My Homage To Feigned Outrage
By Madeleine Begun Kane
The CIA's under attack
By the Speaker who gave it a smack.
She accused it of lying.
The GOP's crying:
She's mean and must take it all back.
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The GOP: America's Cancer
With the resurgence of the Big Dick Cheney grabbing the microphone, and the effervescent challenges to Nancy Pelosi, it seems like the GOP has become a cancer for America.
We know full well that for 8 years, the W, Rove and Co was in the business of spreading propaganda, mongering fear, and building a case to justify an illegitimate war in Iraq. But as of late, it seems the GOP cannot seem to pull itself away from their icons even though they are being led from the fifth to the sixth layer of hell by them. http://www.teambio.org/2009/05/15/the-gop-americas-cancer/
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No principles
Wasn't just a few years ago that Republicans were blaming the CIA for giving Bush "faulty intelligence" about Iraq? Weren't Republicans pushing, for a little while at least, the idea that our involvement in Iraq was all the CIA's fault?
How interesting to see such a change of heart. Just a few years ago, the CIA was the cause of all our problems, but now, they've "kept us safe."
The Republicans in Congress are really abhorrent people.
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CIA: "It is against our values to lie to Congress."
So the CIA tortured and abused people, held them in secret prisons for years on end, beat them to death and committed Lord knows whatever unspeakable and depraved acts at the whim of of Vice President Dick "the Impaler" Cheney, but they absolutely drew the line at lying to Congress?
Give me a freaking break.
Jeremy Scahill
Despite President Barack Obama's publicized pledge to close Gitmo and end torture, a military thug squad is still operating there.
The 'Black Shirts' of Guantanamo routinely terrorize prisoners, breaking bones, gouging eyes, squeezing testicles, and 'dousing' them with chemicals.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/15-9
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Doesn't do much good to cut expenses when you've got no income
Has anyone else noticed that for all the trouble we're in we haven't had much in the way of revenue enhancement proposals? An extra 3% on the richest of us and that's about it. David Brooks is crowing about Obama "prowling around the White House prodding his staff to find budget cuts." What budget cuts? Why, Medicare and SocSec of course. What else?
Everyone is looking at the deficit and screaming about cuts. No one is looking at the deficits and screaming about the need to raise corporate taxes. President Obama did (if you can believe he was serious) make a strong pitch for closing some major loopholes in corporate tax law that would largely make offshore tax shelters pointless, and about time, too. But the BD/GOP Alliance seems to have buried that one under the compost heap in somebody's back yard, probably Barney Frank's.
Given that history - recent history included (Clinton anyone?) - shows that the economy grows when corporate taxes and the minimum wage go up, why aren't both of those the center of the Admin's economic plan? Why are we still talking only in terms of tax cuts and program cuts and budget cuts? Why are we willing to strip seniors of their security to pay off crooked bankers? Why are we still talking about the kind of tax policy that has failed - twice in the last 25 yrs - to create an economy that is good for all sectors of society, not just the rich?
Or did I just answer my own question?
Ronald Reagan isn't dead. He's running Obama's recovery team.
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Well, California's in the toilet: http://theygaveusarepublic.com/diary/2790/well-californias-in-the-toilet
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Friday night news dump
Oh great! Obama nominates Superfund polluter lawyer to run DOJ environment division. Not only is the guy GE's lawyer, but he apparently hates dolphins too: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/15/ignacia-moreno-superfund/
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Here's a story about a town in Belgium that is planning to go vegetarian one day a week in an effort to combat climate change.
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The Rude Pundit: Nancy Pelosi restores the natural order of things.
And then Gingrich lashes out and calls her "vicious", "trivial" and "despicable."
Actually, despicable is:
- Telling your first wife you want a divorce while she is in the hospital with cancer.
- Cheating on wife #2 - who had recently been diagnosed with MS - with a Congressional aid (now wife #3 who is 23 years younger) and then calling her at her mother's 84th birthday party and telling her you want a divorce.
- Not paying child support.
- Leading the call to impeach President Clinton while having his own affair at the time.
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From PeaceTeam.net: The Senators Laugh.
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Dick Cheney, torture, Iraq and Valerie Plame: http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/15/dick-cheney-torture-iraq-and-valerie-plame/#more-4133
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A total of 43 children were directly and indirectly shocked by electric stun guns during simultaneous "Take Your Sons and Daughters to Work Day" events gone wrong at three state prisons, according to new information provided Friday by the Florida Department of Corrections.
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Something to think about before you pop that Lean Cuisine into the microwave.
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You can't call her a dropout no more!
Hey everybody, America's favorite Alaskan teen mom graduated high school after all! Hopefully she'll follow in her mom's footsteps: Five community colleges, a BA in journamalism, and then kill off whatever's left of the GOP. People/Gawker
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The face of the republicon party has become either Sarah Palin and "Joe the Plumber," or three loathsome, malicious, well-fed white guys who were responsible for getting us into this mess in the first place. To add to the nincompoopery, welcome to the newest member: a dizzy blonde bint with fake attention-whore funbags --
Carrie Prejean, the artificially-enhanced beauty contestant who supports "opposite" marriage, will be a guest host for Faux Noise's Fox & Friends May 27, filling in for dimwitted she-troll Gretchen Carlson.
Because being a vacant, sanctimonious nude pinup is OK if you love Jeebus.
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According to a new report in Vanity Fair, the Bushies rejected an offer to dim Iraq war in 2004.
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Dear James Dobson:
After reading about your recent broadcast about hate crimes, I have a question:
Whatever happened to the Ninth Commandment?
You know, the one that goes: "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor."
Because here's what you told your audiences about the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009:
The dangerous bill, awaiting Senate consideration, would create a new class of crimes based on the victim's "actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity. Those who speak out against homosexuality, including pastors, could face prosecution for "inciting" violence against gay individuals.
No, they wouldn't. That's a flat-out lie. Here's what the bill says:
Nothing in this Act, or the amendments made by this Act, shall be construed to prohibit any expressive conduct protected from legal prohibition by, or any activities protected by, the Constitution.
The only "right" that this bill infringes upon is the "right" of violent yahoos to seek out victims based on their perceived status as a member of a minority group and commit criminal acts against them. That's the right Dobson is defending here.
You also said this about the bill:
Even more concerning, the legislation could create special protection for pedophiles. Democrats voted down an amendment to the bill that would have excluded pedophilia from the definition of "sexual orientation."
There's nothing in either the federal legislation, or in any state law, that could credibly be construed as offering protection to pedophiles. In fact, the entire construct -- that these laws create "protected classes" -- is false to begin with.
But [this] argument appears predicated on the wholly fabricated notion that pedophilia might somehow legally qualify as a "sexual orientation" -- which is to say, it rests on the assumption that homosexuality is somehow akin to pedophilia.
We understand it when right-wing politicians and pundits lie about this bill. We're accustomed to it. It's what they do.
But I thought evangelical religious leaders were supposed to, you know, adhere to the basic standards of their beliefs. It's time you and your brethren stopped lying about this bill.
Sincerely,
Dave N.
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Sarah Hepola samples recession food:
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