Month: October 2005

Those of us who see only the mad military adventures of Bush and ignore his polcies that are causing economic devastation are unwittingly giving Bush a free pass on both accounts.That the two are inextricably linked goes without saying.His profligate spending on “defense” has just about decimated all the programs in health, education and welfare for people.When the full impact of Delphi’s bankruptcy is felt throughout the Midwest and many small suppliers to Delphi go under and even the big dinosaurs like GM bite the dust, the reverberations throughout our economy will be comparable to the depression of 1929.

Even with these telltale signs of disarray,he seems totally unaware of the suffering his policies are causing for working people.And because he is moronic, stubborn and wedded to ideology, he seems completely incapable of evaluating facts and responding to conditions as they exist today.His response when he is found wanting is to create photo-ops that cast him in  a favorable light.To the thousands left homeless in New Orleans and the many more thousands that are going to lose everything from Saginaw, MI to New Castle, IN., his photo-ops mean nothing.And his constant repetition of the terror threats have reached the point of diminishing returns.

His administration that was conceived in fraud, has been kept alive by fraud and is now running on fumes.He has put this country through immense suffering to stroke his own paltry ego.Many people have paid dearly for that wanton exercise.

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This Monday’s news is simply not good for those of us battling Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s stealthy set of ballot initiatives here in the Golden State.  

Mike Finnegan in the LA Times reports that labor leaders are very worried about the prospects for Proposition 75:

“We’re not winning on this thing, and we’ve got to step it up,” Steven Neal, a Los Angeles County Federation of Labor official, told scores of union leaders at a campaign breakfast last week in downtown Los Angeles. He likened the battle against Proposition 75 to a “sinking ship” in need of rescue.

Argh…more below…

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Our buddy at Crooks & Liars asks this question: “Why does his jaw grind so much?” And CL has a video example of Bush’s jaw-grinding.

It’s probably TMJ or the stress of the intellectual rigors of the presidency. And, if we had to talk to as many people a day as he does, our jaws would get tight too! Right? This is an OPEN THREAD, but do share why YOU think Bush’s jaw grinds so much.

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I’m generally not one to put much time and energy into conspiracy theories but lately certain paths have crossed and I’m beginning to think there somehow is a connection between Osama bin Laden and Karl Rove. The parallels are too similar not to be.

Yeah, one is tall and swarthy, the other dumpy and pasty white but follow me here:

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As Larry Johnson reminded us in his piece Mambo Italiano and Plame Gate, there is much involved in the overall forged Niger documents story that we still don’t have concrete answers about. Prosecutor Fitzgerald’s grand jury will only take us so far and is not designed to answer all of those questions. Will we ever know the full story?

The Independent’s Norman Dombey asked that question in his recent commentary, Tell Us Who Fabricated the Iraq Evidence, and ties together three figures involved in their own major news stories lately: Karl Rove the possible leaker of Valerie Plame’s name, Mohamed ElBaradei who revealed the forgery to the UN Security Council, and Larry Franklin who pleaded guilty last week to providing classified DoD information to the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC .
It’s a retelling of events worthy of a Tom Clancy spy novel.

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