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Posted on Jan 29, 2008

George W. Bush, the president who lied America into a war that will end up costing trillions of dollars, scolded the Democratic-controlled Congress in his final State of the Union address on Monday for undermining “the people’s trust in their government” with too many pet projects. Now that’s chutzpah, coming from a man who never met a spending bill he didn’t like unless it had to do with stem cells and sick children.

Bush devoted most of his speech to trying to quell fears about the economy, but made time to sing the praises of his Iraq troop “surge,” which conservatives, aided by a pliable media, are still trying to sell as a success.

And in a possible reference to his father’s most famous slogan, the president threatened to veto any new taxes.

Speaking of taxes, if you thought Bush would let a State of the Union address go by without a plug for his tax cuts, well, he didn’t.


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While the president went to bat for his military “surge” in Iraq, he devoted most of his speech to the economy, confronting Congress on two fronts, taxes and spending.

With his 2001 tax cuts set to expire, Bush reiterated his call that Congress make them permanent. And he declared that he would not allow any new taxes to become law.

“Members of Congress should know: If any bill raising taxes reaches my desk, I will veto it,” he promised.

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By Douglas Chalmers, January 30, 2008 at 2:38 am Link to this comment

What Is Your Action Plan - #By lilmamzer, January 29: “...I think you need to get off your fat white ass…...

It seems that our lilmamzer has emerged as a pretend black Jew of some sort.  Advocating “the Zionist World Domination Machine” somehow authorizes him to do and say whatever he wishes in every other context.

Someone from Truthdig seems to endorse (the smileys) his racist-supremacist garbage but is he even an American Jew? His real fixation appears that he is obsessed by his own color. Is that is that all you got, lilmamzer, uhh???

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By msgmi, January 29, 2008 at 8:00 pm Link to this comment
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Whatever federal agencies conducted periodic security background investigations of Larry ‘loose-lips’ Franklin in the last 30 years failed the system. His most recent position before being exposed as a source of classified info for AIPAC was as an intel analyst in the Doug Feith ‘disinformation sty’ at the Pentagon well prior to the invasion of Iraq. This association suggests that Larry ‘loose-lips’ is not the exposed kahuna, but a pawn for the neo-CON Middle East agenda.

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By Louise, January 29, 2008 at 12:11 pm Link to this comment

“President Bush punctuated his last State of the Union address Monday night by taking a big swing at the Democratic-controlled Congress, promising to veto any new taxes, drawing a line in the sand on secret spending measures and warning lawmakers not to tinker with his plan to stimulate the economy.”

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So just in case you all still haven’t figured out how to navigate through the Swiss cheese logic of Bushes brain, let me help you. This is probably the most meaningful observation that came out of the SOTU last night.

Translation: The economic stimulus plan is still a long way off folks.

This moment in the limelight, that has given the shallow ego the attention life hitherto denied is fast slipping away. He cant even garner attention by screaming war, terror, al-Qaeda anymore. Like the blank slate that he is, he helped push that issue off the front page. The only thing left to keep him in the spotlight is to use and abuse and miss-use the failing economy.

I suspect there will be a veto before there will ever be relief.

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By P. T., January 29, 2008 at 11:59 am Link to this comment

Scott Pelley lied about Saddam and WMDs on CBS’s “60 Minutes” program.  Click http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/012808.html

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By GW=MCHammered, January 29, 2008 at 11:48 am Link to this comment
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Bush and his lap-dogging New World Order BS gets away squeaky clean because We The American Pussies let him. It’s We and Our posterity that pay with a thud.

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By lilmamzer, January 29, 2008 at 11:37 am Link to this comment

“The AIPAC scandal will bring everything to a head that hasn’t already erupted with the economic recession and what is about to.”

Chalmers, you are living in a fantasy world, where the forces of Evil (Jews) are confronted by….what???? You??? Representing some undefined and inarticulate Judenrein Virtue?

I love checking <strike>Truth</strike>CrapDig now that your AIPAC/Zionist/Jew obsession has flipped into high gear. It’s entertaining in a morbid kind of way.

Are you about to go postal and empty some magazines into a crowd of Jews somewhere?

Kinda seems like it.

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By lilmamzer, January 29, 2008 at 11:25 am Link to this comment

“Israel’s arrogance is only exceeded by their remarkable capacity for deceit - a deceit so selfish and manipulating by design, it really defies commonsense or purpose. “

Israel - what, the nation? the people? what? - is “arrogant” and defies purpose?

What does that mean??? Defies Purpose???

smile smile LMFAO!!!!!!! (you DO know what THAT means, right? It means I’m laughing at you, very hard)

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By lilmamzer, January 29, 2008 at 11:19 am Link to this comment

Endless spam about AIPAC?

Completely ineffective.

I think you need to get off your fat white ass and show those Zionists who’s the boss.

Do you have the cojones to emerge from behind your (Zionist-designed and produced) computer and actually do something?

Your spam is laughable. It doesn’t put a dent in the Zionist World Domination Machine.

C’mon, Chalmers, is that all you got? smile

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By lilmamzer, January 29, 2008 at 11:13 am Link to this comment

Can you see how absurd you look posting this spam so completely off-topic?

You are obsessed.
You are fixated.
You have a very real problem.

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By Douglas Chalmers, January 29, 2008 at 10:51 am Link to this comment

the AIPAC Affair - #By mary, January 29: “If John Edwards doesn’t get the nomination, I sure would like to see him appointed Attorney General….. It’s time to gather evidence and start building criminal charges to be brought Jan, 2009….”

Thanks, mary, but I disagree with waiting around for January 2009 never mind November 2008. The time to start is now. The AIPAC scandal will bring everything to a head that hasn’t already erupted with the economic recession and what is about to.

Every congress-person and senator will have to make the most of it as it happens and old allegiances will fall apart as reality takes over. The main imperatives now are (a) protecting US investments in China, and (b) obtaining oil at a reasonable cost. Neither of those can be met with the current agenda of aggression from the US administration or Israel’s reckless expansionism.

Both of those are based on fear or manipulation of fear in the domestic political context. In other respects, the stock market and the real estate markets have distorted everything.The real agenda of facing climate change and rebuilding/ replacing/renewing infrastructure and addressing social welfare/health/education just took a back seat again with the idiotic statement from Ted Kennedy that “our country’s best days are still to come”.

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By mary, January 29, 2008 at 10:32 am Link to this comment

Mr. Chalmers, your links to the AIPAC Affair are quite interesting.  If John Edwards doesn’t get the nomination, I sure would like to see him appointed Attorney General.  Maybe the American Public will begin to understand the depths of the corruption that has eaten away at our Democracy since the Ronny days.  I fear if Sen Clinton is nominated and elected to the WH, she would discourage any indepth investigations.  I’m sure a lot of this nonsense will have Bill’s fingerprints.  Also, I don’t see her allowing the prosecution of those from this administration, again, too many fingerprints here.

It’s time to gather evidence and start building criminal charges to be brought Jan, 2009….

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By DennisD, January 29, 2008 at 7:28 am Link to this comment
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It’s great that we set aside one day a year for all the professional panders and criminals of D.C. to get together and congratulate themselves on what they’ve done to the country and what they plan to do to it in the future.

The only thing missing are the prison buses parked outside waiting to take them back to the SuperMax to complete their life sentences.

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By ocjim, January 29, 2008 at 7:05 am Link to this comment

His surge and his tax cut. Neither is certainly for the people.

The outgrowth of all of his policies: the surge—more death, maiming and destruction; tax cuts for the rich—more yachts and more suffering for the poor.

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By weather, January 29, 2008 at 6:26 am Link to this comment
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Israel’s arrogance is only exceeded by their remarkable capacity for deceit - a deceit so selfish and manipulating by design, it really defies commonsense or purpose.

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By Dr. Knowitall, PhD, PhD, January 29, 2008 at 6:24 am Link to this comment

This is so obvious that it’s hard to believe that even the staunchest Bush supporters can’t readily see the hypocrisy.

Thing is, I don’t think they do.

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By Douglas Chalmers, January 29, 2008 at 6:18 am Link to this comment

Well, who will Bush and “the Democrat controlled Congress” scold now…....???

  The AIPAC affair: Can the pro-Israel lobby recover?

As the American Israel Public Affairs Committee holds its annual policy conference this month, it can point with satisfaction to one of the closest relationships ever between the U.S. administration and the government of Israel.

This year has also seen the most perplexing development in the powerful pro-Israel lobby’s history: an FBI investigation into allegations that a Pentagon analyst passed classified information to Israel via AIPAC officials.

The closer Israel and Washington have grown on policy issues, the more vociferous the charges of Israel’s critics that the Jewish state and its American Jewish supporters exercise too much influence over U.S. decision-making.

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FBI charges Pentagon analyst in AIPAC affair

WASHINGTON - Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin was formally charged Wednesday with passing classified military information about Iraq to two individuals, believed to be former officials of the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC….....

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FBI probe into AIPAC-related scandal - more Qs than As


WASHINGTON - More than a week after a Pentagon official was charged with passing secret information to two employees of Washington’s pro-Israel lobby, Jewish communal leaders are still puzzled about the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s probe into the scandal….....

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Israeli linked to AIPAC probe to leave post

WASHINGTON - Naor Gilon, the head of the political department at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, whose name has been linked to the Pentagon analyst charged with passing classified information to unauthorized personnel, will leave his post during the summer….....

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Analysis / AIPAC institutes its own `disengagement plan’

AIPAC officials would like to see the event as an unreserved show of support for the lobby and an indication that the crisis over the organization is now over. To this end, AIPAC had to institute its own kind of “disengagement plan” this week…..... By the time Rice steps onto the podium, they hope, AIPAC will have distanced itself from the affair….......

The two senior officials directly concerned with the Franklin affair - Rosen and Weissman - will have to pay the price by facing legal charges, possibly even indictments, analysts in Washington said yesterday, while the organization will emerge almost unscathed. But the price will be a heavy one. Rosen is not merely another AIPAC official; in the eyes of many, he is AIPAC itself….......

Rosen pushed not only for lobbying with Congressmen but also directly with the executive branch. His executive lobbying proved a success and Rosen was seen coming and going at the White House, State Department and Pentagon, advocating Israel’s case….......

The AIPAC-Franklin affair has now reached a decisive point. As an organization, AIPAC hopes it has cut out the cancer and can now recover and rebuild its connections…....... For the federal prosecutor, Attorney Paul McNulty, the time is approaching when the veil of secrecy over the affair must be lifted and its full scope made public….......

Was this a case of an Israeli mole in the Pentagon, a lobby that overstepped its authority, or a one-time act in which the lobby’s officials transferred forbidden information to Israeli representatives….....

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By Joe R., January 29, 2008 at 5:32 am Link to this comment
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Why isn’t Bush in a jail cell?  That is what the Congress should be doing.  Putting these crooks in prison.

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