Remember, it was the base that rejected Mitt because of his switch on pro-life, from pro-choice to pro-life. It was the base that rejected Mitt because it had issues with Mormonism. It was the base that rejected Mitch, Mitt, because they thought he was back and forth and waffling on those very economic issues you're talking about.
Chairman Steele regrets the way his comments have been interpreted. Chairman Steele believes Mitt Romney is a respected and influential voice in the Republican Party and looks to his leadership and ideas to help move our party and our nation in the right direction.
Isn't it amazing the Republicans would get so bent out of shape about Steele saying something which is obviously true: that it was Romney's lack of authenticity and the GOP base's concern about his religious views that cost him the nomination?
Jeb' presidential chances = doomed.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said on Tuesday he would back former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush if he decided to run for president.
"I like Jeb. I think he's a good man. I'd like to see him continue to stay involved politically," Cheney said during an interview with Fox News' Neil Cavuto. "I'd probably support him for president."
Cheney insisted that he's "not in the business of endorsing anybody at this point," but said that he's "a big fan of Jeb's."
Salon's War Room:"Debating about it, ummm... Some of the worst things that happened you don't know about, okay?" Hersh is transcribed as saying. "Videos, um, there are women there. Some of you may have read that they were passing letters out, communications out to their men. This is at Abu Ghraib... The women were passing messages out saying 'Please come and kill me, because of what's happened' and basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys, children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. And the worst above all of that is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror. It's going to come out."
After Donald Rumsfeld testified on the Hill about Abu Ghraib in May, there was talk of more photos and video in the Pentagon's custody more horrific than anything made public so far. "If these are released to the public, obviously it's going to make matters worse," Rumsfeld said. Since then, the Washington Post has disclosed some new details and images of abuse at the prison. But if Seymour Hersh is right, it all gets much worse.
Hersh gave a speech last week to the ACLU making the charge that children were sodomized in front of women in the prison, and the Pentagon has tape of it. The speech was first reported in a New York Sun story last week, which was in turn posted on Jim Romenesko's media blog, and now EdCone.com and other blogs are linking to the video...
America's oil, gas and coal industry has increased its lobbying budget by 50%, with key players spending $44.5m in the first three months of this year in an intense effort to cut off support for Barack Obama's plan to build a clean energy economy.
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Yesterday, the Stanford's Alumni Association magazine cover highlighted a "Special Report" titled "Can Professors Stop Wars." The blurb under the title reads:
Faculty have lessons to share with Washington that might make the world safer. Is anyone listening?
Um, here's the thing, Stanford: We appreciate that there are a number of your faculty members who are coming to D.C. to help end the war. But, you can't talk about stopping the war without referencing how the war started. Because, Stanford gave us Condi Rice. She became a professor at Stanford in 1981 and was the provost ("the university's chief academic and budget officer") from 1993 til 1999. Now, she's back at your Hoover Institution. In between, she was Bush's National Security Adviser when we started that war in Iraq. Then, she was Bush's Secretary of State. Yes, Stanford's Condi was right there with Bush and Cheney every step of the way -- from the lies about WMD to the failed strategy to the torture. But, Condi's name is never mentioned in the article about wars. Funny thing.
So, Stanford, don't be talking about your professors stopping wars unless you want to take credit for your Professor/Provost starting the war.
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Only in America - Dday: Torture lawyer John Yoo has been given a monthly column at the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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I wonder if George has once again sought the solace of drink upon hearing Cheney go around telling everyone that Bush not only knew about the "enhanced interrogation program" but that he signed off on it.
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Ask a Wingnut
Salon has a great new feature:
"Ask a Wingnut" is written by a real live conservative and former Bush official who chooses to remain anonymous. Each week "Glenallen Walken" will bridge the cultural divide and answer questions from liberals about why conservatives think and do what they think and do. If you would like to submit a question to "Ask a Wingnut," send it to mschone (at) salon (dot) com.
Steve Benen has a good dissection of this week's wingnut Q&A.
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According to a "list drawn up by Afghan officials," 95 children were "among the 140 people said to have died in a recent U.S.-Taliban battle in western Afghanistan." Afghan authorities blame the deaths on U.S. air strikes, but the U.S. military disputes their claim, naturally.
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The Obama administration reported yesterday that the financial condition of Medicare and Social Security has deteriorated, in part due to the recession. As a result, Medicare is expected to run out of funds by 2017, while the Social Security trust fund "will be exhausted in 2037." Spending for both programs accounted for more than one-third of the federal budget last year.
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Karl (who should be in jail) keeps going on the tv and saying that torture has saved thousands of lives, when in fact the opposite is true!
It is torture itself — not its cessation — that serves as a recruiting tool for new terrorists. Experts from FBI special agent Jack Cloonan to torture victim Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) to former Army JAG Major General Thomas Romig all agree that Bush and Rove's "enhanced interrogation" program recruited terrorists who have killed thousands of Americans. Indeed, former military interrogator Matthew Alexander cited Bush's interrogation program as the most effective means to recruiting insurgents in Iraq who were battling Americans every day:
The number of U.S. soldiers who have died because of our torture policy will never be definitively known, but it is fair to say that it is close to the number of lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001. How anyone can say that torture keeps Americans safe is beyond me — unless you don't count American soldiers as Americans.
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Every single governor except Sarah Palin (R-AK) has written to Energy Secretary Steven Chu accepting millions of stimulus dollars meant to increase energy conservation and efficiency. Last month, Palin rejected $28.6 million for energy conservation work because she said it would force Alaska buildings to adhere to a "universal energy code." Newsminer points out that the Energy Department has accepted other states' pledges to simply work with local governments to improve efficiency, and that no "universal" requirement is needed:
The federal stimulus law requires states to pledge they will meet energy efficiency standards on 90 percent of new and renovated commercial and residential square footage by 2017.
"Alaska could likely achieve that goal by relying on municipal standards in Anchorage, Fairbanks and its other urban areas (with the vast majority of Alaska's building square footage), without needing a statewide code," [Harry Persily, an aide to the House Finance Committee in Juneau] said in an e-mail to legislators Friday.
Oh, and the Anchorage Daily News reports: HarperCollins is giving her millions to write her "memoirs." After she lost the election for McCain last year, she hired a lawyer to go after an $11 million advance.
This snowbilly grifter is the biggest con artist in American History.
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McCain's tortured briefing memory
McCain is lecturing Nancy Pelosi about all the things she should have done had she been briefed on waterboarding. But that lecture is coming from a guy who promptly capitulated to Bush demands that he water down the Detainee Treatment Act after being briefed on torture.
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/12/mccains-tortured-briefing-memory/
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"He doesn't need the money. He has no further political ambitions. He is not hot for interns. He is not a torture freak. He knows that he is toxic and despised by the drive-by media and the Democrat party and the left in this country. What motivation does Dick Cheney have to go out and say these things? Is it possible that Dick Cheney is motivated by national interest? Is it possible that Dick Cheney is motivated by love of and for his country? Is it possible that Dick Cheney is speaking from his heart and is not speaking politically?" the vulgar Pigboy Link
Hey Pigboy, it's possible Cheney is a Eskimo named Nanook, but I don't think that's the case.
And why did you say Cheney was hated by the media and the Left, but you failed to mention Republicans hate him, too? And if Cheney was motivated by a love of country, and not the billions Halliburton stole with their no-bid contracts, why didn't he serve honorably when he had the chance?
Truth is, Cheney sold oil field equipment to Saddam all thru the nineties and then he had his Monkey invade Iraq so the two of them could steal all the precious sweet crude oil Halliburton could pump out in 6 years.
Butt Pigboy, here's the REAL reason Cheney was motivated to become the Monkey's organ grinder.
Iraq pumped 3.5 million barrels daily before Bush invaded and then they got their 2003 Halliburton upgrade.
Bush's oil gouge, which went to $120 a barrel makes $420,000,000 Bush and Cheney stole every day. No wonder they were so eager to start a war.
It's the biggest theft in Earth's history.
And what did it cost them?
Not much...
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