December 18, 2007
December 17, 2007
Arianna Huffington: Democrats Need To Admit They Have A Problem… They Are Addicted to Backing Down
Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post, December 10, 2007
“Mostly quiet acquiescence, if not outright support.”
That is how, according to the Washington Post, officials present characterized the reaction of lawmakers, including Democrats such as Nancy Pelosi and Jane Harman, when they were briefed in 2002 about waterboarding and other severe interrogation techniques being employed by the CIA.
But it could just as well be the slogan of the Democrats for much of the last six-plus years — especially on Iraq.
It’s no wonder Democrats have already decided to capitulate on the war funding bill coming before Congress next week. As recently as three weeks ago, Speaker Pelosi said there would be no more votes on Iraq funding this year (she said the same thing — both about no votes this year and no votes in ’08 without a withdrawal date — when I interviewed her in October), and last month Sen. Chuck Schumer thundered, “The days of a free lunch are over.”
Well, over in the same way that U.S. state-sanctioned torture is over. Which is to say, not so much.
Why I Hate Hillary by LJBK
Hey Bart: The reason “everyone” hates Hillary is BECAUSE SHE, like PELOSI & REID, STANDS FOR NOTHING.
Most people don’t understand just how Reid and Pelosi can be such WIMPS on EVERYTHING important.
The simple answer is, IT ISN’T JUST FEAR - Pelosi has been CO-OPTED by the AIPAC crowd, and Reid, too, has been CO-OPTED by the War Lobby. BOTTOM this letter, an e-mail from DFA saying that Reid is BETRAYING US on RETROACTIVE TELECOM IMMUNITY ACT, using Bullshit Procedural motions.
REID should TRY SOME OF THOSE “procedural motions” AGAINST BushCo Horseshit!!
Pelosi is just as bad… as my e-mail to Rep. Wexler, APPLAUDING HIM for supporting impachment, shows. For having the AUDACITY to MENTION “AIPAC” HuffPo CENSORED my post…. (sigh) which actually took a few hours to distill to that short, 350 word form.
UNTIL STUPID American realize that they/we ARE NOW A COLONY OF ISRAEL and the Likudnick insane Neo-Con neo-Nazi WAR-MONGERS, well, we will just be a COLONY of the INSANE ALLIANCE between theocratic war-mongers and the Southern Slave-owners.
(Actually, many of the Neo-Cons aren’t even that religious – but others, like Podhoretz, are.)
ANYWAYS, HILLARY is MOST CERTAINLY IN THAT GROUP, that WON’T LIFT A FINGER TO FLIBUSTER, OBSRUCT, STOP, STAND UP, STAND TALL, or FIGHT against the Republican juggernaut.
SHE HAS HAD THE god-damned CAMPAIGN MICROPHONE IN HER HANDS for WEEKS NOW, but can’t seem to find ONE OUTRAGE to take up as her own… NTO NEW ORLEANS BLACKS, NOT wonded veterans, NOT Torture victims, NOT citizens harassed by surveillance, spying, and evesdropping, and heavens forbid, she wouldn’t think for a moment about Iraqis killed by US bombs & bullets.
JUST LIKE BUSH, if you AIN’T A K-STREET LOBBYIST, she doesn’t have time for you…. (and she certainly won’t STAND UP AND FIGHT for any of those victims, Hell, she is SO TONE DEAF, she thinks LIEBERMAN PROTEGE Barak Obama is “TOO LIBERAL” !!
The Tattlesnake — Might As Well Quit Mitt and Other BS Edition
– If you caught Mitt Romney’s wincing performance on Meet the Depressed Sunday, Dec. 16th, then you already know — the Mormon-with-one-M ‘Bidnessman’ with his ‘two-part answers’ is the Republican John Kerry and politically DOA; the only thing missing on Timmy Russert’s throw-down was a shovel and gas mask. The mental Mitt-jit didn’t just flip-flop, he rolled in circles like a roulette wheel of hypocrisy; whatever slot the ball happened to land in this time around was the winner, whether it be abortion rights, stem cell research, gun control or what have you. A rough sample of Romney rant: Doctors should be subject to maybe, possibly losing their license to practice medicine if caught doing abortions — from a guy who thinks it’s murder? Stem cell research? Let me be as opaquely clear as I can — if I talk long enough perhaps they’ll find a cure and it’ll all just go away. Guns? I was agin ‘em before I decided to run for president and signed up for my lifetime membership in the NRA. By the way, did I remind you I really hate Hillary? (more…)