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Reply to Bush's Cabinet: Rats Jumping a Sinking Ship, Or More? in Politics PolMach Forums

Wow. When I started this thread, I wouldn't of thunk it'd generate this. Some of the nominees still make me twitchy, hence why this article came into being. One at a time: Dr. Guy- If I was president and I had to assign blame to anyone, and I mean this earnestly, because my advisors and my cabinet seemed to be dealing with problems that went public as an embrassment to me, I'd fire just to save face. It wouldn't necessarly be anything personal

Reply to Bush is an Embarrassment in Politics PolMach Forums

[Bush declared no such thing. It has already been proven that banner on board ship was *not* his idea. And while Bushs people had the banner made, they did so at the "ships" request. Leaves an interesting point. If Bush knew it was untrue and he didn't want it, why didn't he order it taken down? He is t

Reply to Bush's Cabinet: Rats Jumping a Sinking Ship, Or More? in Politics PolMach Forums

But seriously, I dont see any melt down or Bush surrounding himself with Yes men/women. Just the normal attrition that occurs in a second term in office. We could compare it to Clinton and Reagan, and get similar results. I will disagree with you on the 'asleep' at the switch, as the DOD was already investigating abu Ghrai

Reply to Why I Dislike Rhetoric... in Politics JoeUser Forums

Coulter while very pretty does have a tendency to take it over the top. I couldn't bring myself to type those words either. I believe your refering to Ted Rall? Yeah, while as a liberal I can like Rall, usually, that was shameless and over the top and inexcusable. I don't think I'll read him anymore.

Reply to Policy changes for a second Bush term in Politics JoeUser Forums

I like what you say and how you say it, but what about employment (underemployed and unemployed) and health care? There's a huge amount of people not covered in this country and a even larger gulf of people getting poorer vs. richer. You discuss a lot of environmental and military policy, but some of the social issues are a larger question. My idea is repealing tax breaks for companies that outsource, hire illegal immigrants, and have lay offs during h

Reply to Bush is an Embarrassment in Politics PolMach Forums

As to the first question, there are different opinions. However, if the net result is that the government that emerges in Iraq is anti US and supportive of our enemies, we were wrong. As to the second question, Bush was dead wrong. He did not have a workable plan to win the peace and did not have the resourses needed to do

Reply to Polygamy bad gay marriage good in Politics PolMach Forums

Personally, I don't have a problem with polygamy or polyamory either, or the concept of having muitiple husbands. I expect the flame police to descend upon that statement anyday now. I can sum up the gay marriage/civil union argument like this: the government (not churches) give out heterosexual marriages and call them marriage. If, in fact, everyone's equal under the LAW of the United States, then the point

Bush's Cabinet: Rats Jumping a Sinking Ship, Or More? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Decided to go back to punditing versus trying the futile attempt at 'can't we all just get along?' I will open by saying that most of you have the right to say what you can about whatever you like, even if I find it inflammatory. I have the right to delete anything I deem over the top or just an attempt to piss me off. So, now we've covered the whole 'you have the rig

Reply to A Short Response to "Immigrants Assimilate" in Politics PolMach Forums

RE: "Immigrants Assimilate Or Get The Hell Out!" Why feature this self-evidently hateful article on the front page of JoeUser? There's not even a pretense of civility in the title. From where I'm standing, JoeUser has crossed th

Reply to Bush is an Embarrassment in Politics PolMach Forums

The Big picture in Iraq is that we have converted an evil Dictatorship into a terrorist operation. It is a measured choice as to which is worse. The real test will be what happens after their election and after we are no longer in Iraq. </

Reply to Why I Dislike Rhetoric... in Politics JoeUser Forums

Please do not put Hannity in the same catagory as Rush. They are not even close in their rehtoric. Try Rush Limbaugh, Neal Bortz, Michael Savage and G Gordon Liddy. They fall a little closer together. Now do not assume that I don't know Sean leans to the "right". Far from it. But he's not as far gone as the other 4 I mentioned.</

Why I Dislike Rhetoric... in Politics JoeUser Forums

I am a liberal Democrat. There's no two ways about it, and I'm as proud as any Republican to be who I am. I had made an argument on the political forums that someone had made the assumption that all liberals were brainwashed. I got a reply that pretty much that was the case considering another forum user made to seem to represent us. (I did blast him back

Reply to Wow, am I on? in Welcome JoeUser Forums

Fair enough. And I did tell you what I thought. I addressed a good part of what you had to say with my own opinion. The reason I chose to even ignore you is I could see this argument would of gone on in perpetua, with me blasting your choice of candidate and you yours. I'm glad you do believe that voting is the only way to go.

Reply to Wow, am I on? in Welcome JoeUser Forums

Thom, Your post reminds me of the old cliche, "What are you against?" "What'd you got?" I find it hypocritical that he did it in an election year, and the moment the man gets elected, he makes phone calls, which could arguably be made on the American people's dime. As for whining about something, isn't that the point of a blog? I did vote, thank you very much, and I voted for the man who was at once the biggest flip-fl

Reply to Tom Ridge resigns in Politics PolMach Forums

.......You know, there are only a few explanations for this. I made the analogy of rats and a sinking ship, and I didn't think it was a bad one, necessarly, but let's go down the list of the most known: Powell: Wasn't particularly known for supporting the war in Iraq. Seen by many as the most moderate voice in the cabinet. Ashcroft: Right wing nut job who's only contribution was the Patriot Act (damaging enough, sure, but it's really serve

Reply to Dems.in 06? in Democrat PolMach Forums

Wow...the convincing arguments are coming out of the woodwork here. *eye roll* Look, from a purely non-partisan point of view, the Democrats have a chance in '06 if the Republicans treat their new majority as if they got the mandate from Heaven and went overboard, crushing us into a quagmire and alienating the centerists that DON'T necessarly thing that Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity are the best thi

Wow, am I on? in Welcome JoeUser Forums

Hey, I've been wanting to post political stuffs for a long time, and have been doing it in my livejournal, and it's neat to have a place to put articles. Did I just say neat...someone kill me now. Anyhow, this is where I will, hopefully, be putting my observations on here on one of my favorite subjects that everyone wishes me to shut up about, politics. I