Presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani said, Tuesday, that more Americans will die if he is not elected.
He also parroted a familiar slogan first trotted out by President Bush. “[Terrorists] hate us and not because of anything bad we have done; it has nothing to do with Israel and Palestine,” Giuliani said. “They hate [...]
Category Archives: Opinion
Giuliani plays the fear card; Olbermann is pissed
April 26, 2007 – 7:30 pm
Bush and the F word
April 25, 2007 – 10:45 am
Fascist is a word that has seemingly lost all meaning. Liberals have long thrown it at conservatives and in response conservatives throw back “communist.” An exchange that is usually fruitless.
In our mainstream culture, those two descriptors have been reserved for the worst of the worst: Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao and a few [...]
Using the troops to score political points
April 13, 2007 – 3:24 pm
The bottom line is this: Congress’s failure to fund our troops will mean that some of our military families could wait longer for their loved ones to return from the front lines. Others could see their loved ones headed back to war sooner than anticipated. – George W. Bush on April 10, 2007
There are [...]
How do you circumvent the Senate to make a jerk the ambassador to Belgium?
April 4, 2007 – 8:40 pm
This is how:
In a move that should disgust all and surprise nobody, the White House announced today that George W. Bush will recess-appoint Sam Fox, who gave $50,000 to the Swift Boat Liars to help finance their 2004 smear of John Kerry, to be the new U.S. Ambassador to Belgium.
The nomination was withdrawn last week, [...]
A matter of perspective
March 22, 2007 – 12:38 pm
Recently, Gen. Peter Pace, a known homophobe who also happens to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reported to Congress that our military is over-commited and unprepared to respond quickly to any new threats.
While speaking to Congress, Pace had this to say:
You take a lap around the globe — you could start any [...]
U.S. Attorney Scandal Breakdown
March 21, 2007 – 12:16 pm
If you haven’t heard about the latest scandal to hit the Bush administration (yes, I know it’s hard to keep track), then maybe you only read this blog, or you don’t care about politics at all. Either way, I think it’s time I started posting about it. So here is a negligently simplified [...]
Richest year in history?
March 15, 2007 – 10:33 am
“This is the richest year ever in human history,” said Steve Forbes (of Forbes magazine). “Never in history has there been such a notable advance.”
Oh really? I sure hope that quote was taken out of context, because it betrays an incredible ignorance of the reality for most of the world’s population.
According to Forbes magazine [...]
The ‘War on Terror’ fuels terrorism
March 1, 2007 – 4:43 pm
Bush’s “War on Terror” has been going strong for 5+ years. Do you feel any safer? I sure don’t.
The Centre on Law and Security at the NYU Foundation for Mother Jones magazine has some numbers to back up those feelings of insecurity:
It found that the number killed in jihadist attacks around the world [...]
Lou Dobbs Democrats
February 22, 2007 – 9:30 pm
CNN’s Lou Dobbs is keeping his eye on some of the most important domestic issues facing the United States.
While it’s important to work on solving the Iraq problem, it’s also important to try to improve working wages, public education, trade policy, health care costs, higher education costs and security at our borders and ports.
The [...]
The joys of occupation, Part 2
February 4, 2007 – 4:31 pm
It could be that soldier’s like those in this video are the exception rather than the norm, but how many exceptions does it take to alienate an entire population?
If our government is serious about helping the Iraqi people and winning the hearts and minds, soldiers that taunt innocent civilians have to be punished. The [...]