"Stay The Course is Frightening" - Thomas Barnett

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Monday September 11, 2006 · 10:32 PM PDT

2006/09/11 · 22:32

Thomas Barnett (The Pentagon's New Map), posted the following this evening in his blog entry entitled Getting real on the fake state that was Iraq:

Friedman's dead-on in his analysis that we've lost the basic "middle" of Iraq by not quelling the insurgency

To me, that's what is so frightening about the "stay the course," deer-in-the-headlights look we're getting from W. right now. Forget strategic imagination. I just want some clear sense of strategic diagnosis.

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Impeach Bush - Phoenix Freeway Festivities

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Tuesday September 05, 2006 · 11:33 AM PDT

2006/09/05 · 11:33

Think of freeway overpasses. Think of the chain link fences along these overpasses. Think of the holes as pixels. Think of styrofoam cups as pixels turned on.

Think IMPEACH BUSH written in styrofoam cups on that chain link fence.

I am off to catch a flight to a conference, or I would go back and get a picture to post. Perhaps another Phoenix Kossack can get it. Drive east bound on I-10 from 19th Ave to 7th Ave. Just before you get to the deck park tunnel.

It is a neat way to do the sign. Grab a sheet of graph paper, plot it. Get 5 friends and you can put it up in less than 60 seconds.

Republicans are Anti-Business: A Frame for Progressives

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Monday September 04, 2006 · 4:20 PM PDT

2006/09/04 · 16:20

Here is a question that will throw fear into the heart of every Republican.

Why are you anti-business?

In a debate or news conference, this will fluster them. For the most part, they will talk about the tax breaks and other government programs they champion. These you can dismiss as Corporate Welfare, and return to that embarassing question of "why are you anti-business?"

Let me explain below the fold.
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Eleanor Clift Kills McLaughlin Report: PBS and Iraq

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Friday August 25, 2006 · 9:11 PM PDT

2006/08/25 · 21:11

Just finished watching The McLaughlin Group on PBS.

Normally (like the past five years of the Bush Admin), Eleanor would have uttered three words of criticism of Bush (Yeah, pick the topic), and she would have gotten shouted down by McLaughlin and the other three right wing guests.

Well, not tonight. Read More

NYTimes - 10 Years and we can't do Jack

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Saturday August 19, 2006 · 11:01 PM PDT

2006/08/19 · 23:01

The New York Times calls out the Bush Fiasco: Read More

CSPAN - Thomas Barnett and a Blueprint for Action

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Saturday August 19, 2006 · 6:02 PM PDT

2006/08/19 · 18:02

I sat transfixed as Thomas Barnett did his amazing PowerPoint show on CSPAN last night on his 2006 book "A Blueprint for Action". His analysis is extremely critical of the Bush Administration for its blundering, ham-fisted handling of Iraq. Not, that Barnett disagrees that something needs to be done with the Middle East. It is that his analytical brief runs to six pages, whereas Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld cannot put six words together about their rationale (`global war on terror' is only four).

I particularly enjoyed his notion that the current crisis is being run by Ford Administration retreads.
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Frames for Herb Paine in AZ-03 (Part II)

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Friday August 18, 2006 · 8:06 AM PDT

2006/08/18 · 08:06

Yesterday, in Part I I suggested to Herb Paine that one possible way to fram the entire debate against the incumbent and current administration is to frame yourself as the Responsible Parent and the incumbent as the Selfish Child.

We applied this to External Threats.

Today we deal with Internal Threats, as well as the three essays. Read More

Frames for Herb Paine in AZ-03 (Part I)

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Thursday August 17, 2006 · 6:16 AM PDT

2006/08/17 · 06:16

Earlier this summer I had several conversations with Herb Paine, who is running in AZ-03. He asked me to comment on some emails he had received. What follows is the response I sent him. Part I explores the foundational frames and external security. Part II will look at internal security and the three emails. Read More

Administration Never Estimated Cost of Iraq War

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Friday July 21, 2006 · 9:35 PM PDT

2006/07/21 · 21:35

C-SPAN2 - 18 July 2006

In testimony before the Armed Services Committee of the House of Representatives on Tuesday this week, John P Roth, Deputy Comptroller and Undersecretary of Defense stated:

"No one, neither the Secretary of Defense (Rumsfeld), anyone from his office, nor anyone from the Pentagon asked for a multi-year estimate of the cost of the war in Iraq." Read More

Gonzales declares War Powers a Farce

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Tuesday July 18, 2006 · 9:29 PM PDT

2006/07/18 · 21:29

AUMF is not a Declaration of War

On C-SPAn today:

Senator Feinstein asked Gonzales if the AUMF carried the strength of a declaration of War.

Gonzales answered that it did not.

At which point, Feinstein and everyone gasped.

Then she asked again, and Gonzales clarified: it did not, as there had not been a declaration of war in the past 60 years.

So where does this leave the Administration. If there is no war, there is no Commander In Chief authority.

All of Bush's powers as a War President are null and void.

Biodiesel: Corn vs Soybeans

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Tuesday July 18, 2006 · 7:17 PM PDT

2006/07/18 · 19:17

In the next issue of "The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" is a report on the efficiency of producing biodiesel fuels from corn and soybeans.
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AZ CD-03 Herb Paine

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Wednesday June 28, 2006 · 10:26 PM PDT

2006/06/28 · 22:26

Dear Candidate Paine:

This is an attempt in a short space to suggest a series of frames for Democratic candidates. It is really a narrative into which to fold the issues that are important to all of us progressive, liberal, moderate Democrats. And the narrative will attract the independent voter as well. Read More

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