The Iraq Success Marches On

4:10 pm EST October 31st, 2005 | News | 31 Comments

George Bush’s ultimate legacy will be the ill conceived and executed war on Iraq, and the evil it involves

A car bomb exploded Monday night in a commercial district of Iraq’s second-largest city of Basra, killing at least 20 people and wounding about 40, a police official said.

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Also Monday, six American soldiers were killed in separate attacks. A Marine died in action the day before, making October the deadliest month for U.S. troops in Iraq since January. U.S. jets struck insurgent targets near the Syrian border and at least six people were killed.

I don’t get the politicians (especially Democrats) who still refuse to admit that the war in Iraq has done nothing more than give extremists an easy way to kill Americans. We aren’t any safer, and Al Qaeda isn’t any weaker.

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The Right’s Identity Politics

4:10 pm EST October 31st, 2005 | Politics | 58 Comments

It’s interesting to me that the cons have reacted to their movement’s inability to move much beyond its base of white, christian, males the way they have. Time and time again when they put up non-whites for government positions, their first reaction isn’t to defend the nominee by his or her merits, rather they seek the nominees race or ethnicity as a cover to use. Right now the talking points on Alito are out, and they tell the con defenders to say that Democratic opposition to him is because he’s Italian and a descendant of immigrants (of course, most of us Americans are the descendants of immigrants, aren’t we?). Opposition to Condoleeza Rice was “because she’s black”, not because she’s the National Security Advisor who ignored the Al Qaeda threat. Opposition to Janice Rogers Brown was “because she’s black” not because her right-wing beliefs are extrajudicial and outside of the mainstream. Opposition to Alberto Gonazales was not because he approved torture and disapproved of the Geneva conventions, but “because he’s Hispanic”.

The cons are only interested in race when it can be used as a cover for the intellectual shortcomings of the Republican party, and not in any sort of substantive way.

 

Oh The Games We Play

3:10 pm EST October 31st, 2005 | Politics | 33 Comments

The nomination of an anti-choice supreme court nominee is undoubtedly important, but we here at OliverWillis.com will prove that unlike the mainstream media – we can walk and chew gum at the same time. So, about the White House senior staffer indicted for five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice…

>> Here’s What You Can Expect
>> Time For Cheney to Come Clean
>> Samuel Alito s America
>> And people need to shut up with the “Democrats need to be careful” talk. Enough of the “advice”.

 

The War

3:10 pm EST October 31st, 2005 | Politics | 4 Comments

After hearing the news of Alito’s nomination, anti-choice activists are at the Supreme Court, declaring the highest court in the land as their own.

From Reuters:

An anti-abortion demonstrator rallies in front of the Supreme Court after U.S. President George W. Bush nominated Samuel Alito to be Associate Justice in Washington, D.C., October 31, 2005.

We can’t let this stand. And if any Democrats want to stand against a woman’s right to her own health care, they need to speak up so we know who to leave out in the cold.

(and I wonder if instances like this make NARAL think hard about its support for Republican candidates)

 

When You Elect Republicans, Redux

3:10 pm EST October 31st, 2005 | Politics | Comments Off

The DSCC has a nice little Halloween story.

 

More Con Pretzel Logic

10:10 pm EST October 30th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 94 Comments

Glenn Reynolds declares that the big loser in the Leakgate case is the CIA, and not the White House leaking classified national security information to the press and lying about it under oath.

And this guy is a law professor?

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Spanked

9:10 pm EST October 30th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 5 Comments

That wasn’t a game. That was a massacre.

Ouch.

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Tim Kaine Week

1:10 pm EST October 30th, 2005 | Democrats | 11 Comments

This week is the finish line in the Virginia gubernatorial election, a test of whether a Democrat can keep Virginia’s governorship blue in a state that went overwhelmingly for Bush. Yet another poll has Tim Kaine pushing ahead, a pretty clear sign that while the race will come down to the wire, Jerry Kilgore’s smear ads did not have the desired effect and the strong response from the Kaine campaign worked (those of you inside the Beltway, please take note). I bet Kilgore is also regretting spending so much face-time with the scandalous and unpopular President Bush.

If Kaine wins, Mark Warner gets pushed to the near top or top of the pile for 2008 Democrats as well.

 

Does Juan Williams Have Any Cajones?

1:10 pm EST October 30th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 7 Comments

Every week on Fox News Sunday, Juan Williams allows Brit Hume to dress him down verbally on national television. Speaking not just as a progressive, but as a man, is Williams ever going to fight back?

Jesus. (Not to mention Hume’s impression of a modern day Bull Connor)

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He Shouldn’t Have To Say It

12:10 am EST October 30th, 2005 | Democrats | 36 Comments

But the Dems have acted like such whipped poodles since ’00, maybe they’ll listen to him

Democrats can’t be afraid to talk about hot-button issues, including abortion, and should fight back against personal attacks from conservatives if they want to regain power in Washington, former President Bill Clinton said Saturday.

“You can’t say ‘Please don’t be mean to me. Please let me win sometimes.’ Give me a break here,” Clinton said. “If you don’t want to fight for the future and you can’t figure out how to beat these people then find something else to do.”

 

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