The Thursday ‘BushWhack’ing

While you detox from too much candy, treat yourself to today’s BushWhacking...

• Democratic presidential candidates Clinton (D-NY) and Edwards (D-SC) both picked up some sizeable union endorsements yesterday. Current ‘frontrunner’ Clinton was thrown the support of The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFSCME, while Edwards nabbed the backing of New Hampshires Service Employee's International Union. Both are coups for the candidates and troubling to Obama (D-IL). The campaigns are gearing up, so don’t look away now…
• “President” Bush has been acting rather temperamental this week, and it continued yesterday when his railing against SCHIP continued when he said that expanding it would play a “trick” on Americans by moving the country closer to a federalized health system. (One really has to wonder how his mind works at times…)
• The confirmation of Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey is in peril as concerns are voiced by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, including chairman Arlen Specter (r-PA), who said that Mukasey's nomination could be at risk because of his refusal to answer questions “categorically.” The committee hold its vote on Mukasey’s nomination on Tuesday, Nov. 6. (stay tuned)
• The Water War has moved to Washington DC and is threatening to engulf the Bush(whacked) Administration…
• And have we mentioned? That Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) is not backing down on calling out the White House over Iran? On the Senate floor yesterday Byrd deprecated the White House’s Iran saber-rattling saying; “Today is a fitting day to discuss the issue of Iran. Today is All-Hallow’s Eve — Halloween — a day when people don masks and costumes to frighten others. The White House has been busy unleashing its rhetorical ghosts and goblins to scare the American people, with claims of an imminent nuclear threat in Iran, as they did with Iraq.” The ‘unleashing its rhetorical ghosts and goblins’ is what makes it art…