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jhuth's Journal
Rush has no credibility, just as the GOP has no credibility.
Operation Chaos failed, and so has pretty much any stunt Rush has promoted over the last few years. Really, Rushbo has only succeeded in getting a fat paycheck, and a fat body. Painting him as the face of the GOP, I think is fairly accurate right now, as he represents the right wing base perfectly. I do understand that the radio markets have not been fair to Progressive talk, however, Rush's ratings give him a huge audience. He IS who the GOP listens to. I think he is losing hearts and minds for them every day. His schtick isn't working. If we continue to move towards making him the face of the GOP, do we risk using too much of a Straw Man? How do we know when he's no longer the face of the GOP? Personally, I'd rather he slowly remove himself from politics and slink away to irrelevance....but that's not going to happen. I do want him to fail. That's different than wanting our President, and our Country, to fail.   "Thank you, Lindsey, and, thank you, my fellow Republicans.
I'm truly grateful for the privilege of addressing you. This week, millions of Americans, not all Republicans, weigh our claim on their support for the two men who have led our country in these challenging times with moral courage and firm resolve. So I begin with the words of a great American from the other party, given at his party's convention in the year I was born. My purpose is not imitation, for I can't match his eloquence, but respect for the relevance in our time of his rousing summons to greatness of an earlier generation of Americans. In a time of deep distress at home, as tyranny strangled the aspirations to liberty of millions, and as war clouds gathered in the West and East, Franklin Delano Roosevelt accepted his party's nomination by observing: "There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny." The awful events of September 11, 2001 declared a war we were vaguely aware of, but hadn't really comprehended how near the threat was, and how terrible were the plans of our enemies. It's a big thing, this war."  Note he sports the "bushchop". His speech was the speech of a "war president". http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/repconv04/... I had to do this.
 I'm interested in creating a time line of what the talking points were over the past 7 years, mostly because I think nobody else has done that...well I can't find one anyway.
Here's just a few biggies off the top of my head. Yelling them makes them very entertaining by the way. -We're fighting them over there so we don't have to here! -Nobody could have anticipated (fill in the blank)! -They hate us for our freedoms! -9/11 changed everything! -This is a different kind of war! -John Edwards is the number four Liberal in the Senate! -Al Gore said he invented the internet! -What we have to do is look forward! -Valerie Plame was not covert and only had a desk job! -Saddam Hussein was the next Hitler and Iraq the next Nazi Germany! -Valerie Plame was "Well-known" Before Rove and Libby Outed Her! -Zarqawi's Death a Major Blow Against Terrorism in Iraq! (the list goes on and on) It would be so handy to have an organized database of these. Would anyone here like to contribute a quick list of their "favorites" I'll look them all up and do the time line. I think this would be a fun project. Thanks to all who help.  Judge rejects Craig's effort to reverse his guilty plea
"Judge denies Senator's request to withdraw his guilty plea to bad bathroom behavior. Craig's future in U.S. Senate appears in doubt." Story Here http://www.startribune.com/587/story/14649... The new logo.  http://www.gopconvention.com/media/logo/ Just trying to get in touch with the inner *.
 I can't decide.
 Future cuts?
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/n... http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=e... Democrats slam budget cuts for Veterans services. (2005) http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/03/19/... / ADMINISTRATION'S BUDGET WOULD CUT HEAVILY INTO MANY AREAS OF DOMESTIC DISCRETIONARY SPENDING AFTER 2005 http://www.cbpp.org/2-27-04bud2.htm  "according to the Disabled American Veterans, the Bush Budget could effectively ignore over 520,000 Priority Group 8 veterans, denying them access to the VA health system by 2005" http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/il09_... Veterans Groups Critical of Bush's VA Budget (2004) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A... Senator Mikulski Stands Up for Veterans in Fiscal Year 2005 VA Budget http://mikulski.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=2... Snapshot of How VA Budget Shortfall is Hurting Veterans’Access to Safe and Timely Care across the Nation http://veterans.house.gov/democratic/budge... "I don't understand how someone can stand up and say, 'I'm pro-military,' when you want to cut $16 billion from the VA and close VA hospitals" http://www.tedmills.com/2004/03/the_interv... "The president ignored veterans in the State of the Union Address and with today's release of his 2005 budget, it is further evident that veterans are no longer a priority with this administration" ~Veterans of Foreign Wars, Feb 2 2004 http://www.vfw.org/index.cfm?fa=news.newsD... "Support the Warrior Not the War: Give Them Their Benefits!" ~Common Dreams March 28, 2003 http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0328-1... "Veterans' care squeezed by VA Many lose coverage under new policy" May 2003 http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/05/2... "It all started when George Bush needed to cut $85 billion in 2003 so he could make his second tax cut possible. The cut to future funding for vets came while Americans were holding rallies with the cry to "Support Our Troops". Even then I asked how we were to support our troops in war when we won’t support them after the war? The House of Representatives voted to cut funding for veteran's health care and benefit programs $85 billion over the next ten years. It narrowly passed by a vote of 215 to 212, and came just a day after Congress passed a resolution to 'Support Our Troops.'" ~ March 2006 http://www.politicalgateway.com/main/colum... "The Bush Administration's 2004 budget proposed gutting Veterans Administration (VA) services, including health care funding. Proposed cuts included: denying at least 360,000 veterans access to health care; $250 annual premiums; increased pharmacy co-payments; a 30 percent increased primary care co-payments; and increased waiting time for a first medical appointment. Because of budgetary shortfalls, the VA suspended the enrollment of veterans not injured in service earning between $24,450 and $38,100 annually. VFW officials estimated the administration's VA budget is at least $2 billion short of meeting the demand for quality health care. The FY 2004 budget approved by Congress calls for reducing VA funding over a 10-year period by $6.2 billion. Cuts are in the areas of veterans' health care and disability benefits." ~January 2004 http://www.thinkingpeace.com/pages/Article... Claim vs. Fact: Treatment of Troops at a Time of War http://www.americanprogress.org/kf/bushtro... AFGE RESPONDS TO PRESIDENT'S EFFORT TO CUT VETERANS HEALTH CARE FUNDING "Recent news reports offer fresh evidence that the president is playing a budget shell game with our veterans’ health care" http://www.afge.org/Index.cfm?Page=PressRe... I found so many articles like this I can't list them all. Ask any * supported why this is suddenly news now? Why has their awareness been so terribly supressed? DO they really support the troops, or do they support the "idea" of troops fighting and killing for freedom, but beyond that who cares? Ask them why are there an estimated "200,000 homeless veterans on any given night"? http://www.nchv.org/background.cfm Why do we even have to have a National Coalition for Homeless Veterans? Perhaps it is OUR time to sport "Support The Troops" magnets on our vehicles. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/03/02/s... I'm game as long as nobody is getting rich off the sales, all the profits should be donated to the troops. Why the hell have the righties given up on that mantra anyway? I hardly see a "that thing got a hemi" with that magnet anymore.  One party with a solid lead, so true.
 "Wednesday" the rule was declared by my boss. "NO POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS" From Meet The Press today.
"RUSSERT: Senator DeWine, if they want us out, and they’re in favor of attacking us, why are we still there? SEN. DeWINE: Tim, I was shocked by that as well. But you know, on reflection, this is their country. There’s a lot of things going wrong. You blame someone who is there. Still does not change that we’re not in Iraq primarily for the Iraqis." I have often though the Iraqi's are irrelevant to * and his party. They acually think of them as the enemy as a whole. Look at their "Shock and Awe", does that show we are a caring nation? Is it worth the lives of innocent thousands to kill one terrorist? The Republican Party acts as if the Iraqi people are worthless, and their support of the military strategy used so far proves this. DeWine's quote from page 5 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15046615/page/... / Entire interview and video. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608 /  |
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