Saturday, December 30, 2006

Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager


Hilarious!

Thursday, December 28, 2006

RIP President Gerald R. Ford, but we needed you to speak up


President Gerald Ford pictured here with warmongers Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney in 1975

I don't have strong feelings either way on Gerald Ford outside of the obvious, he is a Republican from a tainted administration and a graduate of the hated University of Michigan.

But then Bob Woodward comes out today and says that Ford told him two years ago that he didn't agree with the war:
Former president Gerald R. Ford said in an embargoed interview in July 2004 that the Iraq war was not justified.

[snip]

"Rumsfeld and Cheney and the president made a big mistake in justifying going into the war in Iraq. They put the emphasis on weapons of mass destruction," Ford said. "And now, I've never publicly said I thought they made a mistake, but I felt very strongly it was an error in how they should justify what they were going to do."


Are you kidding me? President Ford, even in death you are coming off like a tool. How could you, a former President of the United States, an elder statesman and respected leader not have the balls to say this publicly?

Your country needed you to say this out loud! Your country (hell, even your planet) needed you to start this debate! People have different sized megaphones, lots of people with small megaphones were saying this but you had an opportunity to say this from a large megaphone! You had a responsibility to say this! Men and women are still dying for what you knew was a mistake but didn't have the guts to call it such.

Were you concerned that you would be disowned from your party? Were you concerned that you, one of FOUR ex-Presidents, would have your reputation tarnished? Were you afraid Dick and Lynne would take you off their Christmas card list?

I am left to assume that you didn't want to diminish your party and the President from your party, which is very sad. Thanks for nothing.

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Where's the Democrat?

It's like Where's Waldo trying to find the Democrat on THE ENTIRE LINEUP of Sunday Talk Shows:
ABC's "This Week" - Sens. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C; U.N. Secretary-General-designate Ban Ki-moon; former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara Bush.
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CBS' "Face the Nation" - First Lady Laura Bush.
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NBC's "Meet the Press" - Rev. Rick Warren, author of "The Purpose Driven Life"; Newsweek editor Jon Meacham.
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CNN's "Late Edition" - Repeats of past interviews with President Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and others.
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"Fox News Sunday" - Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney; Archbishop of Washington Donald Wuerl; Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of evangelist Billy Graham.

I could say "I'm F'n sick and tired of the press being called liberal in the face of this obvious conservative bias" - but instead I'll say
"I'm sure Democrats were invited but in an effort to keep the sabbath holy and spend time with their families during the holiday, they declined all invitations to the Sunday talk shows. And Conservatives, hating God, family, and Christmas, were all to excited to spend Christmas Eve on such a secular pursuit as politics"
(Not that it explains why CNN is showing re-runs of Republicans)

Thanks for holding it down for the left Senator Dodd, I'm sure they were trying to call Lieberman and accidentally got the liberal Connecticut Senator, but they've never been strong on details.

And, because I love Tim Russert so much, and think he is such a fair guy, why don't I point out that last week he had a real "fair and balanced" line-up:
GUESTS:
• Fmr. Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-GA), Speaker of the House 1995-1999
• David Brooks, Columnist, New York Times
• Tom Friedman, Columnist, New York Times

Seriously? You couldn't find someone other than Tom Friggin' Friedman to represent the left????? A guy who supported the war in Iraq from the get go, is against getting out now and boasts about how he didn't even read CAFTA, he just saw the words "free trade" and knew he liked it???? Yeah, this guy is a flaming liberal. Russert pisses me off like no other - what a partisan hack.

Sorry I haven't posted in two weeks (I didn't realize it had been that long until I went to put this post up), but I had finals, Chistmas duties, a job and traveling which all kind of took priority for now. I'm back on the horse now.

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Howard Dean Post Election Thoughts

At the risk of this blog turning into a Howard Dean/Paul Krugman/Jim Webb propaganda tool, I'll let Governor Dean tell you what he thinks of the 2006 election:



I have to admit, I kind wish this guy were president.

Monday, December 04, 2006

Webb gives Bush the respect he deserves...

Which is to say, not much at all:

Krugman gets it right (again!):
At a reception following the midterm election, President Bush approached Senator-elect James Webb.

“How’s your boy?” asked Mr. Bush.

“I’d like to get them out of Iraq, Mr. President,” replied Mr. Webb, whose son, a Marine lance corporal, is risking his life in Mr. Bush’s war of choice.

“That’s not what I asked you,” the president snapped. “How’s your boy?”

“That’s between me and my boy, Mr. President,” said Mr. Webb.

Good for him. We need people in Washington who are willing to stand up to the bully in chief. Unfortunately, and somewhat mysteriously, they’re still in short supply.

I had a friend of mine tell me that Jim Webb should have shown more respect for the Presidency, and shook Bush's hand like everyone else. Well, Virginians didn't send Jim Webb to Washington to make nice and go-along-to-get-along. They sent him there (among other reasons) to clean up our dirtied foreign affairs - starting with Iraq.

And if losing an election and a war won't get Bush to wake the fuck up, then maybe some cold words over cocktails and chicken satay at the White House will get the Frat-Boy-President to understand that a change is needed. Of course the irony is so much more potent when you consider that Bush's veep famously thought so much of the institution of the Senate that he told Senator Pat Leahy to "fuck off" ON THE SENATE FLOOR. I think Webb was nicer to Bush than Cheney was to Leahy ... and Leahy didn't even put Cheney's daughter on the front lines of an unwinable war!

Preach on Paul....
So Mr. Bush will keep sending other men’s children off to fight his war. And he’ll always insist that Iraq would have been a great victory if only his successors had shared his steely determination.

Does this mean that we’re doomed to at least two more years of bloody futility? Not necessarily. Last month the public delivered a huge vote of no confidence in Mr. Bush and his war. He’s still the commander in chief, but the new majority in Congress can put a lot of pressure on him to at least begin a withdrawal.

I’m worried, however, that Democrats may have counted on the Iraq Study Group to provide them with political cover. Now that the study group has apparently wimped out, will the Democrats do the same?

Well, here’s a question for those who might be tempted, yet again, to shy away from a confrontation with Mr. Bush over Iraq: How do you ask a man to be the last to die for a bully’s ego?