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‘The Union is what needs defending this year.’

Here’s what happened to the Republican Party By GARRISON KEILLOR

The Union is what needs defending this year. Government of Enron and by Halliburton and for the Southern Baptists is not the same as what Lincoln spoke of. This gang of Pithecanthropus Republicanii has humbugged us to death on terrorism and tax cuts for the comfy and school prayer and flag burning and claimed the right to know what books we read and to dump their sewage upstream from the town and clearcut the forests and gut the IRS and mark up the Constitution on behalf of intolerance and promote the corporate takeover of the public airwaves and to hell with anybody who opposes them.

This is a great country, and it wasn’t made so by angry people.

[from the book Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts From the Heart of America; thanks, Jas.]

[One response:]

?…and there is more to life than winning.?

Garrison, you had better hope so, because lose you will. Lose you must.

Because those horrible Republicans you speak of – and those who support the best President since the end of WWII – we will surely prevail.

And you WILL lose. Most importantly, the world will be so much better for it. You are a talented, likeable man. much more likeable when you keep out of the political debate. — A. Oplas

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/979/

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Richard Perle’s Foresight — A Year Ago

Richard Perle, a top Iraq advisor in 2002 and 2003 – when he headed the Defense Advisory Board (Secretary Rumsfeld’s top advisory committee) – made this prediction one year ago today:

The problems in Iraq are ahead of us, but we’re doing better than people think. And a year from now, I’ll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush. There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they’ve been liberated. And it is getting easier every day for Iraqis to express that sense of liberation. Thanks.

[Applause.]

AEI – Events

Election

Bush IS a goner

Give 'em Hell, Kerry!

Michael Moore.com : Mike’s Message : Messages
Put Away Your Hankies…a message from Michael Moore

Dear Friends,

Enough of the handwringing! Enough of the doomsaying! Do I have to come there and personally calm you down? Stop with all the defeatism, OK? Bush IS a goner — IF we all just quit our whining and bellyaching and stop shaking like a bunch of nervous ninnies. Geez, this is embarrassing! The Republicans are laughing at us. Do you ever see them cry, “Oh, it’s all over! We are finished! Bush can’t win! Waaaaaa!”

Hell no. It’s never over for them….

There are three reasons why the polls are b.s.:

One, they are polling “likely voters.” “Likely” means those who have consistently voted in the past few elections. So that cuts out young people who are voting for the first time and a ton of non-voters who are definitely going to vote in THIS election.

Second, they are not polling people who use their cell phone as their primary phone. Again, that means they are not talking to young people.

Finally, most of the polls are weighted with too many Republicans, as pollster John Zogby revealed last week. You are being snookered if you believe any of these polls. …

Traveling around the country, as I’ve been doing, I gotta tell ya, there is a hell of a lot of unrest out there. Much of it is not being captured by the mainstream press. But it is simmering and it is real. …

WAKE UP! The majority are with us! More than half of all Americans are pro-choice, want stronger environmental laws, are appalled that assault weapons are back on the street — and 54% now believe the war is wrong. YOU DON’T EVEN HAVE TO CONVINCE THEM OF ANY OF THIS — YOU JUST HAVE TO GIVE THEM A RAY OF HOPE AND A RIDE TO THE POLLS. CAN YOU DO THAT? WILL YOU DO THAT?

loco

Republican Officeholders

ABQjournal: Mama Mia! It’s Good to be Home! By Jim Belshaw, Of the Journal

With all that Democratic corruption going on for so long, does anybody know how Gary Johnson managed to get elected twice? Just curious. Let me know if you have a handle on it.

Or Carruthers. Or Domenici. Or 3 successive Republican Representatives for Bernalillo County, each more conservative than the prior, in a county that is not majority Radical Right. What do you know: Republicans have been stealing elections! Sounds outrageous, doesn’t it. No less so when you say it’s the Democrats doing the stealing.

Remember, the goal is to win at all costs. If you can’t win, then you must discredit the process thoroughly to cover your inability to prevail on merit. From the Right Wing Playbook. mjh

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Fact: Duhbya had help getting in the Guard — FACT!!!

The Daily Howler

What’s the history here? Barnes’ first public statement about Bush-and-the-Guard occurred in 1999 — back in a time when the national press was avoiding this topic for all it was worth. Barnes was forced to testify in a court case about his role in this matter. George Lardner reported the story for the Washington Post:

LARDNER (9/28/99): Former speaker of the Texas House of Representatives Ben Barnes said under oath today that he recommended George W. Bush for a pilot’s slot in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War at the behest of a Houston businessman close to the Bush family.

Testifying in a deposition for a lawsuit that has stirred up allegations of preferential treatment for Bush, now the governor of Texas seeking the Republican presidential nomination, Barnes said he relayed that information to a top Bush campaign official, Don Evans, more than a year ago.
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To the Editor of the New York Times:

Re “Portrait of George Bush in ’72: Unanchored in Turbulent Time” (front page, Sept. 20):

Surely the simplest way to determine whether President Bush fulfilled his duties as a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard is to ask him to produce his personal pilot’s log book.

As a former Navy fighter pilot, I am aware that all military pilots are required to keep a log book that is a detailed record of the pilot’s activities, both in the air and on the ground, while in uniform. Not only is each flight recorded by date, aircraft, mission and flight time, but also all ground drills, flight physicals, qualifications and training are entered as well.

Production of Mr. Bush’s log book would reveal how much flight time he had in the F-102 and whether he fulfilled his duties. In the interest of the American public, he should now provide full details of his Guard service.

Richard Moody
Princeton Junction, N.J.
Sept. 20, 2004

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." — Sam Adams