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06 August 2008
Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:32:03 GMTCool programmers on Republicans:
Like most Republican plans, the idea is to sound reasonable while producing no results and selling off public assets for private profit. Republican voters aren’t bad people; they’re just really bad at spotting con men. That’s why their “family values” figureheads are always getting divorced or caught naked with underage boys.
— Giles BowkettFundamentally, being Republican means being more outraged about someone lying to protect his privacy than lying to destroy another country.
— Wil ShipleyI’m sure I could find more, but I ran across both of these today and decided to post ‘em.
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15 January 2006
Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:59:00 GMT Just fire the Democrats, please. All of them.via Kjell Olsen2320 days agoSecond link in as many days poached from photodude:
Heads need to roll. ROLL. People need to lose their jobs, en masse. After 2000, no one took responsibility. After 2004, no one took responsibility. And now it’s happening again. Our wonderful party leaders are sitting back and scratching their heads wondering why the country isn’t simply running into our arms while they sit back and do nothing to earn the country’s respect and loyalty. John Aravosis
I agree completely. But just as the democrats need their heads to roll, republicans need to be slowly decapitated, drawn, quartered, and have their heads stuck on tall poles just inside the white house fence.
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01 November 2005
Tue, 01 Nov 2005 20:08:35 GMT Sen. Reid Demands an Investigationvia Kjell Olsen2395 days agoIf the president’s head doesn’t roll soon, I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to respect american politics.
Obviously we know now their nuclear claims were wholly inaccurate. But more troubling is the fact that a lot of intelligence experts were telling the Administration then that its claims about Saddam’s nuclear capabilities were false.
What has been the response of this Republican-controlled Congress to the Administration’s manipulation of intelligence that led to this protracted war in Iraq? Basically nothing. Did the Republican-controlled Congress carry out its constitutional obligations to conduct oversight? No. Did it support our troops and their families by providing them the answers to many important questions? No. Did it even attempt to force this Administration to answer the most basic questions about its behavior? No.
It’s nice to know that someone up there is doing something.
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22 October 2005
Sat, 22 Oct 2005 19:57:18 GMT Corrupt, Incompetent and 'Off Center'via Kjell Olsen2405 days agoThe republicans, that is.
Hacker and Pierson shine a light on the methods employed by the governing right-wing clique to maintain and expand their power without paying the price for their unpopular policies and base-focused system of rewards. Examining the 2001 tax cuts, the Bush energy plan, the Medicare drug bill and the deregulation of almost every industry that has a lobbying team and campaign-contribution budget, they expose tactics like “tailored disinformation,” designed to confuse a poorly informed public; Mafia-like manipulation of the levers of power in the House, Senate and White House that not only defenestrates the Democratic opposition but cuts off their sources of financial support; and a network of “New Power Brokers,” like the aforementioned DeLay, Grover Norquist and countless think tanks, media moguls, funders and lobbyists who work together to game the system at a level that is either too complicated or too boring to attract intelligent scrutiny.
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22 July 2005
Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:11:56 GMT American Civil Liberties Union : Defense Department Refuses to Turn Over Abuse Photographs; Asks to File Secret Brief Justifying Refusalvia Kjell Olsen2497 days agoIn a letter filed at the eleventh hour, the Department of Defense claims that photographs and videos of abuse that the court had previously ordered redacted for future release “could result in harm to individuals” for reasons that will be set forth in a memorandum and three declarations that the government will file under seal with the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York.
Scumbags. Is there much else in Washington these days? And I’m sure there is, it’s just not doing much to fight the scumbags, resulting in large demographics becoming utterly apolitical. As much as I want to care, and as I know I should care, why should I? These scumbags lie, they cheat, they ignore dissent, and they surely never rightly earned the thrones they sit on. And really, can anybody can dispute that?
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