This is just a “stop gap” memo to all Conservative lawyers, who have no doubt fanned out across the nation to instigate a firestorm of recounts in close state races, recalls, and lawsuits regarding any “disenfranchisement” of traditionally Republic…

To all the men that have worn the Globe and Anchor, all the men who will so do in the future and most importantly to those giving their lives for freedom

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

“…First to fight for right and freedom…”
Gung Ho!

An old exJarhead

Finally, the only ones who have lost faith in anything are the right wing extremists, who in their manipulation and corruption and especially in their hypocracy, have swung the tide of mainstream america against them… finally the lie of the right is doing itself in, one scandal at a time…

I hope the crimes committed by the Bush administration are exposed and the democrats don’t wimp out due to pity for the pathetic man behind the curtain… but i wont be surprised if the ‘liberals’ (ie. mainstream america who voted against Bush) show compassion and let the poor man slip away into obscurity as the worst president ever…

Somehow i doubt the right will ever get as far as it did in the last 6 years, the damage will take decades to repair, and the issues must be addressed, else immediate negative repercussions will result…

It’s funny you end your comment speaking of American Democracy… as if it’s expression and recent flexing of it’s muscle was upsetting to you… I have never been prouder to be an American, and for the first time in years feel hope once again for truth and the power of the people…

Which is it chuck? make all votes count? or stop counting as soon as you get a lead?

I wish that Liberman wouldn’t caucus with the Democrats, after all they did throw him out like a wet sponge because he was pro-war, why would he want to caucus with them after that?

You can’t breathe a word of this to anyone, but we’ve gotten our hands on another transcript from the NSA terrorist surveillance program. Shhhhhh… let’s listen in…

Here is some material from a Lee Atwater interview in Alexander Lamis’s book, “Two-Party South”, discussing the Republican Southern strategy circa the Reagan era:

Atwater: As to the whole Southern strategy that Harry Dent and others put together in 1968, opposition to the Voting Rights Act would have been a central part of keeping the South. Now [the new Southern Strategy of Ronald Reagan] doesn’t have to do that. All you have to do to keep the South is for Reagan to run in place on the issues he’s campaigned on since 1964… and that’s fiscal conservatism, balancing the budget, cut taxes, you know, the whole cluster…
Questioner: But the fact is, isn’t it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with legal services, by cutting down on food stamps…?
Atwater: You start out in 1954 by saying, ‘Nigger, nigger, nigger.’ By 1968 you can’t say ‘nigger’ - that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.
And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me - because obviously sitting around saying, ‘We want to cut this,’ is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than ‘Nigger, nigger.’

Multiply this dirtiness a thousand fold in Republican political behavior since then and you too will be suspicious and angry. I hope in your new born-again conservatism, you will have the honesty to admit that politics is a dirty game and Republicans are just as dirty as Democrats have ever been. Surely the macaca’s will appreciate Allen’s grace under fire and how much better he is than any Democrat.