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McCain To Katrina Victims In 2005: You're On Your Own

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:07:26 GMT

clipped by: BobbyRutan
clipper's remarks: It must be nice to have staffers writing that stuff for you.

Too bad he spent the months to follow leading the Republican charge against every Senate bill that would have actually helped Katrina victims or mandated investigations on how the Bush administration could have blown disaster response so thoroughly.

Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Joe Biden jumped immediately to the aid of hurricane victims in the week after the 2005 disaster, authoring S.Amdt. 1661 "…to provide emergency funding for victims of Hurricane Katrina."

But with John McCain's help, the Republican-led Senate shot down the funding on a 41-56 vote with McCain voting against, while Biden and Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama voted for the funding.

the Republicans wanted no part of it and despite his post-Katrina pledge to "do all that is necessary to fund essential relief and recovery efforts and help those in need," John McCain was right there to shoot down every initiative that would have

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McCain To Katrina Victims In 2005: You're On Your Own

It doesn’t really come as a surprise to those of us who have watched John McCain over the years that he's about to make a campaign stop in New Orleans after Hurricane Gustav hits this week. After all, he's been exploiting the troops for years, what's a few hurricane victims after that?

What does seem odd is that McCain thinks Gulf Coast residents will forget how he, George W. Bush and the then-Republican Congress turned their backs on them so many times in the months after Katrina thundered ashore in 2005

McCain was big on rote sympathy right after the disaster,

American citizens have proven time and again how generous and selfless a people we are, and now we have an opportunity to come to the aid of those in need

A week later

Our work to help the victims of this national tragedy has just begun, and Congress must do all that is necessary to fund essential relief and recovery efforts and help those in need."

Tags: john mcbush - straight talk liar, whore monger, gold digger

How to Honor the U.S. Flag

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:32:17 GMT

clipped by: BobbyRutan
clipper's remarks: Since republicans have made flag politics a cornerstone of their campaigns (instead of trying to solve problems that face average Americans everyday), you would think the leader of the conservatives and republicans wouldn't keep disrespecting the flag as he does here and on opening night of the olympics.

However, I do think this symbolizes something very profound. America has gone backward under Bush and the republican presidency.

Sheesh, what a moron. Can we be done with the republicans already?

Clip Source: www.buzzflash.com

Old Glory, Oh Lordy! American Flag Flip-Flopped

George W. Bush seems happy as ever as America's cheerleader-in-chief at the Beijing Olympics. Too bad his handlers didn't take care of the flag business as they normally do in arranging props for the President.

So, is Dubya using the flag to make a political statement? Is he unAmerican? What if a figurehead like Miss America showed disrespect like this for America's number one symbol?

Tags: galf eht ot ecnaigella egdelp i

Party of McBush getting crushed in polls, key races

Wed, 14 May 2008 13:29:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More: In the polls, they are setting records (and not the good kind). The most recent Gallup Poll has 67 percent of voters disapproving of President Bush; those numbers are worse than Richard Nixon’s on the eve of his resignation. A CBS News poll taken at the end of April found only 33 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the GOP — the lowest since CBS started asking the question more than two decades ago. By comparison, 52 percent of the public has a favorable view of the Democratic Party.

The Democratic National Committee polling, according to a memo it provided, has two-thirds of swing voters expecting McCain to pursue policies very similar to Bush’s. The voters’ top three concerns about McCain: his age, his support for the war and his similarities to Bush.

Clip Source: www.politico.com

John McCain is planning to run as a different kind of Republican. But being any kind of Republican seems like some sort of death sentence these days.

In case you’ve been too consumed by the Democratic race to notice, Republicans are getting crushed in historic ways both at the polls and in the polls.

At the polls, it has been a massacre. In recent weeks, Republicans have lost a Louisiana House seat they had held for more than two decades and an Illinois House seat they had held for more than three. Internal polls show that next week they could lose a Mississippi House seat that they have held for 13 years.

Things are so bad that many people don’t even want to call themselves Republicans. The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press has found the lowest percentage of self-described Republicans in 16 years of polling.

“The anti-Republican mood is fairly big, and it has been overwhelming,” said Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saul Anuzis.

Clip Source: www.doublespeakshow.com

Tags: 4 more years, vote mcbush

Bush's signature dooms Colorado republican running for Senate

Wed, 14 May 2008 04:58:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Bush, even when doing something right, is the republicans biggest liability.

Mark Udall currently leads republican Schaffer in the Senate election to replace retiring republican Seantor Wayne Allred.

Clip Source: www.politicswest.com

Democrats Monday used President Bush's recent signing of a bill that supporters say will eliminate sweatshops on the Northern Mariana Islands to settle a few political scores, including one in Colorado

Democrats have been trying since the mid-1990s to revoke the protectorate's exemptions from U.S. labor and immigration laws but had long been outflanked by powerful Republicans in the House and the islands' now-jailed lobbyist, Jack Abramoff.

Former Congressman Bob Schaffer's role in those efforts has been a campaign issue

"I know that from what I read and the people I listened to, it was clear that there were abuses there. . .. I don't understand how you could leave the Marianas thinking everything was perfect," said Rep. Mark Udall, referring to a fact-finding trip Schaffer took in 1999 that was partly arranged by Abramoff's lobbying firm. Schaffer said he found problems in only one out of 20 factories he visited.

Udall, D

and Republican Schaffer are vying for the U.S. Senate

Clip Source: www.ephblog.com

Mark Udall

Tags: republican battle cry "it's w, run away !"

Democrat tied to Obama wins special election in Mississippi

Wed, 14 May 2008 04:26:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More: The special election was held to fill the seat of former Rep. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), who was appointed to serve out the remainder of Sen. Trent Lott’s term last December. Wicker had never faced a competitive race since first elected in 1994, and the district gave President Bush 62 percent of the vote in 2004.

The results amount to a rebuke of the Republican strategy of trying nationalize the race by tying Childers to Sen. Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Obama held low approval ratings in the district, but the nearly $2 million that GOP groups poured into northern Mississippi failed to make the race a referendum on the national political landscape.

A GOP House leadership aide told Politico last week that “if we don’t win in Mississippi, I think you are going to see a lot of people running around here looking for windows to jump out of.”

Clip Source: www.politico.com

Democrats picked up a northern Mississippi House seat in one of the most conservative-minded districts in the country Tuesday night -- an upset that will reverberate darkly through a House Republican caucus already reeling from losses in special elections in Illinois and Louisiana.

With all precincts reporting, the Democratic nominee, Prentiss County Chancery Clerk Travis Childers, defeated Republican Greg Davis, 54 to 46 percent. Childers was able to expand his three-point margin of victory from the race's first round of balloting last month -- even as he faced an onslaught of Republican attacks.

Republicans dispatched a lineup of heavy hitters in the campaign’s final week, including a pre-election stop Monday by Vice President Dick Cheney. President Bush, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and First Lady Laura Bush recorded automated calls urging voters to support Davis.

"His victory has sent a political thunderbolt across America tonight," DCCC chairman Chris Van Hollen said

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Tags: look out above, republicans jumping out of windows

McCain - Bush shirked mantle of leadership

Tue, 13 May 2008 04:39:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: All aboard the Double Talk Express !!!!

Clip Source: www.breitbart.com

"I will not shirk the mantle of leadership that the United States bears," McCain was due to say in a speech in the western state of Oregon.

"I will not permit eight long years to pass without serious action on serious challenges," he said, in a clear rebuke to the Bush administration.

"The United States will lead and will lead with a different approach -- an approach that speaks to the interests and obligations of every nation."

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Clip Source: www.whitehouse.gov

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Clip Source: yesterdayssalad.files.wordpress.com

Tags: mccain and bush, he loves me, he loves me not

Lamest Republican Ever? Probably. Fear Monger - in - Chief

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:39:20 GMT

clipped by: BobbyRutan
clipper's remarks: John McCain. Proud to bring you 8 more years of Bush policies.

Clip Source: www.usatoday.com

President Bush has set a record he'd presumably prefer to avoid: the highest disapproval rating of any president in the 70-year history of the Gallup Poll

In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, 28% of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing; 69% disapprove. The approval rating matches the low point of his presidency, and the disapproval sets a new high for any president since Franklin Roosevelt

In another record, the percentage of Americans who say the invasion of Iraq was a mistake reached a new high, 63%, in the latest poll.

Views of Bush divide sharply along party lines. Among Republicans, 66% approve and 32% disapprove. Disapproval is nearly universal — 91% — among Democrats. Of independents, 23% approve, 72%

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Bush Supporters

Billy "Bronco" Johnson cries tears of pride when he realizes that he is the only Freeper in Witchita Falls who loves George W. Bush enough to show up for the counter-protest.

Tags: bush, the dunce i've always known he is

Who said? Economically Insecure White People...Are Scared to Death!

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:40:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Continued from above: They know if they can keep us looking at each other across a racial divide, if I can look at Bobby Rush and think, Bobby wants my job, my promotion, then neither of us can look at George Bush and say, 'What happened to everybody's job? What happened to everybody's income? What ... have ... you ... done ... to ... our ... country?'"

Jason Linkins notes a statement from Harvard political scientist Theda Skocpol to Talking Points Memo, which reads in part:

I have been in meetings with the Clintons and their advisors where very clinical things were said in a very-detached tone about unwillingness of working class voters to trust government -- and Bill Clinton -- and about their unfortunate (from a Clinton perspective) proclivity to vote on life-style rather than economic issues. To see Hillary going absolutely over the top to smash Obama for making clearly more humanly sympathetic observations in this vein, is just amazing.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

As the rumination continues over Barack Obama's comments about economically-depressed small town voters, statements made by Bill Clinton on the same topic -- uttered while he was running for president in 1991 -- have now surfaced

The reason (George H. W. Bush's tactic) works so well now is that you have all these economically insecure white people who are scared to death," Clinton was quoted saying by the Los Angeles Times in September 1991

A couple months later, Joe Klein, writing for the Sunday Times, reported that Clinton made the following remarks

"You know, he [Bush] wants to divide us over race. I'm from the South. I understand this. This quota deal they're gonna pull in the next election is the same old scam they've been pulling on us for decade after decade after decade. When their economic policies fail, when the country's coming apart rather than coming together, what do they do? They find the most economically insecure white men and scare the living daylights out of them.

Tags: annie oakley, hillary clinton

Pentagon Overbudget by $295 Billion - Biggest Military Run-up since WW II

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:06:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More: This is not about the waste of taxpayer dollars – already pushing a trillion – in funding the Iraq war, which, while reprehensible enough, pales in comparison to the big-ticket military systems purchased in the wake of 9/11.

The Government Accountability Office - The Bush Administration's worst enemy.

McCain? Eight more years of Bush policies.

Clip Source: www.csmonitor.com

he Pentagon has gone hundreds of billions of dollars over budget in recent years on key weapons systems, including aircraft, ships, and satellite, said a government audit

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) said for the sixth year in a row that the Pentagon had significantly gone over budget, but according to a report presented to Congress this week, the problem is getting worse

95 major systems have exceeded their original budgets by a total of $295 billion, bringing their total cost to $1.6 trillion, and are delivered almost two years late on average

In addition, none of the systems that the GAO looked at had met all of the standards for best management practices during their development stages

half of some 28 contracts to manufacture body armor for Army soldiers were completed without proper tests

the Pentagon has doubled the sum pledged to new weapons systems from $790 billion in 2000 to $1.6 trillion in 2007

Clip Source: www.davidstuff.com

Clip Source: www.electjohnmccain2008.com

Clip Source: www.csmonitor.com

the "highest run-up in military spending since World War II

Tags: you are under my power, guns not butter

McCain "Death of Iraqis due to war? In the Hundreds of Thousands"

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:16:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Either McCain has no clue what he's talking about. Which is a very distinct possibility if anyone's been following his gaffes on what's actually taking place in the Mid-East ...... or ......

much of what the lunatic rightwing holds onto, as ridiculously low numbers of Iraqi deaths due to Bush's reckless war based on lies, is propaganda

Clip Source: www.crooksandliars.com

During the last two minutes or so of his interview with David Letterman Tuesday night, John McCain got asked some tough questions, including one about the grotesque number of Iraqis killed or displaced because of ~~his~~ Bush’s War.

Letterman: 4,000 American men and women soldiers dead since we went into Iraq. Another 30,000 wounded. Untold Iraqis dead. We rarely hear that number. What would that number be? A quarter of a million? Half a million?

McCain: It’s hard to make these estimates, but it’s in the hundreds of thousands, obviously.

Estimating the number of Iraqi casualties, as horrific as that sounds, is extremely difficult to pinpoint given the chaotic nature of the country. The Iraq Body Count website puts the number at anywhere between 82,625 and 90,149. Other estimates, including one conducted by prestigious medical journal The Lancet in 2006, puts the number at around 600,000. Still others estimate as high as 1,194,935.

And of course we can’t discount the 2 million refugees.

Tags: mccain, fool? or exposing rightwing lies?

GOP Senator Chafee: New Book is tough on Pro-War Democrats, Bush, and Republicans

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:23:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More: The most startling revelation: Chafee must be the only senator in U.S. political history who says his defeat was the result of voters acting logically.

“The system works best when power remains in the hands of the voters,” writes Chafee. “I was a casualty of the system working in 2006, and while defeat is never easy, I give the voters credit: They made the connection between electing even popular Republicans at the cost of leaving the Senate in the hands of a leadership they had learned to mistrust.”

“I find it surprising now, in 2008, how many Democrats are running for president after shirking their constitutional duty to check and balance this president,” writes Chafee.

“They argue that the president duped them into war, but getting duped does not exactly recommend their leadership. Helping a rogue president start an unnecessary war should be a career-ending lapse of judgment.”

Clip Source: www.projo.com

Former U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee’s new political memoir is remarkable for its candor, its delicious window into life in America’s most exclusive club, and its condemnation of President Bush and the combination of right-wing Republicans and Democratic enablers who plunged the nation into an ill-fated war without end in Iraq

The book, titled Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President, is due in bookstores April 1

The book excoriates Mr. Bush and his GOP allies who repeatedly fanned such wedge issues as changing the U.S. Constitution to ban gay marriage, abortion and flag-burning

he saves some of his harshest words for Democrats who paved the way for Mr. Bush to use the U.S. military to invade Iraq. That includes New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, whom Chafee says put her presidential ambitions above standing up to Mr. Bush and the rush to war in Iraq

Being wrong about sending Americans to kill and be killed

is not like making a punctuation mistake in a highway bill

Tags: shirking constitutional duty

Romney, like Bush, Cheats in Debate with an Earpiece

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:19:55 GMT

clipped by: BobbyRutan
clipper's remarks: After you watch the video youtube shows a total of seven clips about Romney's earpiece and the whispering that can be heard over the microphone. In one of the videos to the right there is whispering for another question but you have to turn up the volume really loud.

I still remember Bush interrupting himself as he was speaking, and no one else at the debate had said anything. He was rambling through an answer and he stopped in mid answer and says "Let me finish".........but no one had said anything. This was the debate with the mysterious lump in the back of his jacket and a power cord line.

What a pack of losers.

Clip Source: www.afterdowningstreet.org

you may recall the powerful evidence in 2004 that George W. Bush was cheating in the debates by wearing an earpiece

The New York Times famously

documented the evidence and then refused to print it because it might have had an effect on the election: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2012

you may be aware of the extensive evidence that Bush has worn an earpiece and been prompted with answers at speaking events for the past three years: http://democrats.com/earpiece

This background is reason to believe a candidate might cheat and that it is technologically feasible. It is also reason to believe the media would kill the story.

n case you haven't heard about this at all, during the debate, Tim Russert asked Mitt Romney a question, then everyone watching heard a whispered voice say "he raised taxes." Then Romney answered the question by saying "I'm not going to raise taxes." Watch the short video clip

Clip Source: www.democrats.com

Listen for yourself as someone whispers "he raised taxes":

[Video]

Tags: republican liars, republican cheaters

George Bush on MLK Day (One Picture says it all)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:55:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Pretending he gives a **** about black folks on Martin Luther King Day.

Love the expression on her face.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

On Martin Luther King Day, a US national holiday, President George W Bush

Tags: divider on mlk day

Romney's: 5 Strapping Sons - None in Iraq! Hypocrisy

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:14:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More: Of more interest to his combat readiness, David was arrested in April of 2007 for trying to board a plane in Little Rock with a loaded Glock pistol in his carry on bag. So we know that the boy can shoot. Why isn't he on the front lines of the war his father so ardently supports in the name of Christ?

(By the way, the reaction of Dad Huckabee to David's gun arrest is notable. "It's one of those stupid things," Mike Huckabee said. "He knows better." Ah, yes, nothing like a forgiving preacher. Do you feel safer now knowing that a gun toting animal abuser's father might be president? Clear the squirrels from the White House lawn now.)

Huckabee says the war in Iraq is part of a "World War III' against Islamic fascism

Clip Source: www.buzzflash.com

Here is Mitt Romney's position on the Iraq War from the Pew (Charitable Trusts) Forum on Religion and Politics:

Romney supports President Bush's policy in Iraq, including his January 2007 decision to increase the number of troops in Iraq. He has criticized the planning and management of the Iraq conflict, but says keeping the U.S. in Iraq is the best option for minimizing casualties, securing the country and maintaining a democratic government there

Romney is a steadfast supporter of Bush and the war in Iraq, but the closest his five army ready boys have come to armed conflict are fraternity food fights:

Of course, there is the unflappable, smooth-as-a-lambskin-Bible-cover Mike Huckabee. He has two military ready sons, John Mark and David, neither of whom has served in the armed forces.

David, seen below, has become notorious for hanging a dog while serving as a Boy Scout counselor in 1998:

Not ONE Member of the Bush Extended Family Has Served in Iraq! Not One! Take a Look":

Tags: republican chickenhawks, using the rural and the poor to fight their wars

Former CIA: Evidence Abounds for Impeachment of Bush & Cheney

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:59:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The recent report detailing Iran's stopping its nuclear weapons program four years ago, is an example of how the administration knows it can no longer hide such "incontrovertible evidence" from the American people in the fallout from the misinformation they received on the Iraq War, McGovern said. He added that he had almost given up believing their were people still working at the top with a conscious and enough people at the top willing to let analysts do their job and accept independent analysis.

McGovern also addressed the reasoning he believes is behind the threat of war with Iran. He believes Israel thinks they have a pledge from the White House to deal with Iran before Bush leaves office and relayed the story of the U.S.S. Liberty, which was attacked by the Israelis in 1967 and covered up by the U.S. Thirty-four U.S soldiers were killed and about 170 were seriously injured.

"On June 8, 1967 Israel realized it could literally get away with murder," McGovern said.

Clip Source: www.fosters.com

The evidence for impeachment of the president and vice president is overwhelming, former CIA analyst and daily presidential briefer Ray McGovern told a room full of people at the Portsmouth Public Library

McGovern, who provided daily briefings for former presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush as well as other high ranking officials during his 27 year CIA career, said he has witnessed a "prostitution of his profession" as the Bush administration lied to the American people about the evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq

"Don't let anyone tell you the President was deceived by false intelligence ... they knew," McGovern said

For the next 40 minutes, he relayed a series of events leading up to 9/11 which illustrate the President's desire to go to war with Iraq well before 9-11, that reliable CIA evidence showed that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction and was presented to the administration and the "facts were fixed" in order to legitimize the invasion

Veteran CIA

Tags: to a republican a bj is the only impeachable offen