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TRICKY DICK

Posted: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 12:18 PM by Countdown

Some of what we're working on for tonight...

Part Three of the Washington Post's investigative series on Vice President Cheney takes a look at his influence on the administration's domestic policy. Its thesis: That if President Bush is "the Decider" Mr. Cheney serves up his menu of options. For instance, Mr. Cheney led the group that narrowed down the list of potential Supreme Court nominees (we all know how that turned out.)

Mr. Cheney inserted himself in the investigation of Democratic Congressman William Jefferson, apparently as alarmed as Mr. Jefferson's colleagues were about the seizure of the congressman's files... what with being a member of the legislative branch and all. He presented Mr. Bush with the course of action that was taken - the files were placed under seal for 45 days. Lastly, but by no means all, Mr. Cheney has shaped tax cut policy.

The Post reporting that on a rare occasion when the president actually told his alleged second banana 'No' (on deep reductions on capital gains tax on investments) Mr. Cheney did an end run around Mr. Bush and successfully lobbied Congress for them directly. Not that the president will ever even find out about it. He doesn't read newspapers.

COUNTING DOWN TO SEPTEMBER:  Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana has become the latest Republican to announce he doesn't believe the president's policies are working in Iraq. Countdown is still drawing a line between Republican senators who speak out against the president's policies in Iraq and those who actually do something about it. (Senator Warner, that means you.) The true test will come in September.

A FILIBUSTER IS A FILIBUSTER:  Speaking of which, Countdown is tired of hearing the term "procedural vote" used in reference to today's action regarding the immigration reform bill on Capitol Hill.  Before the Democrats took over the Senate, any attempt to prevent an up-or-down vote in that body was called a 'filibuster' loudly and often. Now that the Republicans are in the minority, much of the MSM seems to have abandoned that term.

How adept has the GOP become at blocking legislation, you ask? Let's just say the House has passed and sent 239 bills to the Senate - 239 - that, one way or another, haven't been heard from since.

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Vice President, no President Cheney: From this week's Time Magazine:

Words JFK was to deliver on 11/22 in Dallas during height of cold war; words the "right" never wanted to hear. JFK was under relentless pressure from Curtis LeMay and nearly his entire national security circle to "fry" Cuba. JFK to his credit, kept looking for a nonmilitary solution. Part of his speech is as follows:

The most effective way to demonstrate America's strength was not to threaten its enemies.  It was to live up to the country's democratic ideals and "practice what it preaches about equal rights and social justice."

In the end, both Castro and Khrushchev held JFK in high esteem.

This week's Time Magazine w/JFK on cover: "What We Can Learn From JFK". A must read.
I can just see the horns , wings and firey forked tounge sticking out of his deceitful little body in that photo. What drives me nuts about this is the fact that NO ONE has the guts to take this guy on. Our Goverment has rebelled against US. Neither side has followed the will of the people. We are nothing but commodities to them!
Oooooh Countdown - whoever wrote the above - good rant!  Congrats.

LOL but either you're reading my posts or you're getting your news from the same places I get them.  Beat you to it again with the 239, but I didn't on the Part 3 of the Post's 4 parter (I just posted that link on the previous thread after I read it).

As long as you're reading the blog, please see CAs recommendations to MSNBC on the previous thread.  Maybe they could give Countdown 2 hours anyway by eliminating one of those Dateline documentary hours they do every night that nobody watches.  Mmmmmmmmmm 2 hour Countdown....tasty.
The "filibuster" item puts into clear perspective the current innuendo that the public's disgust with Congress means disgust with the Democrats alone.  The Senate is, for all intents and purposes, evenly divided, if you treat Lieberman as the Bush supporter that he is. The Congress can't get anything done because the Democrats control the House, and the Senate is largely paralyzed. Given who is president, that is a better situation than we were in a year ago.  
Yippee! The link I was waiting for, and I know you all are just DYING to hear what I have to say about part 3 of the POST article. Just in case your satire or "B.S." alerts are off, this is A JOKE! :)

OK...the brains at COUNTDOWN already stole some of the thunder I had in my notes about if Bush is the decider, Cheney brings him the menu, so I won't expand on that.

I love how the article mentioned that Cheney wanted to "...energize a stock market battered by scandals such as Enron." Hell, Cheney (and Bush for that matter) were so in-bed with those Enron a-holes. What about the people who worked there and saved like they were supposed to only to get robbed by Ken Lay and his ilk?!

And, also, how 'bout Cheney's willingness for the senator from Vermont to ditch the Republicans to go Independent just to not have to spend some money for Vermont AND thereby give control of the Senate to the Democrats? Guess Cheney eventually got his way, anyway. I guess the billions and billions of $$$ spent, the lives lost, and the lives forever changed by the war in Iraq is money well-spent in his twisted little head.

It seems to me that Cheney not only wants to be a co-president, but I think he wants his hands in all the DC "pots", so to speak. He's weeding out Supreme Court nominees, he has "...direct and indirect power over the federal budget..." (funny, I thought Congress had the "power of the purse"), and he feels he should be chief of staff; I guess a White House chief of staff is no longer necessary. Mary Matalin was quoted in today's part of the article that Cheney brings "a 'spine quotient' to internal debates." I call it something else...um...the word's escaping me now...gee...um...oh yea, A FREAKIN' OUT OF CONTROL FLIGHT FROM REALITY IRRATIONAL *&^%$@?! DICTATOR!!!!

And, on the flip side of the comments made by Senator Lugar, you all got to read the gutteral rantings of the governor of my state, Mitch Daniels, former Bush budget director. I nearly brought up my breakfast at that point. I wasn't expecting to hear from "not my man Mitch" this morning. Isn't it enough that I have to drive by his house every morning on my way to work?! Anyway, he's announced that he's running for re-election, so I'll have another opportunity to not vote for him.

I look forward to reading what you all have to say, to  Keith's take on all this, and to reading part 4 in the POST! This is a hell of an education; looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue (ANOTHER JOKE!! DON'T DO THAT!!).
Look at that smug bastard, standing there.  And to think I used to think Spiro Agnew was a complete 'hole of the bung variety'!  Hey Jerry, Paul from Cincy, somebody- anybody- tell us again how Clinton 'got some' so I can re-direct my disgust and anger more appropriately!
So recording to Chenney sence he is not part of the Executive Branch he can not became president if something happen to Bush? did I get that part right here? Heck I shouldn't we believe Chenney after all he promissed that we be greeted with flowers when we invaded Iraq. So how is that been working sofar?
maybe that's why the dems dont have to DO much... these people will implode! KA-POWIE!
Darth Veeper is so evil that his own body is rejecting him.  He can only be maintained with an implanted defibrillator, pacemaker, a bevy of stints and enough meds to stock a pharmacy.  

All I have to ask is:  What's wrong with the 19% of Americans who approve of him?
Krista Swisher, Circle Cityapolis- is that dink Greg Garrison over at WIBC putting any spin out there about any of this Cheney crap?  I'd listen myself to see, but can't stand the  wonk enough to listen, even for just a few minutes...
I'm with Sue...let's get rid of Dateline and have Countdown all night long.
Why do we have to go along with the 19 per cent who think the way Cheney is running the country is OK?  Because 81 per cent of us have no one representing us in the Government.  Paris Hilton for President!
All I have to ask is:  What's wrong with the 19% of Americans who approve of him? - Sue, West Allis, Wisconsin (Sent Tuesday, June 26, 2007 3:05 PM)

Great question, but sadly, I do not believe the collective effort of the best psychiatrists in the world could answer that question!!

My best guess on just who 19%ers are, are adopted Saudi Royal family members; hundreds of then; his immediate and extended family; pets included; his own dog Barnie, he makes the rules as he goes along and the neo con idiots in his Administration.  However, my money, as it relates to the largest percentage of the 19% comes from the Saudi Royal family adoptees – I’m sure it was done all legally!!

"If you treat Lieberman as the Bush supporter that he is." - Linda, Pittsburgh (Sent Tuesday, June 26, 2007 2:11 PM)

Linda, would that be Joe "ZEL MILLER" Lieberman?? He is indeed a disgrace!! Your assessment, as usual, is right on target!!

THANK YOU AGAIN!!
Sorry, I mean Georgie's dog Barnie!! BAD DAY!!
"...if I were KING! of the For-rrrrrrest, not Prince...not Duke...of the For-rrrrrrest..." -Cowardly Lion (Wizard of Oz)
Everyone needs to fly their American flags upside down.  That's the universal signal for distress, right?  4th of July'd be a good day to do it.

Or maybe fly dick and dub upside down   ... hmmmm
Bush Co. - Have you ever seen sharks in a feeding frenzy?  It isn't the instant boiling water red you see in bad movies.  They start off with just one or two of the sharks attacking.  Then the blood gets in the water.  THAT is what gets them excited.  Then escalation.

Sen. George Voinovich joined Sen. Lugar today in calling for a change in direction in Iraq.

Any slight towards sharks is purely unintentional.
I can only hope that the Paris coverage is held to a minimum tonight, but I fear my hope is in vain.  Mind, anyone from Staff who reads this, Musto comes on, I turn the television off.  And I hope plenty of others will do the same.
I took someone's advice here and googled Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and I thought ohhhh those poor innocent peace loving Japanese surly didn’t deserve the horror dropped on them by the evil imperialistic Americans.  Then I thought wait a minute, who started that war anyway, and then I remembered Pearl Harbor!  So I decided to research it just a little more.   I typed into google “japanese war crimes” and much to my surprise a whole bunch of stuff came up.  The first one I found was Nanjing – December 1937.  Those peace loving innocent Japanese massacred over 300,000 civilians and POW’s, and raped at least 20000 women.  They performed these acts up close and personal with bayonets, swords, bamboo sticks, and of course guns.   Guess what else?  The Japanese were involved in the development of Germ Warfare, and actually tested their little bugs on Humans!   They had a special group specifically for developing and testing their ingenious ideas called Unit 731.   It turns out China was a great testing ground.  Some historians estimate that more than 200000 Chinese were killed in their little experiments.  Of course there are some arguments about the exact numbers, but no denials that they occurred.  The peace loving honorable Japanese also appeared to have performed other medical experiments on humans.  They found that frost bite is better treated by immersing the afflicted parts into warm water, as opposed to rubbing which had been the prior treatment of choice.  Of course such a breakthrough came at a cost.  Subjects were placed outside in below freezing weather and doused with water.  A Japanese officer would determine if frost bite had set in by tapping limbs with a short stick, if the resultant sound resembled that what a board would make then he concluded it was time.   There is wayyyyy more stuff that I cannot put in a single post, but I am beginning to conclude that the Japanese were not so honorable, innocent, or peace loving.
Linda, Pittsburgh-if you don't mind me asking, which bridge gets "yinz" home from Pittsburgh? I know you will know what I mean! It's good to know that there are smart, caring people like you in the 'Burgh!

P.S.- I use the Veterans to 279N.
Buzz know why the R's are still bent out of shape over Clinton "getting some" here it is. The R's are the party of the CEOs. Every company run by them has strict rules against "getting some" on the clock. was once told by a friend of mind that the only thing better than "getting laid at work is getting laid on overtime". They're bent out of shape cause Clinton got his "on the clock". Only Republican CEOs are supposed to do that not some one from the working class even if he's a Democratic President
OK folks - an overlooked article in the Washington Post that deserves your attention:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/25/AR2007062501038.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

There's a discussion among Repugnikants on how to get rid of Dead-Eye Dick Cheney (the Grim Veeper) and replace him with Fred Thompson.  They speculate that at the time of his surgery to replace his hear pacemaker than Darth Veeper will announce that his doctors advise him to take it easy and spend more time with his family.

Yuck!  Impeach him and BushCo now.
Another member of Bushworld heading to the big house for 10 months....J. Steven Griles, Deputy Secretary of the Interior, is going down for his role in the Abramoff scandal...just like Ney, Scanlon, and Safavian...another member of the party of family, morals, and values going to jail......the corruption in Bushworld starts with Dick and Bush and filters down...corruption in the name of Jesus...when will the impeachments begin...help us Todd!!!!
As I have read through 3 of the 4 articles put out by WAPO and following Keith's ananlysis on Countdown, I am coming to one eerie conclusion;

Dick Cheney while being the plague of the Bush administration and never getting a real positive rating by the general public is a better fall guy than Bush himself.  Cheney can retreat to his bunker if things get too hot whereas Bush will continue to be dogged far more often by the media.  
Though I agree that he is sneaky and vindictive I can't help but feel that I am being led to believe that Bush is just an accidental puppet so he somehow deserves a pass.  I want to make sure that both Bush AND Cheney are co-equal criminals in the crime of the century.  One would not exist without the other.
Honestly, words just fail me. I knew going into the reading of this 4 part article that I would be angered, but I am so far beyond that now. The frustration level at this point is off the charts. Repeated emails and calls and letters to my representatives have been useless. I'm just an average gal with a job and kids and a mortgage. If I could take off and protest daily at the White House I would, though I am so disillusioned at this point I just don't think it would matter. Our country is being run into the ground by these criminals and the apathy of the general public just appalls me.
I just heard on Randi Rhodes Show on AAR that Ann CoulterGeist said that she wanted John Edwards and his family should be killed in a terrorist assassination.  Matthew's response:  "what should we make of that?"  

Glad I wasn't watching, but I told ya what her modus operendi was in a previous post under the Coulter Question thread.

Apparantly Mrs. Edwards was so incensed that she called into the show.

Me - not watching.  How low can Chris Matthews go?  I say we contact MSNBC about pulling him off.  He's as disgusting as she is.
Hi, Buzz! Sorry, but I don't have an answer for you regarding any spin Garrison may be putting on all this. My feelings for him are ditto of yours; when he's spewing on WIBC, I'm listening to Diane Rehm on NPR or listening to a cd. I can't take Garrison noise pollution. :)
All said, I bet he squats to pee.
Well if this isn't a slap in the face to the world!! After complete incompetence, stupidity and the aiding in the destruction of a sovereign nation, guess what? Tony Blair has now been rewarded with the position of "Special Envoy for the International Diplomatic Quartet on the Middle East"

After getting in bed with George W. Bush, supporting his illegal "Invasion & Occupation" of Iraq, which has caused so much death and destruction, he gets this job?
PLEASE!! I think the world has had enough of Tony Blair and George W. Bush's "diplomacy" - this is simply nauseating!!

Associated Press - “JERUSALEM - Outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair will be named on Wednesday as special envoy for the international diplomatic Quartet on the Middle East with a portfolio focused on Palestinian economic and political reform, a senior U.S. official said.”

MORE DISGUSTED THAN YESTERDAY!!
Gee, like I needed anybody in Congress, regardless which side of the spineless 'isle' they sit on, to tell me that the kings 'policies' in Iraq aren't working.

Yes all you self-serving, petulant, ass sitting, speak to hear yourself speak asses, why do I have to wait until September?  Do you overpaid do-nothings have a little board set up in Congress that shows a 'dead pool' of American service members?  What does the person that wins the pool in September get?  You get to keep your job?  You get to congratulate yourselves for 'playing nice' with the 'other side'?  Swell.

You can all go screw yourselves. You can speak all you want, but until you take action, and I mean NOW, it doesn't mean a thing to me.

Bring my brother, sister in law home and nephew home,  then talk to me.

You don't think the policies are working.  Whatever!

No peace for you self centered SOB's.
Pat - Thank you so much for this quote by the late JFK, "The most effective way to demonstrate America's strength was not to threaten its enemies.  It was to live up to the country's democratic ideals and "practice what it preaches about equal rights and social justice." - WOW, if he, his brother Robert and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had only lived.....I am certain the world would be a much different and a much better place!!

Thanks again Pat - I needed to read something like this today - you brightened an otherwise horrid day for me; by referencing such a beautiful, meaningful and appropriate quote from such a wonderful human being - PEACE!!
Todd - Thanks for the info, as I hadn't heard the good news about Senator Voinovich yet.  I knew Lugar would yank some chains when it hit the news about 7:00PM PDT last night!! I was pretty excited, as Lugar’s got pull.

I think we'll being hearing soon that many more republicans are jumping off the sinking ship!!

IMPEACH!!
I just don't get it..what the F... is this congress doing?? I thought the "supenas where going to fly". The new Dems should be just as afraid for their jobs, it they don't start taking on these criminals. And Bush & co. keeps stacking the Government w/croanies!

Sue from Wisconsin, I wrote to Chris Mathews today about how he should be ashamed to have Colter on. Maybe if enough of us keep complaining everytime she is on a program and boycott that program they will finally get it. Or not, you know that "liberal media". What a joke.
The Japanese?  Pearl Harbor?  Nanking?

The News Hole Vocabulary Word of the Day is

IRRELEVANT.

F-
Nice going Todd!! I pretty much just read and made some short comments, I know don't say it "RARE FOR PAM'S BIG MOUTH", I've heard it all - LOL!!

I have tried to figure out how this has gotten on so many threads, and can’t figure out where it started.  Was it Scott? That would explain those trying to correct him. Oh well, maybe it's my ignorance speaking, as it was not my BIG MOUTH today.  Short on the column inches - ok?? - LOL FRIEND!!

To echo Stephen Colbert - Irrelevant - which brings us to tonight's word...........

PEACE!!
Todd, New Orleans, LA (Sent Tuesday, June 26, 2007 6:38 PM)  Just following the advise of a fellow blogger.  I am still looking foward to you showing the math using Information Theory to show that past Christian radilism resulted in the current Islamic radicalism.  It ought to be quite informative.  
I think I just may have hit my quotient when it comes to fear and outrage. Keith, please don't spend the last part of your show tonight allowing Michael Musto to make disgusting jokes about Paris Hilton's freedom and the body part she plans to use to celebrate it. Now is the time for a Special Comment: about Dick Cheney, about Ann Coulter, about ANYTHING about which something absolutely needs to be said. Take your pick, there's plenty. If you absolutely must indulge the Paris-mania tonight (and I don't THINK you must, but I, unfortunately, am not one of your producers), please...tomorrow night? Some time this week? Pretty please with sugar on top? You obliged me by sharing your Harry Potter theory; can I beg just one more indulgence?

I know you won't say a bad word about Chris Matthews as long as you both get a paycheck from the same place because you, unlike Don Imus, are a team player. But dammit, it sounds to me as if Coultergeist went off her chain again and MSNBC and Chris Matthews gave her the perfect forum in which to do so. But they don't care, do they? All they care about is ratings, isn't it? She'll be a welcome guest to spew whatever bile she wants so long as it gets people to watch, won't she?

Speaking of bile and spewing, Keith, I hope that if you don't already know about this, you're sitting down. Stephanie Miller reported on her radio show this morning that Nancy Grace, whom we are told secretly married back in April, is expecting TWINS. Yes. It's SPAWNING. There's going to be TWO of them. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Because maybe Nancy knows what we all did last summer, but now WE know what she did this past winter. And it ain't gonna be pretty.

Take shelter in basements!!!!!!
scott henderson nv, See ya been out there in the Green Light Test Site District of Nevada Desert frying up some old "Neutron Burgers" Nevada Style.Glow in the Dark Burgers.
Yep them damn things had some amazing after effects on  our troops we tested A-Bombs on em about 1 mile from ground zero on afterward in the Nevada Desert in repeated tests in the 50's.
Quite a few of those guys died from cancer,quite a few 3 headed lizards,and other weird phenomenon to living things.But what the hell the Govt denied it for a long time about our solders dying from radiation cancers.
They even sent a questionarre to my family in 1979 as my father died from cancer about 9 years after the tests he had been involved in.The readings were so high on the rad badges they just tossed em as they were all bad and the men knew they had been over exposed.What I hate about our Govt is not the fact we did it.It is the fact we denied it caused those mens ill health when they knew different.Always the cover-up in the good old USA.
The Japanese well a war,they never had a chance,the misdeeds of any war make me sick.
That you support this Dick well go see a doctor as Pam says.Look at the type of people this guys surrounds himself with,David Addington,Scooter Libby,Dubya duh I thought I was da President Dick,and last but not least a bunch John Bircher dumb shit supporters like you.
I have told you once,twice,three times you mutant if you believe in your cause go drive a humvee in Iraq or closer to home volunteer in a V.A. Hospital so you can see how it looks up close and personal.Your not going to do that.Your just like the Dicker.You notice he always surrounds himself at appearance with the troops.Psychology would tell me that is because that is the thing he fears most.5 deferments mean I'm afraid of something.So let me pretend I am not afraid by surrounding myself by that which I am afraid.
I told him before.Get off our carriers Dick.Your no Naval Officer,your not even good semen,stay away from Camp Lajune and the Marines,Dick,stay the hell away from that you didn't want to be a part of.
Get you sorry ass back to the Senate and be the President of the Senate,preside over it and the damn job your elected to do.Presiding over the Senate falls under the job classification DICK.
Senate members ask a quorum be present every session.What the hell scott,maybe John Ensign will get you a gallery pass if you want to come see your Govt in action.

What the hell hook up with Larry of Charleston SC,and John phia,and make it a ménage à trois of the RNC in action.I am sure they appreciate your support about as much as having that bad case of crabs I was talking about.In your case thought easy to cure they glow in the dark.

Yes the Dick n Decider Dubay:) will go down history :if we get to see history make it that far as quite a pair.

scott nv. I am sure all those awful things you posted about the Japanese may,I say may have some basis,but I am doubtful to the whole accuracy.You stretch the facts and are a member of the greatest liars political supporters club in Nevada or the u.s. unseen in need of mental help for delusions grandeur and psychotic breaks from reality.You can't help it we know.Keep chasing your tail and you'll see the Dick.Like I said go volunteer at V.A. Hospital and stay out of trouble.

Until that time put a smile on your face and don't burn those Neutron Burgers.We've already hurt and killed enough folks unnecessarily in the world.Especially ourselves behind the insane shit that is the so called leadership of this Country.

So, I just read that Nancy Grace was secretly married and expecting twins in January.  I hope I'm not duplicating if someone already posted this.

Anyway, she became vigiliant at prosecuting after her fiance was killed-unfortunately she started going too far.

Hmmm, maybe finally finding happiness again after all these years, and have that more than double in January, will give her the chill pill she desperately needs.

PEACE!
I think this explains Cheney's actions.

http://www.jackieandfritz.com/2007/06/what-u-hiding.html
Jamie – Regarding Nancy Grace, agreed, and "starting go too far" is being very kind.  I personally think she has gone so far over the top and I cannot understand how CNN allows her show to continue.

She has labeled many guilty before being arrested, charged or convicted.  She has never ONCE apologized for her reckless and irresponsible accusations.  The fact that she is a lawyer makes it worse, in my opinion.

I'm glad to see someone else thinks she has gone too far too.  Maybe being a mommy will calm her down, or make her happy?? Something’s is certainly wrong with her.  I understand she is a crime victim, but she has know right to behave the way she does.

She's another one for Fox NOISE!!

PEACE FRIEND!!
Funny! I made the exact same comment to my wife a couple of days ago that Bush would never find out about Cheney because he doesn't read the newspaper.
Scott - You are obviously brain damaged to try to something like that with me.  Prove an unprovable with math?  See, this is where your sub-par education shows.  Do you even know who Kurt Godel is?  I know that's where the big words started to confuse you.  Do you understand math at all?  Statistics?  Algebra?  Game Theory?  Logic? In any form?  Do you understand your question has an integrated fundamental assumption that is both pro-Christian bigotry AND fundamentally flawed by stating a non-causal relationship framed as a question so as to entice someone to prove an unprovable quality of one of the members of the set based upon said non-existing relationship?  That the fundamental structure of your question is not only nonsensical but biased and, therefor, invalid for formal reasons as well as being just plain stupid?  A poorly built trap designed for a mouse and deployed on a dragon.  Sad.

You better hit the books.  That Bodine boy is waaaaaayyyy out in front of you, boy.  At this rate, you are never going to advance from the Area 51 Cleaning Crew to the Super Secret Double Naught Spy Program.  You Kool-Aid drinker you.

F+ (only because you actually changed tactics . . . poorly, but you did change).

Now quit trying to change the subject and get back to trying to explain how your boy Dick didn't just take a dump on the Constitution in public.  Haven't done so well on that rationalization yet, have you, genius?  NO ONE CARES WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT INTERFAITH RELATIONS.  You are proven fool and biased on that topic.  Try to stick with the topic at hand instead of wallowing in past . . . glory.  Try to embarrass yourself with a new subject.  Expand your horizons.  You shouldn't be afraid to play the game with Dick.  A guy with all your wit and savoir faire is probably used to playing with his buddy Dick.
B A - Again, I love you!! I had a REALLY bad day!! Thank you for laying out the facts, with some humor, in that wonderful "Jon Stewart" kind of way, which is GREAT!! He, like you, cuts outs the crap, cuts to the chase, he makes it PERFECTLY clear "what the morons in the White House have done TODAY", blasts them for it and adds some humor to help with our pain, just as you do!! (“don't burn those Neutron Burgers” – Perfection my friend!!)

Thanks again for sharing your stories about the late Mayor Moscone with me.  That was so nice of you to write at length to me about working with him.  You're just the best!!

PEACE!!
Take shelter in basements!!!!!!
Tru M., Cleveland, Ohio (Sent Tuesday, June 26, 2007 7:49 PM)

Tru M - A very good suggestion, both regarding Nancy Grace and the current climate of our country.  GREAT POST!!

PEACE!!
I repeatedly ran into people who said "Bush wasn't smart enough" when I argued that this administration had deliberately planned to destabilize the entire Middle East and provoke an even broader war by actually spurring on an Iraqi civil war.  Everybody seemed to think they just had bad luck or messed up...  Well, low and behold... Looks like ‘boy blunder’ wasn't in charge after all.  

This entire situation reminds me about how a republican strategist actually came out and said on TV that Dan Quail was deliberately chosen to be Bush Sr.'s running mate so that his stupidity would deliberately draw attention away from the Iran Contra scandal.  Oh boy... everybody made so much fun of Quail that any other news and Iran could hardly trickle in.  So I wonder, is George just a name-plate spokes person for a divisive and power-hungry neocon party deliberately chosen to draw votes and help lull us into thinking Iraq was just a big mistake???

We’ve all been focusing on George, but if you look even before 9/11 you can tell they had something grand in mind right from the start.  Sending spy planes and ships to within 20 miles of a major Chinese naval base was their first action and was about as provocative as you could possibly get.  They offered to sell Taiwan an Ageis Navy destroyer and then... Colon Powell himself went around (BEFORE 9/11) unbelievably petitioning European nations to sign an agreement that they would never turn over any US soldiers accused of WAR CRIMES to an international tribunal – an action that should have sparked some serious concerns to say the least as it is against international law.

Oh… they had something grand in mind alright and if you ask me, their plan has only just begun.
About Dick Cheney, ever since the 1st election I have been saying we didn't elect Bush...and not because of the court thing.  I figured Cheney was not electible on his own..Health issues and he needed a front man. Bush is perfect. personally I think he is a nit wit, but he had the advertising name. So we have a match made in ......you fill it in.
Kelly - I don't think Matthews will care until his last viewer turns off the TV machine.  However, the subpoenas are being issued.  Considering the fact that the current Congress has been in power only for 5 months, the hearings that they have been holding have revealed a lot.  The Judiciary Committees are closing in on Rove, but just like any careful prosecutor, they need to build up their case.  With the 2 supoenas issued, and challenged by the White House, the next will be Rove.  I'm wondering if the House or the Senate will be the one to issue that one.

While I expected more on ending the War from the Dems and certainly nagged and howled when they caved, it is the Senate Repugnikants that have blocked 239 pieces of legislation passed by the House which are waiting for Senate Action.  Remember all that "up and down vote" crapola we heard from them over and over again - wellllllll, not when it comes to anything they don't want voted on.  Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi should be holding a press conference every day with the Pub blocking of these bills as item #1.  Lets hear "up and down vote" again and again from our side.

The pukey Pubs haven't met a dirty trick they don't like.  All the running away from BushCo as the next election nears isn't going to save them.
"This entire situation reminds me about how a republican strategist actually came out and said on TV that Dan Quail was deliberately chosen to be Bush Sr.'s running mate so that his stupidity would deliberately draw attention away from the Iran Contra scandal" - Chris Eldridge, Harrisburg PA (Sent Tuesday, June 26, 2007 11:04 PM

Chris, right on target friend, as Dan Quail was appropriately labeled "Impeachment Insurance" by numerous people!! If not so sat and pathetic, it indeed was funny!! What a genius he was!!

PEACE!!


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