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Sunday, October 22, 2006
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The only President that’s balanced the budget in the last 40 years is William Jefferson Clinton and he’s a Democrat. You can’t trust the Republicans with your money.
-Howard Dean in Connecticut this week
(Via Public Christian.)
8:52:52 PM 
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Is Bush really stupid or a really big liar? The answer is "yes":
Think Progress: Bush: "We've Never Been Stay The Course": During an interview today on ABC's This Week, President Bush tried to distance himself from what has been his core strategy in Iraq for the last three years. George Stephanopoulos asked about James Baker's plan to develop a strategy for Iraq that is "between 'stay the course' and 'cut and run.'"
Bush responded, "We've never been stay the course, George!"...
Bush is wrong:
BUSH: We will stay the course. [8/30/06]
BUSH: We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq. [8/4/05]
BUSH: We will stay the course until the job is done, Steve. And the temptation is to try to get the President or somebody to put a timetable on the definition of getting the job done. We're just going to stay the course. [12/15/03]
BUSH: And my message today to those in Iraq is: We'll stay the course. [4/13/04]
BUSH: And that's why we're going to stay the course in Iraq. And that's why when we say something in Iraq, we're going to do it. [4/16/04]
BUSH: And so we've got tough action in Iraq. But we will stay the course. [4/5/04]
The question is why this guy ever had any supporters, given how obviously unqualified he was to be president from the get-go. The answer is that there was a first circle of supporters--aides, power-brokers, Republican hacks, operatives, and journalists--who thought they were in on the con, and a second circle who trusted the first-circle membes who lied to them.
(Via Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal.)
3:37:27 PM
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And their hungry families:
The women and children who formed a line at Camp Pendleton last week could have been waiting for a child-care center to open or Disney on Ice tickets to go on sale.
Instead, they were waiting for day-old bread and frozen dinners packaged in slightly damaged boxes. These families are among a growing number of military households in San Diego County that regularly rely on donated food.
As the Iraq war marches toward its fourth anniversary, food lines operated by churches and other nonprofit groups are an increasingly valuable presence on military bases countywide. Leaders of the charitable groups say they’re scrambling to fill a need not seen since World War II.
Too often, the supplies run out before the lines do, said Regina Hunter, who coordinates food distribution at one Camp Pendleton site.
“Here they are defending the country. . . . It is heartbreaking to see,” said Hunter, manager of the on-base Abby Reinke Community Center. “If we could find more sources of food, we would open the program up to more people. We believe anyone who stands in a line for food needs it and deserves it.”
(Via Suburban Guerrilla.)
2:57:54 PM
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11:47:53 AM
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This, from Gilliard, is a great rant. Pretty much strips Bush of any covering and reveals the metaphorical marshmallow center.
Bush is a bully and a coward at heart. Iraq was chosen because Iraq would be easy, and then the rest of the Middle East would follow. It was the easy way to solve our problems, not our real problems, but our emotional pain, the unresolved conflict over being attacked. And Bush would resolve his lifelong lack of success.
Bush will not leave Iraq, not because he thinks we can win, or he thinks it's part of the war on terror. But because he cannot face another failure. Which is why Scowcroft and Baker have had no influence on him. They are his father's men, veterans, despite their politics, realists. Bush is not and never has been. When he wasn't hiding from his failure with booze and coke, he hid from it with Jesus. Now he has Henry Kissinger whispering in his ear, telling him what he wants to hear. He doesn't want advice, he wants support and only support. Those who do not support him, are diminished, then banished.
This is a man who has never honestly looked himself in the face and said I have failed. He has always been protected from failure.
Read it all, you'll be glad you did.
(Via Rising Hegemon.)
10:41:39 AM
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