Let's Celebrate Condi!!!!!!!!!

Now that Condoleeza Rice has been overwhelmingly confirmed by the senate we can relax. Senator Joe Liebermann from CT spoke very well on her behalf as did the remarkable Diane Feinstein from CA. Condi has it all-- a woman, black... but is she a lezbomb?

Peace,

Kipp :7

>Now that Condoleeza Rice has been overwhelmingly confirmed by

>the senate we can relax. Senator Joe Liebermann from CT spoke

>very well on her behalf as did the remarkable Diane Feinstein

>from CA. Condi has it all-- a woman, black... but is she a

>lezbomb?

>

>Peace,

>

>Kipp :7

It just goes to show that incompetence comes in all shapes and sizes, and in this misAdmistration, much as the Sheeple rewarded His Fraudulent Incompetency a second term, so too does He reward those most incompetent (Condi and Rummy). I would have put my money on Jesus John too.

RE: Condi-toons ROCK!!

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>Now that Condoleeza Rice has been overwhelmingly confirmed by

>the senate we can relax.

Yeah, the most incompetent National Security Advisor ever, a chronic liar, is now Secretary of State. But let's not celebrate yet. We still need to get Alberto Gonzales confirmed as Attorney General. Ah, what a great man: Gonzales was one of the principal players in the Administration's effort to legalize the worldwide torture of prisoners. Woo-hoo!

>Yeah, the most incompetent National Security Advisor ever, a

>chronic liar, is now Secretary of State. But let's not

>celebrate yet. We still need to get Alberto Gonzales

>confirmed as Attorney General. Ah, what a great man: Gonzales

>was one of the principal players in the Administration's

>effort to legalize the worldwide torture of prisoners.

And, along with the new Secretary of Education, this collection is turning out to be the modern version of the "kitchen cabinet."

OR, otherwise known as a crock.

hd NYC

Oh yeah, how could I forget the lovely gay-hater, Ms. Spellings. These are truly beautiful people with good souls.

Is anyone actually surprised? Bush ran as a crazed homophobic fascist, so why wouldn't he appoint fellow crazed homophobic fascists to key government positions? Did people think he was kidding?

The fun hasn't even begun, guys. Fasten your seatbelts, because this gang is going to drive the U.S over a cliff. x(

Cartoons from the Klan

Nice cartoons you posted there, Jeff - who drew them? The in-house cartoonist at the Ku Klux Klan?

I really love the one with showing her as a bird with big enlarged, cariactured Negro lips. Mocking someone with racist ridicule of facial features is always nice.

But the best one is the one showing her sitting in a rocking chair like an old slave grandmother from Birmingham, rocking back and forth speaking in ebonics ("don't know nothin' about aluminium tubes) because, as all good liberals know, all black people - even those with doctorate degrees and those who become experts in international affairs - are really just illiterate sharecroppers.

What disgusting bigotry - right along the lines of Democratic Senate MINORITY LEADER Harry Reid saying it was fine with him if Scalia became Chief Justice because he was smart, but it was not OK if Clarence Thomas were nominated, because he's dumb and can't write - even signs his judicial opinions with a big X. And then there are those good liberals commentators who have called Dr. Rice Aunt Jemimah and depicted her as a White House maid.

Liberals so hate when black people express independent thought and dare to wander off the liberal plantation that you can't even refrain from making your racist hatred transparent.

Do you think that this sort of filth is going to help you, or does it just make you feel better? Don't know nothun' bout them there aluminum tubes!

>Yeah, the most incompetent National Security Advisor ever, a

>chronic liar, is now Secretary of State.

31 of 44 Senate Democrats voted to confirm Dr. Rice as Secretary of State, even as you claim that she is an incompetent, chronic liar. What does that say about Democrats?

Not a crock at all. In fact:

Wednesday, January 26th, 2005

Seymour Hersh: "We've Been Taken Over by a Cult"

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/26/1450204

>31 of 44 Senate Democrats voted to confirm Dr. Rice as

>Secretary of State, even as you claim that she is an

>incompetent, chronic liar. What does that say about

>Democrats?

Several possibilities here.

1. That 31 of the 44 Senate Democrats are strangely missing body parts (brains and gonads).

2. That 31 of the 44 Senate Democrats, like most of the Republicans, have decided that competence at one's job is really not important.

3. That 31 of the 44 Senate Democrats, like most of the Republicans, have decided that "lying" is ok when it suits your political ends.

4. All of the above.

And Dougie/Adolph, if you're going to refer to Aunt Jemima, you might want to first learn how to spell it. Try a visit to your local supermarket in the pancake mix section. I rather doubt you've been there protesting the racist use of old imagery by your capitalist corporate cohorts in their advertising, but in the style of the typical hypocrite that you are, you trot this one out as if you have a clue. Believe me, you don't.

And Condi can't wander from the liberal "plantation", since she's never really left the "old Virginny" version.

And, of course, as usual, Doug/Adolph has failed to address the issues of competence or honesty, much preferring to launch into another tirade about anything other than the real issues at hand. All your whining about racism is nothing but a smoke screen for the incompetence and immorality of the Bush Administration. Since your house of cards would quickly fall were you to address the real issues, you piss and moan about nonsense.

Now go back to watching your DVD Deluxe version of "Triumph of the Will" and spare us the histrionics. You have become such a bore.

Let's face it, consider the source, the US Senate. I used to be an admirer of the US system of government, with its built-in checks and balances. Somewhere along the line, the system has become corrupted. Now it takes money, BIG money, to become a US Senator. And in every election, how many Senate seats are truly up for an electoral contest, a mere handful. The Senate has how many lifers? Senators who get re-elected until they die.

As far as I can see, the Senators, Democrats and Republicans alike, have for the most part become like the old British House of Lords, representing privilege and vested interests, selling their votes to the influence peddlers. (At least the British had the decency to strip their right to vote from the hereditary Lords.)

There are exceptions, of course, but they seem to be in the minority. And when someone like Barbara Boxter speaks out against the lies and misleading of the Administration, most Senators prefer to look the other way. So much for checks and balances!

RE: Cartoons from the Klan

>What disgusting bigotry - right along the lines of Democratic

>Senate MINORITY LEADER Harry Reid saying it was fine with him

>if Scalia became Chief Justice because he was smart, but it

>was not OK if Clarence Thomas were nominated, because he's

>dumb and can't write - even signs his judicial opinions with a

>big X. And then there are those good liberals commentators

>who have called Dr. Rice Aunt Jemimah and depicted her as a

>White House maid.

>

>Liberals so hate when black people express independent thought

>and dare to wander off the liberal plantation that you can't

>even refrain from making your racist hatred transparent.

Reid has backpedaled increasingly faster (kinda like Wrong Way Rather) since that remark. Incredibly racist.

My favorite irony was that the only Senator who was an actual member of the Klu Klux Klan, the ever-Thurmondesque, and I'm talking capacity here, Bobby Byrd of Gopher Gulch, West Virginia, led the charge in the full Senate against Rice.

Democrats are so fun to watch.

Later.

RE: Cartoons from the Klan

Reid obviously went overboard with his remark about Thomas signing with an X. But his remarks about Thomas's intellectual ability may relate to the fact that amongst all the Justices of the Supreme Court, Thomas is the only one who makes it a practice not to ask any questions during the hearings. This is indeed very odd behaviour and unprecedented as far as I am aware. We all know that law clerks write the first drafts of the opinions rendered by the Justices, so if a Justice doesn't even ask any questions, how is one to know what they are thinking, if anything?

RE: Cartoons from the Klan

>Reid obviously went overboard with his remark about Thomas

>signing with an X.

LOL!! For the record, adding that bit about signing with the X was my little elaboration, something which I thought would have been abundantly clear, as a means of illustrating the true meaning behind Sen. Reid's unmistakably racist comments about Clarence Thomas.

But it is truly fucking amazing - - and I DO mean amazing - - that after you thought that Sen. Reid DID make the comment about Thomas's signing his judicial opinions with an X, you would had nothing to say about it other than to that "he went overboard," and then you followed it with a "but" sentence to justify that incomparably hateful sentiment.

As liberals lose more and more, their bitterness becomes uglier and uglier. The bile that is spewed by liberals at minority conservatives (including gay ones) is so shockingly and nakedly bigoted that it is astounding how unashamed you are of it.

Those cartoons about Condaleeza Rice are about as racist as it gets, and yet the liberals here - the good, caring souls that you are- post them and cheer them on.

As Traveller points out, I guess it shouldn't come as a surprise, then, that the Democratic Party today is represented by a former Klansman leading the charge against the first African-American female Secretary of State, while his ideological minions spit out every racist insult at her that can be thought of.

Are there any liberals of conscience willing to condemn this ugliness? Or has the phrase "liberals of conscience" become a total oxymoron, swallowed up in its entirety by the pathological hatred of George Bush?

>31 of 44 Senate Democrats voted to confirm Dr. Rice as

>Secretary of State, even as you claim that she is an

>incompetent, chronic liar. What does that say about

>Democrats?

First of all, Condoleezza Rice received 13 votes against her confirmation -- the most votes against any Secretary of State's nomination since 1825. And I think the Dems are saving their ammo for Gonzales, the more important fight.

>First of all, Condoleezza Rice received 13 votes against her

>confirmation -- the most votes against any Secretary of

>State's nomination since 1825. And I think the Dems

>are saving their ammo for Gonzales, the more important fight.

Got news for you Zippy. There are enough Democratic Senators up for re-election in red states that even Schumer has admitted that a filibuster of Gonzales won't happen. Get used to it. Gonzales is your new Attorney General.

I didn't like the term "Borked" so much, but I love the term "Daschled."

Later.

>>Yeah, the most incompetent National Security Advisor ever,

>a

>>chronic liar, is now Secretary of State.

>

>31 of 44 Senate Democrats voted to confirm Dr. Rice as

>Secretary of State, even as you claim that she is an

>incompetent, chronic liar. What does that say about

>Democrats?

>

>

You're right, Doug. And, 54 of the 56 Republicans in the Senate voted for her. (The other two Republicans were absent.) And, a majority of the Republicans did nothing but accuse the Democrats of trying to disparage Condi's "good name". Of course, had they listened, they would have heard the majority of Dems who spoke make statements based on fact.

Change happens slowly. I just saw this letter on Daily Kos. I was both amazed and touched . . .

(http://www.dailykos.com)

Thank you so much

by Barbara Boxer

[subscribe]

Thu Jan 27th, 2005 at 09:42:26 PST

I can't thank all of you enough -- the Daily Kos community, and the blogosphere as a whole -- for all of your effective work during the recent debate over Condoleezza Rice's nomination. Your support and participation in this critical debate meant so much to me.

More than 94,000 Americans from across the country signed my petition and stood together to demand the truth from Condoleezza Rice. It was truly an overwhelming response -- much more than I could have anticipated. You helped to get our message out to millions of Americans -- I couldn't have done it without you.

And you made a difference. You gave me the voice I needed to ask the tough questions during Dr. Rice's confirmation hearings. And you gave the entire United States Senate the voice it needed to take its "advice and consent" responsibility seriously. In fact, Condoleezza Rice received 13 votes against her confirmation -- the most votes against any Secretary of State's nomination since 1825.

Diaries :: Barbara Boxer's diary ::

Two weeks ago, who would have thought that Condoleezza Rice's nomination would allow us to have a full debate about our policy in Iraq? Who would have thought that we'd have the chance to truly expose all of the misstatements and misjudgments that led us into that conflict and continue to plague this Administration to this very day?

The Republican Senate leadership intended to easily approve Dr. Rice's nomination in a routine voice vote last Thursday afternoon, after President Bush's Inauguration and before the Inaugural balls got into full swing.

But you didn't let them ram this nomination through the Senate. You forced the Republican leadership to give us the debate we wanted on the floor of the United States Senate, and you gave us the opportunity we desperately needed to hold Dr. Rice and the Bush Administration accountable for their failures in Iraq and in the war on terrorism.

The American people deserved no less.

As you and I both know, this is just one more of the many battles we'll be having as we fight for our nation's future. It started with contesting the Ohio vote, it continued with the debate over Dr. Rice's confirmation, and it will certainly continue over the Gonzalez nomination and on many other looming issues. We're going to need to keep working together to make our voices heard and build a better America.

I enjoyed the dialogue we started over the past few weeks, including the chat I had with Armando and DavidNYC on the eve of the committee hearings, and I look forward to future interactions with the Daily Kos community. I hope to have the time to drop by here and participate in the discussion from time to time -- I value your input, and I thank you for caring so much about the future of our country.

Thanks again for all of your hard work. I can't tell you how much I appreciate your continued support. And I look forward to standing with you in the days, weeks, and months ahead.

In Friendship,

Barbara Boxer

>Got news for you Zippy. There are enough Democratic Senators

>up for re-election in red states that even Schumer has

>admitted that a filibuster of Gonzales won't happen. Get used

>to it. Gonzales is your new Attorney General.

I don't know who "Zippy" is but what you just wrote is not news to me. Of course Gonzales will get in. That isn't the point. As Markos Moulitsas said today, "Although Gonzales will be confirmed, Reid and the Democrats are doing the right thing and will probably achieve two small but imporatant success from the proceedings. Under the Constitution, only Congress can write laws, and it's not the prerogative of the President to abide by only those laws he finds acceptable. It's clear that Bush would like to ignore laws he finds inconvenient or constraining, and he stocks his retinue with people who indulge his desires. (By the way, Schumer's reference to Gonzales as a "blind loyalist" seems like an intentional double entendre.) But by drawing out the confirmation process to draw attention to Gonzales' key role in justifying the repudiation of the rule of law in favor of Presidential diktat, Reid and the Senate Democrats are not only doing a service to fellow Democrats who desire a muscular opposition party willing to inflict wounds on their partisan adversaries. Reid and the Senate Democrats are serving the interests of the entire country by upholding the Senate's responsibility to exercise its power and liberty to approve or reject the nominations of the executive. Democrats should be proud, and everyone opposed to tyranny should be thankful."

>>Got news for you Zippy. There are enough Democratic

>I don't know who "Zippy" is but what you just wrote is not

>news to me.

Zippy is a term of endearment, tiger. Bunghole is not. Settle down.

But by drawing out the

>confirmation process to draw attention to Gonzales' key role

>in justifying the repudiation of the rule of law in favor of

>Presidential diktat, Reid and the Senate Democrats are not

>only doing a service to fellow Democrats who desire a muscular

>opposition party willing to inflict wounds on their partisan

>adversaries. Reid and the Senate Democrats are serving the

>interests of the entire country by upholding the Senate's

>responsibility to exercise its power and liberty to approve or

>reject the nominations of the executive. Democrats should be

>proud, and everyone opposed to tyranny should be thankful."

>

Doug, I try, but all I can see is guys running around with wide, crazy eyes, their arms flailing in the air, when the words "diktat" and "tyranny" are used to describe a democratically elected government. It makes me realize how nuts I must have sounded to my friends complaining about Clinton; and at least he was a confirmed perjurer.

Later.

PS. But it does tickle me pink to know that I can watch four more years of this; and yes, I do speak fluent cliche'.

RE: Cartoons from the Klan

Doug, I notice you had nothing to say about what is irrefutable, namely that Thomas does not pose any questions orally at Supreme Court hearings and we thus have no way of knowing how smart or stupid he may be. Care to elaborate? Or are you only good at fulminating. Like all bags of wind.:7

>the

>words "diktat" and "tyranny" are used to describe a

>democratically elected government.

Again, Markos explains:

"Gonzales advocates policies consistent with tyranny.

"Think about it: Gonzales' legal briefs arguing that Presidential statements shielding torturers from arrest imply that the President is above the law, or that the President himself IS the law; that sovereignty and law emanate from him. Compare that to some definitions of tyranny.

"First, from the definition of tyranny in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics: In classical thought, a corrupt form of monarcy in which a person ruled in his own interest. More generally, the abuse of the state's coercive force in the absence of the rule of law.

"This from the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary:

Arbitrary or oppressive exercise of power, cruel or oppressive action or behavior;

"And the Declaration of Independence, making the argument that "the history of the Present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states," lays out "to a candid world" several examples of proof, beginning with:

He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good."

RE: Cartoons from the Klan

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Some racist Bush cartoons for Doug. Look at the beady little eyes and big ears. they way they portray this white man as a child. My God, a political cartoonist exagerrating the physical characterisitcs of a political figure. What disgusting racism indeed. Strom Thurmond must spinning in his grave. Thank GOD for you, Doug, for being a good sheeple dog and showing us needy liberals the rrors of our ways.

RE: Cartoons from the Klan

Glad you liked them. Try this one:

http://toons.strana.de/d/jpg/condoleezza_rice_dog.jpg

RE: Cartoons from the Klan

That was just terrible; and so, to put this thread in a more huggy spot, I direct you to this site:

http://www.thestatenislandboys.com/U_thrill_me/

Later.