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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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Can anyone point me to a good succinct case for Bush-Cheney impeachment, something good for short letters?
eeyeww. We all have our favorite reasons.
I did save RenaRF’s excellent diary. But I’m looking for something shorter that I can send my friends with short attention spans.
Was he down under at the time?
I wish I could give you a brazillion 4’s for that! ROTFLMAO!
Koizumi Bush 😉
Even the kids know what he is good for…
Yes, The Downing Street Memos and “fixing the intelligence around the policy”. Or even more briefly…they fucking lied!!!! Sorry but that is just plane treason. So take your pick. I told my rep. sis to read the Downing Street Memos and her reply was “What’s that? One of your blogs?” I don’t even try with her anymore.
this post was to Librarylil’s question. Don’t know how it ended up way down here.
“We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.” — George W. Bush, Trenton, NJ, September 23, 2002.
“We can all pitch in by being better conservers.” – George Bush, September 26, 2005.
And just over a month ago, Bush signed the Energy Bill…
in front of the White House….
CNN actually had a 20 second blurb on it — anyone still there in DC??
I’m still here (natch) and Damnit Janet saw a little on the periphery. I made a comment in the Café a little while ago. DJ is fine, btw, and on her way home.
I was invited to one of those home party thingys….just a regular direct sales thing (think pink cadillacs) But the lady who’s doing it has a Bush/Cheney sticker on her car.
Is it wrong to not want to do business with this woman or help her out financially because of her political leanings? She seems nice enough and all and hey, I could use a new lipstick to try and jack up my failing self esteem but I’m loathe to support anyone who would vote for those criminals and keep the fricking sticker on their car almost a year after the stolen election.
Bitter much?
What do you think? Is it stupid to not want to go because she’s a Republican? Of course, because I’m quite liberal I’m left telling myself that it wouldn’t be okay to not go if she were …catholic or black or an immigrant or whatever so why do I feel okay about holding her political affiliations against her.
Discuss.
I’m with you Lonestar. I bet if she were black or an immigrant and had the bumpersticker you would still feel the same. Bitter because people who voted for Bush have been instrumental in ruining this country perhaps beyond repair? Well, yeah!
This is the same for me as shopping at WalMart. I actively “Buy Blue” and avooid stores that have donated heavily to republican causes. I would no sooner give my money to an active Bush supporter, than I would to one of those businesses that feel compelled to advertise their religion. I can understand your position entirely, and if it is a friend, you might just want to be “conveniently busy” that day.
This is just me, K, but I would probably go, if I liked and respected the person well enough, but I wouldn’t buy anything.
But, then again, I would most likely would have not the least bit of problem telling her why I wasn’t purchasing anything. Would you feel comfortable telling her why if she asked? (I am not suggestion you just bring it up out of the blue…)
Those are just my thoughts on the matter, I think it is a very different thing to not want to ASSOCIATE with someone because of their political views and/or who they voted for. Not wanting to support them financially is another matter entirely and you have no obligation to let your ideas of fairmindedness keep you from making that decision — I think it is perfectly fair.
What do you think? Is it stupid to not want to go because she’s a Republican?
No. It’s that simple.
I appreciate your thoughts on this. I guess like the Walmart example, I don’t really owe this woman my business – I haven’t been to Walmart in over a year and will continue to shun them so not giving my money (or my husband’s money…) to this lady doesn’t seem that bad a choice.
I’m sure I can get a nice lipstick at Costco…or a 12 pack of lipsticks. Love Costco…too much, really.
Mary Kay?? EEWWWWW- did you know that whole business was started because her Daddy was a tanner? So you want your hide tanned? Sorry no link– this was something I picked up millennia ago.
And– one day when I was asking the manager at the grocery store- where all the past- selling- date- meat went- he said– ‘Oh, well it goes to cosmetic companies’.
NICE.
Food turned into cosmetics.And very ecologically diasastrous food at that– see Francis Moore Lappe- ‘Diet for a Small Planet’- on how wasteful our agricultural model is.
Sorry to preach- and I am not a vegan or even a vegetarian- but waste is waste.
OOOPS- I forgot– our entire administration is based on it– so sorry.
So you’re saying don’t get a new lipstick?
Well ok – but JUST ONE!
Is it wrong to not want to do business with this woman or help her out financially because of her political leanings?
No, it’s smart.
I resolved after the 2004 election to extend my principles as far as you suggest. I no longer socialize with the two friends I had who voted for Bush, if the car with the blinker on is an SUV with a “W” sticker then they can just wait for someone else to let them in, and there are three restaurants and a sporting goods shop I won’t patronize. I am nice and generous to other intelligent humans, but I keep the Bush people out of my life as much as possible.
In your case, I’d skip it unless for some reason you think there will be an opportunity to have a candid and constructive political conversation. That sounds unlikely, so be true to yourself and stay home.
Enough of my customer base is Republican–some scary-hard-right, that if I cut them off I go straight to McDonald’s. My field is too small for a provider to be politically segregated, and frankly the careers for every other talent of mine have been deported or withdrawn from me due to age. This is also why I choose not to be obvious about my public politicking, and I simply cannot do protests or civil disobediance.
Now–part of my trade is playing wedding and funeral music. For this especially I think it’s actually important that I serve people of all backgrounds, so long my work is not actually furthering causes I morally oppose. Marriage and funerals are just about the only two fundamental life events we share anymore in this so-called society and I don’t want to withdraw from that part of community yet.
Most of the time politics doesn’t come up in these settings but at some point it might become worthwhile for some of these people to learn who they’ve been dealing with. Also, it’s been educational to me to experience, as an actual participant, religious ceremonies from the uni-toony left to Jewish ceremonies, neighborhood black Baptists, domineering Catholics and the rapture right.
Another part of my work has been to develop tools to increase the self-sufficiency of people who have been relatively helpless since forever. Believe it or not, plenty of righties have been among these because it’s been so broken an economy that buyers couldn’t expect satisfaction even for big money. I think it serves a purpose for those on the right to experience such a thing when in the rest of their lives they have never known want. I think it helps for a few of them to have it rattling around in the backs of their minds.
In my private life and my personal consumerism I often reject people and businesses on the right, so I do make such judgements for the normal human reasons of fatigue, frustration and of course a need not to advance negative agendas.
I can’t take any credit for my present line of work. It was born into me and I was forced to start doing it for hire when the Republican economy stripped away my other options. But here I am, and given where I am, I’ve got to stay engaged with people and institutions even when they scare the underpants off me.
I understand, and have some similar dilemmas. I avoid doing business with Rs when and where I can. But when it’s unavoidable I figure I’ll roll over a good percentage to some of my favorite causes.
In that way R money will end up supporting those causes, so it’s ha, ha, ha on them.
I’ve no doubt you’re already doing the same.
Lynn Swann? You’ve got to be kidding me. (Looking at the ads in the left col.)
switching the image on a pre-paid ad.
The Canadian federal parliament is now back in session. If you want to check out the Daily Shouting Match(tm) also know as “Question Period”, you can watch it online at CPAC from 2-3pm ET, Monday to Thursday and from 11am-12pm ET on Fridays.
Bush back on the sauce rumor. I’ve wondered about this since way back to the “pretzel incident”. Anyone remember if a reporter asked whether Bush was tested for blood alchohol content?
Never mind, I know the WH press corps better than that.
a Senate committee just approved a fucking spending bill, somehow intertwined with the hurricanes (something or another about the National Guard) and it includes 48 BILLION MORE for the fucking Iraq and Afgahnistan wars!!
I have to go find info, I just saw a quick yabber on Headline News and had to rant.
can’t be right.
Did I miss understand something?
that bill appears to be the appropriation for defense spending for the entire 2006 fiscal year.
It may, or may not, include monies for Iraq. Most Iraq monies have been done through supplementals.
Ok, well, guess that’s what I get for listening (or half-listening, as the case may be) to CNN’s Headline news —
Defense Appropriations — sent to Senate committee in June after it passed the House. I don’t have the stomach (literally, I have some kind of stomach flu) to do the research on this today…but there is the info. if someone wants to find out more.
Here’s the link to the summary
This part here looks interesting, eh?
Sorry you are not feeling well Cat. Are you sure it is the flu? Could it be stress related? I only ask because I went through that in January. I was literally sick for a montha nd the even sent me to a G/I specialist. He said I had a bug at first but thought the bug dug into my intestine and every time I was in the least bit stressed it aggrevated the little bugger. Please take care of yourself sweetie.
Diagnosed by a specialist with the scope and all. Then one morning an antibiotic prescribed for something else cured me. The ulcer cocktail ultimately set it right for good.
A lot of upset tummy these days is food borne infection, especially likely from eating out. I just went through a bout this weekend after visiting a local greasy spoon.
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See the news coming on now!
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Looks like FEMA continues to fail the people. Can they really be this disorganized, chaotic, inept, negligent? It’s almost too much to believe. From 5 found dead in Beaumont apartment (via krazypuppy‘s diary):
Can you imagine? A county judge telling police to use force to take needed supplies from FEMA! It’s absolutely mind-boggling.
(I’ve add this link to the repository I’ve started on failed etc.)
Well now- government officials encouraging ‘looting’- there ya go-now all the fuckups can be blamed on— ____fill in your favorite scapegoat.
I just read over on dKos that Mike Brown has got a new job….AS A FEMA CONSULTANT!!
There are links and everything over on the diary — last I checked it was at the top of the rec list.
Will this shit never end?
Beat me by a nose…just saw it on CBS…these people gotta lotta cahone’s…first Rove, now this, you couldn’t make this shit up, nobody’d believe it. FUCK
Peace
It’s quite the smack in the face, isn’t it?
Raw Story has it, with the Bob Schiffer/CBS video: here
Did get to wtach my beloved Hokies this weekend, so I’ve got it on for the laundry folding! Pretty good game so far and the first real home game the Tigers have had this season — the crowd is even more raucus than usual!
😉
I was at a neighbor’s house earlier and we watched the first half of Martin Scorsese’s film on Bob Dylan on PBS, (the other half is on tomorrow night).
I really hope everyone can find a way to experience this film. Not only is it a compelling historical record in and of itself, it’s a window into the soul of a culture resonating with the essence of it’s humanity.
I’m not a mushy guy, but I wept for the loss of the brilliance and the beauty and the simple strength of the ideas that so epitomized that era.
The music world back then was much more democratic. At the time it was regarded as filthy, skewed with payola and predatory. But it was still much more democratic than today. There were countless paths from artist to the public mind where today there may not be any for counter-establishment art.