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Further confirming (per Cavuto v. Bachmann) that Roger & Rupert have decided to shift F-News back toward the profitable corporate wing, away from the past-their-sell-by-date T-Baggers.
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Rove insisted that the Bush administration always looks for a “statutory basis”
Can we perhaps get this corrected to ‘looked’, or did Karl Rove actually assert that the Bush Administration is currently active in governance?
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Yes, I think that is the most logical explanation for their recent moments of reasonableness (not willing to support the sinking ship, i.e. the Tea Party)
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Paging John Yoo…
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I’m still stunned by the chutzpah of the GOP, accusing the president who has used executive power less than any other president since the 19th century, of ‘overreach.’ A cute word, I guess, one that conservatives repeat again and again.
What crust for the mainstream media to repeat this on behalf of the GOP. The people aren’t buying it, and it looks like the corporations are starting to realize that the government the GOPers in Congress want to drown is actually something that they really, really need, and they are starting to drop their unconditional love for the Republicans and the Tea Party.
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Well, it’s interesting they feel a need to actually address the questions and arguments being raised by those who live outside the epistimically closed wingnut bullshit bubble, because that at least indicates a growing concern that such questions are penetrating the bubble and causing some of the denizens to question whether the news they’ve been consuming might be kind of, well, slanted and incomplete.
But the fact that they asked that question of the single most shameless sociopathic pathological liar in the entire Sociopath Party, knowing full well what his answer would be, ought to tell you the real objective is to give the people whose confirmation bias is being disturbed a palliative for those uneasy stirrings of cognitive dissonance.
Indeed, I’m pretty sure that that’s what’s going on with all of the recent instances of Fox going off the talking points. Notice they aren’t asking any liberals what they thing about it.
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Today’s Republicans have no shame. They consistently blame the present President for doing the same things that the previous President did. Of course the previous President was their guy!
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I confidently predict that by the time one Friedman unit has gone by we’ll know if this is a real change.
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They just trot out turd blossom for his view point
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Let’s not forget David Addington, theDicks attorney.
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Perhaps.
I find it interesting that the architects of the Iraq war are clearly getting dissed by FOX lately, and they’re not really Tea party, but neoconservative chicken-hawks. Although there is often crossover, they are distinct branches of the GOP.
I’ll be watching who Ailes appears to approve of within the GOP… which may give insight into who the 2016 GOP candidate will be. Ailes’ ability to essentially plant thoughts of approval or disapproval in the pliable minds of his viewers makes him a bit of a king-maker.
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FIFY.
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I can only wish you are correct.
“Absolutely.”
Did we expect Rove to say anything different, or were we expecting some cheap pun like “Absolutly” that played upon Bush’s well-known alcoholism?
If you tell a lie often enough it will become the truth for some people.
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Forget about the race issue. They did the same to Clinton.
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The question itself has merit. It brings into question the rights assumptions.
Wait a minute. A “statutory basis?” So he’s saying Bush only issued executive orders when there was a statute – a law passed by Congress – that authorized him to do the thing he was accomplishing by means of the executive order? Then why did he need to issue the order?
I note, incidentally, that he said the administration LOOKED for a “statutory basis.” Actually, “looks,” but I assume that’s either a typo or a slip of the tongue. But the point is, he didn’t say they FOUND one.
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Bush’s disrespect for the law started with the lawsuit his campaign filed in federal court that led to a rogue USSC invalidating the will of the American people in the 2000 election.
President Obama was, you know, actually elected twice by both the popular and the electoral vote.
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