It is becoming ever more apparent that there is a substantial slice of Republican office-holders and Republican office-seekers who are not quite....sane.
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Where do the Republicans find these people, and who votes for them?We either fight them there, or we fight them in the supermarkets and streets hereIn case you missed it, the Republican right has made a slight alteration to their mantra that "fighting the terrorists in Iraq is better than fighting them here." Much as they are trying to shift from "stay the course" to "adapt to win," they are now explicitly trying to get the public to think that withdrawing from Iraq will prompt the terrorists to, as Rep. Curt Weldon said on CNN:
We either fight them there, or we fight them in the supermarkets and streets here. Quotes of the DayI am totally frustrated, disappointed and heart broken. Just when I thought we were going to be able to resume a `normal' life and when I thought the nightmare was over, the nightmare was extended.Jennifer Davis, wife of a member of the 172nd Stryker Brigade, addressing the decision to extend that unit's deployment in Iraq up to four months to increase the numbers of U.S. troops in Baghdad. I'd love to be Santa Claus. I'm not......But I'm not going to get into the promises business. That isn't my style.Donald Rumsfeld, in an in-flight interview en route to Fairbanks Alaska to meet with the families of the 172nd Brigade, responding to whether the families could count on the full 172nd Brigade returning from Iraq by Christmas, with other units replacing them even if the beefed up U.S. presence was still required.
These people are all volunteers. They all signed up. They all are there doing what they're doing because they want to do it. They're proud of what they do. They do it very, very well.Rumsfeld, in the same in-flight interview, explaining why he saw no reason for the families to be angry with him. Public Opinion Polls Still Question Republican LeadershipMore poll results on terrorism, Iraq, and the leadership in general. Overall, a very mixed bag, with Bush approval ratings somewhat on the rise, but a majority of respondents unhappy with the state of the country, and a plurality of the opinion that, to date, the terrorists are winning the "war no terror." The millionth example of NSA spying nonsenseThe right either doesn't get it or, far more likely, doesn't want to get it, when it comes to the NSA warrantless surveillance program. Kurdistan capitalismJ. Paul Bremmer's Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) that ruled Iraq early in the occupation tried mightily to convert Iraq to the kind of unregulated free market state that Republicans are so busy creating right here at home. Quote of the dayIf we can't make a difference, at least we can make some noise. Amy Williams of North Georgia Pediatric Therapies, speaking about changes to Medicaid in Georgia, including cuts or elimination of certain services for children, and a change in billing from direct reimbursement of providers by Medicaid, to a system in which Medicaid reimburses private health insurance companies who will take over billing, with providers required to then obtain reimbursement from the insurance companies. If "welfare reform" is a success....As you may have heard, welfare reform under Clinton had its 10th birthday this past Tuesday. And all "right-thinking" conservatives hailed and toasted and praised until their servants called them to dinner. The phony bias claim about Judge Taylor in the NSA caseThis burns my butt as bad as anything the propaganda mill has done in quite some time. So the pseudo-watchdog group "Judicial Watch" claims that Judge Taylor, who recently ruled that the NSA warrantless surveillance program was unconstitutional, is so biased that her failure to recuse herself calls for "investigation," and, by implication, no one should take her ruling in the case seriously. You don't need credit counselling, you need Christian credit counsellingThese days, businesses seem to see an immediate advantage to popping "Christian" in front of the description of services offered. So now we have "Christian credit counseling" and "Christian debt consolidation." As if being Christian changed the advice you're going to get. |
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