Broadcast on MSNBC - Tom Ridge just resigned.

[lil-petunia]

Once a site is posted, i will add it here.

Rumors are the Don Feith, Cheney's ultraclone will be his successor.

Say goodbye to civil rights.

[billyoc]

1. Douglas Feith, I think.

But however you spell it, it's an unmitigated disaster. :(

[rainbow4321]

33. Not a good sign at all...

This will do wonders in helping Arabs and us all get along...NOT:

http://middleeastinfo.org/article701.html



As disturbing as Feith’s views may be, his political associations cause even greater concern. In recent years, Feith has frequently been featured in the activities of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA). Known for its virulent anti-Arab incitement, the ZOA regularly attacks all Arab American political activity and demonizes politicians who hire Arab Americans or even associate with community organizations. The ZOA also frequently attacks American Jews whom they feel are not in line with their extremist pro-Likud philosophy.

In just the past few years, Feith was the Guest of Honor at ZOA’s 100th Anniversary Gala Banquet. He served as Master of Ceremony at two other major ZOA functions and has been a frequent participant at ZOA sponsored policy briefings on Capitol Hill supporting that organization’s anti-Palestinian legislative initiatives.

Feith’s law practice in Washington sheds further light on the one-sided nature of his work. His small law firm has one international affiliate, in Israel. Over two-thirds of all their reported casework involves representing Israeli interests. And, in light of Feith’s new appointment, one of these cases deserves some attention. As described on the firm’s website, Feith "represented a leading Israeli armaments manufacturer in establishing joint ventures with leading U.S. aerospace manufacturers for manufacture and sale of missile systems, to the U.S. Department of Defense and worldwide."

[Roland99]

36. Feith is the Main Culprit Behind Stovepiping Bad Intelligence

He is the one who was running the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans and brought Ahmed Chalabi back into the US intelligence community and used the INC's lackeys and dubious intelligence that no one else believed in order to justify an invasion of Iraq to save Israel.

Why can't these PNAC fucks die a horrible death?

[Barrett808]

52. Oh, don't worry -- their delusional Love Boat is running aground...

...on the rocks of reality. I expect that when they fall (and they will), it will be amazingly hard.

[AlabamaYankee]

67. And the bad news is...

When they fall they're likely to take the rest of us with them. So crouch under your desk, put your head between your knees and.. you know the rest ot the drill.

[Flammable Materials]

2. It's kind of like watching the enemy prepare to torch your town ...

...and you're helpless to do anything but stand and watch.

[annabanana]

3. OMG I hope those Feith rumors are wrong........

he is horrible

[TahitiNut]

20. I guess Feith won't be NSA, then.

I felt sure Feith would get a huge plum for his enforcer role in the Cheney/Rumsfeld/neocon consolidation of power (purge of the impure). There is nothing to stop ever-more-extreme fascism, an 'ideology' that knows no 'extremes.' Their appetite for power and wealth is insatiable.

[Chimpanzee]

4. The 4th Reich is seizing total control - we're screwed

Thanks to all the dumbasses that voted for this criminal.

[0007]

53. You got that right!!

[Eurobabe]

5. MSNBC rescinded this announcement he's NOT resigning

seriously, they just apologized.

[MaineDem]

7. The gang that couldn't shoot straight!

Good grief. If this wasn't all so serious it would be funny.

[LionInWinter]

8. CNN just posted that he IS resigning.

It's currently listed on the red banner.

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

17. CNN has now removed the banner

Should I stay or should I go now...

[maddezmom]

18. heard the same, Ridge resigning...Thompson resigning his post but is

interesting in another post within the WH...perhaps Transportation.

[billyoc]

6. Better get over to the library,

while it's still open. Feith will declare open season on librarians. :grr:

[peacefreak]

9. Booksellers, too.

Wanna buy a used copy of Mein Kampf?

[johnfunk]

11. Librarians will declare open season on Fascist Feith

Take my word for it.

Douglas Feith is already a known entity, a proven peddler of lies -- and a proto-fascist who won't last more than six months if Bush is idiot enough to name him and the Senate OKs him, which I believe they will not(!).

[durablend]

12. Isn't THIS site illegal?

Under the fourth reich?

Unfettered thought is a definite NO NO when it involves dissent against the ruling party (especially when that ruling party has "a mandate")

[KurtNYC]

30. love your name change btw

[calimary]

50. Me too!

I still feel that way myself.

[RaleighNCDUer]

59. Well, it's bout time someone did something bout them terrists

and their subversive education.

[LizW]

10. Feith??? Oh, good lord.

This country's over the cliff and we're in complete free fall.

[dkofos]

68. Well I hope they hit the ground first and break our fall!!

[lil-petunia]

13. who wrote the song, Should I stay or should I go?

that is what this comedy of errata seems like.

[LifeDuringWartime]

14. the clash!

great song

[OrwellwasRight]

15. The Clash!!

Mick Jones for DHS Secretary.

[cubsfan forever]

16. Perhaps Miss Rice

could take over both jobs and completely destroy the country all by her ignorant little self. :puke: Rice and Feith

Professor 2

PS~Feith spell-checks as "Faith" :puke: :puke:

[MGKrebs]

19. Now on usatoday.com

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-11-16-ridge-thompson_x.htm

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

21. What on earth?

First MSNBC announces it, then just as they rescind it, CNN throws it up on a BREAKING NEWS banner, then CNN removes the banner, then we see a USAToday link.

Jeepers.

[LiberalEsto]

22. security concerns? nt

[Rose Siding]

26. They use each other as sources

"Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson will step down, broadcast networks reported this morning"

The story isn't that it actually happened but that it was reported to have happened. :eyes: Our tireless super sleuth media at work

[OrwellwasRight]

27. Either somebody broke the press embargo by

announcing too early and retracted b/c they got slapped down by the Admin

OR it is a purposeful plant by an Admin insider (and the only purpose of that would be to defelct attention from elsewhere -- the shooting of the unarmed, wounded, Iraqi prisoner, perhaps???).

My theories anyway.

[Fleshdancer]

23. Wow, according to your link, that's 7 cabinet members gone in 2 weeks

I know this is a somewhat normal practice, but man, when it rains it pours. It's pretty scary knowing Bush gets to fill these positions with even bigger lunatics than before.

[rainbow4321]

32. Distracts from Fallujah invasion/killings

and everything else over there...

[Fleshdancer]

34. good point. obviously distracts from Mosul as well....

considering the only reports I've read on Mosul so far are from foreign papers/news sources. :grr:

[RaleighNCDUer]

60. Remember how Nixon replaced his entire cabinet?

Well, a couple were indicted, if I recall, but he bounced the rest of them. Same situation, desperate attempts to fix something that is systemic. They know they're on a glide path to a crash, and don't know what to do about it. For the last year, all they thought about was winning, not about what they'd do if they won.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

51. So where will Armitage end up? NSA?

[Chimpanzee]

62. I have no resepect for Armitage

But it looks like he has even less respect for Condi. I bet as soon as he found out, he said fuck this place!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

64. Nah, he is a creepy fuck, he will be an ambassador again

or some kind of functionary somewhere... they would not lose this founding member of PNAC

[Snellius]

24. OMG. Feith? I love to watch W screwing up so royally.

For all those who thought that W was really a moderate pandering to the right: WRONG! If he was going to win, I was hoping that at least he would finally show his true colors, and so he has. His new cabinet isn't just incompetent, it's weird. What is it with Republicans and assholes?

[ElectroPrincess]

28. Oh damn, I'm aghast! Just when you think it couldn't get any

more nut case right wing-like on *'s replacements, they select a heartless lock-step, loyal crone like Douglas Feith. Welcome to the Fourth Reich.

It's gonna be a long and lonely winter. :(

[Chimpanzee]

63. Don't you mean 'goose-step'?

[Catfight]

29. Weird is "right" those people are freaks of society. This is even

more entertaining than I thought it'd be.

[lefthandedskyhook]

37. Give a fool enough rope...

*fingers crossed*

[calimary]

54. Under ordinary circumstances that would apply. But THIS -

this is just bizarro-world, through-the-looking-glass stuff. None of that seems to apply to this jackass.

ALL bets are off with this jerk. The cheney curse didn't hold. The below-50-percent-job-approval didn't hold. The Redskins loss didn't hold. Crime isn't supposed to pay. Cheaters are never supposed to prosper. The black hats aren't supposed to win. Reason and logic don't apply. NOTHING holds.

Do you suppose bush made a deal with the Devil? How is he getting away with so much, and triumphing so much, and how does he come by so much support - when he's a complete, shameless, unapologetic fuck-up? And about half this country fervently believes he's the next best thing to God?

And I thought Reagan was bad.

[lefthandedskyhook]

55. Short answer: We have virtually no checks and balances left.

I think it can and probably will get much worse before it gets better. Nobody knows how long it will take to turn it around.

As always the solution is simple: Awaken the ignorant. Actually pulling that off is another matter entirely. The fourth estate was an effective hedge against an uninformed voting public - - we have effectively lost that. The internet remains as one last hope, but it is under systematic assault at this very moment.

Here's a favorite quote you may have already seen: "Let the people know the truth and the country is safe" - Abraham Lincoln

[OldLeftieLawyer]

65. I hate this

and I hate thinking this way, but all that these assholes are doing is simply playing into the hands of someone who wants to nuke the United States.

I keep seeing OBL snuggling up with Iran, and they're both laughing at us.

[lefthandedskyhook]

66. Sickening thought, isn't it?

[quiet.american]

25. About Feith

About Feith:

"The dumbest fucking guy on the planet."
-- General Tommy Franks

[Fleshdancer]

38. wow. Franks knows Bush Jr and still calls Feith the dumbest....

...fucking guy on the planet? Now THAT is scary.

[Kira]

42. When did he say that

It is hilarious and scary at the same time. I love the comment about him knowing * and still saying that.

[quiet.american]

44. About Franks on Feith

Some links discussing the quote:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=14506649&method=full&siteid=50143&headline=he-s-the-dumbest-f-----g-guy-on-the-planet-name_page.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,127969,00.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/217656p-187192c.html

[Kira]

45. Thanks

n/t

[napi21]

31. Several months ago Ridge said he would be leaving.

Remember? He said he had his kids to put through College and he just wasn't making enough $$ in this job.

I think, no matter who got this job, it was destined to failure. It's never a great idea to combine all those individual departments into one and expect one person to be able to manage it.

I son't care who they replace him with, it's a nonstarter. That job cannot be done! Shrub has to realize that you can have co-operation between departments if you demand it, but you can't put them all together!

[lil-petunia]

35. Breaking news! Elvis spotted on White House lawn!

Ooops, sorry, that was Cheney or Rummy. We rescind this gnus bulletin.


Now, are these announcement fiascos planned by the White house, or is it indicative of disarray in the White House press orfice?

[IndianaGreen]

39. Ridge denied he is resigning, but...

the story of his resignation was leaked by White House which means that Orange Alert Ridge is gonna be pushed out!

[The Backlash Cometh]

40. Is anyone keeping a Tombstone Tally of all the right-wingers who

are jumping ship?

[DoYouEverWonder]

41. Be glad this is happening now

and not after the inaguration.

Bush doesn't realize that he hasn't been elected anything yet, and we are now seeing his real agenda.

[jhain]

58. heeeee heeeeee heeeeeeeeeee

been saying this for days.

as I tick off the jumping rats on my list here next to the monitor...
I do believe they are jumping- not being pushed.
Hell, they are doing triple gainers with half twists.
We are seeing the new synchronized diving:
Paige & Abraham

8.5

8.7...

[Zech Marquis]

43. okayyyy something's definitely coming down the pipe here

and it's NOT going to be good for any of us :scared:

[PoohStuff]

46. I'm SO confused right now...

I can't keep up with who is resigning, who isn't... and why all of a sudden? I don't want to sound alarmist, but do you think the reason they are leaving is because something is going to happen and they don't want to be the blame? For example, how * blamed the CIA for 9/11 so people are running like roaches when the lights are turned on? It did totally take my mind off of Fallujah for a moment...just so I can clear the smoke from my ears.
I studied journalism for a few back in high school, and I do remember something called fact checking, not just announcing cause they heard it somewhere... Beginning to be more like a gossip show than "news".

Something Wicked This Way Comes....

[ebayfool]

57. Something Wicked This Way Comes....

LOL - That so sums up all of the Bushco crowd! Very good!

[RaleighNCDUer]

61. I just had that thought myself.

Dir CIA, Scty of State, NSA, Dir Homeland Security, other cabinet posts. There will be another 6 - 8 month settling in period when the new people will not be held accountable for intelligence lapses.

I had a nightmare about a nuke in Seattle.

I don't believe in prophetic dreams, but...

[demnan]

47. When do we hear about Norman Mineta?

Secretary of Transportation and the lone Democrat held over from the Clinton administration? Surely he's out.

[maddezmom]

49. tommy Thompson wants his job according to reports on CNN this am

[Logansquare]

48. "the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth"

That's how Gen. Franks described Doug Feith. He has been a disaster for the Pentagon, now he can be *our* disaster.

[new2004voterWV]

56. Quote about Ridge's resignation found inside an article on Rice

"On Tuesday, two senior administration officials told CNN that Homeland Security Department Secretary Tom Ridge will also leave his Cabinet post, but the White House would not confirm the report.

Brian Roehrkasse, a spokesman for the department, said the report was "news to us."

Roehrkasse said Ridge has not made any decisions about his future and at this time there have not been any discussions with the White House."

Full story here- http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/16/rice.powell/index.html

[dkofos]

69. WOW With all those cabinet members resigning,

maybe "to stupid to be president"
will decide to resign too.

Please

:evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[Boosterman]

70. Ok not sure about

whether Ridge quit or not. But you mean there are more scary people than Ashcroft? /shudder