Anyone else feeling an afterglow?
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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President Bush and new Republican mascot “Greedar” react to yesterday’s election results
Jeez, I’m not even breathing hard yet!
Oops! I guess you meant election afterglow ;o) Sure…I’m smoking a cigarette right now too ;o)
Long Island went heavily in the Democrats favor, but in my town a republican was elected Town Supervisor after four years of leadership by an Indy Sup. The good news is that there will be a Democratic majority on the Town Board for the first time since the Civil War, so the Sup. will be held in check and forced to reach out and play nice.
I like the way the media, local and national is really playing up the “bid day for Dems” mantra.
of course I meant BIG day for dems.
Not a bad day yesterday… No afterglow here, but I am happy that some notable republicans (and some of their causes) went down in flames.
YOU KNOW IT!!! Still riding the wave here in the Old Pueblo.
One can only hope that this is the tide of change for us. NOW, to get the Dems to take advantage of it, as Harry Reid has for the past week. It is nice to see the dems are growing a set. It is up to us though to keep the pressure on them, is it not?
I am all aglow with the slamming of Ahneld out here in Kaleeforneea. Too bad Gov…you suck.
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BREAKING NEWS — 1 hour ago …
Listen to {BBC World Live}
Controversial anti-terror legislation defeated 322 – 291 in House of Commons where Labor has a clear majority. Detention proposal for 6 months without charges were seen as too aggressive for British communities.
BBC News – Tony Blair Defeated Over Terror Laws
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
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Couldn’t happen to a more deserving poodle.
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Both 90 and 60 day plan rejected
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
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Feels so good. Can we do it again?
It’s been a tough 2 years with this governor and his bullying using the propositions.
To watch them all go down in flames is a major rush! I may crash to afterglow level after lunch – but only because it was only 4 1/2 hours sleep last night.
Feeling very energized and ready to take on 2006 campaigns in January!
Still dancing in the streets here…
We did very well in Wash. state in many ways.
There is a tale of the city and the country, though.
The anti-tax zealots put up an initiative to repeal the legislature-passed gas tax that was to pay to repair our highways, which are in terrible shape.
Thanks to Seattle and King County, and neighboring environs, it was defeated statewide.
But, in rural areas, it passed. Including here. Here, where we have so many traffic fatalities because we’re forced to travel on narrow two-lane highways with too many old people turning left across the highway, and too many meth-addicted kids crossing the centerline (no guards between lanes).
And Proposition 1, to save our farmland through a 0.5% buyers excise tax, was defeated 60-40%. The unthinking masses bought into the real estate companies’ message that it’d “destroy the American dream.”
I hope the Prop. 1 people try again…. but how we overcome a mentality that votes to repeal gas tax in a county with highway problems that kill people, I don’t know.
So does that mean that state roads get fixed, but only two sets of county roads??
I’m feelin’ good.
Tim Eyman’s performance audit measure passed and the monorail died here in Seattle, but I expected both of those to be the case. The gas tax rollback failed, showing that Washington voters are smarter than the anti-tax zealots give them credit for. Now let’s watch those who painted Initiative 912 as a referendum on the governor’s race brouhaha try to deny, under oath if necessary, that they ever said any such thing.
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FBI: Iraq-Niger Forgeries Part of Scheme for Profit
By Bryan Bender and Michael Kranish, Globe Staff
WASHINGTON Nov. 5, 2005 — A set of forged documents outlining an alleged Iraqi deal to buy nuclear materials from an African country — a claim that famously wound up in President Bush’s State of the Union speech in 2003 — was probably ”part of a criminal scheme for financial gain,” according to the FBI.
The FBI issued its statement a day after the Italian intelligence chief testified before a parliamentary inquiry and named Rocco Martino, a former Italian policeman and spy, as the source who provided the documents to an Italian magazine in October 2002.
The FBI began its investigation into the documents in March 2003, at the request of the Senate Intelligence Committee. During that time, investigators have delved into many theories about the case, including suggestions from some former US intelligence officials that a secretive Pentagon office set up before the war had the documents produced to persuade President Bush to go to war.
The question of the documents’ authorship could be one focus of a Senate Intelligence Committee probe beginning next week to investigate how faulty prewar intelligence was handled by top Bush administration officials.
”It is very important to find out where they come from,” said David Kay, who headed the futile CIA search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and who immediately deemed the documents as fake when he reviewed them in 2003. ”I am not sure that’s possible, but we have to understand why our process let them gain so much credence.”
Kay and other specialists said the alleged Iraq-Niger connection was central to the White House’s argument that Hussein had restarted his nuclear weapons program because very little other intelligence existed.
“The administration had almost no evidence for its claim,” said Kay.
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
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I’m pretty high over the way the media is taking up the meme that this election was about Bush. It’s pretty much across the board, but I especially enjoyed this tasty bit of snark from AP:
“Wispy political prestige”. Say it over and over again and you’ll feel so much better.
Then the story goes on about the other local causes for the results, ending with this delightful insight:
There’s the little fact to keep alive through next November: they were tied in the polls ’til Bush showed up and poisoned the GOP’s hopes. Will the Dems get it this time and run in every race against Bush and the GOP, no matter how hard the Rep candidate tries to sound “moderate”? If they do, there’s going to be a political earthquake next year. It’s up to us to make sure the Dems come out fighting instead of listening to their triangulating losers.
Anyone know what this is about?
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11254 Here’s a good background article from 2004 which sounds like this government auditor whose been doing his job and uncovering much fraud is going to be scapegoated? Make him the bad guy naturally and try and destroy his career. Lockheed Martin has cost taxpayers billions in fraud/waste/corruption -even when proved they continue to get their huge government contracts.
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California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angeles, at podium, urges citizens to vote against Gov. Schwarzenegger’s ballot initiatives in California’s special election Tuesday November 8, during a get out the vote rally in Los Angeles. From left, Dolores Huerta, President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation and Co-founder of the United Farm Workers union, State Assembly woman Karen Bass, Speaker Nunez, and Martin Ludlow, Executive Secretary Treasure of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor AFL-CIO.
AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
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BBC World – No links yet.
SKY News – BREAKING
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
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No contests here this time, but here’s a big WOO HOO for those that had ’em and won! Hope springs eternal…
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Latest news from BBC World Radio report from Jordan!
At least 53 people have been killed and more than 200 were injured in explosions at international hotels in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
The Grand Hyatt, Radisson and Days Inn hotels were hit in near-simultaneous blasts at about 21:00 (19:00 GMT).
Police say they suspect the attacks were carried out by suicide bombers.
One explosion occurred in a wedding hall where 300 Jordanians were celebrating. Muasher said a suicide bomber detonated his explosives in the wedding party. Black smoke rose into the night and wounded stumbled out of the hotels.
Breaking News – SKY TV
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
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On MSNBC a min. ago I saw Bruce Willis telling the [truth?] about Iraq.
He says the schools are being built, infrastructure that has been absent there for 30 yrs. is under constuction, the war is being won,,, blah bla bla.
My question is this. Did I really see him on MSNBC, spewing, or have I gone mad?
Please help me. I`m doubting my sanity.