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POPSRepublicans and Conservatives Endorsing Barack Andrew Bacevich, Professor of International Relations at Boston University David Friedman, Economist and son of Milton and Rose Friedman Christopher Buckley, Son of National Review founder William F. Buckley & former NR columnist Andrew Sullivan, Columnist for the Atlantic Monthly Wick Alison, Former publisher of the National Review Michael Smerconish, Columnist for the Philadelphia Enquirer
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POPSEconomy has fared better under Dem presidents "We have gone from being the nation with the biggest budget surplus in history to becoming the nation with the largest deficit in history." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/18/IN5C13H0J5.DTL
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POPSWorst ever? Not bad enough for you? Wanna try for worst, then elect Bush lap dog #2, Lap dog #1 Tony "spineless" Blair can't run for President.
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POPSPoll: 72% of Americans Do Not Support Bailout This is somewhat dated but the principle is the same. It also shows that the final vote of Congress was NOT out of line with the American public. Look closely at these statistics. The market is a sick patient and the only remedy is to let the market throw up and disgorge itself of the debts it has ingested. Force-feeding it to make it feel better will not cure, but even worsen the convulsions later.
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POPSMcCain's Foreign Policy: Global Democratic Gang McCain calls for a "League of Democracies" for the purposes of "peace" but actually for war. Its key principle is "entangling alliances" which George Washington warned against, starting with NATO as its foundation. This is actually an old plan and precisely what the UN is all about except it cuts China and Russia out. This is consistent with George Bush (Bush 41) "new world order" speech where he talked about a United Nations that lives up to the intention of its founders, as he launched Iraq War I. GWB 43 has also made reference to similar principles while already by-passing the UN when it is reluctant to launch a war. Actually it makes little difference, except to show that Russia and China will be cut out of decisions because they will be the new targets of contest under his neocon vision. The call to "make the world safe for democracy" (like Wilson and FDR) has been the foundation of world wars, and likely more.
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POPS McCain To Katrina Victims In 2005: You're On Your Own
It must be nice to have staffers writing that stuff for you. Too bad he spent the months to follow leading the Republican charge against every Senate bill that would have actually helped Katrina victims or mandated investigations on how the Bush administration could have blown disaster response so thoroughly. Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Joe Biden jumped immediately to the aid of hurricane victims in the week after the 2005 disaster, authoring S.Amdt. 1661 "…to provide emergency funding for victims of Hurricane Katrina." But with John McCain's help, the Republican-led Senate shot down the funding on a 41-56 vote with McCain voting against, while Biden and Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama voted for the funding. the Republicans wanted no part of it and despite his post-Katrina pledge to "do all that is necessary to fund essential relief and recovery efforts and help those in need," John McCain was right there to shoot down every initiative that would have
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POPSObama's missteps Obama's unnecessary promise deviates from nearly six decades of U.S. foreign policy that held Jerusalem to be occupied territory under international law. This long tradition was first broken in 2004 when President Bush acknowledged Israel's demands to keep its illegal West Bank settlements in a final peace agreement, including those around Jerusalem. Thus Obama, a Harvard-trained lawyer, would both scorn the international legal system's foundational principle -- the inadmissibility of territorial acquisition by war -- and echo President Bush, whose failed Middle East policies he has rightly deplored. If Sen. Obama's Philadelphia speech on race was a model of courage and nuance, his AIPAC talk was brimming with the pro-Israel orthodoxy that typifies this year's presidential campaign. Like presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain, Obama also backed Israel's so-called right to exist as a Jewish state.
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POPSPetraeus Promotion is just more Progress of Disaster
The move guarantees endlessly high troop levels in Iraq and gives Petraeus a better shot at inflaming tensions with Iran, a country that Petraeus has recently blamed for all the nasty bits going on in our Baghdad boondoggle. Kewl, huh? Petraeus' predecessor at Centcom, Admiral William Fallon, resigned abruptly last month after 41 years of service. Fallon wasn't keen on Bush's Iraq policy nor was he a big booster of the saber rattling directed in Iran's direction. He and Petraeus didn't exactly see eye to anus. So, Fallon was given the boot. One senior civilian official described the relationship between the two men to "The Washington Post:" "Bad relations? That's the understatement of the century. If you think Armageddon was a riot, that's one way of looking at it." Petraeus' replacement is Lt. General Raymond T. Odierno, a guy who, according to McClatchy Newspapers, "came to the post under a cloud of controversy after some charged that his strong-arm approach to warfare lacke
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POPS"War Heroes"? Bush 41 and McCain in New Light Great article questions George HW Bush's endorsement of McCain and his "war hero" status. It's time to bust public perception, the "swift-boating" of both is already in the works, just as it was with John Kerry. Perception is not reality, and American's gullibility must come to an end. Public trust is at stake, and wanting. You have the link here on George H W Bush. Now see Vietnam Vets Against McCain.
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POPSBush 41 Endorses McCain, Criticizes GOP Pundits Both Bush 41 and 43 have now have supported McCain, while republicans protest McCain. Just more evidence that republican party is destroyed, has no firm principles. It is no longer just Ron Paul supporters that feel disenfranchised. The neocons have seized control. What goes around....
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POPSCNN Poll: McCain can compete with Obama and Clinton.
While McCain wouldn't be my first choice as a conservative leaning Republican, I think he stands the greatest chance of winning in 2008. He is a maverick and like it or not the American people do want what they view as a change from Bush. They want someone they feel can work with the the other party not necessarily against. They want what they view as a reformer. And like it or not, McCain fits the bill. And in all honesty and bluntness, my only care right now is making sure a R is next to the name of the person in the Oval Office. At least this way I know the Republican base can have some sway over his decision making and I know the Iraqis won't be thrown out with the weekly trash. Republicans are in dire straits this election (as they were in 2006) we haven't had the turn out like the Democrats have, and nearly every poll is against us. It's not a time for principles it's a time for reality, McCain is probably going to receive my primary vote.
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POPSFake Romney Christmas Cards in SC I find it ironic that the guy who ran George W. Bush's campaign in 2000 is talking about how these tactics backfire. After all, Bush did this kind of stuff to McCain in South Carolina that year, very successfully.
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POPSCIA veterens challange 9/11 statement Read & make up your own mind. Why haven't authorities in the U.S. and abroad published the results of multiple investigations into trading that strongly suggested foreknowledge of specific details of the 9/11 attacks, resulting in tens of millions of dollars of traceable gains? Why has Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI translator who claims to have knowledge of advance warnings, been publicly silenced with a gag order requested by Attorney General Ashcroft and granted by a Bush-appointed judge? How could Flight 77, which reportedly hit the Pentagon, have flown back towards Washington D.C. for 40 minutes without being detected by the FAA's radar or the even superior radar possessed by the US military? How were the FBI and CIA able to release the names and photos of the alleged hijackers within hours, as well as to visit houses, restaurants, and flight schools they were known to frequent?
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POPSTroops back Libs on Iraq war, says Nelson The dotard and his sidekick (Mr stuff-it-up) are clutching at straws. They could only win the election with the army. and despite following orders with regard to Iraq involvement, only the political soldiers could be thinking it. The soldiers are there for the extra pay. They know that any post war health problems will be ignored by the forces and as vets they will be given nothing but penalty rates (recent history shows).
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POPSIs This Man Being Targeted for Political Reasons? This case just reeks to high heaven. What gay man, who has been successfully elected and reelected with an impeccable record, would jeopardize his entire career in a scam that would net him a maximum of $2,000.00? This sounds like Republican dirty tricks again.
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POPSHomeland Insecurity..! I watched the Saturday night Massacre of the 4th Amendment live on C-span is was a dark day for America and 41 Demo-rats betrayed America and the Constitution right along with The Republican Taliban..!
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POPSPowell spills it about Bush / Iraq Al-Qaeda, Powell asserted, was only 10% of the problem in Iraq and Nouri al-Maliki, its prime minister, lacked the political will to establish an effective government. After a promising start to the surge at the beginning of the year, 453 unidentified corpses were found on the streets of Baghdad last month, 41% more than the 321 bodies found in January, according to unofficial Iraqi health ministry statistics.
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