Hurray! Hurray! Hurray!....We've taken down Delay!!!Tom (the hammer) Delay formally resigned as "Speaker-of-the House"..LET'S PUT "THE HAMMER", IN THE "SLAMMER"!!The fallout from his corrupt, greedy and illegal tenure has finally caught up with him. Yesterday, "Dubyuh-Dumbass" convened a meeting of prestigous former-experts in "Foreign-affairs". He staged a meeting with most of the former "Secretaries-of State", Secretaries-of-Defense", etc.; in a supposed "brainstorming" session to address his failures in Iraq. After spending less than 15 minutes in the "meeting", Bush adjourned to attend "another meeting".... just enough time to pose for the cameras, but not enought to SERIOUSLY address any "issues". One might think that such a meeting would be the TOP priority of this president. Rarely have such knowledgable and experienced experts met to discuss ANYTHING, let alone such an important agenda as the "war in Iraq". I've got FOUR words...... "TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE". Bush spent five minutes arguing with Madeline Albright; and the other ten minutes listening to questions for-which he had some carefully-rehearsed "bullet-points"..... More vague references to "Freedom" and "democracy". Today, the "casualties-total" in Iraq reached THIRTY... SINCE THE "FIRST-OF-THE-YEAR"!! Former-ambassdor J. Paul Bremer ( who was assigned to administer the "transitional-government" of Iraq, has now written a book about his "Year-in Iraq". In it, he is highly critical of Donald Rumsfeld's inadequate troop-deployment-levels... a number, which experts advised, was less than ONE THIRD of the necessary levels! Bremer also writes that the Bush-Administration was woefully unprepared for the aftermath of the invasion...Remember the looting and anarchy??? It was also announced, this week, that the new"Iraq oil-minister" would be Achmed Chalaby...... The corrupt, lying bastard who provided the false "intelligence" data surrounding Iraq's "nuke-yuh-lur" program, and the infamous FORGED documents about "yellow-cake-uranium"!! HE IS NOW "IN-CHARGE" OF IRAQ'S ENTIRE OIL-INDUSTRY!!! Meanwhile, back in the U.S.A., 12 miners in a West Virginia coal mine died... a mine, which by all standards, should have been closed for it's scores of safety-violations. It seems that the "M.S.H.A." (Mine Safety and Health Administration) is much like the F.D.A.; closely intertwined, with many Federal Mine-Safety officials having formerly worked for the MINE-INDUSTRY!! Dept. of the Interior-secretary Gail Norton was, at one time, a LAWYER FOR THE COAL INDUSTRY!!Never in our nation's history, has such "cronyism" been so pervasive and ubiquitous... Energy"insiders"hold secret policy meetings with Dick Cheney, Cabinet-level positions are awarded to lawyers, lobbyists and former-employees of major energy conglomerates. These SAME corporations which "grease-the-wheels" of government with MILLIONS of dollars in "campaign-contributions"!! The recent "indictments" surrounding the "Abramoff" affair have been targeted at, primarily, Republican crooks... It is true, however, that this is ONLY the case, since the Republicans have a monopoly on Washington D.C., and the "money flows to where the power goes". It is easy to "piss & moan", offering no "solutions" to our problems. .... So how about THIS, for a "solution"?? We must DEMAND "Public-funding" for all Congressional and presidential candidates. No more "corporate-contributions", no more "Political-Action-Commitees", no more "shell-games" to disguise corporate bribery. Opponenets will argue, "It'll cost too much!!".... Which begs the question: "How much does it cost to investigate, indict, and prosecute the illegal bribery which now occurs?" "How much does it cost America to allow "special-interests" to pillage the environment, to pollute our water-sheds, to avoid safety and health laws?" all because they have politicians "in their pockets"???... Write, or e-mail your so-called "elected-officials".... Demand a campaign-funding plan which has NO CORPORATE CONTRIBUTORS!!......Dave
- posted by Dave @ 11:51 PM