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According to the politico, Dick Cheney, the man who makes Reinhardt Heidrich look like Mother Theresa, defended the Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraq in March 2003, claiming that then-President Saddam Hussein had “every intention” of resuming production of weapons of mass destruction once United Nations sanctions were lifted. And I thought you couldn’t teach old pompous chickenhawk war dogs new tricks?

Former White House Adviser Karl Rove said last week that if pre-war intelligence on the Iraqi WMD programs had been accurate, the United States likely would not have entered the war. But asked about Rove’s comment during an interview with ABC News Monday, Cheney said “I disagree with that.”

When the famously unrepentant and not-so-little devils helper begins showing signs of being human and you disagree with that…

The American people overwhelmingly, 64 percent in fact, strongly believe that the invasion was a dire mistake. Indeed, the Bush Administration flouted the rules of international law to overthrow Saddam because he was an impediment to the neocon vision of American Military Hegemony. Naomi Klein, author of “The Shock Doctrine”, brilliantly articulated our exploitation of Iraq in what is known as disaster capitalism.

We now know that the multiple rationales used to justify the initial invasion were completely fabricated if not downright false. What began as an external threat to America soon became a exercise in neocon nation-building set to Straussian thought. The complete and utter misguided belief that western ideas could be so easily applied to a nation with a deeply non-western past proved to be quite evident, as ethnic/religious factionalism and al-queda took hold.

While it has not been officially stated, it is palpably obvious– as depicted in books, media and film–the driving force behind President Bush’s decision to go to war seemed to be out of a Shakespearean fight between President Bush and Bush Sr. We now know all about the incompetent planning and short termism–from “it’s a cakewalk to low troop levels. These amoral, Machiavelian monsters wrongfully sold the war as a nuclear threat (IE, “The Mushroom Cloud”)to the United States…they twisted language and the truth like an American officer at a black-op torture camp. To still believe in this patent balderdash means you don’t want the American Enterprise Institute, Lockheed Martin, or Halliburton to kick you off the payroll.

With all the facts and information that has been out there for years, which roundly debunks all the shining lies about the lead-up to the war and the occupation, why are these neocons still justifying their crimes with flagrant audacity? The answer is simple: rather than admit to their failures they’ll simply re-write history. After all, it is widely known that the winners are the ones that write history. Any admittance of failure might accidentally result in the truth being read years from now.

I sincerely hope that this horrible act of aggression will not go unheeded, and that Bush, Cheney and company are all put on trial for war crimes. If that doesn’t occur, then any Iraqi or American that lost loved ones as a result of this foreign policy disaster should be allowed to collectively throw their shoes at these despicable men. Make that golf spikes.

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Auto Bailout Fails:The Dems Bend over like it were 2005

By Michael Hayne

Taken from my column on NoMoreIncumbents.org

Despite picking up a majority–albeit it Hollywood thin–in both houses, the Dems still managed to be just as pusillanimous when they capitulated on key conditions. Once again proving that they are a nothing more than articulate pin cushions. It’s really no state secret that there had been strong language in the package to force the Big Three to drop the plethora of lawsuits aimed at states (California, for example) that sought to establish scricter non-federal emission standards on new cars. Electoral mandate notwithstanding, the Dems are still the Supremes to the Republicans Diana Ross. They’re like the hotel staff and the Republicans are Amy Whinehouse: their reckless actions made this mess while the democrats are forced to clean it up and do it with an Eddie Haskell from Leave it to Beaver smile.

GM, Chrysler and Ford have been abysmal failures in management, idea generation and cost effectiveness when it comes to fuel economy (IE, The Urban Assault Vehicle). These world class jackasses vehemently resisted “green” measures for years. I used all my crocodile tears for the banks and I am not about to waste perfectly good faux salty discharge on the Big Three. Oh, and how about their first trip to Washington when they all showed up in corporate jets. I mean, they might as well been towing a huge banner that read “Fuck you America, you fucking assholes!” These cronies and their corporate masters are now trying to play catch up with the rest of the world amid a deep, dark recession and were supposed to somehow believe that they will do what the banks didn’t do?

I realize that the UAW cannot avoid their responsibilities amid a recession, but it is uneccessarily cruel for Congress to take its bailout angst out on them.

In sum, the Big Three needs to become the Big One. That and they should be required to drive a twenty year old Pinto to the next hearing.

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Obama Small Donor Base a Myth

By Michael Hayne

(Editor’s Note: This is an article taken from the LA Times)

Everybody knows how President-elect Barack Obama’s amazing campaign money machine was dominated by several million regular folks sending in hard-earned amounts under $200, a real sign of his broadbased grassroots support.

Except, it turns out, that’s not really true.

In fact, Obama’s base of small donors was almost exactly the same percent as George W. Bush’s in 2004 — Obama had 26% and the great Republican satan 25%. Obviously, this is unacceptable to current popular thinking.

But the nonpartisan Campaign Finance Institute just issued a detailed study of Obama’s donor base and its giving. And that’s what the Institute found, to its own surprise.

“The myth is that money from small donors dominated Barack Obama’s finances,” said CFI’s executive director Michael Malbin, admitting that his organization also was fooled. “The reality of Obama’s fundraising was impressive, but the reality does not match the myth.”

Adding up the total contributions from the same small individuals (in terms of dollar amounts, not their height), the Institute discovered that rather than the 50+% commonly….

…reported throughout the campaign, only 26% of Obama’s contributions through last August and only 24% through Oct. 15 came from people whose total donations added up to less than $200.

The key word there being “total.”

It comes down to which definition of “small donor” you accept:
Someone who donated to the Obama campaign by scraping together $199, period. Or someone who donated $199 to the Obama campaign several times, perhaps totaling close to the $4,600 legal limit for the primary and general elections. In aggregate, that would vault him/her out of the small donor category that was so useful to the political campaign’s public relations campaign portraying the donor base as about two times as broad as it really was.

The reported numbers show that Obama actually received 80% more money from large donors (those giving $1,000 or more total) than from small donors.

Through the Democratic National Convention, the Institute estimates, Obama received $119 million from genuine small donors, an impressive sum, to be sure.
But not as impressive as the $210 million he’d raised by then from bundlers and large donors.
“After a more thorough analysis of data from the Federal Election Commission (FEC),” the CFI study says, “it has become clear that repeaters and large donors were even more important for Obama than we or other analysts had fully appreciated.”

Now, we’ll see how broad-based news coverage of this real reality is.

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Olbermann lays the smackdown on Palin’s Palling with own Domestic Terrorists

By Michael Hayne

As we approach this critical election, we are being fiendishly fed the same disingenuous, fear-mongering BS that was so sinuously shoveled onto us by Dick Cheney in October of 2004: vote for McCain or become radioactive dust! Realizing that not even the ghost of Reagan can save him now, John McCain is resorting to the very mud-slinging, vituperative malice in which he once promised never to engage in. And the Keating 5 video was fair game as it demonstrated McCain’s role-albeit minor-in the lead up to the crises we are facing now. It should be noted, though, that there were four other democrats involved in this scandal.

So forget the crumbling economy, broken health care system, dilapidated infrastructure, environmental apocalypse, the two wars, a resurgent Russia, and an ascendent Iran because Barack Obama once sat on the same committee with a reformed former member of the Weather Underground–a group that most Palin supporters think is a bunch of independent meteorologists.

Sooner or later people are going to figure out that if all you run is negative attack ads you don’t have much of a vision for the future, or you’re not ready to articulate it.” ~Ariana Huffington

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TomObamaRama Political Comedy Fundraiser

By Michael Hayne


If you’re feeling overwhelmed by election year politics don’t miss this opportunity to laugh it all off and raise money to defeat the Republicans! 
TomObamaRama will bring together some of your favorite progressive political comics in a hilarious night of election year comedy. Headliners Joey Novick (HBO, Showtime) brings his unique New Jersey home town brand of humor and Sam Greenfield (CNN, Huffington Post) brings the funny from across the Hudson River. 
STARRING: Joey Novick & Sam Greenfield 
HOSTED by Kevin O?Driscoll 
WITH SPECIAL GUEST STAR: Alex Adams as Rudy Giuliani 
FEATURING:  Michael Hayne and Harry Terjanian 
SPECIAL INVITED GUESTS: Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Bono, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Leonardo DiCaprio and Pope Benedict XVI 
Darress Theater

615 Main Street

Boonton, New Jersey 07005 
Thursday, October 23rd

7:30pm ? 9:30pm 
VIP Guests Invited To Back Stage Cocktail Party with Performers

9:30pm ? 11:00pm 
Students/Seniors: $20 / person

Single Ticket: $30 / person

Couple: $50

VIP Ticket: $75

VIP Couple: $125
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						Keynesianism during hard times, Mixed Market during good times					
				

				
				By Michael Hayne

				
				





					Editor’s note: The first half of this blog  was taken from the blog of Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT)
The current financial crisis facing our country has been caused by the extreme right-wing economic policies pursued by the Bush administration. These policies, which include huge tax breaks for the rich, unfettered free trade and the wholesale deregulation of commerce, have resulted in a massive redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the very wealthy. 
The middle class has really been under assault. Since President Bush has been in office, nearly 6 million Americans have slipped into poverty, median family income for working Americans has declined by more than $2,000, more than 7 million Americans have lost their health insurance, over 4 million have lost their pensions, foreclosures are at an all time high, total consumer debt has more than doubled, and we have a national debt of over $9.7 trillion dollars.
While the middle class collapses, the richest people in this country have made out like bandits and have not had it so good since the 1920s. The top 0.1 percent now earn more money than the bottom 50 percent of Americans, and the top 1 percent own more wealth than the bottom 90 percent. The wealthiest 400 people in our country saw their wealth increase by $670 billion while Bush has been president. In the midst of all of this, Bush lowered taxes on the very rich so that they are paying lower income tax rates than teachers, police officers or nurses.
Now, having mismanaged the economy for eight years as well as having lied about our situation by continually insisting, “The fundamentals of our economy are strong,” the Bush administration, six weeks before an election, wants the middle class of this country to spend many hundreds of billions on a bailout. 
The wealthiest people, who have benefited from Bush’s policies and are in the best position to pay, are being asked for no sacrifice at all. This is absurd. 
Second Half

The very same scum bags who vehemently decried regulation are now crying for it, bellowing from the rooftops from which their golden parachutes will safely glide them down. 
The duplicity and malfeasance of the robber barons of Wall Street, aided by their sycophants in Congress (namely Phil Gram), have put all our futures in very serious jeopardy, perhaps triggering another Great Depression. 
So when you’re debating what wild animal you’re going to eat for sustenance or what trash can you’re going to light for warmth, just remember that it is all “in your head,” so says Phil Gramm (a.k.a., the heavyweight champion of financial deregulation.) While Sarah Palin is pretending to know an iota about foreign policy, McCain should consult Charles Keating on the economy. Neo-liberal, laissez-fairest economics is proving to be quite a bitch. I blame not Wall Street, but dumbass Main Street, for they reelected privatization of every sector in 2004. 
Three cheers for F.U.B.A.R! 
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