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gezzam
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Australia
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Posted - 01/18/2005 :  20:03:35  Show Profile  Visit gezzam's Homepage Send gezzam a Private Message
Was watching C-Span this morning and saw Seb. Barbara Boxer open up a can of whoop arse all over Condi.

What is going on??????

There is actually a democrat with balls!!!!!

I hope there is more of it over the next 4 years so these pricks in the Whitehouse are exposed.


Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

Kil
Evil Skeptic

USA
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Posted - 01/18/2005 :  21:40:18   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message
Senator from my State. She made us proud...

Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.

Why not question something for a change?

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Dude
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USA
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Posted - 01/18/2005 :  23:52:52   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Dude a Private Message
I really don't like Condi Rice.....


Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson

"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin

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The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth
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beskeptigal
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USA
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Posted - 01/19/2005 :  14:35:09   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send beskeptigal a Private Message
Condi Rice is the classic 'Yes man'. I find her repulsive. Also in Richard Clarke's book she comes across as a 'power snob'. "I'm in power, you're not." I get the same impression when I see her in public discourses. Her response to Boxer when confronted with mistakes at best and lies at worst was typical, "Don't attack my integrity," or something like that. I bet it was a planned response that was even rehearsed.
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Dude
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USA
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Posted - 01/19/2005 :  15:36:31   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Dude a Private Message
quote:
I bet it was a planned response that was even rehearsed.


Of course it was. The republicans have very impressive spin control and some smart people to help them prep for events like that.


Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson

"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin

Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth
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beskeptigal
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Posted - 01/20/2005 :  01:51:11   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send beskeptigal a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Dude

quote:
I bet it was a planned response that was even rehearsed.


Of course it was. The republicans have very impressive spin control and some smart people to help them prep for events like that.



I wonder how she decided when to use what. After using up her, "Don't question my integrity", on the first 20 lies she was confronted with, what will be left for the next 100?

I could only stomach a few minutes of today's testimony. At least Boxer made it clear many of the admin lies were directly to the public. Too bad that goes over the Republican heads and all they hear is the spin return.
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filthy
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Posted - 01/20/2005 :  02:13:00   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message
I wonder about Rice. Her performance thus far has been far from competent; poor enough indeed, to get her fired anywherre else. Is she more than just another chronic, Cabinet liar?

Nothing to be done now but sit back and see how badly she fucks up the world, I guess, but it was good to read the transcript of Boxer's questions.

I might have added: "But Dr. Rice, you have no integrity to impune."






"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)

"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres


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and Crypto-Communist!

Edited by - filthy on 01/20/2005 02:15:08
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Gorgo
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Posted - 01/20/2005 :  04:37:16   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Gorgo a Private Message
No Democrat has the balls to call Bush and his team what they are. Criminals.

I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
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Wendy
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USA
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Posted - 01/20/2005 :  12:34:31   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Wendy a Yahoo! Message Send Wendy a Private Message
I just got an email from John Kerry (bulk form letter) indicating (not surprisingly) that he voted against nominating Dr. Rice. Here is a portion of that letter:
quote:
Earlier today, I voted in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee against the nomination of Dr. Condoleezza Rice for Secretary of State. This vote is an expression of my determination that we hold the Bush administration accountable.

Dr. Rice is a principal architect, implementer, and defender of a series of Administration policies that have not made our country as secure as we should be and have alienated much-needed allies in our common cause of winning the war against terrorism. Regrettably, I did not see in Dr. Rice's testimony before our committee any acknowledgment of the need to change course or of a new vision for America's role in the world.


He also asks that as many people as possible sign the Petition to fire Donald Rumsfeld.

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Dude
SFN Die Hard

USA
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Posted - 01/20/2005 :  14:36:32   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Dude a Private Message
Kerry is spamming my inbox as well....


Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson

"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin

Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth
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Tim
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USA
775 Posts

Posted - 01/21/2005 :  23:59:13   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Tim a Private Message
quote:
Posted by Dude
The republicans have very impressive spin control and some smart people to help them prep for events like that.
So do the Dems. It just turns out the the Repubs are more cohesive and better on the attack. And, they got Karl Rove--The god of dirty tricks and Lee Atwater's best student.

Sorry, I don't like the Republican party. I'm firmly convinced that their incessant attacks during the Clinton administration, specifially 'Monica-Gate,' aided Al Qeada in the attacks of 9/11. Today, this party has renounced their "not the world's policeman" mentality and subscribed to a policy of modern colonialism, using the blood of innocent Americans as an excuse to serve the ends of corporate elitism.

I hope that wasn't too harsh...Nah!

"We got an issue in America. Too many good docs are gettin' out of business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their -- their love with women all across this country." Dubya in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, 9/6/2004
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