OMG - ABC News 1st 9 minutes - Murtha's first-person relaying of all

[Pirate Smile]

the injured soldiers he has seen; corruption in Iraq rebuilding; FEMA out of flood insurance $$$ so won't pay anymore claims to outraged gulf coast residents who always paid their premiums, etc.

Disgusting - the Bush Administration in action.

As Chuck Grassley said, they aren't governing, that is why they are in trouble.

[Jacobin]

1. Oh my

Maybe Smirky will just stay in China for the next three years?

:woohoo:

Finally getting a little air time, are we?

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

4. That would be worse than what we did to Iraq.

Have you no sympathy for the Chinese?

[Pirate Smile]

7. I had already knew about all this but it was still jaw dropping in its

illustration of just how broken our government currently is because of the GOP's running of it.

[Tom Joad]

28. Let's close the borders to Bush. I can really get behind that kind of ...

immigration control.

This truly is a special day, kids.
Between Murtha and another GI opposing the war it is a very good day.
See http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5380727

[Botany]

2. Really

I wonder if they will cover the impeachment?

Bush is toast

[opihimoimoi]

3. The ACT is OVER....Someone ...get the HOOK and get Bush off stage..

Them Pubs are fucking up everything including this Planet.

[Daphne08]

5. Corruption of the highest order.

I'm old, and I've seen a lot of administrations in my lifetime, but this one is the worst.

This Congress is not much better!

[Pirate Smile]

16. Well, they go together. This Administration couldn't be so terrible

if they had to actually worry about Congressional oversight.

The GOP running Congress is a big reason why things have gotten so bad.

[July]

20. Republican congressmen/women have sold out that body.

Their loyalty to party has rendered Congress impotent. It's disgusting.

[AndyTiedye]

26. And The Dems Know that If they Make Too Many Waves They Get Wellstoned

[phusion]

6. Bush and the repugs are fucked

which makes me fear another terrorist attack on this country. They need something.

The rats are backed into a corner...Will they lash out and bite?

[AlinPA]

15. That is my biggest worry. They would stop at nothing to increase Bush**'s

poll ratings.

[Digit]

23. I don't think it would help

Nothing will stop their downward spiral.

[triguy46]

24. Poll ratings? How about stopping at nothing to stay in power?

In statistics it might be called "deviation to the norm." We have had a long run as a nation, longer than most. We have been relatively immune, with the noted exception of our civil war, to overt power grabs, coups d'etat and other disruptive things that powerful greedy men do with armies. I periodically get very paranoid about this bunch and their ilk.

[AlinPA]

30. Cheney reminds me of Spiro Agnew with his vicious attacks on critics. nt

[DELUSIONAL]

32. Agnew -- came up with "The silent majority"

yep he was the attack dog of the Nixon reign -- until he got caught and had to resign.

[AlinPA]

33. He said "nattering nabobs of negativism". He pleaded "no contest"

to taking graft money across his desk at the WH.

[triguy46]

35. Not sure he was first. Wasn't it Kevin Phillips, speechwriter?

[July]

21. If that's in their playbook, we're getting closer.

I hope they're not that nucking futs, but I fear that they are.

[JNelson6563]

34. I think they need another ploy alright

but it won't be terra here at home. One of their twisted justifications for "staying the course" in Iraq is "we're fighting them over there so we aren't fighting them here". we get attacked here and have very limited troops to deploy it highlights how the Iraq debacle is draining our resources and ability to defend ourselves if needed.

Just my .0125

Julie

[TheGunslinger]

8. Awesome...and NBC News had John Yoo on as the pro-torture

proponent in a dual segment. Can't remember the anti-torture person. Some former military.


Yoo looked like some asian version of Rush.

[peekaloo]

9. CBS led with the Murtha story, too.

Mishandled war, start the pull out and a smack down on Cheney regarding his lack of military service.

Bad moon risin'.

[stillcool]

10. There sure is a lot of stuff hitting the fan....

these days,..but it's all stuff that is known, but not before told by the corpwhores. Doesn't it seem like somebody opened up the gates?

[July]

22. Doesn't it frost your ass to know that these aren't new revelations?

That information has been ignored, suppressed, and ridiculed by the administration, a big chunk of Congress, and the media?

I'm glad it's finally coming into the mainstream, but HELL it's been a long wait.

[stillcool]

31. when the jaws start flapping...

it makes me uneasy. Makes me think they're up to something....it's like reading tea leaves,

[stop the bleeding]

11. can you say popcorn?

:popcorn:

[LSparkle]

12. Can't believe that Grassley quote ... the rats are jumping off!

[Pirate Smile]

19. Here is the quote:

Quote of the Day

"A lot of people want to say Republicans are having problems because of stands we take on specific issues. I've seen polls where that's not the reason. The reason is we're not governing."

-- Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), quoted by the Sioux City Journal.

Another quote I like:

Bonus Quote of the Day

"Because a lot of the farmers are prejudiced against New Yorkers, Hillary hauls me along as the token redneck, and I milk the cows and stuff."

-- President Bill Clinton, quoted by the New York Post.

http://politicalwire.com/

[dweller]

13. yeah, it was good coverage

CBS did maybe half that, i gave up on NBC nightly after a few.

that newsclip just covered the eastern US households, heads up Midwest, Pacific!


support our troops, bring them home NOW.
dp

[lovuian]

14. The truth is coming out!!! So you pay your insurance and

then the Fema Insurance man says we are not paying!!!

thats fraud and its the government PAY UP!!!

[geomon666]

17. It's not that they don't want to pay....

FEMA can't. They have no more money because of these disgusting pig bastards in the white house.

[Cha]

18. I just saw the tail end of

the replay of Murtha's press conference on c-span and he is riveting!

He knows what he's talking about and has such passion that he is spellbinding.

Glad I called his office today and asked the woman to thank John Murtha for me for calling for Immediate Troop Withdrawal from Iraq.

I know bush and his puppeteers are going into anaphylactic shock over this because it doesn't jive with their plans for Middle East dominance and the ever elusive Iraqi Oil.

[Rowdyboy]

25. That was incredibly moving.....

He was literally choking up. No one can really understand the horror of war who has never experienced it. Thank God I'm one of the lucky ones who never has.

[Pirate Smile]

27. That was the part ABC played - they had his citing of all the injuries,

etc. from that part of his press conference and they showed photo's of injured soldiers, purple hearts, etc. to go along with what he was saying.

I was surprised but glad that that was what they focused on - the impact on the soldiers and their families.

[Cha]

29. Yes, I'm was heartened

that John Murtha talked about real soldiers and their devastating wounds that they just aren't going to walk away from but will take years of healing.

Murtha is bringing the torture issue to light, too..I caught that part. And he has asked no one to co-sponser this bill with him..so it wouldn't get leaked.