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IMPEACHMENT!!!!!

HONK HONK!

impeach

Has anyone heard anymore about Clooney's film on this topic?

Clooney's new film about Carville's company and a Bolivian election

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1306

Has anyone heard anymore about Clooney's film on this topic?

Clooney's new film about Carville's company and a Bolivian election

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1306

Good evening, all.

Novak: Bush planning covert war against Kurds

by quaoar
Sun Jul 29, 2007

None other than Bob "Novakula" Novak has a stunner of a column out for Monday's papers, detailing a covert war that Bush has authorized against Kurdish guerillas in Kurdistan. The purpose of the special forces operations against PKK fighters is to prevent Turkey from invading.

WASHINGTON -- The morass in Iraq and deepening difficulties in Afghanistan have not deterred the Bush administration from taking on a dangerous and questionable new secret operation. At a high level, U.S. officials are working with their Turkish counterparts on a joint military operation to suppress Kurdish guerrillas and capture their leaders. Through covert activity, their goal is to forestall Turkey from invading Iraq.

While detailed operational plans are necessarily concealed, the broad outlines have been presented to selected members of Congress as required by law. U.S. Special Forces are to work with the Turkish Army to suppress the Kurds’ guerrilla campaign. The Bush administration is trying to prevent opening another war front in Iraq that would have disastrous consequences. But this gamble risks major exposure and failure.

Forget about impeachment. Somebody get this maniac a padded room and a straight jacket.

Why would he stab the Kurds in the back when they are the only ones in Iraq that want him there? I suppose Turkey told Bush to to go to hell and this is his way of courting them back?

Bush has no coherent strategy in Iraq. He got us in there and has been hitting his head against one wall after another stumbling around not knowing what to do since then.

Help him, Poppy. Commit your lunatic son and short circuit Cheney's batteries. You know not doing anything is no longer an option. Are you the leader of this crime family or is Cheney?

Good evenin all. So is that obnoxious Repub. Ted stevens going to jail? Don't look good for Mr. Bridge to Nowhere.

Forget about impeachment. Somebody get this maniac a padded room and a straight jacket.

Why would he stab the Kurds in the back when they are the only ones in Iraq that want him there? I suppose Turkey told Bush to to go to hell and this is his way of courting them back?
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Sandy, I read that one this morning and came away shaking my head. To me, it proves just how insane the situation in Iraq is. We have no business being there. Turn the country back over to the Iraqi. Let them decide what they want to do.

Impeach Gonzo!!!! It's about time.

HONKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKk

Iraqi PM may ask Petraeus to get the hell out
by John Aravosis (DC) · 7/30/2007 06:17:00 PM ET
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Seems Iraq's Prime Minister may want the top US commander in Iraq, General Petraeus, fired. Funny, because I thought things were going so well there.

http://www.americablog.com/2007/07/iraqi-pm-may-ask-petraeus-to-get-hell.html

Posted by rjsnj on July 30, 2007 at 09:02 PM

It's the perfect world of Bush illogics. When you want to keep the world in chaos you seek do disrupt any balance you may locate. It's not about maintaining peace and never has been. Peace does not fund the defense industry. Destabilizing the globe will make funding any weapons deal the Pentagon can dream up seem rational, and in Mr. Bush's irrational world it becomes logical.
Welcome to BushWorld!!

bbl

Has anyone heard anymore about Clooney's film on this topic?

Clooney's new film about Carville's company and a Bolivian election
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No! Carville ... I don't like that gentleman. I don't like what he tried to do to Dr. Dean after the 2006 election.

Destabilizing the globe will make funding any weapons deal the Pentagon can dream up seem rational, and in Mr. Bush's irrational world it becomes logical.
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Hi David,

That thought did cross my mind. Could this be the reason for the Sunni and Shiite turning on each other? The tendency is already there ... bad blood going back many years ... all it takes is someone to push the right buttons.

BillOReilly.com: "He is a Muslim. He will say anything. He will do anything.... It is what they do."
by John Aravosis (DC) · 7/30/2007 02:02:00 PM ET
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"He is a Muslim. He will say anything, He will do anything. No oath of office means anything to him. History is irrelevant.... He is a Muslim, It is what they do."

Wow, do jetBlue and Home Depot agree with their good friends at BillOReilly.com that their Muslim-American customers will say anything, do anything, because "it is what they do"?
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I know Billo has been sorta nuts for quite some time. But, he gone particularly beserk of late.

The surge is a lie and a failure

Posted by rjsnj on July 30, 2007 at 08:52 PM

The surge is nothing more than what we've been doing all along...except that the Pentagon is concentrated on a few areas in Baghdad and Anwar where the military hadn't done so in the past.

The Sunni and Shiite militia havens were targeted and the militias have moved backed or fanned out to new locals. Such is the case with any resistance forces in an extended foreign occupation. It's not a surge.

But let's give the military their due. They had tried to work miracles for four years now, but the Iraqis don't accept us as their saviors. They want us to leave. Nothing will change that. Nothing.

The resistance will go on. We will not. We will leave at some point. Nobody wants Iraq as our 51st state...especially the Iraqis. Cheney wants their oil not their loyalty and they know it.

GOP Argument On Children's Health Care Full Of Holes
by BC · 7/30/2007 10:00:00 AM ET
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We’re all for SCHIP reauthorization. We’re just not for SCHIP expansion.” Senate Republican leaders appear to be trying to pursue that nuanced message as well by cautioning that they actually do support SCHIP as it currently stands.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is expected to offer the Republicans’ primary alternative as the party’s first amendment. The proposal would reauthorize SCHIP without expanding it to more children and includes provisions on small-business health plans and tax-free health savings accounts.

As you can see, Republicans do not want to end the S-CHIP program, they just don't want to expand it. If government run health care is so bad, then why reauthorize S-CHIP at all? Shouldn't the Republicans, who say they oppose government run medicine, want to do away with the program altogether?

The fact is, the GOP has proven that they do not oppose government involvement in health care. They supported a prescription drug bill for seniors and they support the S-CHIP program. What they don't support is giving Democrats a legislative victory. And they'll use any argument, no matter how illogical, to give themselves some cover.
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yes! I am delighted that John Kerry is making commercials to go after the GOP obstructionism.

John Kerry posted a journal on KOS:

Going After the Roadblock Republicans Hotlist
by John Kerry [Subscribe]
Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 09:54:57 AM PDT

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/7/30/123633/138

Good stuff! We need to do this.

They want us to leave. Nothing will change that. Nothing.
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Sandy,

There are two realities in Iraq:

1) The Iraqi people want us to leave. They said so right at the start.

2) The Iraqi people live in this region. They can wait us out forever.

There will constantly be trouble as long as we stay there.

Carville doing what? He hasn't helped win an election in since the '96.

And what is it with all these strategists and South America? Did Carville's wife tell him to re-locate before she moves into the Bush compound in Uraguay?

The Death Mask Of War

American Marines and soldiers have become socialized to atrocity.

By Chris Hedges

07/28/07 "Adbusters" — -All troops, when they occupy and battle insurgent forces, as in Iraq, or Gaza or Vietnam, are placed in "atrocity producing situations."

In this environment, surrounded by a hostile population, simple acts such as going to a store to buy a can of Coke means you can be killed. This constant fear and stress pushes troops to view everyone around them as the enemy. This hostility is compounded when the enemy, as in Iraq, is elusive, shadowy and hard to find.

The rage soldiers feel after a roadside bomb explodes, killing or maiming their comrades, is one that is easily directed over time to innocent civilians who are seen to support the insurgents. It is a short psychological leap, but a massive moral leap. It is a leap from killing — the shooting of someone who has the capacity to do you harm — to murder — the deadly assault against someone who cannot harm you. The war in Iraq is now primarily about murder. There is very little killing.

After four years of war, American Marines and soldiers have become socialized to atrocity. The American killing project is not described in these terms to a distant public. The politicians still speak in the abstract terms of glory, honor, and heroism, in the necessity of improving the world, in lofty phrases of political and spiritual renewal. Those who kill large numbers of people always claim it as a virtue. The campaign to rid the world of terror is expressed with this rhetoric, as if once all terrorists are destroyed evil itself will vanish.

The reality behind the myth, however, is very different. The reality and the ideal clash when soldiers and Marines return home, alienating these combat veterans from the world around them, a world that still dines out on the myth of war and the virtues of the nation. But slowly returning veterans are giving us a new narrative of the war — one that exposes the vast enterprise of industrial slaughter unleashed in Iraq for a lie and sustained because of wounded national pride and willful ignorance. "This unit sets up this traffic control point and this 18 year old kid is on top of an armored Humvee with a .50 caliber machine gun," remembered Geoffrey Millard who served in Tikrit with the 42nd Infantry Division. "And this car speeds at him pretty quick and he makes a split second decision that that's a suicide bomber, and he presses the butterfly trigger and puts 200 rounds in less than a minute into this vehicle. It killed the mother, a father and two kids. The boy was aged four and the daughter was aged three."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18082.htm

Falafel Day Hotlist
by kos
Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 05:09:46 PM PDT

[Bumped by Hunter. Happy Falafel Day!]

Atrios is having great fun at O'Reilly's expense here, here, here, and here.

An example of O'Reilly at his best:

If any woman ever breathed a word I'll make her pay so dearly that she'll wish she'd never been born. I'll rake her through the mud, bring up things in her life and make her so miserable that she'll be destroyed. And besides, she wouldn't be able to afford the lawyers I can or endure it financially as long as I can. And nobody would believe her, it'd be her word against mine and who are they going to believe? Me or some unstable woman making outrageous accusations. They'd see her as some psycho, someone unstable. Besides, I'd never make the mistake of picking unstable crazy girls like that.

An example of O'Reilly at his sleaziest:

You would basically be in the shower and then I would come in and I'd join you and you would have your back to me and I would take that little loofa thing and kinda' soap up your back ... rub it all over you, get you to relax, hot water .... and um ... you know, you'd feel the tension drain out of you and uh you still would be with your back to me then I would kinda' put my arm -- it's one of those mitts those loofa mitts you know, so I got my hands in it ... and I would put it around front, kinda' rub your tummy a little bit with it, and then with my other hand I would start to massage your boobs, get your nipples really hard ... 'cuz I like that and you have really spectacular boobs....

So anyway I'd be rubbing your big boobs and getting your nipples really hard, kinda' kissing your neck from behind ... and then I would take the other hand with the falafel (sic) thing and I'd put it on your pussy but you'd have to do it really light, just kind of a tease business...

You can read the whole sordid affair here.

Update: This Atrios update is the worst of them all.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/7/30/161937/795

Welcome, O'Reilly Curious Ones! Hotlist
by ormondotvos [Subscribe]
Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 05:50:15 PM PDT

Are you curious why O'Reilly has gotten so mad at us? Here's the reason:

He can't figure out how to shut us up.

We keep posting excerpts from his past mistakes, like his trial for sexual harassment, his stupid comments, his mistakes. Since YouTube, people can see him make a fool of himself over and over.

And Bill takes himself so seriously, he can't stand laughter.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/7/30/20317/3857

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Ahhh, the Billo war against Daily Kos. It's a real hoot. Billo just can't figure out what to do. The more he opens his yap the more foolish he looks.

I think KOS has Billo exactly where he wants him ... on the run and playing defense.

You all got to see this one:

"Generation Chickenhawk" on CNN Hotlist
by Scarce [Subscribe]
Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 05:59:29 PM PDT

Max Blumenthal's Generation Chickenhawk: The Unauthorized College Republican National Convention Tour was featured last night on Sunday Live tonight with Rick Sanchez. From Max's site he writes that it will also be featured "this week during The Daily Show’s Moment of Zen."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/7/30/204417/919

Make that Paraquay. I'm trying to cook dinner and post at the same time. I hope the food turns out better than my concentration here.

bbl.

Hi all, just came in and about to log off, but was listening to how Roberts had a Seizure, that's why he fell. It was not the first one.

What the hell are we doing with someone with a seizure disorder, in the SCOTUS??? a lifetime job.

Hope you all have a good evening, Dems.

blog ya tomorrow.

Carville doing what?
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Didn't Carville retire from politics? Yet, his name keeps popping up ... ugghhhh.

Make that Paraquay.
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The Bush fortress.

I don't get why Carville still turns up. Seems to me that he's been out of it for a long time.

rj,

I faded out there a bit. We had a small lightning storm. Now I am back.

rash limpbaugh was quoting someone today about us staying in Iraq for another 10 years. He saw no problem with it.

He read something concerning the size of our airbase 20 miles north of baghdad that cheney built. It is 15 SQUARE MILES.

He pretended he hadn't heard about the Billion Dollar embassy that president cheney was building in Iraq.

These f**king pr**ks must be stopped now.

hi gang. not much commentary on the political scene from me tonight but i do have a real action adventure tale to tell.

i was taking the pooch for a walk down our road as i often due at night and she managed to REALLY take a bath in some nasty stuff which she rarely does. so i took her down to the pther end of the road (half mile) where there is a pond and threw a stick in about ten times but she still was stinky so back up to the house we went and i got the pantene and we went back to the pond. lathered her up and threw the stick in this pond another five or six times. she is smelling like a prom date now!

thing is by creating a situation where i had to be out late i got to see this great moon rise on what is a very clear but humid and warm night in the hudson valley. and without the pooch finding the pile i would have come in before it occurred.

so that's it.

FEINSTEIN ENDORSEMENT

California senior Senator Dianne Feinstein endorsed Hillary last week:
"This is a very special moment for me because I have the opportunity to endorse the campaign of a U.S. Senator who I believe will be the first female President of the United States," Senator Feinstein said. "There has been no election for President where change is as defined and necessary as this one. The question is who is best equipped to lead that change. I believe it is Hillary."

OPPORTUNITY FOR INVIDIDUALS WITH DISABLITIES

Hillary marked the 17th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act by announcing a new agenda to expand economic opportunity for individuals with disabilities, including innovative employment strategies, with more technical assistance of employers, and increased funding for assistive technology loan programs; reduction of disincentives to work in federal benefits programs; and re-establishing the Clinton administration executive order to make the federal government a model of accessibility.

For more information about Hillary's agenda for individuals with disabilities, click on link

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/feature/ada/

FAMILY LEAVE FOR FAMILIES OF AMERICA'S WOUNDED WARRIORS

Hillary joins Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) and other senators today to introduce legislation to extend the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) for up to six months for spouses and parents of soldiers who have been injured in combat.

The Clinton-Mikulski bill addresses a key recommendation of the Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors.
"The families of our servicemen and women face extraordinary demands as they struggle to care for loved ones injured in service to our nation. It is clear that they are not receiving the support they need and this is a step we can make immediately that will make a real difference." Hillary said.
This bill continues Hillary's support for family leave over the years, ensuring that families can take time to care for their loved ones without fear of losing their jobs. The Clinton-Mikulski bill was endorsed by the National Partnership for Women & Families, the organization that drafted and led the fight to pass the Family & Medical Leave Act.

For full details of this important legislation,
Click on link below:

http://clinton.senate.gov/news/statements/details.cfm?id=279944&&

FIGHTING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Hillary chaired the first-ever Senate hearing on environmental justice this week, and announced that she will file legislation to increase community-based support to address environmental concerns.
"Far too many Americans with lower incomes or from communities of color are confronted with higher levels of pollution, putting their children and families at risk. It's separate, it's unequal, and it's wrong," Hillary said.
Hillary has been a leader in efforts to address environmental health hazards that disproportionately affect low-income and minority communities, working to combat child lead poisoning and reduce childhood asthma. She included a provision in the Brownfields law to target funding to communities that are experiencing a higher than normal incidence of diseases, and has pledged to reintroduce the Family Asthma Act, which will improve our ability to examine the environmental pollutants that are linked to asthma.

PUBLIC SERVICE ACADEMY

Hillary spoke to the College Democrats of America national convention in South Carolina on Saturday. She spoke of her own commitment to public service, and her proposal to create a national academy to train public servants. The Associated Press reported of her remarks:
" 'I'm going to be asking a new generation to serve,' [Hillary] said. 'I think just like our military academies, we need to give a totally all-paid education to young men and women who will serve their country in a public service position.' "

Several people at the convention said they were inspired by Clinton's speech and her experience in public service after law school."

WHAT'S NEXT

Get your friends to join Hillary's one million supporters! Click below to send the link to your friends and family.

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/action/onemillion/

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"Hillary Clinton, I believe, has the experience, the heart, and the strength to be a great American President,"

-- Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 7/25/07, announcing her endorsement of Hillary

A Nation Powered by Solar and Wind

Hi,

We have the best opportunity we've ever had to get this country off of polluting energy like oil and coal and onto real clean alternatives. This will not only help curb the climate crisis, but save consumers money and create new jobs. Seems like a slam dunk, right?

But some in Congress are still willing to do the bidding of the oil and coal industry and vote down bills that would undercut their stranglehold on our economy. We need to tell Congress now to do what's right for the American people, not continue business-as-usual.

I signed a petition urging Congress to vote for to give solar and wind the support they need to assure a clean energy future. Can you join me at the link below?

http://pol.moveon.org/cleanenergyfuture

Thanks!

‘Untouchable’ corruption in Iraq ministries

Desperate shortages of drugs and medical supplies in Baghdad's overcrowded hospitals are confronting the victims of violence. But the shortages are not because of a lack of money.

Medicines and supplies have been siphoned off and sold elsewhere because of corruption in the Iraqi government's Ministry of Health, according to a draft U.S. government report obtained by NBC News.

The report, written by U.S. advisers to Iraq's anti-corruption agency, analyzes corruption in 12 ministries and finds devastating and grim problems: "Corruption protected by senior members of the Iraqi government," the report said, "remains untouchable."

A mass slaughter unlike any we've seen since Cambodia.

as opposed to...

Study Claims Iraq's 'Excess' Death Toll Has Reached 655,000

A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.

The estimate, produced by interviewing residents during a random sampling of households throughout the country, is far higher than ones produced by other groups, including Iraq's government.

It is more than 20 times the estimate of 30,000 civilian deaths that President Bush gave in a speech in December. It is more than 10 times the estimate of roughly 50,000 civilian deaths made by the British-based Iraq Body Count research group.

The surveyors said they found a steady increase in mortality since the invasion, with a steeper rise in the last year that appears to reflect a worsening of violence as reported by the U.S. military, the news media and civilian groups. In the year ending in June, the team calculated Iraq's mortality rate to be roughly four times what it was the year before the war.

Of the total 655,000 estimated "excess deaths," 601,000 resulted from violence and the rest from disease and other causes, according to the study. This is about 500 unexpected violent deaths per day throughout the country.

What the hell are we doing with someone with a seizure disorder, in the SCOTUS??? a lifetime job.

Posted by PamB on July 30, 2007 at 09:51 PM

Come now, Pam.

After finding out about the Ashcroft intensive care incident, we all know that's how Gonzales slips most things past others in the Bush crime family.

I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Alito suffers from narcolepsy. We know that Scalia is a member of that ultra conservative Catholic cult where they self-flagellate themselves into a stupor. And Thomas keeps himself busy watching porn.

Do you think any of them know what happened to Roberts today? Does Roberts know what happened to Roberts today? Even if any of them did know what unconstitutional things the White House was doing, would Cheney tolerate listening to their opinions?

Keep them pregnant, barefoot, and completely unconscious is the Vice President's philosophy. And in the case of Spunky, Cheney keeps him occupied with his mountain bike, video games, photo opps, and beer. If that doesn't work, he still has a bag of pretzels.

I bet the Vice President is happy now that Bush has a new English friend to keep him entertained. He doesn't like being bothering by Spunky while he tries to take over the world.

"When are those ungrateful Iraiqis going to give me my oil fields? They're slowing down WW III. Has Newt got those plans drawn up yet for Iran? Rumsfeld hasn't been any help since we've had to hide him in the bunker with that shredding machine."

This Republican Revolution has become one big farce.

Why do I get the feeling that these seizures come a lot more often than they are letting on? They lie about everything else. Tony Snowjob will no doubt explain it all tomorrow.

Good night, folks. I'm going to read.

Evening gregg,

I saw the full moon set this morning just before dawn. It is always so beautiful.

All the neocons on the SCOTUS are wankers.

Solar and wind are OK for small applications but in reality, to try and replace the energy we are getting from oil and coal we'd have to cover the surface of mid-America with solar panels and windmills.

untrue.

if you were to cover just every other rooftop in america with solar panels we could cut our foreign oil dependence in half.

wind power, hydro-electric, bio-fuels, and conservation could make up the difference.

it will require ingenuity and hard work, but i can be done.

the longer we put it off, the more dire the consequences will be.

HA HA

The troll Harpo_Harpo is talking to himself.

What a loser.

HONK HONK.

Corruption 'mars Iraq rebuilding'
The US agency overseeing reconstruction in Iraq has told the BBC that economic mismanagement and corruption there are equivalent to "a second insurgency". Reports of widespread fraud and waste of funds in Iraq
Full Story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6922347.stm

Oxfam report says basic services not being provided. Nearly one third of the population of Iraq is in need of immediate emergency aid, a report has said. Watch the video:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news/uk/video/109000/bb/109793_16x9_bb.asx

Evening Marsh,

We cannot wait another 18 months for the bubble head in our white house to leave. We must do it now.

Solar panels on roofs makes a whole lot of sense. There have been some recent developments in solar panels that make them affordable.

You can imagine the relief in the load on transmission lines if more solar panels are used. I read every day it seems like where the utilities cannot provide enough power for air conditioning because of the limits of the transmission lines.

Here in New Mexico, Bill Richardson announced that he plans to have wind and solar provide I think it was 20% of our power by 2012.

chimp hasn't moved off the dime and never will because of his oil company buddies. They all need to be stomped.

HONK HONK HONK ASSHAT TROLL HARPY.

Yes, that's true... most of them are what we refer to as "the enemy".

We are kicking their asses. Do you always mourn the loss of our enemies? You shouldn't, they like to dance around, shoot guns in the air and do that odd thing with their throat when they celebrate our losses.

so, the 650,000 dead are all "the enemy"? how do we tell them apart? do they wear t-shirts with "the enemy" on them? even the children and old women who have been blown to bits in their homes? are they "the enemy", too? maybe they have i.d. bracelets with "the enemy" engraved on them?

only our enemies are dying there now? no innocents? no collateral damage?

and those who will die when we leave? only our friends will die?

according to your logic, all the iraqi dead are our enemies. so why shouldn't we leave? let them tear themselves to shreds? what do you care?

if a dead iraqi is always "the enemy", then the more dead the better, yes? who are we to stand in the way?

Tens of billions of dollars in excess payments are going to the health insurance industry, instead of to kids and older Americans who need help. We have a better idea. Congress should use that money to help pay for prescription drugs for older Americans, and to give healthcare coverage to children who don't have it. Act now and encourage your member of Congress to pass the CHAMP Act - and provide help to millions of kids and older Americans. It just makes sense.
Sign the Petition Now!

http://www.capitolconnect.com/takeaction%5Faarp/

Good evening Democrats. Saw M Moore's Sicko tonight; How delightful it would be if we had an education system in the US that would reduce the number of ignorant people who fall for the Republican propaganda. That's about all it would take to turn this country around...and the Republicans know it. Thus our very poor public school system. As excellent and dedicated as some of our teachers are they can't do it without the right system. The Englishman who observed that Democracy transfered power from the rich to the voter was correct. The fear and insecurity of the people that enables the greedy/wealthy to control the government could be overcome with better education. Maybe the net?

FBI, IRS Search Home of Sen. Ted Stevens R-Alaska

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Federal agents searched the home of U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens on Monday, focusing on records related to his relationship with an oil field services contractor jailed in a public corruption investigation, a law enforcement official said.

Stevens, 83, has been under a federal investigation for a 2000 renovation project more than doubling the size of his home in Girdwood that was overseen by Bill Allen, a contractor who has pleaded guilty to bribing Alaska state legislators.

do do doot doot doot

Another Republican bites the dust

do do doot doot doot

Another Republican bites the dust

And another one gone

and another one gone

Another Republican bites the dust

Ooh it's a culture of corruption

Another Republican bites the dust

Taliban: Male hostage shot dead
Story Highlights
Taliban tells CNN it has shot dead a second South Korean hostage

Kidnappers want Taliban prisoners released from Afghan jails

The group of 23 Christian Koreans were abducted on July 19

Militants shot dead one captive hours after a deadline passed Wednesday

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/07/30/taliban.hostage/index.html

Salutethedems I'm so glad that you went to see Michael Moore's movie "Sicko" to get a better understanding why national health care is really a good thing. My dad is from Canada, yeah things may not be perfect there but it's not all that bad like far right Republicans would like to brainwash and have every person in the United States believe. Health care is a human right and there's no excuse in the world why the United States doesn't have national health care. I can't get over how stupid some people are in this country to believe all the b.s. from Republicans.

Biggest health care moment in 40 years
We need to fix our broken health care system and ensure quality, affordable health care for every man, woman, and child in America. Let's start with our children.

There are 9 million uninsured children in America. They have no access to regular checkups, their parents struggle to afford doctors' visits when they are sick, and they often go without care.

Full petition text:

"I urge Congress to support full funding for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to provide coverage to millions of uninsured children and bring America closer to quality, affordable health care for all."

A compiled petition with your individual comment will be presented to your Senators and Representative when you click
on the link below:

http://pol.moveon.org/kidshealth/

when harpie's mom rolls in it we have to throw the stick in the pond twenty times to get the stank off her...and lye soap only...

Afghan police 3 years from readiness: outgoing Canadian commander
It will take at least three years before Afghanistan's corruption-plagued police can stand on its own as a legitimate force, the outgoing head of Canada's military mission in Afghanistan said Monday. Full Story:

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/07/30/afghan-grant.html

Posted by salutetheDems on July 30, 2007 at 11:23 PM

Education is the key. We must stop the neocons from dumbing down America.

The Dems are trying to pass a bill to restore Pell Grants making the interest rates lower and stomping on these greedy loan companies. They are also providing a provision to forgive the loans for people majoring in certain professions where there are severy shortages such as police, nursing and many more.

What do you want to be that president asshole will veto it.

GOP "cutting and running" from "staying the course"

English is among the more than 40 Republicans in the House and Senate who are sponsoring legislation intended to shift the mission of U.S. troops. Several other GOP lawmakers, facing tight elections next year and a strong anti-war sentiment in their districts, say they are considering this approach.

"Settling Sunni-Shiite rivalries over who occupies what street in Baghdad is not in the vital interest of the United States," said Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., who said she is considering her options. "And we should only have Americans in harms' way where there are U.S. interests at stake."

Bush's top military commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, is expected to tell Congress in September that more time is needed to determine whether a massive U.S.-led security push initiated in January is working.

Democratic Party,

been there done that
and we told you so, we told you so.

Republican Party

Are you really that slow?
and what took you so long?

The Republicans don't support our troops.

They are only "cutting and running" because they know they will lose in 08 if they don't.

The Republicans only care about their political careers.

curiousity: not a crime.

perjury: a crime.

see how simple that is?

HA HA

Harpo_Harpo changed his name to 8trolls4blogers-*US.

What a loser.

HONK HONK.

Rep Tauscher Incorrectly Tells Constituent That Gonzales's Office Is "Non-Impeachable"

Daily Kos reader EmilyD reports writing to her Congresswoman, Ellen Tauscher, to urge support for the impeachment of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Take a look at how Tauscher answered:

The Attorney General serves at the pleasure of the president in a non-impeachable office. Unless convicted of an illegal act, the Attorney General cannot be removed from office without the president asking for or accepting his resignation. However, please be assured that I will keep your thoughts and concerns in mind as I review the circumstances surrounding recent allegations of impropriety within the Justice Department.

Sincerely,

Ellen O. Tauscher
Member of Congress

This is a goddamn embarrassment.

Article II, Sec. 4 of the Constitution -- THE CONSTITUTION!

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the united States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

DemocratKickingAss, As long as our poor, ragady assed ignorant folks fall for the Republican wedge divides we won't be able to vote a change in for Healthcare or anything. We need to get elections funded with public money so we can get the people represented, make our education system honest, coller some of the dishonest business thieves and then maybe the attitude would change about who our government works for.

Posted by gregg on July 30, 2007 at 11:32 PM

That stink must have been pretty bad. His mother will probably kill all the fish in the pond and have to sleep in the barn for awhile.

you get the picture john and it ain't a pretty one.

see you in the morning. too much concrete for this old dog today.

gregg,

I guess it's not harpy, it's pUSs. There have been reports that they both smell like a big POS.

Posted by JohnnyBoswell on July 30, 2007 at 11:42 PM

ain't that something? somebody should send her a high school civics text.

Goodnight gregg,

Concrete is the toughest work. Very tiring.

One more thought and then goodnight; recent $20B arms sale to Saudi Arabia=$4B profit for Carlyle Gr. Upcomming sales to Syria, Turkey etc = more. Have to keep conflicts going. Be aware of the (central) Bankers.

Till the morrow

what leans to the right before falling to the floor?

chief justice john roberts.

marsh,

Is that bimbo tauscher a congressperson? She sounds pretty stupid.

This is pretty much the same answer I received from both my senator and congress woman. "It's not in the best interest of the country to impeach bush and cheney."

BULLSHIT!

DO IT OR WE WILL BE LIVING IN THE 2007 VERSION OF NAZI GERMANY WITH GESTAPO AND ALL.

Posted by marsh_again on July 30, 2007 at 11:58 PM

TeeHEE!

Hey Marsh, I got your email. Thanks!

Just flying by - long day!

Peaceeeeeeeeeee!

Poor old johnnie weid, no nurse to clean you up tonight? Better get up and check out the window, the CIA might be flying over your house again you old crack pot.

Posted by 8trolls4blogers-*US on July 30, 2007 at 11:55 PM

This troll has the intellect of a 6th grader.

Wow, if this is a representative of the neo-cons then no wonder the Republican Party is a mess.

oh I forgot

DEMOCRATS ARE THE PARTY OF "GETTING THINGS DONE!"

NEXT ON THE LIST

IMPEACHMENT!!!!!

Posted by Dawnie on July 30, 2007 at 06:29 PM

yea baby! The little trolls are just have shitfits all over the place tonight! po po lil slime muffins!

Posted by Johnedwrd on July 31, 2007 at 12:03 AM

she is indeed a congresswoman. sad, isn't it?

Ha Ha Ha...Red State Update guys invite the Republicans to sit down and talk since they don't want to debate You Tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hfRqNy4Nng

peace {{{dawniiiiiiiee}}}}

Uh oh.

It looks like FrostyFezzie, the "jerk off", is now going to spend the whole night posting under the names Harpo_Harpo and 8trolls4blogers-*US.

He's going to pretend to have a conversation with multiple bloggers when everyone knows it's all the same person.

Wow, I can't believe this loser troll does this every night.

How incredibly pathetic.

Well, it's time for bed.

Unlike the loser trolls, I have a life.

I don't need to stay up all night long in front of computer screen talking to myself while using multiple names.

Have a good night to all the Democrats.

And to the trolls, "Get a Life Already".

How pathetic.

Posted by Fezzie on July 31, 2007 at 12:37 AM

fezzie, if you take your head out of your ass (or at least keep your trap shut while it's up there) that bad taste might go away.

Don't let Bush and other Republicans try it again with playing games with Social Security.
Watch the short video:

http://www.americansforsocialsecurity.com/video/slotmachinepopup.htm

and welcome! to the blog, you newcomer who's never ever been here before, ever.

The four trolls, STUPID, DUMB, DUMBER,& DUMBEST....
Sounds like the name of a Chicken Hawk Law firm....They're going down hard in '08......hehe...haha...hoho....Cheney/Bush ganna go!!!!!!

The four trolls aka DIMWITS INC. are going down hard in '08!!!!!!!

Fezzie...that's not going to be hard for him to do.........

Looks like Marsh and DKA have called it for tonight....think I will too....see you all in the morning....

Education is the key. We must stop the neocons from dumbing down America.

The Dems are trying to pass a bill to restore Pell Grants making the interest rates lower and stomping on these greedy loan companies. They are also providing a provision to forgive the loans for people majoring in certain professions where there are severy shortages such as police, nursing and many more.

What do you want to be that president asshole will veto it.

Posted by Johnedwrd on July 30, 2007 at 11:34 PM

Yeah, John, the prez has already said it's headed for a veto. If it has nothing to do with maintaining chaos, so he can maintain the oil price structure and defense industry contracts then this prez wants no part of it. His gig is up though because to many people are watching his game. He's kinda like Norman on Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" acting like the frail little old lady hoping for his time to strike again.

Me, too, goodfoe! Been lurking an responding and posting on PB came back here for some troll amusement, and as per usual the comedy was good. Of course, the posting in between the laughs was encouraging as well. Have a good Tuesday !

It's a shame that the DNC can't invest in software to keep these trolls off the blog. They get zapped and then they sign up under different ids. It's very simple really. Just make them sign up with an email that is not anonymous like gmail, msn, etc...
Send an email to the non-anonymous account for them to confirm. If they persist on trolling, start legal action against them with their ISP.

Moderator - please wipe out fezzie, harpo_harpo and
8trolls garbage posts.

Harpo_Harpo changed his name to 8trolls4blogers-*US.

What a loser.

HONK HONK.

Posted by JohnnyBoswell on July 30, 2007 at 11:37 PM
****

The trolls are idiots. They think they are shutting down this blog. They failed completely. If that's how the GOP thinks it will win in 2008, they will get beat real bad.

Middle East News
Car bomb blast in Baghdad; four US soldiers killed in Iraq (Roundup)

Jul 30, 2007, 13:59 GMT

Baghdad - A car bomb exploded in Sahat al-Tayaran (Aviation Square) in central Baghdad on Monday, killing at least one person and wounding five, the independent news agency Voices of Iraq reported citing an Iraqi police source.

Police sealed off the scene while the wounded were rushed to nearby hospitals, the source added. The car had been parked on the roadside in one of the most crowded areas in the capital where several garages and auto workshops are located.

Also Monday, the US military said eight terrorist suspects were killed, while 40 were detained during operations over a 24-hour period by the US-led coalition forces in Salah Edidn and Anbar provinces.

The US military also confirmed Monday that three US soldiers had been killed Thursday while conducting combat operations in Anbar province, west of Baghdad.

Another US soldier was killed during operations in eastern Baghdad on Sunday, according to the US military.

Altogether 3,648 US soldiers have been killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003, with 69 killed this month, according to Voices of Iraq.

Gunmen on Monday seized and damaged Iranian goods in stores and markets in the Muqdadiya district in Diyala province, 45 kilometres north-east of Baquba, Voices of Iraq reported quoting local residents.

The gunmen also told shopowners to get rid of goods and commodities branded 'Made in Iran,' a resident of Muqdadiya told the news agency.

Another witness said the gunmen claimed their order had been issued by the Trade Ministry of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and that any disobedience would result in punishment in accordance with the laws of the Committee to Promote Virtue and Ban Vice.

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1336536.php/Car_bomb_blast_in_Baghdad_four_US_soldiers_killed_in_Iraq__Roundup_

****

Again, I ask why is none of this reported in the American news media? Has our media become so compliant that they would allow the Bush administration to gag them?

There is no progress at all in Iraq. It's as violent as ever. The surge is a lie and a failure.

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, July 30
30 Jul 2007 20:14:37 GMT

Iraq in turmoil
July 30 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 2000 GMT on Monday:

* denotes new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - Twenty-five bodies were found dumped across Baghdad in the past 24 hours, police said.

* BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed four soldiers and wounded three others in the Jamiaa district of western Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed six people and wounded 31 in al-Tayran Square in a mainly Shi'ite area of central Baghdad, police said.

FALLUJA - Three U.S. soldiers were killed in combat in western Anbar province on Thursday, the U.S. military said.

NEAR BALAD - A suicide fuel truck bomb targeting an Iraqi army and police checkpoint killed four people and wounded six near the town of Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, on Sunday, police said.

BALAD - A car bomb targeting a police patrol killed one policeman and wounded six others in Balad on Sunday, police said.

BAGHDAD - Eleven people were wounded in the southern cities of Hilla, Iskandariya and Latifiya after soccer fans fired weapons into the air while celebrating Iraq's Asian Cup win on Sunday, police said.

DIWANIYA - Gunmen killed two policemen in a drive-by shooting in Diwaniya, 180 km (110 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

ISKANDARIYA - Three people were killed and two wounded in a fight between two Shi'ite and Sunni tribes on Sunday in Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, July 31
31 Jul 2007 08:38:23 GMT

Background
Iraq in turmoil
More
July 31 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 0830 GMT on Tuesday:

ANBAR - A U.S. marine was killed in combat in western Anbar province on Monday, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed one soldier and wounded seven others, a hospital source said. Police said six civilians were among the wounded.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed an engineer who was repairing the famous Sarafiya Bridge, damaged by a bomb in April, near his home in northern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Three people were wounded by a roadside bomb targeting a U.S. military patrol in the New Baghdad district of eastern Baghdad, police said.

ISKANDARIYA - Gunmen killed two men in a drive-by shooting in Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, on Monday, police said.

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, July 30
30 Jul 2007 20:14:37 GMT
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Background
Iraq in turmoil
More
July 30 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 2000 GMT on Monday:

* denotes new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - Twenty-five bodies were found dumped across Baghdad in the past 24 hours, police said.

* BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed four soldiers and wounded three others in the Jamiaa district of western Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed six people and wounded 31 in al-Tayran Square in a mainly Shi'ite area of central Baghdad, police said.

FALLUJA - Three U.S. soldiers were killed in combat in western Anbar province on Thursday, the U.S. military said.

NEAR BALAD - A suicide fuel truck bomb targeting an Iraqi army and police checkpoint killed four people and wounded six near the town of Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, on Sunday, police said.

BALAD - A car bomb targeting a police patrol killed one policeman and wounded six others in Balad on Sunday, police said.

BAGHDAD - Eleven people were wounded in the southern cities of Hilla, Iskandariya and Latifiya after soccer fans fired weapons into the air while celebrating Iraq's Asian Cup win on Sunday, police said.

DIWANIYA - Gunmen killed two policemen in a drive-by shooting in Diwaniya, 180 km (110 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

ISKANDARIYA - Three people were killed and two wounded in a fight between two Shi'ite and Sunni tribes on Sunday in Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

By the way, the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq this month shot up fast towards the end of the month. It's now at least 73. The surge is a lie and a failure. It's not the troops fault. It's all on Bush-Cheney and the GOP party that still propagandize about "victory" in Iraq. Victory is when our troops are removed from an impossible situation. "Victory" is when we stop trying to exploit the Iraqi people's oil.

Good morning rj...thanks for the posts....did not like reading them because I didn't like reading about our guys getting killed and maimed, but knowing the truth, no matter how bad it is, is necessary. You raise a very good question, why isn't this information being reported in OUR media? We need to bring our troops home and repair and rebuild our military for the real threat.

rjsnj, funny how the media have stopped covering the carnage in iraq. i guess with the big dust up over mrs. clinton's cleavage they have had to shift their resources.

Gregg that would be funny if it were not so pathetically true....

on the other hand america wakes up in the passenger seat where it dozed off seven years ago as the dummie said "not to worry, i'll drive" and america looks and sees the dummie has the car in the oncoming lane on a hair pin turn with a semi coming at it and screams "WHAT THE F_ _ _ ARE YOU DOING YOU GODDAM IDIOT!!"...

RASMUSSEN
Trust on Issues
Wednesday, July 25, 2007

When it comes to National Security, Democrats are now trusted more by 42% of likely voters, Republicans by 40%. This means that Democrats now enjoy at least a nominal edge on all ten issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports to gauge voters' trust of the two major parties.

gimme that wheel you idiot!

Forgetting about everything else that is involved, by leaving our troops in Iraq, we are playing into bin Laudin's hands. Not going after him, weakening our military and blowing money that should have been spent on real homeland security. Bin Laudin has got to be laughing his ass off at Bush..

Morning rj, JohnBoy and gregg,

63 here this morning and another light rain here last night. So far we have skated. We usually have a pretty spectacular lightshow about once a week.

I don't know what is giving me this feeling of doom in the pit of my stomach but it is very unwelcome.

What's going to stop the repukes from stealing the next election. Nobody in the Congress seems to give a damn.

Leahy gave gonzales a week to reconsider his testimony or he will go for contempt charges. Schumer made a similar statement giving them slack by saying impeachment is not on the table.

WTF is wrong with this picture. The callers on the Ed Schultz show yesterday suggested we all send a pair of ping-pong balls to our congresspersons. Maybe they will get the message. Then we have that asshole hatch saying that we can't have a special prosecutor. Pardon me!!!! Who TF is running this country, certainly not some mormon asshole like hatch.

I am thoroughly disgusted with our response to the criminal repigs in Washington.

We need to go in there and stomp on every rat in the white house and slap them with contempt chanrges then impeach them all.

There, I feel better.

NEW THREAD

morning Dems,

I was surprised at the use of the word 'fit' in regard to Roberts. I haven't heard that term in many years. There was a talk show guy on last night, as well as a round table on TV, discussing how there may have been some lying going on in the Pre-approval nomination and physical condition. also, they were questioning should he drive now, should he be in the middle of important cases . I think the Dems need to take a real hard look at keeping Roberts in the SCOTUS.

Roberts Seizure May Be EpilepsyFit Follows Similar Episode In 1993

http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-roberts0731.artjul31,0,5027052.story

Oh, and JohnBoy that last troll was not Harpo. If you watch him, Harpo's wife makes him get off at 10:00 each night, and some nights he just passes out at that time.

Good afternoon everyone! I got some good news today that lifted my spirits a bit. I did two LTE's over the weekend and just got a call from the local paper that they would like to run them, but they have a policy of one letter per 14 days. Therefore, The future of transportation? will be running today, and they said they would hold Accountability? for a few days and if they have an open spot they'll run that one later.

The paper is a small town paper (The Evening Tribune) with small circulation, but still a good feeling just the same. I really like the LTE of the DNC website.