Howard Dean is first.

According to "The Hill", Cindy Sheehan was arrested at the Petraeus hearing today.

OMG, just received this from my Uncle in Miami.

Recently seen on t-shirts......................................

1) (Seen on an infant's shirt): Already smarter than Bush.

2) 1/20/09: End of an Error

3) That's OK, I Wasn't Using My Civil Liberties Anyway

4) Let's Fix Democracy in This Country First

5) Bush. Like a Rock. Only Dumber.

6) You Can't Be Pro-War And Pro-Life At The Same Time

7) If You Can Read This, You're Not Our President

8) Hey, Bush Supporters: Embarrassed Yet?

9) George Bush: Creating the Terrorists Our Kids Will Have to Fight

10) We Need a New Decider and a New Vice Decider, too.

11) America: One Nation, Under Surveillance

12) They Call Him "W" So He Can Spell It

13) Which God Do You Kill For?

14) Jail to the Chief

15) Who Would Jesus Torture?

16) No, Seriously, Why Did We Invade?

17) Bush: God's Way of Proving Intelligent Design is Full Of Crap

18) Bad president! No Banana.

19) We Need a President Who's Fluent In At Least One Language

20) We're Making Enemies Faster Than We Can Kill Them

21) Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Blood

22) Is It Vietnam Yet?

23) Bush Doesn't Care About White People, Either

24) Where Are We Going? And Why Are We In This Hand basket?

25) You Elected Him. You Deserve Him.

26) Impeach Cheney First

27) When Bush Took Office, Gas Was $1.46

28) The Republican Party: Our Bridge to the 11th Century

29) 2004: Embarrassed, 2005: Horrified, 2006:Terrified

30) IS HE REALLY SMARTER THAT A FIFTH GRADER?

US surge has failed - Iraqi poll

The survey by the BBC, ABC News and NHK of more than 2,000 people across Iraq also suggests that nearly 60% see attacks on US-led forces as justified.

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Apparently, we don't have much of a problem with insurgents attacking our own forces. I do believe the US command is engaging in the awful practice of arming insurgents that killed our troops in an effort to save face there. That isn't the right thing to do.

"...Here's a pretty simple series of questions that Dems ought to ask in the wake of this testimony:

Wasn't the whole point of the "surge" to make quick progress towards a political settlement in Iraq possible?

Doesn't everyone pretty much admit that no such progress has been made, whether or not the security environment has improved?

If that's right, and it is, then how much does it really matter (other than for humanitarian reasons) whether or not violence has gone marginally up or marginally down, or (as seems likely) has been temporarily shifted from one battleground to others?

Indeed, if an "improved" security situation has had no material effect on the sectarian civil war in Iraq (and to address the peculiar talking point we keeping hearing from the Right, turning some Sunni tribes into enemies of Al Qaeda in Iraq has little real impact on the Sunni-Shi'a stalemate), isn't that actually an argument for the hypothesis that offensive military engagement by the U.S. is no longer defensible?

Maybe I'm missing something, but Petraeus' military assessment seems pretty irrelevant to me. And making challenges to his credibility as a military leader the be-all and end-all of Iraq War criticism strikes me as a mistake. Perhaps the right response to his testimony would be a shrug rather than a shriek. The war can never be "won," and will inevitably be "lost" if Iraqis can't reach a political settlement. They certainly can't and won't so long as we are involved in combat operations in their country. And the events of the last six month, whatever else they show, do show that abundantly."--Ed Kilgore (believe it or not).

G'night, folks.

The war can never be "won," and will inevitably be "lost" if Iraqis can't reach a political settlement.

It was lost from the moment Bush sent the first US boot into Iraq. What's going on now is just dumping more money and lives into the slot machine in the hope of a 1 in a million miracle. But the machine doesn't even payoff that big, so it's hopeless.

Democrats need to quit making excuses and stop giving Bush the money to keep gambling.  

And whle we were all worried about Iraq and stuff like that....looks like they might be Fast Tracking the trade deal through covertly.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1489

"Like most Americans, you probably don’t trust this administration to have more authority over anything! Well, here’s some good news: President Bush’s grant of Fast Track authority – the un-democratic Nixon-era law that transfers Congress' constitutionally-mandated control over U.S. trade agreements to the White House – expired June 30, 2007.

And then there is the shockingly bad news – Democratic leaders recently struck a "deal" with President Bush that he and his corporate allies are trying to use to pave the way to new “Fast Track” authority – and more of his devastating trade policy."

Actions to take at the link.

Religion Briefs Coalition of nuns calls for impeaching Bush and Cheney

A progressive group of U.S. nuns has called on Congress to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney because of their roles in the war in Iraq.

“The National Coalition of American Nuns is impelled by conscience to call you to act promptly to impeach President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for ... high crimes and misdemeanors,” the group wrote in a letter written on behalf of its board members...

http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satell...

EFFECT MEASURE has a post about the bushies burying cancer stats on vets.  the administration is not reporting the numbers to the cancer surveillance registries--remember people poking around cancer clusters?--and has banned sharing of info among the states.   this anti-science act will skew the national stats and profoundly affect the research.

cancer is not an uncommon disease.  over their life expectancies, 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women will have a cancer[s] other than skin cancer.

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has the msm followed the PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT?  bush has threatened to veto it.  journalists and historians worth their salt should be on top of this. 

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cheney's hand puppet, freddie thompson, is now in.  i'd like to hear his foreign policy on iran and what role liz cheney will play.  oh, and mrs james carville and perhaps scooter are supporting him.  the gang's all there.

Democratic leaders recently struck a "deal" with President Bush that he and his corporate allies are trying to use to pave the way to new “Fast Track” authority – and more of his devastating trade policy."

We MUST have FAITH in the DEMOCRATS! 

(Right after we pull all the knives out of our back.) 

Is there really any point in even caring if they're in charge? No matter who wins, the Corporate War Party rules.

A reminder to all Blue Dogs, or as Open Left calls them, Bush Dog.....every time you vote and claim you are from a red district just remember that many of you really are not that red.  You just vote the way you want and say you are voting for you constituents.

Whenever you cast a vote...it affects all of us in the country.  That is the sad part.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1490

A progressive group of U.S. nuns has called on Congress to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney because of their roles in the war in Iraq

Progressives are the last people Democratic leaders pay any attention to these days. They think they've got them in the hip pocket.

A reminder to all Blue Dogs, or as Open Left calls them, Bush Dog.....every time you vote and claim you are from a red district just remember that many of you really are not that red.

It's all just excuses. Half of the Democrats in DC, and all of the leaders, WANT to back Bush, but need to find ways to make it appear as if they have no choice in order to keep the gullible sweating and voting in their behalf.

Didn't we read awhile back that Pelosi had a tete a tete with putzie during which she OK'd an expansion of the trade bill?  He had to give her something and I think it was the minimum wage.  But my mind is fuzzy on the details.  I'll go hunt.

Here's part of the trade deal story and Pelosi's part in it.

Thursday, May 10th was a whirlwind day on the political frontlines in the War on the Middle Class, as a handful of senior congressional Democrats and the White House - cheered on by K Street lobbyists - joined forces today to announce a "deal" on a package of trade agreements that could impact millions of American workers and potentially calls into question the entire election mandate of 2006 (I say potentially because the full details are still being concealed by both Democrats and the White House). You'll notice the irony of the deal with just a glance at the front of the New York Times business section (screen captured above) - the deal was agreed to (though its details have still not been made public) on the very same day the U.S. government reported another widening of America's job-destroying trade deficit.

Because so much has transpired in the last 6 hours, I'm going to summarize it here chronologically in bullet points to make it easier to digest.

I've been covering it live all day, but figured for brevity it would be best to put it in one place. For context, remember that, as Public Citizen has documented and as business publications like Forbes Magazine has confirmed, Democrats won their congressional majority in 2006 thanks to scores of challenger candidates specifically running against lobbyist-written trade policy. This 2006 lesson is particularly important to Democrats who, in the early 1990s experienced their own President campaign for office opposing unfair trade deals, then ram NAFTA through Congress "over the dead bodies" of workers, then watch the Democratic majority get decimated in the following election. I want to stress, we still don't know the details of the deal, but we do have some critically important information to analyze.

Here's the timeline of the day:

- Mid-afternoon today, six populist, fair trade Democrats author a letter to the House Democratic leadership demanding a full Democratic caucus debate over a secret trade proposal that Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-NY) and Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) have been negotiating with the White House. This proposal has been kept ultra-secret even from fellow Democratic lawmakers, much like the Cheney energy task force. The negotiations have coincided with Baucus and Rangel forming a joint corporate fundraising PAC, and with Baucus's International Economic Summit, where the lineup of speakers demanded Baucus support more free trade pacts and ignore the Montana State Senate's resolution urging him to stop such pacts in the future. The letter from the populist Democrats follows similar earlier letters of concern from rank-and-file Democrats.

- About an hour after the letter is sent, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has refrained from taking a position on the secret negotiations, sends out word of a major press conference that would be held at 6pm EST with herself, Baucus, Rangel, Bush Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Bush Trade Representative Susan Schwab. The press conference is to announce a "deal" whereby these senior Democrats agree to support a package of pending trade deals with Peru, Panama, South Korea and Colombia, supposedly in exchange for major reforms to these trade deals, including the addition of strong labor and environmental protections. The press conference is sponsored by the New Democrats - the group of Democrats that have historically supported lobbyist-written trade pacts and that was instrumental in passing the credit card-industry-written bankruptcy bill. No progressive Democrats appear at the press conference.

- Immediately after the press conference, the New York Times reports that Pelosi, Rangel and Baucus appear to be cutting a "deal" with Bush that the majority of Democrats do not support "Despite the endorsement of Rangel and Pelosi," the Times wrote, "many Democrats say that half or more of the Democrats in Congress may vote against the deal." The Times also notes that the deal "paves the way" for Congress to grant Bush's request to reauthorize fast track authority - the authority that allows presidents to eliminate basic labor, human rights and environmental protections from trade pacts. The Associated Press soon reports that "a half-dozen House Democrats with strong labor ties, watching the news conference from the back of the room, later expressed strong dissatisfaction" with the deal and the process used to make a deal. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) says, "The strongest voices for workers and the environment were not included" in the negotiations and were not informed of the deal. Similarly, Rep. Michael Michaud (D-ME) says, "I'm very disappointed that Speaker Pelosi held a press conference before meeting with the caucus. In a democratic process Democrats ought to know." None of the stories include any comment from representatives of labor, human rights or environmental organizations.

- Both a news release from Pelosi and a document sent to Capitol Hill staffers from Baucus's Senate Finance Committee about an hour after the press conference trumpets new labor protections in the deal, but does not say that multinational unions will be able to go to courts to demand enforcement of labor laws - a key privilege multinational corporations currently have in working to dismantle federal and state consumer protection, environmental and labor laws at a cost of at least $1.8 billion to U.S. taxpayers.

more

http://www.workingassetsblog.com/2007/05/timeline_the_secret_bushdemocr_1.html 

sorry, that was a bit long.

13.

Sitka
Tue, 09/11/07
1:53 am

...Half of the Democrats in DC, and all of the leaders, WANT to back Bush, but need to find ways to make it appear as if they have no choice in order to keep the gullible sweating and voting in their behalf

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For whatever reason, that is your paranoid belief, and for that belief, you pattern everything "Democrats in DC" do into your belief, because this pretentious perception makes simple sense out of complex issues.

The issues which Democrats betray us on are complex only to the simple minded.

And some have turned a blind eye to lies for so long that they no longer see the simple truth from either of them.

Wear it. 

Immediately after the press conference, the New York Times reports that Pelosi, Rangel and Baucus appear to be cutting a "deal" with Bush that the majority of Democrats do not support "Despite the endorsement of Rangel and Pelosi," the Times wrote, "many Democrats say that half or more of the Democrats in Congress may vote against the deal."

How convenient. The leadership lets Bush's agenda be voted upon. Then half  of Democrats vote against while half vote with Republicans and Bush to pass it. Where and how many times have we seen that before?

It's a trick even these guys see through by now.....

Didn't we read awhile back that Pelosi had a tete a tete with putzie during which she OK'd an expansion of the trade bill?  He had to give her something and I think it was the minimum wage.

If so, it was a lousey deal on Pelosi's part since the minimum wage increase was tacked onto the  last occupation funding they gave Bush.

Good morning, everybody

Yes, Reed, organic change is good.  Go for it.

I tried to define corruption yesterday (don't think it was here) and decided that in government it's evident when people who are elected or appointed to serve the people instead serve a special interest whose issues have no benefit for or even conflict with their constituents' needs and expectations. 

Corruption is like a rotten apple.  The bacteria are happy, but it's not fit for human consumption.

I'm going to have to see if rot is produced by bacteria or mold.  LOL 

5.  Republicans are always promising something that can't be done.  They do that because they are people who can't do things anyway, so promising the impossible gets them out of having to explain themselves when they fail.  The war in Iraq is impossible to win, not only because there is no war, but because the contest is between parties whose prospects can only get worse.

What we have in Iraq is a cock-fight.  The Americans aren't in the middle; they're the audience getting high on the action. 

Andrei Codrescu poetry reading and a peace vigil on tap today for me. Too muddy in the fields and no complaint til another day.

I hope you all took the time to talk sense to your critters when they were home over the recess because they have much on their plate in Washington.

IMaybe you asked them to paygo the war by rescinding the tax cut. It is the single way to get Republicans to vote for peace.

And they are the biggest obstacle. 

When Vitter came back to the capital there was a standing ovation by the rethugs. Today, a prostitute will detail Vitters standing ovation to her for over four months.               Impeach 

Rove is on the radar again:

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — House leaders are beginning an investigation this week of the prosecution of Don Siegelman, the former Democratic governor of Alabama who was imprisoned in June on federal corruption charges. The case could become the centerpiece of a Democratic effort to show that the Justice Department engaged in political prosecutions.

clip... Representative Artur G. Davis, like Mr. Siegelman an Alabama Democrat, said he wanted Mr. Rove, the recently departed White House deputy chief of staff, to testify about Mr. Siegelman. Mr. Davis called Mr. Rove “the most significant factual witness in this matter.”

Mr. Davis, in his third term in Congress and a former federal prosecutor himself, said it was “certainly plausible” Mr. Rove could have had a hand in the Siegelman prosecution. He cited Mr. Rove’s involvement in the state’s politics in the 1990s and Alabama’s wholesale transition, bucked by Mr. Siegelman, to Republican dominance.

Forty-four former state attorneys general, including some Republicans, from New York, California, Massachusetts and elsewhere have signed a petition urging Congress to look into Mr. Siegelman’s conviction, which his lawyers are appealing.

“There is reason to believe that the case brought against Governor Siegelman may have had sufficient irregularities as to call into question the basic fairness that is the linchpin of our system of justice,” the attorneys general wrote.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/us/11s...

Phil 23 - sounds lovely! today is a good day for contemplation...

paygo the tax cut - yes indeedy, Phil. why oh why aren't they tying the two together?

from the ---

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070910/ap_on_go_pr_wh/rumsfeld_interview;_ylt=As_GGbl.ZAqpkOmnh2SbWaiMwfIE

Rumsfeld calls Afghanistan 'big succes'

By RICHARD PYLE, Associated Press Writer

Mon Sep 10, 11:23 AM ET

NEW YORK - In an interview billed as his first since leaving the top Pentagon post, Donald Rumsfeld calls Afghanistan "a big success,"

...

"In Afghanistan, 28 million people are free. They have their own president, they have their own parliament. Improved a lot on the streets," Rumsfeld says in the October issue of GQ magazine.

...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070910/ts_afp/afghanistanunrestsuicidetoll_070910151105

Suicide attack in Afghanistan kills 27

Mon Sep 10, 11:20 AM ET

KABUL (AFP) - A suicide attack in southern Afghanistan killed at least 27 people, including police and civilians, and wounded scores more, a district chief said Monday.

...

http://www.worldpress.org/Asia/2924.cfm

Integrated Regional Information Networks
United Nations
September 9, 2007

The Taliban's ongoing violent attacks are greatly impeding humanitarian and development efforts in Afghanistan's volatile southern provinces. (Abdullah Shaheen/IRIN)

Insecurity in southern Afghanistan, particularly in the volatile province of Kandahar, is a major obstacle for humanitarian and development work in the area, aid workers and officials say.

...

rdorgan, #27,   Rumf**k has his fingers up to either symbolize or obscure those 2 sharp, pointy little horns. 

I don't like what is going on in Washington DC,

but IMO it is a dangerous time for the Dems and Independents.

Best to let the Repugthugs hang themselves...at least for the near future. 

    Monday 10 September 2007

    Four years ago the Bush administration, exploiting the political bounce it got from the illusion of success in Iraq, pushed a cut in capital-gains and dividend taxes through Congress. It was an extremely elitist tax cut even by Bush-era standards: the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center says that more than half of the tax breaks went to Americans with incomes of more than $1 million a year.

    Needless to say, administration economists produced various misleading statistics designed to convey the opposite impression, that the tax cut mainly went to ordinary, middle-class Americans. But they also insisted that the benefits of the tax cut would trickle down - that lower tax rates on the rich would do great things for the economy, helping everyone.

[...]

6 year anniversary of 911.....................I just noticed something, apart from wearing a pair of Austin Powers International Man of Mystery boxers................Im wearing all black today........crikey.

Steve*in*Nebraska -

Indeed Rumsfield reminds me of the law of physics --

matter never disappears, it just changes into another form (solid to liquid, liquid to gas).

9-11 anniversary IMO should be remembered as a day of grief and reflection, not one of spun news-making, chest-pounding, lock-stepped bravado.

I'd rather listen to Mr. Ed than Mr. Rumsfield today.

Mr. Ed makes more horse sense.

Here is an excellent op-ed from The Boston Globe, yesterday:

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/09/10/a_room_with_a_phew/

By Edith Pearlman  |  September 10, 2007

I KEEP a handful of gold-tipped mauve cigarettes on my coffee table. They fan out from a fluted glass like exotic reeds. There's an ashtray too, and a box of matches. I don't offer the cigarettes to anyone; but the display itself tells visitors that they are welcome to indulge.

Not long ago my husband and I gave a party for about 90 people. There was a buffet in the dining room. Pony-tailed helpers twirled with trays of canapes. A pianist played jazz in the living room. A bartender dispensed hard drinks and soft ones in the sunroom.

Beyond this sunroom is a little office with a table and three chairs. I had moved the cigarettes and their works there, out of concern for guests who might be bothered by other people's exhalations. As my smoking friends arrived - they number eight women and two men - I advised each in turn that the weeds were in the office.

[...] 

And, if you want THE point of view on ...

By James Carroll  |  September 10, 2007

TALK ABOUT bad timing. It is unfortunate that the much-anticipated September accounting of "progress" in Iraq, centered on this week's congressional testimony by General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, overlaps with the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. American ears still ring from the blow we took on that crisp morning, and whenever the images of smoldering New York reappear on screens, the worst aspects of the trauma reassert themselves. The enormous injustice of that day comes back, and with it an unsatisfied longing for recompense.

It is clear that the Bush administration took a compliant America to war in Iraq for no rational purpose, but out of a welter of emotions, not least of which was an unfocused impulse toward revenge. Having now learned from the disasters that followed in Bush's war, we citizens might be able to face directly the truth of what we have been doing, but when we sink again into the torpor of 9/11 woundedness, such reckoning comes hard.

Meanwhile, the war-prolongers say...

[...] 

the Whitehouse's front door: 

knock, knock

who's there ?

9/11/07

9/11/07 who ?

9/11/07 victims gone to heaven

can I help you ?

you can help us by finding Osama

Osama who ?

Work, work, work

Morning all.

Floridagal, thanks for the link. Will be forwarding and make sure it gets reposted.

Patrick Murphy, Kristen Gillibrand = newest Blue Dog members, such a disappointment they have become.


Blue Dogs, did they really think they were changing the perception from Yellow Dog?

They can change the name, but they're still yellow and still roll over.

John Edwards did an event in Milwaukee last night and got the endorsement of the State Party Chair.

I think he is correct in seeing Wisconsin as a key state for him

... the boyking and the evil Darth Cheney come out of their spider hole to pay homage to the folk killed by their soul buddies, the Saudi royal family.

IMPEACH!!!

From a letter in today's NYT:

 It’s tragic almost beyond belief that the Republican fools and Democratic cowards in Congress will most likely ignore the lessons of your excellent article on the reality of the surge — in particular, that all we’re really doing now is allowing the factions to rest and solidify their power.

Patrick Murphy is an excellent representative for his District and will serve many terms I hope.

He has a depth of perception and grasp of complexity, I find attractive. He just needs to be given the facts because he does think things through. (from the speeches he has given I have watched or read)

But if you live in his District and think me wrong challenge him.

How typical, the pathetic satanic duo spared maybe five minutes for this memorial.

WORST EVER!!

pack of rabid traitiors

I say a prior thread asking to share calls to the Congress(?), sorry i missed that because i was calling my arse off already. Hardly do i wait for 'leadership' to do my duty.

Hey DFA when are ya'll gonna 'lead' in war protests?
How about fighting the abuse of those expressing their opposition through non-violent means... then being pounded by Capitol Police?
Oh, we're on our own... as usual.

Representative Woolsey gave my answer to the wing nuts for me on Newshour last night. I believe she and Barbara Lee work together, and maybe they can have a talk with Kristen Gillibrand. 

Good morning borg lol,

I just saw this in my news gathering:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070910/ap_p...
Democrats in virtual Web site debate
By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer Mon Sep 10, 7:15 PM ET
WASHINGTON - Imagine shaping your own presidential showdown, using candidates and their answers like building blocks that shatter the standard conventions of a televised political debate.

Yahoo! and the blog HuffingtonPost.com and the Web magazine Slate.com this week will let viewers assemble their own presidential confrontations. They can stack one candidate against another, or line them all up by single issue.

PBS' Charlie Rose will be the moderator and interviewer who will elicit the answer blocks in a series of interviews Wednesday with the eight Democratic presidential candidates. Rose will quiz each candidate separately, by satellite from New York, on topics selected by a vote of Yahoo! users.

Once posted on the three Web sites on Thursday, viewers will be able to edit to taste. Joe Biden vs. Barack Obama on the war in Iraq. Hillary Rodham Clinton on health care, education and the war. All eight on a "wild card" question reserved for each one. And more.

Call it Web 2.0 politics. Or, call it what its organizers do — a "mashup."

ARIANNA

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/denying-the-truth-petrae_b_63799.html

So the American people get it, and the Democrats running for president and trying to win their votes get it. Then why do so many in the media still not get it?

In Sunday's New York Times, Michael Gordon, Judy Miller's former partner in the Ahmed Chalabi vaudeville production of "Saddam's Got WMD," served up a fact-challenged piece of administration propaganda in which he asserted, "The most comprehensive and up-to-date military statistics show that American forces have made some headway toward a crucial goal of protecting the Iraqi population."

Talk about drinking the Kool-Aid. Nowhere does Gordon point out that the methodology the Pentagon uses to arrive at the comprehensive stats he cites has been thoroughly discredited, as shown by the Washington Post. Instead he asserts:

"Data on car bombs, suicide attacks, civilian casualties and other measures of the bloodshed in Iraq indicate that violence has been on the decline, though the levels generally remain higher than in 2004 and 2005."

Apparently, this means there was some period in 2006 in which attacks, as measured in some particular way, were higher than now. Thanks, Michael Gordon. Your White House thank-you note is no doubt in the mail.

Like Pontius Pilate washing his hands of responsibility, too many in the Washington press corps want to pretend they are leaving the question of "what is truth" to their readers -- refusing to admit that there is even such a thing as truth. It is particularly troubling that so many in a profession dedicated to the idea that there is a truth to be ferreted out -- and that the public has a right to know it -- remain so resolutely committed to presenting two sides to every story -- even when the facts are solidly on one side.

 Hardly do i wait for 'leadership' to do my duty.

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a HOWARDLY attitude Dave, keep fighting

took me and a bunch of others about three decades to turn this area solid blue from a solid red but it can be done

And just one more note -- when I took the dog for a walk this morning I saw more flags out (including my own which was out both days) than I saw on 4th of July. Don't know significance if any but found it interesting. Tried to watch the moment of silence on CSPAN but it was Bush/Cheney and the Mrs's. so I couldn't watch --I'll let my flag observance suffice. Rest in peace to all who died September 11, 2001.

52. PS!! Heard on CSPAN Boner had introduced a resolution condemning Moveon for 'Patreus/Betrayus'.

I mainly am on the case of R wingnuts on the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees for all they have done... and the fact that the entire thing is being funded by the 'forced abortionist', communist, godless, human-rights abusing Chinese. That debt will have to be paid by our grandchildren, heck theirs will be fine with all the trust fund money. Unless the Chinese take over the world by then.

P.S. Look up the R's, on the committees that relate to your area, or your family's and associates', and let 'em have it. Note to them that sooner or later their own voters will see the foley, replace them, and lay blame to them in the history books.
Sooner or later the R voters will have to put someone to the stake.... they always do.

Back to actually doing the heavy lifting.

"SWEAR HIM IN--KICK HIM OUT"

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/091007a.html

“Swear him in.” That’s all I said in the unusual silence this afternoon as first aid was being administered to Gen. David Petraeus’s microphone at the hearing before the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees.

It had dawned on me that when House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton, D-Missouri, invited Gen. Petraeus to make his presentation, Skelton forgot to ask him to take the customary oath to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.  I had no idea that would be enough to get me thrown out of the hearing.

54. I was wondering about that Huron -- glad you posted that -- they ought to swear in everyone or noone.