David Corn

Why should we believe Panetta when Pelosi said that the CIA lies on a regular basis?

Cheney's the energizer bunny on a pace maker as he takes out another one.

What the hell is Mathews smokin, he can't even read a cue card!

Me thinks Mathews smells blood in the water but lost his train of thought in the middle of the interview. He should stick with the thrill up his leg.

I'm with fredward on this one. CM needs to get himself hooked on Phonics or something. It was painful listening to you guys carry him as he tried to read from the script.

As for who took the biggest shot.... Leon is in charge of one of the scariest organizations in the world. With a snap of his stubby little fingers, Leon could have ground glass added to Dick's Metamucil. Dick Cheney, on the other hand, is in charge of . . . nothing.

He may be the Grand Wizard of Clownery in the Conservative Clown Show; but he is to statesmanship what Papa Smurf is to parenting. As most Americans know, Rush Limbaugh is the man behind the wheel of the Clowncar. Dick is just along for the ride.

A little flavor of the unintentional humor of the accidental leader . . . my favorite Dick Cheney quotes:

10) "Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better."
–June 4, 2003

9) "I had other priorities in the sixties than military service."
–on his five draft deferments, April 5, 1989

8) "There are a lot of lessons we want to learn out of this process in terms of what works. I think we are in fact on our way to getting on top of the whole Katrina exercise."
--Sept. 10, 2005

7) "Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy."
–April 30, 2001

6) "My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators."
--March 16, 2003

5) "We know he's been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons."
--March 16, 2003

4) "In Iraq, a ruthless dictator cultivated weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. He gave support to terrorists, had an established relationship with al Qaeda, and his regime is no more."
–Nov. 7, 2003

3) "I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency."
-- on the Iraq insurgency, June 20, 2005

2) "Oh, yeah. He is. Big time.''
--agreeing with then-candidate George W. Bush, who was overheard at a campaign rally saying, "There's Adam Clymer, major league asshole from The New York Times," Sept. 4, 2000

1) "Go fuck yourself."
--to Sen. Patrick Leahy, during an angry exchange on the Senate floor about profiteering by Halliburton, June 25, 2004

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Explain to us again why anyone should take this feeble hambone seriously?

If you don't think Cheney went from Vice-Prez to Vice-Clowncar chauffeur, You Don't Know Dick (Daily Show Clip 1):
http://tinyurl.com/ksfx8b

Daily Show Clip 2 -- Why Are You Such a Dick? (features the Dickster playing the Blame Game):
http://tinyurl.com/b83pmf

It really isn't fair to see Jon Stewart pick apart the carcass; but it IS funny, nonetheless.

One last beatdown courtesy of Jon Stewart -- The Daily Show clip 3: Dick (Uncut)
http://tinyurl.com/oqmu6x

The jokes write themselves with this guy.

Cheney's single-digit approval rating speaks for itself.

No one who has an ounce of integrity believes his lies anymore.

"Biden tells "Meet the Press" that "everyone guessed wrong" on the impact of the stimulus, economy was worse off than anyone thought."
Posted by: freddie June 15, 2009 1:59 PM

Conservatives have done to our economy at large what they have done to our housing market in particular. As I've mentioned before, Only two presidents have presided over 2 recessions in their administrations, both RepubliCONS, both left office with the worst approval ratings in the history of polls.

As economists the world over are discovering, Bush FUBARed the entire Global Economy.

Stats from The Second Great Depression:
* World industrial production continues to track closely the 1930s fall, with no clear signs of ‘green shoots’.
* World stock markets have rebounded a bit since March, and world trade has stabilised, but these are still following paths far below the ones they followed in the Great Depression.
* There are new charts for individual nations’ industrial output. The big-4 EU nations divide north-south; today’s German and British industrial output are closely tracking their rate of fall in the 1930s, while Italy and France are doing much worse.
* The North Americans (US & Canada) continue to see their industrial output fall approximately in line with what happened in the 1929 crisis, with no clear signs of a turn around.
* Japan’s industrial output in February was 25 percentage points lower than at the equivalent stage in the Great Depression. There was however a sharp rebound in March.

Commentary here:
http://tinyurl.com/llfrzc

Scary graphs and primary information here:
http://tinyurl.com/dhvwpr
"It’s a Depression alright"

"To sum up, globally we are tracking or doing even worse than the Great Depression, whether the metric is industrial production, exports or equity valuations. Focusing on the US causes one to minimise this alarming fact. The “Great Recession” label may turn out to be too optimistic. This is a Depression-sized event.

"That said, we are only one year into the current crisis, whereas after 1929 the world economy continued to shrink for three successive years. What matters now is that policy makers arrest the decline. We therefore turn to the policy response. "
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The answers to the dilemma? Read Krugman.

As we all know Bush and Cheney were so good at protecting this country no Al Qaeda attacks ever happened between the atlantic and Pacific on their watch.

Once they were warned they immediately jumped into action and stopped all Al Qaeda attempts at harming America.

We must all be grateful for their vigilence from the first day they took the oath of office and never once relaxed their guard thereby keeping America safe and keeping our constitution and civil rights and liberties from being subverted by any institution.

God bless those vigilent A**ho**s whose only reason for living was taking long vacations and torturing anyone they feared.

"I hope my old friend Leon was misquoted."

You know the "old friend" thing means the knives are out.

Good news today - housing starts are up 17%

R or D - that housing number is good news for us all.

Krugman: http://tinyurl.com/mw3axf
Summary: The world has been through 3 liquidity traps since The Great Depression. In all 3 cases there were calls to pull back on government efforts to ameliorate the problem. Doing so led to a slide back into the abyss. Krugman hopes we don't make the same mistake again. But what does he know? He just won the Nobel Prize for Econ.

Krugman on the Conservative Clown Show:
"And Republicans, providing a bit of comic relief, are saying that the stimulus has failed, because the enabling legislation was passed four months ago — wow, four whole months! — yet unemployment is still rising. This suggests an interesting comparison with the economic record of Ronald Reagan, whose 1981 tax cut was followed by no less than 16 months of rising unemployment."

"To sum up: A few months ago the U.S. economy was in danger of falling into depression. Aggressive monetary policy and deficit spending have, for the time being, averted that danger. And suddenly critics are demanding that we call the whole thing off, and revert to business as usual.

"Those demands should be ignored. It’s much too soon to give up on policies that have, at most, pulled us a few inches back from the edge of the abyss. "

The SOB's would have us in a deep depression. The wealthy are never hurt as badly in the bad times.

UGH!

On Health Care, Who's Hooked on Special Interest Money?

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

Grrrrrr

Attack of the Zombie Republicans

The GOP’s living dead won’t stop haunting their party, says lifelong Republican John Batchelor. Now Rush, Newt, and Dick are doing what zombies do best: laying waste to everyone’s brains.

The Republican Party has become many bad things—intolerant, inert, fly-blown, incoherent, and delusional—but the worst is that the GOP is no longer young. The GOP, according to a Gallup poll, has lost, forgotten, ignored, just generally scared off the younger voters, non-white voters, and female voters in all demographics.

What is a political party that is vastly white, middle-aged, male, Southern, pious, conservative, aggrieved, impotent, nostalgic, rude—and regarded negatively by more than half the respondents? Time magazine’s Republican political consultant Mike Murphy looks at the demographics and warns of a coming “ice age” for the party. That is grossly optimistic. No longer in second place, the voter self-identification polls place the Republicans well behind the leading independents and the second-place Democrats. The GOP is the equivalent of a shrinking third party on its way to becoming a museum piece beside the Whigs, the Greenbacks, and the Prohibitionists. The GOP is like a zombie cartoon reading the daily headlines of the last four years and asking, “Am I dead?”

http://tinyurl.com/nhmtov

College Republicans Convention: 'We need to find our Happy Meal'

[...]

Elicia Huffaker, a GOP Youth Convention recruiter, suggested that the party advertise itself in a different way, using McDonalds' strategy as a model.

"[They] don't advertise dead cow meat, they advertise a Big Mac or a Happy Meal," Huffaker said. "We need to find our Happy Meal or our Big Mac in order to energize the party."

The GOP doesn't need a Big Mac, they just need their dead cow meat to stop mooing in front of the camera.

http://blog.buzzflash.com/analysis/817

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All I can think of is "Mad Cow" disease and "where's the beef?"

"Ba da bup ba ba - I'm loving it!"

lol

Will Democrats cover up the AmeriCorps mess?

YES!!!!

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 11:30:11 AM · by
Washington Examiner ^ | 06-16-2009 | Byron York

In dismissing Walpin, the president seemed to trample on the law -- a law he himself had co-sponsored as a senator -- that protects inspectors general from political influence and retribution. In addition, it appears that at least part of the reason Walpin was fired was for the tenacity he showed in investigating misuse of AmeriCorps money by a friend and supporter of the president, Kevin Johnson, the mayor of Sacramento, California. Walpin got the goods -- evidence of Johnson's serious misuse of federal dollars -- and the inspector general ended up getting fired for his troubles.

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HOPE AND CHAINS YOU CAN BELIEVE IN!

Obama blocks list of visitors to White House

Taking Bush's position, administration denies msnbc.com request for logs

The Obama White House has denied requests by msnbc.com and a nonpartisan watchdog group for the names of White House visitors. The watchdog group says it filed suit Tuesday, accusing Obama of "following the same anti-transparency policy as the Bush administration."


The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument that a president doesn't have to reveal who comes calling to influence policy decisions.

Despite President Barack Obama's pledge to introduce a new era of transparency to Washington, and despite two rulings by a federal judge that the records are public, the Secret Service has denied msnbc.com's request for the names of all White House visitors from Jan. 20 to the present. It also denied a narrower request by the nonpartisan watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which sought logs of visits by executives of coal companies.

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MORE HOPE AND CHAINS!

Obama to propose strict new regulation of financial industry

Michael Sohn / Associated Press

President Obama is expected to unveil a plan that would give the government new powers to seize key companies whose failure jeopardizes the financial system.

The plan would give the government new powers to seize key companies whose failure jeopardizes the financial system, as well as creation of a watchdog agency to look out for consumers' interests.

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HOPE AND CHAINS KEEPS ON GIVING

Tea Party follow-up is a big FAIL

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/16/743197/-Tea-Party-follow-up-is-a-big-FAIL

ROFL!

Clint, how come Krugman didn't warn us about the economy taking a dive? You'd think with a Nobel prize he would be a little smarter than that.

Maybe you should quote someone that did get it right!

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Roubini sees weeds amid green shoots

Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:53pm EDT

Investment Outlook
U.S. recovery might not feel like one

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. economy will not recover until the end of this year, and even then growth will remain meek and vulnerable to higher interest rates and commodity prices, economist Nouriel Roubini said on Tuesday.

Roubini, who rose to prominence for predicting the global credit crisis, tore down the "green shoots" theory that a rebound is imminent, saying there was a significant risk of a "double-dip" recession where the economy expands slightly only to begin contracting again.

"In addition to green shoots there are also yellow weeds," he told the Reuters Investment Outlook Summit in New York.

He pointed to the growing divergence between business sentiment surveys, which have been improving in recent months, and industrial production, which is down sharply and receded another 1.1 percent in May.

Roubini, the head of economics research firm RGE Global Monitor, said the U.S. jobless rate, already at a 26-year high of 9.4 percent, would reach 11 percent before it begins to ease. He added that he saw few engines for growth given that U.S. consumers are tapped out

As a result, Federal Reserve policy-makers (AND KRUGMAN), whom Roubini says completely missed the magnitude of the crisis at its inception, face an unenviable set of policy choices.

He said weak growth would allow the U.S. central bank to leave interest rates near the current rock-bottom levels for the foreseeable future. Eventually, however, trillions of dollars of unprecedented emergency measures to heal the financial system will need to be mopped back up to prevent an upsurge in inflation.

Rampant inflation could lead to negative economic cycles like the ones that plagued much of the industrialized world in the 1970s.

"That's the challenge the Fed is facing," Roubini said.

He said the central bank did the right thing to avoid an outright depression (BUSH), but is left with emergency lending programs that are clearly not sustainable(BARRY).

These factors, Roubini argued, would continue to pressure the U.S. dollar over the medium term.

Asked to grade the central bank's job, Roubini gave the Fed (ANND KRUGMAN) a "D" for missing the crisis altogether and downplaying its possible impact, but a "B-plus" (FED ONLY) after the credit debacle had unfolded.

"I give them credit for being very creative and very aggressive," he said.

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama said Tuesday that a nuclear-armed North Korea poses a "grave threat" to the world and vowed to end a cycle of allowing Pyongyang to create a crisis and then be rewarded with incentives to back down.

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YA THINK?

Lugar disagrees with McCain’s call for the U.S. to ‘act’ against Iran.

Yesterday on Fox News, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) called the Iranian election a “sham” and said that he hopes the U.S. “will act.” President Obama said that he would refrain from weighing in. “[We] want to avoid the United States being the issue inside of Iran, which sometimes the United States can be a handy political football,” he said. Today, McCain responded, calling on Obama to turn up his rhetoric. “He should speak out that this is a corrupt, flawed sham of an election and that the Iranian people have been deprived of their rights,” he said. But this morning on CBS, McCain’s Senate GOP colleague and Foreign Relations Committee ranking member Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) sided with Obama:

HARRY SMITH: Beyond watching…beyond supporting the idea that these disputed votes should be recounted, is there anything the United States can do?

LUGAR: No. I think for the moment our position is to allow the Iranians to work out their situation. When popular revolutions occur, they come really from the people. They’re generated by people power within the country. For us to become heavily involved in the election at this point is to give the clergy an opportunity to have an enemy…and to use us, really, to retain their power.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnWY8WH1Nm0

(Via Thinkprogress)

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McCain would have "Bomb, bomb, bombed Iran" by now.

Accused Far-Right Killer Has Bizarre, Troubled Past

So this morning, the story of Shawna Forde -- the alleged ringleader in the recent murder of a nine-year-old girl and her father near the US-Mexico border -- appeared to be pretty run-of-the-mill stuff: it looked like your standard plot to start a "revolution against the US government" by recruiting members of the Aryan Nations to a vigilante anti-immigrant border-patrol group, in order to rob Mexican drug cartels, then use that money to free kidnap victims in Syria.

Dog bites man, we figured.

But now, after piecing together various reports, a fuller picture of Forde's background -- and her whacked-out anti-immigrant obsession -- has started to emerge. And it sounds like that's just the half of it. Here's what we know about her:

http://tinyurl.com/kr4tn3

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I guess wiretaps, FISA, Sneak and peek warrants only work on international terrorists?

Hmmmmm

Dems resist requesting records for Friends of Angelo

It’s one of the most infamous chapters in the housing-market meltdown, but Democrats apparently don’t want to shine on a light on Countrywide Mortgage’s Friends of Angelo program. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent written requests for the records to Bank of America, which bought the bankrupt Countrywide after the housing-bubble collapse, but Issa’s counterpart on the House Oversight Committee, Edolphus Towns (D-NY), refused to co-sign the letter:

The top Republican on the House Oversight panel is seeking all documents related to a high-profile VIP program at now-defunct mortgage lender Countrywide Financial that benefited a slew of government officials, including two Democratic senators.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is requesting by Wednesday eight years’ worth of documents related to the “Friends of Angelo” program, named after Countrywide’s then-CEO, Angelo Mozilo. The program allegedly offered better loan terms or waived fees for influential borrowers, such as Democratic Sens. Kent Conrad (N.D.) and Chris Dodd (Conn.).

Issa’s written request to Bank of America, which acquired Countrywide Financial, comes without the signature of Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.). Issa’s staff said it was recently told that Towns would not sign the letter, an Issa spokesman said.

“Currently the chairman is focused on the financial crisis and stimulus oversight,” Jenny Rosenberg, Towns’s spokeswoman, wrote in an e-mail.

Gee, now they’re too busy to worry about the “culture of corruption”? When did that happen? Oh, right, when it turned out that most of Angelo’s “friends” were Democrats.
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Clints Progressive Clown (Crook) Show?

lol

Sen. Durbin Sold $115,000 of Stock After Briefing

Sen. Dick Durbin, the Democratic Party's Whip, unloaded more than $115,000 worth of stocks and mutual fund shares as the U.S. stock markets plunged last September.

The Illinois lawmaker's 2008 financial disclosure statement reveals that he sold mutual fund shares worth more than $42,000 on Sept. 19, the day after then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke urged congressional leaders to come up with legislation to aid financially troubled banks.

Also on Sept. 19, Durbin bought $43,562 worth of stock in Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Bloomberg News reported.

By October 2, he had sold investments worth $116,000 and invested nearly $100,000 in Berkshire Hathaway.

The Standard & Poor's 500 Index had dropped 4.7 percent on Sept. 15 after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and the government-engineered takeover of Merrill Lynch & Co.

By the end of October, the index had fallen more than 22 percent.

Durbin spokesman Joe Shoemaker told Bloomberg that the senator did not capitalize on anything Paulson and Bernanke told congressional leaders at the Sept. 18 meeting.

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More of Clints Clown (Crook) Freak Show.

Dick Cheney ‘will do anything’ for power

CIA director Leon Panetta stirred up controversy last week when he was quoted in an interview as saying that former Vice President Dick Cheney, in his criticism of the Obama administration, almost seems to be “wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point.”

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough saw Panetta’s remark as a good topic for debate when his fellow MSNBC host Ed Schultz appeared on Tuesday’s Morning Joe.

“Let’s pick a topic that’ll get us really angry,” Scarborough proposed to Schultz. “Leon Panetta and Dick Cheney. Do you agree with the CIA director that it’s almost as if Dick Cheney hopes Americans will die so he gains some political advantage?”

“Absolutely,” Schultz replied.

http://tinyurl.com/mdlhan

What Would Have Happened if the "Bomb Iran" Contingent had its Way?

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/16-1

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Perish the thought

Yesterday on Fox News, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) called the Iranian election a “sham” and said that he hopes the U.S. “will act.” President Obama said that he would refrain from weighing in.

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Obama did what he does best; he voted PRESENT!

Dick Cheney Hatching New Iran-Contra Plot

“I’M PREPARED TO SELL MY GIANT MAN-SIZED SAFE TO THE IRANIANS, SO THAT THEY CAN DETAIN THE OPPOSITION LEADER. AND WITH THE FUNDS I RECEIVE, I CAN SUBSIDIZE THE GOP’S PLAN TO CONTRA-DICT EVERYTHING OBAMA DOES.”

http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=7456

(I think he means "CONTRA-DICK"?)

I remember when Clinton voted present on Rwanda.

He kind of regrets that now.

Schultz is a fruit cake which is why his show is a dud. Lower ratings than Cambell Brown - bottom of the bottom.

The Freedom Cruise, Newt and the Gay Piano Player. Tales From Our Man-on-the-Inside

It's the Freedom Cruise and Conference, and it's been billed as a "10 Night Gems of the Baltic" excursion at sea sponsored by the Freedom Alliance and the National Rifle Association. It left port June 12 in Copenhagen, Denmark and returns to that city June 22 after sailing through various ports in Russia, Estonia, Germany, Finland and Sweden.

Donning their Birkenstocks (yes, believe it or not, conservatives wear sandals too), Bermuda shorts and sailing caps for this Oceanic liberal-bashing orgy are LT. Colonel Oliver North, Founder & Honorary Chairman of the Freedom Alliance; Tom Kilgannon, President of the Freedom Alliance; Newt Gingrich, Former House Speaker; Duncan Hunter, Former Congressman of California; David Kenne, Chairman, American Conservative Union; Ralph Hallow, Senior political correspondent, Washington Times; Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President, National Rifle Association; Edwin Meese, Former U.S. Attorney General & Counselor to President Ronald Reagan; Michael Steele, Chairman of the Republican National Committee; and Bob McEwen, Former U.S. Congressman from Ohio. What a hodgepodge of narrow-minded right-wing hypocrites, huh? I'm already seasick and I'm sitting in my office.

http://tinyurl.com/kt9vrm

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Insert boat joke here ____________

Far-right shootings raise fear of hate offensive in America

The killing of a black security guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington last week was the latest example of a surge in extremist violence, as the election of Barack Obama and the economic crisis breed resentment in a fanatical, racist minority

[...]

Bill O'Reilly, who hosts a nightly show on Fox, regularly called the shot abortion doctor Tiller a baby murderer and nicknamed him "Tiller the killer". Glenn Beck, one of Fox's most well-known TV presenters, has even aired patently false rumours that Obama is building "concentration camps" for Republican supporters. "If you have any fear that we might be heading toward a totalitarian state, look out. There is something happening in our country and it ain't good," he said on one broadcast.

Those comments echo those of Republican congresswoman Michele Bachman, who has said that Obama is planning to set up "re-education" camps for young people where they would be trained in political correctness. Such outrageous sentiments, carried on a mainstream news channel, are potentially dangerous and could incite people to kill, some experts say. "It is dangerous. They are just promoting conspiracy theories in what is supposed to be the mainstream media," said Beirich.

One popular conspiracy theory is that Obama plans a crackdown on gun laws in America. The subject is a popular one among conservatives, despite the absence of evidence. It has led to widespread ammunition shortages across the country as gun supporters hoard bullets. The problem has become so bad that some police departments have even had to ration their ammunition supplies. It can also have a deadly impact. In April in Pittsburgh Richard Poplawski shot and killed three police officers he believed might be trying to take away his weapons. Poplawski, a white supremacist, had come to believe that Obama was planning a crackdown on gun ownership.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/14/rightwing-extremists-racists-us

ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSE
Tue Jun 16 2009 08:45:10 ET

On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care -- a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm!

Highlights on the agenda:

ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House.

The network plans a primetime special -- 'Prescription for America' -- originating from the East Room, exclude opposing voices on the debate.

The Director of Communications at the White House Office of Health Reform is Linda Douglass, who worked as a reporter for ABC News from 1998-2006.

Late Monday night, Republican National Committee Chief of Staff Ken McKay fired off a complaint to the head of ABCNEWS:

Dear Mr. Westin:

As the national debate on health care reform intensifies, I am deeply concerned and disappointed with ABC's astonishing decision to exclude opposing voices on this critical issue on June 24, 2009. Next Wednesday, ABC News will air a primetime health care reform “town hall” at the White House with President Barack Obama. In addition, according to an ABC News report, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, WORLD NEWS, NIGHTLINE and ABC’s web news “will all feature special programming on the president’s health care agenda.” This does not include the promotion, over the next 9 days, the president’s health care agenda will receive on ABC News programming.

Today, the Republican National Committee requested an opportunity to add our Party's views to those of the President's to ensure that all sides of the health care reform debate are presented. Our request was rejected. I believe that the President should have the ability to speak directly to the America people. However, I find it outrageous that ABC would prohibit our Party's opposing thoughts and ideas from this national debate, which affects millions of ABC viewers.

In the absence of opposition, I am concerned this event will become a glorified infomercial to promote the Democrat agenda. If that is the case, this primetime infomercial should be paid for out of the DNC coffers. President Obama does not hold a monopoly on health care reform ideas or on free airtime. The President has stated time and time again that he wants a bipartisan debate. Therefore, the Republican Party should be included in this primetime event, or the DNC should pay for your airtime.

Respectfully,
Ken McKay
Republican National Committee
Chief of Staff

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As the Sheeple would say: "HEIL OBAMA!"

Obama Swatting Fly A ‘Dirty Harry Make-My-Day Moment’

By Kyle Drennen | June 16, 2009 - 17:46

During a CNBC interview, New York Times Reporter John Harwood shared an intense moment with President Obama: "He had this fly that was persistently buzzing around him during the interview...he swatted his hand and he said ‘I got the sucker’...it was a, you know, Dirty Harry ‘make my day’ moment."

Harwood described the showdown at the end of the 4PM ET hour on MSNBC, after anchor David Shuster remarked: "John, I know that the President is credited with being sometimes awfully lucky, rainbows appear sometimes when he speaks, but I understand there was an instance today where he killed a fly out of mid-air during your interview." Harwood began to tell the tale: "Well, David, this reminded me of that moment during the campaign when he took a three-point shot at a military base and it swished."

After detailing the President’s courage in battling the insect, Harwood also noted Obama’s cleanliness: "...and at the end of the interview, David, he picked up a napkin off the table and said ‘I clean up after myself’ and he picked up the fly off the carpet." In awe, Shuster observed: " Amazing...An amazing interview...it never fails, great weather, rainbows, incredible speeches, and three-point basket. A fly and he nails it. Unbelievable, unbelievable."

Co-anchor Tamron Hall concluded the discussion by comparing Obama’s quick reflexes to that of the martial arts expert in the movie Karate Kid: "Mr. Miyagi, just snapped it right up. Look at that – look at that intense look."

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More from the State Run Media - "Obamaboro"

President Panty Waist: "It Would Not Be Helpful if the US Was Seen by the World as Meddling" ...Update: Sarkozy Denounces Iran Vote Fraud

Coward.

The regime is shooting at protesters from rooftops.
But, Obama needs more time to assess the situation and refuses to condemn the killer regime.

Change!

President Panty Waist repeated continued to distance himself from the brave Iranian democracy protesters today.

Breitbart reported:

President Barack Obama says he believes supreme leader Ayatollah ali Khamenei has deep concerns about the civil unrest that has followed the hotly contested presidential election there.

Obama repeated Tuesday at a news conference his "deep concerns" about the disputed balloting. He said he believes the ayatollah's decision to order an investigation "indicates he understands the Iranian people have deep concerns."

But at the same time, Obama said it would not be helpful if the United States was seen by the world as "meddling" in the issue.
What a disgrace.
Only someone who is ashamed of their country would utter such nonsense.

Dennis Prager was 100% correct: "Dear Iranians: Don't Count on America (or Any Country Led by Left)"

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President Panty Waist.

I like it.

More SC Republican Racism

More great comments from SC Republicans, this time from Mike Green (@gopgreenhouse) on Twitter:
"Just heard Obama is going to impose a 40 percent tax on aspirin because it's white and it works." http://twitter.com/gopgreenhouse

Green is also running Gresham Barrett's campaign for governor.

http://www.indigojournal.com/diary/887/more-sc-republican-racism

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About that rebranding?

In reversal, GOP balks at war funding

House Republicans are preparing to vote en bloc against the $106 billion war-spending bill, a position once unthinkable for the party that characterized the money as support for the troops.

For years, Republicans portrayed the bills funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as matters of national security and accused Democrats who voted against them of voting against the troops.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/in-reversal-gop-balks-at-war-funding-2009-06-15.html

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Voting against the troops? The wheels aren't falling off the GOP - the GOP is doing all they can to remove them.

Key Obama Ally Says President Obama Did Not Follow the Law in IG Firing

June 16, 2009 6:23 PM

After being briefed today on President Obama’s firing last week of Gerald Walpin, Inspector General of the Corporation for National and Community Service, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said the president did not abide by the same law that he co-sponsored – and she wrote – about firing Inspectors General.

“The White House has failed to follow the proper procedure in notifying Congress as to the removal of the Inspector General for the Corporation for National and Community Service,” McCaskill said. “The legislation which was passed last year requires that the president give a reason for the removal.”

McCaskill, a key Obama ally, said that the president’s stated reason for the termination, “Loss of confidence’ is not a sufficient reason.”

She added that she was “hopeful the White House will provide a more substantive rationale, in writing, as quickly as possible.”

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McCaskill bitch slaps Barry ( the lawyer who doesn't know the law)

OBAMA PLAN: SUPERVISION OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL FIRMS

Can anyone say One World Government under Barry for Barry, United the sheeple stand?

ALARM: National Security Agency has ability to collect, read domestic e-mails of Americans on widespread basis... Developing...

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And you trolls thought Bush was evil?

Yikes!

That's not all that NSA can do.

Not by a long shot.

Hopefully we get a new thread soon about Obama's new-found love of opacity in govt or about that stoopid fly-swatting incident in the Harwood interview. Tough guy. He swatted a fly with his bare hands. Bleh. Funny stuff. But not as funny as the Late Night Funnies courtesy of the Conservative Clown Show:

"But there were problems with the ballots in the Iranian election. And who would have thought that? There was a mistake. Thousands of Iranians ended up voting for Pat Buchanan."
--David Letterman

"But I hope they get this figured out. I hope it goes away soon, because the last thing we need is unrest in the Middle East."
--David Letterman

"And then, after the elections, the supreme leader in Iran certified the election results and shipped the crooked voting machines back to Florida."
--David Letterman

"Obviously, ladies and gentlemen, big, big news is from Iran right now. Incredible, three days of riots, street fighting, people setting fire to everything. I'm not sure who won over there, Ahmadinejad or the Lakers."
--Conan O'Brien

"Well, the results from Iran's presidential elections are in. And Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has declared victory. But his opponent, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, is claiming ballot fraud and wants an investigation. If that doesn't work, he's planning on making a documentary about global warming."
--Jimmy Fallon

"Television, tonight, has finally gone completely digital in the United States of America ... Analog TV signals are no longer being beamed through the air, and yet monologue jokes will still be flying over Sarah Palin's head."
--Bill Maher

"Our friend David Letterman made a harmless joke about Bristol Palin and everyone went nuts. Please, she's a grown girl. She can take care of herself. ... Not that the Republicans don't every week have a case of fake outrage, but this was especially ridiculous this week. Dave Letterman then invited Sarah Palin and her daughter onto the show, the young one, Willow. And Sarah Palin said, it would be wise to keep Willow away from him. That's right, he's going to pull open his jacket, take his stint from his heart surgery out and have his way with her right there. ... I'd worry a little more about the 18-year-old hockey players who knock up your daughters regularly."
--Bill Maher

"But yeah, the fake outrage is off the charts this week. There's also a picture that was published in the paper of Barack Obama, our president, with his feet up on his desk in the Oval Office. The right-wingers are very upset about this. You can't do that, you ungrateful socialist, this is the people's house! [on screen: the photo of Obama with his feet on his desk. The screen shot then switches to a photo of Bush with his feet on the desk]. Oh, never mind."
--Bill Maher

"They had elections today in Iran. Apparently it's still too close to call. They say if the vote is still close by tomorrow, there will be a runoff election next week, and then the usual series of lawsuits from Norm Coleman."
--Bill Maher

"The country of Iran is holding its presidential election with four candidates running. Iranians will have to decide which candidate is best prepared to lead them into the 12th century."
--Conan O'Brien

"Yesterday, President Obama wrote a note for a fourth grade girl who skipped school so she could attend his town hall meeting. I don't see what the big deal is. Bush wrote notes to fourth graders, too. He just called them speeches."
--Jimmy Fallon

"Karl Rove called Maureen Dowd of The New York Times a 'bitter, twisted, deranged columnist' and a 'dour, downbeat liberal' and - more - a 'nasty, snarky person.' Hey, get a room."
--Jimmy Fallon

"Big science news. A new element will be added to the periodic table. It's the heaviest element in the table. It's called ununbium, which is Latin for 'thigh of Rush Limbaugh.'"
--Jimmy Fallon

"This is weird. Former President George H.W. Bush is going to celebrate his 85th birthday by once again going skydiving. Yup. And his son, George W. Bush, is going to celebrate his father's birthday the way he always does, giving him a World's Greatest Dad mug and making him a macaroni necklace."
--Conan O'Brien

Will Democrats cover up the AmeriCorps mess?
YES!!!!
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 11:30:11 AM · by
Washington Examiner ^ | 06-16-2009 | Byron York
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HOPE AND CHAINS YOU CAN BELIEVE IN!
Posted by: freddie June 16, 2009 5:30 PM

Via the WashPost:
"Walpin was criticized by the acting U.S. attorney in Sacramento for the way he handled the investigation of Johnson and the academy. Acting U.S. Attorney Lawrence Brown said in an April 29 letter to the federal counsel of inspectors general that Walpin's conclusions seemed overstated and did not accurately reflect all the information gathered in the investigation. "

Walpin was nailed by a Bush appointee (L. Brown). If RepubliCONS are worried about a cover-up, they need to stop. . . y'know . . . covering up these investigations. Yes, President Obama should not have relied on the advice of a Bush-appointee.

more from the article: "Both Solomont, a Democrat, and Stephen Goldsmith, a Republican and the board's vice chair, have said they backed the president's decision to fire Walpin. "

Americans hate RepubliCON congressmen for a reason. The endless dead-end investigations and allegations are such a bore. Didn't the Conservative Clown Show learn anything from the Rezko and Wright and William Ayers incidents? Fake outrage ain't gonna cut it, boys . . . or rather aging, balding, cranky, white old farts.
WashPost linky:
http://tinyurl.com/lyxzld

Fredward, I HIGHLY recommend the article. It'll turn that Obama Derangement Syndrome up a notch or twenty. Wait till I get to Issa; and you'll see why.

More on the Walpin SitCom:

Key Obama Ally Says President Obama Did Not Follow the Law in IG Firing
June 16, 2009 6:23 PM
McCaskill said. “The legislation which was passed last year requires that the president give a reason for the removal.”

McCaskill, a key Obama ally, said that the president’s stated reason for the termination, “Loss of confidence’ is not a sufficient reason.”

She added that she was “hopeful the White House will provide a more substantive rationale, in writing, as quickly as possible.”
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McCaskill bitch slaps Barry ( the lawyer who doesn't know the law)
Posted by: freddie June 16, 2009 7:11 PM

Hopefully getting feedback within hours is considered ASAP. Keep in mind that Walpin was nailed by Bush-appointed Acting USA in Sacramento L. Brown....
http://tinyurl.com/nhogao
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In that email, as well as other documents surrounding Walpin's termination obtained by ABC News, a picture emerges of an ambitious and aggressive inspector general whose actions repeatedly offended officials of the US Attorney's office, to the point that the Republican-appointee in the US Attorney's office filed an official complain against the Republican-appointed Inspector General.

In a follow-up letter, White House counsel Greg Craig -- responding to a letter of concern about Walpin’s termination from Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa -- noted that Lawrence Brown, the “Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California, a career prosecutor who was appointed to his post during the Bush Administration, has referred Mr. Walpin’s conduct for review by the Integrity Committee of the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency.”

"In our experience," Brown wrote in the letter obtained by ABC News, "the role of an Inspector General is to conduct an unbiased investigation, and then forward that investigation to my Office for a determination as to whether the facts warrant a criminal prosecution, civil suit or declination. Similarly, I understand that after conducting such an unbiased investigation, the Inspector General is not intended to act as an advocate for suspension or debarment. However, in this case Mr. Walpin viewed his role very differently. He sought to act as the investigator, advocate, judge, jury and town crier."

In April of this year, St. HOPE Academy agreed to pay a $423,836.50 settlement -- $72,836.50 of which would be paid personally by Mayor Johnson.

Brown expressed chagrin that US Attorney's office learned about the investigation into Johnson and St. HOPE through articles in the Sacramento Bee, and he said they found Walpin's comments surrounding the investigation unprofessional.

On August 25 Brown's office met with Walpin and two investigators and "expressed our concerns that the conclusions in their report seemed overstated and did not accurately reflect all the information gathered in their investigation." For example, Brown wrote, Walpin's office had not actually done an audit to establish how much AmeriCorps money was actually misspent.

Ultimately the US Attorney's office determined that "a significant portion of the AmeriCorps grant funds were appropriately expended." They concluded that Walpin's investigation was wanting.

Walpin "overstepped his authority by electing to provide my Office with selective information and withholding other potentially significant information at the expense of determining the truth," Brown concluded.
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Hmm. Didn't conduct an audit to see if money was misspent. Misled his superiors (lied to them). Overstepped boundaries with the media. Behavior so egregious that even his Bush-appointed overseers realized he was a loose cannon. This was reported 3 days ago. The CCS blogs are barely catching on to this story and trying to pin it on MRS. POTUS. Huh. Larry. Us.

Capt, didja hear the one about Ensign and his foming-at-the-mouth cries that Big Dawg resign because he scored an inside the park Home Run? I hear he even called on Larry Craig to resign cause he had his feet outside the batter's box. Now, I'm hearing that Ensign scored a Grand Slam. The Devil's Dictionary: Hypocrite (n.) One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises. Karma is a muthreffer.

Back to Fredward:

"Clint, how come Krugman didn't warn us about the economy taking a dive? You'd think with a Nobel prize he would be a little smarter than that.
Maybe you should quote someone that did get it right!"
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Roubini sees weeds amid green shoots
Posted by: freddie June 16, 2009 5:42 PM

Yeah, Dr. Doom, Roubini, got it right. And right up until the Dow went into the shitter, the Conservative Clown Show was waddling around DC going "what recession? It ain't a recession!"

Roubini was on top of it. Hmmmm. Who else was talking recession before it actually hit?

Who said: "But based on what we know now, there’s an economic slowdown coming."
I'm thinking that was Krugman. Riiiiight.

Intimations of Recession
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: August 7, 2006
http://tinyurl.com/kpbug4

That was 14 months before the recession actually hit. Let's see. is there more?

Who said: "this kind of confusion about what’s going on is what typically happens when the economy is at a turning point, when an economic expansion is about to turn into a recession"

I'm thinking that was Krugman again. Yep.

Economic Storm Signals
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: December 1, 2006
http://tinyurl.com/l72uew

That was a full year before the recession hit.

What Ensign said then about Sen. Craig...

Ensign stopped short of urging him to resign but suggested strongly that he should.
"I wouldn't put myself hopefully in that kind of position, but if I was in a position like that, that's what I would do," Ensign said. "He's going to have to answer that for himself."

http://tinyurl.com/mymx2r
WASHINGTON (June 16) – Republican Sen. John Ensign of Nevada, a leading conservative mentioned as a potential presidential candidate, admitted Tuesday he had an extramarital affair with a woman who was a member of his campaign staff.

Dems resist requesting records for Friends of Angelo

It’s one of the most infamous chapters in the housing-market meltdown, but Democrats apparently don’t want to shine on a light on Countrywide Mortgage’s Friends of Angelo program. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent written requests for the records to Bank of America, which bought the bankrupt Countrywide after the housing-bubble collapse, but Issa’s counterpart on the House Oversight Committee, Edolphus Towns (D-NY), refused to co-sign the letter:

“Currently the chairman is focused on the financial crisis and stimulus oversight,” Jenny Rosenberg, Towns’s spokeswoman, wrote in an e-mail.
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Clints Progressive Clown (Crook) Show?
lol
Posted by: freddie June 16, 2009 5:51 PM

Who was it that blew the lid off of the cockroach-haven at Countrywide?

Waxman. I hear that Waxman fella is a member of the Democrat party. Fredward, you seem to be having issues keeping the Reds and the Blues straight, these days.
I found a 14 Megabyte pdf file with all of Waxman's torture sessions.

You can get the flavor of the bit from the news articles.

From FinancialWeek: Waxman blasts Mozilo, supersized CEO pay
http://tinyurl.com/l83krr
"Congressman skewers the comp of Countrywide’s head; ex-chief executives from Merrill Lynch and Citigroup grilled, too. Mr. Waxman noted that the three companies’ share prices have plummeted since early 2007, losing about $20 billion in the last two quarters of 2007 alone. "

What is the SEC trying to pin on the lawbreakers? Insider trading, making tons of cash while the stock was booming and cashing in when it was about to crash. There's the crime.

What did Issa have to say at the time?

"But Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said, “This is a hearing in search of bad guys … and I’m not seeing any bad guys.” He and other Republicans said the three CEOs did not solely cause the credit crisis, noting that the liquidity crunch was a result of a confluence of systemic failures in the financial services system and that their pay was in line with peers."

And from the NYTimes:
http://tinyurl.com/mmezwu
"The questioning mainly fell along party lines, with Republicans apologizing for bringing distinguished corporate officials before the panel, and Democrats questioning everything from the income gap in America to the particular bonuses, stock sales and compensation the executives were awarded."

"Many Republicans on the committee fought the very premise of the hearing. “This is a hearing in search of bad guys,” said Darrell E. Issa, Republican of California. “Are there bad guys in front of me? I’m not seeing it.”

"Thomas M. Davis III of Virginia, the ranking minority member, said that even if the executives had been paid nothing, there would still be a housing crisis. And Mr. Issa emphasized that all of the executives were primarily rewarded with stock, meaning they have suffered alongside shareholders as the value of financial stocks has plummeted."
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Shorter Issa: stop being so mean to the CEOs. All they got was a bunch of lousy stocks!!!1!

ENsign sez: "I wouldn't put myself hopefully in that kind of position, but if I was in a position like that"
Posted by: Alan June 17, 2009 12:37 AM

Oh dear! He DID NOT use the word "position!" What kind of position did he put himself in with that woman?
**struggling to stifle the giggles. Snorting Cherry Pepsi out of nose.**

Letterman, Conan, Ferguson and Kimmel are going to have a freekin'' field day with this one. The Conservative Clown Show delivers in the clutch!!

Getting back to Issa and the RepubliCONS contention that all Mozilo got was a bunch of worthless stocks . . . .

"From the SEC Press Release of the charges against Mozilo:
http://tinyurl.com/q5z8or
Mozilo was additionally charged with insider trading for selling his Countrywide stock based on non-public information for nearly $140 million in profits."

Pfffft. a mere $140 Million? That doesn't burn Issa. But the fact that somebody didn't pay points in their Jumbo Mortgage agreement. . . . there'll be heck to pay over that one. Points on a million dollar home? That's gotta be . . . what? . . . $80K? But if he can nail a Democrat, it's worth it!

Meanwhile, Democrats are trying to fight of the 2nd RepubliCON induced economic Depression . . . And the GOP wonder why they've gone extinct.

You know what else Issa's spending his precious legislative time on? Reining in the all-powerful influence of Mrs. POTUS. Seriously.
http://tinyurl.com/dk4noq
"Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and his conservative allies are pushing for legislation that would limit the first lady’s ability to do substantive policy work. Issa had originally proposed the bill last year, in fear of Bill Clinton moving back in to the White House. But he insists the bill is only about ensuring “transparency” for the work of first ladies, adding, “We are trying actually to protect the historic role of the first lady.” Or, as Gawker summed up Issa’s proposal in its headline, “Congressman Wants Michelle Obama To Shut Up And Look Pretty.”"

What was it that I used to call the GOP? Dead. Man. Walking? Did they listen to me? When they were running like hell to beat Obama in PA? Pendejos! When they were letting Liddy Dole shoot herself in the foot? I told them! Give to Lieberman's campaign! I even posted the link to his web site. I said, "give till I die laughing." They were all walking around like zombies going, "Four more years. Four more years." Pen. Day. Hoes!!

Durbin.

freddie sez:
Sen. Durbin Sold $115,000 of Stock After Briefing
The Illinois lawmaker's 2008 financial disclosure statement reveals that he sold mutual fund shares worth more than $42,000 on Sept. 19, the day after then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke urged congressional leaders to come up with legislation to aid financially troubled banks."
Posted by: freddie June 16, 2009 5:54 PM
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Did Durbin rush out of the meeting with Paulson and Bernanke on Sept. 18 and trade his stocks before anyone else could get word of what was coming?

Nope. He waited until everyone else got the same information the next day. "September 19, when Paulson and Bernanke presented their three-page rescue package outline to members of Congress."
http://tinyurl.com/5wc7e5

Fredward continues:
"Durbin spokesman Joe Shoemaker told Bloomberg that the senator did not capitalize on anything Paulson and Bernanke told congressional leaders at the Sept. 18 meeting."
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More of Clints Clown (Crook) Freak Show.
Posted by: freddie June 16, 2009 5:54 PM

Made out like a bandit? Um, no.

"To be fair, he didn't know everything -- he was probably smart to get out of mutual funds, but his investment in Berkshire Hathaway's Class B stock hasn't worked that well for him, having dropped in value fairly precipitously since September."
http://tinyurl.com/knsgd6

nothing like Mozilo's $140 million.

Man, noone rubs a nose better 'n Clint. Fredo must secretly like having his face stuffed into the piles he leaves here. He's the cornblog sarah palin, where facts and logic sail either straight over his head, or through the empty space between his ears. lol.

One last bit and I'll let up on Fredward. Really.

On President Obama's refusal to allow his words to be used against the protestors in Iran. When the ultra-conservative govt. in Iran calls us the Great Satan and sticks that label on the protesters, the CSS never learns. When Non-governmental Organizations in Iran were given money by the Bush Administration to operate in Iran to bring about peaceful change, the government cracked down on them as tools of the enemy.
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33173

"Coward.
Only someone who is ashamed of their country would utter such nonsense."
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"President Panty Waist. I like it."
Posted by: freddie June 16, 2009 6:38 PM

Conservative Pat "pantywaist" Buchanan:
"When your adversary is making a fool of himself, get out of the way. That is a rule of politics Lyndon Johnson once put into the most pungent of terms. U.S. fulminations will change nothing in Tehran. But they would enable the regime to divert attention to U.S. meddling in Iran’s affairs and portray the candidate robbed in this election, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, as a poodle of the Americans...

Conservative, Former G.W. Bush pointman on Iran, Nick "pantywaist" Burns:
“President Ahmadinejad would like nothing better than to see a very aggressive series of statements by the United States that would try to put the U.S. in the center of this,” Burns said. “And I think President Obama is avoiding that quite rightly.”

“This is not a dispute for the U.S. to be the center of,” Burns said at another point. “It’s up to Iranians to decide who Iran’s future leaders will be. He said he respects Iran’s sovereignty. I think it was important to do that.”

Conservative writer, Daniel "pantywaist" Larison:
Silence Is Golden
Posted on June 15th, 2009 by Daniel Larison
"As John has already said, U.S. involvement in the Iranian election controversy in any form is unwise. Except for the most generic statements condemning violence and urging peaceful resolution to the crisis, Washington should say nothing, and I mean nothing."

Conservative writer for American Conservative Magazine, John "pantywaist" Schwenkler:
By my lights at least, the thing for Obama to do is to give no indication at all that his administration cares one way or another about the outcome of this election, as it’s only in this way that he can keep this situation from becoming, in Andrew’s own words, “the Iran-vs.-America” story that Ahmadinejad would clearly love it to turn into.

I could go on and on quoting all of the conservatives who agree that Gramps McCain has lost his bearings; but I'm sure you get the idea.

The Conservative Clown Show forms a circular firing squad: One Clown shoots his fellow clownmate in the ass. "Only someone who is ashamed of their country would utter such nonsense."

Freddie,

I really wonder. Are you 13 years old or something? I mean you come to a website just to stir the pot. You clearly don't want to try to learn anything here, but just want to throw out arguments. In fact, I would guess from some of your posts on this site, you don't want to learn anything at all, because all you do is visit some other site, find out what you are SUPPOSED to think, and then copy-paste it over here.

If you would spend half the time you waste with your drivel here just studying the world, studying history, maybe going out in the sunshine, you would be half as angry as you are now, and wouldn't need to waste any more time on people you will never agree with.

JMHO

"To be fair, he didn't know everything -- he was probably smart to get out of mutual funds, but his investment in Berkshire Hathaway's Class B stock hasn't worked that well for him, having dropped in value fairly precipitously since September."
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Hey Clint, are you talking about Turbin Durin here or Martha Stewart?

The Sheeple just keep on drinking the same old Progressive crook show Kool Aid...

Hey Clint,

I know calling your God a panty waist really hurts but why don't you listen to the Iranian American citizens that agree that Barry's a coward?

I thought you guys were for human rights?

The reason Barry's silent is cuz he sucks as a leader. He no longer has crazy Rev Wright as a mentor telling him how to man up.

"To be fair, he didn't know everything -- he was probably smart to get out of mutual funds, but his investment in Berkshire Hathaway's Class B stock hasn't worked that well for him, having dropped in value fairly precipitously since September."

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Hey Clint,

News Flash!

He didn't need to know everything, it's still illegal insider trading.

Yikes!!!!!

Hey Clint,

How's the stock market working out for you and Barry this week?

Still preachin that non-sense?

What's the matter incredulous? Can't handle someone elses opinion if it's not the same as yours?

I enjoy reading how wacked the left is - no anger here friend, just amusement.

Sounds like your the angry one!

Clint says Barrynomics has stopped the bleeding and Barry has saved the world, but Barry says "Hold On" unemployment is going up and up maybe over 10%. Biden says "Hold On, we guessed wrong and are still guessing".

Clint you need to update your crazy progressive clown talkin points, cuz Barry is a flip-floppin on ya!