WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT ID, COUNT( comment_ID ) AS ccount FROM po_posts LEFT JOIN po_comments ON ( comment_post_ID = ID AND comment_approved = '1') WHERE ID IN (390,388,389,387,386,385,383,384,382,381,380,379,378,377,376,375,374,373,372,371) GROUP BY ID

Politry Plus » 2006 » January

Archive for January, 2006

•
31.01.06 | 

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(comment_ID) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = 390 AND comment_approved = '1';

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = '390' AND comment_approved = '1'

0

The Sad State of the Union

The President delivered a speech
full of promises likely to prove
as empty as those he made before,
because he won’t have any money.
He took credit for some things that
happened by accident and others
that didn’t occur, described a war
and a country few would recognize.
Republicans got lots of exercise as
they stood and clapped. Democrats
didn’t clap much for Bush, not […]

more …
•
31.01.06 | 

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(comment_ID) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = 388 AND comment_approved = '1';

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = '388' AND comment_approved = '1'

0

Haiku

Bush won’t say the state
of the union worsens, but
he certainly should.

more …
•
30.01.06 | 

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(comment_ID) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = 389 AND comment_approved = '1';

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = '389' AND comment_approved = '1'

0

Oh

Condoleezza Rice brings a sort of
candor to the Bush administration.
Unfortunately, I think she just admits
they don’t know what is happening:
“There is a huge transition going on
in the Middle East, as a whole and
in its parts,” she said. “The outcomes
that we’re seeing in any number of
places, I will be the first to say, have
a sense of […]

more …
•
29.01.06 | 

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(comment_ID) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = 387 AND comment_approved = '1';

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = '387' AND comment_approved = '1'

0

Sometimes He Does the Right Thing by Mistake

Publishers used to get novels banned in Boston
to hype sales everywhere else. The trick still works.
Bush tries to silence scientists who don’t agree
with the party line, and it makes the critics heroes.
Ham-handed censorship got The New York Times
to let everyone who missed an obscure lecture
know a top NASA scientist believes global warming
is serious, and we […]

more …
•
28.01.06 | 

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(comment_ID) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = 386 AND comment_approved = '1';

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = '386' AND comment_approved = '1'

0

Voter Strategy

It is not a date likely to be trumpeted,
or even calculated, by our government,
but we are close to more Americans being
killed in Iraq than were killed on 9/11/2001.
Are we closer to victory? Can we define it?
Do we have any idea what we are doing?
All three answers are, “No.� Unfortunately,
no political party has any “Yes� answers.
Maybe […]

more …
•
28.01.06 | 

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(comment_ID) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = 385 AND comment_approved = '1';

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = '385' AND comment_approved = '1'

0

Politics 101

Conservatives want to make life
better for people who have it easy.
Liberals want to make life less hard
for people who just can’t get by.
Republicans say Democrats want to
give everything away. So did Jesus.

more …
•
28.01.06 | 

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(comment_ID) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = 383 AND comment_approved = '1';

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = '383' AND comment_approved = '1'

0

Time To Stand Up

The Iraqi war has gotten tacky
and Democrats are confused.
They don’t know what to do.
Of course, Bush doesn’t either.
But that doesn’t matter. Rove
has convinced the public outsiders
must find a solution superior to
the one that Bush keeps secret.
A Democrat must come forward.
Admit we lost the war a year ago.
It might not win an election, but
it would be […]

more …
•
27.01.06 | 

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(comment_ID) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = 384 AND comment_approved = '1';

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = '384' AND comment_approved = '1'

0

Haiku

Bush, like Democrats,
supports democracy, but
not the winners.

more …
•
27.01.06 | 

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(comment_ID) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = 382 AND comment_approved = '1';

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = '382' AND comment_approved = '1'

0

Let’s Support Kennedy and Kerry

A filibuster of the Alito nomination
needn’t succeed to be meaningful.
It can keep the story of his extremism
alive for a few days in the hope that
some Bush supporter might listen.
Standing together could help Senate
Democrats learn they can’t succeed
against conservatives until they unite
behind a few progressive ideas instead
of each one picking a favorite cause.
Concern for protecting senators […]

more …
•
26.01.06 | 

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(comment_ID) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = 381 AND comment_approved = '1';

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = '381' AND comment_approved = '1'

0

And Words Can Create a Thousand Pictures

The pictures of Bush and Abramoff
must be spectacular,
otherwise Rove wouldn’t leave them
to our imagination.
I think one might show Bush taking a check,
or Jack whispering in the President’s ear,
and maybe Bush tried on the gangster hat.
Until we see the real thing, some of us
will follow Andy Borowitz’ lead and
let our minds fill the gap while we […]

more …
•
26.01.06 | 

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(comment_ID) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = 380 AND comment_approved = '1';

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = '380' AND comment_approved = '1'

0

Could We Have a Simple Yes or No?

Hillary Clinton took a position
on both sides of the wiretap issue,
similar to her stand on the Iraq war.
She likes what Bush does, but hates
the way he does it. Since I don’t like
either, I forget she’s really qualified.

more …
•
25.01.06 | 

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(comment_ID) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = 379 AND comment_approved = '1';

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = '379' AND comment_approved = '1'

0

One Trick Pony

Bush will solve the healthcare crisis
the only way he knows – cut taxes.
That helps rich folks who itemize
deductions and that’s what matters.
He’s busy paying for his tax cuts by
reducing medical benefits for the poor
and veterans, while protecting drug and
insurance companies from risk or loss.
Bush can get away with concentrating
on his base because the voters who
elected […]

more …
•
24.01.06 | 

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(comment_ID) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = 378 AND comment_approved = '1';

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = '378' AND comment_approved = '1'

0

My Tooth Fairy Left Dimes

Lobbying works. It gets Republicans to
tuck last minute changes under industry’s
pillow late at night like the tooth fairy.
The Congressional Budget Office revealed
the insurance industry got $22 billion from
a mid-December visit by Representative
Bill Thomas and Senator Charles Grassley.
The gift is hidden in a conference committee
Medicare budget bill up for a vote in the House
next month. Grassley […]

more …
•
23.01.06 | 

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(comment_ID) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = 377 AND comment_approved = '1';

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = '377' AND comment_approved = '1'

0

Who needs facts, Bush Fights with Words

He calls warrant less wire taps
“legal and necessary,� but many
experts say he’s breaking the law.
Instead of stopping, or proving
he’s not, Bush just changes the name:
Eavesdropping on Americans is now
“the Terrorist Surveillance Program.”

more …
•
22.01.06 | 

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(comment_ID) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = 376 AND comment_approved = '1';

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = '376' AND comment_approved = '1'

0

Haiku

Bush said his wife would
never run for senator –
he will be sorry!

more …
•
21.01.06 | 

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(comment_ID) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = 375 AND comment_approved = '1';

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = '375' AND comment_approved = '1'

0

Is This the Last Straw?

While Rove spouts strategy as he awaits
indictment, Cheney insists the President
can listen in to any phone call anytime, and
Gonzales demands to study Google searches,
Bush steps in to settle a baseball squabble.
So far Congressional Republicans have not
seen fit to investigate any administration action,
however questionable, but they might get angry
enough over Cuba playing in the World Baseball
Classic […]

more …
•
20.01.06 | 

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(comment_ID) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = 374 AND comment_approved = '1';

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = '374' AND comment_approved = '1'

0

Politics Is Now War by Other Means

Harry Reid apologized for publicizing
Republican recipients of Abramoff cash.
The document, though true, “went too far.�
Liberals don’t stand a chance against
the party in power because conservatives
have a secret weapon: Democrat decency.
We need leaders who respond to rancor
with active antagonism. There is no place
for understanding in Bush’s Washington.

more …
•
20.01.06 | 

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(comment_ID) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = 373 AND comment_approved = '1';

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = '373' AND comment_approved = '1'

0

Simple Solutions Aren’t Simple

Let’s fight about eliminating corruption in Congress.
Should lunches be limited to twenty dollars or nothing?
Can we eliminate gifts and trips entirely? Does it matter?
No.
Lobbyists aren’t the problem. Congressional rules are.
They need to debate laws, read laws, then vote on laws.
Do things correctly. Create order. Would that be good?
Yes.

more …
•
18.01.06 | 

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(comment_ID) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = 372 AND comment_approved = '1';

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = '372' AND comment_approved = '1'

0

Can They Really Perform Reform?

Congress races to find ethics.
It should be fun to hear them debate
the importance of free trips, lavish meals
and special access when they retire to K Street.
It will be interesting to watch how
they justify the perks they want to keep,
but the real excitement will be trying to find
all the loopholes skilled politicians manage to hide.

more …
•
17.01.06 | 

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(comment_ID) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = 371 AND comment_approved = '1';

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'po_comments.MYI' (errno: 145)]
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM po_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = '371' AND comment_approved = '1'

0

Overstating the Case

Hillary Clinton shocked Republicans
by suggesting the House of Representatives
is run like a plantation. Aside from the fact
that the leaders do exactly what they want
and use “whips� to keep everyone in line,
there is no similarity. Plantations produced
cotton. This House produces nothing useful.

more …
« previous