| 6/30/2009 11:36:17 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | | 
fzappa
Oklahoma City, OK
age: 52
| "Bush has been arrested for stealing a large Christmas wreath from a hotel, and once for ripping down the Princeton goal posts after the Princeton-Yale Also arrested in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol, in Kennebunkport, ME. Pled guilty, paid fine, and had driver's license suspended for 30 days. His SAT score was 1206 (566 verbal, 640 math). His cumulative undergraduate GPA at Yale was 2.35. (He did a lot of drugs)
Is the first U.S. President to receive an acting nomination and then subsequently the win, from the Razzie Awards. He was nominated for and won Worst Actor in the film Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004). Though technically he was not acting in the film, merely playing himself via archive footage.
A statement Bush made in January 2001 referred to the "operating location near Groom Lake", which is the first official recognition of the existence of Area 51.
The TOP 100 Dippic's greatist hits...nearly our demise, never forget, never ever forget.
1. Failing to build a real international coalition prior to the Iraq invasion, forcing the US to shoulder the full cost and consequences of the war.
2. Approving the demobilization of the Iraqi Army in May, 2003 – bypassing the Joint Chiefs of Staff and reversing an earlier position, the President left hundreds of thousands of armed Iraqis disgruntled and unemployed, contributing significantly to the massive security problems American troops have faced during occupation.
3. Not equipping troops in Iraq with adequate body armor or armored HUMVEES.
4. Ignoring the advice Gen. Eric Shinseki regarding the need for more troops in Iraq – now Bush is belatedly adding troops, having allowed the security situation to deteriorate in exactly the way Shinseki said it would if there were not enough troops.
5. Ignoring plans drawn up by the Army War College and other war-planning agencies, which predicted most of the worst security and infrastructure problems America faced in the early days of the Iraq occupation.
6. Making a case for war which ignored intelligence that there were no Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq.
7. Deriding "nation-building" during the 2000 debates, then engaging American troops in one of the most explicit instances of nation building in American history.
8. Predicting along with others in his administration that US troops would be greeted as liberators in Iraq.
9. Predicting Iraq would pay for its own reconstruction.
10. Wildly underestimating the cost of the war.
11. Trusting Ahmed Chalabi, who has dismissed faulty intelligence he provided the President as necessary for getting the Americans to topple Saddam.
12. Disbanding the Sunni Baathist managers responsible for Iraq's water, electricity, sewer system and all the other critical parts of that country's infrastructure.
13. Failing to give UN weapons inspectors enough time to certify if weapons existed in Iraq.
14. Including discredited intelligence concerning Nigerian Yellow Cake in his 2003 State of the Union.
15. Announcing that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended" aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003, below a "Mission Accomplished" banner – more U.S. soldiers have died in combat since Bush's announcement than before it.
16. Awarding a multi-billion dollar contract to Halliburton in Iraq, which then repeatedly overcharged the government and served troops dirty food.
17. Refusing to cede any control of Post-invasion Iraq to the international community, meaning reconstruction has received limited aid from European allies or the U.N.
18. Failing to convince NATO allies why invading Iraq was important.
19. Having no real plan for the occupation of Iraq.
20. Limiting bidding on Iraq construction projects to "coalition partners," unnecessarily alienating important allies France, Germany and Russia.
21. Diverting $700 million into Iraq invasion planning without informing Congress.
22. Shutting down an Iraqi newspaper for "inciting violence" – the move, which led in short order to street fighting in Fallujah, incited more violence than the newspaper ever had.
23. Telling Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan about plans to go to war with Iraq before Secretary of State Colin Powell.
24. Allowing several members of the Bin Laden family to leave the country just days after 9/11, some of them without being questioned by the FBI.
25. Focusing on missile defense at the expense of counterterrorism prior to 9/11.
26. Thinking al Qaeda could not attack without state sponsors, and ignoring evidence of a growing threat unassociated with "rogue states" like Iraq or North Korea.
27. Threatening to veto the Homeland Security department – The President now concedes such a department "provides the ability for our agencies to coordinate better and to work together better than it was before."
28. Opposing the creation of the September 11th commission, which the President now expects "to contain important recommendations for preventing future attacks."
29. Denying documents to the 9/11 commission, only relenting after the commissioners threatened a subpoena.
30. Failing to pay more attention to an August 6, 2001 PDB entitled "Bin laden Determined to Attack in U.S."
31. Repeatedly ignoring warnings of terrorists planning to use aircraft before 9/11.
32. Appointing the ultra-secretive Henry Kissinger to head the 9/11 commission – Kissinger stepped down weeks later due to conflicts of interest.
33. Asking for testimony before the 9/11 commission be limited to one hour, a position from which the president later backtracked.
34. Not allowing national Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice to testify before the 9/11 commission – Bush changed his mind as pressure mounted.
35. Cutting an FBI request for counterterrorism funds by two-thirds after 9/11.
36. Telling Americans there was a link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda.
37. Failing to adequately secure the nation's nuclear weapons labs.
38. Not feeling a sense of urgency about terrorism or al Qaeda before 9/11.
39. Reducing resources and troop levels in Afghanistan and out before it was fully secure
40. Not providing security in Afghanistan outside of Kabul, leaving nearly 80% of the Afghan population unprotected in areas controlled by Feudal warlords and local militias.
The next 60 are here:
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2004/05/b64326.html
101?...Stay tuned...we're STILL uncovering the piles of shit he left...what a phucking nightmare.
| | 7/1/2009 12:02:14 AM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | | 
bubba19682007
Pilot Point, TX
age: 41
| All this throwing blame back and forth, Republican this, democrat that,,,Tell me what EITHER one of them are actually doing FOR the American people instead of an alterier agenda of their own. Face it, the WHOLE government is broken. When they have the same boss' (not the American people) then they must be working for someone else. The bank bailouts were a farce the major banks are owned by members of congress, as well as the Fed by the same people. Trust me when I say, they have it set up so that no matter what happens they make money from one side or the other. If the banks lose money and they get the bailouts, then there isnt enough money to cover it, so then the government has the fed print more money. Then there is interest added to each dollar the fed prints for the government. So the government gets China to cover the debt so the fed gets theirs. So money goes to the banks PLUS they get paid the intrest from the Fed. And the same people own both the banks and the fed. When you have those owners in congress, tell me where they arent working to line their own pockets as oppossed to fixing it for the public. They are making money hand over fist. And when the public loses all of their money and are dependent on the government the ALSO gain power over the public.
Sound far fetched? look at whats been happening, look at the order of the events here, they all line up. So forget your EXTREMELY PETTY Republican/Democrat blamestorm because its STUPID. THEY ARE ALL IN IT TOGETHER! And guess what, Our welfare is the LAST thing on their minds. Each day that goes by its more and more apparent.
You can vote them out, but they will just be replaced with another candidate they control and the whole thing just continues.
Your two parties are a farce, a facade, a sham, an Illusion, just to get you to blindly think you actually have a choice.
ARC
| | 7/1/2009 12:07:16 AM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | | 
soulcitywalker
Lexington, KY
age: 50
| Good work, fzappa!!
| | 7/1/2009 12:09:21 AM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | | 
layla22
Peoria, IL
age: 55
| bubba , didn't you just post this exact same reply a couple minutes ago on menage's "republican manifesto" thread?
cutting and pasting posts now, from one thread to another?
bush II's background has plenty of hard-to-defend moments. i don't know what his admirers really see to admire there......
| | 7/1/2009 12:15:21 AM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | |
bubba19682007
Pilot Point, TX
age: 41
| so what, Its worth saying again, Your totally STUPID Arguing back and forth trying to blame one side or the other is MOOT. since they two sides in reality DONT exist. And Zappa seems to think one side is wrong and the other can do no wrong when they are ALL guilty.
So if I think its worth saying here as well as another thread then SO WHAT, It saves time from typing it ALL over again doesnt it. 
Im getting chastised from someone who goes into threads all over the place to drag up near dead threads to "pad their post numbers" with one or two words that really dont add anything other than to push current threads off the page and pull ones up that have been dead for a week or more while there isnt enough people on the forum to actually keep their threads on the page. So why should you care what I post.
ARC
[Edited 7/1/2009 12:21:18 AM PST]
| | 7/1/2009 12:20:34 AM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | |
layla22
Peoria, IL
age: 55
| well, if you aren't ABLE to forumlate and fashion different responses to two totally different threads............
actually, with bush II, the material is ripe for the pickings. zap said he only even posted a partial list on this thread.
sorry about your job situation; you posted that you could only find part time....
good luck!
| | 7/1/2009 11:08:08 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | |
fzappa
Oklahoma City, OK
age: 52
| so what, Its worth saying again, Your totally STUPID Arguing back and forth trying to blame one side or the other is MOOT. since they two sides in reality DONT exist. And Zappa seems to think one side is wrong and the other can do no wrong when they are ALL guilty.
So if I think its worth saying here as well as another thread then SO WHAT, It saves time from typing it ALL over again doesnt it.
Im getting chastised from someone who goes into threads all over the place to drag up near dead threads to "pad their post numbers" with one or two words that really dont add anything other than to push current threads off the page and pull ones up that have been dead for a week or more while there isnt enough people on the forum to actually keep their threads on the page. So why should you care what I post.
ARC
Bullshit..I have previously stated that I am not a DEM nor do I agree with everything O does...not my bag to be compliant. I defend against bullshit I read here...you speak as though it's as simple as "right and wrong"...the wrongs have not been righted. You cannot claim to be sane and not see the damage of the Dippic. The crimes. When O commits a KNOWN crime I will call him out on it...well as far as reach whatever. I actually like to study CTs...and the NWO and this "connection" with the powers that be will not stop the wheel....9-11 didn't work for them and things are changing...I feel I can trust my gov MORE...not less. I hope in 2010 we can rid the house and senate of more Neo-cons...McCain lost...it's a new world.
I want JUSTICE...
Pad numbers? Oh...yeah I want my star....
| | 7/2/2009 3:50:50 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | | kevin99999
Oshkosh, WI
age: 41
| All this throwing blame back and forth, Republican this, democrat that,,,Tell me what EITHER one of them are actually doing FOR the American people instead of an alterier agenda of their own. Face it, the WHOLE government is broken. When they have the same boss' (not the American people) then they must be working for someone else. The bank bailouts were a farce the major banks are owned by members of congress, as well as the Fed by the same people. Trust me when I say, they have it set up so that no matter what happens they make money from one side or the other. If the banks lose money and they get the bailouts, then there isnt enough money to cover it, so then the government has the fed print more money. Then there is interest added to each dollar the fed prints for the government. So the government gets China to cover the debt so the fed gets theirs. So money goes to the banks PLUS they get paid the intrest from the Fed. And the same people own both the banks and the fed. When you have those owners in congress, tell me where they arent working to line their own pockets as oppossed to fixing it for the public. They are making money hand over fist. And when the public loses all of their money and are dependent on the government the ALSO gain power over the public.
Sound far fetched? look at whats been happening, look at the order of the events here, they all line up. So forget your EXTREMELY PETTY Republican/Democrat blamestorm because its STUPID. THEY ARE ALL IN IT TOGETHER! And guess what, Our welfare is the LAST thing on their minds. Each day that goes by its more and more apparent.
You can vote them out, but they will just be replaced with another candidate they control and the whole thing just continues.
Your two parties are a farce, a facade, a sham, an Illusion, just to get you to blindly think you actually have a choice.
ARC
 You have to understand, this is all that fzappa knows, BDS in its advanced stages. great post
| | 7/2/2009 4:02:10 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | | 
osoroho
Mesquite, TX
age: 59
| Darn if it walks like a duck quacks like a duck shits like a duck then i must be a democrat...
| | 7/2/2009 9:54:42 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | |
fzappa
Oklahoma City, OK
age: 52
| You have to understand, this is all that fzappa knows, BDS in its advanced stages. great post
Syndrome? Demanding justice for high crimes is a "syndrome"? The GOP criminals that f**ked up our country should be exiled...phuck 'em and feed 'em fish head for all I care (after the trials that should come soon)...to those un-American bastards. Your party failed and your agendas are only of hatred and ignorance...nothing more.
Myopeons among us!
Picture the future and who is in it.
| | 7/2/2009 10:12:55 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | |
layla22
Peoria, IL
age: 55
| from the current state of disarray in the GOP, the future we picture for a LONG time
will not have a republican president.
| | 7/2/2009 10:36:53 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | | 
barbaque
Marble Falls, TX
age: 60
| the way the worthless f--ck up in office right now is screwing the american people and LYING about everything he says we will have a republican president in 2012 NO PROBLEM it is a shame you democraps are too stupid to see what this moron is doing to this country .
every foriegn dictator loves him though .THEY FEARED BUSH .NORTH KOREA HAS JUST SHOWN how much respect they have for this coward you refer to as your president.AND the rest of the axis of evil are watching ,your safty is declining.the only thing the obama presidency has improved is GUN SALES in january nationwide gun sales were aroud 100,000$
last month around 600,000. gun shops can't keep enough in stock .I give obama points for this improvment .
| | 7/3/2009 10:08:41 AM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | |
fzappa
Oklahoma City, OK
age: 52
| the way the worthless f--ck up in office right now is screwing the american people and LYING about everything he says we will have a republican president in 2012 NO PROBLEM it is a shame you democraps are too stupid to see what this moron is doing to this country .
every foriegn dictator loves him though .THEY FEARED BUSH .NORTH KOREA HAS JUST SHOWN how much respect they have for this coward you refer to as your president.AND the rest of the axis of evil are watching ,your safty is declining.the only thing the obama presidency has improved is GUN SALES in january nationwide gun sales were aroud 100,000$
last month around 600,000. gun shops can't keep enough in stock .I give obama points for this improvment .
Other countries didn't "fear" the Dippic, they did not respect him for his crusading and dishonest ways. Obama is respected. Obama only scares the gun toting alarmists who have been neutered for leadership and who are either racists or overly dippical...Obama doesn't drink their koolaid...
Yeah the gun industry loves the weirdos who think they now need an arsenal to be safe. There's a lot of profit in paranoia...
Hope for change scares the unchangable.
| | 7/3/2009 9:22:29 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | | kevin99999
Oshkosh, WI
age: 41
| Syndrome? Demanding justice for high crimes is a "syndrome"? The GOP criminals that f**ked up our country should be exiled...phuck 'em and feed 'em fish head for all I care (after the trials that should come soon)...to those un-American bastards. Your party failed and your agendas are only of hatred and ignorance...nothing more.
Myopeons among us!
Picture the future and who is in it.
25 years from now you will be a feeble old man still blaming George bush for everything wrong in the world,where I care more about what is happening right now. I care about the so called "change" brought to Washington, record deficit spending that trumps anything Bush did as far as the deficit, The largest tax increase in government history by way of the cap and tax bill, government takeover of banks and car companies, government takeover of health care, amnesty for illegal aliens, transparency that was promised and never delivered, the overall destruction of our economy ( I find it interesting that Tim Geitner was also part of japans lost decade, so I guess we get our own too).
I also see you learned a new word myopian, that term doesn't really apply to conservatives, however it does describe Obama followers perfectly.
myopian:
myopians are forever optimistic, failing to see any faults regardless of what scandal may be taking place or how doomed a particular situation my clearly be.
"I know we have 10% unemployment, I know the trillion in spendulus was supposed stimulate the economy with all those 'shovel ready' jobs that have never happened but he's my messiah and he speaks to my heart" 
o baaaaaa ma
| | 7/3/2009 9:25:07 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | | 
styx62ga2
Douglasville, GA
age: 47
| He's a blind prick he can't help it it comes naturally
| | 7/3/2009 9:29:07 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | | walter555
Albuquerque, NM
age: 52
| He's a blind prick he can't help it it comes naturally
Your scholarly posts and use of words speaks for itself.
| | 7/3/2009 9:39:50 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | |
fzappa
Oklahoma City, OK
age: 52
| 25 years from now you will be a feeble old man still blaming George bush for everything wrong in the world,where I care more about what is happening right now. I care about the so called "change" brought to Washington, record deficit spending that trumps anything Bush did as far as the deficit, The largest tax increase in government history by way of the cap and tax bill, government takeover of banks and car companies, government takeover of health care, amnesty for illegal aliens, transparency that was promised and never delivered, the overall destruction of our economy ( I find it interesting that Tim Geitner was also part of japans lost decade, so I guess we get our own too).
I also see you learned a new word myopian, that term doesn't really apply to conservatives, however it does describe Obama followers perfectly.
myopian:
myopians are forever optimistic, failing to see any faults regardless of what scandal may be taking place or how doomed a particular situation my clearly be.
"I know we have 10% unemployment, I know the trillion in spendulus was supposed stimulate the economy with all those 'shovel ready' jobs that have never happened but he's my messiah and he speaks to my heart"
o baaaaaa ma
No, that's "myopeon"...and were you worried about things when the A**HOLE got INSTALLED into office? Prob not huh? He did no wrong to you myopeons...NOT ONE Dippical voter has ever apologized....that says a lot about their charactor.
LOL...myopian describes brainwashed and blinded by the "light" type of people....or maybe a Prozac related thing.
"Myopeon: Noun, A short-sighted person of total irrelevance.
Myopeon: Like bitter Obama haters driven to blogsites to post utter nonsense and promote ignorance and hatred. "
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Myopeon
Get used to this WURD...lol...it fits.
~~~~~
"41. Committing inadequate resources for the reconstruction of Afghanistan.
42. Counting too heavily on locally trained troops to fill the void in Afghanistan once U.S. forces were relocated to Iraq.
43. Not committing US ground troops to the capture of Osama Bin Laden, when he was cornered in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan in November, 2001.
44. Allowing opium production to resume on a massive scale after the ouster of the Taliban.
45. Opposing an independent inquiry into the intelligence failures surrounding WMD – later, upon signing off on just such a commission, Bush claimed he was "determined to make sure that American intelligence is as accurate as possible for every challenge in the future."
46. Saying: "We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories."
47. Trusting intelligence gathered by Vice President Cheney's and Secretary Rumsfeld's "Office of Special Plans."
48. Spending $6.5 billion on nuclear weapons this year to develop new nuclear weapons this year – 50% more in real dollars than the average during the cold war – while shortchanging the troops on body armor.
49. Ignoring the importance of the Middle East peace process, which has deteriorated with little oversight or strategy evident in the region.
50. Siding with China in February, 2004 against a democratic referenda proposed by Taiwan, a notable shift from an earlier pledge to stand with "oppressed peoples until the day of their freedom finally arrives."
[Edited 7/3/2009 9:44:22 PM PST]
| | 7/3/2009 9:43:15 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | | kevin99999
Oshkosh, WI
age: 41
| No, that's "myopeon"...and were you worried about things when the A**HOLE got INSTALLED into office? Prob not huh? He did no wrong to you myopeons...NOT ONE Dippical voter has ever apologized....that says a lot about their charactor.
LOL...myopian describes brainwashed and blinded by the "light" type of people....or maybe a Prozac related thing.
"Noun, A short-sighted person of total irrelevance.
Myopeon: Like bitter Obama haters driven to blogsites to post utter nonsense and promote ignorance and hatred. "
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Myopeon
Get used to this WURD...lol.
"41. Committing inadequate resources for the reconstruction of Afghanistan.
42. Counting too heavily on locally trained troops to fill the void in Afghanistan once U.S. forces were relocated to Iraq.
43. Not committing US ground troops to the capture of Osama Bin Laden, when he was cornered in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan in November, 2001.
44. Allowing opium production to resume on a massive scale after the ouster of the Taliban.
45. Opposing an independent inquiry into the intelligence failures surrounding WMD – later, upon signing off on just such a commission, Bush claimed he was "determined to make sure that American intelligence is as accurate as possible for every challenge in the future."
46. Saying: "We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories."
47. Trusting intelligence gathered by Vice President Cheney's and Secretary Rumsfeld's "Office of Special Plans."
48. Spending $6.5 billion on nuclear weapons this year to develop new nuclear weapons this year – 50% more in real dollars than the average during the cold war – while shortchanging the troops on body armor.
49. Ignoring the importance of the Middle East peace process, which has deteriorated with little oversight or strategy evident in the region.
50. Siding with China in February, 2004 against a democratic referenda proposed by Taiwan, a notable shift from an earlier pledge to stand with "oppressed peoples until the day of their freedom finally arrives."
I am not a republican but I will apologize for Bush if you apologize for Obama and Nancy Pelosi. its 2009 Fzappa, come join us.
And should talk about tolerance you hypocrite!
[Edited 7/3/2009 9:45:23 PM PST]
| | 7/3/2009 9:52:59 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | | walter555
Albuquerque, NM
age: 52
| Zappa makes more sense than most of the wingnuts on this site put together.
He also adds a little humor to his posts.
Nice change of pace from the hate.
| | 7/3/2009 9:54:19 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | |
fzappa
Oklahoma City, OK
age: 52
| I am not a republican but I will apologize for Bush if you apologize for Obama and Nancy Pelosi. its 2009 Fzappa, come join us.
And should talk about tolerance you hypocrite!
Tha's funny...the things I will NEVER tolerate are the liars, racists, and deniers of reality, the criminals that ran our government the last 8 years...
51. Undermining the War on Terrorism by preemptively invading Iraq.
52. Failing to develop a specific plan for dealing with North Korea.
53. Abandoning the United States' traditional role as an evenhanded negotiator in the Middle East peace process.
54. Signing a report endorsing outsourcing with thousands of American workers having their jobs shipped overseas.
55. Instituting steel tariffs deemed illegal by the World Trade Organization – Bush repealed them 20-months later when the European Union pledged to impose retaliatory sanctions on up to $2.2 billion in exports from the United States.
56. Promoting economic policies that failed to create new jobs.
57. Promoting economic policies that failed to help small businesses
58. Pledging a "jobs and growth" package would create 1,836,000 new jobs by the end of 2003 and 5.5 million new jobs by 2004—so far the president has fallen 1,615,000 jobs short of the mark.
59. Running up a foreign deficit of "such record-breaking proportions that it threatens the financial stability of the global economy."
60. Issuing inaccurate budget forecasts accompanying proposals to reduce the deficit, omitting the continued costs of Iraq, Afghanistan and elements of Homeland Security.
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Don't bother, you look foolish trying to hide behind 6 months of O in office and then ignoring the last 8 years from the criminals that tainted the WH...you are FOR war criminals going free?
You cannot admit it all was a miserable failure can you?...and can you vote at all? Really?
[Edited 7/3/2009 9:55:43 PM PST]
| | 7/3/2009 9:55:09 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | | kevin99999
Oshkosh, WI
age: 41
| Zappa makes more sense than most of the wingnuts on this site put together.
He also adds a little humor to his posts.
Nice change of pace from the hate.
Wow you really are crazy, now you are complimenting your other profile.
typical libtard response WalterZappa. If you dont fall madly in love with Obama then you are a racist, really....how dare I.
[Edited 7/3/2009 10:01:33 PM PST]
| | 7/3/2009 9:56:46 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | |
styx62ga2
Douglasville, GA
age: 47
| He  has a homosexual fixation on Rush he loves him.
| | 7/3/2009 9:57:05 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | | walter555
Albuquerque, NM
age: 52
| Nope,
I've been reading zappa's posts for quite a while.
Enjoy his posts and his sense of humor.
| | 7/3/2009 10:03:04 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | |
fzappa
Oklahoma City, OK
age: 52
| He has a homosexual fixation on Rush he loves him.
You think I'd phuck that phatassed bloviating dopehead?....and please stop hitting on me dude..I could do better than you as well...(If I were gay). Flattered tho~...
61. Claiming his 2003 tax cut would give 23 million small business owners an average tax cut of $2,042 when "nearly four out of every five tax filers (79%) with small business income would receive less" than that amount.
62. Passing tax cuts for the wealthy while falsely claiming "people in the 10 percent bracket" were benefiting most."
63. Passing successive tax cuts largely responsible for turning a projected surplus of $5 trillion into a projected deficit of $4.3 trillion.
64. Moving to strip millions of overtime pay.
65. Not enforcing corporate tax laws.
66. Backing down from a plan to make CEOs more accountable when "the corporate crowd" protested.
67. Not lobbying oil cartels to change their mind about cutting oil production.
68. Passing tax cuts weighted heavily to help the wealthy.
69. Moving to allow greater media consolidation.
70. Nominating a notorious proponent of outsourcing, Anthony F. Raimondo, to be the new manufacturing Czar—Raimondo withdrew his name days later amidst a flurry of harsh criticism.
[Edited 7/3/2009 10:04:36 PM PST]
| | 7/3/2009 10:16:59 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | | kevin99999
Oshkosh, WI
age: 41
| Obama adopts Bush's terror war tactics day by day
By Charles Krauthammer
Washington Post Writers Group
May 25, 2009 6:00 AM
"We were able to hold it off with George Bush. The idea that we might find ourselves fighting with the Obama administration over these powers is really stunning."- Unnamed and dismayed human rights advocate, on legalizing indefinite detention of alleged terrorists, New York Times, May 21
If hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue, then the flip-flops on previously denounced anti-terror measures are the homage that Barack Obama pays to George Bush. Within 125 days, Obama has adopted with only minor modifications huge swaths of the entire, allegedly lawless Bush program.
The latest flip-flop is the restoration of military tribunals. During the 2008 campaign, Obama denounced them repeatedly, calling them an "enormous failure."
Obama suspended them upon his swearing in. Now they're back.
Of course, Obama will never admit in word what he's doing in deed. As in his rhetorically brilliant national-security speech on Thursday claiming to have undone Bush's moral travesties, the military commissions flip-flop is accompanied by the usual Obama three-step:» excoriate the Bush policy» ostentatiously unveil cosmetic changes » adopt the Bush policy
Cosmetic changes such as Obama's declaration that "we will give detainees greater latitude in selecting their own counsel" is laughable.
High-toned liberal law firms are climbing over each other for the frisson of representing these miscreants in court.
What about disallowing evidence received under coercive interrogation? Hardly new, notes former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy. Under the existing rules, military judges have that authority, and exercised it under the Bush administration to dismiss charges against al-Qaeda operative Mohammed al-Qahtani on precisely those grounds.
On Guantanamo, it's Obama's fellow Democrats who have suddenly discovered the wisdom of Bush's choice. In open rebellion against Obama's pledge to shut it down, the Senate voted 90 to 6 to reject appropriating a single penny until the president explains where he intends to put the inmates. Sen. James Webb, the de facto Democratic authority on national defense, wants the closing to be put on hold. And on Tuesday, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said, no Gitmo inmates on American soil - not even in American jails.
That doesn't leave a lot of places. The home countries won't take them. Europe is recalcitrant. Saint Helena needs refurbishing. Elba didn't work out too well the first time. And Devil's Island is now a tourist destination.
Gitmo is starting to look good again.
Observers of all political stripes are stunned by how much of the Bush national security agenda is being adopted by this new Democratic government.
Victor Davis Hanson (National Review) offers a partial list: "The Patriot Act, wiretaps, e-mail intercepts, military tribunals, Predator drone attacks, Iraq (i.e. slowing the withdrawal), Afghanistan (i.e. the surge) - and now Guantanamo."
Jack Goldsmith (The New Republic) adds: rendition - turning over terrorists seized abroad to foreign countries; state secrets - claiming them in court to quash legal proceedings on rendition and other erstwhile barbarisms; and the denial of habeas corpus - to detainees in Afghanistan's Bagram prison, indistinguishable logically and morally from Guantanamo.
What does it all mean? Democratic hypocrisy and demagoguery?
Sure, but in Washington, opportunism and cynicism are hardly news.
There is something much larger at play - an undeniable, irresistible national interest that, in the end, beyond the cheap politics, asserts itself. The urgencies and necessities of the actual post-9/11 world, as opposed to the fanciful world of the opposition politician, present a rather narrow range of acceptable alternatives.
Among them: reviving the tradition of military tribunals, used historically by George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Winfield Scott, Abraham Lincoln, Arthur MacArthur and Franklin Roosevelt.
And inventing Guantanamo - accessible, secure, offshore and nicely symbolic (the tradition of island exile for those outside the pale of civilization is a venerable one) - a quite brilliant choice for the placement of terrorists, some of whom, the Bush administration immediately understood, would have to be detained without trial in a war that could be endless.
The genius of democracy is that the rotation of power forces the opposition to come to its senses when it takes over. When the new guys, brought to power by popular will, then adopt the policies of the old guys, a national consensus is forged and a new legitimacy established.
That's happening before our eyes. The Bush policies in the war on terror won't have to await vindication by historians. Obama is doing it day by day. His denials mean nothing. Look at his deeds.
looks like we should be trying Obama for war crimes in 2012 huh???
| | 7/3/2009 11:22:13 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | |
fzappa
Oklahoma City, OK
age: 52
| "The latest flip-flop is the restoration of military tribunals. During the 2008 campaign, Obama denounced them repeatedly, calling them an "enormous failure."
"Obama suspended them upon his swearing in. Now they're back."
Yeah but only after he could not get support to try them in civilian courts...on US soil..you idiots, this guy Krauthammer, what an a**hole...yet another T-bagging clusterfox GOP shill suck up for the RR nutbag audience, I guess it's only a crime if it's by a liberal black president huh?
Krauthammer: Fox News has ‘created an alternate reality’ for its viewers.
"Yesterday, Charles Krauthammer accepted the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism, an annual award given by News Corporation. In his acceptance speech, Krauthammer lauded Fox News channel, which he said has “done a great service to the American polity” and for “single-handedly breaking up the intellectual and ideological monopoly that for decades exerted hegemony (to use a favorite lefty cliché) over the broadcast media.” But his praise took a strange turn when he extolled the “genius” of Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes for creating an “alternate reality” for its viewers:"
KRAUTHAMMER: What Fox did is not just create a venue for alternative opinion. It created an alternate reality.
A few years ago, I was on a radio show with a well-known political reporter who lamented the loss of a pristine past in which the whole country could agree on what the facts were, even if they disagreed on how to interpret and act upon them. All that was gone now. The country had become so fractured we couldn’t even agree on what reality was. What she meant was that the day in which the front page of The New York Times was given scriptural authority everywhere was gone, shattered by the rise of Fox News.
Elsewhere in his speech, Krauthammer tried to explain why his award was more valuable to him than the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize is “awarded to those, from Yasir Arafat to Jimmy Carter, who give the most succor to the forces of terror and tyranny,” Krauthammer said. (HT: TPM):
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71. Ignoring calls to extend unemployment benefits with long-term unemployment reaching a twenty-year high
72. Threatening to veto pension legislation that would give companies much needed temporary relief.
73. Under-funding No Child Left Behind
74. Breaking his campaign pledge to increase the size of Pell grants.
75. Signing off on an FY 2005 budget proposing the smallest increase in education funding in nine years.
76. Under-funding the Title I Program, specifically targeted for disadvantaged kids, by $7.2 billion.
77. Freezing Teacher Quality State Grants, cutting off training opportunities for about 30,000 teachers, and leaving 92,000 less
teachers trained than the president called for in his own No Child Left Behind bill.
78. Freezing funding for English language training programs.
79. Freezing funding for after school programs, potentially eliminating 50,000 children from after-school programs.
80. Not leveling with Americans about the cost of Medicare – the president told Congress his new Medicare bill would cost $400 billion over ten years despite conclusions by his own analysts the bill would cost upwards of $500 billion over that period.
[Edited 7/3/2009 11:23:41 PM PST]
| | 7/4/2009 2:40:55 AM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | |
barbaque
Marble Falls, TX
age: 60
| Other countries didn't "fear" the Dippic, they did not respect him for his crusading and dishonest ways. Obama is respected. Obama only scares the gun toting alarmists who have been neutered for leadership and who are either racists or overly dippical...Obama doesn't drink their koolaid...
Yeah the gun industry loves the weirdos who think they now need an arsenal to be safe. There's a lot of profit in paranoia...
Hope for change scares the unchangable.
yeah N.korea is respecting the hell out of obama 6 missles fired on the third I just can't wait for the grand finale on the 4th. and with all the respect he's garnered he can't even get support to enforce sanctions .THAT would already have been handled by BUSH
which is why they did'nt do this bullshit when he was in office .
| | 7/4/2009 10:59:30 AM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | |
fzappa
Oklahoma City, OK
age: 52
| yeah N.korea is respecting the hell out of obama 6 missles fired on the third I just can't wait for the grand finale on the 4th. and with all the respect he's garnered he can't even get support to enforce sanctions .THAT would already have been handled by BUSH
which is why they did'nt do this bullshit when he was in office .
Oh yeah? Where HAVE you been?
http://www.mahablog.com/oldsite/id34.html
"Some 11 months ago, Bush included North Korea in an "axis of evil" with Iran and Iraq in his 2002 State of the Union speech. And on a visit to South Korea, he visited the 38th Parallel demilitarized zone and in a deliberate echo of President Ronald Reagan at the Berlin Wall, he called on the North's leaders to "tear down this DMZ." So far, Kim Jong Il has not complied with his demand. [Martin Sieff, "Deadly Adversary Kim Jong II," UPI, December 27, 2002
Standing atop a sandbag bunker and protected by bulletproof glass, U.S. President George W. Bush peered through binoculars at North Korea on Wednesday and bluntly called it "evil."
... Among the things Bush could see were North Korean signs written in large, white Korean characters with slogans such as: "Anti-America" and "Our General is the best" -- a reference to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
Bush spent about 10 minutes atop the bunker and then he and Secretary of State Colin Powell sat down to a lunch of cold cuts, potato chips, fruit and cookies with about a dozen U.S. soldiers who help man the post 24 hours a day.
Asked what he thought when he looked out over the North, Bush said: "We're ready." [Arshad Mohammed, "Bush Sees 'Evil' N. Korea Through Bulletproof Glass," Reuters, February 20, 2002]
Again, notice the pattern -- the President trots out in public and struts about, talking tough for the home crowd. But according to this timeline, while in South Korea Bush expressed support for the Sunshine Policy, the same policy he had dissed in March 2001.
In March 2002, Bush refused to certify North Korea's compliance with the 1994 Agreed Framework, but said the U.S. would continue deliverying oil for energy to North Korea anyway.
The much-compromised Judith Miller wrote (with David Sanger):
For the first time since North Korea agreed to freeze its nuclear activities in exchange for foreign aid, the United States will refuse to certify that the country is complying with its commitments under the accord, a senior administration official said today.
But in what appeared to be an effort to forestall a diplomatic crisis with one of the countries that President Bush listed as part of the ''axis of evil,'' he will inform Congress that he has also decided to continue fulfilling America's obligations under the accord.
The official said Mr. Bush would waive, in the interest of national security, the certification of North Korean compliance that Congress now requires. That would enable the United States to continue providing North Korea with fuel oil under the agreement.
Mr. Bush's decision strikes a delicate political balance.
On the one hand, it may satisfy conservative critics of the agreement, who contend that while North Korea may have halted activity at its main nuclear site, at Yongbyon, the country may be continuing to develop nuclear weapons at hidden underground sites.
On the other hand, it enables the administration to avoid a breach with Japan and South Korea, which strongly support the 1994 accord with North Korea. That accord was initiated by the United States after a dangerous confrontation with North Korea in spring 1994 that Clinton administration officials now say came dangerously close to setting off a military conflict. [Judith Miller and David Sanger, "U.S. to Report North Korea Is Not Meeting A-Pact Terms," The New York Times, March 20, 2002]
In other words, Bush's two-faced policy was the result of trying to appease the hard-line troglodytes in the Republican Party while also trying to appease Kim Jong Il just enough so that he didn't nuke Japan. (Or Alaska. Or Sacramento.)
But what happened next is still inexplicable. It was either a monumental screwup or some lamebrain Bushie tactic that backfired, or both."
| | 7/5/2009 12:25:04 AM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | |
layla22
Peoria, IL
age: 55
| alas, not even santa could pull this one out......
| | 7/5/2009 12:42:36 AM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | |
fzappa
Oklahoma City, OK
age: 52
| 81. Silencing Medicare actuary Richard Foster when his estimates for the Administration's Medicare bill were too high.
82. Letting business associate David Halbert, who owns a company which stands to make millions from new discount drug cards, craft key elements of the new Medicare bill.
83. Underfunding health care for troops and veterans.
84. Allowing loopholes to persist in Mad-Cow regulations.
85. Relaxing food labeling restrictions on health claims.
86. Falsely claiming the restrictions on stem cell research would not hamper medical progress.
87. Reducing action against improper drug advertising by 80 percent.
88. Abandoning the Kyoto Treaty without offering an alternative for reducing greenhouse effect.
89. Counting on a voluntary program to reduce emissions of harmful gasses—so far only a tiny fraction of American companies have signed up.
90. Gutting clean air standards for aging power plants.
| | 7/5/2009 7:14:50 AM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | |
osoroho
Mesquite, TX
age: 59
| Most of this could have been said and done by any president..Get over it he is out of office you seem very bitter. One would have thought you would be happy now that your kind of person is in office...
| | 7/5/2009 11:46:58 AM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | |
fzappa
Oklahoma City, OK
age: 52
| Most of this could have been said and done by any president..Get over it he is out of office you seem very bitter. One would have thought you would be happy now that your kind of person is in office...
Bullshit...hands down WORST president in history...and more to come on this Dippical disaster of a president. And this tactic to blame ALL politicians to disuade mentionng the damage of the GOP is utter nonsense...the GOP failed...at everything.
And I am happier that they are gone than who is in the WH now...but the greatest thing about the election was getting a person of colour in the WHITE House...that's the beginning of true change..I so so proud that Americans are able to change (except for the stubborn Dippical ones who never change)...the refuseniks among us, those who never accept the realities of their failed crusade...now we have to clean up THEIR mess
"91. Weakening energy efficiency standards.
92. Relaxing dumping standards for mountaintop mining, and opening the Florida Everglades and Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest to mining.
93. Lifting protection for more than 200 million acres of public land.
94. Limiting public challenges to logging projects and increased logging in protected areas, including Alaska's Tongass National Forest.
95. Weakening environmental standards for snowmobiles and other off-road vehicles while pushing for exemptions for air pollution proposals for five categories of industrial facilities.
96. Opposing legislation that would require greater fuel efficiency for passenger cars.
97. Reducing inspections, penalties for violations, and prosecution of environmental crimes.
98. Misleading the public about the Washington mad cow case and the likely effectiveness of USDA's weak testing program.
99. Withdrawing public information on chemical plant dangers, previously used to hold facilities accountable for safety improvements.
100. Cutting grants to state and local governments in FY 2005, forcing states to make massive cuts in job training, education, housing and environment."
[Edited 7/5/2009 11:47:35 AM PST]
| | 7/5/2009 2:20:03 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | |
osoroho
Mesquite, TX
age: 59
| That is just your opinion i do not share it i think Jimmy Carter was the worst..
| | 7/5/2009 2:33:06 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | | walter555
Albuquerque, NM
age: 52
| That is just your opinion i do not share it i think Jimmy Carter was the worst..
Compared to George W. Bush, Carter was a saint.
The damage that W and D*ck (deadeye) Cheney did to this country and to the Middle East will take years if not decades to repair.
The human casualties they've caused is criminal.
The incompetence and mismanagement for the past 8 years is unprecedented.
They need a full investigation on Bush and D*ck.
| | 7/5/2009 3:21:54 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | |
fzappa
Oklahoma City, OK
age: 52
| Quote from osoroho:That is just your opinion i do not share it i think Jimmy Carter was the worst..
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You write like a regurgitated fuzzball (I once banned).
| | 7/5/2009 7:16:04 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | | kevin99999
Oshkosh, WI
age: 41
| "The latest flip-flop is the restoration of military tribunals. During the 2008 campaign, Obama denounced them repeatedly, calling them an "enormous failure."
"Obama suspended them upon his swearing in. Now they're back."
Yeah but only after he could not get support to try them in civilian courts...on US soil..you idiots, this guy Krauthammer, what an a**hole...yet another T-bagging clusterfox GOP shill suck up for the RR nutbag audience, I guess it's only a crime if it's by a liberal black president huh?
I love that liberal tactic you and other libtards use, if you disagree with Obama, its only because he is a black man and you are a racist. Most sheeple will instantly back down from criticism because of this tactic, I dont care if this douchbag is purple and orange, he using a number of Bushes policies and you want to excuse it because of your libtard man-crush. You are the ultimate liberal hypocrite.
| | 7/6/2009 6:14:46 AM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | |
osoroho
Mesquite, TX
age: 59
| THen block me is that not the way of people that only want their opinion heard...Go on and use your gutter talk there are a few women that like that you are a winner.. Because that is the closest to a finger here...
| | 7/6/2009 8:38:41 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | |
layla22
Peoria, IL
age: 55
| a GOLDEN OLDIE :
| | 7/6/2009 9:09:04 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | | 
clarity101
Aurora, CO
age: 58
| the way the worthless f--ck up in office right now is screwing the american people and LYING about everything he says we will have a republican president in 2012 NO PROBLEM it is a shame you democraps are too stupid to see what this moron is doing to this country .
every foriegn dictator loves him though .THEY FEARED BUSH .NORTH KOREA HAS JUST SHOWN how much respect they have for this coward you refer to as your president.AND the rest of the axis of evil are watching ,your safty is declining.the only thing the obama presidency has improved is GUN SALES in january nationwide gun sales were aroud 100,000$
last month around 600,000. gun shops can't keep enough in stock .I give obama points for this improvment .
they are still sooooo busy b*tching and moaning about gwb and listening to the driveby mainstream media hype and bo worship that they are totally unaware
of what bo is doing to our country.
| | 7/6/2009 10:20:54 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | | beannie51
Lockeford, CA
age: 26
| hey guys,
this saying aways comes in my mind,"can we all just get along" Gzzz, i think we can all agree on this, there is no clear cut way to be a perfect president. but there are ways to admitting what you did was wrong and to try to fix it. will they addmit to it, no. they want to blame it on someone eles instead of there own ass. thats what pisses me off. why cant we agree to disaggree. stop blaming and start fixing. im sick of it. im done with the rebublican party and im done with the democratic party. thats my look and my oponion.
brandy
| | 7/6/2009 10:27:31 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | |
fzappa
Oklahoma City, OK
age: 52
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Eh, don't worry about being kicked...I can handle the mental featherweights (to a point).
But perhaps you should try to have some "points" instead of just blabbering nonsensical, meaningless brain drippings...stay on topic...but then again I am sure it's hard to defend these criminals...(not that you really tried past outing yourself as a troll)
"gutter talk"???...lol...I am known to a few choice ladies as a great "tongue twister" nyuk nyuk nyuk.
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| | 7/7/2009 6:10:46 AM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | |
osoroho
Mesquite, TX
age: 59
| Yes i am sure there are a few women that would go for you but i know of no ladies that would give a vile person like you the time of day..You are too hell bent on blameing every thing you percieve as wrong on Bush..Could be the reason that you are single....
| | 7/7/2009 6:37:24 AM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | | walter555
Albuquerque, NM
age: 52
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George W. Bush deserves everything he gets.
| | 7/7/2009 4:13:13 PM | OK, everybody...let's do the dippic! | |
osoroho
Mesquite, TX
age: 59
| And that goes for you walter or who ever you are.Try doing a little more work and a lot less b*tching and saying poor miserable me look what bush done to me then maybe you gan get a grip on the real world not your fairy tale..You guys set the white race back 40 years...
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