Whistle Ass / George Bush 2004

Fact: Minnesota Dems Said "Fuck Bush" On Joint Resolution 114

http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthtribune/2005/11/21/news/opinion/13222910.htm

Minnesota Democrats are not 'rewriting history'

Historical fact: Minnesota Democrats voted "no" on the Iraq war.

As President Bush and his administration accuse Democrats of "rewriting history" about initial support for the war, the fact remains that 21 Democratic senators and 126 Democrats in the House of Representatives voted against Joint Resolution 114 that entrusted the president with the ultimate final decision of going to war, which he pledged would only happen as a last resort.

Both Minnesota senators, Democrats Paul Wellstone and Mark Dayton, voted no to the resolution, in effect challenging the rationale of going to war before it ever started.

Also, of the five Minnesota Democrats in the House of Representatives at the time of the vote, the majority (three of them) voted no (Jim Oberstar, Martin Sabo and Nancy McCollum) and two voted yes (Bill Luther and Collin Peterson).

All three Minnesota Republicans in the House voted yes (Gil Gutknecht, Jim Ramstad and Mark Kennedy). (John Kline defeated Luther for his seat in 2002.)

To be blunt: Democrats are not rewriting history, Bush and his administration are just lying... again.
MICHAEL ENDRIZZI

MINNEAPOLIS

Who Voted For the IRAQ WAR?!!

21 Senate Dems and 126 Dems in the House of Reps VOTED AGAINST House Joint Resolution 114 as taken on October 11, 2002

The vote on House Joint Resolution 114 as taken on October 11, 2002. It passed the Senate by a vote of 77 to 23. The 21 Democrats, one Republican and one Independent senator who courageously voted their consciences against it were:

Daniel Akaka (D-HI)
Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
Robert Byrd (D-WV)
Lincoln Chafee (R-RI)
Kent Conrad (D-ND)
Jon Corzine (D-NJ)
Mark Dayton (D-MN)
Dick Durbin (D-IL)
Russ Feingold (D-WI)
Bob Graham (D-FL)
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
Jim Jeffords (I-VT)
Ted Kennedy (D-MA)
Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
Carl Levin (D-MI)
Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
Patty Murray (D-WA)
Jack Reed (D-RI)
Paul Sarbanes (D-MD)
Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
the late Paul Wellstone (D-MN)
Ron Wyden (D-OR)

The House of Representatives passed the Resolution by a vote of 296 to 133. In the House, six Republicans (Ron Paul of Texas; Connie Morella of Maryland; Jim Leach of Iowa; Amo Houghton of New York; John Hostettler of Indiana; and John Duncan of Tennessee) joined 126 Democrats in voting nay.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich, (D-OH), said the 133 votes against the measure were "a very strong message" to the administration.

"All across this land Americans are insisting on a peaceful resolution of matters in Iraq," Kucinich said then. "All across this land, Americans are looking towards the United States to be a nation among nations, working through the United Nations to help resolve this crisis."

Let's all write, call or email these discerning American patriots, and thank them again for their votes. And let's remember their wisdom come Election Day 2006. http://usliberals.about.com/b/a/2005_11_14.htm

bush losing it

"President George W. Bush’s increasingly erratic behavior and wide mood swings has the halls of the West Wing buzzing lately as aides privately express growing concern over their leader’s state of mind.

In meetings with top aides and administration officials, the President goes from quoting the Bible in one breath to obscene tantrums against the media, Democrats and others that he classifies as “enemies of the state.”

Worried White House aides paint a portrait of a man on the edge, increasingly wary of those who disagree with him and paranoid of a public that no longer trusts his policies in Iraq or at home."

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1901

our kind of texas judge: catherine crier

yeah! check her out at ian masters.org:

"Catherine Crier on the portent of a takeover of the American judiciary by the Religious Right. How serious is the threat? What does it mean? What can be done? "

http://www.ianmasters.org/left_coast.html

voting machine fraud in ohio?

this shit is really starting p*ss me off... where is the paper trail?

"Once again, the Buckeye state has hosted an astonishing display of electronic manipulation that calls into question the sanctity of America's right to vote, and to have those votes counted in this crucial swing state."

http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2005/11/todays_voting_m_1.htm

ANWR Survives!! No Drilling for Bush!

http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/09/AR2005110901930.html

Treasongate bigger than Watergate

URBANA, ILLINOIS--To weigh the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame against historical standards, consider that no leader of the Soviet Union--including that master of ruthlessness, Josef Stalin--ever arranged for the name of a KGB operative to appear in a newspaper. Adolf Hitler had countless millions murdered, yet getting at a political enemy by endangering agents of the Sicherheitsdienst, the Nazi intelligence service, didn't cross his mind. In this respect, not even the worst tyrants have stooped to the level of George W. Bush.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucru/20051101/cm_ucru/biggerthanwatergate

who gave alito (scalito) a quarter million dollars of exxon stock?

liberal avenger wants to know:

"Alito received the Exxon-Mobil stock, which could be worth as much as $250,000, as a bequest in May 2004. His disclosure form did not provide the source of the bequest, and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for more information."

http://liberalavenger.com/2005/10/somebody-has-some-splaining-to-do.html