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The Surge is Working Flowchart
Categorized: Republicans
Tagged: Iraq, National Security, Republicans, Terrorism
By now everyone should be sick to death of hearing how we are winning in Iraq. After 5 years, 3 trillion dollars,and around a million casualties we are no closer to achieving anything resembling lasting peace in Iraq and the Republicans know it. We should have never taken our aim off of chasing terrorists through the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan to embark on a pointless campaign for oil and they know that too.
Now I have talked with enough blind and dumb as shit war supporters to never want to do so again. However on the plus side this exposure has led to me deciphering the “Republican Surge is Working Argument Flowchart” which I am sharing with you today. I have included the surge and two common arguments so you can see how it works, but its the same regardless of specifics. In fact I would say it applies to every argument you will ever have with a conservative.
Enjoy and feel free to use or modify this.
McCain Refuses to Support Troops
Categorized: Republicans
Tagged: Hypocrisy, Jim Webb, John McCain, Support The Troops
John McCain was down the road in Kansas City the other day speaking to the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Unsurprisingly his speech centered on the military and especially the shameful treatment of our nations veterans. McCain said that veterans “now deserve the distinction of the best Americans, and we owe them a debt we can never fully repay.”
I agree with John McCain that we owe veterans more than we are giving them. I would just ask McCain why even though he says he supports the troops and is running largely on his service history he refuses to do anything that would actually repay the troops for their service.
John McCain has flat out refused to support our troops by endorsing Jim Webb’s new GI Bill that would improve education benefits for veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. Or maybe he shouldn’t have killed the dwell time amendment last summer that would have ensured our troops had enough time to rest and recover between deployments.
Think Progress has compiled a nice list of other ways that McCain has shown his support for the troops:
- Voted AGAINST an amendment providing $20 billion to the VA’s medical facilities. [5/4/06]
- Voted AGAINST providing $430 million to the VA for outpatient care “and treatment for veterans,” one of only 13 senators to do so. [4/26/06]
- Voted AGAINST increasing VA funding by $1.5 billion by closing corporate loopholes. [3/14/06]
- Voted AGAINST increasing VA funding by $1.8 billion by ending “abusive tax loopholes.” [3/10/04]
- Voted AGAINST a $650 million increase in veterans’ medical care funding. [8/1/01]
I guess what McCain really meant wasn’t that we owe veterans a debt we can never repay but instead that we owe veterans a debt he will never repay.
Update: This morning on The View McCain said that veterans need “significant educational benefits in return for serving” yet he still wont sign Senator Webb’s GI Bill to provide it for them. ~ 4/10/08
William
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McCain Girls “Here Comes McCain Again”
Categorized: Republicans
Tagged: John McCain, Just For Fun, McCain Girls, Satire
The McCain girls are back with a new video. You may remember them from “It’s rainin’ McCain” which I showed on March 24th. There are a lot of mean and hurtful comments on both of these video’s and I wanted to voice my support for these ladies. Sure they may not conform to America’s narrow and unrealistic preconception of “beauty” like Obama Girl. They may not have Leah Koffman’s singing ability. But they have every right to sing their songs without suffering mean spirited personal attacks about their appearance.
Besides, if John McCain could raise more than the paltry 15 million a month he would probably attract beautiful and talented women too. As it is I think the McCain Girls are doing great and should keep at it. It takes real skill and courage to pull off this kind of brilliant satire. Stephen Colbert has to be jealous. Thanks for the laughs and I look forward to the next song.
Update: I got an email from a reader that this video wasn’t working. Well I checked and it appears that “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by The MCPS – PRS Alliance Ltd.”. Thats too bad because it was hilarious. ~ William 4/9/08
McHenry Calls Soldier a Two-Bit Security Guard
Categorized: Republicans
Tagged: 2008 Election, Hypocrisy, Iraq, John McCain, Mainstream Media, Patrick McHenry
Seriously, what the hell do Republicans have to do before our mainstream media starts doing its job? Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) belittled a U.S. Soldier serving in Iraq for following orders and not allowing him access to a restricted area that McHenry was not authorized entry to. “I was not very happy with this two-bit security guard. So you know, I said, “I want to see your supervisor.” Watch it here.
McHenry recently got over feeling sick about a McCain presidency and is now a supporter. Think there will be any outrage from the conservatives for John McCain to disavow his Troop Hating comments? Me neither.
Can you imagine the outrage if a Democrat had said the same thing? The right wingers would be all over it. Instead since its a Republican were just now hearing about it from the liberal blogs while the mainstream media has remained silent. I’ll be updating this story in case the mainstream media covers this but there are a few networks I’m particularly interested in.
News Network Coverage:
- CBS – No Coverage So Far
- CNN – No Coverage So Far
- Fox – No Coverage So Far
- MSNBC – No Coverage So Far
Note that this is my first time trying out Google Alerts so I may miss something. If I do please post it in the comments. I may also be way off base and the mainstream media may jump on it now that the story has broken. I would be surprised but you never know.
UPDATE: Apparently McHenry was referring to a foreign contractor and not a US Soldier. I don’t think this makes any difference though. It’s not like the guy wasn’t following orders and risking his life just like our soldiers.
McCain vs McCain on the Economy
Categorized: Republicans
Tagged: 2008 Election, Economy, John McCain, McCain vs McCain, Satire
If you remember back in January John McCain made a scathing attack on John McCain’s ability to fix our failing economy saying that John McCain “doesn’t really understand economics”. As expected this attack did not go unanswered. John McCain countered in the very next sentence by assuring voters that even though he may not understand economics, his financial adviser Phil Gramm did. In a surprising show of partisan unity John McCain agreed with John McCain that if there is one thing voters can count on John McCain doing, its following his advisers and lobbyists.
Those watching this back and forth expected that to end the fight but then stories started popping up exposing the pivotal role Phil Gramm had in creating our current economic crisis. No word on whether or not John McCain was behind those stores in an underhanded attack to smear his rival John McCain. No matter though the Democrats smelled blood and both Hillary and Barack jumped into the economic massacre.
The beating that John McCain endured would have ended the candidacy of a lesser man, but John McCain fought right back. In a deft move that countered not only his fierce rival John McCain’s earlier statements but both Hillary and Barack, a political triple play if you will. Yesterday John McCain released a statement that he in fact knows more about the economy than the entire Democratic party and that his grandpa invented the economy. He then took reporters on a bus tour of the economy’s childhood, pointing out historic landmarks, sharing candy, and telling really long stories.
This fight between John McCain and John McCain is just starting to heat up so a response is almost guaranteed. What isn’t so clear is if the Democrats can take advantage of the Republican infighting. One thing is certain though, if John McCain and John McCain don’t stop tearing each other down before the General Election the Democrats will surely walk to victory.
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