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no more and need not say more

Matty,

          NOBODY on this Blog is trying to change your MIND on Voting for McCain.........I was ONCE IGNORANT,FOOLISH, & IMMATURE.......just like YOU!

PS- You said you wouldn't comment on here AGAIN!

NAME SAYS IT ALL

GObama

GOP   (GRAND OIL PARTY)

the last 8 years, will never forget the lies.

THE GOP HAS DESTROYED THE GREATEST COUNTRY MANKIND EVER CREATED    

rob sums it up and how about this never ending war in iraq which is a lie! Where is bin laden

Anyone who is stateside, and votes for McCain, isn't man enough to stand up for their convictions in Baghdad.

End the War.

Vote for O.

THUS WE HAVE IN THE WANING YEARS OF BUSH II's administration:

1. Oil prices up over 500%

2. Housing prices down 20-50%

3. Total lack of oversight by the Feds and rating agencies that allowed the financial people to slip sub prime turds into AAA products

4. Debasing of the dollar to an all time low

5. A preemptive war based on lies with no regard to paying for it and giving billions of dollars to war profiteering companies. (Did you know that Samuel Bush, Geoge II greatgrandfather) in the spring of 1918, became chief of the Ordnance, Small Arms, and Ammunition Section, with national responsibility for government assistance to and relations with munitions companies)

6. Crashing of the financial markets

7. Doubling the national debt to 9 trillion dollars from 4.5 in 2000

8 Soaring commodity prices

9 Looming stagflation

10. Destroying US prestige and credibility around the world.

11. Total support for Israel's interests without regard to the costs of our contry in blood or treasure.

12. No comprehensive energy policy in 7 years and cut backs on tax credits for alternative fuel sources. Thus maintaining dependence on oil for as long as possible.

13.  forgot 2 get bin ladden

LAST TIME I CHECKED , THINGS WERE NOT SO GOOD....GO FIGURE

Skyrocketing food prices threaten Fourth of July celebrations

Oil surges to new highs above $145 a barrel; US pump prices at record near $4.10 a gallon....ITS ALL GOOD NEWS >>>>WE SHOULD CELEBRATE!

It's Staff Sgt. Edgar Covarrubias' second Fourth of July in Iraq. No family barbecue, no fireworks, but Covarrubias says he'll call his mom, wife and kids to share the day anyway.

McCain doesn't have a chance in hell of winning.

McCain is too old.

McCain is too insane.

McCain was too wrong on the first Gulf War

McCain was too wrong on the second Gulf War

McCain is too wrong on ANWR

I'm voting for Obama in '08,,,,I've voted Republcan my entire life.

It is not about the "war on terror".

It is not about weapons of mass destruction.

It is not about "freedom and democracy to the Iraqi people", or to the "Afghan people".

It is not about "Islamofascism".

It is not about a Pentagon-coined "arc of instability" from the Middle East to Central Asia.

New evidence shows once again both George W Bush administration wars - in Afghanistan and Iraq - above all are about oil and gas.

Oil...

...is why, daily,  innocent Iraqis and our homesick troops have to die

Afghans Say US Bombed Wedding Party

JOHNNY D .... VOTE

never ever a lying republican

Go figure....look at defecits....dumb never stop spending republicans. ITS A BROKEN USA , NOT JUST GOOD FOR THE HALF THAT GOT TAX BREAKS . JUST THINK 8 YEARS OF MY MAN OBAMA. DID u forgot the iraq war!!!! GO FIGURE! Put them all in jail and hang them along side that guy from india. Dont u feel ultra safe at night ... GO FIGURE!

rove up

liars have destroyed usa.   HOUSES STILL FALLING!

He keep the budget deficit at only $2,000,000,000,000

He keep gasoline prices at under $5

He keep oil prices at under $150

He invaded only two countries.

He killed only 4,000 and wounded only 30,000 young Americans in his lies to create wars for Oil and Israel.

He kept only 50,000,000 Americans from health and hospitalization insurance.

He kept the number of American families who lost their homes through repossession at only 3,000,000. At the same time, he gave Israel tens of billions in welfare aide so they can subsidize expensive housing for rich Jews in Palestinian occupied territory.

He kept the welfare checks to Israel at under $100 billion in his eight years as president.

He provided the Israeli government with billions so that they can provide all the rich Jews in Israel with universal health care while only 50,000,000 American taxpayers are without health care.

He blocked Social Security payments to the greedy elderly Americans by refusing the repeal the WEP and GOP.

He gave only $1 Trillion in tax cuts to the super rich at the expense of a huge deficits for the average American middle class.

vote republican for 10 dollar a gallon gas!

4,114 DEAD GIs thanks republicans     10 minutes ago     come November you'll probably wonder why you lost

there are at least 4,114 reasons  

BELLEVILLE, Mich. - John McCain sharply broke from an economic adviser who dubbed the United States "a nation of whiners". ITS the economy....morons!

NO, its the republican lies and bs...You wanted that false war .....we will fix that , dont bitch , pay for it ....taxes going up!  Just maybe war crimes ...we will see...Heard the teamsters are going to stop all the trucks! Right the *** on!...Big gop party.  Cant wait!

wtf . Republicans are good for nothing but a broken usa.

ThATS THE REPUBLICAN WAY!

Bush Sends USA Back to Stone Age

LOOK OUT THE WINDOW ....its RAINING....REPUBLICANS CANT FIGURE IT OUT!  $.4.00 GAS  AND OH THE STIMULUS PLAN GETS AN F....

REPUBLICANS HAVE DESTROYED USA.It is not about the "war on terror".

It is not about weapons of mass destruction.

It is not about "freedom and democracy to the Iraqi people", or to the "Afghan people".

It is not about "Islamofascism".

It is not about a Pentagon-coined "arc of instability" from the Middle East to Central Asia.

New evidence shows once again both George W Bush administration wars - in Afghanistan and Iraq - above all are about oil and gas.

just elect mccain and u got 4 more years of bush ! NO WAY!

GET USE TO IT U WILL BE DISSAPOINTED .GOOD LUCK , CAST YOUR VOTE AND WE SHALL SEE. nOT A GOOD YEAR 2 BE A REPUBLICAN. THEY LIED US INTO 1 BIG FIASCO.     WAR CRIMES SOON

i moved my money to euros .The dollar is no good.

LIFESTYLE CHANGES/ECONOMIC IMPACT:

When asked at what point gas prices will have a significant impact on life, 63% said the prices are already there. In fact, an amazing 92% of consumers have made lifestyle changes such as:

   * 82% are making a conscious effort to drive less

   * 57% are planning routes more carefully

   * 31% are only filling gas tanks partially

   * 24% are walking or biking more

For the twisted minds that make up the radical right, this recent turn of events is somehow reason enough to send more troops to... IRAQ.

July 11th, 2008

California City Votes to Impeach Bush, Cheney; Resolution heads to House Judiciary Committee | DO SOMETHING: Think Globally, Impeach Locally

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) will formally introduce another article of impeachment against President Bush Tuesday as House leaders indicate they're willing to convene a hearing to consider the Ohio Democrat's arguments.

"Our Constitution is being destroyed. We are losing our nation to a war based on lies. I am determined to get this bill to committee for a hearing," he said.

"The President has conducted the affairs of the nation in a manner which cries out for justice and it is the Constitutional obligation of Congress to check his wanton abuses of U.S. and international law. We have troops whose lives were put on the line because the President told them Iraq was a threat to the United States and it was not. The loss of lives of our troops and of innocent Iraqi civilians is a direct result of the lies this president told to Congress. He must be held accountable."

If george washington came back here and saw what was going on , he would shoot every member of congress as traitors. Its illegal to say a prayer in the classroom!

How Bad Is It? Some Say Crisis Worst Since Great Depression

BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a CHANGE! The chicken wanted CHANGE!

JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.

HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure -- right from Day One! -- that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me.......

DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on 'THIS' side of the road before it goes after the problem on the 'OTHER SIDE' of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his 'CURRENT' problems before adding 'NEW' problems.

OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.

GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.

COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road...

ANDERSON COOPER - CNN: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.

JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.

NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he's GUILTY! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.

PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.

MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.

DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain. Alone.

GRANDPA: In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

BARBARA WALTERS: Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its life long dream of crossing the road.

ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.

BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken2007, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your check book. Internet Explorer is an integral part of the Chicken. This new platform is much more stable and will never cra...#@&&^(C% .........reboot.

ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?

BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What is your definition of chicken?

AL GORE: I invented the chicken!

COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one?

DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?

AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens white? We need some black chickens.

JOE BEATTY: We don't care why the chicken crossed the road but buy our monitoring products and we can alert you not only when the chicken crosses the road but when, where and how fast they did it.

chuckoluck.............

House Speaker Pelosi calls Bush 'a total failure'

WASHINGTON -- Rep. John Conyers announced Thursday he will hold Judiciary Committee hearings next week on the "imperial" Bush presidency -- a step the Detroit Democrat's allies on the political left quickly trumpeted as "impeachment begins."

Conyers, however, was careful in his news releases not to use the word "impeachment," which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House leaders have repeatedly said is off the table.

Instead, Conyers said the hearing next Friday will look at "credible allegations of serious misconduct" by Bush administration officials and "what many would describe as a radical view" of power.

"As chairman of the Judiciary Committee, I believe it is imperative that we pursue a comprehensive review commensurate to this constitutionally dangerous combination of circumstances. Next Friday's hearings will be an important part of that ongoing effort," Conyers said.

The White House did not return a call about the hearing. But Pelosi's spokeman said she supports Conyers.

"The speaker supports this hearing and appreciates Chairman Conyers' strong leadership to ensure proper oversight and accountability," said Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, who was a Democratic presidential candidate, has introduced 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush, largely around his handling of the Iraq war. On June 11, the U.S. House voted 251-166 to send Kucinich's bill to Conyers' committee in what was seen as way to kill it.

But Democracy.com -- one of several left-wing activist groups pushing for Bush's impeachment -- sent out an email before Conyers' announcement Thursday titled, "Impeachment begins July 25." The group, which did not respond to an interview request, urged impeachment supporters to attend the hearing.

"This is not yet a true impeachment hearing," the group wrote in a widely distributed email. "but it is our opportunity to push for one, and it represents a tremendous victory...."

Conyers has already held numerous hearings looking into whether Bush has overstepped his constitutional powers, leading two veteran political analysts to conclude that the hearings essentially will be a sideshow to appease the powerful left wing of the Democratic Party, which through the Internet has become a formidable mobilizing and fund-raising force.

Michael Franc, a political analyst at the Heritage Foundation, said the Internet-based left of the Democratic Party "can't be dismissed as the crazy uncle in the attic. They are a powerful force in Democratic politics."

But Franc said the Democratic left "tends to criminalize differences of opinion on policy, vision and the use of power." As a result, Franc said, Conyers' hearing -- part of a larger, continuing spotlight on the Bush White House -- could backfire if a Democrat is elected president.

David Bositis, a political analyst at the Joint Center for Economic and Political Studies, said "actual impeachment hearings could make voters sympathize with Bush at the very time his record-low poll ratings make him useful to Democrats in the upcoming high-stakes presidential and congressional elections.

"Bush serves a great use, because the Democrats are going to wrap George Bush around every Republican in the country," Bositis said. "Why risk a good thing?"

Poll: McCain's backers less fired up than Obama's

If the Republicans were intelligent (and no one is accusing them of being intelligent), they'd, too, do everything they could to get America off of oil, and single-handedly eliminate half of their political opposition.

Oil is the main culprit which Democrats blame for Global Warming.

Oil  is the real motivation, according to Democrats, behind the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Oil, and the high price of gas, is the number one reason why Democrats believe our economy is tanking.

If the GOP could just wean themselves off of the black sauce, the Democratic Party, as a viable political alternative, would practically disappear overnight...

...but never fear, my fellow Democrats - the GOP will NEVER take any truly bold steps anywhere away from Exxon's lobbyists.

They're too fucking greedy.

Since 2,000, gas 3 times higher, groceries double, utilities 50% higher, health care and education same thing. Budget sucking trillion dollar black hole Iraq, Immigration out of control, good jobs flying out of the country...

Oh boy, things are SOOO MUCH BETTER now than when they were first appointed...aren't they?

Gosh I sure hope all you working people are as smart next election as you have been the last two and KEEP VOTING RICH MAN FAVORING REPUB next November.

If you love all this progress you surely will....right?

chuck lol

Its not john kerry, its the very bad economy . Everything he touches he makes worse.The failed stimulus plan.The never ending iraq war that cant be won.Whewre is bin ladden , guess gop forgot about him.Its a really bad time to be a republican.

We've ALWAYS had "Down Turns" in the Economy. (1974,1980,1991,2001) I VERY Much appreciated my Stimulus Check! War has been going on in that Region(Iraq) for 2 thousand yrs. Bin Laden's in Pakistan planning his NEXT Terrorist attack. Actually It's NOT a BAD Time to be a Republican!

republicans lost 4 key seats, ill , lous,md,and missouri. ITS not a good time 2 be a republican ....u will see. And dont forget the last election .... soon there wont be any left.

Paulson Braces Public for Tough TimesAPposted: 2 HOURS 52 MINUTES AGOcomments: 397PrintSharefiled under: Earnings, InvestingText SizeAAAWASHINGTON (July 20) - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson sought to reassure an anxious public Sunday that the banking system is sound, while also bracing people for more troubled times ahead.

"I think it's going to be months that we're working our way through this period  clearly months," he said.

CBS / AP

Paulson said the number of troubled banks will increase as they struggle to cope with big losses on bad mortgages. The government this month took over IndyMac after a run led it to become the largest regulated thrift to fail.

"Of course the list is going to grow longer given the stresses we have in the marketplace, given the housing correction. But again, it's a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation," he said in broadcast interviews.

Paulson used appearances on the Sunday talk shows to tell people that deposits up to $100,000 are fully insured. He said no one has lost a single penny on an insured deposit in the 75 years that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has operated.

"We're going through a challenging time with our economy. This is a tough time. The three big issues we're facing right now are, first, the housing correction which is at the heart of the slowdown; secondly, turmoil of the capital markets; and thirdly, the high oil prices, which are going to prolong the slowdown," he said.

"But remember, our economy has got very strong long-term fundamentals, solid fundamentals. And you know, your policy-makers here, regulators, we're being very vigilant."

Paulson said he hoped Congress soon would approve his plan to help shore up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage companies

"I'm very optimistic that we're going to get what we need from Congress here, because Congress understands how important these institutions are," Paulson said.

The House plans to vote Wednesday on a housing bill that is expected to include a rescue for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The companies' shares have plummeted because of fears about their financial stability. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are private, but they were created by Congress to encourage homeownership by buying mortgages from banks. The two hold or guarantee more than $5 trillion in home loans  almost half of the nation's total.

"Our first priority today is the stability of the capital markets, the stability of the system. And these institutions have investors all around the world ... and those investors need to know that we in the United States of America understand the importance of these institutions to our capital markets and to our economy and to our housing market," he added.

Paulson acknowledged the U.S. is continuing to lose jobs, though he said the $168 billion economic relief plan approved this year has created jobs that would not otherwise exist. The plan included tax rebates for people and tax breaks for businesses.

Democratic leaders, including presidential candidate Barack Obama, are pushing for a second, smaller, economic installment. Paulson said he did not want to speculate about that idea.

"I'm focused on this stimulus package. It's made a difference in the second quarter. It's going to make a difference in the third quarter. We need to watch this very carefully," he said.

"Right now we're going through a tough period. There is no doubt about it. But the stimulus plan is making a difference," he said.

The second-ranking House Republican, Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri, said he was "open-minded" about a follow-up aid plan. "If they bring things to the table they know the president's not going to do, that has very little to do with stimulating the economy. It's all about a political discussion between now and the election," he said.

Paulson appeared on "Face the Nation" on CBS and "Late Edition" on CNN. Blunt was on CNN.

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2008-07-20 16:49:35

ITS THE ECONOMY

Wachovia Posts $8.9 Billion Loss; Cuts Dividend

DOW IS NOW A COLLECTION OF U.S. GARBAGE!     22-Jul-08 03:17 am     From GM to Citi, the American markets are bellowing in an insolvency stench infecting finances around the world. Now corp bond and mortgage rates are rising against the Fed tide adding injury to insult. Real unemployment in the U.S. stands at 13.9% with an actual inflation rate reaching 12.5%. The homeless living in tent cities around the country are going hungry on gov't food stamps -- chasing sewer rats for dinner!

Why is the American govt afraid to own up to their rosy economic scenarios and under-reported stats?

In the end -- We're all F.U.C.K.E.D!!  

This is it - the final election to decide which Senate candidate we as a community want to direct our energy, enthusiasm, and dollars towards.

I am proud to announce that the two Senate challengers who received the most votes in round one are ... Al Franken and Tom Udall!

Now, it's up to you to vote in the final round, and decide which one of these two outstanding candidates gets to send two emails to the GiveEmHellHarry.com list, helping him build the resources needed to win this fall and reach our 60 Senator filibuster-proof majority.

Click here to vote in the final voting round, before the July 28th deadline!

As a Member of Congress and Attorney General of New Mexico, Tom Udall has earned a reputation as a principled leader who has the integrity to do what is right for New Mexico. In the House, Tom has established himself as a leader on key issues - writing and passing a bill to establish a national renewable energy standard, voting against the Iraq War, working to expand preventive health care, attempting to increase well-deserved benefits for veterans, and acting as a champion of small businesses owners.

You might know Al Franken as an award-winning comedian and author. You might know him as the host of Air America Radio's "The Al Franken Show," the network's flagship program that helped put progressive talk radio on the map. But, here's what's most important for you to know: Al Franken stands by his principles and leads by his values. As the founder of Midwest Values Political Action Committee, he raised over $1.1 million for Democrats across Minnesota and around the country. Now he is putting all of his energy into being elected to the United States Senate, and representing the progressive values of all Minnesotans.

Click here to vote in the final voting round, before the July 28th deadline!

I can't wait to see which Senate challenger you choose to help us reach our 60 Senator filibuster-proof majority. But, whoever you choose, this much is true: together, we will finish what we started in 2006 and deliver a mandate for change in 2008 that Republicans can't lay a finger on.

Thanks for all you do,

Harry Reid

abolish the republican party

how much u wanna bet big mouth.....

give the republicans hell

will have 60 this election for all filibusters

Insane McCain campaign now desperate.     51 minutes ago     With the latest polls showing Obama with a 13 point lead when Nader and Barr are added, the insane McCain campaign has reached desperation status and are unable to figure out how to overcome his reputation as an angry old man with alzheimer's, and no plans other than the Bush failed policies. Adios insane McCain, been good knowing you, but you've already damaged America enough.  

GOP kills effort to release oil from US stockpile

Existing home sales fall 2.6 percent in June, more than double the expected amount

not very good

Hearing Impeachment

"To the regret of many, this is not an impeachment hearing."  Rep. John Conyers, Jr.

'Impeach Dick & George'

"The primary justifications for going to war ... have been determined conclusively to be untrue."

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (VIDEO)

"... impeachment hearings are the appropriate and necessary next step."  Rep. Tammy Baldwin

"Never before in the history of this nation has an administration so successfully diminished the constitutional power of the legislative branch."

Rep. Robert Wexler

Crowded House

"They love what is happening here so

it shouldn't be too bad."

FDIC takes over 2 more banks, closing 28 branches

Sen. Jack Reed says America can't afford the Republican strategy of continuing to write blank checks for the Iraq war.

"At a time when the war in Iraq costs $10 billion each month, Americans are paying $4 a gallon for gasoline, and our economy is struggling, we cannot continue down the path that President Bush and Senator McCain propose: writing blank check after blank check," Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, said Saturday in his party's weekly radio address.

Reed said Democrats have outlined a better plan to carefully redeploy combat troops out of Iraq and give them missions such as counterterrorism and training Iraq's military.

"Make no mistake: This is a plan that seizes on the progress and sacrifices our troops have made in Iraq, and it recognizes the desire of the Iraqi people to take control of their own destiny," he said.

Reed and Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska accompanied presumed Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama on a six-day trip to Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan and Kuwait that ended this week.

Obama says he will pursue a 16-month timetable for withdrawing combat troops if he is elected. That idea won conditional support on Monday from Iraqi leaders during talks in Baghdad.

"Our proposal to responsibly redeploy American troops out of Iraq will send a message to the Iraqi government that it must do more," Reed said. "And it will encourage more progress toward Iraqi self-sufficiency."

A West Point graduate and former Army Ranger, Reed emerged as one of his party's leading anti-war voices after he voted against authorizing the war. Reed, who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee, is a potential vice presidential pick for Obama.

"Some of the soldiers and Marines we met in the field are on their third and fourth tours of duty," Reed said. "And they deserve a policy that is worthy of their sacrifice."

republicans forgot last election

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Help us today - there's only 100 days left.

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Who will save us? Who will lift us up from crushing credit-card debt and resetting mortgage payments and impending foreclosure, from increasing gas prices and decreasing health-insurance coverage? We are a nation stumbling through our worst financial crisis in a generation and our worst housing market in a lifetime. And so we come, seeking gentle salvation, inspiring prayers, steadying words, soothing notions, and calming thoughts that will allow us to become, in Joel Osteen's words, "victors, not victims."

The White House has increased its estimate for next year's deficit to nearly $490 billion, a record figure that will saddle the next president with deepening budget problems in his first year in office, a report due out Monday shows.

The projected deficit for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 is being driven higher by the continuing economic slowdown and larger-than-anticipated costs of the two-year, $168 billion fiscal stimulus package passed by Congress, said two senior administration officials with direct knowledge of the report. In February, President Bush predicted the 2009 deficit would be $407 billion.

The budget update shows this year's deficit headed under $400 billion, at least $10 billion less than projected, according to the two officials. That's partly because tax revenue held up reasonably well despite the weaker economy.

The rising deficit for 2009 marks a sharp turnaround for Bush's fiscal legacy. He inherited a $128 billion surplus when he came into office in 2001. It soon turned to red ink because of a recession, the Sept. 11 attacks and the war on terrorism.

Curbing the deficit will fall to Bush's successor and the next Congress following a time when taxes were cut and major spending initiatives were undertaken, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, transportation projects, farm subsidies, Medicare prescription drug coverage and a recently passed expansion of veterans' education benefits.

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The actual 2009 deficit could climb still higher because the new projection does not reflect full funding for the wars. In addition, a worsening economy could add to the red ink by reducing tax revenue and increasing safety-net payments, such as jobless benefits and food stamps.

Both presidential candidates have proposed tax cuts that could further swell the deficit. The non-partisan Tax Policy Center estimates that Republican John McCain's cuts would cost $4.2 trillion and Democrat Barack Obama's $2.8 trillion over 10 years. Neither candidate has specified major spending cuts he would make to reduce the deficit.

"The picture's looking pretty dark out there," said Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee. He credited Bush's tax cuts with creating six years of economic growth but "on the spending side, their record is not good."

White House budget director Jim Nussle said that despite the surplus Bush started with, he faced a deficit in defense, intelligence and homeland security that had to be bolstered after 9/11.

"This is not just a mathematical exercise," he said in an interview with USA TODAY. Nussle said an economic recovery and a renewed effort by Congress to control spending could rein in the deficit.

Bush proposed in recent years to slow the growth of spending in programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Those efforts were ignored by Congress  most recently last week, when the House voted to sidestep a provision of the 2003 Medicare prescription drug law that would have required lower Medicare spending.

The biggest budget deficit recorded to date was $413 billion in 2004. In today's dollars, that would be about $478 billion. As a share of the economy, the 2009 deficit would be 3% to 4%, below the post-World War II record of 6% set in 1983.

McCain's "Straight-Talk Express" turns out to be just more of the same old. worn-out, GOP double-talk that has tried it's best to denigrate any, and all, political opposition.

"That's not change that we can believe in..."

Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, has been indicted on seven counts of corruption,

according to broadcast reports.

Stevens Indictment Means Trouble for GOP on Senate Seat

Trump: There's Too Much Oil  

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:25 PM

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Real estate mogul Donald Trump says there is way too much oil in the world to justify the current high market prices.

"Frankly, I hear there are tankers all over the world that are loaded up to the gills with oil," he told CNBC.

"They have so much oil they don't know what to do with it. It's ridiculous what's going on with OPEC and all of that."

Trump blames major oil producing countries for the current recession and accuses large oil companies of "doing a major number" on everyone.

Trump lauds the recent dips in the price of oil, and he predicts that oil prices should drop a lot more. The overabundance of oil and the increasingly high prices are affecting the economy, he says

According to Trump, the price of oil should be no more than $50 or $60 or perhaps even lower.

The price recently dropped to below $121, the lowest it's been since May. The record was over $147.

"Oil is what is killing the world's economy," he says.

"There's a vast oversupply in the world. It's all over the place, and they don't know what to do with it."

Which company seeks protection first?  GM OR FORD Close call. Either way, the taxpayer will end up paying for the pensions. Between the auto industry and the mortgage industry (Freddie and Fannie), it's the final chapter of what was once a great country.

Across Capitol Hill, Democratic-led committees are considering punishments for past and present Bush administration officials for a range of alleged misdeeds, from discriminating against liberals at the Justice Department to blowing off subpoenas and lying to Congress.

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The proceedings on Wednesday are the latest congressional review of the White House, a constitutionally mandated power that majority Democrats relish. But three months out from Election Day, a lame-duck Congress conducting oversight of a lame-duck White House produces mostly talk. There's little time and less willingness to spend the remaining five weeks of the congressional session doing more than holding televised hearings to try to convince voters that President Bush has abused the powers of his office.

The allegations certainly are serious.

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday was to hear from Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine, who reported this week that former department officials broke the law by letting Bush administration politics dictate the hiring of prosecutors, immigration judges and other career government lawyers. The probe springs from Justice's firings of nine federal prosecutors that sparked congressional investigations last year and led to the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

House and Senate Democrats said the findings affirmed their contention that career Justice employees were hired and fired based on whether they were deemed sufficiently conservative, a violation of law. House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers said he was considering bringing criminal charges against some of the former officials named in Fine's report who may have lied to his committee. Lying to Congress is a crime, but there's little agreement among Democrats on whether a perjury referral against some of the officials is warranted.

Everyone has questions. Sen. Arlen Specter, the committee's ranking Republican, said in an interview that he was seeking more details from Fine.

"He says that federal law was violated as to a number of people. That's a very serious charge," the Pennsylvania Republican said. "I would want to know the details on the facts which led the inspector general to these conclusions."

On the House side, meanwhile, a subcommittee of Conyers' panel is considering citing former presidential adviser Karl Rove with contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena that compelled his attendance at a July 10 session. Democrats on the panel want to hear his testimony about the extent to which the politicization of the Justice Department was directed by the White House. Bush declared that information off limits under executive privilege.

If approved by the House subcommittee, the contempt citation against Rove would move to the full House. It was unclear whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi would allow a vote on it. Earlier this year, the House approved contempt citations against two Bush confidants  White House counsel Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers  who likewise refused to comply with their subpoenas. The House then filed suit against the two, which is still pending in federal court.

LOCK HIM UP THAT FOOL

who is razor

how much u got , how much u want 2 wager big boy who knows nothing. I am not everyone here .....thats  a fact

republicans run usa into the ground .   GET that senator from idaho and alaska and do the spartan shuffle.  Big mouths are always losers. U will see at election time ....adios...abolish that republican party ....watch me on tv  at the gop convention ....lots of fun ...no one getting over my bridge ....i promise  18 wheelers with flats ......   see u there!   i am on the red bridge!  Guess u forgot last election ......cant wait for this 1 .goodbye looser!

HEADLINES FROM THE YEAR 2029

Ozone created by electric cars now killing millions in the seventh largest country in the world, Mexifornia, formerly known as California .

White minorities still trying to have English recognized as Mexifornia's third language.

Spotted Owl plague threatens northwestern United States crops and livestock.

Baby conceived naturally! Scientists stumped.

Couple petitions court to reinstate heterosexual marriage.

Iran still closed off; physicists estimate it will take at least 10 more years before radioactivity decreases to safe levels.

France pleads for global help after being taken o ver by Jamaica . No other country comes forward to help the beleaguered nation!

Castro finally dies at age 112; Cuban cigars can now be imported legally, but PresidentChelsea Clinton has banned all smoking.

George Z. Bush says he will run for President in 2036.

Postal Service raises price of first class stamp to $17.89 and reduces mail delivery to Wednesdays only.

85-year $75.8 billion study: Diet and exercise are the keys to weight loss.

Average weight of Americans drops to 250 lbs.

Global cooling blamed for citrus crop failure for third consecutive year in Mexifornia and Floruba.

Abortion clinics now available in every

High School in United States.

Senate still blocking drilling in ANWR even though gas is selling for 4532 Pesos per liter and gas stations are only open on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Massachusetts executes last remaining conservative.

Supreme Court rules punishment of criminals violates their civil rights.

Average height of NBA players is now nine feet, seven inches.

New federal law requires that all nail clippers, screwdrivers, fly swatters and rolled-up newspapers must be registered by January 2030.

IRS sets lowest tax rate at 75 percent.

Floruba voters still having trouble with voting machines.

Moral of the story- never vote Republicans to save America.

McCain has repeatedly and strongly argued against timelines. He even went so far as to say that those who want a timeline for withdrawal from Iraq want to wave the white flag of "surrender," or that setting a timeline would mean the terrorists will win.5

McCain thinks Americans won't mind a long-term occupation of Iraq. McCain famously and repeatedly said that he doesn't think Americans mind if we occupy Iraq for decadesmaybe even 100 years.6

This is just more political pandering from McCain. For the last five years, McCain's strategy has been the same: Promise that "victory" is around the corner and advocate to keep our troops in Iraq for a while longer. He has no proposal for how to bring our troops home, he only has plans to occupy Iraq.7

Americans want out of Iraq. The recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll is clear: 60% of the country wants a timeline to bring our troops home. Voters have to understand that McCain won't deliver that. It's important to cut past his spin and examine his record: He wants us to stay in Iraq indefinitelyagainst the will of the Iraqi government and the American people.

So, just what did  you spend YOUR economic stimulus check on?

The Bush Economic Miracle...

it just keeps getting worse, and worse, and worse.

Who will save us? Who will lift us up from crushing credit-card debt and resetting mortgage payments and impending foreclosure, from increasing gas prices and decreasing health-insurance coverage? We are a nation stumbling through our worst financial crisis in a generation and our worst housing market in a lifetime. And so we come, seeking gentle salvation, inspiring prayers, steadying words, soothing notions, and calming thoughts that will allow us to become, in Joel Osteen's words, "victors, not victims."

The radical right would have us to believe that it is somehow a good thing that the rest of the world hates our guts... go figure.

WITH U GOBama

A few hours ago John McCain, the same man who just months ago promised to run a "respectful campaign," said he is "proud" of his latest attack ad.

That's the one attacking your enthusiasm, comparing me to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, and making false claims about my energy plan.

Now, we're facing some serious challenges in this country -- our economy is struggling, energy costs are skyrocketing, and families don't have health care.

Given the seriousness of these issues, you'd think we'd be having a serious debate. But instead, John McCain is running an expensive, negative campaign against us. Each day brings a desperate new set of attacks.

And they're not just attacking me. They're attacking you.

They're mocking the desire of millions of Americans to step up and take ownership of the political process.

They're trying to convince you that your enthusiasm won't amount to anything -- that the people you persuade, the phone calls you make, the donations you give, the doors you knock on are all an illusion. They believe that in this election the same old smears and negative attacks will prevail again.

They're wrong.

GM Posts Third Largest Quarterly Loss in Its History

GM posted a huge loss as North American sales dropped by 20% and plunging prices for SUVs prompted deep charges for its auto finance business.

BMW Warns on '08 Profit

Nissan Posts Worse-than-Expected Earnings

Big Job Losses Could Rattle Markets

The constitution use to be  by the people and for the people    now it fk the people

broken stock market

broken auto industry

broken real estate market

broken iraq war

broken job market

broken bank industry

broken credit industry

broken sub prime

business is bad all over except for oil and fro

broken republican party with all the wrong and bad ideas

GOBama

florida and mich follow wow

With rigorous government oversight, coupled with a windfall tax on Big Oil's profits to subsidize alternate fuel sources, we, here, at ShockedandAwful.com do not oppose this position of the Senator.

We believe that opening up new territories for Big Oil to exploit will NOT bring down oil prices, but constitute a government hand-out to the highest profit-making venture in human history.

Taxing these bastards' profits, however, and steering that money to alternate energy resources, will quicken the day that we can say "*** You" to the entire  petro-chemical cartel.

Just so he could steal another nation's national oil resources, George Bush and his faithful followers condemned 4000+ American soldiers, sailors, and airmen, to a horrible death, tens of thousands of Iraqis to suffer the same fate, and ignored the villains who actually perpetrated the 9-11 attacks.

They whole dirty, lot of today's Republican scum will rot in Hell.

GOP convention attracting array of demonstrators

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A 73-year-old retired surgeon marching in silence with a tombstone picturing a soldier killed in Iraq. A philosophy professor calling for a new investigation into the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. A long-haul trucker from Texas protesting the price of oil.

Those are just a few of the images that demonstrators hope will capture the attention of delegates, journalists and others attending the Republican National Convention. Tens of thousands _ from anarchists and immigrants to advocates for the poor _ plan to use the streets outside the Xcel Center as a national podium, transforming downtown St. Paul into a marketplace of ideas.

"There are some groups that are going to be here just because this is a big stage," said Chuck Samuelson, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota. "But I think the majority of groups are here because they really want to demonstrate to the delegates that they want to see some sort of changes in the party platform."

Protesters and police expect the opening day of next month's four-day convention to be the biggest _ with a huge anti-war march.

"The Bush agenda has really angered all different groups," said Meredith Aby, a member of the Coalition to March on the RNC and Stop the War.

President Bush, whose approval rating was just 28 percent in a recent Associated Press-Ipsos poll, is scheduled to speak that night.

The war probably will generate a bigger turnout of demonstrators for the Republicans than the Democrats, who open their convention Aug. 25 in Denver, said Paula O'Loughlin, an associate professor of political science a

wow and they got a tax break

both candidates will continue destroying this country.  mccain is admittedly clueless on the economy.  mccain is absolutely wrong on the war on terror.  they hate us because we've been over there occupying their holy lands.  understanding your enemy is WAR101.  mccain was wrong on bush tax cuts, mccain-kennedy, mccain-feingold.  i don't care what he SAYS he supports now that he is runnning for president.  i look at the man's record.  he is more liberal than bush.  

obama is a socialist that would be perfect for some lowly european country.  he would certainly raise taxes.  when you raise taxes on the rich, you are in effect cutting middle class and lower class jobs.  this is the last thing this country needs.  again, i look at the man's voting record.  he has the same vote as mccain on the iraq war every time he has voted.  he has voted to continue the war every single time.  the man talks change, but won't say what changes he will bring.  the man is all talk and no substance.  

ron paul was the best hope this country has seen definately in my lifetime.  he would have worked to get rid of IRS, federal reserve, closed most of our emperial miltary bases that cost us over 1 trillion dollars a year to maintain.  he would have CERTAINLY balanced the budget and worked on our national debt.  this year we will spend over 500 BILLION dollars on the interest on our national debt.  that is half a trillion dollars.  you could finance 3 years of the iraq war with that kind of money and this is just the INTEREST on our national debt.  the INTEREST is the 4th highest expenditure in our budget.  only behind social security, medicare/medicaid, and defense.  

ron paul wouldn't have elminated programs so much as ENTIRE DEPARTMENTS such as dept of education, labor, energy, homeland security.

department of education spends 10k per child in the public school system. compare this to the average private school k-12 tuition of only $7500.  send education back to the states where it has a better chance of accountability.  

department of homeland security is a monster of a department.  we were spending 40 billion in intelligence prior to 9/11.  we had 14 warnings from other countries in the summer prior to 9/11.  the august 6, 2001 PDB(presidential daily briefing), entitled "bin laden determined to strike inside US".  inside this PDB it stated, bin laden planned to hijack aircraft and fly into buildings and government landmarks.  

we had plenty of intelligence gathering before 9/11 to stop it.  they chose not to for whatever reason.  bureaucracy was the problem then and we simply made it worse with this monster of an intelligence bureaucracy.  until they secure our borders, i will never believe this government is serious about securing this country.   this is why the war on terror is as bogus as the war on drugs.

U CANT WIN !

Bush and his Iraq War and Failed Economic Policies are destroying the US Economy and US dollar. Remember a vote for old John is a vote more of the same.

bush "crisis in confidance"       Admit it....IT IS!

So many things have gone south under Bush and his corporate favoring team such as cost of gas, food, health care, education, utilities, Katrina, Iraq, immigration, budget..and his poll numbers have been so low for so long...you are finally forced to admit that we are in the midst of a classic "criss in confidence." with him and his leadership abilities.

On the street the feeling is now that things have gotten so much worse than when he took over that everyone can't wait to move past this dark cloud era.

It's like a coaching team inherited an undefeated team and immediately the team sets records in losing. You get the feeling this right wing rich man's team could manage a hot dog stand.

Warren Buffett will participate in a live Omaha "town hall" event to be seen in hundreds of movie theaters across the nation, following the screening of a documentary movie that argues the U.S. is going broke.

Its backers, notably Pete Peterson's foundation, hope the film I.O.U.S.A. (tag line: "One Nation.  Under Stress.  In Debt.") will focus public opinion on America's federal budget deficits and national debt the way Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth energized the "green" movement.

Buffett also appears as a "talking head" in the film itself.

According to a news release about the live event, I.O.U.S.A "presents a vivid, alarming profile of America's current financial status" by telling "the story of America's four key deficits - budget, savings, balance of payments and leadership."  It also promises to offer "suggestions for how best to recreate a fiscally sound nation for future generations."

The film, directed by Patrick Creadon, was shown at the Sundance Film Festival this year.  It opens Friday, August 22 in 10 big cities around the country.  The night before, it will be shown in several hundred theaters, followed immediately by an HD telecast of a panel discussion featuring Buffett and including Peterson; the CEO of his foundation and former U.S. Comptroller General, Dave Walker; CATO's William Niskanen; and the AARP's Bill Novelli.

While Buffett is the headliner of the after-film event and appears in the movie itself, he has complained much more vocally about the U.S. current account deficit than its budget deficits.  He blames the continued weakness in the U.S. dollar on the "force-feeding" of $2 billion a day to the rest of

A new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein.

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Suskind writes in The Way of the World, to be published Tuesday, that the alleged forgery  adamantly denied by the White House  was designed to portray a false link between Husseins regime and al Qaeda as a justification for the Iraq war.

The author also claims that the Bush administration had information from a top Iraqi intelligence official that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq  intelligence they received in plenty of time to stop an invasion.

The letters existence has been reported before, and it had been written about as if it were genuine. It was passed in Baghdad to a reporter for The (London) Sunday Telegraph who wrote about it on the front page of Dec. 14, 2003, under the headline, Terrorist behind September 11 strike was trained by Saddam.

The Telegraph story by Con Coughlin (which, coincidentally, ran the day Hussein was captured in his spider hole) was touted in the U.S. media by supporters of the war, and he was interviewed on NBC's "Meet the Press."

"Over the next few days, the Habbush letter continued to be featured prominently in the United States and across the globe," Suskind writes. "Fox's Bill O'Reilly trumpeted the story Sunday night on 'The O'Reilly Factor,' talking breathlessly about details of the story and exhorting, 'Now, if this is true, that blows the lid off al QaedaSaddam.'"

According to Suskind, the administration had been in contact with the director of the Iraqi intelligence service in the last years of Husseins regime, Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti.

The White House had concocted a fake letter from Habbush to Saddam, backdated to July 1, 2001, Suskind writes. It said that 9/11 ringleader Mohammad Atta had actually trained for his mission in Iraq  thus showing, finally, that there was an operational link between Saddam and al Qaeda, something the Vice Presidents Office had been pressing CIA to prove since 9/11 as a justification to invade Iraq. There is no link.

The White House flatly denied Suskinds account. Tony Fratto, deputy White House press secretary, told Politico: The allegation that the White House directed anyone to forge a document from Habbush to Saddam is just absurd.

The White House plans to push back hard. Fratto added: "Ron Suskind makes a living from gutter journalism. He is about selling books and making wild allegations that no one can verify, including the numerous bipartisan commissions that have reported on pre-war intelligence."

Before The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism, Suskind wrote two New York Times bestsellers critical of the Bush administration  The Price of Loyalty (2004), which featured extensive comments by former Treasury Secretary Paul ONeill, and The One Percent Doctrine (2006).

Suskind writes in his new book that the order to create the letter was written on creamy White House stationery. The book suggests that the letter was subsequently created by the CIA and delivered to Iraq, but does not say how.

The author claims that such an operation, part of false pretenses for war, would apparently constitute illegal White House use of the CIA to influence a domestic audience, an arguably impeachable offense.

Suskind writes that the White House had ignored the Iraq intelligence chiefs accurate disclosure that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq  intelligence they received in plenty of time to stop an invasion.

They secretly resettled him in Jordan, paid him $5 million  which one could argue was hush money  and then used his captive status to help deceive the world about one of the eras most crushing truths: that America had gone to war under false pretenses, the book says.

Suskind writes that the forgery operation created by the White House and passed to the CIA seems inconsistent with a statute saying the CIA may not conduct covert operations intended to influence United States political processes, public opinion, policies or media.

It is not the sort of offense, such as assault or burglary, that carries specific penalties, for example, a fine or jail time, Suskind writes. It is much broader than that. It pertains to the White Houses knowingly misusing an arm of government, the sort of thing generally taken up in impeachment proceedings.

Habbush is still listed as wanted on a State Department website designed to help combat international terrorism, with the notation: Up to $1 Million Reward.

Suskind is scheduled to discuss the books findings  and his assertion that the country has diminished moral authority -- in a pair of interviews by NBCs Meredith Vieira on the Today show at 7:10 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday and Wednesday.

y placing so much on its secret ledger, Suskind writes in his final chapter, the administration profoundly altered basic democratic ideals of accountability and informed consent.

The book (HarperCollins, $27.95) was not supposed to be publicly available until Tuesday, but Politico purchased a copy Monday night at a Washington bookstore.

Suskind, an engaging and confident Washingtonian, writes that the book was one tough project. He won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where he worked from 1993 to 2000.

The White House said Suskind received no formal cooperation. He writes in the acknowledgments section at the end of the book: It should be noted that the intelligence sources who are quoted in this book in no way disclosed any classified information. None crossed the line.

Among the 415-page books other highlights:

--John Maguire, one of two men who oversaw the CIAs Iraq Operations Group, was frustrated by what Suskind describes as the tendency of the White House to ignore advice it didnt want to hear  advice that contradicted its willed certainty, political judgments, or rigid message strategies.

And Suskind writes that the administration did not want to hear the word insurgency.

--In the first days of his presidency, Bush rejected advice from the CIA to wiretap Russian President Vladimir Putin in February 2001 in Vienna, where he was staying in a hotel where the CIA had a listening device planted in the wall of the presidential suite, in need only of a battery change. The CIA said that if the surveillance were discovered, Putins respect for Bush would be heightened.

But Condoleezza Rice, Bushs national security adviser, advised that it was too risky, it might be discovered, Suskind writes. Bush decided against if as a gut decision based on what he thought was a friendship based on several conversations, including during the presidential campaign. The CIA had warned him that Putin was a trained KGB agent  [who] wants you to think hes your friend.

--Suskind reports that Bush initially told Cheney he had to "step back in large meetings when they were together, like those at the NSC [National Security Council], because people were addressing and deferring to Cheney. Cheney said he understood, that hed mostly just take notes at the big tables and then he and Bush would meet privately, frequently, to discuss options and action.

--Suskind contends Cheney established deniability for Bush as part of the vice presidents complex strategies, developed over decades, for how to protect a president.

After the searing experience of being in the Nixon White House, Cheney developed a view that the failure of Watergate was not the break-in, or even the cover-up, but the way the president had, in essence, been over-briefed. There were certain things a president shouldnt know  things that could be illegal, disruptive to key foreign relationships, or humiliating to the executive.

They key was a signaling system, where the president made his wishes broadly known to a sufficiently powerful deputy who could take it from there. If an investigation ensued, or a foreign leader cried foul, the president could shrug. This was never something he'd authorized. The whole point of Cheneys model is to make a president less accountable for his action. Cheneys view is that accountability  a bedrock feature of representative democracy  is not, in every case, a virtue.

--Suskind is acidly derisive of Bush, saying that he initially lost his nerve on 9/11, regaining it when he grabbed the Ground Zero bullhorn. Suskind says Bushs 9 p.m. Oval Office address on the fifth anniversary was well along in petulance, seasoned by a touch of self-defensiveness.

Moving on its own natural arc, the country is in the process of leaving Bush  his bullying impulse fused, permanently, with satisfying vengeance  in the scattering ashes of 9/11, Suskind writes. The high purpose his angry words carried after the attacks, and in two elections since, is dissolving with each passing minute.

--Suskind writes in the acknowledgments that his research assistant, Greg Jackson, was sent to New York on a project for the book in September 2007 and was detained by federal agents in Manhattan. He was interrogated and his notes were confiscated, violations of his First and Fourth Amendment rights. The author provides no further detail.

Did you hear that Dick Cheney was snubbed by the Republicans and not invited to speak at the Republican Convention?

I guess their Oil-Man-in-Chief wasn't invited to celebrate the Republicans' dismal record on record high gas prices, and the failing economy in front of an audience of tens of thousands. Snubbing Dick Cheney won't change a thing. They can try to hide from their record, but they won't be able to run from it.

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We are ambitiously going into deep-red territory, competing on turf we never thought possible only a few years ago. Our three special election victories earlier this year in Illinois, Louisiana and Mississippi, while worth every penny, cost more than $5 million. And some of the top races in November will be in some of the most expensive media markets in the country.

Across the nation, we can remove the Republican roadblocks in Congress, who next year will take pleasure in road blocking Barack Obama and our agenda to turn the page on eight years of failed Bush policies. We call these opportunities the Red-to-Blue Program and today the DCCC just announced its unprecedented 45th candidate. These are impressive Democrats, campaigning hard and making districts in Republican territory competitive. Red to Blue's success will mean defeat for the Republicans in Congress who rubberstamped George Bush's policies for eight long years.

When Barack Obama steps into the White House, we can't afford to have these Republicans still in Congress blocking a new page in America with partisan politics.

Under the guise of clarifying existing laws, the Bush Administration has drafted regulations that redefine abortion to include commonly used, FDA-approved methods of contraception, such as birth control pills and IUDs.

This radical redefinition of abortion is at odds with science and the government's own definition -- that pregnancy begins with the implantation of a fertilized egg. Tell the Department of Health and Human Services to abandon these dangerous regulations now

The draft regulations are also intended to trump existing state laws that protect women's access to reproductive health care. In fact, these draft regulations threaten all women's access to contraception, and limit health care providers from providing information and services to low-income women.

This is a shameful political ploy in the final days of this administration. Join me in speaking out today, and let the Bush Administration know that birth control pills are not abortion

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP) -- A 73-year-old retired surgeon marching in silence with a tombstone picturing a soldier killed in Iraq. A philosophy professor calling for a new investigation into the September 11 terrorist attacks. A long-haul trucker from Texas protesting the price of oil.

Those are just a few of the images that demonstrators hope will capture the attention of delegates, journalists and others attending the Republican National Convention. Tens of thousands -- from anarchists and immigrants to advocates for the poor -- plan to use the streets outside the Xcel Center as a national podium, transforming downtown St. Paul into a marketplace of ideas.

"There are some groups that are going to be here just because this is a big stage," said Chuck Samuelson, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota. "But I think the majority of groups are here because they really want to demonstrate to the delegates that they want to see some sort of changes in the party platform."

Protesters and police expect the opening day of the four-day convention, September 1-4, to be the biggest -- with a huge anti-war march from the state Capitol to the Xcel Center and back. Groups representing labor, immigrants, gays and lesbians, solidarity with Palestine, and many other causes have signed on.

"The Bush agenda has really angered all different groups," said Meredith Aby, a member of the Coalition to March on the RNC and Stop the War. "These groups have said, 'We can't survive four more years of this."'

Sen. Joseph Lieberman termed Iran's training of Iraqi insurgents "an act of war" in a Florida appearance Wednesday evening on behalf of Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign.

The independent Democrat from Connecticut spoke at length about the threats facing both the state of Israel and the United States during a town hall meeting at the Palm Beach Synagogue in South Florida, describing McCain as ready to face global dangers as commander-in-chief from his first day in office.

Lieberman said that by loosing its elite Kuds revolutionary force to train extremists to fight in Iraq, the Iranian regime has "been responsible for the murder of hundreds of American soldiers in Iraq." "This is really an act of war," Lieberman added, "A proxy act of war."

Citing the threat of terrorism and Iran's nuclear ambitions, Lieberman praised McCain's experience, saying it had given him "good judgment in war and in peace." Lieberman said McCain is an "idealistic realist" who understands that when confronting al-Qaida and Iran's extremist leaders, "You can not sweet talk them into being reasonable, you can't give them a warm embrace and think they're suddenly going to become our friends."

In an obvious reference to Sen. Barack Obama's plan to negotiate readily with foreign despots, Lieberman said McCain would "never be so confused as to think you can sit down with our enemies without preconditions, unless it will really benefit ourselves." He added that Americans must understand that Iran is the No. 1 challenge to American foreign policy.

In reference to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Lieberman said, "History should have taught us that when we hear a leader of a state make statements so extreme as to seem almost unbelievable, we should take that seriously." Ahmadinejad, he said, regularly leads the Iranian masses in chants of "Death to America."

"We've got to take that seriously," Lieberman said, "because he means it seriously." Early in his remarks, Lieberman drew applause after he announced that former Israeli cabinet minister Natan Sharansky had endorsed McCain.

Asked later if he agreed with Sharansky that an Obama presidency was "a risk" to Israel, Lieberman told Newsmax: "I guess I'd say it affirmatively: A McCain presidency will be good for the state of Israel."

Cry Me, Cry Me, Cry Me, Ooo, Cry Me A River!

NAJAF, Iraq (AFP)  Radical Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr has ordered his Mahdi Army militia to lay down its arms if a security pact between Baghdad and Washington provides for a withdrawal from Iraq, his spokesman said on Friday.

"We want to see whether the provisions of the agreement are serious. We will be satisfied if the agreement contains the withdrawal of US forces," Salah al-Obeidi, chief spokesman for the Sadr movement, told AFP.

"If so, we will complete the reorganisation of the Mahdi Army which aims to transform it into a social organisation," he said in the Shiite stronghold of Najaf, about 160 kilometres (99 miles) south of Baghdad.

But he also warned that if the withdrawal terms were not written into the agreement then Sadr's forces would remain armed.

"We will be forced to await the decision of withdrawal of American forces."

(San Francisco)-- A year to the date exactly after formally announcing her intention to challenge Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi for her seat in California's 8th district, Cindy Sheehan is officially on the ballot as a "Decline to State" candidate.

In order to qualify as a "Decline to State" candidate Sheehan was required to submit 10,198 signatures from registered voters in the district by August 8th, 2008; Sheehan's campaign collected close to double the amount of signatures needed and qualified before the deadline.

"Getting on the ballot is just the first victory for our campaign," says Sheehan.

"I am even more convinced now than I was a year ago that the people of San Francisco are ready to lead the way to step outside of the dated two-party system and elect someone who truly represents San Francisco values, not party loyalties and criminal activities."

"In a recent interview Nancy Pelosi admitted she couldn't even name a crime that the Bush administration has committed, by the end of this campaign she'll be well versed in all of them, even the ones she's complicit in."

American Conservative: Forgery charge is accurate, BUT - It was Douglas Feiths office, not the CIA, that forged the Habbush letter

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This is nothing less than pure, unadulterated treason, if true... the entire Bush administration needs to face trial for their many, many, crimes.

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This is nothing less than pure, unadulterated treason, if true... the entire Bush administration needs to face trial for their many, many, crimes.

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Democrats adopt goal of health care guarantee

By CALVIN WOODWARD  3 days ago

PITTSBURGH (AP)  Democrats shaped a set of principles Saturday that commits the party to guaranteed health care for all, heading off a potentially divisive debate and edging the party closer to the position of Barack Obama's defeated rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Obama, soon to be the Democratic nominee, has stopped short of proposing to mandate health coverage for all. He aims to achieve something close to universal coverage by making insurance more affordable and helping struggling families pay for it.

Advisers to Obama and Clinton both told the party's platform meeting they were happy with the compromise, adopted without opposition or without explanation as to how health care would be guaranteed.

In return for the guarantee, activists dropped a tougher platform amendment seeking a government-run, single-payer system and another amendment explicitly holding out Clinton's plan as the one to follow.

The party now declares itself "united behind a commitment that every American man, woman and child be guaranteed to have affordable, comprehensive health care."

Under any system in play, most people would still put out money for health insurance as they do now, but they would get help when needed.

That was a common feature of the plans put forward by Obama and Clinton in the primaries. But she would have required everyone to get insurance while his plan makes it mandatory only for children.

Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean praised "the spirit of this compromise." Judith McHale, a Clinton supporter who helped to lead the platform meeting, said Obama and Clinton advisers worked collegially throughout the process.

For the 186-member platform committee, one imperative Saturday was to satisfy Clinton loyalists still sore from the often acrimonious primary fight while keeping policy firmly in synch with Obama's campaign.

There was little dissent, or room for it.

Democrats made mostly cosmetic changes to a platform draft prepared for the meeting, a process designed to showcase unity more than to air differences in the party at large on hot-button issues such as the Iraq war, abortion and health care.

Party platforms are a statement of principles that are not binding on the candidates or the next president and they are typically given little attention after they are adopted.

Even so, the party's decision to embrace guaranteed health care is bound to become a leading yardstick by which Obama's presidency will be measured if he wins in November.

The platform was to be approved by the committee later Saturday, then submitted to the national convention in Denver later this month.

On Iraq, the platform states that Democrats "expect to complete redeployment within 16 months," reflecting Obama's time frame but not the tone of certainty he brought to it when he was running in the primaries.

The 51-page platform draft showed the influence of Clinton's supporters not only in the extensive section on health care but in its assertions about the treatment of women. Some of her backers believed sexism dogged her campaign for the nomination.

An extensive section on women's rights is included and the votes she received in the primaries are described as "18 million cracks in the highest glass ceiling."

Even so, the platform is thoroughly tuned to Obama's proposals.

It reasserts his promise of energy rebates to struggling families, pension subsidies, a crackdown on predatory lenders, higher taxes for families earning over $250,000, tax breaks for others, billions for economic stimulus and "direct high-level diplomacy, without preconditions," in the case of Iran.

On trade, it promises a multilateral approach to improving the North American Free Trade Agreement, without saying specifically what those changes should be. Obama criticized NAFTA when campaigning in states that felt disadvantaged by it, but the platform offers no suggestion he would take unilateral action against the deal.

Instead, it says: "We will work with Canada and Mexico to amend the North American Free Trade Agreement so that it works better for all three North American countries."

Democrats typically have a strong plank in favor of abortion rights; this year's version is stronger than usual. "The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right," it says.

Gone is the phrase from the past that abortions should be safe, legal and "rare."

The party also pledges to ensure access to adoption programs, prenatal and postnatal care and income support programs for expectant mothers who need the help.

The party also:

_Promises "tough, practical, and humane immigration reform in the first year of the next administration."

_Favors restoration of the ban on assault-type weapons and other "reasonable regulation" that recognizes the constitutional right to own and use firearms.

_Favors helping religious groups provide social services as long as "public funds are not used to proselytize or discriminate."

_Promises to close the Guantanamo detention center.

_Promises to double the Peace Corps.

Here is my theory on what to do in politics if your opponent is sinking: throw him an anvil.

That's just what we're doing right now to the Grand Oil Party by exposing all their sleazy ties to those Big Oil companies lining their pockets and sticking it to average folks at the gas pump. How would you like to help?

The Republicans are so desperate to hide their ties to Big Oil that they enlisted none other than the shadowy Karl Rove-backed Freedom's Watch to try and change the subject and promote John McCain's 100 Year Plan in Iraq. Right now, Freedom's Watch is spending millions on attack ads of the worst kind against any Democrat who dares to oppose their Big Oil agenda.

It's up to us to decide whether they get away with this trash.

My friends at the DCCC have launched an all out campaign including radio ads that started running on Friday to defeat these Republicans and their oil soaked campaign coffers. These Republicans have accepted millions and protected oil profits in the billions while we're left with nothing but empty wallets at the gas station.

Help spread the word far and wide about the GOP's big ties to Big Oil - check out the DCCC's latest radio ads.

Even worse, The Washington Post reported that Republican Leader John Boehner has spent the last week doing a series of golf outings while a small band of House Republicans remain in Washington to call for "drill only" legislation that does nothing to bring immediate relief to Americans paying high gas prices.

Changing the subject with their Karl Rove campaign of distraction is what Republicans do best. The only way we're gonna win this fight is by getting the word out, which is just what the DCCC is doing.

They're going up on the radio with response ads and doing whatever it takes to make sure everyone knows how hard Republicans are working to protect those same Big Oil companies who earned a whopping $44 billion in profit last quarter alone.

Help spread the word far and wide about the GOP's big ties to Big Oil - check out the DCCC's latest radio ads.

The last thing those Big Oil Republicans want is for word to leak out about how much money they're taking from those oil companies who are profiting off the pain of America's families. So let's tell everyone all about it.

Defaults on consumer debt -- mortgages, credit cards, home equity loans -- have dominated the news and sent markets reeling in recent months. Now the next wave of defaults looms. And it's a growing roster of corporations that figure to be the deadbeats.

U.S. corporate bond defaults are already on the rise. Moody's on Aug. 7 reported a sharp rise in July defaults and now expects the global default rate to climb over 6% over the next year. That's up from less than 1% in late 2007.

Standard & Poor's predicts that 4.9% of all speculative grade borrowers will default over the next 12 months. And there is a chance -- estimated at 20% -- that things could get much worse, with over 8% defaulting. Default, of course, sets the stage for bankruptcy court. "Default typically precedes Chapter 11," said Diane Vazza, head of global fixed income at Standard & Poor's.

Like a storm felling the weakest trees, a new wave of defaults would level the most debt-laden firms. It would mean new losses for many of the private equity deal makers, banks and investors who financed recent debt-heavy leveraged buyouts.

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Paulson says won't stay at Treasury past January

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The Bush Economic Miracle presses ever onward...

Here they come, folks...our flagwaving GOP Christian soldiers, back from spending their requisite 1.49 hours per week pretending to worship the teachings of long-haired antiwar liberal Jesus Christ, who said Thou Shalt Not Lie, Steal or Kill...things Republicans do every day.

Yes, our pious and righteous Hannity Heroes have begged forgiveness for their many sins, grudgingly ponied up their 10% tithes, and received absolution. Now, after stuffing their faces at Crackerbarrel and Denny's, they'll go back to their normal daily routines of posting rightwing hate and lies on internet message boards, pounding the table for war while refusing to enlist, and getting some wholesome Gay Old Party family values 'counseling' from Jeff Gannon, Ted Haggard, Mark Foley and toe-tapping Larry Craig.

Osama Bin Laden still not caught!       Atta boy, Bush, Osama is forever greatful

Bush's so-called "indispensable" ally in his Bull-shit "War on Terror" has now been dispensed with.

If America takes this dirt-bag in, we can add harboring a fugitive criminal to the growing list of War Crimes that we can eventually bring up against George Bush...

Let's give California back to Mexico

Just One State

This is only one State...............If this doesn't open your eyes nothing will !

From the L. A. Times

1. 40% of all workers in L. A. County ( L. A. County has 10.2 million people)are working for cash and not paying taxes. This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants working without a green card.

2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.

3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.

4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal , whose births were paid for by taxpayers.

5. Nearly 35% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally

6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.

7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.

8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.

9. 21 radio stations in L. A. Are Spanish speaking.

10. In L. A. County 5.1 million people speak English, 3..9 million speak Spanish.

(There are 10.2 million people in L. A. County. )

(All 10 of the above are from the Los Angeles Times)

Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops, but 29% are on welfare. Over 70% of the United States' annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida , and New York) results from immigration.  29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.

We are a bunch of fools for letting this continue

HOW CAN YOU HELP ?

Send copies of this letter to at least two other people.  100 would be even better.

This is only one State...............

If this doesn't open your eyes nothing will ! And you wonder why Nancy Pelosi wants them to become voters!

they are done!

Rep. Dennis Kucinich, erstwhile presidential candidate and strident opponent of the Bush administration, gave the most spirited speech of the session Tuesday condemning the war, the economy and the Republicans

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Short in stature, the Ohio congressman leaped up onto his tip toes time and again, thrusting his arms out and up, getting the crowd to roar so loudly he had to yell into the microphone to be heard.

It will become known as the �Wake Up, America� speech.

�Fellow Democrats, are you ready for November?� he asked.

�It�s election day 2008 and we Democrats are giving America a wake up call. Wake up, America!�

In 2001, the oil companies and the war contractors seized the country and added four trillion dollars to the national debt.

�Millions of Americans have lost their jobs; trillions of dollars for an unwarranted war paid for with borrowed money; tens of millions of dollars in cash and weapons disappeared into thin air at the cost of the lives of our troops and innocent Iraqis.�

Meanwhile, with the U.S. helping to rebuild infrastructure in Iraq and Afghanistan, �there is no money to rebuild bridges in America.�

Then he launched into a �Wake Up� litany:

�The insurance companies took over health care. Wake up, America!

�The pharmaceutical companies took over drug prices. Wake up, America�

�The speculators took over Wall Street. Wake up, America!�

With each refrain, the delegates grew more frenzied.

�We went into Iraq for oil, and now they want to drill more� into your wallet. Wake up America.

�This administration can tap our phones but they can�t tap our creative spirit. They can open our mail but they can�t open economic opportunities. They can track our every move but they lost track of the economy.

He played on the terror alert level �color chart.�

�Every day we get the color orange while the oil companies, the insurance companies, the speculators, the war contractors get the color green. Wake up, America.

�This is not a call for you to take a new direction from right to left; this is a call for you to go from down to up.

�Up with peace!� Kucinich yelled to approving roars. �Up with prosperity! Up with education! Up with Democrats!

The delegates continued to cheer through the first part of the next speaker�s remarks.

"Regrettable," but not unavoidable, Condi.  When Bush made it clear to the world that invading other countries was an acceptable way for nations to behave, well... we can all see the results.

Furthermore, what most folks don't realize is that, back during the George H. W. Bush Sr. Administration, Pappy Bush made an agreement with Mikhail Gorbachev, that, if the Soviet Union were to withdraw troops from any former East Bloc nation, the US wouldn't try and enlist those former Warsaw Pact nations to join NATO.

Junior, of course, broke that agreement, by trying to get both Poland and Georgia to join NATO.

George W. poked, "The Bear" - and ONLY George's brain-washed supporters are wondering why on earth the bear growled back

off 2 the gop   big oil party. *** THEM ALL!

Your  comments my friend are  foolish, and all THINKING Americans have already given up on the Republicans' Grand Old Party, which isn't any longer, "Grand."

It's just, "Old."

If you'd like me to embarrass you some more, please visit my website, www.shockedandawful.com, and drop me a few comments.  I'll be sure to publish your IP addresses if you do, however, because I believe that America's Neo-Fascists need to exposed to the light of day, or driven back into the shadows.  So I certainly will NOT promise to keep your identities private, nor confidential:  you will have to answer for your hate.

Obama/Biden '08

Peace.

WE ARE ON THE MOVE

Somethiing never seen in Iraq:  .....  a Republican

Republicans say they want four more years." Many of them should get 10 to 20."

-Dennis Kucinich

just for spartan

Odds for RAZOR at the RNC

(-1000) RAZOR is on TV

(-150) RAZORis getting arrested while on TV

(Even ) RAZOR takes over the TV station and then gets arrested

(+200) McCain and RAZOR brawl

(-200) RAZOR hits on Palin

(+450 )RAZOR drinks too much and passes out and misses the entire Convention

(-333) RAZOR gets on stage at the Convention

(+9999) RAZOR becomes a Republican at the convention

(-9999) RAZOR posts something anti-republican in the next 10 minutes

there will be 50,000, GOT 2 LOVE IT

Where's your Mission Accomplished banner, GOP?

China, Iraq reach $3 bln oil service deal

Thursday August 28, 2008

By Elaine Kurtenbach, AP Business Writer

China, Iraq reach $3 bln revised deal for CNPC to develop Ahdab oil field

SHANGHAI, China (AP) -- China and Iraq have signed a $3 billion deal revising an earlier agreement for China's biggest oil company to help develop the Ahdab oil field, an official at the Iraq's Oil Ministry said Thursday.

The deal, restoring a project canceled after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, was signed late Wednesday by Chinese officials and Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani.

"The initial agreement has been signed, and we are waiting to see the approval of both governments," said Sarhad Fatah, a spokesman at the Iraqi Embassy in Beijing.

Fatah would not disclose the value of the deal, but an official at the Oil Ministry in Baghdad confirmed it would be worth $3 billion. He requested anonomity because the agreement hasn't been approved by the cabinet yet.

Major oil companies have been reluctant to commit to deals in Iraq because Baghdad has yet to enact a law to govern the oil industry.

The government of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein signed a deal in 1997 with China's oil company, government-owned China National Petroleum Corp. It was to take effect once U.N. sanctions on Iraq's oil industry were lifted.

That contract, worth $1.2 billion at the time, gave a subsidiary of the Chinese company concessions to develop the field on a production-sharing basis for 22 years.

A CNPC spokesman, Liu Weijiang, said Thursday that he could not provide any information on the new agreement.

If it is approved, the agreement would be the first Saddam-era oil deal to be honored by the new Iraqi government.

A number of companies say they signed deals with Saddam's regime and demand that those be honored, or the countries involved be given priority on new agreements.

But the Iraqi statement said that some technical services contracts with other big petroleum companies might be postponed.

Iraq's Oil Ministry has consistently denied giving any advantage to companies with which Saddam signed deals, instead insisting that oil and gas fields and exploration blocks will be offered up for bids.

Iraq sits on more than 115 billion barrels of oil, but decades of wars, U.N. sanctions, violence and sabotage have battered its oil industry.

The Ahdab field is located in @#$%e-dominated Wasit province, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad. It has been the scene of sporadic attacks since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

As security improves, Iraq is trying to bring in foreign companies to help increase crude output from the current 2.5 million barrels a day to 3 million barrels a day by the end of 2008, and 4.5 million barrels a day by the end of 2013.

Associated Press researcher Bonnie Cao in Beijing and Sinan Salaheddin in Baghdad contributed to this report.

What a shame, another Repuke gets flushed. Maybe he can share a prison cell and a shower with his buddy Jack Abramoff...

House panel votes to cite Rove for contempt

By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer

2 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - A House panel Wednesday voted to cite former top White House aide Karl Rove for contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena to answer questions about the dismissals of several federal prosecutors as its Senate counterpart explored punishments for an array of alleged Bush administration misdeeds.

Voting 20-14 along party lines, the House Judiciary Committee said that Rove had broken the law by failing to appear at a July 10 hearing on allegations of White House influence over the Justice Department, including whether Rove encouraged prosecutions against Democrats such as former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman.

Things that make you go uummmmmmmmm. What a difference when you have oil men in the White House.

Eight Years Later...

Rescue plan seeks $700B to buy bad mortgages

the republican sign ......the elephant ......the biggest ass on the planet

Here they come, folks...our flagwaving GOP 'Christian' soldiers, back from spending their requisite 1.49 hours per week pretending to worship the teachings of long-haired antiwar liberal Jesus Christ, who said Thou Shalt Not Lie, Steal or Kill...things Republicans do every day.

Yes, our pious and righteous Hannity Heroes have begged forgiveness for their many sins, grudgingly ponied up their 10% tithes, and received absolution. Now, after stuffing their faces at Crackerbarrel and Denny's, they'll go back to their normal daily routines of spreading rightwing hate and lies on internet message boards, pounding the table for war while refusing to enlist, and getting some wholesome Gay Old Party family values "counseling" from Jeff Gannon, Ted Haggard, Mark Foley, and toe-tapping Larry Craig.

Enjoy hell, Republicans.

That's why Republicans focus their voter recruitment efforts on Nascar races, mega-churches, home-schooling conferences, pro-wrestling events, and monster truck rallies.

Oh, and airport mens' rooms.

tap tap tap tap tap tap

Top Economist Mishkin:  Worse Than the Depression

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go obama

The Larry "wide stance" Craig bathroom a tourist favorite   .   "Tourists flock to Minneapolis airport men's room

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. � When you go to Minneapolis, you might put the Mall of America, the statue of Mary Tyler Moore or maybe even the zoo on your list of things to see.

Now tourists are asking about a new destination in the Twin Cities, says Karen Evans, information specialist at the information counter at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

A common request is, "Excuse me, can you please tell me where the Larry Craig bathroom is?"

Evans was just 15 minutes into her shift Friday afternoon and already had heard the request four times.

"It's become a tourist attraction," Evans said with a smile. "People are taking pictures."

Since news broke Aug. 27 of the arrest of Idaho Sen. Craig in an airport restroom here, the airport has been fielding requests for directions to the men's room in question, which is conveniently located just off the central food court and popular shopping area.

Abdalla Said, who works at a newsstand on the G concourse, said he's been getting requests daily for directions to the infamous bathroom.

"It's by the Lottery shop, right next to the shoeshine shop," he said without blinking. Gee Butler and Royal Zino work at the Royal Zino Shoeshine shop. Zino, the owner's grandson, said the shop has been in the same location for 45 years. Some of the shop's famous clients include James Brown and Muhammed Ali. And Sen. Craig?

Probably not, Zino said, although he thinks he might have been witness to the senator's June 11 arrest. "I might've actually been here. Me and my buddy were watching them doing a sting," he said.

And since the story became public, the restroom has become a photo-op, Butler said.

"People have been going inside, taking pictures of the stall, taking pictures outside the bathroom door � man, it's been crazy," he said.

Directly across the hall from the bathroom is Inmotion Entertainment, a DVD rental kiosk. Kelly, who declined to give her last name at her manager's request, works for Inmotion. "There've been a lot of people coming to see it," she said. "I've been asked several times to take photographs of people in front of the bathroom."

"It's a morbid fascination," said her manager, who declined to give his name.

Jon and Sally Westby of Minneapolis were flying to Guatemala on Friday. "We had to just stop and check out the bathroom," Sally said. "In fact, it's Jon's second time � he was here last week already."

"I checked it out," Jon said. "It's the second stall from the right."  

Chevrolet dealer group closes all 14 dealerships

20 minutes ago

(AP:COLUMBUS, Ga.) One of the leading sellers of Chevrolet vehicles in the country has closed all 14 of its dealerships.

In a statement released Wednesday, Bill Heard Enterprises says the closures will affect about 2,700 employees.

The statement says the company did not have the resources to continue operating. It cites factors including rising fuel prices, an inventory dominated by trucks and SUVs, economic recession, unfavorable market conditions and the current banking and financial crises.

The Columbus, Ga.-based company had five dealerships in Georgia and nine in six other states _ Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Nevada, Tennessee and Texas. The Arizona dealership closed two weeks ago.

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Lehman, Wamu, Indymac= wouldnt even make it on the dollar menu         a cheeseburger on the dollar menu is worth more than those 3, wtf is going on with this country

on financial crisis

Think of what the objectives were for each candidate. McCain, with 26 years in the senate , needed to show that his mastery of foreign affairs was far and away better than Obama's grasp of matters facing the United States on the gloabal stage. At best, McCain allowed Obama to tie him in last nights debate. Tie goes to Obama, since this was Mccain supposed strength.

Now, what was Obama's objective? Obama's objectve, in a debate staged in the deep south, was to show that he had a mastery of the factors pertaining to foreign policy. He did that. He also needed to show millions of undecideds that he was thoughtful, wise, diplomatic, plainspoken, and presidential. He did all that. While McCain made a mistake not looking at Obama, as if to show the white south that Obama, as a black man, had no right to be running for the president, looked unable to communicate with a political rival or adversary in a professinal manner, and was much less presidential in doing so. Obama, on the other hand, debating in the deep south venue, needed to show that he was not an over the top, hate whitey, arrogant, and divisive black man, like say, Jesse Jackson. I don't think that anyone watching that debate could infer that Obama has a anti-white posture, or chip on his shoulder from what they saw on the TV last night. He showed respect for McCain, though McCain did not do the same for the other presidential candidate on the stage. Obama, again, looked presidential, and McCain looked like he was stuck in politics, and racial bigotry of the past, by not acknowledging the other presidential candidate on the stage, who just happens to be black.

And finally, in the quest for the undecided vote, Obama came out on top. How did he do that? By acknowledging to the millions of viewers that the far left liberal Obama, was in agreement with McCain on many issues and points by saying "John is right" Senator McCain is right", time and time again. Foolish rightwingers saw that as a sign of weakness, but it was really a political bit of genius. How Far to the left can Obama really be when he's in agreement with McCain on so many points? Or how far to the right can McCain really be when Obama agrrees with him on so many points ? So for those more in the middle Obama showed himself to be less of a liberal and more of a diplomatic consensus builder, rather than the same old republican bludgeoning scorched earth politician.

Winner. OBAMA.

It is over....sorry  republicans.

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republicans in big trouble

bye bye all republicans

thats bad news if your republican

Republican "guilt by association" shows the desperation!     10 minutes ago     I will give you one.... Bush, Cheney absent from the McCain campaign... whats wrong Republicans... no stomach for "GUILT BY ASSOCIATION"  

The Democratic Party is honorable and does not put out commercials that lie, deceive, distort, manipulate. Join with the Democratic party, to rid America of the dripping puss infestation, that is the Republican party.

WHAT FUCKING PLANET IS HE ON!!!!!!!

THE PERFECT STORM. Compliments of the GOP        For the love of country

get your life preserver

markets drop again

Let's Be Realistic - Tomorrow will be MASSIVE selling       As panic and the realization that we are just in the beginnings of a huge recession or a depression, people will start panic selling and rush out the doors. There will be a few bagholders left, and the door will hit their a$$ along the way out... Others will be trapped inside where they will thirst for hunger and water.

Right now, some Americans are living day to day not even knowing what's going on. Ignorant fools. Others are thinking it won't affect them. Morons. Those idiots will be hit the hardest. Save up, because this is going to be a very long and gloomy winter.

The DOW will see 1,000+ point drop tomorrow. That's about 12%, which is not unrealistic at this stage in our doom.

The world will start another war in order to gain resources. Armageddon is coming my friends.

Look at the world markets falling over 10%.... ouch

some people cant pick a football game or the president either!!

Down!Down!Down!Down!Down!Down!Down!Down!Down!Down!Down! Down!Down!Down!Down!Down!Down!Down!Down!Down!Down!Down! Down!Down!Down!Down!Down!Down!Down!Down!Down!Down!Down! Down!Down!

After 8 years of massive incompetence and corruption from the Bush Administration and the Republicans in Congress, the public has finally had enough. The Obama lead is climbing every day. Don't be surprised if he doesn't win Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada and Florida. All he needs is to maintain the blue Kerry states and just ONE of the six mentioned above and he is our next President. But it doesn't stop there. We democrats will have big increases of our majorities in the House and Senate. Obama in 2008 will be for the Democrats what Regan was in 1980 for Republicans. And its about time!!!

elections not far away!

Expect more American lives to be frivolously wasted in Afghanistan  due to George Bush's criminal incompetence

vote all republicans out ......they are loud mouth clowns ....in vgas cearars closed 2 towers .......looks like 1929.....its the economyy stupid!

DOW up 11% my 401K still looks like Sh1T  .   I dont understand how the DOW can rally over 900 points just because some of the banks are getting a handout by the taxpayers. My 401k still in the negatives

anoither day in paradise

we already seen the republicans in action

NOW IS THE TIME FOR CHANGE < A REAL BIG CHANGE .....vote out all the nazais

ANOTHER GOP MARKET DAY     TOO BAD WE HAVE TO PUT UP WITH McCain,another couple weeks,and Bush 3 more months of gloom and doom,too many GOP insiders making money off your misery,this board alone  

RNC out of Wisconsin, Maine; focuses on red states

not a chance chuckie ,,....bye bye all republicans

go obama

and the whole republican party

Joe the plumber-hockey mom-joe 6 pack         measuring for curtains-lipstick on a pig-stay the course-fight them there-im the decider-we stand down as they stand up-were making progress- I can see Russia from my backyard-flip flopper- you know where I stand-the surge-yellow cake etc....

What as a country have we become? Stupid has become the norm  

just love the action ...gl spartan but i got 2 fade afterall u cant even pick who the next president will be.........TOLD UALL A CHANGE IS COMMING ....RAZOR!