Republicans repeat their lies, I repeat the facts

Lest we forget, all the following were on the REPUBLICAN'S WATCH: 1 the false invasion of Iraq, 2. the financial collapse (begun in Dec 2007)and TARP was started in Sept 2007, and 3. the 9/11 attack. They are entitled to their own opinions but not their own facts.

Call the Republican's bluff

President Obama went to the House Republican Caucus meeting yesterday but insisted that it be televised, and for once stood up for himself. They continuously attacked him with their talking points. He, for once, defended himself and us. He won hands down as they sounded like school children parroting and outright lying, which he rebutted time after time with facts. My advice, don't cave in to the Republican threats to filabuster, make them do it, time after time so the American people can see their party of NO.

republicans continue their hypocrisy

Republican Senator Hatch to Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday regarding health care.....

Hatch said Thursday that using reconciliation would be “one of the worst grabs for power in the history of the country” that would permanently impact relations between the two parties. “It is going to be outright war and it should be, because it would be such an abuse of the reconciliation rules,” Hatch said. “If they abuse those rules it is going to lead to even more heated animosities between not just the two parties, but even between individual senators.”

Which is interesting, because Hatch voted for.....
* The College Cost Reduction Act of 2007, which passed through reconciliation;
* The Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005, which passed through reconciliation;
* The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, which passed through reconciliation;
* The Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003, which passed through reconciliation;
* The Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, which passed through reconcilation;
* The Marriage Tax Penalty Relief Reconciliation Act of 2000, which passed through reconciliation; and
* The Taxpayer Refund and Relief Act of 1999, which passed through reconciliation.

republican hypocrisy

Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist strikes, every suspect apprehended on U.S. soil has been initially held under federal criminal law, including shoe bomber Richard C. Reid. David C. Headley, accused of scouting out locations for the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, and Adis Medunjanin, arrested in an alleged plot to target New York, are providing the FBI with intelligence after being read their rights, officials said.

The Republicans arguing that a different action should have been taken in this case were notably silent when dozens of terrorists were prosecuted in federal court by the last administration, and thus are HYPOCRITES.

facts republicans want you to forget

It is a fact that when the President took office a year ago, he faced an array of historic challenges: an economy in freefall; job losses averaging almost 700,000 a month; a middle class under assault; two wars and badly frayed global alliances; and a staggering $1.3 trillion budget deficit.

remember it was the Republicans

Lest we forget, all the following were on the REPUBLICAN'S WATCH: 1 the false invasion of Iraq, 2. the financial collapse (begun in Dec 2007)and TARP was started in Sept 2007, and 3. the 9/11 attack. You are entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts.

conservative and republican heroes

James O'Keefe, who 31 Republican congressmen signed a resolution calling him an American hero, was the leader among four men who created a ruse to enter the lawmaker's downtown office, saying they needed to repair her telephones, according to court records unsealed Tuesday. O'Keefe used his cellphone to take pictures of two men, Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan, who are accused in an FBI agent's sworn affidavit of impersonating telephone company workers. Stanley Dai is accused of aiding the Jan. 25 plot.

All four were taken to a suburban New Orleans jail and charged with entering federal property under false pretenses with the intent of committing a felony. If convicted, each man faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.

O'Keefe is well-known, but Flanagan, Basel and Dai are not. Flanagan worked last year as a paid intern for Rep. Mary Fallin (R-Okla.); he now works at the Pelican Institute as a blogger.

Dai, who is from Alexandria, is a Chinese immigrant and was president of the Conservative Student Union at George Washington University in 2005, student records show.

Basel, a Mankato, Minn., native, and O'Keefe became friends as fellow founders of conservative newspapers at their respective colleges, O'Keefe at Rutgers and Basel at the University of Minnesota-Morris.

Since Watergate, Republicans have been rewarding their goons with Talks Shows.

republican facts

Lest we forget, all the following were on the REPUBLICAN'S WATCH: 1 the false invasion of Iraq, 2. 9/11 and 3. the financial collapse (begun in Dec 2007). You are entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts.

government by and for big corporations

The Supreme Court on Thursday upended and reversed a century's worth of campaign finance law. The court has moved sharply right. Chief Justice John Roberts has mustered five votes for a conservative rule by corporations. It is hard to remember an instance where the justices reached so far to make major constitutional law. It will have immediate political consequences.

Business managers now will be able to spend, at will, Bloomberg-level sums in congressional races across the country and thus control the congress and create a corporate government. No more government by the people but government by and for the big corporations, banks included.

The Republican gang of five (out of nine) have made law from the bench for and on the beholf of the Republican Party and their corporate giants, not the people.

questions for republicans-- Limbaugh and Robertson,

I visualize God asking each of us his first questions when we arrive at the gates: " 1. What was your opinion on helping the poor people of Haiti?"
and 2. "Did you look for lies and excuses not to help?" Limbaugh/Robertson, what would your answers be?

the GOP spin doctor and his propaganda

The president of Fox News and republican political hack is, by default, the closest thing there is to a kingmaker in Anti-Obama America. And that, in turn, makes him the de facto leader of the GOP. In a relentless (and spectacularly successful) hunt for cable ratings, Roger Ailes has given invaluable publicity to the tea partiers, furnished tryout platforms to GOP candidates, and trained a fire hose of populist anger at the president and his allies in Congress.

While Beltway Republicans wring their hands or write their tracts, Ailes has worked the countryside, using his feel for Main Street resentment to attract and give voice to this year's angriest—and most powerful—voter-viewers: those who hate the Feds, the Fed, and the Ivy League. It was Ailes who put the "party" in the tea parties by giving them a round-the-clock national stage. Next month the Fox propaganda machine will have priority access to the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville.

oh how they lie

Those who think President Obama caused this terrible Republican economic disaster that nearly triggered a global depression must have slept from 2001 to 2009.

The rest of you who are whining and name calling are typical of people with limited intelligence who make up their own facts and are outright liars like Gulianii who yesterday on TV claimed that there were no terror attacks on us during the republicans watch, thus lying about 9/11, the shoe bomber and others.

republicans lie again

on Jan 2, I published (below on this blog) that "9/11 happened on these republican's watch and let them try to lie out of that" and today Rudy Juliannii, ex mayor New York on 9/11, said on national TV that "Obama is weak on terror as the republicans had no terror attacks, but Obama already has had one."

HOLY COW! THEY MUST BE READING MY BLOG!

Cheeney of 9/11

worthy of reprint: The former vice president, Dick Cheeney, a leading republican, has brought dishonor to himself, his office, and his country. I am not aware of another former President or Vice President behaving as despicably as Cheeney has done in the ten months since leaving power, most recently but not exclusively with his comments to Politico about Obama's decisions on Afghanistan. (Aaron Burr might win the title, for killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel, but Burr was a sitting Vice President at the time.

Cheeney has acted as if utterly unconcerned with the welfare of his country, its armed forces, or the people now trying to make difficult decisions. He has put narrow score-settling interest far, far above national interest. This behavior is directly from the republican playbook. Shame on him AND them.

al-Shabab and the Sheikh

Read today: "In Somalia, Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage, a spokesman for the Somali group al-Shabab, supported the alleged attack on the Danish cartoonist. "We welcome the brave action he did," Rage said. "It was a good and brave step taken by that Somali man against the criminal cartoonist — we liked it."

republican 9/11

just for the record: 9/11 happened on the Republican's watch. Watch them try and lie their way out of that.Ha-

On Jan 9, I added the following comment to this post:

"and they did that just days later after I published this post. Isn't coincidence grand. Ha."

republican family values

It is not Rove's fault. Rove inherited this divorce, from, er, his previous divorce. Er, Newt Gingrich, Guiliani, Fred Thompson, and John McCain's divorces. Lesson: don't throw stones preaching family values if you don't have them yourself.

more republican lies and hypocrisy

The fact is that Obama has said many times that we are at war against terrorists. He said it as a candidate. He said it in his inaugural address: "Our nation is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred." He has said it since.

As Cheeney well knows, unless he has lost even the most tenuous grip on reality, Obama's commitment to warfare as an instrument in the fight against terrorism has won the president nothing but grief from the liberal wing of his party, with more certainly to come. Hasn't anyone told Cheeney that Obama is sharply boosting troop levels in Afghanistan in an attempt to avoid losing a war that the Bush administration started but then practically abandoned?

Cheeney knows this. But he goes on to use the big lie -- that Obama is "trying to pretend we are not at war" -- to bludgeon the administration on a host of specific issues. Here is the one that jumps out at me: The president, Cheeney claims, "seems to think that if he closes Guantanamo and releases the hard-core al Qaeda-trained terrorists still there, we won't be at war."

Interesting that Cheney should bring that up, because it now seems clear that the man accused of trying to blow up Northwest Flight 253, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was given training -- and probably the bomb itself, which involved plastic explosives sewn into his underwear -- by al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen.

It happens that at least two men who were released from Guantanamo appear to have gone on to play major roles as al-Qaeda lieutenants in Yemen. Who let these dangerous people out of our custody? They were set free by the administration of George W. Bush and Dick Cheeney.