Labels: atrocities, Barack Obama, bipartisanship, collateral damage, corporate military industrial government complex, GOP, kill list, predator drones, Republicans
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posted by profmarcus at
6/24/2012
Labels: GOP, reproductive rights, Republicans, sexual freedom, war on women
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
3/24/2012
A Club of Liars, Demagogues and Ignoramuses
The US Republican race is dominated by ignorance, lies and scandals. The current crop of candidates have shown such a basic lack of knowledge that they make George W. Bush look like Einstein. The Grand Old Party is ruining the entire country's reputation.
Labels: 2012 election, Germany, GOP, ignorance, lies, Republicans, scandals, Spiegel, United States
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12/01/2011
Labels: class warfare, elites, GOP, Let them eat cake, super-rich
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
9/23/2011
GOP Sending Women Back to the Back Alley
South Dakota Wants to Legalize Murdering Abortion Providers
Missouri GOP Wants to Repeal Child Labor Laws
Tuscon Minuteman Found Guilty of Murdering 9-Year-Old Mexican-American Girl
Wisconsin Governor Launches Attack on Public Sector Employees and Unions; Threatens to Deploy National Guard to Quell Labor Protests
President Obama to award George H.W. Bush the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Obama's Budget Betrayal
Labels: abortion, Barack Obama, Budget, child labor, George H.W. Bush, GOP, Medal of Freedom, Minutemen, Missouri, National Guard, public employees, South Dakota, Wisconsin, WTF
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
2/15/2011
As polling data conclusively demonstrates, the mindset of the voting public is infinitely more rational and substance-based than the pundits and the Right fantasize when they lyrically praise the Regular American -- at least it is in this time of perceived (and actual crisis). What's happening in this country, and in this election, is rather simple and easy to see:
(1) the country is in total shambles -- possibly far worse than what people even realize;
(2) we have lived for the last eight years under virtually absolute GOP rule;
(3) the public knows this;
(4) the Republican President and his party are therefore intensely -- historically -- unpopular; and
(5) the voting public doesn't want to continue living under the rule of the same faction and same political party that has driven the country into the ground.
Labels: economic collapse, financial meltdown, Glenn Greenwald, GOP, polls, pundits, Republicans, Right Wing Noise Machine, Salon
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
10/07/2008
Viguerie: Republican Leaders Must Resign
The Republican Party must replace its leadership or conservatives will continue to withhold support and the GOP will face “disaster” in November, leading conservative activist Richard A. Viguerie declared.
“Republican Party leaders must resign,” said Viguerie, publisher of ConservativeHQ.com and the pioneer of political direct mail.
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He named a number of prominent Republicans, including President Bush, Karl Rove, party chairman Mike Duncan, House Minority Leader John Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, and House Minority Whip Roy Blunt.
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“For things to change, for conservatives to be justified in once again giving our contributions, our volunteer efforts, our energy, and votes to the GOP, the party must clean house. The party leadership should resign immediately.
[...]
Viguerie has this message for the current GOP leadership: “For the future of the Republican Party, for America, and the cause of freedom: Go!”
Labels: George Bush, GOP, John Boehner, Karl Rove, Mitch McConnell, Presidential resignation, Republicans, Richard Viguerie, Roy Blunt, Trent Lott, war crimes
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
5/18/2008
House Republicans, changing course midway through a vote, tried to force Democrats into a debate on a resolution to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney on the grounds he purposely led the country into war against Iraq.
The GOP tactics reversed what had been expected to an overwhelming vote to table, or kill, the resolution by longshot Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich.
Midway through the vote, with instructions from the GOP leadership, Republicans one by one changed their votes from yes _ to kill the resolution _ to no, trying to force the chamber into a debate and an up-or-down vote on the proposal.
At one point there were 290 votes to table. After the turnaround, the final vote was 251-162 against tabling, with 165 Republicans voting against it.
"We're going to help them out, to explain themselves," said Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas. "We're going to give them their day in court."
Seeking to avoid a debate, Rep. Hoyer then moved to have the resolution sent to the House Judiciary Committee, which the House approved in a 218-194 vote along strict party lines.
Although House Judiciary Committee chairman is not expected to to act on the resolution, Rep. Kucinich said in a press conference late Tuesday afternoon that he believed the measure still have a life.
"Ive spoken to Mr. Conyers, and I'm quite confident that the ball is in good hands," said Kucinich.
Labels: College Republicans, Democrats, Dennis Kucinich, Dick Cheney, GOP, House Judiciary Committee, House of Representatives, Impeachment, Iraq, John Conyers, Pete Sessions, privileged resolution
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
11/06/2007
Over the past several weeks, there has arisen a palpable and coordinated shift among the Washington establishment to blame Iraq's problems on Prime Minister Maliki and to suggest that salvation lies in his replacement. The only real alternative ever identified is former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.
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Allawi hires the most powerful GOP firm in the country, with former top Bush officials as partners, and almost immediately, the key Op-Ed pages of our nation's newspapers open up to him and all of official Washington, beginning with the President, changes course. Suddenly, key figures in both parties begin calling for Maliki to be replaced.
Most extraordinary of all is how deceitful this whole process is. As CNN reports: "The lobbying firm boasts the services of two onetime foreign policy hands of President Bush: Ambassador Robert Blackwill, the former Deputy National Security Adviser, and Philip Zelikow, former counselor to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
But currently, Zelikow in particular runs around Washington holding himself out -- and being held out -- as an Expert on the Future of Iraq while concealing that his firm is being paid by Allawi to undermine Maliki.
[...]
The whole media/Beltway edifice is built on this rotating, interconnected filth. But this case is so egregious. One of Washington's Most Respected National Security Experts, key Rice advisor (and 9/11 Commission Executive Director) Philip Zelikow, is running around Washington trying to engineer the fall of the Iraqi government -- testifying at Congressional hearings and appearing on network news programs, perhaps even working officially again for the Bush administration -- all while being fraudulently held out as an objective expert and concealing that he is being paid by the prime beneficiary of these policies.
Labels: Ayad Allawi, Beltway journalism, George Bush, GOP, Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki, Philip Zelikow
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
8/25/2007
Despite his good moments, toiling alongside Karl Rove is taxing, and Hughes could only laugh aloud after her White House stint when a West Texan named Less Virgil asked her at a public speaking forum in Austin, "How difficult is it for you to work with Karl Rove?"
At least Hughes was on equal footing with Rove. Others were not so blessed. "Family-friendly" White House or not, Rove is wired to hundreds of fellow Bushies by laptop, cell phone, and the BlackBerry he wears on his belt. He doesn't hesitate to use those gadgets regardless of the hour--he sometimes sends text messages while in bed--nor does he tend to ask first what the person on the other end of the line is doing before launching into the purpose of his call.
These "Rove-grams" can be made to adversaries as well as to colleagues and friends. They can communicate pleasantries, matter-of-fact instructions, expressions of glee ("It's Miller Time!" is a favorite)---or they can convey threats, especially to Republicans who have strayed from the path. Stephen Moore, of the conservative, probusiness Club for Growth, recalls wandering around the garage at Reagan Washington National Airport searching for his car one evening, cell phone to his ear, disorientated by the sound of Rove screaming at him in a telephone tirade. "Stupid" was one of the milder insults Rove hurled at Moore. "He's perpetually angry at me," Moore explained later, with a shrug. "I've done so many things to piss him off." In this instance, Rove was incensed by Moore's efforts to rally fiscally conservative Republicans in Congress to vote against a Medicare prescription-drug benefit being pushed by the White House. "You're going to screw everything up!" Rove hollered at Moore. "We're going to get the Democrats' bill if you're not careful!"
Rove continues to dismiss environmentalists as "green beans," and would say that Democrats or liberal reporters who accused Rove of dirty tricks were "sniffing swamp gas." Intimidation also remained part of Rove's repertoire--just as it was back in Texas. Freelance journalist Ron Suskind recalls sitting outside Rove's White House office awaiting an interview for Esquire magazine piece when he heard Rove shouting, either at an aide or someone on the phone: "We will fuck him! Do you hear me? We will fuck him. We will ruin him--like no one has ever fucked him!"
White House officials rejoined that Suskind, who has produced numerous pieces critical of Bush, has "a hyperactive imagination." But no one tried to assert that Rove does not talk this way. Besides Rove's colleagues understand his motivations: In the parlance of the Bush circle, people like Steve Moore---and the person Rove was yelling about screwing over---are not "team players." And the Bushies are nothing if not team players. It is not just a compliment in the Bush White House; it is a requirement. If this makes them seem clannish, or insular, and resistant to outside ideas, the Bushies' attitude is so be it. It is one of the costs of the absolute loyalty demanded by Bush, and, in turn, by Karl Rove.
Labels: Dick Cheney, GOP, Jonathan Felts, Karl Rove
Submit To Propellerposted by EvilPoet at
6/04/2007
Here's a startling question people are already posing: will Bush be asked to speak [at the next GOP convention]? "There will be angst-ridden discussion, but yes, you have to do it," says [Rich Galen, a GOP analyst]. [Tony Fabrizio, a GOP pollster] disagrees: "If they're smart, no. Especially if things don't change in Iraq, we'll have the problem the Democrats had in 1968 with Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam. The question becomes: where do we hide the president?"
Labels: Democrats, George Bush, GOP, Lyndon Johnson, Newsweek, Republican Convention, Vietnam
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
6/04/2007
[I]n early 2005, when the White House began the back-and-forth that eventually led to the firings, the Republican thinking was focused on how to solidify GOP control of national politics and perpetuate what some conservatives hoped would be effectively a one-party state, with the Democrats consigned to a weak minority status.
Leaders on the Right boasted of Bush’s “transformational” role in bringing about this permanent realignment in American politics, giving conservatives control of all branches of the U.S. government as well as consolidating their strong bond with major corporations and expanding their influence within right-wing and mainstream news organizations.
By pulling these various levers of power, Republican victories in the future supposedly would be a foregone conclusion. The idea had traces of the “managed democracy” that President Vladimir Putin has built in Russia, with his opposition kept around to maintain the appearance of democracy but never within reach of real power.
As right-wing activist Grover Norquist explained after Election 2004, the way for the Democrats to fit in to Republican-run Washington was to accept their permanent lot as a marginalized minority party.
“Once the minority of House and Senate are comfortable in their minority status, they will have no problem socializing with the Republicans,” Norquist said in an interview with the Washington Post. “Any farmer will tell you that certain animals run around and are unpleasant, but when they’ve been fixed, then they are happy and sedate. They are contented and cheerful. They don’t go around peeing on the furniture and such.”
Labels: Congress, Democrats, George Bush, GOP, Grover Norquist, House of Representatives, Republicans, Russia, US Attorneys, US Senate, Vladimir Putin
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
3/14/2007
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