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To: michael97123 who wrote (202679)	9/12/2006 11:28:25 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Democracy is democracy; spreading democracy is spreading democracy. Bad guys with nukes are bad guys with nukes. Bad guys with nukes and without oil are bad guys. Bad guys without nukes and with oil are bad guys with nukes and the ability to launch in 45 minutes with a remote controlled model airplane that can fly from Iraq to NYC. The only low hanging fruit is Shrub's brain, which is a lot like a song by Sinatra or Streisand...solo. Oh, solo.

To: michael97123 who wrote (202679)	9/17/2006 6:04:28 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

Former GOP congressman Joe Scarborough eviscerates Bush in Sunday's Washington Post americablog.blogspot.com by John in DC - 9/17/2006 12:48:00 AM "The" story this election isn't the civil war in Iraq, it's the civil war in the Republican party. Front page of the Outlook Section, no less: I can't help but feel sorry for my old Republican friends in Congress who are fighting for their political lives. After all, it must be tough explaining to voters at their local Baptist church's Keep Congress Conservative Day that it was their party that took a $155 billion surplus and turned it into a record-setting $400 billion deficit. How exactly does one convince the teeming masses that Republicans deserve to stay in power despite botching a war, doubling the national debt, keeping company with Jack Abramoff, fumbling the response to Hurricane Katrina, expanding the government at record rates, raising cronyism to an art form, playing poker with Duke Cunningham, isolating America and repeatedly electing Tom DeLay as their House majority leader? How does a God-fearing Reagan Republican explain all that away? Easy. Blame George W. Bush.... Even when the administration would not give generals the troops they needed to win the war in Iraq, Republican leaders did nothing. When the president refused to veto a single spending bill while the deficit spiraled upward, Republican leaders looked away. And when chaos was reigning in the streets of New Orleans and across the Gulf Coast in Katrina's horrific aftermath, Republican leaders remained mute. That silence -- proof that it is better to be feared than loved in politics -- has had devastating results. The United States is more divided than ever, our leaders are despised around the world, our fiscal situation is catastrophic and congressional approval ratings are the lowest ever. Since nothing sharpens the mind like a political hanging, Republican leaders in the Senate and House are finally considering doing what effete newspaper editorialists have suggested for years: throwing Bush overboard.... Of course, you GOP candidates can be sure that such attacks will annoy Bush, even though your survival may be all that stands between him and a crazy Democratic chairman launching impeachment hearings. But if you win this fall only to face his stern rebuke next winter, just tell him it was schadenfreude for all the times the White House treated you badly. With any luck, Bush will think you are talking about that Berlin disco that Moammar Gaddafi bombed back in 1986 and then dismiss you like the worthless billy goat he always suspected you were.