I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

-Board of Directors
Lockheed Corp.

Seek professional help, killer. It’s no crime to be gay.

You’d think a “conservative” would want this and would be advocating it, rather than progressives.

Comment by ForTruth

That’s not possible. The Republicans saw last time how easily cowed the dems were, when they threatened the nuclear option. Playing fair with them is an invitation to a beating. It has now been revealed that the filibuster is a toothless tactic, ’cause the repubs can remove it at any time, when they’re in the majority. Best to just nuke the damn thing and be done with it.

Iran bought nuclear technology from Halliburton during Cheney’s tenure?

Let me repeat that:

Iran bought nuclear technology from Halliburton during Cheney’s tenure?

I knew Halliburton was in Iran and trying to do business, but dual-use technology? Why is that not in the ’so-called-liberal-media’?

Have the filibuster return to the old fashioned way.

What a coward, what a DISGRACE! What a miserable excuse for a human being… oh wait he’s a Repub warmongering Senator… enough said.

Comment by hacker bob —

Boy, you are an idiot!!!!

Lawmakers expressed “sticker shock” over President Bush’s proposed 2008 budget, which estimates $300 billion in new Iraq spending and $100 billion in cuts for Medicare and Medicaid. The budget also would “provide insufficient extra cash to maintain coverage for poor children currently enrolled in the Children’s Health Insurance Program.”

“Without a public debate or formal policy decision, contractors have become a virtual fourth branch of government,” as “spending on federal contracts has soared during the Bush administration, to about $400 billion last year from $207 billion in 2000.”

This is your typical mean-spirited Republicans who would rather spend billions on killing people than on helping people. Unless, of course, they’re helping their special interest contractors, then they’ll give them as much as they want and more. And then these Republicans have the audacity to call themselves “Christians” with “family values”. Such hypocrites.

That’s 7% of the gross annual income of someone working for minimum wage, but only .0003% of the gross annual income of the War Profiteer CEO’s annual income ($250 million).

Whatever happened to the “nuclear option”? Do the dems not have a large enough majority?

#22, Liberal in New mexico:

You’re absolutely correct here. The Dems are blowing the opportunity to finish these suckers off. They’re playing nice and being appeasers. Again. The dems need to back the Repubs up – demand respect.

I applaud the Dems for not threatening to use the “nuclear option” as that would eliminate an already weakened fillibuster. As frustrating as it is now, it has become a VITAL part of the U.S. government as it gives an “equalizing” power to the minority party. In fact, it is their ONLY equalizing power.

Remember that the Dems will not always be in the majority. The change that the neocons suggested, the so-called “nuclear option” was a disgusting disgrace… a spit in the face to the U.S. government.

I want the fillibuster to be more like the old days… Eliminate Senate Rule 22. You can’t just say “i’m fillibustering” and leave. You need to stay there, 24 hours per day, reading or saying anything, losing sleep, and so on. If you can’t make it, debate is closed and a vote can be taken.

This makes you REALLY want it if you are willing to do that. You can’t just fillibuster anything. You have to save it for something big because it will require personal sacrifice. Do you think these repugs would do that if they had to fillibuster the old fashioned way?

Also, to break a fillibuster should take 2/3 majority of the entire senate, not just 3/5 as now. I think the 2/3 of voting senate is too extreme, even for me, a fan of the fillibuster. :-)

Of course, these changes should be made after W leaves office. ;-)

Try your sophisms elsewhere, bob.

Iraq war illegal, says Annan

The United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has told the BBC the US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter.
He said the decision to take action in Iraq should have been made by the Security Council, not unilaterally.

The U.N. can’t determine that Bush’s War is illegal because Bush has veto power over any such finding. However, some future president may agree to allow an international war crimes tribunal.

And have you already forgotten the war crimes charges filed in Germany against Rumsfeld?

Just as Bush exerts universal jurisdiction against “unlawful alien enemy combatants,” several countries exert universal jurisdiction for war crimes.