Just in case you need some extra motivation to vote tomorrow, I’ve put together a small montage of our Republican government’s finest moments over the last six years. I hope you enjoy.
Memories…
…light the corners of my mind…
An ABC News undercover investigation showed Army recruiters telling students that the war in Iraq was over, in an effort to get them to enlist.
ABC News and New York affiliate WABC equipped students with hidden video cameras before they visited 10 Army recruitment offices in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
“Nobody is going over to Iraq anymore?” one student asks a recruiter.
“No, we’re bringing people back,” he replies.
“We’re not at war. War ended a long time ago,” another recruiter says.
And, thus, Private Zero was inducted into military service. Hijinks ensued.
“It’s kind of weird how Camp Swampy is actually in a desert, huh?”
In the comments to this thread, soon-to-be-deported illegal immigrant Gary Ruppert is crowing because of a recent poll that shows the Democrats “only” have a six-point lead in the generic congressional ballots.
Gary, mi amigo, this is what in statistics is called an “outlier.” Have you seen some of the other polls taken recently?
So other than that five-point outlier, we see leads of 16, 18, 11, 11, 19, 18, 13, 11 and 15. Oops! Sorry to see you’re still getting deported, Gary, but we hope you enjoyed your stay.
That was a quick response, Atrios.
Unfortunately for you, I’ve been stashing this little number away for a long time:
Yes, Atrios, that is the Right Brothers’ latest single. It’s a pro-life power ballad called “Mama, I Wanna Live,” and it’s sung from the perspective of a fetus.
Say “uncle,” brother. It’s your only hope.
UPDATE: VICTORY IS OURS!!!! Sadly, No! are the official winners of the (very brief) YouTube War II!!!
…and with that, I’m going to go out now. If the YouTube Wars show me anything, it’s how I desperately, desperately need to get a life…
Behave or I relaunch the Youtube wars.
This is what we in the blogging business call “totally fucking asking for a beating.”
Bring it.
Boy, Bush’s base sure looks riled up, don’t it?
“Yeah, yeah, fags gettin’ hitched, higher taxes, terrorists will kill our families. We get it. Weren’t there s’posed to be free brownies at this damn event?”
November 03, 2006
Coming Soon
Within the next 24 hours, we’re planning on launching a new Power Line initiative. Or, rather, a major upgrade of an existing feature. Some time tomorrow night, if all goes well, it should go live; stay tuned.
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November 04, 2006
Another Smoking Gun?
Above is more key evidence that Iraq sought nuclear technology in the years leading up to the criminally negligent Clinton administration, and that Saddam was harboring Al Qaeda and planning imminent attacks on the US in the wake of 9/11, with nuclear weapons, as was most convincingly detailed in the Washington Times and in several major opinion columns.
I consider myself a hard nosed realist in foreign affairs, but this is a no-brainer. How much more vindication is needed for President George W. Bush, who, in his heroic struggles against an irresponsible media, has so far shown great magnanimity, a saint-like patience approaching the beatific, in refraining, for now, from bringing charges of treason against recklessly partisan, and in my opinion repulsive and vermin-like, journalists who leak information harmful to national security?
(Hat tip: J-Negs)
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Vanity Fair recently interviewed several of the Iraq war’s neoconservative architects to see if they had any regrets about the last four years. The short answer is, “Yes.” The less short answer is, “Oh you better believe it motherfucker.” The actual answer is the following:
Richard Perle: “In the administration that I served [Perle was an assistant secretary of defense under Ronald Reagan], there was a one-sentence description of the decision-making process when consensus could not be reached among disputatious departments: ‘The president makes the decision.’ [Bush] did not make decisions, in part because the machinery of government that he nominally ran was actually running him. The National Security Council was not serving [Bush] properly. He regarded [then National-Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice] as part of the family.”
Michael Ledeen, American Enterprise Institute freedom scholar: “Ask yourself who the most powerful people in the White House are. They are women who are in love with the president: Laura [Bush], Condi, Harriet Miers, and Karen Hughes.”
Kenneth Adelman: “The most dispiriting and awful moment of the whole administration was the day that Bush gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to [former C.I.A. director] George Tenet, General Tommy Franks, and [Coalition Provisional Authority chief] Jerry [Paul] Bremer—three of the most incompetent people who’ve ever served in such key spots. And they get the highest civilian honor a president can bestow on anyone! That was the day I checked out of this administration. It was then I thought, There’s no seriousness here, these are not serious people.
This puts me in a somewhat awkward position. Normally, I enjoy reading angry apostate Republicans trash the administration they were once so eager to worship. But many of the neocons- particularly Perle and Ledeen- are so odious that I cannot take any pleasure in their anti-Bush ravings. The main reason? Because they still do not accept responsibility for anything they have done. Look at this little nugget from Perle:
“Huge mistakes were made, and I want to be very clear on this: They were not made by neoconservatives, who had almost no voice in what happened, and certainly almost no voice in what happened after the downfall of the regime in Baghdad. I’m getting damn tired of being described as an architect of the war. I was in favor of bringing down Saddam. Nobody said, ‘Go design the campaign to do that.’ I had no responsibility for that.”
Know what, Richard? Go to hell. You brought Chalabi and his merry band of crooks to the White House and had them feed the CIA bogus intel. You kept insisting that the invasion was a success long after it was clear to all non-Glenn Reynoldses that it was an abject failure. And you and Frummy wrote An End to Evil, the ultimate book of neocon wingnuttery that recommended, among other things, that the United States declare France an enemy state. To say that you bear no blame for this sad human catastrophe is beyond reprehensible. You and your buddies need to be banished completely from the national discourse and be forced to beg on the street for food. Just go away. Never come back.
Above: authentic video-capture of Paul Lynde Ted Haggard (center)
with George W. Bush
[sniff]
Hey, where’d this authentic video-capture of Paul Lynde Ted Haggard, center, with George W. Bush come from?
Sorry; hand must’ve slipped on the mouse or something.
I’ll just quickly take it down before anyone… [trap door opens dropping computer desk into basement, loud crash, flames shoot upwards]
Dammit Brad, why do we have to have all these frickin’ trap doors and sulfurous fire-pits around here? Crap, I was just going to check my email after deleting that uncivil and inappropriate authentic video-capture of Paul Lynde Ted Haggard, center, with George W. Bush.
Above: John ‘Oopsie McDoodles’ Hinderaker, amateur intelligence expert
[Note: Also see our original piece on the beginning of this fiasco, in March of this year.]
So: in a futile effort to prove that Saddam was the world’s biggest and most nastiest threat to freedom since Kim Jong Il transformed himself into a billion-gajillion Hitlers, our government posted several Iraqi documents on the Internets containing critical information on how to build an atomic bomb:
The nation’s top intelligence official took down a government Web site with captured Saddam Hussein-era Iraqi documents, after questions were raised whether it provided too much information about making atomic bombs.
In a statement Thursday night, a spokesman for National Intelligence Director John Negroponte said his office has suspended public access to the Web site “pending a review to ensure its content is appropriate for public viewing.â€? […]
Two intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told NBC News that outside experts, including the director of the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, informed the Bush administration that it might have inadvertently publicized how-to-manuals for making nuclear bombs.
A diplomat affiliated with the IAEA said its inspectors were “shocked by the explicitness of the content� on the Web site and that a senior agency official conveyed the concerns to U.S. diplomats in Vienna, where the agency is based.
Oopsie-doodles!
