CNN uses more facts in a day than FOX has total since the days I watched it day in and day out and railed against the commie left, and the dangers of the Demoncrats some 11 years ago (here's a prior version of me on an account I couldn't recover: https://videosift.com/video/Fox-News-takes-Rep-Wexler-from-the-Colbert-Report-out-of-context-I-enjoy-cocaine-because#comment-12957 ... I thought there was another post under that account where I blasted evolution but I don't see it)... had I not opened my eyes and started vetting, I'd probably be right there with you though, so you go and do your thing.

They asked Robert Wexler the same thing and he said "Because it's a fun thing to do"...

Yup, that's him. Correctly identified by our intrepid 5th-grade reporter as Robert Wexler.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/72021/july-20-2006/better-know-a-district---florida-s-19th---robert-wexler

>> ^chilaxe:
They guy speaking at the podium at 2:00 looks like the politician Colbert got to say 'doing cocaine with prostitutes is fun' etc.

>> ^jwray:
Lieberman was never in the 2008 primary. He left the democratic party in 2006 and endorsed McCain and the entire neoconservative agenda. He's a Hagee fanboy to boot. Gore shouldn't have picked him in 2000.


My mistake. Lieberman pretended to be a Democrat for so long that I got mixed up. But the gist of what I said is true.

Obama and Hillary are right-leaning candidates in the Democratic party.

They're no Kucinich or Wexler.

Good luck Mr. Wexler. I really do mean that =| I know it's late in the game but somehow Bush et al need to be held accountable.

Ok, take a look at Wexler's commentary at 3:24. Am I a conspiracy nut for thinking that "jump" in the cable feed was intentional? Sounds like the original was abused and "they" turned it into used. The fingerprints of the invisible hand.

The liberal blogs are all sending out "call your representatives, NOW" messages.

Kos had a conspicuously brief comment on it:

When we started this "netroots" thing, we worked to get "more and better Democrats" elected. At first, we focused on the "more" part. This year, we're focusing a bit more on the "better" part. And in 2010, we'll have enough Democrats in the House to exclusively focus on the "better" part.

That means primary challenges. And as we decide who to take on, let it be known that this FISA vote will loom large. Voting to give telecommunication companies retroactive immunity may not guarantee a primary challenge, but it will definitely loom large.

We kicked Joe Lieberman out of the caucus. We got rid of Al Wynn this year. Those were test runs, so to speak. We've got a lot more of that ready to unleash in 2010.

We're going to have to count on the Ron Pauls, the Dennis Kuciniches, Chris Dodds, Russ Feingolds, Robert Wexlers, and Pat Leahys to pull out some sort of gambit to block this (again).

It's shameful that this is being done, and that they're trying to give themselves immunity, when there's not likely to be a court decision that penalizes anyone for it in a meaningful way. Hell, no one was going to wind up charged with treason for betraying their oath to the Constitution.

We'd just fine AT&T a month's profit from iPhone service, and say "justice served."

At least that way, it'd be on the record as being something the government is still saying is against the law, rather than just written on some piece of hide stretched out in a display case in DC.

If there are any sifters out there who feel this should be stopped, please, call your representatives, for numbers, go here.

I'm going to cut this off when the World Socialist website goes heavy into the socialism:

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jun2008/impe-j12.shtml

"House Democrats kill resolution to impeach Bush
By Patrick Martin
12 June 2008

In a display of parliamentary maneuvering that combined cynicism and cowardice, Democratic members of the US House of Representatives voted unanimously to kill an impeachment resolution against President Bush introduced by Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio.

Kucinich himself participated fully in the farce. He introduced the resolution Monday and read out the 35 articles of impeachment for crimes ranging from the lying pretexts given to the American people for the war in Iraq to torture at the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and illegal domestic spying. Then he moved to send the resolution to the House Judiciary Committee, whose chairman John Conyers has long rejected any effort to hold Bush constitutionally accountable.

The 251-166 margin of the vote, held on a roll call Wednesday, saw all 227 Democrats—including Kucinich and his lone co-sponsor, Robert Wexler of Florida—joined by 24 Republicans move to dispose of the resolution. Voting against were 166 Republicans, who sought to force a debate on impeachment for the purpose of embarrassing the Democratic Party leadership.

After Kucinich introduced the measure Monday and spent more than four hours reading the entire text into the Congressional Record, House Republicans utilized a parliamentary provision to force the clerk of the House to read the text out loud all over again on Tuesday, consuming another four hours and keeping the House in session until after midnight. The purpose was to rub the Democrats’ noses in their own refusal to take action to back up their occasional bursts of anti-Bush demagogy.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ruled out any impeachment of Bush as soon as the Democrats won control of Congress in November 2006. Impeachment resolutions against Cheney were introduced in May and November of 2007 and killed each time by the Democrats, in the same fashion as the Bush impeachment resolution Wednesday.

There is no question that, unlike Bill Clinton, who was impeached for lying about a private sexual encounter, George W. Bush is guilty of offenses that meet the “high crimes and misdemeanors” standard set by the US Constitution.

The adamant opposition to impeachment proceedings on the part of Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, and the rest of the Democratic leadership does not stem from a belief that such proceedings would be unpopular. According to public opinion polls, a majority of the American people and an overwhelming majority of Democratic voters favor Bush’s impeachment and removal from office.

A public vote in the House of Representatives would, however, find a clear majority of the Democrats in Congress siding with Bush against the sentiments of their own constituents. The Democratic leadership seeks to block any vote to conceal as much as possible their role as the last line of defense for the Bush administration.

The Democratic leadership opposes impeachment not on legal, but on political and class grounds. They are well aware that the adoption of an impeachment resolution against Bush and Cheney, regardless of the outcome of a Senate trial, would deal a major blow against the White House as an institution and undermine the legitimacy of all Bush’s actions as “commander-in-chief,” especially in the war in Iraq.

It would also inevitably raise the question of who in Congress was complicit with Bush’s criminal conduct over the past seven years—tarring Democrats as well as Republicans, since a majority of Senate Democrats and a large number of House Democrats voted for the Iraq war resolution in 2002. Many other actions listed in Kucinich’s articles of impeachment were given near-unanimous support by the Democrats.

More fundamentally, the Democratic Party is a bourgeois party and it seeks to uphold the authority of the bourgeois state..."

bourgeois, stop.

Still some valid points though - rare you'll see me agreeing with that site, but there you go.

yeah, he coached wexler into saying something that he most likely knew would be played later on another network. Fox took the bait.

I'm surprised Fox didn't just edit out Colbert altogether so it looked like Wexler was just saying this stuff on his own.

I don't know why but everytime I look at Representative Robert Wexler I start chuckling a little...

He reminds me of a really quirky Frat boy for some reason...

From Wikipedia
" Produced by melodrama specialist George "Shadow" Morton and released three times between 1965 and 1967, "Society's Child" finally became a national hit the third time it was released, after Leonard Bernstein featured it in a TV special titled Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution.[2] The song's lyrical content was too taboo for some radio stations, and they withdrew or banned it from their playlists accordingly. In the summer of 1967, "Society's Child" reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Apparently "Society's Child" was too hot for Atlantic Records as well at the time. Ian relates on her website that although the song was originally intended for Atlantic and the label paid for her recording session, the label subsequently returned the master to her and quietly refused to release it. Years later, Ian says, Atlantic's president at the time, Jerry Wexler, publicly apologized to her for this."

>> ^quantumushroom:
Anyone who thinks China is still Red is fooling himself.
Mass executions, forced abortions, no real freedom of speech, no right to a fair trial, free market yoked to totalitarianism, limited quality control on exports, accepting few imports, stealing US military tech (Clintons wrapped with a red bow), improved missile tech, subduing Taiwan, enslaving Tibet.
When they end their one-baby-per-household law and their population explodes the real fun will begin.
Communists don't call themselves reds anymore. Now they're progressives. Just kidding. Who wants to be arrested for a liberal hate crime in "the land of the free as long as you don't hurt anyone's self-esteem."


mass executions = not Communist
forced abortions = not Communist
no freedom of speech = not Communist
no right to fair trial = not Communist
federal market = not Communist (but Socialist)
limited quality control on exports = not Communist
accepting few imports = not Communist (but Socialist)
stealing US tech = not Communist
improved missle tech = could be anybody
subduing Taiwan = not Communist
enslaving Tibet = not Communist

You're equating Communism to the Soviet Union, which is entirely erroneous. The arms race and totalitarianism of the CCCP had nothing to do with the tenets of Communism.

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wait the chinese vote republican?

>> ^quantumushroom:
The Red Chinese continue amassing forces...