Give me an effin' break...

This man needs to lose his job now...

Bernalillo (New Mexico) County Republican chairman Fernando C' de Baca to BBC News;

"The truth is that Hispanics came here as conquerors," he said. "African-Americans came here as slaves. [...] Hispanics consider themselves above blacks. They won't vote for a black president."

Speaking as a Hispanic who is voting for Sen. Obama, this is utter nonsense, and there is no room for this kind of blatant hatred in this day and age.

And, by and by, the numbers suggest otherwise you hate-filled jackass.

New Mexico Latinos, polled 9/14-9/16 by SurveyUSA:

• Obama (D) 69%
• McCain (R) 2%

The BBC reporter that got the quote is skeptical about this claim as well, considering that he says; "Virtually all of the Hispanic voters I spoke to told me they were supporting Obama."

It doesn't seem like Hispanics or Latinos have a problem with a candidate that is African-American... only this "man."

The Weekly Rewind

TBWA is “fundamentally strong”, “ready to lead”, and could run a major corporation, but unfortunately we didn’t invent the Blackberry…

The Weekly Rewind starts… RIGHT NOW!

Applaud: to more and more people seeing the truth. According to a new CBS News/NY Times poll, 68% of Americans think Sen. McCain would either continue the policies of “President” Bush or enact more conservative policies. Additionally, in the same poll 57% view McCain as a “typical Republican” and not as a maverick. (This is good. The more people can see that a vote for McCain is a vote for a third Bush term the better. Spread the word everyone…) Add to that the fact that a new AP/National Constitution Center poll shows that two-thirds of Americans “strongly oppose” giving the president more power at Congress’ and the court’s expense, even when it talking about national security or the economy.” altering the balance of power to strengthen the presidency and you have the makings of a Democratic win in November…

Heckle: to a rough week on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 504.48 points earlier this week, the biggest decline since Sept. 17, 2001 (which was the first day back after the 9/1. Also, the nation’s largest insurer, AIG, faced a cash crunch that grew more severe by the minute earlier this week after credit-rating agencies warned investors that the company could have great difficulty in meeting its obligations, so the state of New York allowed them to use “$20 billion from its own insurance subsidiaries” as collateral for loans to “run its day-to-day operations. At first the Feds said it wouldn’t offer AIG any “direct injection from the government” but reversed that and seized control and agreed to lend “up to $85 billion” to the company, essentially giving the government a 79.9% equity stake, after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers further smacked The Street down. Let’s hope it ALL rebounds very soon…

Applaud: to being caught in a lie…again. Last week, McCain made the outrageous claim that Gov. Palin never sought earmarks as Alaska’s governor. Well, state records show otherwise and prove that Palin has asked U.S. taxpayers to “fund $453 million in specific Alaska projects” over the last two years including a staggering $130 million that would benefit Alaska’s fishing industry and another $9 million aimed at helping Alaskan oil companies. (When are people going to see that neither of these two are mavericks and are compulsive liars?)

Heckle: to perilous situations that likely won’t end well. Pakistani Army Spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said earlier this week that Pakistan’s military has ordered its forces to “open fire if U.S. troops launch another air or ground raid” across the Afghan border. (Awwww crap!)

Applaud: to Michigan Democrats for having the balls to try and block a republican effort to deny voting rights to people facing foreclosure. They filed an injunction aimed at prohibiting the gop from challenging Michigan voters whose homes are on foreclosure lists, a form of “voter caging.” (Way to go guys, keep it up. With everything that comes out of McCain’s mouth a possible final death knell to his campaign, republicans are going to get more desperate and try to do anything they can to help themselves in November. Let’s not let them do that…)

Heckle: to hiding behind your office. The Alaska attorney general said earlier this week that state employees that were subpoenaed in the ethics investigation of Gov. Palin will not testify and the office has asked that the subpoenas be withdrawn. (Nothing to see here folks, move along…)

Applaud: to getting something right. The Feds said earlier this week that they will not allow Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to give their soon-departing chief executives golden parachutes, yanking away the chance for them to earn $9.8 million and $14.9 million respectively for making a mess of things… (Impressive that the government would not allow that... makes you wonder what they’re up to)

Heckle: to the Democratic members of the House of Representatives for voting earlier this week to end the moratorium on new offshore oil drilling. Applaud for tweaking the measure enough to piss off republicans by giving states the right to allow drilling 50 to 100 miles off their coasts… (Though I guess the good news is that we should expect gas prices to start dropping soon, right? I asked right?? Helllooooo??)

Half-hearted Applaud: to the news that “President” Bush will not attack Iran before his term ends in January as former Cheney adviser David Wurmser told The Jerusalem Post earlier this week that, because Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice now has the upper hand in the administration in her struggle with Cheney”, Bush won’t attack Iran before November 4th. (Why half-hearted you ask? Well, while I do consider this good news, it IS the Bush(whacked) Administration so I’m still taking it with a grain of salt and will believe it when I see it…)

Heckle: to McCain surrogates and their continued inability to grasp the truth. While trying to defend Palin’s (in)experience earlier this week, House Minority Whip Roy Blunt repeated the false talking point that Alaska supplies 20% of U.S. oil, Problem is, Alaska only produces about 14.3% of our oil… add to that the fact that the Ms. Palin herself recently said that Alaska produces 20% of our “energy,” when it reality (a concept hard to grasp for republicans) it produces 3.5%... (Seems to me the governor of Alaska would know that kind of thing… so either’s she’s lying – big shock I know – or she’s clueless. Perhaps her pairing with McCain makes sense after all)

Applaud: to former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (chuckle), who said earlier this week that Vice President Cheney misled him into supporting the invasion of Iraq by saying that Saddam Hussein had direct personal ties to al-Qaeda and was making rapid progress toward a suitcase nuclear weapon… obviously, no such intelligence existed. (Rather late to the party Mr. Armey, but welcome anyway)

Heckle: to not knowing who you’re taking money from… the location of a Bush fundraiser in Florida was changed earlier this week after it was realized that the original host is currently under IRS investigation… oops.

Applaud: to political stumps gone bad… with hilarious (for us anyway) consequences. McCain made a surprise stop at an Oakland County (MI) GM plant earlier this week. Touring the plant with wife Stepford Cindy, McCain shook hands with plant workers. All was going well until he met a group of workers that had shown up to work with Obama t-shirts and buttons. (Wow, looks as though the McCain campaign’s vetting of meet and greets is as solid as their vetting of VP picks)

Heckle: to sad endings. Federal officials told AP this week that no charges will be filed against former republican Rep. Mark Foley for sending sexually explicit messages to underage Congressional pages…

Applaud: to Bill “Do you want to see my microphone” O’Reilly for saying what I, and certainly many others, have been saying for a while… the current “economic chaos” on Wall Street marks the “end of President Bush’s legacy” and ““He’s done. He’s through. … He will now go down in history…as an ineffectual leader. And I’ll tell you the reason why, it’s poor leadership on his part. The people that he picked to run certain things have been disastrous. And no leadership and now Americans are getting hurt.” (Now… this is the second time in a span of two weeks that I’ve applauded O’Reilly in “The Rewind.” If it happens again, I’m definitely going to keep an eye out for flying pigs. That and I’ll immediately start drinking)

Heckle: to more unnecessary needling. Speaking about relations between Russia and the US, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that Russia's policies are putting it on a path to isolation and irrelevance… (that’s good Ms. Rice, stir up the pot so the water gets REALLY hot before leaving your office… that’s some might fine diplomacy there)

Applaud: to Sen. Obama for this McCain-pwning; “Yesterday, John McCain actually said that if he's president that he'll take on, and I quote, ‘the old boys network in Washington.’ […] Now I'm not making this up. This is somebody who's been in Congress for twenty-six years, who put seven of the most powerful Washington lobbyists in charge of his campaign. […] And now he tells us that he's the one who's gonna' to take on the old boys network. The old boys network? In the McCain campaign that's called a staff meeting. Come, on!” Score!

Heckle: to Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) for acting like a republican Congressman. We have enough of those Mr. Rangel, could you perhaps STOP acting like a schmuck?

Applaud: to, I suppose, better late than never stifling. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said earlier this week that he pledges to “squelch the ‘ethics storm’” exposed by investigators last week that found agency workers not only rigged bids and inappropriately accepted gifts, but had sex with energy company officials that did business with the government. (I’ll believe it when I see it. Two of those responsible have already retired unscathed… are we really to believe that they will do anything about it now? As I said; I’ll believe it when I see it…)

Heckle: to calling someone out for something you yourself did 2 short years ago. Perennial conservative windbag {spins wheel o’ conservatives}… Ann Coulter Rush Limbaugh Michelle Malkin took aim at Gawker.com for publishing emails of Sarah Palin that showed the phone number of Bristol Palin and husband Todd’s email address. Malkin called Gawker a “cesspool blog” and “lowlifes” and “by-any-means-necessary lunatics.” Well, Ms. Malkin apparently forgets that back in 2006 she did the same damn thing, posting the phone numbers of a group of college kids that were planning to protest Ann Coulter. (I don’t condone splashing people’s personal information onto the Internet, but when you complain about someone doing something, you should damn well know if you’ve ever committed the same thing… otherwise you look like a hack…)

Applaud: to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). They filed a class-action lawsuit this past week against Bush administration officials. The lawsuit aims to halt what it (and anyone that has use of their own brain) describes as illegal surveillance of Americans’ telephone and Internet traffic. (good lawsuit and all, but considering how this administration operates, I doubt it will actually do anything… do you?)

Heckle: to old fashioned censorship. Earlier this week on a local report on KTRK-TV in Houston, TX, reporter Wayne Dolcefino said that the media has been blocked from covering Hurricane Ike’s devastation. During a presser with Gov. Rick Perry, Dolcefino pressed on why the media isn’t allowed to fly over parts of Galveston Island, noting that media access was far better in Mississippi and Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. Perry tried to brush off Dolcefino’s concerns, but eventually passed blame the buck to federal officials, more specifically FEMA. (Wow, would have ever thought that FEMA would try to cover their tracks?)

Applaud: to former republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul. Ron Paul explained earlier this week why Ron Paul refused McCain campaign staffer Phil Gramm’s pleas to endorse McCain. Besides saying that Ron Paul disagrees with McCain “on all the major issues,” especially foreign policy, Ron Paul then said; “I mean I could never support somebody who thinks that it’s funny to say ‘bomb bomb bomb Iran.’ […] That, to me, is not somebody that I could endorse ever.” (Ron Paul)

And now it’s time for our conservative Tool of the Week.

Okay it was a tough call this week, between McCain reiterating his nonsense about the economy being 'fundamentally' strong, or the Palin refusal to comply with a subpoena, or McCain's top economic adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, claiming McCain helped bring about the Blackberry… but we did it.

It’s “President” Bush.

Despite not answering questions from the media in over seven weeks (see my post about that HERE), when the shit was hitting the fan on Wall Street at the start of this past week, he was nowhere to be seen. When he did show, he spoke for a scant two minutes… and in the process managed to not only piss off Democrats, but his own party as well (but in all honesty who cares about that).

Taking a mere two minutes to talk about the largest economic crash since the Great Depression shows just how little Bush cares about this job now. This is a situation that merits a primetime Oval Office chat… not a 2-minute Rose Garden presser. It’s time like these that allow a president with Nixonian-like approval numbers and a fading-faster-than-Palin legacy to re-establish himself in the eyes of the electorate.

Instead, he comes out… throws money at the problem…doesn’t assure the people… and disappears from sight again. And that’s why he’s our Tool… of the week.

And finally...

In case you hadn’t heard or realized; according to Countdown to Crawford, it’s been two months and three days since “President” Bush held a formal press conference… and according to White House Press Secretary Dana Perino, Bush has not even taken a question from the press in over seven weeks.

Why? Because he wants to, in Perino’s words, “make sure this election remains fully focused on the two candidates.”

Put it another way: no one wants to share a stage with the man lest they get caught-up in the snowballing disintegration of Bush and his administration.

Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer agrees;

LAUER: Dana Perino is saying we haven’t heard the President out there answering questions from the press over the last several weeks and months because he doesn’t want to get into campaign politics. … Where do you fall on this?
FLEISCHER: Well remember hasn’t taken questions since early August, Matt — well before this crisis really hit. And I think it does come down to campaign politics. He doesn’t want to get in the middle of the questions that would hurt John McCain more than anyone else.

Sure… Bush wants to help McCain and down-ticket republicans get elected, but, as former Clinton Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers says; “…the problem is the President has no credibility. It’s his economic philosophy, his economic team, and I think the White House realizes that and is trying to help by keeping him off the front of the stage.”

In other words; he’s a lame duck… and he’s only getting more lame duckier.

And now, the Spanish Reaction

I wrote yesterday about McCain’s blunder or pander, regarding meeting with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

While we all thought at the time that McCain was simply confused as to whom Zapatero was, his top foreign policy adviser said that McCain wasn’t confused but that he was spelling out his policy towards Spain.

As I also mentioned, ThinkProgress stated, and I at the time agreed, that if that were the case, then McCain would be carrying forth “President” Bush’s childish grudge against Zapatero for keeping a campaign promise and calling Spanish troops back from Iraq.

Well, according to MSNBC, the Spanish Embassy in D.C. agrees, releasing a statement that says; “The only plausible explanation for McCain not wanting to meet with Zapatero, is that, like Bush, he is still angry about Spain pulling its troops out of Iraq in 2004. If McCain carries that much of a grudge then how in the world will he rebuild our relationship with Europe, as he has said he would do.”

Well… I have a different opinion.

McCain was confused…and rather than admit their dotty old candidate was confused, they created this faux reason that McCain is upset with Mr. Zapatero because he withdrew the Spanish forces from Iraq.

Right now, no one in the gop (and everyone in the DNC) wants to connect Bush and McCain, so why would his foreign policy expert do just that by saying McCain’s response was due to his stance? He would have to know that people would put two and two together and realize it’s because they ‘snubbed’ Bush by recalling their troops.

Five months ago McCain said he would meet with Zapatero… and while I understand it’s McCain the Flip-Flopper we’re talking about, explain to me why he would suddenly change his stance about a country that has been a US ally for decades?

Anyone?

The Friday ‘BushWhack’ing

TGIFF!

• After a meeting last night with various members of Congress, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department, the federal government has plans to help banks dump bad mortgages (meaning that the government would take on tens of billions of dollars in mortgage assets) which Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson outlined this morning… more details as they emerge.
• Sen. McCain announced his economic plan in Wisconsin today. What it boils down to is the McCain Administration (God is that gonna give me nightmares) will hire a band of psychics to predict when companies are about to go under… actually it would consist of a new government agency (cuz we definately need more of those) that would work with the private sector and federal regulators to identify institutions that are weak and fix them before they go broke. But doesn't my version sound better?
• Sen. Obama has stuck back at McCain’s AIG attack ad yesterday which had attacked Obama’s lack of opinion on the AIG bailout. (I’m not going to be an apologist, but more so a ‘clarifier.’ It wasn’t so much a lack of opinion, as Obama said that he didn’t know enough of the “details” of the plan to offer up an opinion. ‘Cuz heaven forbid we get a Chief Executive who would wrap his head around a problem before spouting off about it. Eight years of that was more than enough…)
• Another day, another republican getting off Scott Free… no charges will be filed against former Rep. Mark Foley for lurid messages that he had sent underage congressional pages. (Great message to send guys, dumbasses)
• Speaking of which; Gov. Palin’s husband Todd has refused to testify in regards to TrooperGate…
• Who would have ever guessed there would be voter problems in a hotly contested election?
• And have we mentioned? That Sen. McCain had another mental lapse this morning? That or he’s not very bright. While speaking about his economic plan this morning, McCain said; “That’s why I believe that the chairman of the FEC should resign and leave office and be replaced.” Um… I’m almost 100% certain he meant the head of the SEC, which is the Securities and Exchange Commission and NOT the FEC which is the Federal Election Commission and has very little (okay – absolutely nothing) to do with the current financial crisis…

And finally…

In case you didn’t hear that Hell froze over, conservative blowhard Bill “Do you want to see my microphone” O’Reilly decided to throw “President” Bush under the bus yesterday by saying the “economic chaos” on Wall Street marks the “end of President Bush’s legacy.”

Said O’Reilly (emphasis is all mine); “He’s done. He’s through. … He will now go down in history…as an ineffectual leader. And I’ll tell you the reason why, it’s poor leadership on his part. The people that he picked to run certain things have been disastrous. And no leadership and now Americans are getting hurt.”

Ouch…

How badly have things fallen when O'Reilly is not only a voice of reason, but is pissed at a sitting, conservative president?

Well said Kos

Good advice from the man who knows, Markos Moulitsas Zúniga; “Now you see why panicking last week was so ridiculous? This race will turn on a dime. It's a good week for Obama, but nothing guarantees it will stay that way. So keep an even keel and don't lose sight of the big picture. It does no one any good to run around like chicken littles every time a bad poll shows up. And it's no good to prance around like this thing has been won this week, either. […] We've got what, six weeks to go? Remember that. Things will look good some days, less good others. But one day or one week won't make or break us. We're playing for November. Don't forget that.”Amen Markos, amen!

Remember what Scott and I have been saying; don’t let your guard down… don’t think the election’s won… politics is fluid and can change at any minute.

Keep hammering away at McCain and his lies… keep hammering away at Palin’s lies… keep hammering away at the gop’s lies.

Just keep hammering…

Another ‘senior moment’ for McCain?

Seriously, the best writer in the world couldn’t make this stuff up....

According to Spain’s El País, earlier this week Sen. McCain wouldn't answer whether he would be willing to meet with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

The reporter asked multiple times; “Would you be willing to meet with the head of our government, Mr. Zapatero?”

Not surprisingly, McCain couldn’t offer a coherent and logical response;

McCain proceeded to launch into what appeared to be a boilerplate declaration about Mexico and Latin America -- but not Spain -- pressing the need to stand up to world leaders who want to harm America. […] “I will meet with those leaders who are our friends and who want to work with us cooperatively," according to one translation. The reporter repeated the question two more times, apparently trying to clarify, but McCain referred again to Latin America. […] Finally, the questioner said, “Okay, but I'm talking about Europe - the president of Spain, would you meet with him?” The Senator offered only a slight variance to his initial comment. “I will reunite with any leader that has the same principles and philosophy that we do: human rights, democracy, and liberty. And I will confront those that don't [have them].”

Ooooookayyyy… you’re asked about a NATO ally, and respond with this strange answer about America's friends and enemies before proceeding on and talking about Mexico.

The reporter reminded McCain at least twice that she was talking about Spain and the Spanish Prime Minister, and yet McCain stayed on Mexico while rambling on about America's enemies.

Today McCain’s foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann was hastily trying to defend his boss’s beleaguering answer by writing a letter to the Washington Post in which Scheunemann claims McCain did know who Zapatero was and was simply stating his refusal to commit to “a White House meeting with President Zapatero.”

Well… first of all, Zapatero is Spain’s Prime Minister and not its President… second of all, given our treaty-bound obligations under NATO, we kinda have to meet with him. So the excuse for the bizarre answer still doesn’t hold water.

We can either focus on the fact that McCain either had another senior moment or simply doesn’t know that Spain is in Europe, and NOT South America… which is horrifying enough.

Or we can focus on how the McCain campaign’s (so-called) foreign policy expert doesn’t know what position Mr. Zapatero holds… again, horrifying enough.

Or we can point out that this is yet another flip-flop from the master, as McCain said he’d be happy to meet with Zapatero five months ago.

My vote would be for all of the above… how about yours?

If McCain actually DID know what he was doing (and really, what are the chances of THAT), and was declaring his refusal to meet with Spain’s leaders, one has to wonder why.

Well… it can be summed up with four words; Bush. Iraq. Troop withdraw.

Remember, shortly after his party came into power in March, 2004 – days after being attacked by al Qaeda - Zapatero kept his primary campaign promise and withdrew Spain’s troops from Iraq.

This apparently pissed off “President” Bush.

Consider this from the LA Times, via ThinkProgress;

Zapatero’s first action was to make good on a long-standing campaign promise to remove Spanish troops from Iraq, to the overwhelming approval of Spaniards but the great irritation of Bush. […] Eighteen months later, there has still been no one-on-one meeting between the two leaders, and rhetoric has been harsh. It got so bad at one point that Bush refused to take Zapatero’s phone call of congratulations last year after the president won reelection.

So it seems very likely that McCain's bewildering response as to whether or not he would meet with Zapatero may indicate that he either too old and confused to be given the ‘key’ to our country, or he is interested in making Bush's grudge against Spain permanent U.S. policy.

Explain to me how a McCain presidency would NOT be a continuance of a Bush presidency? ‘Cuz I don’t think McBush got that message.

Regardless of the answer, we cannot have him in charge for the next 4 years.

The Thursday ‘BushWhack’ing

TBWA is prepared to lead…

• “President” Bush canceled his trip to focus on the economy. Speaking this morning he said that the U.S. economy still faces “serious challenges” but recent actions have been taken to stabilize the economy and are “necessary and they are important and the markets are adjusting to them. […] My administration is focused on meeting these challenges.” (Wow… we’re saved. It’s so hard to express sarcasm in the written form… are we really going to accept and believe that the administration that’s, at least partially, responsible for the current economic crisis is going to help us get out of it? What’s that saying about fox guarding henhouses?)
• New polls are out… one says Obama is leading. One says McCain is leading. One says it’s a dead heat, so take your pick as to which one you want to talk about today…
• Gov. Palin took part in a town hall meeting yesterday and when asked for “specific skills” she could cite in response to those (like anyone with a brain of their own) who don’t think she has a good grasp of international affairs, she replied, “I am prepared.” McCain than hastily jumped in and blathered on and on about her being the Alaskan governor and blah, blah, blah… (We get that you say you’re prepared… that’s all we’ve been hearing since you were rolled out. But could you give us, I don’t know, actual examples of how you’re prepared that don’t involve proximity to where you live? We’ll be waiting…)
• A new New York Times/CBS News poll shows that 68% of Americans believe McCain would either continue Bush’s policies or enact more conservative policies. The better part of the poll, I think because it goes against what McCain is trying to paint himself as, is that 57% view McCain as “a typical Republican” and not a maverick… (Nice… if McCain’s ‘maverick’ message is getting lost, that’s good news for us. Let’s hope it continues…)
• “American legal influence is waning”
• Sen. Chuck Hagel (r-NE) said in interview with the Omaha World-Herald this week that he questions whether Sarah Palin has the experience to be president of the United States… apparently Mr. Hagel is a tad behind the times…
• And have we mentioned? That former Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer believes “President” Bush is a liability for conservatives running for election or re-election? Being interviewed by Bloomberg Television, Fleischer said that the President’s presence at campaign events would “hurt the party and hurt John McCain.” (Awww, poor Georgie… no one wants him to come to the party. Is it wrong for me to laugh my ass off?)

And finally…

In case you hadn’t heard; the lies just keep on coming…

Today McCain said; “Two years ago, I warned that the oversight of Fannie and Freddie was terrible, that we were facing a crisis because of it, or certainly serious problems. […] The influence that Fannie and Freddie had in the inside the Beltway, old boy network, which led to this kind of corruption is unacceptable and I warned about it a couple of years ago.”

How about that… McCain called the crisis 2 years ago… wow, he must—what’s that? Read what he said 10 months ago when someone asked him about the subprime mortgage crisis?

“But so, in this whole new derivative stuff, and SIBs and all of this kind of new ways of packaging mortgages together and all that is something that frankly I don’t know a lot about. [...]
But I don’t know of hardly anybody, with the exception of a handful, that said ‘wait a minute, this thing is getting completely out of hand and is overheating.’

So, I’d like to tell you that I did anticipate it, but I have to give you straight talk, I did not.”

So he didn’t predict it before he predicted it...

The lies! They burn!

When people smarter than you suggest something, listen!

I wrote yesterday in the ‘Daily’ that five former Secretaries of State (Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, Warren Christopher, James Baker and Henry Kissinger) favored the US talking to Iran as part of its strategy to force Iran to cease its nuclear weapons program.

I think more needs to be said on this because, not surprisingly, the traditional media is ignoring the story.

When five of the most intelligent and influential Secretaries of State from both Democratic AND republican cabinets say you should do something; by god you should do it.

Unfortunately, not only is the traditional media ignoring their advice, so is “President” Bush and “President” Bush: The Sequel (aka John McCain)…

And that’s shameful.

We’re not talking about Liberal or conservative pundits or bloggers or what have you, we’re talking about a group of people that led our nation’s foreign policy for a combined 16 years… that’s astounding, and it’s experience one should pay heed to.

While all five of them said they favored talking to Iran, it was Henry Kissinger that came out in full-throated favor of negotiating with Iran “without conditions.” And this is important, because the McCain camp supposedly talks to Kissinger about foreign policy, and if McCain is talking to Kissinger but still calling for an irresponsible course of action… something is wrong and proves that McCain is no longer the ‘maverick’ conservative he once was.

The Bush(whacked) Administration toes the line of ‘regime change or bust’ when speaking of Iran – which instantly brings about images of the disastrous Iraq boondoggle – and doesn’t want anything to do with Iran/US conversations.

McCain has not shown any grasp of understand or interest in finding out about Iranians, he would much rather appeal to the (mis)conceptions of average Americans and make bad jokes about bombing Iran.

So when speaking of regime change, it won’t be until the US sees a regime change that talks between the two nations develop… and since we know that won’t happen under a Bush: The Sequel regime, the only choice is Sen. Obama.

Somebody needs to say it...

R E C E S S I O N !!!!!

There I've said it.....

Evidently the UK has no problem admitting it, whats wrong with our government?

KEMP'S NOTE: Come on Scott, you know what's wrong with our government... it start with 'B', ends in 'H' and has (the) U.S. stuck between a rock and a hard place...

Nice…

From the campaign trail today in Elko, Nevada, Sen. Obama;

“Yesterday, John McCain actually said that if he's president that he'll take on, and I quote, ‘the old boys network in Washington.’

Now I'm not making this up. This is somebody who's been in Congress for twenty-six years, who put seven of the most powerful Washington lobbyists in charge of his campaign.

And now he tells us that he's the one who's gonna' to take on the old boys network. The old boys network? In the McCain campaign that's called a staff meeting. Come, on!”

There’s only word to describe this quote…

Pwned!

Happy Constitution Day!

On this date, September 17, in 1787 thirty-nine brave men signed the U.S. Constitution and changed the course of this country and of history…

Over the last seven years, The Constitution has been ignored, trampled upon, distorted and forgotten by the current administration.

If you’ve never read it, Scott and I suggest you take some time out of your busy schedule today and give it a read… pausing often to reflect on the principles our Country was founded upon.

The Wednesday ‘BushWhack’ing

Unbeknownst to many, TBWA invented the umlaut…

• Even though the economy is ‘fundamentally strong’, the Federal government is giving AIG an $85 million bail-out. Giving the Feds a 79.9% stake in the company…
• The House of Representatives passed an energy bill yesterday that will clear the way for more off-shore drilling. The bill was passed by a vote of 236-189 with many republicans opposing it because it will allow for new oil drilling between 50 and 100 miles offshore, far shorter than they wanted. Democrats will tell you they didn’t cave because the bill doesn’t allow for as much drilling as republicans wanted… (I’m speechless and have yet not crafted an appropriate response, give me time)
• A prominent Hillary Clinton supporter and member of the Democratic National Committee’s Platform Committee, Lynn Forester de Rothschild, will endorse John McCain for president on Wednesday. (And with that, she loses her membership in the DNC Platform Committee and all future chances of helping the Democratic Party. And Ms. Clinton needs to come out today and lay a smack-down on her… and if the announcement contains the words ‘Palin’, ‘woman’, or ‘glass-ceiling’, she needs a helping heaping of reality hoisted upon her…)
• Sen. Obama is working hard to sway Indiana voters, and their 11 electoral votes, to go Democratic this election year… something that hasn’t happened in 44 years when Lyndon Johnson took the state… stay tuned, as he might just be able to do it.
• We all have heard by now that Gov. Palin won’t cooperate with a probe into Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan and whether or not he was fired because he refused to fire a state trooper that had divorced Palin’s sister… but why?
• Speaking of Palin, she’s going to take questions in an “open” forum today in Arizona…. (uh-huh… I’m sure it will be ‘open’ like “President” Bush’s are ‘open’, meaning controlled questions from friendly voters in her running mates home state. I am not impressed…)
• Apparently realizing that the investigation wrapped up just a little too neat and tidy right after the main suspect suddenly died, FBI Director Robert Mueller will seek an independent review of the process and evidence that allowed the FBI to wrap up its anthrax investigation despite unanswered questions… (and because it’s the FBI, I’m sure it will be an honest and thorough investigation…)
• And have we mentioned? That Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice now has “the upper hand in the administration in her struggle with Cheney”? That’s according to former Cheney adviser David Wurmser who told The Jerusalem Post that because Rice now has that upper hand and is against an attack on Iran, “President” Bush “will not attack Iran to halt its nuclear weapons program before his term ends in January.” (I don’t know what to find more interesting. The fact that Cheney’s standing in the White House has diminished, or that Bush won’t try an end-around and attack Iran as some inane and disasterous attempt to help McCain’s cause. Having said all that, I’ll believe it when I don’t see it…)