The gang that couldn't shoot straight

Headline in the New York Times online edition:

"Cheney Accidentally Shoots a Fellow Hunter"

These guys can't even do a proper job of quail hunting, and we're supposed to believe they can successfully wage war in the mid-east?

Is there no limit to evil duplicity?

Excerpt from an email sent by Congressman Tom Lantos concerning Social Security:

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"In a shocking note, the Administration made a stealth attempt to push through privatization of Social Security.  While, the President conceded in this year’s State of the Union address that Congress resisted his attempts to privatize Social Security, and Democrats stood and cheered, hidden in the budget is a nearly identical plan to the one touted with such fanfare last year.  Believe me, this will bring people in both parties and across the country back to their feet – to battle against any attempt to push this plan through. I consulted the Congressional Research Service, which confirmed that the budget proposal includes replacing guaranteed benefits with risky private accounts, making the largest single benefit cut in Social Security history, and siphoning off the Social Security Trust Fund in order to cover the new program’s costs."

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These people will stop at nothing to get their way. Damn majority opinion and the will of the people. Full speed ahead and wreck the country on the rocks of fiscal and moral irresponsibility.

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More on this: http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060210/OPINION01/602100366

P.S. I never in my wildest dreams imagined I would look back on the Richard Nixon years as, "the good old days".

Molly Ivins--------------------

----------------------is proof that there is intelligent life in Texas. An excerpt from her latest column: "It is one of the most famous sentences in all of American rhetoric: 'My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total.And I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. ' " Barbara Jordan.

Ms. Jordan's words should be engraved in stone and placed in front of the Congress, the Supreme Court and the White House

 

Read the whole column by clicking the link.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/09/ivins.gonzales/

 

GOP chairman: Hillary shows lot of anger

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-02-05-gop-chairman_x.htm

The demonization of Hillary Clinton has begun. Proof enough that the Republicans are running scared. Believe me, by election time they will have a significant number of voters convinced that Hillary is a combination of the Whore of Babylon and Lizzie Borden.

Lest anyone think that there are no depths to which the Republicans won't sink, just remember how they savaged one of their own, John McCain.

 

Democracy and freedom of speech in Iraq----------

---------------but how about in the good old USA?  Cindy Sheehan wonders about freedom of speech here. Did her son die for freedoms for others but to the diminishment of ours?

Read:

The 'freedom' my son died for

Cindy Sheehan

Sunday, February 5, 2006

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/02/05/EDGQGH2HCE1.DTL

Are we going broke?

It occured to me that if our major import is automobiles, and our major export is war, then we will surely go broke. Already public and private debt is at an all time high, and private saving is in the hole. Worst since 1933, the depth of the Great Depression. Think about it. This is telling us something, and it AIN'T GOOD!

Congressman Tom Lantos on the State of the Union speech

Concerning healthcare

"Health Savings Accounts, a focal point of tonight’s speech, is brought to you by the same people who created the confusing, special-interest driven Medicare prescription drug bill and promoted the privatization of Social Security.  Association Health Plans and Health Saving Accounts will do nothing to reduce soaring health care costs or the number of uninsured Americans.  In fact, the proposed health savings accounts will benefit only those who already have enough income to set aside and who can afford higher deductibles.  We need real reform  to allow the federal government to negotiate lower prices, and we need health care plans that provide more affordable health care for all Americans."

On economics

 "The president’s economic policy is heaping mountains of debt on our children and grandchildren.  It is also making us more beholden to foreign debtors, which threatens our national economic  security.  We must reduce the national debt and reverse the tax cuts for the rich.  While the Administration provides tax breaks for the wealthy, hard-working Americans are feeling a middle-class squeeze.  The Administration has allowed the deficit to spiral out of control., and has the worst record of job creation since the Great Depression.  As a result of reckless spending, every American’s share of the national debt is now more than $27,000."