10.22.09
Random items
Texas Democratic Party video of the “Top 10 Rick Perry Failures“:
Also Check out their series on “Who is the real KBH?“.
Michael Morre has come up with and action plan, 15 Things Every American Can Do Right Now.
Friends,
It’s the #1 question I’m constantly asked after people see my movie: “OK — so NOW what can I DO?!”
You want something to do? Well, you’ve come to the right place! ‘Cause I got 15 things you and I can do right now to fight back and try to fix this very broken system.
Campaign finance reports are now online for local candidates in Williamson County. Now it’s easier to see who is giving money to local candidates.
More problems for Perry via Texas Cloverleaf, TABC Perpetuates Pay To Play With Perry.
Infotainment, Cheering the Fox News Takedown.
I really love the shots they’re taking at Fox.
First, I think it’s a great strategic move. The GOP depends upon their ability to make stuff up and inject it into the political consciousness. Their whole modus operandi is rooted in their ability to distort reality. And they’re able to do that because of talk radio and a couple of other media outlets — Drudge, for example.
If the administration can hurt of cripple their ability to make stuff up and get people to believe it, it will affect every single fight we get into moving forward. It’s a very practical, useful thing to do. As long as they can just make stuff up, we’ll never be able to win. We have to address that.
And I believe, very sincerely, that Fox News will come out of this dust up very much diminished. Not as a business. But as a credible source of information.
Cheney reappears and gets a major rebuke from a retired general.
Cheney’s reappearance on the public stage brought a sharp rebuke from a liberal-leaning security think tank.
“The record is clear: Dick Cheney and the Bush administration were incompetent war fighters,” National Security Network senior adviser, retired General Paul Eaton, said in a statement. “They ignored Afghanistan for 7 years with a crude approach to counter-insurgency warfare best illustrated by: 1. Deny it. 2. Ignore it. 3. Bomb it. While our intelligence agencies called the region the greatest threat to America, the Bush White House under-resourced our military efforts, shifted attention to Iraq, and failed to bring to justice the masterminds of September 11.
“The only time Cheney and his cabal of foreign policy ‘experts’ have anything to say is when they feel compelled to protect this failed legacy. While President Obama is tasked with cleaning up the considerable mess they left behind, they continue to defend torture or rewrite a legacy of indifference on Afghanistan. Simply put, Mr. Cheney sees history throughout extremely myopic and partisan eyes,” continued Eaton, who served more than 30 years in the United States Army and from 2003-2004 oversaw the training of the Iraqi military.“As one deeply invested in the Armed Forces of this country, I am grateful for the senior military commanders assigned to leading this fight and the men and women fighting on the ground. But I dismiss men like Cheney who inject partisan politics into the profound deliberations our Commander-in-Chief and commanders on the ground are having to develop a cohesive and comprehensive strategy, bringing to bear the economic and diplomatic as well as the military power, for Afghanistan — something Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld never did. No human endeavor can be as profound as sending a nation’s youth to war. I am very happy to see serious men and women working hard to get it right.”
No, this is dithering.
