McCain slips to new lows

McCain Blame Game

In stark contrast to most analysis of the Clinton/North Korea situation, McCain sinks to a new low on the "Republicans blame Clinton for Bush's failures" bandwagon.

Did Bush/Rove pay McCain for this break from reality, or did "I support the man who insulted my family to campaign against me" McCain volunteer this nugget of irresponsible, unprincipled drivel himself? I guess it just doesn't matter why they blame, only that they do it, over and over and over.

TRACKING OUTRIGHT LIES BY AND FOR REPUBLICANS

TAXES

"We also saw last week the man that, if the Democrats were in control, would be chairman of the Ways and Means Committee saying you would get across-the-board tax increases..."
OUTRIGHT LIE BY Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman, October 6, 2006 Fox News Your World with Neil Cavuto

ACTUAL TRUTH Would-be chairman of the Ways and Means Committee Charley Rangal actually said the opposite ON THE SAME SHOW Sept. 26th:

CAVUTO: Would any of the taxes that the president cut -- just income taxes -- be raised or be looked at being raised under Democrats, even in -- on the upper income, the 35 percent rate, maybe bring it back to 39.5 percent?

REP. RANGEL: We don't bring anything back. We would not raise taxes. We would not roll back. The president has -- had allowed these things to expire in 2010. I think -- and I would not advocate or support a retroactive increase in taxes.

Cavuto did not challenge Mehlman on October 6th.

Lies, lies, lies...they can't win without 'em.

Bush: Making the perfect the enemy of the good (rational safety)

A short history of how Bush screwed up our deal with N. Korea

I wonder if their test revealed that a nuke can reach California.

Clinton won; Republicans are losing

Obviously, there's much more to be relieved about in this analysis of why Republican's are sinking in American opinion than Clinton being proved right about 9-11. Finally, the truth about this government and Iraq is coming to light. However, I must point out that after all the lies and Rovian campaign to blame Clinton for 9-11 (something I found particularly cowardly and such a symptom of irresponsiblity and blame by the White House and Congress--even if they were right (they are not)! here is a poll that says 58% of Americans think Secretary RICE did not "do enough" to fight Al Queda before 9-11. I think she protested too much...thank G-d people didn't believe her...

Newsweek Poll

Dear Larry King,

Please keep in mind that "pro-family" does not mean "conservative." I am a very pro-family liberal, as are 95% of my hundreds of friends. If only our nation's policies were pro-child (health insurance for all children, a stay-at-home mom economy, less alcohol and emotional abuse, equal educational resources, an honest, transparent government, etc.).

[Larry King repeatedly defined pro-family voters as Republicans who would not vote in this election because of the Foley scandal)

When it's close

Delay should have already illustrated this for the American people, but it wasn't until Foley that people have begun asking how far Republicans will go to retain their majority in the people's House.

I guess sex is the last line people will draw for politicians, meanwhile they can screw us all they want with bribe money, breaking laws, failing wars, corporate corruption, undermining our economy, and overwriting the constitution.

Rush Limbaugh is blaming Democrats for this scandal! Show us, Rush. Your twisted, maniacally anti-Democrat fantasy is not enough evidence.

A tale of perversion and cover-up

So let me get this straight, the Republican controlled congress never dealt with the extremely corrupt Delay, the Republican leadership sat by until Delay resigned on his own under threat of felony conviction (long after the charges were in place).

Now we have Rep. Foley, a gay guy with a reputation for harassing pages, the Republican leadership finds out about it months ago (at least) and someone investigates the situation by asking FOLEY if he did anything wrong. Foley doesn't get removed from the committee on Missing and Exploited Children until the page's messages hit the press.

Some people wasted NO TIME in pulling down Foley's congressional web page and his campaign page, it's like the man didn't exist. The cache is gone, too. Isn't his Congressional page still public information?

My point here is actually this:

REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS ARE NOT THE SAME, 2006

When Rep. William Jefferson was suspected of taking bribes, Nancy Pelosi immediately took him off of his committee.

When Rep. Foley was suspected of soliciting sex with underage pages, the Republican leadership ignored it and protected Foley's position on the Committee for EXPLOITED and Missing Children.

The parties are not the same.