The Thursday ‘BushWhack’ing

Thursday is here, you know what that means… yeah, neither do I.

• Can anyone save the Democratic Party, from itself? Can Howard Dean be trusted? Can an accord be reached between Clinton & Obama? Find out the answers to these and other questions, next time, on Soap “As the Politics Turn”…
• DNC Chairman Howard Dean says that the party will “absolutely seat” the Florida delegation at the Convention and the two are working diligently to craft a plan that would see their delegates counted. (The thing that frosts my preserves is the fact that the DNC and the state of Florida are tying to find a solution that both candidates can accept. I say it shouldn’t be up to the candidates, but to the national party and the state party. They are the leaders of the party, not Obama or Clinton. Take the candidates out of the equation and you remove your ‘X’ factor and can then easily come up with a solution)
• Sen. McCain has close to 20 people on his short list of possible running mates… no word if John Kerry is still on the list…
• One of “President” Bush’s pet projects on his current Euro-trip has been dealt a harsh blow. Due to Russian opposition, NATO has decided against putting Georgia and the Ukraine on the fast track to join the alliance… besides the questionable reasons for Bush to be pressing for this, what I want to know is when Russia got so much damned power within NATO? The country of Macedonia was also denied entry due to concerns by Greece… (isn’t it amazing that one single country can derail another country’s attempt to better itself by joining an alliance?)
• The US has brokered a missile deal with the Czech Republic, which will never come back to bite us on the ass because those kind of deals NEVER go south…
• The Bush(whacked) Administration believed that the Constitution’s protection against unreasonable searches and seizures on U.S. soil “didn’t apply to its efforts to protect against terrorism” for, at least, 16 months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. That’s according to a “secret Justice Department legal memo dated Oct. 23, 2001” that was declassified Tuesday in a footnote of that other separate secret memo about interrogation policy… (raise of hands, does this surprise anyone?)
• Yesterday it was Big Oil (which nothing came out of, btw), today it’s the airline industry that’s on Capitol Hill to answer questions about airline safety.
• And have we mentioned? That the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is looking to rename Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Facility to the “George W. Bush Sewage Plant”? Yes, you read that right, a group wants to honor Bush by naming what they say is a “fitting monument to this president’s work.” After reading that, one would have to think that this was snark on the commission’s part, but then you get to the point of the article where the group says that “No other president in American history has accomplished so much in such a short time” and you realize that they’ve been inhaling too many of the fumes from the aforementioned sewage plant… or they’ve been hanging out in Haight-Ashbury too much…