Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 30, 2008
NY Times op-ed columnist Bob Herbert wrote “I’m not holding my breath, but I would like to see the self-proclaimed conservative, small government, anti-regulation, free-market zealots step up and take responsibility for wrecking the American economy and bringing about the worst financial crisis since the Depression.”
“Even now, with the house on fire, the most extreme [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 30, 2008
I admit that Sarah Palin is pleasant to look at – most women are fascinating to look at when they are speaking about politics because there is so darn few of them. Even Madeline Albright is more fun to look at than Henry Kissinger.
But looks are superficial. Beliefs, power, confidence, a BIG [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 29, 2008
So the latest BS from the McCain camp is they blame Obama on the bailout failure
Dude, you and your VP choice are sinking and gasping for air. This kind of flailing about is wasting your energy and dangerous to your campaign. But that’s fine with me. It will just make you [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 29, 2008
Where are the Democrats when you need them? Obama was one of the few people to speak out against the war now it’s time to speak out about the bailout and not sign the damn thing.
Democrats should not sit there trying to help prop up Bush and Cheney and McCain and the mess they’ve made. Paulson picked [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 29, 2008
Here’s everything you always wanted to know about Sarah Palin and really not much of it is good.
She’s amazingly scary on many different levels from believing that people and dinosaurs coexisted to repeating meaningless sound bytes that have no depth to being investigated by various agencies.
If John McCain doesn’t wake up from his Ambien stupor [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 29, 2008
Lies! Lies! Lies!
What else is new?
McCain’s aide said he was instrumental in the bailout.
McCain himself said he was not instrumental in the bailout.
Sources say he was detrimental and passive.
McCain actually spent much of the time away from the actual bailout meeting. While the other legislative types were duking out the details, McCain and his wife, the [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 28, 2008
This is a funny video but it’s also a scary video because it’s just too close to how Sarah Palin really is.
Palin has no specifics and speaks in talking points without any real ideas.
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 28, 2008
Watch this video and see his pack of lies and ongoing contradictions. Keep this video moving forward!
Brave New Films hit a nerve when Rush, Drudge, and O’Reilly unleashed on them the same day.
Then, MSNBC censored the McCain health records ad, a Brave New PAC initiative, due to Bill O’Reilly/Fox’s pressure.
And why?
Because of the work we [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 27, 2008
I received this email. It is so right on! I don’t know why are talking heads in Washington can’t figure this out. My apologies to the person who wrote it; I don’t know who you are because it came by way of several forwarding on.
“I’m against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG.
Instead, I’m in favor of [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 27, 2008
Tonight in the first debate, Obama told McCain that he (McCain) was wrong about weapons of mass destruction and how long the war would last.
It sounds like Bush and McCain lacked military intelligence. (No surprise)
Tonight, also, conservative columnists are saying that Sarah Palin should resign as the Republican Vice President candidate.
The problem is less Palin [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 26, 2008
Yes, it can happen.
Read the article in its entirety and the investigative report that goes along with it.
Those Republicans sure know how to make a mess of things. Think foreclosure Phil.
And for those people who think that John McCain can still reform Washington — think again — he’s one of the biggest reasons this financial [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 25, 2008
Letterman said he felt like a “patriot” to let McCain off his commitment to deal with the economy and “now I’m feeling like an ugly date.”
“That’s what I feel like, I feel like an ugly date,” he said. “I feel used. I feel cheap. I feel sullied…I feel cratered….”
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 25, 2008
GOOD GRIEF Palin talks about Russians using Alaskan air space, and Putin rearing his head. Ahem, I think the only air space she’s talkin’ about is between her ears! – -
Couric asked if Palin had ever had negotiations with the Russians. Palin said: “We have trade missions back and forth, we do” … [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 25, 2008
When McCain was campaigning in the primaries he said he has experience unless his opponents who was a mayor of a major New York metropolis during 9/11 and the governor of Mass. He called the mayor and the governor inexperienced. Watch the video!
Yet…his running mate was a mayor of a small town and the governor of [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 25, 2008
He’s not even President yet (and hopefully he never will be) and he’s already jerking around the American people, you know, us, you and me, the voters. Quite frankly, he’s been jerking around us average joes and janes for many years. It’s the Wall Street CEOs and rich hedge fund guys and beer distribution heiresses that [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 25, 2008
Does Palin believe in hanging at the stake?
Most likely if you’re a moose or a wolf.
At Sarah’s church she was part of a ceremony in 2005 that protected her from witchcraft. What kind of church does that?
Watch the video. And keep the faith, baby. Isn’t there a separation of church and state and witchcraft?
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 25, 2008
David Letterman’s “Top 10 List” on John McCain, after McCain baled on his appearance at the last minutes. Aired September 24, 2008 :
The Top 10 Questions to John McCain:
10. “I just contributed to your campaign – how do I get a refund?
9. “It’s Sarah Palin – does this mean I’m prez’dent?”
8. [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 25, 2008
Jimmy Orr’s political post (and the cartoon) on the Vote Blog of the Christian Science Monitor is hilarious. It’s a great re-cap of what David Letterman said about McCain last night.
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 25, 2008
McCain suddenly bailed from David Letterman’s show – giving Letterman only about 2 hours notice before taping. He personally called Letterman and said the economy was “about to crater” and he was suspending his campaign and had to leave immediately for Washington.
In fact, McCain didn’t rush back to Washington – he [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 25, 2008
As Palin is talkin’ and takin’ swipes at “the political whiz boy”, her final words to Couric are absolutely stunning! Geezis.
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 25, 2008
From Stratfor founder and Chief Intelligence Officer George Friedman – September 25
Senator McCain has issued position papers and made statements about his intended foreign policy. Like all Presidents, he would also be getting input from a variety of others, principally from his own party. This second analysis analyzes the foreign [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 25, 2008
Doug Thompson ran the Political Programs Division of the National Association of Realtors. NAR was the largest trade association in the country.
One of his jobs was to serve as the association’s “go to” guy when they needed to sway the opinions of Congress.
Thompson wrote: “McCain claims he’s going to put an end to special interest [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 25, 2008
George Bush went on TV to sweet-talk Americans into letting him steal $700 billion of our tax dollars. That’s $2,333 for every man, woman, and child – to bail out his greedy rich friends on Wall Street.
On Thursday, September 25 – Bush will meet with Democratic and Republican leaders to finalize a deal that gives Bush [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 25, 2008
Someone sent me this joke.
I didn’t think it was an original thought and sure enough it seems to be floating around the Internet which is fine by me. My apologies as I don’t know who to thank but here’s a link to the sentiment.
If you don’t want to read the set up, here’s the punch [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 24, 2008
From Stratfor founder and Chief Intelligence Officer George Friedman – September 24
Senator Obama has issued position papers and made statements about his intended foreign policy. Like all Presidents, he would also be getting input from a variety of others, principally from his own party. This second analysis analyzes the foreign [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 24, 2008
The debates are scheduled for Friday, September 26.
Earlier today (9/24) McCain said he wanted to bail on the debate because he wanted to spend time on the financial crisis.
Thanks but not thanks!
McCain, you’ve had at least 8 to 20 years to chime in on the financial crisis. Admit it — McCain, you have no strategy. [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 24, 2008
Reprint from Consumer Watchdog
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When Enron and Wall Street demanded a huge bailout from Californians during the 2001 energy crisis, we organized the bailout watchdogs in Sacramento to stop them. That’s why Consumer Watchdog’s founder Harvey Rosenfield got on a plane to DC yesterday and is walking Capitol Hill today with a [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 24, 2008
Important Reprint from Brave New PACs:
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Recurrences of malignant melanoma, a savage tumor that can and does reappear after periods of hope-filled absence, are too common and serious to be cloaked for political purposes. – Theodore M. Cole, MD
Dear Friends, Colleagues and Supporters,
53,491: People who have signed Brave New Films’ open letter calling [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 24, 2008
During a speech at the Fraser Institute in Canada last night, a Toronto businessman asked former Bush political adviser Karl Rove “if he thought Sarah Palin would make a good President.”
Rove’s response? “I don’t know“:
If Rove doesn’t know, God Help the World.
One woman commented:
“Those in the process of looting every last dime from our treasury [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 24, 2008
An encouraging op-ed in Australia’s SYDNEY MORNING HERALD by Michael Gawenda, a former Herald Washington correspondent and now director of Melbourne University’s Centre for Advanced Journalism.
Mr. Gawenda wrote:
“…this time, it isn’t about the fear of terrorist attacks, but about economic security and the fear, as the financial crisis goes on, that more Americans will lose [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 24, 2008
Joe Biden, VP candidate and foreign relations expert recently said:
“Nothing is more important than judgment,” . . . “But time and again, on the most critical national security issues of our time, John McCain’s judgment was wrong.”
“John is more than wrong — he is dangerously wrong. On a question so basic, so fundamental, so [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 23, 2008
Here’s a riddle: How can you tell when McCain lies? Answer: His lips move…
In what is brilliant reporting, the New Times just published a piece that says McCain’s aide was receiving $15,000/month from Freddie Mac for consulting. Mr. Davis received that from 2005 until Freddie’s recent collapse. When asked about it — McCain denied those facts.
Yet — [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 23, 2008
PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY
September 23, 2008
Dear Friends,
I am taking the unique step of writing to you from the Campaign for Fresh Air and Clean Politics, the parent organization of Voters for Peace, True Vote and Climate Security. The proposed bailout being considered in Washington, DC requires people to work together to stop it and replace [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 23, 2008
“Sen. John McCain has spent much of his two decades in Congress pushing deregulation, but the Republican presidential nominee is continuing his election year migration toward more government control of the economy as the nation faces one of its greatest financial crises since the Great Depression.”
See article here on CNN
McCain was for deregulation before he [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 23, 2008
Palin, who as the governor of Alaska has virtually no foreign policy expertise, sat down for a conversation with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, whose U.S.-backed country is struggling to contain a resurgent Taliban.
“Meeting Karzai | 1 p.m. When Gov. Sarah Palin sat down with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan on Tuesday afternoon, the polite preliminaries [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 23, 2008
REPRINT FROM THINKPROGRESS:
The Bush administration’s $700 billion financial bailout is roughly what the United States has spent so far on the Iraq war and would raise the national debt ceiling to $11.3 trillion. Despite the enormous scale of the request, the Bush administration is demanding that Congress “place no restrictions on the administration other than [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 23, 2008
FROM Stratfor founder and Chief Intelligence Officer George Friedman – September 23, 2008
The above link goes to the first installment of a four-part report from Stratfor founder and Chief Intelligence Officer, George Friedman, on the United States Presidential Debate on Foreign Policy.
“On Friday night, every government intelligence agency in the world will be glued to [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 23, 2008
Crowds yell to Biden: “Give ‘em hell, Joe” and “Don’t let her lie.”
At the rope line in Canton, Ohio, one woman has this advice for the Oct. 2 Biden-Palin debate: “You kick her butt.”
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In-your-face time with Joe Biden
Barack Obama’s running mate is back on the media’s radar, listening almost as much as he talks.
By Faye [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 23, 2008
Hey bitch. We’re getting restless. All the other players have shown the American people their IRS paperwork.
Cindy McCain refused but she is not running for office. We already know she’s worth over $100 million and has ties to the MOB and has been a drugstore cowgirl but now is reformed, probably. We do wonder how [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 23, 2008
Senator McCain, whatever you do, if God Forbid you become President, DO NOT put Sarah Palin in charge of United States energy policy.
Palin, McCain Disagree on Causes of Global Warming
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 23, 2008
“NRA Targets Obama
September 22, 2008
“It falsely claims in mailers and TV ads that Obama plans to ban handguns, hunting ammo and use of a gun for home defense.
“Summary
“A National Rifle Association advertising campaign distorts Obama’s position on gun control beyond recognition. The NRA is circulating printed material and running TV ads making unsubstantiated claims that [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 23, 2008
Humane Society Legislative Fund Endorses Obama-Biden
One of the guiding principles of the Humane Society Legislative Fund is that we evaluate candidates based on a single criterion: where they stand on animal protection policies. We don’t make decisions based on party affiliation, or any other social issue, or even how many pets they have. We care [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 22, 2008
Why Gordon Gekko Would Like McCain
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 22, 2008
In 120 days, Americans will take back their country from the worst and most corrupt administration in the history of the United States.
God will show his mercy on the middle class and the poor. Come January 20, 2009 the extreme right wing , ultra wealthy deregulatory free marketeer neocon Republican Party will take [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 22, 2008
On Sept. 15, McCain said “the fundamentals of our economy are strong”.
That day Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch collapsed.
On Sept. 18 McCain said he would “fire” the SEC Chairman Chris Cox.
The President does not have that authority.
On Sept. 19 McCain confused the SEC with the FEC (the FEC, the Federal Election Commission.) when he said: [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 22, 2008
Bill Maher is funnier than hell. I cannot stop laughing. And really there has been nothing funny about election 08 so I’m going to run with this little blurb.
At the beginning of this family values fiasco, we said that Levi Johnston was going to jump ship and go to Hollywood.
It could happen. My money is [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 21, 2008
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 21, 2008
The talk on the street is that the blue collar demographic cannot relate to Obama. I hope that’s not the case.
But can they relate to Sarah Palin?
Matt Damon, movie star, and blue collar hero — Jason Bourne from the wildly popular movie and sequel, Bourne Ultimatum FEARS Palin.
I saw the movie Bourne Ultimatum in a little [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 21, 2008
Check out John McCain’s proposed healthcare plan (adobe acrobat required) in the Contingencies Magazine. He mentions the word tax credit a lot. What he doesn’t mention is the 47 million Americans who do NOT have health insurance.
What he does say:
“Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 21, 2008
This is a wonderful blog entry how one man with a homemade sign can make a difference while expressing his opinion in front of a bunch of tourists exiting a cruise ship in Alaska.
This could never happen in China.
To the man who made the sign and had the courage to hold it even though an [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 21, 2008
The next person who tells me that Obama blew off visiting the troops in Afghanistan — I am going to kick their lying ass.
Obviously people will say and do anything and there are others who believe everything they read or hear.
Check out snopes.com to see that – yes — Obama did visit the troops in Afghanistan [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 21, 2008
This is a brilliant idea. Money for a good cause AND you get to send a
message to Sarah Palin who has a total disregard for women’s reproductive freedoms.
For those horrified by Palin’s selection, especially for her position on women’s issues, here’s a fiendishly brilliant idea to pass along.
Make a donation to Planned Parenthood of any amount, in Sarah [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 21, 2008
Dear John,
You made so many major message and mispronounciation gaffes, you made George Bush look like the poster boy for good public speaking.
Watch the video. It’s a blast!
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 20, 2008
“George Bush wants taxpayers to pay $700 billion – $2,333 for every man, woman, and child – to bail out Wall Street for its reckless investments in mortgage-backed securities. That’s on top of $800 billion for other recent bailouts, including A.I.G., Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Bear Stearns.
“The current financial disaster is the direct result [...]
Posted by: Disgusted with Republicans on: September 20, 2008
“The characteristics that led to McCain gaining hundreds of demerits at the Naval Academy have never fully left him; by his own admission, he has an “irremediable” personality trait of being “a wiseass,” and as he added: “Occasionally my sense of humor is ill-considered or ill-timed, and that can be a problem.”
“Others have concurred: A [...]
