Galloway likens Sen. Norm Coleman to Joe McCarthy

[Cubby]

Don't you just love the way Galloway manages to insult pretty much everyone who had their lives ruined by McCarthy in a pathetic attempt to save himself from falling into the big hole that he's dug?

I should point out that he doesn't have to come, the only reason why there was any pressure on him to come was due to his own ego-tripping lie about requesting to be seen by the committee a year or so back and that his reaction to the initial news could be described as one of panic...

As far as most people over here are concerned he's as guilty as hell (he managed to blow any symphathy he had, which wasn't much, due to some election a week or so ago) and I suspect that anything he does now will be an attempt to shore up his standings with the Bethnal Green Bangladeshi's and to try to stop being expelled from the Commons. He currently stands a very good chance at becoming the first M.P to be expelled by the House since (IIRC) 1954.

Not to put you on the spot but do you know for what reason was the MP expelled in 1954?

[Cubby]

Not to put you on the spot but do you know for what reason was the MP expelled in 1954?

"Convicted of uttering forged documents. Forged signatures on letters purporting to guarantee debts in excess of £100,000 owed by his companies."

http://www.election.demon.co.uk/expulsions.html

Thanks for the info. I had thought since it was 1954 it would be something more substanial like he was a communist or something. This reason is pretty mundane.

[Cubby]

Why should Bush lying be worse than Saddam lying? Why the double standard here?

Bush is a president of a Democracy. Saddam was a dictator.

But to you lefty hate America types he was a "good dictator" because he was "secular".

A- We don't hate America, we hate most of conservativism and the Religious Right (not religion, the Religious Right)

B- I don't speak for all lefties, but I'd have rather lived in a secular Iraq under Saddam than a theocractic Iran under Khomeini. Obviously I'd be miserable and angry in both; but theocracy, as opposed to personal religious belief, is always worse than a secular dictatorship.

[Cubby]

We hate what they believe, their ideology. Not the people themselves. Maybe hate is too strong a word. But the religious right is a dangerous trend in this country. People like James Dobson should be kept as far from political power as possible.