I just listened to Senator Obama’s “acceptance” speech after winning the Iowa caucus. It was filled with platitiudes and hollow rhetoric guaranteed to thrill small children, the ignorant, and the plain stupid. Good going, Senator! That’s certainly a change from an atempt at being honest.
The again, Huckabee won on the Republican side. What a maroon…
…but if you kiss its ass enough it will vote for you. This is the message that Iowa seems to be giving the presidential candidates and one that’s re-enforced by comments from newscasters lately. The state appears to be populated by spoiled little brats who turn on you if you don’t pay them enough attention. Worse still, if the polling is correct and the interviewing indicative, there isn’t enough gray matter shared among all the people of the state to make a complete brain.
It’s sad to see what our election process has devolved into.
Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, won the Iowa straw poll, securing his status as the leading Republican in a state that has dashed the ambitions of many would-be presidents.
“This important victory sends a signal to grassroots Republican activists across the country that we are working hard to earn their support,” said Romney, who received 4,516 of the 14,302 ballots cast, for 31 percent.
He was followed by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, who secured a surprising 2,587 votes, at 18 percent. Senator Sam Brownback, of Kansas, came in third with 2,197 votes at 15 percent.
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Okay, so we’re on the launchpad over at NASA and some astronauts come stumbling up to the gantry, smelling of Jack Daniels, get hoisted into the Shuttle, and prepare for take off.
Thta actually seems to be the big story today –despite NASA finding that some moron clip the wired in a pair of computers, one bound for the ISS and one that would stay on earth.
Can I ask the obvious question? What the hell is the big deal? I’ve never been on an airplane. I’d have to be totally sh*t-faced to even consider it. Now here are these folk who are, essentially, strapped to semi-guided missle with enough explosive authority to blast them to atoms and, as one of my readers reminded me, the whole shebang was built by the lowest bidder.
Even if it’s true, too dunk to fly? I guess that’s matter of opinion that depends on whether your standing five miles away watching the launch or sitting in the Shuttle having your bowels turned inside out as you take off.
So here we are, back at Congress, listening to Security experts telling those esteemed gentlemen that the FISA law, passed in 1978, is outdated and actually making it more difficult to track terrorists. How does Congress react?
Huh? What was that last one again? Didn’t Congress raise a big stink the last time he tried that? They called it the Warrantless Domestic Spying Program or some such even though it was not domestic… But hey, Mr. President, we’re going on recess in a few days. You do what you have to do to keep our pink backsides safe and we’ll rake you over the coals for it when we get back, okay?
President George W. Bush commuted Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s 2 1/2-year prison sentence in the CIA leak case, sparing him from punishment the president called “excessive.”
Bush acted after a U.S. appellate court today refused to let Libby, 56, stay out of prison during his appeal. Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was convicted of lying to investigators probing the 2003 leak of CIA official Valerie Plame’s identity. Libby’s backers had argued for a pardon.
Some Republicans decided to jump the fence on the Comprehensive Illegal Alien amnesty Bill, huh? Note to the RNC: Find yourself a really long thermometer. Stick the business end into Hell’s butt and keep watch. When the mercury drops below 32 degrees I’ll send you a check.
Those who voted “Yes:”
Robert Bennett,
From NewsMax:
The media’s massacre of the truth about Haditha revealed by NewsMax, included limiting reporting to the first few minutes of a furious day-long battle. The rest they deliberately ignored.
The media reported on the Nov. 19, 2005 insurgent ambush at Haditha, but they concentrated solely on the early events, namely the deaths of the passengers in a white car and the civilians who died during the initial house clearing. The media reported if these were the sole activities when in fact, they were a part of a day-long, full-scale battle between Marines and insurgents in which 11 Marines were wounded and a number of insurgents killed or captured.
Politics have come to a grinding halt. Something needs to be done. Someone needs to take control. Enter His Royal Highness, Michael Bloomberg. The one-time Democrat, born again Republican, now Independent, and always full-time Liberal may want to buy his way into the office of the President –as he did for the job of Mayor of New York City.
Listening to John Gambling defend Bloomberg this morning was an exercise in gastro-intestinal control. But let me backtrack a bit…
I moved out of New York City because Giuliani’s “Quality of Life” program was taking too long to reach the section of the city in which I lived (Washington Heights). I like Rudi. I’ll probably vote for him for President. Now you know my bias.
Bloomberg bought the mayoral office. If you doubt that then you’re an idiot. He has spent his term in office imposing his will on the people of New York City –the King, after all, rules the peons. His smoking policies are outrageous. (I’m an ex-smoker.) Rather than allow customers and workers to choose a place to patronize and in which to work, you know, that pesky thing called free will, Bloomberg imposed his will on the masses.
Now he has this crackpot congestion tax, er, fee that will force the middle and lower classes onto New York’s less than sterling mass transit system while the upper crust, who can afford to pay the tax, er, fee, will be able to drive through the town with impunity.
Forget about cutting down on the number of taxi cabs –which would push the affluent into the subways– or adjusting traffic flows during peak hours –no left turns on Park Avenue from 7am - 10am and 4pm - 7pm weekdays would be nice, or perhaps ban taxis from the East River Drive during those same periods. As with all of Bloomberg’s plans, no alternatives to his will seem to be in contention for consideration. He knows best for the poor, dumb folk of New York.
God forbid he should ever be elected President. Anyone remember Woody Allen’s Bananas?
