LL: A Veto Response 'Plan With A Spine!®'

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Thursday March 29, 2007 · 8:59 AM PDT

2007/03/29 · 08:59

Well, the Dems in the House and Senate struggled mightily to pass a nearly toothless emergency spending supplemental. It seems like just yesterday that the Dem base heard those plaintive cries of "It Is The Best That We Could Do®".

And now, that big bad pretzel-bender in the White House has threatened a veto. The Reicht Wingnut media have sternly declared that the Democratic Party will be divided over this and quickly give the Bushiter his blood money without strings.

Oh, what to do. What to do. What to do, if the Bushiter vetoes the bill?

Well, how about the Dems get SMART and TOUGH? I saw that 'spine' floating amongst the banners at that last 'Out of Iraq' demonstration in DC.

Perhaps a 'Plan With A Spine!®' is in order now. And announcing a 'Plan With A Spine!®' might just make the Bushiter sign the bill and shut the hell up.

Follow me over the jump for just such a 'Plan with a Spine!®'

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What Do You Think?

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What Do You Think?

The "Plan With a Spine!®" Has Promise

19 votes

No, "The Best The Dems Could Do®" Was Just That

1 vote

I Have An Improvement in the Comments

1 vote

LL: From Here and There

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Wednesday March 21, 2007 · 7:36 AM PDT

2007/03/21 · 07:36

Bush is not satisfied with losing just the one war in Iraq. Nor even two wars, counting Afghanistan. Bush is now losing his proxy war in Somalia, too. It would seem that those DAYAM MOOSLIMS don't just give up when we run a few airstrikes. They just keep killing soldiers. For Bush to be losing three wars at once must frustrate Bush horribly.

The US Attorney firings took Walter Reed off the front page. Walter Reed took the Iraq Occupation funding off the front page. That Iraq Occupation the Dems are going to fund has run the deathtoll up to 3,223 American soldiers, some 23,000 wounded and of course, tens of thousands of Iraqis maimed and killed.

Some 219 American soldiers have died since the Dems took over Congress.

Should the Dems continue to fund Iraq?

I wrote to the icasualties website contact email address and asked that a new subtotal row be added to the site. "Casualties Since the Dems Took Control of Congress". Horribly biased poll is provided BELOW.

Provided as a public calcium provision service for the "Spineless Ones".

Lefty!!!

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Time for a New ICASUALTIES Subtotal?

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Time for a New ICASUALTIES Subtotal?

Yes, DC Politicians Need Help to Focus

0 votes

Yes, Ending the War Ain't Happening

0 votes

Yes, Congress Keeps Funding Bush

0 votes

Yes, DC Dems "Have Done All They Can®"

0 votes

Yes, DC Dems Need Our Help

0 votes

Yes, All of the Above

1 vote

Whaaa?

0 votes

LL: Moth-Eaten Congress

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Tuesday March 20, 2007 · 7:55 AM PDT

2007/03/20 · 07:55

You don't have to read many posts and diaries around here before you come across complaints about how this or that ~~travesty~~ loophole was 'slipped into' a bill "without anybody knowing just how it happened". Most of the complaining is about Rethuglican malfeasance. The latest example that pops into my head is the Patriot Act having the last minute insertion of text allowing for the pre-planned firing of US Attorneys getting too close to the top of the Rethug foodchain.

How could these things happen? Simple, the crooks wanted them to happen. And they colluded with other crooks to insert just the loopholes they needed to screw over the American people.

And now... some "Democrats" are rewriting legislation to make the crooks happy.

BEFORE anything gets to the floor, the BlueDogs get a license to gut legislation to make Bush stop the killing and dying. Bush won't even have to use a signing statement to get around the tiny little "milk teeth" in the "Blood Money Supplemental" bill engineered by the those good folks in the ~~BlueDogs~~ Bush-enabling Wing of the Democratic Party.

There is one form of abortion that Rethugs and BlueDogs both support... killing progressive bills before they are born.

Lefty!!!

LL: The Bush Rethug / BlueDog Dems Iraq War

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Monday March 19, 2007 · 8:02 AM PDT

2007/03/19 · 08:02

The Rethugs left congress last year with major budget bills un-passed. And the Corporate Controlled Reicht Wing Media said SKEIT about it. It would seem that continuing resolutions were pretty much all that the Bushiter Brigade could accomplish. AND the Bush-enabling media said SQUAT about it.

So I propose that the "Out of Iraq" Dems vote against the toothless Iraq Supplemental and only agree to vote on PAYGO bare bones continuing resolutions of 30 days at a time.

Make the Bush Rethugs and Bush-enabling Blue Dogs vote for more of America's kids money to be flushed down the tubes in Iraq on a monthly basis. Every month, the Bush Rethugs and the "BlueBalls Dems" Bush-enablers will have to vote to purchase another month of killing and dying in Bush's Folly. Very soon, the "Drag Out Iraq" caucus will be facing America's voters with another years worth of votes to explain.

Every... Damn... Month... They'd have to explain why they voted for yet more money to "hit the swirly" for the Bush Rethuglican/BlueDog Dems war.

Lefty!!!

LL: Some People Say...

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Thursday March 15, 2007 · 8:51 AM PDT

2007/03/15 · 08:51

I'm NOT the Life of the Party when I say what's on my mind. -- rephrase of old Tempation's Song.

Politicians don't have a problem accepting my donations, my LTEs, my voter registration efforts, my GOTV efforts, and my vote. The 'Awkward Moment' comes when (like every corporate crocodile does) I expect to see some results for my efforts. Like NOW, when the 'BlueDogs' want to get a pass for gutting Iraq bills before the Rethugs do in spite of being the smaller caucus.

Yesterday I posted a diary mentioning the 'opportunity costs' of squandering another $100 billion in Iraq vs. spending it on energy Independence. I talked about 'pie-in-the-sky' things like changing the lives of the American people for the better (raising our living standards) instead of squandering lives in Iraq.

How about education?

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Wednesday March 14, 2007 · 8:27 AM PDT

2007/03/14 · 08:27

I can already hear the Washington,DC Dems' "swirly-swoosh-glug-glug-glug" all the way in California. The DC Dems are "Fighting for You!®" by recharging the Bushite maladministration with yet another $100+ billion dollars of our kids money in order to fund the Iraq Occupation War into 2008.

They are hoping we will be fooled by some fig leaves to hide their lack of genital fortitude. Sooooo... American kids have been dying since January 2nd, 2008 so these hyenas can try to figure out a way to try and get reelected without offending the warmongers too much.

And now on to the money, because in DC it is always about the money. Politics is an extractive industry. How much money can they extract from the stripmines on K Street and still keep the other open pit operation going with the small internet donor?

How about America's future? How much energy independence would $100 billion buy?

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Wednesday March 07, 2007 · 9:14 AM PST

2007/03/07 · 09:14

Annthraxx Coulter was not the only conservative attempting to play 'alpha dog' at CPAC although that bitch (female dog, look it up) got more attention than Dickless Cheney's remarks. Here's a link to Dickless Cheney at CPAC giving Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid their orders last Thursday. Cheney said the administration expects congress to deliver the Bush war supplemental "on time and in full".

I haven't heard a response from Pelosi and Reid yet, but the question pops to mind...

Who do Pelosi and Reid work for? Dickless Cheney or the American people?

Take the poll, but this member of the American People wants Pelosi and Reid to do Items 3, 4-or-5, and 6, I wouldn't mind if Pelosi and Reid 'scent mark' Cheney's leg either.

Lefty!!!

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What Should Pelosi/Reid Do?

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What Should Pelosi/Reid Do?

Beg Master Cheney to Accept Another $100 Billion

1 vote

Fetch Master Cheney his robe and slippers

3 votes

Bite him in the ass

9 votes

Fully Funded Withdrawal Within Six Months

12 votes

Fully Funded Withdrawal Within One Year

5 votes

Start Impeachment Hearings for both Cheney/Bush

47 votes

Items 1 and 2

1 vote

Items 3, 4-or-5, and 6

95 votes

Other (in Comments)

2 votes

LL: Winning The "War on Global Warming" AND...

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Saturday March 03, 2007 · 8:29 AM PST

2007/03/03 · 08:29

When it comes to WAR, the US Congress (Rethugs, Dems and CfLers alike) seems to be able to come up with the money, sooooo...

With that in mind, I googled up some statistics on the car population of the US. It hovers around 208 million cars. About 5.5 million cars are purchased every year, with 88% of that 5.5 million scrapped.

Let's say as a national goal we wanted to increase fuel-efficiency and lower pollutant emissions including CO2. How much 'bang for the buck' could we get in a "War on Global Warming AND Terror"?

Gets out calculator... Puts on "Big Dream" hat... Remembers that Al Gore noted that the earth breathes CO2, when the northern hemisphere is in spring/summer CO2 levels drop... Thinks about making CO2 levels keep dropping...

Follow this dream over the fold...

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Thursday March 01, 2007 · 3:26 PM PST

2007/03/01 · 15:26

It is pretty sad to see the sorry shape of the formerly 'Big Three' US automakers. Toyota is kicking their sorry asses. And it is largely a problem of short-sighted over-paid under-accountable management. And the vultures have come home to roost.

The Clinton administration gave them money to develop fuel-efficient hybrid cars. Chrysler even developed a 72mpg hybrid that they then refused to build.

But let's be magnanimous and help these people out.

Let's take over their medical costs if they support the introduction of a single payer healths system like the one GM, Ford and Chrysler rave about in Canada.

Let's give them 100% write-offs and loan guarantees for plants modified to produce cars that get 40mpg or better.

Let's give instantly refundable (in the show room) tax credits on fuel-efficient cars that get 40mpg or better. Double the tax credit if a poor person wants to trade in a junker, polluter, or sub-20mpg car.

Let's pay for it by... follow me over the jump...

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Wednesday February 28, 2007 · 7:30 AM PST

2007/02/28 · 07:30

"Amazing Grace" is a MUST SEE movie about William Wilberforce and the British movement to abolish slavery in the British empire. The 18th century was a hotbed of enlightenment and the issue of owning human beings as property came up in the British Parliament about the same time as the American Revolution and freedom for the American colonies.

William Wilberforce was the champion of the British 'Abolitionists' and a penpal of somebody named Thomas Jefferson. William Pitt the Younger was going to become Prime Minister of England and he asked William Wilberforce to be the front man for ending the slave trade in the British empire.

Bigtime pounds were being made in using slaves to make sugar, and 'Big Sugar' was in control of Parliament. And it took decades to end the slave trade because - no suprise - money buys politicians. Just. Like. Today.

The movie tells the story of a brave man who takes on entrenched money and power and with the help of a bunch of 'seditious' intellectuals and his brave supportive wife brings about the end of centuries long horror.

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Wednesday February 21, 2007 · 12:12 PM PST

2007/02/21 · 12:12

In the larger picture, what are we seeing with regards to the netroots and the DC Dems?

Well, it isn't pretty, but look we must.

What I see is a 'blog-bending' effort using many of the same kinds of political narrative tools that politicians have used so well before "teh innertubes" became a political force.

For those of us Kossaks who have been around awhile have seen it before, both on DKos and other places, but I thought I would mention what I am seeing.

Two things today if you follow me over the jump...

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Thursday February 15, 2007 · 12:50 PM PST

2007/02/15 · 12:50

Lately too media cycles have gone to the rightwing corporate controlled media stenos because DC Dems let it happen.

We ought to be talking about STOPPING the hundreds of billions squandered in Iraq, the fraud in Iraq, the escalation in Iraq, our kids dying in Iraq and...

We should be giving the DC Dem W.eaklings in 'Leadership Positions' some hell for all the posturing over the 'Prune Resolutions'.

Prune Resolutions? Because they are non-binding.

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