John McCain thinks you're stupid!

McCain's growing lobbyist problem

From John McCain’s website:

“Too often the special interest lobbyists with the fattest wallets and best access carry the day.”

And they all (112 of them anyway) work for John McCain!

Among [Thomas G.] Loeffler's clients is the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co., the parent company of plane manufacturer Airbus. Northrop Grumman Corp. and EADS won a lucrative contract to provide air refueling tankers for the Air Force. McCain helped scuttle an earlier contract in 2004 that would have gone to a competitor, Boeing Co.

Loeffler's firm also has lobbied for other foreign interests and foreign governments. Newsweek reported over the weekend that Loeffler's firm was paid $15 million by Saudi Arabia. The news magazine also said Loeffler listed meeting McCain along with the Saudi ambassador to "discuss US-Kingdom of Saudi Arabia relations," even though Loeffler told a reporter last month that he had not discussed his clients with McCain.

The McCain campaign is pretending to be purging itself of lobbyists that they had no idea were lobbyists. They're liars!

McCain not only knew Loeffler was a lobbyist but he's been specifically 'lobbied' by Loeffler for the Saudis and he was also involved in McCain's strange vendetta against Boeing when McCain campaigned hard to give our military contracts to the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co., over Boeing. McCain stated last month that Loeffler had never lobbied him and now it has been proven that Loeffler met with McCain along with the Saudi ambassador.

Is John McCain that old and senile that he doesn't remember working with Loeffler doing favors for the Saudis and EADS? He sure hopes you're stupid enough to believe it.

McCain is just another bought and paid for corrupt Republican and for those of us smart enough to pay attention; we know it's the same old corruption and cronyism with only a slightly different criminal in charge.

I'm not stupid, but John McCain evidently thinks you are.

Do you think Obama will take Oregon?

An estimated 75,000 gathered on the banks of the Willamette River in Portland on Sunday to see Barack Obama.

And unlike a George Bush rally, no one had to show id and sign a loyalty oath.

That's another nice 'change' about Obama; being able to support a person who respects the Constitution.

Prick or Patriot?

Will George Bush be the first president in history to veto benefits for veterans?

The Real McCain

Three minutes and 15 seconds of what we have to look forward to for another four years.

If we're really that stupid.

Sunday Scroll #63 - Scared Little Men Edition

Make that 236, or '33 Seats'
The third time proved to be the disaster for GOPers, as Prentiss Co. Chancery Clerk Travis Childers (D) defeated Southaven Mayor Greg Davis (R) in tonight’s MS-01 special election, according to the AP. The House makeup is now 236 Dems and 199 GOPers.
[When I started this blog back in early 2006 its name was '15 Seats', just as the url still is, '15 Seats'. At that time, Democrats held 203 seats (202 Dem, 1 Ind.) in the 109th Congress and needed 15 more to reach the majority of 218. Democrats won 30 that November and have gained three more since. Thank you very much George and a hat tip to all you phony 'conservatives' for being, ... well -- yourselves.]

Wow, look at the breasts on that one!
Seems that one person's smut is another person's morning latte. A Christian group based in San Diego found grounds for outrage over the new retro-style logo for Starbucks Coffee. The Resistance says the new image "has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute..."

GOP whines - 'Bush is 'radioactive''
AL HUNT: ... Things don't look good. What two things could the Republican Party do right now in order to head off a disaster in November?
REPRESENTATIVE TOM DAVIS (R-VA): Well, two things - number one, they've got to get some separation from the president. The president is the face of the party. He is absolutely radioactive at this point. And they're seen as just in lock-step with him on everything.
[Davis never did say what number two was -- he didn't have to ...]

John McCain's preacher loves Jews
[John] Hagee’s predictions are very clear. Armageddon, the final battle, could begin, he wrote in his 2007 book "Jerusalem Countdown," “before this book gets published.” The Antichrist “will be the head of the European Union,” he writes. Using geographical calculations based on the Book of Revelation, he writes that Israel will be covered in “a sea of human blood” in the final battle. The Jews, however, will survive the battle, Hagee says, long enough to have “the opportunity to receive Messiah, who is a rabbi known to the world as Jesus of Nazareth.”
[He loves them and believes they will be saved from the eternal flames of Hell if they accept Jesus just before the rest of them drown in a sea of human blood caused by a nuclear holocaust. Say amen, suckers!]

Over a barrel
Worries about high prices are prompting the U.S. Energy Department to suspend purchases of oil for the U.S. strategic petroleum reserve. ... The U.S. reserve can hold 727 million barrels of oil and it is now nearly full with a bit more than 700 million barrels.
[Our 'strategic petroleum reserve' has a capacity of 727 million barrels? That's enough oil to last the entire U.S. for 34 days. And, it's 1/14th of all the oil that's estimated to be at ANWR. Did you remember the stats?]

"Is our children learning?"
Stupid is as stupid does.

Never fear, we're in good hands

Don't drink the water!
Los Angeles Eyes Sewage as a Source of Water
LOS ANGELES — Faced with a persistent drought and the threat of tighter water supplies, Los Angeles plans to begin using heavily cleansed sewage to increase drinking water supplies, joining a growing number of cities considering similar measures.
Bad case of indigestion
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said Thursday. Doctors at Larissa General Hospital examined the girl and surgically removed a growth they later discovered was an embryo more than two inches long. Andreas Markou, head of the hospital's pediatric department, said the embryo was a formed fetus with a head, hair and eyes, but no brain or umbilical cord. Markou said cases where one of a set of twins absorbs the other in the womb occurs in one of 500,000 live births.

And these guys write the law ...
Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO), the House Minority Whip, charged in a statement that “unelected judges” are trying to “substitute their own worldview for the wisdom of the American people”... Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL), piled on, saying that “unelected judges” had “irresponsibly decided to legislate from the bench". In fact, each of the seven justices involved in yesterday’s decision were approved by California voters by overwhelming margins ...

He's no goddamn maverick
"Over the last two days, John McCain campaign has lost two advisors who resigned because of their lobbying firm’s work for the military regime in Myanmar. Unfortunately, these men are only two of 112 lobbyists who are advising, working for or raising money for John McCain’s presidential campaign. And they are not the only ones who have lobbied for foreign governments with headed by questionable foreign governments, including dictators."
[And of course, the corporate media and their candidate, John 'Lil' Bush' McCain, will tell you that he doesn't associate with lobbyists-You should know better.]

Our country's worst nightmare
I need some help
As a 'liberal', all right, moderate .. well, okay, almost Blue Dog Democrat, why do I like Pat Buchanan?

Don't mess with her
A central California biochemist convicted of killing her estranged husband by knocking him out and stuffing him into a vat of acid has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Larissa Schuster of Clovis was convicted in December of murdering Timothy Schuster with the special circumstance that the murder was committed for financial gain. His half-dissolved body was found a few days after his 2003 death in a barrel that was inside a storage unit his wife had rented.

We're done using you -- get lost!
NBC News reports “that as of this week American military and civilian officials have cut off all contact with controversial Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi” due to “‘unauthorized’ contacts with Iran’s government, an allegation Chalabi denies.” Chalabi has been a darling of the administration’s neocons, drumming up reports of WMDs during the lead-up to the Iraq war ...
[Not much in the 'liberal'(sic) media these days about Bush's and all of his rush to war chickenhawk neocons' good old buddy, Ahmad Chalabi. Geez, I wonder if they ever figured out why he fed them all those lies they were so anxious to pass along? I seem to remember ... ]

Stupid hayseed!
“That was Barack Obama,” he said. “He just tripped off a chair. He was getting ready to speak and someone pointed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.” Click here for video of Huckabee's [dumbass] remark.

Beer Queen divests her terrorist stock
Cindy McCain, wife of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, on Wednesday divested herself of $2 million in mutual funds that invested in Sudan after inquiries from a news organization. Sen. John McCain has called for international sanctions against the Sudanese government for killings in Darfur. The Associated Press reported that his wife sold the mutual funds ...
[Sugar Momma is cashing out. Bad for perception.]


He'd better hope he was right
LONDON - Albert Einstein: arch rationalist or scientist with a spiritual core? A letter being auctioned in London this week adds more fuel to the long-simmering debate about the Nobel Prize-winning physicist's religious views. In the note, written the year before his death, Einstein dismissed the idea of God as the product of human weakness and the Bible as "pretty childish."

Brave young woman killed in Iraq
Three weeks ago Cpl. Jessica A. Ellis, 24, escaped with cuts and bruises when her heavily armored vehicle was destroyed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad. "She told me on the phone, this is a very dangerous place to be," her father, Steve Ellis of Baker City, said Tuesday. "She told us on the phone it was heating up again." Sunday night, two uniformed officers knocked on the front door of Steve and Linda Ellis' rural home to notify them that their 24-year-old daughter did not survive a blast Sunday that once again destroyed her Buffalo armored vehicle.
[Thank you]

Hey, I forgot one?!!??
[... On 'appeasement' -- And that handshake has only cost the U.S. about $300 billion over the last 30 years.]

"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate " - Inaugural Address of President John F. Kennedy

And in stark contrast to those words of courage, you have scared little men like George W. Bush and his protege', 'Lil' Bush' McCain. It's also a very nice segue to the prestigious award that's given here weekly to the liar of the week -- and whose namesake, Rush Limbaugh, the country's biggest chickenhawk -- is the epitome of a, 'scared little man'.

The Limbaugh Award
Oh boy .. and I thought this week's pick was going to be easy.

We had Commander Guy all queued up -- it was going to be a peaceful week dealing with 'the Committee', and then, as you well know by now, James Rubin came out with his eloquent -- and very timely I might add -- piece on John 'double-talking Lil' Bush' McCain.

And although McCain stirred thing up a bit, the esteemed, and now world-renowned, selection Committee, debated only briefly and decided that George Bush's lie about quitting golf as a show of 'solidarity' with our troops dying needlessly in Iraq, was just too egregious of a lie to pass up.

Congratulations for once again winning this 'prestigious, but infamous' award for liars, Mr. Bush. You're #63!

Past winners of the prestigious, but infamous,
The Limbaugh Award
Sugar Momma Beer Queen - Cindy McCain - 5/11/08
Uncultured Wussy - Bill O'Reilly - 5/4/08
Nazi Running for Congress - Tony Zirkle, R-IN - 4/27/08
Fox's Toe-Sucking Ethics Expert - Dick Morris - 4/20/08
Lying Dickhead VP - Dick Cheney - 4/13/08
McCain's Chief Lobbyist - Charlie Black - 4/6/08
Neo-Nazi Supporter - Sean Hannity - 3/30/08
Shiite for a Brain - John McCain - 3/23/08
Client #9 - Governor Eliot Spitzer - 3/15/08*
Turd Blossom - Karl Rove - 3/9/08
Lying Redneck Rep - Jack Kingston R-GA - 3/2/08
Lying Little Twirp - Tucker Carlson - 2/24/08
Mr Straight Talk - John McCain - 2/17/08
Bye Week - 2/10/08
Mr Straight Talk - John McCain - 2/3/08
935 of them - Bush & the Gang of 7 - 1/27/08
Fox News Co-Liars - Hannity & O'Reilly - 1/20/08
Sheep's Favorite Liar - Rush Limbaugh - 1/13/08
Longtime Lobbyist - Trent Lott - 1/6/08
2007 Co-Champions - Dick Bush - 12/30/07
Lying Piece of - Mitt Romney - 12/23/07
Psycho Pervert - Michael Savage - 12/16/07
Sheepherder-in-Chief - George W. Bush - 12/9/07
Turd Blossom - Karl Rove - 12/2/07
Cowardly Welsher - T. Boone Pickens - 11/25/07
Republican Tool - Matt Drudge - 11/18/07
Their Favored Liar - Rudy Giuliani - 11/11/07
Fox News Liar - Chris Wallace - 11/4/07
Uncultured Wussy - Bill O'Reilly - 10/28/07
Phony Patriot Liar - Rush Limbaugh - 10/21/07
Old Kentucky Homo - Mitch McConnell - 10/14/07
Liar-In-Chief - George W. Bush - 10/7/07
Phony Patriot Pig - Rush Limbaugh - 9/30/07
Big Stretch 'the truth' - Bill Sammon - 9/23/07
Mr. Straight Talk - John McCain - 9/16/07
Sycophant - Gen. David Petraeus - 9/9/07
His own Idaho - Sen. Craig R-Idaho - 9/2/07
Turd Blossom - Karl Rove - 8/26/07
The Exterminator - Tom Delay - 8/19/07
Big 'Rooster' - Mitt Romney - 8/12/07
Total Suck Up - Glenn Beck - 8/5/07
General Gonzo - Alberto Gonzales - 7/29/07
Pro Liar - Tony 'Snowjob' Snow - 7/22/07
Bush bin Lyin - George W. Bush - 7/15/07
Freed Felon - Scooter Libby - 7/8/07
Mr. Overrated - Rudy Giuliani - 7/1/07
Crazy Lying Okie - James Inhofe - 6/24/07
Pro Liar - Tony 'Snowjob' Snow - 6/17/07
Mormon Moron - Mitt Romney - 6/10/07
Bye Week - 6/3/07
Commander Guy - George W. Bush - 5/27/07
Pat's Brother - Bay Buchanan - 5/20/07
Used Car Salesman - John Boehner - 5/13/07
Uncultured Wussy - Bill O'Reilly - 5/6/07
Mr. Overrated - Rudy Giuliani - 4/29/07
Turd Blossom - Karl Rove - 4/22/07
The Decider - George W. Bush - 4/15/07
Lying Chickenhawk VP - Dick Cheney - 4/8/07
Mr. Straight Talk - John McCain - 4/1/07
Attorney General - Alberto Gonzales - 3/25/07
Fox mouthpieces Sean Hannity and
Victoria Toensing - 3/18/07
Fox News guy - Brit Hume - 3/11/07
VA Secretary - Jim Nicholson - 3/4/07
Rep. Michele Bachmann - (R-MN) - 2/25/07

All Hat, No Cattle

"Bush continued to criticize the Clinton administration saying it has virtually no fuel policy. He said that in dealing with the current oil problem, he first would have used his `capital' with some of the OPEC nations, such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and asked them to `open the spigot.'"- (Washington Post, "Gas Prices, Surplus Fuel a Gore Proposal," June 28, 2000-source)

When Bush was harping on Bill Clinton's inability to use his 'capital' with OPEC, oil was $28 a barrel. Yesterday it closed at over $127 after the Saudis told Bush where he could take that 'capital'.

We shouldn't be asking the Saudis anything. We should be telling them sons-of-bitches what's going to happen.

But instead we get George W. Bush.

Another fine example of conservative Republican leadership.

Bush sips tea with Saudis and oil goes up

Meets with Abdullah and oil surges $3

'Bush was back in Saudi Arabia today meeting with the King [Abdullah] to make a second appeal for the oil-rich nation to increase its crude output. But again, instead of jawboning, Bush took the horse farm approach and failed once again ...'

Sipping tea ... and holding hands while staring into each other's eyes is not going to increase the Saudis' output.

With the dollar falling like a rock it wouldn't matter anyway.

The flip-flopping lying hypocrite, John McCain

"Hypocrisy on Hamas"
McCain Was for Talking Before He Was Against It

"But given his own position on Hamas, McCain is the last politician who should be attacking Obama. Two years ago, just after Hamas won the Palestinian parliamentary elections, I interviewed McCain for the British network Sky News's "World News Tonight" program. Here is the crucial part of our exchange:

I asked: "Do you think that American diplomats should be operating the way they have in the past, working with the Palestinian government if Hamas is now in charge?"

McCain answered: "They're the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another, and I understand why this administration and previous administrations had such antipathy towards Hamas because of their dedication to violence and the things that they not only espouse but practice, so . . . but it's a new reality in the Middle East."

Are you keeping track?

Famous Appeasers









"We have an obligation to call this what it is - the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history." - George W. Bush - 5/15/08

"It shows naivety and inexperience and lack of judgment to say he wants to sit down across the table from an individual who leads a country that says that Israel is a stinking corpse," - John 'Lil' Bush' McCain - 5/15/08

"Instead of tough talk and no action, we need to do what Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan did and use all elements of American power -- including tough, principled, and direct diplomacy -- to pressure countries like Iran and Syria." - Barack Hussein Obama - 5/15/08

It's not appeasement, it's diplomacy done the same way Reagan, Nixon, Kennedy and many other leaders have done throughout our entire history.

Scared and desperate little men like George Bush and John McCain are incapable of leading our country diplomatically.

Uh oh, I sense another Limbaugh Award

The day before yesterday I wrote a post on Bush's ignorant statement that he had "given up golf because of the Iraq war".

In that interview with Mike Allen of Politico Bush told Allen that he had decided playing golf wasn't what the Commander in Chief should be doing during the war and he had decided that the day Sergio Vieira de Mello, the United Nations High Commissioner, was killed in a bomb attack in Iraq, which was August 19, 2003.

Well, that picture above is from Columbus Day 2003, which was on October 13.

Bush is a pathological liar and a pathetic one at that.

But, it saves me some time since #63 is already in the queue!

hbB

Nah, Obama doesn't have any race issues to deal with.

Where's he going to get all that money?

WARREN, MI -- Obama today began his first primary season trip to Michigan by announcing his manufacturing agenda at a town hall in Macomb County, a place that has come to symbolize the very Reagan Democrats whose votes he hopes to win in the fall should he become the nominee.

... Here in Warren, he unveiled his proposals for reviving American manufacturing. The plan includes a $150 billion fund to promote and develop clean energy technology over 10 years -- which he says will create up to 5 million green jobs -- a $60 billion infrastructure fund and a $1 billion-a-year start-up fund for small and mid-size manufacturers to convert to clean technology. He would pay for this agenda through a cap-and-trade system that would auction permits for carbon dioxide emissions, a spokesman said.

If I'm counting that right, that's $220 billion -- over 10 years. What's that gibberish about, 'cap-and-trade' and 'auctioning permits' mean?

Man, you don't have to be that clever if you want to 'pay' for the country to create millions of jobs. All you have to do is end the Iraq Occupation fiasco. With Bush now bleeding $14 billion a month in Iraq you could pay for the entire 10 years in a short 15 months time.

That's a tough one, huh? Create millions of jobs that protect our environment and rebuild our infrastructure or stay another 10 years in Iraq like John McCain would have us do?

Get a clue, people. It shouldn't be that difficult.

Rockin' in Grand Rapids!
Edwards Endorses Obama

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — John Edwards, the former senator from North Carolina who bowed out of the presidential race in January, endorsed Senator Barack Obama at a rally here tonight.

“The reason I am here tonight is because the Democratic voters of America have made their choice and so have I,” Mr Edwards said.

Appreciate the endorsement, but please don't make John Edwards the choice for VP.

Attorney General, yes -- VP, no.

The whining begins

What a sweet hat trick!

House Republicans struggled to regroup Wednesday in the aftermath of a devastating election loss in Mississippi, acknowledging that their party faced a significant challenge in November after the loss of three Republican seats in special elections this year.

Thats' a good slogan for them

Democrats heard something familiar today in that new theme emerging from House Republicans: “The Change You Deserve.” Turns out that slogan is also used to market an antidepressant, which Democrats quickly lampooned as reflecting the Republican mood at the moment.

Americans are finally waking up and we can thank the conservatives'(sic) big hero, George W. Bush, for that. At least he did something right.

And I really like their new slogan since its original meaning fits perfectly. Nice job Boehner!

Louisiana and Mississippi? LOL!

Sure it has 'appeal' as long as he or any of his family members don't have to fight in it

Lieberman Says Bombing Iran ‘Has An Appeal To It’

Joe Lieberman desperately wants the U.S. to attack Iran but like most Chickenhawks who have long family histories of not serving their country, he wants someone else's kid to fight and die for him.

Lieberman, an orthodox Jew and one cares more for Israel than his 'own' country, wants a few hundred thousand worthless gentiles to do the dirty work for the country he cares most for.

Fuck you Lieberman!

Damn, I did the same thing ...

Bush gives up golfing because of Iraq war

In a new interview with the Politico today, George Bush says that he has given up golf because of the Iraq war, to show “solidarity” with U.S. troops and their families ...

War is hell and it requires a tremendous amount of sacrifice even from Commander Guy.

ilyB