It appears that despite the Bush Administration being ushered out of office business as usual has continued for more than just the bankers. Sadly, not one banking regulation has been re-instated and now it appears another Bush-era company is continuing its outrageous practices too. Albeit under a cover name, Blackwater has continued its lucrative snatching up of contracts for training American soldiers. Now, Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri is taking issue with that fact.
Ah Karl Rove. A liar so disgusting even his own friends dubbed him "Turd Blossom". Now, realizing he was the "architect" of one of the most dishonest, disgusting and corrupt Administrations in history he is seeking to rewrite history and diffuse he and his former boss's sorry spot in it. However, his writings on the Bush years are full of even more lies, and an assault on all of those who exposed the Bush agenda for what it really was.
At a time when Americans are suffering and jobs are scarce we are being told that we will have an across the board cut in domestic programs. At the same time we are being told that we can still afford to blow up and rebuild other countries in a continuation of the failed policies of the last Administration. Yes, when it comes to fiscal responsibility it seems that everything and everyone but war will be asked to sacrifice.
I keep hearing from the President and other party leaders how our country needs to get past "partisanship". Well, sometimes it is a very good thing to work together and try to agree but the times we live in do not call for that particular solution. Yes folks, what we need right now is a good round of ugly, nasty, bitter partisanship to achieve progress for the working class.
War on Terror? When did Congress exercise it's authority to declare War On Terror? The Constitution of The United States Of America: Article 1 Section 8 Clause 11. Maybe Congress considers H.J.RES.64 as declaring War On Terror:
(a) In General.--That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any further acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.
Man, Dick Cheney is like Herpes. No matter what you do he just keeps coming back. It seems after leaving Washington D.C. in utter disgrace after allowing the worst attack in American history on her soil, failing to capture Osama bin-Laden, dropping the ball in Afghanistan, lying about Iraq to get us into a failed war there which cost trillions of dollars off the books as well as tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of lives, and allowing his greedy, fat-cat buddies to pick our economy clean crashing it, ole "Shotgun" would be wanting to hide under a rock. Of course when you have no conscience or sense of morals, why hide??
As soon as we learned there was a failed terror act I am sure many of us suspected that pretty soon the Republicans would be trying to score cheap political points off what had happened. Instead of being happy that the plot did indeed fail and lives were not loss, they must try and find ways to frame it to their advantage in the all too eager media. Now, I have been as disgusted as anyone with some of President Obama's leadership on Afghanistan and healthcare but I honestly believe the attacks that are coming are being made by hypocrites who have nothing else to offer.
We have another one of those “amazing history” stories for you today—and this one’s a real doozy.
We’re going to spend the better part of four years in the Italian Alps (or, to be more accurate, what was intended to be the Italian Alps), and by the time we’re done, nearly 400,000 soldiers will have been killed—and 60,000 of those will have died as a result of avalanches that were set by one side or the other.
In the middle of the story: a mountaineer and soldier who was so highly regarded that even those who fought against him accorded him the highest honors they could muster, creating a legend that lives on to this very day.
And even though a young Captain Erwin Rommel fought in these battles...it’s not him.
Oh, by the way: did I mention that there are also some handy object lessons for anyone who might be thinking about fighting a war in Afghanistan?
Well, there are, Gentle Reader, so follow along, and let’s all learn something today.
Many of us for a long time have believed that Osama bin-Laden was given a free pass to get away and never be caught by American forces. This was not only because of the business relationship of the Bush family with the bin-Ladens, but with Osama bin-Laden caught and brought to justice we would have had no War in Iraq, or "War on Terror" for Conservatives to steal away generations of Constitutional protections and allow their Corporate pals to fleece the American taxpayer with hundreds of billions of dollars in no-bid contracts.
So here we are fighting two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Fighting for freedom? Really? We're there because the folks that represent us want these two wars. It's that simple. Never mind Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, and Bin Laden got away when we had a real chance to get him.
Washington Post The Bush administration has concluded that Osama bin Laden was present during the battle for Tora Bora late last year and that failure to commit U.S. ground troops to hunt him was its gravest error in the war against al Qaeda, according to civilian and military officials with first-hand knowledge.
The Republican Party as a whole is suffering from a huge case of mass amnesia. They seem to forget that they are the ones that crashed our economy. They seem to forget that they are the ones that made the whole world hate us. They forget that every policy they enacted was a miserable failure and that our country is paying huge, steep price for it now. In the case of Dick Cheney, he has forgotten that he was the one that dropped the ball on Afghanistan by insisting on a failed, costly in lives and treasure, war in Iraq.
One thing I keep seeing a lot about is how Democrats are going to lose in 2010. Everyone seems to be wandering what strategy they can come up with to hang onto the House and Senate. A lot of people want to predict doom and gloom for our party and they may be right. However, I believe the strategy they think we should impose misses the mark.
When the "War on Terror" began their were objectives to that war to be achieved. We were to go over there, topple the Taliban government and try to bring Democracy, and capture Obama bin Laden and bring him to justice along with all his cohorts we could find for the cold-blooded murders of thousands of Americans on Sept. 11, 2001.
As the wars in the middle-east rage on, citizens of Western Kentucky recieved sad news today. One of our own was killed in action in Afganistan. No matter what any of our views on the wars in the middle-east the plain and simple fact of the matter is the same men and women and their families have been asked to sacrifice for their country tour after tour, and one Western Kentuckian from about 25 miles from where I live now has paid the ultimate price as his young life was cut short.
Several provisions in the Patriot Act will be coming up for re-authorization this week. Now, I believe the Patriot Act was a big scam, and was pushed across on the American people to cover up for the fact that the Bush Administration was completely incompetent in the runup to 9-11. No rights needed to be stolen for them to be presented with a memo entitled "Bin-Laden Determined to Strike in the United States" a full month before that attack. Unfortunately our President at the time felt it was more important to stay on vacation.
9-11 should not be a political statement for anyone. It should be a sad day of remembrence that many people died because of hatred and incompetence. However, since the very day it occured it has constantly been used as a hammer to pound the agenda of a miguided bunch people with an unenlightened vision of the world down everyone else's throat.
Of course by now nobody has to be told that today was the eighth anniversery of the 9-11 attacks. This event served as the Kennedy assasination of this generation, an event everyone remembers where they were when it happened and an event that some will forever dispute. No matter what anyone's feelings on the wars that sprang up into response for these events one thing remains true.
Lost in all the talk about healthcare another important decision with many lives at stake still has to be made. I did not approve of America continuing open-ended committments in the middle-east and I still do not. I did not agree with Obama when he initiated a "surge" in Afganistan. I think it is time for us to set firm timetables and bring our troops home from Iraq and Afganistan. Now, it appears one Congressman's patience is beginning to wear thin too.
All over the country right-wing folks have made a special effort to make it to various townhalls to protest- and make sure that anyone with positive things to say about the healthcare bill do not get heard. These folks are angry about many things, from what they percieve as a "government take-over" of healthcare, to the debt and deficits they see as being caused by Barack Obama, and most ridiculously to their parents and grandparents being put before Obama's "death panels" whose sole purpose they believe is to murder the elderly and sick children who are not worth the cost to keep alive.
