Cheney and Bush - - Dictators for Life? Not such a far fetched idea it appears . . .

By MARK MAZZETTI and DAVID JOHNSTON
Published: July 24, 2009

WASHINGTON — Top Bush administration officials in 2002 debated testing the Constitution by sending American troops into the suburbs of Buffalo to arrest a group of men suspected of plotting with Al Qaeda, according to former administration officials.

Once again I must ask the question -- why would anyone who was paying serious attention these past 8 years be shocked or surprised by this?

The right-wing nuts were too busy hunting down "traitors" who weren't sporting shiny flag pins on their lapels. Too busy swift-boating real military heroes while ignoring the chickenhawks that permeated their own ranks. Too busy being led around by their nose-rings from Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. And obviously -- much too busy to notice the growing threat to the Constitution that was spreading like cancer in the Bush/Cheney White House.

Bush and Cheney, for all intents and purposes, took this nation's most cherished political and historical document - The Constitution of the United States of America - and used it like a wad of toilet paper to wipe their shit-stained sphincters with.

And the first ass-hat who tries to say to me "but krazee -- everything changed after 9/11" -- I'm going to burst a fucking vein in my forehead. The only thing that changed after 9/11 was the level of cowardice and treachery that increased exponentially amongst the hierarchy of the hard core conservatives and neo-cons within the Republican party.

Gee - now that I think about it -- I wonder how the right-wing crowd would react right now, today, if this news story instead of being about Bush & Cheney was actually a story about how last month President Barack Hussein Obama had convened a cabinet level meeting to discuss dispatching the U.S. military into the streets of -- oh say Dallas, Texas -- because they had intelligence that a half a dozen American born posse comitatus/right-wing militia dudes were planning to pull off another Oklahoma City type bombing?? Hmmmmm -- I wonder what their response to President Obama would be . . . . .








Yeah -- that's what I thought.






I've always been suspicious of those in society who pound their chests the hardest and shriek the loudest about patriotism and love of country, and it appears that by all the reasonable evidence of what's transpired in this country these past 8 dark years, that those suspicions have been definitively validated at this point in time.


----k

Hmmmmmmm . . .

Profound thought re: the manufactured "scandal" now known as Gatesgate:

Since when did weapons hoarding, right-wing conservatives cease being the guys fearing with fevered anticipation jack-booted, police-state thugs entering their homes to roust and harass them?

Just wondering . . .



----k

Since we're on the subject of race relations . . . .

. . . the subject of race can't get much more related than this - Muahahahaha! Go Willie and Snoop! (video starts at 00:28)





----k

$553 billion and change - - - - Poof! Disappeared!

Too bad Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) is rowing a tiny, leaking skiff, with one oar upstream all by himself. If only we had another 434 Alan Graysons in Congress, oh how much better off the world would be for all.





----k

The scariest movie of all time - - "The GOP Caucus"

Another deep thinking, GOP politician who by virtue of this statement is obviously an illegal celestial alien from the Planet Wingnuttia:

"There are no Americans who don't have health care."

Remember the 1956 science fiction film 'Invasion of The Body Snatchers'? I'm convinced the Republican party has been invaded and their lifeless, soulless pod duplicates have taken over control of their party hiearchy. I mean -- honestly -- what other explanation could possibly exist for such inconceivable idiocy??

----k

We want Max! We want Max!! . . . . . . more Max!!!

I don't have the slightest clue who this guy Max Keiser is, but after viewing this clip I'm of the opinion he ought to have, at the very least, his own show on the business news cable channel CNBC. I think he would actually be a wonderful replacement for that consistently wrong financial "guru" moron Jim Cramer.

Anyhow, this guy Keiser lays an absolutely beautiful and merciless smackdown on that den of thieves known as Goldman Sachs and basically calls them scumbag criminals who ought be facing war crimes trials at The Hague. He also (rightfully so in my view) bludgeons the Obama administration for continuing the Bush/GOP era practice of cozying up to Goldman Sachs and hiring many of their former execs for important government positions.

Great viewing (a bit long but worth it) and giddily refreshing to hear someone speak the unvarnished truth about the Wall Street Robber Barons -- too bad it was only on French TV instead of every major U.S. news show.






----k

Friday M-Vloggin' - - with Guns N' Roses

Dedicated to all those endlessly entertaining conservative, right-wing nuts who would like nothing better than to destroy America from within with their wet-dream fantasies of Civil War.




----k

The GOP's defacto leader and brain-addled drug addict speaketh . . .

LIMBAUGH: I think Obama is largely misunderstood by a lot of people. … We’re finding out that this guy’s got a chip on his shoulder. He’s angry at this country. He’s not proud of it. […]

Let’s face it, President Obama’s black, and I think he’s got a chip on his shoulder. I think there are elements in this country he doesn’t like and he never has liked. And he’s using the power of the presidency to remake the country.

Hey El Rushbo -- I got news for ya ass-clown -- I am a caucasian (not counting the smattering of Native American blood in me) male. I voted for Obama in the Presidential election because I was sick and fed up with the corrupt and rotten "elements" in this country who for the previous 8 years fucked up everything they touched and in the process defiled this country's reputation around the world and brought our great nation to near economic ruin. Those "elements" you speak of are your heroes, sycophantic followers, and of course, yourself. There isn't one single 'likeable' thing about any of you bastards.

And besides, who in their right fucking mind is of the opinion that a guy with a long, long history of making snide, subtle and overt racist comments has ANY goddamn credibility on the subject of race relations? Oh yeah ... Fox News. Lol.

Here's a sampling of El Rushbo's (Fox News' race-relations Ambassador) high-minded ideas on race (and these are only his comments re: African Americans - if we included Hispanics and other minorities this blog post would set a record for length):

1. "I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark."

2. "You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed."

3. "Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?"

4. "Right. So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on them. You stand behind Nelson Mandela — who was bankrolled by communists for a time, had the support of certain communist leaders. You go to Ethiopia. You do the same thing."

5. "Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it."

6. "The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies."

7. "They’re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?"

8. "Take that bone out of your nose and call me back(to an African American female caller)."

9. "I think the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They’re interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there’s a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn’t deserve."

10. Limbaughs attacks on Obama: Limbaugh has called Obama a ‘halfrican American’ has said that Obama was not black but Arab because Kenya is an Arab region, even though Arabs are less than one percent of Kenya. Since mainstream America has become more accepting of African-Americans, Limbaugh has decided to play against its new racial fears, Arabs and Muslims. Despite the fact Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law school, Limbaugh has called him an ‘affirmative action candidate.’ Limbaugh even has repeatedly played a song on his radio show ‘Barack the Magic Negro’ using an antiquated Jim Crow era term for a black man who an overwhelming number of Americans voted for president.

So Rush Limbaugh has managed to make racist attacks on four of the most admired and respected people of African descent in the past one hundred years, in Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Colin Powell and Barack Obama. He has called for the assassin of Martin Luther King to be given a medal, and said slavery was a good thing. Limbaugh had stated that Joe the Plumber, who isn’t even a plumber was more important in this past election than Colin Powell, a decorated military veteran who has served honorably in three administrations. How can the Republican party and thoughtful, decent conservatives continue stand by this man? Oops - my bad! Rush Limbaugh is not a man --- he's a coward and a piece of shit.



----k

American Cable "News" - - A Vast Wasteland

On the heels of my previous post highlighting the MSM's disturbing penchant for creating non-news out of whole cloth, in this clip MSNBC's Chris Matthews hosts right wing kook, Watergate felon, and all-around vile human being G. Gordon Liddy to spew his own "Birther" lies and nonsense on the public airwaves. Granted - Matthews challenges Liddy on his bullshit and in the end makes the tired old criminal look like the lying ass-clown that he is, but why even give such unscrupulous people a platform to spout their slander to begin with? And that is the point I and others are trying to get across -- namely that the MSM perilously undermines it's own credibility (what shreds of it remain) by continually and irresponsibly parading these despicable individuals over and over and over again on our television screens.

"When television is good, nothing — not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers — nothing is better.

But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there, for a day, without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland."

(FCC) chairman Newton N. Minow
May 9, 1961

----k

Doh!! David Shuster throws himself under the bus . . .

MSNBC's David Shuster occasionally gets an analysis right, but in this clip, in an attempt to ward off a withering attack on his profession (the MSM - Mainstream Media) and cable TV shows like his, he instead clumsily proves his guest's point about how the MSM creates news by giving air time to kooks like the Birthers and insidiously dishonest people like Liz Cheney. View the clip and see if you can catch the moment of Shuster's self immolation. Lol.






----k

Friday M-Vloggin' - - with The Doors

What could I possibly say about Mr. Mojo Risin and The Doors that hasn't already been said by brighter, more observant minds? Lol. Morrison and The Doors were an awesome group that was eons ahead of it's era. And besides - - anyone who could write lyrics like this deserves instant legendary rock icon status IMHO:

"Sidewalk crouches at her feet,
like a dog that begs for something sweet,
do you hope to make her see you, fool,
do you hope to pluck this dusky jewel."

----k

The "Birther" Chronicles (cont.)

Eric Boehlert at MMFA delves a bit deeper in to the psyche of the mainstream media's (CNN's Lou Dobbs in particular) self-destructive game of playing footsie with the radical right wing nuts on the Obama birth certificate foolishness.

Dobbs lashed out at his critics today huffily bleating that he was being unfairly attacked because he "had the temerity to inquire as to where the birth certificate was and why the president of the United States would not turn over that birth certificate to the national media and end the noise."



No Lou, you fucking Ass-clown, you are not being attacked for your "temerity" (daring). You are being attacked because you psychotically insist on pimping and whoring a completely and thoroughly debunked and discredited lie of a story utilizing your very powerful pulpit of the publicly owned airwaves. It's called irresponsibility -- which obviously is a foreign word and concept to most conservatives these days. It really is as simple as that.

One excerpt from the Boehlert MMFA column struck a chord with me. Boehlert writes,

"The birther attack is simply a parallel attempt to delegitimize Obama. Because once a public figure has been delegitimized, if only in the eyes of his critics, then all bets are off and the normal rules of conduct are discarded."

Hmmmm...why does that statement have such an eerily familiar ring to it? Oh yes! That's right! It sounds just like this statement from my earlier post today about the shadowy religious group and GOP sex scandal fixers "The Family":

But David Coe, Doug Coe's son and heir apparent, calls himself simply a friend to men such as John Ensign, whom he guided through the coverup of his affair. I met the younger Coe when I lived for several weeks as a member of the Family. He's a surprising source of counsel, spiritual or otherwise. Attempting to explain what it means to be chosen for leadership like King David was -- or Mark Sanford, according to his own estimate -- he asked a young man who'd put himself, body and soul, under the Family's authority, "Let's say I hear you raped three little girls. What would I think of you?" The man guessed that Coe would probably think that he was a monster. "No," answered Coe, "I wouldn't." Why? Because, as a member of the Family, he's among what Family leaders refer to as the "new chosen." If you're chosen, the normal rules don't apply.

And therein lies the crux of the matter -- that recurrent theme of no accountability. What appears to be the case -- normal rules of conduct utterly do not apply to conservatives. Rules, decorum, decency, honesty, integrity --- none of these ideals apply to right-wing conservatives! And therefore, bereft of conscience or principles, they flail about savagely with their stupidity, their hatefulness, and their smug self-righteousness and in the process cast a dark pall of shame over the country and everything decent and honorable that America stands for.


----k

GOP Family Values Hypocrite Alert ! !

I really have nothing more to add to this story. It speaks for itself.

Must read to appreciate the absolute sordidness of it.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/abstinence-supporting_gop_state_lawmaker_admits_to.php?ref=fpblg



----k

The Heir to "The Most Trusted Man in News" Crown --- drum roll please . . .

Question: What's the difference between the late and legendary news anchor Walter Cronkite and comedian Jon Stewart?

Apparently nothing according to Americans yearning for a "newsman" they can trust to tell them the truth about what's going on in the world.

ABC, NBC and CBS ought to be hanging their collective pin heads in shame. Fox News doesn't count because they have no shame to begin with.

Needless to say Time Magazine's pollster is probably fielding a few "animated" phone calls from the big media conglomerate CEO's and news division heads today. Lol. Gotta love it.



----k

RAND study bolsters Obama's warnings on consequences to the country of delaying Health Care reform

The RAND Corporation, hardly a bastion of commie-pinko, evil librul thought, has just released a study which pretty much confirms what Obama and saner folks have been saying all along --- namely that if something isn't done very, very soon to arrest the skyrocketing costs of health care in the United States, the people of this country can look forward to many years, perhaps decades of jobless "recovery" and stunted national economic growth. In other words a bleak future and shitty quality of life for the majority of Americans for years to come.

The picture painted in this study doesn't get any fucking starker than that people.

But - just try to have that serious conversation with your average conservative Republican (providing you can divert their attention away from Fox News for 5 minutes) and all you'll hear from their side is -- "but, but, but Obama was born in Kenya," or "socialized medicine will kill 20 million people," or "it's lies from the liberal media."

People need to start speaking out and taking sides. The choices are clear - progress and a better future for all Americans or obstinate status quo and the eventual deterioration of everything that makes this country the greatest on Earth.

----k

Ode To the Church Lady - Courtesy of "The Family" . . .

Author/journalist Jeff Sharlet sums up what the shadowy religious Washington, D.C. "C" Street House and "The Family" are all about:

But David Coe, Doug Coe's son and heir apparent, calls himself simply a friend to men such as John Ensign, whom he guided through the coverup of his affair. I met the younger Coe when I lived for several weeks as a member of the Family. He's a surprising source of counsel, spiritual or otherwise. Attempting to explain what it means to be chosen for leadership like King David was -- or Mark Sanford, according to his own estimate -- he asked a young man who'd put himself, body and soul, under the Family's authority, "Let's say I hear you raped three little girls. What would I think of you?" The man guessed that Coe would probably think that he was a monster. "No," answered Coe, "I wouldn't." Why? Because, as a member of the Family, he's among what Family leaders refer to as the "new chosen." If you're chosen, the normal rules don't apply.

So basically what they are saying is if you, the reader of this blog post, have an 8 year old daughter who is raped by a Congressman or Senator, you can count on said rapist to be harbored and protected by "The Family" because "the normal rules don't apply" to them as "God" has delegated "chosen" status upon them.

Well isn't that special?





Aside from the moral perversity of what these people stand for, they are also pushing a one-religion view of the world in the halls of U.S. government and have as a goal the destruction of church/state separation and the transformation of our Democratic Republic in to a fundamentalist theocracy.



----k

The "Birther" Chronicles (cont.)

The krazee Coalition of the Willing expands . . . Jon Stewart joins krazee's war of choice on the "Birfers". Welcome to the party Jon.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
The Born Identity
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Joke of the Day

----k

Don't Worry, Be Happy -- with no health care, with no jobs, with no future, with no hope . . .

This appears to be the GOP's answer to every single crisis/issue facing America and Americans today -- especially when anyone offers up alternate solutions that don't jive with their own comfortable economic situations or solutions that "bother" their big money, big industry campaign donors.




----k

A Triple LOL! lol . . .

LOL!! This is worth reprinting in it's entirety. Courtesy of Wonkette:

Whoa Hey, the FreeRepublic Website Is Overthrowing the U.S. Government

Send these fuckers to the FEMA camps, quick! This would be terrifying if it wasn’t about some lamer old wingnuts and their message board: The person who runs FreeRepublic.com is cold gonna overthrow the U.S. government — that means you, blackenstein — and ho ho, no more taxes on the millionaires! Hooray! Anyway, folks, things are getting Seriously Weird with the wingnuts, birthers, paultards and other middle-aged white suckers who bought into that whole Reagan thing 30 years ago and, whoops, are still poor and doomed.

And then, in 2008, Americans mysteriously voted in droves for a common African Soviet from, er, Hawaii, who has been president now for what, six months? And this NON-PRESIDENT is, uhm, trying to get some health coverage for these poor dumb AM-radio listeners, so …. OVERTHROW THE GUBMINT.

What will happen? How many will shoot up Holocaust museums, or start car-bombing the hip hop? And how thankful should we all be that these people are so goddamned obese that simply getting up from the ‘puter table is pretty much out of the realm of possibility?

LOL! LOL! LOL!



----k

The "Birther" Chronicles (cont.)

I'm going to keep pounding on this "Birther" movement meme until the proponents of it are bloody and bruised -- simply because their willfully chosen method of hateful insanity is deserving of the most brutal ridicule.

In this clip - Chris Matthews follows up on the Rick Sanchez "Birther" spanking with his own evisceration of one of the GOP sponsors/promoters of this idiocy. I'm no fan of Matthews by any means - believe me -- but for performing this delicious beat-down of a conservative ass-clown, he get's a hearty kudos and 'attaboy pat on the back from me.

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

----k

Not that it'll make a difference but . . . .

The rarest of rare species -- a Christian who actually practices what Christ preached.



http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/072109a.html


----k

Some Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest . . .

Well -- it turns out that the prodigious legal minds who are leading the charge to have Barack Obama removed from the Presidency because Obama, his extended family, Hawaii Health Department officials and a cast of thousands from 47 years ago until the present day have conspired to forge and cover up false birth records for the future POTUS, are infinitely more cuckoo for fucking cocoa puffs than their snarling, glassy-eyed followers. Oh -- and these legal "gurus" also happen to be some very sleazy, ethics-challenged con artists too.





----k

Why Conservatives Suck: Chapter 1387 . . .

To answer Rick Sanchez's question -- is the woman in the video at Delaware Congressman Mike Castle's (R) town-hall meeting a "lone nut" for questioning the validity of President Barack Obama's birth certificate? Sadly -- no. She is one among many in a small faction of loud-mouthed, insanely ignorant nuts who are so blinded with irrational fear, anger and (omg - here it comes) yep - racial hatred, that no amount of documented, vetted evidence will ever convince them that their chosen brand of idiocy is on the same level as that of Bigfoot and Chupacabra believers.

Watching that part of the video clip where the "Birfer" nuts stand up in unison and start loudly chanting The Pledge Allegiance to drown out their Congressman's (actually rational) response sent a shiver down my spine. And it's the same kind of shiver I get when watching old World War 2 era newsreels of German citizens Seig Heiling Adolf Hitler and pledging allegiance to the Swastika. Some scary fucking people man.





----k