Rush Limbaugh: Party of one?

Let's kick the most admired Republican in the country out of our party. Good plan!

Rush Limbaugh launched an angry attack on fellow Republican Colin Powell Wednesday on his radio show, firing back at the former secretary of state for saying Limbaugh diminishes the party with his “nastiness.” Limbaugh said Powell should join the Democratic Party instead of pretending he wants to reform the GOP. “He’s just mad at me because I’m the one person in the country who had the guts to explain his endorsement of Obama,” Limbaugh said. “It was purely and solely based on race.” At a speech on Monday, Powell said the Republican Party is in “deep trouble” because of polarizing figures like Limbaugh, who “diminishes the party and intrudes or inserts into our public life a kind of nastiness that we would be better to do without.”

The circular firing squad continues. I’d tell the last Republican leaving the party to turn the lights out, but I’m not even sure that there’s one left.–BEREZ

               
Posted Under: Colin Powell, Rush Limbaugh
This post was written by BerezObama on May 7, 2009 Comments (1)

Armitage: “Should’ve resigned over torture”… Gee, ya think?

if only I could have gotten an answer as to whether testicular electrocution was torture or not

Richard Armitage, the second in command at the State Department under President Bush, told Al Jazeera English in an interview to be aired Thursday that had he known then what he knows now about the torture of detainees, the right thing to do would have been to resign.

“I hope, had I known about it at the time I was serving, I would’ve had the courage to resign,” Armitage said in an interview, according to a transcript provided to the Huffington Post.

“Fault Lines” host Avi Lewis pressed Armitage about remaining in the administration. “So when you knew that the administration of which you were a part was departing from the Geneva Conventions and sidelining them, why didn’t you quit?”

“In hindsight maybe I should’ve,” said Armitage. “But in those positions you see how many more battles you have. You maybe fool yourself. You say how much worse would X, Y, or Z be if I weren’t here trying to do it? So torture is a matter of principle as far as I’m concerned. I hope, had I known about it at the time I was serving, I would’ve had the courage to resign.”

Coulda, woulda, shoulda. Even if it wasn’t the torturing, there are only 100 other things you should have resigned over. And your boss. Especially your boss. The one guy I thought I could believe. After Colin Powell’s speech to the U.N. that attempted to deceive the whole world, I would no longer trust Secretary Powell for directions.–BEREZ

               
Posted Under: Colin Powell, Richard Armitage
This post was written by BerezObama on April 15, 2009 Comments (0)