(Guest blogged by BillW)
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Just last week Bush vetoed $35 billion for sick children, but now he needs $46 billion more for the occupation in Iraq.
“The Iraq war is now costing $330 million a day. That could pay for 1700 more border patrol agents, or provide health-care for an extra 45,000 military veterans, or the funds from just one day in Iraq would give 270,000 more kids coverage under SCHIP.”
On Wed the House will have another hearing on the long-term cost of the war. The last time the figure was $1 trillion and it’s a no-brainer the new figure is going to be much higher.
Jack Cafferty: “I’ve got a quick question Wolf. Who approves the funding for the war?
Wolf Blitzer: The United States Congress
Jack Cafferty: Oh yeah. right. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and those Democrats who were elected to do something about the war. I forgot.
Also, surprise! (not) There’s a new bin Laden tape out, this time urging al Qaeda in Iraq and other insurgent groups to merge forces. His timing couldn’t possibly have been any better coordinated to conveniently help boogieman Congress into getting Bush all the money he wants, could it?
John Amato: “Obey is talking tough, but until I see them do something about this—I will take it with a grain of salt.”
Filed Under: GOP, George W. Bush, Government Policy, Health/Science, Universal Health Care
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Bin Laden shows up, just in time, AGAIN, to reinforce the administration’s talking points, AGAIN. What are the odds?
Reid…Pelosi…why won’t you listen?
Almost $14 MILLION per hour, 24 hours per day.
Don’t let anybody ever tell you that we can’t afford single-payer healthcare.
There are several possible scenarios about the tape:
1. Bin Laden works for the administration.
2. It is a phony Bin Laden.
3. Bin Laden realizes he has the ability to pull Bush’s chain whenever he wishes and Bush will fall for it.
None of these scenarios do much for the macho image Bush wants to pretend.
Shocked I tell you… shocked! It’s as if there’s a direct line between the White House and
some guy splicing together old bin Laden footage and dubbing over itbin Laden himself!“I’m not Osama bin Laden, but I play him on TV”
Nothing short of a massive grass-roots effort to mount PRIMARY battles against incumbent invertibrate Democrats will end this abonination. And we ought not elect Hillary, because she is the very embodiment of spineless Democratic pandering and middle ground safety-seeking. Five years from now Bush and Cheney will be long forgotten and it will have become HER war. God forbid!
To end the abomination, we must become an OBAMA NATION! Or an Edwards-ocracy. ANYONE but spineless, macho wannabe Hillary!
Stick a fork in it! This country is DONE!! There is no accountability or leadership coming from anywhere or anybody. Soon it will be every man, woman, and child for himself!!
I agree with Sany. This country is done. Fucking sad too. Thanks a lot Democraps and Repugnants for putting yourself and your parties before what is good for this nation.
How convenient for bin Laden to show up. Right when people, like myself, are fuming over the SCHIP veto. No money for child healthcare, plenty of money for unnecessary war.
IMPEACH.
Gore/Kucinich/Obama/Anyone but Bush ‘08
The congress needs to grow a pair, and say no to King Bush. Saying no forces discussion of the validity of the war, and more than 70% of the country is against the president on this issue. This is one key issue where nobody will fault the congress if they tell the president to go screw himself because they won’t capitulate to his requests and fear mongering.
miss_kitty @ 6:
“I’m not Osama bin Laden, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.”
Sorry, I’m waiting for Osama on DVD with special bonus
Fuck Bin Laden. He comes up with a new crappy tape every day and they all have the same shoddy plotting, shitty foleying, and the worst voice actors I’ve ever heard. Even the Paris Hilton tapes were better than that.
I am very upset to read all of your skeptical posts. You do not realize how serious the threat is- and to suggest that this is somehow fake suggests you are ignorant of the truth. Before ANY of you dare repeat that claim, you had better watch
this video and tell me for one minute why we shouldn’t be absolutely terrified.
Apology accepted.
Bin Laden is dead and probably died bloody years ago. I wonder who the guy is that they keep getting to play him? De Niro? You could probably put a long beard and mo on Adrien Brody and he’d make a good Bin Laden. Of course, once he had played the part, he could never leave the “Psy Ops Studio”…
Maybe Bin Laden would like one of those lovely pony’s you’ve got down there!
B. Mundt @ 15:
ROFLMAO! ! ! !
seriously, that was frickin perfect.
Osama Bin Laden releases more videos than Britney Spears. When is President Bush gonna kill this guy?
When is Congress going to remember WHY they were elected in 2006 - and listen to the people who put them into power to stand up to the Bush/Cheney war machine. The Bushies are going to draw money from every area they can to pay for the neo-con war (and let’s hope that “war” stays singular).
B. Mundt @ 15:
lol! it’s as good as any OBL vids I’ve seen…yes, he looks ’scary’.
B. Mundt @ 15:
With all due respect, the biggest threat to America (and the rest of the world for that matter) is sitting in the White House along with his puppet master.
Preznit Boosh has been playing us for SOOOOOOO long now I can’t imagine anyone falling for this crap again….all except……..congress….sigh..feckin LOSERS!
Another scream:
If this “war on terrorism” is an existential conflict, then WHY is Bush still so determined to slash taxes? If we are all in this together, if Bush is determined to take care of things now, so that our future generations won’t have to, why is he saddling them with the bill?
That needs to be shouted out day and night until the war ends.
You can’t question whether this is Real Osama™. If you doubt, you risk opening up a whole can of worms that Cannot Be Discussed Here.
So, suckas, you’re stuck with Osama. You have to believe he’s real and alive right now, just like Jesus.
xenon @ 22:
With most of the due respect, click the link in the post @15. You’ll appreciate the time it takes to watch it.
B. Mundt @ 15:
I’m still laughing at that. I almost didn’t even click on it as I thought it was going to be a link to one of Horowitz’s islamofascist boogieman vids but figured before I laid into a troll linking to some crap like that I’d better check it out for at least a second or two first.
lol
B. Mundt @ 15:
OHHHH…hahahahahaha,hehehehehehehe,ohohohohohohoh….oh shit my side hurts….oh no stop it ,STOP IT..ahahahahaha,heheheheheh,ohohohohohohoh…OH SHIT……no no stop ….
be very, very afraid of our country
Think we could at least get SCHIP added as an amendment?
Boosh the douche says: “Checks and balances, you write the checks and I’ll break the balances!”
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mudshark @ 28:
hey didn’t I see that guy in a Rick James video???
Vanna @ 25:
Just like Jesus, LOL!
I wrote my senator today and said “No more money for war.”
mudshark @ 28:
I’ll see your hysterical laughter and raise you “OMG!!!1!!!1!!! I wet myself!”… :lol: :lol: :lol:
kaT @ 34:
With few exceptions, they don’t care.
Really.
and cafferty is right….you cant bitch about the funding….and then fund the war anyway
im sick of the dems
Uhhh where is the rest of what Jack said?
miss_kitty @ 36:
it certainly would appear that way.sad but true.
as lafin gas would say-
How many coincidences does it take before you realize they were not coincidences at all?
bilhelm-X @ 31:
please dont refer to the chimp as boosh
their was a great brit comedy show called the mighty boosh
Blue Buddha @ 5:
Yeah, these fucking tapes are FAKE, FAKE, FAKE, FAKE, FAKE. I’m so sick of people falling for this shit.
We need to get a few things straight here.
1. Bin laden has been dead since Dec of 2001:
http://www.welfarestate.com/binladen/funeral/
2. The CIA created al CIAduh:
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2001/465/25199
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fakealqaeda.html
3. 9/11 was a “new Pearl Harbor false flag” inside job by Cheney, Kristol, and the PNAC guys and the banking system:
http://www.newamericancentury.org/
http://video.google.com/videop.....1483512003
http://tinyurl.com/2mpjbr
Unless we impeach the head of the monster (Bush/Cheney) and get them to a world court for murder, terrorism, genocide, and more, we are dead as a nation and a free people. They run everything right now but not our hearts and ideas. We owe it to over one million Iraqi souls.
Looks like the United States will be indebted to China for at least the Chimp’s grandchildren’s lifetimes.
And to think, when he took office, Bush said “we won’t pass on our problems to future administrations or future generations”. As soon as he uttered those words, I knew he was going to raise the debt even more than Reagan ever thought of doing!
Everybody knows the neoconservatives evil game plan for the middle east, why does anybody still fall for this PNAC crap? When will the shameless corporate media stop lying to us in our faces?
Bush bin Laden is doing Al-Queda’s bidding by bringing down America from the inside. Has anyone checked to see if perhaps BushCo is an Al-Queda sleeper cell? Bush’s blood brother Osama couldn’t be more pleased with BushCo’s work. Thank’s to BushCo our military is stretched thin, our citizens don’t have money for their needs, our allies think we are the biggest threat to world peace, China holds our debt and therefore us under their thumb, and the terrorist are all over iraq getting that oil money to fund another attack against us.
Bin Laden could only bring down the twin towers but it took this Clown Chimp and his band of corrupt, lawless, criminal thugs to bring down America.
Wow..borrowing money from Mexico. That’s funny.
So who’s on the top ten list of the Greatest Country’s in the World for this years trophy?
Hey top 20 is still not bad. Go America rah.
Wonder when someone is going to look into why bin Laden is still working for Shrub.
And how much Shrub knows about it.
cnn couldn’t have made it any easier following the Bush’s request for $46 bil more for his war story with the new OBL tape one. I almost think they did it that way on purpose just so it could be made into this post.
Its sweeps week for the 24%ers. A Pall bearers convention and a very, very, special Bin Laden episode you won’t want to miss.
We get it but the dinosaurs in Congress do not.