New Poll: Americans are pissed

Six years of a moron as president is finally paying off.

A majority -- 55 percent -- said they are more likely to back a challenger in races on this year's ballot. Such anti-incumbent sentiment is higher than the 48 percent recorded as "pro-challenger" in a similar survey in 1994, when the GOP took control of both houses of Congress....

More than 60 percent of those surveyed said government policies need either major changes or a complete overhaul, while 30 percent said minor changes were needed. Only 7 percent said no change is necessary....

Nearly half of the respondents -- 49 percent -- said they considered the GOP the party of strong leadership. But 56 percent said they considered the Democrats the party of change, with 49 percent considering them the more forward-looking party.

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BBC to air Clinton-bashing fictional account of September 11

While I'm perhaps not surprised that an American TV network, always on the lookout for the next big chance to suck up to the Republicans and make a quick buck at the same time, would trivialize the deaths of 3,000 people by turning their collective murder into little more than a soap opera, I expected a bit more class out of the BBC. Read the rest of this post...

Open thread

Mission accomplished yet? Read the rest of this post...

Rick Santorum does NOT have a hang-up with working women

I'm sure all you gals out there will be happy to hear that Ricky is a with-it guy:

How did Santorum get to the point at which he was insisting, quite seriously, that "I don't have a hang-up with working women"?

The question came on a note card by someone identified as a "working woman and single mother." She asked why she should vote for him after he wrote the 2005 book, "It Takes a Family," in which he said "radical feminism" is his reason why working parents are leaving their kids at home alone or under someone else's care.

"The radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness," Santorum wrote.

Democrats have had a field day with the book, while women seem to be abandoning him. In the latest Keystone Poll, Santorum wins among men but culls only 34 percent of women's votes, compared to 47 percent for Democratic rival Bob Casey Jr.

Santorum, however, defended himself at the luncheon, blaming, this time, the more palatable reason of federal taxes on parents' absence from home.

"Look, I believe that women should have choices when it comes to the work force. And they should be real choices. And look, I came from a family where my mother worked, all her life, made more money than my dad. I have more people working in my office who are women, in senior policy positions, than men. So I don't have a hang-up with women working."

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Bush administration incompetence fouls up installation of bomb detectors in US airports

Bush's incompetence may actually lead to your airplane exploding some day. If you think that's just jiffy, vote Republican. Read the rest of this post...

Bush: Jews are all going to hell

And a happy Labor Day to you too, George Bush. Read the rest of this post...

GOP Congress blocked Clinton push for anti-terror legislation

CNN, July 30, 1996

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, emerged from the meeting and said, "These are very controversial provisions that the [Clinton] White House wants. Some they're not going to get." ....[Hatch] also said he had some problems with the president's proposals to expand wiretapping.

So Bill Clinton, rather than just breaking the law as Bush did (then again, perhaps this is why Bush broke the law - he knew from history that the Republicans controlling the congress would oppose his efforts to expand wiretapping), decided to go to the Republican congress in 1996 and ask them for increased authority to do more eavesdropping in order to stop the terrorists - stop September 11. Senior Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, one of the GOP's top picks for the Supreme Court and a GOP committee chair, objected.

The Republicans stopped President Clinton from getting all the tools he needed to stop the next September 11 - well, no, actually they opposed giving President Clinton all the tools he needed to stop the actual September 11. Could September 11 have been stopped if the GOP had given President Clinton the tools he requested to stop Osama and Mohammad Atta from killing 3,000 people in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington?

Maybe we need to ask the Republicans up for re-election why they wanted to appease the terrorists?

President Clinton urged Congress Tuesday to act swiftly in developing anti-terrorism legislation before its August recess.

"We need to keep this country together right now. We need to focus on this terrorism issue," Clinton said during a White House news conference.

But while the president pushed for quick legislation, Republican lawmakers hardened their stance against some of the proposed anti-terrorism measures.

There's even an audio clip of President Clinton practically begging the Republicans to give him the tools he needed to stop Osama and the terrorists. Trent Lott said no. Orrin Hatch said no. Do these men really deserve to run the Congress during a time of war? Read the rest of this post...

NYT: Republicans in danger of losing the US House

Well, they've lost the war and their minds so why not add the House to the list. More from the NYT. Read the rest of this post...

Labor Day Open Thread

Summer's over...more or less...it's campaign season til November 7.

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Flip-floppers? Cowards?

Or just standard, run of the mill political opportunists? Suddenly the GOP wants to show America that they are somehow independent from the failed policies of the Bush administration. Uh huh, right.

Consider Rep. Deborah Pryce , the fourth-ranking House Republican struggling to hold onto her seat in an evenly split district in central Ohio, near Columbus.

In 2004, her campaign Web site featured a banner of her and Bush sitting together, smiling. But in her latest television ad, Pryce is described as "independent." The spot also highlights how she "stood up to her own party" and the president to support increased federal funds for embryonic stem-cell research.

Read on to see how so many other flip-floppers have responded to a little heat. Talk about cut and run...that sums up the GOP strategy for 2006. Run as far away from Dear Leader as possible.

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