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By Matt Margolis | August 27, 2004
Hey everyone, I am in New York City, getting ready to blog at the Republican National Convention as a credentialed blogger.
Check out Blogs For Bush for my coverage.
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August 27th, 2004 at 11:35 pm
Have fun watching the Feith/Israeli spy story unfold this weekend, Matt.
August 28th, 2004 at 12:40 pm
I hope it turns out better than the “The Margolis Incident” did. The protests are growing there already.
August 29th, 2004 at 2:24 pm
Hi Matt, I don’t really understand how to use the blog that well, but you have really good ideas! I love your counter protest website. You make a lot of sense to those of us who believe in our president’s choice and stand by our soldiers and our country. Please feel free to contact me back. Thanks.
August 29th, 2004 at 9:09 pm
God, you’d think Malkin would have the whole blog thing figured out by now.
August 30th, 2004 at 5:27 pm
Hopefully you’ll get close enough to the protesters to actually get egged. Probably not, though. And what the hell is a “credentialed blogger”? I didn’t realize it was a licensed fucking profession these days.
September 1st, 2004 at 4:10 am
“Protestors”. Is that what they’re calling whiny, rich, spoiled, trouble making juveniles these days?
September 2nd, 2004 at 12:27 am
Good job, Steve. You thought about that comment about two seconds didn’t you? Next you’ll be telling those lazy homeless people to hop off their asses and get jobs…
September 2nd, 2004 at 2:59 pm
counter protest website. LOL! Why were you people not out demonstrating at the DNC? Gee fellows, you think 500,000 demonstrating your party is telling you something? I know it is. It is telling you that something is TERRIBLY wrong with your party, and I for one do everything I can to help people see the light on the lies and abuses of power your BUSHIE has perpatrated. And do you people wonder why everywhere bush goes in this world he is met with protests? The first president ever to be treated this way? Could it be that everyone knows something you people do not? I would suggest doing research into the LIES of this president. You people are supporting not only a liar, but someone who does everything they can to make sure his buddies get rich. Chaney has stock in Halliburton, coincidence? HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! YEA RIGHT. Why did we not wait another four weeks to go into iraq? (thats what the weopons inspectors requested)I will tell you. Because THAT way, there would be no competition for Halliburtons contracts from pesky other countries. Is this the America you want? Its not the one I want, and I fight everyday to make sure people WAKE UP to the reality of what these crooks in the white house are up to. Thank you, and God Bless.
September 2nd, 2004 at 8:52 pm
He didn’t wait because the summer there is awful and it wouls have been too hot. Simple really. Oh, and since nine intelligence agencies including the Russians told him there were WMD’s there - name ONE lie. Asshole.
September 3rd, 2004 at 3:40 am
*yawn* Did someone say something?
September 3rd, 2004 at 2:15 pm
Conservative authors threatened. Eggs and insults thrown at Republican delegates, shots fired into West Virginia GOP HQ, “protests” organized by elected DNC representatives designed to upset the opponents convention, endless hate speech and indignant dismissals of attemps at debated designed to explain their views. N-A-Z-I’s. We must not let the “liberals” intimidate, threaten, and attack their internal enemies. So smug are they in their views. Dems have the gaul (good word, means french) to call the republicans fascists!
September 3rd, 2004 at 5:48 pm
kahn….
I have tried to continue our conversation started in Along came a spider thread.
I have tried posting three times a day sunday thru friday. Might have to continue over here. wondering if matt gave me the admin boot. testing. testing. 1…..2
-Chicago43
September 3rd, 2004 at 6:03 pm
Cannon, Kahn-
This should be the 13th post. This is in response to cannon’s 43rd post (from previous thread…along came a spider) that starts with
“Bzzt… Post 40 was mine” .There are 12 sections.
Cannon - Things are hectic with me as well. my wife and I are building a new house, we move in a few weeks. I sit here surrounded by moving boxes. Like an idiot here I am trying to change the world in my spare time. The computer will be the last thing to go.
1. First things first, thanks for jumping in with me on this topic. I am committed to playing fair…let’s start with a few things we might agree on.
1A.You are absolutely correct, I did mistake you for kahn in post # I will direct more attention to this in the future.
1B. I agree with your desire to move past the SBVT issue.
1C. To the best of my knowledge Kerry has not authored any bills in the area of Healthcare, Antiterrorism, Intelligence, or Education.
1D. Bush and Cheney have been Distorting Kerry’s Record in the Senate. Implying he has accomplished nothing.
1E. The number of bills that bear your name is a poor measure of legislative accomplishment., and many of the 57 bills that Kerry sponsored are trivial.
(Having said that, it does seem to me quite hypocritical that Cheney is running around saying that kerry has accomplished nothing, when he himself has a grand total of two bills signed into law).
1F. Bush distorted about Kerry’s involvement with the SRO scandal.
1G. I stand corrected regarding a particular detail of the SRO slush Fund. I did not know the Washington Times Broke the story.
2. In response to…”Well if we aren’t allowed to talk about these issues of the day and we are moving past the “LIES” about Kerry and Vietnam, WHAT THE HELL SHALL WE JUDGE KERRY ON? The fact that he is “NOT BUSH”?
This is just a misunderstanding. I would be happy to discuss Abortion, Taxes, Defense, The War in Iraq. Gay Marriage, Guns, The French and Germans. I was meaning to point out that these issues were off the track of the original conversation, not out of bounds. If you like, we can come back around to these topics at a later date.
3. OK,down to bidness. This is your detailed explanation of the Bush tax plan?
Quote: “The Republicans, party of the rich? Yeppers. But but but Cannon the tax cuts went to the riiiiiich. The lower and middle class were soaked. So why are these people going for Bush. They are voting against their class er interests! (We must be Politically Correct after all.) Once again I will put the percentage of my income I regained as a result of Bush’s 2001 tax cut vs someone like John Kerry, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, or Warren Buffet any day of the week and twice on Sunday and I will show that my tax break was greater.” end Quote.
4. This is not an explanation of the Bush Tax Plan. This is a sarcastic narrative recreating your version of what you think liberals are pointing to regarding the Bush tax plan. In addition you offer to compare your tax cut rebate to those of Bill Gates. I wonder if you understand that the tax cut you got last year, will not be the same tax cut that you will get next year. In which year would you like to compare? For the year 2001, that might be a remote possibility, I have no idea what tax bracket you are in. As for the year 2010 when the tax cuts are fully phased in…I’ll get back to that one later.
5. The right likes to boil the issue of taxation down to vague ideological assertions, Bigger government vs smaller government. More taxes vs less taxes. Over and over again liberals are chided for their naive softheartedness, as constant whiners, seeking to tax the middle class to spend money on the undeserving poor. How did you put it? “But but but Cannon the tax cuts went to the riiiiiich.” I didn’t know it was possible to portray liberal whine in print, but you have somehow managed to do so. You seem to think my beef with Bush is that his tax plan is tilted to benefit the wealthiest Americans. It is not. Let’s start at the very beginning, dinner time is coming but this will be a good start.
6.THE BUSH TAX CUTS (The speeches that sound really, really, good)
February 3, 2001 and February 5th, 2001 at 10.18 am est. George W. Bush presents his Tax plan to the American People. Here are a few direct quotes.
7.BUSH QUOTE. “The country has prospered mightily over the past 20 years. But a lot of people feel as if they have been looking through the window at somebody else’s party. It is time to fling those doors and windows open and invite everybody in. It is time to reward the work of people trying to enter the middle class and put some more money in their pockets at a time when they need it.”
-G.W. Bush,Radio Address to the Nation from the Oval Office - February 3 , 2001 - Tax Cut Plan
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/radio/20010203.html (see paragraph 9)
8.BUSH QUOTE. “Today many Americans are feeling squeezed. they work 40, 50, 60 hours a week, and still have trouble paying the electric bill and the grocery bill at the same time. At the end of a long week, they collect their paycheck, and what the federal government takes is often unfair.”
-G.W. Bush, Radio Address to the Nation from the Oval Office - February 3 , 2001
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/radio/20010203.html (see 2nd paragraph)
9.BUSH QUOTE “the bottom end of the economic ladder receives the biggest percentage of cuts…my plan addresses the struggles of American families”
-George W. Bush at a White House event, Feb 5, 2001
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/20010205.html (see paragraph 15 In the Q & A Section)
10.BUSH QUOTE Under the plan I’ll be sending to Congress later this week, every American who pays income taxes will get tax relief. And the average relief for a family of four with two children will be $1,600. This is real and practical and helpful, when at this time many Americans need it. Sixteen hundred dollars will pay the average mortgage for a month. Sixteen hundred dollars will pay for a year’s tuition at a community college. Sixteen hundred dollars will pay the average gasoline costs for two cars for a year. And $1,600 will buy the average California family 24 months’ worth of electric power.
-George W. Bush, February 5, 2001 10:18 am, In the Whitehouse Diplomatic Room
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/20010205.html (see paragraph 3)
11.BUSH QUOTE “The theme involves working Americans. Visually, this will involve a sea of hard hats, which our construction and contractor and building groups are working very hard to provide. But the Speaker’s office was very clear in saying that they do not need people in suits. If people want to participate–AND WE DO NEED BODIES–they must be DRESSED DOWN, appear to be REAL WORKER types, etc. We plan to have hard hats for people to wear. Other groups are providing waiters/waitresses, and other types of workers.”
–Russ Freyman, associate director for media relations at the National Association of Manufacturers, instructing business lobbyists how to dress for a rally on Capitol Hill in favor of the Bush tax cut.
http://slate.msn.com/id/1007235/
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0309-03.htm
12 .Finally… MY FIRST ASSERTION regarding the Bush Tax Plan is that the speeches in February of 2001, were crafted to appeal to middle class and lower income working families. I remember hearing those speeches and thinking, wow this souds really great. I was sorry I didnt vote for W for about 11 seconds there. Dinner Time.
We all want what is best for America, we just differ on what best is - Chicago43
September 3rd, 2004 at 8:34 pm
Kahn, I don’t know what you expected of several hundred thousand rightfully angry people. The largest convention protest ever was a success, no major incidents of violence or disorder occured and people were able to express their dismay with the Bush administration peacefully. There were a number of wrongful arrests but even this was minor.
“endless hate speech and indignant dismissals of attemps at debated designed to explain their views”
Why are you describing the behavior of the delegates and politicians in the Republican convention itself?
September 3rd, 2004 at 9:03 pm
Miles,
The DNC and other anti-Bush groups hired people to protest against the convention. One person was asked - “why are you here protesting?” Her reply was “I don’t know they haven’t told me yet.”
People are angry at the Democrats also. They want to limit speech, gun rights, diminish religion, promote abortion, and lessen support for our troops in the field. Yet, WE do not go to their convention and hold protests where ELECTED OFFICIALS AND PARTY LUMINARIES attend and try to disrupt events. It is typical of you liberals that hatred thrown against the Republicans is OK or at least understandable because, well hell, we deserve it!
And no - I was not talking about the debate within the convention. We hear Bush was a desertewr, Chaney is a coward, Chaney made money on Iraq (news bulletin - he walked away from Billions in options when he became VP). But, we rightly point out Kerry’s record - which he covered in his speech for 26 seconds - and we are over the top and hateful.
The poll numbers speak for themselves. When we keep the White House and increase our control of the Congress, will you at least agree to examine your views? That - or shut up?
September 6th, 2004 at 5:14 pm
You just told me shut up and you seem to think those protestors had no right to protest. So please don’t point fingers at who is trying to limit speech.
Just so you know, I happen to be an admirer of conservatism. But there are no conservatives to elect in this election. “I am running with a compassionate conservative philosophy: that government should help people improve their lives, not try to run their lives,” that is not conservatism, Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan would be shaking their heads. The man has massively increased spending without any results and combined with his tax cuts has made his adminstration one of fiscal irresponsibility. Domestically the election could be boiled down to the question, do you want an administration that focuses on subsidizing corporations or human beings? I’ll pick the latter.
September 9th, 2004 at 1:23 pm
this one is for kahn (#9)from his request of some bush lies lol, ok, lets start with the notion Iraq had anything to do with 9/11. Your boy put those two in the same sentance so much that 75% of america at the time of the iraq invasion believed there was a tie. How about those weopons of mass destruction? How about the war costing us 1 billion dollars (ohh, I am sorry, thats not a lie, just him being very very stupid (or caniving)
Here is a quote from ol’ bushie addressing port workers (or most vunerable spot for a nuc to come into America……
“We’re working hard to make sure your job is easier, that the port is safer. The Customs Service is working with overseas ports and shippers to improve its knowledge of container shipments, assessing risk so that we have a better feel of who we ought to look at, what we ought to worry about.”
The reality is “The President’s 2003 and 2004 budget provides zero for port security grants. The GOP Congress has provided only $250 million for port security grants (35% less than authorized). Additionally, in August, the President vetoed all $39 million for the Container Security Initiative which he specifically touted.
here is another quote from your man……
“I want to thank the good folks here at Rochester Community and Technical College for your hospitality…The most important issue — the most important issue for any governor in any state is to make sure every single child in your state receives a quality education.” – Bush, [10/18/02]
The reality is Bush’s 2004 budget proposes to cut vocational and technical education grants by 24% ($307 million). His budget also proposes to freeze funding for pell grants for low income students.
and this one is perhaps the worst, as he touts freedom and liberty on the backs of our veterans….he says….
“Having been here and seeing the care that these troops get is comforting for me and Laura. We are — should and must provide the best care for anybody who is willing to put their life in harm’s way.” – Bush, 1/17/03
the reality is……..
Bush’s visit came on the same day that the Administration announced it is immediately cutting off access to its health care system approximately 164,000 veterans [W. Post, 1/17/03].
How about this stuff Kahn? Whatcha say about this? And let me know if you want some more examples, there are an unpresidented number of them. (and notice I didnt call you an asshole)
October 26th, 2004 at 11:40 pm
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