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...And time to starting asking some tough questions about Iraq!
Since the "normal" scare tactics haven't worked for the Bush administration so far in this election cycle, they're just going to all out ridiculous rhetoric and just plain sleeze:
Campaigning for Republicans,
President Bush said Monday that "terrorists win and America loses" if opponents of his
Iraq policy triumph in next week's elections. AP
Terrorists win if Democrats win? Terrorists win?!
It's now beyond hyberbole. It's beyond election rhetoric. For a sitting President to even suggest that if the opposing party wins, terrorists like those who caused 9/11 will somehow "win" is beyond shameful.
After this mornings post, some people have emailed and ask what the Parkinson's disease reference is about.
Here's the ad from Michael J. Fox that's airing right now in Wisconsin which supports Gov. Jim Doyle's stance on stem cell research. That Republicans and their sycophants hate so much only speaks to it's truth and effectiveness.
I knew it wouldn't be long until someone put together something to counter the President's recent bold faced lie that he was "never for 'stay the course'".
From today's Journal Sentinel feature called "issue of the day" where they toss a slow pitch softball to each of the candidates for Governor.
The pitch: Candidates were asked if the $62 million state subsidy for 4-year-old kindergarten programs offered by some local school districts should be continued.
Here's Rep. Mark Green's response:
"We've been funding four-year-old kindergarten for over 20 years, but during that time we have never tested to ensure the current structure of the program is adequately preparing our children for the next step in their education. ... If four-year-old kindergarten isn't making our children more competitive, then we should look at channeling that funding into other measures that will accomplish that very important and necessary goal."
This tells you everything you need to know about Republicans and education.
Anyone else remember the "No one could have imagined they'd use planes as missiles" line?
The truth leaks out that the Bush White House knew about a planned Al Qaeda attack months before 9/11.
A review of White House records has determined that George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, did brief Condoleezza Rice and other top officials on July 10, 2001, about the looming threat from Al Qaeda, a State Department spokesman said Monday. NY Times
Sometimes I wish the reach of what I say on this weblog was beyond the couple thousand people a day that come to read it. This is something everyone in America should know.
From CNN.com:
President Bush said Wednesday he would order U.S. forces to go after Osama bin Laden inside Pakistan if he received good intelligence on the fugitive al Qaeda leader's location.
"Absolutely," Bush said.
So today he would 'absolutely' go after bin Laden, but yet 4 years ago in Tora Bora when we had bin Laden, we decided not to finish the job.
George W. Bush: Against capturing bin Laden before he was for it.
And why the new qualifier for only 'good intelligence' to get the guy behind 9/11? We started a pre-emptive war with a whole lot less. Manipulated / bad intelligence was good enough to start a war, but only good intelligence will do to catch the #1 bad guy?
No doubt by now you've heard the name John Mark Carr. The news media has been in a frenzy state since August 16th when he proclaimed that he had something to do with killing a little girl 10 years ago.
Hardly an hour went by on cable news without some sort of "Breaking News" in the case, usually a report that he'd climbed aboard an airplane or had cake for dessert on the flight.
The whole episode was seriously ridiculous stuff and tells you pretty much everything you need to know about today's sad state of 'journalism' in America.
The national news media spent the better part of two weeks focused on an event that had no impact on the lives of everyday Americans. In fact, they were so focused on hyping every little detail about the story that a lot of 'real' news - things that you and I care about - didn't get the kind of attention they deserve, or were just plain ignored by the national news media.
This is what has Republicans shaking in their boots going into the Fall elections:
Most Americans believe the GOP-controlled Congress has been a failure and say they plan to vote for Democrats in November, according to a poll released Wednesday.Fifty-three percent of registered voters polled by Opinion Research Corp. for CNN said they were supporting Democrats, while 40 percent said they were leaning Republican. The remaining 7 percent either planned to support another party or had no opinion. - CNN
What a huge upset last night in the Democratic Primary for Connecticut Senator.
Ned Lamont, a total unknown and newbie to politics, took on and beat a popular incumbent Senator who was within a few hundred votes of being our Vice President.
This campaign was half won by sheer incompetence on the part of the Lieberman campaign the whole way through and part on the great job of the Lamont campaign to use the netroots to spread their message.
While the Republicans and Lieberman are going to try to brand this as some extremist takeover of the Democratic Party, the fact is the people have spoken and anytime a "people powered" campaign works together to overthrow a career politician, that's not extremist, it's Democracy.
