Predictions ???

[BillCarson436]

Hello...

Connecticut seems to always go Democratic in the Presidential Elections
and Republican in the Governors races.

Will this year be any different.... or could Connecticut go Republican ?

Not that Connecticut actually decides these things..... lol

[alwaysright]

But I'd bet dollars to donuts that Ct goes for Obama. It may be close- but here's hoping that the country wakes up from the stupor of the last 8 terrible years of little george and gets with the Obama ticket

[BillCarson436]

Hello...

I hope America wakes up and figures out after 8 years of George
Bush, we need a President that can actually get things done in
OUR benifit....not for his own... warped sense of personal Destiny.

Yes... Connecticut will most likely swing towards Obama... just like
they swung with " our senator " Joe Lieberman.

[RC12L4]

Hello...

I hope America wakes up and figures out after 8 years of George
Bush, we need a President that can actually get things done in
OUR benifit....not for his own... warped sense of personal Destiny.

Yes... Connecticut will most likely swing towards Obama... just like
they swung with " our senator " Joe Lieberman.

Get things done? What exactly has Obama "gotten done" since he's been a Senator? Please, be specific and try not to answer this question with another question.

[flatrat]

Get things done? What exactly has Obama "gotten done" since he's been a Senator? Please, be specific and try not to answer this question with another question.


He hasnt done that much, but he hasnt had the chance either. The Republicans have had the chance for the last 8 years and have done nothing. It was the Republican controlled congress that earned the nickname the "do nothing congress."

I for one, will take my chances, rather than "Four more years" with John McSame.

Katrina. Invasion of the wrong country. Faulty intelligence. Ignoring the warnings prior to 9/11. Fighting the 9/11 commission. Terry Schiavo. Osama Bin Laden. Torture. Suspension of Habeus Corpus. Scalia. The economy. Halliburton. Blackwater. Jack Abramoff. Tom Delay. Numerous indictments.

That quite the list of accomplishments. It certainly has been an interesitng 8 years. Are you better off now than you were when Bill Clinton was president?

It wasnt all bad. We did get two Red Sox world championships and a Giants Super Bowl during the Bush-McCain years.

[Jim N]

But I'd bet dollars to donuts that Ct goes for Obama. It may be close- but here's hoping that the country wakes up from the stupor of the last 8 terrible years of little george and gets with the Obama ticket
I don't want the Obama ticket. I want to do away with welfare and taxing working people so those to lazy to work can have kids and sit around all day while the rest of us work. I want social security to only go to those who pay into it. Why should we work all our lives paying into social security only to have it given to people who never contributed so we can't retire. Cold yes. Heartless yes. Honest yes and I'm sure they are many more who feel this way. I'm tired of the government redistributing the wealth. I have no problem with programs that help educate people to get jobs or help those who are truly disabled. But it while it may be your right to have it kid it isn't my responsiblity to pay for it. If you can't afford it don't have it.

[flatrat]

I don't want the Obama ticket. I want to do away with welfare and taxing working people so those to lazy to work can have kids and sit around all day while the rest of us work. I want social security to only go to those who pay into it. Why should we work all our lives paying into social security only to have it given to people who never contributed so we can't retire. Cold yes. Heartless yes. Honest yes and I'm sure they are many more who feel this way. I'm tired of the government redistributing the wealth. I have no problem with programs that help educate people to get jobs or help those who are truly disabled. But it while it may be your right to have it kid it isn't my responsiblity to pay for it. If you can't afford it don't have it.

Why is welfare bad, but corporate welfare good? Why are we bailing out the banking industry and the mortgage industry? Why are we bankrupting America's future by charging the Iraq war? Why are we paying billions of unaudited dollars in "no bid" contracts to Halliburton, Dick Cheney's company?

I dont understand why welfare, to help a poor struggling family put food on its table is bad, but corporate welfare in the form of tax breaks to billionaires is good.

Why do people call themselves "Christian" if they are not willing to help those less fortunate than themselves?

Why do Republicans want us to have kids we cant afford, but fight against sex education, right to choice, and planned parenthood, and offer lame alternatives like "abstinence education?" Why do Republicans feel they have the right to control a woman's womb, unless its Sarah Palin's daughter's womb, at which point it becomes a "private family matter?"

[Jim N]

Why is welfare bad, but corporate welfare good? Why are we bailing out the banking industry and the mortgage industry? Why are we bankrupting America's future by charging the Iraq war? Why are we paying billions of unaudited dollars in "no bid" contracts to Halliburton, Dick Cheney's company?

I dont understand why welfare, to help a poor struggling family put food on its table is bad, but corporate welfare in the form of tax breaks to billionaires is good.

Why do people call themselves "Christian" if they are not willing to help those less fortunate than themselves?

Why do Republicans not want us to have kids we cant afford, but fight against sex education, right to choice, and planned parenthood, and offer lame alternatives like "abstinence education?" Why do Republicans feel they have the right to control a woman's womb, unless its Sarah Palin's daughter's womb, at which point it becomes a "private family matter?"

1 I'm not a Christian or a member of any religion. You however have a good idea tax the churches who are anti abortion so they can pay for those kids not me or others who work. I also agree to much corporate welfare is no good. Maybe we should change that to if the company is American and 75% or better of it's employees and locations are in the USA they get the break multi nationals who put Americans out of work get taxed. Even up the import export market to provide a level playing field for example China charges extremely high duties on any American goods imported yet cheap Chinese goods are imported almost if not duty free thanks to Bush. Also I don't think anyone but American Citizens should be able to own property or businesses. I learned that from Mexico. In short I am totally for working taxpaying American citizens first. Then if we can and chose to help those less fortunate that should be our choice not that of a government that does not listen to the people.

[RC12L4]

He hasnt done that much, but he hasnt had the chance either. The Republicans have had the chance for the last 8 years and have done nothing. It was the Republican controlled congress that earned the nickname the "do nothing congress."

I for one, will take my chances, rather than "Four more years" with John McSame.

Katrina. Invasion of the wrong country. Faulty intelligence. Ignoring the warnings prior to 9/11. Fighting the 9/11 commission. Terry Schiavo. Osama Bin Laden. Torture. Suspension of Habeus Corpus. Scalia. The economy. Halliburton. Blackwater. Jack Abramoff. Tom Delay. Numerous indictments.

That quite the list of accomplishments. It certainly has been an interesitng 8 years. Are you better off now than you were when Bill Clinton was president?

It wasnt all bad. We did get two Red Sox world championships and a Giants Super Bowl during the Bush-McCain years.

You admit he hasn't done much? He's unproven? This is the guy you're going to vote for? Really?

Your Democratically controlled congress has done zero since taking control, list anything of significance they've done. In fact they have the absolute lowest public opinion rating in the history of the United States. You realize this right?

As far as me being better off, I've progressively made more money each year since Bush took office. I'm sorry you failed at doing so and you're bitter about it and want to blame someone else.

[flatrat]

You admit he hasn't done much? He's unproven? This is the guy you're going to vote for? Really?

Your Democratically controlled congress has done zero since taking control, list anything of significance they've done. In fact they have the absolute lowest public opinion rating in the history of the United States. You realize this right?

As far as me being better off, I've progressively made more money each year since Bush took office. I'm sorry you failed at doing so and you're bitter about it and want to blame someone else.

Yes I am, "really." And I can agree with you on democratic ineffectiveness. They should have impeached Bush and Cheney for their crimes against the constitution, as an example to future presidents, but sadly, they lack the cojones.

The democratic controlled congress the last two years has not been veto proof. Its 51-49 and the swing is Joe Lieberman (I-LIE).

Most pundits (and republicans) agree that dems will gain a substantial majority in both houses this election. That being said, How much do you think McCain will get done, being a minority president? The "do nothing congress" was unique because the republicans controlled the white house and both houses of congress, and look what they did.

I'm am glad for you that you are making good money. I'm sure you worked hard for it, and didn't ditch your wife and marry it. I am not bitter. Life is too short to be bitter or angry. If I have any anger at all, its over what the republicans have done to my constitution, my rights, and my childrens future.

Because I make less than $250,000 per year, I will support the Obama tax plan, as I (and other middle class people making less than 250K) do much better under his proposed tax structure, than under the corporate welfare plan of the McCain platform.

Mostly I am happy, and take joy in pointing out the absurdities in ridiculous talking points.

[RC12L4]

Can you elaborate on the crimes against the constitution comment?

[flatrat]

Can you elaborate on the crimes against the constitution comment?


Articles of Impeachment

of

President George W. Bush

and

Vice President Richard B. Cheney,
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. - - ARTICLE II, SECTION 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have committed violations and subversions of the Constitution of the United States of America in an attempt to carry out with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes and deprivations of the civil rights of the people of the United States and other nations, by assuming powers of an imperial executive unaccountable to law and usurping powers of the Congress, the Judiciary and those reserved to the people of the United States, by the following acts:

1) Seizing power to wage wars of aggression in defiance of the U.S. Constitution, the U.N. Charter and the rule of law; carrying out a massive assault on and occupation of Iraq, a country that was not threatening the United States, resulting in the death and maiming of over one hundred thousand Iraqis, and thousands of U.S. G.I.s.

2) Lying to the people of the U.S., to Congress, and to the U.N., providing false and deceptive rationales for war.

3) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians, civilian facilities and locations where civilian casualties were unavoidable.

4) Instituting a secret and illegal wiretapping and spying operation against the people of the United States through the National Security Agency.

5) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently changing its government by force and assaulting Iraq in a war of aggression.

6) Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary executions, kidnappings, secret and other illegal detentions of individuals, torture and physical and psychological coercion of prisoners to obtain false statements concerning acts and intentions of governments and individuals and violating within the United States, and by authorizing U.S. forces and agents elsewhere, the rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

7) Making, ordering and condoning false statements and propaganda about the conduct of foreign governments and individuals and acts by U.S. government personnel; manipulating the media and foreign governments with false information; concealing information vital to public discussion and informed judgment concerning acts, intentions and possession, or efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction in order to falsely create a climate of fear and destroy opposition to U.S. wars of aggression and first strike attacks.

8) Violations and subversions of the Charter of the United Nations and international law, both a part of the "Supreme Law of the land" under Article VI, paragraph 2, of the Constitution, in an attempt to commit with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in wars and threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and others and usurping powers of the United Nations and the peoples of its nations by bribery, coercion and other corrupt acts and by rejecting treaties, committing treaty violations, and frustrating compliance with treaties in order to destroy any means by which international law and institutions can prevent, affect, or adjudicate the exercise of U.S. military and economic power against the international community.

9) Acting to strip United States citizens of their constitutional and human rights, ordering indefinite detention of citizens, without access to counsel, without charge, and without opportunity to appear before a civil judicial officer to challenge the detention, based solely on the discretionary designation by the Executive of a citizen as an "enemy combatant."

10) Ordering indefinite detention of non-citizens in the United States and elsewhere, and without charge, at the discretionary designation of the Attorney General or the Secretary of Defense.

11) Ordering and authorizing the Attorney General to override judicial orders of release of detainees under INS jurisdiction, even where the judicial officer after full hearing determines a detainee is wrongfully held by the government.

12) Authorizing secret military tribunals and summary execution of persons who are not citizens who are designated solely at the discretion of the Executive who acts as indicting official, prosecutor and as the only avenue of appellate relief.

13) Refusing to provide public disclosure of the identities and locations of persons who have been arrested, detained and imprisoned by the U.S. government in the United States, including in response to Congressional inquiry.

14) Use of secret arrests of persons within the United States and elsewhere and denial of the right to public trials.

15) Authorizing the monitoring of confidential attorney-client privileged communications by the government, even in the absence of a court order and even where an incarcerated person has not been charged with a crime.

16) Ordering and authorizing the seizure of assets of persons in the United States, prior to hearing or trial, for lawful or innocent association with any entity that at the discretionary designation of the Executive has been deemed "terrorist."

17) Engaging in criminal neglect in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, depriving thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and other Gulf States of urgently needed support, causing mass suffering and unnecessary loss of life.

18) Institutionalization of racial and religious profiling and authorization of domestic spying by federal law enforcement on persons based on their engagement in noncriminal religious and political activity.

19) Refusal to provide information and records necessary and appropriate for the constitutional right of legislative oversight of executive functions.

20) Rejecting treaties protective of peace and human rights and abrogation of the obligations of the United States under, and withdrawal from, international treaties and obligations without consent of the legislative branch, and including termination of the ABM treaty between the United States and Russia, and rescission of the authorizing signature from the Treaty of Rome which served as the basis for the International Criminal Court.


The Repubs impeached Bubba Clinton over oral sex!

[flatrat]

Can you elaborate on the crimes against the constitution comment?

And read Vincent Bugliosi's book. It makes a compelling case for the prosecution of George Bush for murder.

http://www.amazon.com/Prosecution-George-W-Bush-Murder/dp/159315481X


Bulgiosi, best known for his prosecution of Charles Manson, has spent a lifetime as a civil servant prosecutor in LA county. I dont know if he writes for Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/).

[RC12L4]

Articles of Impeachment

of

President George W. Bush

and

Vice President Richard B. Cheney,
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. - - ARTICLE II, SECTION 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have committed violations and subversions of the Constitution of the United States of America in an attempt to carry out with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes and deprivations of the civil rights of the people of the United States and other nations, by assuming powers of an imperial executive unaccountable to law and usurping powers of the Congress, the Judiciary and those reserved to the people of the United States, by the following acts:

1) Seizing power to wage wars of aggression in defiance of the U.S. Constitution, the U.N. Charter and the rule of law; carrying out a massive assault on and occupation of Iraq, a country that was not threatening the United States, resulting in the death and maiming of over one hundred thousand Iraqis, and thousands of U.S. G.I.s.

2) Lying to the people of the U.S., to Congress, and to the U.N., providing false and deceptive rationales for war.

3) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians, civilian facilities and locations where civilian casualties were unavoidable.

4) Instituting a secret and illegal wiretapping and spying operation against the people of the United States through the National Security Agency.

5) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently changing its government by force and assaulting Iraq in a war of aggression.

6) Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary executions, kidnappings, secret and other illegal detentions of individuals, torture and physical and psychological coercion of prisoners to obtain false statements concerning acts and intentions of governments and individuals and violating within the United States, and by authorizing U.S. forces and agents elsewhere, the rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

7) Making, ordering and condoning false statements and propaganda about the conduct of foreign governments and individuals and acts by U.S. government personnel; manipulating the media and foreign governments with false information; concealing information vital to public discussion and informed judgment concerning acts, intentions and possession, or efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction in order to falsely create a climate of fear and destroy opposition to U.S. wars of aggression and first strike attacks.

8) Violations and subversions of the Charter of the United Nations and international law, both a part of the "Supreme Law of the land" under Article VI, paragraph 2, of the Constitution, in an attempt to commit with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in wars and threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and others and usurping powers of the United Nations and the peoples of its nations by bribery, coercion and other corrupt acts and by rejecting treaties, committing treaty violations, and frustrating compliance with treaties in order to destroy any means by which international law and institutions can prevent, affect, or adjudicate the exercise of U.S. military and economic power against the international community.

9) Acting to strip United States citizens of their constitutional and human rights, ordering indefinite detention of citizens, without access to counsel, without charge, and without opportunity to appear before a civil judicial officer to challenge the detention, based solely on the discretionary designation by the Executive of a citizen as an "enemy combatant."

10) Ordering indefinite detention of non-citizens in the United States and elsewhere, and without charge, at the discretionary designation of the Attorney General or the Secretary of Defense.

11) Ordering and authorizing the Attorney General to override judicial orders of release of detainees under INS jurisdiction, even where the judicial officer after full hearing determines a detainee is wrongfully held by the government.

12) Authorizing secret military tribunals and summary execution of persons who are not citizens who are designated solely at the discretion of the Executive who acts as indicting official, prosecutor and as the only avenue of appellate relief.

13) Refusing to provide public disclosure of the identities and locations of persons who have been arrested, detained and imprisoned by the U.S. government in the United States, including in response to Congressional inquiry.

14) Use of secret arrests of persons within the United States and elsewhere and denial of the right to public trials.

15) Authorizing the monitoring of confidential attorney-client privileged communications by the government, even in the absence of a court order and even where an incarcerated person has not been charged with a crime.

16) Ordering and authorizing the seizure of assets of persons in the United States, prior to hearing or trial, for lawful or innocent association with any entity that at the discretionary designation of the Executive has been deemed "terrorist."

17) Engaging in criminal neglect in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, depriving thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and other Gulf States of urgently needed support, causing mass suffering and unnecessary loss of life.

18) Institutionalization of racial and religious profiling and authorization of domestic spying by federal law enforcement on persons based on their engagement in noncriminal religious and political activity.

19) Refusal to provide information and records necessary and appropriate for the constitutional right of legislative oversight of executive functions.

20) Rejecting treaties protective of peace and human rights and abrogation of the obligations of the United States under, and withdrawal from, international treaties and obligations without consent of the legislative branch, and including termination of the ABM treaty between the United States and Russia, and rescission of the authorizing signature from the Treaty of Rome which served as the basis for the International Criminal Court.


The Repubs impeached Bubba Clinton over oral sex!

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I would assume your lack of a source for the above is a good indication that you copy & pasted this from a leftist blog? Oh wait here it is: http://www.ImpeachBush.Org Here let me counter your argument with a source you'll find just as accurate: http://www.foxnews.com

And by the way, Clinton was impeached for perjury, obstruction of justice and abuse of power but you knew that right?

[rapuda]

And by the way, Clinton was impeached for perjury, obstruction of justice and abuse of power but you knew that right?

The above is accurate however, the republicans got on their high horses and still impeached a man for oral sex. Had they not pursued the oral sex charge Clinton wouldn't have lied or obstructed evidence. As far as abuse of power, if you look hard enough, every congressman, senator and president that ever served would be guilty of that.

If the democrats weren't the wimps that they are and started an impeachment process of their own, I'm positive you would see perjury, obstruction of justice, and without a doubt abuse of power from this administration.

It amazes me how a BJ got a man impeached, but the deeds of Bush and Cheney go unanswered. This administration led us into a war with lies. They call it faulty intelligence, but it was what they wanted to hear intelligence. Bill Clinton lied and caused the death of thousands of sperm. Bush lies and causes thousands of dead and wounded American soldiers, claiming "Mission Accomplished," and he gets a free pass. How stupid are we?

And now the republicans may actually place another candidate into office whose policies are very similar to Bush 43. ????

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."