January 18, 2005

• The only thing I want to hear about Bush is that his heart has been as competent in its function as the Neocon invasion of Iraq.
• Oh snap! heheh
• What Nostril said, times a quadzillion . . .
• It's freaking amazing, isn't it? I really think there's something to the faith-based vs. reality-based model (with "faith" not necessarily meaning faith in God, but at least in neocon ideology). I mean, how else could a record this horrendous, a record of failure after failure, not have resulted in the failed leaders' removal from office? (Sorry. The emotions have steadied, but my brain, I still can't get it around what happened in November.)
• And which of these get Kerry and the democrats aggressively go after and make an issue of in the election? Absolutely none. When your party is based on being as middle of the road as possible, and your guiding principle seems to have become being ashamed of and trying to hide your core values, when you nominate a flip-flopper who supported the war in the first place, it becomes very hard to win. The more i think about it, the more I think Dean would've done as well or better than Kerry. At least he stood for something, and even if it was an unpopular stance in the red states, he couldnt have done any worse there than Kerry.
• Yep.
• The more i think about it, the more I think Dean would've done as well or better than Kerry. At least he stood for something, and even if it was an unpopular stance in the red states, he couldnt have done any worse there than Kerry. At least Dean wouldn't have folded like a cheap umbrella, like Kerry and the DNC. I'm disgusted that I threw away my vote on the Democratic Party.
• Read it. Knew all the scandals except one. Damn! I almost had a perfect score. Technically, Tom Delay's scandal doesn't count as Bush's. Someone could start a list on The Hammer. In fact, I get the ball rolling. Delay celebrates MLK Day.

  WASHINGTON -- House Republican leaders want to exempt members of Congress from laws against discrimination that apply to private employers, despite the Republicans' Contract With America pledge that ''all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress" and a decade-old law that placed Congress under antidiscrimination statutes. Last week, in response to a discrimination lawsuit filed against a Democratic House member, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, majority leader Tom DeLay, and majority whip Roy Blunt submitted a ''friend of the court" brief on behalf of the House, saying members of Congress should be shielded from discrimination suits. They said the Constitution protects representatives' ability to study and craft legislation with the staff members they choose, regardless of laws that prohibit employment decisions based on factors such as age, race, gender, and disabilities.

  Tom Delay the fundraiser

  CREW is also relentlessly pursuing Majority Leader Tom DeLay, perhaps the most corrupt politician in America. CREW has been pushing the House Ethics Committee to investigate whether he played a role in any illegal fundraising by committees he directly controlled or violated ethics rules in the course of his leadership of TRMPAC and ARMPAC, both of which are the subject of the criminal indictments.

  Tom Delay helps the poor

  Maybe Mr. DeLay's public profile will be raised by his success yesterday in sabotaging tax credits for 12 million children. Those tax credits would cost only $3.5 billion. But Mr. DeLay has embedded the credits in an $82 billion tax cut package. That is, he wants to extort $22 in tax cuts (in the face of record budget deficits) for every dollar given to poor children.

• My favorite was the one about the Indian casino that the tribe was lobbying to get reopened, and paying (unbeknownst to them) the very same people who had lobbied to get it closed in the first place.
• When are we going to wake up and impeach the bugger? Money runs the country, that's for sure.
• I have been so tempted to start a Tom DeLay watch style blog. That man is like James Trafficant with a better hairpiece.
• Frickin' amazing isn't it? I always wanted to do a Reagan CD-ROM detailing the multitudes of crimes and outrages, but Chimpy has so outstripped him . . It'd be kinda quaint actually. Ketchup as a vegetable? Ha! ha!
• I was 12 years old when Nixon was impeached. I thought he would go to prison. What he did was, by definition treasonous. Nothing happened. I was around 16 or 17 when BCCI and the Savings and Loan scandals broke. I thought they would nail the bastards for sure. Nothing happened. I was 20 when Reagan campaigned against Carter and everyone at the time thought Reagan didn't have a snowball's chance in hell. Than along came the October Surprise and the bastard slithered into office, along with the most corrupt staff this country's probably ever seen. Then the Freedom doctrine was struck down and media was no longer obliged to tell two sides of a story to make sure there was no bias. Then we got Iran Contra, and I thought for sure this was the wake up call and they would really impeach Reagan, imprison him and everyone associated with him and finally there really would be a 'Morning in America'. Nothing happened. In fact, scuttlebutt is that Kerry was one of those who helped to cover up the whole thing. Along with Savings and Loan. And BCCI. Then we got Bush I, who probably ran Reagan's white house anyway. Then we got Clinton, a Republican in democrat's clothing. And a lot of republican foot-dragging and obstructionism. Now we have Bush II and the floodgates of corruption and impropriety and murder and sociopathy flow freely. I think this URL pretty much points to how I feel: http://www.blackteasociety.org/propaganda/minuteman.jpg