Screen Shot of a SWEET item from AP & CNN: "Republicans Jumping Ship"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060225/ap_on_go_pr_wh/ports_security_109

[blue cat]

1. Very sweet indeed

made my day.

[niallmac]

2. Don't forget to contact your elected rep on this. Especially if he/she is

a republican.

[tridim]

3. The next big question

Do we rescue them or let them drown?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

4. Let me finish my cake, then ask the question again.

[NanceGreggs]

10. They don't need us to save them ...

... I'm sure FEMA is on their way, fully-equipped with the necessary anchors to keep them afloat.

[calimary]

11. Depends on who they are. If they're moderate and they've at some time

stepped up to the plate and joined us on something, then okay. I tend to want to give Chuck Hagel in the Senate a little breathing room from time to time, myself. Besides, his staffers are all extremely courteous and friendly, even to one (like me) who calls in to register a comment from the opposition.

This is an intriguing one. There are some, like Bob Barr, one of the great assholes of our recent past, who's now hounding this White House for its abuses of power and infringements on our privacy. He's sidled straight up to the ACLU, no less. Some of these boomerang back around, actually in our favor. Then again, they still need to be watched with eyes of hungry lions.

There are some others, however, for whom I've got anvils, no questions asked, no wiggle-room allowed.

[Burried News]

5. Here's a lifeboat for them - full speed ahead.

[peacetalksforall]

6. Makes me want to ask how the Nelsons and Landrieau are

positioning themselves. Why am I so negative about them. Do you think they will change if I think positive about them?

Then, I want to know what the pubpimps are saying - Normie, Thune.

[calimary]

7. Got ANOTHER one here, from William F. Buckley no less:

It's from Truthout - and it's called...

It Didn't Work
By William F. Buckley
The National Review

Friday 24 February 2006

"I can tell you the main reason behind all our woes - it is America." The New York Times reporter is quoting the complaint of a clothing merchant in a Sunni stronghold in Iraq. "Everything that is going on between Sunni and Shiites, the troublemaker in the middle is America."

One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed.

(snip)

And you'll LOVE the ending... :evilgrin:

Mr. Bush has a very difficult internal problem here because to make the kind of concession that is strategically appropriate requires a mitigation of policies he has several times affirmed in high-flown pronouncements. His challenge is to persuade himself that he can submit to a historical reality without forswearing basic commitments in foreign policy.

He will certainly face the current development as military leaders are expected to do: They are called upon to acknowledge a tactical setback, but to insist on the survival of strategic policies.

Yes, but within their own counsels, different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgment of defeat.


http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022506Z.shtml

I can't decide what part I like more, about this one. Maybe the ending, because that paints a delicious picture of bush - having painted himself into a corner. It will be most entertaining to see how he-who-never-admits-he-made-a-mistake will handle this one. "...And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat." This, for the same guy who leaned in at you from the podium during the last State of the Union speech and declared, about Iraq, that "We. ARE. WINNING!" Yeah. And HOW are we winning, george? Your guys said it was a cakewalk that wouldn't cost us much, if at all, thanks to the gushers of the Iraqi oil revenues, with a lean-n-mean fighting force that wouldn't require a lot of extra reinforcements. Hey! They'll greet us with flowers and sweets!

Just another one from the "yeah, SURE" file.

Just. Another. Lie.

[NVMojo]

8. woooooo-hooooo!

[blue cat]

9. 1-888-355-3588 US Capital

You can can and ask to speak with any Senator, anytime. During work hours each Senator has aides that takes messages, and after work hours you can leave a message on their recorder. Please save this number to your cell for future use as well. Flame the fire, leave messages on their recorders that republicans aren't happy with this (this isn't a lie, you don't have to say if you are a republican).

[ThoughtCriminal]

12. Release the sharks?

With frickin lazer beams on their heads?

Nah, throw a line - we have to encourage more to do the same.

[riona]

13. ship jumpers

fema will never get through to rescue them. apparently only harry connick, jr. is qualified for water emergencies.

[BlueIris]

14. Oh, man. That graphic is NICE.

Beauuuuuuutiful. Thank you.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

15. Maybe...

the whole port thing is simply a ruse to allow weak repukes a chance to win in Nov. by standing up against selling off of America, even though they have been totally inadequate in protecting us from ANYTHING ie Katrina. No actual terrorists were caught or put on trial as a result of the USA Patriot Act.

Tax cuts to the top 3% of social parasites while students, the elderly and disabled get their economic throats cut are amoung their many failures.