Lou Dobbs says divine intervention may be all we have left under *.

[MoonRiver]

Reading letters from viewers. This one discussed the many horrors we're experiencing under our selected regime. Better start praying folks. Nothing else left to do. I don't agree, but that sentiment is out there. People are clearly feeling very frustrated and afraid.

[babylonsister]

1. So maybe the freepers are waking up to reality finally. My

question: what took them so damned long?:grr:

[MoonRiver]

2. Could be the port thing. But this might not have been a freeper.

Lots of people are scared.

[melody]

3. Gee you think MAYBE they'll finally start listening to liberals?

If these arrogant, ignorant jerks had thought for themselves instead of allowing their egos and sentiment to be hijacked and manipulated by the far right, we wouldn't be here. I wonder if ANY of those people who supported Reagan and the whole cavalcade will have an iota of a notion that they -- the putative "conservatives" -- brought all of this upon us.

[Conker]

4. Isn't Lou Dobbs a moderate?

[melody]

8. supposedly

Sometimes he sounds like one, sometimes he sounds like a conservative.

By "they" I was speaking about his viewers who tend toward the conservative side.

[Conker]

11. Why are his viewers still watching him then?

Mostly every time I turn him on I see him dismissing the Bush administration.

[melody]

12. Because real conservatives hate him just as much as we do n/t

[Conker]

14. That reminds me of Lou Dobbs claiming that his show is nonpartisan.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/04/lou.media/index.html

[TallahasseeGrannie]

7. Melody,

I hear your anger and I understand it. But I just have to tell you that not all Republicans are arrogant, ignorant jerks.

If only that WERE true, it would be so much easier.

There are some fine, wonderful folks out there who are Republicans. We could write thousands of pages on why they have voted the way they have, but suffice it to say that arrogance and ignorance (while obviously a factor in some) is the least of our problems.

[melody]

9. Heavens no -- just the neoCon ones, those are the ones I was talking about

And I do believe the majority of the neocon public is arrogant and ignorant, imho.

The leaders are another matter entirely -- sociopathy is more the rule than not.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

13. I'll join you in that broad brush

because I've never really met a neocon I liked. But I've known many, many old-timed GOP types I was very fond of.

Neocons suck.

[melody]

15. I don't see it as a broad brush when they define themselves

I'm sure there were a couple of nicer Nazis, but for the most part ... lol

We'll look back upon the NeoCons as our own version of Nazis.

[marions ghost]

16. I have known Republicans of all kinds

you name it--

Fundies, good old boys, business people, rich doctors and lawyers...

And some of them are OK. But I have never thought of any of them as wonderful. There is a meanness of spirit, a self-absorption, a blindness they all share. I forgive them for their lack of perception. Really kind, caring, generous and perceptive people are always Liberals, if they are political at all.

Just a comment. Not wishing to argue the point. But I will never forgive any Republicans if they voted for George Bush.

[Lorien]

17. I'm with you there. many repugs seem like "wonderful folks"

until you really get to know them. Behind the facade they are exactly what you describe.

[Doctor_J]

18. If they voted for Smirk, then they are not great people

they are some combination of self-absorbed, bigoted, racist, elitist, and ignorant. Sorry, but no caring, feeling, generous, and kind person could vote to have the country run by *, Cheney, Scalia, Delay, and Frist. Period.

[patricia92243]

5. What did he say about the WH not knowing that the sale was taking

place. I didn't get all of it because I'm cooking.

I've often wondered if Bush was evil or stupid out in this time.

[MoonRiver]

6. He was just reading what a viewer had written. eom

[w8liftinglady]

10. Bush is a member of CFIUS

The Secretary of the Treasury is the Chair of CFIUS,
The other CFIUS member agencies are the Departments of State, Defense, Justice, and Commerce, OMB, CEA, USTR, OSTP, the NSC, the NEC and the newest member, the Department of Homeland Security

sec of treasury-Secretary John Snow
sec of state-Secretary Condoleezza Rice
sec of defense-Donald Rumsfeld
sec of justice dept-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
sec of commerce-Secretary Carlos Gutierrez
OMB-Joshua B. Bolten
CEA-Katherine Baicker and Matthew J. Slaughter
USTR-Rob Portman,ambassador;Rob Lehmann-chief of staff
NSC-The National Security Council is chaired by the President. Its regular attendees (both statutory and non-statutory) are the Vice President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the statutory military advisor to the Council, and the Director of Central Intelligence is the intelligence advisor. The Chief of Staff to the President, Counsel to the President, and the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy are invited to attend any NSC meeting. The Attorney General and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget are invited to attend meetings pertaining to their responsibilities. The heads of other executive departments and agencies, as well as other senior officials, are invited to attend meetings of the NSC when appropriate.

NEC-Allan Hubbard is Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council (NEC).
Dept homeland security-Michael Chertoff