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Karl Rove

Are you going to crash the damn gate or just kick a few boards out of it?

by: TXsharon

Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 06:22:41 AM CDT

(Best. Diary. Ever. Read it, act on it, or hang your head in shame. - promoted by dksbook)

Cross posted at Daily Kos. Please jump over there and give it a recommend!

You can’t crash the gate if you don’t know where the damn thing is!  The gate is NOT where you think it is!  It’s NOT on Capital Hill. 

We need real change and that can’t and won’t happen from the top down.

“…Dems need a plan…Dems need a spine…keep your powder dry…filibuster…don’t filibuster…get some balls…wait until after 06…pie…”

In Texas, we know what needs to happen.  We should know because Deep in the bowels of Texas is where it all began.

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Former Reagan Economist: How My GOP Broke the Economy

by: Libby Shaw

Tue Aug 03, 2010 at 18:55:29 PM CDT

President Reagan's former Office of Management and Budget Director, David Stockman, recently wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times.  Mr. Stockman chastises his party for its irresponsible and reckless fiscal policies.

Four Deformations of the Apocalypse

Not only does Mr. Stockman pin the blame for today's economic hardships squarely on Republican policies and ideologies but he also revealed the Republican Party has absolutely no intention of deviating from its present addiction to serial financial bubbles and Wall St. made havoc that have driven us into the present chasm. The Wall St. gambling casino practices, by the way, resulted in the biggest looting of the public purse in U.S. history.  Do Republicans embrace the endless looting of U.S. taxpayers to bail out Wall St.?

IF there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing. The nation's public debt - if honestly reckoned to include municipal bonds and the $7 trillion of new deficits baked into the cake through 2015 - will soon reach $18 trillion. That's a Greece-scale 120 percent of gross domestic product, and fairly screams out for austerity and sacrifice. It is therefore unseemly for the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, to insist that the nation's wealthiest taxpayers be spared even a three-percentage-point rate increase.

More fundamentally, Mr. McConnell's stand puts the lie to the Republican pretense that its new monetarist and supply-side doctrines are rooted in its traditional financial philosophy. Republicans used to believe that prosperity depended upon the regular balancing of accounts - in government, in international trade, on the ledgers of central banks and in the financial affairs of private households and businesses, too. But the new catechism, as practiced by Republican policymakers for decades now, has amounted to little more than money printing and deficit finance - vulgar Keynesianism robed in the ideological vestments of the prosperous classes.

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Maddow Shines Bright Light on FOX and GOP Race Baiting

by: Libby Shaw

Thu Jul 22, 2010 at 21:08:37 PM CDT

Vyan over at Daily Kos has written an excellent piece about MSNBC's Rachel Maddow's deconstruction of Fox's race baiting and the Republican Party's most recent southern strategy of scorched earth politics.

 

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The GOP to the Jobless: Starve and Go Homeless

by: Libby Shaw

Fri Jun 25, 2010 at 21:17:08 PM CDT

Once again the Republican Party tells the unemployed, the middle and working classes of America to go f**k themselves.

It seems that Bush/Cheney Co. neoconservative policy of deep tax cuts for corporate America  coupled with its crusade for acquiring the planet's oil through endless wars, failed to factor in the resulting economic and environmental devastation to the American people.  

No more Republican re-runs, thank you.  

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Thank You Rand Paul

by: Libby Shaw

Fri May 21, 2010 at 13:09:50 PM CDT

For you have torn off the mask and have unveiled the thinly shrouded southern Republican Party strategy, since the 1950's.

The GOP strategy, of course, includes blatant racism, exclusion, xenophobia, intolerance and hate. The toxic witches brew is mixed with an irrational hatred for big government.  

Thank you, Rand, for shining a bright and stark light on your party's deeply racist and crony capitalism ideology.

When Rand and his Republican Party members shriek about how they must

Take our country back

It tells us that Republicans yearn to return to an era before the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  Sarah Palin has the same message when she refers to

Real Americans.

GOP scorched earth politics strategist and opportunist, Karl Rove, and his side kick, the hate talker and snake oil multi-millionaire manipulator Rush Limbaugh must be so very proud of Rand Paul.

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Teabaggers Boo Right Wing Radio Host Off Stage

by: Libby Shaw

Mon Apr 19, 2010 at 20:00:47 PM CDT

Because he had the gall and audacity to criticize Sarah Palin.

Today is a busy one in Teabagistan.

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Karl Rove Flees from Women Protesters at CA Book Signing

by: Libby Shaw

Wed Mar 31, 2010 at 12:56:54 PM CDT

Karl Rove, a Vietnam War draft evading right wing war hawk, fled from the scene when a handful of ladies wearing pink hats confronted him at a book signing event.

Code Pink protesters at the Rove book signing event in Beverly Hills, CA let Karl Rove have it. Three or four women, at most, ripped his, Dick Cheney, and George W. Bush's clocks for lying about Iraq and their outing of a CIA officer. The women also accused Karl Rove of ruining our country.  That would be

totally ruining our country
according to one protester.  Another called Rove a war criminal.

One woman brought handcuffs and had attempted to make a citizens arrest. Karl Rove, unhinged and totally freaked fled from the event without signing a book.

Gosh, Karl, the ladies did not show up with assault rifles, semi-automatic weapons, white powder, mace, swords or whips, for crying out loud. Why are you so afraid of plastic handcuffs?

 

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HCR: Republicans in U.S. Congress Recite the Same Message

by: Libby Shaw

Sun Mar 21, 2010 at 20:07:48 PM CDT

There is little doubt that Frank Luntz, Republican strategist, in concert with health care lobbyists, prepared the script for Republicans.

All say the same thing, over and over and over.

Check out Republican manufactured buzz words that are supposed evoke fear and anxiety about health care reform.

Dangerous.

Like the Republicans having lied us into an unnecessary war and letting Wall St. run wild?

Ten years of tax increases

Yes there will be tax increases for folks like Frank Luntz, his colleague Karl Rove and fat cat the health insurance CEO.  Isn't it is well past the time that these boys and girls paid their fair share of taxes just like the rest of us have for years?  

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Poll Reveals Many Republicans Are Uninformed Extremists: Updated

by: Libby Shaw

Fri Feb 05, 2010 at 19:39:25 PM CST

Oh dear, who would have thought?  

It seems that the teabaggers, racists and right wing extremists have taken over the Republican Party.  Of those polled as self-identified Republicans, 39% believe President Obama should be impeached.  63% think he is a socialist.  42% do not believe the President was born in the United States.  31% believe President Obama hates white people. 23% want their state to secede from the U.S..

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The Luntz-Rove Nixonian Institute: A Training Program for Dismantling the Democratic Process

by: Libby Shaw

Tue Feb 02, 2010 at 22:32:17 PM CST

A former U.S. Attorney, Tim Griffin, a protege of Karl Rove and alumnus of the Rovian wing of the Luntz-Rove Nixonian Training Institute for Republican Dirty Tricksters, Political Pimps and Partisan Thugs has decided to run for a U.S. House seat in Arkansas.  

Griffin graduated with the highest honors, summa cum laude, from the Institute whose sole mission is to dismantle the basic tenets of a democratic Republic. One of the first means by which to accomplish this goal is to ensure that those who are not registered Republicans, especially minorities, do not have the opportunity to exercise their right to vote.  

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So Now They Are "Compassionate Conservatives." Again.

by: Libby Shaw

Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 23:18:09 PM CDT

Honestly, I have to stop drinking coffee when reading political pieces in the Houston Chronicle in the morning.  I've unintentionally spewed coffee from my mouth and nostrils more than once when I've read something by or about Texas Republican politicians.

But before I venture into a story about Texas Republican shills for corporate lobbyists in big business and insurance, let me share some breaking news about how 73% of U.S. physicians are totally on board with a public option in health care reform.

From the New England Journal of Medicine, and, according to NPR:

 When polled, "nearly three-quarters of physicians supported some form of a public option, either alone or in combination with private insurance options," says Dr. Salomeh Keyhani. She and Dr. Alex Federman, both internists and researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, conducted a random survey, by mail and by phone, of 2,130 doctors. They surveyed them from June right up to early September.

Most doctors - 63 percent - say they favor giving patients a choice that would include both public and private insurance. That's the position of President Obama and of many congressional Democrats. In addition, another 10 percent of doctors say they favor a public option only; they'd like to see a single-payer health care system. Together, the two groups add up to 73 percent.

Predictable GOP response from the psycho wacko right:  The doctors are a bunch of witch doctors from Africa.  All are undocumented workers who were not born here.  All are nazis, communists, fascists, Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, socialists and blah, blah, blah.  

Moving along as to why I could not hold my morning coffee.  Hint:  it has something to do with plastering lipstick on rather large and really dirty pigs.

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Rove Lied, Bush Tortured, Republicans Hate Healthcare Reform and Behave as Nazis

by: Libby Shaw

Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 17:25:30 PM CDT

( - promoted by boadicea)

Ho hum.  Life chugs along as usual in the Republican realm.  

OK so Karl Rove lied about his involvement with the fired U.S. attorneys. Yawn.  What else is new?

The New York Times revealed something that we in the internets and tubes have known for some time.  I am glad that at least some journalists are emerging out of their eight year slumber.

Internal e-mail messages in the spring of 2005 at the White House showed that there was widespread unhappiness with David Iglesias, the United States attorney in New Mexico, because of the perception among top Republicans that he was dragging his feet on voter fraud and corruption investigations involving Democrats.

In a June 2005 message, Scott Jennings, a top political aide to Mr. Rove, wrote a colleague that Mr. Iglesias should be removed because Republicans in New Mexico "are really angry over his lack of action on voter fraud stuff."

"Iglesias has done nothing," it continued. "We are getting killed out there."

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Will Republicans Wear White Sheets

by: Libby Shaw

Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 23:47:27 PM CDT

to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor tomorrow?

Based on the questions posed to Ms. Sotomayor by Republicans, when coupled with the hateful right wing ad below, I believe my question is completely legitimate.

Senator John Cornyn is indeed in total lock step with Senator Sessions' right wing racist fringe of the GOP. Cornyn continues to beat Ms. Sotomayor's comment about "Latina woman" like a dead horse.

 

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Republican News Update: More of the Same

by: Libby Shaw

Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 14:01:36 PM CDT

Important news that is fit to print, some of which one will rarely, if ever, see printed in the mainstream press.

A blast from the past:  The 2008 Presidential Campaign

Apparently there was a big rift between John McCain and Sarah Palin.  His staff knew Palin was not up to the task for which she had been chosen but alas, the campaign staff worked 24/7 for a successful outcome for the Republican Party.  

Let the country be damned.  So much for putting one's country first.

Had John McCain won and subsequently passed away, we'd be stuck with a President 20 times worse, even more incurious, dumber and consequently more dangerous than W.  We'd likely be at war with the rest of the planet and they'd be drill, baby drilling in all of our backyards in  Alaska, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and anywhere else where oil might be found.  There would also be monthly book burnings and political Rovian witch hunts 24/7/365.

One McCain staffer and friend apparently called Palin a

'Little Shop of Horrors' on campaign trail.

Lovely.  

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The Good Old Republican White Boys Are Not Happy

by: Libby Shaw

Wed May 27, 2009 at 16:43:26 PM CDT

Heaven help us.  The good old boys have been throwing endless hissy fits and temper tantrums on cable TV since yesterday.  President Barack Obama had the nerve to appoint a Latina, Sonia Sotomayor, to fill retiring David Souter's seat on the Supreme Court.  The appointment has apparently whipped the Party of Rush and Dick into a  carnival like frenzy.  

Rush is ballistic.  Karl Rove babbles psycho nonsense about Ms. Sotomayor's intelligence.  Pat Buchanan is apoplectic and Newt has been screaming "Racist!" for nearly twenty four hours.

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GOP War Hawk Sissy Boys Blame Torture on the D Girl

by: Libby Shaw

Sat May 16, 2009 at 17:54:40 PM CDT

According to the some of the renowned Viet Nam War draft evaders and right wing war hawks

Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, George W. Bush, Karl Rove, Pat Buchanan, Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity, Bill Kristol, Bill Blunt, Tom Delay, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, Phil Gramm, John Cornyn, Trent Lott, Mitch McConnell, Paul Wolfowitz,  Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage

Nancy Pelosi personally ordered the CIA to find a link between Iraq and Al-Qaida.  The GOP sissy boys also insist that when no links between the two evil doers could be found, Nancy the D Girl unilaterally ordered heinous torture to bring about the results the sissy boy cowards needed to gin up their war on Iraq.

Hats off to Ed Shultz of MSNBC for calling the Sissy Boys out for their psycho babble.

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Swine Flu Hysteria and the State of U.S. Healthcare: UPDATE

by: Libby Shaw

Tue May 05, 2009 at 11:54:01 AM CDT

Ok, so we've been hearing about this deadly swine flu that has many folks panicking right and left.  Schools are closing, people are wearing surgical masks, and many are avoiding their local public transportation systems, railroads and airlines.  In Texas alone, 300,000 children are not in school.

Indeed the reaction has been so strong that a flight enroute to the U.S. from Europe diverted to Boston because a passenger said she had flu like symptoms. Some folks, mainly Republican politicians and xenophobic pundits, have demanded that we immediately shut down the U.S./Mexico border. Apparently these folks have not heard the latest reports on the swine flu.

Apparently we were warned about this flu's potential as far back as 1999. The forewarning obviously fell on deaf ears.  

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The Purified Republican Party

by: Libby Shaw

Wed Apr 29, 2009 at 09:57:35 AM CDT

As we know Senator Arlen Specter changed his Party affiliation yesterday from Republican to Democrat.  In his remarks the Senator had said the Republican Party had been recently "purified" by the right.  Needless to say Specter's switch delivered a devastating blow to an already wounded GOP.

Michael Steele is not happy.

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Karl Rove Lies About Specter Switch

by: Libby Shaw

Tue Apr 28, 2009 at 14:38:20 PM CDT

As one would expect Karl Rove blatantly lied about Senator Arlen Specter's motivation for switching his Party affiliation from Republican to Democrat.  

In a statement issued earlier today, Senator Specter said his former Party had moved too far right.

Since my election in 1980, as part of the Reagan Big Tent, the Republican Party has moved far to the right. Last year, more than 200,000 Republicans in Pennsylvania changed their registration to become Democrats. I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans.

Speaking from FOX Looney Tunes News, Rove said Specter had lurched left.

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At The Top of Trickle Down Torture

by: Libby Shaw

Sun Apr 26, 2009 at 16:19:38 PM CDT

The torture reports, continued.

No wonder Dick Cheney has been appearing so frequently on FOX News.  It's an attempt for him to defend his deplorable record and to distract the media and the public from the truth.  Cheney has been attacking President Obama right and left in order to change the subject about torture.

You see, reports reveal that Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice signed off on torture.

A newly declassified narrative of the Bush administration's advice to the CIA on harsh interrogations shows that the small group of Justice Department lawyers who wrote memos authorizing controversial interrogation techniques were operating not on their own but with direction from top administration officials, including then-Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.
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