Comments on: Tough Election Leaves GOP In Dire Straits

Politico: Republican Party Seen As Increasingly Out-Dated, In Its Worst Shape Since Rise Of The Conservative Coalition

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by txgrouch2007 November 7, 2008 8:11 PM EST
What DIRE STRAITS???

This is GREAT! We can start blaming the DEMOCRATS for everything for a change, starting next year.

I can''t WAIT!!!

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by hatesthecolt November 7, 2008 8:05 PM EST
Subject: FW: Did Bush Lie?
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http://www.msnbc.msn.c
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Read the article. 55o metric tons of yellow cake uranium were found in Iraq in 2003.

I don''t need to read the article, I have read the intelligence reports. The American people were lied to.
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by kevnkar November 7, 2008 8:02 PM EST

Subject: FW: Did Bush Lie?
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25546334/

Read the article. 55o metric tons of yellow cake uranium were found in Iraq in 2003. This was kept quiet for obvious reasons. So no the invasion was not based on lies. Maybe Wilson and Plame were the liars. remember, nothing is ever as simple as it seems.


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by ioweign November 7, 2008 7:52 PM EST
For those of you who keep insisting that the military action in Iraq is illegal and that Bush trashed the constitution:

Something that people are quick to forget - Presidents themselves are rarely the cause of problems, and are rarely the solutions. They don''''t pass bills and laws. Do you know, for instance, that even though the Iraq war is tremendously unpopular, and that people blame Bush for it....well folks, in early 2003, 64% * of the American people were in favor of going to war. Congress declared it easily**. It wasn''''t just GWB. Did you know that our current mortgage crisis was not caused by GWB ?

*In a January 2003 CBS poll 64% of U.S. nationals had approved of military action against Iraq


**The authorization was sought by President George W. Bush. Introduced as H.J.Res. 114[3] (Public Law 107%u2013243), it passed the House on Thursday afternoon at 3:05 PM EDT on October 10, 2002 by a vote of 296-133,[4] and passed the Senate after midnight early Friday morning at 12:50 AM EDT on October 11, 2002 by a vote of 77-23.[5] It was signed into law by President Bush on October 16, 2002.

Posted by kevnkar at 04:18 PM : Nov 07, 2008


Bush was authorized to use force not lie in the 2003 State of the Union Address.

Then there is the matter of the United Nation''s Charter which Bush violated by the invasion of Iraq.

By violating a signed treaty, he is in violation of our Constitution...
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by hatesthecolt November 7, 2008 7:51 PM EST
kevnkar, that public approval was based on lies and misinformation so it''s irrelevant because we never will know what approval would have been if they had known the truth.
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by kevnkar November 7, 2008 7:48 PM EST
I should add that the reason being motivated by profit can make the media partisan is that those advertisers (primarily drug and food companies) are in the back pockets of the politicians in Washington. those politicians have the power to inact all kinds of legislation that could effect the bottom line for these companies.
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by kevnkar November 7, 2008 7:37 PM EST
Yes, the media are motivated by profits purely and that is the problem. They have no interest in the truth anymore. The truth will cost them advertisers. You better take anything you see in the mainstream with a grain of salt. Get your news from many sources and find the truth yourself. The problem is tha the sheeple out there just take whatever CBS and others tell them and think it is gospel.
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by kevnkar November 7, 2008 7:18 PM EST
For those of you who keep insisting that the military action in Iraq is illegal and that Bush trashed the constitution:

Something that people are quick to forget - Presidents themselves are rarely the cause of problems, and are rarely the solutions. They don''t pass bills and laws. One man (or someday, woman) is not responsible....though he is often the scapegoat for the countries ills. Place the blame on Congress. Place the blame on the citizens. Do you know, for instance, that even though the Iraq war is tremendously unpopular, and that people blame Bush for it....well folks, in early 2003, 64% * of the American people were in favor of going to war. Congress declared it easily**. It wasn''t just GWB. Did you know that our current mortgage crisis was not caused by GWB ? Oh no....the policies of giving housing loans to just about anyone (even those with questionable financial status) started during the Clinton Era.

*In a January 2003 CBS poll 64% of U.S. nationals had approved of military action against Iraq


**The authorization was sought by President George W. Bush. Introduced as H.J.Res. 114[3] (Public Law 107%u2013243), it passed the House on Thursday afternoon at 3:05 PM EDT on October 10, 2002 by a vote of 296-133,[4] and passed the Senate after midnight early Friday morning at 12:50 AM EDT on October 11, 2002 by a vote of 77-23.[5] It was signed into law by President Bush on October 16, 2002.
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by jgaites November 7, 2008 6:57 PM EST
The party needs to be "freshened up" by putting some flowers on its tombstone. Most of the leaders need to be investigated for the blatant corruption and war crimes they have commited, especially Bush and Cheney, the most horrific traitors in our history. Anyone that passes laws or signs exectutive orders that directly violate the U.S Constitution: secret prisons, arrest witout trail, tortore, illegal search and seizure, you name it, the leaders of the current Republican Party are criminals.

Let''''s "freshen them up" by spraying lemon-scent lysol in their jail cells every day. It''''s more than they deserve, but we should have pity on the poor security guards that have to work in an environment with such odious individuals.
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by inketolstoy November 7, 2008 6:56 PM EST
The media gives people want they want, otherwise, they wouldn''''t be in business. -Posted by tuckerndfw

Then why (if motivated by profit) they contiue to do this despite shrinking revenues and flocks of viewers fleeing to alternative news sources?
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