“Democracy” is usually my code category for stuff the Bush administration does that pisses me off, usually becuase of the way they make a mockery of whatever the concept “Democarcy” has going for it
I think that Kerry , regardless of what people are saying, including a lot of people with whom I agree, CANNOT spell out the extent of his opposition to war in general. It would be, sadly, a devastating blow to his chances. While Bush has to hide his true right-wing, neocon tendencies becuase they wouldn’t sell (which he did in Continue Reading
More from Baghdad Year Zero – Pillaging Iraq in pursuit of a neocon utopia What a scathing inditement of the spiritual forebears of the Neocon movement (the hope of utopic , economic purity and prosperity )….Thanks MIke, for the sobering pointer to this article, and your thoughts in your blog Baghdad Year Zero (Harpers.org) Bremer’s reforms unleashed forces that the Continue Reading
This article, via MIke via Harpers Magazine writer Naomi Klein, is a really disturbing account of war profiteering. It all makes sense when you consider how many “copntractors” and Outside business people have been the victims of kidnappings, beheadings, and hostage taking. Baghdad Year Zero (Harpers.org) Immediately after the nominal end of the war, Congress appropriated $2.5 billion for the Continue Reading
More scary stuff, and all totally disgusting. WorkingForChange-The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: Part III On December 4, 2000, I wrote, “Florida’s Ethnic Cleansing of the Voter Rolls,” printed in Salon.com. It began: If Vice President Al Gore is wondering where his Florida votes went, rather than sift through a pile of chads, he might want to look at a Continue Reading
Wanna know what’s scaier than this? They’re trying it again. And Bush is once again talking about “compassionate conservatism”. ?????? WorkingForChange-The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: Part III I wrote ‘Black-Out in Florida’ (The Observer, London, November 26, 2000: Vice-President Al Gore would have strolled to victory in Florida if the state hadn’t kicked up to 66,000 citizens off the Continue Reading
I’ll be picking that up over the Public Library later today. After the second reccommendation I’ve been given by a couple of friends (Dave Turner in Cincinnati, with whom I have had many political discussions over the years, ands a lot lately as we comisserate about the “Bushies”….and Eric, who’s been commenting here, and I subscribe to his blog WorkingForChange-The Continue Reading
Tally No! Miami Herald’s Recount Results were Sloppy, Incomplete In late December, the Orlando Sentinel took a look at about 3,000 overvotes in Lake County. The paper found more than 600 valid ballots that had been ignored by the machines, with Gore picking up 130 even in this heavily pro-Bush county. In late January the Chicago Tribune reported that in Continue Reading
The Feed summary from the NYTimes said this: Republicans quickly seized on today’s Congressional address as irrefutable evidence that the invasion of his country was justified. Democrats are simply trying to put a positive pre-election face on what is going on in Iraq. The first sentence was accurate, buth the second missed the boat, and suggested the opposite. I’m not Continue Reading
Good one: Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: September 19, 2004 – September 25, 2004 Archives Don Rumsfeld said yesterday that elections in “three-quarters or four-fifths of” Iraq might be good enough. In other words, run the place on Florida rules.
Bush: “You can’t lead this country, when your ally in Iraq (ie. the US appointed Prime Minister) thinks you question his credibility” Oh, Mr. President, what about you and “the rest of the world”? Don’t you, almost daily, question the credibility and the earnestness of “the rest of the world” by snubbing and lecturing the UN on justice, and defying Continue Reading
via KOS United States Senate Democrats – Doing Right by America The Bush Record
Al Franken’s Blog I know you guys are going to think I’m a real Nurd for saying this or pointing thr is out, but I notice that nobody is blogging your blog….at least as far as your trackbacks are showing. This enables, if they work, for people who link to a post on YOUR blog to show up as a Continue Reading
via Mike via Atrios Salon Directory Phillip Robertson, articles 1 – 13 of 55
Eric points to King of Zembla which quotes a bit of an interview with James Fallows, who wrote the article “Bush’s Lost Year” I pointed to on Monday night. This: The “pro” clearly is eliminating Saddam Hussein. No one would dispute that that was a benefit. The question is whether, in the vast scheme of things, it was worth it, Continue Reading
Daily Kos The GOP defense of W’s ludicrous statement will be, naturally, that it’s accurate. Because if we didn’t invade Iraq, Hussein would still be in power. Because Kerry thinks the invasion was a mistake, he therefore would prefer that Saddam be in power. QED! It’s typical GOP spin, so disingenuous as to be insulting, but I guess it works. Continue Reading