Good grief. And THIS! Holy crap!
What's going to happen to the Democrats? A 1994 collapse re-do? Voters sour quickly on this shit. The Democrats in Congress by '94 were bathed in corruption. Perhaps the Republicans had set new records by 2006, but the 1994 Democrats were pretty awful. Guess they feel the need to wrest the record back.
Back in the day Dan Rostenkowski was the prime example. He was a quintessential smoke-filled room kind of guy. In 1994, it came out that he had ghost payroll and a gift scandal to make Ted Stevens blush, all while running the Congressional Post Office like an official money laundry. They couldn't take that even in Chicago!
Twelve years of Republican Congressional rule followed. We lived in the Chicago area then and I worked in a downtown skyscraper. I knew we were in for a long, long decade during that fall and the subsequent rise of Gingrich. It was a sinking feeling then...
Next thing we know, Obama will be impeached.
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Here is Rice during the Iraq War run-up:
Of course they belong to Susan Rice, President-elect Obama's choice for the key foreign policy post of U.N. Ambassador. News fluff suggests, "Rice has spent her career studying how to prevent violence by alleviating poverty, curing disease and addressing climate change."
Fair enough, except the liberal hawk part is left out.
I also learn from the news today that Ms. Rice has roots and a summer home here.
RICE: "I think he [then Secretary of State Colin Powell] has proved that Iraq has these weapons and is hiding them, and I don't think many informed people doubted that." (NPR, Feb. 6, 2003)(H/T to the excellent A Tiny Revolution for those quotes.)
RICE: "We need to be ready for the possibility that the attack against the U.S. could come in some form against the homeland, not necessarily on the battlefield against our forces. And I think there, too, is an area where the American people need to be better prepared by our leadership. ... It's clear that Iraq poses a major threat. It's clear that its weapons of mass destruction need to be dealt with forcefully, and that's the path we're on. I think the question becomes whether we can keep the diplomatic balls in the air and not drop any, even as we move forward, as we must, on the military side." (NPR, Dec. 20, 2002)
RICE: "I think the United States government has been clear since the first Bush administration about the threat that Iraq and Saddam Hussein poses. The United States policy has been regime change for many, many years, going well back into the Clinton administration. So it's a question of timing and tactics...We do not necessarily need a further Council resolution before we can enforce this and previous resolutions." (NPR, Nov. 11, 2002)
Of course they belong to Susan Rice, President-elect Obama's choice for the key foreign policy post of U.N. Ambassador. News fluff suggests, "Rice has spent her career studying how to prevent violence by alleviating poverty, curing disease and addressing climate change."
Fair enough, except the liberal hawk part is left out.
I also learn from the news today that Ms. Rice has roots and a summer home here.
New government for Canada?
Canada is held in high esteem in our household
Awesome site during our travels in New Brunswick, Canada
Looks like the Bush-friendly Harper government is about to leave in the wake of the economic meltdown.
The only reason the Conservative Party led by Harper was ever able to gain power as a minority is because the opposition to it was divided. In the wake of Liberal Party arrogance and scandal (see "Sponsorship scandal" HERE), it's standing sank, creating an opening for the Conservatives to slip in with only 36% of the vote in early 2006.
In recent elections, the Conservatives seemed to maintain the minority government. But the economic crisis has overtaken Canada too. Conservative reluctance to pass economic stimulus appears to have driven former enemy opposition parties--Liberal, New Democratic, and Bloc Qu?b?cois--into coalition to put an end to Harper's regime.
Canada is held in high esteem in our household
Awesome site during our travels in New Brunswick, Canada
Looks like the Bush-friendly Harper government is about to leave in the wake of the economic meltdown.
The only reason the Conservative Party led by Harper was ever able to gain power as a minority is because the opposition to it was divided. In the wake of Liberal Party arrogance and scandal (see "Sponsorship scandal" HERE), it's standing sank, creating an opening for the Conservatives to slip in with only 36% of the vote in early 2006.
In recent elections, the Conservatives seemed to maintain the minority government. But the economic crisis has overtaken Canada too. Conservative reluctance to pass economic stimulus appears to have driven former enemy opposition parties--Liberal, New Democratic, and Bloc Qu?b?cois--into coalition to put an end to Harper's regime.
