In 100 years, long after my grandkids (if there are any) laugh at my feeble attempts at humour and political commentary here, people are still going to shake their heads and wonder what in the hell were Americans thinking when they went to the polls in 2000, 2002 and 2004. Here's Dr. Political Malpractice:
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) took to the Senate floor to insist that his colleagues were in no way trying to shift administration policy or rebuke the White House, calling such an assessment "absurd" and "ridiculous."
"It's not a change in policy," he said. "It's a continuation of the oversight we've been conducting for years in United States Senate."
Yeah, really? Overseeing what, your HCA stock? The US Senate effectively stopped overseeing anything after 2002. The last thing that the republicans have wanted is unpleasant relations with a Preznit and his Crew who were percieved by the media to be "popular". Oversight. Right.
Oh, but this republican senate love-fest for the voters sake i.e. a massive disinformation campaign about how "in-tune" these multi-milloinaire republican senators are just gets better:
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), a staunch Bush ally, insisted the Senate vote did not indicate a change in war strategy, while also saying that Congress was becoming more assertive.
Yeah, he's right it doesn't indicate a change in strategy, because there never was a strategy to begin with. If there had been a strategy beyond 'huntin Saddam', protecting the Oil Ministry, employing unqualified Young Republicans in Iraq and enriching CheneyBurton, it's hard to see it. But well, they did all those things real well ...so Senator Cornhole, Mission Accomplished on the strategery thing, I guess...
posted by Jo Fish on 11.15.05 at 10:32 PM
Comments:
Ha, ha. You moonbats are going to overplay your cards once again. We're very close to major revelations about Saddam's WMD programs and ties to al Quada. The public will see that morons like Ma and Pa Kettle (um, I mean the Clintons), Dick Dustbin, Ted "What Bridge?" Kennedy and others were lying about lying about prewar intel, and they'll be seen as they political opportunists (and traitors) they are.
More here:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/16/122915.shtml
posted by: bean on 11.16.05 at 01:17 PM [permalink]
More for the hypocritical moonbats:
In 1998, the U.S. Congress passed and President Clinton signed the Iraqi Liberation Act. That law specified 10 findings of Saddam Hussein's violations of international norms and stated, "It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime." That legislation passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 360 to 38, and it passed
the Senate without a single vote in opposition
posted by: bean on 11.16.05 at 04:17 PM [permalink]
I'll believe it when I see it, Bean.
And it still wouldn't change the fact that Bush had no plan going into Iraq.
posted by: Tony on 11.16.05 at 04:38 PM [permalink]
How did Beans's comments from 2001 ever find their way into this particular Comments box? It looks like he is trying to say something about WMD likely being found in 2005! But he's not that daft, is he?
I guess sometimes that spammers delay lets something like this crazy post from Bean pop up!
posted by: Nina on 11.16.05 at 05:26 PM [permalink]
I thought it was wMD program related activities. What the hell is the reason for the war again? I can never keep the excuses straight. Seems they change every week.
I think I'll skip reading NewsMaxie Pads.
posted by: merlallen on 11.17.05 at 12:56 AM [permalink]
Wait -- when did we overplay our cards before? There's been no evidence to support Bush's claims. Critics of the war have so far been proven right on all counts.
posted by: Tony on 11.17.05 at 09:27 AM [permalink]
Bean takes my breath away. He's winning as our local curmudgeon codger. He's the best political comic you've got, Jo! Don't lose him. :0)
Where's the oversight for the 9 billion lost by the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq?
"Severe inefficiencies and poor management" by the Coalition Provisional Authority has left auditors with no guarantee the money was properly used," the report said.
Thanks, Ray R!--OK, now I get the beaner... He's the straight man, the one who says horrifying yet obviously outrageous set-up comments that will then be witheringly cut to pieces by Jo! I suspect though, that Commander Codpiece doesn't get the satire. But nice effort at emulating the preznit's stupidity, bean.
posted by: Nina on 11.19.05 at 06:10 PM [permalink]
