Tom Friedman, who gets paid far too much money for what he writes, and takes up far too much valuable editorial space in the NY Times has done it again. 9/11 and 4/11 is his complaint that Bush has wasted too much time while doing nothing that might actually work with regards to the energy situation. Friedman is 'outraged'
I am reliably told by a Bush administration official that there is an old saying in Texas that goes like this: “If all you ever do is all you’ve ever done, then all you’ll ever get is all you ever got.”
Could anyone possibly come up with a better description of President Bush’s energy policy? America is in the midst of its worst energy crisis in years and what is the big decision our Decider has decided? Drum roll, please: Our Decider decided to lift the executive orders banning drilling for oil and natural gas off the country’s shoreline — even though he knew this was a meaningless gesture because a Congressional moratorium on drilling passed in 1981 remains in force.
This is what an exasperated and dogged DailyKos commenter told me, after I rushed a diary out, while phoning all of our Senators to plead with them not to vote for the FISA Amendment Act, in which I reported something implausible said to me by a McCain staffer.
As I sit here in Iraq on the 9th month of a 15 month tour, my frustration seems to grow more and more each day. I feel as though I have an interesting seat for these elections as I am somewhat on the outside looking in. Comparing John McCain to Barack Obama is like comparing a GED to a Masters Degree.
McCain is so out of it that it does't make sense to me that so many people are still supporting this guy...
No, not Hillary. Harriet Christian. Even though I am an Obama supporter, I am embarrassed for Hillary Supporters that she is going on TV, representing them. I am a woman, a feminist, and a Democrat I am embarrassed that she considers herself one of us. More than that, I am embarrassed that it took, Neil freaking Cavuto, to try and talk some sense into her, and she still didn't get it.
Harriet Christian on Your World With Neil Cavuto
There was a day when I was a great basketball player. I love the NBA. I grew up with a basketball in my bedroom. When I was punished, which was often, it was the only thing I had left to call my own. I paid for my basketball, I went to work for it. I played 32-48 minutes of the hardest basketball I could possibly do in my playing days from 4 years old til my late 20's. I even played for a few NBA teams in summer leagues. Im a fan of the NBA, I tried to be in the NBA, I love it as the slogan goes. Now, Im retired of pro sports. The competitive edge still remains, but the naked desire to win has run afoot, plus I got older and wiser.
This will probably be my least diary-like diary ever, but I feel compelled to take the opportunity to listen to McCain speak when I get the chance (so I'll know what we're up against), and whenever I do, I feel a distinct need to rant afterward.
It's anniversary time for the "six days, six weeks, no more than six months" war, that has cost ten times the lives of our sons and daughters than it had before our Fearful Misleader lied about how it was all wrapped up.
I don’t think you’d get any real opposition from intelligent Americans if you said we desperately need the mechanism to remove a loose cannon from the White House, if we realize we have one. It was widely suggested 200 years ago that the experiment in government being embarked upon by those in the New World – the were calling it Democracy – was fraught with problems. Among the problems with Democracy is the realization that, with this system, sooner or later the citizens will elect an idiot to the highest office.
Strike/Boycott's over, or at least my part of it is.
I am not going to be posting here much, however, until the primaries are over. I respect the spirit of the boycott and will honor those who are still fully engaged in it by only posting here sporadically. But when I think there's a point to get across, I will post here. At some point, you have to engage your opponents on their own turf if you hope to get your message across.
Backstory: Yesterday, the resident idiot reality television "star" Heidi Montag endorsed John McCain via US Weekly. I feel increadibly lame even describing her "career", but let's just say it involves plastic surgery and self-agrandizing tabloid magazine interviews. She is a proud Republican who is voting for McCain because of his experience.
Her ex-boyfriend's reponse pretty much sums up what I thought upon hearing it:
I don't think anyone cares who Heidi Montag votes for.
But, actually, as I just learned there is one person who cares - John McCain.
Tax cuts for the wealthy is one thing neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton support; yet, it is possible that tax cuts for the rich, along with tax cuts for everyone else, is actually a good thing for the economy. First let's just think about the actual theory that goes into this: The main idea behind giving tax cuts for the wealthiest 1% of Americans is that they are the sector responsible for over 80% of our wealth and the majority of our jobs. This is, whether you like it or not, a simple fact. (And by the way, I do not like it.) But, if you give tax breaks to the wealthiest 1% and small business owners, then what you do is give companies, small businesses, mom and pop stores, and virtually ever piece of America's economy more money to spend on expanding their businesses rather than using that money to pay taxes.
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Well, this is my very first post ever on this site, all of which I am not too familiar with so pardon any errors I may make, I'm still learning the site.
According to the man currently holding the seat that Democratic Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama aspire to, it would be a "tactical mistake" to focus on him.
A tactical mistake? To who? The country? The world? McCain? The rest of the interview is full of new Bushisms.
His bubble is DENSER than I thought.
Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me? So how does it feel still living in a alternative reality when the only way she can win is cheating or dirty tactics? I'm enjoying not being part of it. Billary Bots are funny to read here though. I used to laugh at the freepers, but now the Billary Bots are just s bad as the Freepers.
Can you please tell Bill Clinton that he is making his wife look bad. I tried to tell you he was reasonablely, but we all know how that went. Now he is out their giving high fives to John McCain. So is the fix between Hillary to alienate so many Dems that McCain can get the election easy?
It makes me wonder espically with how much love Bill Clinton is giving to him. I knew he liked interns but never thought Bill was gay. I guess though this is what happens when have to much time on hand you start to experiment with ways to make people forget about the legacy because you rather win it for a wife.
