“God has spoken to me,” Delay said. “I listen to God, and what I’ve heard is that I’m supposed to devote myself to rebuilding the conservative base of the Republican Party, and I think we shouldn’t be underestimated.”

God spoke to me too. He said he wanted a tuna on rye. He also told me that Tom Delay was going to use him to gain notoriety. "But God," I said, "He is already notorious!"

God looked at me for a moment and then quietly he said, "Good point."

Candidates committed to supporting victory in the war on Americans pocketbooks.

What a cause.

Their site is misnamed... It should be "Wilderness Caucus" 'cause they are headed to 40 years in the wilderness.

An almost perfect exponential decay with a time constant of about 30 days. Remarkable.

Gonzo @ 5, ROFLMAO!!!!

And xoites, congrats on your new blog!!!!

the difference in how the british react to alleged terror plots and actual acts against them and how americans react is simple, our govt is so incompetent that they react and not respond. this administration promotes fear fear fear. when you have intelligent adults/people administering to these kinds of difficulties, you have intelligent adults/people respond.

but here in american we have a totally incompetent administration run by shit-for-brains and darthfartwad, two criminal fascist bastards.

I cannot vote for Obama after I discovered his wife's ties to WALMART.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2007/05/23/michelle-obama-cuts-a-wal-mart-...

This is a real problem. I hope others will consider this.

yes, i do know the clintons, similar to the obamas, are tied to WAL-MART. so now i am considering edwards, dodd and biden.

> yes, i do know the clintons, similar to the obamas, are tied to WAL-MART

Yet you only came on whining about Obama. I would hate to think it was something to do with the color of his skin.

> No. But that this is the first issue to come to your mind reveals more about you than it does me.

From my recollection, the first issue to come to my mind is that you didn't mention the Clinton's ties with Walmart.

"Concerned Citizen", Why on Earth would you support Biden? Don't you know that he is one of the most responsible persons for Clarence Thomas to be on the SC???? (and it's not a black or white issue, it's the issue about the right-wing extremist's takover of the Supreme Court.)

> Obama is pretty weak on judicial nominees too.

I don't recall Obama ever having a voice on SC Justices.

> And Obama voted for Secretary Rice.

Secretary Rice has never been in an election.

If that's the case, I agree. Big mistakes.

For sheer inanity, read Peter Baker's WaPo attempted pity/sympathy rehab piece on The Dummy's image, where he tries to show our demented, irrational, megalomaniacal president as a sincere, questioning, calmly considering man of 'god', reviewing the peculiarities of a world which does not seem to fully appreciate the total goodness and dedication of George W. Bush, and his 'analysis' of what's 'good', and what's 'evil'.

Too bad Dante's dead, he'd be perfect to do the presidential portrait.

Among the Democrat candidates, I wonder why no one mentions Kucinich. He has been consistently right on both domestic and international issues.

But here is a historical reminder of another politician who opposed a President's war, Wisconsin Senator Robert Lafollette.

"Mr. President, I had supposed until recently that it was the duty of senators and representatives in Congress to vote and act according to their convictions on all public matters that came before them for consideration and decision. Quite another doctrine has recently been promulgated by certain newspapers, which unfortunately seems to have found considerable support elsewhere, and that is the doctrine of “standing back of the President” without inquiring whether the President is right or wrong.

For myself, I have never subscribed to that doctrine and never shall. I shall support the President in the measures he proposes when I believe them to be right. I shall oppose measures proposed by the President when I believe them to be wrong. The fact that the matter which the President submits for consideration is of the greatest importance is only an additional reason why we should be sure that we are right and not to be swerved from that conviction or intimidating in its expression by any influence of its power whatsoever."

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5017

Coincidentally, Wisconsin has another good Senator now, Feingold.

And another thing, do you really think ANY of them knows what it is like to have to decide between making rent or paying their health insurance premium? Between paying the phone bill and EATING for the next week? Between taking the subway to work or walking because the subway fare has to pay for medicine?

Has ANY of them been homeless, ever? Even close?

These clowns know NOTHING of you or how you live.
But they sure do know how to manipulate you.

Wake the hell up.

And don't demand an alternative from me, I'm so sick of this shit that I'm leaving.
Come up with your own alternative plans, or don't.
I don't really care anymore.
Just stop being such a bunch of willfully blind dupes, it's fucking up the planet.

Pope Todd

I will not vote for Obama as a result of these WAL-MART ties. And Obama had the audacity to say the following when asked about Michelle's deep connections to WAL-MART:

Sen Obama's campaign team and Mrs Obama's spokesman did not respond to requests by The Sunday Telegraph for comment. But the senator previously told Crain's Chicago Business magazine that, while his views on corporate reform and social justice remained the same regardless of what happens at Treehouse, "Michelle and I have to live in the world and pay taxes and pay for our kids and save for retirement".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/13/wobama13...

That is just unbelievable. He is allowed to be the hypocrite, as they have to pay taxes and feed children?

And then we learn of potential insider trading and a sleazy property deal. I quote:

Mrs Obama is Treehouse's senior non-executive director and sits on the company's audit and nominating and corporate governance committees. Her Treehouse connection is not the only awkward ethical question that has confronted Sen Obama as his past is dug over.

Earlier this year, in response to a newspaper investigation, he said he was unaware that his broker had bought $50,000 worth of stock in two speculative companies whose leading investors included some of his biggest political donors.

He has also apologised for his "boneheaded error" in striking a property deal with Tony Rezko, a Chicago Democrat operative facing a federal indictment.

Obama is bought and bossed.

i do consider him. sorry, but i forgot to type his name. kucinich is great on the issues, and his performance at howard university should give him the attention he deserves.

Daily Reading pt one...

LIVE EARTH 7.7.07 - http://www.liveearth.org/ "WE DO NOT INHERIT THE EARTH FROM OUR ANCESTORS, WE BORROW IT FROM OUR CHILDREN" - David Brower Founder Sierra Club

Al Gore: Moving Beyond Kyoto - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/opinion/01gore.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

GO SEE THIS MOVIE: http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/index.php?viewed=true
REASON 1,345,235,897,621,001.....not to run a country like a corporation

"Leahy Says He May Seek Charge Of Contempt Against President." Message to Pat L.: If You Threaten It, Then Do It. - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/01/AR200707...

Even Iraq Oil Production in Chaos - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/01/AR200707...
Well...Saudi Arabia, OPEC, Texas Big Oil multinationals are happy about that...just as long as 'eventually' those fields begin to be secured...

‘It is Their Right, It is Their Duty, To Throw Off Such Government ‘ - http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/01/2228/

"Reid: Democrats' Agenda Is Progressing" ... but not without a lot of garbage from the GOP - http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070630/D8Q36FQ00.html
You know...Republicans love to block 9/11 Commission Recommendations (cause they 'hurt business'), ethics reforms (who needs ethics), CAFE standards (pollution is a birthright), minimum wage (cause its already 'too high')

Essential Reading on ProsecutorGate as Part of a Rove/GOP Three-Pronged Strategy to Undermine Voting Rights and the Basic Foundation of Electoral Democracy. A Must Read. Once Again, the McClatchy News Company is Breaking Stories the Other Corporate Media Won't Touch.
- http://www.miamiherald.com/509/story/156993.html
GOP links to vote-fraud push: Two nonprofits had a major role in Republican electoral strategy that included lobbying U.S. attorneys over alleged fraud in voter rolls.

As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency deliberated on whether to allow California to implement its greenhouse gas law, another federal agency sought to mobilize state and federal lawmakers against the state's petition, documents show. - http://cbs5.com/politics/local_story_180202928.html
Republican/GOP hypocrisy on full display (daily basis)...its 'state's rights...unless that right is against the con-servative agenda'....

THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT (like I always said): Poll of Republicans: Perhaps the most interesting trend for Democrats in the poll is the fact that the Republican Party is skewing much older. The percentage of Republican age 55 and older grew from 28 percent in 1997 to 41 percent now, while the number of 18- to 37-year-olds dropped from 25 percent to 17 percent. A Republican analyst finds this to be alarming.
- http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/07/01/poll-gop-updates-look-at-elephan...
AND THIS WAS 2004....http://www.musicforamerica.org/youthturnout ITS GOTTEN EVEN BETTER SINCE THEN!

Daily Reading part two:

As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency deliberated on whether to allow California to implement its greenhouse gas law, another federal agency sought to mobilize state and federal lawmakers against the state's petition, documents show. - http://cbs5.com/politics/local_story_180202928.html
Republican/GOP hypocrisy on full display (daily basis)...its 'state's rights...unless that right is against the con-servative agenda'....

THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT (like I always said): Poll of Republicans: Perhaps the most interesting trend for Democrats in the poll is the fact that the Republican Party is skewing much older. The percentage of Republican age 55 and older grew from 28 percent in 1997 to 41 percent now, while the number of 18- to 37-year-olds dropped from 25 percent to 17 percent. A Republican analyst finds this to be alarming.
- http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/07/01/poll-gop-updates-look-at-elephan...
AND THIS WAS 2004....http://www.musicforamerica.org/youthturnout ITS GOTTEN EVEN BETTER SINCE THEN!

Climate Change: Gulf Stream Under Threat - http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,5860,1656541,00.html

Runoff from modern life is feeding an explosion of primitive organisms. This 'rise of slime,' as one scientist calls it, is killing larger species and sickening people. - http://www.latimes.com/news/local/oceans/la-me-ocean30jul30,0,952130.story

PSSST....there's no Global Warming....Parched California has driest 'rainy season' on record - http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070701/sc_afp/usclimatedrought_070701212537

Wesley Clark Answer Questions from the NYT & 08 elections - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/magazine/01wwln-Q4-t.html?ex=118395360...

Seymour Hersh: ‘Bush And Cheney’s Wet Dream Is Hitting Iran’ - http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/28/hersh-bush-iran/

concerned voter @ 36:

i do consider him. sorry, but i forgot to type his name. kucinich is great on the issues, and his performance at howard university should give him the attention he deserves.

Thanxx. I'm just curious, since I don't seem to only rarely ever see/hear his name, if anyone besides me is even considering him. We totally need a Dept. Of Peace !

Wilkes-Barre Times Leader:

Movie SICKO "...pulled from Cinemark locations, including Cinemark at Montage Mountain in Moosic."

Where I live! Is it pulled where YOU live???????????

http://www.timesleader.com/news/20070630_30sicko_mtb_3a_ART.html

The perfect summary for the generational differences:

He's the Man (sneer).

You da man!

Can you say Hypocrite?
Remember this news story from last Febuary:
Australian PM John Howard has criticised US presidential hopeful Barack Obama for saying US troops should withdraw from Iraq next year
Now we get this:
Australia plans to withdraw troops from Iraq
John Howard is a wanker, mate.

Anybody who wants to submit a link to their blog on my site please go to my homepage to find out how. :)

- How to Bring Economic Democracy to the U.S.A. -

A Proposal that Would Require the Following Amendment to the Federal Constitution:

AMENDMENT XXVIII

Money and Credit - Congress Asserts Power To Coin Money, and Emit Bills of Credit

[SECTION 1.] The Congress hereby asserts the power, granted in this Constitution, to coin money, and to regulate the value thereof. - And further, to emit non-interest-bearing bills of credit directly through the Treasury Department (on the Credit, and in the Name of the People).

[SECTION 2.] The Congress hereby authorizes the Treasury to issue a sufficient quantity of "dollars" to purchase back the capital stock of the Federal Reserve Bank from the private owners, by eminent domain.

[SECTION 3.] The Federal Reserve Bank shall henceforth be subsumed into the Treasury, and function as a Sub-Treasury Central Bank of issue. Henceforth they shall be one institution, and be called, formally, the Treasury of the Common-wealth of the United States of America, or commonly, "The Treasury of Common-wealth."

[SECTION 4.] The Treasury of Common-wealth, as the fountainhead of Credit-Creation in the nation shall henceforth issue as Money only non-interest- bearing Notes, and Mint coins of pure Specie, stamped with their weight and fineness. The books, accounts and records of the Treasury shall continually be open to public scrutiny.

[SECTION 5.] The Treasury of Common-wealth shall honor, and continue to pay (by means of non-interest-bearing notes, and checks) the interest on all out-standing U. S. Treasury Securities, as they come due. There shall be no further issues of Treasury Securities, or Bonds.

[SECTION 6.] The State Treasury departments, of each of the fifty States, are also hereby empowered, by the same creative principle [formerly given by charter to banks] to create Credit within their own jurisdictions, in the form of checks, signed by the State comptrollers, in accordance with appropriations made by the State legislatures, for the purpose of maintaining State institutions, infrastructure, and salaries.

[SECTION 7.] In accordance with the provisions of this Article, all banks and financial institutions in America shall receive new charters from the Treasury. The Treasury shall henceforth have the unique and sole power within the nation to create Credit - a function formerly granted by the government (and thus erroneously delegated) only to Banks. Henceforth private banks may charge interest, to service accounts.

[SECTION 8.] In Sum, this Article defines, and enhances the powers granted to Congress and the Treasury, under Article I, Section 8, Clause 5, of this Constitution. Furthermore, it amends and modifies Article II, Section 10, Clause 1, to empower State Treasuries to create (a limited amount of) non-inflationary Credit, in the form of check book money in order to meet the pressing needs of the states.

See http://publiccentralbank.com/ for more information.

Congress needs to review the open source information related to FISA and Geneva violations. It is absurd to suggest the President can "control" this information with executive privilege: The information has been disclosed. Once disclosed, even inadvertently as it has been, it is admissible.

Please ask Congress to ensure they have reviewed all sources of open source information before they pretend that EOP has all the information.

John,

Today, clicking on links to get to c&l crashed my browser (Safari 1.3.2) 9 times throughout the day. I finally switched over to Firefox to get in. Any idea what that was about?

Thanks,

Frank