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Screw the people in New Orleans, Halliburton Needs 70 Billion.
February 2nd, 2006 at 4:44 pmAnd screw your 39 billion is School Loans
–Duhbya
http://bellaciao.org/en/IMG/jpg/bush_finger.jpg
Its MY TAX MONEY
February 2nd, 2006 at 4:45 pmALL MINE MINE MINE
better spent on your health care crisis …mending people rather than killing people
February 2nd, 2006 at 4:47 pm“NO!”……the american people.
February 2nd, 2006 at 4:48 pmWhat a piece of work. What a ignorant, white trash, low IQ dolt. Stand up and be counted for if this is what you invision as America’s leader. C’mon trolls, you own this guy, he is yours and I would like confirmation from you of your approval. I just want it on record. Don’t be shy now.
February 2nd, 2006 at 4:49 pmThis is all part of the Radical Conservative’s plan to defund and eventually bankrupt the United States Government. Their plan first plan, plan A, to privatize government programs failed miserably, so now it’s on to plan B. Plan B involves bankrupting the United States federal Government. If the governent collapses, than all government programa as well as all things public die with it. These corporate cash-strapped conservative radicals are relentless in their pursuit of an ownership state. They’ll stop at nothing to get what they want. To them nothing has value, only a price tag. Divide and conquer is their strategy, even if all that is good and Godly in this world is destroyed in the process.
February 2nd, 2006 at 4:52 pmAnd WAIT till THE PORK IS ADDED
February 2nd, 2006 at 4:53 pmITS ALL MINE MINE MINE
They’ll stop at nothing to get what they want. To them nothing has value, only a price tag. Divide and conquer is their strategy, even if all that is good and Godly in this world is destroyed in the process.
Comment by Matthew J. Price — February 2, 2006 @ 4:52
Ill garden my own food, and raise chickens, before I ever sign AWAY my rights to Bush Cheney, or the United Nations.
February 2nd, 2006 at 4:56 pmThat’s it! I’ve had it. I realize now that the Neo-Cons are hell bent on the destruction of the Common Good. We will have to rebuild our nation from the ground up after these crazed Republican Communists are finished destroying it. Crops can be resown, schools rebuilt, medicare can be reestablished, and the Bill of Rights can be duplicated word per word. After George”the AntiChrist”Bush is finally overtrown, we’ll have no choice but to rebuild our Democratic Republic of the United States of America, only this time like the Germans after World War II, we are gonna have to be especially careful that we don’t end up making the same mistakes twice. Learn from history or repeat it.
February 2nd, 2006 at 4:59 pmWell, good bye student loans, up go medicare payement, good bye the safety net for the increasing number of Americans in poverty. FYI, the just passed Deficit-reduction bill includes the following:
It just keeps getting better.
February 2nd, 2006 at 5:01 pmwhy so little? A paltry sum.
February 2nd, 2006 at 5:01 pm#11 Unless you’re the Gulf Coast residents. In which case $85 billion is “a lot of money,” per Bush.
But you’re right in the sense that $70 billion is only $20 billion more than we were told the the entire war would cost, start to finish.
February 2nd, 2006 at 5:06 pmA day will come when all we Liberals will lose everything we have, but it is not this day. This day we fight.
February 2nd, 2006 at 5:06 pmUnfortunately, cong(R)ess won’t turn down bush’s request [the "unfortunate" part is because its more money that will be spent without accountability/permitting no-bid contracts, etc.], but is there any way they could condition this money on a requirement on the administration to turn over documents related to its reasoning “supporting” its decision to conduct warrantless NSA domestic wiretapping/datamining (and which they refuse to turn over)?
yeah, I mean the post-discovery-created documents which they claim to have but won’t turn over…you can tell these would be suspect, because it took them an entire weekend from when the story was reported to come up with a pseudo-”legal” basis, that still doesn’t hold water, after several changed rationales.
And I don’t mean condition like how the last request was conditioned on Rumsfeld providing scheduled progress reports/briefings, which he hasn’t done at all.
Shoot, I’d be happy if they conditioned the money on release of the the Katrina documents they’ve been stonewalling over…or Plamegate docuements…etc.
February 2nd, 2006 at 5:07 pmyou want me to buy more t-bills? okay this time, but it will cost you later. don’t worry, when the time comes to repay you will know it.
February 2nd, 2006 at 5:12 pmMore of today’s top stories:
Congress Passes Budget Bill; Slashes $39 Billion from Medicaid, Foster Care, Child Support Enforcement and student loans
Bush to Request $70 Billion More for War Funding
More Groundhog Day fun at the circus: http://circus-minimus.blogspot.com/
February 2nd, 2006 at 5:15 pmThe commitment of MoveOn members is really fantastic. As of 5:08 PM Eastern, 10,687 of us have contributed $646,648 to fund the big election plan Tom announced yesterday. We busted our second goal so we’ve set a new one: $750,000. That is triple our original goal. By working together we won’t miss this year’s opportunity for a “change election” that will end the Republican reign of corruption in Congress.
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February 2nd, 2006 at 5:21 pmha ha. tell you what. now you give us taiwan and we won’t crash your dollar. deal?
February 2nd, 2006 at 5:21 pmFiscally irresponsible Republicans.
“You can’t trust Republians with your money.” – Gov. Howard Dean.
Speaking of money…
Fund raising numbers comparison in the now highly competitive New York 20 Congressional District race between Kirsten Gillibrand and incumbent Rep. John “Shut it down” Sweeney.
February 2nd, 2006 at 5:23 pmNY TIMES SLAMS BUSH PROPAGANDA
BUSH WEAKENED NATIONAL SECURITY
Spies, Lies and Wiretaps
January 29, 2006
New York Times
A bit over a week ago, President Bush and his men promised to provide the legal, constitutional and moral justifications for the sort of warrantless spying on Americans that has been illegal for nearly 30 years. Instead, we got the familiar mix of political spin, clumsy historical misinformation, contemptuous dismissals of civil liberties concerns, cynical attempts to paint dissents as anti-American and pro-terrorist, and a couple of big, dangerous lies.
The first was that the domestic spying program is carefully aimed only at people who are actively working with Al Qaeda, when actually it has violated the rights of countless innocent Americans. And the second was that the Bush team could have prevented the 9/11 attacks if only they had thought of eavesdropping without a warrant.
Sept. 11 could have been prevented. This is breathtakingly cynical. The nation’s guardians did not miss the 9/11 plot because it takes a few hours to get a warrant to eavesdrop on phone calls and e-mail messages. They missed the plot because they were not looking. The same officials who now say 9/11 could have been prevented said at the time that no one could possibly have foreseen the attacks. We keep hoping that Mr. Bush will finally lay down the bloody banner of 9/11, but Karl Rove, who emerged from hiding recently to talk about domestic spying, made it clear that will not happen — because the White House thinks it can make Democrats look as though they do not want to defend America. “President Bush believes if Al Qaeda is calling somebody in America, it is in our national security interest to know who they’re calling and why,” he told Republican officials. “Some important Democrats clearly disagree.”
Mr. Rove knows perfectly well that no Democrat has ever said any such thing — and that nothing prevented American intelligence from listening to a call from Al Qaeda to the United States, or a call from the United States to Al Qaeda, before Sept. 11, 2001, or since. The 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act simply required the government to obey the Constitution in doing so. And FISA was amended after 9/11 to make the job much easier.
February 2nd, 2006 at 5:24 pmThese are the same douchebags who spent decades decrying social spending IN the US. Now they want to build soccer fields and clinics and fire stations and schools in Iraq.
They are the most morally bankrupt bunch of sots, dolts and windbags I have ever seen.
Billions for Iraq and not one penny more for America.
-GSD
February 2nd, 2006 at 5:26 pmWhen the budget came out a few weeks ago you all knew this was on the horizon. It fits the established pattern.
February 2nd, 2006 at 5:30 pmon the way to two trillion plus
But, hey, we deposed Saddam Hussein. Such a deal.
February 2nd, 2006 at 5:30 pmI don’t know about our plan for victory but Osama’s plan for victory seems right on track.
What did he say his plan was?
February 2nd, 2006 at 5:32 pmSorry–I’d better work on my link procedures.
February 2nd, 2006 at 5:33 pmnothing prevented American intelligence from listening to a call from Al Qaeda to the United States, or a call from the United States to Al Qaeda, before Sept. 11, 2001,
[[[Speculative]]]
A ‘Likely’ Clincher, John YOO while altering the FISA wording, may have Temporarily halted The Able Danger Program (Curt Weldon) Yet we find that thru other reports that Able Danger was paused Yet some members of the Group were quietly kept working on the Intelligence of Able Danger.
Yoos likely Interference in the FISA warrant Laws, and the ensuing litigation, Paused Able Danger which had FOUND and Knew of the Saudi Hijackers.
February 2nd, 2006 at 5:33 pm[[[]]]
The Saudis WERE here on Student Visas, as I understand it, they were not Citizens and could be Tapped without warrants. Correct me If Im Wrong about the Student Visas =) Thx
#you want me to buy more t-bills? okay this time, but it will cost you later. don’t worry, when the time comes to repay you will know it.
Comment by central bank of china — February 2, 2006 @ 5:12 pm
I know this is a Joke, but think of possible consequences…
February 2nd, 2006 at 5:35 pmTake from the poor and give to the Pent-a-gone
So this is our new uplifting honor on the Worlds stage.
The poorest among us are dying in the streets and in their homes ,Cremotruims have been set up in the Cities to burn the bodies.
New and bigger Military is being planned for the United States Of Lost principles .
King Bush1 said, yesterday that America is doing great ,the poor has been taken care of(ashes buried) and the Math and Science programs are ready to be placed in the schools of No Child left Behind.
King Bush1 also said,that his new Military program will need 70 billion more dollars. That means more people will be asked to take a Ownership Plan at their work stations.
Food will be in short supplu in America for the next year said,the Commerence Dept On Saturday.
Health care is for the Rich only all others need not apply.
Whewwww and I thot China,North Korea was bad..
February 2nd, 2006 at 5:47 pm#26 Right on both counts.
The way it works is that Bush Co stirs up some mud and the Democrats immediately agree that there is enough doubt to give Bush Co a free pass. The mud does not even have to be real.
We are in this mess not simply because Bush Co is evil; we are here because the Democrats have been complicit enablers of the Bush Co agenda.
Any half decent opposition would have brought the government to a halt and demanded impeachment in the wake of Katrina. The pathetic federal response to that disaster was either gross incompetence at a time of war or it was deliberate criminal negligence. Both are impeachable offences.
February 2nd, 2006 at 5:55 pm.
When it comes time to repay the central bank of china,we’ll print what we need.The real question is how high the rate will have to be to sell the next batch.
Besides,China has to do something with all the wire transfers Wal-Mart is sending them every month.
If you’re going to make a joke,it helps to know a little about the topic,it’s only funny if it’s at least plausible.
February 2nd, 2006 at 5:57 pmThe real total is $120 million because of the fiasco every year getting the spending proposals they front loaded $50 million for 2007 top go with the $70 million for 2006
February 2nd, 2006 at 6:17 pmDag! Most of the 70 billion will go to Halliburton, and any Saudis who’ve invested in oil. Our President has got to be the most stupidest man in the entire solar system.
February 2nd, 2006 at 6:20 pmWe need some Democrats who can show some spine and not approve the spending. Bubble Boy, you work for us: The United States of America, not for Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and certainly, not Texas.
February 2nd, 2006 at 6:23 pmGOOD MONEY AFTER BAD….ALL SO BUSH CAN TRY TO BUY HIS WAY INTO THE HISTORY BOOKS AS NOT A COMPLETE FAILURE.
SORRY, GEORGIE. THE TREASURY CAN’T PRINT ENOUGH T-BILLS TO GET YOUR ASS OUT OF LOSERVILLE.
February 2nd, 2006 at 6:47 pmNo worries. Iraq will pay for its own reconstruction using income from oil sales.
February 2nd, 2006 at 8:22 pmRight on beep. This war will last weeks, not months.
You’ll see, when we’re greeted with flowers and candy and Arabs everywhere chang “Bush! Bush! Bush!” They know the drill. If you don’t want to get blown up, you praise the guy with the big army.
February 2nd, 2006 at 8:32 pmAnd the greed and corruption just keeps flowing.
I’m not sure why Republicans feel they are entitled to be so greedy and corrupt. And there’s a relative lack of admission or condemnation of the culture among Republicans for the greed that seems pervasive in Republican culture. Poor things, they probably think ‘greed is good’ and that they’re entitled to steal. Lets hope that the honorable Republicans who actually believe in integrity somewhere under their partisan shell will wake up and take back control of their party. At this point, Republicans run a Kleptocracy, and not a Democracy.
February 2nd, 2006 at 8:36 pmThis is insane!
February 2nd, 2006 at 10:44 pmKatrina survivors are desperate. Today $39.9 billion was cut from medicaid, medicare and student loans. Yet King George in his relentless quest to obliterate the middle class, forcing everyone into serfdom, leaving himself and his rich bastard cronies in charge of all, insists that the tax cuts be made permanent, and the estate tax eliminated.
Someone stop this man – he is drunk with power.
THE RUBBER-STAMP CONGRESS SUPPORTS THE KING AND THE TROOPS
Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Leader of the House
Her opposition to the Iraq war may have earned her a reputation as a radical lefty in Washington.
But when Democratic minority leader Nancy Pelosi came home to hold a town hall meeting in San Francisco on Saturday, she was greeted like a pro-establishment warmonger.
Dozens of heckling, sign-toting anti-war protesters tried to take center stage at the congresswomen’s town hall forum on national security — calling for an immediate de-funding of the Iraq war and impeachment proceedings against President George Bush.
But the practiced Pelosi didn’t miss a beat.
“This war in Iraq has been a grotesque mistake in my view — a tragedy,” Pelosi told a crowd of about 1,000 that overflowed the Marina Middle School Auditorium for the event.
Yet, as she explained that she doesn’t want to immediately cut funding for those troops already in Iraq, about 40 protesters marched to the front of the stage. They faced the crowd, waving peace signs and a pink banner saying “Nancy, stop funding the war.”
Hecklers in the audience chanted “No more money for war.”
Pelosi just kept on talking.
“The money is for the troops,” said Pelosi, who initially voted against the war, but has voted in favor of appropriations bills to pay for it. “I’m not prepared to go against the troops’ having the equipment they need.”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/15/PELOSI.TMP
February 2nd, 2006 at 11:25 pm#37 So, if it would happen nothing if 10 stories of the building UN disappear (John Bolton (c)), specially after the corruption in the “oil for food” program, what would be the quantity of stories qualified for dissappearing in the Congress Building, or the WH?
February 3rd, 2006 at 5:45 am“You can’t trust Republians with your money.†– Gov. Howard Dean.
So give it to Pelosi.
February 3rd, 2006 at 9:45 amturns out that when he said 70 billion he really meant 438.2 billion. More fuzzy math I guess.
February 3rd, 2006 at 9:48 amBut you’re right in the sense that $70 billion is only $20 billion more than we were told the the entire war would cost, start to finish.
Comment by RunningDogLackey #12
RunningDog,
If I remember correctly, Paul Wolfowitz said that America’s stake in this war would be roughly $1 billion, then post-”liberation” Iraqi oil revenues would pay for reconstruction costs…
Now we’re approaching the $300 billion dollar mark, are being told horror story after horror story about gross fraud and mismanagement of funds, but what do we do?
Why hell, we give ‘em more; We’re SUPPORTING THE TROOPS y’know…
as for the treasonous basta*d who miscalculated the costs by 300 times?
He’s now HEAD of The WORLD BANK!!!!
It’s good to be a right wing al Cracker Bushite/ zionist agent…huh?
February 3rd, 2006 at 10:10 am$70B for death and destruction after they cut $40B for health and education benefits for the poor and middle class.
Shows you the priority of this Christian administration.
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