June 14, 2009
Bill Maher is right. We need a little more audacity from Obama
Bill Maher is right. Obama needs to push harder for real reform. With the bailed out banks, it’s still business as usual. The credit card bill that passed is basically useless because companies can still charge exorbitant interest rates, which is what’s killing consumers. And this health care reform… well, let’s hope it’s not more of the same. Because that won’t help the people who need help.
June 9, 2009
Liz Cheney should stop defending her father’s crimes
I am really getting tired of hearing the Cheneys trying to both rewrite history and justify their crimes.
Dick is trying to blame Richard Clarke for 9/11, when everyone knows Clarke warned the Bush administration from day one on al-qaeda. And Condi all but dismissed the August 2001 memo.
We also hear from Dick that there was never really any real evidence tying Iraq to 9/11. Yet we all remember how they tried to tie al-qaeda to Iraq and thus Iraq to 9/11. This revisionist history is really getting annoying to say the least. More lies on top of the crimes.
Iraq was never about freeing people from a dictator. We know that these wolves saw this as a means to gain control of oil and insinuate themselves into the Middle East as we had never done before.
Bush had no real understanding of Muslim history, factions and conflicts. And there certainly was no plan other than rushing in to topple Saddam. “Mission Accomplished.”
Now for Liz to call this a tremendous success and “huge service” is ludicrous. It’s insulting to the thousands of Iraqis who have been murdered.
What can we do to make the Cheneys go away? Personally, I think they should move to Iraq and peddle their goods there.
Wolves of a Feather…
From Huffington Post:
Liz Cheney admitted on Monday that when it came to her father’s handling of the occupation of Iraq by U.S. forces, “certainly we made mistakes.”
“There is just no question about that,” said the former state department employee and ubiquitous defender of the Bush administration’s national security policies.
Speaking at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center for the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute’s Conservative Leadership Seminar, Cheney pinpointed the errors as stemming from a fundamental misjudgment about the strength of Iraq’s political institutions.
“I think that when we were in the months and years right after Saddam was deposed, there are things that I probably would do differently now,” she said. “We had this sense that one could go into a nation like Iraq and if you sort of either arrested or removed from office the top layer of leadership that other Iraqis would sort of rise up and take over. I don’t think we expected the population to be so traumatized. But I think what we saw is that after decades of Saddam’s rule nobody was willing to step up and take over. People waited for instruction for everything.”
The remarks, which went relatively unnoticed, reflect a willingness for introspection on Iraq that few of the war’s most ardent defenders have allowed. The former vice president himself has admitted that mistakes were made, but primarily in posture, not policy. For instance, he has said it was wrong for him to have declared that the insurgency was in its last throes when it clearly wasn’t. He has been decidedly less reflective about the troop levels that were deployed to the war in the first place and that had to deal with that insurgency.
Despite calling America’s invasion of Iraq “by no means perfect,” Liz Cheney, like her father promised that history books would declare the invasion to be a tremendous success. Already, she declared, the war had proven to be “a huge service for humanity, a huge service for security, a huge service for the Middle East, for the people of Iraq.”
May 21, 2009
Miss California’s Mother Had Lesbian Affair
I’m waiting for the next news conference in which Miss California says she believes that marriage should just be between a man and woman, but gay affairs are fine for divorced parents.
From ABC News:
Woman Claims She Had an Affair With Carrie Prejean’s Mom
Valerie Vetrano Claims She Had an Affair With Mom of Anti-Gay Marriage Beauty Queen
By Sheila Marikar
May 21, 2009
That Miss California crown may be still firmly affixed to her head, but controversy won’t stop swirling around Carrie Prejean and her family.
That Miss Cailfornia USA crownmay be firmly affixed to her head, but controversy won’t stop swirling…
Valerie Vetrano, an openly gay sales rep from Corona, Calif., claims she had a lesbian relationship with Prejean’s mom, Francine Coppola.
“I did date her,” she told ABCNews.com Wednesday evening. “I’m not going to deny it, but I’m not going to say anything else.”
Vetrano, whose connection to Coppola was first reported by Star magazine, declined to comment on how long their relationship lasted but confirmed it ended “a couple weeks before Carrie Prejean was in the Miss USA competition.”
According to an unnamed friend quoted by Star, Coppola’s family knew nothing of her affair, although during her 1996 divorce from the beauty queen’s father, Wil Prejean, both parties made gay allegations against the other.
ABCNews.com’s attempts to reach Coppola and Vetrano for comment were unsuccessful Wednesday evening. Calls and e-mails to Prejean’s reps were not immediately returned Thursday.
May 19, 2009
Steele: “This change, my friends, is being delivered in a teabag, and that’s a wonderful thing.”
Does this guy even begin to know what a clown he is?
For one, Steele says the days of the Republicans apologizing is officially over.
Can someone please tell me when Bush, Cheney, Rove, Gonzales and the other criminals ever STARTED apologzing? I’d like them to apologize, once they admit their criminal acts and are in jail.
Then Steele talks about how the Republicans stand for the everyday working class person. He seems to have missed that the GOP’s policies have only made the wealthy wealthier and that even their beloved icon Joe the Plumber has jumped ship.
Finally, he comes up with the priceless gem: “This change, my friends, is being delivered in a teabag, and that’s a wonderful thing.”
First, what the hell does that even mean? (Is he actually trying to call those April 15 protests a success?) Second, has he or his speechwriter STILL not heard of the sexual act “teabagging?” Because if he did and then uttered his line, he should just hang it up. He’s a walking clown.
Boy, the GOP really picked a winner in this guy.
This party is officially a glorious mess.
If you want to see him deliver his priceless teabag line, Click HERE.
May 19, 2009
(VIDEO) Olbermann rebuts Michael Steele on Gay Marriage & Small Business
Michael Steele is such a buffoon. What an clueless idiot.
Olbermann effectively explains why gay marriage is GOOD for small business and the economy.
May 5, 2009
Meet Joe Sestak – Ready to replace Specter as PA Senator
Congressman Joe Sestak, an actual Democrat is expected to run in the PA primary against Arlen Specter. He’s getting a lot of buzz and support from PA Dems who want to see him run.
Specter only switched to try to save his political butt. He’s not a Democrat.
Sestak’s Website is HERE.
And watch this video. Go Joe!
May 5, 2009
Washington D.C. is Gay town and the Hypocrites are Being Outed
So Washington, D.C. is a big gay mecca. Surprise surprise.
I’m glad this film is not outing people for the sake of it. It’s aimed at the hypocrisy of those who are “anti-gay” but who actually are gay themselves. You know, like Larry Craig. I’ll be really curious to see who they name and how many are Republicans and how many are Democrats.
April 25, 2009
Minnesotans want Franken seated; Court now delays proceedings till JUNE!!!
The Minnesota Supreme Court has decided they’ll continue the Norm Coleman sideshow for at least another month plus!
Will Franken ever get seated?
Will all this backfire on the MN Republican party?
And where is Governor Pawlenty?
You can run Governor, but you cannot hide
From UPI.com
ST. PAUL, Minn., April 24 (UPI) — Minnesota citizens will have to wait more than a month to learn who they elected U.S. senator under a schedule set Friday by the state Supreme Court. The justices scheduled oral argument June 1 in the dispute between the Democrat, former “Saturday Night Live” star Al Franken, and the Republican, former Sen. Norm Coleman, the (Minneapolis) Star Tribune reported Friday. After a recount, Franken had a 225-vote lead out of 2.5 million cast. Coleman challenged the outcome in court, but the ruling by an appeals panel last week added to Franken’s margin, making it 312. Coleman argues that around 4,000 absentee ballots were improperly thrown out.
ST. PAUL, Minn., April 15 (UPI) — A poll released Wednesday reveals Minnesotans, by and large, want Republican Norm Coleman to concede the state’s U.S. Senate race to Democrat Al Franken.
Public Policy Polling said its survey indicated 63 percent say Coleman should call it a day rather than continue to fight in court, USA Today reported. That percentage includes “almost all of Franken and (independent candidate) Dean Barkley’s supporters, as well as a third of respondents who voted for Coleman last fall,” the polling organization said.
Fifty-nine percent said Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a Republican, should certify Franken the winner and he should be seated immediately.
A three-judge panel has voted that Franken won by 312 votes out of nearly 3 million cast. Coleman has said he intends to ask the state Supreme Court to allow about 4,000 more absentee ballots to be counted. He also has supporters who say he should take the fight to the U.S. Supreme Court, if necessary.
The latest reports Wednesday also reveal Coleman and Franken have each spent millions on the recount battle.
Politico reports Coleman has spent nearly $4 million on legal fees just since the start of the year. He raised $2.3 million this quarter but now has less than $500,000 on hand, the Washington publication said.
Franken has about the same amount left after spending $3.5 million this year and raising $2.6 million this quarter.
