The White House now has a new "Press Secretary"... one Tony Snow, formerly of FOX News. It brings new meaning to the term "SNOW-JOB"... Much like the Bush tactic of hiring lobbyists as "Cabinet-level" officials, The "Bush/Cheney crime-family" no longer has to issue "talking-points" via FOX News. They now have FOX News DIRECTLY issuing statements, and directing the "spin". It has been carefully "pointed-out", that Snow has been critical of George Bush in the past. Well, that's pretty much of a "no-brainer"... A person would have to be "clinically-brain-dead" to NOT find things to criticize!!! Such criticisms have been skillfully mentioned to show how "Fair & Balanced" he is. Check out Robert Greenwald's film "OUTFOXED", to see just how "Fair & Balanced" the FOX News Network is. Greenwald video-taped thousand of hours of FOX News, and systematically disected their propaganda, skillfully illustrating their art of manipulation, inuendo, and "half-truths"... Often creating their own "news" (such as the famous toppling of Saddam's statue in Bhagdad). The "Neo-Cons" are now running-scared; Republicans are "Jumping-ship" every day, hoping to save their Congressional seats this fall. I have heard Bush's "legacy" described as "Death By a Thousand Cuts"; not just ONE issue which troubles Americans, but literally dozens of blunders, mistakes, lies, and failures. A TOTAL lack of administrative capability of ANY FORM!! The list includes, but is not limited to: "Hurricane Katrina's response", MASSIVE Federal debt & spending, obscene profits of his "oil-buddies", "Rendition & torture" of prisoners-of-war, outrageous gasoline prices, strategic failures in Iraq, No "Real" economic growth.. ( economic figures which exclude the obscene oil-company profits and the housing "bubble", reveal a stagnant economy... NOT the "healthy" economy touted by Bush "experts"), "Health-care" costs and prescription drug costs becoming TOTALLY un-affordable for nearly HALF of all Americans, NO insight into things like "Global Warming", "renewable-fuels", tax-reform, "Homeland-Security"(ports, borders, and "intelligence"), Immigration, etc. Bush's "tax-reform" has ALWAYS BEEN "tax-cuts for the wealthy" and the "corporate-insiders" who "line-his-pockets". This week, the major oil companies have announced "record-breaking" profits...While Americans are "pawning" their posessions to be able to afford gas to drive to work! Meanwhile these same companies are benefiting from billions in "incentives" resulting from the Republican "Energy-Bill" passed recently. If oil-companies were TRULY operating on a "free-market" system, THEY WOULDN'T GET "INCENTIVES"!! They would also be generating about the SAME profits as they historically did.... NOT "RECORD-BREAKING" PROFITS!!! What-in-the-Hell were Americans thinking, when they elected TWO oil-company "insiders" to the White House?? ... As well as allowing Condi (Exxon) Rice, and a myraid of other "energy" manipulating thieves to run the country?? KEN LAY WAS BUSH'S LARGEST "CAMPAIGN-CONTRIBUTOR"!!! Dick Cheney's secret "Energy-Policy-Meetings" can ONLY be investigated by "Subpoena" from Congress.... AND THEY ARE ALL REPUBLICANS and often "connected" to energy interests!! Former "Secretary-of-the Interior" Gayle Norton, WAS FORMERLY A LAWYER REPRESENTING THE COAL-MINING INDUSTRY!!! Is it any wonder that Federal coal-mining safety laws have recently been so flaunted, and ignored? Any wonder why coal-fired electric-generating stations continue to "strip-mine"& contaminate aquifers and water-sheds?? Coal-mining companies commit THOUSANDS of safety-violations annually; yet pay a paltry "few-thousand-dollars" for violations WHICH HAVE KILLED MORE THAN 25 MINERS IN THE PAST YEAR ALONE! 45% of all Americans HAVE NO "HEALTH-CARE-COVERAGE"!!!In other countries, such corruption would make people "rise-up" in revolution.....Where is OUR "outrage"?? Where is the "America" dreamed-of by our parents and their parents? America is systematically being looted and plundered FROM WITHIN!! The philosophy of greed and profit began during the Reagan years has now come back to "bite-us-on-the-ass". The "Middle-Class" is systematically being driven into abject-poverty, with no "social safety-nets" to protect them. The Republican agenda , for years, has been to dis-assemble the social-gains of Franklin Roosevelt; for their own profit. We are now on the verge of another "Great-Depression".. When the housing-bubble collapses, when people can no-longer afford to drive to work or own cars, when "good-paying" jobs are out-sourced to foreign countries, when unions cannot protect their members from corporations, when medical costs create record-numbers of bankruptcies, When companies "default" on their employee's retirement funds, when people no longer seek work due to paltry wages in the "service-industry", When wars are created to stimulate military-industrial spending, etc.... Our economy WILL COLLAPSE!! Do any of these events "Sound-familiar"??? The economic "Perfect-Storm" is gathering.
- posted by Dave @ 1:49 AM