Latest Articles: Neocon Nuttery
The Huge Mistake (Video produced by EPA climate experts - watch it while you can)
Post Date: 2009-11-17 11:41:47 by Rotara
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Poster Comment:EPA - DeeCee are pissed off ! LOL
Dick Cheney In 2012? Daughter Liz Floats Idea On Fox News
Post Date: 2009-11-15 18:31:36 by IDon'tThinkSo
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Dick Cheney In 2012? Daughter Liz Floats Idea On Fox News Dick Cheney for president in 2012? His daughter Liz floated the idea on Fox News Sunday this morning -- though it's not clear that she was being serious. Liz Cheney was a panelist on Fox News Sunday today. Near the end of the show, Chris Wallace showed video of President Obama slightly bowing to the emperor of Japan, and said the "internet is abuzz" over what Wallace referred to as "bowgate." "By way of comparison, when Vice President Cheney met the emperor in 2007, no bow," Wallace said over video of Cheney greeting the Japanese emperor. Bill Kristol, laughing, said that "Sarah Palin would ...
'Mailman's Criminal Case Pushes Envelope
Post Date: 2009-11-12 20:11:12 by sizzlerguy
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Judge Cantrell's brother withdraws from politically charged case, as she suggests staging consolidated family pot trial in her courtroom. CROWN POINT : A minor criminal case with significant political baggage arrived special delivery Monday in Lake Superior Court. David Woerpel, a postal worker known to political observers as "The Mailman" for his employment and political essays, pleaded not guilty Monday to felony charges alleging he and his family grew marijuana in the backyard of their Hammond home this summer. The matter was set for a new hearing Jan. 11. Political observers in and outside the legal community said Monday the buzz around the case has little to do with ...
Goldi's abanning again. LOLOL
Post Date: 2009-11-09 15:02:57 by mininggold
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Too funny. She really appears to have a Lesbian crush on Palin.
Napolitano counterterror policy: Public must play a role (Speaking to the COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS)
Post Date: 2009-11-09 11:31:01 by Rotara
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Washington - Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano Wednesday called for all Americans to help prevent the next terrorist attack and pushed for more information-sharing across government to "build a culture of collective awareness and preparation." In one of her first major speeches since she took the job, Secretary Napolitano hinted at a "new thinking" on how to tackle terrorist threats to the homeland, though she offered few substantive details. She stressed, however, that the new policy would have to balance the needs of security with the American values of individual liberty. "As I discuss a culture of awareness, individual preparedness, ...
Poll: Huckabee Leads 2012 GOP Hopefuls
Post Date: 2009-11-05 11:34:20 by Brian S
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11/05/09 09:42 AM ET Television personality and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee led a batch of 2012 Republican presidential hopefuls in the latest poll from Gallup. Huckabee, ex-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R), and ex-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) were selected as the top three GOPers whom Republican respondents would "seriously consider supporting" in the next presidential contest. Seventy-one percent of people polled selected Huckabee; 65 percent selected both Romney and Palin. Sixty percent of Republican respondents also said they would support former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). Lesser-known potential candidates Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) and Republican ...
Glenn Beck Rushed To Hospital
Post Date: 2009-11-05 11:32:47 by Brian S
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The attack came on mid-afternoon during his radio show. The controversial commentator began complaining on the air that he wasn't feeling well and shortly after left his co-host, Pat Grey, to finish the program. Beck was taken by car to an unnamed Manhattan hospital where he underwent an appendectomy. Christopher Balfe, the president of Mercury Radio where Beck's program airs, joked that "before going under, Glenn asked the doctor to draw out the surgery procedure on a blackboard." A source said that he was expected to be off the air for the rest of the week. Judge Andrew Napolitano filled in on Beck's TV show last night.
Report: Racy Sex Tape Ends Prejean’s Lawsuit Against Beauty Pageant
Post Date: 2009-11-04 19:54:56 by Brian S
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Carrie Prejean, the dethroned Miss California 2009 who stirred up controversy by expressing her views against gay marriage, has dropped her lawsuit against the Miss California contest because of an "extremely graphic" sex tape, says a report at the celebrity gossip site TMZ. "Carrie Prejean demanded more than a million dollars during her settlement negotiations with Miss California USA Pageant officials -- that is, until the lawyer for the Pageant showed Carrie an XXX home video of her handiwork," the Web site reported. The Web site reports that it obtained a copy of the sex video "months ago but decided not to post it because it was so racy." While TMZ would ...
Club for Growth Spent $1 Million in NY-23. Is This a Bad Omen for the GOP in 2010?
Post Date: 2009-11-04 19:36:12 by Brian S
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Holly Bailey The Atlantic’s Chris Good has an interesting breakdown on who spent what on New York’s hotly contested 23rd congressional district race. The big news: the Club for Growth spent more than $1 million in support of Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman. That’s slightly less than the $1.1 million the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chipped in behalf of Democrat Bill Owens. Meanwhile, the National Republican Congressional Committee spent roughly $897,000—mostly on ads directly challenging Owens, as opposed to building up Dede Scozzafava, a moderate Republican who dropped out of the race over the weekend. With polls set to close around 9 p.m. ...
Carly Fiorina Announces Her GOP Candidacy For US Senate
Post Date: 2009-11-04 18:09:01 by Brian S
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Former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate in the California Republican primary, arguing that her business experience made her the only viable candidate to challenge Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer. "If it isn't obvious to you by now, let me make it official today: I am a candidate to serve you as your U.S. senator,” Fiorina said, speaking to a small gathering of supporters in the Garden Grove warehouse of Earth Friendly Products, which makes green home products like phosphate-free detergent. Fiorina, whose hair was shorn close to her scalp after a nine-month battle with breast cancer, said she expected the race to get ...
Conservative Loses Upstate House Race in Blow to Right
Post Date: 2009-11-04 17:52:10 by Brian S
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SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. — Democrats won a special election in New York State’s northernmost Congressional district Tuesday, a setback for national conservatives who heavily promoted a third candidate in what became an intense debate over the direction of the Republican Party. Douglas L. Hoffman, a previously unknown accountant from Lake Placid, ran as a Conservative, and drew the backing of social and fiscal conservatives like Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck. The White House became involved in the efforts to boost the Democratic candidate, Bill Owens, in the closing days of the campaign. The 23rd Congressional District leans Republican. With 89 percent of precincts reporting, the ...
Top Bachmann Aide Quits; "When your captain's crazy, it's time to find a new ship,” say GOP Lawmaker
Post Date: 2009-11-04 15:25:32 by Brian S
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The aide who helped turn Rep. Michele Bachmann into a controversial mainstay of cable news has informed colleagues that she’s quitting – just as the firebrand Republican congresswoman prepares for her biggest media moment yet. Multiple sources have confirmed that Michelle Marston, a veteran Hill aide, is leaving Bachmann’s office. In an e-mail exchange with POLITICO, Marston declined to say why she’s going. “I’m just not talking about it, and frankly I don’t think there’s a story here,” Marston wrote. “Now, the thousands of people calling our office to tell us [they’re] coming to Capitol Hill tomorrow – that’s a ...
The Lesson of Doug Hoffman: Palin And Limbaugh Don't Win Elections
Post Date: 2009-11-04 15:05:47 by Brian S
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"I believe America is turning the page to a new dawn." ~ Doug Hoffman, Concession Speech Doug Hoffman lost his election last night. He was supported by a plurality of talk radio entertainers, and a majority of former half-term governors of Alaska, but it wasn't enough. An obscure quirk of constitutional law says you also need votes from voters. This is the same cruel hurdle that tripped up three of his other biggest supporters, Gary Bauer, Fred Thompson and Rudy Giuliani, all of whom ran for President of the United States, but failed the "getting votes" test, because everyone hates their guts. With their help, and a million dollars from the Club for Growth, Doug ...
Ranking Republican Rep. Ros-Lehtinen on Time to Take Action on Iran
Post Date: 2009-11-03 12:25:24 by Brian S
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For too long, the Iranian regime has played hide and seek with the U.S. and other countries regarding its nuclear weapons program. Last week, the House took a critical step to end this deadly game. Just days before the 30th anniversary of the Iranian hostage crisis, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs took up the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act. This bipartisan legislation, which Rep. Howard Berman, the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and I introduced, and which enjoys the support of well over 300 co-sponsors, targets one of Iran’s major weaknesses, namely its need to import gasoline and other refined petroleum products. By placing financial sanctions on U.S. ...
GOP ‘Dividing Apples By Oranges’ To Create Bogus Stimulus Figures, AP Says
Post Date: 2009-11-02 11:24:40 by Brian S
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009 -- 8:14 am WASHINGTON — Beware the math. Some Republican lawmakers critical of President Barack Obama's stimulus package are using grade-school arithmetic to size up costs and consequences of all that spending. The math is satisfyingly simple but highly misleading. It goes like this: Divide the stimulus money spent so far by the estimated number of jobs saved or created. That produces a rather frightening figure on how much money taxpayers are spending for each job. On Friday, the White House released estimates that $160 billion in stimulus spending created or preserved 650,000 direct jobs. By the critics' calculations, that's over $246,000 a ...
The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York
Post Date: 2009-11-01 18:31:38 by Brian S
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BARACK OBAMA’S most devilish political move since the 2008 campaign was to appoint a Republican congressman from upstate New York as secretary of the Army. This week’s election to fill that vacant seat has set off nothing less than a riotous and bloody national G.O.P. civil war. No matter what the results in that race on Tuesday, the Republicans are the sure losers. This could be a gift that keeps on giving to the Democrats through 2010, and perhaps beyond. The governors’ races in New Jersey and Virginia were once billed as the marquee events of Election Day 2009 — a referendum on the Obama presidency and a possible Republican “comeback.” But preposterous as it ...
Limbaugh: Palin Is Ready To Be President, Obama A One-Termer
Post Date: 2009-11-01 13:07:18 by Brian S
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Sarah Palin is ready to be president, talk radio host Rush Limbaugh says, and she doesn't need to bone up on the issues either. Asked by Fox News' Chris Wallace if Palin is ready to be president, Limbaugh hesitated for a moment and said, "Well, yes. I do." Limbaugh continued, "One thing I do not do is follow conventional wisdom, and the conventional wisdom of Sarah Palin is 'She's not smart enough. She needs to bone up on the issues. She's a little unsophisticated. Alaska, Where's that?, [She] doesn't have the pedigree,'" Limbaugh said. "She's the only thing that provided a spark for the Republican Party." The conservative ...
In NY’s 23rd, Conservatives Bag A GOP Heretic In Scozzafava(suspending campaign)
Post Date: 2009-10-31 13:42:58 by Brian S
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Well, the conservatives went hunting for a Republican heretic in upstate New York, and it looks as though they’ve bagged one. This will be the occasion for a lot of celebration on the GOP right, but regardless of what happens Tuesday, I don’t think it bodes well for the GOP nationally. No party gets bigger by getting smaller. From the Watertown Daily News:Dede Scozzafava, the Republican and Independence parties candidate, announced Saturday that she is suspending her campaign for the 23rd Congressional District and releasing all her supporters. The state Assemblywoman has not thrown her support to either Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate, or Bill Owens, the ...
Cheney 'Cannot Recall' Almost Anything About Plame Outing
Post Date: 2009-10-31 13:33:12 by Brian S
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When President Ronald Reagan was asked about Iran-Contra, he replied that he did not remember whether he had authorized two illegal arms sales to Iran in 1985. Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales stated "I don't recall" or similar phrases 64 times in one memorable day of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee -- a performance so memorable that it has since been set to music as a cantata. Former Vice President Dick Cheney may now have joined their illustrious company, with the release of a redacted summary (pdf) of his May 8, 2004 interview by the FBI concerning the outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame in July 2003. The summary was released on Friday afternoon in ...
Al-Qaeda Outwitted Bush, Neocons
Post Date: 2009-10-30 12:57:10 by Brian S
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As security worsens in Afghanistan and Pakistan, it is clear that al-Qaeda and its Taliban allies outwitted President George W. Bush and his neoconservative advisers by tying down U.S. forces in Iraq for five years while the Islamic militants rebuilt their forces for the war on their “central front.” The growing U.S. casualty list in Afghanistan and the Taliban advances in nuclear-armed Pakistan also underscore the significance of a late 2005 message from a top al-Qaeda operative, known as Atiyah, to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was then leading al-Qaeda’s faction in Iraq. “Prolonging the war [in Iraq] is in our interest,” Atiyah said in a letter that upbraided ...
Judge: ‘Birther’ Lawyer May Have Urged Witnesses To Lie On The Stand; Birthers Plan To Protest Fox's O'Reilly For Not Backing Them
Post Date: 2009-10-29 18:18:18 by Brian S
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A US District Court judge in California has dismissed one of "birther" leader Orly Taitz's lawsuits challenging President Barack Obama's right to be president, and expressed "deep concerns" that the lawyer urged witnesses in the case to perjure themselves. Judge David O. Carter dismissed a lawsuit filed by Taitz on behalf of US Army Capt. Pamela Barnett, who had asked the court for the right to refuse military orders because she believes Obama was not born in the United States and therefore is not the legitimate commander-in-chief of the armed forces. In his ruling (PDF), the judge said he dismissed the suit because allowing it to go forward would force the court ...
A Conference of Podhoretzes
Post Date: 2009-10-29 14:14:23 by X-15
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Next summer the no-longer-so-prestigious neoconservative journal Commentary will be hosting a luxury cruise to Alaska, billed as a "Conference of Ideas." Of the eight featured speakers on the cruise, four are members of the Podhoretz family: Commentary editor John Podhoretz, his father and predecessor Norman Podhoretz, his mother Midge Decter, and his brother in law Elliot Abrams. A friend said that if you were on that cruise you would feel funny, as though you had intruded into the Podhoretz family's private space. But really, isn't that what the neocon movement has always been--the Podhoretz family, surrounded by a series of concentric circles of retainers and ...
Cheney To Campaign For Hutchison In Texas
Post Date: 2009-10-28 14:56:51 by Brian S
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(10-28) 10:17 PDT Austin, Texas (AP) -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney will throw his support behind U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's campaign for Texas governor. Hutchison's campaign confirmed Wednesday that Cheney will endorse the Texas Republican's March primary challenge of Gov. Rick Perry at a fundraiser next month. Campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Baker says details are still being worked out, but Cheney is scheduled to appear at a Nov. 17 fundraiser and campaign event in Houston. The former vice president is popular with conservative activists and could help Hutchison bolster support among them.
House GOP Turns To Oliver North On Afghanistan
Post Date: 2009-10-28 14:47:31 by Brian S
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House Republicans have a new foreign policy adviser with a controversial pedigree: Oliver North. North, an aide on Ronald Reagan's National Security Council who is best known for his role in the Iran-Contra scheme to sell arms to Iran and divert the funds to Nicaraguan revolutionaries in the 1980s, was the special guest at a House Republican Conference meeting on Tuesday. North was convicted on three counts related to the Iran-Contra scandal and his efforts to cover it up, but the convictions were later overturned. North’s mission: Relay his insights into the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, where he recently visited. North's message reinforced the advice of Gen. Stanley ...
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