Issue for Democrats to run on in 2006. Rep. Pelosi, feel free to pic-n-choose....
(Sigh)
MILLIONS of dollars sent in by Democratic voters to Democrat Campaigns and committees...
....HUNDREDS of Dem. campaign "consultants" and campaign managers..
.... DOZENS of issues that the Bush-Cheney-Rove Repub. Party
HAND OVER, on a silver platter, for Dems to use as campaign fodder..
...and STILL we have NO COHERENT Dem. national campaign strategy in 2006?
WHAT's WITH DAT??!
Well, Here we go!
Free of charge, SURE-FIRE wining issues for ANY Dem. who feels like so much as MENTIONING them.
It is scarcely credible that here we are, mid-July of 2006, and the dang Democrats are running around like a herd of sheep dreading the onslaught of a pack of starving wolves. But this metaphor is NO ILLUSION: as our previous posts on Senator Lieberman show, he can actually get in front of Connecticut voters, and PRETEND that there is ONLY ONE ISSUE this summer - Lieberman's pathetic "Ned Lamont is a SINGLE ISSUE CANDIDATE" whine, with fellow Democrats rushing to poor Joe's side.
#1. India and North Korea launching MORE missiles and developing MORE nukes, as Bush tries to make a case for WAR against Iran... for trying to do the same thing... develop uranium enrichment and ballistic missiles?
WHAT international principle of law is it that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their nazis-in-a-pocket (er, "neo-cons") can START A WAR AGAINST ONE COUNTRY, for doing something OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE ALREADY DONE??
Face it, the Bush/Republican Party JIHAD against the NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION PROTOCOLS are a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY... the only reason we (the American public) don't feel this way, is because Republican propaganda has been so effective at SNEERING at the rest of humanity as being somehow sub-human, you know, the yellow-skins and brown-skins DON'T COUNT, just as the way plantation slaves didn't count, except with the 3/5ths Compromise to the US Constitution declared that SLAVES WERE 3/5ths of a man... for the benefit and power OF THEIR 'OWNERS,' EXCLUSIVELY.
HALLELUJAH!
AND, on top of the Bush-Rethuglians SABOTAGING the NNPT - Nuclear Non-Proliferation Protocal - generically, the Bush admin. GAVE Pakistan nuke scientist A.Q. Khan a "FREE PASS" for HIS role in developing, not just Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, but HELPING TO EXPORT THAT technology TO North Korea and Iran?!
WHAT we have hea, is no more and no less than the ALPHA and OMEGA of right-wing ideology - the ability to DISCARD international law when it suits them, while USING the FIG-LEAF of international law to ATTACK OTHER COUNTRIES and reinstate the slave trade. er... commence the "benevolent occupation" of Iraq, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kirgistan, Iran, Guantanamo, South America, Russia, China, the Baltic States, and a dozen more or lesser countries, under the tender mercies of Jefferson Davis and his able associates.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/10/world/asia/10india.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/5162416.stm
#2. Budget Deficits.
BUSH_BUDGET_DEFICITS.
Democrats should NEVER appear in public, NEVER comment in front of a microphone, and NEVER appear on TV, without statingl calmly but firmly:
"The_BUSH_BUDGET_DEFICTS_WEAKEN_AMERICA."
They make us LESS STRONG economically, make us DEPENDENT on FOREIGN lenders, and weaken the influence of the US dollar.
What is it about saying
"BUSH_DEFICITS, BUSH_DEFICTS, BUSH_DEFICITS, BUSH_DEFICTS, BUSH_DEFICITS, BUSH_DEFICTS, BUSH_DEFICITS, BUSH_DEFICTS, BUSH_DEFICITS, BUSH_DEFICTS, BUSH_DEFICITS, BUSH_DEFICTS, BUSH_DEFICITS, BUSH_DEFICTS,
...that the Democrats are SO AFRAID OF? Do they think, for a moment, if Clinton, Gore or Kerry were in the White House, Karl Rove and his pack of wailing demons from hell wouldn't be shouting "CLINTON DEFICITS!" to the high heavens, 24/7/365 ?
#3. OUTSOURCING of US Jobs, factories.. and even High-Tech industries and technology?!
Under the Repub. congress and White House, business executives are REWARDED - with US tax cuts and rebates - for outsourcing US jobs and technology to China and India... even high-tech "driving the American tech-boom" type jobs!
These are the kind of jobs that Japan's "Iron Triangle" (the iron-rule center of Japanese politics and power comprised of government bureacracy, business leaders, and politicians) spend MILLIONS of dollars trying to dream up and create in Japan... and here the US government of George W. Bush is, ENCOURAGING American companies to OUTSOURCE and ship overseas to China, India, and other cheap-labor economies!
#4. TAX CUTS for multi-millionaires AND BILLIONAIRES in Time_of_war, including estate tax REPEAL.
Repubs LOVE to SCAPEGOAT and SMEAR individual Dems on opponents, to VILLIFY their opposition as PERSONIFYING EVIL. Dems could PERSONIFY the Repub. "End of State Tax" campaign as, for example, THE PARIS HILTON tax-free!' campaign. Targetting the wealthiest families for public personification of the end-of-estate tax campaign that those families are funding is, of course, MILES beyond anything the Democrats are capable of doing, but we can always DREAM that Dems. will actually using Karl Rove's WINING techniques, especially when employed in pursuit of the TRUTH.
#5. Maybe we should put the little ol' Iraq war down at #5. or so..?
And lump ALL the corruption, incompetence, lies, deceptions, and follies from that war in one oh-so-pleasant discussion?? NO beed to bother - even then, the Democrats STILL wouldn't have a snow-ball's chance in hell of making it a competent campaign issue. But, again, we can dream.
-> From pre-war planning (humiliation of Gen. Shinseki by Don Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz) to DISBANDING the Iraq army and police to ALLOWING the looting of Baghdad and entire ammunition bunkers by insurgents under the nose of US troops doing KP duty!.. to Halliburton no-bid contracts to NO BODY ARMOR or Humvee armor for a full year (and no national urgency to provide either); to TORTURE at Abu Ghraib (and elsewhere); to shafting guard and reserve troops with triple-tours of duty for a MISSION that is ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED; to warehousing returning injured combat veterans and defending VA in relation to thousands of new veterans requiring care; to urging the irate locals to try to injure those troops ("Bring it on!"); to trying to pass off a theocratic state that considers all women (over 1/2 of the population to be CHATTEL PROPERTY...
(sigh)
#6. New Orleans rebuilding debacle, FEMA cronyism, incompetence, and complete failure of Bush admin. to provide a COMPREHENSIVE long-term environmental action plan - the sort that HOLLAND came up with YEARS AGO.
We're just getting started here, folks! Stop back for more "issues for Clueless Democrat Leaders to Run on in '06" later!
===============================================
50 Easy Questions to Ask Any Republican
Robert J. Elisberg
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg/50-easy-questions-to-ask-_b_24815.html
Anyone can ask tough, intricate, confrontational questions. But all that ever does is start an argument, and it gets people nowhere. On the other hand, these are...well, easy. These are friendly questions. These are questions that allow another person to actually explain their thoughts, and explain fully. And to do so in as comfortable, as simple a way as possible.
Without feeling attacked. Without feeling pressure. Without feeling no one cares what they have to say. Friendly. Easy.
Print them out, carry them around in your pocket, and the next time someone begins quoting from a Republican talking points memo, take the list out and ask.
1. What are the Top Seven best things that the Bush Administration has done?
2. Is the Iraq War is going well?
3. After three years thus far, when do you think Iraq might be able to "stand up" so that America can "stand down"?
4. For his part in the event, how would you rate the job the President did protecting New Orleans from devastation?
5. How do you think the rebuilding of New Orleans is going?
6. When Dick Cheney and the oil company and energy executives met in private to plan America's energy policy, how much of their goal was to benefit consumers?
7. Do you believe in the President's call for an Era of Personal Responsibility?
8. Since Republicans control the White House, Senate and House of Representatives, how personally responsible are they for conditions in America today?
9. Why do you think they haven't been able to find anyone who can verify that George Bush ever showed up for National Guard duty in Alabama?
10. Would you want Donald Rumsfeld to plan your daughter's wedding?
11. Are you aware that no government in the history of civilization, other than the Bush Administration, has lowered taxes during a war?
12. Are you married?
13. Do you personally feel threatened by gay marriage?
14. Since getting elected, do you think the President has been more a uniter or a divider?
15. How do you explain the President's approval rating going from a high of 90% to the current mid-30%?
16. Do you like the government collecting personal data on you without a warrant?
17. How much money do you have in your bank account, stocks and investments?
18. What's your partner's favorite sex position?
19. If you have nothing to hide, why aren't you answering?
20. Should we build a wall along the Mexican border?
21. Why isn't anyone building a wall along the Canadian border?
22. Does that terrorist gang arrested in Canada count as a threat?
23. If you shot someone in the face while drinking, how fast would the police show up to arrest you?
24. If Donald Rumsfeld had planned your daughter's wedding three years ago, would the guests still be there?
25. Even if no laws are broken, do you think it's okay to reveal the name of a covert agent?
26. During your lifetime, approximately how often have you changed your mind?
27. Why shouldn't people dismiss you as a flip-flopper?
28. Where do you think the Weapons of Mass Destruction might be?
29. Where do you think Osama bin Laden might be?
30. Is it fiscally responsible to cut taxes, increase spending and create a $9 trillion federal debt?
31. Are you glad liberals passed such programs as Social Security, Medicare, the Civil Rights Act, women's suffrage, federal deposit insurance, unemployment compensation, rural electrification, child labor laws, minimum wages and the 40-hour work week?
32. What are the Top Ten best things that conservatives have given to America?
33. If you were on life support, would you want a doctor you'd never met making a diagnosis about you via remote television?
34. Do you think man-made greenhouse gases have anything at all to do with depleting the ozone layer?
35. If Donald Rumsfeld had planned your daughter's wedding three years ago, and guests were still there, how many factions would they now be split into?
36. How good is it that the terrorist Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi was killed?
37. Are you aware that in 2002 the Pentagon knew where al-Zarqawi was and presented three separate plans to kill him, but the Administration refused to act each time?
38. Is George W. Bush the kind of guy you'd want to sit down and have a beer with?
39. When he started talking about being a Born Again Christian, would you want to stay or leave?
40. Is Ray Romano the kind of guy you'd want to sit down and have a beer with?
41. Would you want him to be President?
42. Does the Administration have an environmental policy that benefits the environment?
43. Since George Bush campaigned for President strongly against nation building, in what ways are our actions in Iraq not nation building?
44. What's the maximum amount of time you'd want to spend alone with Dick Cheney?
45. After dismissing Saddam Hussein's old Iraqi army, was it a good idea to let them keep their rifles?
46. Would a policy that allows torture be something that makes you proud as an American?
47. Has the Mission been Accomplished?
48. Do you feel comforted that Dick Cheney is a heartbeat away from being President?
49. If Donald Rumsfeld had planned your daughter's wedding, and guests started fighting and were killed, would you expect to be allowed to view the caskets when they were returned home?
50. How glad do you think George Bush is that he's no longer active in the National Guard?
MILLIONS of dollars sent in by Democratic voters to Democrat Campaigns and committees...
....HUNDREDS of Dem. campaign "consultants" and campaign managers..
.... DOZENS of issues that the Bush-Cheney-Rove Repub. Party
HAND OVER, on a silver platter, for Dems to use as campaign fodder..
...and STILL we have NO COHERENT Dem. national campaign strategy in 2006?
WHAT's WITH DAT??!
Well, Here we go!
Free of charge, SURE-FIRE wining issues for ANY Dem. who feels like so much as MENTIONING them.
It is scarcely credible that here we are, mid-July of 2006, and the dang Democrats are running around like a herd of sheep dreading the onslaught of a pack of starving wolves. But this metaphor is NO ILLUSION: as our previous posts on Senator Lieberman show, he can actually get in front of Connecticut voters, and PRETEND that there is ONLY ONE ISSUE this summer - Lieberman's pathetic "Ned Lamont is a SINGLE ISSUE CANDIDATE" whine, with fellow Democrats rushing to poor Joe's side.
#1. India and North Korea launching MORE missiles and developing MORE nukes, as Bush tries to make a case for WAR against Iran... for trying to do the same thing... develop uranium enrichment and ballistic missiles?
WHAT international principle of law is it that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their nazis-in-a-pocket (er, "neo-cons") can START A WAR AGAINST ONE COUNTRY, for doing something OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE ALREADY DONE??
Face it, the Bush/Republican Party JIHAD against the NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION PROTOCOLS are a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY... the only reason we (the American public) don't feel this way, is because Republican propaganda has been so effective at SNEERING at the rest of humanity as being somehow sub-human, you know, the yellow-skins and brown-skins DON'T COUNT, just as the way plantation slaves didn't count, except with the 3/5ths Compromise to the US Constitution declared that SLAVES WERE 3/5ths of a man... for the benefit and power OF THEIR 'OWNERS,' EXCLUSIVELY.
HALLELUJAH!
AND, on top of the Bush-Rethuglians SABOTAGING the NNPT - Nuclear Non-Proliferation Protocal - generically, the Bush admin. GAVE Pakistan nuke scientist A.Q. Khan a "FREE PASS" for HIS role in developing, not just Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, but HELPING TO EXPORT THAT technology TO North Korea and Iran?!
WHAT we have hea, is no more and no less than the ALPHA and OMEGA of right-wing ideology - the ability to DISCARD international law when it suits them, while USING the FIG-LEAF of international law to ATTACK OTHER COUNTRIES and reinstate the slave trade. er... commence the "benevolent occupation" of Iraq, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kirgistan, Iran, Guantanamo, South America, Russia, China, the Baltic States, and a dozen more or lesser countries, under the tender mercies of Jefferson Davis and his able associates.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/10/world/asia/10india.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/5162416.stm
#2. Budget Deficits.
BUSH_BUDGET_DEFICITS.
Democrats should NEVER appear in public, NEVER comment in front of a microphone, and NEVER appear on TV, without statingl calmly but firmly:
"The_BUSH_BUDGET_DEFICTS_WEAKEN_AMERICA."
They make us LESS STRONG economically, make us DEPENDENT on FOREIGN lenders, and weaken the influence of the US dollar.
What is it about saying
"BUSH_DEFICITS, BUSH_DEFICTS, BUSH_DEFICITS, BUSH_DEFICTS, BUSH_DEFICITS, BUSH_DEFICTS, BUSH_DEFICITS, BUSH_DEFICTS, BUSH_DEFICITS, BUSH_DEFICTS, BUSH_DEFICITS, BUSH_DEFICTS, BUSH_DEFICITS, BUSH_DEFICTS,
...that the Democrats are SO AFRAID OF? Do they think, for a moment, if Clinton, Gore or Kerry were in the White House, Karl Rove and his pack of wailing demons from hell wouldn't be shouting "CLINTON DEFICITS!" to the high heavens, 24/7/365 ?
#3. OUTSOURCING of US Jobs, factories.. and even High-Tech industries and technology?!
Under the Repub. congress and White House, business executives are REWARDED - with US tax cuts and rebates - for outsourcing US jobs and technology to China and India... even high-tech "driving the American tech-boom" type jobs!
These are the kind of jobs that Japan's "Iron Triangle" (the iron-rule center of Japanese politics and power comprised of government bureacracy, business leaders, and politicians) spend MILLIONS of dollars trying to dream up and create in Japan... and here the US government of George W. Bush is, ENCOURAGING American companies to OUTSOURCE and ship overseas to China, India, and other cheap-labor economies!
#4. TAX CUTS for multi-millionaires AND BILLIONAIRES in Time_of_war, including estate tax REPEAL.
Repubs LOVE to SCAPEGOAT and SMEAR individual Dems on opponents, to VILLIFY their opposition as PERSONIFYING EVIL. Dems could PERSONIFY the Repub. "End of State Tax" campaign as, for example, THE PARIS HILTON tax-free!' campaign. Targetting the wealthiest families for public personification of the end-of-estate tax campaign that those families are funding is, of course, MILES beyond anything the Democrats are capable of doing, but we can always DREAM that Dems. will actually using Karl Rove's WINING techniques, especially when employed in pursuit of the TRUTH.
#5. Maybe we should put the little ol' Iraq war down at #5. or so..?
And lump ALL the corruption, incompetence, lies, deceptions, and follies from that war in one oh-so-pleasant discussion?? NO beed to bother - even then, the Democrats STILL wouldn't have a snow-ball's chance in hell of making it a competent campaign issue. But, again, we can dream.
-> From pre-war planning (humiliation of Gen. Shinseki by Don Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz) to DISBANDING the Iraq army and police to ALLOWING the looting of Baghdad and entire ammunition bunkers by insurgents under the nose of US troops doing KP duty!.. to Halliburton no-bid contracts to NO BODY ARMOR or Humvee armor for a full year (and no national urgency to provide either); to TORTURE at Abu Ghraib (and elsewhere); to shafting guard and reserve troops with triple-tours of duty for a MISSION that is ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED; to warehousing returning injured combat veterans and defending VA in relation to thousands of new veterans requiring care; to urging the irate locals to try to injure those troops ("Bring it on!"); to trying to pass off a theocratic state that considers all women (over 1/2 of the population to be CHATTEL PROPERTY...
(sigh)
#6. New Orleans rebuilding debacle, FEMA cronyism, incompetence, and complete failure of Bush admin. to provide a COMPREHENSIVE long-term environmental action plan - the sort that HOLLAND came up with YEARS AGO.
We're just getting started here, folks! Stop back for more "issues for Clueless Democrat Leaders to Run on in '06" later!
===============================================
50 Easy Questions to Ask Any Republican
Robert J. Elisberg
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg/50-easy-questions-to-ask-_b_24815.html
Anyone can ask tough, intricate, confrontational questions. But all that ever does is start an argument, and it gets people nowhere. On the other hand, these are...well, easy. These are friendly questions. These are questions that allow another person to actually explain their thoughts, and explain fully. And to do so in as comfortable, as simple a way as possible.
Without feeling attacked. Without feeling pressure. Without feeling no one cares what they have to say. Friendly. Easy.
Print them out, carry them around in your pocket, and the next time someone begins quoting from a Republican talking points memo, take the list out and ask.
1. What are the Top Seven best things that the Bush Administration has done?
2. Is the Iraq War is going well?
3. After three years thus far, when do you think Iraq might be able to "stand up" so that America can "stand down"?
4. For his part in the event, how would you rate the job the President did protecting New Orleans from devastation?
5. How do you think the rebuilding of New Orleans is going?
6. When Dick Cheney and the oil company and energy executives met in private to plan America's energy policy, how much of their goal was to benefit consumers?
7. Do you believe in the President's call for an Era of Personal Responsibility?
8. Since Republicans control the White House, Senate and House of Representatives, how personally responsible are they for conditions in America today?
9. Why do you think they haven't been able to find anyone who can verify that George Bush ever showed up for National Guard duty in Alabama?
10. Would you want Donald Rumsfeld to plan your daughter's wedding?
11. Are you aware that no government in the history of civilization, other than the Bush Administration, has lowered taxes during a war?
12. Are you married?
13. Do you personally feel threatened by gay marriage?
14. Since getting elected, do you think the President has been more a uniter or a divider?
15. How do you explain the President's approval rating going from a high of 90% to the current mid-30%?
16. Do you like the government collecting personal data on you without a warrant?
17. How much money do you have in your bank account, stocks and investments?
18. What's your partner's favorite sex position?
19. If you have nothing to hide, why aren't you answering?
20. Should we build a wall along the Mexican border?
21. Why isn't anyone building a wall along the Canadian border?
22. Does that terrorist gang arrested in Canada count as a threat?
23. If you shot someone in the face while drinking, how fast would the police show up to arrest you?
24. If Donald Rumsfeld had planned your daughter's wedding three years ago, would the guests still be there?
25. Even if no laws are broken, do you think it's okay to reveal the name of a covert agent?
26. During your lifetime, approximately how often have you changed your mind?
27. Why shouldn't people dismiss you as a flip-flopper?
28. Where do you think the Weapons of Mass Destruction might be?
29. Where do you think Osama bin Laden might be?
30. Is it fiscally responsible to cut taxes, increase spending and create a $9 trillion federal debt?
31. Are you glad liberals passed such programs as Social Security, Medicare, the Civil Rights Act, women's suffrage, federal deposit insurance, unemployment compensation, rural electrification, child labor laws, minimum wages and the 40-hour work week?
32. What are the Top Ten best things that conservatives have given to America?
33. If you were on life support, would you want a doctor you'd never met making a diagnosis about you via remote television?
34. Do you think man-made greenhouse gases have anything at all to do with depleting the ozone layer?
35. If Donald Rumsfeld had planned your daughter's wedding three years ago, and guests were still there, how many factions would they now be split into?
36. How good is it that the terrorist Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi was killed?
37. Are you aware that in 2002 the Pentagon knew where al-Zarqawi was and presented three separate plans to kill him, but the Administration refused to act each time?
38. Is George W. Bush the kind of guy you'd want to sit down and have a beer with?
39. When he started talking about being a Born Again Christian, would you want to stay or leave?
40. Is Ray Romano the kind of guy you'd want to sit down and have a beer with?
41. Would you want him to be President?
42. Does the Administration have an environmental policy that benefits the environment?
43. Since George Bush campaigned for President strongly against nation building, in what ways are our actions in Iraq not nation building?
44. What's the maximum amount of time you'd want to spend alone with Dick Cheney?
45. After dismissing Saddam Hussein's old Iraqi army, was it a good idea to let them keep their rifles?
46. Would a policy that allows torture be something that makes you proud as an American?
47. Has the Mission been Accomplished?
48. Do you feel comforted that Dick Cheney is a heartbeat away from being President?
49. If Donald Rumsfeld had planned your daughter's wedding, and guests started fighting and were killed, would you expect to be allowed to view the caskets when they were returned home?
50. How glad do you think George Bush is that he's no longer active in the National Guard?
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