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Published: August 19, 2007, 1:36 am

Tags: Civil Liberties, Terrorism, Spineless Dems, Republican Arrogance, Bush Arrogance

When the Democrats caved to White House fearmongering in the last week before their August recess and passed a bill that gave the Bush administration new powers to conduct warrantless surveillance inside the US, opponents of the bill were appalled. But our warnings that too much latitude was being given to the Bush administration were sidelined.

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Foreclosures Surge - Who Could Have Predicted?

Published: August 21, 2007, 10:26 am

Tags: U S World Economy, Politics U S, Spineless Dems

When Democratic Party senators capitulated to the finance industry in assisting the GOP to pass the draconian bankruptcy bill two years ago (I’ve previously referred to the legislation as the Indentured Servitude Act of 2005), there were many warnings of problems for credit consumers on the horizon. No one listened. The bill passed anyway,

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Opening The Files: 08/22/07

Published: August 22, 2007, 6:09 am

Tags: Iraq, Military Issues General, Spineless Dems, Republican Pundits Gone Wild, Bush Arrogance, Lies The Lying Liars, Propaganda Catapulting

Catapulting Phony Ponies Last month, an op-ed in the New York Times prompted all sorts of media attention. Here we had two so-called “critics” of the Iraq war claiming the surge as actually working. Nevermind that these two “critics” were anything but. Nonetheless, the narrative was propagated far and wide in the mainstream

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Debunking The Myth Of The “Troop Surge”

Published: August 24, 2007, 5:31 pm

Tags: Politics U S, Iraq, Politics Global, Military Issues General, Spineless Dems, Bush Arrogance, Propaganda Catapulting

Everybody’s talking about the surge…is it succeeding…is it a failure…will it allow the Iraqi government to turn the corner? Some Democrats have been willing to acknowledge that the additional 30,000 troops has had a positive impact…which has led other Democrats to accuse them of capitulation. Simultaneously, these

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Political prognostication presumptuous?

Published: August 24, 2007, 11:14 am

Tags: Congress, Bush, Blogs Writing, War, Elect Dems Admin Fri, Media, Politics

blogger targets Bush Dog' Dems." To quote,A leading liberal blogger has declared political war against centrist Democrats the latest move in an intensifying show of dissatisfaction with the Democratic Congress by the once-friendly blogosphere.Matt Stoller, who blogs at the well-trafficked OpenLeft.com, has compiled a list of 38 House

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Liberated means -

Published: August 17, 2007, 11:30 am

Tags: Congress, Bush, Blogs Writing, Psychology, Elect Dems Admin Fri, Politics

"Bush Fridays," to "Elect-Dems-admin-Fri" means that South by Southwest is now looking forward rather than backwards. I have regained my peace of mind, for the most part. Today's post is a case study of the evolution of my "Bush-thinking" following the success of Democrats in the fall of last year. My "boss" at The Reaction would label it

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A bit of credit is due

Published: August 10, 2007, 12:48 pm

Tags: Civil Liberties, Congress, Elect Dems Admin Fri, Security, Politics

- to a few Senators who let us know what they were thinking last Friday night.Democratic senators, voting a week ago to pass the Bush administration's measure to amend FISA, get mixed marks for explaining themselves. Following is a narrative of the results of my search of all these senators' websites for any statements of explanation of a

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UK Polls Give Gordon Brown Lead

Published: July 3, 2007, 7:30 am

Tags: News, Brown, Comedy, Conservative Party, David Cameron, Fake News, Funny, Gas Attacks, Glasgow Airport Attack, Gordon Brown, Gordon Brown Pm, Humor, Humour, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, Lib Dems, Menzies Campbell, Politics, Prime Minister, Satire, Satirical, Satirical Web

liberal democrats, lib dems, menzies campbell, politics, prime minister, satire, satirical, satirical website, terrorism, terrorists, tories, uk politics, uk polls, uk terrorism,

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Gordon Slays The Giant

Published: June 21, 2007, 7:36 am

Tags: News, Comedy, Downing Street, Fake News, Funny, Gordon Brown, Humor, Humour, Labour Party, Lib Dems, Paddy Ashdown, Politics, Prime Minister Brown, Satire, Satirical, Satirical Website, Tony Blair, Westminster

(And so dawns the new age of political gamesmanship…) comedy, downing street, fake news, funny, gordon brown, humor, humour, labour party, lib dems, paddy ashdown, pm, politics, prime minister brown, satire, satirical, satirical website, tony blair, westminster

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Disentangling the Military from Civilians and Politics

Published: September 6, 2007, 11:04 pm

Tags: Congress, Bush, Middle East, Foreign Policy Un, War, Elect Dems Admin Fri, Politics

headlined, "Anti-war Dems fight for timeline" (9/7/07), for example. All legislation should be grounded in the truth of the situation in Iraq. General Petraeus now carries the bulk of the administration's credibility, along with Ambassador Crocker. Their truth-telling to Congress is but a part of the larger truth to be found.Congress

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Dancing With the States

Published: September 7, 2007, 5:12 am

Tags: Elections 2008, Exclusive, Us News, Democrats, Dems, Gop, Republicans, Primary, Primaries, Campaign, Campaigning, Elections, Candidate, President, Presidential, White House, 2008

PJM Orlando: Every state wants to be the star of the presidential primary season -- with the kind of prestige, power, influence and money that early states like Iowa and New Hampshire command. As PJM Florida correspondent Jim Lynch writes, his state is the latest to make an aggressive bid to be the first at the polls.

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Bush To Lay Out Vision: U.S. To Relive Nightmare?

Published: September 8, 2007, 2:03 pm

Tags: Politics U S, Iraq, Spineless Dems, Middle East, Bush Arrogance, Propaganda Catapulting

Never let it be said that George Bush isn’t a man of vision…unfortunately his visions have become a virtual nightmare for a majority of Americans. The President intends to offer a national address in the coming week to provide his latest vision for Iraq…a new segment in a never ending saga of disjointed vignettes designed to

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The Sting: Was Steele the Judas Goat?

Published: September 10, 2007, 12:46 pm

Tags: Dems, Corruption, New Jersey

hearing the hallways at the Dems State Conference in A.C. this weekend were filled with conversation speculating about how US Attorney Chris Christie was able to put together the massive sting he executed last week -- snagging some high-profile Dem pols in the process.The Ledger ran an interesting story in Sunday's edition (more here), which

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Bribery Sting: Mims Hackett quits Assembly

Published: September 8, 2007, 6:39 am

Tags: Dems, Corruption, New Jersey

Mims HackettFormer Assemblyman, Mayor of OrangeToday's Ledger reports that Mims Hackett, Assemblyman and mayor of Orange, quit his Assembly post Friday, according to a voicemail left on a Ledger reporter's phone late Friday evening (more here).Whether he will also resign his mayor's post is unknown.An important point to keep in mind is that the

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As Dems convene, Christie delivers Excedrin headache

Published: September 7, 2007, 7:44 am

Tags: Dems, Corruption, New Jersey

'Sammy RiveraMayor of Passaic Assemblylman Mims HackettMayor of Orange As New Jersey Democrats prepared for their annual gathering, Chris Christie stole the headlines by arresting a choice bunch of Democratic pols for bribery and conspiracy.Among the 'tools' Christie used was a fake

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