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Senate Votes To Raise US Debt Ceiling To $9 Trillion

Where the hell are the fiscal conservatives? Who would've thought that a Republican congress would take the largest budget SURPLUS in history and turn it into the largest DEFICIT in history? How can they get away with selling out our future for an unnecessary war and tax cuts for the richest 2% of Americans?

Intelligence agencies warned about growing local insurgency in late 2003

Bush Given Top Intel Reports That Contradicted His Reasons For War In Iraq...

Bush, an Opponent of Raising Taxes, Proposes $47 Bln in Fees

Pork barrel spending up from 4000 to 15,000 under Republican Congress

Iraq War Propelled Iran To Apex Of Middle East Power...

Libby: Cheney Authorized Intelligence Leak

House Cuts $40B In Welfare, Child Support, Student Lending, Medicaid...

Meanwhile, Bush Requests $439.3 Billion More For Military Spending...

Ex-Marine Says Public Version of Saddam Capture Staged

Marine Bodies Sent To Families As Commercial Freight

Bush: Constitution "Just A Goddamned Piece Of Paper"

Castro Calls Jeb Bush “Fat Little Brother"

Castro: “It Is Not A Criticism, Rather A Suggestion That He Do Some Exercises And Go On A Diet”...

US-sponsored textbooks in Pakistan praise President Bush

Under USAID sponsored program, all school text books in Pakistan are being revised to produce elites who will follow the West and US in particular. The goal is to cultivate future leaders who will act as surrogates in developing countries and counter the demographic trends. One such effort recently embarrassed the Pakistani government.

Wilkerson: Prisoner Abuse Came From Cheney’s Office…

Death Row Inmate Changes Clothes & Walks Out Of Prison...

Bush Sends White House Staff To Ethics “Refresher” Classes…

Democrats Force Closed Meeting In Senate On Iraq, Pre-War Intelligence And Plamegate....

Frist: Dems have no convictions.

Dick Cheney Wants To Add A Torture Loophole To Anti-Abuse Legislation

But torture has worked so well so far...

US Troop Death Rate Doubled Since Falluja, 2000 US Soldiers Now Dead

Now that's progress. If you're Al-Qaida.

Powell's Chief of Staff: White House Decision-Making More Resembles Dictatorship Than Democracy

Wilkerson served as Powell's Chief of Staff from 2002 to 2005. He knows what he's talking about.

45% Of Iraqi Citizens Think Suicide Attacks Against US, Brits Justified

Didn't Cheney say the insurgency was in its last throes? Well, over half don't support attacks against us; that's progress. Or is it? Guess it depends on how many were against us before we invaded.

Cheney Told Libby About Plame After Talking To CIA Director Tenet

Gotcha!

White House Makes Contingency Plans To Pull Miers

Ahh, here's the president's plan for "Intelligent Resign."

Records Show Definitively Frist Knew Of Stock Holdings When He Said He Did Not

Coulter Admits She's 'Not a Big Fan of the First Amendment'

Legal Experts Describe Miers' Answers As “Terrible,” “Sloppy,” “Shocking”

Could Bush be looking for an "Intelligent Resign?"

Top Diplomat Says Iraq War “Very Much Amateur Hour”

Ben Bernanke Is The Next Fed Chair

Powell Chief Of Staff: ‘Cheney Cabal Hijacked US Foreign Policy’

Warrent For DeLay's Arrest Issued By Court

$10,000 bond set. Will be booked, photographed and fingerprinted at Travis County Courthouse.

Bush Knew Rove Leaked Two Years Ago. Last Year, Bush "Would Fire" Anyone Involved.

If Rove told the President about his role in the leak, why did the President say what he said last year?

Senate panel OKs oil drilling in Arctic refuge

Hurricane Wilma Strongest Storm On Record

And Rita was the smoking gun for climate change? Better go buy some flourescent bulbs...

Spanish Judge Issues Warrant for Three GIs

Senators To Ask CIA Director Why Agency Is Bleeding Talent During War Time...

Cheney may be target of probe

Rove Replacements Now Being Discussed At White House

Why Conservatives Oppose Miers

It seems a mystery why so many conservatives are opposed to the Miers nomination. There is one reason that makes sense: Republicans do not want to overturn Roe.

The issue has electrified their conservative base. It brings them to the polls. For hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of single-issue voters, they vote Republican for one reason: they oppose abortion.

Now imagine if this issue were taken away. What might those single-issue voters turn to? Education? Health care? Maybe even the death penalty? For Republicans, the abortion issue is useful to them only so long as it is legal.

And therefore it makes sense that one real reason conservatives oppose Miers is because she would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.

There are other reasons that they might oppose her, such as her inexperience with Constitutional law. Or the fact that Bush's track record of placing "good friends" in high government positions has literally proven to be disastrous (read, "Michael Brown" or "George Tenet"). But the only reason that really makes sense to me is the idea that Republicans do not want to overturn Roe because they will lose an electrifying issue.

Losing the abortion issue would even have the opposite effect: handing the Democrats an equally electrifying issue for their base. The fact that abortion is currently legal means thousands of would-be single-issue voters for choice can afford to be complacent or apathetic. Suddenly, faced with thousands of women whose coat-hanger stories of botched abortions in the newspapers would drive them to the polls to legalize abortion again.

That is not something the Republicans ever want to see.

Rumors Fly That Cheney Will Step Aside, Bush Will Elevate Condi Rice...

Bush Told Blair He “Wanted To Go Beyond Iraq”... Saudi Arabia, Pakistan on His List

Fitzgerald Now Focusing On Cheney...

Al Qaida Launches Weekly News Show

Progress in Iraq: Al Qaida Barber Seized

I feel safer knowing that senior Al Qaida members can no longer get haircuts. The world is a safer place.

Rove Spends Four And A Half Hours In Courthouse…

Armstrong Williams Hiring Was Illegal “Covert Propaganda”... US Attorney Contacted...

NBC/WSJ Poll: 2% Of African-Americans Give President Bush A Positive Rating...

Growing Number Of Republicans Calling For Withdrawal Of Miers Nomination…

Problem: White House In Crisis... Solution: Keep Reporters Away...

The Christian Republic of America

You know which countries have their political leaders make secret decisions with their religious leaders? If you answered the Islamic Republic of Iran, you'd be right. But apparently you would also be right if you answered the United States of America.

When asked why he is supporting President Bush's new nominee to the Supreme Court, Reverend Dobson, founder of the Focus on the Family, said, "I can't reveal it all, because I do know things that I'm privy to that I can't describe, because of confidentiality."
This is after he admitted, "It was leaked to the media that I've had conversations with Karl Rove and the White House, which is true."

What is the White House keeping secret from the rest of the country but sharing with Reverend Dobson? This is what religious republics do. They take counsel with their imams, ayatollahs, shamans or reverends. They share secret information, close out the public and make decisions based on strange interpretations of their religion. This isn't the America I signed up for. I signed up for a secular democracy where politicians were held to account and citizens made law, not cloaked religious figures.

By Cenk Uygur

Bush: God Told Me To Invade Iraq

"I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, "George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan." And I did, and then God would tell me, "George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq …" And I did. And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, "Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East." And by God I'm gonna do it."

Abu Mazen was at the same meeting and recounts how President Bush told him: "I have a moral and religious obligation. So I will get you a Palestinian state."

Woman Booted From Southwest Flight For Anti-Bush Administration T-Shirt…

Cheney Urges Patience For War

The Iraq war has lasted longer than the time between Pearl Harbor and V-Day. How could we accomplish the destruction of Hitler's Army in less time than it takes to locate Osama bin Laden?

Ex-Marine Working In Cheney's Office Charged With Spying

George Tenet Will Not Be Accountable For Incompetence

"Progress" in Iraq: Do the Numbers Add Up?

The president declared during his Saturday radio address that Iraqi security forces had “more than 100 battalions operating throughout the country”. Sounds impressive. On Tuesday, he told reporters “there are over 80 army battalions fighting alongside coalition troops… There are over 30 Iraqi battalions in the lead”. Okay, less impressive, but still notable. The problem is, just last week, two Generals told Congress that there was actually just one Iraqi battalion able to take on the insurgents on its own. ONE.

By Arriana Huffington, The Huffington Post

White House Procurement Officer Indicted In Lobbyist Probe…

My God, will it never end? Abramoff, Rove, Delay, Frist, Scooty and now Safavian... Is this the crew that would "restore integrity to the White House?" Makes me want a blowjob in the Oval Office.

Six Iraq War Vets Running For House As Democrats...

"I'm not anti-war, I'm anti-failure."

Cars Stolen In US Used For Suicide Bombings In Iraq...

Bill O'Reilly On Syria's Leader: “We Should Take His Life If He Doesn't Help Us Out”...

First, Pat Robertson, leader of the Christian right, endorses assassination. Now, Bill O'Reilly, media mouthpiece of the GOP, endorses assassination. Isn't assassination illegal? Are Republicans are considering assassination of world leaders?

Former Fox News Correspondent: Colleagues Would “Cut Corners Or Steal Information…Just Make Things Up”…

Army Short 80,000 Recruits, Will Allow Twice As Many Low-Achievers In To Compensate...

That should make the Army even more Republican.

Iraq oil minister survives bomb attack

Thatcher Linked to DeLay Corruption; Document "Sealed" Because of "Explosive Nature" of Proof

In the dossier headed "Secret...wider circulation strictly forbidden", civil servants then warn ministers: "There would be considerable press interest in this case if it were to become public knowledge..."

"Evidence is sought from her about that meeting and her involvement in the alleged deception and violation of US criminal laws."

If Lady Thatcher is found to have been involved in the alleged scam she could face a criminal probe in the US or even be banned from travelling to the country.

Novak: Frist Turns His Back When Reporters Ask Him About Stock Sale...

Delay Indicted On Two Charges: Conspiracy And Money Laundering...

The latter charge carries a penalty of up to life in prison. Patrick Fitzgerald, prosecutor, fucks up.

Court Nominee Has No Judicial Experience

Another inexperienced Bush crony nominated to a high government position...

Rumors Confirmed

Auburn, AL.
Rumors of the impending marriage of Beau and Beth were confirmed this weekend when Miss Manguso displayed her 1920's era ring to the masses of envious, unmarried women, sources say. The event unleashed further pressure from girlfriends on their unwitting partners. Between pages of the Dillard's registry, one such woman found her wedding dress-to-be for a tidy sum of $20,000, thus ensuring that her partner keep his nose to the grindstone. Beth plans to wear wellies with a green bikini, while Beau will wear his clan's kilt.

It has been confirmed that the event will take place in Scotland on the Carmichael Estate, ancient land of the Brodbeck Clan, during the Summer of 2006.

Source to Stephanopoulos: President Bush Directly Involved In Leak Scandal

Near the end of a round table discussion on ABC’s This Week, George Stephanopoulos dropped this bomb:

"Definitely a political problem but I wonder, George Will, do you think it’s a manageable one for the White House especially if we don’t know whether Fitzgerald is going to write a report or have indictments but if he is able to show as a source close to this told me this week, that President Bush and Vice President Cheney were actually involved in some of these discussions."

Bush Says Iraqi Military Is Improving

It seems that Bush doesn't read the news. If the loss of two combat-ready Iraqi batallions is "improvement," then i guess we are winning the war. Only one more to go, and then we can leave! Or maybe he just doesn't listen to his own generals.

Bali Bombing Suspects Linked to al-Qaida

4 Years and $200 billion dollars later, and Al-Qaida is still active? Can we say that the war isn't working yet?

Army's Recruiting Lowest in 26 Years

Rice: Force is Necessary for Democracy

Get 3 Free ITunes Downloads When You Sign Up To Be Contacted By The National Guard!

Remember when you used to buy cereal for the prize in the bottom of the box? Army recruiting catches on...

Bali Bombings Leave 22 Dead, 50 Injured

Again? Good thing the world is safer now.

US Generals: Presence Of Troops In Iraq Is Fueling Insurgency… Urge Reductions…

Buying of News by Bush's Aides Is Ruled Illegal

Miller's Testimony Increases Anxiety In The White House And Republican Circles…

Judy Miller Walks, Cheney's Office Leaked Name of CIA Officer to Spite Critic of False Iraq Intelligence

Combat-Ready Iraqi Batallions Falls From Three to One

Looks like we'll have to stay there for good now. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine: "It doesn't feel like progress."

Arctic Could Be Ice-Free By Century's End... 500,000 Extra Square Miles Melted This Year...

Arctic sea ice coverage in 1979 vs. 2005. Any questions?

DeLay...Katrina...Dr. Frist...Gas Prices...Abramoff...Social Security...Iraq...$2.5 Trillion US Debt...Plamegate...

McClellan Clarifies Bush Remarks on "Our Changing Strategy in Iraq"

Take the Scotty Quiz!: C-SPAN left me in suspense this morning.

A reporter wanted Scott McClellan to clarify remarks the president had made earlier in the day about "the way we're changing our strategy" in Iraq. But before Scotty could reply, C-SPAN abruptly and without warning cut away from the gaggle and over to Sen. John Warner on the Senate floor waxing lyrical (and vaguely Blue Boy) about John Roberts: "He is a magnificent man."

After several hours speculating on what Scotty's answer might have been, Arianna Huffington finally found the transcript. I thought you might enjoy playing along. So, what was Scotty's reply?

A) "The president said what???"
B) "Why would we want to change our strategy, when things are going so well?"
C) "We have a strategy in Iraq?"
D) "Actually, when the president said 'changing our strategy,' he actually meant 'changing our talking points.'"
E) "We're fighting them there so that we don't have to fight them here at home."
(correct answer below)

Answer to the Scotty Quiz: E) "We're fighting them there so that we don't have to fight them here at home." I'm not kidding. He really said that -- as well as, "This is a strategy that was developed by our military commanders, because they're the ones who are on the ground, the ones on the ground who are in the best position to understand how to defeat the enemy. And it's a strategy that will succeed." In other words: Meet the new strategy; same as the old strategy.

By Arianna Huffington

Insurgents Sieze Five Towns in Iraq, Residents Flee, Marines "Do Not Venture In"

US Marines stationed outside the towns "do not venture in." Residents flee because of letters threatening beheading. Lt. Col. Alford: "They run these towns." Another military success story.

Beau and Beth Announce Engagement: Beth: "FINALLY!"

Fairhope, Alabama. Sources say that Beau popped the question last weekend while on his homestead in Fairhope. Close friends say that the event will take place in Scotland, though there are rumors that it may take place at his rubber plantation in Guatamala as well. Beth's first reaction was reported to be, "Finally!" whereupon she beat him on the chest.