via the lie Factory via Escahton

Robert Novak lies, and the RNC loves it so much that they post it on their site.

And, if I worked for the Cornell Daily Sun I'd be a bit annoyed that Robert Novak was lying about what was in my newspaper.

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via GOP CNN'S ROBERT NOVAK: "[T]hey've got to really get Howard under control. He spoke at Cornell University last week, and the only paper that covered this was "The Cornell Daily" student paper, and he said, yes, Social Security has a big problem. Over the years it's going to lose about 80 percent of the benefits. That, Judy, is not the Democratic line. The Democratic line is there is no problem."

Here is what the Cornel Daily Sun says: Dean pointed out that, while he would not endorse this, if Social Security were left alone for 30 years, its benefits would be reduced to 80 percent of what it is now. He acknowledged that while there were indeed problems with the program, turning to Wall Street was not the answer.

I didn't have a chance to look at this story before, but Novak needs to be fired for this.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A judge working on the special tribunal established to try Saddam Hussein and other senior officials in his toppled regime was assassinated Tuesday in Baghdad, but U.S. officials told NBC News that initial reports that the victim was the presiding judge were erroneous.

Right wing site LifeLike Pundits had an exclusive interview with Jeff Gannon. It's called 10 questions with Jeff Gannon. ( I still can't believe it was a real interview) I found some really interesting stuff in the interview.

The answer most given: "You are asking me to comment on a hypothetical" He doesn't like the term GannonGuckertGate, but thinks that GannonGate sounds better. We'll Just call you Jimmy/Jeff. He might have a book deal, and he thinks David Brock likes his photos.

Protein Wisdom didn't like the answers given by Jimmy/Jeff so they have their own version of the same 10 questions called: Jeff Gannon's GAY PORN COCK

via ctx3

"... On NPR this morning I was listening to his interview with Diane Rehm and he was discussing his bankruptcy bill that is being debated in the House. He was drawing a comparison between credit card companies and alcoholic drink companies. His line of comparison was that we do not blame the company that made the alcohol when a person is weak and becomes an alcoholic while a credit card company can get blamed for the misuse of credit when a person is weak and uses their credit card too much."

Memo to Grassler, in 1956 the American Medical Association declares alcoholism an illness. In Physician's News Digest they talk about handling that disease. If Sen.Grassely draws the analogy of credit card debt to alcoholism, then aren't these people suffering from a disease? Shouldn't they be treated like people with an illness, and not a weakness? I can't go a day without getting a credit card offer in the mail with a huge credit line, low interest rate, and those cute, preprinted checks with my name plastered across them. (a huge cause of identity theft) Isn't that like sending an alocholic a bottle of hooch in the mail every day and expect that person not to drink it? Of course this bill does not address the credit card companies culpability in credit card abuse.

Our overall concern is that this isn't a balanced bill," said Travis Plunkett, spokesman for the Consumer Federation of America, a nonprofit consumer research and advocacy group. "There isn't a single curb on abusive lending practices by credit card companies in these bills."

Josh Pringle
Tuesday, March 1, 2005

U-S Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is reportedly so upset over Canada's decision to stay out of the missile defence program that she is skipping a planned trip to Canada. Rice has cancelled her April visit to Ottawa. A senior state department official says the cancellation is a direct consequence of Prime Minister Paul Martin's decision to say "no" to missile defence. Martin and other Canadian officials have insisted the decision to stay out of the missile defence program would not harm Canada-U.S relations.

(update: Rice, Canada to discuss missile shield: report)

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet with Canadian diplomats Tuesday, to discuss Ottawa's decision to stay out of the U.S. ballistic missile defence system.

Canadian diplomats requested the meeting with Rice on the sidelines of a conference in London on Palestinian reform, a Bush administration official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

(hat tip wiz)

Calls Out Lieberman

via Eschaton: Begala Surprised me

on CNN's Crossfire, Paul had this to say:

BEGALA: ... a senator and very popular. We'll have lots of conversations about Hillary, I suspect, in the days to come.

A new poll for the Associated Press shows that a solid majority, indeed 55 percent of Americans, oppose President Bush's plan to privatize part of Social Security, despite Mr. Bush's relentless stumping for it. The GOP chairman in Hawaii says -- quote -- "I think Social Security as it is has served its purpose" -- unquote. That is the Bush Republican view.

It is not, however, the American view. Most Americans do not want Mr. Bush to borrow $2 trillion to cut Social Security benefits and replace guaranteed benefits for seniors with guaranteed fees for stockbrokers. That's why, in a recent NPR poll, just 31 percent of Americans, only 31 percent, support Mr. Bush's privatization plan.

And yet rumors abound that Democrats, perhaps even former vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman, will find a compromise that allows Mr. Bush to succeed in privatizing part of Social Security. Look, any Democrat who rescues Mr. Bush's assault on Social Security ought to be defeated in a primary and allowed to begin their own retirement early.

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Take the hint senator.

They complain that President Bush should not work with democrats on judicial nominees because it would chip away at his power.

Did they forget that in Orin Hatch's autobiography, in that he talks about what President Clinton did. He says that President Clinton came to him and said, 'Give me some suggestions as to who you think could be approved.' And he suggested, Orrin Hatch, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, he suggested Breyer and Ginsburg. And sure enough, they were submitted by President Clinton, and with no problem they were approved.

Harry Reid on MTP suggested: That's the same model that President Bush should follow.

Their post: Let the Democrats be Democrats

We're big fans of Andrew McCarthy. However, I'm unable to find any merit in his suggestion in today's NRO that the Bush administration consider conferring with a "bipartisan" group of Senators about judicial nominations. McCarthy notes that Senator Charles Schumer has proposed the creation of a "small, bipartisan group" of senators that "should meet with the president sometime in the next few weeks and eventually even make joint recommendations to the president of nominees that are highly qualified and could get broad, bipartisan support in the Senate." McCarthy states that this suggestion should not be dismissed out-of-hand.

In Bush's acceptance speech:

Reaching these goals will require the broad support of Americans. So today I want to speak to every person who voted for my opponent: To make this nation stronger and better I will need your support, and I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust. A new term is a new opportunity to reach out to the whole nation. We have one country, one Constitution and one future that binds us. And when we come together and work together, there is no limit to the greatness of America.

HINDROCKET agrees: It would be hard to think of a worse idea than setting up a mall, bipartisan group of Senators who would suggest the names of "highly qualified" judges who would receive "broad, bipartisan support in the Senate."

Lest they forget that Hatch blocked nearly 60 of President Clinton's judicial nominees through secret, anonymous holds and other secretive, non-transparent Republican tactics.

This is the perfect time where Bush could put his money where his mouth is. It's just another case of the "knee-jerk" conservatives crying to get their way. Partisan politics like this will keep the nation split right down the middle. Conservatives like Powerline are not about a strong, unified America. It's all about being a "King Baby"wanting to have their way.

via Kos: In a segment on Hannity & Colmes tonight, Coulter and Hannity once again bash Dems as shrill and mudslinging. Coulter refers to a quote from Dean that categorizes the current political landscape as harboring a battle of "Good vs. Evil", and Dean describes the Dems as "The Good."

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She goes on explain how this is contemptible coming from a party she describes as supporting "murder, lies, & adultery." (paraphrasing)

Colmes asks for her condemnation of a quote from a Republican who likened Dean to an Al Qaeda brand terrorist.

Coulter, after initially dodging the question altogether, in pure wing nut fashion responds, "I refuse to respond to your characterization of the facts because you lie." (Nevermind that it's a FRIGGIN' QUOTE!!)

- DEAD SILENCE -

Furious, Colmes cranes his head in a fashion I've never seen and asks, "ARE YOU CALLING ME A LIAR?"

Coulter: (quivering laughter) Come on, you can't be serious.

Colmes: (Stares intently, looking DEAD serious)

I have never seen someone stop Coulter in her tracks so effectively. She glances toward Hannity for support, he remains silent. Coulter whithers into dust and proves, once again, just how hypocritical, how absolutely spinelessly hypocritical the Right has become.

(Update Media Matters)

Coulter's latest invective follows a long line of attacks on Democrats: she has labeled former President Bill Clinton "a very good rapist" and likened him to O.J. Simpson, the football star who was tried for murder in 1995; asserted that Sen. John Kerry would "improve the economy in the emergency services and body bag industry" if elected president; suggested that Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) is unpatriotic and that he doesn't love America; and impugned Democrats generally as "racist" for criticizing black conservatives.

On Inside Politics today, Bill Schneider did an Oscar round up and said:

SCHNEIDER: The head of the Motion Picture Academy provide a moment that red state viewers, all Americans, in fact, can connect with it.

FRANK PERSON, PRESIDENT AMPAS: We dedicate the 77th Academy Awards services to the men and women in the armed services where are they serve with our gratitude forever for the sacrifices that they have made....

By saying that a dedication to the troops is only a red state issue (even though he corrected himself) was really a shot to all democrats that we couldn't possibly support our troops and live in a blue state. The CNN censors should have done a "Robin WIlliams" on him.

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