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JERRY TENUTO
Personally, I find Ashcrafty's singing beyond distasteful, and his songwriting ability strictly sophomoric, but you don't see me censoring him or covering the man with a sheet (he can do that all on his own, now that his home state of Missouri has resurrected 19th Century Jim Crow voting laws to go along with its antiquated Sunday "blue laws").

If you're wondering what good Christian former Attorney General Brother John Ashcrafty is doing now, he's the head of his own lobbying firm right down the street from the Justice Building in D.C. Having not just one foot in the door, as with the typical GOP ex-congreedperson or aide, but both feet, hands, head, and soul have given Ashcrafty an edge ? his rather neophyte organization already sports 30 clients in just two-and-a-half years.

You tell me if the set up could get any sweeter: Ashcrafty was at the helm of the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. Now, he helms a lobbying firm that specializes in high-tech security firms.

That's just flat out wrong!

One of Ashcrafty's clients is ChoicePoint, Inc. This data marketer that gathers public records and sells access to them had a contract with the Justice Department going back to 1998. According to its chief marketing officer, James Lee, ChoicePoint signed on with Ashcrafty in 2005 to make the connections with "the right people within the agencies who could match up our capabilities with their needs..."

The former Attorney General made a rather weak case for this sort of match up. He doesn't think the government should be involved with information warehousing. Said Ashcrafty, "The private sector does a better job of maintaining and developing information." He continued by saying that Americans "don't want government to have access to any more information than necessary."

This horse manure from the schmuck who brought us warrantless, free range wiretaps and e-mail searches!

The last non-governmental clown on the planet I want with access to my privacy is John Ashcroft! I'd sooner re-route all my electronic transmissions to Fidel down in Cuba!

Also, in those early days of the Fascist takeover Dark Lord the Dick Cheney was extra busy plotting the "energy policy" in secret with his buddies. Damn the House of Representatives and Senate for even asking what went on in those meetings! How dare the elected officials of the people want to know what was plotted?

It's none of the people's business what the Dick does in secret meetings to make more money for himself, King George XLIII and Herr Oberst Karl Rove at our expense.

Let's not forget about all their friends and the ludicrous profits they're making off our backs.

With all that money flowing in, is there any reason BP should even worry about maintenance on its Alaskan oil pipeline? Don't be absurd!

Here we go again... again. It's August during an even-numbered year. Our pals across the pond caught some al Qaeda-types (we're still not certain of their ties to the big boys of the terror movement). Herr Karl and King George are scrambling to find some way to steal the credit and turn MI5's success into yet another a rallying cry for a "Democrats are soft on terror" load of crap. So far so good ? they haven't been able to spin it into GOP gold.

I know you've heard about Dark Lord the Dick's wholly asinine comments regarding the outbreak of Democracy in Connecticut. Sure, it's old news by now, but I really need to share: "The thing that's partly disturbing about it is the fact that, the standpoint of our adversaries, if you will, in this conflict, and the al Qaeda types, they clearly are betting on the proposition that ultimately they can break the will of the American people in terms of our ability to stay in the fight and complete the task."

Everytime Mr. Five Draft Deferments says something about staying in the fight and completing the fight I want to vomit!

Five ?count 'em ? Five deferments! Most guys were lucky to get one!

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An erstwhile Philosopher and sometime Educator, Jerry Tenuto is a veteran of seven years service in the U.S. Army. He holds a BS and MA in Broadcast Communications from Southern (more...)
 
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