Now it must be told

Since the debate I have resisted the urge to get involved into the whole 'Joe the Plummer' (or JTP for you acronym lovers out there) nonsense (related to Charles Keating, not registered to vote, incorrectly registered to vote, a McCain plant, etc).

But now…with this coming out and JTP acknowledging it, I felt I need to post something about it.

As every Liberal blog and its brother said yesterday, Joe Wurzelbacher's complaints about Sen. Obama's tax plan didn't hold water as, contrary to what Wurzelbacher said, neither his personal nor business taxes would rise if the Obama tax plan went into effect.

Per CBS News, now JTP is acknowledging this fact, saying; "I would, if you believe him, I would be receiving his tax cuts."

Interesting…isn't it?

This whole Joe the Plumber think stank from the word go, whether it being the fact that he makes FAR LESS than the $250,000 or the fact that he now, albeit reluctantly, admits that Obama would lower his taxes.

Like far too many republicans (IE: ALL OF THEM), it seems that Joe has a habit of, well, we’ll call it stretching the truth.

Let’s review (or vet since McCain didn’t seem to do it) the facts; he only makes $40,000 a year. He doesn't have a valid plumber’s license in the state of Ohio. He’s only been a "plumber" for 6 years and not 15 as he earlier said. He never finished his plumber courses. He never apprenticed as a plumber. He can't afford to buy his bosses business that generates $100,000 a year in profit and NOT the $250,000 he claimed. He’s a registered republican. He owes over a $1,000 in back taxes and, the big one; he would receive a tax cut under Obama’s tax plan.

And despite that, he still plans to vote for McCain… and this perfectly epitomizes the face of republican ignorance and self-defeatism; voting against your own best interest because of a lesser reason. The fact that he would still vote for McCain after realizing that his taxes would go down with Obama simply defies logic and appears to come down to the unspoken fact that he won't vote for the guy who will help him and his family because.....shhhhhh..... he's black...

And now that he's spent his usefulness (which depends on your interpretation of the whole JTP episode), the McPalin campaign is ready to throw him away.

Imagine that….he's outlived his propaganda efficacy and then promptly gets thrown overboard; who would have EVER seen THAT coming from the McCain campaign?

It's so hard to express sarcasm in the written form sometimes.

Joe should rethink his vote… if he voted for Obama he would likely see his taxes decrease, and then with the money he would save under Obama's tax plan, Joe could… I don't know; apply for his plumbing license or pay the back taxes he still owes.

I'm just sayin'…

The last straw?

Just when you think you’ve heard the worst thing this administration can do, something comes out that makes you realize they’re not even close.

Journalist Ron Suskind has a new book coming out and in it he describes how the Bush White house ordered the CIA to forge a backdated, handwritten letter that would tie Saddam Hussein to the 9/11 attacks.

According to Suskind, the letter was commissioned “from the highest reaches of the White House and occurred in the fall of 2003 when the White House ordered CIA Director George Tenet to forge a “fake letter from Habbush to Saddam, backdated to July 1, 2001.” Writes Suskind; “It said that 9/11 ringleader Mohammad Atta had actually trained for his mission in Iraq.”

While this isn’t totally surprising, it should enrage you… for two reasons.

First, while many of us knew, or at the least now know, that Bush lied us into war, we now seem to have some kind of concrete and traceable proof that Bush knew before he invaded Iraq that there were no WMD’s… and yet he continued to lie to the American public and to Congress.

Second, after the fact it now looks as though Bush & Cheney ordered the CIA to forge a letter to justify the invasion; “The White House had concocted a fake letter from Habbush to Saddam, backdated to July 1, 2001. It said that 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta had actually trained for his mission in Iraq — thus showing, finally, that there was an operation link between Saddam and al-Qaeda, something the Vice President's office had been pressing CIA to prove since 9/11 as a justification to invade. […] A handwritten letter, with Habbush's name on it, would be fashioned by CIA and then hand-carried by a CIA agent to Baghdad for dissemination.”

CIA officers Rob Richer (former head of the CIA’s Near East Division) and John Maguire (who oversaw the Iraq Operations Group) are both on the record in Suskind’s book confirming the existence of this letter…
Suskind goes on to not only describe how this is an impeachable offense, but also delves into details about how and why it’s illegal for the President of the United States to use the CIA in this manner.

Yes, it’s also immoral, but if the last seven years have shown us anything, it’s that Bush has no moral code to guide him.

When you add this to the recent New York Daily News article about the Anthrax attacks that revealed the fact that “White House officials repeatedly pressed FBI Director Robert Mueller to prove it [the anthrax attack] was a second-wave assault by Al Qaeda” you start to clearly see that the lengths by which this administration would go to in order to get what they wanted.

It’s a given that the conservative Beltway intelligentsia won’t give Suskind’s revelations a second thought… (it’s not a blow job in the Oval Office mind you, so why should they?) but maybe, just maybe enough Democrats will see revelations like this and they’ll be convinced that the only way to prevent future crimes against the American people will be to impeach Bush…

Stay tuned, though I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Give me an effin break

Iraq war architect Douglas Feith appeared on The Daily Show last night to shill his book ‘War and Decision.”

During the interview, he shifted blame for the public’s feelings of being mislead by the Bush(whacked) Administration to us, the public, saying we “misremember(ed) a lot.”

Excuse me??? It’s the administration YOU worked for that gave over 900 false statements leading up to the war... or have you forgotten the CPI study that proved that?

It’s YOUR memory, not ours that’s defective you mental midget…