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“The Bush League Economy.”

Comment by A REAL AMERICAN #2

I’m trying to visualize this Troglodyte inbred T’REA’sonous AMERIscum hunched over a computer with his/her sloping forehead and eyes positioned too close together. He/she is sweating profusely and his/her stubby, unevolved fingers peck at the keyboard slowly and methodically. His/her tongue is protruding from his/her swollen red lips as spittle drips in syrupy, viscous strands onto the keyboard, as he/she struggles to recall insulting and excoriating labels to hurl at liberals; labels like “hippocrite” (some form of jungle animal I suspect).

Then in a fit of triumphant pique T’REA’sonous AMERIscum harkens back to his/her days as a valedictorian ‘gradiate’ of the Minimalist School of Aphorisms, he/she chooses the famous quote : “Those who live in glass houses, shouldn’t throw rocks,” to punctuate his/her diatribe.

“rocks” did he/she say?

“rocks”…

This simple mistake would not have been quite so monumental had he coupled the “rocks” with the action verb “chunk”…

That’s right:

“Those who live in glass houses, shouldn’t CHUNK rocks,”

moron!

You know, actually, maybe real american is right! think about all the money those democrats get from those high rolling enviromentalist groups. and the abortionists. thats right… sure they don’t kill as many children as the defense contractors but the overhead is cheaper so they have more money to bribe those filthy democrats with.

Old Republican Defense: “They are criminalizing policts. Why should you blame us?”

New Republican Defense (when the old one fails miserably because politicians start pleasing guilty): “Everyone does it, why should you blame us?”

wrong douchebag. keep blowing hot air all you want.

your empire is on fire.

This may just make too much sense to be passed. Will sunlight actually make the cockroaches scurry for cover?

It’s a low cost, common sense measure as far as I can see. Any thoughts?

If anyone ever had any question as to why Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been such a major figure inside the Bush administration advancing the interests of the neo-conservative pro-Israel network, the answer to the mystery may have finally been resolved. It’s actually been quite profitable for the U.S. defense secretary.

It turns out that Rumsfeld—along with former Vice President Dan Quayle—has intimate ties to Cerberus Global Investments, a New York-based holding company which, just last month, purchased the Israeli government’s interest in Bank Leumi, the second largest bank in Israel.

The revelation came in the November 15 issue of the influential Israeli newspaper, Ha’aretz, which reported that, at least as far back as 2001, Rumsfeld was an investor in the company, citing a report that appeared in the October 3, 2005 issue of Business Week, based on financial disclosure forms that Rumsfeld was required to file under federal ethics laws.

That Business Week report went so far as to describe Cerberus as being “bigger” than even such well-known business giants as as McDonald’s, 3M, Coca-Cola and Cisco Systems, pointing out that Cerberus controls some 226 Berger King restaurants, the National and Alamo car-rental chains, the building products maker, Formica Corp. and the old Warner Hollywood Studios.

What is of particular interest regarding Rumsfeld’s Cerberus investments (vis a vis his insistent demand that the United States invade Iraq and occupy the country, as it does today) is that Business Week also asserted that Cerberus has also “set up military base camps in Iraq.”

As far as former Vice President Quayle is concerned, while Quayle is now ensconced as essentially the “front man” for Cerberus, serving as chairman of the board of Cerberus, the real power at Cerberus is the 45-year-old chief executive officer, Stephen Feinberg, described by Ha’aretz as “a New York Jew with a golden touch”—a “shy wunderkind” who “makes himself scarce around photographers and sends underlings like Cerberus chair Dan Quayle to sign his deals.”

So although Quayle’s liberal Democratic critics often made fun of the former vice president, questioning his capacities, it’s pretty clear that Quayle, after leaving the second highest office in the land, has finally found his niche.

Another major player in Feinberg’s operations is Michael Steinhardt, who—according to Avenue magazine—is an “avowed atheist” yet still “one of America’s biggest supporters of Jewish and Israeli causes,” and a financial backer of such influential American Jewish journals as the New York-based weekly, Forward, and the daily New York Sun, a neo-conservative daily.

Critics point out that current U.S. ethics laws do not prohibit past or present U.S. federal officials—such as the defense secretary of the ex-Vice President—from having financial interests in companies that are owned by foreign interests or otherwise benefit foreign governments, there are those who might find a conflict of interest, particularly in the case of Defense Secretary Rumsfeld.

After all, critics note, the Israeli newspaper, Ha’aretz, reported that the Israeli government’s finance ministry has said that the proceeds of the Cerberus purchase of a controlling interest in Bank Leumi will go toward “paying off Israel’s high national debt.”

This is particularly ironic, of course, in that precisely because of Rumsfeld’s key role in helping orchestrate the war against Iraq—which was a major aim of the Israeli lobby in America—the U.S. engagement against the Arab republic has done much to increase America’s national debt, a debt that keeps on growing, even as Rumsfeld’s friends at Cerberus are directly involved in establishing the U.S. military presence in the beleaguered country.

The race for Cunningham’s seat will be particularly interesting with Francine Busby in the running- and it will be interesting to see how the Republican spin machine handles her presence since another Republican vet has thrown his hat into the ring.

Hey, I have no problem getting rid of ALL of the corruption, including some Dems that are also sucked into the institutionalized bribery that has been protected by the GOP for years called “campaign financing” and “free speech”. And you likely will find that those guilty of bribery on the Dems side (which we have yet to see substantive charges being filed yet) were more a part of the pseudo-moderate but actually corporate DLC members of the Democratic Party. The DLC has been a cancer that has basicaly bought off some members of the Democrats to let the GOP infested status quo where corporate and other special interest bribery and influence peddling continue.

You still haven’t seen nothing yet. Wait until the real secrets are brought forth about what motivated the outing of Valerie Plame which was more about stopping planting of WMDs in Iraq than it was political revenge, and what other “hidden” whistleblowers’ truths are like Sibel Edmonds when we have a changing of the guard.

Katherine Harris is also going down with Cuningham as one of the three most highly benefitting from MZM’s contributions. GOP has already been trying to “ditch” her in her FL senate race.

28- I seem to recall something about good intentions and where they will get you.

See, lobbying is not illegal, but what Ney, et al did was. Reid can show where the money went and he can prove he is not “dirty.” BTW, what a stupid word, it makes one sound childlike.

Anyway, when you aren’t corrupt, you have nothing to worry about. When you are, and boy are they, you will scurry like cockroaches. Even if they weren’t guilty (which they are), they sure are moving around like they are. Greed is the republican undoing. Just watch.