BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

from the always excellent DEADENDERS: So barry has a muslim envoy… Shocker! What other religious groups does Obama have a guy for? Let me know. So this envoy like almost everyone that works for this administration says stupid crap and then the media does their best to erase the fact that it ever happened to protect Obama. This is an example why print media is good and screen shots are better. PROOF! P resident Obama’s new Muslim envoy Rashad Hussain admitted Friday to once defending a man who later pleaded guilty to conspiring to aid a terrorist group — an admission that contradicts earlier claims from the White House that the quotes had been mistakenly attributed to Hussain. Hussain, named by Obama as an envoy to the Organization of Islamic Conference, said Friday his comments at the time were “ill conceived or not well formulated.” In 2004, the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs quoted Hussain saying at a seminar on Muslim issues that Sami al-Arian was the victi...

Remember - Obama CANCELLED the National Day of Prayer... but Ramadan he's o.k. with. What's wrong with this picture only 8 years after 9/11? President Obama celebrates Ramadan with White House Iftar THE PRESIDENT: Please, everybody have a seat. Thank you. Well, it is my great pleasure to host all of you here at the White House to mark this special occasion -- Ramadan Kareem. I want to say that I'm deeply honored to welcome so many members of the diplomatic corps, as well as several members of my administration and distinguished members of Congress, including the first two Muslims to serve in Congress -- Keith Ellison and Andre Carson. Where are they? (Applause.) Just a few other acknowledgements I want to make. We have Senator Richard Lugar here, who's our Ranking Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Where is Dick Lugar? There he is. (Applause.) Representative John Conyers, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. (Applause.) Representative Rush Holt is here...

I have never liked Rush Limbaugh or any of the Right Wing Pundits. I don't like pot-stirrers but Rush is the most selfish, bloviating jerk of them all. I am a talk-radio addict, but the sound of this rhino's voices makes me cringe and hit the button on my Sirius reciever faster than Rush swallows Oxycontin. Granted, Obama and Rahm don't thrill me either but it looks like Rush really allow them to put a big steamin' pile right under him and then proceeded to step in it. You can always tell when the Right Wing gets clipped too close because of their over-the-top reaction (I call it "pathological rage"). Thank goodness Rush is a too much of a coward to do this debate for real. By the way, anyone sending any "support the troops" monies to this drug-addicted whale lately? LOL Rush Gets Played by Rahm By Jon Taplin Here is the contest the the DNC is running. You send in a slogan for a "Message to Rush" --the winner will be placed on a billb...

No Crisis Is Immune From Exploitation Under Bush By HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON Tucked away on the Cayman Islands sits Ugland House, an unassuming, nondescript building of modest scale and size. However, according to a recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), this five-story office building is home to more than 18,000 corporate entities, nearly half of which have U.S. ties. In the past few years, the number of corporations flocking to places like the Cayman Islands to evade U.S. taxes has exploded. One of these companies, former Halliburton subsidiary KBR, has used offshore tax havens to avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal taxes. To no one's surprise, instead of cracking down on KBR, the Bush administration has rewarded the company in April of this year with a 10-year, $150 billion contract in Iraq. There appears to be no crisis, tragedy or disaster immune from exploitation under the Bush administration. The examples of the waste, fraud and abuse ...

Poor Scott McClelland. Now BushCo and their PNAC cronies are calling the guy everything but a "scorned woman." If he was a Jew - there'd be accusations of "lashon hara" being leveled at him. If we wait long enough -- maybe there will. I've been called "a scorned woman" or "hell hath no fury" or "unrequieted stalker" and even a "disgruntled employee." I always did it for the right reasons. I never ever have done so to "get" someone or to "have revenge." I have to laugh because each and every SINGLE TIME I've been called those names it has been for the same exact reason: I TOLD THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH. Being a truth-teller or whistleblower is no fun. Scott obviously just couldn't live with himself anymore. What he said was no different than what many people have said in the last 8 years of the Bush Crime Family disaster in Washington. The Republican Party is going have a rough time pulling...

THE TURDBLOSSOMS ARE IN BLOOM AGAIN Karl, Karl, Karl - what are we going to do with you? I caught your performance on Fox News on Sunday. I bet Rep. Chris Van Hollen went home and took a hot shower after talking to you... or attempting to. I get as fed up with media spin as everyone else. I get fed up when people try to lie to me or play me for a fool. That tells me one horrible thing: THAT I WAS NOT WORTH THE TRUTH. Please don't bother telling me you were 'trying to let me down easy' or you 'knew I'd be hurt.' And Karl, what's your excuse? Karl, do you think the American people are such morons that they would actually believe your non-stop rewriting of history, bending of the time space continuum and denial of already well-documented facts? Come on. That reeks of some sort of mental disorder. Karl, you're not on the job anymore. I know a couple great therapists who work with antisocials like you in the D.C. area. They're discreet. I know yo...

Good Riddance To Them All by Joseph L. Galloway There was little for the unindicted co-conspirators of the Bush administration to give thanks for this week as the clock winds down on the 14 months they have left in power. With former White House press secretary Scott McClellan spilling the beans on who told him to lie to the American people and cover up the White House’s responsibility for the criminal act of revealing the identity of a covert CIA officer, it clearly was time for some folks to begin drafting their requests for presidential pardons. McClellan, in a forthcoming book that will tell some, if not all, reveals that his 2003 statements absolving top White House aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby of any involvement in leaking the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame were untrue - and that the orders to make those statements came from President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, White House chief of staff Andrew Card, Rove and Libby. McClellan’s revelation makes it ab...

All The President's Liars Where the Hell are The Washington Post and New York Times on McClellangate?! by Steve Young Do the investigative reporters at the Washington Post and New York Times fall under the Writers Guild Contract? Are Bernstein and Woodward too busy in makeup? Can the WGA and Producers get together and give satirical news an exemption? While the Writers Strike keeps The Daily Show from cleverly pointing out the obvious, The Washington Post and New York Times ignore the obvious altogether. We've been lied to by this White House. Who says? Scott McClellan, the guy who was paid to lie for the guys who lied in the first place. Of course, if he really wanted to bare his soul he would have let Helen Thomas write the foreword of " What Happened: Was I Lying Then Or Am I Lying Now?" Point is, other than blogs and the Keith Olbermann network - and the Writers Strike continuing to keep Jon Stewart, Bill Maher and Stephen Colbert on the sidelines - we're left...

THE FRAUDULENCE MUST END We've been had, my friends, by terrorists from within using our fears against us. I'm going to let Jesse at TVNewsLies speak here: With all the recent questions being asked about the lies that led us to war one question is still being ignored: what does 9/11 have to do with the US invasion of Iraq. The answer is not what you have been told; the illogical claim that 9/11 changed everything and it caused the US to change the way they dealt with potential threats. The real connection here is that 9/11 gave the men who wanted to invade Iraq so badly that they lied to the world in order to do it, the political and popular support to go ahead with their radical agenda. The one question that becomes more relevant, less controversial and more important as the lies that led us to war are brought to light is this: who benefited from the events of 9/11 and how did they benefit? Just as the members of the Project for a New American Century stated in their man...