Graham just returned from a two week stint! ROTFLMAO! Did you hear that soldiers in Iraq! How funny!

Seriously. Who the hell gets a TWO WEEK tour of duty in Iraq? We're sending soldiers back for their third, fourth and fifth tours, with less and less time Stateside between tours. What a hypocrite!

Well, I am glad to see unaccustomed candor on the part of the President's new adviser, Ed Gillespie, who tells us what we may expect in our "constitutional democracy" for the rest of President Bush's term: "As for the rest of Bush's term, Gillespie said THE PRESIDENT MIGHT OPT TO ENACT THINGS THROUGH EXECUTIVE ORDER IF CONGRESS DOES NOT AGREE WITH HIS PRIORITIES." So much for Article I of the Constitution, fellow Americans, from now on the legislative function of our "constitutional democracy" will be handled by our self-styled Decider. Does anyone recall this President having (twice) taken a solemn oath "to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic" (as well as to "faithfully execute the laws" that Congress has enacted under its Article I powers)? Is not a President who usurps the Article I legislative powers of the Constitution and exercises them himself under his Article II "executive" powers -- whenever "Congress does not agree with his priorities" -- an "enemy" of the Constitution and laws he has sworn to uphold and enforce? In the entire history of our republic, has there ever been such an egregious abuse of power by a President? Is there NOTHING that will prompt our complaisant and cowardly "representatives" in Congress to get off their sorry asses and defend our Constitution against this tyrant? Since when did the express Constitutional remedy of "impeachment" become inoperative? Some of us have long enough memories to recall that Congress impeached another President within the past decade for offenses which pale in comparison to this bloodless coup.

may the jan 2009 presidential innauguration pls come soon and put our wonderful country out if its misery,,, a loose canon of a president, advisers that rubberstamp everything this man wants.. repubs dems and independents want a leader who garners respect not mockery to make our United States strong and a leader again in the world... it will take decades to fix the problems this administration is responsible .. all with the US death toll nearing 4,000, 28,000 us seriously maimed and the Iraqi civilians in the 10,000's

We cannot afford to let Bush serve out his term! No telling what
new horrors he will perpetrate, and what is the story on Congress!? Is the American public not expressing themselves
strongly enough? Everybody needs to call Nancy Pelosi's
'impeachment line' at 202 225-0100 and tell her what you think in no uncertain terms. It's our fault if 300 million Americans let these pathetic fools we elected continue this war and run our country into the ground while they take away our liberties. You can also e-mail Pelosi at AmericanVoices@mail.house.gov. or at
sf.nancy@mail.house.gov. Come on, Americans, get busy!!!

Why does a president have to present a nominee to a post and have them scrutinized, The law says, Congress shall Approve and Consent, Politicians have become unscrupulous and frankly I see no politician in DC worthy to past judgement upon another. I urge Americans to Unite as one people, not be divided through preached hatred from a politician that can barely muster up 16% favourably rating himself. I wonder just how many of them would enjoy walking the Gauntlet of personal attack in front of the world.

Much of what I read is Franky UN-American in these few posts.
Such hatred for one another and to think much of this hatred is just allowing one self to become brainwashed by none other then Unscrupulous politicians.
Americans must wake up, do not believe anything you read or hear from none other then hateful politicians. I suggest that one take a ride on the Internet deep into other lands, read the local newspapers and see, hey Americans especially Bush is not hated by the majority, just a few uninformed radicals who want to stir up problems. As far as President Bush ordering wiretaps on Bin Laden calling his cronies here in America and yelling send more money, keep this in mind, President Clinton ordered wiretaps of every Americans baby monitors, he was wanting info on Republicans who wanted him impeached, yet if you had a baby monitor running and you were making love to your wife, Make it be known, President Clinton was listening to this. I urge you to research what you should say prior to making wild unfettered accusations without Merritt, Just because someone who hates Bush decides to publish lies, or even lies about Clinton, it is your responsibility to research those words prior to restating them your self. We have 2 new Chancellors, President or world leaders which ever way you would receive them, Germany, and France, both of them ran on friendship with Bush and they won heavily. Propaganda does work to the uniformed, Please research your words carefully, then look Wise and Knowledgeable when you speak out.
Ed

I love it, you seek impeachment based on differences of Ideology. You can not understand why Democrats have not impeached Bush yet, and you claim Bush a lawless President who makes up his own laws and thwarts Congress. The only strings Congress has to overrule a President is to cut off his purse strings. Make this note worthy, when polled and straight answers were given, only Charlie Rangel said he saw reasons to impeach President Bush. So many hatters of Bush have no clues as to what is truth, you listen to Politicians, and they politicize most everything for a reason, to brainwash you into believing their way is better them the other. One day you will have looked back upon Bush tracking Terrorists within America, One day when you get your wish and a President waits until an attack is happening and allows the local law enforcement agencies to seek them out and arrest them. Last year on the Southern Border, some 5 thousand Terrorist supporters who's names are on the world terrorist list tried to sneak into America across the Mexican American border, look this up in the web site of Immigration department, they believe that some 15 thousand Terrorists made it through. Just last year, some 5 thousand of these Terrorists were caught and deported by Bush and his wiretapping of known Terrorists sending emails, or making phone calls into America from a cave or other known sites in the world. After the wiretaps were ordered to stop while the court system decided if it was constitutional, the FISA Court went from 2 weeks delay in obtaining a wiretap warrant to 1.5 years, so now Terrorists are not listened to and only by the grace of God has their attempts been stopped. Once again I Urge you to research what you say prior to speaking out and looking unwise. Congress stepped in before the Court was to overturn the stoppage of these wiretap's and gave the President authorization to again order wiretaps, however to the not so informed the courts ruled the wiretaps of Bush CONSTITUTIONAL, so under what grounds does Bush need to be impeached, Iraq, did you know that 27 countries had joined the invasion of Iraq, only 4 refused, South Korea because they could not spare any more troops, they have 200 in Afghanistan, and France, Germany and Russia who were doing business in Sadam and did not want to jeopardise it. Germany and France are both supporting the Iraq war and have tropps training Iraqi army personnel, that has been going on for 2 years, only they do not have the troops to send into Iraq, which the Media does not report, just as America does not have the troops to send in to Iraq when Generals were saying we need 500 thousand, in order to do this we would have had to implement a draft, we do not have that many ground troops, But then you would rather show hatred because you listened to a politician rather then seeking out the truth on the web, yes lies are told on both sides, but when Joe Wilson went to Nigeria, he was not sent by VP Cheney's office, he was sent by the half of the CIA that with Politics wanted to make Bush look bad. Look to the truth in facts, then judge a man or a president. I am Republican, I thought Clinton was a great president till he defiles the Oval office and lied to a grand Jury and to a Federal Court as a cover up. Yes Clinto signed into law all the Bills pushed before him by a Republican Controlled Newt Gingrich Congress, so as you look forward to having a all Democratic Government, just look back to the tax hike Clinton placed onto all who made over 23 thousand as a family of 4, that was until Newt sent up a tax cut which spurred the economy boom which only President Clinto receives credit for, look to the library of Congress to seek out the truth, study all the bills presented and just see who voted to enact a tax hike of 18% onto all Americans, Thank God for Newt Gingrich and the DOP controlled Congress for stopping this.
Ed

Ed McGarvey:

Get a clue. Most free-breathing Americans I know do not want our country turned into a third-world dictatorship. The reason Bush has such a consistent low approval rating is because most Americans (~70%) have come to see him as just an evil despot, just as evil as any around the world (note Bush's signing statments and executive orders to get around seperation of powers, his assault on both the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, in short his unprecedented secrecy and usurpation of power and abuse of power--if you cannot see it you are truly delusional). The fact that there is ~30% that still support these Bush thugs speaks tons about the ignorance of ~30% of this nation. The 30% should be shipped to China since they enjoy such a despotic governance--the rest of us are extremly angry and want to see our once-free nation restored to the democratic principles our government was founded on.

When are these Senators going to learn that in Bush they are dealing with a spoiled adolescent who fancies himself a macho, alpha male who takes even the most innocuous suggestions from the other branches of government as a challenge to his manhood? Want a professional to be nominated as AG? Here's how you do it: Leahy should have suggested that Bush appoint someone so far left that it arouses and angers moderate conservatives--someone like say, Katheleen Kennedy Townsend. That would establish the far left as a starting point for democrats and be so absurdly unlikely that appointing a moderate conservative would seem reasonable.

Bush is like one of those adolescent, overtestosteronized gang leaders who swagger about the streets letting everyone know who the big dog is. If you challenge this silly view he has of himself, he is likely to jut out his little boy jaw and come back with some knuckledragging neanderthal with an asinine legal philosophy. In those cases Bush always wins because the GOP is still frightened of his standing with that 30% base of...well, knuckledragging neanderthals.

Bush hasnt been a Uniter since he took office, why start now.

Monday, September 3, 2007
surprise visit to this isolated and well fortified air field
Bush's dramatic and secretive visit
"The president heard about this idea and instantly took to it and that's why we're doing it," Hadley said.
isolated air base in the middle of a northern Iraqi desert
has a 13-mile perimeter and is home to 10,000 U.S. troops, including 7,000 Marines and 3,ooo members of the Army.
Although Bush has touted the substantial political and security progress made in Anbar province, HE IS NOT SCHEDUCLED TO LEAVE THE SECURITY OF THE BASE to see those changes first hand.
some people who might try to derive this trip as a photo opportunity
The mission to shore up support for the war was shared with only a small circle of White House staffers and members of the media, who were told that if news of his trip leaked early, it would be scrapped.
And the U.S. command said a soldier was killed and three others injured when a roadside bomb blew up next to their patrol on Sunday outside of Baghdad. No further details were released.
Ed McGarvey, Bush is a coward. Lindsey Graham goes for two weeks, Bush goes in secret YET THOSE TWO ARE THE LOUDEST IN WANTING TO KEEP AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN IRAQ! Odd.

Corndog's man in the can, Republi-can Senator Larry E. Craig is a follower of the David Vitter School of Servicing the Public but at least Craig didn't have to pay for it. Vitter's wife has vowed to castrate the worm but Senator David Vitter must not be allowed to continue to soil the US Senate. Can Corndog fill in the crack until there is a replacement? And like David Vitter and many Republicans, Craig's excessively wide stance claiming that he was a champion of family values is false. He was a champion of Bush Family values; Big difference. No matter how many children Mark Foley and his Bushie cronies claim to be "protecting", you should not believe Republi-can propaganda about Republi-cans' so-called "morality". His stance is so wide that he pleasured the Gun Perverts of America with Cho and even serves on The Board of Directors of the National Gun-Pervert Association and has gained a national reputation as a stalwart against the environment and against keeping America clean while Dirty Bush soils the White House with Karl Rove's intern semen and his own children.

The demon spawn of Karl Rove's intern has stained not only the White House and Bush's own children but Rovehos continue to spawn, blossoming like turds. And Warner is leaving and Vitter is staying? That's not right. Senator Vitter should also be pushed out like a loaf of Turdblossom. Corndog's man in the can, Republi-can Senator Larry E. Craig is a follower of the David Vitter School of Servicing the Public but at least Craig didn't have to pay for it. Give this Bushie a presidential medal of freedom! While the Singing Senators were playing with children, the Bushes protected Senator Mark Foley (Republican, Florida) and enjoyed a sausage tasting with Bush White House spiritual leader Pastor Ted Haggard at prayer breakfast - while Bush simultaneously forced millions of Iraqi women and children into David Vitter-style prostitution and human trafficking but Vitter is still sitting in the Senate with his thousands of wasteful no-bid Republi-can pork barrel sprawl industry earmarks. Senator Vitter (Republican - The State Formerly Containing New Orleans) followed Neil Bush's example of Bush Family values. Bushy Bob Allen (Republican, Florida) is not only another RPOF backroom insider, he is also another Florida Republican who did it like they do on the Discovery Channel and Bushie Republican Senator Larry E. Craig certainly fits tightly in Bush's loyal family. But Senator Vitter was in bed with the Singing Senators in humping the American people and he continues to stand behind Singing Senator Trent Lott in the Senate and push his pork through as hard as he can. So now we know what made the Singing Senators sing!

Let the eagle soar all the way to Iraq:

Five rugs for five bucks!!

First-tier candidate Senator Joseph Biden, dismissed the argument that a military push on the part of the United States could by itself ensure the political success of the Iraqi government. "Look, the idea there's going to be a strong, central government in Iraq is not going to happen in your lifetime, it's not going to happen in mine," Biden told CBS News chief Washington correspondent Smiling Bob. "It's the central fallacy of this administration's policy."

"The purpose of this surge was to give breathing room to acquire some political reconciliation. There is no political reconciliation. And the total number of Iraqi civilian deaths are up around Iraq, not down. The number of people fleeing their homes has gone from 50,000 a month to 100,000 a month since the surge."

"It is true things are better where our military is physically sitting. But it's like putting your fist in the water - the minute you take the fist out of the water, you can't even tell it was ever there. That's why there's a need for a political settlement.

"It doesn't matter how many troops we put there. Unless you have a political settlement, when we leave we're going to leave chaos behind. And you'll find you have a regional war.

In addition, Bush has forced millions of Iraqi women and children into David Vitter-style prostitution and anal trafficking. Two million Iraqi refugees have the right to settle in Houston where they can control the Iraqi oil. That does not mean they have the right to settle in Sweden. They have the right to settle in Houston where they can control the Iraqi oil.

About the only things president dopey can possible unite are his shoelaces, and even that is debatable.

Senator Lindsey Graham must be absolutely exhausted after his two week stint in Iraq. Fortunately, he found the strength to appear on Face The Nation to offer his valuable insight on Iraq and the Attorney General vacancy. Now, he can concentrate his efforts on transforming President Bush into the "uniter" from that of the "divider." Should I hold my breath waiting? Mr. Graham along with Newt Gingrich will always be remembered for their role in the impeachment of that "bad boy," Bill Clinton, while apparently looking past all the "naughtiness" occurring within the ranks of their own GOP. Mr. Gingrich, in particular and without a conscience was pursuing Mr. Clinton while carrying on an affair which of course he has "clarified" since exposed as not falling into the same "naughty boy" category. Mr. Graham also meets the requirements of a hypocrite by being blinded to the wrongs committed by his own party.

It's obvious the summer vacation is over, since the senseless biting remarks of republicans, not understanding how anyone can be against their exaulted imperial leader. He is the king of cutting laws to the edge of insanity, and breaking conventions left and right. when was the last time we started a war? Tortured people, illegally wiretaped and so on, claiming the threst and fear was greater than the principle involved. these people spent the month on the beach chugging mojitos and wondering where the tapdance porcelean is from where they were. Not all republicans are sock
tuckers, and it doesnt even matter, but doing it and denying it are the favorite tactics of this administration, or claming secrecy so that no one questions the legality or morality or sense of what the neocons are doing. Most of the appointees are abject failures, buoyed up by the brash bull, slung texass style, over everyone, until the putrifaction can be felt in Denmark, bt is never touched in Congress. The big fix is in and
neither side want to get real with America. Just makes it worse

Hmm...

I think the country would prefer that Bush

be a urinal;

the uniting stuff is way over his head.

Bush has a chance to unite this country, or part of it that's now against him, but only if he tells the truth & makes his future decisions based on reality, not jingoism.

Bush only started this "surge" in Iraq AFTER the Democratic Congress forced him to. The surge could have worked in 2003, or 2004, or 2005, or 2006, but later is better than never. If he realizes and admits his change of tactics was necessary and came about because of outside pressure, there's hope for him.

A president is supposed to be able to weight different points of view and decide which is the most sensible. Bush came into office without a strong foreign policy background, and he relied on men he seemed to trust unswervingly. Which is not sensible. I hope he has found that out, and I hope that now he's found better people who won't be "Yes" men to guide him. A president depends on the people he surrounds himself with. And we depend on the good sense of the president.

I personally don't like what Bush has done to our reputation and image overseas, nor what he's done here in many cases, but he's got a year & a half to make things better, and I hope for our sakes that he will.

People like Ed make it hard to believe that this country is still called the United States of America. We have been divided and labeled to keep us confused and polarized.. what would the founders of the nation think of Red State/Blue State? can you say bull caca? Ed, turn off Fox News, go out to real places in America, and see just how much of what you see in the papers is a lie. How many friends do you have in the war? how many know what it's like to live under some of the decisions of this administration?

I ask you this: Why does it seem that the government can't fund healthcare for all Americans, can't increase the fuel efficiency of our automobiles, not to mention pay for the upkeep of bridges, BUT mysteriously, we find nearly 1 trillion dollars to spend on a war where more Americans have died than those who died on 9/11?

Why are you paying $80 for medicine when your neighboring countries pay $30 or less?

Hmmmm... This is ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuur country.

There will be no troop reduction until January of 2009. No matter what reports or testimony are given to Congrss. Bush is biding his time until Inaguration Day. When the new president is sworn in, he will ride off on Air Force One back to Crawford and fill up the "ole coffers" and work on his presidential library. This is reality.