GOP insiders ‘fret’ over McClellan’s upcoming testimony to Congress.
GOP insiders ‘fret’ over McClellan’s upcoming testimony to Congress.
On Friday, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan is scheduled to testify before the House Judiciary Committee. U.S. News reports that “some Republican insiders” are “worried” about what he might say not only about the Valerie Plame leak scandal, but also on the “workings of the White House and what McClellan calls Bush’s lack of candor about the need for the Iraq invasion“:
But other GOP strategists say McClellan’s experience could underscore one of the weak points of the West Wing — the conversion of the press secretary’s job, at least under McClellan, into what some call a propagandist. “The press secretary has become the mouthpiece and not the fact checker,” says a former senior adviser to a Republican president.
White House officials, who are “concerned” about McClellan’s testimony, are trying to downplay the hearing, focusing instead on the 110th Congress’s “embarrassing lack of accomplishment over the past two years.”
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I thought that history wasn’t Dana’s strong suit.
June 18th, 2008 at 4:55 pmWhite House officials are trying to downplay the hearing, focusing on the 110th Congress’s “embarrassing lack of accomplishment over the past two years.”
In direct contrast to the unmitigated successes of this horseshit administration the last 7+ years ?
Are you kidding me ???????????????????????
June 18th, 2008 at 4:56 pmAny rational person fully understands that this congress is not to blame for the lack of action, but instead blame bushco’s lackeys obstructing progress. VOTE OUT EVERY REPUG IN ‘08
June 18th, 2008 at 4:58 pmI’m SO looking forward to this hearing, and I just hope the questions live up to the potential.
Having said that, I hope Scott watches his back for the next 48 hours.
PEACE
June 18th, 2008 at 5:03 pm…focusing on the 110th Congress’s “embarrassing lack of accomplishment over the past two years.”
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Well, it’s actually only been a little less than a year and a half, but I would still stack the accomplishments of the 110th Congress up against those of the 109th.
However, it ain’t easy to run a four-minute mile when you’re hog-tied, and the minority in this Congress has done everything they can to obstruct any kind of progress the majority has attempted. Bipartisanship is a concept of the past.
That said — the White House has a point. There are a lot of us who are somewhat angry that the 110th has failed to do what we elected them to do — hold the WH accountable for their actions for the previous six years. And they have done nothing except send out a number of sternly worded letters. I would LOVE it if they take the “embarrassing lack of accomplishment” words to heart and start impeaching.
Even though it’s a nice attempt at distraction by the WH, it still isn’t going to keep us from paying attention to what McClellan has to say.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:03 pmIt is too easy – and too partisan – to simply place the blame on the policies of President George W. Bush. We are all responsible for the decisions our country makes. We have a Congress. We have an independent judiciary. We have checks and balances. We are a nation of laws. We have free speech. We have a free press. Have they all failed us?
June 18th, 2008 at 5:04 pmWhite House officials, who are “concerned” about McClellan’s testimony, are trying to downplay the hearing, focusing instead on the 110th Congress’s “embarrassing lack of accomplishment over the past two years.”
And we can all thank Senate Republicans for that. They have blocked and obstructed as much of the Democratic Party agenda as they could. The hypocrisy of these people is mind-numbing (if you have a mind, which Dan Quayle once said was a terrible thing to not have.)
June 18th, 2008 at 5:04 pmWhite House officials, who are “concerned” about McClellan’s testimony, are trying to downplay the hearing, focusing instead on the 110th Congress’s “embarrassing lack of accomplishment over the past two years.”
The above is the political equivalent of a member of the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ football team , which was winless for almost 2 full seasons , claiming another team “sucks”………
June 18th, 2008 at 5:04 pmoctamethyl Says:
Any rational person fully understands that this congress is not to blame for the lack of action, but instead blame bushco’s lackeys obstructing progress. VOTE OUT EVERY REPUG IN ‘08
Nope…Dems are as complicit as any republican. Today’s Dems do not know how to play hardball politics as the repubs do. Dems are too civil and polite – too slow to ‘attack’ the lies and obfuscation coming from the WH.
I wish it weren’t true, but it is. Reid, Hoyer, and Pelosi are lock step in guilt with everybody else. Dem leadership are cowards, willing to ignore their sworn oath to gain a better seat advantage in November. To me, that is not the way back to Constitutional rule.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:05 pmNo need to fret, the Democrats won’t do a damn thing other than to act all indignant and outraged. But act upon the testimony – nah.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:06 pmI bet what they are really worried about is bringing up the Valerie Plame issue. Clearly, Cheney ordered Scooter Libby to leak Plame’s name to punish her husband for writing a true article. It’s as simple as that, and they simply want it to go away.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:07 pmI realize that McClellan has been invited to testify specifically about the Valerie Plame situation, but I’m hoping that once he gets going, we will get a whole lot of information from him under oath — about the rationale to attack Iraq, about the U.S. Attorney scandal, about telecoms surveilling Americans prior to 9/11 — anything we can get.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:08 pmbackup Says:
Any rational person fully understands that this congress is not to blame for the lack of action, but instead blame bushco’s lackeys obstructing progress.
It is too easy – and too partisan – to simply place the blame on the policies of President George W. Bush. We are all responsible for the decisions our country makes. We have a Congress. We have an independent judiciary. We have checks and balances. We are a nation of laws. We have free speech. We have a free press. Have they all failed us?
I really hate to say this, but backup is correct IMHO. We have been lazy in our oversight of the employees we hire to stand for our interests. We thought the Dems were gonna ‘change the world’ in ‘06, but they didn’t. We have nobody to blame except for us. A million letters A DAY should be puring into the Capital mailroom. We are a lazy citizenry, for the most part.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:09 pmbackup Says:
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Any rational person fully understands that this congress is not to blame for the lack of action, but instead blame bushco’s lackeys obstructing progress.
It is too easy – and too partisan – to simply place the blame on the policies of President George W. Bush. We are all responsible for the decisions our country makes. We have a Congress. We have an independent judiciary. We have checks and balances. We are a nation of laws. We have free speech. We have a free press. Have they all failed us?
June 18th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Stop it
“Independent judiciary” ? The judiciary that has had 2 lackeys of Chimpy and Co running it ?
Where is justice going to prevail when the moron who holds the highest office in the land commits illegal and criminal acts and has those placed in specific positions of oversight agreeing with his inane position(s) ?
June 18th, 2008 at 5:09 pmBackup sys:
We are a nation of laws. We have free speech. We have a free press. Have they all failed us?
Yes they all have, because we have let them. Do you seriously believe that BushCo has NOT broken any laws, hasn’t curtailed free speech, hasn’t destroyed the fabric of the Constitution, hasn’t spit on the Geneva Convention, hasn’t practiced rendition and torture worse than almost any previous regime, world-wide?
And this will begin to change as the American people FINALLY stand up and change the numbers in both Houses as well as in the WH.
Getting this country back on track will be hard, long and dangerous work, but it WILL get done.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:10 pmBut, surely, those same Republicans and the administration have not done anything wrong, have they? So they don’t have anything to worry about!
Isn’t that what they said about certain provisions of the Patriot Act and actions of the President in wiretapping, viewing library records, etc.
“If you’ve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about.” So, why are they worrying?
June 18th, 2008 at 5:11 pmbackup Says:
“Any rational person fully understands that this congress is not to blame for the lack of action, but instead blame bushco’s lackeys obstructing progress.”
It is too easy – and too partisan – to simply place the blame on the policies of President George W. Bush. We are all responsible for the decisions our country makes. We have a Congress. We have an independent judiciary. We have checks and balances. We are a nation of laws. We have free speech. We have a free press. Have they all failed us?
June 18th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
I respectfully disagree.
“We” do not have a Congress. Corporate America does, and it does their bidding quite nicely, thank you.
“We” do not have an independent Judiciary. The Republicans have been busy during most of the last thirty or forty years putting judges on the federal benches who have no regard for the constitution and the freedoms it was designed to protect.
“We” do not have checks and balances. Those are tools “our” Congress is supposed to use, but they have failed to do so (and I would urge everyone to vote out every member of Congress who failed to hold this administration accountable, including my own.)
“We” are not a nation of laws. We are a nation of special interests, many of them corporate, and our elected officials do not like to hold corporations accountable to the law.
“We” do not have free speech, but thanks to Bush, we have more “free speech zones” (where your First Amendment right to petititon the government for a redress of grievances can be safely ignored) than ever before (even under Clinton).
“We” do not have a free press, but rather one controlled by the very same Corporate America that wants to make sure “our” Congress continues to do its bidding.
I wish everything you said was true, but the reality is that it is not. And, yes, they have all failed us.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:12 pmStratRat. I have to stop this here. I just got Al Gore’s book ‘The Assault of Reason’ and my post was a direct quote from it. There Gore’s words. I was curious to see what kind of reaction they would get here. If you think those words are reasonable, they’re Gores.
I’m only into the book a couple of chapters. And I must admit, that I am impressed by how reasonable the his words are.
Sorry for the intentional delayed sourcing, but I couldn’t figure out any other way to do it.
If you agree with the post in #6, you’re agreeing with Al Gore.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:14 pmWayne A. Schneider Says:
I wish everything you said was true, but the reality is that it is not. And, yes, they have all failed us.
Wayne, you just saved me a lot of typing. I agree with you completely. I think that any attempt to spread the “blame” around the citizenry is simply an attempt to minimize and excuse the venality and corruption of the Bush administration, the Republican Party, “conservatives” and corporate bandits.
“We” are not responsible for the actions of Bush, Cheney et al, nor for the chickenhawks in the media, for the propaganda machine of FoxNews, for the tiny minds on SCOTUS . . . sorry, I’m not buying that for a second.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:18 pmIf it were so easy to blame bush, he’d be gone.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:18 pmHey Backup, here’s just one example of some eye-opening behavior by the ‘impotent’ democrats in congress. If you believe that they are anything but complicit, you’re fooling yourself…
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/06/17/hoyer/index.html
June 18th, 2008 at 5:19 pmbackup Says:
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I really hate to say this, but backup is correct IMHO. We have been lazy in our oversight of the employees we hire to stand for our interests. We thought the Dems were gonna ‘change the world’ in ‘06, but they didn’t. We have nobody to blame except for us. A million letters A DAY should be puring into the Capital mailroom. We are a lazy citizenry, for the most part.
StratRat. I have to stop this here. I just got Al Gore’s book ‘The Assault of Reason’ and my post was a direct quote from it. There Gore’s words. I was curious to see what kind of reaction they would get here. If you think those words are reasonable, they’re Gores.
I’m only into the book a couple of chapters. And I must admit, that I am impressed by how reasonable the his words are.
Sorry for the intentional delayed sourcing, but I couldn’t figure out any other way to do it.
If you agree with the post in #6, you’re agreeing with Al Gore.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Then , I disagree(respectfully) , to Mr Gore.
Al Gore has been out of DC and politics for almost 8 years now.
He has no idea , nor does anyone here , how deep and all-pervading the scope of Chimpy and Co’s criminality truly reaches.
None of us are privy to any of that information , including Mr Gore , and to imply that all are equally guilty , is quite ludicrous.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:21 pmFret on, babies – Fret on. Your little world is coming to an end.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:22 pmIf you agree with the post in #6, you’re agreeing with Al Gore.
I like Al Gore and it does not surprise me that those are his words (ethically, you should have cited this, but no matter). The words in post 6, to me, are spot on. We, again for the most part, are too well off, too distracted, too lazy, too dis-interested, too busy, too confused, too angry, too partisan, too tired, etc…We get the government we deserve, because it is our government. The workers there in congress are not the government, they are employees. We are the boss.
I’ll say it again: One million letters A DAY pouring into the Capital mailroom would begin to remind the congresscritters just who the bosses are. Alas, we are also too lazy to do even that.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:22 pmbackup Says:
I really hate to say this, but backup is correct IMHO. We have been lazy in our oversight of the employees we hire to stand for our interests. We thought the Dems were gonna ‘change the world’ in ‘06, but they didn’t. We have nobody to blame except for us. A million letters A DAY should be puring into the Capital mailroom. We are a lazy citizenry, for the most part.
StratRat. I have to stop this here. I just got Al Gore’s book ‘The Assault of Reason’ and my post was a direct quote from it. There Gore’s words. I was curious to see what kind of reaction they would get here. If you think those words are reasonable, they’re Gores.
I’m only into the book a couple of chapters. And I must admit, that I am impressed by how reasonable the his words are.
Sorry for the intentional delayed sourcing, but I couldn’t figure out any other way to do it.
If you agree with the post in #6, you’re agreeing with Al Gore
Yes, Backup, I agree with Al and I have read that book and it does show an intelligent thoughtful view of the many facets of our government and our human frailties.
But he does go on and explains what BushCo has and is doing IS illegal, immoral and we need to stop it and reverse much of the damage.
Keep reading, you will enjoy it.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:25 pmBullsh!t.
“We are all responsible for the decisions our country makes.” Are you kidding me? Am I responsible for the invasion of Iraq? Are progressives who warned of the folly that awaited us responsible?
This high-sounding sentiment you espouse is crap.
You say, We have an independent judiciary. We have checks and balances. We are a nation of laws. We have free speech. We have a free press. Have they all failed us?
I say, yes, they have all failed us, and the primary reason is that this White House set out to compromise every single one of the elements you listed.
Independent judiciary — Talk to David Iglesias about the “independent judiciary”. Look at the fear-based reasoning of Scalia on the Supreme Court.
Checks and balances — this WH has tried to claim that Congress has no oversight responsiblity over the executive branch.
A nation of laws — more specifically these days, a nation of signing statements, and an executive branch that is effectively above the law.
free speech — citizens arrested for wearing a t-shirt with an uncomplimentary slogan on it in a public place. “Free speech zones” set up to corral protesters so that they are not heard by public officials who might be embarrassed by their message.
free press — compromised by corporate consolidation, and a WH that punished adversarial journalists by cutting them out of the loop.
tell the truth, backup — you composed this whole email to serve as a softball, right? The only institution that you mentioned whose failure cannot be directly traced to Bush is Congress. And that. true, is a shared failure. Weak-willed Democrats have been cowed and obstructed by Republicans nearly every step of the way for eighteen months. Shameful.
But, no, backup, blaming Bush is not “too easy”. It’s absolutely appropriate.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:26 pmbackup Says
June 18th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Have they all failed us?
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Yes.
But this is because we have allowed it to happen. While we were being distracted by our bread and circuses, we allowed our entire system of government to be hijacked by a group of neocons and business interests. And once they captured one branch of government, they fortified a second branch with their stooges, and rendered the third branch impotent. They captured the media and used them to catapult their propaganda. Then they used their dictatorial powers to begin eroding the freedoms of the people, plunder our treasury to fulfill their agenda and line their pockets, and destroy our standing with the rest of the world.
And like a frog sitting in water while it slowly comes to a boil, we did nothing.
We the people need to take our country back. The system we have depended upon for over two centuries works — we just need to reboot it.
Hearing what Scott McClellan is willing to say under oath is a good first step, even if it’s a small one.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:28 pmPerhaps Scott McClellan should consider taping what he wants Congress to hear, just in case he should have an accident or committ “suicide” as so many others who crossed this administration.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:30 pmI figured this was a set-up, backup, but I went ahead and took the bait anyway.
It was dishonest of you, but I see why you did it. That does not make any of the points written here by anyone less valid.
No, “WE” are not responsible in the way your post implied. We are responsible in a broadly conceptual way, but the voice of the People, which is our only instrument outside of election day, has been utterly disdained and ignored by this president since Day One. It truly has been a nightmare scenario for seven-and-a-half years.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:31 pm“Concerned” and “Fret” are such kind, innocuous, civil words. Is that really what they said ?
June 18th, 2008 at 5:37 pmI don’t disagree with post #6 and I don’t fault backup for not immediately attributing the quote, especially since attribution followed. Sometimes, especially in political discussion it is necessary to set aside authorship in order to evaluate the merits of the statement. That said, I wholly agree with the quote which correctly notes the dereliction of Congress, the infotainment industry that passes for the media and yes, the voters for returning a flagrant incompetent to the White House. None of that in any way exonerates Bush who I believe will go down for all eternity as the worst two term president in U.S. history and probably the worst of all. His incompetence, corruption and brutality could have been mitigated if not eliminated however had more members of Congress followed their principles instead of jumping on the bandwagon, had the media performed its investigatory function instead of trading favorable press for access (hello Bob Woodward, Judy Miller et al) and most of all had the voters accepted the responsibility that comes with living in a free society and actually paid attention while they were being lied to by their president about 9/11, WMD and pretty much everything else this pathetic failure has touched over the past 7.5 years.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:43 pmralph.
I apologize again for not sourcing Gore in the first place. I was curious how much of the opposition to the message was due to the messenger vs. the message.
I understand the importance of context and the importance of the moral authority and/or credibility of the source.
So, it’s not really accurate to equate my post with Gore’s book.
It didn’t pan out as I intended. I apologize for it and hope you understand.
BTW, I don’t necessarily agree with Gore’s words in total either. I understand that most here have opposed Bush from the start and would have a difficult time (or no desire at all) to take any responsibility for his actions.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:44 pmbackup Says:
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ralph.
I apologize again for not sourcing Gore in the first place. I was curious how much of the opposition to the message was due to the messenger vs. the message.
I understand the importance of context and the importance of the moral authority and/or credibility of the source.
So, it’s not really accurate to equate my post with Gore’s book.
It didn’t pan out as I intended. I apologize for it and hope you understand.
BTW, I don’t necessarily agree with Gore’s words in total either. I understand that most here have opposed Bush from the start and would have a difficult time (or no desire at all) to take any responsibility for his actions.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
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And yet , some of us do own up to our shortcomings/mistakes ; I am incredibly guilty in believing that Pelosi would reconsider her stance on impeachment being “off the table”.
She deserves to not only lose her Speaker of the House position , but her Congressional seat altogether……..
June 18th, 2008 at 5:50 pmbackup, I appreciate your apology. I hope others do as well.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:55 pmbackup Says:
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I understand that most here have opposed Bush from the start and would have a difficult time (or no desire at all) to take any responsibility for his actions.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
When are you going to realize/accept it’s compounded by the moron’s absolute refusal to take responsibility for his own actions/decisions and the blame that accompanies it …….?
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bush fooled many as even Jack Cafferty admitted to believing in him. But McClellan saw the dirty dealings when he worked for bush in Texas. He saw bush take a state with a full coffer into a deficit that just last year was cleaned up. So, I hope for Scotty’s health and appreciate his, however late, conscience clearing. So, that makes one republican that may be a human being.
June 18th, 2008 at 6:06 pmHey, White House people. If you did nothing illegal, then you have nothing to “fret” over, and you should not “concern” yourself with McClellan’s testimony. Aren’t you Republicans the ones who justify all these unconstitutional searches with “If you’ve done nothing wrong, you’ve got nothing to worry about”? Why do you feel that doesn’t ring true for you?
June 18th, 2008 at 6:08 pmFor those of you who voted for bush once because you believed his lies, well allright, but the second time around ? Those are the ones who should be ashamed into their grave.
June 18th, 2008 at 6:08 pmbackup Says:
It is too easy – and too partisan – to simply place the blame on the policies of President George W. Bush.
I don’t simply blame Bush. I also blame the millions of $hitheads who voted for and supported his cynical, dishonest, corrupt, devastating policies and administration.
I don’t suppose you want to claim membership in that group, do you?
June 18th, 2008 at 6:08 pmtexaslady Says:
For those of you who voted for bush once because you believed his lies, well allright, but the second time around ?
You know what they say. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me over and over again, I’m a dumbass Republican.
June 18th, 2008 at 6:11 pmIt is an will be laughable at how many will claim they never voted for bush when all is said and done. But many of us will remember the disdain when we tried to question his policies by the rightous believers.
June 18th, 2008 at 6:13 pmS W E A T !! M O F O s
June 18th, 2008 at 6:14 pmreverse says:
We have a Congress. We have an independent judiciary. We have checks and balances. We are a nation of laws. We have free speech. We have a free press. Have they all failed us?
Are you shitting me? When the SCOTUS says habeus is in play, and the POTUS says, well, that’s wrong! Where corporations own the Mass Media to the point of having to watch a comedy show to get anything not resembling propaganda?
June 18th, 2008 at 6:17 pmYES> the answer to your question is YES..
But a correction is in the works. In November.
backup said:
It is too easy – and too partisan – to simply place the blame on the policies of President George W. Bush. We are all responsible for the decisions our country makes. We have a Congress. We have an independent judiciary. We have checks and balances. We are a nation of laws. We have free speech. We have a free press. Have they all failed us?
It is too easy – and too partisan – to simply place all the blame on ourselves.
Of course we the people are ultimately responsible for our government but to leave it that way over simplifies the situation, not to mention, fails to hold those accountable that have deliberately lied and deceived us. Bush and his minions have done everything in their power to usurp the constitution and the rule of law. The corporate controlled press has done a miserable job of playing the vital role of keeping Americans informed.
One of the most common logical fallacies employed by conservatives is to view responsibility in black and white terms or as a zero sum game. Yes, we are ultimately responsible for ourr government but that in no way mitigates the Bush administration’s criminal behavior.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
June 18th, 2008 at 6:20 pmtexaslady Says:
“It is an will be laughable at how many will claim they never voted for bush when all is said and done.”
Yeah, they call themselves “Libertarians” nowadays ;)
June 18th, 2008 at 6:21 pmbackup Says:
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We are all responsible for the decisions our country makes. We have a Congress. We have an independent judiciary. We have checks and balances. We are a nation of laws. We have free speech. We have a free press. Have they all failed us?
Yes, I believe they ALL have failed us. Most notably, Free Speech, I posted (off topic) on two prior threads about how Steny Hoyer is behind the push for Immunity for the Telecoms and there wasn’t a single response. Have we gotten so lethargic that we are going to sit back and watch while the Dems enable yet another of this administrations egregious examples of Criminal behavior?
June 18th, 2008 at 6:22 pmYeah, they now call themselves “Libertarians”.
June 18th, 2008 at 6:27 pmStratRat Says:
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We are a lazy citizenry, for the most part.
Amen to that !
I’m ready to take up arms and storm the gates over this Telecom Immunity Bull$hit! I’m afraid I’d be alone in my outrage.
June 18th, 2008 at 6:28 pmD’oh! I got beaten to the punch.
June 18th, 2008 at 6:28 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
texaslady Says:
It is an will be laughable at how many will claim they never voted for bush when all is said and done..
Yeah, they now call themselves “Libertarians”.
Although that was very popular for a couple of years, I don’t seem to hear it much lately. I believe they now call themselves either just conservatives, or “right-leaning independents”.
June 18th, 2008 at 6:32 pmAnd R-2 banks another ten cents.
June 18th, 2008 at 6:41 pmRalph,
heh, nice!
June 18th, 2008 at 6:48 pmLazy? I’m not so sure. One can make a case that we were complacent, but not particularly lazy. I think the dangers of the Religious Right were underestimated. Our relative peace and prosperity acclimated us to corporate excesses.
Then we got blindsided by an avowed “Born again, regular, guy” with (whispered) Apocalyptic dreams of foreign Crusades. And his gang of evil flying monkeys.
Much of the maddening inaction is simply shock as the reality of criminals running our country sinks in. I think it’s safe to say the news is making the rounds. And most polls, and other indicators, are pointing to a high turnout of motivated voters. If we can “reboot” through our votes? It’ll happen.
What will our passion buy? We’ll know when history judges the next generation of American politician.
June 18th, 2008 at 6:49 pm“110th Congress’s “embarrassing lack of accomplishment over the past two years.””
If I’m not mistaken, the 109th set the record for fewest days in session and the fewest bills passed. The 110th has worked hard and has passed a lot of bills, even if many of them were vetoed. (Bush vetoed one bill in the 6 years before the 110th started and at least 9 since.)
Is the white house really resorting to the “I’m rubber and you’re glue” defense?
June 18th, 2008 at 6:52 pmjaramilr Says:
Is the white house really resorting to the “I’m rubber and you’re glue” defense?
June 18th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Pretty much the best they’ve had from the start. Pure projection. The “Clinton did it” defense is another good example. A group run by a childish personality will display childish behavior. It’s what makes them dangerous.
June 18th, 2008 at 6:57 pmTP text:
“The press secretary has become the mouthpiece and not the fact checker,” says a former senior adviser to a Republican president.
I can’t believe that the president’s press secretary was ever expected to be anything other than a mouthpiece, let alone a “fact checker.”
June 18th, 2008 at 8:17 pmFret??? No, soiling in their pants. Scotty’s testimony will dismantle Sith Lord Administration and give the House committee more amunition to go after Miers and Bolten agressively for testimony in the USA firings probe.
June 18th, 2008 at 9:15 pm.
The Disseminator was following the Decider’s order to decimate the truth.
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June 19th, 2008 at 3:49 amStanding room, out front, signs welcome.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:54 amREAD HIS BOOK. I cannot say it enough.
First of all, right wing radio show guys were sent “talking point packages” by the admin. So everything that was said on the right wing radio was directly from the White House. They SOLD us (I mean the idiots that actually believe what they hear on the radio) the war. It was a well orchestrated campaign, planned from day 1 of Bush’s presidency. While McClellan’s book is very civil in tone, he speaks the truth in no uncertain terms. He is absolutely toxic to this administration and I hope he nails them to the wall. Evidently he has a conscience.
June 19th, 2008 at 10:22 am