The worse offense by whomever dictates the editorial BS on the WP was that obviously BIG LIE about Valerie Plame. It was that particluar editoral that most obviously demonstrated that WP’s editoral staff have no problem just making shit up and practice outright partisanship and this administration ass-kissing is the rule of day.

The WP marginlized Dana Milbank after he had the courage to tell readers that Bush and Ari Fleischer were embroidering about those aluminum tubes being used for nuclear weapons production.

Its wonder that Dana Priest is still working there but Dana can no lonber declare there be no good reason not to send Judith Miller to jail when WP editorals are so obiously partisan and hold such little disregard for facts.

We need a truth and reconciliation commission in the US or we will never heal as a nation. We are a civil war waiting to happen–largely because of the mendacity that some rich and powerful players have used to obtain consent, surreptiously.

Point well taken. So, when you think “compromise” .. what do YOU think that compromise will look like? Will there be ANY enforceable constraints on our course in the Middle East while Bush is President? Do you think that eventually, a bill will pass giving him all the money he wants, and have some “compromise” of non-binding, “sense-of-the-Congress” statements that the war should end as soon as possible … that would not be vetoed?

I’m confused a bit by your position .. you seem to be saying both things .. that the Congress won’t be able to do anything .. and that the President is not in charge. I agree that compromise is the traditional way of addressing these types of issues … it’s just that we have so little contemporary evidence of it it’s hard to know what it would look like in this case.

The all-powerful Wizard of Oz is NOT in charge. We have to work through compromise — it’s the only available course of action.

And what part of Arkansas do YOU live in?

• $1.3 billion for New Orleans levee repairs is NOT pork — it’s barely a downpayment.

Gerald, that ‘BD’ after their name means Blue Dog. We gained a lot of seats last November and the majority, but not all the seats will vote with the rest of the caucus very reliably. The number of Blue Dogs that DID vote with Pelosi was crucial, and most of why the bill had to be watered down for passage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Dog_Democrats (list of current members)

Out of 44 Blue Dogs, 8 (or 7) did not vote with the caucus. The cost of that … was in part peanuts, and spinach, and milk.

Anybody live in these states? Did you contact these people? I contacted my representative Joe Donnelly (D) and Senator Dick Lugar (R). These people must be over come with contacts. Not like the past 6 years. This is the end game. Contact your republican and democrat representatives. Call them at their state or D.C. office… or both… write them hand written letters (which they pay more attention to), email them… They need a backbone… that comes from us urging them to do our bidding. We cant afford to buy them off like a lobbiest would, but we are the people and that still stands for something.

If we dont do this for real this time Roger_Roger will be right and not enough people will join in to force the presidents hand.

If Nixon went down … well Bush is no Nixon…

$75 million for peanut storage in Georgia

$15 million to protect Louisiana rice fields from saltwater

$120 million for shrimp and menhaden fishermen

$250 million for milk subsidies

$500 million for wildfire suppression

$1.3 billion to build levees in New Orleans

“Altogether the House Democratic leadership has come up with more than $20 billion in new spending, much of it wasteful subsidies to agriculture or pork barrel projects aimed at individual members of Congress.” — Roger

Please point to the pork in that list. WHAT –specifically– is not a good use of money?

Comment by Proud Dem

LOL

Comment by Sigh Crow

It sure as heck isn’t reality TV!!!! ;)

Comment by Yikes

Yet today we have people who will defend that because they are of the same group.

I am a Republican and I will defend them!

I am a Democrat and I will defend them!

Truth is we are being split just like a child splits mom and pop to get his way. Pundits do not make for a strong nation they divide and weaken it.

It is a codicil that Bush will certainly ignore, making it all the less reasonable that AIPAC would bother to try to influence representative Obey to remove it.

That is the weakest LIE yet by disaffiliated leftists.

There is ZERO evidence that AIPAC had an impact on Obey or Pelosi.

The ONLY evidence adduced is that there was an AIPAC meeting at the same time as the Iran rider was stripped by Obey (the bill’s author).

Teh absurdity. If that’s all you’ve got (and it is), then you are either a liar or a fool. Please clarify which.

Comment by Proud Dem

I agree, but can even you, or me, or any physicist define reality?

Dave Obey speaks from the heart. He speaks with passion. He speaks from a state of intelligence. He knows what he’s saying. As a native born Badger I am so freaking proud of him. GO DAVE. Take names, kick ass, and never EVER stop telling the truth.

In China recently, the government shamed prostitutes and their clients by parading them down the street announcing each ones names.

That’s what I’d like to see. The corrupt CEO’s and politicians that are found guilty of fraud or whatever are paraded for all to see before they go to prison.

Sigh Crow, history books are really only one author’s idea of what happened. As well as the ancient texts found in the Dead Sea area, Egypt, etc. The Bible is just a history book. Even if you ask an eye witness what happened at the scene of a crime, you are only getting his opinion of what happened. I am not an atheist, but neither am I a devout Christian. I am a realist.