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Just FYI, you can’t trust Tom DeLay either.
December 29th, 2005 at 9:01 amMadden said this afternoon that he made an error and never intended to “spin†the story.
starting an Echo Chamber lie, that it matters not if its the truth, so long as FOX news and other MSM repeats it.
look DelayPAC;
http://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2005/2005_50-52/2005-52/pdf/30-35_50.pdf
December 29th, 2005 at 9:07 amThe Cheney-DeLay Axis
The 2001 inauguration of Bush and Cheney finally gave
all-out national power to the sponsors of this established apparatus. The regime’s underlying political structure can be
glimpsed by a close look at the Cheney entourage, through and after the period of the California looting crisis.
Cheney and his backer, financiers’ representative George
Shultz, together designated the makeup of the projected
administration, including choosing Cheney himself as Bush’s
running mate.
Handling relations to Congress for the transition team was
David Gribben, Cheney’s high school friend who had been
aide to Secretary of Defense Cheney (1989-93), and government liaison for Halliburton Corporation under Cheney as its CEO (1995-2000). Gribben was uniquely qualified to manage the assembly of the Cheney-DeLay axis. He is reportedly an insider at the headquarters of The Fellowship, the far-right religious manipulation agency set up by the London-Wall Street oligarchy in the WWII era; this is the group that runs the National Prayer
Breakfast. When Tom DeLay entered Congress as a sorry
drunk in 1985, The Fellowship captured him and set former
Nixon dirty-trickster Charles Colson as DeLay’s personal
guru, in exchange for a career pushing apocalyptic initiatives
by Cheney and his friends. Fellowship-affiliated power brokers
include Ralph Reed, whose Christian Coalition mouthpiece
Pat (blobber-Blow you up) Robertson was manufactured by the Fellowship; the regime’s first Attorney General, John Ashcroft….ennyhoo decide feryerself, read Pdf link above…then about 100 other documents of spin, and reverse spin….aye yay yay.
Lions, and tigers, and blogs, oh my!
December 29th, 2005 at 9:15 amLemme splain a few things to you about Lyndon LaRouche
The Lyndon LaRouche network, an offshoot of the radical student movement that metamorphosed into a fascist organization in the early 1970s, developed an idiosyncratic doctrine and approach quite different from other far-right groups.
Though often dismissed as a bizarre political cult, the LaRouche organization and its various front groups are a fascist movement whose pronouncements echo elements of Nazi ideology. Beginning in the 1970s, the LaRouchites combined populist antielitism with attacks on leftists, environmentalists, feminists, gay men and lesbians, and organized labor. They advocated a dictatorship in which a “humanist†elite would rule on behalf of industrial capitalists. They developed an idiosyncratic, coded variation on the Illuminati Freemason and Jewish banker conspiracy theories. Their views, though exotic, were internally consistent and rooted in right-wing populist traditions…. there’s more at the link.
In short, a fascist demagogue
December 29th, 2005 at 9:22 amRotten.com on LaRoushit.
Funny as always…
December 29th, 2005 at 9:25 amThe John Birch Society is opposed to Bush, too. That doesn’t make them, or LaRouche, worth your time of day. Even a stopped clock gives the correct time twice a day.
December 29th, 2005 at 9:27 amWell, this is surprises me, coming from out of nowhere like that! Tom Delay has just been so moral and honorable! He’s been the consumate beacon of integrity throught his entire political career, how ever could this have occured in his pious camp??? I am shocked, just shocked!
(this is satire for those who don’t know me)
December 29th, 2005 at 9:46 amAh yes… that would be good old Kevin “Maddog” Madden (read snippet down the page on that link).
Young Mr. Madden learned the ropes as spokesman for Rep. John Sweeney, he of the 2000 Brooks Brothers riot fame. Madden went on from there to work as northeast spokesman for the bush/cheney campaign and then into the DOJ where he worked briefly for Abu Gonzales before moving on to lying for the indicted Tom Delay. Madden got his start with a thug and worked his way up through the various criminal elements until he reached the pinnacle of Tom Delay.
Thankfully, we have Kirsten Gillibrand running for Congress against Sweeney in New York-20.
This nation will be well rid of the John Sweeney’s of the world. Interesting article in yesterday’s Albany Times Union touting another “rising star” in the New York Rethuglican party and the great qualities of “bare knuckles” and adversarial politics that he plays.
He’ll fit right in with thugs like Sweeney.
December 29th, 2005 at 9:51 amTom Delay is clearly the most ethically challenged member of congress ever to rise to a leadership position.
He is a man who always votes down minimum-wage increases and always advocates for a “cost of living adjustment” for congress.
The King of Lobbyist Largesse once had this to say about congress and lobbyists. This of course was before he recieved paid lobbyist trips to the Marianas Islands and Scottish golf junkets.
“The time has come that the American people know exactly what their Representatives are doing here in Washington. Are they feeding at the public trough, taking lobbyist-paid vacations, getting wined and dined by special interest groups? Or are they working hard to represent their constituents? The people, the American people, have a right to know… I say the best disinfectant is full disclosure, not isolation.”
– U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, 11/16/95
Now that my friends is funny.
-GSD
December 29th, 2005 at 9:55 amThe first rule of the Code of Ethics for Government Service is “Any person in Government service should put loyalty to the highest moral principals (sic) and to country above loyalty to Government persons, party, or department.”
Speaker Dennis Hastert has already announced that the House of Representatives will not come back into session until late January so that Tom Delay could get a chance to get his trial (and, they think, acquittal) out of the way in time for him to return as Majority Leader. So they are postponing the nation’s business because they want to put the interests of one member ahead of the country’s.
This is a clear violation of their own Code of Conduct.
http://www.house.gov/ethics/Ethicforward.html
December 29th, 2005 at 9:55 amThis nation will be well rid of the John Sweeney’s of the world. Interesting article in yesterday’s Albany Times Union touting another “rising star†in the New York Rethuglican party and the great qualities of “bare knuckles†and adversarial politics that he plays.
He’ll fit right in with thugs like Sweeney.
Comment by Andrew C White
Politics is a bloody contact sport. I wish the Democrats would learn this. There is a reason why we lose elections and it’s because we get the shit kicked out of us. You don’t bring a knife to a gunfight. We don’t even bring a real knife. It’s a butter knife or a letter opener.
December 29th, 2005 at 9:55 amGSD,
Speaking of “cost-of-living” raises, if I am not mistaken, Congress is supposed to be getting another one this January? If you know for certain, please correct me if I have my facts wrong, but I thought I heard that they voted for this raise this past summer and President Bush already signed it into law and it goes into effect next month. Is all of that correct as far as you know? The details are important because…
Amendment 27 to the Constitution reads:
“No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of representatives shall have intervened.”
If the details I asked about above are correct, then this pay raise would clearly violate the Constitution. This most recent raise would not be able to go into effect until at least November 2006, when we would all have the chance to vote them out for doing it.
December 29th, 2005 at 10:03 am#2, by lemme, has it right. It makes no difference what is fact or true, the words get spoken, reported and taken as news by the stenographers who call themselves journalists. It is an echo chamber, as he explains.
December 29th, 2005 at 10:04 am
Agreed Marie. It’s the only reason they say some of the blatant falsehoods you hear so often on TV. Because they know that there are a lot of people who still have this quaint idea that “they couldn’t say it on TV if it wasn’t true.” So they just say it, and say it, and say it over and over again until people start quoting them (”Well, I’ve heard that blah-blah-blah.”) Now you’ve got half the populace convinced of something that simply isn’t true, and by the time the truth rears its beautiful face it’s almost unrecognizable. This has been their plan for forty years: don’t try to convince people that you’re right, just try to convince people to have doubts about the other side’s view.
December 29th, 2005 at 10:11 amBreaking news:
“President Bush commits impeachable offense and will be removed from office.”
Sorry, just practicing my spin.
December 29th, 2005 at 10:17 am#2, by lemme, has it right. It makes no difference what is fact or true, the words get spoken, reported and taken as news by the stenographers who call themselves journalists. It is an echo chamber, as he explains.
starting an Echo Chamber lie, that it matters not if its the truth, so long as FOX news and other MSM repeats it
Comment by Marie
Yes, Lemme is right, but when he links to LaRouche publications he does not do himself, or this website, any favors in doing so…
December 29th, 2005 at 10:43 amThreadjacking by readers! Why that is right up there with spam from press secretaries.
What was this thread about again?
December 29th, 2005 at 10:54 amSo Tom Delay is desperate to get acquitted so that they don’t need a leadership election. Does he think that if they had a leadership election he would win?
While his friends are spinning this as heavily as they can everyone knows that “there’s no smoke without fire” and that shit sticks.
While being acquitted may be immediately good for Delay it isn’t going to do him any favours in the long term.
Z.
December 29th, 2005 at 11:14 amFor more on our good buddy Kevin “Maddog” Madden and his associates you can take a quick look at the new post regarding this particular professional Republican lie… er… spokesperson at The 10,000 Things
December 29th, 2005 at 11:27 am“Madden said this afternoon that he made an error and never intended to “spin†the story.”
That’s a big “error” boyo. I think he meant he didn’t intend to get caught in his attempt to spin the story. A little obvious since he waited until the courts were closed and couldn’t verify his “facts.”
December 29th, 2005 at 11:42 amAmendment 27 to the Constitution reads:
“No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of representatives shall have intervened.â€
And we can’t even get an Equal Rights Amendment…
We really need Campaign Reform. Free exposure on television (after all we the people own the airwaves :), in print and on the internet. Zero contributions outside a fund they are given (let them get creative – I read something about people on some reality show getting around countries with zero money :) Seriously though, in the long run it will cost us less to pay for people to run who may truly represent us than to allow the paid products of Corporate America continue to place their lackeys up for election. Kerry and Bush weren’t even that much of a choice. It was like choosing between vanilla in a sugar cone and vanilla in a waffle cone. Hmmm….
Of course getting the current pigs away from the trough to do some work might require us firing them in 2006 and 2008…
December 29th, 2005 at 11:45 amIt is unfortunate that the response will vary, not based on truth or fact, but on a combination of whether you think critically and for yourself or you let others do your thinking for you, and whether you listen and believe everything Fox (Rupert), Washington Times (Moonie), O’Reilly, Limbaugh, Kristol, Coulter, Gannon (yes, this is what the journalism professional has allowed itself to become) is unbiased and isn’t just selling a radical rightwing agenda. And there is an extra caveat today, is it news or paid propaganda.
For a Democracy to work, the people need to be informed and the media needs to report the stories accurately. And this is true about all subject matters. If all the people know is politically paid-for propaganda, what does that say about us, this “democracy”? We are all making decisions in a vacuum that are affecting every aspect of our lives, and the world.
December 29th, 2005 at 12:59 pm#22 unbelievable,
That amendment was one of twelve originally submitted to the states. Apparently #s3-12 were ratified but the first two took longer. (I forget what the twelfth one was about.) In more recent times, constitutional amendments were submitted to the states with a seven-year time limit written onto them. The ERA came up a couple of states short by the time its seven years was up.
I agree that major campaign finance reform is necessary. In addition to free air time for candidates (not a bad idea) I would also like to see the law changed so that you can only contribute to the campaign of someone who will be representing you in Congress.
I’m from New York, so I’ll use Senator Clinton as an example: If Senator Clinton raises a whole bunch of money from interests outside of New York State, and a bill comes up for a vote that would pit the interests of New Yorkers against the interests of non-New Yorkers who helped finance her election, how do we in New York know that she will vote for our interests and not theirs? (This was a hypothetical; I have no proof, or reason to suspect, that this has ever happened.)
This rule would be especially important for Representatives. If Tom DeLay’s friends help my Congressman, how do I know she’ll vote for our interests and not Tom Delay’s? Simply put, there is no acceptable reason to take campaign contributions from people who you won’t be representing in Congress. None!
Furthermore, we have to stop this insane concept of a corporatiopn having rights just like a person. We should also never allow corporations or even PACs to contribute to political campaigns for federal office. This is why politicians are often thought of as “bought and paid for.”
December 29th, 2005 at 3:59 pm#14, Wayne, A very sad state of affairs that has now progressed into dangerously tragic.
December 29th, 2005 at 4:12 pm#17, I may not always agree with LaRouche (or lemme) entirely, but disagreing with someone doesn’t mean everything he says is wrong.
December 29th, 2005 at 4:19 pmWe can be inclusive of those who don’t share 100% of our views, because that’s the democratic way, and it makes for good debate — what we will not tolerate is excluding anyone who doesn’t march in lockstep with us on every issue — that’s the Bush&Co plan, and I think you’ll agree.
The cheerleader will certainly have a lot of assholes to pardon when his term ends!
December 29th, 2005 at 5:07 pmQ. Why did the chicken cross the road?
December 29th, 2005 at 5:36 pmA. To join the Texas Air National Guard.
Surprise, Surprise!
Bushy succeeds at bankrupting America.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051229/pl_nm/economy_debtlimit_dc
December 29th, 2005 at 7:06 pm红外线测温
December 29th, 2005 at 7:59 pm温度记录仪
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And the Buschco arent Fascist? What do Enterprise groups do? I know that TP is funded by SOROS, that Larouche has his angles, that Neo-kooks, have theirs, as well as the Radical right religious people have theirs, not to mention delay and the Abramoff PAC.
Now, read into Larouche what you will, but read it carefully and extract only the ‘little details’..Besides, why does Larouche get under the epidermis?
This Bloogrz has no allegiance to any groups, tanks, parties and has not fallen for any of the aboves Agendas.
Sapre Aude!!
December 29th, 2005 at 10:57 pm(dare to think)
#In short, a fascist demagogue
Comment by Please , No LaRouche spam.. — December 29, 2005 @ 9:22 am
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Rotten.com on LaRoushit.
Funny as always…
Comment by Please , No LaRouche spam.. — December 29, 2005 @ 9:25 am
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The John Birch Society is opposed to Bush, too. That doesn’t make them, or LaRouche, worth your time of day. Even a stopped clock gives the correct time twice a day.
Comment by Please , No LaRouche spam.. — December 29, 2005 @ 9:27 am
You failed to read my last line of the OTHER fascist Larouche, it says;”Ashcroft….ennyhoo decide feryerself, read Pdf link above…then about 100 other documents of spin, and reverse spin….aye yay yay.”
Now, there may have only been ONE item of Interest, to me, in that Larouche Angle, Ok Maybe Two. Maybe the Fascists will go after it and destroy each other perhaps..Maybe what some possibly ya know, not me, but some, who might think like that.
December 29th, 2005 at 11:12 pmSapre Aude!
America’s Most Wanted:
December 30th, 2005 at 12:57 amTom Delay and the Banana Republicans.
I have built it. Will you come? http://www.boycott-republicans.com
December 30th, 2005 at 5:27 am