downfall

Mediabistro has the official statement from FOX on the Nevada debate:

'News organizations will want to think twice before getting involved in the Nevada Democratic Caucus which appears to be controlled by radical fringe out-of-state interest groups, not the Nevada Democratic Party. In the past, Moveon.org has said they ‘own’ the Democratic party — while most Democrats don’t agree with that, it’s clearly the case in Nevada' -- David Rhodes, VP

David Rhodes, in a single paragraph, has shown the exact reason why Democrats don't want to associate with FOX news. He is taking the same path as Roger Ailes, who continued his attack on Barack Obama last night by calling him a "terrorist".

At the same speech last night, Roger Ailes also showed how delusional he truly is:

This pressure must be resisted as it has been in the past. Any candidate for high office of either party who believes he can blacklist any news organization is making a terrible mistake about journalists. And any candidate of either party who cannot answer direct, simple, even tough questions from any journalist runs a real risk of losing the voters.

When FOX continually does partisan attacks against Democrats then why should Democrats even credit FOX as being a "news organization"? Sure Olbermann has become a spokesperson for the left, but MSNBC also has on numerous conservative shows. Now that is "fair and balanced".

The New York Times: 

The insurgency in Iraq is now self-sustaining financially, raising tens of millions of dollars a year from oil smuggling, kidnapping, counterfeiting, connivance by corrupt Islamic charities and other crimes that the Iraqi government and its American patrons have been largely unable to prevent, a classified United States government report has concluded.

The report, obtained by The New York Times, estimates that groups responsible for many insurgent and terrorist attacks are raising $70 million to $200 million a year from illegal activities. It says $25 million to $100 million of that comes from oil smuggling and other criminal activity involving the state-owned oil industry, aided by "corrupt and complicit" Iraqi officials.

As much as $36 million a year comes from ransoms paid for hundreds of kidnap victims, the report says. It estimates that unnamed foreign governments - previously identified by American officials as including France and Italy - paid $30 million in ransom last year.

Remember when the talking heads would try and lead you to believe the insurgency was the equivalent to farmers with pitchforks? How about when Rumsfeld said they didn't predict a robust insurgency? Now that they are self-sustaining the problems have just grown. No longer do we have the scapegoats of Syria or Iran - the problem is totally within Iraq and we have no plan to cure it. This is the product of piss-poor planning by our administration and this will be a major downfall for us in Iraq.

Yesterday North Korea called Condi Rice a 'imbecile'. Today, the ultra-conservative Insight Magazine is calling her incompetent and calling on Bush to replace her:

Conservative national security allies of President Bush are in revolt against Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, saying that she is incompetent and has reversed the administration’s national security and foreign policy agenda.

The conservatives, who include Newt Gingrich, Richard Perle and leading current and former members of the Pentagon and National Security Council, have urged the president to transfer Miss Rice out of the State Department and to an advisory role. They said Miss Rice, stemming from her lack of understanding of the Middle East, has misled the president on Iran and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

"The president has yet to understand that people make policy and not the other way around," a senior national security policy analyst said. "Unlike [former Secretary of State Colin] Powell, Condi is loyal to the president. She is just incompetent on most foreign policy issues."

So we have numerous that have called for Rumsfeld to be fired and now they are calling for Condi to be fired. When will these people wake up and realize it isn't just the team that needs to be fire, but rather the team and coach?

Bush doesn't care about the job Condi does. As long as she is "loyal", she can do anything. That is the only resume requirement Bush has, loyality, and that is what has been the biggest downfall of Bush. Loyalty means telling someone they are wrong when you know they are wrong, not kissing their ass 24/7. Of course Bush is to much of an idiot to even recognize that.

One of the most powerful committees in Congress is the House Appropriations
Committee. The chairmen of the committee must hold the highest ethical standards
because the influence of bribery and greed is so great. This is what lead to the
conviction and downfall of Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, the former committee
chairman.

So who will be a good ethical person to replace the disgraced Congressman
from California? How about Tom Delay. You might think I am joking but this is no
joke. As Delay highlighted in his speech Saturday when he announced he would not
seek to retain his position as Majority Leader:

I will continue to serve my constituents and seek re-election to a 12th
term representing Texas' 22nd district while I work to clear my name of the
baseless charges leveled against me. I will also be reclaiming my seat on
the Appropriations Committee when the second session of the 109th Congress
convenes later this month.

Read full letter

here.

So the man who is already indicted for fraud, facing a highly probably
indictment in the Jack Abramoff scandal, involved in another investigation
involving bank fraud and also being looked at for possible connections in the
Duke Cunningham scandal is now going to be put in charge of this committee. Why
not release the thieves out of jail and make them all police officers? Perhaps
O.J. Simpson should hold marriage counseling classes or Michael Jackson open up
a day care.

The corruption with these Republicans will not stop even when it is being
exposed. The only way to put an end to it is by force and that force comes in
the form of votes. Vote everyone of them out of office in disgrace.

So I am sitting at home, surfing the net when I decided to
check the latest headlines on ‘My Yahoo’. It is by far one of the most popular
services out there that is used in order to keep up on news and other items, as
matter of fact you can keep up to date on new posts I make here through this
free service.

One of my most favorite features of this service is the
“most emailed stories” section. It gives you a sense of what people are talking
about around the internet. It keeps track of stories by the number of people who
actually click the “email story” link in order to share it.

So as I am reading, I found the third most emailed story on
the list as something that sounded really familiar. “Rape Spurs Anti-Hispanic
Backlash in Ohio” the headline read. Living in Ohio I had to check it out.

HAMILTON, Ohio - It started with the spray-painted,
misspelled "Rapest" on the house of a Hispanic man accused of sexually
assaulting a 9-year-old white girl. Then the house went up in flames in a
suspected arson.

That’s how the article starts. Wow I can’t believe it. I
actually don’t live in Hamilton, Ohio but I am very close, as matter of fact I
am so close all you have to do is walk out my backyard and go through the gate
in the fence and you are in Hamilton. Needless to say, this story came as no
shock since it has been the hot topic around town.

One of our countries darkest hours has been rekindled.
Last week we learned the secret identity of a man who led to the downfall of an
American President. Mark Felt, the former second in command of the FBI broke his
thirty year silence and exposed himself as the famous “Deep Throat”.

Ironically this comes at a time when news of scandals
amongst Republicans seems to be as common as insurgent attacks in Iraq. This is
another thorn the Republican Party does not need. As if the Republican spin
machine hasn’t been already been in high gear trying to downplay the Downing
Street Memo, and Tom Delay’s alleged ethics violations, now it must go into
overtime. The Republicans must spin harder than ever and make Americans stop
thinking about Watergate.

It is no shock that we are seeing an onslaught of Nixon
supporters. They are coming out of the wood work defending Nixon’s involvement
in the Watergate Scandal. They are even going as far as to say Mark Felt
committed a treasonous act by releasing his information to the Washington Post.

Now take into consideration the scandalous Bill Clinton.
This is a man that the Republican Party has worked hard to demonize. Bill
Clinton, while serving as President of the United States, did the unthinkable.
He had an extra marital affair in the White House. To make matters even worse he
denied it under oath, something that led to a vote of impeachment against him.

That is why we should support Nixon. After all he was
never impeached; he stood down before Congress had the chance to. And Richard
Nixon did not do anything as unthinkable as getting a blow job from an intern.
No he just participated in some late night meetings organizing the breaking into
of the opponent’s party headquarters.