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Kay Bailey, Communist or Capitalist?

Here in Dallas, we're having a little tussle over an airport, called Love Field. It happens to be popular, well positioned, and convienent. And it's the home of the World's Best Airline (Southwest Airlines). Unfortunately, there is a larger, unpopular, and inconvienent airport called DFW Airport (Dallas-Fort Worth International). It happens to be the home of one of the least friendly, least responsive, and least competitive airlines in the world (American Airlines). Because of AA's legislative largesse, it's a classic example of our dear representatives in Government NOT representing their constituents, because, for some ungodly reason, Love Field is saddled with a restriction called the Wright Amendment. It prohibits Love from competing with DFW Airport. AA LOVES it. It keeps Southwest in a bottle AND lets AA artificially inflate prices (guess who pays that!).

People in Fort Worth and Dallas OVERWHELMINGLY want the Wright Amendment removed, but our Representatives because, in my opinion, of above and below board machinations from AA, don't want to lift those restrictions. So, thinking this through, what can be the reason? IF AA isn't gaming the system with contributions and Boss Tweed behaviour, what else can it be? I MEAN, who wants more government control, less competition, and ignoring of the electorate? If only the Church Lady had said LENIN instead of Satan. In the interest of better understanding our Duly Elected Representatives (DERs), I've put together this little table, Kay Bailey, Commie or Capitalist? (HANDY TABLE BELOW, PAGE DOWN!!!)

Kay Bailey, Commie or Capitalist?

	Government or People Know Best? <-GOVT------------PEOPLE->
	Which is better for the People? <-I DECIDE----------YOU DECIDE->
	Who prefers stealing the People's money? <-STEAL------------HELP->
	Which airline does Kay Bailey book for Trotsky? <-AA--------Mexicana Air->
	Who believes the Wright Amendment is GOOD? <-Loves WRIGHT--LOVES FREEDOM->

SO I'M GUESSING KAY BAILEY is one of those sleeper cells we keep hearing about!

What comes after magnetic yellow ribbons?

When, Hugh and Jonah and LSP* Glenn, start to feel guilty about being of military age but too, oh, (what's that dang word? You know, the word that throws into relief one's public opinion, versus one's private actions? You know, the kid who goads the others to act but safely hangs out in the back of the class? Oh, I don't know, something will come to me) commitment phobic to actually do anything, what can they do? Why, the next step up for Hugh is to support charities like this. That Hugh, he is a man of action!

Because you know, they've got other commitments, and supporting a nice laptop for some injured soldier, that speaks volumes above those magnetic thingies. It's so much more "No Man is an Island"-ish, more Nelsonish (you know, England expects each man to do his duty. Their duty is to keep the triple shot latte economy going), more Churchillian - except for the actual beach/cities/hills fighting thing.

What is that word?

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*Lemonade Stand Proprietor

The stench that is Pete Sessions and the GOP

See this, notorious push polling, ccAdvertising. linked to Grover Norquist.

PETE SESSIONS (R-TX)
Expenditures
2003-2004 Cycle

Sort by Name Sort by Amount Sort by Date Sort by Description Top Overall Expenditures

Recipient Amount Date Description

CcAdvertising, Herndon, VA $7,326 9/7/2004 PHONE SURVEY

CcAdvertising, Herndon, VA $2,794 8/19/2004 PHONE SURVEY

NOTE: Where expenditures to financial institutions have a description of "see below," the actual expenditures that make up the total are itemized as separate entries elsewhere in the report.

All the numbers on this page are for the 2004 election cycle and based on Federal Election Commission data released on Friday, October 07, 2005. Feel free to distribute or cite this material, but please credit the Center for Responsive Politics.

Its time to TAKE OUT THE TRASH (Maybe even NEXT Whiterock Lake Cleanup Day). HEY PETE, HOW'S THAT SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM WORKING OUT FOR YOU? NO MONEY FROM SOUTHWESTERN BELL TO PAY FOR IT?

Excellent example

Here is an excellent example of the incompetence of the GOP. JFK put an American on the moon in less than 10 years (and does it). The Chinese, who've never done it, announced they will do it by 2017. The GOP, in the person of W, Our Great Leader, says he can do it by 2018. Shouldn't this drive the wingnuts batty?

Oh! So now we know...

Now we know why Jeff "Chick~~shit~~hawk" Goldstein, Jonah "Coward" Goldberg, Pouty Michelle Malkin, and so/so on, were too valuable to give up to the war effort. Their requirement in the wingnut publicity machine was simply too great (C&L).

"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." The brilliance of this strategy was twofold: Not only would most voters not know about an initiative to protect Coushatta gambling revenues, but religious "wackos" could be tricked into supporting gambling at the Coushatta casino even as they thought they were opposing it.

It's a first, a really, truely, readily identifiable miasma. How often do you get to say that in a day?

Glenn Reynolds, Dumbest Lawyer or Smartest Lemonade Stand* Proprietor

Go read this on MSNBC:

WMDs make Harry Reid's head explode

• November 1, 2005 | 10:51 PM ET

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid can't stand it. He was hoping that special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald would bring down the Bush Administration for him, but all he got was a lame indictment of Scooter Libby.

He showed his pique today by taking the Senate into closed session and demanding an investigation of prewar intelligence.

Well, okay -- but then the investigation needs to go way back before the war, to 1998, when a Democratic President, with the support of many Congressional Democrats, passed the Iraq Liberation Act, which provided that:

(1) On September 22, 1980, Iraq invaded Iran, starting an 8 year war in which Iraq employed chemical weapons against Iranian troops and ballistic missiles against Iranian cities.

(2) In February 1988, Iraq forcibly relocated Kurdish civilians from their home villages in the Anfal campaign, killing an estimated 50,000 to 180,000 Kurds.

(3) On March 16, 1988, Iraq used chemical weapons against Iraqi Kurdish civilian opponents in the town of Halabja, killing an estimated 5,000 Kurds and causing numerous birth defects that affect the town today.

...

(9),(10),(11) [you want to see those, go there]
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It is the sense of the Congress that once the Saddam Hussein regime is removed from power in Iraq, the United States should support Iraq's transition to democracy by providing immediate and substantial humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people, by providing democracy transition assistance to Iraqi parties and movements with democratic goals, and by convening Iraq's foreign creditors to develop a multilateral response to Iraq's foreign debt incurred by Saddam Hussein's regime.

Then there are statements like these:

"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line." - President Bill Clinton, February 4, 1998

[more quotes of Democrats/Clinton officials about how bad Saddam was. Interestingly, no mention of the Hussein/Rumsfeld coffee klatch]

The anti-war fundraising base of the Democrats -- as exemplified by organizations like MoveOn.org -- is powerful enough to require Democratic politicians like Harry Reid to pretend that all the WMD stuff began with President Bush. That is, not to put too fine a point on it, a gross and partisan lie.

[money quote] Reid owes the President an apology. He owes another to the Democratic Party, whose credibility he is destroying, day by day.

UPDATE: Perhaps Reid should look at this Senate Intelligence Committee report on Iraqi WMD, which found that errors in intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction didn't stem from White House pressure, but from groupthink and systematic failure within the Intelligence Community:

The Committee found significant short-comings in almost every aspect of the Intelligence Community's human intelligence collection efforts against Iraq's weapons of mass destruction activities, in particular that the Community had no sources collecting against weapons of mass destruction in Iraq after 1998. Most, if not all, of these problems, stem from a broken corporate culture and poor management, and will not be solved by additional funding and personnel.

1998. Was Bush President then?

Here's what I sent to him in the comments. Really, we can't let this go unchallenged. Remember, for the GOP to succeed, all it takes is for the good men (& women) to do nothing.

- I don't think Reid views the indictment as lame, but maybe since it didn't include a blue dress, perhaps so. I'm not quite as up-to-date on my law as many of our lemonade stand proprietors.

- He didn't demand an investigation, he demanded progress on an ONGOING investigation. Spending too much time squeezing those lemons?

-Ah yes, the Clinton did it too! defense. There is no evidence in any of this that the Clinton administration would have prosecuted its efforts at neutralizing Iraq in the same way this administration has bungled their - excuse me - fought their way. Indeed there is contrary evidence, of qualitatively better results - just over the curve of the earth in North Korea. Oh, and didn't I just sense that the current administration is back to trying the same Clintonian efforts with that card carrying member of the axis of evil?

-Lastly, are you saying that EVEN if War was required, on this particular evil of the cacophony of evils extant, that we would have gone without armour, without vests, without a plan for the aftermath, without preparation? There is no way. Although, it would probably be true that the Clinton administration might not have had the Oil Ministry quite as high an after-conflict protectorate.

I know you loath comments - as do most wingnuts - I mean, your blog doesn't allow them. And I sometimes agree that wingnuts do fly off, but geez, maybe if you had allowed comments someone could try to pass along advice, even to the Lemonade/Clarence Darrow wannabe you are, sound advice, like, oh, Gee Glenn, Try something NEW, try thinking!

*Thanks to James Wolcott.