Of course, he’s referring to Iraq in 2003, but it’s still wicked ironic.

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George Washington University’s site really does some fantastic work. I came across this link by way of one of their other sites, History News Network; incidentally, you’ll find HNN’s feed towards the top-right of your screen, presently.

From The National Security Archive, posted 23 April 2009: Attorney General cited inconsistency “with traditional American liberties.” State Department overruled RFK proposal to withdraw prohibitions on travel… Documents Record First Internal Debate to Lift Ban.

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Originally Published @ Care2.com, 11 March 2009:

“Well, the stimulus package passed and look at the stock market.”

Senator, Lindsey Graham (R – SC)

What an absurd statement.  Sen. Graham is probably aware of its absurdity, which leads me to ponder:  why would he say such a thing?  Of course, he would love us to believe that Obama is responsible for the lowly state of the stock market.  I suspect from what he said next on Sunday’s Meet the Press, Graham’s motives for the insinuation were even more misleading.

Graham finished, (emphasis added) “I think the president has quite frankly, in his budget, told us a lot about who he is and what he believes, and it’s scary.”

The implication that we should fear Obama’s beliefs is nothing but a backdoor accusation of a “socialist” agenda represented in the president’s budget.  In effect, Graham has found a way to accuse Obama of such a program without actually saying it.

The senator should leave such tripe for the conservative pundits who, incidentally, have received far too much press as of late. For that reason they shall remain unnamed in this post…

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IN the weeks, months, perhaps even years to come, the interminable Minnesota Senate recount seems likely — we’re just speculating here — to end. Should the Democrat Al Franken cling to his narrow but consistent and now court-upheld 312-vote lead over the Republican Norm Coleman, he would be the first professional comedian to take a seat in the United States Senate.

(One can only guess whether the newly minted senator might reprise his pelvis-gyrating 2006 party victory dance, in which he wagged an imaginary codpiece on “The Colbert Report”; or whether he might advise voters, as he did years ago, to treat George W. Bush kindly “even though he’s kind of stupid and he stole the election.”)

Capitol Hill has never lacked for humor, inadvertent or otherwise. Over the centuries its denizens have provided the raw material of comedy — their ranks filled with magnificent egos, fakers and philanderers, not to mention the occasional statesman…

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Weber Writes Obituary for the Republican Party

Posted 11 April 2009 @ The Huffington Post:

…The Republican Party is like a dying tyrant, mad with syphilis, ironically like that very Stalin they would accuse their enemies of associating with. How else to account for their desperation to resurrect the wraith of Joseph McCarthy; the hammy and baffling utterances from high level party officials like Boehner and McConnell; the blatant desire on their part to let the country fail out of sheer resentment; the wanton sedition of Conservative shit-stirrers ranging from the quasi Madame Defarge Michele Bachmann to the porcine, pill-popping porcine propagandist Rush Limbaugh?

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