Another cut and run trick by Repugs foiled by judge.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas Republican Party must keep Tom DeLay's name on the November ballot, even though the former congressman has dropped his re-election bid, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
DeLay, the former House majority leader who resigned June 9 and is under indictment, won the Republican primary for his district in March but decided against re-election a month later.
He is awaiting trial on money laundering and conspiracy charges connected to the financing of Texas legislative campaigns in 2002 with alleged illegal corporate money.
http://www.sacbee.com/24hour/politics/story/3324853p-12245923c.html
Magginkat wrote:Finn d'Abuzz wrote:Magginkat wrote:Quote:Finn - - They want us to stay in their country and provide them with the necessary back-up muscle to allow them to establish a stable democracy. As it just so happens, this coincides quite nicely with our strategic interests. Everybody wins!
Finn, you really are off the deep end. Do you honestly believe the crap that you write?
This is a typically silly response from you Maggie.
How about an attempt to counter my argument rather than common Maggie Spew?
For instance provide evidence, if you can, that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave their country.
Obviously a relatively small number of maniacs willing to blow themselves up for whatever crazy fantasy they may entertain is no more an expression of the will of the Iraqi people than a relatively small number of thugs beating up gays is an expression of the will of the American people.
For just one moment put a stick between your teeth and fight back your fitful urge to explode with leftist nonsense about evil Bush and horrible conservatives. Just one time attempt to actually, reasonably support the assertions you make.
I know you can do it Maggie, I know you can resist your hairtrigger gag reflex and choke back your left-wing vomitus!
Well, maybe not.
You're wrong Finn,
Every time I see a fool spewing the same old bullschitt (or bu$hitt if you prefer), I want to puke because it goes against everything that this country was built on.
If you choose to be a dimwit, following the other dimwit's every word there is nothing I can do about it but please don't expect me to jump in and cheer while a bunch of low-life traitors destroy this country from the inside out.
You, george bu$h and others like you are the terrorists that this country has to fear the most. You are a clueless bunch of locksteppers without the brain to wipe your own behind.
See, I knew you couldn't fight it back and offer up a reasonable argument. Now I have to clean up my keyboard of all the Maggie-Spew.
Damn!
This one's for Finn, although I doubt that his attention span will last long enough to read the whole thing:
FrankenBush vs. Osama bin Wolfman
The sequel of the sequel of the sequel
by Alan Bisbort
July 5, 2006-HARTFORD (apj.us)-Osama bin Ladin.
George W. Bush.
Can the world take much more of these rival monsters, these bickering
Siamese twins?
Because, frankly, I get violently ill at the mere sight of either one of
them now. Just a passing glimpse at a news photo of either pouty mug is
enough to do the job. And this has been going on five years and I want
to stop feeling sick about the nation?-no, the very world?-I live in, want
to stop having to think about either of these wretched excuses for human
beings and their sick and twisted sibling rivalry. It has gone beyond
the sequel, to the sequel of the sequel of the sequel. Box office
returns have fallen off and we need to pull the plug on this whole
enterprise. I don't think I'm alone in thinking this.
Am I equating "our" poor little rich boy George with "their" poor little
rich boy Osama?
Well, um, yes, I am.
And I am not the first to do so. Bin Ladin, the Wolfman Who Lives in
Caves, made Bush everything he is
well, with the help of five robed
lords on the "high court" (and they must have been high that day). And
now Bush has lost the war on terror, whatever the hell that is, but he
just can't quit Osama the Wolfman. More to the point, he can't admit it
in front of old "Loopy," his whiny daddy, or Brass Balls Babs, his
mutant mother.
Let's face it. It's not exactly front page news to point out the obvious
that FrankenBush would be gone by now if it weren't for Osama the
Wolfman. And the bin Ladin family are old friends, and business
partners, of the Bush family. It's a verifiable historic fact that the
Bush family have a long tradition of consorting with and profiting from
the nation's enemies, dating back to Prescott Bush, whom FDR came this
close to prosecuting as a traitor under the Trading With The Enemy Act
during World War II. As it was, the U.S. government seized assets of
several Nazi front companies run by Bush in October-November 1942, but
as one Loopy Bush biography put it, "These and other actions taken by
the U.S. government in wartime were, tragically, too little and too
late. Bush's family had already played a central role in financing and
arming Adolf Hitler for his takeover of Germany; in financing and
managing the buildup of Nazi war industries for the conquest of Europe
and war against the U.S.A.; and in the development of Nazi genocide
theories and racial propaganda, with their well-known results."
Do you see the point at which I am circuitously driving? Like father
like son like grandson. They should have snuffed out the monster after
the original film and we'd never have had to suffer through these sequels.
Nor is it exactly front page news to point out that on the day after
9/11, 76 or 85 or 116 members of the bin Ladin family
who can really
know the exact number as it was done in secret and all records
destroyed
so let's just say a whole ****-load of bin Ladins (and I do
mean ****) went on the lam courtesy of their longtime friendship with
the Bush family while the other 399,000,000 of us were in lockdown
wherever we stood with our duct tape and plastic sheeting. This is not
front page news. This is well known, well documented. You already know
this, right? I'm preaching to the choir, I know, I know. You saw Michael
Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11.
Would it shock you to learn that it has been two years since Moore
released that film and we're watching a real-life sequel to it now? Can
you believe it's been five years since 9/11 and we're still dicking
around with these two poor little rich boy monsters? Osama the Wolfman
is still sending out his little videos (not even DVDs, but those clunky
VHS tapes!) and Bush is still rattling his little sword, Mad Dog Cheney
is still in an undisclosed location running the show, the economy is
deeper in the toilet, environment trashed, the nation less secure, and
the freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, which we once took for
granted, are but a fading memory.
We already know all this. So how can it be that these two guys are still
going at it on our dime?! Has the outrage been beaten out of us to even
lift our fingers to do more than click to another cable station?
The Supreme Court seems to have had enough of this sequel. Indeed, the
same body of robed lords who created this monster, just last week
slapped him down in a 5-3 decision. They ruled that Bush, for his
planned secret tribunals of tortured Guantanamo Bay detainees?-courtroom
scenes that would make To Kill A Mockingbird look like the Oracle of
Delphi?-"violates both U.S. law and the Geneva Conventions." I'm no legal
scholar but I'm going to guess that Bush, for having violated the Geneva
Conventions?-which we signed?-may have qualified for charges as a war
criminal in an international tribunal at some point in the future.
And yet, no one seems to care about this in Washington D.C. The
president is an international fugitive from justice and the Bush's
Bitches (formerly known as the U.S. Congress) are talking about trying
to circumvent the Supreme Court's ruling. Bush is their Frankenstein
monster now, and I think they secretly know it. They all created him.
They took the brain of Rove, the black heart of Cheney, the guts of
Bernie Kerik, the sexual ambiguity of Coulter/Gannon and swagger of
Benny Hill and, voila, FrankenBush.
See the monster lurch toward a Constitutional crisis! See the robed
lords recoil in horror, screaming for their creation to stop, even as he
staggers toward Congress demanding new ways to destroy our institutions!
See Justices Anthony Kennedy and retired Sandra Day O'Connor, both of
whom sided with the 5-4 majority in the Gore v. Bush case of 2001,
touring the country, shrieking, "No, no, what have we done?!"
They are just flies buzzing around FrankenBush's swollen head. He
doesn't hear them. He still has that weird zoned-out smile on his face,
that corncob up the ass strut, and he's headed straight for the National
Archives to piss on the Declaration of Independence and the Louisiana
Purchase!
As Paul Craig Roberts, a former associate editor of the Wall Street
Journal and a former assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury (read: no
pusillanimous hippie), put it, "Bush's assault on freedom: What's to
stop him?" Activist R.J. Schinner put it more succinctly: "Checks and
balances won't stop this regime. They have to be driven out."
You all remember what happened at the end of the Frankenstein movie,
don't you? Will it come to groups of Americans with burning torches
cornering Bush on his ranch?-oh so deliciously and suggestively close to
Koresh's loony farm in Waco?
I'd pay good money to see that sequel.
- - - -=-=-=-=+=+==+=-=-=-=- - - -
Alan Bisbort is a columnist for the Hartford Advocate. His book, "When
You Read This They Will Have Killed Me": The Life and Redemption of
Caryl Chessman, Whose Execution Shook America will be published by
Carroll & Graf in September.
