Then there's the other bootlicker in the neighboring 15th District, Tim Johnson.
Tweedledufus and Tweedledufuser.
It will be a much brighter day when the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives is improved by the removal of the two aforementioned wastes of space, and they are replaced with Democratic newcomers Dr. David Gill (15th) and former CIA counter terrorism operative John Pavich (11th), among others.
Also in that speech, FDR took a shot directly at greed and corruption: "Recognition of the falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit; and there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing"
"Restoration calls, however, not for changes in ethics alone. This nation asks for action, and action now."
Not one person outside of the Democratic Party has taken an honest stand to address the serious level of corruption that permeates the Republican machine. In truth, it's more appropriate to call the lot a cabal.
We as a Nation have far more to fear from these incompetents who neither wish to nor know how to govern for the people. There are now four sitting justices on the Supremes who are members of the Federalist Society. It's sad, but most Americans don't know that. Sadder still, even more of us have no idea who or what the Federalist Society is.
Short version, the FS was begun in 1982 by Edwin Meese, William Rehnquist, et al, with funding from Richard Mellon Scaife and cohorts to reach out to and recruit young Conservative law students for internships with the Supremes and other prestigious government positions. The intent was to get American courts back to the far Right, to what this small group of individuals considered to be their proper place.
In other words, disgruntled rich white judges, attorneys and politicians who want everything their way. Some of the society's more famous (or infamous) names include Robert Bork, Ken Starr, Antonin Scalia, John Bolton, Samuel Alito, Irving Kristol, William Kristol, John Negroponte, Michael Chertoff, John Ashcroft, Clarence Thomas (oops, where'd the Black guy come from?).
Look at all we've lost since having the power of our votes being counted dismissed by the late, ungreat William Rehnquist:
Nearly 3,000 dead on 9/11 who may not have perished had someone in the White House paid attention or cared; schools going down the tubes;
loss of 1st Amendment Rights, especially when it applies to criticizing the Bush regime;
no citizen is allowed to hear the faux-president or Dark Lord Cheney speechify in person without signing his or her soul to the devil;
money flying out of our pockets and straight into the coffers of the big oil companies in the form of exorbitant profits;
all the president's friends, cronies and contributors getting fat;
tax dollars being funneled directed from the IRS to Halliburton and its subsidiaries, as well as the other no-bid contractors;
New Orleans.
I caught part of the Senate Intelligence Committee hearings on C-Span today. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), Vice Chair, was giving National Intelligence Director Negroponte a dressing down, expressing his dismay at the complete lack of candor from either the intelligence community or the White House concerning King George XLIII's warrantless eavesdropping policy. He made some excellent points, including the fact that the excuse for informing Committee Chair Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), a Bush lapdog, yet not the rest of the members for lacking necessary clearances as lame and derelict.
Rockefeller ended his time by inquiring who were all these thousands of people this invasion of privacy has saved. Before going on to the next person Roberts, ever the Bushite and hawk, made a snide comment about all those who weren't killed on the George Washington Bridge.
Where in the hell did that come from? What plot against the George Washington Bridge? Does this fool have any idea how much in the way of high-grade military explosives it would take to even make a dent in that bridge?
Then Negroponte, the career expert at taking what appears to be the truth then making it something completely different, began to speak. Interminably. And he said nothing. For well over an hour. Maybe two. I dunno, I lost track.
It was not Benjamin Franklin, but a contemporary of his, Richard Jackson, who most likely wrote, "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Despite the author, the fact remains that he's Bush #43, not King George XLIII, and has no business listening in on our telephone calls or reading our e-mails.
On the flip side, the president is a public servant and answerable to both Houses, the Courts, and the People. So where are ALL the photos, documents and e-mails the White House has been asked to produce the past five years?
Tweedledufus and Tweedledufuser.
It will be a much brighter day when the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives is improved by the removal of the two aforementioned wastes of space, and they are replaced with Democratic newcomers Dr. David Gill (15th) and former CIA counter terrorism operative John Pavich (11th), among others.
Also in that speech, FDR took a shot directly at greed and corruption: "Recognition of the falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit; and there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing"
Not one person outside of the Democratic Party has taken an honest stand to address the serious level of corruption that permeates the Republican machine. In truth, it's more appropriate to call the lot a cabal.
We as a Nation have far more to fear from these incompetents who neither wish to nor know how to govern for the people. There are now four sitting justices on the Supremes who are members of the Federalist Society. It's sad, but most Americans don't know that. Sadder still, even more of us have no idea who or what the Federalist Society is.
Short version, the FS was begun in 1982 by Edwin Meese, William Rehnquist, et al, with funding from Richard Mellon Scaife and cohorts to reach out to and recruit young Conservative law students for internships with the Supremes and other prestigious government positions. The intent was to get American courts back to the far Right, to what this small group of individuals considered to be their proper place.
In other words, disgruntled rich white judges, attorneys and politicians who want everything their way. Some of the society's more famous (or infamous) names include Robert Bork, Ken Starr, Antonin Scalia, John Bolton, Samuel Alito, Irving Kristol, William Kristol, John Negroponte, Michael Chertoff, John Ashcroft, Clarence Thomas (oops, where'd the Black guy come from?).
Look at all we've lost since having the power of our votes being counted dismissed by the late, ungreat William Rehnquist:
Nearly 3,000 dead on 9/11 who may not have perished had someone in the White House paid attention or cared; schools going down the tubes;
loss of 1st Amendment Rights, especially when it applies to criticizing the Bush regime;
no citizen is allowed to hear the faux-president or Dark Lord Cheney speechify in person without signing his or her soul to the devil;
money flying out of our pockets and straight into the coffers of the big oil companies in the form of exorbitant profits;
all the president's friends, cronies and contributors getting fat;
tax dollars being funneled directed from the IRS to Halliburton and its subsidiaries, as well as the other no-bid contractors;
New Orleans.
I caught part of the Senate Intelligence Committee hearings on C-Span today. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), Vice Chair, was giving National Intelligence Director Negroponte a dressing down, expressing his dismay at the complete lack of candor from either the intelligence community or the White House concerning King George XLIII's warrantless eavesdropping policy. He made some excellent points, including the fact that the excuse for informing Committee Chair Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), a Bush lapdog, yet not the rest of the members for lacking necessary clearances as lame and derelict.
Rockefeller ended his time by inquiring who were all these thousands of people this invasion of privacy has saved. Before going on to the next person Roberts, ever the Bushite and hawk, made a snide comment about all those who weren't killed on the George Washington Bridge.
Where in the hell did that come from? What plot against the George Washington Bridge? Does this fool have any idea how much in the way of high-grade military explosives it would take to even make a dent in that bridge?
Then Negroponte, the career expert at taking what appears to be the truth then making it something completely different, began to speak. Interminably. And he said nothing. For well over an hour. Maybe two. I dunno, I lost track.
It was not Benjamin Franklin, but a contemporary of his, Richard Jackson, who most likely wrote, "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Despite the author, the fact remains that he's Bush #43, not King George XLIII, and has no business listening in on our telephone calls or reading our e-mails.
On the flip side, the president is a public servant and answerable to both Houses, the Courts, and the People. So where are ALL the photos, documents and e-mails the White House has been asked to produce the past five years?
(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
