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Quite frankly, your desire to blame everything on Bush grows tiring. Not even Dan goes this overboard.
I don't edit to change my stance.
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But, God is merciful, all is not disastrous for dubya today. His plan to enrich the energy companies with punishingly high energy prices inflated by his bogus war is working like a charm.
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Danger in Natural Gas
Higher Costs Threaten Economic Growth, U.S. Manufacturing
By Justin Blum
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 7, 2005
Soaring natural gas prices threaten to propel winter heating bills sharply higher, slow economic growth and push manufacturers overseas.
U.S. consumers could face bills averaging 48 percent higher this season than last year, according to predictions by the economic research firm Global Insight Inc. The escalating costs could cause Americans to cut back on dinners out, trips to the mall and spending, crimping U.S. economic growth. Businesses, squeezed by high energy costs, could limit expansion plans. The high prices also are pumping up inflation.
Manufacturers that use huge amounts of natural gas are scouring the world for cheaper prices and considering moving operations to ease their costs. A renewed exodus -- many companies have already shifted overseas -- could further knock back growth in the United States and boost unemployment.
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Quite frankly, your desire to blame everything on Bush grows tiring. Not even Dan goes this overboard.
In early 1999, I told a close-friend of mine that if Bush was elected President, his presidency would not know a period without war. Unfortunately, I was right.
What I failed to see is that a Bush Presidency would kill Conservatism as a dominant political philosophy in either of the major parties. If hurricane Katrina and Rita made anything clear, it is that the conservative movement in the U.S. has been proven a complete and utter failure, and the White House now knows it. Conservative critics are correct when they say that Liberals have never had a better friend in the WH than W.
Back to the original topic...Here it is from the official transcript...
Hummm...they stopped 3 possible domestic attacks? I wonder why the media never reported this?BUSH: Overall, the United States and our partners have disrupted at least 10 serious Al Qaida terrorist plots since September the 11th, including three Al Qaida plots to attack inside the United States. We've stopped at least five more Al Qaida efforts to case targets in the United States or infiltrate operatives into our country.
Because of the steady progress, the enemy is wounded. But the enemy is still capable of global operations.
I hope you and the rest of you libs freeze your ass off and pay thru the nose for fuel cost. This is what you wanted. But you got your stupid animals and nice beachs with no oil/gas rigs in the distant sunset. Maybe, just maybe sometime in your silly life you will learn that to have some reasonable fuel cost you have to drill for oil/gas and have build new refineries. You have done the same with water in this part of Texas. But you saved the springs in San Marcos and the wild rice and snail darters and now are trying the same junk in Val Verde county. Enjoy your life, get yourself a horse and wagon and shut the pie hole you call a mouth. Oh, don't want to forget the power line thru the wilderness and new power plant they are going to build. You people make me sick.
The oil companies have enough jack to build new refineries and the US carmakers didn't see the changes coming and now they are way behind on hybrid models.
Cry me a river why don't ya.
In the Repugs "week horribilis", Rove of Oz is madly at work blowing smoke, propping up mirrors, and generally trying to detract from the obvious situation that the dubya/Repub administration's ship is holed fatally and going down:
D.C. Police Evacuate Washington Monument
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 7, 2005
Filed at 3:22 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Washington Monument was evacuated Friday after a bomb threat was called in to local police.
U.S. Park Police Sgt. Scott Fear said the call came in at 2:24 p.m. EDT and the monument was evacuated a short time later. Bomb-sniffing dogs were called in and two blocks between Cons ution and Independence avenues were closed off.
An initial search turned up nothing worrisome.
A law enforcement official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because other agencies were handling the case, said the credibility of the threat was low but officials did not want to take any chances.
The Washington Monument, which was built in the 1800s and dedicated on Feb. 21, 1885, rises 555 feet over the National Mall. It reopened to the public last spring after undergoing a seven-month, $15 million security overhaul that included vehicle barriers and a new lighting system.
Now that's a nonsequitur -- unless you're given to Wag the Dog flights of fancy.
Sgt. Fear sounds like a cool fictional character name though.
another hammer blow to incompetence, Friday is ending the week with good kick up dubya's ass:
October 7, 2005
Judge Rules Against Homeland Security
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 7:16 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge ruled Friday against the Homeland Security Department in a labor dispute over proposed workplace rules that would reduce the power of labor unions at the department, which has 160,000 employees.
U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer said the department's proposal falls short because it leaves open avenues to unilaterally disavow lawful contracts. One provision embraced by DHS, the judge noted, says that homeland security managers may ''take whatever other actions may be necessary to carry out the department's mission.''
In August, the judge issued an injunction against the workplace rules that would overhaul personnel and pay regulations. DHS had asked the judge to limit the injunction.
Declaring it was pleased with the judge's latest ruling, the National Treasury Employees Union said the department should work with organized labor to defend the nation rather than using its resources to defend ''this unlawful system'' of workplace rules.
The department is reviewing the ruling, said Larry Orluskie, a DHS spokesman.
The can't find an honest person for the JUSTICE department, an amazing ty week for dubya/Repubs:
washingtonpost.com
Deputy Attorney General Choice Withdraws Nomination
Ties to Indicted GOP Lobbyist Delayed Candidate's Consideration
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 7, 2005; 3:39 PM
The Bush administration's choice to be deputy attorney general has withdrawn his nomination, which had been delayed amid questions over his dealings with indicted Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, officials said today.
Timothy E. Flanigan wrote in a letter to President Bush yesterday that he was withdrawing as a candidate because of "uncertainty concerning the timing of my confirmation."
"You and the attorney general deserve to have a full leadership team in place at the Department of Justice to assist the dedicated men and women of the Department in their critical work," Flanigan wrote.
The withdrawal marks the latest in a series of setbacks for the White House on nomination issues, as several high-profile nominees have come under criticism for an alleged lack of experience or other problems.
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Only right-wing head-cases could consider that reprise of the 9/11 speech a "GOOD THING". dubya AND his handlers are so ing lost in the woods, it's laughable.
October 7, 2005
President Bush's Major Speech: Doing the 9/11 Time Warp Again
Yesterday, the same day New Yorkers were warned there was a "specific threat" of a bombing on their subways, President Bush delivered what the White House promoted as a major address on terrorism. It seemed, on the surface, like a perfect topic for the moment. But his talk was not about the nation's current challenges. He delivered a reprise of his Sept. 11 rhetoric that suggested an avoidance of today's reality that seemed downright frightening.
The period right after 9/11, for all its pain, was the high point of the Bush presidency. Four years ago, we hung on every word when Mr. Bush denounced Al Qaeda and made the emotional - but, as it turned out, empty - vow to track down Osama bin Laden. Yesterday, it seemed as if the president was still trying to live in 2001. It was eerie to hear him urge Americans to take terrorism seriously. There wasn't any reason to worry about that even before subway riders were being told about the threat of a terrorist attack on their commute home.
He seemed to be reading from a very old and familiar script as he revealed that terrorists recruit "disillusioned young men and women," some of whom build weapons based on information available on the Internet. He shared his conviction that "it is cowardice that seeks to kill children and the elderly with car bombs." He said his team was "reforming our intelligence agency" and reorganizing government for "a broad and coordinated homeland defense."
Americans have seen the Department of Homeland Security in action for several years now, under two directors. The first, a former governor with whom the president had a good personal relationship, was an inept bureaucratic and political player who had a strange obsession with color-coded states of emergency. The current one was at the helm during the Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster in New Orleans, when that agency was overseen by an unqualified political appointee.
The administration is still trying to recover politically from Katrina. The hurricane was not just a bad stretch that could be cured by a promise of federal aid and a demonstration of presidential concern. The hurricane showed that despite four years of spinning, America is still unprepared for a catastrophe. It raised major questions about the caliber of people with whom Mr. Bush surrounds himself.
Ever since the terrorist attacks, the main thing Americans have wanted from Washington is a sense of safety. That takes more than hyperalertness to suicide bombing threats, important as that is. No matter what the terrorists are up to, it is not possible to feel safe if the federal government does not appear to know what it is doing on so many different levels.
Yesterday was an ideal moment for Mr. Bush to demonstrate that he was really in control of his administration. He could have taken any one of a number of pressing worries and demonstrated that he was on the job, re-examining the problems, working on answers. For instance, he could have addressed the crisis facing the overstretched military due to the endless demands made by Iraq on both the Army and the beleaguered National Guard.
The speech came one day after the White House threatened to veto a bill onto which the Senate added a ban on the use of "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" against prisoners of the American government. This president could not find the spine to veto a bloated transportation bill that included wildly wasteful projects like the now-famous "bridge to nowhere" in Alaska. What kind of priorities does that suggest? If we ever needed the president to demonstrate that he has a working understanding of exactly where he wants to take this country, we need it now.
The president's inability to grow beyond his big moment in 2001 is unnerving. But the fact that his handlers continue to encourage him to milk 9/11 is infuriating. For most of us, the memories are fresh and painful. We mourn the people who died on Sept. 11, as we mourn Daniel Pearl and other Americans, not to mention innocents from other countries, who were murdered by terrorists. The administration's penchant for using them as political cover is offensive. It threatens to turn our wounds, and our current fears, into cynical and desperate spin.
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---- From the recent Bush speech - 'Third, the militants believe that controlling one country will rally the Muslim masses, enabling them to overthrow all moderate governments in the region, and establish a radical Islamic empire that spans from Spain to Indonesia. With greater economic and military and political power, the terrorists would be able to advance their stated agenda: to develop weapons of mass destruction, to destroy Israel, to intimidate Europe, to assault the American people, and to blackmail our government into isolation.'
Yes, al-Qaeda does want these things. But then the Christian Iden y Movement in the United States wants to establish a massive fortified refuge for persecuted white people to escape oppression at the hands of what they in their looney tunes way consider the evil, minority-dominated Federal Government. That crackpot fringe groups have big plans and ideas is not surprising, and we only have to worry about them if it looks like they might actually succeed.
But who thinks this particular crackpot plan is in any way feasible? Look at America's friends in the Middle East-- Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Yemen, Oman, Pakistan, etc., etc. Which one of them is on the verge of being taken over by al-Qaeda? Why, al-Qaeda had to plan out 9/11 from Europe because it could not operate in the Middle East! An al-Qaeda meeting in Cairo would have had more Egyptian government spies in attendance than radical fundamentalists!
Juan Cole
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