What can I say, Chain-ee is an idiot.

Who do, who do, you think your foolin...

I can't wait until one of those commentators nails him.
"But Vice President Cheney we've all seen the pictures. We know you're full of it. How are you going to fix your little problem?"

BTW, I'm sure Harry appreciates that you haven't forgotten the incident concerning the vice president shooting a man in the face.

Oops
That's you're foolin

Starting with the basics, cheney is basically a base liar.

I felt so bad for Cheney shooting his friend in the face. It ruined a perfectly good hunting weekend. Poor Dick. Imagine how bad he felt.

That reminds me of a joke. How can you tell if a laywer is lying? His lips are still moving.

That reminds me of another joke. What was the first offical act of Texas tort reform? Shooting Harry Whittington in the face.

Here's another. What do you call thirty Harry Whittington's prone on the ground and bleeding from the face and chest? A good start.

Of course these jokes tasteless so allow me to apologize in a by partisan way to all whom I may have offended.

David, Can you give us a hint about how the book is coming and when we'll see it at bookstores?

C'mon, give Shooter some credit. At least he didn't answer "I never said that".

Press Gaggle by Scott McClellan 3/22/6

And then following the event, the President will be meeting with two families of fallen soldiers. One is the family of an Army sergeant who recently made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq; and then the other is the family of a Marine who made the ultimate sacrifice a couple of years ago in Iraq. (link)
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The White House press secretary won't say "died" or was "killed" he'll only say "fallen" and "made the ultimate sacrifice." The two soldier's put their lives on the line and the White House Press Secretary doesn't have the respect to use the words died or was killed.

Support for this war is in the crapper. It is no small wonder because the rationale for war was a holy sack of shit; each piece within decomposing under the weight of scrutiny and stinking to high heavens. Pretty soon, it'll be 6% in support of the war plus the head count in the White House supporting the murderous misadventure.

Pre-emptive War was never a doctrine forged out of necessity to protect US citizens in a time of international terror with WMD. From the start, it was a means to an end; a ticket to the dance; aces to open. The Iraq War was an objective unto itself.

this is good...

Feingold on the Daily Show

9 Thanks Alan. It was good. Interesting how two people talking abou the censure resolution can make all the hullabaloo seem silly.

I know y'all heard about this, right?

G.M. Will Offer Buyouts to All Its Union Workers

G.M., staggering under the weight of $10.6 billion in losses last year, said it would offer buyouts and early-retirement packages ranging from $35,000 to $140,000 to every one of its 113,000 unionized workers in the United States who agreed to leave the company.

the feds auctioned off the duke-stir's booty

Poetic Justice: These Bribes Are Going, Going, Gone

RANCHO DOMINGUEZ, Calif. -- Behold! The disgraced congressman's silver-plated, five-light candelabrum with matching "bobbishes" (that would be Lot No. 61) out on the auction block in this cavernous and cold warehouse east of the Port of Los Angeles.

(snip)

"A wild card." That's how Britney Sheehan of EG&G Technical Services, which runs the auction, describes the provenance issue regarding the Duke loot. Sheehan cannot reveal what the minimum bids must be for any item, nor what she and her appraisers think the stuff is worth, because such information may smack of inside trading, collusion and bid-rigging (and there's been quite enough of that, thank you very much).

The War Party in Disarray

It isn't looking so good for the War Party. As things fall apart on the ground in Iraq, a similar process of disintegration is occurring on the home front. It seems as if there are almost daily defections from the ranks, and –†as the blame game gets underway –†our war birds are turning on each other, with Donald "Super-Stud" Rumsfeld, once hailed as the War Party's answer to George Clooney, now in the neocons' crosshairs. As for our commander in chief, his poll numbers are at an all-time low, and he seems to have retreated so deeply into a world of delusion that not even the outbreak of full-scale civil war in Iraq can shock him out of his mental catatonia.

Worse yet, as the ostensible rationales for the invasion of Iraq are debunked and fall by the wayside, the War Party's real motivation for bringing about what Gen. William E. Odom has rightly called the biggest strategic disaster in our history has come out in the wash. "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," a study by John J. Mearsheimer, the doyen of foreign policy realism, and Stephen M. Walt, dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, has blasted the scales from our eyes. While not falling into the trap of identifying the efforts of "the Lobby" as the sole reason for the radicalization of U.S. foreign policy in the post-9/11 era, their research clearly shows that this was the decisive factor.

I have to say that this conclusion was fairly obvious early on: after all, if all the other rationalizations WMD, Iraq's alleged links to al-Qaeda, uranium-pilfering in Niger were pure bunk, then, by means of a simple process of elimination, we come to the geopolitical explanation as the only logical alternative. If the U.S. is systematically dismantling regimes from Baghdad to Beirut to Tehran and perhaps beyond then the primary geostrategic beneficiary leaps out at any objective analyst. As I put it way back in 2003:

More HERE

Every time Cheney appears to speak in public it is an interesting excercise in self deception and bad faith. He foolishly plays the role of the strong leader, thinking that words carry more weight than actions. Any man who asked for five deferments and still thinks he is fit to lead...

"DUCK!!!" Cheney needs to be deferred now.

MSNBC POLL: Iraq all the medias fault?

What do you think?

HOW SAD FOR OUR TROOPS

Bush said that "future presidents" (notice the plural) will decide when troops leave Iraq.

How sad for our troops, stuck in a hell hole in the middle of a civil war, while the President who sent them there, with these two words, conveniently washes his hands of the situation. He has already punted...given up. The LBJ effect has kicked in 1-2 years earlier than even I would have predicted. By the end of 1968, the Vietnam War was an unwanted orphan in the Johnson Administration. Our troops languished and died for nothing, for another 7 years or so. The same is happening in Iraq. Bush has just admitted that his war in Iraq is going so badly that future presidentS will need to clean up after his incompetence...and our troops will continue to die for nothing.

How sad for our troops.

Bob

Dear Miss Jeanne:

Thank you for your message on a previous comment section several days ago. That is very interesting news that your daughter works for Cirque du Soleil. Is she a performer? Or does she work behind the scenes helping to hold that spectacular show together?

Miss Jeanne, please recall the jokes that Mr. Bush told at the Gridiron Club about the vice president of the United States shooting "a lawyer" (in the face) and referring to then to Cheney as "Bull's Eye." Then recall the number of journalists killed in Iraq. Then recall that the young man, Bob Woodruff, from a major network was shot in the head in Iraq. Then recall the incident when Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney were campaigning and Bush spotted a veteran political reporter in the crowd, pointed him out to Cheney, as the two stood at the podium waving to the assembled crowd, and Bush said, "There's Adam Clymer, major-league asshole from The New York Times." Cheney, also unaware the microphones were turned on, agreed, saying, "Oh yeah, he is, big time."

Some in the crowd heard their remarks, and since they were recorded, the remarks became a matter of public record. Bush and Cheney couldn't deny their words.

Bush was later criticized both for the remark and for the way the fallout from it was handled.

When his aides were asked about the "asshole" comment, rather than offering the candidate's apologies for what he had said, they instead defended the remark, attributing it to justifiable ire over particular items Clymer had written about Bush's career as Governor of Texas. "There's been a series of articles [by Clymer] that the governor has felt have been very unfair," said Karen Hughes.

When directly asked about his remark, Bush said, "I regret that a private comment I made to the vice-presidential candidate made it into the public airwaves," which was not an apology. When pressed as to whether he would apologize, he replied, " I didn't realize, obviously, the mikes were going to pick it up."

You may wonder why I took the time to write all of the above. Well, things keep occurring to me as time passes. That crowd in the White House doesn't like lawyers or journalists; they never apologize for anything; and a lawyer and a high-profile journalist get shot.

And now some of Bush's and Cheney's ardent supporters are spouting off about college professors. I wish our civic discourse was more civil, people are getting hurt. Anyway, Miss Jeanne, I was just musing on past events and you are perceptive. Have a nice day.

Sada was on Daily Show Tues nite, why? He claimed he was always honest. WMD moved to Syria? Bullshyt, honestly. Comedy Centrals owners? Viacom.

Ten Rules for Gun Safety: 1. Always keep the firearm pointed in a safe direction 2. Always keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot 3. Always keep the action open and the firearm unloaded until ready to use 4. Know how the firearm operates 5. Be sure your firearm and ammunition are compatible 6. Carry only one caliber or gauge of ammunition when shooting 7. Be sure of your target and what is beyond 8. Wear eye and ear protection as appropriate 9. Don't mix alcohol or drugs with shooting 10. Be aware that circumstances may require additional rules unique to a particular situation

Wonder what would happen if Cheney went hunting with Bush???

And what's all this talk about IMPEACHING Bush...how about impeaching Cheney and letting GW get a shot at running the country.

Dear Harry,
My daughter sells the merchandise. It is a great way to travel. They don't make much money when you consider that they have to pay for travel expenses but they make enough to live, they meet all sorts of interesting people, and they have fun. She's just about done and will be coming home soon.

I too have noticed that when this administration doesn't like a person, an organization, a policy, or how an action has gone wrong they simply refuse to acknowledge it. This worked dandy when you consider that the mistakes can be glossed over, as in your case.

It really is more sinister than that however. How many 'mistakes' have been made that are not really mistakes? I will give Katrina as an example. Whoa, what a colossal mistake you say. How incompetent are these people you think. But, I think the opportunity came to reshape a big area of the country and they let it 'happen'. No one is that incompetent, Harry. No one sits for 4 days watching a disaster unfold while they joke and play guitar unless it's on purpose. What was going on in the background I asked myself as it was happening and lo and behold Haliburton was suddenly involved.

An honest and a good president would have been much more involved and would have pressed much harder to see progress in the gulf region in the areas that got hit. It's really a black mark on his reputation. I don't think he cares. With the neocons it's policy and business. Money and power.

The same thing happened in Iraq. Freaking incompetence...or was it? Stomp Iraq to the ground and then rebuild it in a way works for them. Deaths? Ahhhh, who cares? Just kidding. Yeah, Mr. President, it's funny.

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Wow! Capt,
It's going to take me all day to get through your post but it's great. Lots of good articles.

I have been reading the ledeen interview on raw story - 3 parter. It seems like the neocons are fleeing not just because the ship is sinking but because their manueverings are now apparent. Ledeen was just snaking around every hard question about policy the interviewer asked. Now it's obvious to all just how slimey those guys are. Now it's 'not me'. Or 'I didn't believe in the policy and I tried to tell them.' What BS.
Cowards.

Might be old news but worth reading nevertheless. Bernard Weiner transcript of the Prez and VP at the 9/11 hearings, Here. And another piece by Mr. Weiner, The PNAC Primer.

If Whittington hadn't jumped in front of Cheney's shotgun, Dick would have nailed that bird!

Do you think Cheney would have had Whittington stuffed and mounted on his wall if he had finished him off?

Bush's actions throughout his entire life show a clear and consistent pattern: without exception, he has always chosen the path that will benefit himself and his corporate friends the most and will do so in the face of even the most outraged criticism.

Controversial Charlie Sheen 9/11 interview begins to attract media attention

An interview with actor Charlie Sheen regarding his controversial views on 9/11 has started to garner some mainstream media attention, RAW STORY has found.

On Monday, Sheen, star of the CBS sitcom "Two and a Half Men" and the multiple Oscar-winning film Platoon, talked with GCN Radio Network's "The Alex Jones Show," and explained why he had trouble believing the "official 9/11 story" advanced by the Bush Administration and the 9/11 Commission (link).

"It's like they want to pigeonhole all of us into conspiracy nutbags when we're not debating things that are related to UFO's bringing down the towers or Building 7 or the Pentagon and so its feels like there's things in there that we’≤e not the conspiracy theorists on this particular issue," said Sheen. "It seems to me like 19 amateurs with box cutters taking over four commercial airliners and hitting 75 percent of their targets: that feels like a conspiracy theory."

Specter Takes Senate Lead on Eavesdropping

A vocal Republican critic of the Bush administration's eavesdropping program will preside over Senate efforts to write the program into law, but he was pessimistic Wednesday that the White House wanted to listen.

"They want to do just as they please, for as long as they can get away with it," Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I think what is going on now without congressional intervention or judicial intervention is just plain wrong."

Specter was one of the first Republicans to publicly question the National Security Agency's authority to monitor international calls -when one party is inside the United States -without first getting court approval. Under the program first disclosed last year, the NSA has been conducting the surveillance when calls and e-mails are thought to involve al-Qaida.

......Specter's bill would require the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to provide a broad constitutional review of the surveillance activities every 45 days and evaluate whether the government has followed previous authorizations that are issued.

DeWine, however, wants to give the administration as much as 45 days to operate without a court warrant. If at any point the attorney general has enough information to go to the intelligence court, he must.

Under that approach, Specter said the administration can still "roam and roam and roam, and not find anything, and keep roaming. ... I think that's wrong."

Specter plans to hold a hearing on Tuesday about the bills. He said his plan is to pass both out of the Judiciary Committee and allow the full Senate to consider them as soon as May.

"I think my position will prevail," Specter said, noting that he will have Democratic support.

18 You write really well. I'm glad you took the time Harry.

They have no respect for anyone except themselves. They set their sights on entire professions the same way they set their sights on other countries. They respect one thing only and that's power.

ABC News

Is reporting new documents showing ties between Saddam and Osama. So much for the rants of the left about Saddam having no ties to terrorism. No need to appolgize to Bush, David, because Bush and Cheney don't really give a rip what you think anyway!!!!!

Anybody that believes what the MSM says is sadly beyond help.

Den

Your right Den, when the MSM said Bush lied about WMD, that Saddam was working with the UN, that Bush has lost support of the war and has low poll numbers, that Val Plame was outed, it was all misinformation to brainwash you Cornuts!

Right Blogosphere Scammed by Bogus Document Dump

Looks like the Bushies are bypassing media and feeding misinformation directly to rightie bloggers.

The story thus far: This week the Office of the Director of National Intelligence began to release documents it says were captured in postwar Afghanistan and Iraq. Stephen Hayes of The Weekly Standard writes about this here. He and Michael Barone have been hyping these documents for the past several weeks as the potential "proof" of an Al Qaeda-Saddam Hussein link.

Yesterday John Hinderacker of Power Line published a post called "In Saddam's Archives" in which he links to and discusses one of these documents, posted on the Foreign Military Studies Office web site as "CMPC-2003-006430." And here is that document as posted on the FMSO site [PDF].

Now here's where it gets screwy. This document consists of a page of what looks like Arabic script (I don't know Arabic from Parsi from whatever). This is followed by a seven-page document from the Federation of American Scientists about the Iraqi Intelligence Service, with information gleaned from various unclassified sources. This same document is still on the FAS web site, here, and was last updated in 1997, it says. Not exactly super-secret, in other words, and not from Iraq. What it contains is information floating around in the West as of 1997.

Note that Hinderacker doesn't misrepresent this; he says plainly in his post that "The English portion of the document is a description of the Mukhabarat by the Federation of American Scientists. The Arabic portion apparently hasn't been translated." But then he goes on to quote the FAS document under the "In Saddam's Archives" title, which would leave the uncareful reader with the impression that the FAS document is a translation. For all I know the Arabic portion is a laundry list.

More HERE

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The reactionary among us never bothers to spew a single fact, just the pitiful blind unyielding belief that Bush never lied.

I find it less than amusing, it used to be funny now it is just tragic.

capt

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my mama loves me, she loves me
she gets down on her knees and hugs me
oh she loves me like a rock
she rocks me like a rock all day
and she loves me

Right Blogosphere Scammed by Bogus Document Dump

Maha at Daily Kos has it right. It is falling down funny. The Right blogosphere is going crazy about this document [ pdf] in the Iraqi documents made available by the US government this week.

See also Sadly No.

The notorious liar, Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard led the charge. This is just an old Western document posted to the internet in 1997. What does the Arabic say?

"The Institutions of the Apparatus of the Intelligence Service on the Internet:

You will find enclosed information on the Apparatus that has been published on the internet.

It has information on our organization, but it is clear that the information is relatively old. Otherwise, it does not do more than mention some correct and important matters . . ."

It then goes on to list the names of some agents. As an intelligence service, its main concern was with cover, apparently.

In other words, Iraqi intelligence notes the appearance of the document on the internet in 1997, and laments that it is very basic ['does not do more than'] and then notes with some amusement how out of date it is (with the implication that Western intelligence on Iraq must be pretty bad). The "out of date" comment probably refers to the Western document's preoccupation with WMD, which Iraqi Intelligence would have known was gone by then. It may also refer to personnel having been switched around. Note that the Iraqi comment does not endorse the internet document. It not only says it is "old" intelligence, which is very damning in intelligence work, but it also uses the word "some" when referring to what is accurate and important in it. "Some correct and important matters." There will be those who read this as a blanket endorsement; it obviously is not.

Yeah, that's a find, all right. Kind of makes the whole last three years worthwhile, all by itself.

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How quaint to hear the reactionaries fall for the same low-life liars they have fell for all along.

"Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong." ~ Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." ~ John Adams (1735 - 1826), 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770

capt

13 Capt. Thanks for the link to "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" at the Kennedy School of Goverment at Harvard.

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Bob. it's time to reprise the old classic...

One, two, three, four, what are fighting for?

President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan expressed his "deep gratitude" to Fidel Castro for the "spirit and compassion" of the Cuban medical teams -- reported to comprise more than 1,000 trained personnel, 44% of them women, who remained to work in remote mountain villages, "living in tents in freezing weather and in an alien culture," after western aid teams had been withdrawn......Well well, now theres something you dont read everyday, unless you read "offshore" news. Very interesting article can be read here.

Apocalyptic president

Even some Republicans are now horrified by the influence Bush has given to the evangelical right

In his latest PR offensive President Bush came to Cleveland, Ohio, on Monday to answer the paramount question on Iraq that he said was on people's minds: "They wonder what I see that they don't." After mentioning "terror" 54 times and "victory" five, dismissing "civil war" twice and asserting that he is "optimistic", he called on a citizen in the audience, who homed in on the invisible meaning of recent events in the light of two books, American Theocracy, by Kevin Phillips, and the book of Revelation. Phillips, the questioner explained, "makes the point that members of your administration have reached out to prophetic Christians who see the war in Iraq and the rise of terrorism as signs of the apocalypse. Do you believe this? And if not, why not?"
Bush's immediate response, as transcribed by CNN, was: "Hmmm." Then he said: "The answer is I haven't really thought of it that way. Here's how I think of it. First, I've heard of that, by the way." The official White House website transcript drops the strategic comma, and so changes the meaning to: "First I've heard of that, by the way."

But it is certainly not the first time Bush has heard of the apocalyptic preoccupation of much of the religious right, having served as evangelical liaison on his father's 1988 presidential campaign. The Rev Jerry Falwell told Newsweek how he brought Tim LaHaye, then an influential rightwing leader, to meet him; LaHaye's Left Behind novels, dramatising the rapture, Armageddon and the second coming, have sold tens of millions.

But it is almost certain that Cleveland was the first time Bush had heard of Phillips's book. He was the visionary strategist for Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign; his 1969 book, The Emerging Republican Majority, spelled out the shift of power from the north-east to the south and south-west, which he was early to call "the sunbelt"; he grasped that southern Democrats would react to the civil-rights revolution by becoming southern Republicans; he also understood the resentments of urban ethnic Catholics towards black people on issues such as crime, school integration and jobs. But he never imagined that evangelical religion would transform the coalition he helped to fashion into something that horrifies him.

In American Theocracy, Phillips describes Bush as the founder of "the first American religious party"; September 11 gave him the pretext for "seizing the fundamentalist moment"; he has manipulated a "critical religious geography" to hype issues such as gay marriage. "New forces were being interwoven. These included the institutional rise of the religious right, the intensifying biblical focus on the Middle East, and the deepening of insistence on church-government collaboration within the GOP electorate." It portended a potential "American Disenlightenment," apparent in Bush's hostility to science.

Even Bush's failures have become pretexts for advancing his transformation of government. Exploiting his own disastrous emergency management after Hurricane Katrina, Bush is funneling funds to churches as though they can compensate for governmental breakdown. Last year David Kuo, the White House deputy director for faith-based initiatives, resigned with a statement that "Republicans were indifferent to the poor".

Within hours of its publication, American Theocracy rocketed to No 1 on Amazon. At US cinemas, V for Vendetta - in which an imaginary Britain, ruled by a totalitarian, faith-based regime that rounds up gays, is a metaphor for Bush's America - is the surprise hit. Bush has succeeded in getting American audiences to cheer for terrorism.

Sidney Blumenthal, a former senior adviser to President Clinton, is the author of The Clinton Wars

sidney_blumenthal@yahoo.com

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Now every evangelical knows Bush will lies about absolutely anything - watch those polls numbers swirl just before being sucked down the toilet.

Obviously Bush could not care less.

capt

PS - Thank Justin at antiwar he ROCKS!

A very good source for overseas reporting:

http://watchingamerica.com/index.shtml

I spin through it daily!

capt

"ABC News is reporting new documents showing ties between Saddam and Osama. So much for the rants of the left about Saddam having no ties to terrorism." - LBH

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ABC NEWS
US releases confiscated prewar Iraqi documents
(link)

The material, housed in Qatar, has already been examined by the CIA's Iraq Survey Group and continues to be scrutinized by the U.S. military for intelligence that could be acted upon.

Republican lawmakers say the data could still address U.S. claims that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and had ties with Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, which carried out the September 11 attacks.

Both allegations helped justify a war that has become increasingly unpopular in a mid-term election year that has Republicans in Congress feeling vulnerable.

But no WMD have been located in Iraq and independent investigators have found no evidence that Saddam had a collaborative relationship with al Qaeda.

Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan, Republicans who lobbied for the data's release, said it was important that the information be made available quickly to the public, including political "blogs." "We're hoping to unleash the power of the Internet, unleash the power of the blogosphere, to get through these documents and give us a better understanding of what was going on in Iraq before the war."

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Poor poor LBH is grasping at straws.

Bush just can't stop lying

Americans who tuned in for one of President George W. Bush's rare press conferences saw a cornered animal trying to squirm his way out of trouble by doing what he has always done - evading the truth.

Bush's attempt to showcase himself as a leader who could handle tough questions from the press corps fell just as flat as his unscripted town-meeting style appearance in Cleveland the day before.

His eyes darted from side-to-side as he fielded questions about his real reasons for invading Iraq. He stammered. Stalled. Used the word "uh" more times than a suspect caught red-handed. He still claimed his reasons for invading Iraq were just, even though those reasons have been proven wrong. He claims the war can be won, a view not shared by many of his generals. He claimed a lot of things - few of them true.

"President Bush exhibited symptoms of pathological prevarication," says Dr. Stephanie Crossfield, a psychologist who treats people who have trouble telling the truth and who watched Bush's performances on Monday and Tuesday at my request. "His eye movements, gestures, and changes in voice tone all display traits of consistent evasion of the truth."

This isn't the first time I've asked Dr. Crossfield to study a politician. She watched several of former President Bill Clinton's press conferences and came to similar conclusions about Clinton disassociation with reality.

When studying a subject, she watches the eyes.

"Eye movement is difficult to control," she said. "You find that the eyes dart away in specific patterns when a person is not telling the truth. The President's eyes dart a great deal. He is not comfortable facing the truth."

Dr. Justin Frank, author of the book, Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President, agrees with Dr. Crossfield.

"President Bush marches deeper and deeper into a world of his own," says Dr. Frank. "Central to Bush's world is an iron will which demands that external reality be changed to conform to his personal view of how things are."

Republicans reluctantly admit Bush has lost touch with the truth. Sen. Chuck Hagel says the President is "disconnected from reality."

Venture out beyond the Beltway and you find conservative Republicans shaking their head and wondering the same thing.

Dennis Dalbey cuts the hair of Camp Pendleton's young Marines, giving them the regulation haircut before they head to combat in Iraq. His barbershop on the Coast Highway near the base in California is covered with painted yellow ribbons, flags and "We support our troops" banners. But Dalbey, a Republican and a self-described conservative who voted for Bush, says he is fed up with the President's lies.

"Enough is enough," he says. "It's time to bring the boys home."

In San Marcos, retired Navy veteran Herb Ranquist, 77, sits in the local VFW hall and says Bush is a failure.

"I voted for him two times, and I wish I hadn't," Ranquist says. "It was probably one of the worst mistakes I ever made."

Dr. Crossfield says it doesn't take a degree in psychology or advanced training in spotting liars to realize the President plays fast and loose with the truth.

"More and more ordinary Americans see the evidence clearly every day," she says. "It is difficult to ignore."

Dr. Frank says Bush can't change his ways.

"Taking responsibility has always been hard for George W. Bush," he says. "Taking responsibility for inflicting harm on others, a major step in the development of maturity, is a step President Bush has yet to make. Instead, he persists in lying to himself."

And to the American people.

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It is the true nature of the pathological liar to always lie. Once in the pretzel logic of self-delusion it is an inescapable archetype. Same goes for the delusional supporters, they will never admit the truth, no matter what or how. The truth, like reality, is just not part of their manufactured pseudo-reality.

capt

Junk in junk out, the old programming tagline works for people, too.

Cretins like LBH read New-smacks and gets headlines like: US Troops Attacked After Saddam-Bin Laden Pact

Read the ABC story and it tells you that Saddam allowed radio broadcasts of a cleric after Iraqi reps met with Osama. The 911 commission says that they met and Saddam begged Osama to stop sponsoring attacks in Iraq. They weren't buddies after all. Or allies as Cheney calls 'em.

Unlike the Reagan-Bush connections to bin Laden. They supported and created the terrorist that he is today.

Typical Conservatives. Create the problems and expect everyone else to clean up their mess. Just like the deficits and killing the economy.

State after State Repudiates Bush

George W. Bush’s admission that he expects to leave the Iraq War mess behind for his successor to clean up underscores why he is facing a historic collapse in polls across the country, with tracking surveys now showing him with net negatives exceeding 20 percentage points in more than half the states.

According to SurveyUSA.com, which tracks Bush’s approval ratings in all 50 states, Bush’s support in the March readings plunged to double-digit net negative numbers even in some staunchly Republican states: -12% in South Carolina, -17% in Indiana, -18% in Virginia, and -19% in Tennessee. In Bush’s home state of Texas, public disapproval topped approval by 14 percentage points.

More HERE

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The mid-term landslide for the neocon agenda is going to be a real shocker, a true miracle of biblical proportion.

capt

Pande

Buddy, you're getting soft, what's up?

All in the family

"Former first lady Barbara Bush donated an undisclosed amount of money to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund with specific instructions that the money be spent with an educational software company owned by her son Neil." TPM has details on Neil's firm.
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How generous.

Bush's IRS Wants to Make Your Tax Returns Public

A new article from the Philadelphia Inquirer has blown open the startling plans of the IRS to allow tax preparers for the first time to sell the tax returns of their customers.

The proposal came in a painfully technical tax regulation, which until now had attracted only a dozen public comments since it was announced in December. The proposal calls itself "not a significant regulatory action." But the proposal is indeed significant, both for tax privacy and more broadly.

Until now, tax preparers could not sell tax returns to outside parties. Period. If they got taxpayer consent, they could use it for marketing, but only within their own corporate family.

The new proposal allows the tax preparers –≠ from your local accountant to giants such as H&R Block –≠ to get your signature and then give or sell the full tax return to data brokers, to your boss, to anyone. And there are absolutely no restrictions about what recipients do with the returns. The rule lets recipients post the full return to the Internet if they want.
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This administration is all about secrets...their own. The rest of us don't get any.

Ever wonder what the shotgun slinging chainy wants for room accomodations in the hotels he stays at? Smoking Gun has the skinny on that

One more little tidbit from f**ksouthdakota.com. Those easily offended by foul language should not attend. You be the judge.

It's because of reticent reporters such as Bob Schieffer, Tim (Mr.Potato Head) Russert, Chris Matthews, Wolf (monotone) Blitzer and the rest of the complicit press that this feckless administration has been allowed to get away with it's mendacity.

For one thing it'd be nice if Schieffer would clear his throat once in awhile. He always sounds like he has somthing caught in his throat. Secondly, he is not going to ask nor will he recieve the truth from Cheney, or anyone in this Bush cabal. NBC, MSNBC, CNBC won't go there.

Hence, the continued mendicity.

I hope this kid is typical of our next generation, and not the exception...though he is exceptional. An interesting read whether or not your gay, cause who are they gonna gun for next?

16 year old kicks Senator Allen's ass

Culpeper and a Senator vs. Civil Liberty
I never dreamed of the day when I would reach a political debate on a human rights issue based on civil liberty and the foundations of our great country with a Senator, former Virginia Governor, and a potential candidate for the Republican Presidency. Senator George Allen (R-Virginia), held a public hearing in Culpeper this evening. I was there, and so was Culpeper.

Did anyone see the State Department's report on the violence in Iraq? They say it's much worse than has been reported by the media.

Where the hell was the follow up question. Cheney just bullies those who interview him.