@ "Freedom"

Did you forget to take your Thorazine this morning?

FACTS YOU WON'T FIND ON FAUX NEWS:

STOCK MARKET, Bush closed the DOW at around 8000. We're now around 13000! Obama saved YOUR retirements with the stock market recovery! Thank You Mr. Obama.

JOBS -- Obama adds 3.5 Million in just the past 2 years (this after Bush losing 750K per month) Thank You Mr. Obama. GOP WIL DO ANYTHING TO KEEP YOU FROM KNOWING THIS!!!

ECONOMY GROWTH, Postitive Growth AFTER BEING HANDED Negative Growth by Bush. Thank You Mr. Obama.

TARP (700B), Got TARP paid back w/ interest treat of greater regulation! Thank You Mr. Obama.

IRAQ, We're OUT of the mess Bush created! Thank You Mr. Obama.

TAXES, lower for all but the richest, despite GOP obstruction! Thank You Mr. Obama.

OBAMACARE: Nixon, McCain, Romney and Gangrich, all FOR mandate before they were against it! Hell, Romney drafted the ORIGINAL Obamacare! Thank You Mr. Obama.

Obama got Bin!!! Thank You Mr. Obama.

Obama was on the RIGHT side in Egypt and Libya uprising - NO AMERICAN DEATHS!!! Thank You Mr. Obama.

Obama Got Bin! Thank You. Mr. Obama!

*** All the things I've listed with NOTHING but GOP Obstruction!

GOP - IT TAKES A FAILED HUMAN BEING TO CALL OBAMA A FAILURE.

Judge Thomas Head made these comments on a local Fox station. It must be true.

Gee, I guess this is why OBAMA is quiet, he does not have to lift a finger because the RIGHT will destroy themselves without any help, that's why I say these have to be the most ignorant citizens America has, they can't think for themselves and when they do something like this happens.

Nam Vet

Did you think if you didn't announce yourself as a Nam vet no one would respect you. You need to let go of the distant past.

Lubbock sophisticated, I am doubled over laughing! There is nothing there but Texas Tech and a whole bunch of red necks! They have nothing better to do than come up with conspiracy theories and drink beer.

Texas is the State of many of my ancestors, and a fine State it is. Making flippant and off-handed remarks seems to land most anyone on the front page these days. It really depends upon which news you watch, as to who is knocking whom. Dumping on any State of these United States is not acceptable.

Obama has arrested and repatriated more illegal immigrants on U.S. soil, than any other modern day U.S. President. And yes, I've checked into that. So, I'm not sure about the comment of "Freedom." But I won't rant on it either.

As an older American, natural born U.S. Citizen, I've seen them come and I've seen them go. Before you make your decision at the ballot booth, younger voters, pose yourself one question:

"Why does this person want to be President of these United States?"

President is a thankless, mean, under-payed, and difficult job. Just why would that person want the job?

Do they have a personal agenda? (the worst kind)

Do they want the status? (acceptable)

Do they feel the need to continue a family tradition? (neither good nor bad)

Do they honestly feel that they have something to offer this country that shall improve the lives and futures of all U.S. Citizens, regardless of all else? (The best kind) But we haven't had one of this kind of candidate for many years running.

And I much recommend that you read the book regarding Obama's agenda, "2016." Whether you accept or deny the books premise is immaterial.

And likewise, do a full search on Mr. Romney. What is he up to? I haven't a clue. Do you? And expletives, penned-bombardments, and rage-rants don't count. And he or she that screams the loudest isn't the winner.

Just use the good sense that you have been given.

That thing about Obama closing border check points is a bunch of Bull Manure i live in EL Paso there are three here and also in New Mexico and Arizona none have been closed we also have check points allong I-10 and I-25 in New Mexico, where did you get the stupid nonsense and Bull Manure, Beck and Limpballs?Obama is not a King anyway, he does not have the power to just close check points on his own that would have to go through Congress you need to take a vacation, you are in dire need of a break,and stop listening to the nuts on radio and TV like that Lubbock judge.

when the civil war starts will he be on the side of the U S Government or on the side of the local white supremist militia .. im guessing the White Supremists

Republicans need to combine all their crazy theories into one, unified message. Here is what I am thinking...

Obama is not an American citizen because he does not have a birth certificate. He is an alien... from space. If he wins a second term, he will force everyone to gay marry. This will cause a civil war from those who do not want to gay marry. So Obama will have the UN invade to fight the civil war, and many will die. Luckily, Obamacare is a giant conspiracy to take our money and fund zombie research, and illegals will be used to hand out this new Obamacare zombie medicine. Soon his zombie army will rise up and force abortions on the population, making sure no more humans are born. They will also hand out condoms to your children. Then, once everyone is a zombie, Obama will have Muslims come in and bomb everyone, then take over... holding the country in Sharia Law until Obama's mother-ship arrives and the alien invasion begins.

There... that should just about cover all the Republican theories in one nice, little package.

no doubt this judge has been busy practicing his "rebel yell"! bring down trump, arpiao, limbaugh, beck and all the other gee gaws. create "goober nation".

I wonder where Freedom got that info about the terrorists and Border closeings ... even Fox Doesnt know about this threat from Obama .. maybe Freedom just made it up

Nah, Freedom got it right, you're either too lazy to look it up or you don't want to admit facts.

http://www.newsmax.com/US/Border-Patrol-stations-closing/2012/07/10/id/444960

As to the judge, lost in the shuffle is the fact that he wants to raise taxes to get more cop cars and a few other items. Little fear mongering to push that agenda along. Doubt he will get it.

cauly flower or pansy.. I protected your butt in vet and you think I should just push that under the carpet.. next time we'll drag you with us and see how you react on the front line.. don't forget your adult diapers.. cause it could get scary as SH&t .. is respect a dificult word for you to serve.. I don't ask you to bow down to me just show a modicum of respect

@Conservative Hate to inform you that you are wrong. Obama used an executive order to pass the Dream Act, which was in congress since 2010. It passed the House which was majority Democrat then, and the Senate invoked cloture due to needing 2/3 vote to pass, which allowed them to debate later. There were no rules or guidelines as to how & when a president could use an executive order until, I believe the 1980's, which states that the president can pass legislation with a executive order, as long as the bill has been voted on in the house and senate. So he didn't create a new law, he moved passed Senate because they couldn't come to 2/3 vote of Nay or Yea. Which has been a huge problem since Obama's election, especially involving bill passage about taxation & job growth. There have been several acts about taxation sponsored by Republicans and Democrats, and Congress can't come to a full pass decision on which way to go. House just passed the

HR 6169 - Pathway to Job Creation through a Simpler, Fairer Tax Code Act of 2012 - Key Vote

a Republican sponsored bill, with no democrat vote for passage. I suggest those that understand legislation take a some time to read it. Might give you an idea what the GOP is pushing for taxation wise. It's in the Senate now.

@aliveinsd - Just use the good sense that you have been given.

That is a problem if you depend on it. Most people have a distinct lack of "good sense." There is that saying about how common sense isn't very common. It's sad, but a large segment of the population isn't horribly smart. Whether due to socioeconomic issues, genetics, upbringing, etc. the effect is the same... Compounded by the lack of common sense and further compounded by the strange phenomenon in which even individuals with high intelligence/IQ exhibit lowered intelligence/IQ when gathered into a large group/mob... (i.e. the Republican collective/party, the Democratic collective/party...)

On top of that, many of us are also lazy and either won't or can't expend the effort to pick through the B.S. and biased news and facts to come up with something that makes sense and is as unbiased as possible, or just do not possess the capacity to do so. You'd think it'd be more important to people, since it really does affect us all, and taking what politicians and the like say at face value is asking for a whole boatload of hurt.

And then there's the whole vote for who you think the best candidate truly is or who you think would do the best job, etc. versus voting along party lines. I am a "Democrat", I guess, and I USED to do the former, voting for who I thought would be most competent regardless of party affiliation. But after seeing the party agendas (Democrats voting for various pet causes and diluting their end results and the extremely organized Republican party whose sole goal seems to be "CRUSH THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY!!...") I just gave up trying to do what's right and now I just look for the "Democratic Party" tag after the candidate on the ballot.

I just wish the Republican party would stop offering up nutjobs like Palin, McCain, Perry, Santorum, Romney and the like. ESPECIALLY those who have an insane and fanatic religious rampage they want to go on once they get in office.

There... that should just about cover all the Republican theories in one nice, little package.

You forgot that his zombie army was going to open fort knox and give money only to people sleeping in hammocks who had abortions once. And that anyone who is a Christian will be killed on sight with their own guns that Obama stole from them.

Texas unveils new, more accurate state motto: "The Lone Star Brain Cell State."

"Freedom" the NYPD just last week announced that after 6 years of spying on Muslims in NYC and NJ they came up empty, not a single case of domestic terrorism. How about those tax dollars?

Reply to cf:

While it's true that the average IQ (tested intelligence quotient) of the average U.S. Citizen, is about 95.....everyone of age, not jailed, and mentally competent (in the broad sense), has the right to vote. And yes, many make decisions based on untrue information, following the leader, or ignorance of the issues; they have that right.

While intelligence is very important, it doesn't qualify a person as "good" nor "bad." Intelligence shouldn't be the measure of a persons worth, but rather their aptitude to a specific job or task. Some very smart people have done some very bad things. And often those people that are convicted and sent to prison, get there by being too easy to catch and convict = not very bright.

But let's all give it our best vote, and to the best of our informed abilities, come this November. If we know in our hearts that we have each voted with full knowledge and our best sense, then we can all go back home satisfied to await the outcome.

A President isn't forever, and that's a good thing. Eight years maximum, and out. Then we try again, and sometimes again.....and again....

Boy them there Repuberkins show is some funny peoples

I say we let Texas succeed in peace and then build an electric fence around the borders.

Stick your head in the sand all you want but sooner or later it is coming.

Everybody should have a Texas they're a laugh a minute

What's the fastest way to vote Texas and Arizona out of the union? Just offer to sell them to Mexico?

To..Conservative"""

Do you think the Founding Fathers were anti Colonialists ...

Whether you're "liberal" or "conservative", Democrat or Republican, ...has anybody noticed that a whole lot of the anti-Obama people seem to reveal themselves to be sort of...crazy?

Great job, Judge Dick Head. You've proven that when people join the GOP their brains are sucked out and replaced by hate cells.

boltonbill:

I think you need to RE-READ your history Books ole son.

This article is about a political and social philosophy. For the United States political party, see Republican Party (United States).
See also: Republicanism

(The Sons of Liberty was a political group made up of American patriots that originated in the pre-independence North American British colonies.)

Patriots (also known as American Whigs, Revolutionaries, Congress-Men or Rebels) were the colonists of the British Thirteen United Colonies who violently rebelled against British control during the American Revolution and in July 1776 declared the United States of America an independent nation. Their rebellion was based on the political philosophy of republicanism, as expressed by pamphleteers, such as Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Paine.

Billyboob......

More Americans Joined the British Army to keep the King in charge, than joined Washingtons army. 70% of Washingtons army, throughout the war, were New Englanders.

Spoken like an ill-informed Canadian! Most if not all of the WINNING Battles took place in the South as in Yorktown Virginia! If so many Americans supported the Bloody British why'd they loose the War?

Nothing but more Liberal Nonsense Disinformation and Clueless Propaganda........

BTW The Sons Of Liberty where not Liberal in the context you try to use...Liberals Don't Support Liberty....Libertarians Do!

Modern Liberals support Gun Control & Welfare States...Remember?

Where do they find these Sock Puppets & Trolls....ThinkNotCanada.Ca?

One more Reason to Refuse To Re-Elect Treasonous Incumbent Failures like Bumbling Barry...Liberal Tory's Still Hiding in Canada Love Them!

BTW Why is there still a Canada? After the War of 1812 there shouldn't have been!

CNR, sorry, but you are incorrect. While Jefferson said he was into small governement, he actually did a lot to expand the role of the federal gov't during his terms. (Bush claimed likewise, but then we had a massive increase of the fed under him.) See,"The Louisiana Purchase".

In many respects, T.J. was radically liberal. Example: He proposed that every 50 years all wealth would be collected and then re-distributed evenly amongst all Americans. He was dead-set against the extreme gaps in wealth. That is liberal well beyond anything in the Democratic platform today. Even the American Communist Party is not seeking that. T.J. would be mad at what the GOP has done for rich people over the course of the party's long history.

You just don't know your history. Or more likely, you try to distort history to support your own extreme views. We've seen it for too long from the Right.

Well Chris trying to distort history to support your own extreme views.

Though TJ was against Big Government expanding for the sake of Big Government he wasn't against the United States itself expanding hence the The Louisiana Purchase".

Kind of disingenuous of you to attempt to use that purchase as an example!

Also your statement proposed that every 50 years all wealth would be collected and then re-distributed evenly amongst all Americans....is again misrepresented and taken out of Context!

Thomas Jefferson did have I killed the Banks carved on his Tomb Stone After all!

Thomas was much more of a Libertarian than ever a Liberal as in today's context!

@aliveinsd - Oh, don't get me wrong...I'm not advocating taking away anyone's right to vote. Besides, most people seem to self-fulfill needing to do that by not voting anyhow. I'm also not saying intelligence makes anyone good or bad, nor am I saying it measures their worth. Everyone can fill a niche somewhere. Besides, some of the biggest a-holes I know are fairly intelligent, though they seem to think they're more intelligent than they really are and some of the less intelligent people I know are the nicest people I know. Sometimes it's even charming. ;)

Oops my bad Chris....that was Andy Jackson that had the I Killed The Banks Tombstone...Same Crew different Man!

D@mn Vines Hung Up and Killed my edit.......And keeps trying too!

Amunaka: I think the Founding Fathers were pragmatic libertarians. I'll never claim to be an American history expert, but I have read a few books on the subject, as well as the Federalist papers, which goes beyond the basics taught in school when I was a kid.

They understood the need for regionalized organizational government, and though there were sometimes fierce disagreements as to what the scope of that government should be, they also understood the logic of Franklin quite clearly when he said: 'Gentlemen, we must all hang together, or we shall most assuredly all hang separately."

The one goal they all had, regardless of their own disagreements, was to separate from the British crown. Ironically enough, that was NOT the goal of most of the colonists at the time. Many, if not most, wanted to stay loyal to the Crown.

I think it's quite interesting that when Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, he first took pains to outline what he believed were the foundations of all men who wanted to be free, regardless of where they lived. He didn't even get around to mentioning Britain until about a quarter of the way through the paper.

While his words are certainly great, given Jefferson's known penchant for white superiority, it was a bit ironic, not to mention hypocritical, since he apparently had a limited view of what the phrase "all men are created equal" really meant. Jefferson was not infallible, he made just as many mistakes as anyone else. Regardless of what his personal philosophical failures were at the time, the principles he put forth, became to be regarded by many as timeless universal truths, even if the scope of the person who wrote them at the time was limited. Jefferson was very proud of his writing the Declaration, even to the degree that he wanted that memorialized on his tombstone, but I think even he would be amazed at the degree to which America succeeded, as well as almost failed, 75 some odd years later with the Civil War.

The Founding Fathers were certainly aware of the hypocrisy of the slavery issue, but as I said, they were also pragmatic about what it would take to hold the colonies together. I would venture to say that very few people understand the fact, that by the time the Constitution was finally ratified in 1787, the experiment called America almost fell apart on more than a few occasions. Ironically, in some of those cases, just as today, the arguments were about who was going to pay the debt of the states and the cost of the war.

I guess some things never change.

Amunaka, I don't know what your political leanings are, but I can tell you we share one very important common trait: We both think black licorice is nasty stuff!

To..Conservative"""

Heh heh...

I'm not really into politics...

I can't believe a judge said this. Wow. It's about damn time though. Two thumbs up for Judge Head. Too bad he isn't running for president.

I see you're off your Med's a again .... LMAO

Chris:

You're confusing expansion of territory with expansion of government. They are not the same thing. The LP was a vast expanse of land that had to be organized. It took several decades for it to be fully divided into states. To suggest that since some expansion of managerial government was necessary to facilitate that development, that it somehow paints Jefferson as a hypocrite in that regard, is a bit of a stretch.

On the other hand, I agree with you completely about Bush. He was just a Republican who felt that the people who didn't want the Democrats spending money, would surely want his spending. I can tell you for a fact that I didn't want his spending either.

A pox on the houses of both parties I say!

As to your point about Jefferson wanting wealth redistribution, I can only tell you that it was of such insignificance in the scope of his work that the two biographies I've read about Jefferson didn't even bother to include it.

Men of great mind, and certainly Jefferson was one of those, may come up with hundreds or thousands of ideas in a lifetime. Not all those are going to be good ideas, and certainly not all of those will be practical. I imagine that even Jefferson could see the difficulties of confiscating everyone's wealth and trying to redistribute it. Just because he may have written it down somewhere at sometime isn't necessarily indicative of the strength of belief he put into such a thought. I would submit that in the grand scheme of things, this particular concept is so obscure, relative to the other great ideas he had, that it wasn't even worth addressing. Certainly the two biographies I have read didn't think so.

Not to mention, that just as today, I imagine there were going to be a lot of people getting pretty ticked off that the government was going to come in and demand everything they have, and then get back less.

When I say Jeffersonian liberalism, that is a phrase reflective of the time period, not limited exclusively to the thoughts of only Jefferson. To do so would be to minimize the contributions of the rest of the Founding Fathers.

My favorite Jefferson quote is this: "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of people under the pretense of taking care of them."

I couldn't agree more.

Obama did say that he wanted a national police force as equally equipped as the military.....now I see why that was so important to him.

Buy ammo, stock up on some food just in case.

Seriously, people? Did it ever occur to you that he may have meant A civil war and not THE Civil War?

I like Obama...always have and always will, but this is just aother bunch of haters trying to cause bull@!$%# between people...

Gaaawwwwwwwwd lots of republican kooks are coming out of the wood work lately. First is Bachman, Donelly , Perry then AZ Sheriff, Akin and now this county judge. He probably did ask the AZ sheriff to watch his back That explain all.

(slaps face at some of the comments here)

That's exactly correct.

Obama is SMART! the knuckle draggers on the right love to call President Obama "a dum igerant idyut", but he's anything but.

He only strikes when he needs to.

He is "talk softly and carry a big stick", personified.

Think about Obama's moves thus far, only hitting when it was MOST opportune.

Right now, he doesn't really need to do much, the Rupublicans are falling all over themselves to out crazy each other.

Just wait until the debates!

Romney is going to get a Chicago Style ass kicking unlike anything he's ever had in his life.

Remember, Romney has never had any real challenges in his whole life!

and a <GASP> Black man is going to paint him into a corner..... and then Mitt will start to stutter (like he does anytime he gets nervous..

And President Obama is going to go for the Jugular.

I can't wait until the debates!

Sam627556

Gee, I guess this is why OBAMA is quiet, he does not have to lift a finger because the RIGHT will destroy themselves without any help, that's why I say these have to be the most ignorant citizens America has, they can't think for themselves and when they do something like this happens.

Every night I go to bed thinking the Republican Party can't possibly cause this country any more shame and embarrassment than they already have, ... but every morning I awaken to more news stories showing that they have.

The Republican Party of the United States is making our country the laughing stock of the world.

AliveinSD

Corporate Raider Willard "Tax cheat, Tax haven lover," Romney thinks the Presidency and the USA are just another corporation to take over and drain dry. He will leave the USA like he did all the other jobs he took over. Massive unempolyement, No Social Security No Medicare No Needed healthcare, He will leave broken lives and homeless citizens when he leaves.

Vote for President Obama, one poster above has a good list of all the things President Obama has done and done very successfully despite Obstruction from the Grand Obstructionist Party.

And thats my opinion.

Bluepanther...

Agreed he wasn't talking about the Civil War because he mentioned Lexington and Concord, which happened to be the first two military battles of the American Revolutionary War. However, his comment directly after referencing those locations, "take up arms and get rid of the guy," is essentially the same logic the south used when it decided to fight the Civil War. Texas is kind of like afghanistan, they will fight anybody they consider an outsider, even if it does them no good in the end. In the end, Texas will bend over and take it, just like the south did during the civil war. Brains beat brawn, and they have a severe deficiency of brains down there in Texas these days.

.

@skyparrot, I so agree let's wait until 2021 to re-elect Mr. Obama.

As for a civil War I pray to God that is not what it takes for America to decide that they are tired of all the politicians and prepare to look for better ones. NObama and NORomeny for 2012.

Is there a man out there who is 100% honest, Not a crook, can balance the budget, and create a Better America for Americans? If so raise your hand and step forward.

Stapleheart-

"Your Right Wing crazy judge is a Democrat you retards.

imagine that."

From the article:

"The comments, made by Lubbock County Judge Thomas Head in a bid to raise local property taxes, have prompted Democrats to call for his resignation. They’ve also generated a busy, and awkward, week for some local Republicans."

and here:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/23/us/texas-judge-warning/index.html

FIRST sentence in the article.

Judge Thomas Head is a REPUBLICAN.

Imagine what that makes YOU.

I don't know why republicans hate america so much but it is clear. maybe we should just build a wall and let the cons have their "glorious south" and maybe we can have some peace and progress. And you republicans can have all the nukes and flat tops so you can fight with the world and steal their resources.

Stick your head in the sand all you want but sooner or later it is coming

Same thing Chicken little said...You clowns have been waiting for that to happen every since you lost the civil war

This guy is a cabinet level prospect in the Romney camp since Romney is now a birther.

Government created anarchy.

This judge is just pissed because law enforcement in Texas is so difficult. Nobody has dental records and everybody has the same DNA.

No worries, Obama will win. There are enough people in this country who want free stuff to overcome any conservative rants. Same will hold true in congress. The democrats will prevail once people realize that the republicans are serious about fixing the entitlement and other financial messes. I'm voting democrat finally because I'm old and can rely on them to give more free stuff that will send the country as we know down the tubes, but I'm old and will probably be dead by then. Vote straight democrat, get more stuff!

It's like the wacko Republicans have Tourette's Syndrome. They just can't help themselves. It's a circus and they are all stuck on the crazy clown train and just can't get off. Keep it up you fools!!! You are your own worst enemy and we love it.

aliveinsd, #1.25, overall, I support your post, with one exception. If people want to read 2016, they should first vet the author, Dinesh D'Souza, as I did. He is considered to be very conservative, so I can't see how bias would not be present in his writing. You can simply Google "D'Souza" and access the results returned. A very conservative friend of mine from high school embraces D'Souza and told me that is how he found about the outrageous Brazilian Oil Loan which proves how anti-American Obama is because he ordered the US Treasury to loan taxpayer money to a Brazilian company for offshore drilling and then sell all the oil to China. I checked this out via Snopes and FactCheck.org, and it is totally false, but it is a great example of the divisive propaganda being foisted upon the American people by some elements in our country today. I highly recommend that all of you not take everything you read or hear carte blanche. As difficult as it may be in these times of political acrimony and mud slinging, try to find non-partisan, unbiased, objective and verifiable sources of information. We all know there are sources that are very slanted these days, avoid them, you owe it to yourselves.

So Republicans don't want to raise taxes on the rich, just raise Federal, State, County and City taxes? And who is supposed to pay for those taxes, the Unemployed? Could you possibly be more out of touch with reality?

how many?

@ Puffman

How many republicans live in the south? That'll be your answer.

I live in Texas and I have lost count on the number of times I have heard the Civil War called the war of Northern aggression. The Civil War never ended for a lot of these loonies.

Loonies? You must live in Austin.

REMEMBER REPUBLICAN MITTENS father was an illegal until just after MITTENS was born.. seems like a double standard to me

cauly pansy.. the south is the basis for the republicans and they are extremists in the biggest sense of the word

Southern heritage is not based on racial superiority. The civil war, contrary to popular belief was not fought just to free slaves. It was fought between people who wanted to run their own lives and a government who wanted to take away their rights and livelihoods. Not to say that slavery was right, but that was the basis of their economy. It was the way things were done for hundreds of years. To them it was unreasonable interference by the government. The southern states ceded because they wanted to live their lives on their terms, so to them it was a "war of northern agression" when the union crammed its laws down their throats. Not unlike today where someone is telling you cant have a gun or abortion or gay marriage or cigarette or a soft drink over a certain size and the other side is screaming yes we should be able to. Southern heritage is based on strong opinions of what freedom is and the balls to stand up to oppression.

pugsley1234: Your post is understandable, however, what if...? We would have countrywide chaos. The Civil War could have been avoided if the southerners had compromised. Henry Clay from KY came up with a solid compromise, but the southern leaders already had a lot of money invested and didn't want to lose their chance to 'make' it. Sad but true. That's not to say Lincoln and his guys didn't mind making a few bucks on the war. They really thought it would be a short war, like bush/cheney thought going to Iraq would be a cakewalk. After a couple years, Lincoln saw clearly the end was not near. He did try to reason with his party but it was no go. In 1863, the Gettysburg Address at the new Cemetery and to awaken the populace, to no avail. In 1865, Sherman did his infamous march destroying what lay in his path - destroying a history of many. The End. It still saddens me to think of the wanton waste, the humanity and history lost because of man's egotism, lacking the ability to recognize we are all the same under our skin. Whatever.

pugsley:

The thing I like most about living in the south, is that down here, you can call someone anything you want, as long as you add a God love 'em, or bless their heart at the end.

For example: He's a no good, putrid, lying, pile of f'ing dog sh!t...bless his little heart.

See how disarming that is ;-)~

ConsevativeNotRepublican... Your anger is heartwarming. Do you eat with that same mouth?

Sam: I love the euphemisms of the liberals. If Romney flip flops, Obama "evolves". If I'm angry, the liberal is "passionate". I guess when Biden says Obamacare was a big f'ing deal, you just overlook such crassness when used by liberals. Ah yes, when Biden said that, the liberals just laughed it off...."ha ha ha, that's just 'ol Joe", they said.

Tell me, do you apply the same standard to him? Maybe you do, but I'll wager you're not so offended that you won't vote for Obama again will you?

Funny how there is always a much nicer sounding alternative for the liberal side of things. If you want to take it as anger, that's your choice. Actually, I'm a very happy kinna guy, but I don't hide my disgust of liberalism.

I think come November, you're going to see a lot of angry people going to the polls. But, if you haven't read it on any of my other posts, I'm not a Romney supporter, nor will I be voting for him. I'll be doing a write in for Allen West. He's the guy we really need in the White House.

Only from the Red Neck State of West Texas. This judge should be indicted by the Federal Government DOJ for inciting civil unrest. Knowing Texas I would doubt this so called GOP West Texas judge even has a law degree since the magistrates of Texas need not know anything but more like be a good ole boy. Jesus I lived and worked in Dallas during the 80's and it seems nothing has changed and if so not for the better. I wonder how many prisoners da judge has picken cotton for him? That ole cotton picken judge. He just won a shot at being the Gubner of Texas.

Are Republicans that DESPERATE to WIN that they are flat out LYING and telling the cookiest of LIES to get ahead? I am ASHAMED to call myself one. They are going to destroy themselves with all the lies and double standards.

TaylorCaruso:

I am sorry but I have to LMAO at your line:

"Are Republicans that DESPERATE to WIN that they are flat out LYING and telling the cookiest of LIES to get ahead?"

Where are they DESPERATE and LYING?, And I pray you are not compairing them to the Democrates.

Why has Obmam Not ONCE told the people what his plan is for the next four years? (besides his ObamamCare)

Why will he be the FIRST President to NEVER PASS A BUDGET (Altho it is required by law).

Speaking on Laws, His 'EOs' do not Canx out a Law on the books, reguardless of what he thinks. Yopu and he both need to remember, he was ELECTED PRESIDENT not KING.

Pugsley is one of those people who thinks the Civil War never ended. The war according to him, and others had nothing to do with slavery. It was those horrible yankees telling us Southerners what we couldn't do, hence the War of Northern Aggression euphenism. It is kind of like those folks here in Texas trying to rewrite history books with out Thomas Jefferson or Cesar Chavez, we will just forget what happened because we didn't like them or the outcome of their actions. Only problem is that slavery in America was real, and Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd President was a deist, and Chavez caused problems with migrant workers.

Just to correct a few things. The Civil War was fought because the southerners didn't want a federal government telling them how to live. Actually telling them to stop the institution of slavery. And slavery was the backbone of the southern economy and prosperity. They had a literal army of workers that had no rights, no pay, and no human decency. My wife is from the south, the civil war battles happened on some of her relatives land, the battle of Franklin, TN, for one, in her great aunt's front yard. Her family had own slaves. She would have arguments with them about states rights and slavery. The war was always about slavery, that was the main states right, to own and hold slaves. The southerners were not going to give up the institution of slavery without a fight, as history has proved.

If you read all the posted reasons why people hate President Obama, and are so almost violently opposed to his second term, it is because he is black. The southerners hate the thought of a black family in the white, it makes them crazy. Most of President Obama's opposition is from the south, is it not rational it's racial. There is nothing like an articulate, powerful black leader to make these guys apoplectic. They can't say they hate him because he's black, instead they say, he's a socialist, a Muslim, not born in America, a traitor, a UN stooge, will bring in Sharia law, will seed our government to the UN, a communist, a college cheat, all from a group of people that think that ignorance and stupidity are virtues. As a white middle class and middle aged man from Oregon, I think President Obama is one of the best Presidents were every had, and if it wasn't him, we would be spending most of our time is soup kitchen lines.

Catydid
I was born and raised in Texas. I'm a 61 year old white woman. Even during the civil rights movement I can say that I have never heard anyone refer to the Civil War as the War of Northern Aggression.

Don't know where you live, how long you've been here, or who you hang out with but it seems you don't know that many Texans. Perhaps if you're a transplant they were pulling your leg?

To all
Yes, most Texans are pretty conservative. It probably comes from the fact that the state is so big that people had to rely on each other more than a government that was hundreds of miles away. And the aftermath of the Civil War did bring the so-called carpetbaggers. The Texas Constitution is actually written on such a way as to prevent much government involvement. It's simply an inherited mindset. But we're becoming more and more liberal as times go by and the older set die off and the state becomes more urban.

As red as the state is in our history we have had 47 governors; 39 Democrats, 6 Republicans, 1 Unionist and 1 independent. So it's not all bad and we're not all bat-@!$%# crazy.

This judge is just an idiot. I find it funny that he is using fear to push through a TAX INCREASE (guess he hasn't signed Grover's pledge). People in Lubbock aren't stupid, nor are they THAT conservative. He won't be re-elected. He just signed his own political death warrant

Barlow - that's one of the most honest comments I've read to one of these articles, and I strongly agree with you. I really believe that much of the vitriol is born out of pure blind hatred and/or racism. Facts are facts and the country *IS* turning around under his government. The numbers simply do not lie. I won't go into those details about that, but I will say this - any rational mind, and you don't even have to be an economist, can comprehend that Obama inherited a devastated economy and that turning it around would *not* be an overnight project. Not only was there the 2008 crash (right before Bush left), but there was also the dot com burst right after Bush came into office, and then massive spending on a completely illegal war. (Sorry folks, there were no WMDs!) So for the economy to be doing as well as it is doing now, is actually remarkable.

I am completely boggled by the fact that people actually *blame* Obama for the mess - it's quite honestly ludicrous. You would have to be 4 years old to even think that or have severe amnesia of the 8 years before that. On top of that, he has had Republican obstruction in congres for years now. So really, if you want to blame the slow recovery somewhere, maybe blame it on the ones that aren't allowing the President's policies to pass.

Amen dsb and Kebo!!! Amen!!!

Bugs bunny tie proves once and for all that they are all loony toones

The fact that some of these people still blame Obama for the mess we are gradually coming out of show you what intellect they posess. On the front pages of most News papers and tv and the internet it has been posted that of all the world countries the US is far ahead in the recovery process than any other country. When Obama got to Washington this country was sliding into a depression. He along with a democratic congress stopped the flow and told people this was not going to be a short recovery and he may not be President when we finally recovered in maybe 10 years. Now we are faced daily with reports from other countries having problems that reflect on us here and hold us back. We did not ask for the new world order. We did not ask to change this country from a manufacturing base to a "service" base. Now when we try to recover we cannot go too quickly because we have no manufacturing base to speak of. If we do not have a manufacturing base where are the jobs going to come from. We cannot tax imports yet every month we imprt billions more than we ship out. Now we see one party filled with a bunch of people who appear to not even seperate reality from fiction. All the way to the top of the ticket. This time when you vote you better vote for America. This may be your last chance cause if the nuts on the right get in you are not going to like living here. A 25% tax decrease to businesses of which only 43% pay any taxes at all and a 15% tax decrease + making the Bush tax cut permanent? That should be the last nail in the US coffin

Though the Republican Party had many prominent abolitionists such as Seward, its official policy was not abolition but the containment of slavery to with-in the states where it already existed. The southern slave owners and politicians wanted to extend slavery to the entire territory that the US had gained from Mexico.

In addition, prominent politicians such a Toombs and Ruffin had been advocating secession since Andrew Jackson's time. Many of these people had dreams of creating their own nation and then taking the northern Mexican states and Cuba to create the beginning of a South American Empire.

Remember the first aggressive acts of the Civil war or as we were taught in school the War Between the States, were from the Confederates.

Pugsley1234 You are right the war was not fought to end slavery but to preserve the Union. Ending slavery was just a happy result. On the southern side it was fought to extend slavery. The south convinced itself that slavery was moral and since it was moral it should be allowed everywhere. In otherwords they were trying to force their morality on everyone else. Sound familiar, doesn't it.

I think the republican party had a legitimate chance with all of the anti-obama sentiment but that they've decided to shoot themselves in the foot by offending everyone within ear shot. Why? Rush decided to share his "medicine" with all of them.

legitimate rape is having a BIG man bend a number of republicans over f$$$ them and because they can't get pregnant that is the perfect example of legitimate RAPE.. love to F$%^ RYAN anytime..

RUSH is a drug addict.. though the Miami police let him go.. guess he had the most money to offer

Nice tie. As Bugs said: "Eh, tsk,tsk, tsk what a maroon."

Seewhat I mean188... it make me sick to see what this country has become." You mean as in: "E Pluribus Unum?" Then perhaps you should go back to where YOU came from, you racist, hypocritical, un-American bigot. We are all immigrants here, pilgrim! Suck it up.

That IDIOT JUDGE is another example of a REPUBLICAN opening his or her mouth and STUPID comes out!!

Texas executes retarded people and elects fools for judges-what a cesspool of ignorance and hatred.

I thank God frequently that I don't have to live there anymore.

Londoncalling1....Simple and clear.....Excellent.

Have to say however if you leave the sticks and head for Dallas you will find some wonderful Texans.

The judge is definitely in a sad mental state. Did I read correctly, that he said "...take up arms and get rid of the guy." As MC2012 said earlier, soften it for this guy, retire him for the community's sake, and his.

The judge should be charged with making a threat to kill Obama..

thfan... An excellent idea. But, as my mom used to say: "He's more to be pitied than censured."

Is this some new republican malady? Someone should tell them it's no longer 1948. They seem to be suffering from "hoof in mouth disease" lately. Life doesn't go backward no matter how hard they try.

Vote Romney. The best government money can buy.

thfan:

I heard no threats to the president. I did here the UN tho. And for the time being, the UN does not gov'n us or is our Gov't. ( Altho this will change shortly if bo stays in office.)

Would like to remind all that this is the same state, that a number of years ago, in which an elected judge found a man not guilty of rape due to the clothing the woman was wearing. When asked if he was not worried about losing his post on the next election replied no people will not even remember this case by then (read in the people are to stupid to remember).

This guy was smoking some of that Mexican parsley they send up here. He is one of the last living John Birchers in existence

How do these people get elected and hang in office for years.

skyparrot

Since you obviously identify with the Left, I think you can answer this question must closer to home. All you would need to do is ask Charlie Rangel, Maxine Waters, or some of the recent Governors of Illinois. You could also ask Marion Berry, Barney Frank, or Joe Biden. In fact, truth be told, you could also ask a Kennedy or the Clintons. There are plenty on the right too, but don't act like your side is all innocent. What I personally find disgusting is that the Left will (generally but not quite always) back these guys to the hilt while the Right generally (but not always) kicks ours to the curb. Hell, just last night Debbie Wasserman Schultz flat out said she can lie to the Left's supporters and it doesn't matter. She said she can intentionally misquote a newspaper and that you all should just eat it up like candy. That it's ok as long as the message she wants to communicate gets across. (The message: give us money.) As a matter of fact, she was so blatant that not even an avowed leftist like Anderson Cooper could let her statements go. Notice: we're not even talking about state level politicians. We're talking about your main guys and gals here. Stop acting like a tool. Disagree if you want but have some intellectual integrity at least. If not, you have no place in a serious debate.

Since you obviously identify with the sane, I like your post.

hellooo up there in the north- a lot of people feel this way

Larry Craig wasn't kicked to the curb Jimbo....but then anonymous gay sex in mens rooms at the airport probably doesn't rise to the level of rebuke does it?

Dick Cheney shot a guy in the face....oh well....boys will be boys I guess.

GWB went so far as to invade the wrong country....Mission Accomplished!

Jimbo......learn to think outside the FOX.

Larry Craig wasn't kicked to the curb Jimbo....but then anonymous gay sex in mens rooms at the airport probably doesn't rise to the level of rebuke does it?

"There are plenty on the right too, but don't act like your side is all innocent." What part of this statement is unclear?

Dick Cheney shot a guy in the face....oh well....boys will be boys I guess.

Have you ever been hunting? Getting peppered isn't that uncommon.

GWB went so far as to invade the wrong country....Mission Accomplished!

You sure? The Left screamed about Saddam themselves until he was dead. Note the date.

Together, we must confront the new hazards of chemical and biological weapons
and the outlaw states, terrorists, and organized criminals seeking to acquire
them. Saddam Hussein has spent the better part of this decade and much of his
nation's wealth not on providing for the Iraqi people but on developing nuclear,
chemical, and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them."

President Clinton
State of the Union address
January 27, 1998

Do some research.

Jimbo......learn to think outside the FOX.

Why don't you assume some more? Why do you think I go to Fox? I'm here commenting often and since I work for a living and I'm a full time student, I don't have a lot of free time. NBC's blog is the only one I comment on.

But once again, the side that talks about tolerance and inclusion spouts out hypocrisy and prejudice.

JIMP... let me see .. how many democrats have taken a number of statements made by mittens and taken them out of context.. something the REPUGNANTS are very good at

Why would they need to take anything out of context, max?

According to the chair of the DNC they can flat out lie and you guys will eat it up.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/80088.html?hp=l6

JimP1969... Pssst. It's now 2012. Try paying closer attention.

BTW, "peppered?" In the face? With birdshot? Hold still while I "pepper" you. Remind me never to hunt with the likes of you. Jeezus!

To..JimP""'

Note the date of Operation Desert Fox Clinton's strike on Iraq nuclear facilities
Anyway...

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.

Dick Cheney
Speech to VFW National Convention
August 26, 2002

Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons.

George Bush
Speech to UN General Assembly
September 12, 2002

If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world.

Ari Fleischer
Press Briefing
December 2, 2002

We know for a fact that there are weapons there.

Ari Fleischer
Press Briefing
January 9, 2003

25,000 liters of anthrax ... 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin ... materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent ... upwards of 30,000 munitions capable of delivering chemical agents ... several mobile biological weapons labs ... thousands of Iraqi security personnel ... at work hiding documents and materials from the U.N. inspectors."

George Bush
State of the Union Address
January 28, 2003

We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons -- the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have.

George Bush
Radio Address
February 8, 2003

Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.

George Bush
Address to the Nation
March 17, 2003

Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly . . . all this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for whatever duration it takes.

Ari Fleisher
Press Briefing
March 21, 2003

We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.

Donald Rumsfeld
ABC Interview
March 30, 2003

Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find -- and there will be plenty.

Neocon scholar Robert Kagan
Washington Post op-ed
April 9, 2003

We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some. And so we will find them.

George Bush
NBC Interview
April 24, 2003

For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction (as justification for invading Iraq) because it was the one reason everyone could agree on.

Paul Wolfowitz
Vanity Fair interview
May 28, 2003

You remember when [Secretary of State] Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons ...They're illegal. They're against the United Nations resolutions, and we've so far discovered two...And we'll find more weapons as time goes on And we'll find more weapons as time goes on

--George W. Bush
Press Briefing
5/30/2003

Why would you believe anything Ari Fleisher said. Can you believe that we allow a person with dual citizenship in our Presidential Cabinet? The Israelis must love it.

To..Michael4""""

I never believed any of them ...

I'm guessing Debbie Wasserman Shultz was absolutely right....you guys are mostly a bunch of shills who will slurp up their lies and spit them right back out as your own words. None of you seem to have the ability to critically think nor do you seem to have any opinion they didn't directly give you, which means to me that even discussing anything further with you is an absolute waste of my time. Thanks, though, for proving my point and proving once again that there is no intolerance or hypocrisy like that of the Left. Call me when you learn to think for yourselves.

AMU:

Here is a refresher Course:

It's easier to forget that the Democrats voted for it when they are blaming it on Bush. That way it sounds like they don't have any responsibility for it. However, I'd like to refresh their short memories with these little ditties.

"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."
--President Bill Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998

"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
--President Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998

"Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face."
--Madeline Albright, Feb 18, 1998

"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983."
--Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998

"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
Letter to President Clinton, signed by:
-- Democratic Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others, Oct. 9, 1998

"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
-Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998

"Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."
-- Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999

"There is no doubt that ... Saddam Hussein has reinvigorated his weapons programs. Reports indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear programs continue apace and may be back to pre-Gulf War status. In addition, Saddam continues to redefine delivery systems and is doubtless using the cover of a licit missile program to develop longer-range missiles that will threaten the United States and our allies."
Letter to President Bush, Signed by:
-- Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL), and others, Dec 5, 2001

"We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and th! e means of delivering them."
-- Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI), Sept. 19, 2002

"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
-- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002

"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power."
-- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002

"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."
-- Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002

"The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons..."
-- Sen. Robert Byrd (D, WV), Oct. 3, 2002

"I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force -- if necessary -- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."
-- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002

"There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years ... We also should remember we have always underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction."
-- Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D, WV), Oct 10, 2002

"He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do"
-- Rep. Henry Waxman (D, CA), Oct. 10, 2002

"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members ... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons."
-- Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002

"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction."
-- Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL), Dec. 8, 2002

"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real..."
-- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003

HEY JIM:

L = Liar
I = Idiot
B = Biased
E = Entitled
R = Radical
A = Angry
L = Lazy

Is he a County Judge, if he is then his job is to manage the county. There is a difference between County Judges and District Judges and Circuit Judges. Again County Judges are managers, they decide county budgets and oversee they county business, they do not need a law degree. District and Circuit Judges are the ones that preside over legal matters.

To..Jim """

No that be you ....and you make it so easy with your right wing blogosphere make it up echo chamber disinformation talking points ...do you think liberals don't read that whack o stuff too...

Anyway...

Texas GOP rejects ‘critical thinking’ skills. Really.
By Valerie Strauss
07/09/2012

In the you-can’t-make-up-this-stuff department, here’s what the Republican Party of Texas wrote into its 2012 platform as part of the section on education:

Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

Yes, you read that right. The party opposes the teaching of “higher order thinking skills” because it believes the purpose is to challenge a student’s “fixed beliefs” and undermine “parental authority.”

It opposes, among other things, early childhood education, sex education, and multicultural education, but supports “school subjects with emphasis on the Judeo-Christian principles upon which America was founded.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/texas-gop-rejects-critical-thinking-skills-really/2012/07/08/gJQAHNpFXW_blog.html

anyway...

To..Times""""

Claim: Quotes reproduce statements made by Democratic leaders about Saddam Hussein's acquisition or possession of weapons of mass destruction.

Origins: All

the quotes listed above are substantially correct reproductions of statements made by various Democratic leaders regarding Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's acquisition or possession of weapons of mass destruction.

However, some of the quotes are truncated, and context is provided for none of them — several of these quotes were offered in the course of statements that clearly indicated the speaker was decidedly against unilateral military intervention in Iraq by the U.S.

Moreover, several of the quotes offered antedate the four nights of airstrikes unleashed against Iraq by U.S. and British forces during Operation Desert Fox in December 1998, after which Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen and Gen. Henry H. Shelton (chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) announced the action had been successful in "degrad[ing] Saddam Hussein's ability to deliver chemical, biological and nuclear weapons."

In the section below where we highlight these quotes, we've tried to provide sufficient surrounding material to make clear the context in which the quotes were offered as well as include links to the full text from which they were derived wherever possible.

....http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/wmdquotes.asp

If it was all smoke and mirrors, why did the US remove 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium from Iraq in 2008?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25546334/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/t/secret-us-mission-hauls-uranium-iraq/

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-202_162-4235028.html

Saddam Hussein acquiring a nuke was not an if, but a when. What he had was not weapons grade, but he was obviously working on it and had acquired what is arguably one of the hardest parts to obtain.

I'm not saying there weren't misrepresentations, we're talking about politicians and they all lie, but the original argument I made was that contrary to the hypocritical belief of the Left, there are as many if not more in those ranks. I am tired, however, of the Big Lie that Saddam was just a peaceable guy that we picked on. He was a dirty murderer intent on killing more and had us in his sights and he was working on having the means to do so.

To..Jim"""

I don't know anybody who says saddam was a peaceful guy...the yellow cake in Tuwaitha was from before 1991 ..and was still sealed when inspectors went back in 2002 I got stuff on this cause somebody else was claiming the same thing about this out here awhiles back... but here's this for now...

Uranium in Iraq

Posted on August 3, 2008

Q: Was it recently revealed that the U.S. found uranium in Iraq after the invasion in 2003?

A: No. Uranium recently shipped from Iraq to Canada was left over from Saddam Hussein’s defunct nuclear weapons program and had been in sealed containers, under guard, since the end of the first Gulf War in 1991. Claims that this material is "vindication" for President Bush’s WMD claims in 2003 are completely false.

http://www.factcheck.org/2008/08/uranium-in-iraq/

Iraqi president Saddam Hussein purchased the yellowcake in the early 1980s from Niger. Following the Persian Gulf War in 1991, the IAEA discovered and safeguarded the material at Tuwaitha until 1998, when its inspectors were ousted from Iraq. International inspectors were not invited back into the country until 2002, on the brink of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. An IAEA report prior to the 2003 war concluded that all declared uranium compounds in Iraq were untouched during the suspension on inspections.

The nuclear compound at Tuwaitha was the center of concern in 2003, when the agency reported looting of the complex after Iraqi soldiers and civilian guards abandoned their posts during combat in mid-March. By April, U.S. forces had secured the facilities. A senior defense official in June 2003 said the site was found "in disarray" and that some of the IAEA seals had been broken. An IAEA inspection shortly thereafter discovered uranium compounds scattered across the floor and many storage containers emptied or missing. Some of the barrels used in the Tuwaitha facilities had been sold to Iraqi locals to store drinking water and food. The IAEA recovered all of the spilled uranium, which was repackaged after all materials had successfully been accounted for.

http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2008_09/IraqUranium

I think we're all happy that Saddam is gone Jim, don't get me wrong, but the ends do not justify the means and what we did there set a dangerous precedent. What you and Times seem to be missing is that democrats voted for this war yes, but they were misled to do so because Bush claimed that his administration had "intelligence" that Iraq had WMDs - which as we know now was proven to be completely false. Hey, I'm all for taking down a vile dictator, but I would have been much more comfortable if they had just said "Let's go take down Saddam" with no pretense involved. If they had U.N. cooperation in such an effort, I would have been all for it, simply as a matter of furthering world peace. However, the U.N. was not cooperative and the war was based on a lie, which is extremely low.

Democrats and Republicans alike did not vote to start the war in Iraq. They ceded their responsibility to Bush who had to make the last decision to go to war if he could prove iraq was a clear and present danger to this country. At the time he "decided" he knew from the reports available to him they were not. Saddam could have been eliminted from within his own country but the Neocons wanted to get started on their quest for world domination and restructuring the middle east was the start. So all that posting of facts about democrats and WMD's is a lot of bull. At the time before the UN sanctions they were valid. When Jr went to war they were not. Big difference.

Why hasn't Bush II, Cheney and Rice been indicted in the World Court for crimes against humanity? I know President Obama stated after being elected he would not pursue criminal charges against Bush and we know the World Court indicted Powell for leading the Iraq War for crimes against humanity. It is my most sincere stance we should hold leaders of the US responsible for atrocious crimes against other countries. If we did this but once our leaders would think twice before throwing the war switch. It is not too late to bring Bush II and his minions to justice to show the world we do have democracy and justice in this country.

James, sure is unique, not going to be spending any time there or my money. Sad part about this nonsense, I'm sure there are a lot of people who believe him that an invasion by the UN is just around the corner, December maybe January. Wow. How about hen's teeth, prairie dogs have some redeeming features.

Is it stupid or ignorant to wonder how a submarine from China could travel to within a couple of miles of Los Angeles and shoot off a missile that could have killed 22 Million people???? Am I delusional to wonder how our government is so inept that it allows that to happen? Well it happened again with a Soviet sub in the gulf of Mexico but without the missile launch. Dont pee on my leg and tell me its raining.

Michael4yah:

I checked the Books and Our Commander In Cheif was attending a fund rasier that day...

Sorry, I will be sure to leave him a note.

Both political parties are a sham. We're just a ping pong ball.

Times running out - in your post trying to show that early Americans were Republican is wrong. You have to understand that there is a difference between being a Republican and Republicanism. This country was meant to be a republic and not a democracy, the founders were not too fond of democracies. Today's republican party doesn't have much in common with the ideas of the founders. Don't get me wrong it's not only the modern republican party but also the democrats. Both sides try to claim the founders would be on their side when the truth is they wouldn't be on either side of today's parties.

Conservative - Good posts on Jefferson, more needs to be taught about the founding fathers, especially Jefferson and Washington. You should read Jefferson's autobiography if you haven't already. You're right he wasn't perfect but he did have more foresight and intelligence than the politicians we have today.

Gary DiNardo, he was on Fox, enough said. Unlike MSNBC which allows Republicans at the table Fox does not allow Democrats on the air.

Scrambl: I'm an Independent, but what you said is not true at all. There are even many Fox commentators who are Democrats...ie, Juan Williams and many others who come on the shows. It IS a known fact that the large majority of the MSM, based in NY, employing mainly liberals is VERY LEFT leaning. Even Chuck Todd has admitted to more nasty campaign reporting coming from their side. It was a known fact that it affected the 2008 election, but seems to be far worse now. People have to do their own research to know what is REALLY going on now, and owe it to all of us to research, especially on your Celebrity President...who has proven (by the economy and downfall of this country on his watch), that it takes far more that being "cool" to efectively lead this country! The MSM is fluffing it all up, and has ignored reporting anything negative about him. It should be dawning on most of you how unrealistic that is in such historically low times for our country. It could only get even worse if we don't change course....but SOMETHING has to be done, while our President continues to romp around with his superstar friends....which is nothing new.

If we want to talk DANGER here, the MSM is far beyond irresponsible reporting. Don't take MY word for it. Do your OWN research and STOP believing the majority of the MSM, including Fox.

PS: Notice when Republicans do go on shows on NBC, MSNBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, ETC they are ganged up on by the Liberal hosts.

Annie:

One of the democrat's own mag's is begining to"see the light" (NewsWeek)

Niall Ferguson: Obama’s Gotta Go

Aug 19, 2012 1:00 AM EDT

Why does Paul Ryan scare the president so much? Because Obama has broken his promises, and it’s clear that the GOP ticket’s path to prosperity is our only hope.

And on top of this, :

Hollywood bailing on President Obama and the Democratic National Convention

LOS ANGELES – President Obama recently praised Hollywood superstar George Clooney, calling him a “wonderful guy” and good friend. But even in the wake of the headline-grabbing compliments, a rep for the Oscar-winning actor confirmed he will not be attending the forthcoming Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Charlotte, North Carolina.

And it seems the majority of Clooney's high-powered Hollywood counterparts are also passing on the 2012 convention – a far cry from 2008’s showdown in Denver, Colorado which attracted dozens of A-listers including Oprah Winfrey, Sarah Silverman, Fallout Boy, John Legend, Cyndi Lauper, Ashanti, Fran Drescher, Ashley Judd, Rage Against the Machine, Aisha Tyler, Anne Hathaway, Susan Sarandon, Jon Hamm, Cash Warren, Jessica Alba, Fergie, Will.i.am, Kanye West, Matthew Modine, Kerry Washington, Stevie Wonder, Rosario Dawson, Jennifer Hudson, Shawn Johnson, Forest Whitaker, Star Jones, Wilmer Valderama, Daniel Dae Kim, Kelly Hu, Jamie Foxx, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Chevy Chase, Richard Dreyfuss, Melissa Etheridge and Pharrell Williams.

Ever seen Democrats on Fox? Sure, they'll get a chance to tell their side and then they get interrupted, yelled at and slammed by the likes of Hannity. They are far from "fair and balanced."

So what your saying is that the Demoncrats dont have control of Fox but they do have control of ABC NBC CBS CNN etc.

Augere: The great majority of the MSM is based in liberal NY, and now has exclusely liberal journalists and hosts. Fox is the only one leaning right among about 90+ % leaning left. They have to try harder to make any points, although I agree that Hannity should change his tactics somewhat....he gets too intense.

The majority of the media being liberal is fair and balanced? WHAT happened to rsponsible journalism we used to know? Money happened, that's what.

People HAVE to do independent research these days. It is the only responsible thing to do.

Even if most of the news media leans left, it is because most people in the US are moderates who leans left. However, most news agencies are moderate and balanced between the two, they just aren't conservative enough for your taste. When was journalism responsible by your tastes? Right now on Fox the article is "Is Obama programming the media to his favor" (20:36 pacific time)... Now it's "Does MSM's extensive coverage of Akin story suggest bias?" (20:44). Presidential wannabee Huckabee has his own show. Soon Donald Trump will be on again trying to convince America that Obama is an illegal alien again. If it wasn't for the liberal media, the Right would be able to convince people that the Soviet Union still exists and planning to attack us from the inside with spies.

Remember, if it wasn't for the liberals, women wouldn't be allowed to vote, blacks will at best be second class citizens and religions other than Christianity wouldn't be tolerated and given any rights to worship. This is something that Fox doesn't want anyone to know.

I respectfuly disagree that majority of Amerians are moderates who lean left.

MY "tastes" have nothing to do with logic. I research everything out, and DON'T accept all of Fox, either...but they're only a small percentage of the media. How can the news reporting NOT be biased when the huge majority of media leans/reports... liberal/ left, and people accept it as gospel without researching it out ?

The advent of the computer has been good for many things...too bad beople have become too lazy to do research in their preference for instant info', right or wrong. They owe it to ALL of us to be more independently informed.

Would you prefer that I say that the majority of Americans are moderates, period? Regardless, they are considered left leaning to Romeny/Ryan conservatives. Do you believe that the majority of the US are Christian conservatives and anyone leaning to the left are radicals with some kind of agenda working with the devil that helped succeed with their goals? Would you like to explain why there are so many "blue" states or that Obama has at least an even rating with Romney, if not higher? And what does the "liberal" news say that conflicts with your research and where do you get your research?

How could anyone believe Fux News when they have stated in a court of law under oath that they are an entertainment source? Come on you have to be smarter than that, aren't you?

Just be happy you'll never have to "plea" in front of him regarding a speeding ticket!

Probably in NYC where thre liberal nut jobs continue to vote back in Democrat Politians who been caught cooking the books. and ripping off tax payers.

@LEFT - That's just retarded. Both sides do dirty things all the time. It's just whether or not they get caught. Republican @!$%# doesn't smell any more like roses than anyone elses'...

Fail "left", ever hear of Guilliani and Bloomberg?

We just haven't changed enough, we need to get rid of some nutjobs like this guy and Akins.

I'd love to see John Corzine in jail with Bernie Madoff and Mitt Romney and the tax cheats who fund Mitt.

Didn't you hear? Bankers don't do jail.

Hope and change has worked out great for me and my family!

howardusa:

If you know so my about Romney Tax Cheating, why don;t you turn him in. You do know you will get a cut of the money the IRS gets from him...

Oh Yeah, I forgot... They have already audited him and found nothing wrong... Sorry. Nice thot tho.

thfan:

What you are not able to have your kids get a welfare check too?

ts quite appaent that the Democrat party is not so clean or truthful afterallWell lets look at the records of Democrats shale we.

William Jefferson Clinton- Impeached by the House of Representatives
over allegations of perjury and obstruction of justice, but acquitted by the
Senate. Scandals include Whitewater - Travelgate Gennifer Flowersgate - Filegate
- Vince Fostergate - Whitewater Billing Recordsgate - Paula Jonesgate- Lincoln
Bedroomgate - Donations from Convicted Drug and Weapons Dealersgate - Lippogate
- Chinagate - The Lewinsky Affair - Perjury and Jobs for Lewinskygate - Kathleen
Willeygate - Web Hubbell Prison Phone Callgate - Selling Military Technology to
the Chinesegate - Jaunita Broaddrick Gate - Lootergate - Pardongate

Edward Moore Kennedy - Democrat - U. S. Senator from Massachusetts.
Pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, after his car plunged off a
bridge on Chappaquiddick Island killing passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.

Barney Frank - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from
1981 to present. Admitted to having paid Stephen L. Gobie, a male prostitute,
for sex and subsequently hiring Gobie as his personal assistant. Gobie used the
congressman's Washington apartment for prostitution. A move to expel Frank from the
House of Representatives failed and a motion to censure him failed.

DNC - The Federal
Election Commission imposed $719,000 in fines against participants in the 1996
Democratic Party fundraising scandals involving contributions from China, Korea
and other foreign sources. The Federal Election Commission said it decided to
drop cases against contributors of more than $3 million in illegal DNC
contributions because the respondents left the country or the corporations are
defunct.

Sandy Berger - Democrat - National Security Advisor during the Clinton
Administration. Berger fined $50,000 for illegally removing highly classified
documents and handwritten notes from the National Archives during preparations
for the Sept. 11 commission hearings.

Robert Torricelli - Democrat - Withdrew from the 2002 Senate race with
less than 30 days before the election because of controversy over personal gifts
he took from a major campaign donor and questions about campaign donations from
1996.

James McGreevey - Democrat - New Jersey Governor . Admitted to having
a gay affair. Resigned after allegations of sexual harassment, rumors of being
blackmailed on top of fundraising investigations and indictments.

Jesse Jackson - Democrat - Democratic candidate for President.
Admitted to having an extramarital affair and fathering a illegitimate
child.

Gary Condit - Democrat - US Democratic Congressman from California.
Condit had an affair with an intern. Condit, covered up the affair and lied to
police after she went missing. No charges were ever filed against Condit. Her
remains were discovered in a Washington DC park..

Eliot Spitzer- Democrat - New York governor - resigned from office
after being tied to a prostitution ring.

Sowande Ajumoke Omokunde - Democrat - the son of newly elected U.S.
Rep. Gwen Moore, was booked on charges of criminal damage to property for
allegedly slashing tires on 20 vans and cars rented by the Republican Party for
use in Election Day voter turnout efforts.

Daniel David Rostenkowski - Democrat - U.S. Representative from
Illinois from 1959 to 1995. Indicted on 17 felony charges- pleaded guilty to two
counts of misuse of public funds and sentenced to seventeen months in federal
prison.

Melvin Jay Reynolds - Democrat U.S. Representative from Illinois from
1993 to 1995. Convicted on sexual misconduct and obstruction of justice charges
and sentenced to five years in prison.

Wayne Bryant - Democrat NJ state senator- was convicted was found
guilty on all 12 counts against him including bribery and pension fraud.

Charles Coles Diggs, Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Representative from
Michigan from 1955 to 1980. Convicted on eleven counts of mail fraud and filing
false payroll forms-
sentenced to three years in prison.

George Rogers - Democrat - Massachusetts State House of
Representatives from 1965 to 1970. M000ember of Massachusetts State Senate from
1975 to 1978. Convicted of bribery in 1978 and sentenced to two years in
prison.

Don Siegelman - Democrat Governor Alabama - indicted in a bid-rigging
scheme involving a maternity-care program. The charges accused Siegelman
and his former chief of staff of helping Tuscaloosa physician Phillip Bobo
rig bids. Siegelman was accused of moving $550,000 from the state education
budget to the State Fire College in Tuscaloosa so Bobo could use the money to
pay off a competitor for a state contract for maternity care.

John Murtha, Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania.
Implicated in the Abscam sting, in which FBI agents impersonating Arab
businessmen offered bribes to political figures; Murtha was cited as an
unindicted co-conspirator.

Otto Kerner - Democrat governor of Illinois from 1961 to 1968 was
jailed after the manager of two horse-racing tracks admitted to bribing the
then- governor; charges were filed after Kerner left office he was convicted in
1973.

Dan Walker - Democrat governor of Illinois from1973 to 1977 served
less than two years of a seven-year sentence for receiving improper loans a
decade after leaving office.

Gerry Eastman Studds - Democrat - U.S. Representative from
Massachusetts from 1973 to 1997. The first openly gay member of Congress.
Censured by the House of Representatives for having sexual relations with a
teenage House page.

Hiram Monserrate- Queens City Councilman and state Senator-elect - who
has claimed to be an advocate of victims of domestic violence - was arrested for
breaking a glass over his girlfriend's face. Monserrate, 41, a former cop, won
election to the state Senate as a Democrat in November 2008.

James C. Green - Democrat - North Carolina State House of
Representatives from 1961 to 1977. Charged with accepting a bribe from an
undercover FBI agent, but was acquitted. Convicted of tax evasion in 1997.

Frederick Richmond - Democrat - U.S. Representative from New York from
1975 to 1982. Arrested in Washington, D.C., in 1978 for soliciting sex from a
minor and from an undercover police officer - pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor.
Also - charged with tax evasion, marijuana possession, and improper payments to
a federal employee - pleaded guilty.

Raymond Lederer - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
from 1977 to 1981. Implicated in the Abscam sting - convicted of bribery and
sentenced to three years in prison and fined $20,000.

Harrison Arlington Williams, Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Senator from New
Jersey from 1959 to 1970. Implicated in the Abscam sting. Allegedly accepted an
18% interest in a titanium mine. Convicted of nine counts of bribery,
conspiracy, receiving an unlawful gratuity, conflict of interest, and interstate
travel in aid of racketeering. Sentenced to three years in prison and fined
$50,000.

Frank Thompson, Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Representative from New Jersey
from 1955 to 1980. Implicated in the Abscam sting, convicted on bribery and
conspiracy charges. Sentenced to three years in prison

Michael Joseph Myers - Democrat - U.S. Representative from
Pennsylvania from 1976 to 1980. Implicated in the Abscam sting - convicted of
bribery and conspiracy; sentenced to three years in prison and fined $20,000;
expelled from the House of Representatives on October 2, 1980.

John Michael Murphy - Democrat - U.S. Representative from New York
from 1963 to 1981. Implicated in the Abscam sting. Convicted of conspiracy,
conflict of interest, and accepting an illegal gratuity. Sentenced to three
years in prison and fined $20,000.

John Wilson Jenrette, Jr - Democrat - U.S. Representative from South
Carolina from 1975 to 1980. Implicated in the Abscam sting. Convicted on bribery
and conspiracy charges and sentenced to prison

Neil Goldschmidt - Democrat - Oregon governor. Admitted to having an
illegal sexual relationship with a 14-year-old teenager while he was serving as
Mayor of Portland.

Alcee Lamar Hastings - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Florida.
Impeached and removed from office as federal judge in 1989 over bribery
charges.

Marion Barry - Democrat - mayor of Washington, D.C., from 1979 to 1991
and again from 1995 to 1999. Convicted of cocaine possession after being caught
on videotape smoking crack cocaine. Sentenced to six months in prison.

Mario Biaggi - Democrat - U.S. Representative from New York from 1969
to 1988. Indicted on federal charges that he had accepted bribes in return for
influence on federal contracts.Convicted of obstructing justice and accepting
illegal gratuities. Tried in 1988 on federal racketeering charges and convicted
on 15 felony counts.

Lee Alexander - Democrat - Mayor of Syracuse, N.Y. from 1970 to 1985.
Was indicted over a $1.5 million kickback scandal. Pleaded guilty to
racketeering and tax evasion charges. Served six years in prison.

Bill Campbell - Democrat - Mayor of Atlanta. Indicted and charged with
fraud over claims he accepted improper payments from contractors seeking city
contracts.

Frank Ballance - Democrat - Congressman North Carolina. Pleaded guilty to one
charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering related to
mishandling of money by his charitable foundation.

Hazel O'Leary - Democrat - Secretary of Energy during the Clinton
Administration - O'leary took trips all over the world as Secretary with as many
50 staff members and at times rented a plane, which was used by Madonna during
her concert tours.

Lafayette Thomas - Democrat - Candidate for Tennessee State House of
Representatives in 1954. Sheriff of Davidson County, from 1972 to 1990. Indicted
in federal court on 54 counts of abusing his power as sheriff. Pleaded guilty to
theft and mail fraud; sentenced to five years in prison.

Mary Rose Oakar - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1977
to 1993. Pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges of funneling $16,000 through
fake donors.

David Giles - Democrat - candidate for U.S. Representative from
Washington in 1986 and 1990. Convicted in June 2000 of child rape.

Gary Siplin - Democrat state senator Florida- found guilty of
third-degree grand theft of $5,000 or more, a felony, and using services of
employees for his candidacy.

Edward Mezvinsky - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Iowa
from 1973 to 1977. Indicted on 56 federal fraud charges.

Lena Swanson - Democrat - Member of Washington State Senate in
1997. Pleaded guilty to charges of soliciting unlawful
payments from veterans and former prisoners of war.

Abraham J. Hirschfeld - Democrat - candidate in Democratic primary for
U.S. Senator from New York in 1974 and 1976. Offered Paula Jones $1 million to
drop her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton. Convicted in
2000 of trying to hire a hit man to kill his business partner.

Henry Cisneros - Democrat - U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development from 1993 to 1997. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of lying
to the FBI.

James A. Traficant Jr. - Member of House of Representatives from Ohio.
Expelled from Congress after being convicted of corruption charges. Sentenced
today to eight years in prison for accepting bribes and kickbacks.

John Doug Hays - Democrat - member of Kentucky State Senate from 1980
to 1982 Found guilty of mail fraud for submitting false campaign reports
stemming from an unsuccessful run for judge. He was sentenced to six months in
prison to be followed by six months of home confinement and three years of
probation.

Henry J. Cianfrani - Democrat - Pennsylvania State Senate from
1967 to 1976. Convicted on federal charges of racketeering and mail fraud for
padding his Senate payroll. Sentenced to five years in federal prison.

David Hall - Democrat - Governor of Oklahoma from 1971 to 1975.
Indicted on extortion and conspiracy charges. Convicted and sentenced to three
years in prison.

John A. Celona - Democrat - A former state senator was charged with
the three counts of mail fraud. Federal prosecutors accused him of defrauding
the state and collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars from CVS Corp. and
others while serving in the legislature. Celona has agreed to plead guilty to
taking money from the CVS pharmacy chain and other companies that had interest
in legislation. Under the deal, Celona agreed to cooperate with investigators.
He faces up to five years in federal prison on each of the three counts and a
$250,000 fine

Allan Turner Howe - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Utah from 1975
to 1977. Arrested for soliciting a policewoman posing as a prostitute.

Jerry Cosentino - Democrat - Illinois State Treasurer. Pleaded guilty
to bank fraud - fined $5,000 and sentenced to nine months home confinement.

Joseph Waggonner Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Louisiana
from 1961 to 19 79. Arrested in Washington, D.C. for soliciting a policewoman
posing as a prostitute

Albert G. Bustamante - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Texas from
1985 to 1993. Convicted in 1993 on racketeering and bribery charges and
sentenced to prison.

Lawrence Jack Smith - Democrat - U.S. Representative from
Florida from 1983 to 1993. Sentenced to three months in federal prison for tax
evasion.

David Lee Walters - Democrat - Governor of Oklahoma from 1991 to 1995.
Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor election law violation.

James Guy Tucker, Jr. - Democrat - Governor of Arkansas from 1992 to
1996. Resigned in July 1996 after conviction on federal fraud charges as part of
the Whitewater investigation.

Walter Rayford Tucker - Democrat - Mayor of Compton, California from
1991 to 1992; U.S. Representative from California from 1993 to 1995. Sentenced
to 27 months in prison for extortion and tax evasion.

William McCuen - Democrat - Secretary of State of Arkansas from 1985
to 1995. Admitted accepting kickbacks from two supporters he gave jobs, and not
paying taxes on the money. Admitted to conspiring with a political consultant to
split $53,560 embezzled from the state in a sham transaction. He was indicted on
corruption charges. Pleaded guilty to felony counts tax evasion and accepting a
kickback. Sentenced to 17 years in prison.

Walter Fauntroy - Democrat - Delegate to U.S. Congress from the
District of Columbia from 1971 to 1991. Charged in federal court with making
false statements on financial disclosure forms. Pleaded guilty to one felony
count and sentenced to probation.

Carroll Hubbard, Jr. - Democrat - Kentucky State Senate from 1968 to
1975 and U.S. Representative from Kentucky from 1975 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to
conspiring to defraud the Federal Elections Commission and to theft of
government property; sentenced to three years in prison.

Joseph Kolter - Democrat - member of Pennsylvania State House of
Representatives from 1969 to 1982 and U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from
1983 to 1993. Indicted by a Federal grand jury on five felony charges of
embezzlement at the U.S. House post office. Pleaded guilty.

Webster Hubbell - Democrat - Chief Justice of Arkansas State Supreme
Court in 1983. Pleaded guilty to federal mail fraud and tax evasion charges -
sentenced to 21 months in prison.

Nicholas Mavroules - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
from 1979 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to charges of tax fraud and accepting
gratuities while in office.

Carl Christopher Perkins - Democrat - Kentucky State House of
Representatives from 1981 to 1984 and U.S. Representative from Kentucky from
1985 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to bank fraud in connection with the House banking
scandal. Perkins wrote overdrafts totaling about $300,000. Pleaded guilty to
charges of filing false statements with the Federal Election Commission and
false financial disclosure reports. Sentenced to 21 months in prison.

Richard Hanna - Democrat - U.S. Representative from California from
1963 to 1974. Received payments of about $200,000 from a Korean businessman in
what became known as the "Koreagate" influence buying scandal. Pleaded guilty
and sentenced to federal prison.

Angelo Errichetti - Democrat - New Jersey State Senator was sentenced
to six years in prison and fined $40,000 for his involvement in Abscam.

Daniel Baugh Brewster - Democrat - U.S. Senator from Maryland.
Indicted on charges of accepting illegal gratuity while in Senate.

Thomas Joseph Dodd - Democrat - U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
Censured by the Senate for financial improprieties, having diverted $116,000 in
campaign and testimonial funds to his own use

Edward Fretwell Prichard, Jr. - Democrat - Delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Kentucky. Convicted of vote fraud in federal court in
connection with ballot-box stuffing. Served five months in prison.

Jerry Springer - Democrat - Resigned from Cincinnati City Council in
1974 after admitting to paying a prostitute with a personal check, which was
found in a police raid on a massage parlor.

Guy Hamilton Jones, Sr. - Democrat -Arkansas State Senate. Convicted
on federal tax charges and expelled from the Arkansas Senate.

Daniel Flood - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from
1945 to 1947, 1949 to 1953 and 1955 to 1980. Pleaded guilty to a conspiracy
charge involving payoffs and sentenced to probation.

Otto Kerner, Jr - Democrat - Governor of Illinois from 1961 to
1968. While serving as Governor, he and another official made a gain of over
$300,000 in a stock deal. Convicted on 17 counts of bribery, conspiracy,
perjury, and related charges. Sentenced to three years in federal prison and
fined $50,000.

George Crockett, Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Michigan.
Served four months in federal prison for contempt of court following his defense
of a Communist leader on trial for advocating the overthrow of the government.

Cornelius Edward Gallagher - Democrat - U.S. Representative from New
Jersey from 1959 to 1973. Indicted on federal charges of income tax evasion,
conspiracy, and perjury

Mark B. Jimenez - Democrat fundraiser - sentenced to 27 months in
prison on charges of tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the United States and
commit election financing offenses.

Bobby Lee Rush - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Illinois. As a
Black Panther, spent six months in prison on a weapons charge.

Bolley ''Bo'' Johnson - Democrat - Former Florida House Speaker -
received a two-year term for tax evasion.

Roger L. Green - Democrat - Brooklyn Democrat Assemblyman. Pleaded
guilty to a misdemeanor for accepting travel reimbursement for trips he did not
pay for and was sentenced to fines and probation.

Gloria Davis - Democrat - Bronx assemblywoman. Pleaded guilty to
second-degree bribe-taking.

Yup those be the Dems- what a stand up group of people!

Wow... You're pretty good with the whole "Copy/Paste" function.

Typical Republican defense: "I know you are but what am I?"

What about that tranny that Eddie Murphy picked up that time? I think he (she) was a democrap too.

Tpical liberal defence when confronted with facts: "Wow... Your pretty good with the whole Copy/Past function, or, "You hater! Homophobe!, or " Yeah, cut taxes like that worked" LMAO! Pathetic!!!!!

Was Larry Craig a Democrat....or just your run of the mill Senate Republican closet homosexual in search of gay sex in the toilet stalls at airports?

...and did the Republicans remove him from office......no way....he's everything they stand for...that is ....hypocracy.

Human frailties, what is it about politics and sex?. But as an earlier poster alluded, we are cleaning Congress and it'll take a little while to get the Democratics working for us as they should. Now, you do your part and clean out the repub/tparty once and for all. WE might have differences, but dialogue without rancor is the way to go. Bottom line non-negotiable is: WE want a United State of America. Romney/Ryan want a U.S. of Corporations. OK if we move them to South America?

To..Left """"

Well....do you really want to go there...

Republican Hypocrisy Revealed

http://armchairsubversive.blogspot.com/

Dear Earthgirl: You are a perfect example of the typical blind PC follower who is putting MY future in jeapardy with your ignorance. It's downright DANGEROUS to follow a side without question. As an independent, I have been closely following both sides, and the Donkey is far removed from where he used to be... presently leaning heavily toward Socialism. Is THAT what you want for us?

Research available everywhere.

MAZE:

You didn't drink that kool-aid on the LEFT did you... Oh Now, Now you are ruined for life. Sorry.

Oh, do tell, how is your future in jeapardy? Is Romney and his Catholic boy toy going to make our economy better? The best he could do is propose simular things that Obama pushed and get actual corporation from the Republicans in Congress and take credit while further trashing his predecessor's reputation. More than likely it will stay the same while his administration balances the budget for the conservative's own religious ambitions.

With these bastards, we'll have nothing to look foward to. They'll erode the purpose of the First Amendment- especially the Seperation of Church and State, overturn the rights of their unwanted elements of society (non-Christians, liberals, homosexuals, people who they think are Communists, non-white immigrants- regardless if they are legal or not), go to war with the Muslims in the Middle East and turn this into a Christian theocracy in which only certain kinds of people will live a comfortable life. I don't even need to mention the @!$%#ty relationship we'll have with other countries.

Yes, it's downright DANGEROUS to follow a side without question.

He is a COUNTY JUDGE, has nothing to do with the legal process.

yeah alot of it was sexually charged. LOL

Andrew

He meant to say. They quoted me verbatim. Therefore, it is a lie.

I saw the video also.. He was fired up crazy!

"You Did Not Build THAT"

"Put Y'all in Chains'

I Know... Out of Context

Bull manure.

You obviously dont understand whats been going on over the last 50 years. The UN can mobilize a huge Army if it wanted. It would take a concensus of opinion of the other countries but thats what the "International Small Arms Treaty" is all about. They are aligning other countries against us.

What do you call a Liberal with an IQ of under 80 who depends on the slanted MSM for all his information and takes it as "law"?

Gifted.

Annie
Just as many righties with low IQs. I'm a liberal and I'll put my 167 IQ up against your's any day.

Bob, I laugh so hard I cried....

Love your post. The Klan, won't like it though. And, the judge, is swearing out a warrant, on you!

Thats why Obama has been quiet about guns, he is trying to torpedo the constitution. Just imagine, if the U.N. tries to disarm the american citizen, the amount of bloodshed/civil war that would follow. I don't know anybody that would relinquish their guns to the government, mabye bullets first! The judge is just voicing a distinct possibility.

Forrest Gump said it best: Stupid does as stupid is.

Forrest Gump your role model?

Wade:

Just a small sample:

George Soros is financing the fight to give the United Nations control of your guns.

Through his Media Matters organization, Soros is dumping pro-UN gun control propaganda into the mainstream media to coincide with the United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty being held in New York July 2–27.

I have read the resalution and the UN wants every fire arm sold or currently own in the USA to be tracked. They want a list of ALL Gun Owners, Name Address etc... They also will make it so you can not buy bullets. But if you want to by a sling fior your gun, then that may be allowed. It's REAL... I wrote my Sen about it.

Annie, Wade, Blue,and Times-

I'm very reluctant to even respond to you morons, but I just need to vent, I guess. For the life of me, I cannot understand how a Republican with any common sense can read posts like yours and not want to run to their local elections office and demand to change their affiliation. How did your minds get so distorted and pickled? You must have been home-schooled in Texas!

I see only one recourse for you; find the most desolate place on earth, take all your looney friends with you, make sure you're all armed to the teeth, and then try to agree on ANYTHING, and especially a form of government that the majority of you would be willing to abide by. It would almost be certain that you would annihilate yourselves within the first year. It would only take that long because you'd first have to identify all the "conspirators" among you.

You and your ilk represent the greatest threat to freedom in this country than all others combined, internally or externally! You are truly nuts!

To..Time""""

And you believe that ...you really.. really believe that right wing blogosphere conspiracy theory ..well the "United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty"...has come and gone

Have they come to take your guns away...don't you think this would be front page stuff..right or left ..the outrage is where ...

And the bible calls you sheep..fitting

You mean like MSNBC, with Chris Matthews, and Rachel Madcow and the majority of the MSM that's KNOWN to be left-leaning?

Annie: Better take your post.