ANOTHER LIMBAUGH LIE

"Describing the claim that "the Bush administration squandered this giant surplus left by the Clinton administration" as a "Democrat [sic] mantra talking point," nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh falsely asserted that "there never was a surplus" under President Clinton. In fact, from 1998 to 2001, the federal government ran total annual budget surpluses of between $69.2 billion and $236.2 billion, according to figures from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO)".

This is a favorite lie among phony conservatives (phony conservatives are republicans) because they just can't get over the fact that no Republican since Eisenhower has ever even come close to balancing a federal budget and the fiscally conservative Democrat, William Jefferson Clinton, balanced four in row.

I should have held off on doing this post hoping some of the fools I know who listen to Limbaugh would be dumb enough to believe him and repeat his ignorance but I've already made them look like fools before on this very same issue, so maybe they're finally learning their lesson. Nah, I doubt it-they're awfully dumb and extremely misinformed like all listeners of the republican's favorite drug addict.

Media Matters makes Limbaugh look stupid once again!





America's Most Fiscally Conservative President in History!

HAVE YOU HAD YOUR BREAKFAST YET?

DRUGGIE LIMBAUGH RELAPSES

Republican icon, and the person who best personifies their values














Republican's favorite drug addict, Rush Limbaugh is back on oxycotin. David Brock from Media Matters for America nails him on several lies and outright misinformation from just a few of his latest shows.

Is there any wonder why people who listen to this hypocritical drug-addicted blowhard are some of the dumbest and most misinformed people on the planet?

THE LIAR KEEPS LYING

"I don't think anybody anticipated a breach of the levees".



Max Mayfield, the Director of the National Hurricane Center, told Bush the day BEFORE the hurricane in a video conference call that the levees in New Orleans could be breached.

Now Bush has changed his story and is spouting the Republicans' lying talking point that every one was saying that New Orleans "had dodged the bullet". Many Republicans have even lied about there being several newspapers with that headline. That's a lie.

Bush The Liar - "And I myself thought we had dodged a bullet. You know why? Because I was listening to people probably over the airwaves"

What do you mean "probably", you lying asshole?!?

Read more about the Liar in Chief.

PATHOLOGICAL

1. Relating to or caused by disease.
2. Of, relating to, or manifesting behavior that is habitual, maladaptive, and compulsive: a pathological liar.


Who among any of us doesn't remember precisely what you were doing the moment you heard about the attack on the WTC on September 11, 2001?

Of all the lies George Bush has told I find his one about what he was doing when the World Trade Center was attacked to be the most compelling.

Below are two transcripts from two different events, one in Orlando Florida and the other in Ontario California, where Bush is asked by members in the audience about what he was doing when he first heard of the attacks on 9/11.

Orlando, Florida at the Orlando Convention Center-12/01/01

QUESTION: One thing, Mr. President, is that you have no idea how much you've done for this country, and another thing is that how did you feel when you heard about the terrorist attack?

BUSH: Well...

(APPLAUSE)

Thank you, Jordan (ph).

Well, Jordan (ph), you're not going to believe what state I was in when I heard about the terrorist attack. I was in Florida. And my chief of staff, Andy Card -- actually I was in a classroom talking about a reading program that works. And I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower -- the TV was obviously on, and I use to fly myself, and I said, "There's one terrible pilot." And I said, "It must have been a horrible accident."

But I was whisked off there -- I didn't have much time to think about it, and I was sitting in the classroom, and Andy Card, my chief who was sitting over here walked in and said, "A second plane has hit the tower. America's under attack."


Town Hall Meeting with Citizens of Ontario
Ontario Convention Center
Ontario, California
1/5/02

Q What was the first thing that went through your head when you heard that a plane crashed into the first building?

THE PRESIDENT: Yes. Well, I was sitting in a schoolhouse in Florida. I had gone down to tell my little brother what to do, and -- just kidding, Jeb. (Laughter.) And -- it's the mother in me. (Laughter.) Anyway, I was in the midst of learning about a reading program that works. I'm a big believer in basic education, and it starts with making sure every child learns to read. And therefore, we need to focus on the science of reading, not what may feel good or sound good when it comes to teaching children to read. (Applause.) I'm just getting a plug in for my reading initiative.

Anyway, I was sitting there, and my Chief of Staff -- well, first of all, when we walked into the classroom, I had seen this plane fly into the first building. There was a TV set on. And you know, I thought it was pilot error and I was amazed that anybody could make such a terrible mistake. And something was wrong with the plane, or -- anyway, I'm sitting there, listening to the briefing, and Andy Card came and said, "America is under attack."

Why is George W. Bush a pathological lair? Because there was no live video coverage of the first plane hitting the tower. The video of that first plane hitting the tower was not released until AFTER the second plane had hit.

Bush is a patholgical liar. Why would anyone lie about what they were doing when they first heard of the attacks on 9/11 if they weren't simply, a liar with a "manifesting behavior that is habitual, maladaptive, and compulsive"?


Transcript-Orlando Convention Center Orlando, Florida-12/01/01
Transcript-Ontario Convention Center Ontario, California-1/5/02

THE WORLD TRADE CENTER

REMEMBERING 9/11

Remember the man Bush forgot



Don't fall for Bush's phony bullhorn Kodak moment-remember on this day what a miserable failure he's been at bringing bin Laden to justice







Certainly one important thing to remember on this anniversary of 9/11 is Bush’s failure to capture the man, Osama bin Laden, who was responsible.

Instead of completing the mission when he had the chance at Tora Bora, Bush and Tommy Franks gave in to Pakistan’s president, Pervez Musharraf, so as to not upset the Pakistani or Afghan tribal leaders, and bin Laden was allowed to escape through another example of Bush’s many cases of incompetence.

Bush and Franks chose to appease Pakistan over our country’s right to avenge the 9/11 disaster and then Bush led us into his needless diversion into Iraq. And what has that needless lie cost this country?

Bush’s phony stance with that bullhorn (after he hid like a scared baby on the day of the attack) in NYC two days later will be what Fox News and other republican mouthpieces will be showing today but those of us who know better will remember what a miserable failure Bush has really been when it comes to remembering the victims of 9/11.

AMERICANS ARE WISING UP

The Result of 62 Million Idiots









Most of early last week all of the Bush-apologist rightwing commentators on TV and radio were touting an early poll that showed only 13% of poll respondents were blaming Bush for the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. Of course, they did not mention that in that same poll another 35% blamed the ‘federal government’ which is the same as blaming republicans since they are, to the detriment of the country, the majority.

But now a Newsweek poll released shows “52 percent, do not trust the president “to make the right decisions during a domestic crisis”, so I’m sure that those same rightwing commentators who care more for the Republican Party than they do the country will be back to saying 'polls don’t matter’. The polls only matter to the Bush ass-kissers when they’re too early and incomplete and wrongly show how the public really feels.

The same Newsweek poll shows Bush with a dismal 38% job approval rate.

It’s unfortunate that 62 million people were too dumb to know better just 10 short months ago. Now, the rest of us we’ll pay for those idiots for the next 3+ years. Unless of course, Americans wise-up and get the House of Representatives back to a Democrat majority in 2006 so we can impeach Bush and Cheney and try to get this country back on it’s feet.

"Go fuck yourself, Mr Cheney"

UPDATE, from yesterday's post



After learning thru the "LiberalAvenger" (thanks guys) the name of the Patriot, Dr. Ben A. Marble, who told Dickhead Cheney to go fuck himself, I emailed him this morning thanking him and he replied with the following;

"thanks i appreciate it
please drop by and share your thoughts at my site
www.forumearth.com"

So, pay the good doctor a visit and thank him for saying what millions of us only wish we could have.

"Oblivious, In Denial, Dangerous"

"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." --President Gump, referring to FEMA director Michael Brown, Friday, September 2












Nancy Pelosi, the Minority leader in the House of Representatives, was right on the money when she said Bush was "Oblivious, In Denial, Dangerous" in his reaction to hurricane Katrina. Her comments last week came after she asked Bush if he was going to fire Mike Brown and the dumbest and most 'dangerous' president in history stupidly replied 'Why would I do that?'" and 'What didn't go right?'"

Even Bush's staunchest supporters have always admitted that he's not the brightest bulb on the shelf but their excuse for supporting someone so lame was that he would at least surround himself with smart, qualified people. Well, we know that's not true anymore since he surrounds himself not with capable people but with those who gave 10's of thousands of dollars for his political campaigns; And now the country will pay billions more for his blatant acts of cronyism.

It's time this country rids itself of the failed republican leadership that has bankrupted it, both financially and morally.


The country owes Nancy Pelosi their gratitude for being the leader it wishes Bush was.

HOOK, LINE & SINKER

'BLAME GAME'

"When people don't want to play the blame game? They're to blame."








Karl Rove and the repuglies have got their talking points down and their new mantra is 'let's not get into a 'blame game'. And why is that you think?

Jon Stewart nailed them the other night on the Daily Show;

"Little observation: When people don't want to play the blame game? They're to blame."

And you know what, Bush knows he's to blame and that's why he's now removed "Brownie". Brown will be Bush's new patsy, the fall guy.

There's nothing better than watching republicans squirm.

AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY

The man who could have been the first African-American President threw it all away when he allowed Bush, Cheney, and their ilk to use him to pass along the cherry-picked intelligence on Iraq which led us into our senseless and needless war.

You can see Powell in an exclusive interview tonight with Barbara Walters on ABC at 10PM where he candidly talks about the blunders of the Iraq war and the Bush ass-kissing sheep's favorite lie about the link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda.

"I have never seen a connection. … I can't think otherwise because I'd never seen evidence to suggest there was one..."

The story of Colin Powell is an American tragedy. He could have been a a decent Democrat president someday and he threw it all away by allowing himself to be duped by liars.

Yes, I said "Democrat" president. There's no way the party of bigots, the republican party, with their majority being unabashed racial bigots would have ever voted for an African-American.

But, that's all a moot point now anyway since Bush and Cheney threw out Powell's integrity like yesterday's garbage when they set him up as their patsy in front of the UN and the rest of the World.

Tonight, 10PM.

DELAY & ROVE FUTURE CELLMATES?

Tom Delay, Karl Rove and Scooter Libby might just be going to the big house on the buddy plan soon.

Republicans are finding out that they're not above the law and Delay is going down!

Demand a change of venue. Tom Delay needs to go on trial in Los Angeles, New York City or better yet, New Orleans!

TRUER WORDS...

were never spoken...

Not 'one' of the worst - The worst!

THEY'RE STILL DYING IN IRAQ

Imagine having a son or daughter serving in Bush's war in Iraq right now with almost no one paying attention. In the first 7 days of September, 10 soldiers and marines have died along with four American civilians. A total of 1,894 of our young men and women have died through 9/7.













Out of sight, out of mind. Our country's needless war-fought for a liar.

MORE RIGHTWING SCAMS

Along the same line as the previous post where Pat Robertson, the rightwing's no. 1 bigoted preacher, another rightwing radio host has been busted in Missouri for also trying to scam the public for donations for victims of hurricane Katrina.

They have no shame. Don't send donations to rightwing groups.

YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING!

You've got to hand it to Bush administration; they're the most corrupt and the most shameless administration in the history of this country and you know what? They don't give a damn if you like it or not!

Donations for hurricane Katrina victims going to 'Operation Blessing' (sic)? What's next from these Republican scumbags, a fucking telethon for the KKK and the American Nazi Party?


With the Bush Administration's approval, Robertson's $66 million relief organization, Operation Blessing, has been prominently featured on FEMA's list of charitable groups accepting donations for hurricane relief. Dozens of media outlets, including the New York Times, CNN and the Associated Press, duly reprinted FEMA's list, unwittingly acting as agents soliciting cash for Robertson. "How in the heck did that happen?" Richard Walden, president of the disaster-relief group Operation USA, asked of Operation Blessing's inclusion on FEMA's list. "That gives Pat Robertson millions of extra dollars."

Bush's Damage

Bush's Hiring of Political Cronies at the Country's Expense


WASHINGTON - "The three top jobs at the Federal Emergency Management Agency under President Bush went to political cronies with no apparent experience coping with catastrophes, the Daily News has learned.

Even if Bush were to fire embattled and suddenly invisible FEMA Director Michael Brown over his handling of Hurricane Katrina, the bureaucrat immediately below him is no disaster professional, either.

While Brown ran horse shows in his last private-sector job, FEMA's No. 2 man, deputy director and chief of staff Patrick Rhode, was an advance man for the Bush-Cheney campaign and White House. He also did short stints at the Commerce Department and Small Business Administration.

Rhode's biography posted on FEMA's Web site doesn't indicate he has any real experience in emergency response.

In addition, the agency's former third-ranking official, deputy chief of staff Scott Morris, was a PR expert who worked for Maverick Media, the Texas outfit that produced TV and radio spots for the Bush-Cheney campaign. In June, Morris moved to Florida to become FEMA's long-term recovery director.

"The Bush administration has apparently transformed FEMA from a professional, world-class emergency responder into a dumping ground for former campaign staff and political hacks," said Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan)".


We have all witnessed the incompetence of the Bush administration and his handling of FEMA is a national disgrace that calls for an investigation and not one by Dubya himself.

Compare the way this criminal administration handled FEMA with the way Bill Clinton handled FEMA when he hired James Lee Witt.

WHAT DOES THE 'F' STAND FOR?

The Sheep Will Never Be Anything But Sheep

What does the 'F' in the acronym, F.E.M.A, represent? What does the 'E' and the 'M' represent? Who is responsible for the 'Federal' government? Who is Mike Brown, the head of FEMA? Is he really just a 'political hack' and former 'college roommate of Joe Albaugh', who was Dubya's first Director of FEMA (after being his campaign manager)before leaving to take a job as a lobbyist for Halliburton? Which former president knew the importance of FEMA and made it a cabinet level position? Which president buried FEMA under his new massive Homeland Security Department? Why are American taxpayers paying billions for Homeland Security and FEMA if it's 'not their responsibility'? At what point do all you sheep realize you've drank too much kool aid?



Administration Tries to Shift Blame for Its Own Incompetence

September 6, 2005

True to form, the president’s hatchet man, Karl Rove, began executing a public relations effort over the weekend to shift blame for the administration’s failures in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina onto hard-pressed state and local officials in New Orleans and Louisiana. Although the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had been granted full authority to coordinate relief efforts and assistance prior to the disastrous hurricane, administration officials failed to effectively use their authority to provide swift and comprehensive relief efforts when it mattered most.

• The Bush administration took full responsibility for coordinating the rescue and relief efforts days before Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. The White House effort to shift the blame for the response to Katrina contradicts their public statements before the storm hit. An August 27 declaration on the White House website "authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts" The order specifies that "FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency." Jane Bullock, former FEMA chief of staff, said "The moment the president declared a federal disaster, it became a federal responsibility…The federal government took ownership over the response."

• Despite this clear authority, administration officials failed to properly execute their duties to protect and assist citizens in New Orleans and other areas. As levees broke, flood waters rose, and thousands of people became stranded in unsafe and unsanitary conditions, Bush administration officials were bickering about lines of authority and bureaucratic red tape. Although there were clear ways to get people out of New Orleans and provide medical and relief support for those left behind, DHS and FEMA failed in their basic duty to aid and assist victims of the hurricane.

• In a further slap to the face, President Bush and Karl Rove are trying to shift the blame for their own incompetence and negligence during this crisis. Bush and Rove are trying to claim now that state officials in Louisiana were "slow to call for outside help." The reality is that Louisiana state officials reached out to the federal government for assistance before the storm hit but got little in return. On August 27, Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco sent a detailed letter to President Bush requesting assistance because "this incident is of such severity and magnitude that effective response is beyond the capabilities of the State and affected local governments, and that supplementary Federal assistance is necessary to save lives, protect property, public health, and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a disaster."

http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/apps/nl/newsletter2.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=700005