The Democrat Thread

[BigSqwert]

The Dow is up but I just saw Obama on TV. It'll probably be down 100 in the next 30 seconds.

[southsider2k5]

So whenever the market goes down it's because of Obama. When it goes up it has nothing to do with him. Interesting.

 

Because that is what is said.

[bmags]

It's wonderful that the stock market has so much confidence in Bernanke, he certainly has done a wonderful job the last 8 months.

[BigSqwert]

The GOP, dealing with issues that affect the common man.

[Balta1701]

Link.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced this afternoon that the Pentagon has decided to lift the complete ban on video and photos of the return of the war dead to US soil.

 

Now, it will be up to the families of the service members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan whether to allow such media coverage.

 

At his daily briefing, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, "The president asked that the secretary of defense review our policy toward media and photos at Dover air base for victims returning of -- from Iraq and Afghanistan. And what the...president supports is a policy consistent with that that we have at Arlington cemetery, which allows at the families position for that to be open, which allows them to make that decision and protect their privacy if that's what they wish to do."

[Balta1701]

Federal prosecutors have charged a former enemy combatant, one of the guys too evil to be charged with anything who had to be held forever without a fair trail, with supporting Al Qaeda.

 

[lostfan]

3 weeks or so ago when the gov't dropped their charges against Nashiri I had a friend who was flipping out (fortunately he's smarter than the average not-that-bright American who reads "let out of prison" when they see "dropped charges") and screaming about how liberals hate America and such. I kind of had to talk him off the ledge. You know something though... There are probably about 20 or 30 people sitting in GTMO right now that any self-respecting US attorney would kill to prosecute. You get your hands on a case like Nashiri, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah etc. that's like an automatic judgeship.

[Balta1701]

You get your hands on a case like Nashiri, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah etc. that's like an automatic judgeship.

The problem is you have to figure out what to do with the ones who've had their testicles repeatedly sliced with a scalpel.

[lostfan]

The problem is you have to figure out what to do with the ones who've had their testicles repeatedly sliced with a scalpel.

Truthfully I wish we could just take some of these guys out back and shoot them unceremoniously. I know that's not practical though.

[bmags]

Truthfully I wish we could just take some of these guys out back and shoot them unceremoniously. I know that's not practical though.

 

come on lost. You need a ceremony.

[lostfan]

come on lost. You need a ceremony.

It'd be pretty bad ass if I could just take KSM out back, plug him in the back of the head a couple times, then toss him in a ditch, then like 6 months later people start talking about him and someone says "oh yeah someone shot him in the head, that's over"

 

Just the kind of attention he deserves. Of course I know this is the real world unfortunately.

[Balta1701]

It'd be pretty bad ass if I could just take KSM out back, plug him in the back of the head a couple times, then toss him in a ditch, then like 6 months later people start talking about him and someone says "oh yeah someone shot him in the head, that's over"

 

Just the kind of attention he deserves. Of course I know this is the real world unfortunately.

As a great speaker once said, I want us to do the right things in these cases, "Not because they are easy but because they are hard."

[Balta1701]

"Tonight, we tell America: we know the past, we know we did wrong. My bad," said Steele. "But we go forward in appreciation of the values that brought us to this point."

 

But Steele rejected the idea that the recent elections meant the ideological ground had shifted. "I am here tonight to reject the idea that defeats of the past are a repudiation of core conservative values and principles," he said. "Nor do I believe that those defeats are a sign of things to come."

 

And check out this latest development in Steele's campaign to create a hip-hop image for the GOP. Michele Bachmann praised Steele's speech: "Michael Steele! You be da man! You be da man."

 

And no, this is not from The Onion.

[HuskyCaucasian]

Michele Bachmann praised Steele's speech: "Michael Steele! You be da man! You be da man."

She later added "my brotha from anotha motha"

 

Seriously, the GOP has gone crazy.

Edited February 27, 2009 by Athomeboy_2000

[lostfan]

Michael Steele, putting the "G" back in "GOP"

[HuskyCaucasian]

Michael Steele, putting the "G" back in "GOP"

Didnt McCain put the "O" in GOP?

[Balta1701]

Governor Jindal's office is forced to somewhat edit the sequence of events in the Hurricane Katrina story he told in the response on Tuesday after people (mainly those crazy liberal bloggers) called him on the fact that the timeline didn't make sense as presented.

[Balta1701]

Does this go in the Dem thread or the Rep thread given the whole nomination/withdrawal thing?

 

Somehow, I just wonder if there wasn't a call or two placed related to this story and the withdrawal part. Either this story driving the withdrawal or his withdrawal pissing someone off enough to leak it.

President Barack Obama's former nominee to become commerce secretary, Republican Sen. Judd Gregg, steered taxpayer money to his home state's redevelopment of a former Air Force base even as he and his brother engaged in real estate deals there, an Associated Press investigation found.

 

Gregg, R-N.H., has personally invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in Cyrus Gregg's office projects at the Pease International Tradeport, a Portsmouth business park built at the defunct Pease Air Force Base, once home to nuclear bombers. Judd Gregg has collected at least $240,017 to $651,801 from his investments there, Senate records show, while helping to arrange at least $66 million in federal aid for the former base.

 

Gregg said he violated no laws or Senate rules. In a statement Friday, he said that all the federal money he steered to Pease had been requested by the National Guard, the city of Portsmouth or its mayor or other public officials "and did not involve my initiative but only my support of the requests."

 

But the senator's mixture of personal and professional business would have been difficult to square with President Barack Obama's campaign promise to impose greater transparency and integrity over federal budget earmarks — funding for lawmakers' pet projects. Gregg said that during his consideration for the Cabinet job, the White House did not know about his Pease earmarks, although the administration knew about his investments at Pease.

 

Under new Senate ethics rules, Gregg had to certify that federal aid he directed to specific projects was not intended solely to enrich him or his immediate family, including siblings. Senators are also supposed to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest, though the Senate Ethics Committee seldom investigates or disciplines senators when questions are raised about their activities.

 

"I am absolutely sure that in every way I've complied with the ethics rules of the Senate both literally and in their spirit relative to any investment that I've made anywhere," Gregg told the AP. "These earmarks do not benefit me in any way, shape, manner financially, personally or in any other manner other than the fact that I'm a citizen of New Hampshire."

[Balta1701]

For the first Twit I've ever linked to anywhere...Michael Steele has accepted a rap-battle with Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, DFA.

[mr_genius]

For the first Twit I've ever linked to anywhere...Michael Steele has accepted a rap-battle with Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, DFA.

 

he should rap battle Obama.

[Balta1701]

he should rap battle Obama.

If the President would accept, I'm sure he would. If the President kept spouting out the foolishness that Steele keeps doing, I'm sure he'd invite.

[mr_genius]

If the President would accept, I'm sure he would.

 

who do you think would win?

 

 

[HuskyCaucasian]

Couldnt decide if this goes in the Republican thread or not, but I decided to post it here because it's another example of the GOP implosion:

 

Jim Bunning Threatens To Resign From Senate To Hurt GOP

The Louisville Courier-Journal has another bombshell about Sen. Jim Bunning, the embattled Republican who is increasingly going rogue in an effort to hold onto his seat.

 

In recent weeks, Senate Republican leaders have walked right up to the edge of declaring open war on Bunning. Minority Leader (and fellow Kentucky senator) Mitch McConnell and others reportedly believe Bunning is likely to lose his reelection race in 2010, and so are trying to nudge him into retirement by sending signals that the party establishment will not back him.

 

Bunning has responded aggressively, threatening to sue the Senate Republicans' campaign arm if it doesn't fully back his reelection.

 

And now the latest: Bunning "reportedly said privately that if he is hindered in raising money for his re-election campaign he is ready with a response that would be politically devastating for Senate Republicans: his resignation."

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A Democratic Senate aide told the Huffington Post's Ryan Grim: "Bunning has always been a loose cannon. It's just surprising that Mitch McConnell decided to light a match so close to him. With only 41 Republicans left, you'd think they'd be a little more careful not to actively alienate members of the caucus."

 

Another shinning example of Steele's new "walk the line, or we kick your ass out" mentality.

Michelle Buckman added: "Mitch McConnell... You da man! you da man!!"

Edited February 28, 2009 by Athomeboy_2000

[Balta1701]

who do you think would win?

Stephen.

[HuskyCaucasian]

Anyone else find it a little ironic that Rush is ripping Democrats for hoping George Bush failed... for hoping we fail in Iraq (both false by the way)... yet in the same breath says he hopes Obama fails?? Hypocrite watch.