Remarks by the President at Lamberti for Congress and Iowa Victory 2006 Luncheon

BUSH: We believe -- the congressman-to-be and I believe -- the Senator, congressman-to-be and two Congressmen and I believe that we think you can spend your money far better than the federal government can spend your money.

And Bush and the GOP try to prove that day after day - they have shown that with the GOP in charge pretty much anyone or anything can spend your money far better than the federal government.

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Talking Points Memo: by Rick Renzi (R-AZ) subject of federal investigation

...Renzi is the subject of a federal investigation centering on a shady land deal.

You know I don't even post all of these different reps under investigation - there is just too many.

sad. you know people are actually good - but they just don't seem to go to washington.

well - except to go to the museums - you can find good people there.

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The State Department is yet another division of the GOP.

Think Progress » Administration Sends Troops Info on Foley Replacement, Doesn’t Mention Other Candidates

Last week, U.S. troops received messages from the State Department and the Pentagon explaining how to vote in the congressional race in ex-Rep. Mark Foley’s (R-FL) former district.

The emails provided detailed instructions explaining how to vote for Foley’s replacement, Joe Negron, but failed to even mention the two other candidates in the race:
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There is no mention in this email of the other candidates in the race, Democrat Tim Mahoney and independent Emmie Ross. As a result, Mahoney had to issue a separate message to soldiers yesterday explaining that troops could also vote for him or Ross. Mahoney’s letter also included instructions on how soldiers could vote for Joe Negron.

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Guess they didn't know that we are "absolutely" winning in Iraq - Bush said so.

Government Agency Issues Grim Report On Iraq, Warns Of ‘Descent Into Hell’

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For some reason I thought about this today.

Here's an amazing piece from The Onion's amazing September 26th, 2001 issue - the first issue after 9/11.

God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule The Onion

NEW YORK—Responding to recent events on Earth, God, the omniscient creator-deity worshipped by billions of followers of various faiths for more than 6,000 years, angrily clarified His longtime stance against humans killing each other Monday.

"Look, I don't know, maybe I haven't made myself completely clear, so for the record, here it is again," said the Lord, His divine face betraying visible emotion during a press conference near the site of the fallen Twin Towers. "Somehow, people keep coming up with the idea that I want them to kill their neighbor. Well, I don't. And to be honest, I'm really getting sick and tired of it. Get it straight. Not only do I not want anybody to kill anyone, but I specifically commanded you not to, in really simple terms that anybody ought to be able to understand."
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"I don't care how holy somebody claims to be," God said. "If a person tells you it's My will that they kill someone, they're wrong. Got it? I don't care what religion you are, or who you think your enemy is, here it is one more time: No killing, in My name or anyone else's, ever again."

The press conference came as a surprise to humankind, as God rarely intervenes in earthly affairs. As a matter of longstanding policy, He has traditionally left the task of interpreting His message and divine will to clerics, rabbis, priests, imams, and Biblical scholars.
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"I tried to put it in the simplest possible terms for you people, so you'd get it straight, because I thought it was pretty important," said God, called Yahweh and Allah respectively in the Judaic and Muslim traditions. "I guess I figured I'd left no real room for confusion after putting it in a four-word sentence with one-syllable words, on the tablets I gave to Moses. How much more clear can I get?"

"But somehow, it all gets twisted around and, next thing you know, somebody's spouting off some nonsense about, 'God says I have to kill this guy, God wants me to kill that guy, it's God's will,'" God continued. "It's not God's will, all right? News flash: 'God's will' equals 'Don't murder people.'"

Worse yet, many of the worst violators claim that their actions are justified by passages in the Bible, Torah, and Qur'an.

"To be honest, there's some contradictory stuff in there, okay?" God said. "So I can see how it could be pretty misleading. I admit it—My bad. I did My best to inspire them, but a lot of imperfect human agents have misinterpreted My message over the millennia. Frankly, much of the material that got in there is dogmatic, doctrinal bullshit. I turn My head for a second and, suddenly, all this stuff about homosexuality gets into Leviticus, and everybody thinks it's God's will to kill gays. It absolutely drives Me up the wall."

God praised the overwhelming majority of His Muslim followers as "wonderful, pious people," calling the perpetrators of the Sept. 11 attacks rare exceptions.
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"I'm talking to all of you, here!" continued God, His voice rising to a shout. "Do you hear Me? I don't want you to kill anybody. I'm against it, across the board. How many times do I have to say it? Don't kill each other anymore—ever! I'm fucking serious!"

Upon completing His outburst, God fell silent, standing quietly at the podium for several moments. Then, witnesses reported, God's shoulders began to shake, and He wept.

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When Pete was only in the seventh grade, he stabbed a cop.
He's real R.A. material, and he was glad to swap
His switchblade and his old zip gun
For a bayonet and a new M-1.
It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier!
- Tom Lehrer (It Makes a Fellow Proud To Be a Soldier)

Lower Standards Help Army Recruit More

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Army recruited more than 2,600 soldiers under new lower aptitude standards this year, helping the service beat its goal of 80,000 recruits in the throes of an unpopular war and mounting casualties.

The recruiting mark comes a year after the Army missed its recruitment target by the widest margin since 1979, which had triggered a boost in the number of recruiters, increased bonuses, and changes in standards.
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About 17 percent of the first-time recruits, or about 13,600, were accepted under waivers for various medical, moral or criminal problems, including misdemeanor arrests or drunk driving. That is a slight increase from last year, the Army said.

Of those accepted under waivers, more than half were for "moral" reasons, mostly misdemeanor arrests. Thirty-eight percent were for medical reasons and 7 percent were drug and alcohol problems, including those who may have failed a drug test or acknowledged they had used drugs.

Rumsfeld and Bush have weakened our military - it will take years if not decades for this nation to recover from the damage these people have wrought.

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NBC REFUSES ADS FOR DIXIE CHICKS MOVIE

NBC and The CW Television Network have taken a stand against the Dixie’s Chicks new documentary “Shut Up & Sing” a behind-the-scenes look at the incredible political and media fallout that occurred in 2003 after the Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines said that she was "ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." “Shut Up & Sing” opens in theaters in NY and Los Angeles on Friday and in theaters nationwide on November 10th.

NBC responded to a clearance report submitted by the Weinstein Company’s media agency saying that the network “cannot accept these spots as they are disparaging to President Bush.”

Let me repeat that.

NBC Claims that the Network “Cannot Accept These Spots as They are Disparaging to President Bush”

This is America. Not sure if NBC is aware of that.

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In celebration of Blogger being up I thought I'd ask a question:

Did any of you all know that Chertoff back in 1998 represented Dr. Magdy Elamir who was accused of sending lots o' money to bin Laden? I didn't know that.

Weird really, you'd think people would find it interesting. I don't think it should exclude him from his position - lawyers shouldn't be judged solely on their clients - no the thing that should exclude Chertoff from his position is that he's incompetent. But I just find it strange it wasn't publicized. It really looks like only the Begen Record in New Jersey covered it (its New Jersey's 2nd largest newspaper - but that's not saying much when you realize I'm not counting any of the New York of Philly papers).

Flashback: Serious Questions for Michael Chertoff; Bernie Kerik’s Not Looking So Bad Now

In a Dateline NBC story titled On the trail of arms merchants, dated August 2, 2002, it states that the foreign intelligence report was obtained by Congressman Ben Gillman, when he was Chairman of the House International Relations Committee:

Last fall, “Dateline” obtained information about Magdy Elamir. He’s a prominent doctor, a neurologist with a practice in Jersey City. Born and educated in Egypt, he moved to this country about 20 years ago and since then has built a fortune. He lives in a mansion, is generous to local charities and is an active supporter of both political parties.

Should counterterrorism investigators take an interest in Dr. Elamir? Well, “Dateline” obtained a document last fall — foreign intelligence report, that makes a startling allegation about the doctor — that he has had financial ties with Osama bin Laden for years. The report was given to a senior member of Congress, Ben Gilman, back in 1998, when he was Chairman of the House International Relations Committee.

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The date of the 1998 foreign intelligence report is very important, because an article in The Record, dated December 11, 1998, documents the fact that Michael Chertoff was Dr. Elamir’s lawyer in the fraudulent HMO case in the same year that Elamir was named in the foreign intelligence report:

But in a hint of the gravity of his [Dr. Elamir] legal predicament, he was represented in court by Michael Chertoff, the former U.S. attorney in Newark and counsel to U.S. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato's Whitewater
investigation.” (2)

The Record also reported on December 18, 1998 that Michael Chertoff had access to Dr. Elamir’s financial records for the fraudulent HMO and presented them personally in court:

Chertoff presented a thick document from Elamir's accountant,Mohammed Hanafy, offering explanations for the money transfers from APPP
to other Elamir-controlled corporations

For more detail on the whole Dr. Elamir case:

Security Risk?

Federal Appeals Court Judge Michael Chertoff's ties to the financiers of the Sept. 11 attacks may prevent his confirmation as Homeland Security Chief.

Well no it didn't - in fact I doubt the folks that confirmed him even knew.

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His best one yet:

Olbermann: Advertising terrorism - Countdown with Keith Olbermann

The dictionary definition of the word “terrorize” is simple and not open to misinterpretation:

“To fill or overpower with terror; terrify. To coerce by intimidation or fear.”

Note please, that the words “violence” and “death” are missing from that definition.

The key to terror, the key to terrorism, is not the act—but the fear of the act.

That is why bin Laden and his deputies and his imitators are forever putting together videotaped statements and releasing virtual infomercials with dire threats and heart-stopping warnings.

But why is the Republican Party imitating them?

Bin Laden puts out what amounts to a commercial of fear; The Republicans put out what is unmistakable as a commercial of fear.

The Republicans are paying to have the messages of bin Laden and the others broadcast into your home.

Only the Republicans have a bigger bank roll.
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You have adopted bin Laden and Zawahiri as spokesmen for the Republican National Committee!

“To fill or overpower with terror; terrify. To coerce by intimidation or fear.”

By this definition, the people who put these videos together—first the terrorists and then the administration—whose shared goal is to scare you into panicking instead of thinking—they are the ones terrorizing you.

By this definition, the leading terrorist group in this world right now is al Qaida.

But the leading terrorist group in this country right now is the Republican Party.

Eleven Presidents ago, a chief executive reassured us that “we have nothing to fear but fear itself.”

His distant successor has wasted his administration insisting that there is nothing we can have but fear itself.
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Mr. President, you, and that advertisement of terror, are full of sound and fury—signifying (and competent at) nothing.

Do read the whole thing.

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A friend recommends the following disclaimer for all American e-mails:

"The Government of the United States reserves the right to censor and/or edit any information contained within this e-mail that it considers PRIVILEGED, CONFIDENTIAL, or SUBVERSIVE without need of due process. The author is solely liable for any and all illegal or otherwise subversive statements made within this e-mail, and can at the discretion of the executive branch be held indefinitely and without trial for any statements contain here within. If you have received this e-mail in error, please destroy all copies of this message and its attachments and notify the State Department immediately."

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You know - when the constitution is shredded I'm sure we won't be told because no one in the Department of Truth has the ability to use email.

Flack: For Months, Tech "Snafu" Kept Key Intel Docs from Lawmakers

For five months this year, the House intelligence committee had a crucial intelligence report on the increasing threat of terrorism in the wake of the Iraq War -- yet not a single member read it. That's including the panel's chairman, Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-IL) and the ranking member Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA).

In fact, an untold number of classified documents were kept from the members of the vital oversight committee from at least April to September of this year, according to the chairman's spokesman. In an interview yesterday, he blamed the months-long delay on technical problems with the "equipment" which handles the reports.
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The committee uses an internal, secure Web site to share classified documents, he said. "The equipment that would be used to scan [documents] into the system went down."
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According to Ware, since the Iraq terror NIE did not make it to the committee's internal system, it was filed quietly away for months. With the exception of the committee's security officer, who receives classified documents from the intelligence community to provide to the panel, no one on the committee knew that the document existed.

Press reports suggest that New York Times reporters began sniffing around about the document in August or early September. According to a statement from intel committee member Rep. John Tierney (D-MA), a Times reporter's inquiry about the document prompted Tierney to find out if it existed. That's when the committee's security officer turned up the document.
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“This was a very anonymous document until the people who illegally disclosed it chose to make it into something,” Ware told me.

Steve Aftergood, who directs the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy, had a different take.

"It’s an interaction with the press that catalyzed the whole process. When the press is locked out, you have to imagine that little or nothing gets done." Calling intelligence oversight in the current Congress a "slapdash, lackadaisical affair," he added: "You know, if the committees aren’t paying attention to the estimates, then either we don’t need the estimates, or we don’t need the committees."

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Some Voting Machines Chop Off Your Right To An Honest Election

Some Voting Machines Chop Off Candidates' Names

U.S. Senate candidate James Webb's last name has been cut off on part of the electronic ballot used by voters in Alexandria, Falls Church and Charlottesville because of a computer glitch that also affects other candidates with long names, city officials said yesterday.

Yes James Webb is an unusually long name as you will see:

Election officials attribute the mistake to an increase in the type size on the ballot. Although the larger type is easier to read, it also unintentionally shortens the longer names on the summary page of the ballot.

Thus, Democratic candidate Webb will appear with his first name and nickname only -- or "James H. 'Jim' "

So Virginia don't vote Webb - Vote 'Jim'

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Results don't matter

These days it really is the thought that counts.

Sure under Bush North Korea made a bomb while under Clinton they did not. But under Bush we talked tough, while under Clinton we talked with the North Koreans. Results aside the Bush way was right. To the right at least.

Sure global terrorism has increased because of Iraq, but Iraq was still the right way to go because it was a military campaign. Increasing terrorism as a result does not mean that fighting terrorist this way (by having a civilian population that had nothing to do with terrorism suffer) isn't the way to go. It is reality at fault - and thus it can be disregarded.

Astinence only education is the right thing to do. Kids don't need to know the facts about sex. Just because abstinence only education increases the liklihood of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases doesn't mean that that isn't the correct way to teach teens. Its just that the teens are no damn good.

GAO says “Abstinence Only” Sex Ed Must Change

• According to Columbia University researchers, virginity pledge programs increase pledge-takers' risk for STIs and pregnancy. The study concluded that 88 percent of pledge-takers initiated sex prior to marriage even though some delayed sex for a while. Rates of STIs among pledge-takers and non-pledgers were similar, even though pledge-takers initiated sex later. Pledge-takers were less likely to seek STI testing and less likely to use contraception when they did have sex.[20,21]
• Evaluations of the effectiveness of state-funded abstinence-only-until-marriage programs found no delay in first sex. In fact, of six evaluations that assessed short-term changes in behavior, three found no changes, two found increased sexual activity from pre- to post-test, and one showed mixed results. Five evaluations looked for but found no long-term impact in reducing teens' sexual activity.[9]
• Analysis of data from Youth Risk Behavior surveys found that sexual activity among high school youth declined significantly from 1991 to 1997, prior to large-scale funding of abstinence-only-until-marriage programs, but changed little from 1999 to 2003 with federal funding of such programs.[22]
• Analysis of federally funded abstinence-only curricula found that over 80 percent of curricula supported by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services contained false, misleading, or distorted information about reproductive health. Specifically, they conveyed:
  • False information about the effectiveness of contraceptives;
  • False information about the risks of abortion;
  • Religious beliefs as scientific fact;
  • Stereotypes about boys and girls as scientific fact; and
  • Medical and scientific errors of fact.[23]

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In one Congressional race the GOP thinks they've got the perfect way to win:

The Democratic Candidate once dialed a wrong number.

They're so confidant that that will horrify voters that they've taken out TV ads about it.

Campaign Ad Linking Democrat to 'Sex' Call May Backfire on GOP

Democrat Michael Arcuri is vying with Republican, Ray Meier, to replace longtime GOP Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, who is retiring. The race is very close and may help decide if the Democrats take the House.

The national GOP campaign office started airing an ad Friday that showed Arcuri leering at the silhouette of a dancing woman who says, ''Hi, sexy. You've reached the live, one-on-one fantasy line.'' He supposedly dialed the service two years ago from a New York City hotel room and billed taxpayers – for all of $1.25 for a one-minute call. He is the district attorney in Oneida County.

Now the Utica Observer-Dispatch today notes that Arcuri's campaign has released records to the paper showing the call to the 800 sex line was followed the very next minute by a call to the state Department of Criminal Justice Services – and the last seven digits of the two numbers are the same.
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The ad's sponsor, the National Republican Congressional Committee, stands by the 30-second message.

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So I guess it is a choice:

Is Rep. Ryun so dumb that he is in Congress and yet didn't know that his neighbor across the street was also someone in Congress?

Or is Rep. Ryun so dumb he thinks that excuse would fly?

Ryun's story on Foley changes

Worried about winning a sixth term in Congress, U.S. Rep. Jim Ryun said this month he didn't know until recently that he lived across the street from disgraced Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla. -- whom many Republicans are trying to keep at a safe distance.

Then, when faced with questions about how that could be the case considering Ryun in May hosted a fundraiser alongside Foley on D Street in Washington, D.C., Ryun's campaign said the events weren't jointly planned.

However, neither of those statements was completely accurate, Ryun's campaign admitted last week.

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Just to keep in mind during the primaries of 2008.

Kerry is a dick - who puts his ambitions ahead of America. He knows what it means to America to get a Congress that will try to keep the President in check.

But he'd still rather keep the money.

I'd rather have him President the Bush - but I'm still, he's a jerk. And he's not alone. Hillary is also not in the sharing mood.

Kerry is pressured to share campaign wealth

Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, has given less than $15,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee since the beginning of 2005. Though he has helped candidates in a variety of other ways, his last major financial contribution to the DSCC came a month after he lost the 2004 presidential election, when he used $1 million in leftover campaign funds to help the committee retire its debt.

Several members of the Massachusetts House delegation, meanwhile, have contributed minimally to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, even though none of them face serious reelection challenges. Representative Stephen F. Lynch, Democrat of South Boston, is $100,000 short of his obligations, and Representative Martin T. Meehan, a Lowell Democrat, has barely exceeded the $125,000 amount the party asked him to pay, even though his campaign account has a balance of nearly $5 million.

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From Diebold Variations(c)2004-06 Rand Careaga/salamander.eps

This story is finally getting traction - as it should have years ago - we're talking about our democracy here.

From the front page of Sunday's Star Ledger (NJ's biggest Newspaper):

The sleuths who showed how to steal your e-vote

A Diebold AccuVote-TS electronic voting machine.

Working in secrecy bordering on paranoia, Halderman and fellow grad student Ari Feldman and Professor Ed Felten spent the summer meticulously analyzing their prize -- and hatching a computer program they refer to simply as The Virus.

Now they have shown -- on the Internet, in Congress, and for anyone else who will watch -- how easily a popular electronic voting machine, long off-limits to public examination, can be rigged to steal elections without leaving any electronic fingerprints.

Six years after Florida's hanging chad debacle, nearly 40 percent of the American electorate will cast ballots next month on electronic voting machines, many of them bought with $3 billion provided by Congress for technology upgrades.

And ABC News is covering this story:

Electronic Voting Machines Could Skew Elections
Researchers, Candidates Have Little Confidence in Machines Designed to Make Elections Easier to Call

Inside, she discovered three computer discs. With them was an anonymous letter saying the discs contained the secret source code for vote-counting that could be used to alter the votes cast through Maryland's new electronic voting machines.

"My understanding is that with these disks a malicious person could skew the outcome of an election," Kagan said.

Diebold, the company that makes the voting machines, told ABC News, "These discs do not alter the security of the Diebold touch-screen system in any way," because election workers can set their own passwords.

But ABC News has obtained an independent report commissioned by the state of Maryland and conducted by Science Applications International Corporation revealing that the original Diebold factory passwords are still being used on many voting machines.

The SAIC study also shows myriad other security flaws, including administrative over-ride passwords that cannot be changed by local officials but can be used by hackers or those who have seen the discs.

Not to be paranoid but with all these potential election poll tricks being possible one has to wonder where the Presidential confidence comes from:

President Plays Down Father's Concerns Over Upcoming Elections

President Bush gently admonished his father for saying he hates to think what life will be like for his son if the Democrats win control of Congress in the Nov. 7 election.

"He shouldn't be speculating like this, because -- he should have called me ahead of time and I'd tell him they're not going to [win]," a smiling Bush said during an interview broadcast yesterday on the ABC program "This Week."

As an aside: isn't that a wonderful example of Bush being the dick he really is. Such condensention to his dad - Bush 43 really believes he know more then dad. I didn't care for his dad as a President, but Bush 41's worst errors would be harelded as accomplishments in Bush 43's presidency.

Anyway, Bush's confidence reminds me of the confidence he had in 2004, despite Karen Hughes telling him he wouldn't win (just as the exit polls said). Or the confidence in 2000 when he knew he had Florida - his brother told him so.

What does Bush know this time?

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There are many bad people in the world, and both in Iraq and in the US this war as a way to make money. Money that actually would have made this mess less of a mess.

Money that is then sometimes spent in political donations to idiot politicians who turn the other way so it can continue.

That is the definition of corruption.

CBS: Corrupt arms deals cost Iraq $800M

The former minister, Ali Allawi, told CBS' "60 Minutes" that $1.2 billion had been allocated from the Iraqi treasury to the defense ministry to buy new weapons. About $400 million was spent on outdated equipment, while the rest of the money was simply stolen, he said in the interview, which aired Sunday.

Allawi, who has repeatedly leveled such accusations in the past, said the arms fraud is "one of the biggest thefts in history" and that corrupt former Iraqi officials are now "running around the world hiding and scurrying around."

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Big lies, small lies - to Bush life and lies share more in common than just two letters.

Think Progress » Bush: ‘We’ve Never Been Stay The Course’

During an interview today on ABC’s This Week, President Bush tried to distance himself from what has been his core strategy in Iraq for the last three years. George Stephanopoulos asked about James Baker’s plan to develop a strategy for Iraq that is “between ’stay the course’ and ‘cut and run.’”

Bush responded, ‘We’ve never been stay the course, George!’

Never of course being defined as: 8/30/06, 8/4/05, 12/15/03, 4/13/04, 4/16/04, 4/5/05 - and that's just from Bush. Tony Snow and others have said "stay the course" as well.

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Now we know what the GOP election strategy is:

Election judge cast 2 absentee ballots

A veteran Republican election judge in St. Louis County has acknowledged to election officials that he illegally cast two absentee ballots for the Nov. 7 election.

County Election Board Chairman John Diehl said the judge was told Friday that he can no longer work at the polls on Election Day. Evidence of the man's two votes will be turned over to county prosecutors, who will be decide whether to take legal action, Diehl said.

The judge is elderly and it probably is an isn't mistake, but it was too good an opportunity to be snarky to pass up.

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