Washington Journal time

[w8liftinglady]

Is US becoming isolationist?

202/737-0002

http://www.c-span.org/

[EST]

1. It's...Fascist Friday!!

[w8liftinglady]

2. The president doesn't want to be isolationist

"only 6000 Americans killed"?everyone is our friend but Al-Qaeda.

[bridgit]

22. course not, the people he really cares about are like minded oligarhics...

in far away places

[BlueEyedSon]

3. More like Orwellian Friday. Or inside out day....

If this is "isolationist"!

[w8liftinglady]

4. No kidding...

people are having a hard time articulating...because we have been spun so hard about TERROR.

[bridgit]

21. yup...

[adigal]

26. Am I understanding that the repubs calling in

are as angry as we are at the administration?? No! They love torture and outsourcing and rich Middle East countries whose rulers hold hand with George Dubai, don't they?

[Coexist]

27. my favorite way to end the week! n/t

[0007]

5. Brain Lamb has trained me not to tune in on Friday's

But I will today, in hopes I can get lucky.

[w8liftinglady]

8. The Republicans are OUTRAGED!

they are finally tired of being mind-raped.

[bridgit]

23. bwahaha, then they can flat-out GET FUCKED!!

:rofl:

[w8liftinglady]

6. Republican angrily against *

"we need to be isolationist until we get our own house in order"

[rodeodance]

11. at least she recognized that "Houston--We have a problem" (with our

own house)

[Skidmore]

7. WTF time....Dems joined Rs in the Senate in rejecting an

Ethics Committee? What is wrong with this picture?

[acmejack]

10. The Senate is starting to make me think it is time for a change

As in a wholesale replacement. With people who understand about ethics and share the public's concerns. They have all sold out to the dollars of their campaign financiers and really aren't terribly concerned about their constituent's worries, little thing, like, say, the Patriot Act!

[rodeodance]

12. It was to be an 'outside" committee--with public input.

[EST]

25. I watched the hearing.

They were sooo convinced that to have an independent group overseeing the legalities of taking bribes would violate their own chances of proving their worth by doing it themselves. As with an alcoholic, they can't bear to acknowledge the fact that they can't control their addiction by themselves and need support.
Typical, sadly and unfortunately.
There was one vote (aye)for such a committee, but I missed who it was. Lautenburg, I think.
There will be no real major reform. Even the dynamic Ms. Slaughter seemed less than enthusiastic about a lot of the public scrutiny measures.

[w8liftinglady]

9. everyone is outraged that we have been sold out.

[Skidmore]

13. You think Brian has figured out that Rs are also really

upset by now? At least he's quit asking people if they are sure that they are a Republican.

[rodeodance]

14. te he.

[w8liftinglady]

15. R-it seems like rich white men can't be trusted...

[rodeodance]

16. Bush: U.S. Should Welcome Competition

This was one of the articles Brian referred to (posted in LBN)

Fri Mar-03-06 03:10 AM
Original message
Bush: U.S. Should Welcome Competition

Bush: U.S. Should Welcome Competition
President Bush Urges Americans to Welcome and Not Fear Competition From India, Other Countries

By DEB RIECHMANN

HYDERABAD, India Mar 3, 2006 (AP)— President Bush urged Americans worried about a U.S. job drift to India and other countries to welcome, not fear, competition with this rapidly growing nation of 1 billion.

"The classic opportunity for our American farmers and entrepreneurs and small businesses to understand is there is a 300 million-person market of middle class citizens here in India," Bush said Friday during a discussion with young entrepreneurs at a business school here, "and that if we can make a product they want, that it becomes viable."
(snip)

The meeting with business leaders and an earlier tour around the dusty campus of an agricultural college were aimed at showcasing ways the United States and India can cooperate to spur innovation across industries.
India's exploding economy has created millions of jobs. India's outsourcing industry alone is expected to bring in $22 billion in revenue this fiscal year, much of that generated by U.S. companies.

"People do lose jobs as a result of globalization and it's painful for those who lose jobs," Bush acknowledged. "Globalization provides great opportunities."
(snip/...)

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=168240...

[Skidmore]

17. Suppose Dems will figure out that the message is being laid out

loud and clear for them to run on. Return to our borders, clean our own house, and attend to the business of the nation. Rebuild our infrastructure, rebuild our industries, cut corruption, educate our children, care for our elderly.

[rodeodance]

18. "I think Cheney shoting a man in the face woke Congress up"--umm

not sure about that.

[Skidmore]

20. I don't know about waking Congress up, but it sure made

a lot of people begin to find it hard to cover for this criminal bunch.

[slaveplanet]

19. Hey rethugs?

Buy a vowel...

Title 3
Executive order 12803 of April 30, 1992
57 FR 19063 / May 4, 1992

TEXT: By the authority vested in me as president by the laws of the United States of America, end in order to ensure that the United States achieves the most beneficial economic use of its resources, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Definitions. For purposes of this order: (a) “Privatization” means the disposition or transfer of an infrastructure asset, such as by sale or by long-term lease, from a State or local government to a private party.

(b) “infrastructure asset” means any asset financed in whole or in part by the Federal Government and needed for the functioning of the economy. Examples of such assets include, but are not limited to: roads, tunnels, bridges,electricity supply facilities. mass transit, rail transportation, airports, ports. waterways, water supply facilities, recycling and wastewater treatment facilities, solid waste disposal facilities, housing, schools, prisons, and hospitals.

Much , much more
http://www.waterindustry.org/12803.htm

Stop being shocked, shocked I tell you!

Georgie 41 did the equivilent of putting a pound of his heroin in a room full of junkies...being shocked by that is pathetic.

[sadiesworld]

24. kick