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June 30, 2005

How bad can it get for Bush Jr.’s boy in California - Schwarzenegger - evidently, worse by the day.

Thursday’s California Field Poll (June 30, 2005) reports on a match-up between Democratic U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein versus Schwarzenegger for U.S. Senate: she floors him, 62 percent to 32 percent – a 30 point margin.

And the Field Poll also did a Feinstein match-up against Condi Rice and Feinstein puts Rice on the mat too: 56 percent to 38 percent – a 16-point margin.

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California Republicans are in a state of shock, from Sacramento to their summer vacation homes in the south of France.

The nonpartisan California Field Poll out on Wednesday (June 29) has bad news for little Arnold.

In a match-up against Phil Angelides, Arnold loses 42 percent to 46 percent, and against Steve Westly Arnold loses 40 percent to 44 percent.

This is a strong reversal from the February 25, 2005 Field Poll, which showed Arnold ahead of both Democratic candidates.

What a difference four months can make, hey Arnold?

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Bush Jr. flew to Fort Bragg in North Carolina and surrounded himself with troops in military uniform.

You think it would bother him to be reminded of all those months in Alabama when he "couldn’t" find his own military uniform, but not this guy.

Like most Americans, I had hoped that Bush would announce that he had used his diplomatic skills and charisma and received commitments from other governments to send 100,000 troops to Iraq to replace our troops.

But as Richard Pearle had said to me earlier in the day on a radio show – "that’s preposterous."

So even one of Bush Jr.’s guys (Pearle), who was responsible for the decision to invade Iraq, doesn’t have much faith in Bush Jr. in solving the problems in Iraq.

One of the major problems, as cited by an American General last week in Iraq and by Bush Jr. himself in his speech at Fort Bragg, is that the presence of American troops in Iraq is tragically driving the insurgency.

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It would be patriotic for these Bush Jr. staffers to join the National Guard and get their rear-ends to Iraq or Afghanistan, but instead they’re cashing in on millions of dollars and hustling business deals from French and Chinese Communist firms.

Gillespie has been working with Airbus (a French company).

And McKinnon is now working with the Chinese Communists to take over Unocal.

Where’s their Republican patriotism? Join the Guard, boys!

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June 29, 2005

Iran held an election and elected the hard liner.

A few years the ago, the Iran leaders pulled off a scam – sent Iraqis running to the CIA with stories of Saddam and WMDs – all made up.

Bush Jr. bought it hook, line and sinker and invaded Iraq, and now Saddam sits in a prison.

Iran wanted to get rid of their enemy on the west (Saddam ran an eight year war against Iran with Reagan and Bush Sr. providing him with the weapons) and Bush Jr. did the bidding for Iran in invading Iraq.

And now Iran has elected a hard liner as president, who immediately announced "full speed ahead" on their nuclear program.

Bush Jr. – your move now!

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Retired Four-Star General Wesley Clark blasted Bush Jr. in a speech in New Hampshire. "[Bush] used fear, the fear of the American people to take us into a war [Iraq] that was purely elective."

Clark went on to say, what we all know – Bush Jr. is hurting military recruitment.

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The Bush Jr. White House employees have filed their annual economic reports.

Karl Rove and others are using their connections well – lots of millionaires in the bunch. The article forgot to mention Karl Rove drives a Jaguar.

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June 28, 2005

In the latest California Field Poll published on Tuesday (6/28/05) only 28 percent of Californians think California is on the right track under Schwarzenegger.

And 59 percent believe Schwarzenegger has California on the wrong track.

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Bush Jr. has said numerous times that he will not negotiate with the terrorists.

Rumsfeld admitted on Sunday (6/26/05) that in fact Bush Jr. has authorized meetings with the terrorists – some of whom had just killed American troops.

How do you like your tea, Mr. Terrorist?

Bush Jr. is a lot like Schwarzenegger – lie and don’t stop lying until thrown out of office.

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On May 30, 2005, Halliburton’s Dick Cheney said the Iraqi insurgents were in their "last throes."

On Sunday, June 26, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (the one who has offered his resignation twice) said the insurgency could last as long as a dozen years.

Now we know the definition of the "last throes."

Can anyone figure out who speaks for Bush Jr. and exactly what his plan is?

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Dick Cheney’s Halliburton (boy, do they own him big time) was "awarded" another $1 billion government contract, but we all know the deals are greased by Dick Cheney.

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June 27, 2005

President Ronald Reagan spent billions of dollars through the CIA to recruit and train Mujuhadeen fighters all from over the world to go to Afghanistan and fight the Soviets.

Reagan paid for their training and provided weapons to fight the Soviet Union who had invaded Afghanistan in 1979 and left in 1989. In the end, Reagan created a country with the Taliban who allowed Osama bin Laden to expand his terrorist networks, including the 9/11 attacks. It was foreign policy that the Republicans didn’t think through (no surprise).

Now the CIA has given Bush an analysis of the militants being trained in Iraq. The CIA concludes that the Bush Jr. operation in Iraq may prove to be a more effective training ground for Islamic extremists than the Afghanistan war.

History does repeat itself, but in this case it was done by a father and son team: Bush Sr. and Bush Jr.

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Senator Feinstein put forward an amendment on the Senate floor that would have allowed governors in the interests of safety to veto a site approval by the Feds for LNG (liquefied natural gas) off a state’s coast.

Bush Jr. and his Republican Senators defeated the amendment 52-45.

Schwarzenegger didn’t lift a finger to help California – leave it to oil executives Bush Jr. and Cheney to decide about California’s coast and safety.

In the end, Schwarzenegger always bends for Bush Jr.

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The Democratic National Committee did a five-month study/analysis of what happened in Ohio on Election Day.

To no one’s surprise, the Bush Jr. political operatives went out of their way to make it was difficult for minorities who wanted to vote.

African-American voters on average, waited 52 minutes in line to vote, while the average wait overall was only 18 minutes.

No American should have to wait 18 minutes, never mind 52 minutes.

And the Ohio Republican thugs asked African-Americans for ID. Official Ohio law requires that only newly registered voters who did not provide ID when they registered are to be asked for ID, yet the study showed that 37 percent of youth and African-Americans voters were asked to show ID.

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June 25, 2005

Your boy was up to his eyeballs in alcohol and drugs while AWOL in Alabama.

Your time in Cub Scout shorts hardly counts as service to our country. I understand when you were facing your draft physical during the Vietnam War, people could hear your knees knocking a block away (like Georgia’s Senator Saxby).

Halliburton’s Dick Cheney, with his five draft deferments (last one due to getting the wife pregnant) was hardly patriotic either.

If Republicans want to attack Democrats’ patriotism, get people like the "Duke Stir" to do it (Congressman Duke Cunningham of San Diego, who is presently under an FBI and federal grand jury investigation).

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At Thursday’s U.S. Senate hearing, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said he offered to resign twice.

Well, at least Rumsfeld knows he’s incompetent.

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General John Abizaid (top commander in the Persian Gulf) told Congress on Thursday that the Iraqi insurgency has gotten stronger over the last six months. This was a four-star General calling Cheney’s remarks that the insurgents were in this "last throes" bull****

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June 24, 2005

As the late U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan use to say - the White House is a building.

So when Sen. Chuck Hagel from Nebraska said this in the June 27th issue of the U.S. News & World Report, I’m sure he wasn’t referring to a building:

"Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality. It's like they're just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we're losing in Iraq."

Simply put, Republican Senator Chuck Hagel (who was wounded in Vietnam) is blasting Bush Jr., who was AWOL in Alabama.

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Nebraska’s Republican U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel accused Bush Jr. and Cheney of not knowing what they’re doing in Iraq.

On CNN on Thursday, Halliburton’s Cheney said Hagel was wrong, and said that he was like other politicians who are always predicting we can’t do something.

It’s interesting that a five-time draft deferrer like Cheney would attack Hagel, who was wounded and decorated in Vietnam.

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Rove is a government employee, but once again he is attacking Democrats for being on the "wrong side" in the war on terror.

Many Democratic leaders in Washington D.C. are calling for him to be fired.

I’m told that when Rove went for his draft physical during the Vietnam War, his knees were shaking so much, you could hear them a block away.

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June 23, 2005

In another flip-flop by Bush Jr., he now praises France.

On Wednesday, Bush Jr. complained the U.S. has not ordered any nuclear power plants since the 1970’s.

Then Bush Jr. Jr. praised France for building 58 nuclear plants since the 1970’s.

Let me get this straight – Bush Jr. is taking energy advice from "Old Europe" ?!

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The Bush Jr. administration estimates that 30 Iraqi medical doctors flee Iraq every month out of fear for their lives.

Bush Jr.’s response on how to deal with this big problem? Nothing – no plan, as usual.

The dying continues in Iraq, and for those who are wounded, there are 30 fewer doctors each month.

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U.S. Senate Republicans approved Thomas Griffith to sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals.

He had been General Council for Brigham Young University in Utah, but Griffith never "bothered" to take the State Bar. He had 10 opportunities to take it, but refused – most likely because he knew he would flunk it.

But a Republican "flunkie" from Utah is now on the Federal Bench. Remember, in the Bush Jr. administration, a screw-up gets you a promotion.

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June 22, 2005

The July GQ magazine reports that Saddam Hussein liked the Reagan team because they sold weapons to him in the 1980’s. Come to think of it, much of Saddam’s dream team – Cheney, Rumsfeld and now the son of Bush Sr. -- are in the White House now.

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A Mississippi jury found the 80-year old "preacher" guilty of manslaughter for the killing of the three young men in Philadelphia, Mississippi.

Too bad he can’t be sentenced to be lynched.

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Northern Iraq which is predominantly Kurds (non-Arab) has been talked up by the Bush Jr. people as a place of success after years of killings and mistreatment by Saddam Hussein.

Now it turns out the Kurd authorities have adopted Saddam’s policies.

They are picking up minority Arabs and Turkmen in one city and transferring them as prisoners to other cities. Why is Bush Jr. allowing this to happen?

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June 21, 2005

That’s what Wall Street insiders were telling their friends (on Monday) who had Schwarzenegger souvenirs.

The latest California Field Poll (non-partisan) shows Schwarzenegger in a free fall.

58 percent of California adults have an unfavorable opinion of Schwarzenegger now.

Go to the Field Poll website, after 9am Tuesday morning for all the poll numbers.

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The above headline appeared in the June 16th Los Angeles Times. How does Bush Jr. think he can "win" the war by allowing Iraqis to go without food? The median income dropped 44 percent from 2003 ($255) to 2004 ($144).

These Bush Jr. policies are only creating more insurgents who are killing more and more people.

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A couple of months ago, Republican Leader Bill Frist made a TV diagnosis. Can Frist be sued for malpractice?

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June 20, 2005

I have an idea for Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the Republican blowhards on radio.

They should devote a day of radio to recruit patriotic Republicans to join the military. They could have military recruiters on the air explaining the importance to the country for Republicans to join the military.

Have Bush Jr. call in and first apologize for shortchanging our troops in Iraq with no body armor, etc., but then say he hopes to do better in the future.

Have an 800-number and go at it all day and they are sure to get thousands of Republican activists to show up at recruitment centers, wearing their campaign and "I love America” buttons," ready to put on the military uniform with the shiny buttons. African-American women make up 44 percent of all women in the U.S. Army, so let’s get some Republican women to join too.

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In 1964, three civil rights workers were murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi. The South saw the lynching of African-Americans and the murder of civil rights workers as acceptable practice. They refuse to apologize, even today!

In fact, both Mississippi U.S. Senators (Trent Lott and Thad Cochran) refused to sign the recent U.S. Senate Resolution condemning the practice of lynching.

Even so, Mississippi is finally trying in a criminal court a former KKK member and preacher (yes a "God fearing" preacher), Edgar Ray Killen for his alleged involvement in the 1964 triple homicide.

So it occurs to me, if Killen is convicted, will he be lynched in the town square after the "normal" 30 days appeal process that good old Mississippi boys like Lott and Cochran apparently still condone?

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Recently, I was reading a U.S. State Department book on U.S. policies in Vietnam 1958-60.

It is remarkable, look at just one memo:

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June 19, 2005

It’s a day to remember children’s needs:

-- Families come in all sizes and shapes.

-- Parents who are away in the military, some in combat zones, and that is tough for kids.

-- Minimum wages are too low for parents trying to keep their families together.

-- Family Leave bills signed by President Bill Clinton and California’s Governor Gray Davis were the right thing to do.

-- A thanks to all parents.

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June 18, 2005

Schwarzenegger is leading the campaign effort to pass the Bush Jr. – Schwarzenegger Propositions on the special statewide November 8, 2005 ballot.

On the campaign trail Schwarzenegger (a public employee himself) viciously attacks public employees.

Let’s remember it was the Soviet Communists who went after the public employee union Solidarity in Poland. Due to Solidarity which had Pope John Paul II’s support, we saw the end of the Soviet Communist system. The world owes a big thanks to the Solidarity public employee union.

And let’s also remember our military are all public employees, as are the FBI, U.S. Marshals, CHP and all those involved in helping and protecting all of us.

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I had to laugh when Rumsfeld said on Tuesday that those prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are not common car thieves. I wonder if Rumsfeld was thinking of Republican Congressman Darrell Issa (San Diego County) who had an earlier career stealing automobiles.

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A new extensive story on Republican Majority Leader Bill Frist, about how stupid he was in investing his campaign money in stocks, makes for interesting reading. The Federal Elections Committee is investigating Frist.

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June 17, 2005

To see how Republican Congressmembers get around the gift restrictions read this article about a "housing gift" for a former Navy pilot.

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Dispute the claims by Bush Jr. and Halliburton’s Cheney (the insurgents are in its "last throes") the U.S. spokesperson in Iraq, Brig. General (1 star) Donald Alston, said that the insurgency will not "be settled, through military options or military operations. It’s going to be settled in the political process."

The General is in direct contradiction of most of the Republican radio shock jocks (most of whom couldn’t find a military recruiter earlier in life) who report that it’s a brilliant military strategy by Bush Jr. to have our troops tied down in Iraq because "all the insurgents in the world will go to Iraq and get killed."

One has to wonder if even a high school diploma is required to be a Republican shock jock.

Colonel Fredrick P. Wellman in Iraq said, "We can’t kill them all. When I kill one I create three." So the Bush Jr. strategy is to triple the number of insurgents?

General Alston and Colonel Wellman may be transferred soon to a site where the sun never shines.

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Bush Jr.’s incompetent Secretary of Defense Donald (Duck) Rumsfeld now admits to the press that Iraq is "no more safe than in 2003." A year ago he had a different tune.

Tragically, our American troops are paying the price.

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June 16, 2005

Saudi Arabia is refusing the demands of Bush Jr., the European Union ("old" Europe and "new" Europe, I guess), and Australia to have the UN go into Saudi Arabia to inspect for nuclear assets.

We all know that Bush Jr. was very angry when Saddam Hussein refused UN inspectors at some points.

So will Saudi Arabia be the next country in line for Bush Jr. to invade, or should he wait until after Iran?

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Once again the Republican religious leaders prove that the only "moral values" they have is to back Republicans so they can be invited to the White House.

Porn Star Mary Carey, who did the movie "Dual Airbags" (not for timid eyes), not only went to the Republican fundraiser dinner in Washington D.C., but she was also invited to have lunch with Karl Rove and others. I wonder what they talked about?

Not a word of criticism from the Ralph Reeds and Jerry Falwells – maybe they were there and exchanged business cards with "Dual Airbags."

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When the U.S. Supreme Court (12/12/00) put two oilmen in the White House, what else should we expect but record high oil prices? I still remember Bush Jr. in 2000 yelling that Clinton and Gore should jawbone OPEC to lower the oil prices.

OPEC loves Republicans, Bush Jr. and Cheney.

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With Bush Jr.’s staff having no real plan to deal with Iraq, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi introduced a resolution calling for Bush Jr. to give a "report on a strategy for success in Iraq."

Bush Jr. doesn’t have one, and I commend Pelosi for calling his bluff.

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June 15, 2005

With no plan and no end in sight, Americans continue to die in Iraq.

The weekend saw the number of dead Americans go past 1,700, which includes 186 from California.

The estimate for Iraqi deaths so far range from 12,000 to 20,000.

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Unfortunately Judge Brown got confirmed last week.

In her speeches, Brown has ranted and raved about government helping individuals. She has even declared "liberal democracy leads to slavery." Yes, she’s a Bush Jr. Judge.

Well lo and behold, sources tell me, the first thing Judge Brown did after being confirmed to the federal bench, was make a call to Personnel.

Judge Brown, who thinks people shouldn’t depend on government (i.e. that "911" system, minimum wage, environmental standards, etc.), was most interested in her salary and health care plan, vacation days, sick leave, security for the Judges and oh yes – the pension system.

Aren’t all these government programs, paid for by the taxpayers?

Yes, Judge Brown is a "real" Republican.

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On Monday the U.S. Senate passed a resolution condemning the lynching of over 4,000 Americans (mostly African-Americans) in the last century. What took them so long? Bush Jr. did not issue a similar statement.

And 20 U.S. Senators (19 Republicans and 1 Democrat) refused to sign the resolution.

These 20 will be in the "Hall of Shame." Former Republican Majority Leader Trent Lott (who Bush Jr. urged to stay on as Senate Leader even after making the pro-segregation statements about Strom Thurmond) led the way for the 19 Republicans.

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June 14, 2005

A new UCLA study reports that three million low-income California adults struggle each day to put food on the table.

Pregnant women and the elderly were among those reporting the most dramatic increase in food insecurity.

So in Iraq over 40 percent of kids are facing food shortages, and here in California we have three million people struggling.

Meanwhile, Schwarzenegger has parking spaces for all seven of his Hummers.

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First it was the National Guard and Reserves that were seeing low reenlistments.

Then the "Commander-in-Chief" Bush Jr. 'virus' hit military recruiters - minimum goals not being met.

Now the Boston Globe (6/13/05) is reporting the Bush Jr. virus has spread to our nation’s military academies.

Application to West Point dropped 9 percent; 20 percent to the U.S. Naval Academy and 23 percent to the Air Force Academy.

Our troops are doing a good job all over the world, but when they have a "Commander-in-Chief" who was AWOL in Alabama, shortchanged them in combat gear and had no plans going into Iraq other than to head to Baghdad, this is what happens.

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"I just wish they’d start to pull their own weight without us having to come out and baby-sit them all the time," said Sgt. Joshua Lower, a scout in the First Armored Division.

In a long piece in the New York Times (6/13/05) the story is that the Iraq Army may not be ready for years, not months, as the incompetent Bush Jr. keeps saying.

In other words, U.S. troops should either leave soon or be prepared to stay for years, dealing with insurgents and having fewer people joining the military to replace them in Iraq.

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June 13, 2005

The only group that Schwarzenegger hasn’t personally attacked is Republican millionaires (including Bush Jr. and Cheney).

Now Schwarzenegger, like something out of a bad movie script, is calling a special statewide election for November 8th that will cost taxpayers $80 million – sounds like one of his over-budget movie flops.

The political decision by Schwarzenegger to call a Special meets the three W’s criteria:

- Wrong election (could be held June 2006)

- Wacky Ideas

- Waste of Taxpayers’ money

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Two weeks ago, Schwarzenegger condemned his advisor, Mike Murphy. Now in Friday’s (6/10/05) USA Today, Schwarzenegger blasted his TV ad controller.

Don Sipple was on the phone a week ago telling Schwarzenegger’s $100,000+ donors how Schwarzenegger would get the voters to hate public employees (i.e. law enforcement, firefighters, correctional officers, DMV employees, etc.)

USA Today asked Schwarzenegger about Sipple, and once again Schwarzenegger basically said Sipple doesn’t talk for him. In fact Schwarzenegger said this about Sipple, "that people go a little bit off the deep end."

Is he saying Sipple has mental problems?

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A close friend of Bush Jr., right-wing extremist and former North Carolina U.S. Senator Jesse Helms, has a book coming out in September.

The book "Here’s Where I Stand" makes it clear he still supports the segregation that the South had.

In the 1960’s as a TV commentator, Helms was a leading voice for segregation (separate and decrepit schools, water fountains, etc. for African-Americans) and he rode his "KKK terrorist" views into the U.S. Senate.

I predict no major Republican, and especially Bush Jr., will criticize Helms for not finally condemning his past support of segregation.

Instead, the Republicans will hold a book signing party for Helms in D.C. and toast him for his views.

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One of the little secrets about the Republicans in Washington D.C. is the number of sugar daddies they have.

People like Grover Norquist have been living off the hog for years. But now the right-wing John M. Olin Foundation is closing shop this month after giving $380 million to the Hoover Institute, the Heritage Foundation and other right-wing organizations for over twenty years.

In other words, these "consultants" from the right-wing think tanks never had to work for a living as they published paper after paper attacking single women with kids or public education or Bill Clinton.

The Olin Foundation is sending its last $6 million to the Republican groups so they can splurge one more time at a French restaurant in D.C.

Good riddance – maybe Grover Norquist will have to get a real job now.

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June 11, 2005

Schwarzenegger, who has said he enjoys making fun of people (a trait of school yard bullies who are personally insecure), told USA Today (6/10/05) about people calling him names.

“People have always given me funny nicknames. I really enjoy them a lot.”

I bet Schwarzenegger does – sure!

I would urge people opposed to the Bush-Schwarzenegger agenda to come up with “funny names” to describe the insecure Schwarzenegger with lifts in his Italian loafers, and post them on blogs everywhere.

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June 10, 2005

At the annual "President’s Dinner" fundraiser in Washington D.C. this past week, a porn star (Mary Carey) had been invited by the Bush Jr. team, and the Republicans happily accepted the $5,000 check from her agent.

The Bush Jr. staff said, "We’ll take that (porn star’s) money."

Hopefully, Mary Carey sat in between Ralph Reed and Jerry Falwell so they could all have an interesting night. I thought the Republicans were against porn! There has to be something in the bible about Republicans taking $5,000 from a porn star.

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Days after the federal government arrested several people in Lodi, California for allegedly being part of Al Qaeda, no military action by Bush Jr.!

One of the guys went to Pakistan and was trained along with hundreds of others at an Al Qaeda camp, and they were being trained to kill Americans.

Bush Jr. has said numerous times that he will go after any country that harbors terrorists. So why are those camps still there in Pakistan?

Formerly the top nuclear weapons’ scientist in Pakistan got caught passing top secret nuclear weapons information to countries on Bush Jr.'s terrorist list. That scientist got a pardon from the Pakistan president and a nod of approval from Bush Jr.

So much for "I mean what I say."

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How many times have we heard Schwarzenegger’s good friend Bush Jr. say he would not negotiate with terrorists? Well the news out of Iraq is that Bush Jr. has his staff secretly negotiating with insurgents in Iraq.

Reagan said the same thing about terrorists who were kidnapping Americans in Lebanon. Years later the Iran-Contra scandal breaks and we found out that Reagan had sent missiles (and a cake and a Bible) to Iran in exchange for the hostages to be released and cash that Reagan’s people then used, outside of U.S. law and Congressional involvement, to buy weapons to give to guerillas (not "terrorists") in Central America.

The other flip-flop is that Bush Jr. has been demanding for months that the head of the UN’s nuclear weapons watchdog program be fired. Egyptian Mohamed ElBaradei is finishing his second term and Bush Jr. wanted him gone.

Then this week Bush Jr. announced he now supports ElBaradei. Twisted necks again!

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June 09, 2005

Bush Jr. spoke in Ohio today advocating the extension of the Patriot Act, even the extreme parts that many Republicans criticize!

But Bush Jr. missed an opportunity in Ohio – the state that Republican Schwarzenegger campaigned in for Bush Jr.

Military recruiters are screaming in pain about the shortages of people joining the military (something Bush Jr.’s daughters also refuse to do) to fight terrorists.

So why didn’t Bush Jr., the Republican's "Number One Recruiter," ask Ohio voters to send their family members today to join the military?

Our military is desperate, with tours of grandfathers being extended (ten Americans over the age of 50 have been killed in Iraq).

And Bush Jr. is silent on his failures.

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Two days after Schwarzenegger thanked him ("for the great job you’re doing"), California National Guard Commander Major General (2-star) Thomas Eres resigned.

Schwarzenegger had appointed Eres last year, but according to news reports Eres got the books cooked about his shooting skills.

The Pentagon requires every Guard member to pass a shooting test once a year. Eres took one before going to Iraq last year to visit California troops.

Now the military admits that Eres sat at a table and shot his weapon and didn’t exactly pass, even though documents were submitted claiming Eres has passed.

Just like Mike Murphy and Schwarzenegger, a lot of "faking" in this administration.

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California passed the medicinal marijuana measure Proposition 215 in 1996 with 55.6 percent of the vote.

Real simple – a person is in a lot of pain and none of the normal remedies are working to reduce or eliminate the pain, so a doctor may prescribe marijuana to see if that worked. For many patients, using marijuana did relieve the pain.

But Bush Jr., who has admitted to past use of drugs, went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to stop doctors from prescribing marijuana.

Tragically, for the tens of thousands of very ill Americans, Bush Jr. and the Republicans won 6-3 on June 6, 2005.

Most likely with over 13,000 Americans wounded so far in Iraq and Afghanistan, there will be some combat veterans affected by this decision.

How can the Bush Jr. and Schwarzenegger Republicans do this to Americans who come home and are in so much pain and find out that only marijuana helps? The Republican cruel streak continues.

Cigarettes, which kill 400,000 Americans a year, remain legal.

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June 08, 2005

The same Republican opponents of the minimum wage law have also opposed "living wage" ordinances.

The City of Los Angeles adopted one in 1997, despite all the "sky will fall" predictions.

A new report from the LA Alliance for a New Economy shows that this ordinance is working – on average it raised pay about $1.50 an hour for 8,000 employees, most of whom are women.

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In another sign that Bush Jr.’s economic policies of borrowing, big tax cuts to the wealthiest and cut backs on investment are not working (pardon the pun), GM has announced they will eliminate 25,000 jobs in America, or 23 percent of their present work force of 111,000.

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In another sign that Bush Jr. had decimated the U.S. military, more and more parents are urging their children not to join the military.

A Department of Defense poll reports that only 25 percent of parents would recommend military service to their children. In August 2003 it was at 42 percent.

So under Bush Jr. we now have 75 percent of American parents not supportive of their kids to join the military.

Bush Jr. should get on the "campaign" trail in Ohio and Florida and demand all those patriotic parents, who voted for Bush Jr. with their all out support for the war in Iraq, to drive their kids to the military recruiters.

And the recruiters can go to the precincts that voted for Bush Jr. and his policies by 65 percent plus, and walk door-to-door and get a lot of recruits signed up.

What happened to Republican patriotism? Doesn't it go beyond waving foreign-made American flags?

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June 07, 2005

As Schwarzenegger and Bush Jr. break their promises to voters about schools and Iraq, the two Republicans have kept their promise to their wealthy contributors – "you will feel no pain."

In a lengthy NY Times piece, the data from the Bush Jr. IRS points out the wealthiest are doing better than ever.

America’s 400 wealthiest, minimum income of $87 million per year, pay income, Medicare and Social Security taxes at ultimately the same percentage of people making $50,000 to $75,000.

And those making $10 million a year now pay a lesser share of their income in their taxes than those making $100,000 to $200,000.

So under Schwarzenegger and Bush Jr., America’s middle class is sending their sons and daughters to Iraq and Afghanistan, while America’s wealthiest are feeling no pain while they drink $400 bottles of French wine. I doubt if they have any family members in the military, especially not in combat.

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Mike Murphy (Schwarzenegger’s political advisor) sticks his foot in his mouth again - "Murphy’s Law."

Murphy has fallen into a bowl of clam chowder in Boston.

According to the Boston Globe, Murphy told the conservative National Review magazine, "He’s [Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney] been a pro-life Mormon faking it as a pro-choice friendly."

Murphy now says the quote "was not what I meant to communicate."

A couple of weeks ago, Murphy "spoke" for Schwarzenegger over pizza with reporters, then Schwarzenegger said Murphy didn’t speak for him. Now Gov. Romney will be forced to say Murphy doesn’t speak for him.

Last week we finally found out who Deep Throat was (Mark Felt).

And now we know where "Murphy’s Law" comes from.

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Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave a big bear hug to Saddam Hussein during his visit to Baghdad in 1983 (Saddam is now being charged for crimes from 1982). Now Rumsfeld, who didn’t provide body armor or armored vehicles to our troops leading many to be killed or wounded, again has necks twisting.

While in Asia, Rumsfeld said China is buying too many military weapons.

How dumb can Rumsfeld be? Look at our trade policy with China – it’s mostly American consumers sending billions of dollars to the Chinese Communist banks, which is then used to buy weapons.

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June 06, 2005

As Bush Jr. raises interest rates on student loans, and Schwarzenegger advocates a tax increase (tuition) of 10 percent a year for college students – a new report shows California needs more college graduates, not less.

This is a serious conflict – Republicans driving people out of college, but the economy needs more graduates.

Both a summary and the entire "California 2025" report is available on the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) Web site.

Schwarzenegger claims he got a college degree in the mail, and maybe he did. After all, you certainly can mail order (i.e. buy) them.

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A new report out from researchers at U.C. Berkeley and Working Partnership USA shows more bad news under Bush Jr.

Health care premiums have increased 13 percent a year in California since 2000 and each 10 percent increase means another one million Californians losing their employee-provided health insurance.

How in the year 2005 do the Republicans explain this to God - kids, without health care coverage?

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In 1950 two California Congressmembers ran for an open U.S. Senate seat.

Democratic Helen Gahagan Douglas ran against Republican "Tricky Dick" Nixon, when Democratic registration was over 58 percent statewide. Nixon won the election with 59 percent of the vote.

Nixon and his Republican cronies accused Ms. Douglas of being a communist – "pink right down to her underwear" and they printed their attacks on pink paper.

This is just one of the reasons Nixon was a mentor for Karl Rove.

The 2004 presidential election was another example of how Republicans run campaigns.

And now you see so many of Nixon people’s attack Mark Felt (Deep Throat) – he brought their (and Schwarzenegger’s) hero down.

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June 04, 2005

Anurag Kashyap is only 13 and he’s from Poway near San Diego, California.

Anurag won the National Spelling Bee contest on Thursday with the final spelling of the word appoggiatura.

Even after seeing the word, I couldn’t spell it.

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The Bush Jr. administration announced on Friday that only 78,000 new jobs were created in the country in the month of May.

America needs over 300,000 new jobs a month just to make up for all the jobs lost in Bush Jr.’s ("Herbert Hoover") first term.

President Clinton created over 22 million new jobs over eight years. Bush Jr. is working at about 15 percent of Clinton’s job creation.

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June 03, 2005

While Bush Jr. and his Republican team continue to give tax cuts to America’s wealthiest (no need to pay for the war – just keep borrowing from Chinese Communist banks), they continue to raise taxes on America’s middle class.

The Feds just announced they are raising interest rates on student loans almost two points, the biggest increase since 1981.

Mom and Dad, you can expect more bills coming in for your child’s college education. Thanks Ohio and Bush Jr.!

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In 2004, Schwarzenegger vetoed an increase in California’s $6.75 minimum wage. He thinks a single woman with two kids is overpaid at $6.75 an hour!

Meanwhile, the LA Time reports (5/31/05) that the CEO’s at California’s largest 100 public companies got a 20 percent pay increase in 2004 over the previous year.

That’s right – these top CEO’s took home (to their extremely nice homes) a collective $1.1 billion in 2004.

I’m sure these CEO’s are patriotic Americans and concerned citizens – why isn’t Bush Jr. and Schwarzenegger asking them to pay for the war in Iraq and for California’s schools?

They’re patriots – just ask them.

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The U.S. Constitution is clear – presidents nominate people for jobs in the federal government, and the U.S. Senate (a separate legislative body) decides if the person gets the job.

John Bolton, Bush Jr.’s nominee for the UN job, is unstable and chases women down hallways, and that’s good reason to hold up the Bolton nomination.

Senate Democrats want to see some additional documents on Bolton but Bush Jr. has ordered a cover-up – the documents won’t be released, just like Nixon ordered.

If Bolton was applying for a K-12 teaching job, he would have to release the documents.

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June 02, 2005

I thought there were laws protecting federal employees who act as "whistleblowers," exposing corrupt practices by their superiors.

Republican Richard Nixon ("I am not a crook"), also known as Schwarzenegger’s mentor, was ordering a cover-up of his Watergate break-in. An FBI agent (second in command) saw the cover-up and became an anonymous whistleblower – leaking the information on the corrupt Nixon to two Washington Post reporters.

On Tuesday the world found out who Deep Throat was – Mark Felt, now 91 years old.

Evidently, Bush Jr., another Nixon fan, ordered his Republican operatives to attack Felt, labeling him as a man with an agenda or one who committed a crime.

Message to Schwarzenegger and Bush Jr. - Republican Nixon was a crook.

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How ironic that Ed Gillespie as the Chair of the Republican National Committee in 2004 spent tens of millions to help elect Bush Jr., at the same time his firm was representing Airbus.

Now Bush Jr. has filed a case against Airbus – a French firm that has been a client of Gillespie’s for years.

That’s right – Gillespie’s firm has been working for a French company against the interests of an American company – Boeing.

But Bush Jr. waited several months until after the election to file legal charges against the 2004 RNC Chair Gillespie’s client.

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Bush Jr. constantly cites how well things are going in Afghanistan.

We all know this is false – with warlords, the Taliban element still around, and record exports of opium -- and the Afghanistan President is basically the Mayor of Kabul.

Bush Jr. even cites how well women are doing in Afghanistan – they go to school, he says.

Well, a new Amnesty International report documents that women all over Afghanistan are being abducted, raped and forced into marriages they don’t want.

Even an Afghanistan government official, Nooria Haqnagar, acknowledged it by saying "in some remote areas men deal with women like animals."

But Bush Jr. will ignore this report, after all it’s from Amnesty International – and he probably believes the allegations are just from "people who hate Americans."

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June 01, 2005

So now the world knows who the American patriot was: on Tuesday, Mark Felt revealed himself as "Deep Throat."

Felt provided the information to help stop the criminal Richard Nixon from shredding the U.S. Constitution with his break-ins, cover-ups and briefcases with $1 million in cash, etc.

Only a moron would defend Richard Nixon over the last 30 years.

But last August 31, 2004, at the Republican National Convention, Schwarzenegger reminisced about how much he admired Richard Nixon.

John Kennedy beat Nixon in the 1960 presidential race despite the fact that Nixon had ordered break-ins at the offices of Kennedy’s doctors.

In 1968 Nixon beat a good American, Hubert Humphrey. Then Nixon went on a several year rampage of more break-ins, illegal threats and cover-ups.

But in 2004 Schwarzenegger showed his true colors when he reminded us of how much he admired Nixon. I bet he despises Mark Felt for the role he played in getting Nixon out of the White House.

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When Bush Jr. talked about the need to remove Saddam Hussein, he kept citing all those reports (Amnesty International, etc.) about human rights violations and abuse in Iraq.

Now Amnesty International (which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977) put a report out stating that U.S. government policies (i.e. Bush Jr.) are condoning "atrocious" human rights violations in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and in other countries around the world where the U.S. sends detainees.

No one should be surprised at this report – we have all seen the pictures of prisoners being abused and read numerous stories.

But Bush Jr., who doesn’t read newspapers or reports, when asked by a reporter on Tuesday about Amnesty International’s report, said the allegations were made "by people who hate America."

I think that’s what Saddam Hussein said about Amnesty International’s reports when they said he was violating human rights – those people just hate Iraq!