Saturday Afternoon News Roundup
Posted by Phoenix Woman on July 21, 2007
– Chris Shays [R-CT] got into a little altercation with Capitol Police the other day. Heated words were exchanged. Of course, this will not get anywhere near the attention that the press gave to a similar incident that wound up forcing Cynthia McKinney from office.
– Think Progress has a good rundown of just how utterly Bush and Cheney and Rove and Norquist have turned the Federal government into yet another arm of the Republican Party.
– Senate Republicans are growing increasingly nervous about staying in Iraq, and Democrats are growing more confident in their progress on getting our troops out of there. This is very likely due to Harry Reid’s brilliant move this week wherein he deprived the Senate Republicans of the chance to placate their anti-war consitituents by voting for bogus legislation that pretends to withdraw troops but actually does nothing of the kind.
– Oh, and the Republican efforts to permanently keep the Fairness Doctrine from ever being revived have themselves been quashed. Wahey!
Charles said
No wonder they’re losing the war in Iraq. They’re micromanaging so many political events that they don’t have time to do their jobs competently.
Phoenix Woman said
Exactly.
MEC said
I think they believe micromanaging political events is their job, so they don’t even bother doing the real work.
shrimplate said
Have the congressional Republicans ever really even had jobs since Clinton left office?!
Emphyrio said
Where did that graphic come from?
Is there a commercial out there where cowboys herd digital cats?
Assistant Village Idiot said
Perhaps if Shays had assaulted the officer, and/or not apologised after, the incident would get more attention. False equivalence.
Charles – a very revealing comment that “they’re” losing the war in Iraq. Are the wingnuts correct then when they accuse the Democrats, who were very much part of initiating the war, are no longer on our side? I am hoping not, but comments such as yours give one pause. The correct pronoun is “we.”
MEC said
Emphyrio, the graphic is from an ad that EDS ran during the Super Bowl some years ago. YouTube has a copy. You must see it; it’s a classic.
Assistant Village Idiot, it is appropriate to refer to say “they”, not “we”, are losing the war in Iraq because the Bush White House is not a government of “We the People” but of “they the Bush loyalists.” Examples are rife of concerted efforts to oust from government offices anyone whose personal loyalty to George W. Bush cannot be proven.
Charles said
Assistant Village Idiot, Bush and his cronies are losing the war they illegally started by lying this nation into war using the body of one of my family members. So go f–k yourself, ok?