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Think, for example, about the fate of official records. Will they be removed or shredded to further obscure this administration’s doings? Nourished on secrecy from its inception, and carefully concealing many of its activities through the years, the Bush administration may be determined to make one last play for secrecy by taking its records and storing them in a Dallas warehouse, pending a Bush library. In these waning weeks, a group of us is locked in legal combat with Vice President Dick Cheney and his corps of unseen advisers, seeking an injunction to prevent them from leaving office with their e-mail records.

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There is a real crime here, with ties directly to Obama

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Bull. Shit.

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That was then, this is now. Bush and his administration will soon be history, but Barry and the boys (and girls ) are just getting started. Barry's fillty whores in the press are still doing there best to cover his ass, but Barry is from one of the slimmiest places (politicaly) on the planet. With the Republicans out of power, and whorehouses (newspapers) going out of buisiness, you libs better learn to play defence real fast. Soon your own bitches in the press are going to turn on you to save there own reps.

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And what will you say if Rahm himself in on those tapes? At the very least, that's problematic for the new Chief of Staff.

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WASHINGTON — People who have been briefed on the Illinois governor corruption investigation say Barack Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is not a target of the probe. Emanuel, a Chicago congressman who would have been a likely contact between the Obama transition office and Gov. Rod Blagojevich, has been a focus of media attention since Obama said Thursday he has asked for an internal review of contacts between his staff and Blagojevich. Emanuel has been refusing to answer questions about whether he's the "president-elect adviser" referred to in the criminal complaint that accuses Blagojevich of putting Obama's Senate seat up for sale. The complaint does not say that Blagojevich ever spoke to the unidentified Obama adviser about the Senate seat.

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Originally posted by whozit:
That was then, this is now. Bush and his administration will soon be history, but Barry and the boys (and girls ) are just getting started. Barry's fillty whores in the press are still doing there best to cover his ass, but Barry is from one of the slimmiest places (politicaly) on the planet. With the Republicans out of power, and whorehouses (newspapers) going out of buisiness, you libs better learn to play defence real fast. Soon your own bitches in the press are going to turn on you to save there own reps.

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That was then, this is now. Bush and his administration will soon be history, but Barry and the boys (and girls ) are just getting started. Barry's fillty whores in the press are still doing there best to cover his ass, but Barry is from one of the slimmiest places (politicaly) on the planet. With the Republicans out of power, and whorehouses (newspapers) going out of buisiness, you libs better learn to play defence real fast. Soon your own bitches in the press are going to turn on you to save there own reps.

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Bitter much?

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Sure I'm bitter, Republicans took a bath this year.

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Okay, Whozit... but WHY did Republicans take a bath this year?

Nearly all Americans looking to any administration for two things: to keep them, and their standard of living, safe. Once the fright of 9-11 died down (It shouldn't because terrorists are still targeting the USA, but that's another story.) and Iraq was determined not to have been the big bad boogeyman, attention inevitably turned to standard of living. The promise of "trickle down" capitalism is that the benefits of having a wealthy uberclass will eventually... er... trickle down. That didn't happen. The rich got a boatload richer, the middle class was buoyed up by housing speculation, and the poor got poorer. But the housing bubble burst and the slow decline that most people experienced over the past eight years turned into free-fall.

In addition, a lot of Republicans were disappointed in their own party: neither religious enough for the evangelicals nor fiscally conservative enough for the small-government Republicans, the current administration lost much of its own base.

It would be nice if you could get past this "my team versus your team" approach and look at what's good for the entire nation.

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OK, but I could say everything was niffty before the Democrats took control of the House & Senate in 04, but that is now water under the bridge. Next year Barry and his whores in the press will say that Barry inherited this mess, (it is true) but if he does'nt fix ASAP the honeymoon will be over sooner than you think. When the real attacks on Barry begin you'll say "unfair", I'll say "paybacks a bitch".

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OK, but I could say everything was niffty before the Democrats took control of the House & Senate in 04, but that is now water under the bridge. Next year Barry and his whores in the press will say that Barry inherited this mess, (it is true) but if he does'nt fix ASAP the honeymoon will be over sooner than you think. When the real attacks on Barry begin you'll say "unfair", I'll say "paybacks a bitch".

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Payback for what? For blaming Bush for what was clearly his fault?

Lookit, I'm not a dyed in the wool Dem. But when someone fucks up as badly and repeatedly as Bush .... well, it's kind hard not to notice.

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In 30 years peeps are going to look back at the Bush admin as one giant clusterfuck. All administrations have their problems, and every administration screws up at least a couple of important things, but Bush will get an award.

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Historians have warmed up to Truman and Nixon over the years, and cooled off to JFK and Johnson.

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