“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
In stark contrast to the Cheney remark that “sensitive” is synonomous with “soft” (bullshit), Kerry has been at the forefront of “investigative” government, as in Central America (El Salvador, Nicaragua, etc.)……read below Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation. I’ve long admired Kerry for his investigative leadership. Kerry has been a more Continue Reading
This headline says it all: GOP Party Leaders Tout ‘Bush Prosperity’ (washingtonpost.com) Republican Party leaders touted the advent of what they called a period of “Bush prosperity” Wednesday as their national gathering to promote President Bush and Vice President Cheney for a second term reconvened with a brief protest and scuffling on the convention floor. Unbelievably cut off from reality. Continue Reading
Good one on Bush: Judgment Day – Yes on Schwarzenegger. No on Bush. By William Saletan I’m no huge fan of John Kerry. He sees two sides of every one-sided issue, and four sides of every two-sided issue. But the alternative is a president who sees one side of every issue, no matter how many sides it has. Given how Continue Reading
Telling.
KOS puts it well: Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation. I think I figured out the formula: 9-11 9-11 9-11 9-11 John Kerry sucks John Kerry is a flip-flopper Terrorism Amen No talk about domestic issues. No talk about jobs. Nothing on the economy. Interesting, that. The war party peddles in Continue Reading
Political Wire: Michael Moore’s Patriot Act Rolling Stone has a must-read profile of filmmaker Michael Moore which includes this warning for Sen. John Kerry: “It doesn’t do me any good to have him embrace me, because if he’s elected, my camera will be on him.” (Only an excerpt of the article is online.)
via Josh: Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: August 29, 2004 – September 04, 2004 Archives A nice find by Andrew Sullivan on President Bush’s Freudian slip about the Swift Boat Ads … I loved Bush’s comment yesterday about the smear-ad: “I can understand why Senator Kerry is upset with us. I wasn’t so pleased with the ads that Continue Reading
That is, the second part is true if you’re a millionaire. t r u t h o u t – Garrison Keillor | Flamingly Anti-Bush This is a great country for people who earn a quarter-million a year or more, and the others are getting gypped. Democrats were put on earth to speak up for them. We believe in the Continue Reading
MSNBC – GOP will showcase Bush’s leadership Buoyed by signs that an embattled President Bush has gained ground in the past two weeks, Republicans began gathering Saturday for a national convention designed to highlight Bush’s leadership on terrorism, sketch out themes for a second term and continue a months-long effort to discredit Democratic nominee John F. Kerry. Showcase leadership. Yeah. Continue Reading
From MyDD: MyDD :: Straight Outta the West Wing Genocide is taking place in Sudan, and the American media gives more coverage to the Scott Peterson trial. Sudan is not a partisan issue, as prominent Democrats and Republicans have called for intervention in Sudan. Instead of ideology or party bias, this instead demonstrates how the “news” media in America is Continue Reading
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall This is right out of the Bush family playbook: have your people savage your opponent and once the damage is done try to take the high road. But it’s too late. As Max Cleland said a few days ago, President Bush’s “moment of truth came and went.”
The War on Dissent Our nation is once again at a critical juncture. In the name of national security, the executive branch has assumed unprecedented new powers that it is exercising largely in secret. It is incumbent upon us to stand as a check against the abuse of these powers to preserve our democracy.
Just read chapter one of Extreme Democracy by Ito, and it started me on a process of thinking about something akin to “Open Source Theology”; theology, for me, is deeply participatory. It is the nature of God’s revelation. The fact that the Christian tradition is founded on the incarnation in human flesh; and that the representative-embodiment of that was Jesus, Continue Reading
via Josh Marshall: Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: August 22, 2004 – August 28, 2004 Archives You’ll want to link through to this one — it’s a video clip of Ben Barnes, the former Speaker of the House in Texas, the guy who got President Bush into the Texas Air National Guard.
Marshall refers to an upcoming article I’ll be delighted to see: Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: August 22, 2004 – August 28, 2004 Archives It’s understood as a given in Washington — among Republicans as much as among Democrats — that Karl Rove is behind these ads. But publicly we have to go with the ludicrous notion that Continue Reading