Yesterday's Bush Lies with Neo-Con Comment

From Bush yesterday via Atrios:

My attitude about our – look, I'm into campaigning out there: People want to know, can you win? That's what they want to know. I mean, there's – look, there's some 25 percent or so that want us to get out, shouldn't have been out there in the first place – and that's fine. They're wrong. But you can understand why they feel that way. They just don't believe in war, and – at any cost. I believe when you get attacked and somebody declares war on you, you fight back. And that's what we're doing.

He lies every time he talks. Now he has Iraq attacking the U.S. What a wanker.

Notice once again how devious the lie is. "...some 25% want us to get out..." get out of where? Iraq of course. Then comes the money part of the lie..."I believe when you get attacked...". Also remember how the Chimp said recently his biggest frustration was not being able to connect Iraq with the war on terror. This is clearly another feeble attempt.

In spite of the clear deceitfulness by the Leader, here's a commenters response to the above:

"I didn't see anything in that quote about Iraq."

And you know me, nothing but kindness when challenged.

"You wouldn't see anything in that quote about Iraq. You know why you can't see it? You still have those neo-con glasses on. The neo-con glasses.....I don't know if you know this......filter out what is known to many, many, people in America(some 63%, last count) as "reality". And furthermore, did you know that true neo-cons must filter "reality" because "reality" burns them. You know how neo-cons "stupid" burns me? Well, it's the same way with "reality" for neo-cons.

So here is my recommendation. If you will remove your neo-con eyeware for 1 hour the first day, then 2 hours the second and......this isn't confusing you, is it?.....then 3 hours the third and so forth and so on. Results may vary, but if you will follow this plan, it won't be too long before you too can understand the Chimps' speeches."

Think I was too mean?

A GOP Loss and Mrs. Dick

One sentence, one apt description of what to expect from the criminal party starting next Wednesday, from Digby

"Losing liberates them from having to even pretend to be civilized. "


The "them" are the GOP hacks. And yes, they have been pretending to be civilized for.....I don't know.....25 years now. And lose they will. Even Fred Barnes, lapdog extraordinaire, is predicting Dems will take the House. So the pretension will be dropped altogether after the election and just in case you doubt....Here's part of Wolf Blitzer's interview with the Dick's wife Lynn over the weekend. She was on because of the similarity of sex scenes in her books and Jim Webb's books.(Webb is in a neck and neck race for a Virginia Senate seat.) Mrs. Dick is a sweetheart just like the Dick and so rightly has earned the name Mrs. Dick. Here's just a smidgeon of why she has earned her name.


L. CHENEY: Well, you know, I understand your point. It's kind of the point of a lot of people right now, to try to distort the administration's position, and if you really want to talk about that, I watched the program on CNN last night, which I thought -- it's your 2006 voter program, which I thought was a terrible distortion of both the president and the vice president's position on many issues.

It seemed almost straight out of Democratic talking points using phrasing like "domestic surveillance" when it's not domestic surveillance that anyone has talked about or ever done. It's surveillance of terrorists. It's people who have al Qaeda connections calling into the United States. So I think we're in the season of distortion, and this is just one more.

L. CHENEY: Well, right, but what is CNN doing running terrorist tape of terrorists shooting Americans? I mean, I thought Duncan Hunter ask you a very good question and you didn't answer it. Do you want us to win?

The answer, of course, is we want the United States to win. We are Americans. There's no doubt about that. Do you think we want terrorists to win?

L. CHENEY: Then why are you running terrorist propaganda?


BLITZER: This is an opportunity for you to explain on these sensitive issues.

L. CHENEY: Wolf, I have nothing to explain. Jim Webb has a lot to explain.

BLITZER: Well, he says he's only -- as a serious writer, novelist, a fiction writer, he was doing basically what you were doing.

L. CHENEY: Jim Webb is full of baloney.


This is just an example of how uncivilized it will be immediately after the House majority is taken by Dems. GOP shills have no conscience. A conscience determines right from wrong. GOP'ers only know what they call "winning". That has nothing to do with a conscience. The media will wilt immediately under the withering lies and distortions and before the Dems take up work after January it will be just like Monica, all over again.

Now you might think. "so what?". Just business as usual. Nothing new and all that. But just as a discussion group member recently and very casually mentioned about the potential assassination of Barack Obama, how long will it be before some right wing nut or group of nuts begin taking "justice" into their own hands? How long before neo-con rhetoric like Annie Coulter's rabid dog foaming pushes a fringer over the edge? Fascism rising.

"Reality" Created Before Your Eyes

First, look at what Ron Suskind wrote Oct.17, 2004 about "reality" and how the Bush administration "creates" it. This shit is intriguing to me, the deviousness, I must be criminal minded like the neo-cons, God help me.

In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.

The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''

Now it is Oct.2006 and here's this week's created reality.

On the October 23 edition of his nationally syndicated radio program, Rush Limbaugh accused actor Michael J. Fox, who has Parkinson's disease, of "exaggerating the effects of the disease" in a recent campaign advertisement for Missouri Democratic Senate candidate Claire McCaskill. In the ad, Fox endorses McCaskill for supporting embryonic stem cell research, which her opponent, incumbent Republican Sen. Jim Talent, opposes. Noting that Fox is "moving all around and shaking" in the ad, Limbaugh declared: "And it's purely an act. This is the only time I have ever seen Michael J. Fox portray any of the symptoms of the disease he has." Limbaugh added that "this is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting, one of the two."

Oct. 23rd was Monday. The shitstorm that has been raging all over the Republican party for the last 6 weeks or more, as we all head closer to election day, has been captivating much of the media's attention. Not enough mind you, but at least some of the lapdog media time has been spent recently on Foley, Iraq, N.Korea, etc.

So once again Karl calls the Chimp's favorite personal lapdogs Limbaugh and Hannity and other scumbag creatures and they met at the White House to go over some "statergy" in light of all the bad "reality" that was getting out there.
This Monday the disgustingly disgusting Filth of a human, Rush Limbaugh, started creating him some new reality. How? By making a story out of thin air. Like God must have done when he "created".

An effective commercial in Missouri focusing on the prospect of hope for the future through embryonic stem cell research, something Jim Talent the state's Republican senator opposes and his Democratic challenger favors is especially painful right now for the GOP. McCaskill is ahead in the polls. It looks like the reality of the situation is grim for the GOP, might even lose the Senate with the House. Bad, bad reality.

Rush turns the media's attention away from this issue by making the new "reality" be about Michael J. Fox. Isn't that what he was trying to do? So he was successful, because today is Thursday and most media is covering the new "reality" non-story about Rush and Fox.

Every minute of TV time that does not focus on the ongoing Republican criminal enterprise currently running (into the ground) this nation, is a plus to the criminals. Rush, for sure, will do his part to ward off that bad, bad reality by creating some of his own. The reason he will is because he too is a criminal. Limbaugh acted, creating a new reality, and the rest of the lapdogs reported that, yes, as if by the hand of the Almighty, behold it is new reality. And the criminals were pleased.

And the evening and the morning was the 12th day til we vote.

Dialogue with ZZ Top

Oct 17th post by Bluester on Ohio.com discussion group.

The Future and Digby's shrillness resonates with me. How about you?

"Modern bipartisanship can be simply defined as Democrats repeatedly getting taken to the cleaners by Republicans. Until the rules of the game are changed it will remain so whether Democrats are in the majority or not. That pathetic Charlie Brown with the football ritual is what Joe Lieberman is running on and what Joe Klein is angling for with his Blankslate Obama love-fest. (Norquist called it date rape but that's too kind -- the Liebermans and Kleins love being in the spotlight giving wingnuts lapdances. They enjoy every minute of their rightwing orgy --- they just don't want to take responsibility when they turn up with wingnut transmitted diseases.) "

And then Digby says a mouthful of perspective about George's "win" in 2000.

*"The fact that the deciding Supreme Court vote was cast by a justice appointed by the candidate's own father in a case based upon partisan decisions made by the president's own brother the governor of Florida made this the most egregious case, even compared with Hayes-Tilden race in 1876. It was corrupt on an entirely different level. And looking at it now from the perspective of six years down the road, we can see that that very first act of blatant cronyism presaged the way the Bush administration would work, from Cheney's energy task force to the botched occupation of Iraq to Katrina."


Ain't it the truth.


Comment by willybillyzz:

Ain't it the truth."

Truth is you libs have been unhinged since the 2k elections. Truth number two is most don't want whacko leftist activist kooks running the show and that is why the democrats keep losing elections

Comment by Bluester to willybillyzz:

Quite frankly, my dear fellow, I don't honestly believe you could recognize truth if it rose up and bit your ZZ Top hiney.

You know, true story, long time ago when I was a little fellow, we had a fairly large Billy goat. To keep the natural growth down and all, you understand. And I remember so vividly the terrible stench emanating from ol' Billy. Man, you talk about "gettin' in your eyes" kind of overpowering stink. I remember being nearby when we had to bury ol' Billy's stinking and bloated body after he died.

Now I told you this story because I've been getting a whiff now and then of ol' Billy's stench whenever I read your comments. I'm sure it's just a nasal misunderstanding(like that one?), what with a name like yours and all, but do you think it's all just a coincidence, too?


Comment by willybillyzz:

You should write childrens books as they may be the only ones who communicate at your level.


Conclusion: I guess I better brush up on My Pet Goat.

"Problem Group of Members and Staff"...Uh, Oh

From ABC News

"The Republican source said Trandahl planned to name Ted Van Der Meid, the speaker's counsel and floor manager, as the person who was briefed on a regular basis about any issue that arose in the page program, including a "problem group of members and staff who spent too much time socializing with pages outside of official duties." One of whom was Mark Foley."

Please notice the two words "problem group". That says quite a lot, don't you think? So, according to this account, it's not just Foley, there are others and it was known to be a problem. There are not just others but other members(that means other congressmen) and some of the congressmen's staff too. And what was the "problem" with the problem group? "...too much socializing with pages..." Socializing with pages, too much socializing with pages and too much socializing with pages where? "...outside of official duty..." The protectors of the children from internet predators must have passed their legislation recently so they could have the pages to prey on all for themselves. Wouldn't want any outside competition in the predator department. Christ.

According to Trandahl, Denny Hastert's counsel and floor manager was briefed on all of this. Denny Hastert's counsel and floor manager(WTF, floor manager, what does Denny do, sell cars on the side? I can't stand this shit) knew all about the "problem group", the "too much socializing with pages", and the "outside of official duty" parts. He knew that Congressmen and staff, grown men, some over 50, were socializing with 16 and 17 year old high schoolers after official business hours and nothing was done?

Now we segway to the "nothing was done" part. That is the tombstone inscription for this neo-con GOP..."we took power and Nothing was Done". When we were warned about Osama...nothing was done. When the levees did not hold....nothing was done. When contrary intelligence about Iraq was convincingly presented before the invasion...nothing was done. And so The Foley meltdown is really nothing new or surprising. When pages were being preyed upon and Republican leaders knew about the "problem group"...nothing was done.

A Little Arizona News

OUTREACH. Rep J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ) thought he might feel just a tad unwelcome at Schule recently after he expressed support for notorious anti-Semite Henry Ford's "americanization" program, and refused to apologize after protests from the Jewish community in his district. So on Tuesday he backed out of a scheduled campaign appearance at a local synagogue and instead sent a surrogate. Some might say that was already a sign of disrespect and not a step in the right direction. But things really got ugly when Jonathan Tratt, a spokesman for the Hayworth campaign, reportedly told the audience that Hayworth is "is a more observant Jew" (Hayworth is not Jewish) than those in the audience. That went over real well. Another Hayworth surrogate, Irit Tratt, replied to the audience's unenthusiastic response by saying "No wonder there are anti-Semites." It sounds like Hayworth may need to mend some fences, which at least makes it a good thing he's close with Jack Abramoff.

--Ben Adler

George Bush and the Chili Dog Eating Contest

The Rude Pundit is rude. That's why I read him. Here is the opening paragraph of a must read post.

"Let us say, and why not, that yesterday George Bush, President of the United States, decided at the last minute that he was hungry for some chili dogs. In fact, he was so hungry for chili dogs that he invited the White House press corps to a hastily arranged press conference. And then, after telling the gathered fine members of the media about how super-terrific the economy is, how mean ol' Kim Jong-Il is, and how splendiferous amazing Iraq is, he finished his prepared remarks by having Chief of Staff Josh Bolten bring out a giant silver platter of fresh-made chili dogs, all steamy and chili and cheese covered. Then George Bush told the reporters for the many fine publications and networks, "Ya'll ask me questions while I show you how many chili dogs I can eat."

Let's Ask Jesus

This is the Bluester reporting from an undisclosed location in the Holy Lands. I'm waiting around to talk with the Nazarene teacher I've heard so much about. Oh, there he is now.

"Jesus? Jesus would you answer a few questions for us back home in America? Many Americans are wrestling with the political issues going on in their country. Can you tell us about adults preying sexually on teenage boys? What do you think about this issue, Jesus?" Bluester asks.

Jesus ponders a while, then says, " Blessed are the little ones, for of such are the kingdom of heaven."

Bluester goes further, " Well, what if Republican Congressmen covered up for one of their House buddies who sexually preyed on teenage boys under his mentorship, what should happen to men like these, Jesus?"

Jesus' eyes show fire as he quickly responds, " It would be better for scum like that if a concrete slab was tied around their necks and they were thrown into the sea. And do you know why this would be better for them? Because my Father is gonna' fry those suckers when he gets his hands on them."

All biblical quotes from the NBB. For rookies, that's the New Bluester Bible.

Inflation Adjusted Torture

Laura Rozen reports about waterboarding on her blog War and Piece

"...in 1947, the United States charged a Japanese officer, Yukio Asano, with war crimes for carrying out another form of waterboarding on a U.S. civilian. The subject was strapped on a stretcher that was tilted so that his feet were in the air and head near the floor, and small amounts of water were poured over his face, leaving him gasping for air until he agreed to talk.

"Asano was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor," Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) told his colleagues last Thursday during the debate on military commissions legislation. "We punished people with 15 years of hard labor when waterboarding was used against Americans in World War II," he said. ...

Let's see...15 years of hard labor....depreciated over what? almost 50 years... would equate in today's one party criminal rule political economy into....a United States statute making waterboarding legal. Sounds about right.

Do You Think I'm Cynical?

I guess if the Republican party can endorse the murder of some 60,000 Iraqis for no good reason, while at the same time 3000 of ours are killed and 20,000 seriously wounded, then turn around and vote to institutionalize torture, I guess a homosexual pedophile scandal coverup ain't beanbag. I'm speaking of the Mark Foley (R-Fla)e-mails to a 16 year old male page. Foley abruptly resigned last week when e-mails were found out. Many if not the majority of House Republicans knew something about this up to a year before. This week the cover-up begins in all seriousness.


From ThinkProgress:

This morning on CNN, Soledad O’Brien asked Tony Snow why “any communication between a 16-year-old and a congressman” didn’t “raise red flags — major, massive red flags” with Speaker Dennis Hastert and others who have known about the communications for months.

Snow responded, “I hate to tell you, but it’s not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill. And there have been other scandals, as you know, that have been more than simply naughty e-mails.”

Here's one of those naughty e-mails via Atrios:

Maf54: I want to see you
Teen: Like I said not til feb…then we will go to dinner
Maf54: and then what happens
Teen: we eat…we drink…who knows…hang out…late into the night
Maf54: and
Teen: I dunno
Maf54: dunno what
Teen: hmmm I have the feeling that you are fishing here…im not sure what I would be comfortable with…well see

Now let's ask this one simple and very basic question. What in the hell would a 52 year old man be doing e-mailing this stuff to a 16 year old boy? Elsewhere in the e-mails, Foley speaks of masturbation with the boy and tells him to measure his penis. But according to the White House, just some naughty e-mails.

And I wonder what other "scandals" up on the Hill ol' Tony was referring to? Could one of them be Claude Allen and his shoplifting scheme at Target? He had to resign after being charged. Or maybe Tony was referring to Duke Cunningham. After all the Dukestir is in jail now after taking $2.4 million in bribes. He actually had a bribe menu written down. So much for a small contract, so much for a large contract. Duke just wanted to be organized in his criminality you understand.

This should be the coffin nail for the Republican House. Either that or the missiles will be flying into Iran soon.

Note to Conservatives, Very Sad

It's time for me to tell conservatives out there to leave a legacy letter to their future descendants so they can understand how they were in favor of dismantling the United states of America under the Constitution.

Here's the future. I'm predicting this based on what I see as one of the most potentially dangerous societal cults in modern history.

If the neo-cons win over the electorate or if they just fraudulently steal the power as they've done in the recent past, either way, this nation of states will begin to unravel.

Migration of progressives to "blue" states with the reciprocal migration of neo-cons to "red" states. This will be followed by interstate sanctions, red vs. blue. Then the interstate checkpoints. Followed by more frequent and more destructive acts of violence, one group towards the other. All of this in the midst of declining, even depressing, economies, both statewide and nationally.

More constitutionally guaranteed rights abrogated like the first amendment. That will start and indeed has already started with the neo-con crazed screaming for the heads of the N.Y.Times and others. Dissent will be made illegal. The open forum of the internet will be greatly reduced and monitored all for "national security" or "protection of children from predators"(Foley) reasons.

The open admission, barely concealed now, that corporations control the country and that is how God wants it will all become conventional wisdom. The gulags will grow in number and be on U.S. soil. Torture will come home to roost in America.Internment camps will be constructed in key "red" states and dissenters, journalists, immigrants, and minorities will be placed there to protect the country. Public education will be dismantled further increasing the haves and have nots. Public roads, sewer and water will be "deregulated" and privatized and handed over to the "for profit" vultures who will ruin all of these once common assets of our once great nation. Our "blue" cities will crumble(think Katrina).

I think you get the picture. This is the future conservatives are advocating for. I don't believe any conservatives even knows what they are doing but that doesn't really matter. So I would encouage each and every one of them to think through and then compose something like a position paper that can be left behind for their descendants to read and thus understand how they all once stood for the destruction and dismantling of what once was the greatest nation in history.