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Was Ronald Reagan an Even Worse President Than George W. Bush?
Source: AlterNet.org

There's been talk that George W. Bush was so inept that he should trademark the phrase "Worst President Ever," though some historians would bestow that title on pre-Civil War President James Buchanan. Still, a case could be made for putting Ronald Reagan in the competition...

Liz Cheney's group 'Keep America Safe' takes on 'radical' White House
Source: Politico

excerpt: "" Former Vice President Dick Cheney's eldest daughter Liz will launch a new group aimed at rallying opposition to the "radical" foreign policy of the Obama administration which it says has succeeded only in undermining the nation's security. ""

"Wait on the hilltop until the end, the rest of us are going to get on with rebuilding our country."
Source: AlterNet.org

Rachel Maddow: Why Do 1/3 of New Jersey Conservatives Think Obama Might Be the Anti-Christ? The following is a transcript from Rachel Maddow's Sept. 16 show of her interview with Christian Right expert Frank Schaeffer:

Crazy Birther Infomercial Airing in Seven States: Is Yours One of Them?
Source: AlterNet.org

Talking Points Memo has the goods: A new birther infomercial running on a CBS affiliate in Texas and elsewhere around the country tells viewers a "got a birth certificate?" bumper sticker can be theirs for the low price of $30.

The Reemergence Of Discredited Neocons: Right-Wing Conference To Advocate A Surge In Afghanistan
Source: Think Progress

excerpt: ""The Foreign Policy Initiative (aka "PNAC 2.0"), an organization which is headed by neoconservatives Bill Kristol, Robert Kagan, and Dan Senor, is holding a conference today and tomorrow on "Advancing & Defending Democracy." FPI arose after its previous incarna …

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (video)
Source: afterdowningstreet

Like today, Vietnam had its Neocons and Zionist war criminals, Nixon and Kissinger, when Bush and his Zionist imperial thugs also lied us into an illegal war in Iraq, or today, Obama and Rham Emanuel, as liberal warmongers, and Zionist war cheerleaders who continue their fascist …

Sarah Palin: Neocon Pawn?
Source: MotherJones.com

A group of conservative foreign policy advocates—including a bevy of neoconservatives—this week sent President Barack Obama a letter urging him to stand firm in Afghanistan and vowing their support for him (on Afghanistan) if he did so.

Sarah Palin, William Kristol & Howard Dean: Neocons and Neolibs Unite for the War in Afghanistan
Source: AlterNet.org

PNAC recently re-branded itself under the new name of the Foreign Policy Initiative. On September 7, the FPI sent a letter to President Obama about Afghanistan, eerily similar to the one PNAC sent Clinton calling for regime change in Iraq in 1998.

Republican Party Has Become "Cash for Clunkers"
Source: The Huffington Post

The Republican Party is disintegrating in front of our eyes. The latest Gallup Poll has them leading in party identification in six states. Six! They're tied in two. That means they're trailing in 42 states!

Violence at Tampa Healthcare Forum
Source: 10 Connects

It finally happened. Some right wing nuts just got out of hand over health care.

Iran hangs 13 'enemies of Allah'
Source: Yahoo! News

The terrorist regime of mullahs ruling the Islamic Republic of Iran today hanged 13 members of the diehard Sunni outfit named Jondullah, but spared the life of the brother of the militant outfit's founder, Abdulmalik Rigi.

In Defense of Neo-Con Bashing
Source: Think Progress

I think it really has to be understood as a vital social necessity. Adherents of a deranged and sociopoathic "neocon" conception of America's role in the world continue to be tremendously influential in our society.

The GOP's Palin Food Fight: Why Now?
Source: The Huffington Post

This is a fight between some neocons who still want to promote Palin and their discredited geopolitical agenda against some Republican would-be modernizers.

Growing Opinion That Cheney is Psychotic?

Speculations about Dick Cheney's motives for what he has done and said have a long history. Negative opinions about the man became common over the years.

Death of the Neocons(Politicially Speaking...)
Source: The Daily Beast

Paul Wolfowitz, Robert Kagan and the same old crew of discredited neoconservatives who pushed America into Iraq have returned again to chastise President Obama for not force-feeding Iran their democracy. That not even other Republicans are biting might spell the end of an era.

Why Obama Sits Still As Iran Burns

The 12 June 2009 Iranian election - and its continuing aftermath of protests and controversy - has turned out to be all the rage on propaganda networks around the globe. The American media, in particular, are hot & heavy on the case.

While the Economy Crashes and Burns, Bush Loyalists Are Making a Killing
Source: AlterNet.org

In May, the U.S. economy lost 345,000 nonfarm jobs, pushing the unemployment rate from 8.9% to 9.4%.

Night of the living neocons
Source: Salon.com

The shameless fools whose Iraq folly empowered Iran's hard-liners are back, smearing Obama as an appeaserLike Rasputin, the unhinged "Mad Monk" whom they sometimes seem to have adopted as an intellectual role model, the neoconservatives who brought us the Iraq war refuse to die.

The Bipartisanship of Fools
Source: Truthdig

" Where did we get the idea that the only good health care bill is a bipartisan bill? Is bipartisanship more important than whether a proposal is practical and effective? And if bipartisanship is a legitimate goal, isn't each party equally responsible for achieving it?"

Night of the living neocons
Source: Salon.com

The shameless fools whose Iraq folly empowered Iran's hard-liners are back, smearing Obama as an appeaser

Why American Neo-Cons Wanted Ahmadinejad to win
Source: The Huffington Post

The only people happier than the Iranian elites over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's apparently stolen election win Friday, were the neoconservatives and other hawks eager to block any efforts by the Obama administration to moderate U.S.

Morning Joe "S".--Wow; It/He Gets Ya' Goin'!

"Morning Joe", ya' gott'a love it! Loads of male regulars and the obligatory big name pundits--practically damaging their mutual private parts--while consistently ignoring the lone (often uncomfortable) co-host, woman; or shall we deem her the: [honorary dude] of the domineering …

U.S. Neocons Favor Ahmadinejad in Iranian Election
Source: Talking Points Memo

As Iranians go to the polls to elect a president, American neoconservatives are openly rooting not for moderate reform candidate and former prime minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi but for anti-U.S. hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Myths and falsehoods surrounding the Sotomayor nomination
Source: Media Matters for America

SUMMARY: The media have advanced numerous myths and falsehoods about Sonia Sotomayor.

Blown circuits: Rove levels attack on Sotomayor based on false claim that she and Alito were colleagues
Source: Media Matters for America

SUMMARY: Karl Rove claimed that he "got wind of" allegations that Sonia Sotomayor "was combative, opinionated, argumentative" while reviewing the record of her "colleague on the court" Samuel Alito. In fact, Sotomayor served on the 2nd U.S.

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