Friday, May 20, 2005
New Polls Bring New Lows for Bush
The new Pew Research Center poll gives Bush his worst approval rating ever in that poll: just 43 percent, with 50 percent disapproval. And the new Time/SRBI poll has his rating at 46 percent approval/47 percent disapproval, also a low in that poll.
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The Left Coaster: It's Time For Liberals To Make Frist And Santorum Toxic
It's Time For Liberals To Make Frist And Santorum Toxic
We've gotten so used to the double standard, the outrage of the day, the gross hypocrisy of the GOP that it amazes me that we can still get worked up over the latest insanity from the GOP. But then we are blessed to have such an intellectual imbecile as Ricky Santorum as an opponent, aren't we?
Remember back last year when the GOP went ape-shit because MoveOn.org sponsored a contest wherein several of the contestants drew a comparison between Bush and Hitler, and then seeing the sh*tstorm from the corporate media and the Mighty Wurlitzer rain down upon MoveOn? Remember less than three months ago when Little Ricky demanded that Robert Byrd immediately retract a remark Byrd made about Hitler because bringing Hitler into the debate "lessen(ed) the credibility of the senator (Byrd) and the decorum of the Senate".
It should then come as no surprise that today Little Ricky compared Senate Democrats trying to protect the filibuster to Adolph Hitler. And you can wait until hell freezes over for a GOP senator to demand that Little Ricky retract his words because they affect the decorum of the Senate, something that damn near every GOP senator of late has wiped his ass upon. I mean, if Bill Frist thinks its OK for Dick Cheney to tell Pat Leahy to f*ck himself, what the hell does decorum mean to any Republican?
Again, as a result of outrage fatigue it is easy to overlook a comment and gross hypocrisy like this, just as much as it may be easy to look beyond the Senate Majority Leader saying yesterday that Senate Democrats were out to "assassinate" the president's judicial nominees. But that doesn't mean that the center-left blogosphere can't paper their local newspaper with outraged letters to the editor, send outraged faxes to Santorum's offices and Pennsylvania papers, and build a drumbeat into the national media. In fact, a good old liberal lynching of Frist and Santorum is just what this country needs right about now, if you ask me.
As I indicated in an earlier post today, polls show that voters are fed up with the GOP Congress and its agenda. Now would be a good time to educate voters about the inmates who are running the asylum.
href="http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/004433.php">The Left Coaster: It's Time For Liberals To Make Frist And Santorum Toxic
We've gotten so used to the double standard, the outrage of the day, the gross hypocrisy of the GOP that it amazes me that we can still get worked up over the latest insanity from the GOP. But then we are blessed to have such an intellectual imbecile as Ricky Santorum as an opponent, aren't we?
Remember back last year when the GOP went ape-shit because MoveOn.org sponsored a contest wherein several of the contestants drew a comparison between Bush and Hitler, and then seeing the sh*tstorm from the corporate media and the Mighty Wurlitzer rain down upon MoveOn? Remember less than three months ago when Little Ricky demanded that Robert Byrd immediately retract a remark Byrd made about Hitler because bringing Hitler into the debate "lessen(ed) the credibility of the senator (Byrd) and the decorum of the Senate".
It should then come as no surprise that today Little Ricky compared Senate Democrats trying to protect the filibuster to Adolph Hitler. And you can wait until hell freezes over for a GOP senator to demand that Little Ricky retract his words because they affect the decorum of the Senate, something that damn near every GOP senator of late has wiped his ass upon. I mean, if Bill Frist thinks its OK for Dick Cheney to tell Pat Leahy to f*ck himself, what the hell does decorum mean to any Republican?
Again, as a result of outrage fatigue it is easy to overlook a comment and gross hypocrisy like this, just as much as it may be easy to look beyond the Senate Majority Leader saying yesterday that Senate Democrats were out to "assassinate" the president's judicial nominees. But that doesn't mean that the center-left blogosphere can't paper their local newspaper with outraged letters to the editor, send outraged faxes to Santorum's offices and Pennsylvania papers, and build a drumbeat into the national media. In fact, a good old liberal lynching of Frist and Santorum is just what this country needs right about now, if you ask me.
As I indicated in an earlier post today, polls show that voters are fed up with the GOP Congress and its agenda. Now would be a good time to educate voters about the inmates who are running the asylum.
href="http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/004433.php">The Left Coaster: It's Time For Liberals To Make Frist And Santorum Toxic
Thursday, May 19, 2005
Al Franken: What in God’s name is going on?
... Meanwhile, the Coalition Provisional Authority, which we ran, has lost 8.8 billion dollars. By lost, I mean it’s totally unaccounted for. Not only has Congress not 'looked into' this $8.8 billion and who might have it now, but it seems that some members are completely unaware that this staggering sum, which was supposed to go toward rebuilding Iraq, is missing. The Sunday morning after the White House Correspondents dinner, I ran into Senator George Allen at a brunch thrown by John McLaughlin and his wife. Allen had never heard of the missing $8.8 billion, or at least that's what he told me. And he's on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Stunned, I went up to Susan Page of USA Today and her husband Carl Lubsdorf of the Dallas Morning News, two veteran Washington political reporters, and told them about Allen’s ignorance of this huge scandal, which has no doubt contributed to hatred for America and the deaths of our troops. There’s less electricity in Iraq now than there was before we invaded Iraq.
Turns out that Page and Lubsdorf had also never heard of the unaccounted-for $8.8 billion. For a moment I thought that maybe I had been imagining things.
Then I spotted my friend Norm Ornstein, scholar from the American Enterprise Institute. 'Would you believe it if Norm Ornstein told you about the $8.8 billion?' I asked Susan and Carl.
'Sure.'
I brought Norm over, and indeed I had not been imagining things. 'It was a huge story,' Norm told them.
'Was it in the New York Times?' Carl asked Norm.
'Yes,' Norm assured him.
What in God’s name is going on?"
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Stunned, I went up to Susan Page of USA Today and her husband Carl Lubsdorf of the Dallas Morning News, two veteran Washington political reporters, and told them about Allen’s ignorance of this huge scandal, which has no doubt contributed to hatred for America and the deaths of our troops. There’s less electricity in Iraq now than there was before we invaded Iraq.
Turns out that Page and Lubsdorf had also never heard of the unaccounted-for $8.8 billion. For a moment I thought that maybe I had been imagining things.
Then I spotted my friend Norm Ornstein, scholar from the American Enterprise Institute. 'Would you believe it if Norm Ornstein told you about the $8.8 billion?' I asked Susan and Carl.
'Sure.'
I brought Norm over, and indeed I had not been imagining things. 'It was a huge story,' Norm told them.
'Was it in the New York Times?' Carl asked Norm.
'Yes,' Norm assured him.
What in God’s name is going on?"
The Huffington Post | The Blog
Monday, May 16, 2005
IA and NH to stay first, but are rotating regional primaries ahead?
