't blame him though cuz they don't teach these kind of things at Acorn where he got his military training!

hehehehe!

Several Guantanamo Bay detainees to be released in Washington, D.C., suburbs, say sources

NY Daily News ^ | May 8, 2009 | JAMES GORDON MEEK

WASHINGTON - A large federal security operation is in place to keep tabs on several Guantanamo Bay inmates who may soon be released in Virginia, the Daily News has learned.

A half-dozen ethnic Chinese detainees known as Uyghurs will be flown by marshals from the U.S. naval base in Cuba to live in the Washington suburbs if lingering legal, logistical and political problems are ironed out, government officials said Thursday.

Some lawmakers and counter-terror officials worry about terrorists living next door. Northern Virginia was chosen because it has an Uyghur Muslim community that could help the ex-prisoners adjust.
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Nice job lefties, now when they get here let's make sure they are taken care of:
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The program is funded by a boost in state spending.
The Boston Herald reported:

Gov. Deval Patrick’s free wheels for welfare recipients program is revving up despite the stalled economy, as the keys to donated cars loaded with state-funded insurance, repairs and even AAA membership are handed out to get them to work.

But the program - fueled by a funding boost despite the state’s fiscal crash - allows those who end up back on welfare to keep the cars anyway.

“It’s mind-boggling. You’ve got people out there saying, ‘I just lost my job. Hey, can I get a free car, too?’ ” said House Minority Leader Brad Jones (R-North Reading).

The Patrick administration decided last month to funnel an additional $30,000 to the nearly $400,000 annual car ownership program.
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Spreading the wealth around............. YeHaw!

Nancy Pelosi is either a Liar, or Senile (or both) - either way, she must be removed.

BTW - She hides behind what the press calls a "carefully worded statement" in responding to definitive proof that she told a story significantly different from the truth re "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" briefings.

Let's end this fiasco once and for all, PUT EVERYONE UNDER OATH, and let the Dems fall where they may!!!

Under Restructuring, GM To Build More Cars Overseas

By Peter Whoriskey
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 8, 2009

The U.S. government is pouring billions into General Motors in hopes of reviving the domestic economy, but when the automaker completes its restructuring plan, many of the company's new jobs will be filled by workers overseas.

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Say it ain't so Joe, CEO-Obamas Government Motors is going to outsource American jobs after soaking the taxpayers to bail out GM?

This can't be true!

Simply stated it means that Obama is going to insist - through legislation - that the corporate tax cheats (which is nearly every U.S. Corporation that does business overseas) and the oh, so wealthy individual bloodsuckers who lie and steal and cheat and benefit from the predatory capitalism that is eating us alive, are finally going to have to pay their share of the cost of running the country.

Mike Malloy

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Bummer. Claire "ACORN" McCaskill Caught In Obama's Tax Hike Scheme

The good news for big spending democrats is that Barack Obama proposed to raise taxes by $190 billion on businesses yesterday.

The bad news for big spending democrat Claire "ACORN" McCaskill is that she is one of the tax dodgers who will have to pay.
Missouri GOP reported:

Shifting blame to her husband and reversing her previous statements, Senator Claire McCaskill’s office responded yesterday allegations that she is avoiding U.S. taxes through her ownership of a Bermuda-based company. Through a spokesman, McCaskill’s office claimed in the Kansas City Star: “Like Warren Buffet, Claire's husband has an investment in a reinsurance company in a foreign country that has never been a tax benefit to him nor will there ever be a tax benefit for this investment.”

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Mikes right about one thing;

Oh, so wealthy individual bloodsuckers who lie and steal and cheat and benefit from the predatory capitalism that is eating us alive.

Good one Capt!

Those Krazy Kos Kids (KKK) are at it again,

they want us to believe that Nancy Pelosi isn't a liar, when it comes to torture, just hopelessly incompentent~~~~

So, the Army still doesn't know how to ship supplies forward yet in a timely way? Or maybe they've still got so much of that outsourced to KBR and Haliburton that it's all F****d up.

"It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head."

Sally Kempton

GOP Wardrobe Malfunction

http://tinyurl.com/qnsd5y

Antidote,

Or maybe Obama is in over his head!

Ya think?

So, the Army still doesn't know how to ship supplies forward yet in a timely way?
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Maybe, the Democrats in charge could set up a truth commission to get to the bottom of this Antidote!

They've got like 4.3 trillions dollars to spend, why not - it's just tax payers money!

Obviously - most of that will have to be invested in re-education camps, collecting the guns and converting America into a Muslim nation.

If anything is leftover . . .

Now Democrats are ganging up on President Barack Obama’s plans to shut down the Guantanamo Bay prison. Or rather, the president’s lack of planning for how to shutter the prison and how to handle the detainees.

“They say, ‘We’re going to close Guantanamo.’ OK, fine. How are you going to do that? That’s the question,” Rep. Neal Abercrombie (D-Hawaii) told POLITICO Thursday. “They should have had that worked out from the get-go.”

“There’s this vague game plan that now we’re going to leave Guantanamo,” Abercrombie said. “It’s allowed it to become a political football.” …

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who supports the Obama plan, admits that there’s no clear answer yet on Guantanamo: “The issue is, how are we going to close it?”

And House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey (D-Wis.) has told the White House that “when they have a plan, they’re welcome to come back and talk to us.”

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Wow! Obamas being taken to the wood shed by his own minions.

Well, Obama is certainly better prepared than the silver-spooned, oil services CEO-failure, ex-drunkard who preceded him.

Takes a little while (probably more than 110 days) to re-build an economy that has been run off the road and into a ditch by a bunch of Republican incompetents.

Not to mention that Obama doesn't mind working hard. That's a pleasant change from his predecessor who took a total of about 2 years vacation in the 8 years he was in office.

Hey Antidote,

Did Obama charge you for that Kool Aid or was it free?

Not to mention that Obama doesn't mind working hard.

Sounds enchanting!

Takes a little while (probably more than 110 days) to re-build an economy.......

How long ya gunna give him bro?

How about just adding some jobs in the mean time?

25,000,000 million unemployed only have so long ya know!

Well, Obama is certainly better prepared than the silver-spooned, oil services CEO-failure, ex-drunkard who preceded him.

~~~~~~

Oh ya, that's right, he has Timmy the Tax Cheat going after tax cheaters like;

Bummer. Claire "ACORN" McCaskill Caught In Obama's Tax Hike Scheme

The good news for big spending democrats is that Barack Obama proposed to raise taxes by $190 billion on businesses yesterday.

The bad news for big spending democrat Claire "ACORN" McCaskill is that she is one of the tax dodgers who will have to pay.

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Now that's being well prepared!

Hey and don't forget that Obama is a pot smokin, coke snortin, daddy rejected, I've never run a business who likes male prostitutes loving guy!

Hey freddie -

Whoa - show a little respect! Obama is not responsible for having a run-around father.

Without Poppy, the Shrub would probably have been selling insurance in Midland............And America would have been better off.

Antidote -

Bush is gone, Cheney is gone, Rice is gone.

Mainstream America will not take anything the Left says seriously, as long as their comments rely on references to Bush, Cheney, Rice, Haliburton, etc.

Bush was a drinker (legal) - Obama is an admitted serial cocaine user (illegal) and cigarette addict.

Biden is ... well, Biden.

Pelosi is a serial liar - or did the CIA make the whole brief story up?

Reid announced that the US had lost the Iraq War - he's just delusional.

Obama is here, Biden is here, Pelosi is here, Reid is here - deal with these idiots!!!

It's crazy-funny how they t make up stuff out of nothing, and then ALL of 'em repeat it like lemmings. There's way too many to list, but the Pelosi thing about being briefed on torture is a perfect example. The 'group of eight' in those meetings are ''read-in" on SECRET operations and can't even discuss it with their staff, much less object in public. The repugs knew DAMN WELL what they were doing when those meetings were set up. She can't say a damn thing about it to anybody, and if she does, she's a traitor and can't be trusted with TOP SECRET info. And of course, if the torture comes out later, they can blackmail her to keep "impeachment off the table" and any number of things like they are doing RIGHT NOW because it DID come out. Disgusting sonsabitches who destroyed well over 200 years of human rights history.
And that's just ONE topic. There's a library list of lies, crimes, and incompetence we have to correct and I want them bastards to answer to it.

White House Aide Resigns Over Flyover

Caldera was presented with a resignation letter from someone under him. He read the letter, made some changes to it and took responsibility himself.

http://tinyurl.com/qyrw82

Pelosi derangement syndrome.

See, Nancy could have stopped all the torture. All she had to do is expose classified info.

The GOP would have surely backed her.

lol

Hey capt, just a touch of reality to impact your universe -

Sandy Berger -

"Berger admitted that he removed as many as 50 top-secret documents from the archives, calling it an "honest mistake.".

He also acknowledged that he destroyed some documents, but claimed it was by accident.

The pilfered documents were classified "Code Word," the highest security classification, above Top Secret."

Patrick Leahy -

""Leahy ‘inadvertently' disclosed a top-secret communications intercept during a 1985 television interview.

"The intercept … made possible the capture of the Arab terrorists who had hijacked the cruise ship Achille Lauro and murdered American citizens. …"

"The reports cost the life of at least one Egyptian operative involved in the operation."

Leahy again -

"July 1987, it was reported that Leahy leaked secret information about a 1986 covert operation planned by the Reagan administration to topple Libya's Moammar Gaddhafi."

And, re the terrorist surveillence act -leak -

"In hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, Vermont Sen. Pat Leahy praised the Times leak, saying it revealed an abuse of power by the Bush administration."

**** Leahy leaks and PRAISES leaks, and pays WHAT terrible price at the hands of the GOP?

**** And, BTW, what Federal facility was Sandy Burgler sent to by the GOP after admitting to a Federal offence?

So, again I say, but them all under oath, and let's see where the Dems fall!!!!

Simple but profound:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/taxcalculator

Every President But Bush Is a Godless Heathen

[...]

Allow me to just point out once again that there have been 12 presidents obligated to proclaim a National Day of Prayer and exactly one of them, George W. Bush, held annual observances at the White House ... something even the sainted Ronald Reagan did not do.

Yet somehow this return to tradition by Obama is seen by the Right as a sacrilege and proof of his own "lack of faith."

http://tinyurl.com/pfwodj

Yo, ANTIDOTE !

Insurance? Are you kidding? Shrub will just ride shotgun with his Jim Beam, jump the curb, and run over another row of hedges, like he did in Austin while he was f-----g up in Texas while Governor.

What's up, CAPT ? Wish you could celebrate my victory, kicking management's ass in arbitration Thursday over them firing me. A toast to victory ! Go Teamsters !

To quote Goodfellas : '" F--k you, pay me" !

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL THE MOTHERS !!!!

Steele Calls GOP Base Bigoted, Says They ‘Rejected’ Romney Because They Have ‘Issues With Mormonism’

http://tinyurl.com/o638up

Bro-Tex!

"A toast to victory ! Go Teamsters ! "

CHEERS!

*high fives*

Simple but more profound -

"$25, 573.48 - what Barack Obama's budget will cost each taxpayer

The US Census bureau estimates that the current US population is 304,059,724.

ABC's Jake Tapper reports that there wil be $989 billion in new taxes over the next decade.

I'm an American taxpayer and the starkest figure is what this could cost me. The latest figure I could find for the number of US taxpayers is 138,893,908 returns in 2007 here. By my reckoning, that's $25, 573.48 each."

EXCEPT THAT -

"The bottom 40% don't pay taxes. So it's really 83,336,345 taxpayers footing the whole bill, or $42,622.47 extra liability for the already hardworking. "

Ponderous man, ponderous!

100 Days of Steele

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K08k3maGGVM

Yes We Did

http://www.newsweek.com/id/179874

It may be a false dawn, but recent data are providing mounting evidence that the U.S. economy is edging toward the long road back to recovery.

The freshest evidence came with the government’s monthly report on the jobs market for April, when some 539,000 jobs were lost. Though hardly good news by itself, that pace is slower than the steep slide that has thrown roughly 5.7 million people out of work since the recession began 15 months ago.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30627234/

"April's net job loss total actually was somewhat misleading: Private-sector employment actually fell by 611,000 jobs, but government hiring, which added 66,000 jobs, mostly for the upcoming census, offset some of them."

Obama administration job numbers "misleading"? Change we can believe in, I guess!

And as the Libs cried back during you know who's administration "Those (census) jobs don't count, they're not high paying, permanent jobs".

VIDEO: Blunt: GOP doesn't have to have a single leader right now

http://tinyurl.com/qeqfye

*****

Why bother with leadership - they have Rush!

A People’s History of the Republican Comeback

It’s gotten difficult to tell apart all of the Hari Seldon-ish organizations devoted to engineering a Republican/conservative comeback. Here’s a bluffer’s guide.

http://tinyurl.com/po3s5b

Bush May Haunt Republicans for Generations

http://tinyurl.com/oht9hw

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Man, start an illegal war or two, break the world economy, murder and torture and suddenly you're haunting generations?

Makes perfect sense to me but it is all up to the GOP anyway.

Hey capt,

Once again, you may be a little too harsh on the Obama administration.

1. Future generations may not consider Obama's Afghanistan war to be illegal - we'll have to let history resove that one.

2. Future generations may well consider that Obama's insistance on nationalizing banks, healthcare, and breaking Union law by making the UAW part owners of GM did indeed break the world economy - at least they will be paying long term, not us, right?

3. Obama's drone attacks into Pakistan and Afghanistan certainly murdered innocent civilians, at least according to Madame Secretary Clinton's apology. And his continuation of the activities at Gitmo are obviously continuing the "torture" activities, and quite possibly escalating the "mistreatment", at least according to current detainees' statements.

Yea, you're right, these Obama policies may very well haunt future generations.

Obama passes the stress test, too

His economic team forces a transparency on troubled banks that needs to be permanent.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0508/p88s01-comv.html

President Obama seized on the continued weak job market to push for new efforts at job training, in particular asking states to change rules so that people do not lose their unemployment benefits when they sign up for training. He also instructed the Labor and Education departments to help unemployed people get Pell grants to help pay tuition for technical schools.

The unemployment rate "underscores the point that we're still in the midst of a recession that was years in the making and will be months or even years in the unmaking, and we should expect further job losses in the months to come," Obama said. Nevertheless, he said, "the gears of our economic engine are slowly beginning to turn."

The evidence that the pace of decline has slowed is increasingly powerful, though at the same time there is no evidence that the downturn has hit bottom. This week, for example, the Institute for Supply Management's survey of service businesses showed that its index of business activity rose to 43.7, from 40.8. But that is still far below 50, the level that represents the line between expansion and contraction.

http://tinyurl.com/o4urwb

Well, at least now Karzai knows where Obama stands - he met with Madame Secretary Clinton last week. And based on that meeting, Karzai does this -

"ONE of Afghanistan’s most wanted terrorists is to be offered a power-sharing deal by the government of President Hamid Karzai as the country’s warlords extend their grip on power.

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who is on America’s “most wanted” terrorist list, is to hold talks with the Kabul government within the next few weeks."

Yea, change we can believe in!

Steele's first 100 days marked by strife, flubs

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has spent his first 100 days atop the GOP tending wounds, some self-inflicted, that have slowed efforts to rebuild the injured party.

Steele has faced criticism from social conservatives and centrists alike, has been slow to hire key staffers and faces a growing chorus of opposition within the ranks of Congressional leaders and even the national committee itself, which even two strong months of fundraising have failed to quiet.

No one blames Steele for the condition of the party he took over in late January.

http://tinyurl.com/qnn2vn

******

In January, Hmmmm

Show just how intellectually bankrupt the GOP are howling at the moon for no reason.

I hope they continue - it is working so well for them so far . . . .

lol

Gallup: Party ID And Future Voters

http://tinyurl.com/o5u6yu

Maybe the GOPhers will find a way to turn this around.

Maybe it's too late already.

Background briefings irk W.H. press

“No one can risk walking out of it on principle,” said CBS radio correspondent Mark Knoller.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22279.html

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So it is the want of principle that makes them think their access fetish is a more important principle?

I think they are confused.

MATTHEWS: So what happened? Was it the Iraq war? Was it Cheney's war over there? What did it to you?

RIDGE: Well, I think both -- I mean, I look at Pennsylvania as a frame of reference, and clearly -- nationally -- you know, there's certainly fundamentals that always guided us as Republicans, limited government, fiscally ethical government, competent government, outcome-based, and understand that government has no money of its own, so when you make an investment, make sure you get the outcomes that you need.

Our message became shrill. We became very divided over these social issues. And at some point in time, we're going to have to be a lot less judgmental...

MATTHEWS: Yes.

RIDGE: ... and a lot more tolerant because we will always be the pro-life party. There's no question about that. But we have to...

MATTHEWS: Well, you're pro-choice.

http://crooksandliars.com/

Obama Iraq policy "terrorizing kids and children"

"The U.S. military said on Saturday its troops had shot dead a 12-year-old Iraqi boy suspected of throwing a grenade at them, and said it believed insurgents were paying children to help them.

Iraqi police, speaking on condition of anonymity, said however the boy, whom they named as Omar Moussa Salih, had not been involved in the grenade-throwing."

According to John Kerry -
"there is no reason that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children"

Sad.

Where's Murtha on this one?

"I am Iranian. I respect you people who focus on domestic issues talking Obama. But I follow his steps in fighting Islamic terrorism. I doubt if he will do any good there or even worth he may reinforce them. Come on G W Bush was biased in his way. But for us Iranians democrats have always been catastrophes. The natural populism in democrat mindsets resonances with populism in Islamic fundamentalism and that made Jimmy Carter the godfather for Khomeini.

What really will make US loose this fight is not Obama himself but CIA, which is blind to the huge infiltration Islamic republic from Iran, has done in US since 1997 when Bill Clinton gave them a green light. I an effort to response Khobar tower bombing with love and not hate Clinton choose dialogue with dinosaurs from Tehran and they did not believed their eyes. Predators they were they rushed in and five years later they created 911 contracting Al Quida for the dirtiest parts of the job.

Now Obama let in infiltrators like Trita Parsi Vali Allah Sadr. That is why we Iranians in exile call G W Bush for Batman and Obama for boy wonder"

Boy wonder, indeed. Well, at maybe Obama's plan is to wish Bin Laden's kidneys would fail, that would be the Lib thing to do!

Republicans who were chortling over that 20 percent drop in the stock market the first month or two of [Obama's] administration are going to be, fairly enough, hoist on our own petard by the fact that now Obama’s getting this big stock market rally. … I — no one should base anything on this forecast — but in my view the short term is surprisingly bullish, but medium-long term very worrisome.

Watch it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ilMRr4WaSs

(stopped clock rule?)

Poll & Worst VP in History endorses Fat drug addict over former Chair of the JCS

On CBS show "Face the Nation" a former Vice President who actually shot a man in the "face" and a lawyer no less, actually had the nerve to proclaim that he preferred Rush Limbaugh a drug addict and a man who carries around illegal Viagra over a former Secretary of State and a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell.

Why this surprises anyone and thinks it is news worthy is what makes me laugh. A General who has repudiated the "torture" that our five deferrment VP received during the Vietnam war endorses and has recently come out of his "undisclosed locations" to publicly endorse this war crime. On every news cast and radio station that allows him to appear or be heard.

http://tinyurl.com/pphae5

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Now we know where Cheney's undisclosed location is . . .

Between Rush's fat butt cheeks spooning with his anal cyst.

Klassy (with a "K") !

lol

Mike Huckabee's Flawed Logic on the GOP's Future

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The irony of all of this is that Huckabee's greatest appeal is probably to economically moderate (or even liberal), but socially conservative voters, precisely the sorts of voters that he says don't exist. But these voters do exist, and the GOP's medium-term choice is probably in picking between them (which, FWIW, probably requires their making significant into the Hispanic and perhaps even African-American communities) and their alter egos, which are fiscally conservative but socially moderate, libertarianish voters. Right now, however, the GOP's messaging is so haphazard that they are probably losing majorities of both groups.

http://tinyurl.com/on9bhc

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Maybe another listening tour to tell the faithful lemmings what they should think?

With fresh faces selling new ideas (McCain, Cheney, Gingrich) how could the uber-plan fail?

Another Obama hypocrisy -

"Afghanistan's leading human rights organisation is investigating claims that white phosphorus was used during a deadly battle between US forces and the Taliban last week in which scores of civilians may have died."

White phosphorus weapons are prohibited from use in civilian areas, per the Geneva Convention.

Just one more example of Obama wanting to have it both ways - hold up the Geneva Convention when dealing with the treatment of Enemy Combatants, but ignore it when dealing with innocent civilians.

This administration lacks morals and principals!

Wow, replace "Chavez" with "Obama" -

"“To God what is God’s, and to Caesar what is Caesar’s,” said Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez, as he presided over the expropriation of at least a dozen rigs, more than 30 oil terminals and some 300 boats.

“Today we also say: to the people what is the people’s,” the socialist leader said to roars of approval from red-clad supporters on the shores of Lake Maracaibo, the heartland of the nation’s oil production.

This move forms part of a broader assault against the private sector, which Mr Chávez has increasingly blamed as Venezuela slides into recession. Simultaneously he is engaging in what opposition leaders say is a campaign of persecution of his political foes."

Where have I heard this kind of talk before? Oh, yea, I remember -

"My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

Re: "Poll & Worst VP in History endorses Fat drug addict over former Chair of the JCS "

"Worst VP in History " - let's be fair, Biden is well on his way to topping the list, and he's only had a little more than 100 days!!!!

"Fat drug addict" - Obama has admitted repeated cocaine use, and admits not being able to kick his cigarette addiction. OK, so he's not fat.

Let's try re-writing that headline -

"Worst VP in History serves with Skinny drug addict .."

Yea, that works.

Between Rush's fat butt cheeks spooning with his anal cyst.

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Sounds like an enchanting fantasy Capt!

Is it 1996? Or 2009?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnKR6ztHIIs

Dick Cheney will take Rush over Colin Powell -- Really? REALLY???

OK - Dick:

You will take someone who dodged the draft due to a bump on their fat grotesque obese ass, over a decorated Veteran who served with bravery and distinction?

Really? You're assuming an honorable man who endorsed a Democrat is "out of the party" for no other reason than endorsing the a Democrat?

Really?

OK - I think you just illustrated my point about the Republican extremists dashing what little hope your party has.

Cheney and his ilk are the best things to ever happen to the Democrats. Sure - their psychopathic base will cheer and bid good riddance to Powell. They will make racist jokes, as their party withers and rots and dies.

I never thought I would take pleasure in watching something die - but the Republican Party is another story.

I guess when your whole diet is hate, fear, ignorance and stupidity it's pretty hard to be healthy. So Cheney - don't STFU like I told you to do earlier - just keep talking. Keep opening your stink hole (it's on his mouth) and spewing your idiocy for our enjoyment and your own party's death.

http://tinyurl.com/o8cmzc

GOP's torture strategy: Pelosi

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The GOP’s goal, according to congressional Republicans, is to dissuade Democrats from pursuing an inquiry that could lead to the prosecution of Bush administration officials by making it clear to Democrats that Pelosi and other lawmakers would have to testify, too.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22348.html

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If Pelosi had been president and she ordered the torture it would still be illegal and criminal.

Crimes are not partisan - R or D if those responsible for torture are not brought to justice we fail as a country, our principles are dead, and we only lead ourselves into the abyss.

As a congressperson Pelosi couldn't give the order to torture, she couldn't approve of torture, she couldn't stop the actions taken by the executive but if the GOP thinks that is a defense - I say bring it on!

I don't think Palin is the future of the GOP, Republican says

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Prominent Republican Bill Bennett took issue Sunday with what he called the “media’s focus” on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Asked about the Republican Party’s increasingly public struggle to define itself and identify new leaders after eight years of the George W. Bush administration, Bennett said the press should be less myopic in its coverage of the GOP.

“One of the things the media could do – some of the media – is to move the debate off Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh,” Bennett, a CNN Contributor, said on State of the Union. “This is probably not the future of the Republican Party,” added Bennett.

“You don’t think Gov. Palin’s the future of the Republican Party?” queried CNN Chief National Correspondent John King.

“I do not,” said Bennett. “It could talk about a Paul Ryan or a Mike Pence. It could talk about a Bobby Jindal. It could talk even about a John Kyl or a David Petraeus. You know, there’s a lot of talent in this party.”

http://tinyurl.com/ry32fg

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Silly me, I really thought her political expertise would energize the GOP base and win the day!

White House To Declassify “Holy Grail” Torture Report That Could Undercut Cheney

http://tinyurl.com/qqprea

If only Cheney really were gone.

He needs to STFU before he gets indicted.