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January 07 He's Baaack!A year ago we saw former Senator Trent Lott retire from the Senate. I wrote about it here and said that all he wanted to do was lobby his friends in Congress. Back then he stated that the ability to lobby had nothing to do with his desire to retire from Congress less than 1 year after winning re-election.
Well, he's back. And in his own words, "he was counting the seconds" to where he could get back and lobby Congress and his friends.
Did anyone actually believe his BS when he retired? December 14 Rice: Republicans help race relationsSecretary of State Condoleeza Rice, in a recent interview with CNBC Maria Bartaromo claimed that the Republican Party has done a lot to bring the country to a place where "people can look beyond race." She sites the fact that the last two Secretaries of State were black and appointed by a Republican President.
While I disagree with her evidence as proof of her point, I do agree with her point. The Republican Party has done quite a bit to help race relations but not in the way she tries to point out. As pointed out by ThinkProgress.org, the Republican party has done a lot to block civil rights, they have become extremely xenophobic, and will have no hesitations in using racial divides to win elections. And as pointed out by many republican commentators, it has become the party of the white race.
The Republican party has done so much to counter race relations improvements over the past 20 - 30 years that the country has united, across racial lines, to defeat the Republican party in the past two election cycles culminating in the election of our first African American President. The Republican party has been the catalyst that has brought white, black, latino, asian, etc. together to defeat them and their ideology.
Condoleeza Rice is correct, the Republican party has united the country across racial lines to a place where people can look beyond race. It's just not in the way she tries to make it look.
-Troy December 09 Denial just ain't a river in EgyptThe auto industry is going through some serious trouble right now. The last thing it needs is to have one of their own "get out of line" and start messing things up for everyone. For example, GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz, is saying that GM should not try to build fuel efficient cars, that global warming is a "crock of shit" and that Americans really want large pickup trucks and SUVs.
His statements may or may not be true, that's not the point. The point is that everyone is watching what they are doing. The second in command at GM is indicating that no matter what congress might ask of GM in exchange for the bailout, he thinks they are wrong and most likely would not want to comply. But I'm sure he would still want to take the money. This is the kind of thing that may cause congress to NOT pass the bailout bill if people like this are going to dismiss what they have to say or demand of the auto industry.
GM needs to give this guy the boot! He may be right about what he is saying, at least in part (I think a good part of Americans do want pickup trucks and SUVs and have forgotten how much gas can actually cost), but that does not excuse him from being a loud mouth. He should keep his mouth shut and do what he is told. Now is not the time for people who are "just being honest". There are too many people who's livelihood are on the line. George Bush World will not end with his PresidencyOne of the things that we have all just gotten used to, myself included, is that the world George Bush inhabits is somehow different from ours. Let's call it George Bush World. In George Bush World everything is great! There is never any bad news. There is never anything wrong with country. There is never anything that cannot be overcome by cutting more taxes. Here are some examples of how wonderful George Bush World is...
Other inhabitants of George Bush World also share in the wonders of this place.
Of course, all things must eventually face reality and deal with the issues that have been denied. BUT NOT George Bush World. When you have a lot of money and people that are willing to rewrite history and distort the truth to preserve George Bush World... as in the "Bush Legacy Project", then George Bush World can live on forever. While we can say goodbye to George Bush as President, George Bush World will stay with us for many years. October 17 File Under Ridiculous: Obama is condescending because he doesn't wear a flag pinI wonder why wearing a flag pin has become the "litmus test" of the conservative right? It has become such a symbol to the talking heads that not wearing one makes a person unpatriotic, at least in their eyes.
Former Senator Rick Santorum from Pennsylvania is convinced that some of the people don't like Obama not because they are racist but because he is condescending. A symbol of his condescension... he doesn't wear a flag pin.
Hypocrisy at its finest...
Take a look at this article http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/16/santorum-flag-obama/. At all three debates, Obama wore his flag pin. At all three debates McCain did not wear his flag pin. Is McCain condescending because he didn't wear a flag pin? Palin in Bush/Cheney with glasses... and lipstickIt seems that the Palin campaign staff have talked the secret service detail assigned to Palin to help in the campaign's efforts to block the press from doing their job. As we have seen, time and time again, Palin gets her crowd nice and frothy to the point where they start shouting things like "Kill Him", "traitor", "terrorist" etc. The press has been wanting to go into the crowd to identify those who are making such comments and get an interview. Needless to say, that would not help the McCain/Palin campaign. Since this has started happening, the campaign staffers have been working hard to keep the rally participants and the press apart.
Now the secret service has gotten into the act, which is a serious violation of the duty. Their job is to protect the candidate and their families not to become political operatives. This is especially important because they are not allowed to prevent the press from exercising their first ammendment rights in order to protect their principals.
Read more here... http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/16/secret-service-milbank/ October 04 File under Ridiculous: Palin's is bigger than Biden'sJust when you thought the people at Fox and Friends couldn't get more ridiculous, they said that Sarah Palin won the debate because she had a bigger one than Biden. A bigger what you may be asking... A bigger Flag pin. Watch it here.
Here's the thing... If you use Flag Pin size to determine who won a debate, then John McCain lost last week's debate because he didn't wear a Flag Pin. Does that make John McCain unpatriotic? October 03 Palin annoyed by Kouric InterviewsIn a FoxNews interview with Gov. Sarah Palin, she said that she was annoyed by the questions that Katie Kouric was asking. She commented that during the interview she felt filtered and couldn't talk to the American people about the things she thought the people wanted to hear. Read about the interview here --> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/03/palin-on-fox-news-couric_n_131655.html.
I guess Gov. Sarah Palin does not really understand the concept of an interview. The dictionary defines the word "interview" as follows:
The whole point to an interview is where someone gets to ask questions to find out what they want to know, not what you want to tell them. That is a speech. If Sarah Palin doesn't like the interview format, then don't agree to interviews and buy a 30 minute block on the major networks to sell your ideas. Then she would be unfiltered and she could tell the people what she thinks they want to hear.
But let's get to the heart of the matter, she didn't like the interviews and Katie Kouric annoyed her, because they did not let her use their programs as a venue to do stump speech that would give their ideas the sense of legitimacy they desire. It they buy airtime, it costs money. If they can use airtime offered by the mainstream media, then its free, but then journalists and questions and wanting to know things get int the way. September 27 The First Presidential DebateLast night, Barack Obama and John McCain finally got the chance to face-off and debate. Like many others, I watched the debate to see who would win. I also wanted to see what others thought of the debate. Here is what I have been able to tell so far.
If you are a true blue Democrat, Barack Obama won. If you are a true Repbulican, John McCain won. If you are Journalist, grading the debate on whether or not the candidate did what they say they needed to do to win, then John McCain. If you are a journalist interested in who looked the part, then Barack Obama won. And finally, true independents have not yet decided. By that scorecard, there is no clear cut winner. But I don't think that matters. All last night showed is that both men can debate well and get across their point of view effectively.
With the first debate over, we are, in effect, left right where we started. The choice is still who do you think will perform the job necessary to govern the country based on what you perceive to be the state of country today.
If you're perceptions of the country are based on reality. The reality that the economy is in horrible shape, that our country's stature in the world has taken a dramatic hit in the past eight years, that we have a long way to go to fix our energy, climate and infrastructure problems, then there is just one choice...
If you're perceptions of the country are based on a specific ideology. The ideology that the problems we are dealing with are caused by outside forces that mean to destroy our way of life and that if we work to get rid of those outside forces we will all be better off, then there is just one choice... (Sarah Palin)
So who is your choice? I like to think of myself as a reality based thinker, so my choice, the only choice, is Barack Obama.
September 21 President Bush's going away gift to the countryHere is George Bush's Administration going away gift to the rest of the country. A $700 Billion dollar bailout of every bank that might have bad debt and the promise of no oversight of what the Treasury does with the money. Read here...
Only people who pay attention will pick up on this. Only people who care will want to prevent this from happening. Only people who want to prevent this from happening will be accused of wanting to do nothing as our economy and the financial system collapses around us.
I think we do need to organize a bailout, but we are bailing out the wrong end of the problem and they are asking for a blank check and demanding we don't look at their books. The Bush Administration cannot be trusted... Full Stop!
-Troy
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