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It’s so hot … that Bush is once again walking around in his Blue Shirt With Rolled-Up Sleeves – the one that’s supposed to show he’s Working Hard. What a maroon.
At least Al Gore had honest sweat stains. Humungous ones, unfortunately.
I’ve come to the conclusion that the current batch of Republicans hate the United States of America. Essentially a backwater until the New Deal, the United States grew into the most powerful county on earth by stressing equality, opportunity, and the social contract from FDR to Eisenhower to Nixon to Clinton. We won the Cold War without abrogating the Bill of Rights and became the most powerful economic force in the history of man by nurturing the growth of the middle class at the expense of the rich. Freedom and the New Deal beat back communism through three generations of lawnmakers. Democrats and most Republicans figured the rich were doing okay making 50 times the lowest paid workers salaries. The government and the liberal bent of our politics during the last half of the 20th century made it all possible.
What have the Republicans done with their newly won power? They launch the first pre-emptive war in our history. They loot the treasury, destroy the army, burn the constitution, and oversee the increase of executive pay to 500 times the lowest paid worker. The middle class is shrinking and worker productivity gains in the 90s are enriching the wealthy while the middle class goes backwards.
What legislation do the Republicans focus on? Reducing the debt? Beefing up the army? Taking care of our veterans? Global Warming? No, the Republicans are really worried about who’s fucking who and whether they should write discrimination into the Constitution. People who do not believe in government, who do not believe in America should stay the fuck out of the US government. It’s killing us. Fuck Osama; he could never have fucked things up as bad as these idiots. It took over 40 years for the Republicans to get enough Americans to believe their batshit crazy agenda to win control of the government. It looks like a lot of Republicans will be spending 8 plus years in lockup before they can try again.
’06 or Bust
The Rocky front page headline is priceless:
“Holtzman’s tall talk”
The irony is wonderful.
Okay, so I can’t spell, even when copying from a newspaper.
Should read:
“Holtzman’s tall task”
Or maybe my earlier spelling was freudian.
@ Kenevan McConnon
Seconded.
Kenevan McConnon rocks.
Kenevan McConnon ……….YEAH HA! (well said!)
Net neutrality is getting a lot of coverage lately. Here’s google chiming in:
http://www.google.com/help/netneutrality.html
I know Dianna DeGette in pro-net neutrality. How do our other officials stack up, and what do the other site members think about this issue?
Sorry to disappoint the growing bandwagon of Kenevan McCannon followers, but I fail to see the appeal in the complete lack in vocabulary of a man who uses the f-word more liberally than Clinton was “working” on the job.
Perhaps you would like to take a nice little field-trip to the library, or if you have no opportunity, I’d be glad to send you a copy of the Webster’s Dictionary. (Just provide me with your address.)
Also, does anyone else see the irony in the fact that Tancredo Watch spelled the word “moron” incorrectly while insulting Bush’s intelligence.
Perhaps I was mistaken when I assumed that some sort of intelligent and productive discussion would be taking place on these blogs.
A. Butternut — RE: Perhaps I was mistaken….
Nope, not on this one. Oops, gotta go. I hear an airplane coming.
A. Butternut sets yet another example of the republicans inability to address the arguement and so they attack the messenger.
I do not think that T.W. was calling Bush a moron, which would also be a correct label. Below is a dictionary defination of maroon. “Maroon” is also descriptive of Bush, as well as his administration, and the repbulican party in general. I think that they can both be used in a sentence that fits the context. “President Bush, having governed like a moron, has found himself a maroon.”
maroon: to place or leave in isolation or without hope of ready escape
Hasn’t anyone seen a Bugs Bunny cartoon? “What a maroon!” Just in order to spell it out, he says “maroon” when he means “moron.” A Butternut, you were on the right track but I believe that this was no typo.
Yesterday Ann Coulter demonstrated again that she is a total classless piece of shit. There, I feel better now.
Correction: I was attacking his poor delivery and lack of tact when addressing an issue from a relitively level standpoint. But I guess the idea is that if one spews words that are supposedly “attention-getters,” his idea will be better heard? I was simply trying to suggest he use a little friendlier language when expressing himself. Once again, I’ve somehow put the Liberals in the victims seat.
And if you don’t agree with Bush or think he is an idiot, I have no problem with you disliking him. The issue for me is on I learned in my years of education- I was told to never make an assertation without some sort of evidence or proof to carry it. If you’re going to call Bush a moron or maroon, at least have the forsight to back it up with something.
Please understand that I am in no way attacking the messenger, but instead suggesting improvement in his means of delivery.
A. Butternut–“relitively”? Try “relatively”–just suggesting an improvement in your means of delivery.
My mistake… A typo.
But if that’s the only thing you can find wrong with my delivery, I’m doing well.
🙂
I don’t find anything wrong with your delivery so yes…you’re doing well, I think.
I just don’t happen to agree with you. I’m not offended by the “f” word and am always faintly amazed at how upset people become when it is used.
As for his opinion, I thought Kenevan was dead on and I think he echos alot of my sentiments these days.
(Since no one else has posted it yet)…
Congrats to all (military, spec-ops, spooks) involved in snuffing out Zarqawi. Thank you for making a personal introduction to him on my behalf. Keep driving and picking up passengers on your speedy and well tuned bus to paradise.
I have never seen more people critique on such trivial manure. Are you all a bunch of political neophytes? What a bunch of over opinionated 24 year olds.
Is Ed Ahead?
Has Peggy taken the lead?
Is Herb surgin?
Who has been lying?
Who has been naughty?
At 6:00 today Channel 9 releases the results of their poll
on CD7.
Than watch the spin
In February Rubesnstein was at less than 1% in the Peggy Lamm poll. If he is over 10% in the 9News Poll that will be great news for his campaign.
TwoCents
You deserve a much-needed tax cut because you sure give a lot more than your two cents worth. I can not tell if your just verbose, or if your just tedious. You surly an A class English major.
Just heard on the radio that a Paccione campaign staffer is shoving dog feces in the mail box of Congresswoman Musgrave. Hilarious, very sophomoric and might be the very end of Angie.
hahah I just heard that same thing about Paccione on the radio… how stupid can her campaign and supporters be?
Proof that DemocRATS are SO full of sh*t, they’re packaging it and distributing it.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_3914852
And, speaking of being full of sh*t, here are some more cases of DemocRATS and their brilliance:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20060608-041042-9038r.htm
Top 11 Things That Anti-War Protesters Would Have Said At the Normandy Invasion on D-Day (Had There Been Anti-War Protesters At Normandy)
11. No blood for French Wine!
10. It’s been two and a half years since Pearl Harbor and they still haven’t brought Admiral Nagumo to justice
9. In 62 years, the date will be 6/6/6. A coincidence? I think not.
8. All this death and destruction is because the neo-cons are in the pocket of Israel
7. The soldiers are still on the beach, this invasion is a quagmire
6. Sure the holocaust is evil, but so was slavery
5. We are attacked by Japan and then attack France? Roosevelt is worse than the Kaiser!
4. Why bring democracy to Europe by force and not to Korea or Vietnam? I blame racism
3. This war doesn’t attack the root causes of Nazism
2. I support the troops, but invading Germany does not guarantee that in 56 years we won’t have a President who’s worse than Hitler
1. I don’t see Roosevelt or Churchill storming the beaches — they’re Chicken Hawks!
That last one was definitely not the real A. Butternut.
FYI
NO, there Butternut, it’s sophomoric. Look it up. If you ever need any more help with spelling just let me know ok. Though I draw the line with spelling, teaching liberals fundamental economics is too tiring.
( P ) Pronunciation Key (sf-mГґrk, -mr-, -mr-)
adj.
1. Of or characteristic of a sophomore.
2. Exhibiting great immaturity and lack of judgment: sophomoric behavior.
moВ·ron ( P ) Pronunciation Key (mГґrn, mr-)
n.
1. A stupid person; a dolt.
2. Psychology. A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years and generally having communication and social skills enabling some degree of academic or vocational education.
3. Also see: A. Butternut
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/elections/article/0,2808,DRMN_24736_4760145,00.html
My apologies then real A. Butternut
Good God, do you even read what you write or for that matter, read links when they are provided, such as the one by Remarkable? She is NOT a Paccione campaign staffer. She is a Weld County Democrat official who is obviously out of her mind.
John Galt/Peter Griffin–word of advice, stick to posting your comment once and try picking a blog name you can remember.
MOTR: Where in my post do I state she’s a Paccione staffer?(or “PACCHIONE” as the Denver Post article spells it)
actually Middle of the Road, I’m not sure who Peter Griffin is. though I appreciate him reposting it, then again it could be a slam against me seeing that Peter Griffin though hilarious is a moron
Well what is Angie’s defense this time? Is it just another rogue staffer? Those rogue staffers seem to be all over the place in CO politics now-a-days, anyone else notice that?
I would think they could get by with a “rogue French Teacher” defence…
I mean they could go all patriotic and anti-French, serving freedom fries at the next campaign picnic. Angie could make a comment about UNC faculty being inferior to her own beloved CSU types.
I see a lot of ways out of this one for her.
Butternut, I am back from working my honest job to “put food on my family,” as our wonderfully entertaining Commander in Chief puts it, and am dismayed to read all of your attacks on my intelligence. (Thanks to others for responding in my defense.)
I know how to spell “moron.” For that matter, I even know how to spell “potato.”
“What a maroon” is a great and honorable Bugs-Bunny-ism, although I suppose my use of it reveals that I’m no spring chicken. You can hear bugs himself at: http://www.wavsite.com/sounds/57075/bugs10.wav
My point was that Bush must be a complete MORON to think that most Americans are still buying his “put on the blue workshirt and roll up the sleeves” shtick. I wonder if he’s washed that old rag since Katrina.
The guy is all hat, no cattle. He hasn’t followed through on a single thing, be it getting Osama to bringing New Orleans back to leaving No Child Behind to defending marriage. He’s basically just a string of short commercials, and we attention-deficit-disordered modern voters actually bought into it for enough years to get him re-elected. Well, we got what we deserved.
The truth is that Bush is the most unengaged, uninterested, myopic President ever. And now you can practically smell his – and his handlers’ – desperation. He’s finished, kaput. Stick a fork in him: he’s done.
Just watched the intro to the Dallas-Miami NBA championships. The Dallas players had hands over hearts for the National Anthem, the Miami players had hands on hips. Regardless of one’s politics, Miami’s players insulted the American people. No doubt whom I will support. No doubt that Pat Riley is the scumbag coach people have called him.
Hey Marilyn this is a really great mailbox. Great …. FOR ME TO POOP ON!
Hey Kevin McKommienan:
You union hack, I like how you think your stupid New Deal is what beat communism. You and your International Brotherhood union commie buddies ARE the problem. I’m sure with your artificially jacked up wages on the backs of the taxpayer via union-busted kneecaps, that you are really suffering.
You are the type who think because you have a job that you’re owed something, and that someone else making more than you takes from you. That’s called a zero-sum mentality and it’s what DRIVES commies outta their tree.
Why don’t you go to France and go on strike, or can’t you make an independent move without your shop steward/boyfriends’s approval?
Proof positive, your asinine quote:
“Essentially a backwater until the New Deal…”
Remarkable,
I wasn’t referring to you. I was referring to Peter Griffin’s comment, “Paccione campaign staffer” and referring him to your link to the Denver Post article so he could get his facts straight.
Not a rogue staffer, not a campaign volunteer, just a very strange woman with an apparent fetish for dog shit.
Apologies, John Galt. Since the 2nd post was identical, I assumed it was yours. Sorry.
Mr. McConnon, you definitely know how to rewrite American history. Preemptive wars? Point 1: First pre-emptive war? How about the Mexican American War, which was started by President James K. Polk, a Democrat who believed in Manifest Destiny and wanted to grab more land? Point 2: The New Deal beat Communism by helping the poor? Partially right, but before the New Deal was the Square Deal, which saved America from a revlution by the underclass, thanks to the truly great Roosevelt, Teddy, a Republican who busted trusts and reformed labor laws. Franklin the Democrat sat back while the Japanese invaded China, and Hitler and Stalin marched into Poland. What a courageous leader of the Free World! Point 3: “We won the Cold War”. Who? Democrats? Kennedy, who got us into Vietnam? Johnson, who lost Vietnam? Carter, who destroyed our economy and the military? A Republican named Ronald Reagan won the Cold War and rebuilt the military. He saved the world from Communism’s spread. Point 4: If Dems are the heroes of the military, why do military voters support Republican candidates by over a 70% margin for president? Maybe it’s because they know the Dems do not respect their sacrifice and cannot provide leadership during a time of crisis. Do you remember the DNC lawyers going to court in Florida in 2000 to throw out the military vote? Military families do! Your use of the F word shows an inability to command the English language to make your point. Education is a wonderful thing. Get one! Maybe Mr. Fu, Shamus, and My Pet Goat can join you and qualify for a special group rate.
Question: What Democrat or Republican Congressmen or Senator’s has requested “to view” the tapes of “other” cameras in the immediate region around the Pentagon, the morning of 911? Has any reporter followed up on these tapes that allege cameras we’re seised by the Federal Government in a coverup of United flight 77?
http://www.pentagonstrike.co.uk/flash.htm
Get out the tin foil hats.
Hammer:
You may want to check your facts on Vietnam. It was Allen Dulles and Dwight Eisenhower who, in 1955, for all intents and purposes directed this nation down that proverbial slippery slope that eventually led to, I believe, over 300,000 casualties–dead and wounded and maimed; domino theory notwithstanding. The first American military death in Vietnam actually occurred in 1957.
As to who “…won the cold war…” Pinning that star exclusively on Ronald Reagan is a revisionistic fairy tale.
DEFINITION OF A LIBERAL; A MARCH FOR LIBERTY
Democracy considers knowledge, other philosophy, other religious themes and debate without violence. Maybe, the Republican agenda has missed its point in its march for war and religious viewpoints. Maybe, religion in general has missed its point, its purpose, in bringing its theories to the welfare of mankind.
Without a doubt, Democracy works. It fundamentals are cast and rooted in the belief of our US Constitution and Bill of Rights, which in the United States supports freedom from oppression and authoritarian government, like communism and fascism. Maybe, in the March for Liberty, we are forgetful of free agency and right of debate. Indeed, we should not debate the fundamental works of our forefathers, who on many occasions risked their lives in protection of ours. Indeed, what is the definition of these books that write, talk and discuss foundations of human kindness (Bill of Rights), wisdom (US Constitution) and a belief in loving our neighbor as our friend, (Religious) when we do not follow them?
Hypocrisy, noun, The practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one’s own behavior does not conform; pretense.
Yeah, and poor Kennedy and Johnson – there was nothing they could do about it.
Talk about revisionist fairy tales. Yours ranks right up there with Kerry’s claim during the 2004 campaign, referring to Vietnam as “Nixon’s war”.
George: President Reagan’s legacy speaks for itself.
Remarkable —
Are you suggesting, that Saddam did not want to share its oil wealth with the world, so for that reason he was asking for it? Cutting through the garbage, our “addiction to oil” was at the heart of the reasoning, in response to “peak oil” demands worldwide, refusing to listen to environmentalists about the concerns about Global Warming?
In Summary, “We went to war against Iraq because of our refusal to switch from oil to another energy source that protects our futures?”
Hmmmm.
Parrot: what the hell drug are you on? Do you even read posts before you respond to them?
Today is the deadline for Colorado’s Secretary of State to certify the ballot for the gubernatorial primary in August.
Patriot,
Who’s post ARE you responding to?
22 Dec 61 – SP4 James Davis of Livingston, Tennessee killed by Viet Cong (VC) later called by President Johnson “The first American to fall in defense of our freedom in Vietnam”
What happened to your post Remarkable? Erased?
Have you seen the film yet?
http://www.climatecrisis.net/
Hammer/Remarkable: Sorry that historical fact got in your way there.
As to Reagan’s legacy:
Reagan’s Sorry legacy
Collective Amnesia or Collective Alzheimer’s:America ‘Remembers’ Ronald Reagan by Paul Douglas Newman
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To remember Ronald Reagan as one of the greatest Presidents of the twentieth century, to replace FDR on the dime with Reagan’s profile as Republicans wish to do, we are being asked to forget too much.
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We are asked to forget Lebanon, where Reagan decided to “cut and run” after hundreds of Marines perished when a suicide bomber invaded their compound.
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We are asked to forget the arms for hostages deal.
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We are asked to forget El Salvador, where the right wing ARENA, armed with Reagan money, Reagan weapons, and Reagan military training from the School of the America’s at Fort Benning, Georgia slaughtered more than 80,000 civilians in the “War on Communism.”
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We are asked to forget the Iran-Contra Scandal, an event that he evidently “could not recall” in response to more than one hundred questions during the Congressional hearings.
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We are asked to forget the groundwork laid for nuclear disarmament by Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Nixon.
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We are asked to forget the Strategic Arms Limitations Treaties I and II.
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We are asked to forget the re-freezing of the Cold War following the Nixon thaw, when Reagan bellicosely denounced the Soviets as the “Evil Empire,” and then joked on his weekly radio address that our missiles were ready to launch.
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We are asked to forget the silly invasion of Grenada following the Lebanon disaster, and the reversal of goodwill gestures made to the Caribbean made by previous administrations, including the return of the Panama Canal.
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We are asked to forget the Soviet Union’s internal move to Perestroika, a groundswell that occurred over decades resulting in a generation of new Communists by 1985 who were not manufactured by Reagan’s bravado, but were products of the “Evil Empire.”
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We are asked to forget that Reagan presided over the worst recession since the Great Depression.
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We are asked to forget the enormous cuts to social welfare programs and the Veterans Administration, moves that led to such an enormous rise in the homeless population, especially evident on the streets of Washington, D.C., that even comedians felt that they had to do something to stop the bleeding with “Comic Relief.”
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We are asked to forget the policies that enriched agri-business at the expense of small farmers, continuing the decline of the family farm to the point that recording artists were the only ones left to uphold the Populists’ mantle with “Farm-Aid.”
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We are asked to forget that he slashed taxes for the wealthiest, raised taxes on the poor, and then bailed out the corrupt Savings and Loan industry at taxpayer expense. We are asked to forget that his SEC presided over such a corrupt and over-inflated stock market that the Dow saw the largest one-day crash in its history, greater than in 1929.
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We are asked to forget that Reagan’s economic policies effected a reversal in the trend toward greater distribution of wealth begun by Progressive Republican, Democratic, and Socialist politicians in the early twentieth centuries, and have led us to the greatest concentration of wealth today since the days of Andrew Carnegie and James Pierpont Morgan.
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We are asked to forget the enormous and outrageous military contracts, for which American taxpayers paid hundreds of dollars for nuts, bolts, and toilet seats, and the nation saw defense-spending rise to astronomical heights.
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We are asked to forget the Reagan Administration’s opposition to the Civil Rights movement, their blocking of busing programs and cuts to Head Start meant to bring equality of opportunity to American education.
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We are asked to forget that Reagan considered ketchup to be a vegetable in federal school lunch programs.
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We are asked to forget “government cheese.”
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We are asked to forget jelly beans, splitting wood, bad b-movies, McCarthy-ite participation in Hollywood blacklisting.
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We are asked to forget our history.
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We are asked to forget, and forget, and forget. And by the looks of the New York Times and Washington Post’s memorials to the “Great Communicator,” it appears that what historian Studs Terkel has referred to as “America’s collective amnesia” is still acute. Perhaps it is more serious than that. Perhaps we have a national case of Alzheimer’s Disease. Perhaps our ability to remember relatively recent events has eroded, and our capacity for rational thought has diminished as well. Perhaps we are becoming a danger to ourselves and others. Perhaps we need admittance into a managed care facility for nations. Perhaps we are “riding off into the sunset.” How else do we explain our descent into Bushism?: our quick repetition of past economic and foreign policy blunders, our re-visitation of failed policies to solve current problems, our persistent dementia that results in trying the same things and expecting different results? As of now, there is no cure for Alzheimer’s Disease, only management of the symptoms and provision of comfort until death. Hopefully Studs Terkel is right, and we’ve just suffered another blow to the head from which the American people will recover, and remember, and remember, and remember.
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Paul Douglas Newman (paulnewman52868@hotmail.com) is Associate Professor of American History at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, PA
Descent into Bushism … the path of disaster of epic proportions, all by the hypocrisy of intelligent thinking and an avoidance of truth, adherance to religious principles and our degradation of our environment and US Constitution.
Question: How much longer will the Republicans embrace the path of all our ends? Answer: Until we see everyone on their knees.
George:
Thanks for the opinions.
Remarkable:
Rational thought/discourse, predicated on historical fact survives/trumps your silliness…as well as the Reagan mythology.
Thanks again for the opinion.
The package they have brought is a package that is good for themselves and is not appropriate for the Iranian people. — Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, a top Iranian cleric, on an incentives offer from world powers aimed at curbing Tehran’s nuclear activities.