The Atheist Communist Caliphate Made Flesh, Spread the Clusterfuck Around Thread

[Quality Start Machine]

I recall when President Bush was repeatedly accused of putting politics in the way of science...

http://cei.org/news-release/2009/06/24/epa-suppresses-internal-global-warming-study

You want to blame Obama because someone wanted to put climate change into an Endangerment memo?

That type of thing is only permissible on fringe message boards.

[morpheus]

I recall when President Bush was repeatedly accused of putting politics in the way of science...

http://cei.org/news-release/2009/06/24/epa-suppresses-internal-global-warming-study

You want to blame Obama because someone wanted to put climate change into an Endangerment memo?

That type of thing is only permissible on fringe message boards.

Well, often the activities of a President's Administration are ascribed to the President himself, regardless of how applicable it is.  I'm just sayin'.

[Quality Start Machine]

I recall when President Bush was repeatedly accused of putting politics in the way of science...

http://cei.org/news-release/2009/06/24/epa-suppresses-internal-global-warming-study

You want to blame Obama because someone wanted to put climate change into an Endangerment memo?

That type of thing is only permissible on fringe message boards.

Well, often the activities of a President's Administration are ascribed to the President himself, regardless of how applicable it is.  I'm just sayin'.

The emails read like one guy trying to jam his views into anything coming out of the department, regardless of how relevant.

[Tank]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCSLR4gsgmA

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200906250024

Obama wants you to— he— the best way to put it, and it's working: he's trying to kill spirit.

All this "hope and change"... he's trying to kill it.

You know how many frustrated Americans there are, out there, at what's happening?

This Sanford thing— I'm gonna tell you, one of the first thoughts that crossed my mind with Mark Sanford... this was the first thought: what he did defies logic. This is more than being 180º out of phase because of "lust" or "love."

...

This is almost like, 'I don't give a damn. The country's going to hell in a handbasket, I just want out of here.'

He had just tried to fight the stimulus money coming to South Carolina. He didn't want any part of it. He lost the battle. He said, 'What the hell? I mean, I'm—the federal government's taking over... What the hell. I want to enjoy life.'

...

The point is: there are a lot of people whose spirit is just... they're fed up, saying, 'The hell with it. I don't even want to fight this anymore, I just want to get away from it.'

...

My first thought was: he said, 'The hell with this. The Democrats are destroying the country, we can't do anything to stop it, I gave everything I had to stop it here in South Carolina, my wife's left me. The hell with it! I'm gonna enjoy life, what little time I've got left.'

Folks, there are a lot of people that are looking at life— they're saying, 'screw it!'

They're saying, 'screw it,' and they're gonna— before the governm— before Obama takes away their money, before Obama takes away their house, or the economy takes away their house, there are people who are simply saying, 'Hell with this!' They've tuned out.

'To hell with it, I'm just gonna try to enjoy this as much as I can.'

...

I frankly think that this is what's wrong with the economy today: I frankly think a whole lot of people have just lost their spirit.

[Slaky]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCSLR4gsgmA

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200906250024

Obama wants you to— he— the best way to put it, and it's working: he's trying to kill spirit.

All this "hope and change"... he's trying to kill it.

You know how many frustrated Americans there are, out there, at what's happening?

This Sanford thing— I'm gonna tell you, one of the first thoughts that crossed my mind with Mark Sanford... this was the first thought: what he did defies logic. This is more than being 180º out of phase because of "lust" or "love."

...

This is almost like, 'I don't give a damn. The country's going to hell in a handbasket, I just want out of here.'

He had just tried to fight the stimulus money coming to South Carolina. He didn't want any part of it. He lost the battle. He said, 'What the hell? I mean, I'm—the federal government's taking over... What the hell. I want to enjoy life.'

...

The point is: there are a lot of people whose spirit is just... they're fed up, saying, 'The hell with it. I don't even want to fight this anymore, I just want to get away from it.'

...

My first thought was: he said, 'The hell with this. The Democrats are destroying the country, we can't do anything to stop it, I gave everything I had to stop it here in South Carolina, my wife's left me. The hell with it! I'm gonna enjoy life, what little time I've got left.'

Folks, there are a lot of people that are looking at life— they're saying, 'screw it!'

They're saying, 'screw it,' and they're gonna— before the governm— before Obama takes away their money, before Obama takes away their house, or the economy takes away their house, there are people who are simply saying, 'Hell with this!' They've tuned out.

'To hell with it, I'm just gonna try to enjoy this as much as I can.'

...

I frankly think that this is what's wrong with the economy today: I frankly think a whole lot of people have just lost their spirit.

His wife left him for no reason? Interesting. That happens all the time.

[Tank]

His wife left him for no reason? Interesting. That happens all the time.

Obama must have killed her spirit, too.

Like Martha Stewart before him.

Maybe it's all the keema and dal he cooks. Or the Urdu poetry. Or the ice cream.

[RV]

His wife left him for no reason? Interesting. That happens all the time.

Obama must have killed her spirit, too.

Like Martha Stewart before him.

Maybe it's all the keema and dal he cooks. Or the Urdu poetry. Or the ice cream.

Has Politico always been this TMZish? It seems that at some point in the last few months they made a conscious decision to publish as many vapid and worthless stories as possible to up their Drudge linkage.

[Tank]

His wife left him for no reason? Interesting. That happens all the time.

Obama must have killed her spirit, too.

Like Martha Stewart before him.

Maybe it's all the keema and dal he cooks. Or the Urdu poetry. Or the ice cream.

Has Politico always been this TMZish? It seems that at some point in the last few months they made a conscious decision to publish as many vapid and worthless stories as possible to up their Drudge linkage.

They've been all but joined at the hip with Drudge since day one.

[Tank]

More from the "hypocrisy" side of the ledger...

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/24/sanford-affair/

While serving as a U.S. congressman, Sanford was incredibly critical of his colleagues' marital misdeeds, including the affairs of former congressman Bob Livingston and President Bill Clinton:

    "The bottom line, though, is I am sure there will be a lot of legalistic explanations pointing out that the president lied under oath. His situation was not under oath. The bottom line, though, is he still lied. He lied under a different oath, and that is the oath to his wife. So it's got to be taken very, very seriously." [Sanford on Livingston, CNN, 12/18/98]

    "We ought to ask questions...rather than circle the wagons for one of our tribe." [Sanford on how the GOP reacts to affairs, New York Post, 12/20/98]

    "I think it would be much better for the country and for him personally (to resign). I come from the business side. If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he'd be gone." [Sanford on Clinton, The Post and Courier, 9/12/98]

    "The issue of lying is probably the biggest harm, if you will, to the system of Democratic government, representatives government, because it undermines trust. And if you undermine trust in our system, you undermine everything." [Sanford on Clinton, CNN, 2/16/99]

Sanford has also been an opponent of same-sex marriage, saying in 2004, "As Jenny and I are the parents of four little boys, we've always taught our kids that marriage was something between a man and a woman." [The Post and Courier, 2/11/04]

[Tank]

Corruption in Detroit?

Shocking.

http://www.freep.com/article/20090626/NEWS01/90626024/1003/NEWS/Conyers+convicted+of+conspiracy

Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers pleaded guilty this morning to conspiring to commit bribery and is free on personal bond.

U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn said, "The defendant now stands convicted."

The one count of conspiring to commit bribery is punishable by up to five years in prison.

No sentencing date has been set.

Conyers, the wife of powerful Democratic congressman U.S. Rep. John Conyers, appeared before Cohn to answer charges in connection with the wide-ranging probe of wrongdoing at Detroit city hall.

...

The federal plea document released today cites two instances in late 2007, in the days surrounding the approval of the now-infamous Synagro Technologies sludge-hauling contract, when Conyers accepted cash bribes from a Synagro consultant.

The document does not cite the specific amount of the bribes, but previous court documents have said that Conyers, identified by the feds as Council Member A, took at least two bribes of $3,000 each, among other bribes.

...

Under federal sentencing guidelines, Conyers could face 31 to 60 months in prison, depending on how much money the judge believes was involved in the scheme. Conyers' lawyer and federal prosecutors disagree about the amount of money she received.

Undermining the integrity of Detroit's sludge-hauling contract... Is nothing sacred?

It's Detroit.

That sludge is all they've got.

[Gil Gunderson]

Corruption in Detroit?

Shocking.

http://www.freep.com/article/20090626/NEWS01/90626024/1003/NEWS/Conyers+convicted+of+conspiracy

Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers pleaded guilty this morning to conspiring to commit bribery and is free on personal bond.

U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn said, "The defendant now stands convicted."

The one count of conspiring to commit bribery is punishable by up to five years in prison.

No sentencing date has been set.

Conyers, the wife of powerful Democratic congressman U.S. Rep. John Conyers, appeared before Cohn to answer charges in connection with the wide-ranging probe of wrongdoing at Detroit city hall.

...

The federal plea document released today cites two instances in late 2007, in the days surrounding the approval of the now-infamous Synagro Technologies sludge-hauling contract, when Conyers accepted cash bribes from a Synagro consultant.

The document does not cite the specific amount of the bribes, but previous court documents have said that Conyers, identified by the feds as Council Member A, took at least two bribes of $3,000 each, among other bribes.

...

Under federal sentencing guidelines, Conyers could face 31 to 60 months in prison, depending on how much money the judge believes was involved in the scheme. Conyers' lawyer and federal prosecutors disagree about the amount of money she received.

Undermining the integrity of Detroit's sludge-hauling contract... Is nothing sacred?

It's Detroit.

That sludge is all they've got.

Fuck Detroit.

[ChuckD]

Detroit does corruption like this; Chicago does corruption like this.

(And by "this," I mean italicized.)

[CubFaninHydePark]

Corruption in Detroit?

Shocking.

http://www.freep.com/article/20090626/NEWS01/90626024/1003/NEWS/Conyers+convicted+of+conspiracy

Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers pleaded guilty this morning to conspiring to commit bribery and is free on personal bond.

U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn said, "The defendant now stands convicted."

The one count of conspiring to commit bribery is punishable by up to five years in prison.

No sentencing date has been set.

Conyers, the wife of powerful Democratic congressman U.S. Rep. John Conyers, appeared before Cohn to answer charges in connection with the wide-ranging probe of wrongdoing at Detroit city hall.

...

The federal plea document released today cites two instances in late 2007, in the days surrounding the approval of the now-infamous Synagro Technologies sludge-hauling contract, when Conyers accepted cash bribes from a Synagro consultant.

The document does not cite the specific amount of the bribes, but previous court documents have said that Conyers, identified by the feds as Council Member A, took at least two bribes of $3,000 each, among other bribes.

...

Under federal sentencing guidelines, Conyers could face 31 to 60 months in prison, depending on how much money the judge believes was involved in the scheme. Conyers' lawyer and federal prosecutors disagree about the amount of money she received.

Undermining the integrity of Detroit's sludge-hauling contract... Is nothing sacred?

It's Detroit.

That sludge is all they've got.

They don't even have the Stanley Cup anymore.

Fuck Detroit.

[Gil Gunderson]

Climate change regulation is hard, sayeth John Boehner of Ohio.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/boehner-zomg-climate-change-legislation-is-complicated.php?ref=fpb

All together, not too unexpected, coming from today's modern Republican.

[Quality Start Machine]

Climate change regulation is hard, sayeth John Boehner of Ohio.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/boehner-zomg-climate-change-legislation-is-complicated.php?ref=fpb

All together, not too unexpected, coming from today's modern Republican.

BOEHNERTIME!