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Why has the fact that this administration has used signing statements over 160 times on legislation passed by Congress not linked to this administration’s inabililty to follow the law. The two prove how flagrant this administration’s disrepsect for the law is and bad Congress has been in providing a check to Bush’s power.
February 24th, 2006 at 10:20 amIsn’t it time to raise the question about why port operations are privatized? Fundamentally, most Americans believe the Federal Gov’t should be running (and many were already under the misconception that the Feds do) our ports including security. This should be a keystone of the Democratic party’s platform don’t you think?
February 24th, 2006 at 10:21 amWhy do I have to pay $75 jay walking tickets when the vice president can hunt illegaly without a license while drinking and on heart medication and shoot some old man in the face but nothing happens? How come I am held responsible for speeding five miles per hour over the speed limit but the president isn’t held responsible for violating the Bill of Rights? Isn’t the law supposed to be the same for everyone? Why am I required to be resonsible for harmless nuiscances when they aren’t required to answer for their crimes even if they have committed a felony or treason (see: Plamegate)?
February 24th, 2006 at 10:51 amWhat is the latest on the manimal hunt? Does this have anything to do with Chewbacca or the Chewbacca defense?
February 24th, 2006 at 10:57 amWhat about the other huge report that was released yesterday that landed on the front page of the Washington Post and took up its entire business section?
cracking down on executive shenanigans seems progressive
February 24th, 2006 at 11:06 amFYI: Radio Stream isn’t working here on MS Gulf Coast.
February 24th, 2006 at 11:07 amSet a side the emotions, there is bone cancer
The administration is after a free trade agreement with the UAE (MEFTA). The American petrol industry would save billions in tariffs. This free trade treaty is still being negoiated as we post (http://www.ustr.gov/…), I believe the precurser for UAE ratification is the DP World deal. Does anyone still doubt what drives the administration much less the GOP? Hell, they even cite 9/11 within the web page, you have to admit that is low hanging balls.
Why is the Whitehouse defending a political “no win” deal? Follow the real money underlying the port deal and you have a viable answer.
Why is this not being addressed? We are talking billions in tariffs alone, posibly trillions in investment.
February 24th, 2006 at 11:09 amCivil war?
Cut and run?
With nuclear-armed Iran next door, doesn’t it make a little more sense to at least get them through this horrible time — sure we’ve screwed up — but the region (and the world) benefits zero from a crazy Iraq/Iraq area.
I know why you’re advocating the “get ‘em out” and “save our soldiers” memes, but the long-term cost seems a bit more shaky than the short-term gain.
February 24th, 2006 at 11:15 amIt is 21 ports not six!
February 24th, 2006 at 11:19 amIt’s not about whether or not Dubai is bad – it’s that Bush is flip-flopping on yet another issue without a clear stance on terrorism. This is about taking out Bush’s political legs and showing just how weak we are on terror. This is the perfect opportunity to show how un-messianic he is. He started this arab furor he should go down because of it.
February 24th, 2006 at 11:21 amHere is the question. If we leave will a civil war break out but if we stay can we prevent a civil war from breaking out. I don’t think 140,000 troops can control a country of 26,000,000 during a civil war. We need to leave and help bring the Arab countries to the peace table to convince them that a civil war is not in their interest. We need to continue to pay for the rebuilding and the keeping of the peace but we can;t do it with our troops.
February 24th, 2006 at 11:22 amFellas,
It’s ZEEN-o-fo-bick.
February 24th, 2006 at 11:23 amOk Faiz, then why is UAE on a “no travel” State Department advisory?
February 24th, 2006 at 11:23 amAnyone else getting ‘crosstalk’ on the stream? It’s like a radio between stations? Last week was really much better!
February 24th, 2006 at 11:35 amisn’t delay the one investigating himself?
February 24th, 2006 at 11:39 amYeah toys, lots of static here to.
February 24th, 2006 at 11:49 amI have just returned from Iraq and even though Mr. Hackett may not be from my branch of the service : I am mad as hell about what has transpired because he is a fellow soldier. The tactics that have been used against myself and other democratic candidates such as Mr. Pederson from Arizona, ever since we had announced our intentions to run for the U.S. Senate have taught me that our democracy is not always so democratic.
My family’s benefits and income were threatened (and therefore they were threatened with being thrown out on the street) as well as myself being threatened with imprisonment in a federal pen for the rest of my life. Then just recently my state taxes were audited (supposedly) randomly while I was over in a combat zone and every penny was then taken straight out of my family’s bank account. So, I have learned the hard way about so called American Democracy.
But I know one thing : They never should have attacked my family for now I will fight non-violently the fight to rescue the War on Terror from those who have hijacked it to enrich themselves and their corporate lackeys and who have therefore lowered the defenses of our nation. I will also demand that Mr. Murtha’s plan on U.S. Soldiers being withdrawn be acted on with a quick reaction force being
I have just returned from Iraq and I still see the same lie being foisted upon you the American people. I have ridden first hand day by day either as gunner or driver in my Humvee for a year long tour of hell in Iraq where everyday you have to play Russian Roulette with your life. Imagine having someone place a 357 magnum pistol next to your head everyday and praying that it won’t go off. Then you start to get a feel for what some of us soldiers feel who go out of the wire everyday in Iraq.
Of course you always hear that we volunteered to defend our country and place our lives on the line well that it is true but what we did not volunteer for was to be slaughtered like sheep. Here’s an example of what I mean :
Anybody who drives down the roads of Iraq through its cities and villages will pass by whole stretches of road where slaughter markets for sheep rebound. The stench from these slaughtered sheep is so strong sometimes that it is all one can do not to vomit when passing them. The passerby will see these poor sheep writhing and twisting in pain as their throats are cut and it is truly a pitiful sight as they slowly die with no way to defend themselves as their blood drains out in the street.
Well, the reason I had to bring up that whole example is to dismiss the criticism that we soldiers should die like sheep. But that’s not the way it’s going to be told to you the American people. What I have just told you is only the tip of the iceberg if you knew everything you would even redouble your efforts to get my poor fellow soldiers out of this grand lie foisted on us by grand infamous liars.
I am not going to stand by as an American citizen and let this happen I will not be that citizen who says he was just following orders as the Nazi war criminals stated at Nuremburg. I am for fighting the War on Terror and not hijacking it to enrich my personal corporate donor friends and lackeys.
Our country is under attack from terrorist without and tyrants within.
Abraham Lincoln was right in his 1838 speech when he stated that the greatest danger that this country could face wouldn’t be from the enemies outside of our country but from domestic tyrants inside it.
Of course now there are those fellow American citizens who wish to do those of us violence for telling the truth. If they carry out these acts of violence against us: the People who wish to bring back our soldiers from this lying hell in Iraq then they are no different from the foreign terrorist who tried to kill me and my fellow soldiers in Iraq. The only difference will be that they will have become domestic terrorist instead of foreign ones in the vein of Timothy McVeigh.
The people that I follow are those who made our country an even better democracy through non-violence and the fact that “Right” was on their side, people such as Dr. Martin Luther King and Caeser Chaverz.
I will be officially running for the U.S. Senate as of March 29, 2006 and I will not officially campaign for it until that date. As of now I am not a candidate but will be in 33 days. (unless of course there accidents that just happen to stop me along the way, you know what I mean : arrest, jack booted thugs at the door in the middle of the night.
my views do not represent the U.S. government nor the Department of Defense
Leonard Clark
February 24th, 2006 at 3:23 pmKindergarten teacher
and damned liberal
(always the damned liberal)
APRIL FIRST IS IMPEACH THE FOOL DAY …
get out and get heard, plan a rally or a march, put signs in your yard and on your car…
IMPEACH THE FOOL ON APRIL FOOL’S DAY!
a day of protest and civil disobedience
pass it on!
February 24th, 2006 at 5:24 pm#13, that’s not true. The UAE is not on the “no travel” list. See the list here:
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_1764.html
February 25th, 2006 at 5:08 pm