The Long Awaited Return of Right Thinker

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1. karl says:

   11/3/2005 at 6:22 pm

   I got this from salon.com

   By Michael Scherer

   Up-and-coming Republican hacks would do well to watch closely the ongoing Senate investigations of superstar lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his former business partner Michael Scanlon. The power duo stand accused of exploiting Native American tribes to the tune of roughly $66 million, laundering that money into bank accounts they controlled and then using it to buy favors for powerful members of Congress and the executive branch.

   But they sure did know how to play the game.

   Consider one memo highlighted in a Capitol Hill hearing Wednesday that Scanlon, a former aide to Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Tx., sent the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana to describe his strategy for protecting the tribe’s gambling business. In plain terms, Scanlon confessed the source code of recent Republican electoral victories: target religious conservatives, distract everyone else, and then railroad through complex initiatives.

   “The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees,” Scanlon wrote in the memo, which was read into the public record at a hearing of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. “Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them.”
2. karl says:

   11/4/2005 at 3:06 pm

   From rawstory.com
   Impeachment support is greater among all adults than likely voters
   A new poll of likely voters by Zogby International has found that a majority of Americans support Congress considering the impeachment of President Bush if he “did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq,” RAW STORY has learned.
   The poll, to be released this afternoon, finds that 51 percent of likely voters want Congress to eye impeachment, while 45 percent do not. It was commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a coalition of progressive groups seeking a Congressional investigation of the events leading up to war in Iraq.
   Among all adults surveyed, the numbers were higher: 53 percent supported impeachment, while 42 percent did not. The poll, which has a +/- 2.9% margin of error, interviewed 1,200 U.S. adults from Oct. 29 through Nov. 2.
   Not surprisingly, Democrats supported the consideration of impeachment by a broad margin (76 percent) while Republicans opposed (66 percent). However, 29 percent of Republicans told Zogby pollsters that they supported Congress examining impeachment over Iraq.
   “These results are stunning,” AfterDowningStreet.org co-founder Bob Fertik said in a statement. “A clear majority of Americans now supports President Bush’s impeachment if he lied about the war. This should send shock waves through the White House – and a wake-up call to Democrats and Republicans in Congress, who have sole power under the Constitution to impeach President Bush.”
   Whites were more likely to oppose impeachment proceedings, while Hispanics and African Americans supported them. Asians who took the poll were more likely to oppose impeachment, though only 21 answered questions about their views.
   Also notable: 46 percent of those who considered themselves “born again” said they would support Congress considering impeachment.
   The House of Representatives has the sole authority to impeach a president. Democrats, however, have not touched the issue, and they do not constitute a majority in the chamber.
   Zogby last polled likely voters on impeachment in June. At that time, 42 percent supported considering impeachment, while 50 percent opposed.
   Another poll of American adults conducted in early October by Ipsos, the agency used by the Associated Press, found that 50 percent supported Congress examining the issue, while 42 percent opposed.
   RAW STORY placed calls to some of the more liberal members of the House, among them Reps. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), Bob Filner (D-CA), John Conyers (D-MI) and Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). None of the offices returned calls for comment.
   Fertik, who also runs Democrats.com, has also set up ImpeachPAC, a political action committee aimed at supporting Democrats who say they will seek impeachment.

   Is this occuring because we are losing the war or because he lied to get us there?
3. right thinker says:

   11/4/2005 at 4:10 pm

   It’s great to be back!!! Thanks to Karl for the warm reception, just like ole times.

   Is this occuring because we are losing the war or because he lied to get us there?

   I think it’s because Bush has allowed the liberals to frame the issue, no matter how ridiculous. The “Bush lied” issue is a favorite of mine being that Bush just passed on what everyone else reported to him.

   But also by saying Bush lied to get us into the war the logical conclusion is that Saddam was wrongfully deposed and liberals want him put back in power. Iraq should not have been liberated, Al Queda should still be using Iraq as training/hiding ground and Saddam should be allowed to build up his weapons program.

   People have been convinved that the victory is instead a failure and that all the good we have done is not worth the trouble. This goes back to what I said a while ago, that Democrats desperately want us to fail and soldiers to die because that is the only way they can differentiate themselves and gain political traction.
4. karl says:

   11/4/2005 at 7:08 pm

   Are you trying to say that the reason we are failing and that solders are dying is the the Dems want that to happen? I had no idea Dems were so powerful.
5. right thinker says:

   11/4/2005 at 7:57 pm

   No, the Dems just hope that more soldiers die and hope that we fail, else they have no platform to get elected. Dems have moved themselves into a corner where the worse things get the better more money they make. Kinda morbid actually but that’s the way it is.
6. Chris Austin says:

   11/4/2005 at 8:25 pm

   right thinker says:
   No, the Dems just hope that more soldiers die and hope that we fail, else they have no platform to get elected. Dems have moved themselves into a corner where the worse things get the better more money they make. Kinda morbid actually but that’s the way it is.

   Here’s the platform Right:
   1. Universal health care
   2. Repealing tax cuts to the rich
   3. Leaving Iraq
   4. Ending the practice of torture and secret detention
   5. Reducing the amount of debt owed to China
   6. Reduce pork barrell spending
   7. Reduce poverty

   The list goes on and on. Democrats have an agenda, which will be presented on a wide scale in 2006.
7. Right Thinker says:

   11/5/2005 at 2:33 am

   Most of those are your platform items, not the Democrats. The Democrat’s only item is number 3, leaving Iraq. If they wanted to reduce poverty then they would have made private accounts a reality.

   The Democratic Platform is anything that goes against Bush.

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