Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Just say 'Oh, hell no!' I received this e-mail from the Repugnican National Committee today:   Dear Robert, No, no, no, no. That's all you hear from the Democrats in Washington these days. From blocking qualified judges to obstructing Social Security reform, they're obstructing the president's agenda at every turn without offering ideas of their own. Watch the RNC's latest Web video now at GOP.com to learn more about the "Party of No"! Democrat House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) says Democrats don't need a plan, they just need to stop Republicans. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) says they don't care how long it takes, they will never back down. U.S. News and World Report columnist Gloria Borger says the Democrat Party has become the "party of no." Watch the "Party of No" Web video now on GOP.com! After you've watched please call your Member of Congress. Tell them to support the president's agenda. Sincerely, Ken Mehlman RNC Chairman PS: Watch the "Party of No" Web video now on GOP.com! Send To Friends Unsubscribe Paid for by the Republican National Committee Not Authorized By Any Candidate Or Candidate Committee - www.gop.com   You gotta love the Repugnicans' spin. Goebbels would be jealous. Nancy Reagan famously said, "Just say no." I say hell no to such things as these, to which the Bush regime has enthusiastically and emphatically said "yes": a record federal budget deficit (leaving my generation and succeeding generations with crippling debt) destroying the environment for corporate profits (again, leaving my generation and succeeding generations high and dry) election fraud (I refer, of course, to Florida 2000, in which Florida's Repugnican secretary of state, Katherine Harris, coinky-dinkily also sat on the state's committee elect George W. Bush, and Ohio 2004, in which Ohio's Repugnican secretary of state, Kenneth Blackwell, also coinky-dinkily also sat on the state's committee to "re"-elect George W. Bush) war crimes (invading a sovereign nation that never posed a threat to the United States but sits upon a whole lotta oil, resulting in the deaths of thousands of innocent Iraqis, hundreds of Americans and others, and diverting billions and billions of American taxpayers' dollars to war profiteers when Americans need things such as education, health care, a clean environment and infrastructure improvements -- oh, yeah, and that whole Abu Ghraib prison torture and homicide thing)    ensuring, rather than preventing, future terrorist attacks, by killing thousands of innocent people in an illegal, immoral, unprovoked and imperialist invasion and occupation of a sovereign oil-rich nation (see "war crimes") cozying up to the nation (Saudi Arabia) that gave us Osama bin Laden and 15 of the 19 hijackers who attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001 (not one of the 9/11 hijackers was from Iraq) treason (see all of the above) The Bush regime has done more damage to the United States that the United States' enemies ever could. The Bush regime is destroying the United States from within, which is much more dangerous than are threats from without. The members of the Bush regime claim that at least they have ideas -- yeah, ideas that are fucking destroying us. We are falling just like ancient Rome and George W. Bush is our Emperor Caligula. But hey, they have ideas! If the members of the Bush regime sincerely wants to hear some ideas from those of us who oppose their ideas -- and of course they don't want to hear our ideas, because at the same time they accuse the Democrats of having no ideas, they do everything in their power to muzzle the Democrats -- here are some ideas: Stop jacking up the federal budget deficit even higher by giving war profiteers billions and billions of our tax dollars, like the $82 billion in additional funds for the quagmires in money pits Afghanistan and Iraq that the U.S. Senate yesterday unanimously voted to give the Bush regime. (Not one single fucking Democratic senator, not even Barbara Boxer, voted against giving the Bush regime its bogus-war booty, yet closet case Ken Mehlman writes, "No, no, no, no. That's all you hear from the Democrats in Washington these days." I fucking wish that just one of the Democrats had had the balls to just say no. Funny, though, how even when they get what they want, the members of the Bush regime still fucking complain.) Stop destroying the environment for corporate profits. When the planet is destroyed, the Republicans won't be able to make any more money. Isn't that incentive enough to stop the War on the Environment? Stop stealing elections. Let's have the democracy here at home that we claim to be shoving down other nations' throats. Stop committing war crimes for war profiteers such as Dick Cheney's Halliburton, which just got a $72 million bonus for its war profiteering in Iraq (and has sucked up more than $7 billion of the U.S. taxpayers' money thus far during the Bush regime's reign of terror). Committing war crimes makes us less safe, not more safe. Withdraw from Iraq and do not invade any more sovereign Muslim nations. Stop slaughtering innocent Muslims and stop causing civil wars in sovereign Muslim nations. Stop licking the undemocratic, unfree Saudi Arabia's oily ass and put the United States of America on the road to energy independence. Harming the nation and the world for the benefit of a handful of plutocrats is called treason. Stop committing treason. Except for withdrawing from Iraq, this isn't even a to-do list; it's a stop-doing list. So it should be easy for the Bush regime to put these ideas into practice. Although I highly doubt that Mehlman quoted Nancy Pelosi accurately, it would be a big improvement if the only thing that happened is that the Repugnicans' treasonous assault on the United States and their assault on Iraq and the rest of the world were stopped. 10:42:13 PM    Comments []

Associated Press photo Former Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge, shown above in January, now says the White House demanded that Homeland Security raise the terror alert level when there was no justification to do so. Ridge resigned in February, claiming, as all of those who leave the Bush regime seem to do, that he wanted to spend more time with his family. But we knew that already File this one under "We knew that, but it's great to see it in print" -- right next to "Iraq never possessed weapons of mass destruction and therefore the Bush regime's March 2003 invasion of Iraq was based upon a total fucking lie": Ridge reveals clashes on alerts By Mimi Hall, USA TODAY   WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration periodically put the U.S.A. on high alert for terrorist attacks even though then-Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge argued there was only flimsy evidence to justify raising the threat level, Ridge now says. Ridge, who resigned Feb. 1, said [yesterday] that he often disagreed with administration officials who wanted to elevate the threat level to orange, or "high" risk of terrorist attack, but was overruled. His comments at a Washington forum describe spirited debates over terrorist intelligence and provide rare insight into the inner workings of the nation's homeland security apparatus. Ridge said he wanted to "debunk the myth" that his agency was responsible for repeatedly raising the alert under a color-coded system he unveiled in 2002. "More often than not we were the least inclined to raise it," Ridge told reporters. "Sometimes we disagreed with the intelligence assessment. Sometimes we thought even if the intelligence was good, you don't necessarily put the country on (alert).... There were times when some people were really aggressive about raising it, and we said, 'For that?'" Revising or scrapping the color-coded alert system is under review by new Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff. Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said "improvements and adjustments" may be announced within the next few months. The threat level was last raised on a nationwide scale in December 2003, to orange from yellow -- or "elevated" risk -- where the alert level is now. In most cases, Ridge said Homeland Security officials didn't want to raise the level because they knew local governments and businesses would have to spend money putting temporary security upgrades in place. "You have to use that tool of communication very sparingly," Ridge said at the forum, which was attended by seven other former department leaders. The level is raised if a majority on the President's Homeland Security Advisory Council favors it and President Bush concurs. Among those on the council with Ridge were Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI chief Robert Mueller, CIA director George Tenet, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell. Ridge and Ashcroft publicly clashed over how to communicate threat information to the public. But Ridge has never before discussed internal dissention over the threat level. The color-coded system was controversial from the start. Polls showed the public found it confusing. Contributing: Associated Press It's pretty clear that Ridge quit because although he was named Homeland Security chief, the White House told him how to do his job, just as immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, "President" Bush commanded former counterterrorism expert Richard Clarke, who had served under Ronald Reagan, King George I and Bill Clinton, to find a link between the terrorist attacks and Iraq even after Clarke had told him that no such link existed. 9:51:42 PM    Comments []