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POPSCrushed by the Elephant This is probably the best explaination for the totally confused campaign that McCain is so unfortunately emersed in.....he truely seems to "rather not be there" when he appears with Palin on television news interviews. The idea that he had something going in the 2004 election, but got defeated by not being down and dirty enough......and then wanting another chance at the top job.....and then caving into the divisive politics of the right wingnuts.....is very plausible, and very convincing. He may really have had a better chance if he came back to his 2004 version of "The Maverick"! The selection of Sarah Palin was his biggest mistake! Frank
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POPSSave Capitalism from the Capitalists...A Tale of Two Fine Roosevelts Do you think the champions of Capitalism will ever realize that in order for the system to work and survive, it needs some oversight? It cannot be allowed to "police" itself. Capitalism needs to work for all the people, not just those that will benifit at the expense of those that will be buried under their relentless and ruthless competition. It is not a good idea to allow the fox to guard the henhouse. The only think that people with the power and the money have in mind is the bottom line!
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POPSPowell Backs Obama So refreshing to hear from an intelligent patriotic American words that express my exact feelings on the issues that are so important in this election....thanks Colan Powell!
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POPSWhy Liberals Love McCain A Great Article by Michael Kinsley. This is exactly what I've been thinking lately. If us Democrats don't get our act together soon....and in full force we are going to have the "Straight Talk Express" running right down our throats! The proverbial shit is soon going to hit the fan", and we will be fighting with each other while the train rumbles on! Ala, 1968, 1972, and 1980.
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POPSThe Billary Road to Republican Victory Think about the points brought up in this column, if you are serious in getting the Repubs out of the drivers seat as we are heading for the cliff ! I'm not entirely against a Clinton win. I just am a little tired of both names that have been with us for the past two decades. (Bush and Clinton). I'm tired of the old words and the old infighting. I want a real change, and I think there are a lot of people desiring the same!
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POPSAmerica's Armageddonites Push for More War
THIS IS REAL FOLKS! THESE PEOPLE ARE REALLY OUT THERE! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Based on this Biblical interpretation, the Armageddonites vehemently argue that America must protect Israel and encourage its settlements on the West Bank in order to help God fulfill His plans. The return of Jews to Palestine is central to the prophetic vision of the Armageddonites, who see it as a critical step toward the final battle, Armageddon, and the victory of the righteous over Satan's minions. There are a couple internal inconsistencies with this prophecy, such as the presence of Christians already living in the Holy Land and the role of Jews in the final dispensation. In the first case, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and other Religious Right leaders tried to pretend that Christians already in the Holy Land simply didn't exist. As for Jews, they needed to become "born again" Christians to avoid God's wrath (or, according to some Armageddonites, a separate Jewish covenant with God will gain them a se
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POPSSliming Graeme Frost MORE: "In fact, however, Republicans had already made their first move: an e-mail message from the office of Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, sent to reporters and obtained by the Web site Think Progress, repeated the smears against the Frosts and asked: “Could the Dems really have done that bad of a job vetting this family?” And the attempt to spin the media worked, to some extent: despite reporting that has thoroughly debunked the smears, a CNN report yesterday suggested that the Democrats had made “a tactical error in holding up Graeme as their poster child,” and closely echoed the language of the e-mail from Mr. McConnell’s office. All in all, the Graeme Frost case is a perfect illustration of the modern right-wing political machine at work, and in particular its routine reliance on character assassination in place of honest debate. If service members oppose a Republican war, they’re “phony soldiers”; if Michael J. Fox opposes Bush policy on stem cells, he’s faki
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POPSRovian Politics....the politics of division It was always so damn obvious to me that "I'm a uniter, not a divider", was a totally untrue Bush statement. I've never seen this country so divided! All this crew cared about was winning elections....their strategy was to appeal to the base. They used every Rovian "dirty trick" possible to eek out that last vote.....to push them over the top.....no matter how divided the country became. Now, they get to slink off back under their rock.
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POPSAn Immoral Philosophy More: It must be about philosophy, because it surely isn't about cost. One of the plans Mr. Bush opposes, the one approved by an overwhelming bipartisan majority in the Senate Finance Committee, would cost less over the next five years than we'll spend in Iraq in the next four months. And it would be fully paid for by an increase in tobacco taxes. So what kind of philosophy says that it's O.K. to subsidize insurance companies, but not to provide health care to children? So his philosophy says that the government must be prevented from solving problems, even if it can. In fact, the more good a proposed government program would do, the more fiercely it must be opposed. denying basic health care to children whose parents lack the means to pay for it, simply because you're afraid that success in insuring children might put big government in a good light, is just morally wrong. it seems, more basic decency in the hearts of Americans than is dreamt of in Mr. Bush's philosophy.
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POPSThe Reverend Falwell’s Heavenly Timing from the article: What a difference a midterm election has made. The Karl Rove theory that Republicans cannot survive without pandering to religious-right pooh-bahs is yet another piece of Bush dogma lying in ruins, done in by two synergistic forces. The first is the raw political math. Polls consistently show that most Americans don’t want abortion outlawed, do want legal recognition for gay couples, do want stem-cell research and never want to see government intrude on a Terri Schiavo again. On Election Day 2006, voters in red states defeated both an abortion ban (South Dakota) and, for the first time, a same-sex marriage ban (Arizona). But equally crucial is how much the “family values” establishment has tarnished itself in the Bush era. Some of that self-destruction followed the time-honored Jimmy Swaggart-Jim Bakker paradigm of hypocrisy: the revelations that Ted Haggard, the head of the National Association of Evangelicals, was finding God in the arms of a male prostitute, an
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POPSStrong Democracy I saw Benjamin Barber on CSPAN'S Book TV tonight, and found myself agreeing with his comments. This is his website. There are many other topics discussed.
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POPSFor God’s Sake This attack against the separation of church and state has been going on for a long time.
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POPSRove’s efforts to maintain one-party rule "billions of dollars in contracts put out by the agency every year to return Republicans to the majority in Congress in 2008. " This trade of government contracts to keep Republicans in power is the essence of Rovian plans for one-party rule. It is also called Facism.....the merging of corporations and government!
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POPSThe Rovian Era...his tracks are everywhere Karl's time has come. It's time to pay the piper. Old "turdblossom" needs to answer for subversion of our government for purely political purposes. This guy is the king of "divide and conquer" political tricks.
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POPSClean up "voter fraud" All you Rush Limbaugh fans who are convinced that the Demon Democrats don't want to clean up so called "voter fraud" are just following the script set up by Republicans to strip legitimate voters from the ballot box. Very un-American of you.
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POPSReplace a U.S. Attorney Killed by Terrorism?....... I didn't have room to post this next paragraph...but here it is in all it's gory! Disgusting! ======================================================== In firing the prosecutors and replacing them without Senate approval, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales took advantage of a little-noticed provision that the administration and its Republican enablers in Congress had slipped into the 2006 expansion of the Patriot Act. The ostensible purpose was to allow the swift interim replacement of a United States attorney who was, for instance, killed by terrorism. But these firings had nothing to do with national security — or officials’ claims that the attorneys were fired for poor performance. This looks like a political purge, pure and simple, and President Bush and his White House are in the thick of it.
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