Is it any wonder why it is difficult for political parties to register voters. Seriously, who would want to be apart of this system?
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Why doesn’t Congress just forego the bullshit legislation and simply give Bushco the checkbook. What a joke Pelosi and company are.
Senate Passes Emergency War Bill:
The Senate has passed an Emergency War Supplemental Spending Bill (H.R. 2642) by a vote of 92 (Y) to 6 (N). The overall bill will provide some $162 billion in funding for war-related activities in Iraq and Afghanistan through the rest of this year and part of 2009. The Senate technically had already passed the war funding portion of the bill earlier this year while this vote focused on the domestic spending provisions.
Those provisions include the initiation of a new GI bill program which is estimated to eventually cost around $52 billion (the Associated Press estimates the 10 year cost at $63 billion). It would provide an essentially free four-year education for returning war veterans to be used at any public state university.
Also included in the package is an extension of unemployment benefits for 13 weeks. The Associated Press estimates the two-year cost of this extension at $12.5 billion. They also note that the extensions are for those whose 26-week benefits have run out. As a concession to President Bush and some Republican members, an individual must work at least 20 weeks at a job before they are eligible to receive any benefits.
Some $2.7 billion in disaster relief funding is also included in the bill along with an estimated $10 billion in foreign aid. Additionally, the bill would include provisions to block 6 out of the 7 newly proposed regulations toward the Medicaid program as offered by President Bush. It was estimated that those regulations would have reduced spending within the program by $10 billion over a five-year period.
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and Iran has crazy people who are trying to provoke it:
Iran is to dig 320,000 graves in border districts to allow for the burial of enemy soldiers in the event of any attack on its territory, a top commander said on Sunday.
“In implementation of the Geneva Conventions… the necessary measures are being taken to provide for the burial of enemy soldiers,” the Mehr news agency quoted General Mir-Faisal Bagherzadeh as saying.
“We have plans to dig 15,000 to 20,000 graves in each of the border provinces or a total of 320,000,” the general said, some of them mass graves if necessary.
Read the rest at Michealmoore.com: Iran to ready thousands of graves for enemy soldiers
Thanks to Crooks and Liars: Cloture Vote on FISA Passes, 80-15
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The infamous Curveball:
So his family, his friends, his co-workers and his employers, from Iraqi warehouses to German Burger Kings, all knew him to be a con man, crook and general nut. German officials warned the Americans not to use information provided by him, and weapons inspectors who investigated his claims before the war found them false.
But that still wasn’t enough to keep his valued “information” out of the hands of the special intelligence gathering operations of Rumsfeld and Cheney, who then passed it to the press, or from Colin Powell’s speech at the United Nations, or from George W. Bush’s 2003 State of the Union address, or from any of the myriad other administration reports used to justify the war. Truly, the Iraq War was a perfect example of a group of con men getting together and deciding to believe each other’s stories.
Coalition deaths in the Iraq War have recently topped 4,100. The number of Iraqi deaths are not known, and not counted.
Hunter at Dailykos: ‘Curveball’ Turns Out To Be Two-Bit Con Man
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Anti-war protest erupts in violence with 25 arrested during Bush visit
Oh wait, that’s not our press… The Scotsman
1. Talking Points Memo: Phase II
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But there was no sex, so I guess it’s ok.
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long after it would of made a difference…
BUSH: WE’LL BE IN IRAQ FOR 40 YEARS, HAMAS ELECTION WAS “GOOD THING”
Everyone keeps saying that Grumpy Old Man McCain is the same as Bush. Not so, McCain thinks we’ll be in Iraq for 100 years
Thanks to Atrios: Sigh
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