Three disturbing facts from this week's news cycle: Larry Craig likes to take a "wide stance" when, depending on whose version you believe, either doing his business or looking to get busy; Katrina fall guy Michael Brown now works in the private sector as a disaster response advisor (Best advice: "Don't do what I did!"); and the Government Accountability Office has so little faith in the honesty of the Bush administration, it felt the need to leak its negative assessment of progress in Iraq to prevent it from being watered down by the White House. In my mind, these stories have all blended together, with President Bush calling a news conference to announce: "Heck of a blow job, Craigie."
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Let’s shut out all the babble
While we play a game of scrabble,
And look for a word with seven letters.
That will rid us of our woes
And bring home our GI Joes,
And let us live in peace without those fetters.
The streets of Iraq are flowing in sewage, guts and blood,
And the president they elected is nothing but a dud,
While “W” keeps sending troops to win a war?
While we sit here on our asses,
In huddled, frightened masses,
And wish we had all voted for Al Gore.
North Korea is getting nasty, they got a nuke at last,
Then said, “Don’t try to stop us, or that’ll be a “Blast”.
And the “Bushies” said, “That’s not Our woe.”
While our treasury’s depleted,
Nothing’s been completed,
As Uncle Sam runs slowly out of dough.
So let’s get back to the board
For that seven letter word,
And, by George, I’ve really got a peach.
It’ll solve a lot of troubles,
And pop a lot of bubbles.
I think that I can finally spell…
I1 M3 P3 E1 A1 C3 H4
Here's what I said about Harry Shearer's post of 8/31, which for some reason didn't get posted about the Larry Craig "sincident":
Well, give Senator Craig credit for one thing. I mean, when was the last time you heard anybody mention “Idaho”?
The media, for whom sex scandal is like sow’s milk to piglets, are going hogwild over the allegations of Senator Larry’s Craig’s uh. . .foreshortened tryst in a men’s room at an airport. We're told that toe-tapping in a public rest room is a code for soliciting a brief encounter, either that or a throwback to the Tallulah Bankhead Situation – “Dahling, do you have any toilet tissue in your stall?" We could give the senator the benefit of the doubt--maybe Larry wanted to know if the policeman had two fives for a ten?
EVEN THO 4 OR 5 CONGRESSMEN HAD THEIR PLANE SHOT AT A FEW DAYS AGO.
MOSTLY LIKELY CLEARED THE STREETS FOR HER AND SHE HAD A HELICOPTER HANGING OVER HER.
THESE SHORT-VISITS TO IRAQ AND REPORTING BACK TO US MEAN NOTHING. WE HAVE TO HEAR FROM THOSE WHO LIVE THERE----AND WHEN WE DO ---ITS NOT GOOD NEWS AT ALL.
IF AFTER 5 YEARS 160,000 TROOPS CANNOT MAINTAIN PEACE EVEN THO WE INCREASED NUMBERS SINCE JANUARY----THEN ITS TIME TO LET THE IRAQIS FIGHT IT OUT---THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT.
However, the most disturbing news this week in my estimation is that we are about to massively attack Iran.
Why aren't you SCREAMING for the U.S. to DO NOT ATTACK IRAN, Dear Lady?
All else pales besides this, does it not?
To have had to endure that terrible day as observers as most of us did is nothing compared to what the people onboard those planes and inside the buildings targeted had to endure.
I wonder how many of those people voted for bush. I wonder how they'd feel if they knew he'd use their tragic deaths as an excuse to go on a killing rampage in Iraq.
He has no moral integrity. There are no depths to which this fool won't stoop. And the republicans have as much blood on their hands as he because they refuse to hold him accountable for his actions.
And by the way...anyone who voted for this war doesn't deserve to be president. Period.