The Bush-"Legacy"

[PLC1]

Parties wax and wane. As soon as they become too dominant, their faults begin to outweigh the faults of the other party, and the pendulum swings back the other way.

Yes, one party gets so bad that the other is the lesser of the evils, and gets voted in to power. It isn't long before that party gets even worse than the one that was voted out, and we change again.

Wouldn't it be nice for once to have a choice between good and better, instead of between bad and worse?

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Yes, one party gets so bad that the other is the lesser of the evils, and gets voted in to power. It isn't long before that party gets even worse than the one that was voted out, and we change again.

Be patient.

After Obama has fattened-up our Rainy-Day Fund$ (our National Treasury)...just like Bill Clinton did....the "conservatives" will (once, again) make every effort to convince voters how immoral the Obama Admin was....and, how D.C. needs to be cleaned-up, and proceed to rape our National Treasury....once again.​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

The clean-up (after BUSHCO) continues....​

"Margaret A. Hamburg, the new commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, wants to reorient the sprawling bureaucracy and remake it into the key federal agency that protects public health.

"It really goes back to what the FDA was about from the very beginning: a very clear public health mission but with a regulatory framework for action," Hamburg said yesterday, adding that she wants to increase transparency and pump up enforcement.

"The FDA has been seen as a cold regulatory agency and also something of a black box," she said. "We have a chance to open it up and make sure the American people have the safe, high-quality foods they need, the safe and high-quality drugs and medical equipment they need."

During the Bush administration, consumer groups charged that the FDA was making decisions on the basis of political ideology and not science. The agency was lambasted on Capitol Hill for a series of food-borne illnesses, the most recent of which was a salmonella outbreak that sickened 700 people, killed nine and prompted the largest recall in U.S. history. <Another record-breaker, for Lil' Dumbya!>

The FDA also has been slammed by its own scientists for approving medical devices without proper vetting. And it has been unable to ensure the safety of imported goods pouring into the United States from around the world, including food, drugs and raw materials.

Hamburg, a Harvard-trained physician, is a former health commissioner of New York City and was an assistant secretary at Health and Human Services during the Clinton administration. Most recently, she was vice president for biological programs at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a think tank.

In the short time that Hamburg and her principal deputy, Joshua Sharfstein, have been running the agency, the FDA has announced nearly daily warnings about various consumer products. Yesterday, the agency warned the public not to use three Zicam brand over-the-counter cold remedies because they have caused some people to lose their sense of smell.

"We've changed our posture to one that is more aggressive and forward leaning," Hamburg said."

 

[PLC1]

Be patient.

After Obama has fattened-up our Rainy-Day Fund$ (our National Treasury)...just like Bill Clinton did....the "conservatives" will (once, again) make every effort to convince voters how immoral the Obama Admin was....and, how D.C. needs to be cleaned-up, and proceed to rape our National Treasury....once again.​

Obama is "fattening up our rainy day funds?"

Fattening them up by continuing Bush's out of control deficit spending, and even increasing it?

What color is the sky in that alternate universe you call home?

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Obama is "fattening up our rainy day funds?"

Whew!!!

Have you ever considered dealing-with your reading-comprehension issues?

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"After Obama has fattened-up our Rainy-Day Fund$ (our National Treasury)...just like Bill Clinton did..."​

 

[PLC1]

Whew!!!

Have you ever considered dealing-with your reading-comprehension issues?

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Oh, so you don't mean something that has happened, but something that is going to happen sometime in the distant future.

Do you see any indication that said distant future is actually going to arrive in my lifetime or yours?

BTW, it would be easier to read your posts without the cutesy colors, fonts, $ for S, and so on, not that many of us read them very often anyway.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Oh, so you don't mean something that has happened, but something that is going to happen sometime in the distant future.

Do you see any indication that said distant future is actually going to arrive in my lifetime or yours?

You mean....AGAIN????​

"The result was an economic program that was bold by conventional standards and did seek to reverse Reagonomics and redirect the country's economic resources from consumption to longer-term investmenthttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/5/25/151516/617, and at the same time to take a major bite out of the federal budget deficit. Clinton proposed deficit cuts of $493 billion over 5 years; increased spending, most of it on longer term investments such as job training, rebuilding the nation's infrastructure, education, and promoting high-tech; tax increases of $246 billion over five years; and net cuts in federal spending of $247 billion.

The answer to the current situation of weak jobs and wage growth and runaway spending is straightforward.

1.) Balance the budget. This will require repealing some of the rich's tax breaks. My heart bleeds.

2.) Target economic areas that will create jobs. I would personally target alternative energy, nano technology and stem cell research, although there are many others.

3.) Give the middle class -- and only the middle class -- a tax break.

All we have to do is follow the directions."​

 

[PLC1]

You mean....AGAIN????​

Gosh, your picture of Barack Obama looks a lot like someone else we used to know, even maybe someone who once occupied the same residence.

However, it doesn't look much like Obama.

Or, are you saying that all Democrats look alike?

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Gosh, your picture of Barack Obama looks a lot like someone else we used to know, even maybe someone who once occupied the same residence.

However, it doesn't look much like Obama.

Or, are you saying that all Democrats look alike?

I'm thinkin' that's the biggest-difference, between "conservatives" & Dems.

"conservatives" are more appearance-driven....more-comfortable around other (color-free) folks, like themselves.

Dems are more results-driven.

My (only) question would be....how do you folks explain Bob Barr????

 

[PLC1]

I'm thinkin' that's the biggest-difference, between "conservatives" & Dems.

"conservatives" are more appearance-driven....more-comfortable around other (color-free) folks, like themselves.

Dems are more results-driven.

My (only) question would be....how do you folks explain Bob Barr????

I'm not sure who you mean by "you folks", but why would Republicans have to explain the Libertarian nominee for president?

The Libertarians are the only conservatives left, since the Republican party was hijacked by the big government statists.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

bushco knew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!​

"former president george w. Bush ordered the invasion of iraq six years ago on the grounds that hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and posed a threat to international security. Administration officials at the time also strongly suggested iraq had significant links to al-qaeda, which carried out the sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the united states.

hussein, who was often defiant and boastful during the interviews, at one point wistfully acknowledged that he should have permitted the united nations to witness the destruction of iraq's weapons stockpile after the 1991 persian gulf war.

the fbi summaries of the interviews -- 20 formal interrogations and five "casual conversations" in 2004 -- were obtained under the freedom of information act by the national security archive, an independent non-governmental research institute, and posted on its web site yesterday. The detailed accounts of the interviews were released with few deletions, though one, a last formal interview on may 1, 2004, was completely redacted.

"the threat from iran was the major factor as to why he did not allow the return of un inspectors," piro wrote. "hussein stated he was more concerned about iran discovering iraq's weaknesses and vulnerabilities than the repercussions of the united states for his refusal to allow un inspectors back into iraq."

hussein noted that iran's weapons capabilities had increased dramatically while iraq's weapons "had been eliminated by the un sanctions," and that eventually iraq would have to reconstitute its weapons to deal with that threat if it could not reach a security agreement with the united states.

Piro raised bin laden in his last conversation with hussein, on june 28, 2004, but the information he yielded conflicted with the bush administration's many efforts to link iraq with the terrorist group. Hussein replied that throughout history there had been conflicts between believers of islam and political leaders. He said that "he was a believer in god but was not a zealot . . . That religion and government should not mix." hussein said that he had never met bin laden and that the two of them "did not have the same belief or vision."

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Great job, there, "moralists"!​

"This latest report from the Centers for Disease Control confirms it. All that talk of creationism and abstinence-only education set us back behind our global competitors such as India and China in terms of young Americans' scientific education. It also set us back in terms of fighting unwed teen pregnancy and spread of sexually-transmitted diseases."

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Since The Decider has been demoted to Commander In Poop-Scoopin'....​

"The Justice Department conceded Friday that it lacks the evidence to hold a teenage Guantanamo detainee as an enemy combatant after a federal judge last week ruled that his confession was inadmissible.

In a hearing last week, U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle ruled that Mohammed Jawad's confession to Afghan officials was inadmissible because it had been extracted through torture. She also questioned whether the Justice Department had any evidence to proceed with a trial to determine whether he can be held as an enemy combatant.

Huvelle called the case an "outrage" and told Justice Department lawyers that their case against Jawad had been "gutted."

Last year, a military judge determined that Afghan police threatened Jawad's family while he was undergoing interrogation at a Kabul police station. The judge also concluded there was evidence that Jawad was under the influence of drugs at the time of his capture and forced confession.

''You will be killed if you do not confess to the grenade attack,'' the detainee quoted an interrogator as saying. "We will arrest your family and kill them if you do not confess.''

 

[top gun]

The verdict has been in on Bush/Cheney... and it's neither pretty nor something the American people ever want to repeat...

 

[BigRob]

The verdict has been in on Bush/Cheney... and it's neither pretty nor something the American people ever want to repeat...

I was unable to watch the video as my speakers have broken, but what war crimes is Bush guilty of in your view?