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Ideas Hatched In A Bar Are The Best Ideas

by David Dayen [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

I guess this was in the Huffington Post a couple months ago, but I had missed it.  Today the New York Times brings the news about a group of satirists in San Francisco with an inspired idea and a dream:

From the Department of Damned-With-Faint-Praise, a group going by the regal-sounding name of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is planning to ask voters here to change the name of a prize-winning water treatment plant on the shoreline to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.

The plan, naturally hatched in a bar, would place a vote on the November ballot to provide "an appropriate honor for a truly unique president."

Supporters say that they have plenty of signatures to qualify the initiative and that the renaming would fit in a long and proud American tradition of poking political figures in the eye.

There's really no more fitting honor for America's worst President.  I would fund this initiative.

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Won't Somebody Think of the Ballots?

[courtesy of Blog for America]

The Miami Herald reports on the fate of the ballots from the 2000 presidential election in Florida:

Five years ago, the state of Florida gathered up boxes of ballots from 65 of the 67 counties and stashed them inside the cramped, air-conditioned confines of the state archives in Tallahassee.

After much hand-wringing and debate, state officials decided in 2003 that they should hold onto the more than six million votes cast in the historic election between Al Gore and George W. Bush that Bush ultimately won by just 537 votes. Normally, ballots are destroyed after 22 months.

But now Secretary of State Kurt Browning says he would just as soon junk them and free up the space in his archives that hold the ballots -- more than 4,000 cubic feet.

Danny
Communications Director

Don't Mess with Helen Thomas

[courtesy of Blog for America]

Helen Thomas devotes a column to George W. Bush and torture:

Is Congress so cowed that it accepts the statements of a president who has little regard for the truth?

Is there no lawmaker who is appalled about the tarnishing of our image in world opinion? And where are the voices of the other presidential candidates who will inherit the Bush legacy of torture? Why the silence?

I count on the American people to refuse to be shamed any more.

Backbone: it's not just for vertebrates anymore.

Danny
Communications Director

The Rebate Checks Are Coming, The Rebate Checks Are Coming

[courtesy of Blog for America]

President Bush is touting his big tax rebate check plan as cure-all for the, well, all.  From the Associated Press via the New York Times:

U.S. President George W. Bush sought to assure Americans on Saturday that federal checks en route to them as part of a stimulus plan will help spur the ailing economy and pay for soaring gas and food prices.

"These rebates will deliver up to $600 per person, $1,200 per couple, and $300 per child," Bush said in his weekly radio address.

The phrase, "stacking deck chairs on the Titanic" keeps running through my head.  I wonder why?

Danny
Communications Director

This Mission Is Never Accomplished

by Penny Denenberg [courtesy of Party Line]


"[War’s] glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families ... It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation.

"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war to our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out."

    —William Tecumseh Sherman

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On March 19, 2003, Pres. George W. Bush declared war against Iraq and the US attacked that country.  Six weeks later and exactly five years ago today, Bush landed a fighter jet onboard an aircraft carrier, far from any dangers of real battle, and declared “Mission Accomplished.” He appeared almost giddy from the excitement of his most excellent adventure.

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Something You Probably Already Knew

[courtesy of Blog for America]

George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States of America, is also the most unpopular president in modern history.  From CNN:

A new poll suggests that George W. Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history.

A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush his handling his job as president.

Oh, the humor that will ensue when the White House press operation tries to spin this one.  Maybe it will be something like this: "This is clearly a sign that the president is in a rebuilding period and his unpopular polling numbers are nothing more than a result of reality intruding on our well-crafted story."

Danny
Communications Director

Bittergate

by Monica Smith [courtesy of Blog for America]

As you may have heard, Senators Clinton and McCain took exception to Senator Obama speaking truth to power and referred to him as an elitist.  Perhaps they don't know what that word means.  Perhaps, like George W. Bush when he lies to the troops to "build their morale," they think that lying to people to "protect" them from the truth is what's expected of leaders.  Perhaps it's just  their paternalistic instinct that trots out the boogie man when things look bad and relies on the tooth fairy when people's teeth fall out because they lack health care.

In any event, some of the major media outlets took exception to the McCain and Clinton spin and Barack Obama addressed their spinning of his words directly. 

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