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ThinkFast: January 25, 2007

By Think Progress on Jan 25th, 2007 at 9:02 am

ThinkFast: January 25, 2007


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Senate conservatives yesterday blocked legislation to raise the federal minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25, “insisting it include new tax breaks for restaurants and other businesses.”

The Congressional Budget Office reported yesterday that President Bush “can balance the budget within five years, or he can get Congress to extend his tax cuts beyond their scheduled expiration — but he can’t do both.”

In the Scooter Libby trial yesterday, former Associate CIA Deputy Director Robert Grenier testified that — pursuant to a request — he told Libby that Valerie Plame worked at the CIA in June 2003, a month before Libby claimed to have learned that information from NBC’s Tim Russert. Another CIA employee said he delivered a stark warning that the Bush administration’s leak “could lead to the deaths of people who aided American intelligence gathering abroad.”

“It’s water over the deck — get over it,” Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said yesterday about the 2000 Bush v. Gore ruling, “drawing laughs from his audience” at Iona College in New York.

Christine Todd Whitman, the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency under George W. Bush, said the president “missed the ‘perfect opening’ to call for a cap on greenhouse gas emissions in his State of the Union address Tuesday night.”

A Washington state school district’s controversial ban on the screening of Al Gore’s documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” was “lifted Tuesday night, subject to rigorous conditions. Still, the action has appalled the film’s producers and triggered a ferocious national backlash.”

“After the bloodiest year in Afghanistan since the U.S. invasion,” the Bush administration “will ask Congress for $7 billion to $8 billion in new funds for security, reconstruction and other projects in Afghanistan as part of the upcoming budget package.”

“Authorities at Tarleton State University said they plan to investigate a Martin Luther King Jr. Day party that mocked black stereotypes by featuring fried chicken, malt liquor and faux gang apparel.”

And finally: Senator, Dr. Frist will see you now. “The average age of members of the U.S. Senate is older than it has ever been,” and for “many senators, advanced age is starting to show.” Before his retirement from the Senate, former Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), “a noted heart surgeon, was being consulted for informal medical advice by two dozen of his colleagues — more than 20 percent of the Senate.” “They went to Frist complaining about a host of illnesses and chronic maladies, most related to aging.”

What did we miss? Let us know in the comments section.



70 Responses to “ThinkFast: January 25, 2007”

  1. TripMaster Monkey says:

    “It’s water over the deck — get over it,” Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said yesterday about the 2000 Bush v. Gore ruling,

    Spoken like a true neocon thug.



  2. buzzbomb says:

    The much lauded 100 hours legislation is already beginning to get shot down in the senate. Now that the shock and awe 100 hours is over, its back to good old Washington get nothing done gridlock. Yippee. Hey, heres an idea Congress, IMPEACH BUSH and CHENEY. That should keep ‘em busy for awhile.


  3. linda says:

    christie todd whitmann should keep her mouth shut and quietly retreat to her welltodo enclave in new jersey. she was prominently positioned to advance environmental issues, but instead chose to be the ‘friendly’ public face while bushco eviscerated federal regulations. but her most unforgiveable act was to lie to the residents of new york city and those who worked at ground zero that the air quality was safe to breathe. and now many of those recovery workers are dying — slow, lingering, horrible deaths. she can rot in hell.


  4. Dumb_Fox says:

    “[the] leak “could lead to the deaths of people who aided American intelligence gathering abroad.”

    Now where are our wingnut friends who still allege Plame was a “desk-jockey”…


  5. veritas says:

    Looks like Grenier is the “songbird” we all knew would come out of the woodwork and indict the Bush Administration of liars and thugs on this treasonous act by them! It’s finale time for Bushco now!


  6. veritas says:

    #4 Is that who lied about the toxic cloud to the people of NY? I thought it was Rudy Guliani??? They probably were in cahoots about it. People all over the country, particularly those in health related professions, were dissing it immediately because everyone knew that that “dust and debris” HAD to be hazardous and toxic to the people nearest to it. And, then to seduce volunteers into destroying their health….along with the Fire & Rescue personnel….this is criminal on their part and the people of NY will never forgive Guliani for this. He can forget any political aspirations he may harbor for all of the lies he spun during 911.


  7. DM says:

    Linda – link me. I’d like to read more.


  8. Kay says:

    “After the bloodiest year in Afghanistan since the U.S. invasion,” the Bush administration “will ask Congress for $7 billion to $8 billion in new funds for security, reconstruction and other projects in Afghanistan as part of the upcoming budget package.”

    And New Orleans gets forgotten about by this administration…


  9. Publicus says:

    Scalia may have had a laugh at subverting our democracy, but WE THE PEOPLE will have the last laugh. We’re taking back our unalienable rights.



  10. Briseadh na Faire says:


    Senate conservatives yesterday blocked legislation to raise the federal minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25, “insisting it include new tax breaks for restaurants and other businesses.”

    This is the second filibuster in as many weeks. The first was on Ethics Reform. So, it looks like we’re transitioning from a do-nothing Republican Majority to a pass-nothing Republican Minority.

    What fries me is Corporate Media’s silence on Republican obstructionism, whilst the Democrats were cowed away from using the filibuster to prevent passage of domestic spying on citizens and the Military Commissions Act, etc., etc., etc.


  11. Briseadh na Faire says:


    The Congressional Budget Office reported yesterday that President Bush “can balance the budget within five years, or he can get Congress to extend his tax cuts beyond their scheduled expiration — but he can’t do both.”

    Actually, he can. We saw a foreshadowing how only a couple of month’s ago, with the reports that the Pentagon has been instructed to shift expenditures out of the budget an into the supplemental War authorizations.

    By shifting more and more of the Pentagon’s finances off-budget, Bush can balance the budget while bankrupting the country. And the War Profiteers will laugh all the way to their Swiss Bank.


  12. Briseadh na Faire says:


    “I thought there was a very grave danger to leaking the name of a CIA officer,” the briefer from Langley, Craig Schmall, said he told Messrs. Cheney and Libby during a morning session at the vice president’s residence. “Foreign intelligence services where she served now have the opportunity to investigate everyone whom she had come in contact with. They could be arrested, tortured, or killed.”

    And those people were our network of intelligence on WMDs. Those men and women, whom we will never know their fate, were also blamed for the “faulty intelligence” leading up to Bush’s War in Iraq.

    An even further reaching implication is this: after the leak of Plame exposed her entire covert operation, how many people do you think would still come forward and talk to Americans about sensitive information?


  13. DallasNE says:

    So Senate Republicans want to kill the minimum wage increase by attaching a poison pill amendment for another tax cut. What the Democrats need to do in return is to invoke pay-go rules and at least make the Republicans come up with off-sets so this doesn’t just turn into another borrow-and-spend Republican proposal.

    The Republicans showed for the last 6 years that they cannot lead. Now that that has turned them into the minority party they want to use Senate rules to prevent Democrats from leading. Apparently the lesson from the 2006 election was not learned so that lesson needs to be reinforced in 2008. That was the message from Sen. Jim Webb regarding Iraq but the waters edge does not end with Iraq.


  14. Pity the Fool says:

    I wish that the Supreme Court and the Republican Party would apply Scalia’s reasoning to Roe v. Wade… It’s decided, so get over it!


  15. Briseadh na Faire says:


    “It’s water over the deck — get over it,” Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said yesterday about the 2000 Bush v. Gore ruling, “drawing laughs from his audience” at Iona College in New York.

    It’s nice to know the passengers on the Titanic are having such a great time, laughing to the Captain’s jokes, as water laps over the deck….


  16. melissa says:

    Caption of that photo should be read like this-

    For every man and woman and child in America? I promise one bottle of fine aged double malt scotch whiskey.


  17. Fools on the Hill says:

    Good! It looks like more incumbent repugs will be removed in 08. Keep your list of who’s been naughty.


  18. TripMaster Monkey says:

    ‘melissa’ sez:

    For every man and woman and child in America? I promise one bottle of fine aged double malt scotch whiskey.

    Go away, rachel. It’s getting old.


  19. tarazan says:

    I thought these businesses got their tax break by Bush ..It is time for the little guy to see some improvment in his life. It has been long over due to see an increase in the’ minimum wage’. Why the Senate made it conditional to increase minimum wage?!…When they raised themselves 8 time in the Congress, they didn’t link their raise conditionally to any thing or any group.


  20. Zooey says:

    For every man and woman and child in America? I promise one bottle of fine aged double malt scotch whiskey.
    Comment by melissa

    The morons are getting an early start today.


  21. Zooey says:

    Senate conservatives yesterday blocked legislation to raise the federal minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25, “insisting it include new tax breaks for restaurants and other businesses.”

    Why can’t the Democratic majority just handle this? Are they on the MSM saying exactly what the Repugs are doing?


  22. big papa says:

    I hope and pray that one day we’ll get to play that back for him…

    …just before a trap door opens…

    …after he’s received “due process” of course…

    …he (and his masters) certainly deserve to join the Husseins…


  23. Briseadh na Faire says:


    the Bush administration “will ask Congress for $7 billion to $8 billion in new funds for security, reconstruction and other projects in Afghanistan as part of the upcoming budget package.”

    Yet no mention of which domestic programs will be cut or reduced to balance the budget for this new expenditure. Even though Big Oil industries make more than this much profit in one quarter, Bush won’t raise their taxes.

    We’re spending your tax dollars over there, so we don’t have to spend them over here.

    Reconstruction for the areas damaged by Katrina? That’s a State and Local problem.


  24. Briseadh na Faire says:


    “They went to Frist complaining about a host of illnesses and chronic maladies, most related to aging.”

    And after watching a video tape, Dr. Senator Frist diagnosed each one of them as having normal brain functions.


  25. tarazan says:

    I say publish the names of all these senators who voted against the minimum wage increase , for next 2008 senatorial elections, so people will know next time around who is the real senator to vote for..and be able to distinguish between the talker and the doer.


  26. criticalthinker says:

    When the Republicans were in charge they kept threating to use the “nuclear option”, to stop filibusters.

    As usual the HYPOCRITES feel differently now that the shoe is on the other foot!


  27. Zimzone says:

    Scalia. What a guy.
    This is the same mafioso judge who had a guy escorted out of a Q&A session because he asked something Scailia didn’t like.
    With Supreme Court judges like this, who needs Fox news?

    The real terrorists are here alright; they’re working for the Feds.


  28. PatrioticLiberalChristian(PLC) says:

    I say publish the names of all these senators who voted against the minimum wage increase , for next 2008 senatorial elections, so people will know next time around who is the real senator to vote for..

    Better put it on radio and say it on TV. The 30%ers need short sound bites.
    I’d like to see Public Service Announcement style campaign commercials in which these senators voice their opposition to the minimum wage, followed by another statement they have made supporting Big Business welfare.


  29. big papa says:

    Comment by tarazan #27

    tarazan,

    If the funding isn’t stopped for Iraq…

    …and the troops aren’t brought home…

    …we won’t need no stinkin’ list…

    …throw ALL of the no good sombiches OUT!

    …and replace them with public servants who understand that their duty…

    …is to serve the will of the people…


  30. bluefish says:

    An even further reaching implication is this: after the leak of Plame exposed her entire covert operation, how many people do you think would still come forward and talk to Americans about sensitive information?

    Comment by Briseadh na Faire — January 25, 2007 @ 9:39 am

    This is such a great point. Further proof that the clowns running the show are unable to look ahead (or plan ahead) and see the potential future consequences of their actions.


  31. trueblue says:

    I believe this is the list for the min.wage:

    NAYs —43
    Alexander (R-TN)
    Allard (R-CO)
    Bennett (R-UT)
    Bond (R-MO)
    Bunning (R-KY)
    Burr (R-NC)
    Chambliss (R-GA)
    Coburn (R-OK)
    Cochran (R-MS)
    Corker (R-TN)
    Cornyn (R-TX)
    Craig (R-ID)
    Crapo (R-ID)
    DeMint (R-SC)
    Dole (R-NC)
    Domenici (R-NM)
    Ensign (R-NV)
    Enzi (R-WY)
    Graham (R-SC)
    Grassley (R-IA)
    Gregg (R-NH)
    Hagel (R-NE)
    Hatch (R-UT)
    Hutchison (R-TX)
    Inhofe (R-OK)
    Isakson (R-GA)
    Kyl (R-AZ)
    Lott (R-MS)
    Lugar (R-IN)
    Martinez (R-FL)
    McCain (R-AZ)
    McConnell (R-KY)
    Murkowski (R-AK)
    Roberts (R-KS)
    Sessions (R-AL)
    Shelby (R-AL)
    Smith (R-OR)
    Stevens (R-AK)
    Sununu (R-NH)
    Thomas (R-WY)
    Thune (R-SD)
    Vitter (R-LA)
    Voinovich (R-OH)

    Not Voting – 3
    Brownback (R-KS)
    Carper (D-DE)
    Johnson (D-SD)


  32. trueblue says:

  33. ForTruth says:

    Thanks TrueBlue,

    They are all dead to me.


  34. Zooey says:

    They are all dead to me.
    Comment by ForTruth

    They are dead to me, as well.
    We should let them know, they’ll be hurt.


  35. DallasNE says:

    #23

    You ask why the Democratic majority can’t just handle this. While the Democrats can muster 50 votes (a simple majority) they cannot muster the 60 votes (a super majority) that is required to end the Republican fillabuster. In the House, where only a simple majority is needed, the legislation passed.

    Lastly, the poison pill the Republicans have attached does not conform to the new pay-go rules. Under pay-go offsets are required so measures don’t simply add to the budget deficit. Since Democrats can’t come up with the 60 votes to report out a clean minimum wage bill they need to at least enforce pay-go rules. Any bill that is passed by the Senate will have to go to conference with the House since there are differences between the bills.


  36. ForTruth says:

    Hows Johnson by the way?


  37. ForTruth says:

    Kay Hutcheson and Lizzy Dole are two of my favs, don’t forget Mr. Patrick Roberts of Kansas, he’s a gem. NOT.


  38. the fly-man says:

    Ah Justice Scalia, certainly a man with little peers.


  39. Zooey says:

    Ah Justice Scalia, certainly a man with little peers.
    Comment by the fly-man

    Is that what they’re calling them these days?


  40. trueblue says:

    Is that what they’re calling them these days?

    Comment by Zooey

    Hilarious as usual, Zoo.

    Anyone else checking out FDL’s Libby trial coverage?
    They are allowed to blog from the courtroom.
    Kinda cool.


  41. oldtree says:

    scalia will find out it isn’t over when we recall him. he is the most embarrassing justice we have had in what, a century?
    2000 is over with yes, but you are not


  42. klyde says:

    For every man and woman and child in America? I promise one bottle of fine aged double malt scotch whiskey.
    Comment by melissa

    3 bottles of single malt scotch all for me, it would get my vote.
    (Wife and kid don’t drink)


  43. hacker bob says:

    OT: About Sen Johnson.

    Before he was incapacitated, do we know if he gave proxy to anyone to vote in his behalf?

    Just curious.

    Also, Yes Scalia made a point, but made it in a stupid way. Bush Vs Gore. Bush won the electoral vote, which is what determines the presidency. The Supreme Court upheld the result. So, weather or not we like the result is not the issue. The system functioned the way it was intended to. Use that election as a benchmark for refining the system. Get over it by finding a better way. But what happened in 2000 is a result of living in a Representative Republic. We DO NOT live in a Democracy as some believe.


  44. SouthWest Bob says:

    Slightly Off Topic:

    DEARBORN, Mich. – Ford Motor Co. lost $5.8 billion in the fourth quarter amid slumping sales and huge restructuring costs, pushing the automaker’s deficit for the year to $12.7 billion, the largest in its 103-year history.

    I am almost positive I remember prezident bushco recently saying that the economy is strong and getting stronger. I wonder what the “pre-bush” deficit would have been for these large corps? Has bush’s tax policies “helped” them?

    In any case, I’m sure the thousands who have been laid off appreciate the strength of our economy.


  45. SouthWest Bob says:

    Gosh, it just keeps getting better!

    WASHINGTON – Sales of existing homes fell in December, closing out a year in which demand for homes slumped by the largest amount in 24 years.

    Prezident bushco’s strong economy is really working!


  46. tarazan says:

    Looking at the list on #33.. I noticed that there are three senators who didn’t vote..one is in the hospital and he is excused(Senator Johnson)…but one of the other two is Brownback of Kansas…busy trying to run for President.. Someone should remind him that he missed the vote on ‘minimum wage’ next time he goes to debate on or television ,and later goes shaking hands with people, as a candidate for president.


  47. big papa says:

    he is the most embarrassing justice

    Comment by oldtree #43

    oldtree,

    In any future communications on the topic of Antonin Scumlia (sic) and the Supreme Court…

    …please refrain from using the word “JUSTICE” in the same sentence with OR when referring to…

    …Antonin SCUMlia…


  48. Mark says:

    The get over it attitude is the Bush admin mantra. We did it, so what get over it move on. I wonder if anyone in the audience asked Scalia if he felt that way about Roe or other contriooversial decisions?


  49. melissa says:

    Caption of that photo should be read like this-

    For every man and woman and child in America? I promise never to make this face again when my hemmorhoids are on the flare.


  50. Briseadh na Faire says:


    This is such a great point. Further proof that the clowns running the show are unable to look ahead (or plan ahead) and see the potential future consequences of their actions.

    Comment by bluefish — January 25, 2007 @ 10:03 am

    If your goal is to invade the oil-rich countries of the Middle East no matter what, you really don’t need intelligence, because you have such an overwhelming arsenal at your disposal, any WMDs possessed and used by the Middle Eastern countries merely reinforces your propaganda about why they had to be invaded.

    Casualties, American or otherwise, are irrelevant to that way of thinking. The only thing that matters is total control of the World’s Oil Supply.


  51. theswan says:

    Miss Whitman, you’ve been put to pasture. Shut your mouth.


  52. DRxJ says:

    For every man and woman and child in America? I promise never to make this face again when my hemmorhoids are on the flare.
    Comment by melissa(aka rachel & other names too numerous to post) — January 25, 2007 @ 10:49 am

    I have constantly challenged you, yet you never respond. Can you not debate? Can you not have a reasonable argument? Or are you here because your pathetic, lonely life needs a raison d’etre? And that any form of disruptiveness regarding a thread makes you feel alive, of worth?
    Again, pathetic

    …and to further your education to help you disrupt (not debate) in future threads, it’s hemorrhoids, not hemmorhoids. For easier spelling, just type the oft used nickname, piles. As in your constant namejacking and offensive postings are, as usual, a pile of $HIT!
    You’re Welcome


  53. katy says:

    sam seder just announced that the repugs are fillibustering
    the minimun wage bill…


  54. katy says:

    also heard on sam… this is a hoot… talk about a dick…

    Florida Republican fumes at not having a chair in meeting, leads walk out

    A Florida Republican, who is the ranking minority member of the Transportation Committee in the House of Representatives, stormed out of a meeting last week, leading other Republican members with him. An article today in Roll Call reports that he was angry because he was not seated properly during an orientation session.
    [...]
    http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Florida_Republican_fumes_at_not_having_0125.html
    .


  55. ForTruth says:

    Florida Republican fumes at not having a chair in meeting, leads walk out

    The guy should stand his ass up and still complete the task at hand.

    I say throw almost all of them out.


  56. DallasNE says:

    #47 – Southwest Bob

    Did you also notice the foreclosures were up a whopping 42% in 2006 with the 4th quarter being the worst quarter for the year.

    These 2 numbers are the primary reason I think most economists are too optimistic on the economy for 2007. These are powerful headwinds.


  57. ForTruth says:

    Just print more money, take everything out of the regular budget. Yeah thats it, its great!


  58. WC says:

    Briseadh (or anyone else that wants to chime in):

    If you are here…

    Have you read anything about bill H.R.1 entitled “Implementing the 9/11 Commission Recommendations Act of 2007″?

    I’m going to be looking at it off and on today, when I have time. If you have, can you tell me if there is anything in the bill that gives any control of our security over to the U.N.? One of our reps, David Davis (R-TN), voted against the bill because of this very reason. He said that we should not have to ask the U.N. for permission to protect our own country.

    Thanks for any input you can give. I’d like to respond to “my” rep, and possibly send in a Letter to the Editor.


  59. Randy Nason says:

    This is war, if the Repugs think there is any way to work with them. Who cares, about trying to work with them? Go for the jugular and make it a quick kill. It’s the “decent and humane” thing to do.


  60. jdmckay says:

    re: Scalia’s comments (“It’s water over the deck — get over it,”), your linked article has a number of other disturbing comments from SCOTUS members involved in that thing.

    “A no-brainer! A state court deciding a federal constitutional issue about the presidential election? Of course you take the case,” Kennedy told ABC News correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg in her new book, “Supreme Conflict.”

    “Deciding” appropriate actions to ballot problems/interpretations, whether chads or not, has never been a “federal constitutional issue”. Beyond that, initial SCOTUS entry into this foray was over GWB’s “rights”, not ballot issues.

    Kennedy said the justices didn’t ask for the case to come their way. Then-Vice President Al Gore’s legal team involved the courts in the election by asking a state court to order a recount, Kennedy said.

    (sheesh…) what an incredibly inaccurate statement. Florida recounts were mandatory under Florida law given less than .5% plurality. This was overriden by Katheryn Harris’ “in my judgement” call. Harris made this announcement, answered no questions and exited the building, under guard, through an inaccessable private exit.

    Gore agreed to not contest Harris’ original election certification on the word of GWB campaign, which promised a resolution in the “contest faze” to follow. GWB then pulled all the stops to delay adjudaction in this faze, with a strategy to “run out the clock” w/out recounts. This strategy is detailed, proudly, in books authored by several GWB strategists in this endeavor.

    And again, Kennedy’s statement (eg: “we didn’t ask for the case”) is ridiculous: SCOTUS got involved on issues unrelated to “chads”… rather GWB’s concern that his “rights” (equal protection)would be violated in a recount. There is a good discussion of this SCOTUS “flip flop” here.

    I’d also point out, while this was going on GWB lawyers argued for a recount in New Mexico, saying :

    “of course, no other way to determine the accuracy of this apparent discrepancy, or machine malfunction, other than the board reviewing the votes by hand.”

    Scalia further intones:

    “Counting somebody else’s dimpled chad and not counting my dimpled chad is not giving equal protection of the law,” Scalia said at Iona.

    Which, of course, is not what did happen or what would’ve happened had recounts proceeded. Such language, implicitly assuming election boards are/were picking and choosing likeable chads… from a sitting SCOTUS member… deplorable.

    O’Connor said the Florida court was “off on a trip of its own.”

    The Florida court decided on very clear Florida law. I think (and thought at the time) O’Connor was getting her legal advice from FOX News.

    She acknowledged, however, that the justices probably could have done a better job with the opinion if they hadn’t been rushed.

    And here is the greatest insult of all. After ordering a recount +/- 2 weeks before final deadline, SCOTUS took the decision under review. Knowing full well the deadline was approaching, SCOTUS took 3 days to send it back to Florida Supremes, asking them to “clarify” and “reconsider” their decision’s applicability to Florida law.

    Now, aware of this impending deadline, one might think that the highest court in our land might mobilize some resources to review Florida law for themselves and issue an intelligent, thoughtful response on the issues at hand. Instead, they asked Florida to, essentially, restate their prior descision endorsing recounts.

    Among SCOTUS’ multiple convenient fabrications, this one sticks in my craw…

    The petition presents the following questions: whether the Florida Supreme Court established new standards for resolving Presidential election contests, thereby violating Art. II, §1, cl. 2, of the United States Constitution and failing to comply with 3 U.S.C. § 5 and whether the use of standardless manual recounts violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses. With respect to the equal protection question, we find a violation of the Equal Protection Clause.

    The Florida Supreme’s decision is still posted on their website. I would highly recomend anyone interested in historical accuracy go read those FS’s decisions: it cites applicable Florida law, and is clear as day… unassailable.

    Essentially, SCOTUS conspired, through delay and legal maneuvers, to assist GWB in “running out the clock”. It was constitutional deadlines, not ballot issues, which ended that thing.

    Still, O’Connor said the outcome of the election would have been the same even if the court had not intervened.

    Nope. The media consortium determined that, under partial recount scenarios, GWB won. This was the essence of headlines across the country when, 1 year after the fact, they released their results. What was not headlined: GORE won every instance where all ballots were recounted, regardless of the various chad interpretations applied. And this, knowing GORE lost some +20k butterfly ballots.

    Or in other words, GWB won except when all ballots were considered.

    That the “GWB won” meme persists… I’ve seen it stated as fact in main WSJ OpEDs many times in recent years, is bad enough. That a US presidential election’s results can be obfuscated by crafty legal maneuvers delaying an honest count further exasperates. The lasting notion of that affair and the shenanigans which determined it’s result are worse: eg…
    * specific andidate, in this case GORE, is at fault for requesting partial rather than full recounts, neither of which SCOTUS ultimately allowed
    * legal shenanigans can and did delay Florida State voting statutes & procedures
    * And lastly, that a candidate is responsable for the integrity of an election process, rather than the process itself.

    SCOTUS assisted and cooperated in a fraud. The methods of this fraud, sadly, were an accurate portend to the massive malfeasance that has proven to be the GWB whitehouse.

    That those sitting SCOTUS members continue to make stuff up, AFAIC, is chilling. Very, very chilling.


  61. Briseadh na Faire says:

    Thanks for any input you can give. I’d like to respond to “my” rep, and possibly send in a Letter to the Editor.

    Comment by WC — January 25, 2007 @ 11:57 am

    email me at myspammailbox at hotmail dot com – I’ll get to this later…


  62. WC says:

    Comment by Briseadh na Faire — January 25, 2007 @ 3:28 pm

    Thanks dude! No rush. I’ve perused over the table of contents of the bill and picked out a few sections that “might” reference the U.N. and will look at them more in-depth in the next few days, starting tonight.


  63. Jay Severin has a small pen1s says:

    “President Bush “can balance the budget within five years”

    Uhm…there they go ignoring the Constitution again. He ain’t going to be around. What’s he going to do it from his ranch?

    Or does his executive power reach into the next President’s term. If that’s the case, Clinton should have balanced the budget for Bush.


  64. Lora says:

    And after watching a video tape, Dr. Senator Frist diagnosed each one of them as having normal brain functions.
    Comment by Briseadh na Faire

    And we all know what it really means when the good(?) Dr. Frist diagnoses by video what he concludes are “normal brain functions.”


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