Palin and Huckabee are angry at NPR.

[Breadburner]

I'm all for taxing some of these churches where the pastors' drive around Mercedes...Hot Rods...Harleys...Luxury motor-homes.....

[carltonplace]

I'm all for taxing some of these churches where the pastors' drive around Mercedes...Hot Rods...Harleys...Luxury motor-homes.....

Any "TV" church: tax them.

[heironymouspasparagus]

We all know what a liar O'Keefe is.  It was proven with his Acorn lies.  And this is most likely another heavily edited piece of work.

As for NPR, well, ok, let's get rid of all funding for it - the few million they get every year.  As a huge fan, I could live with that, since I can just kick up my contribution a little bit, IF we first get rid of the blasphemy of the Iraq war where we spend $160 billion per year (not to mention 4000+ of our kids).  Or the billions required to fund 8 different military bases in Occupied Japan.  Or the billions spent on a huge number of bases around the world.  Or the billions Inhofe wants us to spend on military systems the military doesn't want or need.  Or the billions spent every year to "discredit" democratically elected governments in countries where we want our puppet dictators to rule.  Or the billions spent to subsidize big oil.  Or the hundreds of billions in obscene "tax breaks" given to the top 1% of rich in this country (you know who they are - the ones that get by paying only 16% on their years income).  Or the billions to subsidize large corporate farm corporations.  Or the tens of billions used to subsidize nuclear power in this country.  
In fact, if we got rid of all that other garbage, our taxes could go down enough so that I could send NPR a whole lot more!!

I'll vote yes with you to defund the NPR millions if you vote yes with me to defund the hundreds of billions on these lies and obscenities.

[Townsend]

Scott Baker of "The Blaze" (Glenn Beck's news site) is backing NPR on this one now.

Scott Baker, editor in chief of the conservative news site The Blaze, tells David that after watching the two-hour video he came away with the impression that the NPR executives "seem to be fairly balanced people."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/03/14/134528545/npr-okeefe-inappropriately-edited-video-execs-words-still-egregious?ft=1&f=1001&sc=tw&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

[Townsend]

Who is O'Keefe helping?  Who will wake up the next day and say "ahhh, that's better."?

http://www.npr.org/2011/03/14/134525412/Segments-Of-NPR-Gotcha-Video-Taken-Out-Of-Context?ft=1&f=1001&sc=tw&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

[Teatownclown]

Shouldn't O'keefe be in jail?

[Conan71]

Shouldn't O'keefe be in jail?

Along with Karl Rove?

Sielgelman?

Welcome back.

[Gaspar]

Along with Karl Rove?

Sielgelman?

Welcome back.

Don't forget Murdoch, Bush and Cheney!

[heironymouspasparagus]

You wanted to impeach Clinton for lying about "you know what".  Don't you think Bush would deserve proportionately more punishment for lying about what he lied about and doing proportionately so much more damage??

Or is personal responsibility a one sided thing applying to non-RWRE only?

And Rove?  Over the years, way beyond anything Bush ever did.

 

[Gaspar]

You wanted to impeach Clinton for lying about "you know what".  Don't you think Bush would deserve proportionately more punishment for lying about what he lied about and doing proportionately so much more damage??

Or is personal responsibility a one sided thing applying to non-RWRE only?

And Rove?  Over the years, way beyond anything Bush ever did.

 

That vein in your head is pulsating again.

[Gaspar]

You wanted to impeach Clinton for lying about "you know what". 

Clinton was successfully impeached for lying to congress under oath.  He and Andrew Jackson were the only presidents in the history of this country to be successfully impeached.

He was not impeached for having an affair with an intern, or dragging the country through a ridiculous trial because he couldn't just be honest and answer the allegations against him like a grown-up.  Instead, we had to go through the painful smirks, eye rolling and sighs on debating the meaning of the word "is." 

It was an embarrassment. 

[Townsend]

Clinton was successfully impeached for lying to congress under oath.  He and Andrew Jackson were the only presidents in the history of this country to be successfully impeached.

He was not impeached for having an affair with an intern, or dragging the country through a ridiculous trial because he couldn't just be honest and answer the allegations against him like a grown-up.  Instead, we had to go through the painful smirks, eye rolling and sighs on debating the meaning of the word "is." 

It was an embarrassment. 

Looks like in both cases the prosecution should've moved on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Andrew_Johnson

The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States, was one of the most dramatic events in the political life of the United States during Reconstruction, and the first impeachment in history of a sitting United States president.

The Impeachment was the consummation of a lengthy political battle, between the moderate Johnson and the "Radical Republican" movement that dominated Congress, for control of Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War.

Johnson was impeached on February 24, 1868 in the U.S. House of Representatives on eleven articles of impeachment detailing his "high crimes and misdemeanors",[1] in accordance with Article Two of the United States Constitution. The House's primary charge against Johnson was with violation of the Tenure of Office Act, passed by Congress the previous year. Specifically, he had removed Edwin M. Stanton, the Secretary of War (whom the Tenure of Office Act was largely designed to protect), from office and replaced him with John McAllister Schofield.

The House agreed to the articles of impeachment on March 2, 1868. The trial began three days later in the Senate, with Supreme Court Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase presiding. Trial concluded on May 16 with Johnson's acquittal, the final count falling one vote shy of the required tally for conviction.

The impeachment and subsequent trial gained a historical reputation as an act of political expedience, rather than necessity, based on Johnson's defiance of an unconstitutional piece of legislation and with little regard for the will of the public (which, despite the unpopularity of Johnson, opposed the impeachment). Until the impeachment of Bill Clinton 131 years later, it was the only presidential impeachment in the history of the United States.

[Conan71]

That vein in your head is pulsating again.

And apparently President Clinton suffered from pulsating vein syndrome too 

[heironymouspasparagus]

So the question remains; why wasn't Bush impeached for lying to Congress, and breaking the oath of office he took?

No difference.  Except in RWREland.

That's why we ended up with Obama.  Anyone but Bush syndrome.

[Conan71]

So the question remains; why wasn't Bush impeached for lying to Congress, and breaking the oath of office he took?

No difference.  Except in RWREland.

That's why we ended up with Obama.  Anyone but Bush syndrome.

Hi Herionimous, this is reality, have we met?

President Bush never testified before Congress.  Secondly, if we used that standard, there were quite a few intelligence bureaucrats and fellow Congressmen who would go down in flames as well.  He simply relied on the same info his predecessor had.  Don't believe me?  Bubba still thought Saddam had missing WMD the day he left office.  Real simple, Google "Clinton, Larry King, Weapons of Mass Destruction".  Apparently he was just as gullible as President Bush, Hillarity Cliton, John Kerry, and others.  President Bush didn't invent the WMD story, he simply was the person most unfortunate enough to be sitting in the hot seat when it was time to go with the company line.  I wonder if Algore would have been treated quite as harshly by the left?