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Q.: General, recently you changed your name from "Artificial Timetable" (or Timetable for short, or Art for real short) to "Time Horizon". What gives?

G.T.H.: Well, the surge is workin', it don't look like we're goan hafta fight 'em over here instead of over there, here meanin' home, the good ol' US of A that is, and we dam shore ain't goan cut n' run.

Q.: What does that have to do with you suddenly changing your name, General?

G.T.H.: Well it don't got nuthin' ta do with that liberal socialist Hussein Obama, that's fer shore too.

Q. Mr. Obama is supposed to meet with you in Baghdad sometime this weekend, according to what John McCain said yesterday. Most American officials have visited Iraq without public announcement in order to avoid alerting terrorists to their arrival. Why did McCain announce his political rival's trip ahead of time to the media?

G.T.H.: Well hell, he wants to win the election. This is war and we can't let the terrists win.

Q. Obama has been in favor of a timetable for withdrawal all along. Hasn't the Bush administration, under pressure as well from Iraqi PM al-Maliki, simply decided to face reality?

G.T.H.: What reality you talkin' 'bout, Willis? This is an asspirational goal, to draw down troop strength in Iraq so we can send 'em to Afghanistan to get killed and maimed. And we're also goan need fresh meat for the coming battle with Iran.

Uh, forget I said that last part.

That's the ticket.

Call his fucking bluff you spineless jellyfishes. Find some stones and DO YOUR FUCKING CHECK-AND-BALANCING JOBS.

The reason your fucking approval ratings are 9% is because you keep getting rolled by a 25% lame-duck president, you buncha pussies.

A constitutional law professor voting for this bill is just hideous. Taking an oath to uphold the Constitution and then voting for this bill is a travesty.

The really sad part is he would have lost nothing by voting for it. It was going down anyway. In that respect it was tailor-made for a Senator to simply to vote their conscience. He was afraid to be painted "soft on terror" in the general; that's the only reason.

I'm sick of this chickenshit response on the part of any Democrat every time someone points and yells "cut-and run"!

The various political calculations Obama has made in moving toward the center do not seem to be giving him anything in the polling. He's losing in Missouri, Nevada, Georgia (even with Barr in the race) and Florida again:

http://www.electoral-vote.com /

Undervoting the presidential where I live -- a red-ass state going Puke no matter what -- frees up my conscience as well as my time, energy, and money.

It's the same reason why I'm canceling my landline with AT&T and my cell service with Cingular. You gotta send a message somehow.

It's DeLay-ish in its sinister sociopathy for using government for one's personal gain in every conceivable way. It's almost like the serial killer who dares police to "stop me before I kill again".

And if you don't count the thousands of poor sick Texas children who have died due to this man's arrogant, willful neglect, then he's only raping every taxpayer in the state.

The only way to get rid of this miserable bastard is to elect a Democratic majority in the Texas House. Hell, even then we'll have to bust the balls of dipshits like Aaron Pena and Joe Deshotel and all of those other Craddickrats who can't seem to stop voting for him for Speaker.

This really roasts me.

Republican Claim: Voter Fraud is an "Epidemic" in Texas

FACT CHECK: Even fiercely partisan Republican Attorney General Abbott has admitted that after spending millions of Texas and federal taxpayer dollars investigating, "there have been few prosecutions in Texas." The Austin American Statesman editorialized: "Voter fraud is not an issue because Texas is not being flooded with unregistered voters and illegal immigrants flocking to the polls. That just isn't happening." (Source: Austin American-Statesman, April 26, 2007)

Republican Claim: Non-citizens voting is a major problem throughout the U.S.

FACT CHECK: The Department of Justice’s Ballot Access and Voting Integrity Initiative has resulted in just 14 convictions of non-citizens voting in the entire United States between 2002 and 2005. That is less then 5 noncitizens voting a year. (Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Public Integrity Section, Election Fraud Prosecutions & Convictions, Ballot Access & Voting Integrity Initiative, October 2002 – September 2005; The Politics of Voter Fraud, Minnite, Ph.D. Columbia University)

Republican Claim: Everyone has an ID

FACT CHECK: Even the Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute admitted that 37% of Texas residents over the age of 80 did not have a driver's license. (TCCRI Commentary, May 1, 2007)

Republican Claim: Democratic operatives are pushing the opposition to the Voter Suppression Bill

FACT CHECK: The objections to the voter ID legislation are broad and bipartisan. The bill is opposed by non-partisan groups like the AARP and League of Women Voters, as well as every major Texas newspaper and many local newspapers. (Source: Associated Press, April 23, 2007) Former Republican Party Political Director Royal Massett has been one of the most outspoken opponents of the bill saying: "Anyone who says all legal voters under this bill can vote doesn't know what he is talking about." (Source: The Houston Chronicle, April 26, 2007)

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James Ho (no puns please) is the same guy who co-wrote, with John Yoo, the DOJ memos authorizing waterboarding.

http://brainsandeggs.blogspot.com/2008/04/...

On the same weekend we find out that Cheney, Rice, et.al. have been micromanaging torture from the White House basement, the guy who gave them legal cover to do so became the state of Texas' attorney of record.

What was that David Van Os said about the flowering evil in Washington gets cultivated from roots grown in Austin? Well, this time the DC flower got replanted in Texas.

From his home state newspaper:

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/metro/s...

... we would be preparing to anoint Joe Lieberman as the 2008 Democratic presidential nominee.

So as we come closer to the end of our long quarrel -- has it only been three months? -- it's good that we take a moment and remember to thank (insert deity of choice here) for the occasionally beneficial unintended consequence.

Not to go all Freddie Stubbs, but look at this map:

http://gregsopinion.com/2008Prim_Senate/tx...

Now if Greg is accurate, and if I'm reading him right ...

That map says that Rick Noriega got less than one-third of Democratic primary voters in bright blue places like Beaumont/Port Arthur (Jefferson), Corpus (Calhoun/Matagorda), and Tyler/Longview (Smith/Gregg). All of East Texas would appear to be one very large uh-oh.

Rick is going to have to do some heavy stumping, from the Coastal Bend to the mouth of the Sabine and all the way up to Texarkana. Probably he ought to get started right away.

in West U. With help from caucus-goers who brought sign-in sheets and clipboards, we got them all signed in by 8:20. Still lots of grumbling. I'm sure many left without signing in.

So as a result I was not elected permanent convention chair, but still had to assist by telling the woman who was how to do everything, what to say. Now I know how Denise Davis felt working for Tom Craddick.

Our caucus went 63-37 Obama, with 20 delgates to him and 11 to her.

And I also got thumped in my re-election bid for precinct chair, 70-28. Sheesh. It's a good thing I don't have much of an ego.