Comment #49909 by Margaret Currey on 1/26 at 1:49 pm says:

“THEY HAVE MONEY AND THEY THINK MONEY CAN BUY ANYTHING THEY WANT.”

It can… They bought the presidency, the votes of half the US voters, and like it or not, they also bought the Democratic party which as DLCers is a wholly owned subsidiary of the RNC.

The interlocking Board of Directors includes Joe Biden, Tom Allen, Mike Michaud, Bob Graham, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and the rest of the Traitors who (out of fear, and/or opportunitism) supported the president in his reckless endevors

I would say Bu$H just wants to stay in Iraq because that is were the oil is and Bush and Chaney if not nothing else are oil men, they just want to rape this country, make the middle class slaves to our system the captalist system, where greed is good, and How can you have a country that is concerned about global warming when the underlying system is greed is good, I say these two neocons should be IMPEACHED, HEAR ME THESE NEOCONS SHOULD BE IMPEACHED, BECAUSE THEY WILL LISTEN TO NO ONE, THEY HAVE MONEY AND THEY THINK MONEY CAN BUY ANYTHING THEY WANT.

Margaret from Vancouver, Washington

I would like to share yours truly’s optimism (#49784) that, with Bush out of the way, ratification of our membership in the International Criminal Court of Justice will be a slam dunk; but I doubt that it will play out that way.  I tend to share Christopher Hitchens’ opinion that the main reason we have distanced ourselves from any institution of international justice has to do with saving Kissinger’s ass.  If that is the case, than I suspect that Henry holds too many markers for either the Executive of the Legislative branches to enable ratification.  If Bush is to be tried on criminal charges, it will have to be within our own justice system.

Nothing he says matters.now because he’s a goner the moment Congress cuts off all funding for the Iraq war, since that’ll start the wheel turning towards his impeachment, whereupon off he’s carted to the International Court of Criminal Justice, there to be tried for his crimes against humanity.  And if all this doesn’t make him a goner then there’s no such thing.

I’m with Christopher, when was it that bush was “popular”? Only during the theft of the first election was bush getting Attention.

Popularity- the quality of being well liked or common. Popularity figures are an important part of many people’s personal value systems, and forms a vital component of success in people-oriented fields.

You see, bush has never been popular, he simply has our Attention, the same way a two year old may require Attention from their parents as their curiosity is drawn to the electrical outlets.

What need has civilization of “enemies,” Joe, when its most ardent adherents themselves go so systematically about the bloody business of destroying the very living arrangement here out of which the material appurtenances of civilization have been extracted, and apart from which the civilized nations themselves cannot go on living?  Even the neoCONS don’t try to pass-off their pipedream as “the clash” of civilization vs. us surviving primitive savages.

Civilization is a condition, Joe.  Or more accurately, it’s a process leading inexorably to the very condition your condition is in today......call it thoroughly domesticated.  Trying to turn it into some kind of glorious cause only deepens the delusions that got you into it in the first place.  Bush and Bin Laden are both about as civilized as it’s possible to get........driven by ideological extremism to wage war to-the-death against “unbelievers.”

Of course behind these useful idiots skulk the ever-present global casino operators who are only in it for the money.  What do you suppose the shadowy and cold-blooded presences lurking back of even the bankers are in it for?

HokaHey!

Bush, and his fellow Neocon hijackers-of-government, have joy ridden the country into a ditch and now we are truly struggling there like the “pathetic giant” that our enemies call us. Bush and the Neocons put us here for their own reasons which are not connected to any of the tenets of American democracy that any student learns in any American high school. They recklessly order our military into the meat gringder of tribal and religious warfare, (enabled if not engendered by us,) for their own reasons. Because it’s a way of implementing their hare-brained conservative world view, mainly. These people have to go. For God’s sake, somebody drive a stake in their political hearts so they won’t return.

Yes absolutely, they are endangering the planet. Inaction, enabled by industry sponsored individuals or groups, to stall efforts against global warming should henceforth be considered criminal. Cal Thomas finally got one right today when he said “The oil companies are making so much money that they have little interest in getting us to use alternatives to petroleum.” Duh! This has been the case since day one of the problem.

What I really want to know is where are our best and brightest? It’s not the Bush family, that’s for damned sure. We seem condemed to mediocre pols and worse.

As soon as he finished his latest of the State of Union address I’ve seen very clearly a huge milestone at his grave. A beggar is always a beggar, no more no less !

The SOTU speech doesn’t matter because Bush no longer matters. He is seen as a lame duck because he on longer has any credibility with the American people. When people listen to Bush these days, they just listen for the next new lie or see if he repeats the same old lie. He is no longer respected by the majority of the American people and his constant barage of lies has cost America respect around the world. This failure of a man should do the right thing and resign with grace. That would at least give him a better legacy than the failure of a legacy he is currently left with. However Bush arrogance,stubbornace and ignorance doesn’t allow him to admit he did anything wrong. He would rather allow America to fall the same way the Roman Empire did than leave office and save this country finanically and morally.

This is where it is important that Webb through down the gauntlet.  If the White House does not send any proposals to Capitol Hill, then it is up to Congress to “show the way.” THEN, it will be a question of whether or not the President is willing to make good on his words or just reach for his veto pen!

The plan, for mayhem in the middle east, is working, just as Israel wanted. The plan has been in print, twice, and is on the web. See “Securing the Realm”, written for Israel by the same folks who now control Bush, and talked him into the “surge”. These folks also rewrote the plan as “Project for the New American Century”. Not to worry, everything is going according to plan.

Joe Conaston begins his last paragraph with the words ‘When Bush was truly popular...’ When was that exactly?  I must have missed it.

The ability to raise large amounts of money almost guarantees their party’s nomination for a candidate. Few if any voters ask what these people have previously accomplished in their lives or careers. Far too many voters are more than willing to accept the empty rhetoric these clowns spew out on a daily basis. And then we wonder what went wrong.
Bu$h isn’t doing anything different now compared to what he’s done in the past. His life has been an open book. Too few voters took the time to read it. I hope it’s different in 08.

THIS ARTICLE is just EXCELLENT ; however very sad to read & grasp when you realize how sad the leadership of BUSH is & the ARROGANCE this IDIOT has ! it’s a sad day in AMERICA when we invade SOVERIGN countries MAKE a MESS , our men are dying in a war that can’t be won , and we claim we want to bring them DEMOCRACY - we don’t have it either !distraction and a SHELL GAME are whats going on ! i just want to PUKE !