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Archive for May 2004
And all I got was this lousy pistol
Posted by on 05/31/04 at 3:10 pm
Category: PoliticsThe gun that Saddam was clutching in the spiderhole in Iraq appears to have made it to the Oval Office as a war trophy according to an article in Time. My country went to Iraq looking for WMD, and all we got was this lousy pistol. W is apparently quite enamored with the pistol and trots it out to show to specially favored visitors.
Of course, the Commander-in-Chief, ever an inspiration for our troops, is violating the military policy which prohibits bringing enemy weapons and ordinance to the United States as war trophies. And then there is the federal law prohibiting the possession of a firearm in a federal building. Oh, and what about the District law forbidding handguns that weren’t registered before 1976? Technically none of this may apply to POTUS. Rather, flaunting the law is just another example of the arrogance of the White House.
Snow Job
Posted by on 05/28/04 at 12:54 pm Category: PoliticsTreasury Secretary Snow, the former Chessie CEO, doesn’t open up his bank statements. It seems that Snow owned Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac bonds at the same time his initiatives with respect to those two institutions raised the prices of those bonds. But he just discovered it fifteen months later when he was preparing his financial disclosure forms! This is the same guy, by the way, who just launched a treasury initiative to educate consumers on how to manage their personal finances.
In case you forgot, Secretary Snow is also the guy who recyled an RNC press release touting Bush tax cuts as a virtually identical official release of the Treasury Department. I guess he was so busy being an administration shill that he didn’t have time to open his mail.
RNC Fundraising Outsourced
Posted by on 05/26/04 at 11:14 am Category: PoliticsAccording to a May 16 article in the Hindustan Times, the RNC outsourced fundraising calls to two call centers in Noida and Gurgaon, India. Between May 16, 2002 and July 22, 2003, 125 employees of an Indian company solicited contributions in telephone calls made to people on a database supplied by the RNC.
The RNC, of course, was upset when this came to light and now says it never happened. The RNC sent out emails, according to an article in the Washington Post, calling the story “an untrue urban legend which has been traversing the nether regions of cyber space for the better part of a year.”
You read the Hindustan Times article. You be the judge.
Bush Polls Sliding South
Posted by on 05/25/04 at 9:33 pm Category: PoliticsBad news for Shrub in today’s CBS News Poll:
THE PRESIDENT’S RATINGS
Overall
Approve
41%
Disapprove
52%
Terrorism
Approve
51%
Disapprove
42%
Foreign policy
Approve
37%
Disapprove
56%
Economy
Approve
36%
Disapprove
57%
War in Iraq
Approve
34%
Disapprove
61%
This is all good, but I still cannot fathom why the American public still thinks that Bush is doing so well on terrorism. The war in Iraq has diverted forces from the war on terror and has served as a platform for jihadist recruitment, as the International Institute on Strategic Studies reported today. The White House and the despicable Senator Inhofe, in cahoots with the chemical manufacturers, are pushing legislation that would guarantee that chemical storage facilities remain dangerous terrorist targets endangering millions of Americans. Today’s fire at a chemical storage facility outside Atlanta should underline this particular gaping security hole.
Abu-Guhr-rab. Nukyular. Seckertary. Amurika.
Posted by on 05/24/04 at 11:21 pm Category: PoliticsMore from Bush on the “strategy” in Iraq:
America will fund the construction of a modern maximum security prison.
When that prison is completed, detainees at Abu Ghraib will be relocated. Then with the approval of the Iraqi government, we will demolish the Abu Ghraib Prison as a fitting symbol of Iraq’s new beginning.
Each time Bush said Abu Ghraib he pronounced it “Abu Guhr-Rab.” Which means he can neither spell nor pronounce Abu-Ghraib.
To begin with, the correct pronounciation is best represented as “Abu-Ghrrreb.” Click here to hear New York University’s Ahmed Ferhadi pronounce “Abu Ghraib.”
So perhaps we can forgive the leader of the free world for not pronouncing a foreign language correctly. Most people who speak English would pronounce Abu Ghraib as “Abu Grayb,” not “Abu Ghrrreb.” But, and here’s the catch, no one I know would see a word spelled “Abu Ghraib” and pronounce it “Abu Guhr-Rab,” which of course means that our fearless leader cannot even spell the name of the prison which is now the major scandal of his adventure in Iraq.
Unintended Effect
Posted by on 05/24/04 at 9:10 pm Category: PoliticsOf the many stupid things Bush said in tonight’s speech, this was the worst:
The swift removal of Saddam Hussein’s regime last spring had an unintended effect. Instead of being killed or captured on the battlefield, some of Saddam’s elite guards shed their uniforms and melted into the civilian population.
Unintended? Unintended?? Did anybody ever (this even includes Perle and Wolfowitz of Arabia) believe that all the opposition would show up on the battlefield to be killed or captured? Did we believe that they were that stupid??? Are you telling me we had no idea that some of the opposition would skulk away to haunt us? If that’s true, this is reason enough to throw these clowns out of office.
And once again Bush claims that the war on Iraq is part of the war on terrorism:
Americans have seen the flames of September 11th, followed battles in the mountains of Afghanistan and learned new terms like orange alert and ricin and dirty bomb.
We’ve seen killers at work on trains in Madrid, in a bank in Istanbul, in a synagogue in Tunis and at a nightclub in Bali. And now the families of our soldiers and civilian workers pray for their sons and daughters in Mosul, in Karbala, in Baghdad.
We did not seek this war on terror, but this is the world as we find it. We must keep our focus. We must do our duty.
How many times do we have to say that Saddam, however evil, however despicable, had nothing to do with this? The guy who did, Osama Bin Laden, is comfortably ensconced in a cave in Afghanistan while our troops are dying in Iraq.
That’ll fix the problem
Posted by on 05/24/04 at 3:05 pm Category: PoliticsI’m surprised it took this long. I really am. Donald Rumsfeld has finally taken definitive steps to see that the debacle that occurred at Abu Ghraib will not repeat itself. Digital cameras, camcorders and cellphones with cameras have now been banned by Rumsfeld in all military facilities in Iraq according to an article just posted at news.com.au. At the same time, Rumsfeld announced that each soldier would be provided a hood, a dog leash, and some racy items from the Victoria’s Secret catalog to replace the requisitioned cameras.
Fish. Barrel. Boom.
Posted by on 05/23/04 at 8:39 am Category: PoliticsTrent Lott says “I’m a firm believer in feeding people their own words back to them, when it’s appropriate.” William Rivers Pitt at truthout.org, has taken Lott up in a wonderful posting he titled Fish. Barrel. Boom.
Some of my favorite quotations from the the posting:
Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is.
- George W. Bush, discussing Kosovo, Houston Chronicle, 04-09-99
When you strip it all away, Jerry Garcia destroyed his life on drugs. And yet he’s being honored, like some godlike figure. Our priorities are out of whack, folks.
- Rush (currently under investigation for drug use) Limbaugh, on the death of Jerry Garcia, 08-20-95.
And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.
- Donald Rumsfeld, defenselink.mil, 04-09-03
Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist.
- Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX), House Majority Whip, during a debate on increasing the minimum wage, Congressional Record, H3706, 04-23-96
Why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it’s gonna happen? It’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
- Barbara Bush, said on ‘Good Morning America’ the day before the Iraq war started, New York Times, 01-13-03
I’m the commander - see, I don’t need to explain - I don’t need to explain why I say things. That’s the interesting thing about being the President. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don’t feel like I owe anybody an explanation.
- George W. Bush, Washington Post, 11-19-02
Bush Lets Saudis Fly Home After 9/11
Posted by on 05/22/04 at 5:03 pm Category: PoliticsThe 9/11 commission has been questioning Bush about who authorized the flights of Saudis from the U.S. after 9/11 when all other private and commercial flights had been grounded.
According to an article in The Hill:
Former Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.), vice chairman of the independent, bipartisan commission, disclosed the administration’s refusal to answer questions on the sensitive subject during a recent closed-door meeting with a group of Democratic senators, according to several Democratic sources.
This, of course, means what should be obvious. Bush approved a favor for his Saudi friends. This from the President who boasts about his record on terrorism.
Read the rest of the article from The Hill here.
