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Nimue: a comment like that gets you in trouble around here, fella ....
If Rove gets indicted Bush is liable to pull the trigger ... war with Iran is
inevitable as Bush is desperate and the bullshit Rove Nazi "we are stronger on National Security" does not fly anymore as Americans are seeing that Bush is a dry drunk who has surrounded himself with a bunch of lunatic Neocons that have a hardon for dropping a nuke
If Rove gets indicted Bush is liable to pull the trigger ... war with Iran is
inevitable as Bush is desperate and the bullshit Rove Nazi "we are stronger on National Security" does not fly anymore as Americans are seeing that Bush is a dry drunk who has surrounded himself with a bunch of lunatic Neocons that have a hardon for dropping a nuke
Ahhhh Fla .. where Jeb Bush and his "partner" run things
SUN CITY CENTER, Fla., May 9 — President Bush and his brother continued their awkward dance today with Representative Katherine Harris of Florida, whose run for the Republican Senate nomination this year they have met with chilliness.
Ms. Harris was on hand this morning to meet President Bush as he stopped in Tampa en route to a Medicare event in this nearby, senior-rich town — just one day after Governor Jeb Bush said publicly that he did not believe Ms. Harris could win against the Democratic incumbent Senator here, Bill Nelson.
Jeb Bush was there, too, as Ms. Harris waited for the president to walk off Air Force One in Tampa, and the two seemed friendly as they chatted in the receiving line on the tarmac, according to a pool report.
After saying hello to his brother and straightening his tie, the president shook hands with Ms. Harris and spoke with her for roughly 30 seconds, with Ms. Harris talking far more than the president, who did not kiss her or put his arm around her — or do anything more than pat her on the back.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/09/us/09cnd-bush.html
SUN CITY CENTER, Fla., May 9 — President Bush and his brother continued their awkward dance today with Representative Katherine Harris of Florida, whose run for the Republican Senate nomination this year they have met with chilliness.
Ms. Harris was on hand this morning to meet President Bush as he stopped in Tampa en route to a Medicare event in this nearby, senior-rich town — just one day after Governor Jeb Bush said publicly that he did not believe Ms. Harris could win against the Democratic incumbent Senator here, Bill Nelson.
Jeb Bush was there, too, as Ms. Harris waited for the president to walk off Air Force One in Tampa, and the two seemed friendly as they chatted in the receiving line on the tarmac, according to a pool report.
After saying hello to his brother and straightening his tie, the president shook hands with Ms. Harris and spoke with her for roughly 30 seconds, with Ms. Harris talking far more than the president, who did not kiss her or put his arm around her — or do anything more than pat her on the back.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/09/us/09cnd-bush.html
OMG .. check this out what Limbaugh said about New Orleans
Limbaugh blamed "unchecked liberalism" for the inability to "save" New Orleans residents during Hurricane Katrina
As Media Matters for America has noted, Limbaugh previously linked the humanitarian disaster in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to "the welfare and entitlement thinking of government."
From the May 8 edition of The Rush Limbaugh Show:
Limbaugh blamed "unchecked liberalism" for the inability to "save" New Orleans residents during Hurricane Katrina
Summary: Rush Limbaugh blamed "unchecked liberalism" for the failure to "save" New Orleans residents who perished -- or otherwise suffered -- during Hurricane Katrina. Limbaugh stated that New Orleans is "a microcosm -- a model of exactly what unchecked liberalism does. It creates destitution. It creates hopelessness. It creates a mess!"
On the May 8 edition of his nationally syndicated radio program, Rush Limbaugh blamed "unchecked liberalism" for the failure to "save" New Orleans residents who perished -- or otherwise suffered -- during Hurricane Katrina. Limbaugh stated that New Orleans is "a microcosm -- a model of exactly what unchecked liberalism does. It creates destitution. It creates hopelessness. It creates a mess!" Limbaugh added: "Such a mess [that] they couldn't even save some of the people who were there [in New Orleans] to get them out of town, even though they had the mechanism and the advance warning to do it."
As Media Matters for America has noted, Limbaugh previously linked the humanitarian disaster in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to "the welfare and entitlement thinking of government."
From the May 8 edition of The Rush Limbaugh Show:
LIMBAUGH: Now, here's what we're seeing, folks. One of the things -- and I know this is going to irritate some of you in New Orleans, and I'm sorry, but it's the truth -- when -- when -- after Hurricane Katrina, and there was such misery, and there was such suffering, we were all stunned because New Orleans has been run by Democrats. Louisiana had been run by Democrats for decades; liberal Democrats to loot -- to boot. New Orleans should have been a -- a utopia. There should not have been any racism because liberals don't believe in it, should not have been any unemployment because liberals don't like that. Everybody should have been earning lots of money because liberals support paying people more than the minimum wage. There shouldn't have been any discrimination because liberals are not racists. There shouldn't have been any poverty because liberals won't tolerate it. They have a war on poverty -- and yet, what did we find? We found out it was the exact opposite! We had a microcosm -- a model of exactly what unchecked liberalism does.
It creates destitution. It creates hopelessness. It creates a mess! Such a mess they couldn't even save some of the people who were there to get them out of town, even though they had the mechanism and the advance warning to do it. So, this is what happens when you take a government-dependent, crime-ridden neighborhood and relocate it to another city. Shazzam! You get the same thing! You can take people out of the city, but you can't take the city out of the people, and the way they've been raised, the way that they have been coddled by government and so forth. So, now, Houston has -- has a problem here. And if -- if something like this happens in the future, will any other city be as eager to offer assistance if the -- if the likelihood is that a similar group of people are going to be your new inhabitants?
It creates destitution. It creates hopelessness. It creates a mess! Such a mess they couldn't even save some of the people who were there to get them out of town, even though they had the mechanism and the advance warning to do it. So, this is what happens when you take a government-dependent, crime-ridden neighborhood and relocate it to another city. Shazzam! You get the same thing! You can take people out of the city, but you can't take the city out of the people, and the way they've been raised, the way that they have been coddled by government and so forth. So, now, Houston has -- has a problem here. And if -- if something like this happens in the future, will any other city be as eager to offer assistance if the -- if the likelihood is that a similar group of people are going to be your new inhabitants?
E - Mails Show Brown Disputed Levee Breach
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 9, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former FEMA director Michael Brown disputed that floodwaters had breached New Orleans' levees in the early hours after Hurricane Katrina roared ashore, new e-mails released Tuesday show.
The 928 pages of e-mails, obtained and released by the Center for Public Integrity, also portray Brown and the Federal Emergency Management Agency as obsessed with media coverage in the days leading up to and immediately following the Aug. 29, 2005, disaster. At one point early that morning, Brown reported to an aide that he was ''sitting in the chair, putting mousse in my hair,'' as he waited for media interviews to begin.
Later that morning, at 9:50 a.m., a FEMA staffer at the National Hurricane Center sent department brass an alert from a local TV station report ''a levee breach occurred along the industrial canal'' near the Ninth Ward.
More than two hours later, at 12:09 p.m., Brown sent a message back to one of his aides, saying: ''I'm being told here water over not a breach.''
The aide, Michael Lowder, replied: ''Ok. You probably have better info there. Just wanted to pass you what we hear.''...
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Katrina-Brown.htm...
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 9, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former FEMA director Michael Brown disputed that floodwaters had breached New Orleans' levees in the early hours after Hurricane Katrina roared ashore, new e-mails released Tuesday show.
The 928 pages of e-mails, obtained and released by the Center for Public Integrity, also portray Brown and the Federal Emergency Management Agency as obsessed with media coverage in the days leading up to and immediately following the Aug. 29, 2005, disaster. At one point early that morning, Brown reported to an aide that he was ''sitting in the chair, putting mousse in my hair,'' as he waited for media interviews to begin.
Later that morning, at 9:50 a.m., a FEMA staffer at the National Hurricane Center sent department brass an alert from a local TV station report ''a levee breach occurred along the industrial canal'' near the Ninth Ward.
More than two hours later, at 12:09 p.m., Brown sent a message back to one of his aides, saying: ''I'm being told here water over not a breach.''
The aide, Michael Lowder, replied: ''Ok. You probably have better info there. Just wanted to pass you what we hear.''...
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Katrina-Brown.htm...
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The 50-37 Dems moral values one surprises me a little. If those numbers are right this fall could be a BLOODBATH for the Repugs.
More good news for the GOPers ...
New CBS Poll: Dim View of Bush and the GOP
CBS:
Only 31% of those polled approve of Mr. Bush's job performance; 68% believe the United States is worse off today than it was before Bush became president. Congressional Republicans get an eviscerating review in this poll. The GOP gets a favorability rating of 37%, exactly 20 percentage points lower than where it was in 1994. Inversely, Democrats in Congress had a favorability rating increase of 11 percentage points over what it was in 1994...read on"
Come on, Fitz .... INDICT PIG BOY ROVE AND LETS CRASH AND BURN THIS "PARTY OF GOD"
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New CBS Poll: Dim View of Bush and the GOP
CBS:
Only 31% of those polled approve of Mr. Bush's job performance; 68% believe the United States is worse off today than it was before Bush became president. Congressional Republicans get an eviscerating review in this poll. The GOP gets a favorability rating of 37%, exactly 20 percentage points lower than where it was in 1994. Inversely, Democrats in Congress had a favorability rating increase of 11 percentage points over what it was in 1994...read on"
Come on, Fitz .... INDICT PIG BOY ROVE AND LETS CRASH AND BURN THIS "PARTY OF GOD"
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[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Democratic National Committee sues Secret Service for records in Abramoff lobbying scandal[/FONT]
John Byrne
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Published: Monday May 8, 2006[/FONT][/FONT]
The Democratic National Committee filed suit against the Secret Service today in an effort to obtain entry and exit logs for several prominent figures in the Abramoff lobbying scandal, RAW STORY has learned.
Jack A. Abramoff, once Washington’s richest lobbyist, fell victim to his own success after a federal investigation uncovered widespread fraud and influence peddling by him and his aides among senior Republican members of Congress. Democrats have tried, with limited success, to pin the scandal on Republicans as part of a 2006 election strategy.
Following the successful prosecution of the Secret Service for Abramoff’s files by the conservative legal watchdog group Judicial Watch, the DNC is suing to obtain records for Grover Norquist; a personal friend of Abramoff who arranged visits between Indian tribal leaders and President Bush; Patrick Pizzella, an undersecretary of labor who worked on Abramoff’s lobbying team until he was appointed by President Bush; and Ralph Reed, an Abramoff friend and former Christian Coalition director who used his religious credentials to provide cover for Abramoff’s Indian gaming crusade.
They are also seeking entry and exit records for David Safavian, formerly President Bush’s chief procurement officer, who was arrested late last year for allegedly obstructing the Abramoff probe, and Michael Scanlon, Abramoff’s business partner, who recently pled guilty to bribing members of Congress and their aides.
The suit will be filed today in the United States District Court in Washington, D.C. Judicial Watch recently won their case to acquire Abramoff's records; it seems likely that the DNC will win this case as well.
The Secret Service has stalled requests for the records, which they must turn over by law under the Freedom of Information Act. RAW STORY has also filed Information Act requests with the Secret Service on Abramoff, Pizzella and Norquist without success.
The DNC first sought the records in January.
If you are an attorney in Washington and would consider filing suit for one or more of our Information Act requests pro bono, please email us at rawstory@gmail.com. RAW STORY has several outstanding Information requests with the Secret Service and the Department of Defense, among other agencies.
John Byrne
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Published: Monday May 8, 2006[/FONT][/FONT]
Jack A. Abramoff, once Washington’s richest lobbyist, fell victim to his own success after a federal investigation uncovered widespread fraud and influence peddling by him and his aides among senior Republican members of Congress. Democrats have tried, with limited success, to pin the scandal on Republicans as part of a 2006 election strategy.
Following the successful prosecution of the Secret Service for Abramoff’s files by the conservative legal watchdog group Judicial Watch, the DNC is suing to obtain records for Grover Norquist; a personal friend of Abramoff who arranged visits between Indian tribal leaders and President Bush; Patrick Pizzella, an undersecretary of labor who worked on Abramoff’s lobbying team until he was appointed by President Bush; and Ralph Reed, an Abramoff friend and former Christian Coalition director who used his religious credentials to provide cover for Abramoff’s Indian gaming crusade.
They are also seeking entry and exit records for David Safavian, formerly President Bush’s chief procurement officer, who was arrested late last year for allegedly obstructing the Abramoff probe, and Michael Scanlon, Abramoff’s business partner, who recently pled guilty to bribing members of Congress and their aides.
The suit will be filed today in the United States District Court in Washington, D.C. Judicial Watch recently won their case to acquire Abramoff's records; it seems likely that the DNC will win this case as well.
The Secret Service has stalled requests for the records, which they must turn over by law under the Freedom of Information Act. RAW STORY has also filed Information Act requests with the Secret Service on Abramoff, Pizzella and Norquist without success.
The DNC first sought the records in January.
If you are an attorney in Washington and would consider filing suit for one or more of our Information Act requests pro bono, please email us at rawstory@gmail.com. RAW STORY has several outstanding Information requests with the Secret Service and the Department of Defense, among other agencies.
