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The man with five deferments is the best to advise our military and security.

Spain is coming Dick �.keep talking!

In the 2009 interview – Cheney would not agree to testify ‘UNDER OATH’ during his recent appearance on Face the Nation.

9-11 happened on Mr. Cheney’s watch.

Tom Kean, the Republican co-chair of the 9-11 Commission, has said the attacks could have been prevented.

Before they took office, senior Bush administration officials were briefed repeatedly about the al Qaeda threat.

Clinton National Security Adviser Sandy Berger told incoming National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice,

“I believe that the Bush administration will spend more time on terrorism in general, and on al Qaeda specifically, than any other subject.”

All the Republicans were screaming about Sandy Berger stealing papers and Clinton’s BJ.

Yet Cheney ‘knew relatively nothing’

When Dick went on the faux clown show stating Al Qaida was “relatively” unknown on September 11, 2001 ” one must wonder- where the hell he was?

I guess he really was too busy with the country’s ENERGY policy- BEHIND a closed door!

John McCain claimed that he “believes” no other POTUS would ever do this. This is absurd- what happened to trust but verify Reagan mantra?

Surely- a country that has declined in educating themselves- Worldwide Americans do not even rank in the top 25 for education ” will now re-define what torture is and rely on John McCain’s belief?

And now- they can go after Obama’s children.

What else- do nothing country first folks?

We are paying attention.

Maybe you might try the same thing.

C- Street and the ilk

Former Reps. Mickey Edwards (R-Okla.) and Chris Shays (R-Conn.) made the argument that if the Republican-controlled Congress had exhibited greater oversight during former President George W. Bush’s time in office, they could have prevented some of the most calamitous results of that administration and even saved thousands of lives.

… Shays argued that had more members of Congress, including Republicans, gone to Iraq and visited Abu Ghraib, prisoner abuses would have come to light sooner.

“That would have alerted the administration to what was happening, the command authority to what was happening and it probably would have saved a 1,000 lives,” Shays said.

Shays said the Bush White House abused its powers in a way that resulted in many of the domestic and international problems that have unfolded recently.

“This past Republican Congress hurt this administration by not having some hearings,” said the Connecticut Republican. “Had we had hearings it would have nipped those problems in the bud.”

Mickey Edwards (R-Okla.) was even more critical. He mocked members of Congress when it came to flexing their constitutional oversight authority. In particular, he lamented the House Republican lawmakers’ unified opposition to holding hearings to investigate the firing of U.S. Attorneys by the Bush White House.

“One of the most shocking things was when the House voted to hold [Counsel Harriet] Miers and [Chief of Staff Josh] Bolten in contempt because they refused to obey a congressional subpoena,” said Edwards.

“Every single member of my party, except for three, walked out. Members of Congress walked out of the chamber rather than stand up as members of Congress so that congressional subpoena (would) be obeyed. Party trumped Constitution.”

I don’t think stuck-up is the opposite of typical street whore nor do I find it “equally as egregious and inappropriate”

To insinuate that the crazy comments allegedly posted on a right-of-right wing blog represent the views of the Republican Party is disingenuous. Both parties have their haters and their crazies and while neither are remotely acceptable, even the wingnuts have the right to voice their (insane) opinions.

1) “As disgusting as this story is, it didn’t stand to hurt Republicans that much on its own. Freepers are not exactly considered the bellwether of mainstream conservative thought.”

Don’t you remember the smear campaign launched by Mitch McConnell’s staff against Graeme Frost during the SCHIP broohaha? Free Republic as well as others were used as as sources for the smears. That’s right, in the corridors of power they’re taken seriously!

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/11/mcconnell-staffer-smear-graeme/

Drudge is taken seriously; Malkin is taken seriously. For crying out loud the Republicans made Rush Limbaugh an honorary member of Congress 15 years ago! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?

2) “Where else are the racists supposed to go?”

Are you really serious about this?

Just because there’s a black Democratic president doesn’t mean the Republican party has to condone and accept racism.

There is no place for it in our society.

Like I said, those two thoughts are off the top of my head.

I really don’t feel I need to devote more time to rebut this nonsense.

Hopefully somebody here will do a thorough analysis showing how though you may be well meaning enough you really are misguided.

There is at least one factual inaccuracy in the Vancouver Sun article. At no time did I see Free Republic post my e-mail address at their Website or encourage anyone to harass me. In my post at Daily Kos, I mentioned the e-mail address for the media contact of Free Republic, which could be found on the front page of the Free Republic Website.

When Jim Robinson posted my Daily Kos post, he included his own media contact’s e-mail; I do not believe he included mine (not that I used my permanent e-mail address anyway), and I have not received any e-mail from posters at Free Republic.

I hope you will correct your article accordingly.

Thank you,
CatM

I would love to see some people on the right chastize freepers for these kinds of comments. I will say that I did see both allahpundit and Mary Katherine Ham express disappointment at the vote for Shay as the new leader of the young republicans which was heartening, though I expect them to disavow crap like that. I also won’t make the assumption that the 400 people that didn’t vote for Shay will now support her. I do have to expect that the 450 plus who voted for her do though….and they happen to be the majority of the Young Republicans