Herbert Takes No Prisoners on the Cut & Run Meme

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Sunday June 25, 2006 · 9:59 PM PDT

2006/06/25 · 21:59

I have been waiting for this counter attack. Bob Herbert obliges:

The administration and its allies have been mercilessly bashing Democrats who argued that the U.S. should begin developing a timetable for the withdrawal of American forces. Republicans stood up on the Senate floor last week, one after another, to chant like cultists from the Karl Rove playbook: We're tough. You're not. Cut-and-run. Nyah-nyah-nyah!
But then on Sunday we learned that the president's own point man in Iraq, Gen. George Casey, had fashioned the very thing that ol' blood-and-guts Frist and his C-Span brigade had ranted against: a withdrawal plan.
Are Karl Rove and his liege lord, the bait-and-switch king, trying to have it both ways? You bet. And that ought to be a crime, because there are real lives at stake.

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Maccabees' "Must Read"

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Sunday June 04, 2006 · 10:21 AM PDT

2006/06/04 · 10:21

Maccabee was right: Frank Rich's column, Supporting Our Troops Over a Cliff, is a Must Read. Maccabee's excellent diary on the column scrolled south last night. This is my attempt to resurrect it and put the column to good use.

Step One: Read his diary which contains generous, but fair, excerpts from Rich's column.

Step Two: Read additional excerpts on the flip.

Step Three: Those who can get behind the Orange Wall email the column to your friends, representatives and local Newspaper Editor (with the request that they reprint it). If you do not have access, check truthout.org (they often post Rich's columns) or wait until tomorrow and access the column at The Progressive American.

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Iran Set For Big Gains in Iraq While Leveraging U.S.

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Monday May 29, 2006 · 11:53 AM PDT

2006/05/29 · 11:53

For the Thomas Friedmans and other Middle East "experts" who think that starting the Iraq war was a great way to bring about regime change, this ones for you.

With a new Iraqi government in place, Iran is positioning itself to play a major role here at a time when American influence is showing signs of faltering.
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Concerns about Iran have simmered since the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq removed a Sunni-dominated dictatorship and set the stage for democracy -- or, inevitably, Shiite rule in a country where Shiites hold an overwhelming majority.

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Explaining the Politics of Gay Marriage to Georgia

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Sunday May 28, 2006 · 10:24 AM PDT

2006/05/28 · 10:24

Jay Bookman is a terrific columnist for the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Recently, he took pains to walk his fellow Georgian's through the Politics of Gay Marriage.

Two years ago, as Georgia conservatives were rushing a constitutional amendment through the Legislature to define marriage and bar recognition of same-sex civil unions, they were warned repeatedly that the measure was fatally flawed, that it was so badly written that the courts would have to overrule it.
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In fact, Bordeaux suggested, the language might be flawed on purpose, so that Georgia Republicans could twice reap the benefits of putting such a volatile issue on the ballot.
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And thus it has come to pass.

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Ouch. Krugman on Lieberman

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Sunday May 21, 2006 · 9:42 PM PDT

2006/05/21 · 21:42

Talk Show Joe

Friday was a bad day for Senator Joseph Lieberman. The Connecticut Democratic Party's nominating convention endorsed him, but that was a given for an incumbent with a lot of political chips to cash in. The real news was that Ned Lamont, an almost unknown challenger, received a third of the votes. This gave Mr. Lamont the right to run against Mr. Lieberman in a primary, and suggests that Mr. Lamont may even win.

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Mr. Lieberman isn't the only nationally known Democrat who still supports the Iraq war. But he isn't just an unrepentant hawk, he has joined the Bush administration by insisting on an upbeat picture of the situation in Iraq that is increasingly delusional.
Moreover, Mr. Lieberman has supported the attempt to label questions about why we invaded Iraq and criticism of the administration's policies since the invasion as unpatriotic.

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Still Another Republican Lie: Tax Cut Edition

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Sunday May 14, 2006 · 9:21 PM PDT

2006/05/14 · 21:21

Washpo's Sebastian Mallaby in a column entitled The Return Of Voodoo Economics analyzes recent statements like this by President Bush, that tax cuts actually raise tax revenues:

"You cut taxes and the tax revenues increase."

Mallaby asks and answers the obvious question that should be on everyone's lips:

When top Republicans go around claiming that tax cuts pay for themselves, which economic authorities are they relying on? None, is the answer. These people's approach to government is to make economics up.

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More Bad News for Bush: Rich is Back

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Saturday April 29, 2006 · 5:41 PM PDT

2006/04/29 · 17:41

Frank Rich returns from a six week abscence. It is like he never left.

Bush of a Thousand Days

The demons that keep rising up from the past to grab Mr. Bush are the fictional W.M.D. he wielded to take us into Iraq. They stalk him as relentlessly as Banquo's ghost did Macbeth. From that original sin, all else flows. Mr. Rove wouldn't be in jeopardy if the White House hadn't hatched a clumsy plot to cover up its fictions. Mr. Bush's poll numbers wouldn't be in the toilet if American blood was not being spilled daily because of his fictions. By recruiting a practiced Fox News performer to better spin this history, the White House reveals that it has learned nothing. Made-for-TV propaganda propelled the Bush presidency into its quagmire in the first place. At this late date only the truth, the whole and nothing but, can set it free.

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Revisiting the Deception and Fear Mongering

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Thursday April 27, 2006 · 6:22 PM PDT

2006/04/27 · 18:22

In the run-up to Iran, we should revisit the Deception and Fear Mongering.

President George Bush March 6, 2003

Iraqi operatives continue to hide biological and chemical agents to avoid detection by inspectors. In some cases, these materials have been moved to different locations every 12 to 24 hours, or placed in vehicles that are in residential neighborhoods.
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Saddam Hussein has a long history of reckless aggression and terrible crimes. He possesses weapons of terror. He provides funding and training and safe haven to terrorists -- terrorists who would willingly use weapons of mass destruction against America and other peace-loving countries. Saddam Hussein and his weapons are a direct threat to this country, to our people, and to all free people.

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Tuesday April 25, 2006 · 9:33 PM PDT

2006/04/25 · 21:33

Window Dressing

[Bush] said he was directing the Justice Department to join with an existing Federal Trade Commission inquiry into possible price manipulation.
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And he called for the reversal of relatively small tax breaks and incentives for oil companies engaging in specific types of exploration. Those perks were in an energy bill Mr. Bush signed into law last year.

The Window

While Republican leaders sharply criticize soaring gasoline prices and energy industry profits, GOP negotiators have decided to knock out provisions in a major tax bill that would force the oil companies to pay billions of dollars more in taxes on their profits.

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One Thing is For Certain: Torture in Iraq

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Sunday April 23, 2006 · 8:52 PM PDT

2006/04/23 · 20:52

Bush

"Iraq is free of rape rooms and torture chambers."--President Bush, remarks to 2003 Republican National Committee Presidential Gala, Oct. 8, 2003

"One thing is for certain: There won't be any more mass graves and torture rooms and rape rooms."--Bush, press availability in Monterrey, Mexico, Jan. 12, 2004

"Saddam Hussein now sits in a prison cell, and Iraqi men and women are no longer carried to torture chambers and rape rooms ..."--Bush, remarks on "Winston Churchill and the War on Terror," Feb. 4, 2004

"Every woman in Iraq is better off because the rape rooms and torture chambers of Saddam Hussein are forever closed."--Bush, remarks on "Efforts to Globally Promote Women's Human Rights," March 12, 2004,

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Friday April 21, 2006 · 10:25 PM PDT

2006/04/21 · 22:25

As oil prices hit a record and gas prices climb, President Bush is acknowledging the pain but seems resigned to being able to do little about it.

Rising gas prices have heavy impact on poor

The federal government's main program for helping the victims of Hurricane Katrina rebuild their homes and businesses, operated by the Small Business Administration, has been plagued by inadequate leadership and poor planning

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Sunday April 16, 2006 · 5:44 PM PDT

2006/04/16 · 17:44

Time Magazine's new issue lists America's 10 Best Senators

Mastering a powerful institution that relies on comity but requires confrontation takes a special kind of talent.
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They say the Senate is the world's most exclusive club. But the real élite is made up not of those who break in but of those who make a difference once they get there. Here are 10 who do.

Hold your applause (or put down that rotten fruit) until after the flip.
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