Category: Politics

I guess they must raised a ton of cash last year, because the right are again trying to accuse the rest of us of stealing Christmas.

Since there are no recent ACLU battles to point at, this year Falwell, Limbaugh and O’Reilly are just starting to get kooky. Taking aim at retailers who say “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas.” Last time I checked, Happy Holidays was okey dokey since it referred to the entire season between Thanksgiving and the New Years and has been used long before the Politically-Correct-Speak of the 1990s. This just shows how much they are grasping at straws. Attacking the retailers and government for having “holiday trees” is also goofy, but I actually think those are dumb too. You aren’t fooling anyone by calling them Holiday Trees, so just don’t insult our intelligence. The most F’d up thing is where Bill O’Reilly claims that retailers are using the word Christmas “to get Christianity and spirituality and Judaism out of the public square.” Last time I checked, dipshit, Christmas wasn’t a Jewish holiday and I haven’t heard word one from you about retailers not wishing people a “Happy Chanukah.” So don’t pretend you give a crap for the non-Christians of the world, ’cause experience shows us way different.

Here’s a link to a Seattle Times story.

The country is headed into financial ruin and the “cuts” that congress is making are a joke

here is the link

what will damn the Bush administration in the history books

This week the numbers revealed that one of George Bush’s main policy initiatives, The No Child Left Behind Act, was making school performance worse, not better. Add to this his fiscal policy which has resulted in causing a debt that will take decades to repay and one thing becomes clear: The worst thing that happened to the Republican party and George Bush’s presidency was his re-election. Bush has been in office long enough that his many failures have become obvious even to the die-hards of the Republican party. Who can the Republican’s blame? They control 2 of the three branches of government and are finishing their takeover of the third. The stupidest of the non-Haliburton executive officers can see that the country is in much worse shape that it was in 2000. You can only blame the terrorists for so long before people start asking why we haven’t caught Osama.

Nope, the one thing that would have saved the Republican party was a John Kerry election, because then they could have come out swinging in 2006 and 2008 blaming all of George Bush’s failures on him.

You know that they will put the blame on someone else, the question now is who? Will the 2008 elections still be about 9/11? Or will they be about Syria? Maybe if the dems take back the house in 2006, the Republicans can blame them so that they can get another Republican president in…

are the three reasons that I am opposed to her

George Bush nominated Harriet Miers because she is an evangelical Christian, because she is his good buddy and because no one knows anything about her.

1) I am not an evangelical Christian. Evangelical Christians think that I am going to hell or at least limbo. They think that they need to make me live by their rules. Why is it that no one ever was nominated because they were a devoted Catholic, Jew or Muslim? Why is religion a litmus test only if you are of the most narrow minded brand of it?

2) George’s good buddies are there because they serve his needs. Not the American people’s. “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job” indeed.

3) Bush wants us to trust us on her. You know what I think about that if you’re read any of my posts. I don’t need a litmus test, but I want to know everything I can about someone who will be making decisions about my life and my children’s lives and their children’s lives. I think to ask me or anyone to support someone blindly is utter stupidity.

The Seattle Times just published an excellent set of articles on global warming.

The Truth About Global Warming

Even the government thinks that the government is lying to us.

Why hasn’t there been more coverage of this? Why, because George Bush’s announcement of his Supreme Court nominee sucked all the air out of the other news stories. Coincidence?

Just a thought about Ms. Miers, the stealth candidate

There is rampant speculation about George Bush’s candidate to fill Justice O’Connor’s seat on the supreme court. This is due to the very little information known about Ms. Miers, and this is exactly how the Bush administration wants it. What we do know is that she is an evangelical Christian and that she has been George Bush’s great buddy for decades. So everyone is guessing about how she’ll vote on the hot button issues, including the republicans. Some of the more right wingers in the party of exclusion are claiming that they will vote against her because she hasn’t been vocally conservative enough. A part of me wonders though, what if this is all a screen? What if Rove and Bush are getting the right wingers to voice opposition to make their stealth candidate sound more moderate? I wouldn’t put it past these devious liars. Just a thought…

Are the Republican’s chickens finally coming home to roost?

Tom DeLay has finally been indicted. This is for his financial improprieties dealing with his TrimPAC. The spin machine going full speed and talking points are being distributed, but the Republican blame deflectors have been working overtime lately and maybe they don’t have enough power to save Mr. DeLay. If this is all this ultra-corrupt politician goes down for, it will be like when the FBI took down Hoffa for tax evasion.

While DeLay alone should make party loyalists question their contributions; add to that Bill Frist’s possibly illegal stock dealings, Karl Rove’s illegal outting of a covert CIA operative, the rising mound of evidence against Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the rampant cronyism revealed by the Hurricane Katrina disaster, the rising American body count in Iraq, the rising gas prices, and the rising deficit. You have to wonder how these people are still in power. Maybe, finally, the sheer mass of their mistakes will finally shake the O’Reilly wax from the ears of moderate and conservative Americans and make them realize that the party they elected doesn’t have their interests at heart. They have their own interests at heart and they don’t care about the rest of us.

Kinda makes you miss the days when Monica Lewinsky was the big scandal.

Aaron Broussard put him in his place but good

On Meet the Press on 9/25, Tim Russert brought Jefferson Parrish President Aaron Broussard on once again.

Broussard had been on Meet The Press right after Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana to discuss the response. On that program he had told a tearful story about how one of the people he worked with had lost his mother in a nursing home because he could not get to her. He blasted the federal authorities for having press conferences but not doing anything.

I guess Rove decided to take this guy down because the right wing bloggers have been attacking him for not blaming local authorities enough. They also decided to dissect Broussard’s story to try to find fault with the facts.

So, Russert brings Broussard back, not to find out how recovery is going, but to have him answer the bloggers. Russert is a piece of trash for this. He’s made himself into a administration footsoldier in the name of good TV. Leave that crap to Rush and get someone more interested in actual news running that show.

The best part was when Broussard destroyed the bloggers and Russert with his impassioned and excellent response.

Russert get over to Fox News where you belong if you just want to echo the administration’s talking points.

Aaron Broussard, get yourself to congress, you have a brain and a heart.

You sir are awesome
From TPM Cafe

The President suspended wage standards for workers on the Gulf Coast before he declared a national emergency. That means he was so focused on cutting the wages of people who’d be returning to the Gulf Coast to rebuild their lives and their communities that, in order to hasten the suspension, he failed to follow the law. And at the same time the White House was cutting workers’ wages, it was busy awarding no-bid contracts. The President has proven once again that he’s more interested in governing for the few than in governing for all of us.

The President’s pay cut affects tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of Americans who desperately need a decent income to rebuild their lives. People working construction jobs in the Gulf Coast might only have earned $7 or $8 in the first place; now, the only protection left for them is the federal minimum wage, which is a disgraceful $5.15 an hour because Republicans repeatedly refuse to increase it.

What the President has done is immoral.

Sep 16, 2005 — 08:06:51 PM EST