Bush a Failure, Says 58% of America…

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From the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll out yesterday…

Fifty-eight percent described [Bush’s] second term as a failure. At the same point in former President Bill Clinton’s presidency, 70 percent of those surveyed by Gallup said they considered it a success and 20 percent a failure.

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  1. 5)
    JUDGE OF JUDGES said on 1/27/2006 @ 1:07pm PT: [Permalink]

    Democrat Senators that will NOT Support The Filibuster Of BENITO ALITO

    Will be Automatically Entered The Following Hallowed Fraternity. "List"

    . . . "THE ORDER OF THE EMPTY SCROTUM" . . . or BRA (for the Ladies)

    . . . . . . . ROBERT C. BYRD . . . . U.S. Senator West Virginia

  2. 6)
    Lou Marino said on 1/27/2006 @ 1:13pm PT: [Permalink]

    Only 58% (GWB’s second term) means that the other 42% thinks he’s doing okay? Go figure?

    I just read on Drudge that 57% of Americans favor taking military action against Iran. Go figure?

    I don’t know about you, but I’m 100% sure this friggin’ country is going down the drain.

  3. 7)
    Joan said on 1/27/2006 @ 2:28pm PT: [Permalink]

    I wish we could poll the world. I’ll bet it would be damn near unanimous:
    bush will go down in history as the worst president in this country’s history.

  4. 8)
    Mugzi said on 1/27/2006 @ 2:35pm PT: [Permalink]

    If you look at his career, he’s a miserable failure. Just about everything he has ever done, has ended in failure and poppy or the saudi’s have had to bail him out. Jr wanted to be prez, so that was bought too in rigged elections

  5. 11)
    Doug Eldritch said on 1/27/2006 @ 3:22pm PT: [Permalink]

    RED ALERT!!!!

    Neocons playing HARDBALL now!!!!! Get out your ready armed and aiming insurrection!!!

    "The letter from the Pentagon, dated January 3, 2006, basically asks that in the event of early deployment of military and National Guard troops that early ballots, including the ability to vote electronically, be provided. Bad enough that the Department of Defense appears to be trying to sneak in internet voting, but HB 2148 seeks provisions that go beyond the Pentagons request.

    HB 2148 seems to exploit the Pentagon’s request by placing provisions in it that exceed what was asked for by the Department of Defense. In it’s current form, HB 2148 seeks provisions that might deliberately complicate early voting–which includes vote-by-mail (VBM)–by requiring the official in charge of elections to provide a specific marking device or a supply of stickers suitable for use with tabulating devices. Since when have we ever used peel off stickers that could be removed and reattached in an election? It also provides for the rejection of ballots that don’t meet the standard “of not being marked according to instructions” by giving over determination of intent of the voter to “The Board.” HB 2148 also seeks to make several various alterations in Arizona voting procedures that might negatively impact the interpretation and counting of provisional ballots, the decision to count ballots that are “stuck together”, and what constitutes acceptable forms of identification. The bill adds language that narrowly defines an expatriate voter, directs elections officials reconcile the number of provisional ballots with the number of ballots cast on only the poll list, and appears to repeal sections of the Arizona Statutes that are designed to catch attempts at ballot stuffing. None of which is asked for by the letter from the Pentagon!

    And, who directed the Pentagon to ask for this power in the first place?

    Our founding fathers realized that those in power would hold to it with white knuckled ferocity. That’s why they put in the checks and balances that have served this experiment in democracy for over 200 years so well—checks and balances that are now under seeming constant attack. If some Banana Republic postponed an election using such vague rationalizations as I have previously listed, our State Department would condemn the action as an assault on democracy. The people of Arizona, of all the states, should do no less now. Our Constitution does not provide such extreme powers to any government official; not the Secretary of State, the Governor, the legislature, or any other person. Let’s not start now.

    HB 2148 has already passed out of the House Judiciary Committee by a vote of 6 to 2. It now goes to the House Rules Committee then to the House floor for a vote. You need to look at the ramifications of precedents that might be set if the military is given authority to vote over the internet and the unilateral consolidation of power to conduct elections given to one partisan person. This could be the camel getting its nose under the tent."

    Pentagon wants to OVER-RIDE Arizona voting laws: To the BATTLE POSTS!!!

    Now if you thought that was interesting, you ain’t seen nothing yet!!!! Get everyone prepared and stationed!

    Doug E.

  6. 12)
    Swaggs said on 1/27/2006 @ 3:28pm PT: [Permalink]

    What I despise the most about Bush is the fact that virtually every time he opens his mouth a lie flies out of it. Its not even funny anymore. And I agree with Robert, its not about right or left anymore. But sadly, trying to convince the rabid neo cons of this is virtually impossible. 🙁

  7. 13)
    Floridiot said on 1/27/2006 @ 3:39pm PT: [Permalink]

    RLM, I’m afraid its mostly all competent
    The Fascists are in full take over mode from all angles now, we’re just watching them in the final stages of closing up all the loose ends now, I fear
    Revolution is nigh

  8. 15)
    big dan said on 1/27/2006 @ 3:48pm PT: [Permalink]

    The 58% don’t matter, because Bush is not accountable to voters. He’s accountable to the neo-cons, where he’s got 100% approval. That is all that matters.

    What Republican will the neo-cons install as president via electronic voting machines, and all the new methods like Doug is pointing out, while America sleeps?

    I seriously think WE on the Brad Blog, should start discussing which Republican will be the next president in the stolen 2008 election. It would be fun, to see the opinions.

    Anyone think Santorum’s going to lose?

    Santorum 51%-Casey 49%.

    We shall see. It’s getting very predictable, and nothings being done to stop it.

    You know how Bush is on TV, saying, "I’m above the law, and whaddya think about that?" Pretty soon they won’t even be hiding stealing elections. They practically aren’t now. They’ll be on TV saying, "So and So will be the president in 2008." Why not?

  9. 16)
    big dan said on 1/27/2006 @ 3:51pm PT: [Permalink]

    You know how we all have jobs, families, and it’s tough to fight this shit? The people stealing elections, that IS their job. That is why it’s happening. That is all they do. They are persistent and relentless, and never give up. They’ve been at it for decades. That’s why they are successful.

  10. 17)
    Peg C said on 1/27/2006 @ 4:17pm PT: [Permalink]

    Floridiot –

    You beat me to it. There’s absolutely nothing incompetent about this crew! With Bush as their marionette, these Straussian neon-con fascists are accumulating unto themselves unchecked power right under our noses; and the Dems in Congress are just too close to the picture to see it as clearly as we do.

    This is the end-game…

  11. 20)
    Doug Eldritch said on 1/27/2006 @ 5:26pm PT: [Permalink]

    Dredd

    I must admit its the most insane thing I’ve ever seen!!!!!!

    This is straight out of one of those ridiculous alien movies, when the hell did the PENTAGON make itself the authority on voting rights?!?!??

    PEOPLE WAKE UP!!!!! THERE ARE FOREIGN ISRAEL/RUSSIAN SPIES ALL OVER THE PENTAGON!!!!!!

    Fight for your rights NOW!!!! These people are not americans whatsoever remember that, the neocons are NOT from our country!!!!!! They don’t care!!!!!

    SO FIGHT THEM BACK, INTO THE YONDER, JUST LIKE YOU DONT CARE EITHER!!!!!!!

    Btw, it was a fascist or otherwise crazy republican/democrat stooge who helped pass this bill. While we were LOOKING at Alito….who is their enemy

    Doug Eldritch

  12. 21)
    whirledpeas said on 1/27/2006 @ 5:27pm PT: [Permalink]

    …Floridiot said on 1/27/2006 @ 5:13pm PT…

    Not really ot, but did u see this on Raw Story
    the Military Psy ops is kicking it up online

    Okay….I’m trying to understand what this is about. Is this basically saying that the feds will eventually take over the internet and we (bloggers etc.) will no longer be able to communicate with each other? that they are attempting to control this form of media to get total control? Maybe I’m reading too much into this…..am I?

  13. 22)
    Doug Eldritch said on 1/27/2006 @ 5:34pm PT: [Permalink]

    WhirledPeas

    No you’re not reading wrong at all!!!!

    These are not americans, they are foreign spies neocons from multiple countries including Slovakia!!!!!

    They want to take control of EVERYTHING ON THE INTERNET and they want to undo every american who is against them, these "FEDS" are from places like Russia!!!!!

    Doug

  14. 23)
    tomz said on 1/27/2006 @ 5:59pm PT: [Permalink]

    I don’t believe these polls – one dya it says 34 % approval, next day it’s 41 % Yeah right!

    I think the whole damn country knows Bush is a moron and a lunatic. Certainly the whole world knows – how could WE not know? Oh that’s right….MSNBCCBSABCCNNFOX the lapdogs.

    Bush is a waste of skin.

  15. 24)
    Soul Rebel said on 1/27/2006 @ 6:00pm PT: [Permalink]

    I was listening to Kent Conrad of North Dakota today on the Ed Schultz show. I generally don’t listen to Ed because I find him to be too…whatever…for my taste. I don’t find him willing enough to play hardball. It seems like he’s an appeaser and an apologist. Anyway…

    This peckerhead Conrad (Dem) says he is leaning toward voting FOR Alito because he seems to thikn that the majority of Americans (especially his constituents) approve of Alito. WHere the fuck does he get this? He says "Well, I haven’t done any polling or really talked to people, but it’s the sense that I get." Plus, he said he had a lengthy one-on-one conversation with Sammy and was convinced that Alito’s notion of Unitary Executive did not mean that the president was above the law or superceded any authority of Congress.

    I don’t know guys. It doesn’t look like these fuckos can muster a filibuster. Well, I’m for ousting anyone who doesn’t come out in favor of the filibuster. Fucking anemic, these pricks are. They want it that way, too. Relieves them of any responsibility. Notice that most of the Senators who are moving to filibuster are those who have been around for a long time (Kennedy, Kerry, Leahy, etc) while those who are leaning against it (other than Byrd, but I’m convinced he passed the senile mark sometime in the last year or two) are younger. Seems like those who are older nad know the responsibility the Senate holds are concerned about the future of the Senate, but the others…not so much.

  16. 25)
    tomz said on 1/27/2006 @ 6:02pm PT: [Permalink]

    I don’t need a poll to tell me that old man Bush shoulda jacked off that night instead of conceived GW.

  17. 27)
    whirledpeas said on 1/27/2006 @ 6:23pm PT: [Permalink]

    …Doug Eldritch said on 1/27/2006 @ 7:34pm PT…

    WhirledPeas

    No you’re not reading wrong at all!!!!

    These are not americans, they are foreign spies neocons from multiple countries including Slovakia!!!!!

    They want to take control of EVERYTHING ON THE INTERNET and they want to undo every american who is against them, these "FEDS" are from places like Russia!!!!!

    Doug

    Doug, are you kidding around with me?

  18. 28)
    JUDGE OF JUDGES said on 1/27/2006 @ 6:26pm PT: [Permalink]

    We will always be at risk of some terrorism. BUT, bush’s policies, Politics and "His War" Guarantee terrorism. Doom?

  19. 29)
    whirledpeas said on 1/27/2006 @ 6:42pm PT: [Permalink]

    So true…Bush’s policies have only inflamed the situation over there. We shouldn’t even be there at all. All of our resources should be going toward health care reform, Katrina victims and the strongest levees possible, global warming, renewable resources, our poor, children and the elderly, education, and on and on…not to mention, benefits and aid for those coming home from Iraq. In other words, everything that would turn us into a strong and healthy democracy. But instead, we’re "spreading freedom in the Middle East." What a bunch of crap.

  20. 30)
    Monti Cristo said on 1/27/2006 @ 6:46pm PT: [Permalink]

    Its really great that 58% of Americans now think Bush is a failure. Too bad it took us so long to dispense with all that "liberal" vs "conservative" foolishness to come to this very intelligent conclusion! Yes this 58% includes alot of conservatives to be sure! The only problem is, its way too late, and Bush has been a failure his entire adult life! This was no military secret back in the late 1990’s, when the media began it’s propaganda campaign to repackage Bush as "presidential material". We certainly can’t say we weren’t all warned about Bush though. Concerned citizens came out of the woodwork trying to alert us of Bush’s really unsavory record. The many damning revelations about Bush didn’t faze our "conservative" mainstream countrymen however. The party and the media pronounced all negative revelations mere "conspiracy theories" even if they were true! Mainstream Americans are consistent if they’re anything. However the media goes, so goes mainstream America! These folks are the soul of our nation, never allowing the truth, to get in the way of their support of party or media favored political candidates.

    Everything that is happening to America today has been brought about in large part, by the perrenial stupidity of mainstream Americans of both political persuasions. No matter what the stakes, or the issues, they can always be counted on to help elect all those mainstream politicians, who once they get into office, immediately sell the country to the highest bidder! Alternative politicians, have little or no chance with these folks!

    Now that so many of us agree that Bush is a failure in the whitehouse. We can give mainstream America its due for their contributions in putting him there, and keeping him there, by not doing a damn thing back when they had the chance to actually influence events! For decades Americans who sought to move our nation in a more positive direction have run into the inertia, utter stupidity, and political correctness, of the American mainstream. Their unstinting belief in government propaganda, and resistance to anything outside of the party line, is after all, a pretty good fit for dictatorship. It appears that after all these years of helping to keep the U.S. screwed up, mainstream Americans have finally gotten the type government they deserve!

  21. 31)
    Doug Eldritch said on 1/27/2006 @ 6:47pm PT: [Permalink]

    WhirledPeas

    I wish I was but no, it is NOT a joke!!!!!

    You have to read the truth and fight, because these bastards are trying to ruin Arizona and Utah now and completely take over!

    ""Intentionally, I and I want to underline this, intentionally they are not going after the middlemen and the people at the top. So to this day the American public have not heard who is the real culprit behind 9/11. There is money laundering, and certain narcotic and weapons procurements involved."
    Ms Edmonds went on to reveal that the criminal elements are active within all three branches of Government. Plus there are those who are working outside government towards the same agenda. She suggests that we should look towards lobbying groups who are registering as agents of foreign governments, such as International Advisors Inc, the lobbying company set up by arch Neo-Con Richard Perle, which is registered with the State Department as "agents of Turkey."
    These groups, with weighty influences upon the foreign policy of the US Government, some, including Perle, Pentagon architects of the Iraq war, are operating with elements of the Government in a nexus like fashion, moving around vast amounts of money and arms and profiteering from directing world events.
    Edmonds suggested that this information would become more widespread should more people demand that the media cover these issues. There are simply too many people who are not concerned by such revelations or who simply take no notice.
    "Our founders repeatedly stressed eternal vigilance because we can’t say we have separation of powers, we have our Constitution and our Bill of Rights, they’re going to take care of themselves and they are going to last, no, it does take eternal vigilance." Edmonds commented.""

    Pentagon & other facilities infiltrated Edmonds has proof

    +

    Abramoff helped install wiretaps on the entire US House of represenatives.

    This fight is NOT optional

    Doug E.

  22. 32)
    Soul Rebel said on 1/27/2006 @ 6:56pm PT: [Permalink]

    If 58% of Americans think BUllSHit is a failure, then

    WHY CAN"T THESE SENATORS PULL THEIR HEADS OUT OF THEIR FUCKING ARSES??????

    Don’t they risk more by NOT filibustering Alito?? I sure as hell know my senators do.

    WTF people? WTF?

  23. 33)
    Joan said on 1/27/2006 @ 6:59pm PT: [Permalink]

    Monti Christo,
    Will you please stop saying
    "Americans…can always be counted on to help elect all those mainstream politicians…"
    They weren’t ELECTED. bush/cheney weren’t ELECTED.
    To be elected there has to be a genuinely fair, working electoral system.
    We don’t have that. It’s GONE.

  24. 35)
    Monti Cristo said on 1/27/2006 @ 7:35pm PT: [Permalink]

    Joan,
    Recently the people of Ukraine, were informed by concerned countrymen that their recent presidential elections were rigged. Ukrainians mobilized themselves in such vast numbers that the culprits were forced to defer to the will of the people. The rigged election results were undone.

    In the last American presidential election, concerned citiizens informed Americans that their election was rigged. Americans chalked these reports up to "comspiracy theories" and the culprits were successful in thwarting the will of the electorate and altering the destiny of the state. Looking the other way when confronted with GOP election fraud, is the same as voting for Bush.

  25. 37)
    agent99 said on 1/27/2006 @ 7:53pm PT: [Permalink]

    Doug: The letter to Secretaries of States from the Pentagon about emergency voting provisions has to be some sort of governmental Freudian slip. It should have come from Homeland Security (FEMA), if it came at all. Very creepy.

  26. 38)
    whirledpeas said on 1/27/2006 @ 7:54pm PT: [Permalink]

    Monti Cristo, You definitely have a point. I remember my stunned disbelief on the evening of November 2nd, 2004, when the election results came in and the media proclaimed bush the winner of the presidency. I was Really expecting Kerry to win, and hearing that Bush was going to be The Man for the next 4 years was a real shocker. But then, what could we do? There was absolutely no way to buck the system. Or should we have all hit the streets on November 3rd?

  27. 39)
    Monti Cristo said on 1/27/2006 @ 8:15pm PT: [Permalink]

    Whirledpeas, there were many Americans who felt the urgency of the situation. The problem is, they were unable to act due to the resistance of the vast numbes of mainstream Americans. The great political savvy of our forefathers has been replaced by brain-dead political correctness. Mainstream America listens to their "party" leadership even when that leadership is corrupt. Its this attitude that allows the zombie-like American mainstream, to smother more intelligent political instincts in the minority of thinking Americans. The time to act is early not later. Had sufficient numbers, mobilzed in 2000, things might be different today.

  28. 40)
    Doug Eldritch said on 1/27/2006 @ 8:35pm PT: [Permalink]

    Monti Cristo: You are correct on all counts…

    But now we get more than a second chance….We get a REAL chance, lets make it count and show these freaks we’re americans. And we aren’t going to tolerate ANY of their worthless shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Want to play rough, then GET READY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Doug E.

  29. 41)
    agent99 said on 1/27/2006 @ 9:08pm PT: [Permalink]

    Doug: Arizona Secretary of State, Brewer, says that all states got the letter. There was strong objection to election postponement, and I imagine there would be in most states. So IF what she said is true, and IF congress has not confirmed a replacement for Wolfowitz, but HAS confirmed the newly #3 (suddenly up from #8) for DoD, MAYBE it’s a bid to get #3 in for SoD without congressional approval, when Rummy has to step down for writing the letter, but REALLY because Fitzgerald is going to nail him! Entertaining myself, here, but then again, we are a nation gone mad.

  30. 42)
    Brad said on 1/27/2006 @ 9:39pm PT: [Permalink]

    Agent99 – If you have a link to where Brewer says all states got the letter, let me know. I have the letter, and it was expressly sent to her.

    That said, it doesn’t, as far as I can tell, suggest sweeping powers that others have described it as. THough perhaps it was just the AZ legislation itself (which I have not gotten to read yet) which is the broad sweep.

    I’ll try to get it posted here over the weekend if possible. It’s very difficult to keep up with everything right now…unfortunately…

  31. 43)
    Doug Eldritch said on 1/27/2006 @ 9:50pm PT: [Permalink]

    Agent99

    Do you have the information showing it was sent to all the states yet? Please send it to me if you get a chance its important.

    Doug

  32. 44)
    agent99 said on 1/28/2006 @ 11:22pm PT: [Permalink]

    The Pentagon was not talking stickers and marking implements; the Arizona legislators were talking about the huge cost increase of sending implements for marking ballots, and "I Voted" stickers out to all the voters.

    The hinky part is the Pentagon asking for the chief election official to be provided with emergency authority.

  33. 45)
    Mugzi said on 1/28/2006 @ 12:23am PT: [Permalink]

    Wow Gallop says 58% think he is a failure – CNN, Gallop have usually been very pro gw. Wonder what Zogby’s finding are??

  34. 46)
    agent99 said on 1/28/2006 @ 12:31am PT: [Permalink]

    Well. It looks as if more states than Arizona got communications from the Pentagon about military and overseas voters’ rights, and enfranchising non-resident citizens, wanting absentee ballots for these citizens, with "Emergency Authority For Chief Election Official" language in them, but it does not appear to apply to voting here at home, just overseas ballots.

    It IS a little unclear, but……..? If Arizona went ahead and gave their Secretary of State authority to postpone elections in emergencies, based on the wording I’ve seen, I’m not sure that’s the Pentagon’s, or any feds’ fault. I guess Brad will let us know, when he gets a minute.

  35. 50)
    Dredd said on 1/28/2006 @ 5:10am PT: [Permalink]

    Why are the democrats to be blamed for the failures of the admin and the congress? The polls show that the people blame the republicans.

    I am appalled at the ignorance of the reality of the matter.

    Justice is the act of blaming those responsible and exonerating those not responsible. The republicans have the power in congress and in the white house, and have the weight of accountability.

    To blame the democrats or independents for what the majority republican party does is wholesale hypocrisy and lunacy.

    To blame individual senators, whether they be republican or democrate, for their individual behavior is another matter.

    But to blame wholesale the democrats or independents who do not have the power is lame.

    The republicans are responsible for nominating and voting for Alito. Not one republican has said anything against nor voted against Alito.

    Stop blaming the wrong party and wake up.

  36. 51)
    m3 said on 1/28/2006 @ 7:08am PT: [Permalink]

    Increasingly, it seems people should just set a date… one that we all can agree on… and descend on the White House.

    Not to wave banners, give speeches or kick off protest chants… people need to be prepared to kick the doors in and physically remove the unelected tyrants in power.

    America is getting to the point where increasinlgy it seems that people may have to be prepared to take a bullet in the fight for their freedom… which is very sad.

    The neocons have pushed things too far, they’ve almost got the whole political system sewn up with their seemingly endless corruption. The only thing we do know that will make neocons disappear… is a bloody war that requires them to fight in it.

  37. 52)
    big dan said on 1/28/2006 @ 7:12am PT: [Permalink]

    Doug, you forgot why these neo-con spies are doing it. They need America to finance they’re wars via American’s taxes (like Ricky’s, MediumWong’s, Paul, and us.), and they need America’s military to do it for them, and they use our American military to die for them. When are our soldiers going to revolt? It’s only a matter of time,because actually, there’s very very few of these neo-cons, but they control everything, including the Republican Party. Ask Republican Ron Paul

  38. 53)
    big dan said on 1/28/2006 @ 7:21am PT: [Permalink]

    Bush is a puppet for the neo-cons. This is bigger than Bush. It’s about the neo-cons controlling our elections via electronic voting machines, and getting non-neo-con Republicans bought into it by saying "gays" and "abortion", and then controlling the courts by getting Alito in there, having 5 radical right judges on the Supreme Court, a majority, who can give whatever president will be their puppet (Bush this time) powers above the other 2 branches of government, IE above the law, IE the neo-cons’ agenda is above the law. Anyone else see this?

    Whatever president the neo-cons install in 2008, you can be sure, regardless of party, he will be a puppet of the neo-cons. And they will use American tax money and American lives for their wars around the world, and get IDIOTS on their side by saying "gay" "abortion" "hurting the troops" "unAmerican" "unPatriotic".

    It’s a matter of time until Ricky, MediumWong, and Paul realize this, because they are not neo-cons. They are the idiots the neo-cons got on their side, because there’s so few neo-cons. They would never get what they want, without duping idiots into being on their side. Abortion, gays, unPatriotic…….Hitler’s playbook. That is not an anti-Jewish statement. They are following the fascist playbook, which Hitler used to get power above the law. It has nothing to do with the Jews, it has to do with the fascist plan to acquire power above the law, IE no more democracy.

  39. 54)
    big dan said on 1/28/2006 @ 7:26am PT: [Permalink]

    On the bright side, I think of what Ghandi said. He said that no matter how powerful and indestructible a tyrant might be, history shows they always fall. I’m not talking about the puppet Bush, I’m talking about the neo-cons.

  40. 55)
    big dan said on 1/28/2006 @ 7:32am PT: [Permalink]

    If I was to say at this point who’s running our country (I know it’s not George W. Bush), I’d say it’s the former members of the PNAC. That’s my best guess. They are definitely using the Republican Party to do it. Notice all the former PNAC members in Bush’s cabinet: Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bolton, Feith, Perle, I can go on. One would be a coincidence. More than half? That is no coincidene. I think the PNAC is running America. And the PNAC are neo-cons. And by the way, America doesn’t elect a cabinet, the president picks the cabinet.

  41. 57)
    Bob Bilse said on 1/28/2006 @ 10:17am PT: [Permalink]

    Bush is incompetent, but it doesn’t matter. He can barely speak his only language, but it doesn’t matter. He can’t be trusted to speak without a script, but it doesn’t matter.

    He was propped up by The Corporatist structure because they believed he could get enough votes to carry their agenda into the White House. He couldn’t, so they took care of that, too.

    Bush is not the problem, he’s one of the symptoms – a projection. Another just like him will be nominated for 2008. Whether he’s smarter, or stupider, will be immaterial. He will be OWNED, lock, stock, and barrel.

    If one had wanted to shut Charlie McCarthy up, what would’ve been the point of attacking the dummy, and leaving Edgar Bergen standing in place?

  42. 58)
    agent99 said on 1/28/2006 @ 10:29am PT: [Permalink]

    Brad: link coming in your email.

    Doug: Don’t have info on all the states yet, sidetracked, back at it, but Brad says it was just Brewer…?

  43. 59)
    agent99 said on 1/28/2006 @ 10:53am PT: [Permalink]

    Doug: I only have information that Brewer SAYS all the states were being asked by the Pentagon to make provisions for election postponement in case of emergency. Not, probably going to be so easy with the rest of the states… but I guess I’ll be finding out in the next hour or so.

  44. 60)
    Doug Eldritch said on 1/28/2006 @ 1:05pm PT: [Permalink]

    Big Dan

    Right the neocons of Zion are doing exactly that and we got to stop them…….thats what the law is for, and right to bear arms and all of those things. Electronic Voting Machines are one part of it.

    And only the not well learned would accuse Alito of being their pawn….Judge Alito hates the neocons more than almost anything. The Catholic church is installing him just to be able to clean them out, but of course hes going to be fillibustered first.

    Doug

  45. 61)
    Peg C said on 1/28/2006 @ 5:27pm PT: [Permalink]

    Doug #60 –

    I’d like to see your source(s) for that information. His embrace of the "unitary executive" would seem to belie your theory. Elaborate?

  46. 62)
    Al Rogers said on 1/28/2006 @ 7:43pm PT: [Permalink]

    to decribe the Bush administration 2nd term as a failure is to kind a description. Historians will show in years to come this to be the most corrupt administration this country has ever seen.
    How many offshore Cayman Island accounts has Halliburton set up for V.P. Cheney any way???
    When my book comes out in December the figure of 58% seeing this administration as a failure will surely increase to more than 70%.

  47. 63)
    Doug Eldritch said on 1/28/2006 @ 8:22pm PT: [Permalink]

    Peg C

    Ask Agent99 if you want anything to elaborate on it. I showed him what really makes Alito tick already. He’s not for the unitary executive whatsoever, that’s simply the only way they portray in. In actuality, he is for checking constitutional power including executive; hence why he has studied executive law.

    Doug E.

  48. 64)
    YANKHADENUF said on 1/29/2006 @ 11:19am PT: [Permalink]

    KBR awarded Homeland Security contract worth up to $385M

    "12:19pm 01/24/06
    KBR awarded Homeland Security contract worth up to $385M (HAL) By Katherine Hunt
    SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton Co. (HAL) , said Tuesday it has been awarded a contingency contract from the Department of Homeland Security to supports its Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in the event of an emergency. The maximum total value of the contract is $385 million and consists of a 1-year base period with four 1-year options. KBR held the previous ICE contract from 2000 through 2005. The contract, which is effective immediately, provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to expand existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs, KBR said. The contract may also provide migrant detention support to other government organizations in the event of an immigration emergency, as well as the development of a plan to react to a national emergency, such as a natural disaster, the company said."

    Go to MarketWatch.com (membership required)

    http://www.marketwatch.com/news...ve%3Dpulsetrue

    TIME FOR BOTH PARTIES TO WAKE UP & SMELL THE COFFEE !!!

    WHO WANTS ALITO NOW, HMMMMMMM???

  49. 65)
    KestrelBrighteyes said on 1/29/2006 @ 3:20pm PT: [Permalink]

    GEEZE! Leave y’all alone for the weekend and look what you do to the place! *L*

    Um…y’all might want to try using http://www.tinyurl.com to shrink those long URLS so they don’t stretch the thread.

    Just a suggestion 🙂

  50. 66)
    YANKHADENUF said on 1/29/2006 @ 3:54pm PT: [Permalink]

    Sorry about lack of techieness 🙁

    Will get lessons at tinyurl 🙂

    In meantime, pleez read the HAL article 😉

  51. 67)
    KestrelBrighteyes said on 1/29/2006 @ 7:22pm PT: [Permalink]

    YankHadEnuf – Hey, no worries, "techiness" is plentiful on this blog 🙂

    Okay, is it just me or is this just creepy?

    From the article you sited (actually from a site with the same article where you DON’T have to be a member):

    The contract, which is effective immediately, provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs. The contingency support contract provides for planning and, if required, initiation of specific engineering, construction and logistics support tasks to establish, operate and maintain one or more expansion facilities…..

    The contract may also provide migrant detention support to other U.S. Government organizations in the event of an immigration emergency, as well as the development of a plan to react to a national emergency, such as a natural disaster…

    Um….emergency influx of immigrants? Is this a real danger to our country now? Did I miss something???

    National emergency..such as natural disaster…or the general population deciding they are not going to take anymore and taking to the streets?

    (Anybody here familiar with Operation Cable Splice and Operation Garden Plot? Anybody in need of a reality check?)

    Could it be that the lunatics are getting prepared to defend the asylum??

    Ya know, I’m not going to feel really free in this country again until King George has been deposed…

  52. 68)
    Dredd said on 1/30/2006 @ 2:34am PT: [Permalink]

    Doug #60

    Peg C wonders about your Alito logic, and I see the "Zion" word showing up again.

    You did not answer Peg C coherently. And you have not answered the Zion question either. Remember, Brad, Jim March, and I have mentioned to you the fact that so many on that road are right wing racists with a hate agenda.

    Anyone notice that major al Queda members are being released inexplicably (link here) while at the same time Americans are being spied on "in case any al Queda call them" and are being called "enemy combatants" and then that is also dropped?

  53. 69)
    Doug Eldritch said on 1/31/2006 @ 4:07am PT: [Permalink]

    First, this page is spread far too wide now and its hard to read.

    Second, Alito is not what he appears. I promised I wouldn’t elaborate on it but Agent99 knows exactly what I mean. If you wish to have further clarification, I’m certainly happy to discuss it over email so give me a ring.

    Third, of course the Zionist Neocons are behind it and that is not a "hate speech" word…Although the right-wing haters and racists use it and quickly stereotype and ruin the real message I’ll admit. Super-Zionist means someone, mostly the neocons who are for an all "exclusive imperial state" in the Middle East. Known as Greater Israel.

    And that’s all I got to discuss now, its late or early here.

    Doug Eldritch

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