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themp
Supporter Username: Themp
Post Number: 2499 Registered: 12-2001

| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 2:50 pm: |
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aKSlfaIwdI6w&refer=us |
   
Haight-Strawbury
Supporter Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 6701 Registered: 10-2001

| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 3:17 pm: |
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Oh boy, hope this doesn't hurt his re-election bid.. There's nothing like being on the ocean!
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Pippi
Supporter Username: Pippi
Post Number: 1683 Registered: 8-2003

| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 3:29 pm: |
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Is that the only reason POTUS should strive to do his best, to earn the confidence of the majority? when he's in the running for a second term? Since this is his last term, popular opininon doesn't matter? That doesn't seem acceptable to me |
   
Haight-Strawbury
Supporter Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 6702 Registered: 10-2001

| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 4:50 pm: |
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Sweetheart, Let me fill you in. The Dems have staged one attack after the other on the President leading folks such as yourself to conclude he's doing a poor job. Naturally, the Dems have been spinning their wheels at the wrong time. By Nov. Bush will have much higher ratings as he once again makes the Dems look like a bunch of weaklings which is what they are. As a result, the GOP will win more seats in Congress.. This is again another example of the Dems blowing their load well ahead of time.
There's nothing like being on the ocean!
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Scrotis Lo Knows
Citizen Username: Scrotisloknows
Post Number: 530 Registered: 10-2005
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 6:46 pm: |
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So it is basically 50-50, what is so new about this? If Bush is a failure, what do you call the man who lost to him in the 2004 election? |
   
Ukealalio
Citizen Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 2532 Registered: 6-2003
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 9:02 pm: |
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A crime victim. |
   
Twokitties
Citizen Username: Twokitties
Post Number: 369 Registered: 8-2004
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 9:11 pm: |
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A War Hero. Why do you hate our troops SLK. Why? |
   
Southerner
Citizen Username: Southerner
Post Number: 602 Registered: 2-2004
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 9:22 pm: |
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I absolutey love this. Some of you libs still smarting over 2000 and 2004. I'm sure you are in good company. Somewhere there is still a die hard conservative still pissed about Dole. Maybe you guys can meet up in the "Can't get over the loser candidate I supported" chatroom. |
   
Tom Reingold
Supporter Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12130 Registered: 1-2003

| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 10:13 pm: |
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Southerner did you like that Dowd column I provided?
"This is the only thing my signature says."
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notehead
Supporter Username: Notehead
Post Number: 3011 Registered: 5-2001

| Posted on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 12:06 am: |
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Southerner, I'm looking around for some nice crow recipes for you. You're gonna need one later this year.  |
   
Southerner
Citizen Username: Southerner
Post Number: 605 Registered: 2-2004
| Posted on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 1:07 pm: |
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Tom, I wouldn't say I liked it. My comment is that I can't believe it has taken Dowd this long to finally see what the Dems have become politically. I compare her "eye opening" to someone watching a football game and the score is 42-3 after the 3rd quarter and then a reporter finally writes that the team behind is doing terribly, while everyone else in the stadium knew this after the 1st quarter. Of course I disagree with her characterization of Bush and the Repubs but I understand where she comes from. This type of "eye opening" is what you guys need. Once the Dems recognize why middle America sees them in a bad light they can fix it and regain some power. Heck, it wasn't very long ago the south was solidly Democratic. It has only been since Reagan that the Dems have walked away from the middle and towards the far left. In my humble political opinion, the big difference lately is that while all the Dems have been focusing on the "Neo-cons" they haven't realized they have become "Neo-libs". When ActUp, Gay Marriage, and siding with guys like Tookie and Abu Jamal are what most of America sees as your core you must realize you will lose. Notey, Why would I have to eat crow? I simply commentate on the political moves. If the Dems take back control of Congress then I will say good job, shake hands at mid-court, and then lambast my own team for getting waxed. This is politics and it is a big boy sport. It isn't played fair it is only played. Therefore, if the Dems can do what it takes to gain the necessary seats then I will tip my hat because I am a results oriented person. Would I like for everything to be on the up and up? Yes I would, but that is never, ever, going to happen. That is why I enjoy the process and the results rather than harping on how bad the process is. Reingold is a great example. He is a thoughtful poster who does his best to put forth views on making the system better. I respect him for that, but I think he will be left bloody and battered hitting his head against that pole. While his goal is noble, I don't think it is obtainable. Therefore, we are left with two corrupt sides. I continue to hope that the side I agree with more than I disagree with will win. I also hope they get as dirty as they need to in order to win. I expect the Dems to get as dirty as they can as well (they were great at getting dirty for about 4 decades). If the Dems pull it off, I will analyze their victory and move on. I guarantee I won't whine for the next two years like many of you have for the last 6! I'll be looking forward to those recipes but I don't think they will be needed. (Unless, like a true lib you somehow turn a loss into a victory and say something like, we won 4 more seats which shows the American people are on our side. Only one side will control Congress and that is the victor). |
   
Tom Reingold
Supporter Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12140 Registered: 1-2003

| Posted on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 4:15 pm: |
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So you stand for nothing except that might makes right? Would you destroy our institutions in the name of saving them? I realize that politics is a dirty game. But it's nothing to be proud of. It's nothing to admire. The dirtiness is a necessary evil. I am not a politician, so I can have ethics. I choose to. You, on the other hand, proudly show how you don't have any either. That's a choice you make. Your observation that the Democrats have gone far left is very odd to me. Both parties have shifted right, in my view. Nixon created lots of hand-up programs to the poor, because the context of his time demanded it. He didn't create as many as his Democratic contemporaries would have, which is what made him a conservative. Today's conservatives don't believe in giving -- or even loaning -- a man a fishing rod. And today's liberal polititican barely does, either.
"This is the only thing my signature says."
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Southerner
Citizen Username: Southerner
Post Number: 610 Registered: 2-2004
| Posted on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 8:17 pm: |
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Tom, Hold on. This is a political board, not a real life board. I agree with you on ethics and morals in the real world. But when it comes to the political sphere it isn't the real world. People act differently in different situations. Do you act the same way at work as you do at home? Do you act the same way in church or at temple as you do while playing a round of golf? To say I don't have ethics is taking a small town message board a little to far. But I forgive you, because I know you are passionate. Listen, politics is a dirty game and I'm not proud of that. But I have long ago accepted it. If that is the environment then what do you want me to do? Just do nothing and let the liberal philosophy destroy this country? Are you going to do nothing and allow us conservatives to destroy this country? I would hope you would not. I would hope that you would do what it takes to stop the conservatives if you truly believe they are evil as you have said on numerous occassions. I came to the conclusion long ago that liberalism is a terrible way to govern and that after the debacle of the ultimate liberal President in Carter, I vowed to do what it would take to never let our country go down that path again. If I have to play dirty to keep my children from living in a liberal world and country then I will play dirty. The stakes are way too high to take the high road. And I agree with your last paragraph. The electorate of both parties has moved right. The leaders of your party have moved left, thus forcing a lot of long time Democrats to vote Republican. You hit it on the head. The country has moved right but the Democratic figureheads have allowed the far left to dictate their positions. Most of my family always voted Democratic. It wasn't until about Reagan's second turn that they realized guys like Mondale, Dukakis, and Clinton, were far removed from the older Dems like JFK. If the Democratic leadership moved a little to the right they would be surprised that a lot of these old time Democrats who now have helped but the Repubs in power may very well be brought back into your fold. I hope I am wrong, and I am confident that the Democratic party will not do this which is why I don't think they have a snowball's chance to take back Congress, no matter how bad the Repubs screw up.
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tulip
Citizen Username: Braveheart
Post Number: 3126 Registered: 3-2004
| Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 2:32 pm: |
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Even this bad? (AP Photo) Byline: SERGEI GRITS Auditors Say U.S.-Led Occupation Officials Squandered Millions Meant for Iraq's Rebuilding By JIM KRANE Associated Press Writer (AP) 01:43:43 PM (ET), Sunday, January 29, 2006 (DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) Iraqi money gambled away in the Philippines. Thousands spent on a swimming pool that was never used. An elevator repaired so poorly that it crashed, killing people. A U.S. government audit found American-led occupation authorities squandered tens of millions of dollars that were supposed to be used to rebuild Iraq through undocumented spending and outright fraud. In some cases, auditors recommend criminal charges be filed against the perpetrators. In others, it asks the U.S. ambassador to Iraq to recoup the money. Dryly written audit reports describe the Coalition Provisional Authority's offices in the south-central city of Hillah being awash in bricks of $100 bills taken from a central vault without documentation. It describes one agent who kept almost $700,000 in cash in an unlocked footlocker and mentions a U.S. soldier who gambled away as much as $60,000 in reconstruction funds in the Philippines. "Tens of millions of dollars in cash had gone in and out of the South-Central Region vault without any tracking of who deposited or withdrew the money, and why it was taken out," says a report by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, which is in the midst of a series of audits for the Pentagon and State Department. Much of the first audit reports deal with contracting in south-central Iraq, one of the country's least-hostile regions. Audits have yet to be released for the occupation authority's spending in the rest of Iraq. The audits offer a window into the chaotic U.S.-led occupation of Iraq of 2003-04, when inexperienced American officials _ including workers from President Bush's election campaign _ organized a cash-intensive "hearts and minds" mission to rebuild Iraq's devastated economy. But the corruption and incompetence documented in the reports reveal that much of the effort, however well-intentioned, was wasted. The failure of the rebuilding effort has been borne out most vividly by the rise of a virulent anti-American insurgency that has claimed most of the 2,237 U.S. military lives lost since the war began. In some cases, auditors could find no trace of cash, much of which came from Iraqi oil revenues overseen by the occupation authority. "Those deficiencies were so significant that we were precluded from accomplishing our stated objectives," the auditors said of U.S. officials in Hillah being unable to account for $97 million of the $120 million in Iraqi oil revenues earmarked for rebuilding projects. An October 2005 audit found documentation for the spending of just $8 million of that money. Negligence proved deadly in at least one case. Three Iraqis plummeted to their deaths in an elevator in the Hillah General Hospital that was certified to have been replaced by a contractor who received $662,800. Also in Hillah, occupation officials spent $108,140 to replace pumps and fix the city's Olympic swimming pool. But the contractor merely polished the old plumbing to make it look new and collected his money. When the pool was filled, the water came out a murky brown and the pool's reopening had to be canceled. The reports did not identify the contractors involved. Auditors have asked the U.S. ambassador to recover a total of $571,823 that the reports describe as overpaid funds. In some cases, cash simply disappeared. Two occupation authority field agents responsible for paying contractors left Iraq without accounting for more than $700,000 each. When auditors confronted their manager and asked where the money was, the manger tried to clear one of the agents through false paperwork. "This appears to be an attempt to remove outstanding balances by simply washing accounts," the auditor said. The two agents were not identified and there was no word on whether the pair were referred for prosecution. One report describes mismanagement of more than 2,000 small contracts in south-central Iraq worth $88 million. Occupation staffers or those they supervised handed out millions to companies that never submitted required competitive bids or that were paid for unfinished work. Other examples cited in the reports: _Only a quarter of $23 million entrusted to civilian and military project and contracting officers to pay contractors ever found its way to those contractors. _One contractor was paid $14,000 on four separate occasions for the same job. _Of $7.3 million spent on a police academy near Hillah, auditors could account for just $4 million. They said $1.3 million was wasted on overpriced or duplicate construction or equipment not delivered. More than $2 million was missing. _U.S. personnel "needlessly disbursed more than $1.8 million" of the estimated $2.3 million spent for renovating the library in the Shiite holy city of Karbala. _The library contractor delivered only 18 of 68 personal computers called for and did not install Internet wiring or software. The computers worked only as stand-alones. _The U.S.-led security transition command spent $945,000 for seven armored Mercedes-Benzes that were too lightly armored for Iraq. Auditors were able to account for only six of the cars. _At one point, several paying agents kept cash inside the same filing cabinet in the Hillah vault. One agent took $100,000 from another's stack of cash to clear his own balance. "This was only discovered because the other paying agent had to make a disbursement that day and realized that he was short cash," the report says. ___ On the Net: Special Inspector General: http://www.sigir.mil/audit(underscore)reports.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. News content provided by the Associated Press. Weather content provided by Weather.com © 1994-2006 LocalNet Corp. All Rights Reserved. |
   
Scrotis Lo Knows
Citizen Username: Scrotisloknows
Post Number: 551 Registered: 10-2005
| Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 2:53 pm: |
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Yep, can always expect an objective viewpoint from Tulip...not... |
   
Threeringale
Citizen Username: Threeringale
Post Number: 9 Registered: 1-2006
| Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 3:28 pm: |
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Both parties are pretty much equally corrupt. The Republicans might be marginally worse than the Democrats since they control Congress, but when that changes, the Democrats will belly right back up to the trough. If the above posted report on the millions wasted in Iraq had come on a Democratic president's watch, Rush Limbaugh and the other Bush-bots would be howling. The White House has been out of control for at least a century: http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_01_30/cover.html President Bush is less of an abberation than he is the culmination of a long trajectory towards an imperial Presidency. Congress is mostly a bi-partisan mass of quivering fecklessness. There are few good men in Congress, though. Republicans Ron Paul of Texas, Jimmy Duncan of Tennessee and a few others voted against the war in Iraq. Democrat John Murtha has seen the light and I think Robert Byrd is an eloquent defender of the Constitution, even though he brings lots of pork back to West Virginia. He also has on of the best voting records in the Senate on immigration. I guess his hillbilly constituents want to keep the Mexicans out of the coal mines. I just can't get that indignant about corruption in government anymore. Maybe its because I live in Maplewood, in the county of Essex (D'Alessio, Treffinger, James, UMDNJ), in the state of New Jersey (Williams, Torricelli, McGreevey, Corzine, Menendez). Cheers |
   
Duncan
Supporter Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 5663 Registered: 12-2001

| Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 7:27 pm: |
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Southerner your distinction between the "real world" and the "politics board" is crap. You are ethical on the golf course and the synagogue/church or you are not. But all you are is a gloater and excusing Tom because he is "passionate" is one of your more patronizing efforts. No wonder I have been away from here for a long time. Im crawling back into my cave. "The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say."-- Tom Stoppard
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Grrrrrrrrrrr
Citizen Username: Oldsctls67
Post Number: 223 Registered: 11-2002
| Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 7:33 pm: |
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Threering is my new hero...he speaks the truth! |
   
Southerner
Citizen Username: Southerner
Post Number: 615 Registered: 2-2004
| Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 7:52 pm: |
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So it's okay for someone to take a personal shot at me but I can't in return. I get it. If you can't distinguish between politics and the real world, I hope you enjoy your cave. Tell Themp, Foj, and Travis hello.
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Nohero
Supporter Username: Nohero
Post Number: 5002 Registered: 10-1999

| Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 8:16 pm: |
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"Do you act the same way at work as you do at home? Do you act the same way in church or at temple as you do while playing a round of golf?" Heck, yeah. If for no other reason, there's a lot less I have to remember, that way. |
   
Dr. Winston O'Boogie
Citizen Username: Casey
Post Number: 1884 Registered: 8-2003

| Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 8:27 pm: |
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well, not exactly. I only use a sand wedge in church. any longer clubs and I end up breaking a lot of stained glass windows, statues, etc. |
   
sbenois
Supporter Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 14497 Registered: 10-2001

| Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 8:32 pm: |
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If they have whitefish and bagels on a golf course then yeah, I'll pray there too. |
   
Dr. Winston O'Boogie
Citizen Username: Casey
Post Number: 1885 Registered: 8-2003

| Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 8:39 pm: |
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I hate whitefish and bagels on the course. With my luck, my shot always lands right in the middle of an everything with cream cheese, and you know what? that leaves you with a totally unplayable lie. |
   
Montagnard
Citizen Username: Montagnard
Post Number: 1860 Registered: 6-2003

| Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 9:43 pm: |
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A totally unplayable lie? Off the fairway and into the bush already, I see... |
   
cjc
Citizen Username: Cjc
Post Number: 5093 Registered: 8-2003
| Posted on Monday, January 30, 2006 - 12:46 pm: |
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50% of Americans don't think Bush is a failure. As I said, it's just a poll, though Rasmussen was the most accurate in 2004. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Bush_Job_Approval.htm |
   
Dr. Winston O'Boogie
Citizen Username: Casey
Post Number: 1886 Registered: 8-2003

| Posted on Monday, January 30, 2006 - 1:12 pm: |
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I'm curious. When you link to a poll that is an obvious outlier, are you waiting to see how long someone posts a link to the full gamut of Bush JA polls? So I guess I'll be the one who takes the bait: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls.html |
   
Madden 11
Citizen Username: Madden_11
Post Number: 800 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Monday, January 30, 2006 - 1:14 pm: |
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As I said, it's just a poll, though Rasmussen was the most accurate in 2004. How odd...the New York Post phrased it nearly the same way. Echo...echo...echo... |
   
cjc
Citizen Username: Cjc
Post Number: 5094 Registered: 8-2003
| Posted on Monday, January 30, 2006 - 1:28 pm: |
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I actually posted it because there seems to be a lot of conventional wisdom that Bush is reeling. So much so that you a title of a thread like we have here. I'm a contrarian by nature, so I wanted not only to put up something contrary to the CW, but also something that was the most accurate in 2004. This way, the fall many might take won't come entirely out of the blue. |
   
Dr. Winston O'Boogie
Citizen Username: Casey
Post Number: 1887 Registered: 8-2003

| Posted on Monday, January 30, 2006 - 2:24 pm: |
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The reason that there's a lot of conventional wisdom that Bush is "reeling" is because 9 out of 10 polls say that he is. If you put stock in polls, you have to look at all of them. If you don't put stock in polls, you shouldn't look at any of them. To pull out one is not an appropriate use of research. And it's funny, but Rasmussen in '04 and Zogby in '00 were the pollsters who happened to hit the final percentages on the head in their presidential polls. But neither uses a methodology that would pass muster among research professionals. Again proving the saying that even a broken clock is right twice a day. |
   
Haight-Strawbury
Supporter Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 6706 Registered: 10-2001

| Posted on Monday, January 30, 2006 - 2:43 pm: |
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boring There's nothing like being on the ocean!
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Bob K
Supporter Username: Bobk
Post Number: 10476 Registered: 5-2001
| Posted on Monday, January 30, 2006 - 2:44 pm: |
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Does he skate on Hamas? I believe we were the ones who wanted them to be allowed to field candidates and Condi has already, according to the NY Times, done a "mia culpa". The issue is that the Dems seem to be moving further and further to the left and they aren't making up ground. Cindy Sheehan is still their hero, even after her boffo performance with her new buddy Hugo Chavez. |
   
Bob K
Supporter Username: Bobk
Post Number: 10477 Registered: 5-2001
| Posted on Monday, January 30, 2006 - 2:44 pm: |
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Does he skate on Hamas? I believe we were the ones who wanted them to be allowed to field candidates and Condi has already, according to the NY Times, done a "mia culpa". The issue is that the Dems seem to be moving further and further to the left and they aren't making up ground. Cindy Sheehan is still their hero, even after her boffo performance with her new buddy Hugo Chavez. |
   
Dr. Winston O'Boogie
Citizen Username: Casey
Post Number: 1888 Registered: 8-2003

| Posted on Monday, January 30, 2006 - 2:51 pm: |
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No one could have anticipated the Hamas victory. "No one could have anticipated" has now become the official slogan of the Bush Administration. |
   
slipknot (slippy)
Citizen Username: Zotts
Post Number: 233 Registered: 7-2004

| Posted on Monday, January 30, 2006 - 3:40 pm: |
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• Jan. 23, 2006: “In a Stronghold, Fatah Fights To Beat Back a Rising Hamas” • Jan. 13, 2006: “Anger in the West Bank Helps Hamas Win Hearts” • Dec. 17, 2005: “Hamas Surges In West Bank; Blow to Fatah” • Oct. 1, 2005: “Israel Kills 2 In Arrest Raid; Hamas Gains In Elections” • Aug. 21, 2005: “Hamas Pushing For Lead Role In a New Gaza” • July 4, 2005: “Palestinian Leader Invites Hamas to Join ‘Unity Government’” • Dec. 25, 2004: “Hamas Surprisingly Strong in Palestinian Election” |
   
Innisowen
Citizen Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 1425 Registered: 3-2004
| Posted on Monday, January 30, 2006 - 10:23 pm: |
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No one could have anticipated that Katrina would be such a strong storm. No one could have anticipated that FEMA would be as unprepared and poorly led as it is. No one could have anticipated the level of resistance by insurgents in Iraq (even after we were not greeted with garlands of flowers). No one could have anticipated that the new Prescription Drug benefit bill would cause so much confusion for senior citizens. No one could have anticipated that Terry Schiavo really was in a permanent vegetative state. No one could have anticipated that there would be no weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq. No one could have anticipated that Chinese and Indian demands for oil would almost outstrip our own and cause our gasoline and home heating oil prices to skyrocket. No one could have anticipated that illegal immigration would keep our borders as porous as they are. Finally, no one could have anticipated that the administration, from top to bottom, is as incompetent as it has turned out to be. |
   
Tom Reingold
Supporter Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12212 Registered: 1-2003

| Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 8:12 am: |
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O'Boogie and Innisowen, I was thinking the same thing. Of course, many did anticipate these things, except the Bush administration was not among those. Brian Lehrer is having a special show tomorrow about "Did Bush deliberately mislead us about WMD in Iraq?" Who cares? Either he did, which was despicable malice, or he didn't, and he was inexcusably incompetent, for going to war on bad info is a heck of an "oops". Why should we care which one it is?
"This is the only thing my signature says."
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Dr. Winston O'Boogie
Citizen Username: Casey
Post Number: 1890 Registered: 8-2003

| Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 8:52 am: |
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add it to the list of "intelligence failures." Is it possible to be any more incompetent than these guys have been? Is it posssible to be more consistently wrong? And how is that 40% of the U.S. population still thinks these guys are doing a good job? Even if you're a die-hard Republican, and you think W is a good guy, how hard is it to see that they get everything wrong, all the time? Is it even possible for the hard core 40% to ever see how incompetent these guys are? Actually I know the answer, and it's "No." |
   
Guy
Supporter Username: Vandalay
Post Number: 1472 Registered: 8-2004

| Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 9:09 am: |
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No one could have anticipated that Katrina would be such a strong storm. Actually the storm was weaker than anticipated. No one could have anticipated that FEMA would be as unprepared and poorly led as it is. FEMA has had many successes , even during Katrina. No one could have anticipated the level of resistance by insurgents in Iraq (even after we were not greeted with garlands of flowers). OK, they •••••• this one up. No one could have anticipated that the new Prescription Drug benefit bill would cause so much confusion for senior citizens. They •••••• this up too. No one could have anticipated that Terry Schiavo really was in a permanent vegetative state. That was not the point. It was more of a legislative battle , both Dems and Reps vs the courts. No one could have anticipated that there would be no weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq. If we found stockpiles would all be forgiven? No one could have anticipated that Chinese and Indian demands for oil would almost outstrip our own and cause our gasoline and home heating oil prices to skyrocket. How do you stop China and India from using oil? We can't even drill in ANWR. No one could have anticipated that illegal immigration would keep our borders as porous as they are. It took awhile, but the borders are quietly becoming more secure. Local news outlets are covering the stories. More work to be done. |
   
Tom Reingold
Supporter Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12217 Registered: 1-2003

| Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 9:13 am: |
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Bush actually said no one anticipated the levees would be breached. But he was warned about that. He said no one anticipated someone flying a plane into the towers, but he was warned about a terrorist attack in NYC, both in general and specifically. He's been warned about an earthquake in SF, too. I hope it doesn't happen, though.
"This is the only thing my signature says."
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Innisowen
Citizen Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 1428 Registered: 3-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 9:28 am: |
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Guy: Please, please send me whatever it is that you are smoking, ingesting, imbibing, or taking intravenously. I'm sure it will work the same delusional miracle on me that it seems to work on you. In the words of a well-known local: "There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking." |