So we are reliving history where the Sunday shows are all Clinton and the spokesman for the Republicans is Trent Lott.
Is this second time farce? I sure can’t find anything to laugh about!
I wish someone would track the ratings of these shows and add the results to the thread every week. I will volunteer if anyone can tell me how to find the numbers. anita?
Wow a full hour with Bill Richardson on Slay the Nation. What a ratings grabber! /s
Last week it was Mrs. C.
This week it is Mr. C.
Co-inky-dink?
The C.’s are doing the two-fer again. Vote for her and get THEM.
Yes, I guess it could. They coulda had Nutjob and Kim to round out the crew.
Once again, FNS is certainly one I can live without.
Fox and Friends (caught them in surfing)
was doing an immigration story about the new immigration test.
In TRUE ORWELLIAN newspeak they called the NOW EASER SHORTER TEST harder and new.
This is an outright lie.
The new test does not have 100 harder questions! They took the old questions and cut OUT the harder questions.
The OLD test was 200 questions and they TOOK OUT and left only 100.
In addition they have made the quetions PC. Founding fathers out, MLK can stay. Indians were here first is in, Patrick Henry is out.
FNC is so far up the illegal immigration posterior, AAAAAHHH
now surfing elswhere.
Fox is too Orwell in the AM to be watchable.
In fact, the Drive Bys and the Democrat will be very sure to do everything they can to down play this. This is an indication the Left has irrevocable lost the argument on Iraq.
This is a pretty major indication of victory in Iraq.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1904108/posts
Iraq: We Want American Security Partnership
Iraq wants the U.N. Security Council to extend the mandate of the 160,000-stong U.S.-led multinational force in Iraq only through the end of 2008, then replace it with a long-term bilateral security agreement, Foreign Ministry officials said Saturday.
Aides to Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said the mandate extension for the U.S.-led coalition, due to be discussed at the end of this year, would be “the last extension for these forces.”
Iraq would then seek a long-term, bilateral security agreement with the United States like the ones Washington has with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar and Egypt, he said.
“Iraq needs a new resolution to determine the shape of the relationship between the two countries and how to cooperate with the U.S. forces,” said Labid Abawi, a deputy foreign minister.
Zebari first disclosed the plan in an interview with the London-based Saudi-owned newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat that was published Saturday.
A resolution adopted unanimously by the U.N. Security Council on June 8, 2004, said the U.S.-led multinational force would remain in Iraq at the request of the interim government that was about to assume control of the country from the United States and Britain.
The resolution, drafted by the United States, authorizes a review of the mandate at the request of the Iraqi government every six months. The mandate last was extended for one year on Dec. 31 and expires at end of this year.
“We will ask the council to extend the mandate for another year...then our negotiations with the Security Council will be kicked off,” Zebari was quoted as saying.
“We will ask the council to include an article that allows Iraq to enter into negotiations with the United States to reach long term security agreements to meet Iraq’s security needs bilaterally,” Zebari added.
“The negotiations and talks over the security agreements will take a long time as they will cover the issues of sovereignty and immunity, the mission of these forces, Iraq’s security needs and the role of the U.S. forces in training (Iraqi forces),” he said.
Zebari said the bilateral agreement would “not set a timetable (for withdrawal of U.S. forces) ... but could include an article calls for decreasing their numbers.”
Abawi told the AP this would depend “on the situation on the ground and the readiness of the government and the army to deal with this situation.”
Last June, Iraqi legislators led by followers of a radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr passed a resolution requiring the government to seek parliamentary approval before asking the United Nations to extend the U.S. mandate.
The measure was approved along party lines — with Sunnis joining the bloc loyal to al-Sadr and another disaffected Shiite party to support it — and Shiite and Kurdish backers of al-Maliki’s government in opposition.
The parliamentary move could snarl the mandate renewal, as Iraqis and their legislative representatives grow increasingly disenchanted with the U.S.-backed government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
FNS
Newt blames McCain-Feingold (CFR) for his dropping out of the race.
[Truth: Probably the $30 million beg was short by $29,999,999.]
Not one important sitting Republican on any of the shows.
Lott and Bond.
Whooopie.
Sorry I’m late to the discussion everybody. I was watching “The Clinton Chronicles”.
All of the pundits to a person have the principal deciding issue for the 2008 election wrong. It will not be Iraq; this war is coming to a sputtering end. It will not be about broadening support for government health care; someone will realize that people do get health care even though they don’t have insurance. Egalitarianism has wide support but this support evaporates when the costs come down on the average person.
What the election will be about is the economy. We are on the beginning of a slide into a recession. At first this slide will be slow. By 14 months the slide will be fast and obvious to all.
Pubbie presidential candidates should prepare now. The reasons for the breaking housing bubble, the consequent loss of assets and the ever growing costs of what counts—food, energy, real estate and its taxes—need thought and addressing now.
Raising taxes will not be popular. Spending on war will not be popular but may be tolerated to a point. Breaking the boom-bust cyle in real estate and the stock market will be the crucial underlying problem that needs to be moved on.
I am listening/watching Conservative Party Conference - Boris is just about to speak
Poor Brit. He has to sit and listen to this non sense. I do not know how he does it!
Steponallofus is interviewing his Godfather. Talk about a hugfest.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Let me see if I get Bill Clinton correctly:
QUOTE
“I won’t directly torpedo Hillary’s campaign, but if she runs on my record, you need to understand that 20 of the last 28 years of our joint political lives together had nothing to do with her. I’d rather cut my own throat than be her “First Husband”,and submit myself to the security that is required, because that would mean I would have to curtail the late night visits to “The Gut” in every major city in the world for those raw and wriggling, rare and robust treats I’ve come to enjoy at someone else’s expense all over the world. (You wouldn’t believe the liberty to be had in Asia!! Thanks for the tips Kerry!!)
And remember that when I use the word “eliminate” twice in the same sentence as “Hillary”, my operatives in the Arkansas Mafia understand what thier Godfather really said, and what to do...”
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