Who is the new Clandestino?

[gtownspur]

Yeah, and before the whole WMD assertions by the WH fell flat on their face, MSNBC, CNN, NBC and ABC were all doing their responsibilities and questioning the legitimacy of the claims coming out of the State Department and Cheney-controlled CIA, right?


Wrong.

They were reporting what the president said, and they were doing their duty to suspect the presidents words. The NEw York Times ran pieces trying to discredit the BUsh theories for war, all along. The media did do a good job of trying to question the justification for war. BUt you shouldn't be mad at the media, you should be mad at the Democrats who went along and didnt do what they were supposed to do, counter the president's agenda. The network news was there to report the events, that's their job. THe Democrats on the other hand are there to counter act the president's policies but they were too chicken.



ANd the there was no cheney controlled CIA, thats your copout. Cheney was not elected VP when the info on WMD's came out about IRaq. Cheney did not appoint George tenet. Nice try!

[gtownspur]

The Republicans control both houses and the Presidency. Theoretically, they shouldn't be having trouble getting any of their legislative proposals passed. What happened to Social Security reform? What happened to rubber-stamping the Patriot Act for another two years? Why is the Alito nomination so contentious?

Some old-school Conservatives who still believe in what the party once stood for are finally starting to stand up to the administration, and I believe this is why we are seeing attempts by the WH to try and control public criticizism of the Iraq war by government officials in the media.

What??

Dan, you're not making sense. THe presidents failure to pass social security reform has nothing to do with the War on Iraq and it's criticisms.

Tell me, what is the administration doing to stifle debate?

what law have they passed to do so?

Before you come here and act like this administration was the first to wiretapp suspects, or claim any executive priveleges, you need to take a look at history.

Atleast GW isn't spying and wiretapping Jesse Jackson like JFK did MLK. He's doing it to the terrorist.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Umm.. no.

The only thing I said about him was that I THOUGHT he was posting here under another name.

By the way, here's a list of the most common thread starters in this forum from 2 years ago ....


Joe Chalupa
Manny is God
DuffMcCartney
NBADan
Spurster
Yonivore
Iceman Cometh
DeSPURado
Johnny Marzeti
Bandit2981
Hook Dem
exstatic
NeoCon IV
Truthsayer

Seems pretty split to me.

You call that split?!? Well 2 years ago did include liberal manny so you may be right

NeoCon IV, The Manny, Iceman, Despur, truthsayer, are all gone from the political forum scene

I only try to intervene when my faculties have failed me....the more I get into politics the more I get pissed off
but i may post here more often since UT basketball is a farse and football season is over

[gatoloco]

el pinche liberals split cuando bush gano otra vez.

[Nbadan]

Joe Chalupa
Manny is God
DuffMcCartney
NBADan
Spurster
Yonivore
Iceman Cometh
DeSPURado
Johnny Marzeti
Bandit2981
Hook Dem
exstatic
NeoCon IV
Truthsayer

The biggest mystery is what happened to DeSpurado and Truthsayer, both dedicated forum posters even before the Political Forum came into existence at Spurs talk.

It's like they feel off the face of the earth. Maybe they are in Camp X-Ray?

Anyone have a clue?

[Kori Ellis]

DeSPURado is still around from time-to-time (though not under that name).

I believe that Truthsayer had some major health problems.

[Nbadan]

Thanks Kori. I hope that Truthsayer is OK. For those who weren't here then, Truthsayer was a real conservative when he first started posting here, but by the time he disappeared, he was really coming around to the dark side.