Countdown: Worst Person Feb. 19, 2008

And the winner is....Karl Rove. Runner up Glenn Beck.

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[getplaning]

Rove still pushing the story that a son of privilege, who cut in line to get into the Texas Air Guard and checked the "no overseas deployment" box to avoid Viet Nam, is "brave" for sending other people's kids to Iraq to get killed and wounded in a war for political capital.

[getplaning]

On Nov. 22, 2000, after learning that the Miami canvassing board was starting an examination of 10,750 disputed ballots that had previously not been counted, Rep. John Sweeney, a New York Republican, called on Republican troops to "shut it down". Brendan Quinn, executive director of the New York GOP, told about two dozen Republican operatives to storm the room on the 19th floor where the canvassing board was counting. Would that qualify as "intimidation"?

[getplaning]

World's first tattoo for the blind!

[getplaning]

The "local protesters" were actually Republican House aides from Washington. TEN of them are clearly identified in photos taken at the "Brooks Brothers Riot". Six of these individuals received payments from the Bush recount committee, according to IRS records. Three of the Miami protesters, Matt Schlapp, Garry Malphrus, and Joel Kaplan are now members of Bush's White House staff. The Bush recount committee also paid $35,000 for the hotel where the Republican protesters celebrated afterwards.

[getplaning]

You mean the same Secretary of State that was also chair of the Bush campaign for the State of Florida? No conflict of interest there!

Harris broke the law by illegally removing over 50,000 minority voters from the voter rolls. In court, Choicepoint, the contractor hired by Harris to "clean up" Florida voter rolls, confessed that the total purge targeted 94,000 voters, but that only 3,000 may have been illegal voters. Analysis of their purge list showed a 95% rate of error. 95%.

[getplaning]

It absoultely is true. The NYT story you refer to was published on 12 Nov 2000. The stories I refer to were published in Nov 2001, after a full review of the 175,000 disputed (uncounted) ballots were examined by The University of Chicago and several newspapers, including the NYT and Washington Post. If these ballots had been counted instead of being suppressed, Gore would have won by over 35,000 votes. Research it, "investigator Dave", you will find it's true.

[getplaning]

But incomes have fallen under the Bush administration. You know this. Not only have incomes fallen, but the dollar has fallen some 30% since Bush entered office, so you can take that off the top as well.

And tell me how allowing the 9-11 attacks to occur in the face of warnings from every intel service on the planet, and then launching a war against the wrong country in response serves our national security.

The reason the judge posts are open is Bush has quit making appointments. Good.

[InvestigatorDave]

When the Dems bills jeapordize our incomes and our national security, blocking those bills is necessary. Yeah GOP!

Protecting your security and your income is not the opposite of helping you. It IS helping you.

Judges: there are many, many vacancies that have not been filled bcse Dems will not even allow an up or down vote on them. Lots of open positions, and that is wrong.

[getplaning]

So the way you see the GOP congress serving the people is the GOP congress blocking the Dems' bills? The party that whined incessantly about Democratic "obstructionism" for the last several years is blocking everything that moves, hypocrisy be damned. The GOP is ideologically opposed to helping people. They serve the interests of business and corporate power.

And Bush has gotten more judges posted without objection than Clinton ever did, and his tenure isn't over yet.

[InvestigatorDave]

1. Hard to invest money the gov't already took from you. Brokers can't help the broke invest. You're right: SS never has been an investment vehicle. Provides worst divends than any any scam.

2. Shareholders are not all big rich people. Anyone holding a 401k is likely a shareholder of many companies reaping rewards of investing in companies. Would be nice if the company did well enough that these folks could get an ROI, especially since SS is such a bad investment (and forced, too).

[InvestigatorDave]

So the way you see the GOP congress serving the people is the GOP congress approving the Dems' bills? Get serious.

GOP tried to pass bills that would help citizens and Dems blocked them.

How many judge nominees cannot even get a HEARING for an up or down vote because Dems won't let it get to floor to debate? That's blocking too.