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Michelle links to John Hinderaker at Power Line who nails him:
The Democrats evidently aren’t happy with the release of the “key judgments” of the National Intelligence Estimate on global terrorism, because now they’ve demanded that the White House release the entire report.
That will get them what they’re looking for, i.e., headlines like this one: “White House refuses to release full NIE.” The Democrats knew, obviously, that the administration can’t release the entire document without both endangering agents and compromising the ability of intelligence analysts to write candid assessments without worrying that their work product will wind up in the newspaper. But for now, at least, they can change the subject.Ted Kennedy weighed in with the most surreal attack:
“The American people deserve the full story, not those parts of it that the Bush administration selects,” said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass. That would be hilarious, if it were not so contemptible. When Democrats in the bureaucracy illegally leaked misleading portions of the NIE’s “key judgments” in hopes of influencing the election, that was fine with Kennedy. But when the administration declassified the entire “judgments” section so that the American people can read it all and judge for themselves, now Kennedy complains that the voters aren’t getting “the full story.” Absolutely outrageous, but typical of the Democrats’ ever more hysterical campaign.
September 27, 2006 - 04:36 PM on September 27th, 2006
Why should anyone care what this bloated, degenerate, treasonous caricature of himself has to say?
September 27, 2006 - 05:13 PM on September 27th, 2006
Ted Kennedy wallows in ignorance and hate.
September 27, 2006 - 05:20 PM on September 27th, 2006
“wallows” is an outstanding term to describe the this bloated buffoon.
September 27, 2006 - 06:02 PM on September 27th, 2006
I wonder if he’s ready to tell all that can be disclosed about his ill-fated drive on a bridge with a woman named Mary Jo? Not just the parts he’s selected.
“…and I alone survived.”
September 27, 2006 - 06:14 PM on September 27th, 2006
Ted Kennedy’s car has killed more people than my guns…
September 27, 2006 - 06:18 PM on September 27th, 2006
4- WHAAAAAAAPISSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHH:razz:
September 28, 2006 - 02:47 PM on September 28th, 2006
I don’t see why the Dems should care when everyone knows that the legacy of bignuts Bush and his merry band of fuckwits will likely be 1,000 more 9/11s. Gee, bombing the shit out of Muslims, then occupying their country with your inbred army pisses them off–what a surprise. Thank god we’re not in the business of nation building or this would really be a PR disaster.
September 28, 2006 - 07:52 PM on September 28th, 2006
7: And that’s why there have been so many repeats of 9/11 in this country over the past five years.
How would a President Gore
shock
have handled 9/11?
September 28, 2006 - 08:11 PM on September 28th, 2006
Hey Sasha, did you notice who Mister Carlos is? Simon & The Lefties:razz:
September 29, 2006 - 07:24 AM on September 29th, 2006
I was wondering about the resemblence to the picture of that thing Simon gave birth to on his website.
September 29, 2006 - 10:08 AM on September 29th, 2006
I’m actually not Simon and the Lefties–I be one; they be several–though I thought that I may as well direct you all somewhere interesting…
As far as Gore’s hypothetical handling of 9/11 goes, I imagine that it would have been nearly the same as Bush’s. Ditto Kerry, or Hilary, or Ted Kennedy, or Jimmy Carter, or whatever other boogeyman haunts yr. dreams. One of (certainly not the only) tragedy of le droit is that it actually believes that the Democrats are on the left. Actually, the same corporations that paid for Bush’s election in 2000 paid for Gore’s. In 2004, the same folks owned Bush and Kerry. This stuff is a matter of public record and you should be able to find it online and elsewhere fairly easily. Both parties are nests of vipers.
If you insist on distinguishing Coke and Pepsi–great. You’ve had six years in office and a congressional majority. If everything’s fucked (the dollar, international relations, social security, etcetera) because of Clinton’s legacy, your guy has had plenty of time to deal with it.
Re: The absence of one, two, many 9/11s. If the right is to be believed, we’re under a constant quiet seige that may or may not flare up at any moment. Admittedly this isn’t as theatrical as falling towers but it hardly suggests that GWB has made the world or our own backyard a more American-friendly place.
September 29, 2006 - 11:03 AM on September 29th, 2006
11: Going down the line…
P1: …
P2: You can only imagine and hope Gore would’ve handled the situation the way Bush did. Instead, you have only his total objection to going to war.
P3: Pardon me, but if memory serves, Clinton’s folks were cooking the books well before 2001. Clinton’s former Treasury Secretary was the one making calls to the Bush admin. to try to bail out Enron and Citibank, until he was told to stop calling because it was inappropriate.
As it is, the Dow is back up to near record levels, we’ve had tax cuts, which has always stimulated the economy, and the world has not gone spinning off its axis. Bush sent a message that the US is not a paper tiger and exposed who our real friends are.
P4: What is the cost of liberty?
September 30, 2006 - 02:54 AM on September 30th, 2006
Hey Sasha,
Thanks for the great series of non-responses.
Going down the line:
P1:…
P2: Gore’s objection isn’t to the initial Bush and co. response to 9/11, it’s to the current war in Iraq. Are you still conflating Iraq and Afghanistan? Even after the president has now admitted that SH had not relation to the terrorist attack? Admittedly there are now thousands of Iraqis who would love to shed blood on American soil, so I guess that the connection that Bush, Cheney, et alia lied about has become something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. I’m sure that Gore, Clinton, or anyone else could have done a similarly marvelous job of not finding Bin-Laden.
P3: I’m not sure how the stuff about the Clinton administration, which I’m not interested in defending, has much to do with what I wrote (remember: Democrats aren’t really on the left). In terms of the economy, the dow alone doesn’t nec. translate to a stronger dollar or a higher quality of life. The dollar is still being crushed by the Euro, for example. Tax cuts have historically created a brief spike followed by a massive plunge. This case doesn’t look any different.
P4: Apparently the cost of liberty is wiretapping, secret prisons, pointless war abroad, a poisoned international community, lies to the populace, etc. What exactly do you mean by liberty? Or was your statement–as I suspect it was–something that you got off a bumper sticker?
September 30, 2006 - 04:25 AM on September 30th, 2006
7.
“I don’t see why the Dems should care when everyone knows that the legacy of bignuts Bush and his merry band of fuckwits will likely be 1,000 more 9/11s.”
Because the Dems are bigger idiots than the Reps. Even fter the PR campaign they’ve waged against the Reps, they still have a solid chance of losing Congress in ‘06 and more than likely will lose the Presidenitial elections in ‘08.
That said, five years after 9/11 you have nothing to substantiate this assumption. If you wish to compare legacies we could compare that with five to eight years previous to 9/11, but I believe it would be unfavorable. As for Bush’s legacy, no one will be able to predict this for years to come and to make that assumption is plain idiotic at this point.
“Gee, bombing the shit out of Muslims, then occupying their country with your inbred army pisses them off–what a surprise.”
Do I sense a disdain for the military here? What a suprise…OOC, since this is “our” army, where do you reside?
You are flatly wrong here. It pisses off a small minority of Muslims (of which, only the Iraqi Muslims are relevant) who was the ruling class in Iraq for the last 30 years. And yes, I am aware of the polls that say 80%+ of Iraqis do not want their country occupied. That is a loaded question, as no person wants their country occupied. However, to evetually stabilize their country it is a necesary evil, and most realize this too.
“Thank god we’re not in the business of nation building or this would really be a PR disaster.”
Exactly, even though the misplaces sense of sarcasm is noted. I’ve got two words for you: “Marshall Plan”.
Interesting, as you’ve moved from “Your” to “we’re” here though.
September 30, 2006 - 07:53 AM on September 30th, 2006
Mister Carlos- Take some accounting and economics classes before you start shooting your mouth off about the economy. That plunge we had in the recession of 2001 was in large part attributed to the decline that was starting in 98′. The market had a bubble in it and Greenspan repeatedly warned that there was a bubble, but when things are good, why pay attention right? Take Enron…if the average investor took the time to read through the stock reports they are given, there were red flags all over the reports..take a look at their cost of sales figures..The theft of the highest management attributed to that! We were not under tax cuts at the time of the crash. We were also attacked on 01′ which kinda scares the crap out of investors.
Our dollar hasn’t been a dollar since about 1970 btw…
Take a look at the economic benefits of keeping the dollar low vs strengthening it.
We have been talking about fixing Social Security for 30 years. Obviously you are new to the discussion.
Quality of life? Just what does that mean? Jobs? Well, you can kiss the blue collar portion of the middle class, as we have known it, goodbye. There will not be the GMS, Fords and Chryslers again. The unions destroyed what was the best opportunity for a person, not going on to college, to have a ‘good’ job. What is the incentive to hire a citizen at higher wage than an illegal? Or are you referring to those bogus statistics where it says people make less? You mean overtime was cut? Let’s get into personal debt…Democrats have been dropping hints that this will be one of their issues? Where exactly do you see a role for our government to play because your neighbor bought a home that she can’t afford, runs up her credit cards, and doesn’t understand about savings? It isn’t the job of government to step in because we have a generation of people that need the latest and greatest of everything, or take trips that aren’t prepaid. Have you ever studied the tax codes to see the deductions that the $60,000 and under can take? Check out the medical deductions while you are at it.
Where did you get the idea that you could lead your life without wiretaps and prisons? Did you miss the portion of the COTUS that deals with issues above and beyond the 5th amendment?
Our country has been the bane of the world since 1912..what exactly is your point? People love us when they need something. With all of the animosity that you seem so worried about, who is it that is called to every issue facing the world? the USA. It is the price we pay for being a great nation.
September 30, 2006 - 08:23 AM on September 30th, 2006
Wow, Peejz, great stuff. You really put some effort and time into educating Carlos. I hope he appreciates it.
It is a better than anything you’ll get in the public education system.
Here’s something else: In any market, the sign of trouble, of impending correction, is when most of the sales activity is being done by speculators. For example, the housing market. In Northern Kalifornia, which has very high real estate prices, by the middle of last year it seemed like most of the residential properties were being purchased by speculators/investors. People who wanted to buy them, rent them for a few years, then sell and take a fat quick profit. Or those who wanted to “flip” the properties in escrow.
Sure enough, when the buyers who want to live in them can no longer afford them, the market cools down and corrects. That is what is happening now.
And it is NOT Bush’s fault…
September 30, 2006 - 08:26 AM on September 30th, 2006
You know, after reading Mister Carlos’ post # , I don’t he is capable of benfitting form any education:
Gee, bombing the shit out of Muslims, then occupying their country with your inbred army pisses them off–what a surprise. Thank god we’re not in the business of nation building or this would really be a PR disaster.
The above is the statement of an ignoranus.
September 30, 2006 - 09:58 AM on September 30th, 2006
Robert- That housing market was a great example! Again, we were told, bubble,bubble, bubble, and did we listen? Oh hell no! If you sold during it, it was great, but if you bought during it..no the kind of investment one should be proud of!