More of the scam calls from the NRCC, from TPM Reader PS ...
I was canvassing in Stamford, CT for Lamont and Farrel yesterday... some of the canvassers were talking about a nasty robocall hit on Farrell, which they said people at the doors had talked about. I didn't hear that at the door personally, but I wasn't focusing on the congressional race - i was talking about Lamont primarily.Apparently the call starts with something along the lines of "Diane Farrell has some information for you," then pauses, waiting for annoyed people to hang up, and then delivers a negative message about Farrell. The canvassers say the call has hit some people as much as 6 times, and at 5 - 6am as well. Presumably, the intent is to annoy people and stick Farrell with the negative name ID as somebody who keeps robo-calling them.
We won't be able to get to the bottom of this operation until after Tuesday, which is the point. They'll happily pay the fines for breaking the federal regs on misidentifying calls.
-- Josh Marshall
11/6/06
CT-04 The NRCC's Illegal Calls?
For the sake of getting this out fast this is just a cut'n'paste from Josh Marshall at TPM:
11/5/06
Your Friendly Monday Lamont Planner!
Flyer Hand-Out at Train Stations in Fairfield County (Congressional District 4)
Date: Mon, November 6th 6:00 am
Description:
We are at the last stretch of the elections. We need a final push to elect Ned Lamont! Please join us in distributing flyers at the Metro-North Train stations in Fairfield County between 6:00 - 8:30 am (during peak morning hours) on Monday, November 6. We especially need volunteers at: Bridgeport, Cos Cob, Danbury, Darien, Glenbrook, Greenwich, Merritt 7, Noroton Heights, South Norwalk, Springdale, Stamford, Westport, and Wilton stations. We would like to cover all stations in Fairfield County. When signing up, please specify the train station where you can volunteer.
Ned will talk to voters in Norwich
Date: Mon, November 6th 8:15 am
Description:
Ned will greet voters at Jackie's Bakeshop in Norwich.
TURN OUT TEN
Date: Mon, November 6th 9:00 am
Description:
It's your mission to get 10 people to vote for Ned Lamont on Tuesday, November 7. How are we going to do that? This Monday, November 6 from 9AM to 9PM, Lamont supporters all over CT will be dialing 10 people they know to convince them to vote for Ned Lamont. Each one of us can do this right in your own home. Think about friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, and acquaintances who are undecided, misguided, or sitting on the fence. Tell them the war in Iraq has destabilized the Middle East and threatened our national security, and that of our allies in the region. Tell them running as an independent doesn't mean being independent. And fighting for the environment doesn't mean voting for the Bush-Cheney Energy Bill. Tell them earmarks are just another word for old-fashioned pork. Remind them that there has never been a more critical time to VOTE FOR A CHANGE. So join in! If you can't TURN OUT TEN voters on Monday, November 6, just choose any other time this weekend before the election. We can do this!
Ned will deliver Keynote Address in Hartford
Date: Mon, November 6th 12:00 pm
Description:
Ned will deliver the final address of the campaign summarizing his vision for change.
Ned will greet volunteers in Plainville
Date: Mon, November 6th 1:45 pm
Description:
Ned will greet volunteers at the Plainville DTC Headquarters.
Ned will greet volunteers in Watertown
Date: Mon, November 6th 2:40 pm
Description:
Ned will greet volunteers at campaign HQ in Watertown.
Join Ned for the final rally of the campaign in Danbury!
Date: Mon, November 6th 3:30 pm
Description:
Join Ned for the final rally of the campaign at 3:30pm in Danbury! Joining Lamont supporters from across the state of Connecticut will be the Dave Bickler Band, whose leader is former lead singer of Survivor, famous for their hit "Eye of the Tiger."
Ned will greet volunteers in Norwalk
Date: Mon, November 6th 5:30 pm
Description:
Ned will stop by the Norwalk HQ to greet volunteers.
New Haven Area GOTV Organizing Meeting
Date: Mon, November 6th 6:00 pm
Description:
Come to the New Haven Lamont Headquarters to find out all you need to know for election day!
If you can't make the meeting, but you plan to work election day, please come by the New Haven office any time Monday.
Ned will greet volunteers in Stamford
Date: Mon, November 6th 6:30 pm
Description:
Ned will greet volutneers at the Stamford Democratic HQ.
Ned will greet volunteers in Greenwich
Date: Mon, November 6th 7:15 pm
Description:
Ned will greet volunteers at Greenwich Democratic HQ.
Where in the GOP is House Leader Hastert?
I had written the other day on the questionable skills of the Eggman, Matt Drudge.
Here is what I mean:
While Drudge, and other republican mouthpieces, repeat GOP talking points like the Rove parrots that they are, the real truth is that Nancy Pelosi has been doing interviews all over the place:
Now let us get to heart of the real problem here: Hastert has not been seen or heard from since the Foley scandal exploded in Hastert's lying face. And the GOP talking points concerning Pelosi are only to distract from the recent Hastert revelations.
The real question is:
"Where is Denis Hastert?"
Is the (Foley) GOP hiding (Foley) him for some (Foley) reason in (Foley) particular?
Here is what I mean:
‘Vanishing’ Pelosi To Appear At Multiple Public Rallies Tomorrow
The right-wing media — including Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News — have launched a baseless campaign (already picked up by MSNBC) suggesting that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has gone into hiding before Tuesday’s election.
While Drudge, and other republican mouthpieces, repeat GOP talking points like the Rove parrots that they are, the real truth is that Nancy Pelosi has been doing interviews all over the place:
Pelosi has been featured in numerous public and media appearances recently. Two days ago, she appeared at a public rally with former President Clinton, portions of which aired on television, and in a feature interview on CNN. She also appeared in interviews on CNBC’s Kudlow & Company on 10/24, ABC’s Good Morning America and ABC’s World News Tonight on 10/26, and conducted interviews for profiles in the New York Times (10/30), Newsweek (10/23), and the Baltimore Sun (10/27).
Now let us get to heart of the real problem here: Hastert has not been seen or heard from since the Foley scandal exploded in Hastert's lying face. And the GOP talking points concerning Pelosi are only to distract from the recent Hastert revelations.
The real question is:
"Where is Denis Hastert?"
Is the (Foley) GOP hiding (Foley) him for some (Foley) reason in (Foley) particular?
More GOP Dirty Tricks
DK at TPM documents some more GOP dirty tricks in New Hampshire, New York, California and North Carolina...
Interestingly enough the NRCC fully endorses these tactics that are unethical and really should be made illegal. Of course the NRCC says that the republican candidates have nothing to do with these NRCC efforts, even though the NRCC's only job is to get Republican candidates elected to the House.
It is also interesting how these Republican candidates have to distance themselves from their Republican president AND from their National Party's commitees. If things are that bad that they have to do that, why even be a Republican at all?
Oh Yeah! It's because of the money...
Interestingly enough the NRCC fully endorses these tactics that are unethical and really should be made illegal. Of course the NRCC says that the republican candidates have nothing to do with these NRCC efforts, even though the NRCC's only job is to get Republican candidates elected to the House.
It is also interesting how these Republican candidates have to distance themselves from their Republican president AND from their National Party's commitees. If things are that bad that they have to do that, why even be a Republican at all?
Oh Yeah! It's because of the money...
News Times: Citing Lieberman's "unquestioning support of the Bush war policies."
The Danbury News Times endorses Ned Lamont:
"In Tuesday's election, the Editorial Board endorses Ned Lamont.
From the start of his campaign, Lamont has been a confident candidate, sure of his message as an outsider, not intimidated by Lieberman's long experience in government.
Lieberman dismisses Lamont as someone who wouldn't be able to match his presence in the Senate. Lieberman summons the same attitude toward voters who disagree with him on the war.
The problem for Lieberman is that all of his experience, all of his knowledge, didn't help him recognize what the Bush war policies were doing and now American military personnel are in the middle of a civil war in Iraq.
If the most experienced members of Congress didn't exercise oversight responsibilities on Iraq, have they really earned re-election?
If elected, Lamont will have to learn the ways of Washington. But Washington would benefit from having new people who ask questions, who wonder why "business as usual" can't be challenged and changed.
Lamont served in town office in Greenwich and is a successful businessman. He has a social conscience that motivated him to do more than just make a donation to help poor students; he volunteered to teach a class of Bridgeport teenagers about business.
In a year when the voters must impose change on Washington, Ned Lamont is the better choice."
Lieberman Calls Lamont a Jerk
During his bipartisan campaign to rid the world of negative campaigning a conservative lady angry at Lieberman had this to say during a campaign stop in Naugutuck:
And what was Joe Lieberman's "bipartisan positive campaign" response?
What an effing HYPOCRITE!
Earlier on in the NY Times article they discussed Lieberman's seeming arrogance at being challenged by anyone in the race and the Lamont campaigns' positive energy:
Joe Liberman is an arraogant hypocrite because he is willing to conduct the exact sort of negative campaigning he decries while living in a delusional Bush world of false denials and innumerable Flip-Flops and lies in order to please whomever he happens to be speaking to.
The irony? Both Lamont and Schlesinger have only ever attacked Lieberman's positions, Lieberman's public statements, and Joe's illegal use of campaign funds, and rightfully so. If Lieberman thinks that his own positions and statements being thrown back in his face are negative attacks, then that just exposes one more of his many weaknesses. It is much like admitting, sub-consciously, that even Lieberman hates himself.
Ned Lamont has been honest and consistent in his message that if you want to "Change the Course!" then you have to attack the real problems in Washington. Problems like Joe Lieberman's absurd support of the Bush administration.
If you send Ned Lamont to Washington as Connecticut's next JR. Senator you will be sending a clear message to the failed Bush administration that we need to change the course.
One woman insisted that he was not conservative enough for her, chiding him over his views on abortion. She pleaded with Mr. Lieberman about why he did not support a ban on so-called “partial-birth abortion,” which she called a “disgrace.”
“Come on, how can a man like you agree with that,” she asked, sitting in the waiting area of a hair salon. “You know what I’m going to do? I’m going to write in my husband. I don’t like any of them. Ned Lamont is the biggest jerk in the world.”
And what was Joe Lieberman's "bipartisan positive campaign" response?
“Well we agree on that,” he said. “So if you’ve got a choice between a jerk ...” He trailed off, not quite finishing his sentence.
What an effing HYPOCRITE!
Earlier on in the NY Times article they discussed Lieberman's seeming arrogance at being challenged by anyone in the race and the Lamont campaigns' positive energy:
Whether among friends or not, Mr. Lieberman, with his avuncular, grandfatherly demeanor, usually seems right at home, happily chatting with children or their mothers. But he keeps the stops short — typical for a campaign in which his appearances are carefully orchestrated and tightly controlled. His aides routinely cut off questioning when they feel Mr. Lieberman has addressed an issue adequately, and the senator himself, a three-term incumbent, sometimes has the air of a candidate who did not quite expect to be defending his seat again.
Mr. Lamont, by contrast, seems to possess almost limitless energy. He lingers at events, shaking hands until his driver begins tapping him impatiently on the arm, always seeming to enjoy himself.
As befits an underdog, he is also unusually patient with the news media, even after his primary victory, when television crews and reporters from around the world converged on Connecticut and mobbed his events.
Joe Liberman is an arraogant hypocrite because he is willing to conduct the exact sort of negative campaigning he decries while living in a delusional Bush world of false denials and innumerable Flip-Flops and lies in order to please whomever he happens to be speaking to.
The irony? Both Lamont and Schlesinger have only ever attacked Lieberman's positions, Lieberman's public statements, and Joe's illegal use of campaign funds, and rightfully so. If Lieberman thinks that his own positions and statements being thrown back in his face are negative attacks, then that just exposes one more of his many weaknesses. It is much like admitting, sub-consciously, that even Lieberman hates himself.
Ned Lamont has been honest and consistent in his message that if you want to "Change the Course!" then you have to attack the real problems in Washington. Problems like Joe Lieberman's absurd support of the Bush administration.
When I got into this race, people told me it's impossible, but important. It's important because 47 million Americans don't have health insurance, and skyrocketing health care costs bankrupt working families and business alike. It's the lobbyist written legislation, like the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere" and Dick Cheney's Energy Bill that Senator Lieberman supported. And most importantly, for me, it was the war in Iraq.
Now, as tens of thousands are dead and wounded, our military is stretched thin, we can't finish the mission in Afghanistan, and our own National Intelligence Estimate says we are less safe. It's not simply that Senator Lieberman supported the Bush/Cheney agenda in Iraq. It's when he questions the patriotism of concerned citizens as they say, "we gotta ask the tough questions, they're must be an alternative to stay the course."
We got into this mess in Washington not because we asked too many questions, but because we asked too few. On November 7th, we start asking the tough questions again, the first one being, "can't we do better?"
If you send Ned Lamont to Washington as Connecticut's next JR. Senator you will be sending a clear message to the failed Bush administration that we need to change the course.
11/4/06
Comparing Bush And Clinton
Hat tip to Saramerica:
A little humor to lighten things up around here.
Just make sure the kids aren't nearby when you listen... lol
A little humor to lighten things up around here.
Just make sure the kids aren't nearby when you listen... lol
Military Revolting Against Incompetence
Via The Ross Report:
An editorial scheduled to appear on Monday in Army Times, Air Force Times, Navy Times and Marine Corps Times, calls for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
The papers are sold to American servicemen and women. They are published by the Military Times Media Group, which is a subsidiary of Gannett Co., Inc.
Time for Rumsfeld to go
"So long as our government requires the backing of an aroused and informed public opinion ... it is necessary to tell the hard bruising truth."
That statement was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Marguerite Higgins more than a half-century ago during the Korean War.
But until recently, the "hard bruising" truth about the Iraq war has been difficult to come by from leaders in Washington. One rosy reassurance after another has been handed down by President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: "mission accomplished," the insurgency is "in its last throes," and "back off," we know what we're doing, are a few choice examples.
Military leaders generally toed the line, although a few retired generals eventually spoke out from the safety of the sidelines, inciting criticism equally from anti-war types, who thought they should have spoken out while still in uniform, and pro-war foes, who thought the generals should have kept their critiques behind closed doors.
Now, however, a new chorus of criticism is beginning to resonate. Active-duty military leaders are starting to voice misgivings about the war's planning, execution and dimming prospects for success.
Army Gen. John Abizaid, chief of U.S. Central Command, told a Senate Armed Services Committee in September: "I believe that the sectarian violence is probably as bad as I've seen it ... and that if not stopped, it is possible that Iraq could move towards civil war."
Last week, someone leaked to The New York Times a Central Command briefing slide showing an assessment that the civil conflict in Iraq now borders on "critical" and has been sliding toward "chaos" for most of the past year. The strategy in Iraq has been to train an Iraqi army and police force that could gradually take over for U.S. troops in providing for the security of their new government and their nation.
But despite the best efforts of American trainers, the problem of molding a viciously sectarian population into anything resembling a force for national unity has become a losing proposition.
For two years, American sergeants, captains and majors training the Iraqis have told their bosses that Iraqi troops have no sense of national identity, are only in it for the money, don't show up for duty and cannot sustain themselves.
Meanwhile, colonels and generals have asked their bosses for more troops. Service chiefs have asked for more money.
And all along, Rumsfeld has assured us that things are well in hand.
Now, the president says he'll stick with Rumsfeld for the balance of his term in the White House.
This is a mistake.
It is one thing for the majority of Americans to think Rumsfeld has failed. But when the nation's current military leaders start to break publicly with their defense secretary, then it is clear that he is losing control of the institution he ostensibly leads.
These officers have been loyal public promoters of a war policy many privately feared would fail. They have kept their counsel private, adhering to more than two centuries of American tradition of subordination of the military to civilian authority.
And although that tradition, and the officers' deep sense of honor, prevent them from saying this publicly, more and more of them believe it.
Rumsfeld has lost credibility with the uniformed leadership, with the troops, with Congress and with the public at large. His strategy has failed, and his ability to lead is compromised. And although the blame for our failures in Iraq rests with the secretary, it will be the troops who bear its brunt.
This is not about the midterm elections. Regardless of which party wins Nov. 7, the time has come, Mr. President, to face the hard bruising truth:
Donald Rumsfeld must go.
11/3/06
Your Friendly Lamont Weekend Planner
It is GOTV time! The final push to bring an end to unchecked power on Capitol Hill. A time to put an end to the rubberstamps and get them out of the hands of those Bush-bobble-head-yes-men.
It is time to CHANGE THE COURSE!
Since some candidates don't hire "volunteers" from out of state to work their GOTV effort, they rely on real Connecticut people like you to give your time and effort make this change real. I know what I will be doing this weekend.
Why don't YOU consider adding some of these events to your daily planner and make a real difference in fixing what is wrong in Washington.
Sat. 9:30am: Canvassing in West Hartford
Sat. 9:30am: Canvassing in East Hartford
Sat. 10am: Canvassing in Bristol
Sun. 11:45am: Ned will attend a rally with Sen. Dodd and Rep. Larson in Rocky Hill
Sun. 1pm: Canvassing in 1st CD East
Sun. 4pm: 1st CD East GOTV Planning Meeting
Sat. 9am: Canvassing in Vernon
Sat 9:30am: Canvassing in Enfield
Sat. 9:30am: Canvassing in Madison
Sat. 10am: Canvassing in Waterford
Sun. 10am: Haddam Democrats Election Rally
Sun. 1pm: Canvassing in Enfield
Sun. 4pm: 2nd CD North GOTV Planning Meeting (Willimantic)
Sun. 5:30pm: Ned and Sen. Dodd will attend a Colchester DTC Dinner
Sun. 7:30pm: Enfield GOTV Planning Meeting
Sat. 9am: Canvassing in Fair Haven
Sat. 9am: Canvassing in West Haven
Sat. 11am: Canvassing in Ansonia
Sat. 2pm: Canvassing in Middletown
Sat. 6pm: Ned and Mayor DeStefano will hold a Town Hall in Milford
Sat. 7pm: "Stand Up for Change" Grand Finale Rally in New Haven
Sun 10am: Ned will attend a Derby DTC Brunch & Rally
Sun. 10:30am: Ned will attend an Ansonia DTC Brunch & Rally
Sun. 12pm: Canvassing in Middletown
Sun. 2pm: Canvassing in Fair Haven
Sun. 2pm: Canvassing in West Haven
Sun. 3pm: Ned, Sen. Dodd, and Rep. Larson will attend a fundraiser for O'Rourke's Diner in Middletown
Sun. 4pm: Ned will attend a Middletown DTC Rally
Sun. 7pm: Ned will attend a seniors candidate event in New Haven
Mon. 6pm: New Haven Area GOTV Planning Meeting
Sat. 10am: Canvassing in Stamford/Knock and Rock with Black 47!
Sat. 1pm: Stand with Ned for Bridge Repair in Bridgeport
Sun. 1pm: Canvassing in Bridgeport
Sun. 1pm and 3pm: Canvassing in Norwalk
Sun. 7pm: 4th CD GOTV Planning Meeting
Mon. 6am: Flyer Hand-Out at Train Stations in Fairfield County
Sat. 9am: Canvassing in Meriden
Sat. 9am: Canvassing in Waterbury
Sat. 10am: Canvassing in New Fairfield
Sat. 10am: Canvassing in Newtown
Sun. 12pm: Canvassing in Danbury
Sun 1:15pm: Ned and Sen. Dodd will attend a rally in New Britain
Sun. 6pm: Naugatuck Valley and Southern 5th CD GOTV Planning Meeting
Sun. 7pm: Bethel/ Danbury GOTV Planning Meeting
Sun. 7pm: Plainville GOTV Planning Meeting
Joe may pay his "Bloomberg team" better... But when you volunteer for Lamont you can end the day with your integrity and conscience intact.
It is time to CHANGE THE COURSE!
Since some candidates don't hire "volunteers" from out of state to work their GOTV effort, they rely on real Connecticut people like you to give your time and effort make this change real. I know what I will be doing this weekend.
Why don't YOU consider adding some of these events to your daily planner and make a real difference in fixing what is wrong in Washington.
1st CD events:
Sat. 9:30am: Canvassing in West Hartford
Sat. 9:30am: Canvassing in East Hartford
Sat. 10am: Canvassing in Bristol
Sun. 11:45am: Ned will attend a rally with Sen. Dodd and Rep. Larson in Rocky Hill
Sun. 1pm: Canvassing in 1st CD East
Sun. 4pm: 1st CD East GOTV Planning Meeting
2nd CD events:
Sat. 9am: Canvassing in Vernon
Sat 9:30am: Canvassing in Enfield
Sat. 9:30am: Canvassing in Madison
Sat. 10am: Canvassing in Waterford
Sun. 10am: Haddam Democrats Election Rally
Sun. 1pm: Canvassing in Enfield
Sun. 4pm: 2nd CD North GOTV Planning Meeting (Willimantic)
Sun. 5:30pm: Ned and Sen. Dodd will attend a Colchester DTC Dinner
Sun. 7:30pm: Enfield GOTV Planning Meeting
3rd CD events:
Sat. 9am: Canvassing in Fair Haven
Sat. 9am: Canvassing in West Haven
Sat. 11am: Canvassing in Ansonia
Sat. 2pm: Canvassing in Middletown
Sat. 6pm: Ned and Mayor DeStefano will hold a Town Hall in Milford
Sat. 7pm: "Stand Up for Change" Grand Finale Rally in New Haven
Sun 10am: Ned will attend a Derby DTC Brunch & Rally
Sun. 10:30am: Ned will attend an Ansonia DTC Brunch & Rally
Sun. 12pm: Canvassing in Middletown
Sun. 2pm: Canvassing in Fair Haven
Sun. 2pm: Canvassing in West Haven
Sun. 3pm: Ned, Sen. Dodd, and Rep. Larson will attend a fundraiser for O'Rourke's Diner in Middletown
Sun. 4pm: Ned will attend a Middletown DTC Rally
Sun. 7pm: Ned will attend a seniors candidate event in New Haven
Mon. 6pm: New Haven Area GOTV Planning Meeting
4th CD events:
Sat. 10am: Canvassing in Stamford/Knock and Rock with Black 47!
Sat. 1pm: Stand with Ned for Bridge Repair in Bridgeport
Sun. 1pm: Canvassing in Bridgeport
Sun. 1pm and 3pm: Canvassing in Norwalk
Sun. 7pm: 4th CD GOTV Planning Meeting
Mon. 6am: Flyer Hand-Out at Train Stations in Fairfield County
5th CD events:
Sat. 9am: Canvassing in Meriden
Sat. 9am: Canvassing in Waterbury
Sat. 10am: Canvassing in New Fairfield
Sat. 10am: Canvassing in Newtown
Sun. 12pm: Canvassing in Danbury
Sun 1:15pm: Ned and Sen. Dodd will attend a rally in New Britain
Sun. 6pm: Naugatuck Valley and Southern 5th CD GOTV Planning Meeting
Sun. 7pm: Bethel/ Danbury GOTV Planning Meeting
Sun. 7pm: Plainville GOTV Planning Meeting
Joe may pay his "Bloomberg team" better... But when you volunteer for Lamont you can end the day with your integrity and conscience intact.
A Badge of Honor For Every Honest CT Blogger!
All you have to do is get a few paragraphs into DANGERstein's twistwed tirade against the NY Times to notice the high praise he places upon all of us in the Connecticut's Left Blogtopia:
If Joe Lieberman hadn't of done all that he has done to Connecticut, if he had done his job in the Senate, IF HE HAD DONE HIS JOB...
Well, maybe we wouldn't be stuck in Iraq. Maybe we would already have Healthcare. Maybe Senator Dodd's legislation to get more funding for troops armor would have passed. Maybe Unions wouldn't have consistantly lost ground to corporations. Maybe needed medication wouldn't be cheaper in Canada then it is here. Maybe we would still have the Constitution intact. Maybe the Democrats wouldn't have kicked his sorry butt to the curb.
And last but not least, Joe, maybe those of us who actually follow what you do, and understand the CORPORATE WHORE that you are, wouldn't be so blindingly angry about what you have done if you had been an honest politician and put Connecticut's interests ahead of corporations.
Though I am only slightly insulted to be equated with the likes of the lowly MSM, I am a blindingly angry Blogger. And it is a badge of honor that I will wear proudly knowing that I am not blind to your lies and distortions.
I am a blindingly angry Blogger, BUT I still have my integrity intact and because of that I am an honest and blindingly angry Blogger.
Something that no "LieberDem" could ever understand...
Instead, the Times’ ill-informed and tendentious endorsement of Ned Lamont reads as if the editors had outsourced the editorial writing to the same crew of blindingly angry bloggers who have teamed with the Lamont Campaign to twist Joe Lieberman’s record beyond all recognition.
If Joe Lieberman hadn't of done all that he has done to Connecticut, if he had done his job in the Senate, IF HE HAD DONE HIS JOB...
Well, maybe we wouldn't be stuck in Iraq. Maybe we would already have Healthcare. Maybe Senator Dodd's legislation to get more funding for troops armor would have passed. Maybe Unions wouldn't have consistantly lost ground to corporations. Maybe needed medication wouldn't be cheaper in Canada then it is here. Maybe we would still have the Constitution intact. Maybe the Democrats wouldn't have kicked his sorry butt to the curb.
And last but not least, Joe, maybe those of us who actually follow what you do, and understand the CORPORATE WHORE that you are, wouldn't be so blindingly angry about what you have done if you had been an honest politician and put Connecticut's interests ahead of corporations.
Though I am only slightly insulted to be equated with the likes of the lowly MSM, I am a blindingly angry Blogger. And it is a badge of honor that I will wear proudly knowing that I am not blind to your lies and distortions.
I am a blindingly angry Blogger, BUT I still have my integrity intact and because of that I am an honest and blindingly angry Blogger.
Something that no "LieberDem" could ever understand...
JOE "ROBO-DIALER" LIEBERMAN
I was just going out the door about an hour ago (had to pick up the kids at day care) and just as I was leaving the phone rang. I pick it up and LO AND BEHOLD it is one of those nuisance ROBO-calls... The only thing worse than a ROBO-call is a ROBO-call telling me I should support Joe Lieberman. And that is exactly what it was.
Now we all know Joe is a nuissance so maybe his using ROBO-calls is kind of appropriate. It also suits the "Connecticut For Lieberman" party since there really is only one member (Joe Lieberman) and you can't expect Joe to have time for all of those Lobbyist meetings - where he gets all of the money to support his campaign - while he is doing all of that dialing.
Now all Joe has to do is figure out how to get the ROBO-dialer to call in the votes for him on the Senate floor (Just set it on "Bush" for more war, death and destruction) and Joe can spend ALL of his time collecting money from the rich Republicans that support him.
Come to think of it...
Isn't Joe kindof a "Bush-Bot" set on more war, death and destruction already?
Maybe the ROBO-dialer is actually Joe?
Additional evidence of my theory: The ROBO-dialer wouldn't answer any questions about Street Money and illegal use of Petty Cash either.
Now we all know Joe is a nuissance so maybe his using ROBO-calls is kind of appropriate. It also suits the "Connecticut For Lieberman" party since there really is only one member (Joe Lieberman) and you can't expect Joe to have time for all of those Lobbyist meetings - where he gets all of the money to support his campaign - while he is doing all of that dialing.
Now all Joe has to do is figure out how to get the ROBO-dialer to call in the votes for him on the Senate floor (Just set it on "Bush" for more war, death and destruction) and Joe can spend ALL of his time collecting money from the rich Republicans that support him.
Come to think of it...
Isn't Joe kindof a "Bush-Bot" set on more war, death and destruction already?
Maybe the ROBO-dialer is actually Joe?
Additional evidence of my theory: The ROBO-dialer wouldn't answer any questions about Street Money and illegal use of Petty Cash either.
Possiblity of Diebold Fraud in Memphis Just Multiplied by 12?
Diebold just isn't having a very good day today, is it?
The Shelby County Board of Elections, looking to assauge local voters' fears, says:
The main reason I am joking about this is because the original source of the story is Matt Drudge (the eggman) and his "Drudge Report" sometimes has "news"... But more often than not it is full of sensational tabloid junk, and GOP talking points that are either unsourced and unverifiable OR easily debunked by facts.
Picture George W. Bush with a "red and blue" police light on his head and you have an idea of what the Drudge Report is... lol
TN-Sen: BREAKING - Diebold Fraud in Memphis!
Political insiders have expressed alarm after 12 voter smartcards have gone missing from one Shelby County, TN early vote location!
...
Someone possessing a smartcard could use 'off the shelf equipment' [equipment that reprograms the card] and alter it to be used multiple times, and cast multiple votes.
The Shelby County Board of Elections, looking to assauge local voters' fears, says:
"Don't worry, be happy! We're certain that none of the esteemed individuals with access to these cards could ever consider stealing votes... Not even the person that stole the cards." (Not a real quote... for those of you with no sense of humor!)
The main reason I am joking about this is because the original source of the story is Matt Drudge (the eggman) and his "Drudge Report" sometimes has "news"... But more often than not it is full of sensational tabloid junk, and GOP talking points that are either unsourced and unverifiable OR easily debunked by facts.
Picture George W. Bush with a "red and blue" police light on his head and you have an idea of what the Drudge Report is... lol
REPORT ON MARYLAND'S DIEBOLD VOTING SYSTEMS REVEALS SERIOUS SECURITY CONCERNS
I am thinking this can't be too good for democracy:
The BRAD BLOG : EXCLUSIVE: REPORT ON MARYLAND'S DIEBOLD VOTING SYSTEMS REVEALS SERIOUS SECURITY CONCERNS WERE WITHHELD FROM ELECTION BOARD, GOVERNOR, PUBLIC!
You might want to go read that story BEFORE YOU VOTE! At least then you will understand why it is important to demand a paper ballot.
What is so complicated about marking an X on an old fashioned paper ballot?
The BRAD BLOG : EXCLUSIVE: REPORT ON MARYLAND'S DIEBOLD VOTING SYSTEMS REVEALS SERIOUS SECURITY CONCERNS WERE WITHHELD FROM ELECTION BOARD, GOVERNOR, PUBLIC!
You might want to go read that story BEFORE YOU VOTE! At least then you will understand why it is important to demand a paper ballot.
What is so complicated about marking an X on an old fashioned paper ballot?
Paid Lieberman Activist Caught Ignoring Court Order
courant.com | Activist Denies Violating Ban On Ballot Work: "Prenzina Holloway was fined $10,000 in July 2005 and ordered not to distribute absentee ballot applications or to assist voters with the ballots for two years, after the State Elections Enforcement Commission found that she had forged a voter's signature in the 2004 election.
Holloway acknowledges working for Urban Voters and Associates, a company paid $17,550 by the Lieberman campaign since September to do 'field work.' But she said she isn't involved in the company's absentee ballot operations.
'That is just a no-no,' she said. 'And I know it is a no-no.'
But five people at a Vine Street housing complex for the elderly have told The Courant that Holloway and another person came to their doors to give them absentee ballot applications, and a security worker at another complex on Woodland Street said Holloway tried to get into the building to distribute applications there. Holloway was barred from the building after getting into a verbal altercation with the worker after he made supportive comments about Lieberman's main challenger, Ned Lamont.
Other sources at the building said she called back a week later to try to 'sweet talk' her way into the facility."
Joe Lieberman will do anything to win the election, regardless of the law, including hiring people that are barred from collecting absentee ballots and putting them out there to do just precisely that.
And Lieberman still hasn't answered where the money went in the $387,000 Petty Cash Scandal.
Florida Voting Machines Flipping Votes From Democrat to Republican
If you have electronic voting machines in your district check your votes carefully before you leave that voting booth:
CHECK YOUR VOTES VERY CAREFULLY!
CHECK YOUR VOTES VERY CAREFULLY!
Republicans hand the enemy plans for NUKES
From BooMan at the Booman Tribune:
Apparently it didn't work out so well...
Not only did Republicans put this dangerous information out there on the internet (already in Arabic to ensure the ease of use by middle-east terrorists) BUT they forced this to be put out there in their desperate attempts to link Saddam Hussein to Al Qaeda. A link that never existed:
And these are the idiot Republicans that claim to keep us safer?
The only way they could have endangered us more is if they had set up a fully stocked "NUKES R'US" store beside the nearest Iraqi internet cafe.
"You see, Peter Hoekstra just couldn't believe Saddam Hussein has no WMD and thus posed no threat to the U.S. or his neighbors. So he threw a tantrum and insisted that our intelligence agencies put all the documents we seized in Iraq on the Internet where citizen wingnuts, fluent in Arabic, could discover evidence that our trained professional had missed. How did that work out?
Apparently it didn't work out so well...
Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who said they hoped to “leverage the Internet” to find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein.
But in recent weeks, the site has posted some documents that weapons experts say are a danger themselves: detailed accounts of Iraq’s secret nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The documents, the experts say, constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb.
Last night, the government shut down the Web site after The New York Times asked about complaints from weapons experts and arms-control officials. A spokesman for the director of national intelligence said access to the site had been suspended “pending a review to ensure its content is appropriate for public viewing.”
Officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency, fearing that the information could help states like Iran develop nuclear arms, had privately protested last week to the American ambassador to the agency, according to European diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the issue’s sensitivity. One diplomat said the agency’s technical experts “were shocked” at the public disclosures."
Not only did Republicans put this dangerous information out there on the internet (already in Arabic to ensure the ease of use by middle-east terrorists) BUT they forced this to be put out there in their desperate attempts to link Saddam Hussein to Al Qaeda. A link that never existed:
The director of national intelligence, John D. Negroponte, had resisted setting up the Web site, which some intelligence officials felt implicitly raised questions about the competence and judgment of government analysts. But President Bush approved the site’s creation after Congressional Republicans proposed legislation to force the documents’ release.
And these are the idiot Republicans that claim to keep us safer?
The only way they could have endangered us more is if they had set up a fully stocked "NUKES R'US" store beside the nearest Iraqi internet cafe.
11/1/06
Facing the realities of Iraq
As you read the following excerpts from the WaPO just forget the dollar figure there. Ignore it. (Honestly, I mean that!)
It is not the the dollar figure, it is the thought that they have to ship back that many soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan that are dead and wounded. Think about that...
These are our children, America's future, being handed the misfortune of serving at the precise time that our government has completely failed them. This is the human cost that is a direct result of the GOP and Bush's failed policies. This will not stop until the Bush administration is forced to face up to the realities of what they have done.
Meandering thoughts BELOW:
Even The Military Question The GOP's Failed Tactics
As a recent New York Times article "portrays Iraq as edging toward chaos," members of the military are begining to question the refusal of the Bush administration to redeploy the soldiers from Iraq:
A WaPo article shows one of the many reasons the soldiers' frustrations are becoming evident:
The soldiers keep getting told that as the Iraqis stand up, the American military will stand down. But this is a failing policy. The soldiers on the ground know that it will be decades before Iraqis will be able to protect themselves. Something that Bush administration has shown no signs of understanding. As long as we are there the Iraqis have no incentive to stand up and, to make matters worse, we are further aggravating the situations between the different groups fighting for control within Iraq. And in doing that we are forcing our soldiers to work alongside many Iraqis that are part of the problem.
The military is already stretched to near its breaking point and the Bush administration offers no real answers to this problem. Donald Rumsfeld has repeatedly stated his desire to reshape the military, but there are serious limitations to military preparedness that cannot be overcome without the needed manpower:
In other words:
The Bush administration does nothing.
They "Stay the course!" that Rumsfeld's failing plan has laid out for them and try to ignore the real problems.
Unless McCain and the rest of the GOP that back his plan are advocating reinstating the draft when McCain calls for "another 20,000 troops in Iraq" then they really offer no real solution at all.
Beyond offering no solutions, it is becoming painfully obvious to anyone that pays attention that the Pentagon, rather than dealing with the problems, would rather just paint a beutiful picture of an Iraqi paradise for all of us in the USA. According to SusanG: "More bullshit to swallow from the Pentagon, and yes ... you, my fellow taxpayer, get to foot the bill for this faster-food meal, served up to spin the 24-hour news cycle:"
"Correct the record"??? (The Pentagon released a statement from Donald Rumsfeld Today: "Pay no attention the incompetent man behind the curtain.")
If they only had a brain...
For the record... That is a propaganda campaign they are gearing up. Don't they know it is illegal for the American government to direct propaganda at American cictizens?
What is a few more million dollars of OUR TAX MONEY wasted on PROPAGANDA for the failed Bush admins' policies anyways? For the Bush administration throwing money at a problem is always better than actually doing something to fix it. Little wonder why honest fiscal conservatives hate the GOP now. This is all part of the Bush administrations plan to Stay the course... Remember this:
Just more of the same. No real answers. Beyond rinse and repeat:
They do nothing
The GOP wastes billions of of our tax dollars messing everything up in Iraq in every way possible and creating endless war profits for their cronies... And then they waste even more of our tax dollars trying to convince us it is good for us. And all the while we know the soldiers are returning home to the USA dead and wounded, regardless of the efforts to hide their arrivals from the news' cameras.
These disgusting propaganda games played by the Pentagon and the Bush administration in order to avoid actually doing something will never draw our attention away from the reality that we will do everything we can to stop this waste of our most precious resources... Our children.
The U.S. Air Force is asking the Pentagon's leadership for a staggering $50 billion in emergency funding for fiscal 2007 -- an amount equal to nearly half its annual budget, defense analyst Loren Thompson of the Lexington Institute said on Tuesday.
...snip...
Another source familiar with the Air Force plans said the extra funds would help pay to transport growing numbers of U.S. soldiers being killed and wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It is not the the dollar figure, it is the thought that they have to ship back that many soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan that are dead and wounded. Think about that...
These are our children, America's future, being handed the misfortune of serving at the precise time that our government has completely failed them. This is the human cost that is a direct result of the GOP and Bush's failed policies. This will not stop until the Bush administration is forced to face up to the realities of what they have done.
Meandering thoughts BELOW:
Even The Military Question The GOP's Failed Tactics
As a recent New York Times article "portrays Iraq as edging toward chaos," members of the military are begining to question the refusal of the Bush administration to redeploy the soldiers from Iraq:
The Iraqi government's refusal to take certain measures to reduce sectarian tensions between Sunni Arabs and the nation's Shiite Muslim majority has led these officers to conclude that Iraqis will not make difficult decisions unless they are pushed.
Therefore, they say, the advantages of deadlines may outweigh the drawbacks.
"Deadlines could help ensure that the Iraqi leaders recognize the imperative of coming to grips with the tough decisions they've got to make for there to be progress in the political arena," said a senior Army officer who has served in Iraq.
...snip...
Former Pentagon official Kurt Campbell said more officers are calling for deadlines after concluding that the indefinite presence of U.S. forces enables the Shiite-run Iraqi government to avoid making compromises.
A WaPo article shows one of the many reasons the soldiers' frustrations are becoming evident:
"How can we expect ordinary Iraqis to trust the police when we don't even trust them not to kill our own men?" asked Capt. Alexander Shaw, head of the police transition team of the 372nd Military Police Battalion, a Washington-based unit charged with overseeing training of all Iraqi police in western Baghdad. "To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure we're ever going to have police here that are free of the militia influence."
The top U.S. military commander in Iraq, Gen. George W. Casey Jr., predicted last week that Iraqi security forces would be able to take control of the country in 12 to 18 months. But several days spent with American units training the Iraqi police illustrated why those soldiers on the ground believe it may take decades longer than Casey's assessment.
Seventy percent of the Iraqi police force has been infiltrated by militias,
The soldiers keep getting told that as the Iraqis stand up, the American military will stand down. But this is a failing policy. The soldiers on the ground know that it will be decades before Iraqis will be able to protect themselves. Something that Bush administration has shown no signs of understanding. As long as we are there the Iraqis have no incentive to stand up and, to make matters worse, we are further aggravating the situations between the different groups fighting for control within Iraq. And in doing that we are forcing our soldiers to work alongside many Iraqis that are part of the problem.
American soldiers said that although they gather evidence of police ties to the militias and present it to Iraqi officials, no one has ever been criminally charged or even lost their jobs.
The soldiers are doing the best they can in a worst case scenario, but the reality is that the Iraqi government is just as effective as the Bush administration has repeatedly shown itself to be when it is faced with complicated problems.
They do nothing.
Some of the idiots in the right-wing-cheerleader-camp of the GOP are echoing a simplistic answer that is too little, too late, when they advocate that we should just send more troops to quell the CHAOS in Iraq but where are these soldiers going to come from anyways?
- The Army has "close to zero combat-ready brigades in reserve"
- The National Guard is "in an even more dire situation than the active Army."
- 63 percent of all Iraq and Afghanistan veterans believe the Army and Marine Corps are overextended.
The military is already stretched to near its breaking point and the Bush administration offers no real answers to this problem. Donald Rumsfeld has repeatedly stated his desire to reshape the military, but there are serious limitations to military preparedness that cannot be overcome without the needed manpower:
The U.S. military suffers from a glaring manpower deficiency. The ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have demonstrated that in operations such as counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, stabilization, and peacekeeping, even the United States' impressive technology cannot substitute for soldiers.
...snip...
The Bush administration, however, does not share this assessment, as evidenced by its handling of the invasion of Iraq. Before the war, Rumsfeld was dismissive, even contemptuous, of warnings from senior U.S. military officials, such as former Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki, that securing Iraq would require a vast number of boots on the ground.
...snip...
Despite this obvious manpower shortage, the Bush administration remains committed to Rumsfeld's military-transformation agenda. Neither the president's budget for 2007 nor the Pentagon's 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review calls for expanding the number of U.S. troops.
In other words:
The Bush administration does nothing.
They "Stay the course!" that Rumsfeld's failing plan has laid out for them and try to ignore the real problems.
Unless McCain and the rest of the GOP that back his plan are advocating reinstating the draft when McCain calls for "another 20,000 troops in Iraq" then they really offer no real solution at all.
Beyond offering no solutions, it is becoming painfully obvious to anyone that pays attention that the Pentagon, rather than dealing with the problems, would rather just paint a beutiful picture of an Iraqi paradise for all of us in the USA. According to SusanG: "More bullshit to swallow from the Pentagon, and yes ... you, my fellow taxpayer, get to foot the bill for this faster-food meal, served up to spin the 24-hour news cycle:"
Pentagon memo reveals launch of new PR war
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is buttressing its public relations staff and starting an operation akin to a political campaign war room as Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld faces intensifying criticism over the Iraq war.
In a memo obtained by the Associated Press, Dorrance Smith, assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, said new teams of people will "develop messages" for the 24-hour news cycle and "correct the record."
...Another branch would coordinate "surrogates." In political campaigns, surrogates are usually high-level politicians or key interest groups who speak or travel on behalf of a candidate or an issue.
The plan would focus more resources on so-called new media, such as the Internet and Weblogs. It would also include new workers to book civilian and military guests on television and radio shows.
"Correct the record"??? (The Pentagon released a statement from Donald Rumsfeld Today: "Pay no attention the incompetent man behind the curtain.")
If they only had a brain...
For the record... That is a propaganda campaign they are gearing up. Don't they know it is illegal for the American government to direct propaganda at American cictizens?
What is a few more million dollars of OUR TAX MONEY wasted on PROPAGANDA for the failed Bush admins' policies anyways? For the Bush administration throwing money at a problem is always better than actually doing something to fix it. Little wonder why honest fiscal conservatives hate the GOP now. This is all part of the Bush administrations plan to Stay the course... Remember this:
A 74-page Pentagon briefing book with talking points on Iraq may be illegal. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) sent a letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld complaining that his office had spent “taxpayer dollars to produce partisan
political documents,” possibly in violation of laws prohibiting the Executive Branch from using taxpayer dollars for lobbying and propaganda activities.
Just more of the same. No real answers. Beyond rinse and repeat:
They do nothing
The GOP wastes billions of of our tax dollars messing everything up in Iraq in every way possible and creating endless war profits for their cronies... And then they waste even more of our tax dollars trying to convince us it is good for us. And all the while we know the soldiers are returning home to the USA dead and wounded, regardless of the efforts to hide their arrivals from the news' cameras.
These disgusting propaganda games played by the Pentagon and the Bush administration in order to avoid actually doing something will never draw our attention away from the reality that we will do everything we can to stop this waste of our most precious resources... Our children.
How bad could it possibly be in Iraq?
Hat tip: Josh Marshall
Even the mercenary soldiers won't do this work anymore.
Just think about the fact that the US forces that are already stretched too thin will have to cover the security work this company was doing.
And what does the Pentagon have to say about it all at the moment? They are reporting on all of improvements in Iraq right now...
Really??? Sounds like BS to me.
I tried to warn you about the Pentagon approving the use of propaganda against "We the people"...
Manhattan security company Kroll has withdrawn its bodyguard teams from Iraq and Afghanistan after it lost four workers in Iraq, its parent company said Wednesday.
Michael Cherkasky, president and chief executive of Kroll owner Marsh & McLennan Cos., told The Associated Press that the business in the two countries wasn't worth risking the lives of their employees.
Even the mercenary soldiers won't do this work anymore.
Just think about the fact that the US forces that are already stretched too thin will have to cover the security work this company was doing.
And what does the Pentagon have to say about it all at the moment? They are reporting on all of improvements in Iraq right now...
Really??? Sounds like BS to me.
I tried to warn you about the Pentagon approving the use of propaganda against "We the people"...
The Human Cost Of the Failures in Iraq
Just forget the dollar figure there. Ignore it. (Honestly, I mean that!)
It is not the the dollar figure, it is the thought that they have to ship back that many soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan that are dead and wounded. Think about that...
These are our children, America's future, being handed the misfortune of serving at the precise time that our government has completely failed them. This is the human cost that is a direct result of the GOP and Bush's failed policies.
The U.S. Air Force has requested a “staggering $50 billion in emergency funding
for fiscal 2007" -- an amount equal to nearly half its annual budget -- in part
to help cover costs for transporting the “growing numbers of U.S. soldiers being killed and wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
It is not the the dollar figure, it is the thought that they have to ship back that many soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan that are dead and wounded. Think about that...
These are our children, America's future, being handed the misfortune of serving at the precise time that our government has completely failed them. This is the human cost that is a direct result of the GOP and Bush's failed policies.
Lieberman Using Street Money?
Connecticut Bob has a clip from an interview with Conservative Alan Schlesinger saying that he thinks that it has to be "STREET MONEY":
For those of you unfamiliar with the term...
It means money used to BUY votes.
And Schlesinger says "It makes no other sense."
So Joe... What are you really trying to hide by not disclosing who all of that $387,000 in "Petty Cash" went to? This scandal ain't going away just becsause you chose to hide your campaign finance ledgers from the public.
For those of you unfamiliar with the term...
It means money used to BUY votes.
And Schlesinger says "It makes no other sense."
So Joe... What are you really trying to hide by not disclosing who all of that $387,000 in "Petty Cash" went to? This scandal ain't going away just becsause you chose to hide your campaign finance ledgers from the public.
Even The Military Question The GOP's Failed Tactics
As a recent New York Times article "portrays Iraq as edging toward chaos," members of the military are begining to question Bush and the GOP's failed policies in Iraq:
The soldiers keep getting told that as the Iraqis stand up, the American military will stand down. But this is a failing policy. As long as we are there the Iraqis have no incentive to stand up and, to make matters worse, we are further aggravating the situations between the differnt groups fighting for control within Iraq.
Some of the idots in the right-wing-nut-cheerleader-camp are echoing a simplistic answer that is too little, too late, when they advocate that we should just send more troops to quell the CHAOS in Iraq because that cannot work.
Think Progress explains why:
It cannot work without reinstating the draft, that is. So, unless McCain and the rest of the GOP are advocating reinstating the draft when he calls for "another 20,000 troops in Iraq" I think they are truely left with only one other course of action:
Redeployment.
"Growing numbers of American military officers have begun to privately question" the Bush administration's resistance to redeploying U.S. troops out of Iraq. "There is a new belief that the biggest problem that we face is that our forces are the sand in the gears creating problems," said one former Pentagon official. "We are making things worse by giving the Iraqis a false sense of security at the governing level."A WaPo article shows one of the reasons the soldiers' frustrations are becoming evident:
--- Think Progress
"How can we expect ordinary Iraqis to trust the police when we don't even trust them not to kill our own men?" asked Capt. Alexander Shaw, head of the police transition team of the 372nd ...snip... "To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure we're ever going to have police here that are free of the militia influence."
The soldiers keep getting told that as the Iraqis stand up, the American military will stand down. But this is a failing policy. As long as we are there the Iraqis have no incentive to stand up and, to make matters worse, we are further aggravating the situations between the differnt groups fighting for control within Iraq.
Some of the idots in the right-wing-nut-cheerleader-camp are echoing a simplistic answer that is too little, too late, when they advocate that we should just send more troops to quell the CHAOS in Iraq because that cannot work.
Think Progress explains why:
Currently, the Army has "close to zero combat-ready brigades in reserve" and the National Guard is "in an even more dire situation than the active Army." (63 percent of all Iraq and Afghanistan veterans believe the Army and Marine Corps are overextended.) "The U.S. military suffers from a glaring manpower deficiency," Korb and Ogden argue in Foreign Affairs Magazine. "This massive troop commitment [in Iraq] has put a serious and unsustainable strain on the U.S. military." "The overstretched state of the U.S. military is creating broader strategic problems" because without reinstating the draft, the U.S. may not have enough troops to respond to crises around the world.
It cannot work without reinstating the draft, that is. So, unless McCain and the rest of the GOP are advocating reinstating the draft when he calls for "another 20,000 troops in Iraq" I think they are truely left with only one other course of action:
Redeployment.
Joe Lieberman = George W. Bush = Failure
If there was ever any doubt that a vote for Joe Lieberman is a vote for the for George Bush's failed policies in Iraq:
This is no surprise. Lieberman is "Stay the course!" kind of guy through and through, that is, when he is not flip-flopping like his clone Bush. It is Lieberman's unquestioning support for Bush policies that resulted in him being run out of the Dem party. What good are principles when they are that wrong? What is a surprise is that anyone might believe that Bush and Cheney are capable of thinking?
I mean, Bush and his supporters still haven't figured out that Kerry called Bush stupid... Not the soldiers.
And this is the best the GOP has as we are a week away from "National Kick The Republican Bums Out Day!" Attacking Senator Kerry has little to do with this national referendum on the GOP's failures in Iraq. Talk about grasping at a strawman...
The GOP campaign is running as smoothly as a Lada sputtering along on 2 cylinders in the wrong direction on a one way street this year...
Bush, Military Comments Delight Lamont; Lieberman Guarded
It probably wasn't how Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman wanted to begin his one-week countdown to Election Day. But his main rival, Ned Lamont, embraced the news of the day.
Growing numbers of military officers were reported Tuesday as now considering the idea of a hard deadline for troop withdrawals in Iraq, giving credence to a cornerstone of Lamont's campaign.
And President Bush stuck his nose in the race, praising Lieberman on Fox News' "Hannity & Colmes" for sticking to his guns on the war, a talking point Lamont was happy to exploit.
"Clearly, President Bush and Dick Cheney are out there campaigning for Joe Lieberman," Lamont said Tuesday. "They think it's a vote they can count on in a pinch."
"One man who stood by his decision is Joe Lieberman," Bush told Sean Hannity. "He understands the consequences. And the Democrat Party ran him out of the party because he stood on principle."
This is no surprise. Lieberman is "Stay the course!" kind of guy through and through, that is, when he is not flip-flopping like his clone Bush. It is Lieberman's unquestioning support for Bush policies that resulted in him being run out of the Dem party. What good are principles when they are that wrong? What is a surprise is that anyone might believe that Bush and Cheney are capable of thinking?
I mean, Bush and his supporters still haven't figured out that Kerry called Bush stupid... Not the soldiers.
Kerry said, "Education, you know, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." According to Kerry, he was referring to President Bush's poor preparation for the war, not the lack of education of members of the U.S. military.
And this is the best the GOP has as we are a week away from "National Kick The Republican Bums Out Day!" Attacking Senator Kerry has little to do with this national referendum on the GOP's failures in Iraq. Talk about grasping at a strawman...
The GOP campaign is running as smoothly as a Lada sputtering along on 2 cylinders in the wrong direction on a one way street this year...
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