Tuesday, July 18, 2006
News and Preznit Drinky
The long-awaited first veto of this president’s career might take place this week, as the Senate is prepared to vote overwhelmingly to expand embryonic stem-cell research. Tony Snow gives the president’s explanation here, while Thinkprogress refutes the explanation given here.
Seeing as conservatives are so eager to jump on Cynthia McKinney when she says something controversial, I thought I might cite the Thinkprogress blog entry on Rep. Lincoln Davis, who thinks that divorce and adultery should be illegal and should disqualify the “perpetrator” from serving in Congress.
More news on an old subject: President Bush personally blocked the Department of Justice investigation into the legality of the NSA warrantless wiretapping program.
Also, more news on how the investigative powers of the Congress have been hijacked by partisan propagandists.
The situation in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate.
Tony Snow gets flustered with Helen Thomas, slanders her as some kind of terrorist shill, and flat-out denies that the United States vetoed the UN Security Council resolution calling for a cease-fire. I’m telling you, Snow deserves some kind of Pravda Press award.
Cenk Uyger has a hilarious post over at The Huffington Post. Oh, good Lord, I am still recovering from reading it. The truly choice excerpt:
The camera is focused elsewhere and it is not clear whom Bush is talking to, but possibly Chinese President Hu Jintao, a guest at the summit.
Bush: "Gotta go home. Got something to do tonight. Go to the airport, get on the airplane and go home. How about you? Where are you going? Home?
Bush: "This is your neighborhood. It doesn't take you long to get home. How long does it take you to get home?"
Reply is inaudible.
Bush: "Eight hours? Me too. Russia's a big country and you're a big country."At this point, the president seems to bring someone else into the conversation.
Bush: "It takes him eight hours to fly home."
He turns his attention to a server.
Bush: "No, Diet Coke, Diet Coke."
He turns back to whomever he was talking with.
Bush: "It takes him eight hours to fly home. Eight hours. Russia's big and so is China."
A retarded child? No, the President of the United States, and our face to the world. In the words of one historian speaking about Preznit Drinky, “He neither speaks nor processes information well.”
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 4:37 PM 
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Thanks for putting this news up. It certainly is a confusing thing to evaluate whether Lincoln Davis was serious, because although he is a Democrat, he has a very strongly right wing voting record, and so it is plausible that he might come out in favor of a ban on adultery and divorce.
Apparently, someone checked with his congressional office, and he was being sarcastic, but it's really hard to tell. The movie is posted at the following address so that people can have a look for themselves:
http://www.irregulartimes.com/lincolndavisinsane.mov
Apparently, someone checked with his congressional office, and he was being sarcastic, but it's really hard to tell. The movie is posted at the following address so that people can have a look for themselves:
http://www.irregulartimes.com/lincolndavisinsane.mov
NO, NO, NO! I was wrong! On double check, it turns out that I got this story wrong. I couldn't believe it at first, but Lincoln Davis was being serious. He voted FOR this stupid Republican anti-marriage amendment to the Constitution.
Lincoln Davis really meant it when he said that divorce should be a felony.
This guy is no Democrat. If the Democratic Party accepts this guy, then... what does the Democratic Party stand for anymore?
Lincoln Davis really meant it when he said that divorce should be a felony.
This guy is no Democrat. If the Democratic Party accepts this guy, then... what does the Democratic Party stand for anymore?
Unfortunately Rep. Davis is a democrat, as surely as Hillary Clinton. Democrats like him are the reason republicans ram right-wing legislation through Congress with healthy majorities on a regular basis.
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