The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[scaeagles]

I'll accept that's not what you said, but I think my conclusions of what I thought you meant were logical.

You did not say it started with Bush. You criticized the program and then in the next sentence talked about how the Bush administration takes a liberal stance on what it can do, so I hope you can see why I thought you might be suggesting it started with them.

You did not say specifically that the CIA should disobey the law, but when you suggested they should be offering incentives to foreign nationals (which I interpretted to mean paying informants), I took that as meaning you thought they should violate the existing law against it.

Your last statement was funny.

[innerSpaceman]

It's not just that the CIA deals with unsavory characters; they become those unsavory characters. Just take a look at what went on (and for all I know still goes on) with drug running around the world. CIA operatives are hip-deep in it, and it goes far beyond their need to gather intelligence.

If we take what the CIA has done in the war on drugs and move it over to the war on terror, it will be the CIA itself that is blowing up buildings in America.

Or perhaps they'll only blow up buildings in other countries, and leave it to their new associates to blow up the Americans ... with the CIA's full knowledge and consent.

I have no idea what valuable intelligence the CIA has been able to supply our government, but they have proven to be a far greater danger to American society than the value of any intelligence could possibly be worth.

[Gemini Cricket]

Well, at least two people in the GOP get it. Thank you Laura Bush and Mary Dinglecheese Cheney. Yes, the Republicans are using gay marriage as a campaign tool.

[innerSpaceman]

As a sign of electoral desperation, I'm not altogether unamused.

[Gemini Cricket]

I'm going to put on my black top hat and cape, paint on a handlebar mustache and I'm going to go out and destroy some straight marriages right now. Nyuk nyuk nyuk!

[Gemini Cricket]

In an open letter released this morning, the head of the Log Cabin Republicans takes President Bush to task for supporting the proposed federal marriage amendment, which the U.S. Senate begins debating today. Patrick Guerriero, the outgoing executive director of the gay GOP group, calls the president's support of the discriminatory amendment "an insult to millions of fair minded Americans from all walks of life."

The full text of the letter follows:

Mr. President,

On behalf of millions of gay and lesbian Americans, I write to denounce your decision to divide the American family by promoting an amendment that would insert discrimination into the United States Constitution. Your decision to use the grounds of the White House—America's House—to advance discrimination is an insult to millions of fair minded Americans from all walks of life...

Boom, baby!

[wendybeth]

Wow-' boom, baby' is right. Great letter, and one I think should be printed in every newspaper in this country.

[blueerica]

I actually have a political rant to go on... But I have to go to work. I'll spend those hours serving coffee and becoming bitter.

BBL

[Scrooge McSam]

Open letter to Patrick Guerriero:

President Bush is not listening to you. He never has. He never will.

I'm supposed to care that you're outraged? Why, pray tell?

Tell me, when did you figure out that Mr. Bush would throw you under a bus if there's political gain to be had? Most everyone else with at last 2 functioning brain cells figured that out THE LAST FREAKING TIME IT HAPPENED.

Straighten your "support the troops" sticker, keep waving your flag and continue to pretend you matter.

[Gemini Cricket]

Acid-spitting Ann is at it again:

" These self-obsessed women seem genuinely unaware that 9-11 was an attack on our nation and acted like as if the terrorist attack only happened to them. They believe the entire country was required to marinate in their exquisite personal agony. Apparently, denouncing bush was part of the closure process."

And this part is the part I really need to talk to you about:

"These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by griefparrazies. I have never seen people enjoying their husband’s death so much."

Source

This is from her book. Oy vey! What a nutcase. If this was someone on the left, this person would be labelled as an unpatriotic liberal. But since this is Ann, it's okay.