A VOICE OF OPPOSITION
Kerry Praises Campaign, Plans to Build on EffortKerry Praises Campaign, Plans to Build on Effort
The former Democratic presidential nominee, in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, said he intends to continue to be a leading voice of the opposition.

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid intends to call Monday for the administration to outline an exit strategy for Iraq.

Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria: "Iraq is on track to become another corrupt, oil-rich quasi-democracy, like Russia and Nigeria." Inspiring, no? 1/31

Iraqis Begin Week Of Waiting For Vote Tallies. Which puppet won? Suspenseful. 1/31

Regardless Of The Vote, Chaos Governs 1/31 

Let's end this occupation now!

It has been a catastrophic failure,

We need to  get out at once.

Ted Kennedy: Bring the Troops Home. The Speech We Have Been Waiting for: Patriotic, Honest and Blistering. Kennedy Shows Democrats Support Our Troops and Bush Uses Them as Cannon Fodder to Avoid Acknowledging a Grave Mistake Sold on Lies.

 Little Black Lies
By PAUL KRUGMAN
President Bush's claim that we must privatize Social Security to avert an imminent crisis has evidently fallen flat. So now he's playing the race card.

Debt For Everyone
by Robert Reich, TomPaine.com
      No matter how abstract the deficit seems, it's going to make you poorer.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/debt_for_everyone.php

Start saving your change... Congratulations!  You're an important partner in covering our national and consumer debt.  Demos keeps track with their debt clocks. [Archive]

Should The Left Ignore The 'Stolen Election'
ZNet - Woods Hole,MA,USA
... should be no doubt in anybody's mind that the country that likes to bill itself as "the world's foremost democracy" has just gone through a stolen election. ...

Third Commentator Found To Be On Administration Payroll

Spongebob gay?!

As a spokesman for Nickelodeon commented:

"It's a sponge, for crying out loud. He has no sexuality." 

CARTOON MADNESS
Bruce Kluger, AlterNet
Christian conservatives classically over-reached when they
launched their amphibious assault on SpongeBob SquarePants
-- and harpooned themselves squarely in the foot.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21084/

Flip-Flopping on Social Security Linguistics
The Republicans in Congress, the president, the administration and all its media supporters, now insist on referring to the partial privatization plan as "setting up personal accounts." This is the new political correctness.
Jan 27, 2005

Americans "drink the Kool-Aid" 

The Word Spy - drink the Kool-Aid

Jonestownmassacreannivdate

this word comes from theJonestown tragedy

To become a firm believer in something,

to accept blindly.

The American people have been fooled

and bamboozled into thinking we are on

the right track with the Bush regime.

The Gonzales and Rice nominations are

examples of a train wreck on this track.

The Wrong Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales's tainted record makes him unqualified to ensure that justice prevails at home or to represent the American justice system to the world

Democrats Denounce Rice Over Iraq War
Several senators delivered one of the sharpest critiques yet of the Bush administration's prewar claims and handling of the conflict on Tuesday, as the Senate prepared to confirm Condoleezza Rice's nomination to be secretary of state Wednesday.
(By Charles Babington, The Washington Post)

Take Heart

on the fourth day of George W. Bush's second term...

"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt...If the game runs sometime against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake."

—Thomas Jefferson, 1798

seen  at http://clarkbrigadebringsiton.motime.com/

Hope Under Bush
by Paul Rogat Loeb, TomPaine.com Exclusive
     A veteran activist shares life lessons on avoiding political cynicism and despair.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/hope_under_bush.php

Bush/Rove's new Ohio attack is about revenge, intimidation and ...
Columbus Free Press - Columbus,OH,USA
...  OHIO'S STOLEN ELECTION: VOICES OF THE DISENFRANCHISED, 2004, 

God and Darwin
WITH THEIR SLICK Web sites, pseudo-academic conferences and savvy public relations, the proponents of "intelligent design" -- a "theory" that challenges...  

Okay, Newsweek Proves that Gonzales Lied Under Oath About His Role in Getting Bush Off of a Jury that Would Have Required Him to Reveal His DUI Charge. Dem Senators Will Vote for a Perjurer and a Justifier of Torture, Makes You Wonder What Dems Stand For

Tom Dispatch: If you want to grasp our world as it is, you might actually have to click off that TV, use your local paper to wrap the fish, and head for the Internet. 1/24

Mixed signals Bush's use of UT hand sign causes confusion overseas President Bush may have inadvertently ruffled feathers in other parts of the world by flashing a "Hook 'em Horns" sign during this week's inaugural parade.

 This is the sign of "satan" in many countries,

in sign language it means "nonsence"

In most countries this is " BULLSHIT" .

HENHOUSES OVERSTAFFED WITH FOXES
Molly Ivins, AlterNet
Jonathan L. Snare has been named to head the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).  No, he's not an
expert in health or safety, but he used to be the lobbyist
for Metabolife.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21041/

Barbara's Daily Buzz
http://www.buzzflash.com/dailybuzz/ 

Inauguration: Lifestyles of the Rich and Heartless

 $17 million worth of inaugural security – paid for by the city of Washington, D.C. –

A look at this week's festivities by the numbers:

$40 million: Cost of Bush inaugural ball festivities, not counting security costs.

$2,000: Amount FDR spent on the inaugural in 1945…about $20,000 in today's dollars.

$20,000: Cost of yellow roses purchased for inaugural festivities by D.C.'s Ritz Carlton.

200: Number of Humvees outfitted with top-of-the-line armor for troops in Iraq that could have been purchased with the amount of money blown on the inauguration.

$10,000: Price of an inaugural package at the Fairmont Hotel, which includes a Beluga caviar and Dom Perignon reception, a chauffeured Rolls Royce and two actors posing as "faux" Secret Service agents, complete with black sunglasses and cufflink walkie-talkies.

400: Pounds of lobster provided for "inaugural feeding frenzy" at the exclusive Mandarin Oriental hotel.

3,000: Number of "Laura Bush Cowboy cookies" provided for "inaugural feeding frenzy" at the Mandarin hotel.

$1: Amount per guest President Carter spent on snacks for guests at his inaugural parties. To stick to a tight budget, he served pretzels, peanuts, crackers and cheese and had cash bars.

22 million: Number of children in regions devastated by the tsunami who could have received vaccinations and preventive health care with the amount of money spent on the inauguration.

1,160,000: Number of girls who could be sent to school for a year in Afghanistan with the amount of money lavished on the inauguration.

$15,000: The down payment to rent a fur coat paid by one gala attendee who didn't want the hassle of schlepping her own through the airport.

$200,500: Price of a room package at D.C.'s Mandarin Oriental, including presidential suite, chauffeured Mercedes limo and outfits from Neiman Marcus.

2,500: Number of U.S. troops used to stand guard as President Bush takes his oath of office

26,000: Number of Kevlar vests for U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan that could be purchased for $40 million.

$290: Bonus that could go to each American solider serving in Iraq, if inauguration funds were used for that purpose.

$6.3 million: Amount contributed by the finance and investment industry, which works out to be 25 percent of all the money collected.

$17 million: Amount of money the White House is forcing the cash-strapped city of Washington, D.C., to pony up for inauguration security.

9: Percentage of D.C. residents who voted for Bush in 2004.

66: Percentage of Americans who think this over-the-top inauguration should have been scaled back.

 The Office of Truth Enhancement
Cartoon by Mark Fiore
When the truth gets in the way, they get to work!

MORE MONEY FOR IRAQ? NOT WITHOUT CONDITIONS
Arianna Huffington, AlterNet
The Democrats should do everything in their admittedly
diminished power to try to place some conditions before
they vote for another $80 to $100 billion in supplemental
funding for the war in Iraq.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21033/

READERS WRITE: NOT ONE DAMN DIME DAY
AlterNet
One writer's criticism of the plan to protest the war on
Iraq by not spending a single dime on inauguration day
garners some strong responses -- from readers and
one of the event's organizers.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21035/



TURNING THEIR BACKS ON BUSH
Melina Brown, WireTap
An estimated 10,000-30,000 people will line the streets of
Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C. this week without
pins, buttons or signs. Their voices will not rise in
unison, and there will not be a bullhorn among them. But
there will be protest.
http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/21017/
More WireTap: http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/

STOLEN OR LOST?
Steven F. Freeman, AlterNet
Freeman, a polling expert, disputes journalist Russ Baker's
critique of his work analyzing the exit poll discrepancy.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21036/

"Senator we can have this discussion any way you would like, but I really hope that you will refrain from impugning  my integrity ". ~ Condoleeza Rice

This is what is opening on the "Bush puppet networks" the entire conversation is not being aired. John Kerry and Barbara Boxer are the only 2 senators to oppose this foolish choice for Secretary of State nomination. This is an abomination as well as the Gonzales nomination for Attorney General.

We have a government run by a Fascist regime , One of the few voices speaking out and asking for the truth is California Senator Barbara Boxer. 

In The Clearing Stands A Boxer...    Check out this video clip of Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., challenging National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice about her loss of "respect for the truth" in the leadup to war in Iraq. See the video [Archive]

"I am sick to death of mainstream media!  Their relentless attacks on Barbara Boxer are as egregious as Condoleezza Rice's lies about "mushroom clouds" and "WMDs."  They edit the exchange between Senator Boxer and Rice in order to suck up to the bully poached in the White House. Here is a link to a full transcript of the testimony, which is a far cry from the one mainstream media is feeding the public! "

read more: Barbara's Daily Buzz
http://www.buzzflash.com/dailybuzz/

Watch: Boxer vs Condi, the video! Watch How a Real Democrat and Real Senator Handles a Pathological Liar

Condoleezza Rice Hearings
Sign Barbara Boxer's petition. We
demand answers about Iraq and WMD.
pacforachange.com/petition

The American people don't deserve to have the liar and thief, Dictator Bush in the white

house. Sure, enough foolish people voted for Bush to make his presidency seem legitimate.

Hitler was elected as Chancellor of Germany. Nixon was elected to a second term,

then forced to resign. At this time the American people are being misled by the Republican

owned media.

This lying sack of bones Condoleeza Rice needs to be barred from any office . She

should resign in disgrace.

Howard Dean would have held Bush's feet to the fire and he would speak the

truth. Howard Dean will be the one to bring truth and integrity to the Democrats

and to our nation.

The scandal sheet
Print it out, send it to Harry Reid, or just read it and weep. Here are 34 scandals from the first four years of George W. Bush's presidency -- every one of them worse than Whitewater.
By Peter Dizikes

Howard Dean: He Still Has The Power
Bid for DNC Chair Recharges Failed Presidential Candidate
(The Washington Post)

That Magic Moment
By PAUL KRUGMAN
The White House plan to sell Social Security privatization is modeled on the selling of the Iraq war.

Sorry George, a stolen rigged election does not spell mandate, and it certainly doesn't let you off the accountability hook!  Maybe you fooled Poppy, and half the American people, most of the time, but the other half of us out here and the rest of the world know you lied!  Iraq is a quagmire. The world is now in more danger than ever before, thanks to you and your incompetence. No matter how many parties, no matter how many balls, no matter how much you think yourself royalty, it won't change the fact that the Buck really does stop with you!  You are responsible for the death and destruction caused by an unnecessary war based on the lies you told the American public. 

read:  Barbara's Daily Buzz
http://www.buzzflash.com/dailybuzz/

The next time I hear that Bull-shit

line "War on Terra" or "fight the terr-ists

over in Iraq, so we won't fight them here."

I'm going to punch a Bush bag.

Bop Bush Punching Bag

The USA led by dictator Bush,

has occupied Iraq and there have never

been Weapons of Mass Destruction.

The blind faithful Bush supporters are

idiots that have been brainwashed by

the media and people like Bush Limbo.

Tax exempt status should be taken away'

from the Bush -led propaganda churches. 

Bush tells WaPost that because a narrow majority re-elected him, there is no reason to hold his cabinet accountable for prewar mistakes or violent aftermath. Pride goeth before a fall 1/16

The latest from Molly Ivins:
As a Matter of Fact
One good reason not to believe Social Security is heading for an iceberg: the Bush administration's record on veracity. The last time the Bushies whipped up a great crisis was over the WMDs in Iraq. Jan 13, 2005

Leading by Misleading

Save Social Security!

Social Security can be considered one of the major hallmarks of progressivism : It turned what was formerly almost sure poverty for millions of aging Americans into a secure retirement. But George W. Bush's plan would remove that security, throw seniors' retirement to the stock market, and bring in a windfall for Wall Street. The good news is that not everyone in Congress—including some Republicans—is on board with the plan . That's why it's so important to tell your elected officials now that you don't want to see Social Security privatized. Whether you act with MoveOn or with the AFL-CIO, make sure you act now! Go to MoveOn's Action. Go to AFL-CIO Action. 

Turning Up The Heat On Bush
by Robert L. Borosage, The Nation
     Bush's provocative second-term agenda is unifying and strengthening progressives.
http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/#003355

AMERICA'S FINITE FUTURE?
Arianna Huffington, AlterNet
The evidence is overwhelming. Everywhere you look, it's IOUs
passed on to future generations: Record federal debt. Record
foreign debt. Record budget deficits. Record trade deficits.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/20974/

A Gift for Drug Makers
By BOB HERBERT
If ordinary Americans got the same sweet treatment from this administration as the great pharmaceutical houses, we'd all be in a much better place.

OP-ED COLUMNIST
The British Evasion
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Britain's 20-year experience with the privatization of its retirement system is a cautionary tale Americans should know about.

Social Security Push to Tap the GOP Faithful
Campaign's Tactics Will Drive Appeal
(The Washington Post) 

 

On January 20, 2005

America will spend

millions of dollars in a cerimony

to inaugurate George W. Bush  for 4 more years.

The American people have been lied to and

deceived by this administration.

The day will come to prove that this election

was stolen.

Election Crime Scene-2004 "We the People Do Not Concede" By Carol Sterritt
	John Kerry did not lose the electoral votes in Florida. They were stolen. Nor did he lose the electoral votes in Ohio.

read:

Barbara's Daily Buzz
http://www.buzzflash.com/dailybuzz/

 It is the story of the conservative movement and its well-oiled marketing machine; a packaging and distribution system of ideas that has been shaping American public opinion for more than a quarter century. It is also one of the most important stories behind the 2004 election.

read:

THE CONSERVATIVE MARKETING MACHINE

Armstrong Williams being paid to promote Bush administration
policies in his columns is just one part of the behemoth
marketing effort that the right wing has perfected.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20946/
Plus, not the only
one taking money from the big boys.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20947/

She's Back! Barbara's Daily Buzz
http://www.buzzflash.com/dailybuzz/

The new Monkey Trial
By persuading the Dover, Pa., school board to teach creationism, Christian zealots have provoked a showdown over the status of not just evolutionary theory, but science itself.
By Michelle Goldberg

The Stolen Election 2004 

The bloggers are the only real reporters,

mainstream big corporate media, are saying

"bloggers" as if it were a slur. As if the

bloggers were out of step with reality.

The media has tricked and fooled the American

people. This election was flat out stolen,

just like in 2000, and in 2002. "they've gotten really good at it"

Many Americans refuse to concede 'stolen election'
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA
... As he spoke, many of them wept, because for some, the anger over what they refer to as "the stolen election" is precisely what won't let them let go. ...

Election protest shows why Dems don't count
Chicago Sun-Times - Chicago,IL,USA
... So they were wearing orange, the color of the election protesters in Ukraine, who overturned their own stolen election with an ''orange revolution.''.

read : FreePress.org

Together, we moved three mountains
Columbus Free Press - Columbus,OH,USA
On January 6, we forced an angry Republican-dominated Congress into an unprecedented confrontation with the Truth about Ohio's stolen election, about dubious ...

Evidence of Fraud and Disenfranchisement in Ohio, 2004 : A Partial List

here: FairnessbyBeckerman

Not with a bang but a whimper
As the protest against Bush's certification fell flat and they rolled over for Gonzales, it was a day of humiliation and futility for Democrats.
By Tim Grieve

The Election's Last Gasp
The United States has a way to go to produce an election process that seems fair to all reasonable citizens.

Congress Certifies Bush's Win After Protest

Promoting Torture's Promoter
By BOB HERBERT
Alberto Gonzales, the nominee for United States attorney general, has already shamed us.

Today also in NYT:

C.I.A. Report Finds Its Officials Failed in Pre-9/11 Efforts
By DOUGLAS JEHL
Among those criticized is George J. Tenet, the former C.I.A. chief, whom President Bush awarded a Medal of Freedom.

read:  Paul Krugman: Worse
Than Fiction

NYT 's Paul Krugman is back!

 read the first in the series on

 Bush's phoney  Social Security Crisis.

Fake Crisis, Fake Solution by Paul Krugman, The New York Times       Social Security is not in crisis -- but the General Fund is. http://tompaine.com/opinion/#003215

• Action: Give Tom DeLay a Holiday Gift He'll Remember!
• Did your Representative support the 'DeLay rule' change?
• DeLay's Ethics Scandals
• Cleaning Up the House
• News Stories and Commentaries
• House Ethics Procedures and Problems

To restore integrity to the U.S. House of Representatives, Public Citizen is calling for Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) to step down as Majority Leader or be removed by the House if he does not relinquish the post voluntarily.

No sitting member of Congress has received more admonishments for violations of the House’s ethics rules than DeLay. Other ethics complaints against him are pending before the Department of Justice and Federal Election Commission, and a Texas grand jury is examining his possible role in a campaign money-laundering scheme.

Public Citizen also seeks to enact a package of “Democracy in Congress” reforms to “Clean Up the House” and guarantee the rights of members of the minority party in the House to fully participate in the legislative process. After all, they represent nearly a majority of the population.

Public Citizen Asks Justice Department to Probe House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and Energy Firm Officials for Possible Bribery

Public Citizen asked the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct a formal investigation of possible violations of federal anti-bribery statutes by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) and former Rep. W.J. “Billy” Tauzin (R-La.), as well as executives and lobbyists for the Kansas-based Westar Energy, Inc.

In a letter to Noel Hillman, chief of the Justice Department’s criminal division, Public Citizen wrote that substantial evidence, especially newly-released documents from a House ethics committee investigation, suggests a possible scheme using campaign contributions to buy political favors worth millions of dollars to Westar Energy and its executives.

• Read the press release
• Read the letter to the Department of Justice

I believe that if the true election results

had been counted. Kerry would have won

a significant majority of the votes. So the

true majority did vote Kerry by 51 %

 The Stolen Election of 2004 , will be

reported here and the truth will be

entered here throughout the new year.

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"Do Ka-Ka!": What the Democrats Have Never Learned from the Infamous Willie Horton Ad. This is the Third in a Series of 20 Consecutive BuzzFlash Editorials Through the Cornation.

U.S. Gave $1B in Faith-Based Funds

First joke of the new year:

The President, the First Lady and Dick Cheney are flying on Air Force
One.  George looks at Laura, chuckles and says, "You know, I could throw
A $1,000.00 bill out the window right now and make somebody very
happy."

Laura shrugs her shoulders and says, "Well, I could throw ten $100.00
bills out the window and make 10 people very happy."

Cheney says, "Of course then, I could throw one-hundred $10.00 bills
out the  window and make a hundred people very happy."

The pilot rolls his eyes, looks at all of them and says to his
co-pilot, "Such big shots back there. . . hell, I could throw all of
them out the window and make 56 million people very happy."

Ring in the New Year With the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of 2004:
George W. Bush

In this Orwellian world of 1984 -- and in Bush's world of 2004 -- war is peace and ignorance is strength.

Bush has also abused freedom to make it into a clarion call for a reduction in our actual liberties. Freedom becomes redefined as repression.

TODAYS WORD: cynical having a sneering disbelief in sincerity or integrity <CYNICAL about politicians' motives

Election fraud: Ignored by everyone -- even Ripley's Believe it ...