Comments on: Bush: We Can’t Spend $22 Billion On America Because We Need $200 Billion For Iraq War

By: tombaker

tombaker — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:37:32 +0000

118 – however much those numbers might be, they’re small in comparison to what we’re throwing away to bushbuddies.

politicians are all similar, but they are not all the same, and republicans since reagan have distinguished themselves as being the most corrupt since the days of tammany hall, and that’s just objectively true.

By: MGarrett

MGarrett — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:24:46 +0000

And how much that 22 BILLION are EARMARKS for John Murtha’s buddies? How much are we spending on “bridges to nowhere?” And how much is going to creating centers that have the name Byrd in it? Or Frank? Rangel?

How much of that 22 BILLION is going to Democratic pet projects?

Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

By: n8_glenn

n8_glenn — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:23:35 +0000

BWAAAAHAAAHAAAHAAAHAAAAAHAAAAAâ€¦

The only thing wrong with your diatribe isâ€¦â€¦everything.

You are so full of crap, you must type your stuff just so you can read your own stuff on some website and make yourself feel important because you are â€œpublishedâ€ somewhere.

The problem is, posting your nonsense here preaches to the choirâ€¦and itâ€™s only a tiny fraction of the U.S. population.

The rest donâ€™t give a ratâ€™s about what you have to say. Sorry to burst your bubble.

Comment by O. Bigfoot â€” September 24, 2007 @ 11:44 pm

Bigfoot, you are 12 aren’t you? Seriously, you’ve GOT to be 12! If I was a betting man I would put a large sum on 12 (or younger). At any rate, are you disputing the truth of what he is saying? I guarantee you, if you actually did some research, you would find that all the facts he cited are accurate. But no, you’re just arguing that you know why he posts comments, and you also know what everyone thinks of his comments. You also apparently think that most people disagree with the general tone of his comment, which couldn’t be farther from the truth. It would seem that you are under the impression that you are a psychic, but unfortunately you are not, and you are quite out of touch with the general mood of this country. Don’t worry, you are not the only republican laboring under those false assumptions.

By: Goofindoo

Goofindoo — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:55:50 +0000

You want this to end, you have to do more than sing to the choir. You have got to roar at the politicians, at the media, and everywhere on the internet where rightwing bloggers and posters spew their nonsense. This website is a good starting point but you have got to go out and battle the rightwingers where they are, in their strongholds and everywhere else.

By: tombaker

tombaker — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:00:06 +0000

113 – when did 69% become a tiny fraction – I thought that was quite abit more than half, but I only got a B in idiot math.

By: nycbassist

nycbassist — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:02:54 +0000

Please, just tell me if this nightmare is ever going to end. 150 days seems so endless now, and now that we’ve started on this path of lawless government, who’s to say the next crew won’t be just a continuation. How did this happen here?

By: President Bushybits

President Bushybits — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:09:46 +0000

The whole world should wake up and act now. Boycott ALL American products. Every country in the world should stop supplying America with its consumables. Every Oil country in the world should start trading their oil in Euros not US Dollars because why should we trade in a currency that has no value and if their is a value then its certainly not stable enough. The world is united on one thing, they ALL hate America and its totally ignorant leaders who are bombing countries they cant even spell, let alone point out on a map. 70% of Americans donâ€™t even know where England is on the map. Hello!
So what if America puts sanctions on every country that doesnâ€™t want to play ball. Nobody wants to play ball with America anyway. All Americans should take a step back, and if they are not to ignorant contemplate what America is doing to the rest of the world. Take a long good look at yourselves and the Monkeys YOU voted into power. Are You happy the way things are? Are you happy that in YOUR country you donâ€™t even have the basic human right of Habeas Corpus – Free Speech.
How can a nation of idiots who donâ€™t even practice free speech and democracy impose those rights onto other nations by force?
Bush is the spokes person for the free world and America. Sorry, I live in a free part of this world, and we are not Bush fans and he does not speak for me or my countrymen. Bush is a Joke, and all Americans who follow this Joke are being laughed at all around the world. You Americans need to educate yourselves and listen to what other people from around the world are saying.
Why do you think they tell all Americans who travel outside on the states to keep a low profile and no openly shout out they are Americans? (There was a time it was cool to be an American).
Only 2% of All Americans have a passport. Out of that 2% over half are military people. That leaves a handful of Americans who are Worldly. Surely a nation with absolute NO knowledge or interest of the rest of the world should reflect that knowledge by pulling their necks in and stop telling US (The rest of the world) what to do.
Only then, once America sorts out their own mess at home, apologizes to Iraq and any other country they have illegally invaded, cleaned up their mess and actually becomes an example to the rest of the world, only then will America possibly be respected again. But until then, I speak for a huge global majority from hundreds of countries. Nobody respects Americans anymore. Nobody likes Americans anymore. Soon, people are going to do something about it and it isnâ€™t going to look good for Bush and his followers. So take head America, your days are numbered and come the elections or in 483 Days when Bush leaves office you better vote in an President and not some dumb monkey.
Your future and lives depend on it.

By: theswan

theswan — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:11:02 +0000

He wants the gun money in his friends pockets. Not the health money to provide human care.
Bush cuts money for human necessity to provide for the firecrackers that maim and kill.
The president throws your money away as fast as you provide it with your tax money.
He’s very rich. You may be very poor.

By: 7man

7man — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:06:30 +0000

By: 7man

7man — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:04:39 +0000

Yes, I think we need a change here, now that feudalism is back and noblesse oblige forgotten:

By: Ret. Col. Jack Ripper

Ret. Col. Jack Ripper — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:58:18 +0000

Well, upside, as Upton Sinclair so famously said, “it’s hard to get a man to agree with something when his paycheck depends upon disagreeing.”

By: upside99

upside99 — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:54:52 +0000

Money to protect America from Terrorist vs. new entitlement program money. I know what I choose.
Comment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper â€” September 24, 2007 @ 6:42 pm

Col., what are the odds that R2 has a portion of his income, and/or investments in oil and Defense companies?

That would be the ONLY way anyone with an IQ over Bush’s favorable poll numbers could even make the statement he did!

By: Ret. Col. Jack Ripper

Ret. Col. Jack Ripper — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:42:47 +0000

RogerRoger: “Money to protect America from Terrorist vs. new entitlement program money. I know what I choose.”

Yes, of course, because you are a moron.

1. Money going to Iraq does nothing to “protect America from Terrorist.”

2. Money going to Iraq IS an entitlement program for Bush’s crony war profiteers.

By: Ret. Col. Jack Ripper

Ret. Col. Jack Ripper — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:40:51 +0000

Re: Bobwurst and Uncle Ho urging people to “go Green party!”

I hate to be the one who reminds you of this, but that’s a big part of the reason why we have GW Bush in the first place. Without Nader’s Green Party campaign in 2000, we’re not in Iraq, 9-11 possibly doesn’t happen, the debt is being paid down, we’ve had universal healthcare for a few years now, the wealthiest among us haven’t looted the treasury and the middle class is a little less squeezed.

I know, I know, the Green Party had absolutely NOTHING to do with all of this, right guys?

By: Leftside Annie

Leftside Annie — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:33:38 +0000

Our pal Bigfoot has to have LOTS of that there gasoline to drive his Hummer. So the war’s all right with him.

How about a draft, big boy…? And I do NOT mean beer.

By: foolme1ns

foolme1ns — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:47:13 +0000

Bush will get his 200 billion for his unholy war, and the 22 billion for the vets, the children and the poor will be wiped away under the “threat” of another fillibuster.

The democrats are too weak to fight the republicans, as they continually tell us over and over and over again. So this rubber stamp congress will give Bush exactly what he wants, just like the other rubber stamp congress did. The only difference is the whining.

By: Pessimistic_Realist-Optomistic_Idealist

Pessimistic_Realist-Optomistic_Idealist — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:47:06 +0000

Roger your priorities are depressing. The terrorist threat is vastly blown out of proportion in order to sway those such as your selves via the most effective means of mass manipulation FEAR. Do you really think that the current administration incompetent in every facet of its faculty would really be able to protect us from this “threat” that is supposedly looming around every dark corner regardless of the excess billions provided to do so? I refuse to live in fear. Though I am very afraid of the state of our internal “entitlement” programs as you have classified them.

Money to line elitist pocketbooks under the manufactured premise of doom vs educational/infrastructure funding. Wow I hope the choice isn’t that hard.

By: Doc Rock

Doc Rock — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:39:49 +0000

Take it off the top of the War Budget! Take out all money for Defense security contractors like Blackwater for example.

By: Roger_Roger

Roger_Roger — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:36:18 +0000

Money to protect America from Terrorist vs. new entitlement program money. I know what I choose.

By: Anonymouse

Anonymouse — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:29:02 +0000

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again – this is the core of the Bush fiscal strategy:

1. National security (and especially ongoing military action) is the “universal solvent” of Republican politics. It takes an awful lot of malfeasance and ineptitude before the general public will vote against war spending.

2. Because war spending is non-discretionary, kept outside of normal budgetary processes, open-ended war spending provides several benefits to the Administration: a) redistribution to defense contractors; b) a Keynesian economic “boost,” especially in the locales where contractors are based; c) an exploding “real” budget deficit that has grown so large that even Democrats will (soon) agree needs to be addressed.

3. Genuine “success” in Iraq would have limited these “benefits.” Better to drag things out, deflect the blame onto others (especially those “traitorous Democrats”), while pushing for both more tax cuts (i.e., more redistribution to cronies) and open-ended military action.

4. Repeat until all social programs are closed to stave off bankruptcy.

In my darker moments, I’m also tempted to believe they’d also be happy to see martial law and full transition to a reactionary feudalism.

They certainly don’t seem to have any love for democratic institutions.