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Omnivorous
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Message 30 of 96 (362693)
11-08-2006 6:17 PM
Reply to: Message 26 by FliesOnly
11-08-2006 3:30 PM


Re: swearing!
Flies writes:
SuperNintendo Chalmers writes:
did anyone see where Bush lost it and started swearing? They had to bleep him out at his own press conference.
I need more. Tell me more. What did he say? Is it on line? Tell me more.
I'm still sated by Haggard's, "I did not have sex with that man!" and "I bought the meth but I didn't use it!"
Too, too rich: better than chocolate (well, milk chocolate, anyway; dark chocolate is still better).
I don't mind if Georgie Boy swears. I'd sure like to get him drunk and ask him about that National Guard service, though.
On tape.

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Message 34 of 96 (362707)
11-08-2006 7:24 PM
Reply to: Message 31 by RAZD
11-08-2006 6:20 PM


Re: hippo cats
RAZD writes:
Anybody notice how the republicans are rushing to meticulously count every possible hanging chad?
Where did that urgency for decisions go eh?
It went the same place as that SCOTUS decison that said everyone had to have the same right to be miscounted, but insisted it was a one-off, setting no precedent.
I recall with particular piquancy how they announced their decision a few hours before Florida was supposed to submit its electoral results--even though they had made their decision several days before--and argued there could be no recount because no time for it remained. I recall when the SCOTUS blocked a Florida recount because it might harm Bush. I think future historians will make much of those days, when major fractures appeared in the Republic.
I understand Rome had days like that.
You do know the GOP was planning both court action and media appeals to the Electoral College electors to change their votes in 2000 if Gore won the election but not the popular vote?
Of course, they changed their tune when it was Bush who took the college but not the popular vote.
RAZD, they are NOT nice people.

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Message 35 of 96 (362708)
11-08-2006 7:31 PM
Reply to: Message 33 by Hyroglyphx
11-08-2006 6:58 PM


Re: wow... the massacre continues
n_j writes:
I'll have to say that when the Secretary of Defense neglects to heed the advice of his own top generals who are reported to directly by officers in country, that is an enormous problem. Rumsfeld did what was in the best interests of his own party, which was to resign.
If the history of today ever become an open book, I suspect we'll find he did what the President demanded of him--all eyes are now on 2008, and Rummie was a liability.
Too bad he never did what was in the best interest of his country and his own humanity. Instead, he championed torture. We should never let old men lead us to war; they have too little to lose.
He should face the same kind of trials the captive Nazis faced.

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Message 39 of 96 (362718)
11-08-2006 8:06 PM
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11-08-2006 7:49 PM


Re: wow... the massacre continues
Amen.

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Message 54 of 96 (362772)
11-09-2006 12:03 AM
Reply to: Message 3 by Archer Opteryx
11-08-2006 5:30 AM


Hi, Archer.
It's important to recognize that the advantage of that single seat is not small: at 50/50, the GOP gets to again "organize" the Senate, meaning they would again chair all the Senate committees, and the committees would all be comprised of a GOP majority and a Democratic minority.
As we have seen, that means no oversight and no investigation of manifestly illegal or unconstitutional activity by the executive branch.

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