Libby Shaw

• Palin Pals Around with Secessionists and Religious Fanatics

  John McCain and Sarah Palin can't talk about the economy and so their campaign has descended into one of the lowest rings in hell. Indeed, their campaign has sunk to such a degree that it would be laughable were it not so dangerous and downright un-patriotic.
  
  Sarah Palin,' [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2008, 9:46pm EDT
  

• Is Sarah Palin George W. Bush in a Dress?

  Cross posted on Daily Kos and Texas Kaos as well as The Burnt Orange Report
  
  As we learn more and more each day about Governor Sarah Palin, more than a few comments have been percolating in the blogosphere about how her style of governing shares [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2008, 9:27pm EDT
  

• Palin Pick: Going to the Mattresses

  Is the shoot out over? Have the assault weapons been locked up? Is it safe to come outside to play?
  
  Wow. After watching Palin’s performance last night in which she went to the mats straightaway without wasting a moment, I have to say she did a damned good job [...]
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  Posted: September 05, 2008, 8:09pm EDT
  

• Meet the Real John McCain

  He is no Maverick.
  
  Let's take a look at his long standing relationships with lobbyists.
  
  McCain has claimed he is a reformer who is committed to diminishing the influence of lobbyists in Washington, and yet 59 lobbyists have or are donating to his campaign. More troubling is the' [...]
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  Posted: August 22, 2008, 5:55pm EDT
  

• John McCain Supports a Military Draft

  I guess he has no choice. As with W. McCain has always believed war and force are major and viable options to face down an enemy, any enemy, really, whether real or imagined. Indeed, Pat Buchanan of all people said Dick Cheney seems like Ghandi when compared to where McCain [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2008, 4:18pm EDT
  

• McCain's Huge Whoppers on Energy

  According to a diary written by blogger Jerome á Paris on Daily Kos
  today that includes data provided by the Sierra Club, John McBush has told more than a few tall ones on his voting record on energy bills. In a recent interview Walter Issacson asked John McCain to respond [...]
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  Posted: August 19, 2008, 9:44am EDT
  

• Are You Ready for A Bush Third Term?

  No? Well, don't be duped into voting for John McCain because you think he is a "Maverick." He isn't.
  
  
  
  Republicans in Congress who voted with W. most of the time are also yearning for a Bush third term. Think about it. [...]
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  Posted: August 14, 2008, 3:07pm EDT
  

• John McCain says Nations don't invade other Nations

  I guess Iraq wasn't a nation.
  
  ' [...]
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  Posted: August 13, 2008, 6:35pm EDT
  

• Military Contractors Charge U.S. Taxpayers $85 Billion

  According to a piece written in The Huffington Post military contractors in Iraq have charged the American taxpayers $85. billion for their services.
  
  It should come as no surprise to any informed person that these outsourced services were not less expensive than if they had been provided by [...]
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  Posted: August 13, 2008, 4:52pm EDT
  

• Republican Rule

  
  
  Suit up dudes and dudettes, because McCain will be looking for you to serve in his wars. [...]
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  Posted: August 11, 2008, 8:47pm EDT
  

• The Animal House in Washington Has Got to Go

  I am sure everyone has heard the economic adviser for Senator John McCain and former Texas U.S. Senator Phil Gramm’s words of wisdom last week. Apparently Mr. Gramm is impatient with the American people and he graciously volunteered to serve as our personal life coach and economic counselor for the [...]
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  Posted: July 13, 2008, 9:15pm EDT
  

• Someone Call a Doctor, Please! The GOP Has Gone Wacko

  From an overdose of its very own sleaze.
  
  Republican madness became more severe last week when it came up with its ridculous and desperate narrative to paint Senator Barack Obama as an arrogant clone of George W. Bush. According to Maureen Dowd in her editorial in The New [...]
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  Posted: June 30, 2008, 3:39pm EDT
  

• Son of Late Religious Right Minister Defends Reverend Wright.

  I read the most extraordinary article yesterday on The Huffington Post written by Frank Schaeffer who is the son of the late Reverend Frances Schaeffer. Essentially Mr. Schaeffer (the son) insists Reverend Wright is being demonized for remarks that are not too unlike those expressed by his father in earlier [...]
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  Posted: March 20, 2008, 9:14am EDT
  

• Texas Vietnam War Dodger Cornyn Demands Decorated Veteran Noriega�s Military Records.

  Now why would our distinguished junior Senator from the great state of Texas want to examine the military records of the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, Lt. Col. Rick Noriega?
  
  For what purpose?
  
  I think we all can guess at the reason. Let’s put it this way. Cornyn [...]
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  Posted: February 17, 2008, 3:32pm EST
  

• Senator Cornyn Stands by His Man on FISA Bill

  G.W. Bush may be at a 34% or lower approval rating and yet our U.S. Senator John Cornyn continues to stand by the loser man time after time. W. has been under a 50% rating now for longer than any U.S. President including Richard Nixon, but oh well, why would [...]
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  Posted: February 01, 2008, 2:43pm EST
  

• Republicans to Pump $250 Million into Smear Assault Machine to Attack Democratic Candidates

  (This is a synthesis of comments I posted previously on the Burnt Orange Report. The piece is also cross posted on Texas Kaos)
  
  We Democrats are going to have to work very hard to win in 2008, despite the promising opinion poll results for our party and the [...]
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  Posted: January 22, 2008, 10:10am EST
  

• Why Texans Should Fire U.S. Senator Cornyn

  As I mentioned in my diaries Texas War Hawk Senator Cornyn a Draft Dodger? and Why Texans Deserve Far Better than John Cornyn, Part I, I asserted that rubber stamp for W. and war hawk Cornyn shirked military service during the Vietnam War when he had every opportunity [...]
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  Posted: January 01, 2008, 9:49pm EST
  

• The Texas Taliban Party, a.k.a. The Texas GOP

  Now that some of the Texas Taliban in DC, specifically Rove and Delay, got their slimy butts kicked out of DC, consequently and most unfortunately for Texans, the GOP Taliban are back at home in Texas to raid our Constitutional rights, freedoms and resources. I am telling you folks, these [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2007, 10:19am EST
  

• The GOP Vote For Dictatorship, Against Democracy

  The entire lot of the Republican Party voted for an American styled dictatorship this week, in complete and total lock step, in our very own U.S. House of Representatives. I saw the episode unfold in real time before my very eyes on CSPAN. The voting tallies that appeared on the [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2007, 9:39pm EDT
  

• Shame, Shame, Shame on America

  Our President has vetoed the SCHIP bill and many GOP lawmakers agree with W.
  
  What a pathetically sad and embarrassing day for all of America. What kind of people have we become?
  
  It is obvious to me that the GOP mantra du jour is "save the fetus, hate" [...]
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  Posted: October 03, 2007, 10:00pm EDT
  

• The Accomplishments of President George W. Bush 2000-2007

  I shattered the record for the biggest annual deficit in history (not easy!).
  
  I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any other president in US history (Ronnie was tough to beat, but I did it!!).
  
  I spent more money on polls and [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2007, 7:48pm EDT
  

• Why I Will Never Vote Republican, Part II

  I had formatting problems posting this piece as one. (Please see Part I.)
  
  Secondly, there is far too much Perv Gate going on within the GOP, especially with the conservative family values and gay bashing wing of the party. I am afraid to turn my TV on because there’s [...]
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  Posted: August 30, 2007, 3:14pm EDT
  

• Why I Will Never Vote Republican Part I

  The reasons are numerous but here are just a few. (See Part II above this post.)
  
  Republicans lie.
  
  News about no WMD and no ties to Al-Qaeda in Iraq is old and stale. We had a rubber-stamping do nothing Congress when this grim fact became reality and [...]
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  Posted: August 30, 2007, 2:51pm EDT
  

• Do We Need Jimmy Carter To Ensure Fair Elections in Texas?

  I recently attended a meeting held by some of Harris County’s precinct officials and election judges, most of whom are extremely hard working and deeply committed volunteers. A subset of this group has formed a committee to investigate voter suppression and integrity concerns in Harris County (Houston area). They toil [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2007, 5:16pm EDT
  

• Tell Me Our U.S. Texas Lawmakers Do Not Embrace a W. Monarchy

  What indeed are our elected “representatives” doing about W.’s obvious abuse of power? Earlier this week I faxed off letters to my fearless Republican leaders, Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison, John Cornyn and U.S. Representative (Houston) John Culberson. I am not holding my breath that my very long letter (that merely [...]
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  Posted: July 27, 2007, 3:47pm EDT
  

• Cheney�s Secret Energy Task Force List: The Dudes Who Paid to Play

  A friend of mine from California sent me a link to an article written in today’s Washington Post which reveals at least a partial list of Cheney’s secret and very special invitees to his former energy task force meetings. Of course, as we would have expected, environmental and renewable energy [...]
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  Posted: July 18, 2007, 4:47pm EDT
  

• Cheney Shows His Love for America

  While Dictator Dick thumbs his nose at the U.S. Constitution, our individual rights and the basic tenets of Democracy, he is busy at work safeguarding the personal fortunes he has amassed.
  
  Alas, it seems that Dictator Dick has very little faith in the future of the American economy. [...]
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  Posted: July 13, 2007, 12:46am EDT
  

• The Fox Howls about the Fox in the Henhouse

  I am not writing about Fox Fake News though they deserve to be written about now that Fox has revealed its true racist colors in confusing Congressman Jefferson with Congressman Conyers.
  
  Nope, this is about the party Fox shills and spins for – the GOP - and its [...]
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  Posted: June 08, 2007, 4:42pm EDT
  

• Deleting Democracy?

  I take no credit for today’s post. My friend Ken in California is responsible for the hard work and extensive research, the outcome of which reveals a history of the Bush Administration’s willful and systematic attempts to undermine the democratic process in this country.
  
  Oh, by the way, [...]
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  Posted: April 16, 2007, 9:05pm EDT
  

• The Pimps and Their Whores

  Thoughts on the relationship between corporate America and the U.S. mainstream media.
  
  I began to suspect the media in 2000, after W. was installed as President by a bare majority of the Supreme Court, some of which justices were appointed by Bush the father.
  
  But it [...]
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  Posted: April 12, 2007, 10:06am EDT
  

• GOP Playbook On Stealing Elections

  Before exposing what I have learned on the GOP’s playbook on rigging elections, I would like to point out a few observations I had when catching a few clips of CSPAN’s broadcast on Friday on the recent House vote on the tortured and endless nightmare in Iraq.
  
  It [...]
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  Posted: March 26, 2007, 2:21pm EDT
  

• DEMONIZING DEMOCRATS

  The GOP routinely attempts to portray Democrats as fiends and yet the party of the sanctimonious and self-righteous will accept donations from the likes of financiers for Al-Qaeda. This snippet of news won’t likely show up anywhere anytime soon in the Right Wing Scream Machine “media.” There is more on [...]
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  Posted: February 28, 2007, 9:15pm EST
  

• Bush�s War in Iraq Has Increased Terrorism Sevenfold

  A new report has been recently released by Mother Jones, entitled “Iraq 101: Aftermath, Long Term Thinking” (Part 4) This in-depth, 5-part study was led by Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank, research fellows at the Center on Law and Security at NYU’s School of Law.
  
  According to the study, [...]
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  Posted: February 21, 2007, 4:35pm EST
  

• DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS

  Some folks in the mainstream media call Texas the “reddest state of them all.” Enlightened Texans, including those who represent a cross section of all political groups, from liberal to moderate to conservative, have a different interpretation of Texas politics.
  
  The more informed Texan understands that our state [...]
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  Posted: February 06, 2007, 8:21pm EST
  

• WHY W. THINKS WE'RE WINNING IN IRAQ

  When over 60% of Americans know better
  
  Mr. Chris Floyd wrote the stunning article below for the UK Independent. LS
  
  Found via Truthout.org
  
  Excerpts:
  
  The reason that George W. Bush insists that "victory" is achievable in Iraq is not that he is deluded or isolated [...]
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  Posted: January 09, 2007, 4:36pm EST
  

• BUSH WILL CUT AND RUN AND THEN BLAME IRAQ

  According to the Financial Times of London, Bush intends to blame Iraq and then turn tail and run like a coward/bully chicken hawk would. Naturally, Bush will not take responsibility for his own morass making and in typical and predictable GOP fashion, he will play the blame game instead. I [...]
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  Posted: December 13, 2006, 4:16pm EST
  

• IT IS WORSE THAN THE VERY WORST IMAGINABLE

  December 7: The day after the release of the Iraq Study Group Report and nearly 24 hours of wall to wall cable news coverage of its findings.
  
  I started this blog in order to share political ideas and news that one may not normally find in the mainstream [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2006, 4:01pm EST
  

• THE ABSOLUTE WORST EVER

  Now we know beyond a doubt that the war in Iraq is an unmitigated disaster. I also learned today that the Pentagon has been under reporting the real level of violence in Iraq. Am I surprised? Under this administration? Of course not. It has been absolutely essential to the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2006, 4:08pm EST
  

• Do Nothing Iraq Study Group

  Another blast from the past. Following six years of a do-nothing Congress we will soon learn we also have a do nothing Iraq Study Group.
  
  Many in the know believe the ISG is nothing more than a mere damage control device for the Bush Administration and the Bush [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2006, 3:58pm EST