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<title><![CDATA[Iowans Attempt Citizen's Arrest on Rove for 3rd Time]]></title>
<link>http://writechic.wordpress.com/?p=921</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mdking</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Radio Iowa reports 4 people attempted a citizen&#8217;s arrest on Karl Rove at a speaking engagement]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.martinsarna.com/blog/images/bizarro_KarlRove&#38;Plato.jpg"><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.martinsarna.com/blog/images/bizarro_KarlRove&#38;Plato.jpg" alt="" width="470" height="559" /></a><a href="http://www.radioiowa.com/site/index.cfm" target="_blank">Radio Iowa</a> reports 4 people attempted a citizen's arrest on Karl Rove at a speaking engagement in Des Moines Friday.   The former adviser to President Bush was speaking at a GOP fundraising dinner for a $100 a plate.</p>
<p>Eighty-year-old a retired Methodist minister Chet Gwinn was among those arrested:</p>
<blockquote><p>"To be silent when major crimes are being committed against all humanity makes us accomplices."</p></blockquote>
<p>This is the third citizen's arrest attempted on Rove this year in the Hawkeye state.  Two tries happened in March 2008 at his University of Iowa speech.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Better Luck Next Time]]></title>
<link>http://tpzoo.wordpress.com/?p=5983</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Shayne</dc:creator>
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Four peace activists trying to stage a citizens arrest of Karl Rove were arrested themselves in Iow]]></description>
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<p>Four peace activists trying to stage a citizens arrest of Karl Rove were arrested themselves in Iowa on Friday.  Rove was speaking at a  state  Republican party fund raiser. </p>
<p>One of those arrested was Chet Guinn, a retired Methodist Minister, who said, "To be silent when major crimes are being committed against all humanity makes us accomplices."</p>
<p>Apparently the protesters were warned not to cross a gate and were arrested when they did.  Yes they actually crossed the gate!  It's lucky they weren't tasered or "renditioned" for a crime of this magnitude.  Home of the free, land of the brave, indeed.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2537776420080725">Reuters</a> </p>
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<title><![CDATA[Dam Breaks as Media Covers Bush Impeachment Hearing]]></title>
<link>http://infolution.wordpress.com/?p=2643</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Dam Breaks as Media Covers Bush Impeachment Hearing
Prisonplanet.comJuly 25, 2008
The House Judiciar]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><font size="4">Dam Breaks as Media Covers Bush Impeachment Hearing</font><br><br><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/dam-breaks-as-media-covers-impeachment-hearing.html" target="_self"><font face="arial" size="2">Prisonplanet.com</a><br>July 25, 2008<br>
<p>The House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Bush Administration’s use of executive power has finally been covered by the corporate media:</p>
<p>LA Times: <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/07/impeach-bush-2.html" target="_blank">Is hearing to impeach Bush merely ‘anger management’?</a></p>
<p>FOX News: <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,391121,00.html" target="_blank">Rep. Kucinich Gets His Day to Air Impeachment Article</a></p>
<p>The Hill: <a href="http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/kucinich-raises-bush-impeachment-at-hearing-2008-07-25.html" target="_blank">Kucinich raises Bush impeachment at hearing</a></p>
<p>CBS: <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/25/politics/politico/thecrypt/main4292489.shtml" target="_blank">Big Crowd Gathers For House Judiciary Hearing On Bush “impeachment”</a></p>
<p>AP: <a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iE21FOVAfMfEbAE5LDwiYm8fGh4QD92527P80" target="_blank">Bush critics get an unimpeachable forum</a></p>
<p>Videos from the hearing:</p>
<p>Rep. Wexler recommends impeachment hearings</font></p>
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<div style="text-align:left;"><font face="arial" size="2">Rep. Kucinich testifies at executive power hearing</font><br />
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<font face="arial" size="2">Rep. Steve King of Iowa argued there was no evidence that the Bush administration had committed any high crimes and misdeameanors.</font><br />
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<div style="text-align:left;"><font face="arial" size="2">Lawyer Vincent Bugliosi testifies</font><br />
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<div style="text-align:left;"><br><font face="arial" size="2">Bruce Fein’s testimony on impeachment</font><br />
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<p><font size="4">Conyers: These Are Not Impeachment Hearings</font><br><br><a href="http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/07/conyers-tries-to-back-out-of.html" target="_self"><font face="arial" size="2">George Washington’s Blog</a><br>July 23, 2008<br>
<p><img src="http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/8238/conjobhm3.jpg" style="float:right;width:168px;height:218px;margin:0 5px 5px 0;" border="0">John Conyers is now taking the position that no one at Friday’s impeachment hearing can accuse Bush or Cheney of any crime, or any impeachable offense, or dishonorable conduct, or even lying.<br><br>Moreover, Conyers is now saying that he will shut the hearing down if anyone does accuse the boys of crimes, impeachable offenses, or otherwise being naughty.<br><br>As David Swanson <a href="http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/34943">summarizes</a> it:<br></p>
<blockquote><p>"Apparently the rules of Congress are designed to allow impeachable offenses to be discussed only in impeachment hearings. Apparently this didn’t occur to Chairman Conyers when he decided to hold a non-impeachment impeachment hearing. As a result, his hearing may be quickly shut down, and he will have a choice of holding a real impeachment hearing, resigning, or dropping the pretense that he intends to resist Cheney and Bush in any way whatsoever."</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-style:italic;">P</span><span style="font-style:italic;">lease watch this must-see <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGU2qseqo24&#38;eurl=http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/">10 minute video</a>.<br><br></span><span style="font-style:italic;">And <a href="http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2008/01/fascism-is-over-if-we-want-it.html">read this</a></span><span style="font-style:italic;">.</font></span>
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<p><font size="4">Takes Phone Calls On Impeachment</font><br />
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<div style="text-align:center;"><font size="4"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Big Crowd Gathers For Impeachment Hearings</font></span><br><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/25/politics/politico/thecrypt/main4292489.shtml" target="_self">http://www.cbsnews.com/storie../thecrypt/main4292489.shtml</a><br><br><font size="4"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Cindy Sheehan Kicked-Out of Judiciary Hearing</font></span><br><a href="http://rawstory.com//news/2008/Angry_Cindy_Sheehan_exits_Judiciary_hearing_0725.html" target="_self">http://rawstory.com//news/20..eehan_exits_Judiciary_hearing_0725.html</a><br><br><font size="4"><span style="color:#ff0000;">House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep John Conyers Plans Bush Impeachment Substitute</font></span><br><a href="http://www.daily.pk/world/worldnews/84-worldnews/5929-house-judiciary-committee-chairman-rep-john-conyers-plans-george-w-bush-impeachment-substitute.html" target="_self">http://www.daily.pk/world/world..eachment-substitute.html</a><br><br><font size="4"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Fallujah Braces For Another Assault</font></span><br><a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43248">http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43248</a><br><br><font size="4"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Iraq Official: U.S. Troops May Leave By 2010</font></span><br><a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gkx-3oYeFwuWKCusr2jrojs98w8wD9228UM00">http://ap.google.com/articl..YeFwuWKCusr2jrojs98w8wD9228UM00</a><br><br><font size="4"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Turley fears Dems will let alleged ‘Bush crimes’ stay buried forever</font></span><br><a href="http://rawstory.com//news/2008/MSNBC_Will_preemptive_Bush_pardons_prevent_0723.html" target="_self">http://rawstory.com//news/2008/.._pardons_prevent_0723.html</a><br><br><font size="4"><span style="color:#ff0000;">’Imperial presidency’ hearing to feature 13 witnesses</font></span><br><a href="http://rawstory.com//news/2008/Imperial_presidency_hearing_to_feature_13_0724.html" target="_self">http://rawstory.com//news/2008..earing_to_feature_13_0724.html</a></div>
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<title><![CDATA[Could you be silent when major crimes are being committed?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To be silent when major crimes are being committed against all humanity makes us accomplices]]></description>
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<p>Four peace activists who attempted to make a "citizens arrest" of Karl Rove, were arrested by Des Moines police  in Iowa.</p>
<p>A dozen protesters had gathered outside a country club where Rove spoke at a private Republican party fundraiser. As the four were put into a police van, the demonstrators shouted: "It should be Karl Rove in that van. War Criminal!"</p>
<p>Chet Guinn, a retired Methodist Minister, was among those arrested. He told reporters: "To be silent when major crimes are being committed against all humanity makes us accomplices," as he was led away. (<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2537776420080725">Source</a>)</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Karl_Rove.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="270" /></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;">An official portrait of Karl Rove</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Karl Christian Rove</strong></span> (born December 25, 1950) was Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush until his resignation on 31 August 2007. He has headed the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Public Liaison, and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives. Since leaving the White House, Rove has worked as a political analyst and contributor for Fox News, Newsweek, and the Wall Street Journal.</p>
<h3>I<span style="color:#000000;">nvestigation by the Office of Special Counsel</span></h3>
<p>On April 24, 2007, it was revealed that Rove is being investigated by the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Office of Special Counsel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Special_Counsel">Office of Special Counsel</a> for his involvement in the email scandal, the firing of US attorneys, and for "improper political influence over government decision-making." In response to this investigation and other pending complaints, 2004 Democratic candidate for U.S. Vice President and former 2008 presidential hopeful <a title="John Edwards" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edwards">John Edwards</a> initiated a petition drive calling for Bush to fire Rove. After Rove announced his resignation, Edwards' reply was "good riddance". (Source and more information: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Rove">Wikipedia</a>.]</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Lookie Lookie, I got me a Fat cookie... ]]></title>
<link>http://suzieqq.wordpress.com/?p=7683</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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Rove Threatened GOP IT Guru If He Does Not &#8216;Take the Fall&#8217; for Election]]></description>
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<h3 class="ItemHeadline"><a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6214">Rove Threatened GOP IT Guru If He Does Not 'Take the Fall' for Election Fraud in Ohio, Says Attorney</a></h3>
<div class="ItemSubHeadline">Letter Sent to Attorney General Mukasey Requesting 'Protection for Mr. Connell and His Family From This Reported Attempt to Intimidate a Witness' After Tip from 'Credible Source'</div>
<div class="ItemSubSubHeadline">UPDATE: OH AG Reportedly Asked to Provide Immunity Protection...</div>
<p><!-- If DVN story and if later than July 12, 2007, add DVN graphic &#38; "Guest Blogged by..." --> <!-- If DVN story and if later than July 12, 2007, add DVN graphic &#38; "Guest Blogged by..." -->[<em>NOTE: Arnebeck will join Peter B. Collins and me, on-air, live tonight at 5pm PT (8pm ET) to discuss this story and the related matters. <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6217">Details and listening link here...</a></em>]</p>
<p><img src="http://www.bradblog.com/Images/MikeConnell_KarlRove.jpg" border="0" alt="" hspace="6" vspace="3" align="right" /><strong>Karl Rove has threatened a GOP high-tech guru and his wife, if he does not "'take the fall' for election fraud in Ohio," according to a letter sent this morning to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, by Ohio election attorney Cliff Arnebeck.</strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Sunday talk show lineup for July 27]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Fox News Sunday: Sen. John Thune (R-SD) &amp; Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), then Karl Rove
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Fox News Sunday: </strong>Sen. John Thune (R-SD) &#38; Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), then Karl Rove</p>
<p><strong>Meet The Press:</strong> Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)</p>
<p><strong>Face the Nation: </strong>Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) &#38; Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI)</p>
<p><strong>ABC's This Week: </strong>Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), then a roundtable with Cokie Roberts, Matthew Dowd, Sam Donaldson and George Will</p>
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<title><![CDATA[KKKarl Rove and Donna Brazile: Perfect Together]]></title>
<link>http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/?p=2683</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>madamab</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[[Original photos here and here.]
A commenter at The Confluence found this extraordinary chronology o]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AEvJoYdgN-M/SIocZZHUlSI/AAAAAAAAAFw/52d2VebyPqw/s1600-h/dbkr.jpg"><img style="display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AEvJoYdgN-M/SIocZZHUlSI/AAAAAAAAAFw/52d2VebyPqw/s400/dbkr.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>[Original photos <a href="http://citizenchris.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/01/brazile.jpg">here</a> and <a href="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/images/KarlRove.gif">here</a>.]</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">A commenter at <a href="http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/obama-visiting-wounded-troops-that-would-be-wrong/#comment-76167">The Confluence</a> found <a href="http://www.thecityedition.com/Pages/Archive/Summer08/BrazileRoveConnect.html">this extraordinary chronology</a> of the relationship between KKKarl and Donna.</p>
<p>If you don't have an "ah-HA!" moment after you read this, STEP AWAY FROM THE KOOL-AID. It's obviously causing brain damage.</p>
<p>No wonder Obama is starting to sound like a right-wing Republican. No wonder he is getting such favorable media instead of McCain, the original and traditional Media Darling. No wonder he had so much money at the beginning of his campaign - over $100 million from Bush Pioneers, oil companies, and Republican bundlers. No wonder he won red-state caucuses so handily but often lost the primaries from those same states. (A prime example: The Texas Pri-Caucus. Hillary won the primaries but Obama won the caucuses; thus he claimed victory in the delegate count.) Obama earned more delegates from his Idaho caucus victory than Clinton did from her victories in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island COMBINED.</p>
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<p>The unholy matrimony between Bush's Brain and the Democratic Party was cemented by Brazile's desire to recreate the Democratic Party in the image of the Republican Party - but with African-Americans as the powerbrokers instead of rich white men. Incredibly, she calls this corruption of the Party of the working class "mobilizing the grassroots."</p>
<p>As for Rove, he wanted to knock out John McCain, a man whom Bush has still not forgiven for voting against the Deciderer's disastrous tax cuts, and of course make sure Hillary Clinton, the only strong progressive Democrat in the race, did not win the White House. There is no chance that Hillary would forgo the opportunity to prosecute Rove and Co. for all of their heinous crimes against America and its people.</p>
<p>But Obama? His chief legal advisor, Cass Sunstein, has already gone on record as saying that <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2008/7/22/obama_adviser_cass_sunstein_debates_glenn">Bush-Cheney should not be impeached</a>. And of course, Obama has already voted to immunize the telecom companies, and by extension the Bush Administration, for their illegal warrantless wiretapping of Americans. Of course, the warrantless wiretapping program is one of the most rock-solid reasons for impeachment, according to Constitutional law experts. Poof! There it went.</p>
<p>If Obama wins, the Bush agenda <a href="http://www.thecityedition.com/Pages/Archive/Summer08/BushThirdTerm.html">will continue</a>, and there will be no accountability whatsoever for Rove, Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld and Rice. If McCain wins, what happens next will be determined mostly by a Congress with a much larger Democratic majority than in 2006, and with a much more diverse set of interests than those pushing either McCain or Obama (and possibly Hillary Clinton as Senate Majority Leader).</p>
<p>I'll take Choice B for $600, Alex.</p>
<p>By the way, if you'd like to remember what a real Democrat looks and sounds like, here's Hillary speaking on the Senate floor <a href="http://clinton.senate.gov/news/statements/details.cfm?id=301208&#38;&#38;amp">about alternative energy investment and gas price reduction</a>.</p>
<p>Ah, a Democratic politician who believes in Democratic values.</p>
<p>WANT.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Karl's getting desperate..?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Brad Blog
Rove Threatened GOP IT Guru If He Does Not &#8216;Take the Fall&#8217; for Election Fraud ]]></description>
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<h3><a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6214">Rove Threatened GOP IT Guru If He Does Not 'Take the Fall' for Election Fraud in Ohio, Says Attorney </a></h3>
<p><a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6214"></a><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color:#800000;">Letter Sent to Attorney General Mukasey Requesting 'Protection for Mr. Connell and His Family From This Reported Attempt to Intimidate a Witness' After Tip from 'Credible Source'</span></span></p>
<p><em><span style="color:#000080;">UPDATE: OH AG Reportedly Asked to Provide Immunity Protection...</span></em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6214"><img class="alignright" style="border:1px solid black;" src="http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k266/want2know/rove-1.jpg" alt="" width="185" /></a></p>
<p>Karl Rove has threatened a GOP high-tech guru and his wife, if he does not "'take the fall" for election fraud in Ohio," according to a letter sent this morning to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, by Ohio election attorney Cliff Arnebeck.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6214" target="_blank">Read entire article..</a></strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[What The DNC and Donna Brazile Were Willing To Do To Win....And We All Lost]]></title>
<link>http://logisticsmonster.wordpress.com/?p=468</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>diamondtiger</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Now I guess we know why the whole primary race looked and smelled like Karl Rove.  A person cannot ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://logisticsmonster.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/donnabrazile.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-470" src="http://logisticsmonster.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/donnabrazile.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="230" /></a>Now I guess we know why the whole primary race looked and smelled like Karl Rove.  A person cannot make this stuff up.</p>
<p>If you have any questions about why PUMAs and Just Say NO Deal exist after reading this <a title="Brazile Rove Connection" href="http://www.thecityedition.com/Pages/Archive/Summer08/BrazileRoveConnect.html" target="_blank">article</a>, maybe you should write the DNC and Brazile and ask them why they are putting forward the most inexperienced candidate known to American Politics for POTUS.</p>
<p>Superdelegates, is this how you want to go down in history?</p>
<p>Do you want to be remembered as being part of this carefully orchestrated production that will only end up hurting our country?</p>
<p>It seems there was quite a bit of discussion the night before the RBC meeting.  I personally love "How do we give them...restore their vote."  Give them a vote?  Restore a vote?  How asinine is that?  I still think we live in America where votes are supposed to count as cast.</p>
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<p><strong>It is time to put the welfare of this great country ahead of whatever agenda the DNC has with getting Barack Obama elected.</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;">UPDATE:  Please go <a title="Obama Veep Team Floats...." href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/12059.html" target="_blank">here</a> and read about a name that is being floated as The Borg Prince's running mate.  Does this put the previous article in starker light?</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Blitz is coming, can Rove stop it?]]></title>
<link>http://pennsylvaniaforchange.wordpress.com/?p=963</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>There is a group of Republicans and former Republicans that are forming an organization to support Barack Obama's bid for the White House.  They have been holding telephone conference calls.  Former Senator Lincoln Chafee has left the Republican party and is endorsing Senator Barack Obama.  Another surprising name on this list is Douglas Kmiec.  Professor Kmiec was co-chairman of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign's Committee for Courts and the Constitution.</p>
<blockquote><p>In an e-mail, Kmiec said he has been in contact with the Obama campaign, adding: “I think you’ll see a fairly well-designed website to begin; after that, I’m not sure if there will be print ads and such and how tightly the surrogate speaking will be coordinated.”</p>
<p>Sources say the Obama campaign effort will probably not occur until after the selection of a vice presidential candidate and the Democratic convention.<br />
Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of President Eisenhower and a self-described “lifelong Republican,” was also on the call with the Obama campaign, which she said took place in recent days.</p></blockquote>
<p>Eisenhower states that today's Republican Party is not at all like the Republican Party of her grandfather, Dwight Eisenhower.  A former adviser to President Reagan is also considering endorsing Barack Obama.</p>
<blockquote><p>Texas businessman and former Marine Jack Holt said this year would be the first time he has ever voted for a Democrat to be president. Holt endorsed Obama in 2007 after supporting McCain and Bush years ago. He cited the Iraq war and fiscal responsibility as the main reasons why some Republicans are crossing over.</p></blockquote>
<p>Read the  complete story at  <a href="http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/campaign-is-coordinating-a-blitz-by-the-obamacans-2008-07-23.html"><span style="color:#0000ff;">The Hill</span></a></p>
<p>The "Destroyer" who calls himself the "Decider", <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">boy</span> Bush, has even managed to tear apart the Republican Party.  He did so with the help of his pals, <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">traitor</span> Rove and <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">barnacle</span> Cheney.</p>
<p>The Republicans can have self-centered Joe Lieberman.  We Democrats don't want him.  All Lieberman wants is war and more war so he is the perfect partner for "endless war" John McCain.</p>
<p>All the intelligent Republicans are getting on board with Barack Obama.  They are able to recognize the real leadership that Obama will bring to the Presidency.</p>
<p>And what's McCain's strategic adviser <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">traitor</span> Karl Rove going to do?  He already has shown the Democrats all the tricks that he has in his book.  And unless he can prove me wrong, Karl Rove is responsible for committing treason by exposing a covert CIA operative, Valerie Plame which jeopardized the security of the United States.   During the American Revolution, Karl Rove would have been hung by the neck from the nearest and <strong>strongest</strong> tree branch.</p>
<p>UPDATE:</p>
<p><a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iWcv44T67Rtxzhzs_cU97QMVlkWgD924EJAO3"><span style="color:#0000ff;">Chuck Hagel chides McCain on Iraq</span></a>...</p>
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<title><![CDATA[UsedWigs Radio Podcast 50 - Part Two: A Fond Look Back at 50 Shows!]]></title>
<link>http://usedwigs.wordpress.com/?p=158</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>usedwigs</dc:creator>
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Topics: Russ Likes Sex and The City, “Ultimate Washington Insider” Scott Shrake, The Count Cens]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Topics:</b> Russ Likes Sex and The City, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-shrake" target="_blank">“Ultimate Washington Insider”</a> Scott Shrake, The Count Censored, Smartass Darth Vader, Going Acoustic and The Bon Jovi Effect, Night Ranger, RCRD LBL. <b>Playlist:</b> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/ninjagun" target="_blank">Ninja Gun</a>, <a href="http://www.sparkydog.com/">Sparky Dog</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Preview:</b> “You may or may not know, but you can’t tell what a puppet is saying by reading its lips…”</p>
<p><b>Play Now:</b> <a href="http://www.usedwigs.com/pod/podcast50_part2.mp3">http://www.usedwigs.com/pod/podcast50_part2.mp3</a></p>
<p><b>Subscribe:</b> <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=127911994">iTunes</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Congress Will Have Siegelman Probe Findings]]></title>
<link>http://writechic.wordpress.com/?p=908</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mdking</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey backs off his evasive position of July 10, 2008 on releasing t]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey backs off his evasive position of July 10, 2008 on releasing the Office of Professional Responsibility probe findings into the Siegelman case.  Now he says an OPR report will be given to Congress as requested by House Judiciary Democrats.</p>
<p>Mukasey said Thursday the full report also might be made public if the conclusions warrant.</p>
<p>From a July 10th hearing, here's Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) grilling Mukasey on the subject:</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Hey Congress! Karl Rove's back and ready for pickup at the Fox studios]]></title>
<link>http://tpzoo.wordpress.com/?p=5727</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Karl Rove was sighted in the US again. In fact on Fox News. Time to explain to Congress yet again, i]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://photos-f.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-snc1/v274/223/46/693786513/n693786513_1135453_5092.jpg"><img class="alignleft" src="http://photos-f.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-snc1/v274/223/46/693786513/n693786513_1135453_5092.jpg" alt="" width="92" height="125" /></a><a href="http://www.reddit.com/comments/6t6xo/How_the_FUCK_is_Carl_Rove_back_in_the_US_and/" target="_blank">Karl Rove was sighted in the US again. In fact on Fox News.</a> Time to explain to Congress yet <a href="http://tpzoo.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/more-on-inherent-contempt/">again</a>, if not to Linda Sanchez who knows the concept of inherent contempt and <a href="http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/34896" target="_blank">asked for it to be used</a>, how to handle Rove.</p>
<blockquote><p>From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_Congress" target="_blank">Wikipedia:</a></p>
<p>Under this process, the procedure for holding a person in contempt involves only the chamber concerned. Following a contempt citation, the person cited is arrested by the Sergeant-at-Arms for the House or Senate, brought to the floor of the chamber, held to answer charges by the presiding officer, and then subjected to punishment as the chamber may dictate (usually imprisonment for punishment reasons, imprisonment for coercive effect, or release from the contempt citation.)</p>
<p>Concerned with the time-consuming nature of a contempt proceeding and the inability to extend punishment further than the session of the Congress concerned (under Supreme Court rulings), Congress created a statutory process in 1857. While Congress retains its "inherent contempt" authority and may exercise it at any time, this inherent contempt process was last used by the Senate in 1934, in a Senate investigation of airlines and the U.S. Postmaster. After a one-week trial on the Senate floor (presided over by the Vice-President of the United States, acting as Senate President), William P. MacCracken, a lawyer and former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics who had allowed clients to rip up subpoenaed documents, was found guilty and sentenced to 10 days imprisonment.[5]</p>
<p>MacCracken filed a petition of Habeas Corpus in federal courts to overturn his arrest, but after litigation, the US Supreme Court ruled that Congress had acted constitutionally, and denied the petition in the case Jurney v. MacCracken.[6][7]</p>
<p>Presidential pardons appear not to apply to a civil contempt procedure like the above, since it is not an "offense against the United States" or against "the dignity of public authority."[8]</p></blockquote>
<p>If You in the US or me in Europe would just ignore a subpoena, we'd be in the slammer by now. In Germany there is a thing called "Erzwingungshaft", where you can be jailed until you comply with your legal obligations. It happens to fathers who wouldn't pay child support. It happens to witnesses who refuse to testify. In the US it happened to <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2005/LAW/07/06/reporters.contempt/index.html">Judith Miller</a> for refusing to testify. In what way is Karl Rove more equal than You or me?</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Rove Does Not Swear to Tell the Whole Truth...but He'll Respond If No Bibles are Involved]]></title>
<link>http://writechic.wordpress.com/?p=902</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mdking</dc:creator>
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big ol&#8217; hat tip CSPAN Junkie
Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman calls Rove&#8217;s volumin]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://cspanjunkie.org/" target="_blank">big ol' hat tip CSPAN Junkie</a></p>
<p>Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman calls Rove's voluminous written response to a ranking House Judiciary Committee Republican, "written answers to the wrong questions."</p>
<p>So, what is the right question?</p>
<p>It might start like this:  Did Karl Rove speak to his long time buddy Bill Canary about taking down Don Siegelman?  Canary is the one pointed to by Republican Attorney Dana Jill Simpson in her (ahem) <strong>sworn</strong> testimony to Congress.  Canary is not an Alabama official.  He is not DoJ and therefore falls out of the scope of Rove's answer, that he "never communicated, either directly or indirectly, with Justice Department or Alabama officials..."  Canary, of course, is married to Leura Canary, U.S. Attorney in Alabama's Middle District.</p>
<p>Rove does assert in his unsworn statement that he "never attempted, either directly or indirectly, to influence these [Siegelman case] matters."  <a href="http://harpers.org/archive/2007/10/hbc-90001430" target="_blank">U.S. Attorney Alice Martin in Alabama's Northern District</a> and Leura Canary are the "girls" gunning for Siegelman according to Simpson's <strong>sworn</strong> testimony to Congress.<a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20070624/NEWS/706240377/1011" target="_blank"> Bill Canary says,</a> he has "no recollection'' of making the "my girls" comment.</p>
<p>Canary and Rove put their heads together managing the campaign of William Pryor (now a Bush appointed Judge) back in 1998.</p>
<p>Talking Points Memo has posted <a href="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/siegelman-answers/" target="_blank">Rove's 9 page response</a> to Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Lamar Smith (TX).</p>
<p>As of early Thursday morning, <a href="http://sendkarlrovetojail.com/" target="_blank">more than 101,000 people</a> have called for Congress to hold Rove in Contempt and throw him in jail.</p>
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<link>http://fitnessfortheoccasion.wordpress.com/?p=1023</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dan (Fitness)</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Karl Rove skipped out on a subpoena.  Will he be held accountable for breaking the law?  From a Br]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Karl Rove skipped out on a subpoena.  Will he be held accountable for breaking the law?  From a <a href="http://bravenewfilms.org/">Brave New Films</a> advisory (emphasis mine):</p>
<blockquote><p>LOS ANGELES - A coalition of organizations has launched a new campaign urging the House Judiciary Committee to hold Karl Rove in contempt and send him to jail.  <strong>In a clear violation of the law, Rove has refused to comply with a Congressional subpoena</strong> calling on him to testify under oath about his involvement in the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.  Brave New Films, The Nation magazine, Campaign for America's Future, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Progress Now Action and CREDO Mobile will host a press conference in Washington DC next Tuesday, prior to delivering a petition to the House Judiciary Committee urging committee members to "let Rove know he can't decide which subpoenas he obeys and which he ignores."</p>
<p>The online petition, created by Brave New Films and housed at SendRoveToJail.com, has amassed almost 100,000 names in less than six days.  The website also includes a short YouTube video outlining Rove's involvement in the Siegelman case and making the case for holding Rove accountable.</p>
<p><a href="http://sendrovetojail.com/" target="_blank">http://sendrovetojail.com</a></p>
<p><strong>"Karl Rove is not above the law,"</strong> said Robert Greenwald, founder and president of Brave New Films.  <strong>"Rove's refusal to comply with a Congressional subpoena makes a mockery of the justice system.  Even former high government officials like Rove are accountable to the law.</strong> Rove needs learn that we live in a democracy, not a dictatorship."</p>
<p>"Karl Rove has built a career out of bending the law, but now he seems to feel entitled simply to break it," says Michael Kieschnick, President of CREDO Mobile.  <strong>"We expect the House Judiciary Committee to agree that Karl Rove is in contempt and should be sent to jail if he persists in his flagrant disregard for the laws of this country."</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>This isn't civil disobedience.  This isn't an unjust law.  Rove is acting above the law to cover up deeper crimes committed by the Bush administration.</p>
<p><a href="http://sendkarlrovetojail.com/">Karl Rove should go to jail</a>.</p>
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<link>http://triptotheouthouse.wordpress.com/?p=121</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>triptotheouthouse</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[So far in my first week of being a blogger (wow! a blogger!), I&#8217;ve stuck to the remembering an]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So far in my first week of being a blogger (wow! a blogger!), I've stuck to the remembering and the rambling, but today, I'm in the mood for some ranting. So here goes:</p>
<p>1)  TV is really bad these days, especially all of these talent-type reality shows.  If these people were really all that talented, they would already be in <em>show biz.  </em>Moreover, why do we have to have all these Brits and Australians judging and MCing these shows?  I like an accent as much as the next person, but do they have to come with all that attitude?  You can get a <em>green card</em> to work in the U.S. if you have some special skill, but I don't think having an accent is any kind of skill at all.  We've got so many Americans who can judge well, host well, and even be nasty if that's what's necessary to get viewers.  I think we should just throw Simon Cow (Cowell? Cawell?) <em>et al</em> in Boston Harbor just like the tea!</p>
<p>2) I had made up my mind who I was going to vote for for (yes, two prepositions ARE necessary there) President in 2008 way back in 2004, but I kept thinking that somehow if McCain were elected President, he'd have to be better than Crawford's village idiot.  But if you saw him explaining his version of the "surge" today on TV, you realize that this guy isn't very far from the time when they're going to be wiping the drool off of his chin.  It's time that we really have a President in office who really understands the decisions he/she is making.  We don't need Karl Rove (or a clone) pushing an agenda just to make Cheney and Halliburton richer.</p>
<p>I watched this again and started laughing again at the end when he says "and that's what we all know as the surge."  It's that same tone of "not believing it yourself" like the mother telling her 7-year-old daughter, "Why, yes, honey, babies are brought to us from Paris by a stork."</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/rvBGt-JVh9s'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/rvBGt-JVh9s&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>3) If any of you reading this are still trying to use the bible and leviticus to maintain your prejudices against gay people, you shouldn't be doing any work on Sundays, don't be touching any pig (let alone eating any pork), your preacher better not wear glasses, and, oh, yes, go out and get you a few slaves because you can have some (well, somebody else could have you as a slave too, for that matter).  After all these years, people just saying, "but the bible says . . ." just makes me sick.  If you are one of them, you're just a big ol' hypocrite.</p>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mdking</dc:creator>
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<p>Is the Department of Justice too politicized at this point to conduct an investigation of its own activities?</p>
<p>The above interview with TPMtv shows former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman firing off a litany of problems with DoJ investigative efforts:</p>
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<li>Special Counsel's Office which has been or is investigating Rove, the White House, and itself (DOJ) and is preventing investigations and covering up investigations.</li>
<li>DOJ refuses to release documents subpoenaed by the House Judiciary Committee.</li>
<li>OPR and the Office of Inspector General contacted Siegelman lawyers asking for evidence.  Siegelman explains why this is absurd.</li>
<li>OPR and OIG already have the power to subpoena witnesses.</li>
<li>They already have relevant documents.</li>
<li>OPR and OIG have the testimony of a <a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1669990,00.html" target="_blank">Republican lawyer that puts Karl Rove "at the scene of the crime."</a></li>
<li>OPR and OIG know the players accused of going after Siegelman for political reasons.</li>
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<p>Number 1 refers to OSC chief <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/11/bloch-dismissed-office-of-special-council-probe-of-siegelman-case/" target="_blank">Scott Bloch ordering a Siegelman case probe closed </a>because he had not authorized it.  Bloch also diverted attention away from Rove and White House involvement investigations and limited probes into hiring and promotions based on Bush loyalty.   <a href="http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/06/fbi-searches-office-of-special-counsel-building/" target="_blank">The FBI (the law enforcing arm of DOJ) raided Bloch's home and office</a>.</p>
<p>Number 2 refers to documents relevant to the <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2007/09/doj_refuses_turnover_of_intern.php" target="_blank">House Judiciary investigations into the cases</a> of Siegelman, <a href="http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/15179.html" target="_blank">Dr. Cyril Wecht of Pennsylvania</a>, <a href="http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/6890612.html" target="_blank">Georgia Thompson of Wisconsin</a>, and the firing of U.S. Attorneys.  Here's what ousted U.S. Attorney David Iglesias recently had to say:</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/KYaqDOIReBw'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/KYaqDOIReBw&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>Other reasons anything done by DoJ is suspect:</p>
<ul>
<li>Disturbing disregard for Acting Attorney General James Comey while Ashcroft was bedridden.  While hospitalized, Ashcroft was visited by future AG Alberto Gonzales and Andy Card to sign off a wiretapping program which had already been rejected.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/s0806/final.pdf" target="_blank">DOJ Honor's Program politicized.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/24/justice-department-looked_n_108931.html" target="_blank">DOJ purged employee applications</a> with liberal buzz words.</li>
<li>A House Judiciary report on political prosecutions highlights a disproportionate prosecution rate among Democrats versus Republicans.  It was 80% to 20% respectively.</li>
<li>DOJ's OPR ignored Equal Employment Opportunity Commission findings against <a href="http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/09/hbc-90001140" target="_blank">U.S. Attorney</a> <a href="http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/04/hbc-90002866" target="_blank">Alice Martin.</a></li>
<li>Non-cooperative stance of present AG Michael Mukasey.</li>
<li>The tendency in government now is to <a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/07/19/law/index.html" target="_blank">protect whoever is holding office</a>.</li>
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<p>Perhaps the unreliability of DoJ is the reason Siegelman has called on John McCain to push Karl Rove toward accountability:</p>
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<p><a href="http://airamerica.com/" target="_blank">ht Air America</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Send Karl Rove to Jail Update]]></title>
<link>http://writechic.wordpress.com/?p=876</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mdking</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[video courtesy: Brave New Films


As of Tuesday more than 87 thousand people have signed a petition ]]></description>
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<p>As of Tuesday more than 87 thousand people have <a href="http://sendkarlrovetojail.com/" target="_blank">signed a petition</a> asking the Judiciary Committee to hold Karl Rove in comtempt for ignoring a House subpoena and to send him to jail.  Above former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman mentions the Send Karl Rove to Jail dot com site and his own, http://ContemptforRove.com .</p>
<p>Rove's attorney Robert Luskin asserted executive privilege as an excuse to ignore Congress; however, <a href="http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/07/10/bush-did-not-invoke-executive-privilege-for-rove/" target="_blank">President Bush has not invoked the privilege</a>.  And why would he since that would be an admission that the President sought advice on the politicization of the Department of Justice.  Furthermore, Rep. Linda Sanchez of the House Judiciary says absolute immunity only applies to current executive aides.</p>
<p>Siegelman is not alone in alleging political hit jobs.</p>
<p>Here's ousted U.S. Attorney David Iglesias discussing Rove dodging the House subpoena (starts 3:30 in) to avoid indictment:</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/IRNlSHt5fxs'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/IRNlSHt5fxs&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p><em>video courtesy:</em> <a href="http://buelahman.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Buelahman</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Send Karl Rove to Jail...please!]]></title>
<link>http://magoo45.wordpress.com/?p=165</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Meg</dc:creator>
<guid>http://magoo45.wordpress.com/?p=165</guid>
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Sign the petition and tell the House Judiciary Committee that you want them to hold Rove in contemp]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://sendkarlrovetojail.com/?utm_source=386136" target="_blank">Sign the petition</a> and tell the House Judiciary Committee that you want them to hold Rove in contempt and put him in jail.  It's time for some reckoning.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[PCW Rewind: BCEW Backbreak Mountain]]></title>
<link>http://politicalwrestling.wordpress.com/?p=62</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Swamp Pirate</dc:creator>
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<div><strong>BCEW- BACKBREAK MOUNTAIN EVENT @ HACK’S RUSTY NAIL SALOON</strong></p>
<p>The voice of BCEW, Johnny Suave, stands in the middle of the ring as the capacity crowd inside Hack’s Rusty Nail Saloon chants “BCEW…BCEW.” “Big thing going on!” he says, “big, BIG things!” Suave explains that the Texas Hammer Tom DeLay has stepped down from the American Patriots leadership. “He’s a casualty of the whole Rafael Barry Giambi controversy,” Suave says. The crowd immediately interrupts him and starts a “ROIDS…ROIDS…ROIDS” chant. The Rafael Barry Giambi incident stems from the accidental death of the former BCEW champion that was covered up by George W’s aide de camp Dick and the Mastermind Karl Rove with assistance from DeLay. </p>
<p>“But there’s other news being made as we speak,” Suave adds, “Sam Alito’s appointment to the BCEW Competition Committee under attack by the Progressive Alliance.”</p>
<p><strong>Sam Alito’s Confirmation Hearing<br /></strong>Alito sits uncomfortably in a chair and is unceremoniously grilled by the Progressive Alliance’s Chuck the Schmuck Schumer and the long lost member of the Kennedy clan who no one knew existed before- Fred Kennedy. “Mr. Alito,” Kennedy says, “besides the fact that George W and the American Patriots deliberately misled everyone about the health of former champion Rafael Barry Giambi-” Orrin Hatch of the American Patriot’s immediately objects and he and Arlin Spector get into it with Kennedy and Schumer. “They’re trying to smear you and they’re doing a crappy of job it!” Hatch roars. “He’s being inconsistent!” returns Kennedy. “Alito could swing the BCEW Competition Committee in the favor of the American Patriots!” whines Schumer, “and he and the American Patriots can’t be trusted!” </p>
<p>“YOU BASTARD!” Alito’s wife blurts out. Then she stands up and runs out in tears. “See what you did?” Hatch says. “Yeah, nice going,” Spector says, “@$#-hole!” “Oh yeah?,” Kennedy says, “unless we get the answers we’re looking for the Progressive Alliance reserves the right to take whatever measures necessary in terms of Mr. Alito’s nomination. “Oh really?” Hatch responds, “you do that and the American Patriots reserve the right to take whatever EXTRAORDINARY measures necessary to ensure that Mr. Alito is given a fair up and down vote.” “OH YEAH?” Schumer pipes in, “we’re willing to take EXTREME measures!” “HA!” Hatch scoffs, “you don’t know the meaning of extreme!” “OH YEAH?” Kennedy says, “we’re more extreme than you are. “OH YEAH?” Hatch responds, “well, WE put the EXTREME in Buckland County Extreme Wrestling!” “Oh please,” shoots back Kennedy, “you’re not remotely as extreme as we are!” “No, we’re more extreme!” Hatch replies. A bell rings.</p>
<p>Then Kennedy checks his watch. “Hey you know what?” he says, “it’s lunch time!” “Yeah. I’m hungry,” Spector agrees. “Me too,” chimes in Schumer. “Let’s break then,” Kennedy says, “anyone up for lunch. I’ll drive. I know this great little restaurant that’s right across a flimsy, wooden bridge over the river. Who wants to ride with me?” Awkward silence follows. Then everyone quickly begs off. “Suit yourself,” Kennedy says.</p>
<p>Back to Suave in the middle of the ring along with his constant companion- a life size cardboard cut-out of Shania Twain. “Yeah, yeah,” Suave says as some people give him the business about the cardboard cut-out, “I almost came out tonight with a Sara Evans cardboard cut-out from that video she did.” The crowd cheers. ‘You would have liked that wouldn’t you?” Suave adds.</p>
<p>Suave gets down to the business at hand. “Thanks to an agreement struck by ‘Straight Shootin’ John McCain with the CEO of BCEW George W,” Suave announces, “tonight in this ring we will determine who will be the new BCEW Men’s champion. A special ‘Buckland County Backbreaking Bunkhouse Brawl’ Twenty five contestants in all!” Suave points to a ladder decorated up to look like a mountain with the BCEW Men’s Championship belt suspended twenty feet in the air. “We will start with four wrestlers in the ring and add one man every minute. Then after we get down to the final four contestants, the first one who climbs ‘Backbreak Mountain’ and grabs the belt will become the NEW BCEW Men’s Champion!”</p>
<p><strong>A Visit to George W’s office<br /></strong>In BCEW CEO George W’s office, W, his aide de camp Dick, and the Mastermind Karl Rove look royally pissed off. “Damn that John McCain,” grouses Dick, “you’re the CEO of BCEW. We make the decisions here. Not McCain.” W. reminds Dick that he didn’t have a whole lot of choice after the whole Rafael Barry Giambi fiasco. Again, a chant of “ROIDS…ROIDS…ROIDS” starts up. W continues: “YOU guys screwed this up. Not me. I just cleaned up the mess YOU made. The winner of the ‘Buckland County Backbreaking Bunkhouse Brawl’ becomes the BCEW Champion.” Dick grimaces and turns to Karl Rove. “I don’t care what you do,” Dick huffs at the Mastermind, “or how you do it. At the end of the night I want A. Tom Bomb’s arm raised up in victory and the BCEW Men’s Championship belt wrapped around his waist. Do you understand me?” The Mastermind nods in the affirmative and then points to his temple to, once again, show just what a freakin’ genius he is.</p>
<p><strong>A Visit to Howard Dean’s office</strong><br />Inside the office of the leader of the Progressive Alliance, American Screamer Howard Dean, Justin Sufferable sits across the desk from Dean and he doesn’t look very happy. “When I signed up with the Progressive Alliance,” Sufferable steams, “you promised me that you would pave the way for me to become the BCEW Men’s Champion. For nine months, you haven’t done @#$#.” Dean is taken aback. “I want that belt,” Sufferable continues, “and you and if that belt isn’t wrapped around my waist at the end of tonight I just might have to look at- other options.” Dean tries to reassure him. Sufferable isn’t listening. He yanks Dean up by the shirt collar. “Let me make this clear. I…want…that…belt,” Sufferable reiterates. After slinging the American Screamer back into his chair, Sufferable exits leaving Dean bewildered. He then calls in the Pith Lord Harry Reid and the Attack Poodlette Nancy Pelosi.</p>
<p>“All right, we’re back,” Johnny Suave says, “and it’s now time for the moment we’ve been waiting for!” </p>
<p>The lights dim low and the crowd quiets down. Charlene Ann Cantrell strolls to the ring. “Ladies and gentlemen,” she says, “it’s time for the first ever Buckland County Backbreaking Bunkhouse Brawl!” The crowd cheers and chants: “BCEW…BCEW.” The first four contestants come out as they are introduced by Charlene Ann. “It’ll be FUBAR,” Suave announces, “The Fashion Fascist Mr. Blockwell- a newcomer to BCEW, Michael Hunt of Guys With Unfortunate First Names Given Their Surnames, and Mr. No-Spin Factor Bill O’Reilly from Faux News.”</p>
<p><strong>Buckland Bunkhouse Brawl All Out Free For All</strong><br />Mr. Blockwell grabs the mic from Charlene Ann and in classic ‘Fashion Fascist’ style starts to rip into how gaudishly awful the people of Hack’s Rusty Nail Saloon are dressed. Of course they boo him. Then Blockwell makes the mistake of critiquing the outfit Charlene Ann Cantrell is wearing calling her a “mini-skirt wearing, Burger Queen tailored by Tim the Tool Man Taylor.” “WHAT!” Charlene Ann exclaims. “This Lolita of the Midwest really needs to-OOOFFF!” “HOLY CRAP!” Suave says, “She kicked Mr. Blockwell in the balls!” The crowd starts up a ‘HOLY S#$#’ chant. “Charlene Ann grabs the Fashion Fascist by the shirt and throws him over the top rope out of the ring!” Suave says, “he’s out of the Free For All before it begins!” <strong>The Fashion Fascist Mr. Blockwell is eliminated.</strong></p>
<p>The bell rings and the match begins! Quickly, FUBAR launches himself at Michael Hunt. Hunt dives to the floor and FUBAR flies over him and charges into Mr. No Spin Factor Bill O'Reilly. O’Reilly fires back and delivers a German suplex to FUBAR. FUBAR goes after O’Reilly, but he trips over a loose shoe string and staggers into O’Reilly who flings him over the top rope! <strong>FUBAR is eliminated.</strong></p>
<p>“The match is not even a minute old and already we have two wrestlers out,” Suave observes, “we’re just about to find out who will be the next contestant.” O’Reilly goes after Michael Hunt. “They’re going at it!” Suave says, “O’Reilly with a left, a right, another right. Snap mare suplex.” O’Reilly sizes up Hunt and then throws him across the ring into the ropes. “O’Reilly’s going for a clothesline but…wait! Who grabbed him from behind?” A older, graying man with a gap tooth smile stops O’Reilly. “HOLY CRAP! It’s night time talk show host David Letterman! WHAT IS HE DOING?” Letterman grabs Bill O’Reilly’s head and then jumps off the ring edge to the floor below pulling O’Reilly over the top rope and out of the ring. “HOLY CRAP! DAVID LETTERMAN JUST TOOK OUT BILL O’REILLY!” shouts Suave, “HE’S OUT OF THE MATCH!” <strong>Bill O’Reilly is eliminated.<br /></strong><br />O’Reilly can’t believe what happened. Enraged, he and Letterman brawl with each other all the way back to the locker room. Suave resets the situation. “So Michael Hunt is the last man standing of the first four. Who will join him?” The answer comes in the form of music over the loudspeaker, a snippet of the Dixie Chicks song “Here’s Your Trouble.” Chuck-atalie, one third of the wrestling Dixie Chucks (who all dress up as each member of the country group the Dixie Chicks) races out and joins the fray. “DIXIE CHICKS ROCK!” shouts Chuck-atalie. Then Michael Hunt jumps the Dixie Chuck and tried to push him over the top rope to the outside. Hunt and Chuck-atalie go out at it with neither man gaining much of an advantage. </p>
<p>A clip of Toby Keith’s hit “Who’s Your Daddy” announces the next man in- Gary Locke of the Raving Rednecks Locke and Loade. “This ought to get interesting,” Suave observes as mortal enemies Locke and Chuck-atalie immediately go after each other. As Michael Hunt stays off to the distance, Locke tries to push Chuck-atalie to the outside, but the Dixie Chuck holds on. Locke again tries to lift Chuck-atalie over the top rope but he clings desperately to the bottom rope. Locke delivers big right hands and delivers a power slam to the mat. Then Locke climbs up to the top rope. “What is he doing?” Suave asks as Locke takes his sweet time preparing his next move, “he’s wasting valuable time!” Michael Hunt comes over and pulls on the top ring rope causing Locke to lose his balance and crotch himself on the top turnbuckle. “Ah yes, the classic wrestling cliché,” Suave says, “a wrestler who takes too much time climbing up to the top rope gets crotched.” Locke topples backwards out of the ring and to the apron below. <strong>Gary Locke is eliminated.<br /></strong><br />“We’re back down to two,” Suave observes, “Michael Hunt of Guys With Unfortunate First Names Given Their Surnames and Chuck-atalie of the Dixie Chucks.” </p>
<p>They were joined by the next contestant- Don Martini- one half of the BCEW tag team champions, the drunken luchadors “The Flying Martini Brothers. “Okay, this is the seventh wrestler out. Don Martini staggers to the ring and somehow manages to climb in.” Martini immediately climbs to the top rope. He wobbles back and forth and wastes time. “Okay,” Suave says, “we are quickly coming to another wrestling cliché. The wrestler who takes too much time on the top rope…” Martini leaps at Michael Hunt. Hunt takes two steps to the side and Martini splats face first on the canvas. “…misses their high risk move. Of course, adding alcohol to the equation makes it even more problematic.” Chuck-atalie stomps on Martini who somehow manages to pull himself up using the ring ropes. Chuck-atalie delivers a chop to the stomach of the Flying Martini brother and Martini holds his stomach and begins to wretch. “Oh, oh,” Suave says, “I’ve seen this one before and it ain’t pretty.” Martini heaves and then spews out a green stream of vomit. Chuck-atalie sidesteps the stuff but Michael Hunt unfortunately catches it full force. Hunt, coated in vomit, staggers backwards and flips over the top rope. <strong>Michael Hunt is eliminated.<br /></strong><br />“There we have it, it’s another Bleecth Beer gratuitous vomiting moment,” Suave announces as we see a slow motion replay of Martini spewing green vomit onto Michael Hunt, “Lovely isn’t it?”</p>
<p>Chuck-atalie carefully maneuvers around the ring, gently trying not to step in Martini’s vomit. Martini launches himself against the ropes and then slingshots towards Chuck-atalie. He slips in the ring and veers off course planting his face in the corner turnbuckle. Martini keels over unconscious. Before the Dixie Chuck can throw the Drunken Luchador over the top rope, the Toby Keith song “How Do You Like Me Now” blares. “It’s other half of the Raving Rednecks- Locke and Loade, Earl Loade.” Loade immediately headscissors Chuck-atalie over the top rope, but Chuck-atalie holds onto the ropes and doesn't fall to the floor. Chuck-atalie gets back in the ring and battles Loade. Loade puts Chuck-atalie's leg over the top rope, but the Dixie Chuck fights back. Loade locks a front facelock on Chuck-atalie. Chuck-atalie reverses and backdrops Loade on his head. Then he throws the Raving Redneck over the top rope, but he hangs on and rolled back in under the bottom rope. </p>
<p>Things heat up even more when the next man comes out- Chuck-artie of the tag team Dixie Chucks. “With Don Martini incapacitated, it’s two against one!” Suave observes. Chuck-artie immediately body slams Loade. Then Chuck-atalie throws a series of uppercuts and backs Loade into a corner. Chuck-artie hits a capture belly-to-belly suplex followed by a few boots to the mid-section by Chuck-atalie. Loade rolls under the bottom rope- he wasn't eliminated since you have to go over the top rope and have your feet touch the floor. Chuck-artie pursues Loade and slides between the second and third ropes, meaning also that he was still in the match. Chuck-artie flings Loade into the steel ring steps. “Loade is holding his lower back,” Suave announces, “he’s in a lot of pain and…what the hell?” Chuck-artie pulls out a table from underneath the ring and sets it up. “He puts Loade on the table!” Chuck-artie climbs the top turnbuckle and balances himself. “He’s not going to do what I think he’s going to do,” Suave says, “but wait! Loade gets up and he’s got Chuck-artie. No….NOOOOO.” Loade suplexes Chuck-artie from the top rope through the table. “HOLY CRAP!” Suave yells, “Loade just planted Chuck-artie through the table! And what? According to the referee, BOTH men technically went over the top rope! They’re out!” <strong>Earl Loade and Chuck-artie are eliminated.<br /></strong><br />The crowd starts up another ‘Holy s#@#’ chant. Loade and Chuck-artie slowly come to in wood pile that used to be a table. “I don’t think they’re dead,” Suaves says, “but they sure as hell should be. That was sick.”</p>
<p>Recapping who’s in and out. </p>
<p>OUT: <strong>FUBAR, Mr. Blackwell- The Fashion Fascist, Michael Hunt, Mr. No-Spin Bill O’Reilly, Gary Locke of the Raving Rednecks- Locke and Loade, Chuck-artie of the Dixie Chucks, Earl Loade of the Raving Rednecks-Locke and Loade.<br /></strong><br />STILL IN: <strong>Don Martini- one half of the tag team champions The Flying Martini Brothers and Chuck-atalie of the Dixie Chucks.</strong> </p>
<p>IN SINCE THE BREAK: <strong>Peacenik #1 of the Green World Order, “The Smelly Luchador” Halitosis, Little Paulie of the American Bikers, and Al Cahall from Politically Correct<br /></strong><br /><strong>Howard Dean’s Office<br /></strong>Justin Sufferable stomps in. “What do you want!” he says, “I’m supposed to wrestle in a just few moments!” The American Screamer Howard Dean, with the Attack Poodleette Nancy Pelosi and the Pith Lord Harry Reid, tries to calm him down. Dean tells Sufferable that he has given lots of thought to what he said earlier tonight about winning the BCEW Men’s Championship. “Because I want you to be happy…and successful,” Dean gestures at Pelosi and Reid, “WE…want you to be happy and successful. We’re bringing in the big guns to make sure you…and the Progressive Alliance…achieve our mutual goals tonight.” Dean then tells Pelosi to bring in their ‘big gun.’ “I wonder who that could be?” Suave ponders. Dean brings in a man, 6 foot 5, wearing a blue #18 football jersey. “PEYTON MANNING?” Suave says, “The Colts quarterback? HE’S the big gun?” “I am confident,” Dean says, “that a talent such as Peyton Manning, All-American quarterback, will give us the edge we’ll need to win our big game tonight!” Justin Sufferable doesn’t seem nearly as confident. “I’m right behind you Mr. Sufferable,” Manning gushes, “I even have a cheer for you. Who’s going to pin them; who’s going to win? Justin! Justin is!” Justin stops him. “Look, when the time comes, you can be in my corner. Until then, leave me alone.” Sufferable then leaves. Dean tells Peyton ‘just keep busy’ and he’ll get him when the time comes.</p>
<p>“Welcome back to ‘Backbreak Mountain,’” Johnny Suave says, “I am the voice of BCEW Johnny Suave. NFL quarterback Peyton Manning helping out Justin Sufferable. The Progressive Alliance is bringing out all of the artillery tonight. Let’s get back to the action.”</p>
<p><strong>BUCKLAND COUNTY BACKBREAKING BUNKHOUSE BRAWL (CONT.)<br /></strong>Little Paulie hits a big uppercut on Chuck-atalie. Chuck-atalie turns around and shoves Little Paulie back into the ring ropes. Al Cahall slips in from behind and picks up Peacenik #1 of the Green World Order, who up to this point protested the violence by sitting in the middle of the ring and refusing to fight, and press slammed him. Cahall goes for a wheelbarrow bulldog on Peacenik #1 but before he hits the bulldog, Little Paulie dumps him over the top rope. <strong>Al Cahall is eliminated.<br /></strong><br />“That’s the end of the line for one of the members of Politically Incorrect,” states Suave, “we are down to five.” Little Paulie elbows Chuck-atalie in the face. Halitosis does a couple luchador-type moves and nearly knocks Little Paulie of the American Bikers out of the ring. Peacenik #1 then confronts Halitosis. Holitosis uses his patented finishing maneuver, the ‘breath of death,’ on Peacenik #1. Peacenik #1 is rendered unconscious. Then Little Paulie picks up the GWO member and deposits him outside the ring. <strong>Peacenik #1 is eliminated.<br /></strong><br />Another member of the Green World Order, The Vengeful Vegan Brock Cole Lee, comes out and takes Peacenik #1’s place. In the center of the ring, Lee and Little Paulie confronts each another. Lee starts talking smack to the American Biker. Little Paulie piefaces Brock Cole Lee and it’s on. Lee fires back with a big right hand and goes for a shoulder block. Little Paulie sidesteps the onrushing Vengeful Vegan and Lee crashes into and literally wakes up one half of the BCEW Men’s Tag Team Champions- Don Martini of the Flying Martini Brothers. Lee bounces up and gets another shoulder block by Little Paulie. The Dixie Chuck Chuck-atalie then suplexes Lee and sends him crashing onto the canvas. “Lee’s in trouble,” Suave says as Don Martini climbs onto the turnbuckle, “here comes the drunken luchador Don Martini…” Martini does a hurricane-rama from the top rope…and misses. “Well, at least he was close…kind of,” Suave says. Lee gets Martini up and tries to throw him over the top rope. Miraculously, Martini somehow holds onto the bottom rope. </p>
<p>At the bar, All-American quarterback Peyton Manning chant “Pour that beer! Pour that beer!” to cheer on Katie the Waitress who pours a draft beer for a customer. </p>
<p>Another member of Politically Incorrect, Nic Koteen, enters the match and immediately goes after Brock Cole Lee. “Koteen and Lee hate each other!” Suave says as both men hammer away at the other. Koteen puts the Vengeful Vegan up on the top rope and slaps him across the face. Lee then responds by talking trash and puts a headscissor around Koteen’s head. “That’s almost a choke hold,” Suave says as Lee squeezes his legs together and then tries to pull Koteen over the top rope. Lee, totally focused on Nic Koteen, forgets about Little Paulie lurking about. He grabs Lee and powerbombs him in the center of the ring! The fans chant "BCEW…BCEW!" Lee pulls himself up and gets smacked with right hands from Koteen. Lee counters with a big shot of his own. Then he whips Koteen into the ropes before Nic comes back, ducks a Brock Cole Lee clothesline, and clotheslines an unsuspecting Chuck-atalie out of the ring. <strong>Chuck-atalie of the Dixie Chucks is eliminated.<br /></strong><br />Then the smelly luchador Halitosis unleashes another ‘breath of death’ on Brock Cole Lee and then follows up with a neckbreaker that sends the Vengeful Vegan over the top rope. <strong>Brock Cole Lee is eliminated.<br /></strong><br />“We are down to Little Paulie of the American Bikers, Drunken Luchador Don Martini, Smelly Luchador Halitosis,” Suave resets. The next contestant runs down to the ring- it’s Peacenik #2. “The last member of the Green World Order,” Suave announces. He is handed a note by one of the production crew. “WHAT?” Suave says, “you can’t be serious.” He shake his head. “Ladies and gentlemen. The Hollywood Left has demanded air time for their special “Golden Globe” awards so they can pat themselves on the back, engage in self-congratulations, and tell us how more enlightened and self-important they are.”</div>
<div>**<br /><strong>The Hollywood Left’s Golden Globe Awards<br /></strong>George Clooney stands behind the podium. “And the winner is,” Clooney says, “William “Kirk” Shatner’s kidney stone!” Clooney hold up a plastic jar filled with formaldehyde contains the kidney stone of William Shatner. The paparazzi takes photo after photo of Clooney, the kidney stone, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon. “This is totally ridiculous!” Suave complains, “what a bunch of egomanic, narcissist, arrogant-” A commotion erupts. “What’s this?” DeWayne Cantrell appears and whaps George Clooney over the head with a steel-folding chair. “HOLY CRAP!” an overjoyed Suave shouts, “YES! He just hit Clooney with a steel-folding chair!” *CLANG* “And he just took out Hoffman!” *CLANG* “Down goes Joaquin Phoenix.” *CLANG* “Reese Witherspoon! Even though I really liked her in Illegally Blonde.” *CLANG* Geena Davis! *CLANG* “That guy from the 40 Year Old Virgin!” DeWayne walks to the podium and directs the cameraperson to come in close, really close. The camera man obliges. Then DeWayne yells into the camera: “LET’S GET BACK TO THE @#$#ing BRAWL!” </p>
<p><strong>Back to the Bunkhouse Brawl (cont.)<br /></strong>The crowd goes wild. “I couldn’t have said it better myself!” Suave concurs, “uh, oh. Don Martini is up on the top rope again.” Little Paulie whips Halitosis into the corner. Martini loses his balance and falls hard to the floor for the elimination. <strong>Don Martini of the Flying Martini Brothers is eliminated.<br /></strong><br />Ringside, Peyton Manning jumps up and down cheering the ref. “GREAT CALL!” he shouts, “YOU’RE NUMBER ONE MAN!” The referee looks totally embarrassed.</p>
<p>“O-kay…well, while we were gone, Mr. Old School Don Rumsfeld, Ivan Rectum-Fighting Proctologist, Snott Flemmstein, and NRA from Politically Incorrect joined the Bunkhouse Brawl,” Suave advises. </p>
<p>Martini twitches on the outside. “I hope he’s okay,” Suave says, “that was not a good fall for the Drunken Luchador.” Halitosis tries to rally and goes to give the “breath of death” on Little Paulie. Instead, Little Paulie lifts up the Smelly Luchador tosses him to the floor. <strong>The Smelly Luchador Halitosis is eliminated.<br /></strong><br />Peyton Manning asks the bell ringer for his autograph. The bell ringer looks at him as if he’s insane.</p>
<p>Nic Koteen slaps his chest and front dropkicks Flemmstein and follows with a front dropkick to the midsection. Flemmstein stumbles around and tries to shoot more snot from his prostheticly enhanced nose. It jams up. “Flemmstein’s in big trouble!” Suave says as Ivan Rectum-Fighting Proctologist calls for the rubber gloves, “big BIG trouble!” *SNAP* Rectum puts on the rubber glove. Flemmstein immediately taps out. “But there’s no tapping out in the Buckland County Backbreaking Bunkhouse Brawl!” Suave says. Rectum snaps on the other glove. So instead, Flemmstein flings himself over the top rope and eliminates himself. <strong>Snott Flemmstein eliminated.<br /></strong><br />That leaves Nic Koteen and NRA of Politically Incorrect, Little Paulie from the American Bikers, Ivan Rectum-Fighting Proctologist, Mr. Old School Don Rumsfeld,. “Five in the ring and it looks like the way the draw worked out we will be seeing-,” Suave says, “...what the hell is NRA doing?” NRA inexplicatively leaps over the top rope and heads into the crowd. “Whoa. There’s something’s going on here,” Suave reports, “NRA is walking to the bar……it looks like someone’s giving his wife a hard time…” NRA confronts a guy holding two beers standing by his wife. “…or worse, he bought her a beer.” The police walk over to make sure nothing gets out of hand. In the ring, the referee signals that NRA is out. <strong>NRA eliminated.</strong> “NRA ELIMINATED HIMSELF!” Suave says. </p>
<p>NRA realizes what he’s just done. “@#$#!!!” he shouts.</p>
<p>“Well that was just weird,” Suave says. A meow SFX sounds. “YYESS!! Oh baby! Here we go! Here comes the SRB!” Enter Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie aka the Skanky Rich Bimbos. The SRB walks sleazily towards the ring followed by The ‘Sultan of Shock’ Howard Stern. “He is the next contestant!” Suave says, “the Sultan of-” “WAY TO GO JOHNNY, WAY TO GO!” Peyton Manning chants and claps, WAY TO GO JOHNNY...” “Oh Jesus, get out here!” a briefly startled Suave tells the NFL quarterback. “Nice cardboard cut-out,” Manning says pointing at the Shania Twain life-size cardboard cut-out. Suave shoos him away. “GO!” Stern enters the ring. The SRB cheers him on from the outside. “There are five men left in the ring and if my list is correct,” Suave observes, “there are only four wrestlers left to come out. Justin Sufferable of the Progressive Alliance. ‘No Frills’ Chris Escondido. A. Tom Bomb from the American Patriots. And his brother ‘Silent But Deadly’ Newt Tron Bomb- also of the American Patriots.”</p>
<p>Huge explosion sound effects. “And speaking of the Bombs,” Suave says, “it looks like it’s ‘Silent But Deadly’ Newt Tron Bomb who’s the next one in. </p>
<p>“There are five wrestlers left in the ring,” host Johnny Suave says, “‘Sultan of Shock’ Howard Stern, Ivan Rectum-Fighting Proctologist, Nic Koteen of Politically Incorrect, ‘Mr. Old School’ Don Rumsfeld, and ‘Silent But Deadly’ Newt Tron Bomb. There are three wrestlers left to come out- they are the top three contenders for the BCEW men’s championship: Justin Sufferable from the Progressive Alliance, A. Tom Bomb from the American Patriots, and Independent “No Frills” Chris Escondido.” </p>
<p>“This all started with a deal brokered by ‘Straight Shootin’ John McCain. The winner of tonight’s ‘Backbreaking Bunkhouse Brawl’ becomes the new undisputed BCEW Men’s Champion. Once we get down to the final four men, the First man to climb the ladder aka ‘Backbreak Mountain’..,” Suave refers to the ladder adjacent to the stage decorated up to look like a mountain, “…and grabs the BCEW Men’s Championship belt becomes the champion. Let’s get back to the action.”</p></div>
<div>*<br /><strong>BUCKLAND COUNTY BACKBREAKING BUNKHOUSE BRAWL (cont.)<br /></strong>Newt Tron Bomb slowly makes his way to the ring to join the other four. “He’s not in any great hurry to join the action,” Suave observes, “and he’s eating? What the hell is he eating?” Chowing on a bowl of baked beans, Newt continues to amble his way to the ring when a man dressed in a king-like costume with a ridiculously big grin on his face pushes him out of the way and bolts to the ring. “What?” a surprised Suave says, “HEY! THAT’S THAT CREEPY KING CHARACTER FROM THE BURGER KING COMMERCIALS!” The King jumps into the ring. The other four don’t quite know what to make of him. They look at each other. They look at the King. The four nod and then… “THEY’RE TAKING OUT THE KING!” Suave shouts as Howard Stern, Ivan Rectum, Nic Koteen, and Don Rumsfeld jump the king and start beating the hell out of him. “HOLY CRAP! THE CROWD’S GOING NUTS!” After a few seconds of mindless violence against a helpless TV character in costume, the four lift the King up and unceremoniously dump him out of the ring. </p>
<p>“The Burger King definitely didn’t have it his way tonight!” Suave cracks as the costumed character staggers past an amused Newt Tron Bomb towards the back. “And the referee has started to count Newt Tron Bomb out.” Now properly motivated, Newt Tron finally gets into the ring. Stern hooks up with Nic Koteen. Mr. Old School and Ivan Rectum have at it. Newt Tron stands in the middle of the ring. “Newt’s finally in there but…but…he’s standing in the ring. And he has this weird smile on his face. Why is he wearing a gas mask? And...OH MY GOD! WHAT IS THAT SMELL!......OH GOD, THAT IS RANK.” One by one, the other wrestlers start dropping like flies. “What the-…” Suave sees Newt Tron fanning his behind. “SILENT BUT DEADLY! SILENT BUT DEADLY!” he screeches as the last wrestler is overcome by the noxious fumes emitted from Newt Tron Bomb’s ass. “THEY’RE ALL OUT!” Newt Tron then dumps each one over the top rope leaving only him in the ring. </p>
<p>George W., his aide de camp Dick, The Mastermind Karl Rove rushes to the ring on one side. Bill Frist- Medicine Guy joins them to represent the American Patriots. The American Screamer Howard Dean and the Pith Lord Harry Reid races in from the other side for the Progressive Alliance. “Okay, what’s this all about?” Suave asks. Dean and Dick get into a squabble over what happens next. The Mastermind and Bill Frist chirps away at the Pith Lord Harry Reid. Meanwhile, a couple of ring technicians bring two big fans in to ventilate the leftover gas from Newt Tron Bomb. “What happens now?” Suave says, “I think that’s what they’re trying to figure out.” A few more seconds go by and the crowd grows impatient. A “BCEW…BCEW” chant rings out. Suddenly, Justin Sufferable appears. He is escorted to the ring by NFL All-American Quarterback Peyton Manning. “I think,” Suave says as ‘No Frills’ Chris Escondido comes out, “I think they’re calling the other three to the ring now!” A. Tom Bomb, led by Daisy Cutter-Bomb, follows Escondido to the ring. Then the referee brings the ladder and the championship belt into the ring. He then puts the belt up on a wire and then the belt is hoisted about fifteen feet up in the air. “Yep, they’re going to put all four in now along with the ladder. The first man to climb the ladder and grabs the belt wins the title,” Suave says, “and you know it’s crunch time now because no one’s leaving ringside.” The American Screamer Howard Dean and Pithy Harry Reid stake out one side; Bill Frist-Medicine Guy and The Mastermind Karl Rove stake out the other. George W and Dick hang back off to the side.</p>
<p>“All four men are in the ring,” Suave says, “and so it begins.” A. Tom and Newt Tron Bomb immediately attack Justin Sufferable. A. Tom took the fight to Sufferable’s left arm and shoulder. Newt Tron suckers Justin and hits a cheap shot but the Progressive Alliance champion fights back and clotheslines Newt Tron. Then A. Tom Bomb kicks Sufferable in the back and follows with chest chops and a dropkick. A. Tom hit four power suplexes in a row and Newt Tron Bomb gets into the act with punches to Justin’s head. Standing out of the way is “No Frills” Chris Escondido. Finally, A. Tom Bomb motions Escondido to join them. “Escondido hates Justin Sufferable,” Suave observes, “he wants to destroy Justin Sufferable just as much as the American Patriots do!” As A. Tom Bomb holds Sufferable, Escondido hits two boots to Sufferable’s face. Escondido delivers some right hand punches, pulls Sufferable up and backdrops him, clotheslines and chops him to the chest. Newt Tron hits a spinning kick to Sufferable’s face. “The American Screamer Howard Dean and the Pith Lord Harry Reid are up on the apron screaming at the ref!” Suave says, “the American Patriots with help from Chris Escondido are taking Justin Sufferable out!” A. Tom locks in a front guillotine choke. “Sufferable can’t hold on much longer,” Suave says, “DEAN AND REID HAVE JUMPED THE ROPES!</p>
<p>Dean and Reid rush into the ring and try to aid Sufferable. Dean shoves Newt Tron Bomb down. Reid attempts to do the same to Chris Escondido. Bad move. Escondido pushes back and knocks down the Pith Lord. “AND NOW DAISY CUTTER-BOMB IS IN THE RING!” Suave announces. Daisy Cutter, the well-endowed younger sister of the Bomb brothers, clobbers Dean from behind and begins to stomp on him. Bill Frist-Medicine Guy and The Mastermind Karl Rove cheers as Daisy Cutter delivers a leg drop on the American Screamer. “NOW NFL ALL AMERICAN QUARTERBACK PEYTON MANNING IS IN THE RING!” Daisy Cutter turns her sights on the pro football player who’s not sure he wants to be in the ring. Daisy distracts the NFL star while Newt Tron slips in from behind and clobbers Manning from behind. “Manning is down!” Suave says as the NFL QB hits the turnbuckles and drops to the mat, “Daisy Cutter Bomb and Newt Tron Bomb have neutralized the American Screamer Howard Dean and Pith Lord Harry Reid. A. Tom Bomb and Chris Escondido are destroying Justin Sufferable! ” The Mastermind Karl Rove, again, points to his head to point out, again, just what a freakin’ genius he is, again. “This was the plan all along!” Suave says, “The Mastermind has choreographed this perfectly for the American Patriots!”</p>
<p>The music of Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t Stop” suddenly starts to play and the crowd explodes when a plaid shirted man with a steel-folding chair and a mocha appears. “HOLY CRAP!” Suave wails, “HE’S HERE! HE’S BACK!” George W. and his aide de camp Dick can’t believe their eyes. “HE’S BACK!” Suave repeats, “IT’S THE TREE HUGGIN’, MOCHA CHUGGIN’, TOBACCO COMPANY BUGGIN’, INSANE EXTREME CHAIR SWINGING ALPHA MALE! THE ENVIROMENTAL EXTREME HARDCORE ICON- AL GORE!” As the crowd sings “Don’t stop, thinking about tomorrow,” Gore holds up his mocha, inside an environmentally friendly biodegradable container of course, and chugs it down. Then he spews it out of his mouth into the crowd and then crushes the paper container on his forehead in a manly fashion. “HE’S BACK IN BCEW!” Suave says as the Environmental Extreme Hardcore Icon slowly makes his way through the crowd. All action inside the rings stops as Gore continues his entrance. He pulls out another container of mocha, guzzles it down, spews it into the crowd, and then smashes the container on his forehead. </p>
<p>The crowd continues the sing along as Gore suddenly bolts for the ring. “HE’S COMING TO THE RING!” Suave says. The Mastermind Karl Rove is the first one he reaches. *CLANG* Rove goes down. Gore turns to Bill Frist-Medicine Guy. *CLANG* Same result. Daisy Cutter-Bomb leaps over the rope and *CLANG* catches the steel-folding chair flush in the face. She’s out. “THE ENVIRONMENTAL EXTREME HARDCORE ICON IS CLEANING HOUSE!” Suave roars over the crowd. Gore stares down George W and his aide de camp Dick who both try to keep their distance from him. Newt Tron Bomb then takes a swipe at Gore from inside the ring. Gore grabs his hand and drags Newt Tron over the top rope. The Bomb Brother lands on the floor and then… *CLANG* Gore drops a bomb of his own so to speak. The referee calls Newt Tron Bomb out of the Brawl. <strong>Newt Tron Bomb is eliminated.<br /></strong><br />“We’re down to three!” Suave exclaims, “Escondido. A. Tom Bomb. Justin Sufferable.” A. Tom Bomb is furious. He jaws with Gore while Escondido stays back and Sufferable tries to pull himself up. A groggy NFL All American Quarterback Peyton Manning also manages to climb back up to his feet. Manning leans back on the top rope and lays on it. “Sufferable is up but still hurt,” Suave announces, “Escondido bides his time and A. Tom Bomb is preoccupied with Al Gore.” Sufferable staggers back onto the ropes right by NFL Star Peyton Manning. Sufferable leans back on the already lowered ropes, loses his balance, and accidently flips over the top rope out of the ring. “SUFFERABLE IS OUT!” Suave cries as Manning looks down at Sufferable incredulously, “THE ALL-AMERICAN QUARTERBACK HAS JUST BLOWN ANOTHER BIG GAME!” Sufferable sits on the floor in total disbelief. <strong>Justin Sufferable is eliminated.<br /></strong><br />“Here comes the American Screamer,” Suave says Howard Dean races to the ring, “Dean is lighting up the referee. He is pissed.” Dean, Gore, and eventually Sufferable get into a heated protracted argument with the referee over Justin’s elimination. Sufferable demands to be put back in the ring. The referee refuses and again motions that Sufferable is gone from the brawl. While this is going on, George W’s aide de camp Dick slips in unnoticed. He reaches into his pants pocket and produces a shiny metal object. “What the hell?” Suave asks, “THAT’S A FOREIGN OBJECT! DICK HAS A FOREIGN OBJECT AND HE’S GOING TO GIVE IT TO A. TOM BOMB!” After making sure that the referee wasn’t looking, Dick tries to slip the shiny metal object to A. Tom. Suddenly, the crowd noise surges. “WHAT?” Suave says, not sure what’s happening now, “IT’S…IT’S……IT’S THE STRAIGHT SHOOTER JOHN MCCAIN!” McCain goes to the ring and confronts Dick about the foreign object. Dick tries to hide the object and look innocent. McCain doesn’t buy it. “McCain caught him red handed. He wants the object,” Suave says. McCain grabs for the foreign object and tries to pry it out of Dick’s hand. Dick desperately tries to hang on to it. As A. Tom Bomb looks down helplessly as the two men grapple over the foreign object, ‘No Frills’ Chris Escondido seizes the opportunity and delivers a stiff forearm shot to the back of A. Tom Bomb and pushes him over the top rope out of the ring. <strong>A. Tom Bomb is eliminated.</strong> </p>
<p>“THAT’S IT!” Suave shouts, “CHRIS ESCONDIDO IS GOING TO BECOME THE NEW BCEW MEN’S CHAMPION!” Dick is in total shock. George W. stares at the ring with his mouth wide open. The referee breaks off his conversation with the American Screamer and goes to the ladder. The American Patriots watches helplessly as Escondido quickly climbs Backbreak Mountain (aka a very tall ladder dressed up as a mountain) and grabs the BCEW Men’s championship belt. </p>
<p><strong>“No Frills” Chris Escondido wins the Buckland County Backbreaking Bunkhouse Brawl.<br /></strong><br />“HE’S DONE IT!” Suave says, “HE’S DONE IT! CHRIS ESCONDIDO IS THE CHAMPION! HOLY FREAKIN’ CRAP! CHRIS ESCONDIDO HAS PULLED IT OFF! UNFREAKIN’ BELIEVEABLE!” The Hack’s Rusty Nail Saloon audience gives Escondido a standing ovation. George W., his aide de camp Dick, The Mastermind Karl Rove and the other members of the American Patriots all look like they’re about to hurl. Justin Sufferable and his Progressive Alliance mates are equally as distraught at the turn of events. A stream of independent wrestlers join Escondido in the ring to congratulate him: The American Bikers- Big Paulie and Little Paulie, Politically Incorrect- Nic Koteen, Al Cahall, and NRA, Drunken Luchadors Dan and Don-the Flyin’ Martini Brothers among others.</p>
<p>“Thanks to ‘Straight Shootin’ John McCain,” Suave recaps, “who stopped Dick from slipping A. Tom Bomb a foreign object, “Chris Escondido was able to knock A. Tom over the ropes and claim the BCEW Men’s Championship belt. That is it from Hack’s Rusty Nail Saloon. This is Johnny Suave for BCEW- Buckland County Extreme Wrestling.”</p></div>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sen. Obama's campaign is organized upon a central contradiction, because even as Sen. Obama the candidate postures and poses as a trans- or a post-partisan synthesizer of all values, he continues to fund and develop the most massive base-mobilization and get-out-the-vote (GOTV) operation in US campaign history, a 50 state organization already 5 times the size of the '04 Bush campaign in terms of paid staff alone.</p>
<p>Regard:</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">[...] <em>"Behind the headlines about the unprecedented success of Democrat Barack Obama's fund-raising machine lies a more prosaic truth---his campaign will need every penny of its $300 million goal to bankroll an unprecedented 50-state general election campaign with a massive army on the ground,"</em> writes Brian C. Mooney for www.boston.com in a story titled <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/07/20/obamas_paid_staff_dwarfing_mccains?mode=PF" target="_blank">Obama's paid staff dwarfing McCain's Democrat targets 50 states as rival focuses on tossups</a></p>
<p style="padding-left:60px;"><em>His campaign already has by far the largest full-time paid staff in presidential campaign history, and unlike Republican rival John McCain's, continues to grow by the day.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left:60px;"><em>National polls show the race remains close between Obama and McCain, but the Obama campaign is paying closer attention to polls in more than a dozen states that show Obama has a chance of winning in November. The states were won four years ago by President Bush, in many cases by huge margins. In theory, at least, Obama's effort could nudge states such as Virginia, Indiana, and North Dakota into the Democratic column and produce a surprising Electoral College boost.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left:60px;"><em>McCain so far is running a more traditional campaign, targeting perennial tossup states such as Florida and Ohio, sending smaller staffs to those states than Obama, but spending more on television ads. His campaign manager, Rick Davis, said recently that his staff will eventually increase to about 450. By earlier this month, it had opened 11 regional offices in key states and another 84 offices across the country in a joint effort with the Republican National Committee. </em>[...]</p>
<p style="padding-left:60px;">[...] <em>In their nomination fight, the Obama and Clinton campaigns built sophisticated state-by-state organizations, often in a matter of weeks. Hildebrand said the Obama campaign employed three different organizing models over the course of the campaign, and in May, about 30 of the top state and field directors met to map a strategy for the general election. They came up with a neighborhood and volunteer-based plan that incorporates elements of the Republican model under Karl Rove and Ken Mehlman for Bush's 2004 reelection campaign, on which Schmidt worked closely with Rove. The GOP used commercial marketing data and volunteers organized Bush supporters around the "virtual precinct" of their own social networks.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left:60px;"><em>"This allows us to increase the volume of voters we're talking to and have it be done with people who live in their community," Hildebrand said.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left:60px;"><em>Veteran Democratic operative John Sasso of Massachusetts said that level of organization is "unprecedented on the Democratic side." The Obama model, particularly in its use of the Internet as an organizing tool, is a significant upgrade, he said.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left:60px;"><em>"People tend to believe information delivered by people they know and who live in their neighborhood more than an ad they see on television or what some third party from out of their state is telling them," said Sasso, who supported Clinton in the primaries and has played key roles in many presidential campaigns. "It can really change the electoral map"</em> [...]</p>
<p>Through Sen. Obama the center-left's stern opposition to Karl Rove's principles of messaging and campaigning has passed into its opposite: it has become the mirror image of Rove himself, Rove the ground-gamer, Rove the relentless organizer and mobilizer of the base. Rove has become <em>anti</em>-Rove.</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">[...] <em>"I believe this shift from hard data to intangibles is a function of the Internet-driven base mobilization era in which we now live,"</em> writes Patrick Ruffini in a www.thenextright.com blog burst titled <a href="http://www.thenextright.com/patrick-ruffini/enthusiasm-over-electability" target="_blank">Enthusiasm Over Electability</a></p>
<p style="padding-left:60px;"><em>The media has basically conceded that the election will be patterned after 2000 and 2004, in that it will be close. In close elections, polls can't tell you who'll win as reliably. So the emphasis is on derivative factors like the GOTV operation or crowd size or enthusiasm which will enable one candidate to outperform the polls. The Rove model, which 1) the media buys into, and 2) places a heavier emphasis on an energized base over tacking to the center, has perversely redounded to the benefit of Obama, who has the energized base this year.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left:60px;"><em>Back in the Republican primary, McCain's big argument was electability. But in an environment in which the most electable candidate will also be pilloried by the media (and to be fair, the base itself) as the least energizing candidate, I'm not sure we should be deciding primaries on electability in the future. Assuming the electability gap between the candidates is small enough, the ability to generate grassroots enthusiasm can make up for being less "electable"</em> [...]</p>
<p style="padding-left:60px;">[...] What the bases say can submarine a candidate more easily because it's more ingrained in the media narrative than it was a few elections ago.</p>
<p style="padding-left:60px;">The old Nixonian maxim of run to the right in the primary, and to the center in the general, is out the window. It's been replaced by running on whatever will keep the crowds stoked for 24 months straight, because that's what leads to better stories and better mojo [...]</p>
<p>Democrats need to study hard how Karl Rove influenced Republican electoral fortunes, because the Rove doctrine of mobilizing the base at the expense of a larger coalition culminated in loss of both houses of congress in 2006. Before that the Rove doctrine in its most current form at the time began to yield diminishing marginal returns in 2004 when Pres. George Bush only barely prevailed in Ohio and nationally despite massive investment. Here is why: to govern from a base is not just unsustainable. It is a contradiction in terms. To govern requires compromise. Compromise is by definition what a base cannot support. President Clinton---a man whom we despise---understood this---alas. He governed from the center and fought for principles like free trade despite the urgent protests of his own base. President Bush by way of contrast suffered mightily when he tried to demonstrate independence on issues like entitlements (the prescription drug benefit) or immigration, and he received nothing in return for his pain from Democrats or independents. In the end the GOP base collapsed.</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">[...]<em> "In the eyes of the Bush team, the United States is a polarized country, where there are fundamental divisions worth fighting over,"</em> writes Mark Halperin in an October 2006 article ironically titled<a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/03/opinion/edhalp.php" target="_blank"> Why Karl Rove's strategy still works</a>, an article that describes as well as any other the operational concepts of the Rove doctrine.</p>
<p style="padding-left:60px;"><em>A president - and a party - should not worry about slender margins of victory or legislative control. The goal is to accumulate just enough power to use the energies and passions of the base to effect ideological change in America's laws and institutions, even if - sometimes especially if - those changes might be at odds with majority public opinion.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left:60px;"><em>For the Republicans, this brand of politics works because polls consistently indicate that there are more staunchly conservative Americans than liberal ones. Republican politicians, therefore, have the advantage of being able to proudly announce what they really think. They can go on offense.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left:60px;"><em>It's important to note that this strategy depends on something else: the inability of Democrats to play by the same rules, to go on offense.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left:60px;"><em>If Democrats in Congress took a secret ballot, it is safe to say there would be overwhelming support for a variety of positions that, in theory, could rally the party's base: a timely withdrawal of American troops from Iraq; a tax increase for the wealthy; universal health care, and increased rights for homosexuals. These are all positions in line with the activist wing of their party.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left:60px;"><em>And yet if the Democrats actually articulated what was in their hearts, they would be marching into a buzz saw of negative political commercials and White House-led attacks. But their chosen alternative - in which they swallow their true beliefs on important national issues - demoralizes their own base.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left:60px;"><em>Such equivocation is the kind of themeless pudding that does not match up well with the conviction of the White House message and is uninspiring to both the Democrats' base and the center</em> [...]</p>
<p>Halperin in October of 2006 underestimated the collapse of confidence of the conservative movement in its own assumptions and conclusions. What with the petroluem and food supply shocks of 2007 going into 2008, the fall of the US banking system, the mortgage crisis, the increasing isolation and estrangement of the Bush White House---the Democrats and the center-left in general assume perhaps correctly that confidence in conservative principle remains at a low ebb.</p>
<p>Yet Sen. Obama must still equivocate and dissemble from behind his teleprompter. You can draw your own conclusions from that.</p>
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