It's VETO time...

The CEO loving president has practiced writing his name and is ready to veto the new Democratic majorities Medicare bill... Surprise!!! Big pharm talks, the GOP listens!

Who supports the "surge"?????

Only 30% of this country!!!!! This is according to an AP poll. 30% !!!!!! Why does this sick, degenerate, psycho in the White house continue to govern for a sliver of the country? America rejects the surge, the Democrats reject the surge, most Republicans in power reject the surge..... none of it matters, Bush is the decider!!!!!

Condi still supporting failed Bush policy!!!

Condi continues to be a blind supporter of any idiotic policy Bush presses on with. Towing the party line, this worthless, spineless Bush loving coward denounced diplomacy with Iran and Syria as "blackmail' by the enemy!

Condi Rice also predictably loves "Fox News", the leaders of the 12% brigade!!!!

Mistakes in Vietnam become...

...mistakes in Iraq.

Apparently, part of the plan for Iraq involves creating "gated communities" with 24/7 U.S. military patrol, with the plan being to grow those communities until the whole thing is taken over.

It's too bad our C-student president was too high during Vietnam to pay attention to the fact that we tried it then, and it was considered a spectacular failure. Yet another initiative of a failed policy from the Bush cabal.

Media roundup

Besides the ABC Radio blogger story, we have plenty of great stuff to play tonight. Sounds like a show with a lot of clips!

Glenn Beck, and guest James Dorn from the Cato Institute, lie about minimum wage issues. (The Democratic House voted 315-116 to raise the minimum wage to $7.25/hour yesterday.)

CNN's Dana Bash thinks 45% is "very, very popular" in Montana.

Michael Savage rips on Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer.

Gretchen Carlson of Fox News calls Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) a "hostile enemy"; when confronted, she claims, "Oh, I didn't mean it that way." I can't imagine what way that was.

John McMaverick on MSNBC: The Iraq War was "easy."

Bush's speech from last night

The transcript available at the official White House site.

The New York Times' reporting on standing against the troop surge. David Brooks, no liberal by any stretch, wrote an op-ed very critical of Bush's surge for TimesSelect (subscription required).

I'll comment on the speech later, when I've read and processed it all... hopefully before tonight's show.

In addition, check out our most recent podcast, from last Thursday's show, where we speak about Bush's op-ed from the Wall Street Journal last week. Play, compare, and contrast...

ABC Radio goes Gestapo

ABC Radio recently ordered a liberal blogging site shut down, ostensibly due to its "use of copyrighted sound clips" of local radio hosts on the ABC Radio-owned KSFO, a conservative (duh!) network.

It seems, however, that a letter-writing campaign started by this blogger caused some sponsors to disagree with some of the things the station's hosts were saying enough to pull their advertising from the station. This should have shown ABC Radio that its sponsors don't want to be associated with the violence these hosts spew on their shows. Perhaps ABC Radio should reprimand the hosts; perhaps, even, try to clean up its act.

Instead, kill the messenger.

Sounds just like the Bush administration. No surprise there.

BELIEVE IT.

Believe it when we tell you that the occupation of Iraq was ALL ABOUT THE OIL.

The Independent - a British newspaper that is decidedly NOT left-leaning - has revealed the truth behind the war. Iraq will sign away much of the next 30 years of oil profits to compensate the companies stealing their oil. We will have to have troops there for that period to protect U.S. corporate interests!

What a sickening, vile scam that the Bush CRIME FAMILY has played on the ENTIRE WORLD for the benefit of his oil-industry buddies!

We will likely be talking more about this one on Thursday! 10:00 PM - midnight, Eastern U.S. Time, LIVE on Indie Airplay Radio!!!

By the way, our latest podcast - 01/08/07: ExxonMobil, Your Black Heart... - from the third segment of last night's show, is available, where we put the hex on ExxonMobil and their scam to debunk the undebunkable proof that we have contributed to global warming.

Bonus prize to anyone who knows where I got the title of the podcast from whom I have not otherwise told. :)

News Flash! Rich People Love Bush

In 2004, the rich received HUGE tax cuts. Meanwhile, the government's deficit spirals out of control.

Will the Bush administration admit that the tax cuts are at least partially to blame for the deficit?

Wait, I know the answer to that. The deficit is all Clinton's fault... [/sarcasm]

Read the New York Times story.

Who supports the surge?

According to ThinkProgress' eye on Congress...

7 Senators - all Republican or LIEberman - back Bush unconditionally on the surge.

Many Republican congressmen are, at best, skeptical about this surge.

Bush's new plan?

Bush's new plan for the Iraq war will be made public soon, but it seems like more of the same, but perhaps worse: more troops, more benchmarks, less accountability. The idea of adding troops to the conflict seems antithetical to the will of the people, but when has O Holy Leader Bush ever cared about what the people want? "Jesus told me to kill more Iraqis, so I will..."

The new American operational commander in Iraq has claimed this war could last years.

Paul Krugman calls it a "Quagmire of the Vanities" (subscription required) now. Agreed 100%.

NPR national correspondent Mara Liasson said, on Fox News' Special Report, that Bush is seeking to "take control" of the situation. I think a smart president would not need to "take control" of a war THREE YEARS AFTER IT BEGAN; he would have had control from the start.

CNN's Elaine Quijano backs the Bush claim that a "surge" is not an "escalation." Pray tell, Ms. Quijano, how does "increase our forces" not equal "escalation"?

Also, props to ThinkProgress for digging up this little gem: Bush, 18 months ago, said that sending more troops would not help the situation in Iraq.

Bush is an incompetent president who deserves impeachment. Let's support the hearings into the war that will likely lead to it.

Global warming is not real!!!! Says who?

says... Exxon/mobile!! Who else? yet, the complicit right wing media will continue to present Global Warming as if there is a "debate" in the scientific world, which there is NOT! Big business talks, main stream media obeys.