ThinkFast: January 10, 2007
ThinkFast: January 10, 2007
White House Press Secretary Tony Snow admitted yesterday that Congress had funding control over the Iraq war but said “the president could ultimately do what he wants.” Snow told reporters, “The President has the ability to exercise his own authority if he thinks Congress has voted the wrong way.”
“Last year was the warmest in the continental United States in the past 112 years — capping a nine-year warming streak ‘unprecedented in the historical record’ that was driven in part by the burning of fossil fuels, the government reported yesterday.”
“Democratic leaders said Tuesday that they intended to hold symbolic votes in the House and Senate on President Bush’s plan to send more troops to Baghdad,” the New York Times reports, “forcing Republicans to take a stand on the proposal and seeking to isolate the president politically over his handling of the war.”
Faculty members at Southern Methodist University, the “likely site” of Bush’s presidential library, “are raising sharp questions about the school’s identification with his presidency.” Yesterday, 150 faculty members voiced “a range of concerns, particularly on whether the school’s academic freedom and political independence might appear compromised by an association with not only the Bush library but also a museum that would accompany it.”
“Federal prosecutors have notified a former deputy secretary of the interior, J. Steven Griles, that he is a target in the public corruption investigation of Jack Abramoff’s lobbying activities.”
“Pentagon insiders say members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have long opposed the increase in troops and are only grudgingly going along with the plan because they have been promised that the military escalation will be matched by renewed political and economic efforts in Iraq.”
“An Army private charged with the slaughter of an Iraqi family was diagnosed as a homicidal threat by a military mental health team three months before the attack.” The private was given medication and ordered to “get some sleep,” then returned to duty the next day “in the particularly violent stretch of desert in the southern Baghdad suburbs known as the ‘Triangle of Death.’”
Former senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) is now a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he “directs a program called ‘America’s Enemies,’” which will “focus on identifying, studying, and heightening awareness of the threats posed to America and the West.”
National taxpayer advocate Nina Olson told Congress yesterday to “repeal the authority it gave the Internal Revenue Service to use private debt collectors,” calling the program “inefficient, uneconomical and prone to abuse.”
And finally: Despite his “thin and slightly reedy” real voice, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) can “steal the show” when he “really sings, deepening his voice and slowing the tempo to a working-in-the-fields, sharecropper cadence.” On Monday, Kucinich sang (and spoke) to an audience at Jesse Jackson’s 10th annual Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Wall Street Project Conference.
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Well, this president has always done exactly what he has wanted regardless of congressional support. But it will be interesting to see how much of Mr. Snow’s statement on the funding of the troop surge is bluffery.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:10 amWhat did we miss? Let us know in the comments section
Thank you for asking.
There is one interesting article:
Former Reagan aid compares Bush to Hitler
January 10th, 2007 at 9:12 amTony Snow sez:
Folks, this has got to stop. Our country has been hijacked by a cabal of murderous thugs that are bent upon establishing their own private fiefdom by aggressively pursuing the ‘doctrine of the Unitary Executive’ (better known as ‘the King can do no wrong’).
It’s clear that Chimpy and his cohorts hold the other two branches of our government in complete and utter contempt, and will brazenly continue their criminal activities. Impeachment, and subsequent criminal prosecution, is the only remedy for what has been done to this country.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:13 amNew Oil Law Means Victory in Iraq for Bush
By Chris Floyd
The reason that George W. Bush insists that “victory” is achievable in Iraq is not that he is deluded or isolated or ignorant or detached from reality or ill-advised. No, it’s that his definition of “victory” is different from those bruited about in his own rhetoric and in the ever-earnest disquisitions of the chattering classes in print and online. For Bush, victory is indeed at hand.
At any time within the next few days, the Iraqi Council of Ministers is expected to approve a new “hydrocarbon law” essentially drawn up by the Bush administration and its UK lackey,
The new bill will “radically redraw the Iraqi oil industry and throw open the doors to the third-largest oil reserves in the world,” says the paper, whose reporters have seen a draft of the new law. “It would allow the first large-scale operation of foreign oil companies in the country since the industry was nationalized in 1972.”
As the paper notes, the law will give Exxon Mobil, BP, Shell and other carbon cronies of the White House unprecedented sweetheart deals, allowing them to pump gargantuan profits from Iraq’s nominally state-owned oilfields for decades to come.
This law has been in the works since the very beginning of the invasion – indeed, when the Bush administration brought in Phillip Carroll, former CEO of both Shell and Fluor, the politically-wired oil servicing firm, to devise “contingency plans” for divvying up Iraq’s oil after the attack. Once the deed was done, Carroll was made head of the American “advisory committee” overseeing the oil industry of the conquered land.
The new law offers the barrelling buccaneers of the West a juicy set of production-sharing agreements (PSAs) that will maintain a fig leaf of Iraqi ownership of the nation’s oil industry – while letting Bush’s Big Oil buddies rake off up to 75 percent of all oil profits for an indefinite period up front, until they decide that their “infrastructure investments” have been repaid. Even then, the agreements will give the Western oil majors an unheard-of 20 percent of Iraq’s oil profits – more than twice the average of standard PSAs, the Independent notes.
Full unedited article at:
January 10th, 2007 at 9:16 amhttp://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010807A.shtml
I’m getting tired of this “imperial presidency”. If this isn’t a constitutional crisis AND cause for impeachment I don’t know what is.
Future generations will wonder what took us so long.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:16 am#3 TripMaster,
Good post. I agree. The Democratically-controlled Legislative Branch must reassert its authority that the Republicans gave away to the Executuve Branch.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:18 amLets see how rhe 2008 slate votes…
State Name Party Seniority Election
AK Ted Stevens R Sr 2008
January 10th, 2007 at 9:20 amAL Jefferson Sessions R Jr 2008
CO Wayne Allard R Sr 2008
GA C. Saxby Chambliss R Sr 2008
ID Larry Craig R Sr 2008
KS Pat Roberts R Jr 2008
KY Mitch McConnell R Sr 2008
ME Susan Collins R Jr 2008
MN Norm Coleman R Jr 2008
MS Thad Cochran R Sr 2008
NC Elizabeth Dole R Sr 2008
NE Charles Hagel R Sr 2008
NH John Sununu R Jr 2008
NM Pete Domenici R Sr 2008
OK James Inhofe R Sr 2008
OR Gordon Harold Smith R Jr 2008
SC Lindsey Graham R Sr 2008
TN Lamar Alexander R Jr 2008
TX John Cornyn R Jr 2008
VA John Warner R Sr 2008
WY Michael Enzi R Jr 2008
AR Mark Pryor D Jr 2008
DE Joseph Biden Jr. D Sr 2008
IA Tom Harkin D Jr 2008
IL Richard J. Durbin D Sr 2008
LA Mary Landrieu D Sr 2008
MA John Kerry D Jr 2008
MI Carl Levin D Sr 2008
MT Max Baucus D Sr 2008
NJ Frank Lautenberg D Jr 2008
RI John F. Reed D Sr 2008
SD Tim Johnson D Sr 2008
WV John Rockefeller, IV D Jr 2008
Pfc. Steven D. Green was found to have “homicidal ideations” after seeking help from an Army Combat Stress Team in
Iraq on Dec. 21, 2005. Green said he was angry about the war, desperate to avenge the death of comrades and driven to kill Iraqi citizens, according to an investigation by The Associated Press.
Here’s the real tragedy of this one…from the AP article:
Pfc. Green sought help on his own, and the Army responded with…what? Drugs and bed rest.
And now, tonight, Bush is going to tell us he needs 20,000 more troops, when the Joint Chiefs of Staff have stated clearly that only 9,000 are available at the maximum. Expect this sort of thing to continue, and expect our international reputation to get even worse.
This shit just isn’t funny anymore. Bush and his cohorts are ripping this country apart, and every Congress member that isn’t screaming in the aisles for impeachment is part of the problem.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:22 am“No one should be surprised that 2006 is the hottest year on record for the U.S.,” said Brenda Ekwurzel, a climate scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists, a public interest group. “When you look at temperatures across the globe, every single year since 1993 has been in the top 20 warmest years on record.”
“Realistically, we have to start fighting global warming in the next 10 years if we want to secure a safe environment for our children and grandchildren,” she said.
Some are listening. Too bad this administration hasn’t chosen to take the lead. Imagine what message that would send to the rest of the world.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:22 amSnow told reporters, “The President has the ability to exercise his own authority if he thinks Congress has voted the wrong way.â€
The press should demand that Snow back that claim up with facts. (They should first allow Snow time to look up the word “facts” in a dictionary.) Then they should demand that he produce the names of everyone in this administration (you know, the people whose salaries are being paid by the American people) who told the president this. These people are not “supporting and defending” the Constitution, and even if they are not under oath to do so, they should be fired.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:25 am“Democratic leaders said Tuesday that they intended to hold symbolic votes in the House and Senate[…]“
Never mind dealing with some REAL legislation. Maybe we should have had a “symbolic” election in November.
“Federal prosecutors have notified a former deputy secretary of the interior, J. Steven Griles, that he is a target in the public corruption investigation of Jack Abramoff’s lobbying activities.â€
Corrupt politicians! No, not in the good ol’ USA
“[…]the Joint Chiefs of Staff have long opposed the increase in troops[…]“
Should have sent more sooner. Instead of taking a knife to a gunfight, we took a spoon! We are now trying to use a screwdriver when we need a sledge hammer.
“Former senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) is now a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center,[…]“
Senator + Ethics = Sorry, it don’t add up.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:27 amThe poor kids having to fight this war. I know my children are all of service age, and they know Mom does not want them to enlist. I hope they don’t.
I remember cousins and uncles, and friends coming back from ‘Nam. Things were not pretty with them for years, some never came back to reality. Some are heroin addicts to this day. To this day. They came back addicted and have never shaken the monkey from their back. Put that together with PTSD and it get worse. Worse.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:29 amBoycott ABC/Disney…
…crooksandliars has an intriguing story about ABC’s copyright infringement cease and desist order that caused a S.F. area blogger (Spocko) to have the plug pulled on it…Why?
…because Spocko was exposing the various calls of violence against progressive public figures by right wing radio station hatemongers at KSFO…
…an ABC subsidiary…
January 10th, 2007 at 9:30 am#3 IAWTC 100%!
and regardign the ‘Library’ that will be built on the SMU campus… that is right across the street from me. the site, if it is where i think it is, currently consists of a very old neighborhood. Lovely homes, 300 year old trees… And even that isnt the exact site, constuction, in that location of the magnitude that this library is goign to require is goign to disrupt the entire area.
there is MUCH more resistance than the press is reporting.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:32 amFormer senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) is now a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he “directs a program called ‘America’s Enemies,’†which will “focus on identifying, studying, and heightening awareness of the threats posed to America and the West.â€
I’m speechless. A propaganda machine to promote preemptive wars against perceived enemies? And what means “and the West”? That the USA must promote wars and involve all the western countries in their lunacy? We have enough of that.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:35 amBubble Boy Bush believes that He and Iranian controlled Prime Minister Nouri Kamel al-Maliki have a military plan for Iraq…Our own miltary generals cant figure a way out of this mess without 400K – 500k boots on the ground…Niccolo Machiavelli & Sun Tzu working together would be hard pressed to find a solution. This President is delusional!!!!!!!!!
January 10th, 2007 at 9:35 amThis ninn-com-poop couldn’t manage a popsicle stand.
Yet he’s supposedly sending 20,000 more of our people to fight in
his invasion that he personally lied about to gain support for.
It’s hard to express how sickening this sounds.
Somebody please, throw him out of office and put him to doing
January 10th, 2007 at 9:37 amwhat he should be doing for a change . . .
answering for his crimes.
Oooooh, the President made a promise! You’d think by now they’d have figured out that those promises aren’t worth the toilet paper they’re written on.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:38 amhil sez:
There always is. We haven’t had a truly independent press in this country for decades. Don’t watch the MSM news unless you enjoy being lied to.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:39 am10, Wayne…Snow told reporters, “The President has the ability to exercise his own authority if he thinks Congress has voted the wrong way.â€
This may be the most alarming statement ever made by a Press Secretary. Every American should be OUTRAGED. G-d f-ing dmnit where is the media coverage???? Tony Snow has just proclaimed that in Bush’s eyes the Constitution is DEAD and no one is reporting this other than Daily Kos?? CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, will you please do your f-ing job before the Constiution is completely gone?
January 10th, 2007 at 9:41 amEvil Spaniard sez:
I’m puzzled by ‘the West’ as well. I think it means the U.S.A. and their client nation of cheap labor (Mexico). I think Canada might be included as well, but from many conversations I’ve had with Canadians, they’d rather we not include them in any more of our shenanigans.
Can’t say as I blame ‘em…
Here’s an interesting question…I wonder if Israel is included in ‘the West’?
January 10th, 2007 at 9:43 amThese thugs will cynically do whatever they choose as long as they can get away with it. Not only do they need to be physically removed from power but the power of teh presidency needs to be considerably reduced in the future.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:44 amIs this still a democracy or a bad copy of Mussolini and Hitler´s fascism?
What the f*ck are they doing to these kids? And for what?
January 10th, 2007 at 9:45 amFaculty members at Southern Methodist University, the “likely site†of Bush’s presidential library, “are raising sharp questions about the school’s identification with his presidency.â€
I have to wonder, about the plans for a Bush presidential library, just what exactly are they going to store there? Everything that could provide any value has been kept a secret and is likely to be sealed forever. What would there be left to study about his presidency in such a place? Are they going to stock it with DVDs of all his speeches and all the right-wing talking heads saying wonderful things about him?
If they ever get him before a war crimes tribunal, his presidential library can be turned into the Institute for American Imperialism and Propaganda Studies. It would be a way to teach future generations that, yes, it can happen here. And don’t let it.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:46 ambut from many conversations I’ve had with Canadians, they’d rather we not include them in any more of our shenanigans.
Comment by TripMaster Monkey
Neither do mexicans…but thats not a decision mexicans ought to do. As always. Here, in Mexico, nobody cares about terrorists. People are worried about eating first.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:49 amOK,
I am being very serious here and I am not taking a shot at the Dems. Bush has done a very poor job with Iraq. Adding more troops is very wrong. Honestly, the Dems have control of the money. They CAN vote to not allow money for the Iraq war and the new money needed for the current addition. Are they going to get this done ASAP? I really really hope because this is getting just flat stupid on Bush’s part. I am sick of seeing my congressmen from btoh sides go on TV and condone the war. Get your ass on the floor of congress and STOP the WAR ALREADY!!!
January 10th, 2007 at 9:57 amThe President can do what he wants to. So nanners nanners nanners to you, with a big rasberry.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:59 am#21
“The West” means the Western Hemisphere and whatever nation in Europe that they’re not ridiculing this week.
January 10th, 2007 at 10:01 amThe homocidal soldier will end up addicted to sedatives, or will kill someone.
January 10th, 2007 at 10:02 amAgain this has got to stop. Why not march on Washington and demand Bush and Cheney resign? Congress is obviously not going to impeach these criminals and they are trying their best to become dictators.
I say these because I sincerely believe Bush is an idiot and his handlers are making the decisions. Does his idiocy make him innocent? Nope, just cause your are stupid does not make you imune to the law of the land which these guys have clearly broken. Impeach now.
January 10th, 2007 at 10:02 am#26 Probably Not Roger_Roger
As much as I’d like to see people like Las Vegas Louie and Roger_Roger visited by some miraculous revelation and suddenly gain the ability to think clearly, I don’t like anyone faking anyone else’s identity for any purpose. Let’s keep it honest, even if the right refuses to.
January 10th, 2007 at 10:07 amSo Bob Casey, it seems, is voting against the stem cell vote, making a veto-overrride difficult. http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2007/01/democrat_oppose.html
Couldn’t a progressive have beaten Man on Dog?
January 10th, 2007 at 10:13 am“Democratic leaders said Tuesday that they intended to hold symbolic votes in the House and Senate on President Bush’s plan to send more troops to Baghdad,†the New York Times reports, “forcing Republicans to take a stand on the proposal and seeking to isolate the president politically over his handling of the war.â€
Make the weasels take a public stand. I love the squirming.
January 10th, 2007 at 10:15 am“Pentagon insiders say members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have long opposed the increase in troops and are only grudgingly going along with the plan because they have been promised that the military escalation will be matched by renewed political and economic efforts in Iraq.â€
They believe that crap?
January 10th, 2007 at 10:16 amFormer senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) is now a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he “directs a program called ‘America’s Enemies,’†which will “focus on identifying, studying, and heightening awareness of the threats posed to America and the West.â€
Of course, his own name is at the top of the page….
January 10th, 2007 at 10:17 amNational taxpayer advocate Nina Olson told Congress yesterday to “repeal the authority it gave the Internal Revenue Service to use private debt collectors,†calling the program “inefficient, uneconomical and prone to abuse.â€
Imagine that…
January 10th, 2007 at 10:18 am“I’m a strict adherer to the command structure.”
January 10th, 2007 at 10:18 amWhy does the chymp hate the Generals?
Isn’t the term “adherent”?
And this is ___________ (please supply noun, or adjectival phrase) supposed to be our President?
Hey Rick! I’m right here!
January 10th, 2007 at 10:19 amThey believe that crap?
Comment by Zoo
You’re right, Zoo. Which promises has this White House kept? (Besides the ones to the rich people that their taxes on their unearned income would go down.)
January 10th, 2007 at 10:19 amWayne,
The Joint Chiefs are not stupid, but it seems as if they’re just going along to get along, and they’re forgetting about the big picture — the troops.
January 10th, 2007 at 10:22 am“Last year was the warmest in the continental United States in the past 112 years — capping a nine-year warming streak ‘unprecedented in the historical record’ that was driven in part by the burning of fossil fuels, the government reported yesterday
Tell it to the Chimp and Inhofe.
January 10th, 2007 at 10:24 amThe temperature increase is due to energy consumed in urban heat islands, where most temperatures are recorded, so that statistic does not reflect “global” effects.
January 10th, 2007 at 10:26 amFrom Rick Santorum:
In his speech marking the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, President Bush accurately described our nation’s ongoing war against the people who attacked us as “the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century.” This war is a struggle for our civilization
I havent seen any canadian, swiss, swedish, danish, etc. too concerned about the possible “fall” of the civilization. Are they with the enemy, Rick?
I have spent a lot of time talking about the formidable enemy we face because I do not think many Americans understand the high cost of losing this war
January 10th, 2007 at 10:28 amThere you go, Rick. Your small dick syndrome is showing and you try so hard to pass it on. However, I pity you. Imagine to live in a world where you think you are at a permanent state of war, where you are surrounded by evil enemies, like in a Doom´s game, where there is only fear and hate. It is so sad and pathetic to live in a world like that: good vs evil.
Again, not the real Roger or the real Jason.
Nice impersonations though.
January 10th, 2007 at 10:28 amGood morning.
January 10th, 2007 at 10:29 amThe temperature increase is due to energy consumed in urban heat islands, where most temperatures are recorded, so that statistic does not reflect “global†effects.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler
YES!!! Urban heat islands!
Oh, how I have missed the insanity of JMH…
January 10th, 2007 at 10:29 amThe temperature increase is due to energy consumed
Comment by Jason M. Hendler
Energy is not consumed. Remember first law of thermodynamics. Exergy is consumed.
in urban heat islands, where most temperatures are recorded, so that statistic does not reflect “global†effects.
January 10th, 2007 at 10:29 amWhatever. Keep up with the antennas and telecommunication devices. Forget the climate change issue.
Again, not the real Roger or the real Jason.
Nice impersonations though.
Comment by ForTruth
Even the real RogerRoger and real Jason are unreal.
January 10th, 2007 at 10:46 amConfiscate all oil and natural gas profits from Exxon-Mobil, BP Amoco, chevron et al…
…and the private assets (wealth) of their corporate board members and executives…
…do likewise to EVERY FOUL member of the criminal Bushite junta and their no-bid contract recipients in this Iraq (and the Katrina) debacle…
INVESTIGATE
IMPEACH
INCARCERATE
IMPOUND
…Bushiva, L’il Dick and their criminal cabal MUST be held
ACCOUNTABLE and CRIMINALLY LIABLE for their crimes against the American and Iraqi people…
…those who STILL support Bush should have the Patriot Act used against them for supporting TERRORISM…
January 10th, 2007 at 10:49 am“The temperature increase is due to energy consumed in urban heat islands, where most temperatures are recorded, so that statistic does not reflect ‘global’ effects.”
Oh, okay, that explains why glaciers and ice-caps are melting.
Right?
Uh, is this thing on?
January 10th, 2007 at 11:03 amWell, Zooey, I tried to post this morning, but THIS SITE BLOCKED MY POST!
January 10th, 2007 at 11:07 amWelcome to “Urban Heat Islands”, the latest and greatest reality TV show, where young, attractive, horney hip-hop artists try to survive weird challenges and compete to avoid a date with a well-known blogger.
January 10th, 2007 at 11:08 am“The President has the ability to exercise his own authority if he thinks Congress has voted the wrong way.â€
This brings up some very interesting possibilities, the most bizarre of which is this:
The House impeaches Bush, Cheney and Condom Rice.
January 10th, 2007 at 11:11 amThe Senate removes all three from office.
The Speaker of the House is sworn in as President.
DUHbya the Decider decides the vote was wrong and refuses to leave the White House.
Now the rub! Who sleeps in the middle, Nancy, Laura or DUHbya?
Zooey ~ What happened to the ey?
January 10th, 2007 at 11:11 amI wonder if National taxpayer advocate Nina Olson is now on Rick’s list of state enemies?
January 10th, 2007 at 11:13 amHi, BnF, at least that one post got through!
Hey, I just saw a few snowflakes–global warming must be over! sarcasm/off
January 10th, 2007 at 11:23 amZooey ~ What happened to the ey?
Comment by RUCerious — January 10, 2007 @ 11:11 am
January 10th, 2007 at 11:23 amWell, Zooey, I tried to post this morning, but THIS SITE BLOCKED MY POST!
Comment by Briseadh na Faire
Sorry! Try posting drivel, it usually works for me. :}
January 10th, 2007 at 11:27 amZooey ~ What happened to the ey?
Comment by RUCerious
One door closes, and another opens. Time for a new name.
Once school is over I’ll be down to the Z. :)
January 10th, 2007 at 11:29 amI am impressed with a really positive attitude here today. Seriously.
January 10th, 2007 at 11:37 amWhat the f*ck are they doing to these kids? And for what?
Comment by Juan C
Using them as cannon fodder for this: New Oil Law Means Victory in Iraq for Bush
January 10th, 2007 at 11:40 amThe new bill will “radically redraw the Iraqi oil industry and throw open the doors to the third-largest oil reserves in the world,†says the paper, whose reporters have seen a draft of the new law. “It would allow the first large-scale operation of foreign oil companies in the country since the industry was nationalized in 1972.â€
The new bill will “radically redraw the Iraqi oil industry and throw open the doors to the third-largest oil reserves in the world,â€
Yup… This sure explains the new “surge” better than anything else has so far.
January 10th, 2007 at 12:09 pm61-62, I posted portions of the Independence article about the Oil Contracts….it was that post that TP decided was in violation of the Terms of Use, I guess. But foul-mouthed trolls who insult and attack other postes have no problem with their stuff showing up.
I’m coming to the conclusion that ThinkProgress is doublespeak.
January 10th, 2007 at 12:21 pmAwesome – Tony is actually helping the impeachment cause, seeding the public record with statements that support the idea that there is willful and deliberate disregard for the Constitution in EVERYTHING the President and his cabal do. Between things like this, and Dubbie’s dogged insistence on playing C-in-C (and doing very poorly at it), the public won’t mind at all when the impeachment, conviction, and incarceration take place.
I’d even be generous in sentencing, and allow Dubbie to serve his sentence under house arrest in Crawford. He would have to wear one of the ankle things, though. No doubt it would be a lot cheaper to exile him there than it would be to let him shamble around the country, costing us God-knows how much in extra Secret Service personnel.
January 10th, 2007 at 12:29 pm#63 BNF – perhaps PinkThrogress would be more appropos…
January 10th, 2007 at 12:32 pmYes, yes, Jason, I think you’re on to something. “Urban Heat Islands” must be the reason a 3000 year-old chunck of ice broke off into the Arctic ocean at least 2000 miles from any urban areas. That makes perfect frickin sense!
January 10th, 2007 at 12:36 pm#63 BnF
January 10th, 2007 at 12:39 pmI don’t know why it violates the terms at TP, but I, also, have been deleted when I quote something directly from another source, whether or not I cite the source! It’s not like this is a term paper — this is supposedly an informational forum for discussion — I wish Judd would explain why this happens instead of frustrating so many of us.
In any case, I try not to miss your posts – please stick around despite your frustrations; we still like to read yours.
Yes, yes, Jason, I think you’re on to something. “Urban Heat Islands†must be the reason a 3000 year-old chunck of ice broke off into the Arctic ocean at least 2000 miles from any urban areas. That makes perfect frickin sense!
Comment by Bluedog49
With 23 hours of darkness up there those Inuits must be burning a lot of whale blubber to account for Jason’s Urban Heat Islands.
January 10th, 2007 at 12:53 pm#21 Here’s an interesting question…I wonder if Israel is included in ‘the West’?
Comment by TripMaster Monkey — January 10, 2007 @ 9:43 am
Well, Israel is the only country of the ME who participates in Eurovision, a singing contest where all the other participants are Europeans… BTW, the contender of two years ago was a transexual singer… The most conservatives sectors of Israel where foaming by the mouth all the months previous to the contest… I’m really puzzled at this point.
January 10th, 2007 at 12:54 pmWith 23 hours of darkness up there those Inuits must be burning a lot of whale blubber to account for Jason’s Urban Heat Islands.
Comment by dlet — January 10, 2007 @ 12:53 pm
And, wheren’t the Inuits doing it for thousands of years without the ice melting away? (I know your statement is sarcasm, but I’m following the joke)
/Sarcasm Off
P.S.: Something odd is happening in my visualization of thinkprogress: sometimes the black buttons over the edit box with styles appear, other times don’t…
P.S. 2: There is a serial impersonator hijacker in the thread, I guess. Some “opionions” are too strange…
January 10th, 2007 at 1:00 pmHopeless threadjack, but to the other geeks like Zoo and dlet out there, you guys need to google the bruce campbell old spice commerical, it even has his chainsaw at the start of it.
January 10th, 2007 at 2:11 pmSqueeg,
January 10th, 2007 at 3:34 pmThanks. That was awesome. Thank god I wasn’t drinking anything when he started walking.
dlet
Thanks. That was awesome. Thank god I wasn’t drinking anything when he started walking.
No problem, I’m here to help/amuse.
January 10th, 2007 at 3:44 pm[...] Posted in Government, GOP, Iraq War, Congress, Bush Administration at 1:08 pm by LeisureGuy Via ThinkProgress: White House Press Secretary Tony Snow admitted yesterday that Congress had funding control over the Iraq war but said “the president could ultimately do what he wants.†Snow told reporters, “The President has the ability to exercise his own authority if he thinks Congress has voted the wrong way.†[...]
January 10th, 2007 at 4:06 pmI don’t know why it violates the terms at TP, but I, also, have been deleted when I quote something directly from another source, whether or not I cite the source! It’s not like this is a term paper — this is supposedly an informational forum for discussion — I wish Judd would explain why this happens instead of frustrating so many of us.
In any case, I try not to miss your posts – please stick around despite your frustrations; we still like to read yours.
Comment by Marie — January 10, 2007 @ 12:39 pm
Personally I think this site is still having technical problems and no one in control will admit to it.
I, too, occasionally have posts that do not appear, or appear and then disappear (sometimes re-appearing…sometimes not!). This occurs when I post stuff with our without links. What pisses me off is that I have sent the administrators several e-mails asking why my posts are blocked, and I get no response whatsoever. Maybe they receive too much e-mail and they cannot reply personally. I dunno. It’s just irritating.
January 10th, 2007 at 4:29 pmAs far as Tony Snow’s latest comment, can we just impeach the bastards Bush and Cheney and get on with it? Sure it will be messy, but we’ll sort through that when we cross that bridge. The Dems and Repubs don’t want to put the country through it? Don’t have the stomach for another impeachment? Well, bullshit. For at least the past couple of years, there has been something from this administration at least once per week that has made most of us shake our heads in disbelief or utter disgust.
Whether it’s Tony Snow or Scott McClellan once again mouthing off that Bush has ultimate power or the administration never said “Stay the course” or “we won’t comment on an ongoing investigation” (after which Bush, on one occasion, said he thought Tom DeLay, under investigation, was not guilty), to Bush laughing at America, Congress, and the Constitution by giving us over 700 signing statements, or laughing on national TV at the suggestion that most Americans do not support his “war,” to telling America that we’ll leave Iraq if the Iraqis ask us to leave and then refusing to do so when members of the Iraqi government do just that.
And then there’s the bitching about no good news from Iraq when the State Department itself will not allow reporters to report on the good news stories, to Bush boasting to Brian Williams that Americans are sacrificing during this “war” by paying alot of taxes (this, after his much-touted tax cuts. Go figure), and telling Brian that “we had a foreign policy that basically said, let’s hope calm works. And we were attacked” when Bush himself didn’t do jack sh*t to track or prevent terrorists once he took office, and on and on and on.
And from that interview with Brian:
BUSH: I don’t know. I frankly don’t pay that much attention. I don’t want to hurt people’s feelings, but…
WILLIAMS: Still not watching television, huh?
BUSH: I watched a good baseball game.
Say it with me, people. Bush is an idiot. Case closed.
Sorry for the long post but I am just so damned tired of what this administration has brought upon this great country and its people. I feel like Keith O. and his Special Comments, yet I reached the breaking point long ago.
January 10th, 2007 at 4:55 pmIn Washington this week, the Democratic-controlled House takes on the first minimum wage increase since 1997. But while the federal government has blocked help for 13 million working Americans (9.8% of the workforce) for a decade, many states have already moved forward with their own minimum wage hikes. And as you might imagine, few of them happened to vote for George W. Bush for president.
For the details, see:
January 10th, 2007 at 4:58 pm“The Minimum Wage in Red and Blue.”
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January 10th, 2007 at 6:28 pmWhite House Press Secretary Tony Snow admitted yesterday that Congress had funding control over the Iraq war but said “the president could ultimately do what he wants.†Snow told reporters, “The President has the ability to exercise his own authority if he thinks Congress has voted the wrong way.â€
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Three words come immediately to mind when I read this…
———- CHECKS AND BALANCES ———-
(Wait…no, don’t tell me! Let me guess…the trolls are going to try and make the claim that there’s no such thing as “checks and balances” and never has been, that our Founding Fathers never intended any such thing.)
What “Squealer” (my new nickname for Tony Snow) is essentially saying is that Bush is not and should not be beholden to Congress and that Congress is, for all intents and purposes, not much more than a symbolic body. I don’t honestly see how you can possibly interpret this any other way. One of my favorite political quotations is that by Lord Acton to the effect that “power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” — and this is precisely the state of affairs which our Founding Fathers were trying to prevent when they first designed our government, a situation in which the government or one sector attempts to operate without check or oversight and effectively hold absolute power. If the President is not answerable to Congress, how is that not absolute power? Yes, our system of government grants the President the right and the power to veto any decision made by the Congress — but it also grants Congress the right and the power to overturn a Presidential veto. Attempting to do an end-run around the process through “signing statements” effectively demonstrates that Bush does not consider himself answerable to Congress — AND THIS HAS GOT TO STOP.
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