ThinkFast: October 6, 2006
36 percent: President Bush’s approval rating, down from 38 percent in August, according to a new Time poll. “Two-thirds of Americans aware of the congressional-page sex scandal believe Republican leaders tried to cover it up.”
After returning home from a week in Iraq, Sen. John Warner (R-VA) yesterday told reporters, “[I]n two or three months, if this thing hasn’t come to fruition and if this level of violence is not under control and this government able to function, I think it’s a responsibility of our government internally to determine: Is there a change of course that we should take?”
“Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s delay in replacing former deputy Robert Zoellick, who quit in June, is creating policy gaps on major issues from China to Sudan,” according to U.S. foreign policy analysts.
Congress passed a law establishing new job qualifications for the FEMA director in last week’s homeland security bill, requiring a candidate who has “a demonstrated ability in and knowledge of emergency management” and “not less than five years of executive leadership.” Bush signed the homeland-security bill; then, hours later, he issued a signing statement saying he could ignore the new restrictions.
“Despite their packed megachurches, their political clout and their increasing visibility on the national stage, evangelical Christian leaders are warning one another that their teenagers are abandoning the faith in droves.”
PBS Newshour — described as “the mother ship of balance” by a Public Broadcasting ombudsman — “fails to provide either balance or diversity of perspectives,” according to a new study.
CREW, the watchdog group “that first provided the FBI with suspicious e-mails from then-Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) said yesterday that FBI and Justice Department officials are attempting to cover up their inaction in the case by making false claims about the group.”
Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, again said the Bush administration is suppressing a classified intelligence report on Iraq that paints a “grim” picture of the situation. Harman wrote a letter to CIA Director Michael Hayden requesting the document’s release.
A new report from the Justice Department Inspector General says the federal Bureau of Prisons “does not read all the mail for terrorist and other high-risk inmates on its mail monitoring lists.” It is also “unable to effectively monitor high-risk inmates’ verbal communications,” including phone calls. The Washington Post wonders why the Bush administration is “blowing the easy ones.”
And finally: Earlier this year, London comedian Mark Thomas made headlines “when he helped a bunch of teenaged schoolgirls set up an online arms dealership. Before long, they were pricing out tanks” and “negotiating for grenade launchers.” The stunt spurred action in Parliament, and yesterday, two men were arrested for internet arms sales.
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I wonder what lies the GOP is going to tell today to try to bury the Foley Sexual Predator Scandal?
October 6th, 2006 at 9:15 amSigh…
October 6th, 2006 at 9:17 amBush signed the homeland-security bill; then, hours later, he issued a signing statement saying he could ignore the new restrictions.
This Clown can do more damage to the American people with a stroke of his pen than Foley can do with a stroke of his…
Bush is not competent to be president, so no wonder he did a signing statement to negate qualifications for FEMA director! Face it who is qualified for any position in his administration? Condi Rice worked for Chevron, so how does working for an oil company make her qualified to be Secretary of State? What real qualifications does Donald Rumsfeld have to run the Pentagon? And who the hell is Chertoff anyways to run Homeland Security Department? They all seem to have just one qualification: ability to LIE about everything!
October 6th, 2006 at 9:24 amGood.
October 6th, 2006 at 9:25 amThe evangelical christians cannot keep their recruitmet strategy working in the era of the internet and cultural globalization, it’s just not feasible, their power will be very limited in generations to come, but we know the current believers will be voting for a very long time.
October 6th, 2006 at 9:28 am36% and plummeting rapidly! By this time in November, he may be down to 28%…..36% is already in “lame duck territory”….
October 6th, 2006 at 9:28 amI live near a megachurchmall where the prols. can get a Jeezus Smoothie, a born-again buzzcut, buy a few Jesus rags, and play games at an arcade, all while having religion crammed down their throat in a 2,000 seat multi-media theater, and if that doesn’t draw their spawn in, nothing will.
October 6th, 2006 at 9:29 amBruce if you were a teenager would you hang out in Jerry Falwell’s church? After the GOP allowed Mark Foley to molest underage teenage male Pages, I bet young people start leaving the GOP in droves too!
October 6th, 2006 at 9:29 amMyrightWing,
Saldy, that’s not the case. It took someone stroking their ____ to get the attention of these sexually repressed neocons to wake up.
Though there will be those like RogerRoger, Exley, Mighty, who would blindly follow their inept leadership just as those in Nazi Germany followed Hitler to his demise.
Interesting article on Washington Monthly about many smarter and true conservatives really hoping the neo-cons lose power.
October 6th, 2006 at 9:30 amWhy does John Warner hate our freedom?
October 6th, 2006 at 9:31 amWhy does John Warner hate America?
Why does John Warner hate our troops?
Why does John Warner bring comfort to our enemies?
Why is John Warner with the terrorists?
I think the democrats need to be careful here. Stick to the issues. Iraq, Afganistan, Darfur, secure borders, real homeland security. I think they need to be especially loud right now and not get caught up in the Foley sideshow. The republicans know this and they will work it to their advantage.
October 6th, 2006 at 9:32 amJay Randal
It is good to see that in those families, at least the kids have some common sense. Leaving a faith of stupidity, hypocrisy, and downright lies is a hard thing for anyone to do and if their teenagers are doing just that, then things really are going to get better once this current generation grows up.
October 6th, 2006 at 9:35 amGood Morning America, how are ya.?….Not so good, well, hang on it may improve in November if we can get the vote out……We can alway’s hope anyway….
Let’s see, bull shit bush’s numbers are in the crapper..that’s good…..Lot’s of attenetion on the Rep.’s scandles….another plus….The reich wingers are more concerned that their young people are leaving their churches than the dereadful war…..that’s a minus….Oh, and the voting public has short term memory loss…..another minus…..
TP and all the powers that be still won’t put up a site on all the miserable bills that were passed by the house and senate over a week ago…..huge minus there…..We might want to start doing more work on some of the important issues, like, booting all the bad guy’s out, looking at all the signing statements and bringing them to the attention to the sleep walking public before they vote, if they vote and making sure the votes are true and valid……Stopping the war and bringing the troop’s home may be the October suprise from rove to get bull shit bush vote’s…..We can only hope…..The end of the Iraq mess would be a huge plus no matter how it happens……Blessings…Peace..
October 6th, 2006 at 9:36 am“Despite their packed megachurches, their political clout and their increasing visibility on the national stage, evangelical Christian leaders are warning one another that their teenagers are abandoning the faith in droves.â€
Who can blame them. When these kids grow up and enter the real world they get to see just how crazy and psycho the evangelical leaders are. That doesn’t mean they have lost their faith. They just might not be Jesus Drones anymore.
October 6th, 2006 at 9:40 amRe: GOP crying “foul” due to timing of FoleyGate
If we were to dabble in the GOP- refined art of self-delusion for the moment and allow ourselves to imagine a country where politics trumps the protection of our most treasured asset, our children……where the term “in loco parentis” means protecting our children ONLY when it doesn’t interefere with congressional appointments and personal power…..
then the cry of “foul timing” by the repugs could be countered by the fact that if Hastert actually HAD DONE SOMETHING much, much earlier as he should have, then this “PREDATOR-GATE SCANDAL” would by now be a thing of the past, n’est pas?
Perhaps our congress and administration is filled with egocentric airbags who treasure their personal power more than our children and/or long-term political strategy…..
Perhaps it’s clearly a case of “narcolepsy or senile dementia at the wheel” of the leadership of this country??
It’s certainly NOT alcoholism!
October 6th, 2006 at 9:44 amDo something worthwhile ThinkProgress and make some timeline graphs of Mr. 40% approval’s approval numbers.
October 6th, 2006 at 9:45 amStopping our troops from being killed in the Iraq civil war would mean that Bush has finally admitted that he is fallible - that he is human - and not a self-professed God. It’s not even a remote possibility for a NARCISSIST because, without psychiatric intervention, they are not capable of obtaining the necessary “insight”. Certainly he’s surrounded himself with “yes men” who will not come to his aid. It’s pathetically sad.
October 6th, 2006 at 9:48 amSharon, I tried pretty hard yesterday to get someone here at TP to take notice of the desire of many posters to discuss the Torture bill and the Kentucky River decision. I’ve only been removed from my IP block here for a couple of weeks, but hey. For my pains I had nearly all my posts deleted.
I’m done with TP, the ‘all Foley all the time’ has reduced this site to a tabloid: a tabloid uninterested in the shredding of the Constitution. “What did we miss?” Yeah right. Bye all.
October 6th, 2006 at 9:49 amGOP now means > GREED, OIL, PERVERSION > put the 3 words together and it’s Satanism!
October 6th, 2006 at 9:53 am“Sen. John Warner (R-VA) yesterday told reporters, “[I]n two or three months, if this thing hasn’t come to fruition….”
Perpetual State of Denial.
Cheney at front of nodding, glazed eye congress…”Now, repeat after me, Three more months, Three more months, Three more months, Three more months…”
October 6th, 2006 at 9:57 am“[I]n two or three months, if this thing hasn’t come to fruition and if this level of violence is not under control and this government able to function, I think it’s a responsibility of our government internally to determine: Is there a change of course that we should take?â€
Two or three months more of helping al Qaeda in Iraq? Great idea.
Another Republican, appeasing terrorism.
October 6th, 2006 at 9:58 am.
Oh gee, why would teenages abandon a movement that demonizes many of their friends and forces upon them a repressive world view? Why oh why?
October 6th, 2006 at 9:58 amA new report from the Justice Department Inspector General says the federal Bureau of Prisons “does not read all the mail for terrorist and other high-risk inmates on its mail monitoring lists.†It is also “unable to effectively monitor high-risk inmates’ verbal communications,†including phone calls. The Washington Post wonders why the Bush administration is “blowing the easy ones.â€
Ew, anyone wanna field that one? Seriously, they just might be too busy messing up the tough ones and wasting resources that could be used on simple matters.
October 6th, 2006 at 9:59 amJohn Warner, a sad shell of what once was an honorable gentleman. Sit down John, you have nothing to say that is worthy of listening to. You sold out long ago.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:01 am“If you tell a lie, tell a big one.” (Joseph Goebbels the German Nazi)
“The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it.” (Joseph Goebbels the Propaganda Minister)
“Sex offenders are not petty criminals. They prey upon our children like animals and will continue to do it unless stopped. We have a moral responsibility to do everything in our power to protect our kids from these animals.” (Rep. Mark Foley the sexual predator pederast and animal)
Fight the Bush Regime, and the GOP, before it’s too late to stop their destruction of the United States!
October 6th, 2006 at 10:04 am“teenagers are abandoning the faith in droves.â€
I know I did.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:05 amUmmm… Why are posts disappearing?
I wrote nothing offensive. My comment appeared, now it is gone. This is not the first I’ve heard of this happening - although my first time. If this is a tech issue it needs fixed before it sours me and other on this website. If this is an admin issue then my disillusionment with the american dream is complete.
I’d really not rather re-write my post. Which is what THEY may want…
I hope its a tech issue tho.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:14 amDo you have megachurch malls there in the United States ?? It’s a joke right ??
October 6th, 2006 at 10:15 amPost 28 Technodaoist > TP does not like nasty swear words used and if your post is way off subject of the thread it can get deleted > contact Judd if you feel your posts are being deleted wrongly?!
October 6th, 2006 at 10:20 amIt’s no wonder at all why young people are leaving Elmer Gantry evangelism in droves. Truth and Christian Love have left these churches long ago and turned to false prophets like Fallwell and Robertson who peddle hatred and bigotry. Such abandonment of the churches has nothing to do with culture wars or music videos. It has to do with the fact that the evangelical movement has abandoned the truth of Christ.
We are called to Love one another as Love has Loved us. For Love is God. Those who are called to Love tend to lead the way in helpfulness and charity and do not indulge in the “My God can beat up your God” mentality that so pervades the evangelical movement in America. It’s easy for a young heart to see through the “You’re going to hell because you don’t believe the way I do” mindset, and no amount of screaming or crying or praying will change the fact that the televangelists abandoned the message of the Nazarene long ago.
Goper’s
October 6th, 2006 at 10:22 amLament (Hard To Be A Republican)
Well okay - nothing profane ( a long Duuuuuuhhh) a comment on teens rebelling against the ‘norm’, people forgetting their youth, and a link the the IMDB entry for Rebel without a cause…
Hardly incendiary revolutionary stuff… I will contact Judd.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:23 amWell - nevermind - my original comment is back… It was one of the first 20 so I doubt I missed it the half-dozen times I looked for it… which leads me to think it is a tech issue anyhow…
Without any other explanation I’ll stick with optimism.
Thanks to Jay for your help, and thanks to TP for putting up with the unwashed masses…
October 6th, 2006 at 10:28 amAfter returning home from a week in Iraq, Sen. John Warner (R-VA) yesterday told reporters, “[I]n two or three months, if this thing hasn’t come to fruition and if this level of violence is not under control and this government able to function, I think it’s a responsibility of our government internally to determine: Is there a change of course that we should take?â€
So one “Warner” equals half a “Friedman”
Someone who is cynical might wonder what possibly could have made Sen. Warner finally come to this determination. Hmmmm. Anything big happening in the next couple of months?
October 6th, 2006 at 10:30 amTechnodaoist,
It was the link that did you in….sorry to say. Contacting Judd is still a good idea.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:32 amSo one “Warner†equals half a “Friedman†LOL…that was the exact comment I was going to make.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:33 amdlet - The Washington Post wonders why the Bush administration is “blowing the easy ones.â€
Perhaps it’s due to the fact that this administration cares more about setting up the framework to suppress internal dissent than they do about preventing terrorism?
After all, terrorism has worked very well for them.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:34 am“[I]n two or three months, if this thing hasn’t come to fruition and if this level of violence is not under control and this government able to function, I think it’s a responsibility of our government internally to determine: Is there a change of course that we should take?â€
Weak…
October 6th, 2006 at 10:34 am“Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s delay in replacing former deputy Robert Zoellick, who quit in June, is creating policy gaps on major issues from China to Sudan,†according to U.S. foreign policy analysts.
As if rice gives a flying f*ck about any of it. Her parents would be so disappointed in how their little Condi finally turned out.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:35 amBush signed the homeland-security bill; then, hours later, he issued a signing statement saying he could ignore the new restrictions.
GWB, using the voice of Cartman: I do what I want! Screw you! You’re not the boss of me…!
October 6th, 2006 at 10:37 amPBS Newshour — described as “the mother ship of balance†by a Public Broadcasting ombudsman — “fails to provide either balance or diversity of perspectives,†according to a new study.
Really, is it the job of any news broadcast to provide “balance?” Just report the flipping news in a factual manner, and let the people come to their own conclusions.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:39 amThe Washington Post wonders why the Bush administration is “blowing the easy ones.â€
Cuz that’s what whores do?
October 6th, 2006 at 10:40 amSorry Manuel - that’s no joke.
I wonder if the kids being dragged to our area’s newest megachurch are starting to wonder what eating ice cream at the church’s fancy ice cream parlor and bowling at their bowling alley have to so about spirituality.
Please God let me make this strike!
October 6th, 2006 at 10:41 amTechnodaoist,
It was the link that did you in….sorry to say. Contacting Judd is still a good idea.
Comment by Zooey
I thought that might be the case, but it does support my argument… Not all supporting links are political in nature, and I’m glad someone (apparently) rethought it and put my post back.
I know I can appear to pull stuff outta left field, but I do like to think its all connected - illustrative holisticism I guess… Enough of my rambling.
Thanks again all. I do enjoy posting here (its one of the few places I take the time…)
October 6th, 2006 at 10:58 am—“Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s delay in replacing former deputy Robert Zoellick, who quit in June, is creating policy gaps on major issues from China to Sudan,†according to U.S. foreign policy analysts.—
Good! We’d be better off the more Bush jobs that are empty. For once I agree with conservatives, less government. I’ll take the least amount of Bush government anyday.
October 6th, 2006 at 11:02 amI swear, its like people don’t remember what it was like to be a child or adolescent. Did THEY care about packed megachurches and politcal clout when THEY were kids?
Comment by Technodaoist
They don’t remember, I know they don’t. My sister, who was a bit of a wild child herself, doesn’t go quite to that degree, but she always says, “I’m not going to let my kids do what I did as a teen.”
It falls on deaf ears when I remind her that our parents didn’t exactly “allow” her to behave the way she did.
She’s setting herself up for a massive rebellion by both of her children.
October 6th, 2006 at 11:03 am*sigh*
Seems that evangelical christian leaders are learning the art of spin. Their salesmen must be on assignment elsewhere.
October 6th, 2006 at 11:07 am—Congress passed a law establishing new job qualifications for the FEMA director in last week’s homeland security bill, requiring a candidate who has “a demonstrated ability in and knowledge of emergency management†and “not less than five years of executive leadership.†Bush signed the homeland-security bill; then, hours later, he issued a signing statement saying he could ignore the new restrictions.—
Which must mean Bush is planning a few more “Heckava job Brownie” appointments. But I’ll give Bush a slight break, there probably are less and less qualified candidates willing to work for Bush. And in relation to the other point about Rice not replacing the Deputy Secretary of State, it could be no one is applying anymore. Bush’s last two years may find a federal government being run by empty positions, and nothing but unqualified Bush groupies.
Republicans of the Bush kind have run on the idea that Washington is bad, I guess they’ve finally convinced virtually everyone.
October 6th, 2006 at 11:12 amSigning statements have become the line item veto. In the military spending bill Bush has a signing statement that supercedes Congress’ control of the purse strings. Bush doesn’t believe that congress should be informed if the military adjusts funding for secret activities even though congress didn’t appropriate any money for the secret activities.
Our President has over 800 signing statements. All previous presidents combined have just over 600.
Giving away what America stands for one signing statement at a time.
October 6th, 2006 at 11:21 amCuz that’s what whores do?
Comment by Zooey
Ha! I needed a good laugh. Thanks, Zoo. :)
October 6th, 2006 at 11:31 amIf Congress signed a bill outlawing signing statements - what then?
October 6th, 2006 at 11:32 amIs the Bush administration considering a coup d’etat in Iraq before the end of the year, in a desperate effort to salvage its war? It’s not outside the realm of possibility. Like JFK in 1963, who—faced with a notoriously corrupt Saigon regime and a growing Viet Cong insurgency in Vietnam—gave the green light to topple and assassinate President Ngo Dinh Diem in Vietnam, President Bush might give a wink and a nod to the CIA, the U.S. military, and Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad to get rid of Iraq’s current regime. The Diem coup didn’t go well. Considering how unlikely it is that Bush has even heard of Diem, I doubt he’s learned that lesson.
October 6th, 2006 at 11:43 am“I have never seen a US administration whose members were present on the board of so many corporations. Oil in Iraq, Gas and opium in Afghanistan, the US geopolitical agenda is looking more and more like a game of Railroad Tyccon with war bases instead of train stations”
I just had to reprint that comment from an old thread on page 3, “58 Percent” (thank you Nidza!)
Things have gotten very scary. And seriously folks, Cheney and Rumsfeld have been running the government for decades behind the scenes - do you really think they’ll just give up? Time to take the country back!
October 6th, 2006 at 12:00 pmHa! I needed a good laugh. Thanks, Zoo. :)
Comment by Juan+C
I thought you might appreciate that. :)
October 6th, 2006 at 12:16 pmi’ve been away most of the past few days… in doing some catch up reading, i came across this at crooks and liars:
PBS’s NOW: Can Congress Police Itself?
By: Nicole Belle @ 4:12 AM - PDT
PBS: [http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/240/index.html]
Congressman Foley’s abrupt resignation last week is sending political shockwaves throughout the Capitol and the country, but more distressing are allegations that House leadership may have known details of Foley’s inappropriate correspondence with a young page and done little about it.
This Friday, NOW asks “Can Congress police itself?” Our investigation looks at the collision of political and ethical decision-making in Washington and its profound effects on the upcoming elections and our democracy.
Also, the FCC is again considering proposals to let big media get even bigger. NOW takes a closer look at their most recent hearing.
Starting this Friday, the NOW website will offer a “who’s who” slideshow of the Foley scandal. Also, check out Election Insight 2006 for the latest election news and polls.
October 6th, 2006 at 12:30 pmhttp://www.crooksandliars.com/ 2006/ 10/ 05/ pbss-now-can-congress-police-itself/
Good post, Things are outta Hand….Much was kept in secret in decades past. Now we have the technolegy and more of the back room deals are exposed, still cheney, rove, rummy and this miserable administration has kept a lot behind closed doors. The other side of this is they have become so drunk with power this bunch has become bold and dictatorial. Showing their true colors as it were……I remember very well my youth and the statement’ ” Better to be dead than red”…..Well here we are folk’s, 40 year’s down the road and it’s became true, we are red, but the up side is I am not red and not going to be, neither will the majority when they wake up and become informed. Our country was taken over by a terrible disease and the time is now to cure the disease….Cut it out if we have to but remove it…..
When we do take our country back we must root out all the enabelers along with the wrong doer’s……The lieberman’s on all sides must go…I know there are a few good Republican’s and Democrat’s left for the sake of balance, but all the bloated and old worthless representative need to be replaced….
Term limit’s, raises by voter appoval only, removing the lobbiest payment’s and many other important thing’s need to be done….A biggie, now that we have the technolegy is no bill’s getting passed with out a week of voter polling….Giving the masses a chance to tell their representatives how they want them to vote.. For many year’s now our representatives have not been listening at all on any issue and they rush through terrible bill’s distroying our right’s and the constitution….All this must stop and a total open door policy must return……….Blessings
October 6th, 2006 at 12:39 pmPelosi Says She Would Drain GOP ‘Swamp’
By DAVID ESPO
…
WASHINGTON — Franklin Roosevelt had his first hundred days.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is thinking 100 hours, time enough, she says, to begin to “drain the swamp” after more than a decade of Republican rule.
As in the first 100 hours the House meets after Democrats - in her fondest wish - win control in the Nov. 7 midterm elections and Pelosi takes the gavel as the first Madam Speaker in history.
Day One: Put new rules in place to “break the link between lobbyists and legislation.”
Day Two: Enact all the recommendations made by the commission that investigated the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Time remaining until 100 hours: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/ content/ article/ 2006/ 10/ 06/ AR2006100600056.html
October 6th, 2006 at 12:51 pm…
#50 If Congress signed a bill outlawing signing statements - what then?
Comment by Twisting — October 6, 2006 @ 11:32 am
Bush would sign it and use his back-up plan, crossed fingers!
October 6th, 2006 at 12:54 pmThank’s for the link Katy, it’s a good start……Blessings
October 6th, 2006 at 1:16 pmIt is my duty to inform you, that as of today’s jobs posting by the BLS, the following is now true:
Bush+Bush+Reagan+Ford+Nixon = 33,090,000 jobs,
which is greater than
Clinton+Carter = 33,068,000 jobs,
by 22,000 jobs.
Mr Bush’s economic policy has now caused to be reported 3,142,000 in the last 68 months.
Mr. Clinton’s economic policy caused to be reported 3,408,000 in the first 14 months of his administration, and 3,318,000 in 14 average months of his administration.
In 68 average months of his administration, Mr. Clinton’s economic policy caused to be reported 16,116,000 jobs.
Mr. Reagan’s economic policy caused to be reported 16,102,000 jobs in eight years.
Mr. Bush would have to be President for a total of 350 months, or 282 additional months, or until July 2029, to achieve the same total as Mr. Clinton’s 68-month total.
Mr. Bush would have to be President for a total of 494 months, or 426 additional months, or until March 2042, to achieve the same total as Mr. Clinton’s 8-year total. At that time, Mr. Bush will be almost 96 years old, three years older than Mr. Reagan, at his death.
October 6th, 2006 at 1:39 pmPete - dude, are you trying to scare us? Please don’t even go there! President Bush as president until 2042? Just reading that gave me the willies!
October 6th, 2006 at 1:48 pmPete - I mentioned something on another site about the economy not being so great (not nearly as great as they keep telling us that’s for sure!) and some guy jumped down my throat bragging about the 128,000 jobs created in August (since revised to 188,000).
But, don’t we need to see over 300,000 new jobs every month to keep up with the new people hitting the job market?
Needless to say, last month’s 51,000 sure won’t “do” it…
October 6th, 2006 at 1:54 pmThis morning I emailed my Senators (no need to do so for my Repulsivescum Congressperson)…
…to specifically ask them to publicly DENOUNCE George W. Bush’s current barnstorming the country…
…for Repulsivescum political fundraising…
…on MY taxpayer dollars…
…and while in his CLOSED (to the thinking public and media) exclusively for inbreds events…
…calling ME a TRAITOR!
Keith Olbermann was absolutely FANTASTIC with his Special Comments on last night’s show…
…I hope EVERY AMERICAN saw and heard Olbermann’s (again) right on the money remarks to the criminal Bushiva…
…I implore EVERYONE here on TP to email MSNBC and show your support for Olbermann (at Letters to MSNBC TV at their website msnbc.com)…
…as well as emailing your Reps and Senators to PROTEST Bushiva’s intentional demonizing of GOOD American citizens and taxpayers…
…for his criminal Party’s political gain…
…Given the POWER (suspension of habaeus corpus) his REPULSIVESCUM PARTY and the duplicitous Democrats just gave this maniac…
…his political campaign rants are EXTREMELY DANGEROUS and PROVOCATIVE…
…and cannot be dismissed as politics as usual…
October 6th, 2006 at 2:19 pmComment by Margaret — October 6, 2006 @ 1:48 pm
are you trying to scare us?
Yes.
Comment by Margaret — October 6, 2006 @ 1:54 pm
don’t we need to see over 300,000 new jobs every month to keep up with the new people hitting the job market?
I have read that Paul Krugman (Princeton, New York Times) uses 160,000 jobs per month.
October 6th, 2006 at 2:23 pmAs for the Evangelicrites…
…I don’t think it’s correct to characterize the exodus of youngsters seeking the truth as:
“…abandoning the faith…”
A more accurate description would be:
“…abandoning the hypocrisy…”
The right wing bushite “values voter posing as Christian in NO way resembles the Christians I was taught about…
…and I’m sure that God isn’t amused…
October 6th, 2006 at 2:27 pmPete - thanks for the info (not the scare! I’m scared enough already!).
Paul Krugman…now there’s someone I trust! There’s so few of them out there you CAN trust nowadays!
Didn’t he start off as an economist but then get so pissed off that he took a detour down Pundit Lane! And I’m so glad he did!
October 6th, 2006 at 2:57 pmSTILL have posts appearing briefly and then disappearing.
Does anyone know what’s up with this site?
October 6th, 2006 at 3:01 pmi forgot about keith’s comment last night - thanks for the reminder, big papa…
i found this link better for watching the video:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15147009/
Olbermann’s Special Comment: It is not the Democrats whose inaction in the face of the enemy you fear
By: John Amato on Thursday, October 5th, 2006 at 6:30 PM - PDT
Keith hits another one out of the park.
Olbermann: And lastly tonight, a Special Comment, about — lying. While the leadership in Congress has self-destructed over the revelations of an unmatched, and unrelieved, march through a cesspool… While the leadership inside the White House has self-destructed over the revelations of a book with a glowing red cover…
The President of the United States — unbowed, undeterred, and unconnected to reality — has continued his extraordinary trek through our country rooting out the enemies of freedom: The Democrats.
October 6th, 2006 at 3:36 pm…
Transcripts: http://www.crooksandliars.com/ 2006/ 10/ 05/ olbermanns-special-comment-it-is-not-the-democrats-whose-inaction-in-the-face-of-the-enemy-you-fear/ #more-10808
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Perhaps the evangelicals would do better under two circumstances: (1) Stop cozying up to hypocrites who believe the right to life begins at conception and ends at birth; and (2) Kept kids out of tertiary education, because if there’s one thing we know it’s that education causes people to ask awkward questions.
Never ceases to amaze me how much whining these guys do as they get slobbered over by desperate pols…seriously, do they need this much publicity? Humility struck me as quite important in the Bible, but you’d never know it…
October 6th, 2006 at 3:39 pmWell, you can expect another terror alert any day now!!!!
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