Video: Leahy says White House is lying about lost emails.
Video: Leahy says White House is lying about lost emails.
In an impassioned speech this morning on the Senate floor, Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said the White House is lying when it claims that emails sent via RNC accounts were lost.
“They say they have not been preserved. I don’t believe that!” Leahy shouted from the Senate floor. “You can’t erase e-mails, not today. They’ve gone through too many servers. Those e-mails are there, they just don’t want to produce them. We’ll subpoena them if necessary.”
“Like the famous 18-minute gap in the Nixon White House tapes, it appears likely that key documentation has been erased or misplaced. This sounds like the Administration’s version of ‘the dog ate my homework.’”
Watch the speech:
Raw Story has text of Leahy’s prepared remarks HERE.
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That certainly would be stunning, especially considering how forthcoming the administration has been in the past.
April 12th, 2007 at 12:20 pmLike I said in the last post…. COMPUTER FORENSICS!!!!
I smell a rat
April 12th, 2007 at 12:20 pmThis guy busts balls. Go PAT!
April 12th, 2007 at 12:21 pmJust call up the NSA, I’m sure they have copies of ALL the e-mails!
April 12th, 2007 at 12:21 pmRepublicans: dog ate my emails.
Leahy: We’ll subpoena them if necessary.
Republicans: wild dogs ate our servers.
April 12th, 2007 at 12:21 pm.
“17 gigabites of missing e-mails”
April 12th, 2007 at 12:21 pmLeaky speaks and people laugh.
April 12th, 2007 at 12:22 pmStephen Colbert needs to give out the Brass Cojones award to Pat Leahy.
April 12th, 2007 at 12:22 pmLeaky speaks and people laugh.
Comment by Patrick1
What makes you think you’re a person (or plural, for that matter)?
April 12th, 2007 at 12:24 pm.
Patrick1 types and people laugh (at him, not with him)
April 12th, 2007 at 12:25 pmTime to bring ECHELON to the public consciousness – reveal the depth of America’s domestic spying and kill two birds with one stone.
April 12th, 2007 at 12:26 pmThe WH is lying about everything!
April 12th, 2007 at 12:27 pmEmails have gone missing?
Right! I’m Jesus Christ, Son of God! And, Mr. Bush, I’m coming to whoop yo a**!!!
April 12th, 2007 at 12:27 pmIt certainly does my heart good to see Mr. Leahy calling them out!
I’m with kelso – I’m sure the NSA servers that all of the internet traffic flow through has them. It sure would be poetic justice if their surveillance turned around and bit them in the butt!
April 12th, 2007 at 12:28 pmSubpoena them already!
Love what the few Democrats with balls are doing, but could we move it along already the American people need some relief from these F’n Nazis.
Don’t give them the benefit of the doubt. Start investigations with subpoenas not requests. The Republic666an game plan is to foot drag. MOVE IT ALONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 12th, 2007 at 12:29 pmPatrick1 is an attention-getter with the mentality of a four-year-old. (My apologies to four-year-olds).
April 12th, 2007 at 12:30 pmLeahy calling people liars, hilarious.
April 12th, 2007 at 12:30 pmFor the more on Leahy, new subpoenas as well as the latest news, email archives, hearings, legal filings and other essential documents on the Bush DOJ prosecutor firings, see:
April 12th, 2007 at 12:30 pm“The U.S. Attorney Scandal Documents.”
Patrick, you are backsliding. And you were doing so well this morning after pooping all over yourself yesterday.
April 12th, 2007 at 12:30 pm#7 I suspect no one in the bushco administration is laughing at Leahy….
my goal is to find a cure for irony and make a fool outta god
April 12th, 2007 at 12:31 pmGuess what, trolls. Those emails aren’t lost. Sooner or later they will show up. And then you will have to change the subject. Again. Your tiny little play world of small people is shrinking further every day.
April 12th, 2007 at 12:32 pmWe’ll subpoena them if necessary.
Just a hunch, Pat, but I’d say that it will be necessary. Better start making out those subpoenas now.
April 12th, 2007 at 12:34 pmJohn Kerry’s kicking some butt on C-Span talking about Cheney saying Dems were underming the troops. He’s talking about bad weapons, medical care, extended tours, etc.
Hopefully TP can get this link.
April 12th, 2007 at 12:36 pmE-mail never disappears by itself and is pretty hard to eradicate on purpose.
April 12th, 2007 at 12:36 pmWhile I suspect (based on this “too many servers” statement) Leahy has no idea how easy, indeed, it is for an email to get deleted permanently, I do completely agree that I believe the administration is lying, or, at the very least, they are deleting emails NOW and it may eventually be too late. I hope some of the outside contact points kept some of the more incriminating ones (accidently or intentionally) or maybe some crafty network admin might discover some old backups… ;-)
April 12th, 2007 at 12:36 pmrabidbunny sez:
Attack the messenger.
*yawn*
April 12th, 2007 at 12:38 pmYou are right! It is hillarious because we get to see the corrupt officials he is calling liars try to squirm and doubletalk their way out of another scandal. So amusing to watch!
April 12th, 2007 at 12:40 pmI see the Repuke trolls are in here again.
They are pitiful actually. They’re losing and grasping at straws.
Will they ever admit Chimpy and his thugs are criminals?
April 12th, 2007 at 12:41 pmThe Senator from Vermont has come to a rolling boil!
(It’s maple syruping season, and when the steam starts to roll out of the sugar house, we know there’s good stuff on the way!)
April 12th, 2007 at 12:41 pmSome techie that can’t stand the administration’s BS will do the patriotic thing and turn over every bit of data they can get their hands on.
(and hopefully that techie won’t mysteriously commit suicide with multiple self-inflicted bullets to the head)
April 12th, 2007 at 12:42 pmLeahy’s ripping the head off of this!!!!!! Called the White House liars (their own words called them liars) and has threatened Subpoenas.
You find humor in this Patrick? More proof you are a twisted soul.
April 12th, 2007 at 12:44 pmLeahy calling people liars, hilarious. Comment by rabidbunny
Yellowcake forgeries, WMD, Aluminun tube, mushroom clouds, Cunningham, Abramoff, Safavian, Santorum, Dubya, Dick, Foley, Gonzales, Rove…the culture of corruption…Republicans calling anyone dishonest or a liar. Wabid Wunny telling the truth…..Gut Busting Lung Popping Insane Non-Stop Laughing and Priceless Humor.
BWAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
April 12th, 2007 at 12:45 pmGWB43.com DNS records
name class type data time to live
gwb43.com IN SOA server: ns1.cha.smartechcorp.net
email: hostmaster.gwb43.com
serial: 1176332551
refresh: 16384
retry: 2048
expire: 1048576
minimum ttl: 2560
2560s (00:42:40)
gwb43.com IN NS ns1.cha.smartechcorp.net 259200s (3.00:00:00)
gwb43.com IN NS a.ns.trespassers-w.net 259200s (3.00:00:00)
gwb43.com IN MX preference: 10
exchange: mailscan2.smartechcorp.net
86400s (1.00:00:00)
gwb43.com IN MX preference: 10
exchange: mailscan1.smartechcorp.net
GWB43.com is hosted at SmartechCorp.Net… they are not the RNC but a private company. You can go to their website. The MX records (mail exchange server pointer) says the email for GWB43.com points to SmartechCorp.Net servers. Unless SmartechCorp.Net has illegally destroyed their own server hardware to help the RNC… then SmartechCorp.Net has the emails and backups since they are a 99.9% uptime data center… that means REDUNDANCY….
April 12th, 2007 at 12:46 pmLet’s face it, folks, as long as Impeachment is off the table, Bush will continue to do this.
April 12th, 2007 at 12:48 pmFixed your ‘typoes’ Wabid Wunny Wabbit.
MWAH!
April 12th, 2007 at 12:50 pmYou know what we do to rabid bunnies in Colorado?
We shoot ‘em. Shoot ‘em dead.
April 12th, 2007 at 12:51 pmSeems the Bush admin is following the dictum of Goebbels(the Nazi Propaganda Minister)which is “if you lie over and over again, it will evntually become the truth.”
April 12th, 2007 at 12:52 pmhttp://www.robtex.com/dns/gwb43.com.html
Heres some more domains sharing mailservers with gwb43.com GG.
Mwah.
April 12th, 2007 at 12:53 pmI think it’s very close to being not only on the table, but the table’s centerpiece.
April 12th, 2007 at 12:53 pmSomeone – firedoglake maybe – had a post last week about the ISP that the RNC uses to host its domain, run its servers, etc. There was talk of “off-shoring” the servers outside the U.S. Could have all just been speculation. But if a) anybody can be shown to be intentionally hiding/deleting email, or b) attempting to work around the records act by siting servers outside the U.S., I’m thinking that’s not going to look so good. Especially when these clowns have been screaming TERRROR ALERT every ten minutes for the past six years. Oh and yeah, by the way, we’ve been running highly sensitive white house mail through a server owned by some dude named Raoul based in Slovenia. It would be nice if a reporter other than Dan Froomkin would start paying attention to this story. Here’s a few starter questions:
April 12th, 2007 at 12:56 pm1. What company/comapnies is the RNC using to host its email?
2. What policies do they have in place to secure sensitive communication?
3. What measures are taken to ensure these policies are followed on a consistent basis?
4. Who has access to the servers used to route white house/RNC email?
5. What are your standard policies for content/message retention?
6. Were these standard policies applied to RNC/white house email?
7. If not, were you following instructions from your RNC client on alternative measures for message retention?
8. Who were the point people within the RNC that you dealt with?
So many questions…
“Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.”
April 12th, 2007 at 12:57 pm#33 – Smarttech is also the company that hosted the Ohio election results data.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:07 pmThe Senator from Vermont has come to a rolling boil!
Comment by Raven — April 12, 2007 @ 12:41 pm
We need them as angry as we are. Kerry seemed REALLY angry talking about the troops and how they accuse Demcrats about not caring about them when in fact Republicans have cared about their safety.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:10 pmLeahey is absolutely correct.
Subpeona the server LOGS.
Subpeona the BACKUPS.
The server logs will show a list of all emails in and out of the servers.
Then you will know what emails you are missing, and you can find them in the backups.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:11 pmre#33 ggibson
I am willing to bet that the backup media for those servers will have media “errors” that will not allow them to be restored!
All it takes is just one aboslute sector write with the debug command, and be the media tape or disk the entire volume becomes unreadable.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:14 pmComment by ggibson — April 12, 2007 @ 12:46 pm
And we should consider that Rove would have had these staffers spied on to make sure they were loyal – and I’d guess he’d keep his backup in order to save his ass in the end.
Not to mention FBI or CIA sniffers looking for info. And let’s not forget hard copies that probably were printed by staffers trying to cover their asses.
Those staffers would be wise to be the first to jump ship and cut a deal.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:15 pmThis is not really doing the business of the people. This is more like a partisan, hateful witch hunt against the President.
Why don’t we round all the Republicans, throw them in a kiln and gas them to death?? Would that make ThinkProgress happy? I bet it would.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:17 pm42. Thicker than thieves they are.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:17 pmMeanwhile, the American people patiently wait for the cat fight to subside… and for the new Dem leadership to actually accomplish something beyond antagonizing the Bush administration…
April 12th, 2007 at 1:18 pm#44 – that’s American tax dollars well spent. Why don’t we force all Republican women to have abortions so they can’t reproduce either??
April 12th, 2007 at 1:19 pmBush cultist: “This is not really doing the business of the people. This is more like a partisan, hateful witch hunt against the President.”
Was the Republican congress doing the “business of the people” when it tried to impeach Clinton for lying about a sexual affair instead of helping him fight terrorism?
April 12th, 2007 at 1:20 pmBush cultist: “Why don’t we round all the Republicans, throw them in a kiln and gas them to death?? Would that make ThinkProgress happy? I bet it would.”
Cultist, are you familiar with the psycological term, “projection?”
April 12th, 2007 at 1:21 pmWhy don’t we round all the Republicans, throw them in a kiln and gas them to death?? Would that make ThinkProgress happy? I bet it would.
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007 @ 1:17 pm
No that would be your Nazi Republican Party you’re referring to. You guys are the party of No Compassion and Selfishness. Stop projecting.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:22 pmCultist: “that’s American tax dollars well spent.”
Right, cultist. And the $70 million your guys spent investigating a 25-year old land deal? Money well spent?
April 12th, 2007 at 1:23 pmnobody knows better how to destroy email better than the libs. algore ivented the internet and clinton invented email destruction.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:24 pm#50 – please find an instance where Bill Clinton uttered the word terrorism in 1998??? I do remember him saying repeatedly that Sadam Hussein was a threat and needed to be disarmed though.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:25 pmnew Dem leadership to actually accomplish something beyond antagonizing the Bush administration…
Comment by Cynicon Implant — April 12, 2007 @ 1:18 pm
If your leadership hadn’t broken every law in the book for the last 6 years without doing any of the work of oversight these investigations wouldn’t be necessary.
When criminals in your community are arrested do you blame the police for slowing down their enterprise?
April 12th, 2007 at 1:26 pmCultists, this thing is about obstruction of justice, and as your own guy said, “There is no serious question that perjury and obstruction of justice are high crimes and misdemeanors…Indeed, our own Senate precedent establishes that perjury is a high crime and misdemeanor…The crimes of perjury and obstruction of justice are public crimes threatening the administration of justice.”
Republican Senator Bill Frist, Congressional Record, 2/12/99
April 12th, 2007 at 1:26 pmMarry me Pat!
April 12th, 2007 at 1:26 pmPat is about to lay the smackdown on these liars!
April 12th, 2007 at 1:27 pm#53 – thank you for admitting this is nothing more than a partisan witch hunt.
#52 – YOU would kill Republicans if you could get away with it (and if you weren’t such cowards). The Left-Wing thought police in this country are scary. You people are like brownshirts.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:27 pmct: “nobody knows better how to destroy email better than the libs.”
I guess that for the Bush cultists, projection is the word of the day.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:28 pmThis is more like a partisan, hateful witch hunt against the President.
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007 @ 1:17 pm
This post is so messed up on so many pyschological levels it is hard to know where to begin. But projection is obviously a very big part of it.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:28 pmAmerican tax dollars well spent. Why don’t we force all Republican women to have abortions so they can’t reproduce either??
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007 @ 1:19 pm
And castrate the males as well. But we’ll only do it to Republican with IQs under 80. That should leave about 10 to procreate.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:28 pm49. Do you make this type of leap in logic on a regular basis or only when trying to protect this administration. Something tells me you were all for the Kenneth Starr tax dollar waste.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:28 pm#57 – there is no evidence of perjury or obstruction of justice, asswipe. You’re just unhappy that you lost the 2004 election. (AND 2000, for that matter.) But don’t worry, I am sure your nominee in 2008, Hillary will lose by a wide enough margin, you won’t be thinking what could have been on a constant basis.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:29 pmI think Jake got tired of his daily bashing here and has just switched identities.
Either that or another team member was swapped in for Jake, but is working from the same script.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:29 pmThanks Bluedog49 and Thanks to Bill Frist for having this in the Congressional record.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:30 pmComment by ct — April 12, 2007 @ 1:24 pm
You have a link for reference because only you seem to know what you’re talking about.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:30 pmLeave it to the Republicans to have no competence at running e-mail servers. Those “Internets” sure can be befuddling, eh, Gomer?
April 12th, 2007 at 1:30 pmShane – thank you for proving my point. Think Progress wishes Republicans were dead.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:31 pmGeoge W. Bush invented being a silver-spoon AWOL coward, and NOW
he has invented being a MURDER, WAR CRIMINAL, and a
COXUCKER punk TRAITOR to the USA.
Investigate, TRY, CONVICT, EXECUTE!!
By a US Army firing squad of soldiers permanently MAIMED and WOUNDED for the LIES of this TRAITOR coxucker PUNK.
God Bless America, the Democratic Party, and the WORLD!
April 12th, 2007 at 1:32 pmYou’re just unhappy that you lost the 2004 election.
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007 @ 1:29 pm
Try 2006, idiot. I’ll bet you can hardly make out the words through the tears you are crying now.
BWAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!
April 12th, 2007 at 1:32 pmShane – thank you for proving my point. Think Progress wishes Republicans were dead.
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007
Yaawn…..from the Party of Ann Coulter.
Nuff said.
-GSD
April 12th, 2007 at 1:33 pm#52 – YOU would kill Republicans if you could get away with it (and if you weren’t such cowards). The Left-Wing thought police in this country are scary. You people are like brownshirts.
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007 @ 1:27 pm
Again your talking about the neocons you hang out with. Stop projecting.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:33 pmLook, a new angry Bushman at #65. This really burns your biscuits. It must hit pretty deep because of your blind rage is so swift(boat).
The White House has already lied about the saving of the emails and the qty. of who had them.
It’s going to hurt you so much more when the content is revealed.
Go ahead and throw back some more venom and jibberish now. It’s not like you’d ever debate a subject. Or prove me wrong.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:34 pmWhen criminals in your community are arrested do you blame the police for slowing down their enterprise?
Comment by shane
No, because in your example the police would be doing the job they have been hired to do.
Maybe I missed the memo but I’m pretty sure job 1 of the congress is something other than investigating the WH incessantly.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:35 pmShane – thank you for proving my point. Think Progress wishes Republicans were dead.
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007 @ 1:31 pm
This troll is employing a particularly lame and desperate tactic. Pepper the thread with false claims that put words in other people’s mouths and ignore all posts that refute your lies. Just keep pushing the post button again and again, pushing the big lie for the team.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:35 pmBush cultist: “please find an instance where Bill Clinton uttered the word terrorism in 1998?”
Cultist, you’re kidding right. I hope you’re kidding, because many of your friends in the Repub party criticized Clinton for being too obsessed with Osama bin laden. Dan Quale was an exception. Former Repub VP Dan Quaile on Clinton attacking terrorist camps in 1998: “I don’t have a problem with the timing. You need to focus on the act itself. It was a correct act. Bill Clinton took —— made a decisive decision to hit these terrorist camps. It’s probably long overdue.”
April 12th, 2007 at 1:35 pmComment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007 @ 1:27 pm
Hey punk, since you’re hell bent on talking about killing Republicans, why don’t you work some gay sex in there somehow? I’ll bet you are obsessed with that, too, perhaps in more ways than one.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:37 pm#71 – thank you again for proving my point. You want to kill the President.
Shane – just who is projecting? Did you read #71 – he wants to kill the President. I just want to force liberals to live in the rogue regimes they spend endless hours defending. I don’t wish death on you – I just wish you would leave the country since you hate it so much.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:37 pmCultist: “there is no evidence of perjury or obstruction of justice, asswipe.”
Whether or not your statement is true (it’s not), the point of subpoenas for email records is to FIND proof of obstruction of justice. If they think there was obstruction it’s their job to find evidence of the crime.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:38 pmthere is no evidence of perjury or obstruction of justice
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007 @ 1:29 pm
There is no evidence because of obstruction of justice you raving lunatic. If you are so confident that no laws were broken why are you here losing your mind.
You should just feel confident that all will end well and go on your merry way.
You Nazis would be wise to stop putting your party before country because that is not going to end well for you people. Just trying to help.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:38 pmTrolls, Troglodytes & other assorted vermin:
Leahy & Waxman will find the truth. Trust me on this.
After Big Dick told Sen. Leahy to go ‘F’ himself on the Senate floor, the game rules were set. Now, it’s time to pay the piper.
Quit your whining & admit it; this is the most corrupt, classless and non-professional administration in America’s history. As Tom DeLay so infamously said, ‘Not only am I a loser, I’m guilty as Hell’.
Or as Rick Sanitarium so eloquently stated, ‘I’d rather bronze a fetus than abort it’.
How about Hasturd? ‘I’ve never met a chair my fat ass fit in’.
LIEberman? ‘I’ll agree with anyone on anything, just let me stay in office’.
Cheney: ‘Senator Leahy always get my complete respect’.
Rove: (Shhhh, youaren’t allowed to listen to me’.)
Alberto: ‘Can I ’splain this again, now that I’ve practiced?
Rice: ‘Ummm, Ahh, ahem, Ummm…’
Bolton: ‘Let’s bomb all Americans who don’t agree with the King!’
Imus: ‘I think the White House is full of Repukelican ‘Ho’s.’
April 12th, 2007 at 1:39 pmShane – thank you for proving my point. Think Progress wishes Republicans were dead.
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007
Trolls have such a hard time with reading comprehension.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:39 pm#78 – spare me. If Clinton cared about terrorism, he would have resigned once he got caught red handed breaking the law. Like it or not, had Clinton stepped down, you would have kept the White House in 2000.
Clinton and Sandy Berger are crooks. Berger stole the millenium docs from the national archives because they were up to no good. This will all come out and when we blundgeon Hillary next year.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:40 pmMaybe I missed the memo but I’m pretty sure job 1 of the congress is something other than investigating the WH incessantly.
Comment by Cynicon Implant — April 12, 2007 @ 1:35 pm
I guess you did. Because oversight is a job of the Congress. One your Nazi Neocon cronies didn’t do for 6 years.
Thanks for the biggest budget deficit ever for not doing their jobs. And Clinton left them a surplus. Some conservatives you guys got there losers.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:41 pmMaybe I missed the memo but I’m pretty sure job 1 of the congress is something other than investigating the WH incessantly.
Comment by Cynicon Implant — April 12, 2007 @ 1:35 pm
Like passing bills with widespread popularity, only to see the Chimp-In-Chief veto them, or ignore them altogether while he destroys the Constitution? You would like that, wouldn’t you? Why do you hate the Constitution? Why do you hate America? Why do you hate justice? Do you believe in totalitarianism? Are you a Stalinist? It sures sounds like you are.
Listen, a**hole, a lot of people around here still believe in the rule of law. That you don’t is morally corrupt. So crawl back under your rock, freak.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:42 pm#81 – you lose here, my friend. By fall of 2008, it will be just be a witch hunt to voters. This will be a repeat of 1988 all over again except Michael Dukakis will be a female this time.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:42 pmI just wish you would leave the country since you hate it so much. Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent
Haha! This from the party that ignores the U.S. Constitution when following it is inconvenient or prevents them from torturing.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:42 pmCynicon: “Maybe I missed the memo but I’m pretty sure job 1 of the congress is something other than investigating the WH incessantly.”
Number one, your statement is technically inaccurate. If congress, as a co-equal branch of government, believes laws have been broken in the executive branch, it is their duty to investigate.
Number 2, I assume you approved of the Repub congress behavior in the 90’s. If you thought they were doing the peoples’ business, then STFU!
April 12th, 2007 at 1:43 pmComment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent
Prison will do just fine. The republicans are not the victims. They are the criminals that are upset they must pay..just like all criminals dont like paying for their crimes.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:43 pmAnn – please read number 71
April 12th, 2007 at 1:43 pmShane – thank you for proving my point. Think Progress wishes Republicans were dead.
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007 @ 1:31 pm
Thanks for the promotion ASSWIPE. So you think, if that was what I said which is wasn’t, that I speak for Think Progress.
Could you be a bigger idiot? That’s rhetorical.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:44 pmSo it wouldn’t be cowardice if someone did kill republicans? Just trying to grasp the latest Bushman.
I don’t have any desire to kill someone else but does that make me a coward? Killing someone is brave? And what the f%#k does that have to do with the missing emails and sloppy attempt to cover this up?
April 12th, 2007 at 1:44 pmDan Burton was WHINING that “The Democrats are using subpoenas for PARTISAN purposes.”
Actually, THAT was Burton the HYPOCRITE.
What Congress is doing presently is oversight of CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES of a group that had NO OVERSIGHT for their activities.
Leahy, Waxman, Pelosi, etc. are PATRIOTS.
Bush and his CRIMINALS are TRAITORS to the USA!
Go Waxman and Leahy!!!
April 12th, 2007 at 1:44 pm“please find an instance where Bill Clinton uttered the word terrorism in 1998?â€
Trolls apparently aren’t very good with google, either:
April 12th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
#85: Of course, you’re OK with a president who has committed treason while in office by outing an undercover CIA agent. Bush is the biggest crook ever to sit in the White House. And his incompetence has led to his legacy of failure.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:45 pm#86 – Clinton also left us a foreign policy disaster. Had he killed Bin Laden when he had the chance, maybe 9/11 would never have happened.
AND Clinton left us a recession. The economy went into recession in Q3 of 2000.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:45 pmGerald – you should be put in jail for slandering for Republicans.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:46 pm#71 wasn’t written by Shane, Dufus. And a commenter on a blog hardly represents the blog itself. You probably wrote #71 yourself.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:46 pm#80
I want to kill NO ONE.
But if he has committed TREASON against the USA, then YES, he should be EXECUTED by the soldiers that were MAIMED and WOUNDED by
the LIES of MURDERER Bush the TRAITOR coxucker PUNK.
For the good of the USA and the WORLD!
April 12th, 2007 at 1:47 pmBush cultist: “If Clinton cared about terrorism, he would have resigned once he got caught red handed breaking the law.”
What incredibly tortured logic. So, when Bush admitted that he had broken the FISA law a couple of years ago, he should have stepped down immediately because he broke the law??? Is that your position, cultist?
April 12th, 2007 at 1:47 pmCynicon Implant sez:
It’s funny how you Repukes were humming quite a different tune during the Clinton years…
Actually, no, it’s not funny. It’s depressingly predictable.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:47 pmre: #96
http://www.cnsnews.com/InDepth/archive/199808/IND19980820o.html
April 12th, 2007 at 1:47 pm#98: 9/11 happened on Bush’s watch . . . while he read a children’s book.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:48 pm#97 – Joe Wilson outed his wife, not Bush. AND even if we live in your deluded msm get Bush world, it was Armitrage who actually outed Plame.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:48 pmLet’s just face it, the republican party has become not just fascist, but also it is the modern day Mafia, as in organized crime, and they people that support repukes are also for criminal actives by their party and are there for also criminals.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:49 pmYou can bet your last dollar on the fact that these guys are busy destroying evidence as fast as they can, practicing their lines so they can get their stories straight, just a bunch of crocks….
Oh and “I hate you Pat, you are one of the worst subhumans I have ever seen on blogs, well, maybe firebutt and dumb as a post redneck could be close.’
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007 @ 1:40 pm
Poor little baby is upset today. Things not going well on Team Bush, eh, crybaby? I’m guessing that you are a frustrated congressional staffer blowing off some steam here while eating a bag lunch at your desk. Whoever you work for is probably in trouble, and your party and president are damn well in trouble. A boat load of trouble.
Better start polishing the resume, but don’t get your hopes up, because you won’t ever get the stain of Bush off of it. Your time is over.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:49 pmAnn – good find. Thank you for reminding me how shameless Mr. Clinton was.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:49 pmThe Left Shuts Down Dissent
What a funny thing to call yourself. After all, Think Progress hasn’t blocked you even though your foaming at the mouth with dissent. Unlike Red State where I got blocked for making two comments simply disagreeing with the conservative position.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:50 pmI just wish you would leave the country since you hate it so much.
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007 @ 1:37 pm
Love the country, hate lying sacks of shit like you trying to destroy it, the Constitution and every thing that is good and decent about it.
There are plenty of dictatorships you neocons could move to if that’s what you’re so anxious to live under. Just take your President and his cronies and get the hell out of the White House. That’s what we want.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:50 pmMaybe I missed the memo but I’m pretty sure job 1 of the congress is something other than investigating the WH incessantly.
Comment by Cynicon Implant
When polled last november on election day the #1 concern amongst the voters was corruption in the government… #2 was Iraq….
April 12th, 2007 at 1:50 pmThe Left Shuts Down Dissent ,
What’s with your fascination with death? Oh yeah never mind you’re a Republic666an.
I don’t want you and yours dead, just out of office, so fuck off.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:50 pmCultist, according to Alan Greenspan, the economy went into recession in early 2001, not 2000 as you heard on FOX. And, try to get this through your little mellon: Clinton was actively engaged in trying to kill bin Laden. On the day he missed killing him with cruise missles by 45 minutes, he had spent the entire morning in deposition forced to answer questions about oral sex. Clinton and his people told the Bushies that their JOB ONE was trying to deal with the threat of bin Laden. How many times did Bush meet with his people regarding terrorism between January, 2001 and September 2001??? The answer: a big zero!
April 12th, 2007 at 1:51 pm#105 – I think that’s one of the most disgusting attacks ever laid against Bush. AND you people whined about us “swiftboating” Kerry????
To demean the President because he was reading My Pet Goat is truly shameful and shows just how much liberals HATE him.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:51 pm#108 – yawn. I like the GOP’s chances against your 2008 nominee, Hillary. She just posted some pretty bad unfavorables today in a Gallup poll. AND we haven’t laid a glove on her yet.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:53 pmThis “dog ate my homework gap” is grounds for impeachment. It’s clear that this President views himself, like Richard M. Nixon, to be “above the law” and therefore not accountable to the people WRONGO! Impeach his sorry butt now and show him that this is still a country “of the people”. Congress now has a responsibility to do so in light of his ongoing obstinance, lying, covering up, defrauding the public, breaking laws, and destroying this democracy.
It is no longer an option: It’s a moral imperative! Listen up, Congress and do what you KNOW is the essential next step!
April 12th, 2007 at 1:53 pmCultist: “#97 – Joe Wilson outed his wife, not Bush. AND even if we live in your deluded msm get Bush world, it was Armitrage who actually outed Plame.”
OK, Cultist, you’re not making sense. You just said Wilson outed his wife (!!!???) and then, in the same sentence, you said Armitage did.
Maybe you missed your meds.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:53 pmI hope he shows up at the hearing a bit more sober.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:54 pm#114 El President didn’t need anyone to attempt to demean him for reading My Pet Goat while thousands of americans perished and this country was supposedly under attack; contrarily, the mere sitting on his duff and reading with first graders was indicting enough. He’s his own worst enemy and makes a total doofus of himself and is an embarrassment to the american people every time he speaks in public and lies through his teeth. By far, he is the “worst president ever in the history of this country”.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:55 pmComment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007 @ 1:40 pm
Is that the crap your leaders feed you to get you to fall on your sword here.
6 years of corruption and it’s all about the Clintons. It’s going to be a big disappointment for you losers when Hillary doesn’t get the nomination. Then where will your payday be.
You guys can’t even find a decent candidate to run. Nobody wants to follow Bushwad.
What is your payoff for coming to a Progressive site and spewing your lies. Paying off tuition for your lousy Christian college education.
Country over party, roll that around your putrid brain, you’ll save your soul.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:55 pmThe Republican party (and the trolls at this site) are rapidly dwindling to a small group of mean-spirited, little people, most of them bedwetting cowards, and many of them obsessed with sex and violence.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:55 pm#111 – you can’t have the White House. Republicans have it. AND after John Paul Stevens retires this summer, we’ll have a right-wing majority on the Supreme Court.
#113 – the economy posted negative growth in Q3 2000.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:55 pmAll this talk about Clinton means that it’s once again time for this informative public service announcement:
April 12th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Gerald – you should be put in jail for slandering for Republicans.
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent
Reciting facts is not slander.
And yes YOU and your leader should be but in federal prison right next to the blind sheik.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:57 pmIt’s obvious from the tone and tenor of the troll’s posts here that the GOP is a party which is self-destructing. They can’t name a single thing this president has done which is working…hah! It’s the Anti-Midas Touch at it’s finest: Everything this fool touches turns to horsesh*t.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:57 pmOK, I think we’ve hit a nerve. The post bears repeating:
9/11 happened on Bush’s watch . . . while he read a children’s book.
Comment by And You Thought REAGAN Was Stupid — April 12, 2007 @ 1:48 pm
For at least seven minutes, our leader sat there paralyzed reading a childrens’ book while people were jumping to their deaths at the WTC and while other planes were nearing their objectives. I can’t imagine ANY other president, Repub or Dem, falling down on the job so spectacularly as Bush did on that day. He’s a disgrace to the office.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:58 pmThe Left Shuts Down Dissent = Nazi Troll. Do not feed the idiot trolls.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:58 pmTMM: You’re right on target – they’re all suffering from serious psychiatric disease.
April 12th, 2007 at 1:58 pmAND we haven’t laid a glove on her yet.
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007 @ 1:53 pm
Geez, you sound like the Gestapo there, freak. A closet drag queen Gestapo sadist.
By the way, just who is “we”? You and the other smear-artists on Team Rove?
April 12th, 2007 at 1:59 pmyou should be put in jail for slandering for Republicans.
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007 @ 1:46 pm
The Federal prisons are going to be so full of Republicans there won’t be any more room.
Ooooh, don’t cry, wimp.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:00 pmCongress needs to shut down this white house because it is awash with lies, cover-ups, missing memorandums, and rats scurrying around trying to flee the sinking ship. Impeachment now! Dig into more stuff later …. like GannonGate, 911Gate, and MadameGate….time is of the essence and it is the mandate of the people to clean up the corruption in this administration of smoke & mirrors, steal and conceal. They’re time is up….their gig is up. In order to move forward, we must purge ourselves of the evil within.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:00 pm“Left Shuts Down Dissent”
Lying Sack of Dung Disorder
April 12th, 2007 at 2:01 pmHey Verbalkilt! Indeed, this is sounding more like The Jake-off more and more…..heh-heh….perhaps he thinks he’s pulling one over on us. Not quite!
April 12th, 2007 at 2:01 pmTo demean the President because he was reading My Pet Goat is truly shameful and shows just how much liberals HATE him. Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent
The MORON continued to read “My Pet Goat” for a full 5 minutes after being told that “America is under attack.” How’s that for a demeaning comment on the President?
April 12th, 2007 at 2:02 pmCheck out the grammar; check out the brainwashed gibberish; check out the pure drivel. It’s firehead, aka Jake, and all the other multiple personalities living within this twisted, demon/troll.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:02 pm#126 and little did we know that, as he sat there totally “paralyzed” with fear because he didn’t have a clue as to what to do, that it would become the “metaphor for his presidency”….”human paralysis”!
April 12th, 2007 at 2:03 pmforget all this… SUBPOENA THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF… put him under oath and on the record… then put him in jail where he belongs…
April 12th, 2007 at 2:04 pmClinton also left us a foreign policy disaster. Had he killed Bin Laden when he had the chance, maybe 9/11 would never have happened.
AND Clinton left us a recession. The economy went into recession in Q3 of 2000.
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007 @ 1:45 pm
So you get your history lessons from a LYING DISNEY moving, nice.
Thank your parties bullshit “Trickle Down Economics” for all recessions.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:04 pm#130 You betcha! And you can also bet that there are plenty of Rethugs who want to save their skin by “singing away” to plead down right now. Let’s build prisons for all of the corrupt Republicans today!
April 12th, 2007 at 2:04 pmCultist, you keep repeating the right-wing lie that our latest recession began during Clinton. You are, of course, misinformed:
From Money Magazine, Nov. 26, 2001:
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – The world’s largest economy sank into a recession in March, ending 10 years of growth that was the longest expansion on record in the United States, a group of economists that dates U.S. business cycles said Monday.
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), composed of academic economists from Harvard, Stanford and other universities, joined a chorus of economists and investors who were saying that a recession had already begun. The group posted its decision on its Web site.
It ruled that the long expansion ended in March and the nation’s tenth recession since the end of World War II began at the same time. The declaration means the longest expansion lasted exactly 10 years. The previous record for uninterrupted economic growth was set in the 1960s, a period of eight years and 10 months lasting from February 1961 to December 1969.”
April 12th, 2007 at 2:04 pmThe GOP is self-destructing??? Are you serious? We are not the party about to nominate the most divisive figure in politics.
#126 – How did politicizing those seven minutes work out for you in 2004??? Just ask Sam Alito and John Roberts.
#125 – Bush has a great economic record considering the mess he inherited from Clinton. AND we haven’t been attacked since 9/11. AND I know liberals hate to admit this, but terrorists are trying.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:05 pmyou can’t have the White House. Republicans have it. AND after John Paul Stevens retires this summer, we’ll have a right-wing majority on the Supreme Court.
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007 @ 1:55 pm
Can anyone doubt that this person is a White House operative, working in pursuit of Karl Rove’s corrupt one-party system?
Take a look, people. This isn’t just some flaky troll looking for attention (think Firehead) or a plodding foot soldier without any heart in it (think Patrick). This person is a bona fide Bush brownshirt. Look at how mean and ugly it is. This is what our country is up against.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:05 pmSmartechCorp.Net should be sent a subpoena today!
April 12th, 2007 at 2:06 pmCultist: “Gerald – you should be put in jail for slandering for Republicans.”
Slander is not a criminal offense, dumbass. It’s a civil offense. Do you even know the difference? God, what an idiot. Must be too much FOX.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:06 pmYes, it’s coming down to just that: subpoenaing the jefe himself! After all, the buck on everything that is corrupt in our government stops at his desk. He’s complicit in it all either by “omission or commission” so the gig is finally up and he needs to be brought in for questioning. If he refuses, hold him in contempt of congress.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:06 pm#126.
Busch was informed of the first plane striking the WTC before he went into the school.
He decided to go ahead with his photo-op regardless.
It was after the second plane hit that he proceeded to pick up My Pet Goat and start reading……….
If one watches very closely the video of him at that time, there is the split second where a look crosses his face (note particularly his eyes and his mouth, and the slight tightening beside his ears) that shows he knew about what was going down.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:08 pm#141: Nice. “We haven’t been attacked since . . .” Bush failed to prevent the worst terrorist attack in history to occur on American soil. You must be proud.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:08 pmJoe Wilson outed his wife, not Bush. AND even if we live in your deluded msm get Bush world, it was Armitrage who actually outed Plame.
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007 @ 1:48 pm
And who told you about msm Rush Limbaugh, Fox News. Do liberals have their own Fox news I don’t know about? So Bush isn’t responsible for Plame or anything else that happened during his administration. But Bill Clinton is responsible for everything the last 6 years.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:08 pmAwesome posts today. So many have found their voices against the latest Bushmen.
Thanks Bluedog49 for restating the 7 minutes. It always has bugged me. “We are under attack” and he sits. His whereabouts were public knowledge. For all anyone knew (?) a plane could have been pointed at him putting all those kids in danger and he just sits.
He wasn’t told what to do and that’s why he sat.
OCD is one of the funniest and obvious afflictions these wretched trolls have.
This snowball is turning into an avalanche.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:09 pm911 will the noose around Bush’s neck in the long run. What he thought was a handy usurpation of our civil liberties and constitutional rights will, in fact, turn around and bite him on the proverbial arss. It’s coming. The 911 investigations are right around the corner and the glaring inconsistencies will prove that the “official story” was a mere cover-up…..and then the *hit will hit the fan! Critical mass awareness of problems with the official story have reached 82% right now which translates into most americans having very strong suspicions about our own complicity in it all. This critical mass will snowball and plow this investigation wide open.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:09 pm#142 Nice try, asshat, but we’re on to you!
April 12th, 2007 at 2:09 pmThank you for reminding me how shameless Mr. Clinton was.
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007 @ 1:49 pm
Tell us what’s shameless about Mr. Clinton.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:10 pmBush Reading My Pet Goat will go down in history and will become his legacy. A paralyzed president sitting with first graders reading for 7 minutes while americans perished in the “improbable collapse” of the WTC. What a legacy!
April 12th, 2007 at 2:11 pmThe GOP is self-destructing??? Are you serious? We are not the party about to nominate the most divisive figure in politics.
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007 @ 2:05 pm
Yeah, you are about to nominate McCain or Giuliani. This is where your team learns the hard way that you do NOT get to create new realities.
Take a look at the polls, and try not to sob any harder while doing it. The Republicans have lost the independent voters in a big way, and attitudes are hardening fast. Go ahead and spread your lies. The independents don’t believe anything you say anymore. Bottom line, you aren’t going to win elections on 29% support, and that number is going down, not up.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:12 pmBush was a coward on 9/11, a running, hiding, coward.
Bush is destined to become the most reviled American in U.S. history.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:14 pmTo demean the President because he was reading My Pet Goat is truly shameful and shows just how much liberals HATE him.
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007 @ 1:51 pm
The “Leader” of the free world couldn’t get off his ass to see what he could do about the country being under attack. Who’s job was that if not his. Didn’t want to upset a room full of kids, well lots more kids lost their parents then were in that room. And he sat there, doing NOTHING.
You elected a guy too stupid to take ANY ACTION and you’re angry with us.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:15 pmThis critical mass will snowball and plow this investigation wide open.
Comment by veritas
I have had probusiness republicans telling me lately they think the WTC towers were demolitioned.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:15 pmVeritas – are you serious? You think Bush was in on 9/11? Either he is a dipsh*t or a Stalin?? Get your propoganda straight.
To imply the feds covered up 9/11 is not far fetched, but it would be suicide in the general election, especially with Hillary at the top of the ticket. Sandy Berger clearly feared the Clinton Admin would look bad. Why did he steal those documents?
April 12th, 2007 at 2:16 pm#156: You nailed this one. If it wasn’t Bush’s job to respond to a message that “America is under attack” then whose is it? The buffoon probably peed himself a little bit and was afraid to stand up.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:17 pmIt continues to just floor me how obsessed the reich-wingers are about Clinton! Maybe it was all that talk of sex that got to them. Maybe they were jealous that he was actually getting some and they weren’t?
Whatever the case may be Bush will go down in history as the worst president EVER! I have relatives outside this country and believe me when I say I get razzed continuously about how awfully stupid he is.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:19 pm#154 – your party is about to nominate Hillary. A candidate has NEVER clocked a 49% unfavorable rating in the spring of the prior election year and gone on to win the general. NEVER.
Polls mean nothing. They told you Bush would lose in 2004. He didn’t. Leaky Leahy and Traitor Nancy will wear thin on the electorate come fall 2008. The White House is up for grabs – not a done deal for the left.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:20 pmSmartechCorp.Net should be sent a subpoena today!
Comment by Gerald Gibson — April 12, 2007 @ 2:06 pm
I agree Gerald. I just hope that it happens before Rove sees your suggestion!
April 12th, 2007 at 2:21 pmThe Left Shuts Down Dissent sez:
Oh yes…that horrible $230 billion surplus mess…however did Chimpy find the strength to go on?
And if it was such a ‘mess’, how did he set about ‘fixing’ it? Do you remember? I do. TAX REFUNDS.
Heckuva job, Chimpy.
AND I snap my fingers to keep the tigers away. My method works so well, there hasn’t been a tiger within 100 miles of me since I started.
Izzat so? Perhaps you could share some of these ‘folied terrorist attacks’ for us.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:21 pmHe just sat there.
If what Sandy Berger has you upset then you should be outraged that 10x’s the amount of information is being witheld from the American public by the current administration.
Clinton can’t hurt you anymore. There’s a different boogey man now and he’s much more dangerous than an unfaithful husband.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:22 pm#157 – you’re a MORON. I can only hope Democrats run on the platform of Bush reads My Pet Goat for seven minutes, oh, but by the way, he blew up the WTC!!!
April 12th, 2007 at 2:22 pm#160 – do you ever get razzed about how awfully stupid you are?
April 12th, 2007 at 2:23 pm#65
Take your head out of your heros butt and you’ll see there is evidence. Lie after lie. Now the “missing e-mails”. Saw that one coming a mile away. Why do you hate the truth so much?
April 12th, 2007 at 2:24 pmBush cultist: “Bush has a great economic record considering the mess he inherited from Clinton. AND we haven’t been attacked since 9/11″
Again, the facts: “From Money Magazine, Nov. 26, 2001:
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – The world’s largest economy sank into a recession in March, ending 10 years of growth that was the longest expansion on record in the United States, a group of economists that dates U.S. business cycles said Monday.”
Cultist, Clinton presided over the longest peacetime expansion of the economy in history. And, he left Bush a budget surplus. WTF are you even talking about?
April 12th, 2007 at 2:25 pmRe: post #146.
I concluded with the statement “… he knew about what was going down.”
I think most probably he was instructed by his handlers, Chainee in particular, that IF anything strange like airplanes hitting buildings happens, just sit tight, “we” will handle it.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:26 pmDon’t do anything.
I’ll have to agree with the troll du jour, that it is unlikely Dubious was actually in on any of the details, he’s much to dumb to bother with that.
The look which crosses his faces is the Ah ha !moment when he realizes what it means for his grandiose delusions………..
hellinabucket sez:
Actually, hellinabucket, in the case of imminent threat to the President, the Secret Service wouldn’t have been following Chimpy’s lead. They would have removed him from danger immediately. That’s their job.
Chimpy’s itinerary was well known on that day. For all anyone knew, another hijacked airliner was nose-diving into Booker Elementary at that very second. The only reason the Secret Service would have allowed Chimpy to sit there for an additional seven minutes and read a book to children, fatally exposed, was because they knew full well that he wasn’t in any danger. Ask yourself how they could be so sure of this.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:27 pm#165: It’ll be interesting to see how many Republican candidates try to run without referencing Bush’s record. My guess: all of them.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:28 pmThe Left Shuts Down Dissent sez:
Is that all you have left? Disappointing.
TP admins, can we have a new troll? This one is out of gas.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:28 pmThe Bush cultist thinks we’re all stupid morons. Oh well, let’s review:
Cultist, in 2006, Dems went from 32 seats down to 33 seats up in the House. This was the biggest turnaround since 1933. In 2008, Repubs have 21 seats up and Dems have 9 seats up for reelection. Bush has the lowest approval ratings of any 2-term president in the history of modern polling. And, take a look at almost any poll on where people stand on the issues.
Dude, wake up and smell the coffee. You and your fellow cultists are on the way out.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:29 pmThe White House is up for grabs – not a done deal for the left.
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007 @ 2:20 pm
Keep dreaming, loser. Your party will be destroyed in the 2008 congressional elections.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:31 pmThis is true only if you ignore the Anthrax that was sent to Democrats by a NeoCon cultist in November of 2001.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:31 pmBush cultist: “AND we haven’t been attacked since 9/11″
Well, cultist, if that’s your standard of success, you should have loved Clinton. Barely 30 days into his first term, the WTC was attacked. There were no more attacks by Muslims in our country for the rest of his term. Oh, and there is no record of anyone in the Clinton administration blaming the previous admin. for this attack.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:33 pmThe GOP is self-destructing??? Are you serious? We are not the party about to nominate the most divisive figure in politics
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007 @ 2:05 pm
When do you think the primary is nutwad, next week? But Rush tells you idiots that Hillary has the nomination and there’s so much dirt on her that you’ll win the election. Run with it.
Who’s your candidate? You don’t even know that but you know about the Democrat. You’ll win the White House and the congress back and you can keep breaking laws and destroying the Constitution and the country. And your proud of that.
You care about Republicans more than the United States, traitor.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:34 pm#168 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_2000s_recession
NBER President Martin Federstein said:
“It is clear that the revised data have made our original March date for the start of the recession much too late. We are still waiting for additional monthly data before making a final judgment. Until we have the additional data, we cannot make a decision.”
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OH and of course, with the left-wing media in Clinton and Gore’s back pocket, this was NEVER discussed in 2000. It was just all about how much peace and prosperity America had. WE HAD NEITHER. IT WAS A LIE.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:35 pmI hope some future Democratic administration does the right thing, and replaces Washington on the quarter with a likeness of Senator Leahy. He is truly an American hero. One of the few we have seen in office in recent years.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:36 pmTP admins, can we have a new troll? This one is out of gas.
Comment by TripMaster Monkey — April 12, 2007 @ 2:28 pm
I find this troll particularly disturbing. It puts out a strong stench of Nazism. It is obviously frightened, and it is starting to sound frantic. I’ll bet that this person knows damn well what is going on, and that this true believer will never change no matter what is revealed by investigations. If necessary it will go into hiding, waiting to reemerge when Republican fortunes being to rise again 20 years from now.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:40 pmVeritas – are you serious? You think Bush was in on 9/11? Either he is a dipsh*t or a Stalin?? Get your propoganda straight.
To imply the feds covered up 9/11 is not far fetched, but it would be suicide in the general election, especially with Hillary at the top of the ticket. Sandy Berger clearly feared the Clinton Admin would look bad. Why did he steal those documents?
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007 @ 2:16 pm
You idiots think we care more about Hillary than 9/11 and the people who died. Maybe that’s what Republicans think about when people are suffering.
But Progressives are human. We think about human suffering more than the next election. But thanks for pointing out what your parties priorities are.
Self, elections, power, money that’s all that matters to you neocons.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:41 pmIf we did, your nonsense wouldn’t be on this site, dipsh!t.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:42 pmThey destroy our credibility in the world, kill Iraqis because they are Muslims (shades of Hitler anyone?), politicize the Justice Dept and God knows what else, expose a covert agent, lie us into a trillion dollar war……Jeez……and it’s Pelosi that we should be worried about??? Wrong and dangerous because she talks to people we have a problem with?
If Americans are really that stupid, we have bigger problems than the terrorists, the liberals, the anti-Americans, the Democrats, the French and Pelosi all combined.
The way out of a sewage pit does not lie through digging deeper into the sewage.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:42 pm#157 – you’re a MORON. I can only hope Democrats run on the platform of Bush reads My Pet Goat for seven minutes, oh, but by the way, he blew up the WTC!!!
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent
When people like you talk to people like me that way … I dont bother with the words you say so much as the why is this person so emotional about this comment? Scared? Guilty?
Like I said REPUBLICANS telling me this… and infact then going on about how their church friends dont believe it…. so they have been talking amongst themselves…
The people that jumped out of those buildings to their deaths like some hollywood nightmare deserve the TRUTH… what they have been given so far is lies…
April 12th, 2007 at 2:43 pm#182: Oops. Wrong thread. Sorry.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:45 pm#183 – in all seriousness, what do you think happened? Do you seriously believe those buildings were blown up? Was Bush involved?
I want to know what you think. I am dumbfounded by your comments and would like clarity.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:51 pmBush cultist: “OH and of course, with the left-wing media in Clinton and Gore’s back pocket, this was NEVER discussed in 2000.”
Chris Matthews on Gore in 2000: “He doesn’t even look like an American.”
Riiiiighttttt, Cultist, the mainstream media was just in love with Gore. I’m starting to wonder just how delusional this cultist can get. This is kind of interesting. This cultist is a running advertisement for the misinformation and historical distortion thoughtful people must deal with these days.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:52 pmHey, TP admins:
I’d like to know why my comment regarding the Secret Service failing to evacuate Bush from Booker Elementary, despite the very real possibility that he had another hijacked plane aimed straight at him, was scrubbed from the thread.
Apparently, the left does shut down dissent…
April 12th, 2007 at 2:53 pmThis latest troll is delightful. Dance little monkey dance.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:53 pmAnd it is at this point that the troll loses any credibility it might have had left.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:54 pmNo you don’t, you are a fu*king lying piece of sh!t troll. You don’t care one bit what other people think, so go fu*k yourself.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:55 pmThis person is not a Bush cultist. It is a Bush loyalist. There is a big difference. Cultists are difficult to change, but it is possible. Not so with loyalists. They join with eyes wide open. This person doesn’t need to drink the koolaid. His job is to serve the koolaid.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:58 pmTrolls can mock Leahy and Waxman, Conyers, Adelman and others, but that is to to discourage anyone from noticing that they are peeing their pants as these investigations and hearings into Bush &Co continue.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:58 pmDems not only have the determination to go forward – they have the public and they have justice on their side.
I want to know what you think. I am dumbfounded by your comments and would like clarity.
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent
The fire fighters that were there that day… the police that were there that day… the news commentators that day … demolitions experts that day on the news … and many many people around the country said those buildings came down just like they were demolitioned. Why did all those people say that? Because NO ONE has EVER seen a building come down like that except when a specially trained team of people carefully place explosives at particular points through out the building to make it not just come down … but IMPLODE… NO ONE EVER has seen that happen except during demolitions… THAT is why all those people said that instinctively that day.
Who did it? Osama? Spies from the same country that created the forged Niger documents? I dont know… thats why there must be a REAL and FORENSIC investigation to find out the truth.
April 12th, 2007 at 3:00 pmThe reichwingers are desperate – they are releasing their paid trolls like LSDD prematurely — they have not memorized enough talking points to debate anyone who has the facts.
April 12th, 2007 at 3:03 pmIgnore him and let him go back to summer school for remedial work.
I think our piss-soaked troll is trying to convince himself that the Bush gang still has a shot at naming a friendly successor to the White House. Deep down inside, piss-soaked troll knows that all is lost if the Democrats gain both the legislative and executive branches. Indictments by the score will sweep the highest levels of the Republican party.
April 12th, 2007 at 3:08 pmOur usual trolls are stupid dolts, but this new troll is particularly stupid….get off the keyboard and back to the blowup sex doll (male most likely) sitting next to you, don’t let your momma catch you though.
April 12th, 2007 at 3:09 pmHating the repukes daily.
Too bad that investigation can’t happen due to all of the evidence at the scene of the crime being shipped off to China to be smelted down into lovely ingots.
Look at the cut on this support beam. A little too neat to be a break.
April 12th, 2007 at 3:11 pmWhat!?
The White House lied!?
How is that even possible?
They wouldn’t do that to us, would they? Would they!?
Oh, the humanity….
April 12th, 2007 at 3:12 pm- Bush has a great economic record considering the mess he inherited from Clinton. AND we haven’t been attacked since 9/11. AND I know liberals hate to admit this, but terrorists are trying.
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent
There weren’t any for YEARS before Dubya, and I know CONvicts hate to tadnit this but terrorists were trying.
April 12th, 2007 at 3:15 pm#192 – well, not to state the manifestly obvious, but slamming a loaded 767 jet into those steal beams certainly didn’t help.
Have you ever heard of Occam’s (sp) Razor – KISS. Keep it simple, stupid. Me thinks that 9/11 was NOT an inside, rather a tragedy.
April 12th, 2007 at 3:17 pmConsidering the inane remarks from the trolls on this thread, this story must be really damaging to the White House.
Meanwhile, continue to pray that those who know of wrongdoing in the Bush Administration continue to come forward with testimony and evidence.
April 12th, 2007 at 3:18 pmAnd that is your opinion. But the evidence points to something a lot more heinous.
That beam is still attached to its foundation AT THE GROUND LEVEL. The 767 didn’t touch it.
Next excuse in 3…..2……1
April 12th, 2007 at 3:22 pmThe Left Shuts Down Dissent sez:
The towers were specifically designed to withstand airliner collissions…which they did. They stood for about an hour (56 minutes for WTC 2 and 102 minutes for WTC 1) before inexplicably collapsing into their own footprints at free-fall speeds.
And…there’s thye small matter of WTC7, which collapsed neatly into its own footprint, again at free-fall speeds, despite the inconvenient fact that it wasn’t struck by an airliner that day.
The only people who invoke Occam’s Razor to defend the government’s version of events of 9/11 are those who haven’t actually looked into the collapses. When you consider all the fantastically improbable things that would have had to happen to allow the three WTC towers to collapse in the way there were observed to, purely by accident, Occam’s Razor points squarely to controlled demolition.
April 12th, 2007 at 3:26 pmComment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007 @ 3:17 pm
Aside from the fact that you support a fascist, imperialistic Dictator,
Occams Razor may say keep it simple, but not impossible.
Kindly explain the in flight cell phone calls. The technology to make those calls possible didn’t exist until 2006.
April 12th, 2007 at 3:26 pmComment by Spudge_Boy — April 12, 2007 @ 3:11 pm
thanks for the link.
April 12th, 2007 at 3:27 pmInteresting…my Secret Service post is back up…an hour later than initially posted, and buried far up the thread.
April 12th, 2007 at 3:27 pm#160
Bush and Cheney WERE “in on” 9/11
If not, WHY did Bush and Cheney REFUSE TO TESTIFY UNDER OATH TO THE 9/11 Commission??
In other words, Bush and Cheney REFUSED TO SWEAR TO GOD
TO
TELL THE TRUTH TO THE PEOPLE OF THE USA!
Come on “stifle dissent”, tell us WHY Bush and Cheney REFUSED TO SWEAR TO GOD TO TELL THE TRUTH…
BRING IT ON!!!!
Defend TRAITORS Bush and Cheney…
April 12th, 2007 at 3:36 pm125 – Bush has a great economic record considering the mess he inherited from Clinton.
Thats false. Their is a huge deficit, we are BORROWING money from China, We borrow nearly three billion a day. Backloaded taxes will come due in 2011. This war will cost up to one trillion and 8 billion has been lost due to corruption, not to mention another 8 billion lost by Bremer. Housing is in a slump and Americans are in negative savings.
April 12th, 2007 at 3:41 pmAnd now my post in response to The Left Shuts Down Dissent’s post @ 3:17 pm has also fallen down the rabbit hole. I guess I can expect that to resurface in an hour, far up the thread so no one will read it.
TP admins, are you ever going to upgrade your website, or is this spotty piss-poor performance intentional?
April 12th, 2007 at 3:41 pm#81 Leave the country?! I wish not to become a victim of this government’s foreign policy!
April 12th, 2007 at 3:53 pmLeahy to go ‘F’ himself on the Senate floor, the game rules were set.
So this is just a personal grudge?
April 12th, 2007 at 3:55 pmSo this is just a personal grudge?
No, this is American oversight and JUSTICE.
FINALLY!!!
God Bless America, the Democrats, the SUBPOENAS, and the WORLD!
April 12th, 2007 at 3:58 pmMe thinks that 9/11 was NOT an inside, rather a tragedy.
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent — April 12, 2007 @ 3:17 pm
You think but you don’t KNOW. Why don’t you do your own research instead of letting your handlers tell you what the facts are.
April 12th, 2007 at 4:36 pm[...] to say that Leahy is livid.  Go read about it and watch the video at TPM. ThinkProgress says that Leahy outright accused the White House of lying about this particular coverup. Welcome to the world of reality-based politics, Pat. We’re [...]
April 12th, 2007 at 4:38 pmSo this is just a personal grudge?
Comment by rabidbunny — April 12, 2007 @ 3:55 pm
Project much? You Clinton haters are all alike. Go get some medication, you lunatic.
April 12th, 2007 at 4:42 pmOh, this is cool.
If Leahy keeps those balls of steel he seems to have grown, 2010 will be a cakewalk for him.
April 12th, 2007 at 4:49 pmQuestion that no Nazioid Bush supporter DARES to try to answer:
WHY did Bush and Cheney REFUSE TO TESTIFY UNDER OATH TO THE 9/11 Commission??
In other words, Bush and Cheney REFUSED TO SWEAR TO GOD
TO TELL THE TRUTH TO THE PEOPLE OF THE USA??
Notice that “stifles dissent” QUIT after I posed that one on #210?
OR they might have finished their shift for the RNC for the day…
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
April 12th, 2007 at 4:54 pmI know how they can find those e-mails…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_(FBI)
April 12th, 2007 at 4:54 pmA candidate has NEVER clocked a 49% unfavorable rating in the spring of the prior election year and gone on to win the general. NEVER.
Polls mean nothing.
Sums up the idiocy of this Left Shuts Down Dissent character. This guy cannot be serious, can he?!
BTW – Hillary is a lock for the nomination? Hmmm…news to me…
April 12th, 2007 at 5:06 pmwell well Ole Patrick is going about his job like a good barber, first the nose hairs are trimmed, ear hairs are trimmed, now hes working his way down to the pubic area, here he’ll turn into a black smithy, put the balls on an anvil then smack em ftat. turn these Thugs into the high pitched whiners they are.
They may even try out for the Old Oprey.after he’s done with em.
April 12th, 2007 at 7:01 pmBush cultist: “slamming a loaded 767 jet into those steal beams certainly didn’t help…”
And, Building Seven? A steel-beamed building which was not hit comes straight down because of a few fires on three floors near the outside windows and the shaking from across the street???!!! Please.
April 12th, 2007 at 7:02 pmrapidbunny: “So this is just a personal grudge?”
The Vice President of the United States of America on the floor of the Senate: “Oh, go f*ck yourself!”
That couldn’t have helped, dumbass.
April 12th, 2007 at 7:04 pm[...] the senator that Cheney famously told to “go fuck himself” on the senate floor) today: “They say they have not been preserved. I don’t believe that!†Leahy shouted from the Senate [...]
April 12th, 2007 at 8:52 pmLYING IS JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT “COME NATURALLY” TO THE NAZI-FASCISTS OF Bushland Uber Allies—”IT’S ONLY NATURAL,” TO PARAPHRASE THE ORGINAL THINKER Mr. Flensing Hlanith—SO IS DEATH, NATURAL THAT IS—AND IT SHOULD DEFINITELY BE VISITED AS NATURALLY AS POSSIBLE UPON CHIMPya, FRANKENCheney, Rove, Rice, GONZO and ALL THE GOOSE-STEPPING NAZI-FASCISTS OF Bushland Uber Allies!!!!!
April 12th, 2007 at 10:38 pm#125 – Bush has a great economic record considering the mess he inherited from Clinton.
Comment by The Left Shuts Down Dissent
Bush inherited a big ecnomic surplus from Clinton and managed to squander it so quickly that the US now has a record (and ever-growing) deficit. Have you neoCON Kool-Aid drinkers ever considered what will happen when Japan and especially China decide to collect on all the debts the Bushevik administration has chalked up with them?
April 13th, 2007 at 3:37 amPs. Left Shuts Down Dissent
April 13th, 2007 at 3:55 amThe very fact that you have been allowed so many posts here alone proves what nonsense your silly name is.
“They say they have not been preserved. I don’t believe that!†Leahy shouted from the Senate floor. “You can’t erase e-mails, not today. They’ve gone through too many servers.
So the internet really ISN’T a “series of tubes”. It is apparently, in this guy’s mind, a series of filing cabinets which is well overdue to explode after 20 years of accumulated emails kept on every server they passed through for no apparent purpose.
April 13th, 2007 at 6:27 amYOU GUYS ARE FOOLZ. I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU WOULD HAVE A CLINTON WITHOUT A PENIIS FOR A FRONT RUNNER. HOW DO YOU THINK SHE CAN WITHSTAND THE FULL FURY OF OUR CURRENT REPUBLICAN FRONT RUNNER??:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IrE6FMpai8
HE IS VERY OPENMINDED, LIKES TO DRESS LIKE A WOMAN, HAS BEEN MARRIED 3 TIMES, AND IS PRO CHOICE. WHAT MORE DO YOU COMMUNISTS WANT?
April 13th, 2007 at 7:09 amSo the internet really ISN’T a “series of tubesâ€. It is apparently, in this guy’s mind, a series of filing cabinets which is well overdue to explode after 20 years of accumulated emails kept on every server they passed through for no apparent purpose.
don’t worry Kilo, they will show up. Then you can take your subtle snipes and shove them up you a#s
April 13th, 2007 at 7:10 amLSDD (Maybe on LSD)
April 14th, 2007 at 2:15 amYou already lose any argument just by calling everyone left of center “Communist, ” fascist idiot.