New buzz phrase?

Google: Treacherous Times

treach·er·ous:
  1. Marked by betrayal of fidelity, confidence, or trust; perfidious. See Synonyms at faithless.
   2. Not to be relied on; not dependable or trustworthy.
   3. Marked by unforeseen hazards; dangerous or deceptive

Rove's bringing out the NLP.

I think this is important.

The word "treacherous" was very carefully chosen. This word can mean "dangerous" but it strongly connotes ideas like "traitor", "undependable" etc.

Not a coincidence that the SwiftBoat liars have been painting Kerry as a treasonous, traitorous liar, and the Bush campaign is now calling these "treacherous times."

Rove is a master at stuff like this, and it can be very effective.

You know, it's kind of interesting that the December 2001 meeting in Paris between Franklin, Rhode, Ledeen, and Ghorbanifar came just a month before Bush's infamous Axis of Evil quote in the January 2002 SOTU address.

The "Axis of Evil" phrase, as we all know, was the brainchild of AEI Fellow David Frum.

Another example of what we all know to be true: AEI has been running our Middle East policy since Bush took office.

And who does the NYT go to for verification of the Franklin/mole story? AEI fellow Michael Ledeen, who of course is ears-deep in whatever malfeasance is going on here regarding the hijacking of our foreign policy.

CNN will doubtless point the camera at AEI fellow Bill Schneider when they see fit to cover the story.

Newt Gingrich, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Richard Perle and Bill Kristol will probably also be in demand this weekend, to provide a measure of "balance" to the reporting.

Un. Be. Fucking. Lievable.

http://sugarinthegourd.com/bushvkerry.html

Mr. Moore and his production team said they also believed the film would get attention for showing that a name excised from one of Mr. Bush's National Guard records was that of an investment counselor for one of Osama bin Laden's brothers, Salem.

In a copy of the record released by the National Guard in 2000, the man in question, James R. Bath, was listed as being suspended from flying for the National Guard in 1972 for failing to take a medical exam next to a similar listing for Mr. Bush. It has been widely reported that the two were friends and that Mr. Bath invested in Mr. Bush's first major business venture, Arbusto Energy, in the late 1970's after Mr. Bath began working for Salem bin Laden.

Mr. Bath and the White House have said that the money he invested in Mr. Bush's company was his, not that of Mr. bin Laden. The White House said Friday that Mr. Bath's name was expunged from the record it released in February only to protect his privacy and should have been in 2000, as well.

(see this page I put up back in February for more.)

Questions:

1. Why did Ashcroft stop flying on commercial planes?
   
2. If Ashcroft needed to be protected, why wasn't the American public warned?
   
3. If Clarke suggested that everyone cancel their vacation plans, why did Bush respond by embarking on the longest vacation in Presidential history?
   
4. What did Clarke mean by "here" in the quote "something really spectacular is going to happen here, and it's going to happen soon"? Was he specifically warning of a domestic attack?
   
5. Why wasn't the Freeh-Mueller transition delayed until the "Hiroshima"-level attack was averted?
   
6. Clearly, Clarke wasn't the only Cassandra. Tenet was "nearly frantic". We are told that GWB met with Tenet daily. Why didn't the President do anything?
   

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Q How are you going to get unity, strength and resolve if you have large populations in Europe opposed to what the United States has done? And if you get the leadership to shift, as happened in this election in Spain --

MR. McCLELLAN: Let's distinguish here, there's the global war on terrorism, and I think in some instances you're referring to some differences on Iraq. What's important to remember is that -- I think that we would disagree with some of the suggestions you made in your question there. I think many of the Iraqi people would disagree, and I think that the coalition in Iraq would disagree.

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Q Scott, there are some conservatives who believe that there's a real crisis in the transatlantic relationship over the war on terror. You said just a minute ago that there's a difference between supporting the U.S. in the war on terror and Iraq. But you're the one --

MR. McCLELLAN: No, I said let's make a distinction there. I mean, he was --

Q All right, but you guys don't make that distinction.

MR. McCLELLAN: It's the global war on terrorism --

Q Now, wait a second. The central front in the war on terror is Iraq, according to this President.

MR. McCLELLAN: And countries are contributing in many different ways in the war on terrorism.

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OK, I'm confused. We on the Left have been saying for a year and a half now, that the invasion of Iraq was not part of a War on Terrorism. This adminstration has been using "Iraq War" and "War on Terror" synonymously. But now that Spain is going to pull out of Iraq (and Iraq is going miserably), it's now appropriate to draw distinctions? So I guess now if the war in Iraq fails, they'll be able to say the War on Terror didn't fail, because the two are newly different and distinct, as the rest of the world (notably Spain) has been saying all along.

(Later Scottie retreats to the more comfortable idea that Iraq is the "central front in the War on Terror.")

These people boggle the mind.

CEO Charles Cawley is one of Bush's notorious Pioneers.

With the help of Google, you should be able to find plenty more reasons why MBNA is not a company that deserves the support of progressives and other Bush opponents.

The reason for this post is that MBNA is the #1 private issuer of credit cards in the USA. Odds are, you have one of their cards in your wallet -- particularly if you have an "affinity" card with a team logo, University name, etc.

I would like to call on bloggers and anyone else in the progressive web community to urge anyone who cares about what happens in November, to cancel their MBNA accounts if they have any, and to tell MBNA why they are doing so -- because of the company's financial support of the Bush administration.

This is an easy slam-dunk guys. If you want to really piss them off, make a big donation to the DNC on your MBNA card right before you close it out.

I would be thrilled if some bloggers out there picked up this message. Look what we did to the RNC in Kentucky. Let's show MBNA how big our numbers are, and that we're not going to let our credit card payments be used to support Bush and his cronies again.

John

Dear Leader has a Photo album on his website. Most of the pages in the photo album are standard fare, but the section called "Compassion" is notably different.

What do 17 of the 18 "Compassion" pictures have in common?

Apparently, in Bush-speak "Compassion" is a synonym for "being in the same room with black people".

(Make sure you look at both pages.)

http://sugarinthegourd.com/redacted.html