Cafferty: We're in some serious trouble here, boys and girls

[CatWoman]

Jack Cafferty didn't hold back today:

Cafferty: "Let's hope Arlen Specter is still around, because he may be the only thing standing between us and a full blown dictatorship."

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/05/11.html#a8244

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. Arlen Specter helped the dictatorship, if I'm not mistakened.

Didn't he let one of their SS men give testimony without having to swear in?

[BlueEyedSon]

2. Yep... that was egregious

[Lars39]

4. Wan't it Gonzales Specter didn't swear in?

[CatWoman]

5. yes

yes it was.

[Lars39]

6. Thanks for posting that link.

Very chilling to *hear* those words.

[CatWoman]

7. Randi played that clip on her show today as well

"chilling" is very apt.

[The Backlash Cometh]

17. Eh, what link?

[CatWoman]

19. the link in the original post goes to the video

[The Backlash Cometh]

20. Oh, that was good.

But how do we tell Cafferty that it may already be too late?

[jillan]

14. Amen! Arlen only has moments of sanity

Then he gets a quick fix of Kool-Aid and grabs his rubber stamp.

[katty]

3. been saying this since 2000Selection! Glad he said the D-word

[helderheid]

8. I feel completely defeated.

[CatWoman]

9. no, Helderheid

not you!!!!!

I can relate, don't get me wrong, but we can't feel defeated.

We just can't.

[helderheid]

10. I wish I could say it wasn't so but I believe the plug on the life support

system that was Democracy has been unplugged. I've been crying all day.

[H2O Man]

22. Well then you need to

join CatWoman and WaterMan in a song. It was 25 years ago today that the Prophet Bob Marley died. So we'll sing a Bob Marley song. Ready, Helderheid and CatWoman? And a one! and a two!


Live if you want to live!
Rastaman vibrations, yeah!
Positive!
I and I vibration, yeah!
Positive!

I a man iration yeah! irie ites
positive vibration, yeah! positive!

If you get down
and quarrel every day
You're saying prayers
to the devil I say.
Why not help one another
on the way
Make it much easier.

Say you just can't live
that negative way
You know what I mean
Make way
for the positive day

Cause it's a New Day
New time, new feeling, Yeah!
Say it's a new sign
Oh, what a new day

Picking up
Are you picking up now?
Jah love, Jah love protect us
Jah love, Jah love protect us.

I and I vibration, yeah! Positive!
I a man iration, yeah! Irie ites
Vibes got to have a good vibe
picking up
Are you picking up now?

[CatWoman]

24. second verse, same as first!!

:D

[stop the bleeding]

27. This is what makes DU great

good ole Bob


I like the song about the 3 little birds by his doorstep B-)

[MsMagnificent]

28. I've been crying too...

...it's very upsetting and disheartening, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to lay down like a doormat. If I have to take to the streets, I will.

If we cannot change this dictatorship via voting which results, incredibly, can be so easily manipulated --especially in those states using Diebold machines, unfortunately one of which is mine (state, not Diebold machine : ) In fact I'm going to cause a scene if I go to vote and they expect me to use one of those things! (Prolly be arrested for vocally protesting that too. Sorry, no faith in the system nor the Ohio Board of Elections at all anymore).
If my vote is nullified, and/or if those in the other branches of government do not start defending the Constitution as they each swore an oath to I can guarantee that I will not go quietly.


Bush keeps repeating 'his job is to protect the American people'.

IT IS NOT!

His job is to defend and protect OUR CONSTITUTION,
and it is our Constitution and our laws
--not one or two personalities and their cultish, fawning followers--
which protects and defends each and every one of us!
I am still waiting for somebody --anybody!-- to point that out to the American people:
Depend not on the cult of personality, but the Constitution!

A Revolutionary slogan endorses Live free or die and even in this latter day I do not think I am alone in believing that. If there is no stoppage or brakes put on that crooked, greedy administration and their legion illegal and immoral machinations, if our historical rights are even more so abrogated and the ones they've already taken not restored --we can surely battle terrorists while keeping intact our rights-- I truly think the 60's riots will look like a Sunday picnic in comparison... heck, like a real parade with posies thrown!
That is not to say I condone rioting, but rightful protest exercising our Freedom of Speech (of which every square inch of America is a "Free Speech Zone"!).
The absolute best thing that could happen would be nationwide amhisa civil disobedience (Passive resistance).

As the master Gandhi said, still so if not more appropriate for this point in our nations history:
"The Truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction".

There is just so much the American people can and will take I feel we are a mere straw or two away from the proverbial camel's back breaking.


--that's my opinion anyhow, couched as usual in my awful grammar (please forgive!) yet the sentiments are still heartfelt. I may be wrong in judging the mood of America... dognose there are still a lot of sheep out there so Gitmo's population may rise by only one after they haul my librul protesting hippie azz away; but even those sheep's rights are being trod upon and they will not take that treatment forever.
If a worm will turn, will not a sheep?

Somehow, someday, the horrid reality is going to hit these people hard. To qualify: perhaps with the exception of the very unbalanced few who will be unable to admit they were ever mistaken or outright wrong, just as their naked emperor is unable to. From the die-hards in the polls, about 9-10% of the population are addicted to the Kool-Aid no matter how poisonous it is to their system.
No matter how hard I try I cannot muster more than a quickly passing sadness for them, however -- it is unfortunate, but then it is their own choice.

[Berserker]

11. I don't feel

we are defeated at all. I'm pumped. This administration has been drunk with power and the lies are catching up to them. If you ever have had a drunken friend that unloads when they are drunk it's so great to bring up all the shit they told you about in the morning when they are hung over. Now it's our turn hold on the ride is gonna be great. We are gonna kick ass and take names. They are going down hard and fast.

[bdamomma]

26. No do not give in

that's what they want us to do, feeling defeated, this should fuel us given more to get their asses out now!

[NastyDiaper]

12. The JD 'just turned away' from the investegation...

...is the thing that bothers me more than anything else. Nice job Cafferty. It is scary stuff.
Do most of Congress even care that Gonzo lied to them?

[tnlefty]

13. Welcome, NastyDiaper!

:hi: I'm sure the rubberstamping republicans in the congress and senate don't give a whit that they've been lied to or they would start some serious investigations into this and much more!

[Robbien]

15. Want to bet someone from the DOJ helped nudge this story

along? The timing was perfect.

Welcome to DU NastyDiaper
:hi:

[NastyDiaper]

25. Tx for the welcome. Nt.

[DainBramaged]

16. If he is our only conduit for anger within the MSM, we're screwed

don't know about wisdom but you'll get a bit of outrage. We better hope nothing happens to Arlen Specter, the Republican head of the Judiciary Committee, because he might be all that's standing between us and a full blown dictatorship in this country. He's vowed to question these phone company executives about volunteering to provide the government with my telephone records and yours, and tens of millions of other Americans.

Shortly after 9-11, AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth began providing the super secret NSA with information on phone calls of millions of our citizens, all part of the war on terror, President Bush says.

Why don't you go find Osama Bin Laden and seal the country's borders and start inspecting the containers that come into our ports?

The President rushed out this morning in the wake of this front page story in USA Today and he declared the government's doing nothing wrong and all of this is just fine.

Is it? Is it legal?

Then why did the Justice Department suddenly drop its investigation of the warrant-less spying on citizens? Because the NSA said Justice Department lawyers didn't have the necessary security clearance to do the investigation.

Read that sentence again.

A secret government agency has told our Justice Department that it's not allowed to investigate it. And the Justice Department just says okay and drops the whole thing.

We're in some serious trouble here boys and girls.

[BuyingThyme]

18. Don't forget tomorrow, Jack. This is all there is to talk about.

[Carni]

21. I heard Cafferty today and he was PISSED

It's a funny thing I used to think Cafferty was some old right winged fart...

I don't think that now, whether he's right or left leaning he gets it and knows what's going on.

We're in deep ass doo :(

[Faygo Kid]

23. I have been criticized here, but I want Cafferty to have his own show

Oh, he will be a contrary curmudgeon, for sure, but a powerful voice not afraid to dissent. Tired as HELL of the Richard Cohens and Joe Kleins out there who think we are a bunch of ignoramuses (bring it). I like blunt speaking. I like it especially in people I have worked for. I hate mealy mouthed Kleins and Cohens. I may be wrong about Cafferty being a straight talker, and I don't care if I disagree (I will live), but I want him to counter false "straight talkers" like O'Reilly, who are out and out frauds. Dammit. I want somebody to cut through the BS. You dirty rat.