apologists

The right wing media is in a frenzy today over the plan to send homeland security and disaster alerts to your cellphone. Listen to Limbaugh going off on the “regimes” plan today:

I really hope that Limbaugh is talking about the Bush regime. This plan was authored by Tea Party poster boy, Jim DeMint in 2006 and passed by Congress and also supported by an executive order signed by President Bush. In 2006 the GOP controlled all of Congress and the White House. This is a GOP plan, not a Democratic one.

Of course the apologists will start claiming that we are “blaming Bush” again, despite the fact that this plan was when President Obama was still Senator Obama – not even candidate Obama. Facts are a really hard thing for these people to stomach.

Stopping the "flow of illegal immigrants" across the border is so damn important that they are building this wall. I guess seeing that wall will prevent them from going around holes like this:

While the border wall will go through her backyard and effectively destroy her home, it will stop at the edge of the River Bend Resort and golf course, a popular Winter Texan retreat two miles down the road. The wall starts up again on the other side of the resort.

"It has a golf course and all of the amenities," Tamez says. "There are no plans to build a wall there. If the wall is so important for security, then why are we skipping parts?"

Oh but wait - it gets even better. Look what happens if you have friends with the initials George W. Bush:

Just 69 miles north, Daniel Garza, 76, faces a similar situation with a neighbor who has political connections that reach the White House. In the small town of Granjeno, population 313, Garza points to a field across the street where a segment of the proposed 18-foot high border wall would abruptly end after passing through his brick home and a small, yellow house he gave his son. "All that land over there is owned by the Hunts," he says, waving a hand toward the horizon. "The wall doesn't go there."

In this area everyone knows the Hunts. Dallas billionaire Ray L. Hunt and his relatives are one of the wealthiest oil and gas dynasties in the world. Hunt, a close friend of President George W. Bush, recently donated $35 million to Southern Methodist University to help build Bush's presidential library. In 2001, Bush made him a member of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, where Hunt received a security clearance and access to classified intelligence.

So this White House sez:

The head of the federal agency investigating Karl Rove's White House political operation is facing allegations that he improperly deleted computer files during another probe, using a private computer-help company, Geeks on Call.

Scott Bloch runs the Office of Special Counsel, an agency charged with protecting government whistleblowers and enforcing a ban on federal employees engaging in partisan political activity. Mr. Bloch's agency is looking into whether Mr. Rove and other White House officials used government agencies to help re-elect Republicans in 2006.

At the same time, Mr. Bloch has himself been under investigation since 2005. At the direction of the White House, the federal Office of Personnel Management's inspector general is looking into claims that Mr. Bloch improperly retaliated against employees and dismissed whistleblower cases without adequate examination.

Their has been a lot of buzz the last few days over Ann Coulter calling John Edwards a "faggot". I chose not to cover it because I feel that the more publicity Coulter gets, the more fuel she has for her outlandish comments. Today I had to cave because of Keith Olbermann, who took time from his vacation last night to call in the World's Worst on Countdown.

We got Limbaugh saying that Obama owns Al Sharpton because Obama has a history of slave owners in his family and Sharpton's family was once owned by Strom. Coulter and her "faggot" comment earns her the top honor, while Gingrich showed his true hatred with this comment:

How can you have the mess we have in New Orleans, and not have had deep investigations of the federal government, the state government, the city government, and the failure of citizenship in the Ninth Ward, where 22,000 people were so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn't get out of the way of a hurricane.

Wow Newt. Why didn't you just say that it was the "stupid niggers" in the 9th ward? Considering the 9th ward is mostly African-American and your use of "uneducated" that is what you were implying.

Back to Coulter. There has been a lot of outrage on right wing blogs over her comments. Some I believe is sincere, but others I believe is nothing more than grand standing. When you watch the video of Coulter making the comment it was met with applause and laughter from the conservative filled room:

From Reuters

An intelligence report showing an upsurge in Islamic militancy put the White House on the defensive on Wednesday in an election-year debate over whether President George W. Bush has made America safer.

In a second blow to the president, a new U.N. report said the Iraq war was providing al Qaeda with a training center and fresh recruits, and was inspiring a Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan hundreds of miles away.

Well at least we got the U.N. and the U.S. in agreement now. Bush and his merry pack of apologists seem to be the only ones in denial now.

Rasmussen has
released a new poll that Bush apologists are certain to jump on. That poll
paints a very interesting and deceitful picture:

December 28, 2005--Sixty-four percent (64%) of Americans believe the
National Security Agency (NSA) should be allowed to intercept telephone
conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people
living in the United States. A Rasmussen Reports survey found that just 23%
disagree.

Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Americans say they are following the NSA
story somewhat or very closely.

Just 26% believe President Bush is the first to authorize a program like
the one currently in the news. Forty-eight percent (48%) say he is not while
26% are not sure.

Sure 64% believe that. One problem with the wording of the question though.
They forgot to include the main issue at hand which would be intercepting calls
with or without a court issued warrant. This leads to a extremely false data on
the current issue. I bet if they included the words "with a court approved
warrant" that number would of gained 20 points just the same as if they included
the words "without a court approved warrant" the same number would of dropped by
a considerable amount.

None the less, the damage is out and you can be certain right wing rags like
NewsMax will jump on this poll as gospel. It is amazing how the addition or
removal of certain words in a poll can drastically change the outcome. This is
just proof of that from a typical right-leaning polling company.