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03-22-2007, 04:22 PM | #1 | |
I think this line's mostly filler.
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The Legislative Branch has no oversight responsibility over the White House.
Here's the new talking point. [video]
The State Department seems to disagree a bit: Quote:
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03-22-2007, 05:38 PM | #2 |
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Please supply the video-challenged among us with some suitable con-text, if you please.
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03-22-2007, 06:55 PM | #3 |
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The thread title is a direct quote from Tony Snow, and he's been saying it on news shows throughout the day. More context is in the "via" link.
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03-22-2007, 07:34 PM | #4 |
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Thanks.
Tony Snow, and Alberto Gonzales, among others were selected more for their loyalty and devotion to the President, than for their loyalty and devotion to anything else, like the truth or the Constitution. I take his remarks with a grain of salt. I do accept the unfortunate truth that practically anything said long enough and loud enough is more likely to be scrutinized less, given more credit as "fact", despite the objective truth of the matter. :sigh:
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03-22-2007, 07:54 PM | #5 |
still says videotape
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What bums me out are all the impeachable offenses that are going unaddressed while they screw around with this.
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03-22-2007, 09:27 PM | #6 | |
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Congress is dealing with what they can because so many Americans - including a majority in The Cellar - remain so quiet about a George Jr administration that would even suspend writ of Habeas Corpus. How many voiced contempt for that in The Cellar. Only a tiny minority. Welcome to days of Nixon when so many Americans completely denied what Woodward and Bernstein were publishing. Those who learned from the movies (ie Watergate) would never understand. Almost no one was complaining about Watergate because ... well, just like today, many only stated a dislike. Dislike is akin to support of George Jr. A large majority in The Cellar - both domestic and foreign - post clear support of George Jr because their comments are not sufficiently negative. I see same active support of George Jr as during Watergate when a 'silent majority' also strongly supported Nixon and the Vietnam war - by so much silence. Same support for Nixon that kept America in Nam for seven more years is support of George Jr today. Exactly why impeachable crimes cannot even be considered. Even posters in Britain and China post what is strong support for George Jr. Silence is support. |
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03-22-2007, 10:52 PM | #7 | |
“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
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03-23-2007, 06:18 AM | #8 |
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You are, of course, correct. Unfortunately, sometimes people need to be lead.
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03-23-2007, 07:43 AM | #9 | |
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03-24-2007, 02:14 AM | #10 | |
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Over the past two years, Gonzales has been quietly approved when this is a guy who even refuses to close Guantanamo - as both Rice and Gate (Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense) - want. Why? This guy even condones unrestricted wire tapping. He even approves of international wire tapping without judicial review of when they even had a secret court to approve such spying. Well maybe this entire administration is so corrupt that no one bothers to speak out. Words like scumbag and mental midget would be routine if people were truly opposed. Such mild criticism is so little as to be approval. I don't see widespread condemnation of Gonzales, George Jr, "Mission Accomplished", wild and uncontrolled government spending, encouragement for war by the Israelis, intent to end the Nuclear Test Ban treaty, efforts to undermine the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Cheney's need for more presidential powers, corporate welfare to keep drug prices high, prosecution of those responsible for the CA energy crisis, destruction of science (ie stem cell research), White House lawyers rewriting science papers, America's poor relations through out the world - even with Mexico and Canada, etc. And then we have criminal after criminal activity among George Jr's closest supporters. Why so much quiet? |
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03-23-2007, 01:23 AM | #11 |
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Lying to Congress is nothing right?
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03-23-2007, 04:59 PM | #12 |
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I was also around for Nixon's fall and pardon....granted a young thing yet....but this adminstration's constellation of unprecedented power consolidation, manipulation and strategery- from signing statements, to political favors, to secret tapping, to torture, to haliburton, to abramoff, to plame, to misinformation and press manipulation, mismanagement, to secret prisons, to message leakage, to justice firing, to CIA tinkering and executive privilege... is making the break-in and Nixon taped arrogance look like the junior varsity. Many of the same crooks all grown up.
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03-23-2007, 06:22 PM | #13 |
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The Nixon Gang were pikers compared to this crowd.
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03-24-2007, 10:23 AM | #14 | |
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03-24-2007, 01:01 PM | #15 |
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Then Who's fault is it? The buck stops at the top. The one that sets the precedent, the one that controls his administration. If you say he doesn't control his administration, then that's another failure that's his fault.
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