This has got me absolutely speechless: Mr. 9/11 himself, the man who was the mayor of the town that took the biggest hit on 9/11, is now denying it ever happened? “What [Obama] should be doing is following the right things Bush did. One of the right things he did was treat this as a […]
Here is an interesting fact the internet has pulled up. On December 28, 2009, President Obama made his first public comments about the attempted bombing on Christmas day – 3 days after the incident. On December 28, 2001, President Bush made his first public comments about Richard Reid’s failed bombing attempt. That was 7 days […]
To keep the record straight on the details about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, I want to do a quick recap: In 2007, under Bush, two of Abdulmutallab co-conspirators were released from Gitmo and sent to Saudi Arabia. (source) Abdulmutallab was given a visa to the United States in June 2008, despite being on the terrorist watch […]
Their is still furor on the right over that DHS report. I particularly like this line: Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, the House Republican leader, said Wednesday he was offended that veterans were characterized as potential domestic terrorists Yeah – how could we assume military veterans would become domestic terrorist! Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, […]
When you have a political party whose biggest star spokesperson is a complete moron, well you end up with The Republican Party and Joe the “Plumber” I think SEIU sums it up great: Watch Joe the Plumber’s clueless rambling and then pass on the video to your friends. Corporate front groups can continue to prop […]
By having his agencies screw up the terrorist watch list: A new Justice Department audit shows that for nearly three years the FBI gave outdated, incomplete and error-riddled data about terror suspects to be added to the government’s watchlist. Overall, the audit by the department’s inspector general gives the FBI a mixed review for its […]
McCain is in it knee deep when Klein is even going after him: Hagee is a loose cannon Revelation literalist who believes that a Greater Israel–including the Palestinian territorities–will presage Armeggedon and the Rapture. He isn’t a big fan of Roman Catholicism. This is an interesting political situation for McCain, who angered wingnuts by–honorably–dissing Cincinnati […]
Russ Feingold has issued the following statement regarding his walk out of today’s hearings on the Constitutional Amendment on Marriage: “Today’s markup of the constitutional amendment concerning marriage, in a small room off the Senate floor with only a handful of people other than Senators and their staffs present, was an affront to the Constitution. […]
Remember, Republicans say they live in a post 9/11 world while Democrats live in a pre-9/11 world. WASHINGTON – The Dubai firm that won Bush administration backing to run six U.S. ports has at least two ties to the White House. One is Treasury Secretary John Snow, whose department heads the federal panel that signed […]