Looks like the door is closed for Bush Regime recess appointments for the remainder of the term.

Jim Webb had to drive his ass up from Virginia to open a Senate session just to shut the Senate back down again.

Well good... damn it.

If Jim Webb was not the stiffist man alive, he would make a great Democratic candidate.

Jesus fucking Christ....

being an exceptionally accomplished cynic it takes a hell of a lot to rattle me.
can we have election day early? get this fucking worthless redneck fucking puke out of office sooner? I'd bet that if somebody made that douche eat lead the country would fucking celebrate. have the reverse effect on American morale that 9-11 had.

we just need to napalm all of D.C. on a really busy day and start manning our political ranks from square one with people that care more about the people than themselves and know tolerance and compassion verses ignorance and arrogance.

Why vote if you know your in a state that will automatically go red or blue there is no point as your vote won't count....... To get the vote for president to really matter you need to change up the electoral college and thats not going to happen any time soon.

You vote for the little people.

I'm glad you cited each of those claims.

Irvine has spoken, and oddly it's right wing.

He says he's leftist. And his complaints against Clinton aren't necessarily inaccurate (though the one about Serbia is kind of problematic - I mean, I opposed the NATO action there, myself, but only because I thought it came too late and would do too little - the latter of which I was pleased to have been wrong about; but major intervention should have happened in the Balkans a long time before, and the UN totally dropped the ball in the genocides of the 1990's, so fuck them).

If you need citations for Waco, NAFTA (did it really happen or was it a dream?) Operation Desert Fox, and the bombing of the El Shifa Pharmaceutical plant in Sudan, you may want to buy Google for your computer. I will admit that I'm being inaccurate by saying that the US dropped bombs on Colombia, we were involved in defoliating large portions of the country (as Coca production managed to keep growing) and here is a list that says very little but does show which Colombian military units use American-provided helicopters to do whatever it is they do. Keeping in mind Colombia's atrocious human rights record, you can put the pieces to that puzzle together quite easily.

Same goes for the bit on Turkey, they were the third-leading recipient of American foreign aid in the mid- to late-nineties. At the same time, they were using American weapons to ethnically cleanse Kurds (read, "fight terror").

Serbia was a NATO military action, outside of the UN. There's an interesting discussion of the bombing in Chomsky's A New Generation Draws the Line (awaits backlash from citing Chomsky), and while you're reading it, you can find a wealth of resources on Indonesia and East Timor.

Did Clinton have a picture of working class America in the toilet? That's hard to say, and I'm willing to retract it.

Futhermore, I don't know how any of that posits me as a Right-winger. Unless being Left of a Clinton puts you on the Right...?

Heh. I think I lived in the only Democratically registered household in Orange County.

I agree that that is a worthwhile read.