Republicans want you to forget that we each have the power to stand up and make a difference…

Freedom by Action.

Peace by being.

Time to act and rebuild America to truly be free!

Casey

ourselves.

from the original message:

“…Congress has no authority over private citizens so now Tom Foley cannot be prosecuted.”

Welfare, Medicare, Social Security. I pay into this and I only get 1500 a month? For the few years I live in my golden years!!!!

Interesting points; a little redundant. Lacks originality. Good try though.

The horror!

Seriously, if you’re counting on Social Security for retirement you need your head examined.

What a disgrace, to turn her personal tragedy into a national political circus and media event.

The post-mortum also proved that she had catastrophic brain damage.

Rick Santorum is about to get spanked over this in PA. Who else was at her bedside?

When you’ve lost the New York Times, you have lost.

The truthiness is out there.

Also, all this is really saying is that Clinton and Carter did not start a war. JFK and LBJ didn’t have the option since they were so entrenched in Vietnam.

So while this argument is true I have to ask what it accomplishes. To the uninformed it suggests that the Democratic presidents were uninvolved or opposed to the war in Vietnam. And those who are informed understand the meaninglessness of the statement.

“Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency.”

Which is true…and I probably should have used the word “escalated” or something like instead of “started” but in the end, I think the readers get the point.

Now shut up, and STAY ON TARGET!!!

Comment by Tom
2006-11-03 16:22:37

I had no idea that Harry Truman (Korean War) and John Kennedy (Vietnam) were republicans.

Lantern Bearer
Please do be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible.

Daniel Defoe writes of his three days in the pillory, available for public abuse but instead had flowers thrown at him and was well tended by his supporters who sold copies of this pamphlet A Hymn to the Pillory” and his other work that was cause for the punishment, “The Shortest Way with Dissenters”.

The excerpt-

“They that in, vast Employments, rob the State,
See them in thy Embraces meet their Fate; 310
Let not the Millions they by Fraud obtain,
Protect ‘em from the Scandal, or the Pain:
They who from Mean Beginnings grow
To vast Estates, but God knows how;
Who carry untold Sums away, 315
From little Places, with but little Pay:
Who costly Palates Erect,
The Thieves that buds them to Protect;
The Gardens, Grottos, Fountains, Walks, and Groves
Where Vice Triumphs in Pride, and Lawless Loves:
Where mighty Luxury and Drunk’ness Reign’d
Profusely Spend what they Prophanely Gain’d
Tell ‘em there’s Mene Tekel’s * on the Wall,
Tell ‘em the Nations Money paid for all:
Advance by double Front and show, 325
And let us both the Crimes and Persons know:
Place them aloft upon thy Throne,
Who slight the Nations Business for their own;
Neglect their Posts, in spight of Double Pay,
And turn us all in Debt the Shortest Way. 330”

Note

*This is the passage from Daniel regarding the hand Writing on the wall
Daniel 5:25-28

5:25 And this [is] the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
5:26 This [is] the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
5:27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
5:28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

** Daniel Defoe: [Defoe, Daniel], J.T. Boulton, ed. Publisher: Schocken 1965, p.106

Hmmm, it’s been determined that Al Qaeda numerous other anti-west terrorist (abu Nidal for one) were given hombrage in Iraq. Nuff said on that.
And just how are Republicans sending jobs overseas? They’re not. The exodus started in the late 80’s and went full steam in the nineties when liberals decided to raise corporate taxes and it also began taking longer and longer to get building permits. And since when should the government get involved telling companies how to run their business’? Why do you think business’ are leaving for starters?

Truman sent troops to Korea, Kennedy sent troops (oops, advisors) to Vietnam where Johnson just plain dropped the ball. Bongo, quick interlude to give you some advice. If you’re going to use Rolling Stone as your reference material, my dear adversary, you are in serious trouble or denial.
Ah, the Foley deal. I guess we conveniently forgot about Representatives Frank (D,MA) and Studds (D,NH). Franks male lover runs a gay whore house out of Franks apartment, Studds got a male page drunk and seduced him when he was 17, but by the time the house (Tip O’Neill at the gavel) censored him, the page was 18 and case dropped. And since when can’t the authorities charge a private citizen. What an idiotic statement. What you’re saying is a member of Congress can murder someone, resign from Congress and face no charges??? What utter bilge. The authorities in Florida are examining this case to see if there IS evidence to prosecute.
Oh, and can anyone answer why France get’s 80% of it’s power from nuclear plants as does much of the developed world, yet we’re at 20% (yeah, coal, LNG and propane make up the majority of the rest, not wind, geothermal, or hydro). Right now there are 30 chemical plants being built worldwide. Zero in the U.S. Hey Bongo, did you know we import gasoline, yes, GASOLINE (that’s refined oil in case you’re unsure) from France because went haven’t built a refinery in this country since 1982. Which of course leads to blaming Republicans for the price of fuel. How patently stupid. Oil is a worldwide traded commodity, which means supply and demand sets the price, not W as some of you would like to believe. Maybe, Bongo, if you boned up on why we won’t allow oil companies to exploratory drill in ANWR, you could give us an opinion on that rather than the typical blame W rant.

Have a great day… And yes, I’m voting Tuesday…

But I don’t hate Republicans, just the neo-con thugs that have hijacked the Republican party.

Get rid of your neo-con thugs so the Donkeys and Elephants can play nice again.

Comment by zanothrope
2006-11-03 20:12:54

Democrats want you to forget that they do not have a single well thought out plan for solving any of the important issues today (i.e. immigration, homeland security, North Korea, social security, etc.) Vote Constitutional Party.

Hysteria . . .

Comment by ob_one
2006-11-03 20:39:28
Comical… Typical rant. If there were no WMD’s, why did Hussein kick out
inspectors and not allow them back into Iraq?
Rich Thugs to lie for Kerry??? What’s your definition of rich? And just how
poor is Dan Rather if you get my drift.

I have just read the post that you have here today. I am sure that you are otherwise both pleasant chaps to have a drink with, if you are of age, but your post . . . , Gott in Himel, when was the last time your read something of substance and you have to that substance fuel drivel you get from Rush.

I am thinking that first round of pardons will commence around 5:30am on Wednesday morning and the resignations should peak right around Yuletide. Indictments will be in the works by Epiphany.

Lantern Bearer

Have a nice day!

(Now playing Robert Earle Keene, Sonora’s Death Row.)

Reblogged at my political site. Well done, excellent list. I know I’ll definitely keep it in mind when I cast my ballot. Things like this make me feel all that much better about my decisions.

Point one. Hussein had every right to kick the inspectors out, look at the guy, what makes you think he’d let inspections continue. Strange thing is the documents in today’s news confirm that when the UN told him to stop the nuclear program, he did. Why do you continue to hold on to the hope that there were WMDs?

Uhh, yes, they were rich and they were thugs. What the Swift Boat Vets for Truth did is textbook thuggery. Dan Rather? C’mon, man. You can do better than that.

“It’s been determined?” By who? This administration? Yet another straw-man argument.

Did you even visit the link he provided as evidence to back up his point? It clearly states that U.S. Tax Code, written by Republicans, gives privileges to those that offshore rather than keeping jobs here at home. Oh, and as soon as our government stops telling me what I can do in the bedroom, who we can marry and what women can do with their bodies, it can stop telling business what to do. Businesses are leaving because Republican-written policies reward it.

Korea, that one isn’t so easy to defend. Granted the Korean war was more about defense and not offense. After all we never went above the 38th parallel.

Vietnam’s roots start well before Kennedy I am sorry to say. Eisenhower sent advisers before Kennedy, in fact the first American deaths occurred in the Eisenhower administration. So, while Kennedy and LBJ escalated, Eisenhower started the wheels turning. And while selected historians say it was actually Truman who first sent advisors, these people were non-governmental operatives. I guess you could call them mercenaries.

You guys are so quick to bring up Studds, but you forget about Rep. Dan Crane. Why do you guys always forget that? Do you know who Dan Crane is? Anyway, at least Studds faced the music and didn’t run and hide in “rehab”. Studds faced the House while he was censured and then went and faced his constituents, who voted to reelect him. He admitted his mistake, moved on and was reelected. The people spoke. Foley ran and hid. And, Congress has no power over you, me or Foley now. He can’t be censured by his peers.

The US stopped building nuclear power plants after Three Mile Island. Good thing, too, because Chernobyl taught the world a nasty lesson of what happens when things go bad at nuclear plants. There have been at least 11 near misses in the US since Three Mile Island. And we still don’t know what to do with the waste. And why should I care about France. You, I am sure, certainly don’t.

As for refieneries, why do we need to build more? If this Congress would raise fueld standards there wouldn’t bee a need to build any more. We can cut consumption down. Don’t you remember when Bush said we were “addicted to oil”? Usually that implies a negative. Cut consumption and price won’t matter. And we will be able to cut our dependency on foreign oil. But there are always the pesky oil company lobbyists aren’t there?

And when a company makes a $10.49 billion in a single quarter, while Americans are being squeezed at the pump, there is something completely wrong. That figure is so amazing that I believe it is hard for normal people to comprehend so it doesn’t even register.

And there is no reason to drill in ANWAR and try a easy solution to energy consumption in this country. We have the ability to build more fuel economy into our cash economy and it would create jobs. What is wrong with that?

Oh, and good luck voting on Tuesday if you live in a poor community, you’ll be standing in line most of the night and there is a good chance your name has been “purged” from the voting lists.

The Republicans want you to forget that deficits do indeed matter, especially when China has $1 trillion in reserves, much of it in American debt.

It is obvious the Republicans are letting jobs get offshored to China…because of the fine trade agreement with them…supported by some kickbacks by Chinese intrests to the party in charge…in when was it…1996? Yup W did that too…

I blame all Republicans who allowed their party to get hi-jacked by the neo-con goon squad.

Do they really think that Ted Haggard only paid for a massage? Would they forgive anyone else accused of the something similar (e.g. Bill Clinton)?

I didn’t think so.

Fuck the Republicans. Fuck them all.

WRONG!

Exxon Mobile gave $935,016 to Republican candidates during the 2004 election cycle in order to get those crooks to gut the energy bill. What was in that energy bill? Higher fuel economy standards, what did those Republicans who got money from Exxon Mobile do to the fuel economy standards. You can probably guess.

Also, I suggest you look up a Wall Street Journal article entitled: “As Gasoline Prices Soar, Americans Resist Major Cuts in Consumption” from the May 1, 2006 issue. There is a candid interview with an Exxon Mobile executive in it.

The number one thing Americans need to do is restore system of checks and balances by getting another party in power in one of the branches of government, thus, forcing cooperation instead of exclusion and bullying.

I am hoping they wake up soon.

http://eightandfive.com/2006/10/30/winner-robert-fitzgerald/

But maybe I will make a list of things Democrats want you to forget just for the hell of it.

I will publish it on November 8th, 2006.

Otherwise you are not making sense to me.

I have friends who never, NEVER buy into conspiracy theories. But even they think Lay’s death was mysterious.

“Republicans want you to forget that they don’t want Social Security to exist at all, instead, you get whatever money you have managed to save when you retire.”
You can argu against the solution they offered, but this is hardly it. by most statistical mesurments, you will have more money.

“Republicans want you to forget that fuel costs have doubled since 2000, but your income has not.”
If it goes up, they are evil, when it goes down, they are also evil. if no matter what the facts are it is an argument against them, then it is an invalid one. Also, again, what is the problem? Democrats want low prices or green energy? can they decide already?

Republicans want you to forget that even though you are not making record profits, oil companies are.
D&J and S”&P are doing very well. Energy sector is a small % of that, so this statment is false.

My Reply: I never claimed to be a Democrat nor to be writing for Democrats. Republicans have had six years of complete power in all three branches of government - and they blew it.

Quote: “You can argu against the solution they offered, but this is hardly it. by most statistical mesurments, you will have more money.”

My reply: Just because the economy tends to expand over time does not mean we should shit-can Social Security. Got a 401K? Try doing a 401K calculator. The note the asterisk that says, “Based on 8% per year return”. Guess how many 401ks return 8%? Zero.

Quote: “If it goes up, they are evil, when it goes down, they are also evil. if no matter what the facts are it is an argument against them, then it is an invalid one. Also, again, what is the problem? Democrats want low prices or green energy? can they decide already?”

My Reply: I agree with your invalid argument. When in doubt, Republicans ARE evil.

I never said Democrats had all the answers and I never claimed to be a Democrat - then only sure thing is Republicans have blown it.

Quote: “D&J and S”&P are doing very well. Energy sector is a small % of that, so this statment is false.”

My reply: This response has nothing to do with the original post.

STAY ON TARGET!

STAY ON TARGET!!

Longtime Republican says Bush is running the country into the ground

I have been a middle-of-the-road Republican most of my life. I have a simple conservative belief: conserve what is good; change what is bad.

My Republican Party was taken over in 2001 by a group seeking above all power: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Ken Rove and later Donald Rumsfeld. Their quest for power has only been exceeded by their incompetence. What has struck me was the way the rest of the Republican Party kowtowed to the bullying tactics of these men and let our country fall into the pitiable state it is now in.

In my mind Bush had decided to go to war with Iraq even before he was in office. I hope now everyone knows there were no weapons of mass destruction or terrorists in Iraq before the war. After the war (”mission accomplished”) Iraq was a breeding ground for terrorists and suddenly there was a brand-new guerrilla war. With his usual incompetence Bush had disbanded the Iraqi army, the one built-in peacekeeping force in Iraq.

Now, Bush is faced with a real nuclear danger in North Korea and Iran, but because of Iraq, he is helpless to do anything about it.

I lament over our 2,700 brave service men and women killed in Iraq and the 20,000 wounded. And who knows how many hundred thousands of innocent Iraqis have been killed

Could anyone not be critical of Bush’s noncaring incompetence? Members of the Republican Party must speak out. They call it Bush-bashing. Well, he should be bashed.

The Republican Party used to be known as the party of fiscal responsibility, but Bush and company have changed that, running up debts in the trillions. It seems almost ludicrous that he has slashed taxes for the rich.

They call it free trade and Bush has let other countries wipe the floor with Americans and American rights. Jobs are outsourced, families destroyed in the name of free trade and globalization. The labor movement has lost its clout, because if a strike is threatened the corporations may gleefully outsource their jobs. The middle class is heading for destruction. It used to be Americans first. Now it’s “let ‘em eat cake.”

The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has been so incompetently handled it brings tears to your eyes. After World War II the Marshall Plan rebuilt Europe, but today New Orleans is still a mess.

Bush condones torture in this country. Imagine: The United States of America allowing torture! After the Bataan death march in World War II we still wouldn’t even consider torture. The Japanese POWs couldn’t believe that they were being treated so well.

Prisoners are held without being charged and without access to a lawyer. The Nazis at Nuremburg, the worst criminals in the history of the world, were given lawyers and a fair trial.

And what might end up the most serious charge against Bush is the global warming he has neglected and largely ridiculed. We don’t know yet what this will do to mankind and our planet.

Ever since I was a young man in Fargo, I have had a warm spot in my heart for the Republican Party. GOP: Grand Old Party. The party of Abraham Lincoln. It was a party of responsibility, something you could count on. I fondly remember a picture of my uncle Milton Rue (who was head of North Dakota’s Republican Party in the 1950s) riding in a car with President Dwight Eisenhower. They were laughing and talking, obviously friends. They are no doubt turning over in their graves at the fumblings of Bush.

At that time, I was a jet fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force, fiercely patriotic (still am) and proud of my country. But I can’t be proud of this man who is running our country into the ground.

I could go on and on about Bush and his pathetic crew, but now I can only hope that the November election stops him.

RICHARD RUE, WAYZATA

its just they dont want you to think for yourself

Its strange that the democrats are such spectacles of perfection.

I can’t way till the democrats get into power and fuck it all up and then maybe we’ll have a civil war and get exterminate all the idiots that exist in america.

In the above post I never said I hated Republicans and I never said to “Vote Democrat”. I do hate neo-cons. All of them. Since you self-registered as a “HickRetard” I doubt you know what a neo-con is.

Vote your conscience.

If that means you need to vote Republican, so be it. But make sure you submit a correct mailing address for your welfare check.

You’ll need it if the neo-con thugs win again.

That said, it’s amazing how ignorant people can be. There are two sides to EVERY story, and looking at what has been happening, the “ignorant american” title so heard outside your borders has never been so obvious and true. How can this party stay in power?

I’m not saying vote R, I’m not saying vote D. Way up north our system works a little differently, we have a party called the “Liberals” which is in the middle ground. Not left winged, not right winged, it should be in the middle (doesn’t always work that way, thats the idea). Maybe it’s time America tried something of the same?

I mean, how FREE are you when you only have the choice of two?

Keep fighting guys. Most of us up here support the tossing of Bush!

Either that or we’ll just move to one of the tent cities that form up in Wal-Mart’s parking lots. After poor folks suddenly stop buying stuff because they don’t have anymore nickels left…they’ll have to live somewhere.

They want you to remember that they are the party of personal responsibility but corporations and politicians should only be responsible to the stock market. They also want you to forget that even if they are not George W. they have protected him from any investigation or oversight. They also want you to forget that a vote for a Dem is a vote for investigations to commence that should have started 5 years ago in some cases. If you do not believe in freedom or accountability vote Repug so we can have more rights taken away for the citizens and not have to fear any investigation that may make Fox news look like liars.

The damage to the Republican party is deep and probably lasting.

It will take a political ass-whooping to set them straight.

Here’s to hoping for a sweep from power and a much-needed changing of the guard!

I do want to be able to shake a Republican’s hand without feeling like they are selling out to the fringe sector of their party.

But I do have Republicans in my family so I do have hope for them, and for America.

I used to wonder WTF has happened to America but I think it is obvious: those who have money influence the outcome of elections.

They passed laws to limit campaign finance…but both political parties just moved their unlimited funding into 527s.

That is also why they skewered Howard Dean and his money-making internet machine. It wasn’t supposed to be possible to raise $15 MILLION dollars without kow-towing to corporate thugs, but he did it. They smoked his ass for it and turned him into a good little soldier working as the head of the Democrat party…as long as he doesn’t open his mouth.

The key to fix politics in America is by removing the corporate money from the politics.

It will not likely happen in our lifetime, but if we keep that as a goal, if we tell our children and our children’s children that it is unethical and anti-American to allow those with the money to tell those without the money how things are going to run…then someday things might change.

Thus…then the TV ads are too negative, when things seem at thier worst, when it looks like nothing good can happen and our boys are getting beat down, above all else we need to remember:

STAY ON TARGET!

And that is how “19 Things the Republicans Want You to Forget” was born.

As far as I am concerned, Republicans and Democrats both need to clean house.

That being said, it will be better for America to toss the neo-con thugs out on their asses before it’s too late.

It is damn near too late.

My only real issue as well as most Americans with the Republicans are that they are being too soft on our enemies and not striking them hard enough.

Iraq yellow cake was found in Iraq.
For every individual in the GOP that misbehaves I can find several in the DNC just as bad or worse. Democrats won’t be fixing the job overseas issue.

US out of UN
UN out of US

NeoCons > NeoLibs

Follow the links. I sourced my statements!

Pull your head out President Bush’s ass and you might see the light.

If you post more neo-con thug B.S, I will be forced to delete your gibberish.

Now go play nice and STFU.

Big man, with your big threats.

I am not threatening anything other than deleting your B.S. neo-con thug, intimidation tactics propaganda.

You can’t silence me.

The truthiness is out there.

We can still be friends after the bums get tossed on November 7th.

Your rhetoric has been deleted.

If you attempt to be vulgar, insult me, or try in any way to hi-jack the post threads, your comment will be deleted without warning.

If you do not have the balls to provide a provide a valid e-mail address, your comment will be deleted without warning.

So stop your whining about my deletions and start being honest.

If you want to spout neo-con rhetoric across the internet, go create your own blog…because you are not welcome to do it here.

That is all.

I encourage you to invest some time in studying even the most basic principles of economic theory. I would start by looking at the basic principles of Supply and Demand which offer an explanation for the increase in fuel costs due to the lack of supply caused by the destruction of oil rigs by natural disasters and the ridiculous environmental taxes placed on businesses that render them inefficient and influence their output. It seems like even though you claim to be “educated” your pulling sources from 3rd party web sites which can be severely biased and backed up with made up facts. Wikipedia is not a credible website.If your interested in economics I recommend Thomas Sowell’s book “Basic Economics.”