Monday, June 9. 2008John McCain, Canonhead Diplomacy After eight years of Bush-Cheney diplomacy, the result which has been pretty much everyone on planet earth hating us, along comes hop-a-long McSame pledging to continue these same failed policies. Here's a guy who's been to Iraq eight times, and still can't get it right. He thinks an Iraqi neighborhood is safe as long as he's wearing a bullet proof vest, has a hundred soldiers guarding him, and several military helicopters hovering overhead for good measure. He doesn't even know the difference between a Sunni or a Shia Arab, a gaffe he repeated more than once with regards to this 1400 year old tribal war.While no one belittles his unfortunate captivity in the Hanoi Hilton where he was subjected to five and a half years of torture, we do have to wonder how he can claim this experience somehow sharpened his foreign policy creds. The guy was locked up while being tortured for gawd's sake. This begs the question, considering the inhumane treatment he received, how he could have caved so quickly to the Bush-Cheney side of the torture bill congress tried to pass, a bill that meant little more than reaffirming the Geneva Conventions. It's difficult to imagine a more dramatic collapse of one's honestly earned principles for such transparent political gain by pandering to the oddly named "Christian" right. With our screwed up corporate-controlled media, that pays more attention to who's your pastor rather than issues Americans actually give a rat's ass about, the general election this fall will be far closer than it should be. McCain, with all his nutty statements, lack of understanding of domestic concerns, his abandoning his 2000 campaign principles, and just plain sounding like he hasn't a clue what he's talking about, is running even in the polls with Obama, if you can believe it. Like, what is it Americans hate about peace and prosperity versus war and recession? Because if nothing else, John McCain is promising four more years of war and recession, and you'd better like it or you'll be accused of being an unpatriotic traitor, which is standard GOP campaign strategy. Mr. bomb, bomb Iran has made it clear that he will take the disastrous international and domestic policies of Bush-Cheney and dig the hole deeper. For the sake of America, someone has to take away his shovel. The very definition of diplomacy is about talking and negotiation. Bullying your adversary through threat of force will never work and only compound the disagreement. Consider the possiblity that the Arab nations had the superior military power and threatened us with force if we didn't bend to their will. How would we react? Is it so hard to understand why so many all over the world detest our arrogant asses? McCain has demonstrated through words and actions that he clearly is not the person to change a course that is in shambles. He will be labeled as John McBush, and for good reason. He's just more of the same old crap that has two thirds of Americans frustrated and longing for better. He's another rich old white man who thinks diplomacy is best accomplished by sending our young people into a battle they think they can win because they have bigger guns, without any sense of why they're there. This failed diplomacy has resulted in the deaths of thousands of our own young kids, and hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. Forget the money, thousands upon thousands of people have died unnecessary deaths because idiots like McCain think it's important to continue an unwinable war that never should have been started in the first place. For what, pride? Add up the last eight years of Bush diplomacy and you get; Bush + McCain = McFailure. 
Thursday, May 29. 2008McCain's Straight Jacket Express John McCain's "Straight Talk Express" bus suffered a flat tire sometime around the announcement that he'd had a falling out with a couple of evangelical pastors, Hagee and Parsley, who according to themselves, are on a first name basis with Gawd and Jesus. This can't be very good for ol' John because being for their endorsements before he was against them will have repercussions with this base. It's been reported that up to 20% of Americans are religiously insane and with Hagee and Parsley withdrawing their support for McCain, one has to wonder where McCain goes to fill this void.It's unlikely he's going to find much support among those earning less that a few hundred grand a year as he's pledged to make Bush's tax cuts for the already filthy rich permanent, anymore than he's gained favor with homeowners facing foreclosure whom he's referred to as speculators. He has another equally pressing dilemma in spite of his war hero status with military personnel by voting against the popular GI Bill which passed the Senate 75-22 and the House with a similar veto-proof majority. This leaves the racists and chauvinists which Barack and Hillary wouldn't get anyway. So, looking into the 2008 general election future with both eyes open, there is no way McCain should win fair and square against either Obama or Clinton. Unfortunately we've seen just how fair and square worked in both 2000 and 2004. So fasten your political seatbelts, the road is about to get very bumpy because the GOP and their corporate controllers have too much to lose now that they've tasted the spoils of their excesses the past twelve years. Expect every dirty political trick and then some with the support of a compromised media punditry. Gawd help us all.
Tuesday, May 13. 2008McCain's Bushisms John McCain greeting his opponent after being defeated. Is this the man you want protecting us from our enemies?As if we haven't been tortured enough after seven plus years of wincing through almost daily Bushisms, from food on our families, to co-existing with fish, to fool me once, Of course, like his newest best buddy Bush, he can't quite articulate what victory in Iraq is unless it was one of his many inane statements, "until they stop killing us." I'm still trying to make any sense of this. Does it mean once every Iraqi is dead then they won't be able to kill our soldiers anymore? Scary is that he's denying any of these statements even though he's been caught on tape. Scarier is the media letting him off the hook by not looping it 24/7 like they do with far less meaningful dem gaffes. But what caught my attention was a report this week on The Huffington Post claiming that after the 2000 election McCain said he didn't vote for Bush and that his wife Cindy voted for her husband on a write-in ballot. This was confirmed not only by Arianna herself, but also two other witnesses. In true Bush mode McCain denied having made this statement and claimed he had in fact voted for Bush. Is this constant lying a republican thing? No need to answer that. Nonetheless, this is more than a he said - she said thing, because it really does come down to character. The guy has flip-flopped, pandered and changed his stance on almost everything he stood for in 2000 to appeal to the wing nutters in the republican party. And they say Hillary will do anything to get elected. He's made so many contrary claims the past few weeks, including he never said he didn't understand the economy, that how can we believe anything he says? He's all over the map in contradictions. We know the MSM can't be trusted to save us from another dangerous loon in the White House, so it's left to the liberal blogosphere to hammer home every single miscue, gaffe, stumble or inane utterance McCain makes. The GOP started this, the only difference is they're wrong on every issue and have to rely on just making shit up about our candidate. Stuff that has zero to do with the issues. I'm certainly no expert, but if I were a dem consultant using GOP rules, this is an ad I'd run against McCain: "John McCain claims he has more experience in foreign affairs and is the best candidate to fight terrorism. After the dirty tricks Bush pulled on him in the republican primary in South Carolina in 2000, this is how McCain reacted."
Thursday, March 13. 2008Jimmy Joe Bob
My wife, the Missus Herself, has a BS meter so powerful she could scare a buzzard off a s**t wagon with a single glance. For example, a few weeks ago she heard G. W. Bush make his usual ridiculous claims during the State of the Union Address about our success in Iraq and how wonderful the economy is doing. Her comment, "now do you understand why I can't stand to listen to this crap." Her point of course was, who could take politics seriously considering the idiocy of Bush and his crew these past seven years. Disaster upon disaster while claiming everything is going according to plan in his upside-down world. I'm the political junkie in the family but realized she was right, and who of sane mind would try and defend what's happening in Bush's political world. So I shut up. Which leads me to Jimmy Joe Bob. Jimmy Joe is our next door neighbor down south when the MH and I have the opportunity to visit our beloved southern home. We're northerners, so going south during the winter months is always a treat for us. Nevertheless, Jimmy Joe Bob is an actual person, only his last name is not Bob, I made that up. Jimmy Joe is as redneck as it gets. This guy is so scary he believes the Klu Klux Klan are liberal commie pinkos. He thinks George W. Bush is the best thing that ever happened to America and he believes all your kids want to sign up for a stint in Iraq. Now the ironic thing about Jimmy Joe is, he needs to sell his house, maybe because of me, or maybe because he and his wife recently lost their jobs in spite of the wonderful economy. In any event, we've all heard about the disaster that is Florida real estate and to this end Jimmy Joe is asking a hundred grand less than what he tried to get last year, yet he still insists the economy is doing just fine. I'm not trying to make fun of Jimmy Joe, I actually like the guy, but he's so typical of southern white bigots that he can't see through his own racism. And further, he's too stubborn to admit that Bush and his economic policies have damaged him personally. The sad fact is, Jimmy Joe and his wife are not an isolated situation. Approximately 30% of Americans still give Bush a favorable job approval rating in polls. I mean, come on, how dumb do you have to be to think Bush gives or even knows a rat's ass about problems facing the normal dude. This is the face of today's America under George W. Bush, a country that now rewards the already rich and penalizes the struggling masses, a country that now stands for exactly the opposite of what it was purported to be about for over two centuries, a country that is now lost in its own false patriotism. So great was America for its leadership role to promote human values that the world seems dumbfounded by her collapse in a short seven years. If only Jimmy Joe Bob and his like could understand what is really happening, America could recapture her former glory.
Monday, February 25. 2008John McCain Could Win!In a normal world the republican candidate should have about as much chance of winning the White House this year as George W. Bush getting up on his hind legs and saying, "I can not tell a lie." If Bush and the republicans have done one thing to benefit America as a whole, versus the already greedy rich and large corporations, I'm at a loss to think of what that might be. Conversely, to name the things he and the GOP have screwed up would fill an ocean.But this world is not normal and American politics has become crazier than a mule with fire ants up its ass. McCain has out flip-flopped Romney so many times they should change the name of the popular summer footware to "McCains." Why just this week, the anti-torture Senator from Arizona did his fish out of water thing and voted against the Senate bill to ban waterboarding. This from the same guy who for over 30 years has fought torture, and it should be noted had some authority on the issue having spent five and half years in the Hanoi Hilton during the Vietnam war. But as they say, politics makes strange bedfellows and McCain has totally collapsed his principles to chase votes of the religiously insane and wingnuts. Oh, and something the press always gets wrong, waterboarding is not simulated drowning, it is drowning. If you don't have an expert performing the procedure it's easy to actually drown the individual being tortured, an occurrence I'm sure that has happened more than anyone cares to admit. We've all heard the stories that McCain can't control his temper, not a particularly desirable trait for a guy who controls the red button. And what are his chances of changing this character flaw as he approches his 72nd birthday? He also admits that economics is not his strong suit in a year where Americans consider the economy the number 1 issue. And of course he's stated he'll keep the troops in Iraq for a hundred years if that's what it takes, going completely against the number two issue on American minds. Without question you'd think he's the dream opponent for the dems in the 2008 presidential race. But not so fast. American politics has been dominated by big money, special interests, and the corporate controlled media for decades. Barak and Hillary are running so close that it's possible the dem nominee might not be determined until the convention in late summer. That means they will have to spend huge sums of money competing with each other right to the end, money they won't have for the general election against McCain. Meanwhile, McCain will have months to build a war chest, and you just know the repubs will hold their noses and fill McCain's coffers. Personally I prefer Hillary because I think she's best qualified to fight off the repub slime machine. But if Barak gets the nod, I'll support him 100%. What scares me is all this talk we're hearing that the Clinton and Obama supporters won't support the other camp. This sort of talk is the only thing that just might cause us to wake up November 5th with another dangerous loon in the White House. If Barak or Hillary has any sort of a lead after the March 5 primaries, then that's the time for one of them to concede and support the other for the sake of the country. If they decide to team up, even better. But let's not blow this again, they only need even money to send McCain packing in all 50 states.
Sunday, November 18. 2007Hillary Clinton Shows Moxie In Debate
Watching the Democratic debate on CNN the other evening, along with 4.3 million other viewers, a few things struck us. Firstly, and before things even got started, our pundit experts predicted that Hillary could stumble a few more poll notches, mostly from her flip-flopping over driver's licenses for illegal immigrants in New York State. Not only did this not happen, most would have to agree that she performed as the confident front runner she is. The armchair quarterbacks complained that Hillary got off lightly on this issue, but the thought occurred to us that this was simply clever politics. That she pre-empted the issue before the debate began and reversed what was clearly, rightly or wrongly, a losing position. Isn't this refreshing considering the stubborn, arrogant, never wrong, decider BS we've suffered through the past 6+ years? We should point out that we have no dog in this hunt and consider all the Democratic candidates more than qualified even considering the low bar they face. The next thing that caught our attention was the booing when Obama and Edwards tried an early assault on Hillary. No question she handled these attacks with ease on her own, but we were somewhat surprised that our expert pundits, not happy with her anti-bitch slapping, suggested she had plants in the audience to throw her opponents off their game. Even if this were true, and you can get away with it, hey, politics is a compact sport. Compare this with the swift boat tactics of the Republican party whether they're sliming the Democrats or eating their own. And again, even if this were true, we're sure the other dem candidates are castigating their advisers because they didn't think of this too. Our tiny troupe of political junkies is so anxious to donkey kick the Republicans elephant dung off White House front porch, that we applaud any and all signs of fighting back. We want a scrapper, someone who will kick back with a lead boot, someone who could care less about the niceties considering what we're up against. The Republicans have demonstrated for decades that they have no respect for the Queensbury rules of political discourse, so why should we? The difference is that when the Republicans gain power, they can't govern shit, and can only follow the direction of their masters, the military industrial complex aided and abetted by the religiously insane who get their asses in a knot over gays and abortion. Which brings up another difference we noticed in this debate, that none of the Democrats took any crap from the CNN moderators. Well done Democrats. Now let's see how the Republicans fare on the Fox friendly - You Tube debate later this month. Any bets Rudy will be asked his favorite passage in the Bible?
Wednesday, November 7. 2007Carl Rove, putting the Blossom into the Turd
Thankfully, Karl Rove's disgusting self has been out of my head since he quit last August, but here we go again, in no small part because of Valerie Plame's new book, 'Fair Game.'
Truthfully, I have never given much thought to his Bush coined nickname, "turd blossom," until recently that is. Sure, I get the turd part, but what does blossom have to do with it? I honestly never thought much about it, just never put the two words together, until now. Then a possibility hit me, a thought so deep in the recesses of my mind, that it laid there dormant for over seven years. Bush called Rove "turd blossom," because the fat slob could turn shit into a political flower. It's so easy to hate the Bush administration for far too many reasons to count; war, corruption, incompetence. It's difficult to point your finger at any one thing, because the daily screw ups just keep coming, and that's the kicker. With Clinton it was one issue, lying about sex. How do you pick one issue with Bush? It's like whack-a-mole. Clearly the Bush administration purposely created all these crises not only for their sick ideological manifesto, but more so to stay in power. They attacked Afghanistan, Iraq and the constitution to appeal to the religiously insane and the idiots who know no better. That's Karl Rove's modus operendi, that it's all about politics all the time and to hell with what's best for the country and the vast majority of citizens. Rove even announced prior to the '04 election that Iraq was a winning political strategy. Think about that for a second, that in their minds politics trumped the reality of war. That they would willingly sacrifice tens if not hundreds of thousands of innocent lives to win a f**king election. And impeachment's off the table? And then it ended. Rove had to go quietly into the night to save the king, because his plan to create a GOP generation was over. He was over. The turd blossom turned back into what it was all along, shit.
Friday, October 19. 2007Republicans Just Can't Get a Hit
It's baseball season so let's talk about the gang who couldn't shoot straight. The GOP are on a roll again, and all downhill. These guys and gals are a laugh a minute and don't even realize how funny they are. Why just the other day congressman David Hobson announced his retirement stating he was taking his ball and going home to play catch with his kids. Mr. Hobson is 71 years old, and is the 12th republican to so announce with over a year before the next election. At this rate of repubs going home with their ball, the democrats could gain super majorities in both houses by default.
But let's not get a head of ourselves, this could be a Larry (wide-stance) Craig type resignation, you know, the republican who struggles to keep his feet off his neighbors' in airport bathroom stalls. Mr. Craig resigned from the senate before he decided not to resign and is now appealing his written confession. I can't even write this from my computer chair without strapping myself in with seatbelts because I'm laughing so hard. Which brings us to Giuliani, who in response to a question claimed his administration would be prepared to repel an attack from Mars. (You can't make this shit up). I have no idea what the Rude-man is smoking, but if he's a sharing type of guy, he just may get my vote. Okay, scratch that. I just remembered the thrice married ex-mayor Giuliani is the same dude who put the New York command center in the World Trade Center against all expert advice after the 1993 al-Qaeda attack. He's the same guy who wouldn't spring for working walkie-talkies for firefighters, ones that worked for the police, ones that didn't work for the firemen. The police escaped the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9/11 because of communication. The firemen didn't for the same reason. But Giuliani can save us from Martians. This guy definitely qualifies for the alien threat, just not a human terrorist threat. (start Twilight Zone theme music). Continue reading "Republicans Just Can't Get a Hit"
Friday, October 12. 2007Why Republicans vote Republican
There are only four basic reasons to vote for a Republican candidate in any election:
1) You are a greedy, rich, CEO type who can never have enough money regardless of the plight of others. Why should you care about the infrastructure, schools or health insurance? You already have enough money to fly your private jet over pot-hole filled roads, your kids will inherit millions and don't need an education, and you can buy your own hospital. 2) You are religiously insane. You believe your god is more cool than anybody else's god. You believe that by putting the Ten Commandments in front of every government office crime will disappear. You further believe that by putting "In God We Trust," on our currency, no one will dare try and steal it. 3) You're a racist bigot. You believe that America is exclusively for white poeple, conveniently forgetting that we literally kicked out the aboriginal Indians and were founded by immigrants from all over the world. 4) You are plain and simply an idiot. You vote Republican because you think it squares you with the rich white guys while you're still making payments on a '62 Ford pick up. Of course there are many more reasons for voting Republican; namely you love war, deficits, guns and the inalienable right to insist pregnant women stay pregnant regardless if they were attacked by a sick rapist. There is no changing your mind because basically, you don't have one. You belong to a cult-like lifestyle that celebrates intolerance and repression. You could care less about this, because frankly, you just don't care or know the difference. You've been brainwashed to believe that liberal and progressive are dirty words. All that said, none of this matters to Republicans who will read none of this anyway. They have a simple rule for winning arguments; he who yells the loudest wins. Think of screechers like Michelle Malkin, Micheal Savage, or any of the blowhards on AM hate radio like Bill, Sean or Rush. Collectively they form a pathetic circle jerk cadre of the first three reasons to vote republican, with undo influence over the forth reason, idiots who really believe these people have their best interests at heart. If only they knew. It pretty much comes down to if you have millions and don't give a shit about anyone else, vote Republican. And whether or not you have millions but do give a shit about others, vote democrat. Why is it so hard for Democrats to win elections?
Wednesday, October 3. 2007Frustration, betray us and George W. BushAre you there yet? By that I mean have you had enough? You're furious about the current state of affairs, both foreign and domestic. You can't sleep at nights because you're so upset about this crazy no-end-in-sight invasion and occupation of Iraq, which is looking more and more like a prelude to the same thing in Iran. You hate the fact that in spite of the spin we're less safe from terrorist attacks because you understand that we can't change middle east customs anymore than they could change ours and it makes you insane that the Bush administration can't seem to grasp this reality or even care for that matter. You cringe at the thought that we've squandered hundreds of years of prestige around the world in such a short time because of incompetence and crazy ass ideology. You want to bang your head against a brick wall every time you are forced to hear Bush, Cheney or another White House spokesperson fib about how rosy things are. Yeah, we hear you, we're all pissed. So what have we done to change this? Well, we've blogged, written for blogs, worked for campaigns, contributed hard-earned cash to dem candidates, and basically bitched and complained to the choir for nearly seven years. We even voted en masse in 2006 and what has it gotten us? Other than a dem controlled senate and congress, put your thumb and forefinger together forming a circle. We hear your seething because we are still embroiled in a no-win situation in Iraq. Our economy is in shambles with a disappearing middle class, crashing housing market, dissipating job opportunities, not to mention a surging deficit that will choke our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, leaving them to repay our debts to China and Japan for decades. During Bush's tenure the US dollar has lost more than 40 basis points to the Canadian dollar, America's largest trading partner, and even more to the Euro. None of this had to happen if Bush had done two simple things; stay the hell out of Iraq and resist the sole GOP election strategy to give tax cuts to the already rich. He couldn't resist either, and now the rest of us have to live with the consequences of these disastrous decisions. If there's a saving grace it's that he will go down in history as the worst president ever. Personally I hope he lives forever and gets reminded of this every day for eternity, and perhaps a few years after that just for good measure.
Wednesday, September 19. 2007Will the Bush Bubble ever Burst?Imagine if even for a few brief moments you could have a one-on-one with President Monkey to burst his bubble. Now that would be fun.
Monday, September 17. 2007Bush’s Surge, DOAAfter the laughable and predictable testimony by Gen. David Pretraeus and Iraqi ambassador Ray Crocker before Congress last week, is anyone still in doubt as to the true nature of the Bush/White House game plan? Can it be any clearer, in lieu of admitting to the worst foreign policy disaster in US history that they're actually willing to run out the clock using our kid's lives and treasure just so they can pass off this mess to Bush's successor? Their objective is so transparent the game should be called on account of it. With apologies to Moveon.org, this Be tray Us is a Crock. I mean, even youngsters like Hansel and Gretel could follow this trail without bread crumbs.
Wednesday, August 22. 2007The Republican MindRecently I received an email joke from a republican friend. Yes, and I admit it upfront, I have a few. Republican friends that is. Basically the joke was about Hillary and Fred Thompson and their encounter with a homeless person on the street.
Tuesday, August 21. 2007Bush, Bushcutter in ChiefCrawford, Tx -- As the dog days of summer inch along, preznit Bush is doing his August thang, that being whacking away at the evil brush that clogs up the tricycle trail on his 1,600 acre ranch in Crawford. Frankly, most of the world is thankful he spends so much of his time far away from the red button in Washington.
Saturday, August 18. 2007The Good Ship Bush, SinkingJust when you thought it couldn't get any worse for Bush, this week got worse, worster, worstest and even worsterest. Yeah, I know those aren't real words, but how do you describe the rapid decent of what is already widely acclaimed as the worst presidency in US history.
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