Occupant@1600 PennsylvaniaAvenue

Dear Occupant,

I would like to begin here with a few quotes from a person you might have heard of. He was is somewhat famous, a hero to many, one of my favorites and you drive by his monument frequently. I will let President Thomas Jefferson Speak for himself:

" Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrants will, and always so when it violates the will of the individual. "

"Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit; by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. "

" I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country. "

Isn't it amazing that that words written hundreds of years ago are so profoundly accurate today. What was it that he saw in the makings that alerted and frighted him so ? The truth has sure come to pass hasn't it.
I would like to now direct your attention to the numbers below. I obtained them from The Department of the Treasury web site this morning http://www.tres.gov/tic/mfh.txt, titled Major Foreign Holders of Treasury Securities-2000-2005. I then pulled up the tally for the latest of 2007 which happened to be October 2007. Now these figures show the entire year but for the sake of space I will only show the columns of figures from Dec of 2000 and Oct 2007 and lets see what we find, shall we.

You are if I am not mistaken, as of late been referring to yourself as being and having been
"FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE"
these last seven years. Well lets just take a look at part of that record in black and white.
MAJOR FOREIGN HOLDERS OF TREASURY SECURITIES
(IN BILLIONS OF DOLLARS)
HOLDINGS 1/ AT END OF PERIOD

OCTOBER 2007 DECEMBER 2000
JAPAN 591.8 /3317.3
CHINA,MAINLAND 388.1 /60.3
UNITED KINGDOM 2/ 296.5 /50.2
OIL EXPORTERS 3/ 130.3 /47.7
BRAZIL 112.8
CARIB BNKNG CNTRS 4/ 78.1 /37.4
LUXEMBOURG 70.1 /29.6
HONG CONG 54.2 /38.6
TAIWAN 53.4 /33.4
GERMANY 44.1
KOREA 43.3
SINGAPORE 35.9 /27.9
MEXICO 33.2 /15.3
SWITZERLAND 31.7 /16.4
TURKEY 26.5
CANADA 21.4 /14.2
THAILAND 20.0 /13.8
NETHERLANDS 19.5 /11.4
SWEDEN 15.3
RUSSIA 14.9
FRANCE 14.7 25.1
INDIA 13.7
ITALY 13.6 /20.8
IRELAND 13.1
POLAND 12.3
BELGIUM 11.3
ISRAEL 10.2
ALL OTHERS 139.5 /157.8
GRAND TOTAL 2,309.5 /1,015.2

OF WHICH
FOREIGN OFFICIAL 1,446.6/609.2
TREASURY BILLS 180.2 /150.3
T-BONDS & NOTES 1,266.3/456.2

DECEMBER 17, 2007 NOVEMBER 16 2007 ( 2006 REVISED)

So Mr. Occupant, are you please with yourself yet ? Not only did you manage to more than double the amount but you also managed to ADD an astounding 11 more unsuspecting countries to the list. I imagine we now can bestow yet another new title to you as well, THE DEBTOR IN CHIEF.
1/ Estimated foreign holding of US Treasury marketable and non-marketable bills, bonds and notes reported under the Treasury International Capitol (TIC) reporting system are based on annual Surveys of Foreign Holdings Of US Securities and on monthly data.
2/United Kingdom includes Channel Islands and Isle of Man.
3/ Oil exporters include Ecuador, Venezuela, Indonesia, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, The United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gabon Lybia, Nigeria,
4/ Caribbean Banking Centers include Bahamas. Bermuda, Caymen Islands, Netherlands Antilles ,Panama and British Virgin Islands.
What I personally astounding is your ability to show the amount of contempt of others for doing no more than yourself in the past seven years much less the last one. How do you possibly have the audacity to beret the Democratic Congress for "spending like a teen with a credit card" and try and pawn yourself off as have being "fiscally responsible" these same years is incredible to say the least. You, the very same individual who single handily been the root cause of this country's fiscal instability since the great depression of 1929 have the nerve to speak out against others spending.
Was it not you who came into office to a balanced budget and a national debt of $ 5 trillion dollars?
You took this country into an unjust war based on your lies and did not have the nerve to ask your fellow countrymen to pay for it. You knew the lies would not hold up for long, so you came up with plan B ( I would never give you the credit for any of this on your own, by you I mean your army of adviser's) borrow the money and label the request "EMERGENCY SPENDING BILLS" for the wars. Perfect who could deny you that request. Worse still, who did you go to borrow the money from ? Communist China. Are you pleased that we now owe them more than $2.5 trillion dollars. It was also under your watch that they became members of the WTO, and allowed them the luxury of now tariff"s on their exports but retaining unbalanced tariff's on our imports. But this is the way you sought it to be on all of our trade agreements is it not ? This year was also the year of all the recalls from that same country. Which also proved to show how glaringly inefficient our FDA has become and how obnoxious its secretary is. How proud you must be.
I for one do not believe in coincidences. Your tax cuts helped only your friends. The richest of the rich. These very same people who have also stripped this country of all of its manufacturing infrastructure in lieu of slave labor at a tenth of production price. Bottom line is what counts, right. These same friends by the way have also managed to ensure that their businesses now live in off shore accounts so they maneuver around paying taxes as well. Coincidence yet again.
The price of oil is at an all time high (again) this week, and you must be pissing your britches with glee. What is the running excuse this week. Turkey going to bomb the pipeline ? Fog in the Gulf of Mexico , Instability in Nigeria ? Duck future's are down? How about that all of your crooked friends are speculating with the futures market and are holding on until oil tops $ 100 a barrel ? That a possibility ? Considering that when you took office a barrel of crude was $ 25 what additive has been put in to a barrel to make it jump so high? Are your Saudi friends masturbating in it, I just do not get it.
We have all (except for your flunkies in congress and that pesky 29%) concluded that Iraq has been about oil and nothing but all from the very beginning. But this is taking your travesty to far. Your game plan is now affecting real people at home in a real time way. Thanks to you gasoline is back to $3.00 a gallon, the price of home heating fuel is UP and inventories are DOWN. To further your lust to enrich yourself and friends in the ludicrous mandates of a not proven, environmentally unfriendly oil needing to producing product called Ethanol you have further exacerbated the problem.
The cost of goods are up, especially food. Foods that require corn. Corn that is needed for Ethanol. Yet another coincidence ?
Not only does Ethanol require oil products to produce it, corn is a soil poor crop. It requires vast amounts of Nitrogen to fertilize it and tremendous amounts of water usage to make it grow. These issues are bad enough considering the drought conditions the Midwest has experienced. But the issue extends further still. It is known as the Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico. The is believed to be caused by the runoff from the chemicals coming down the Mississippi ending up in the Gulf. Fishermen are having to travel out further to catch fewer shrimp, crabs and muscles.

Home ownership has been something you chirped about during your campaign and your first term. Between you and Greenspan you certainly got your wish. I think this entire mortgage will eventually be traced back you you et al. But that is my opinion. Yet you have waited until there was no hope for millions of families and then came out with a half assed plan to help the least amount of people you could. I expected no more, no less. What does astound me is that this situation has spiraled so out of control. Did not anyone anywhere have any concept of lending outrageous amounts of money to people they KNEW would never be able to repay would never turn around and bite them all on the ass ? Or was this part of some bigger ominous plan to stagger the economy in general. If so, your master plan is working.
The environment that has been created has the banks running scared they are afraid to lend any money. The dollar is sinking as badly as the Titanic. Fuel is up, Food is up, Consumer Confidence is down, the Stock Market (already over-inflated) is like a yo-yo, Unemployment is rising, Housing Market not expected to rebound until 2009, Building Non-Existent, Home Sales Nada.
Yet according to you THE ECONOMY IS DOING JUST GREAT.
Well Mr Occupant, I beg to differ. Yet again your taking down a slippery slope with no end in site. The only comforting thought is that you'll soon be gone.
By the way.....never mind.

Pocket veto a gift IF............................

IF
In and of itself a small and almost meaningless word. A precursor to a threat or a question even as a qualification. Yet as in the past we have learned that such small words can and have great meaning. Because now we all know how important the meaning of the word is, is.
If, the now democratic controlled Congress in their collective stupor's can open their eye's and realize the opportunity that the putz-in-chief has just handed them with the pocket veto, they might actually succeed in doing what they were sent there to do.
I doubt that even the putz has realized the bonanza he has inadvertently handed back to the Congress. On his worst of days he would never have given anyone one such an opportunity as this.
What he has done and what I hope Reid and Pelosi realize is give them a New Years present that even he cannot touch, because a pocket veto need not be re-voted on needing a two third majority win.
The Defense Spending Bill is now back in their hands to either take the offensive provision out of fight it out with the putz.
BUT, while the bill is in Congress hands IF they do not tell the clerk to do something STUPID like to REMOVE the offending provision, but instead just leave the bill sit until they return from their extended holiday break, then the fun can begin.
For you see, in this massive bill, is also $ 186 billion dollars for the wars in Iraq and Afganistian. How many of you even realized that these lily livered, spineless wimps of alleged leaders whe have in the Congress slipped this puppy into the defense spending bill so that the public would not come and tear down the capitol stone by stone. This amount is in ADDITION to the $ 70 billion dollar supplemental that they were forced to pass with "no strings attached".
SO THE $ 186 BILLION DOLLARS IS BACK IN THEIR HANDS.
The $ 70 billion is a done deal, we can forget about that. But at the rate that they are eating money in Iraq this will only be 2 MONTHS WORTH. ( 15 BILLION A MONTH).
So now, if there ever was a time in their pitiful existence as leaders of both these house's of government, to ever bold stand up with a straight posture and rigid spine and Mr. Reid and Mrs Pelosi both having finally grown a pair of balls to look Mr. Bush in the eye and proudly say FUCK YOU.
As for the metaphor's, the ball is in their court, there is no time like the present, you will never have an opportunity like this again, the goose has laid a golden egg (?), this has been handed to to you on a silver platter, strike while the iron is hot and most importunately YOU NOW HAVE AN IRON GRIP ON THE PURSE STRINGS.
He has inadvertently given you back the opportunity to finally do the mandate that was given to you in November of 2006. Stop this idiotic war. BRING OUR TROOPS HOME.
Once again you have that power, a power that has slipped thou your grasp time after time this year out of your cowardice. Your outright fear of being labeled as "not supporting the troops".
That has been the biggest nonsense bit of propaganda but out by the GOP and you have fallen for it hook line and sinker.
The stupidity of you blunders this year are only outweighed by your cowardice by your actions in both the House and the Senate. In the Senate Mr Reid, more than 60 times you let the GOP force you to cloture. Why ? Why not let them filibuster until they turned purple ? Why not let the entire country see for themselves what the tactics are really all about ? But no, in your infinite wisdom you choose to stand at your podium stooped over like the old man that you are and whine. At that you are quite accomplished. Almost as good as Bohner is at crying on demand. I won't even bother going into all of your private earmarks sir, I believe Americans have already made up their minds about you.
As for you Mrs Pelosi, before you even had the gavel in your hand, these words that will live in infamy "impeachment" is off the table. Excuse me, but the last time I checked there were 434 other members of the House, as well as roughly 300 million people in the country. So who in the fuck are you to come up with such an all uncompromising statement on your own ? To whom did you arrive at this decision with ? Was it while you were watching the torture tapes that by law you should have put a stop to (per your oversight responsibilities) ? Or where you distracted when you were directing earmarks to your husband's business ? Or perhaps the earmarks to spruce up the waterfront where you just happen to be a slumlord ?
One just has to wonder of you both , other than yourselves, just who are you working for ?
Explain to us please, if you can, how this opportunity will be any different from times past ?
Will you, are you, for once and for all be capable and show the fortitude required of you to take the stance required of you that is of and for the people for whom you represent ?
Which leads us back to IF?
IF
If only I had the hope that these people,this body of our government would do what is required of them, I might, perhaps maybe feel more confident.
If this wasted past year in any indicator of what is to come, well, we are in deep shit.
If only a portion of these Congressional rug rats are even remotely of the opportunity here, there is a hope. No matter how minute.

Your Congress people are home for the holidays.
Find them, call them, e-mail them, seek them out, point out this opportunity and demand that they take the proper course of action and BRING OUR TROOPS HOME.

HILLARY WHO ?

I don't know about the rest of your out there but there are some things about this woman that really bug me and I have a few questions that I would really like answered.

1- What rock did you crawl out from with this notion you could possibly become president ?

2- Every day without fail you speak of your " strength hand experience ". Would you stop dodging questions and try answering some ?

3- On that same note, why is it that you have never answered a question directly ? Oh, you ramble on around the periphery of the subject but I for one have never heard you give a definitive answer to a direct question.

4- Why is it that you have never taken a direct concrete position on anything ? Yet again you hem and haw but never commit to anything.

5- Since when did being the WIFE of ANYTHING qualify as a qualification as a stepping stone towards anything ? If that were the case, would not a Drs. spouse not then be able to write prescriptions ? Or a lawyers spouse charge for dispensing advice to someone ? So HOW can being the wife to the President count as any type of qualification for YOUR campaign ?

6- Does the fact that your screwed up so royally in your misguided attempt at health care count as one of your " qualifications" ? If so, please explain how.

7- While you first lady did you as your husband did hold a super duper security clearance ? Were you included in his daily briefing from the various inelegance agencies ? Were you allowed into the situation room downstairs ? Did you attend cabinet meetings ? Did you broker deals with Congress.

8- If you did any of the above (which you should not have been), Is this why you have sealed your papers in the National Archives so no-one may see them?

9- What else are you hiding in those papers and documents ? Is it not part of a campaign to be as open and forthright as is humanly possible with the public ? Seeing as you never give a straight answer would it at least be better to have some idea of what transpired during those eight years so we would all have an understanding of your outrageous claims of experience ?

10- What have you accomplished as a Senator ? Have you sponsored any major or minor for that matter any piece of legislation of any consequence since you have been there ?

11- Why is that before each any every major important vote (if you happen to be there), you wait on the sidelines to see how the vote is going, how the wind is blowing, how the tide is turning so to speak, before you cast your vote ?

12- Do your feel like (how did you put it) "the old boys club" when you cast your vote like a true Roman in the Coliseum with your thumb up or down vote ? I do watch C-Span. A lot.

13- Was your move to New York, as opposed to going back to Arkansas a political ploy to make you more electable in a state with much more money as well as well as more vastly well more connected people than back home ?

14- Why New York ? Your from Chicago. Were the wife of the governor of Arkansas (why didn't you run for governor of Arkansas based on that experience ?). Then became first lady where you accumulated all of this vast immense body of experience in everything from running a massive government monster to balancing a budget to manging the entire armed services of millions of men and equipment not to forget the justice department as well as all of the other federal programs that you became so well versed in not to forget their millions of employee's. Lest we not all of the intrigue of intelligence both foreign and domestic. My oh my how busy you must have been.
Also we must remember all of the careful planning that you put into planning dinners of state, planning menus, choosing the right wines and heavens, choosing the proper the right couture, can not do with the first lady looking like a frump can we ? What to wear, what to wear ? So many decisions, so much to do. Lets see now is a Ben Laden a red or a white wine ? Do you think I can get my hair done while we bomb Serbia ? So much to do, so much to do.
Did you invite that sweat girl Monika something or other to diner this week ? Poor ugly girl, looks so alone, I feel so sorry for her, maybe that Ambassador from Schmukastan will take a shinning to her. All their women look like goats..
Considering you had to start planning decorating the White House for CHRISTMAS in MARCH, however did you get all of this experience under your belt ?

15- Back when your husband was dealing with terrorism, and the poor dear Monika scandal was festering.? Did you advise him as to whether or not to bomb the Sudan or Afghanistan ? How involved in the process were You ? Did you and your husband discuss these matters with the Joint chiefs of Staff as well as intelligence ?

16- What exactly once and for all is your position on this endless, wasteful, destructive war in Iraq ?

17- How naive and stupid do you really thing We The People Are ? Do you think for a moment we believe that Mr. President Bill Clinton as actually going to take a second seat to YOU ? Are we supposed to believe that he will sit in some obscure office in right field having fun with interns while you attempt the run a country ? I think not.

Now for the final few questions.

18- What are you prepared to do in your first few days in office to UNDUE the damage to our Constitution that the current administration has done ?

19- How will you assure the country that you are not yet another megalomaniac with an insatiable power hungry motive behind all you intend to do ?

20- Will you guarantee that all returning soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan are tested , no matter the cost, for uranium poisoning ?

21- What will you do to address the National Debt which will be more than 10 trillion dollars ?

22- How will you effectively deal with the distrust and animosity the country has towards both the Congress and the Office of the President in General ?

23- Will you do away with unconstitutional laws that have been created by this administration ?

And finally:

24- Will you as President do the following:

a) Hold George W.Busch and his administration accountable for their crimes committed against this country and its peoples ?

b) Will you insure that the innocent people being held hostage that have been tortured and abused at our secret prisons and at Guantanamo and wherever else they may be, are either set free or brought to a legitimate speedy trial ?

c) Declare and sign a Proclamation or law that states the the United States will NEVER AGAIN stoop to the levels of depravity, deceit and dishonor as has occurred during this administration in the past seven years ?

d) On the day you take your oath of office, in your very the very first words you utter, the you as President would commit to honoring all of the conventions of the world that have been honored prior to Jan 20, 2001.

e) As one of your first acts see to it that George W Bush and his entire administration are brought before any and all tribunals world wide for the crimes against humanity, use of depleted uranium, and genocide.

I have written the above in the hope of getting some honest answers but realize I have no chance in hell of that ever happening. But is was fun to write and get of my chest and maybe, perhaps show some other people who think this woman who has been anointed by the biased media from the get-go (clue number one) might see some valid points to questions who this person really is and what her claims to fame really are.

A BIG FAT NOTHING.

PPC/ PUTZ PRESS CONFERENCE PART TWO

I'm sorry but I cannot get the Putz-in-chief's press conference out of my mind. That to me is a very scary thing. Seeing as I try not to think of him at all. But when I think of the second part of that staged question of "qualities he would like to see in the next president" I can't get that answer out of my head. "It is all about the people you surround yourself with".
This from a person who dragged every misfit from Texas with him to Washington.
I cannot help but think of the bumper sticker "some town in Texas is missing an Idiot". I think pretty much sums it up.
Which paradigm's of virtuosity that he surrounded himself with could he be speaking of. Which one of his ever so faithful ass kissers is his favorite? Are they not all professional "yes" men that he surrounds himself with? It is almost a dead reckoning sure as shit certainty that he incapable of an original thought without Chaney's help, but the few times he is alone, his yes men jump to appease.
The list is long to be sure, and many have already jumped ship or have fallen on their swords and limped away covered in blood to protect him and in shame. For their loyalty gained them nothing but humiliating perversion of their reputations from the administrations smear mongers.
All that said, lets begin our little journey into those with witch the putz-in-chief surrounds himself with.
One must begin with of course Bushes Brain aka Turd blossom aka Petunia Ping (that's mine, always thought that's who he looks like) Karl Rove.
What a piece of work !
On Jan 1, 2005 he made the following statement:
George W. Bush is one of the most intellectually gifted president's we've ever had.
Of all the ass kissing, sucking up, sleazy deplorable statements anyone has ever made of this idiot, this takes the cake.
Each and every one of the horrendous lies, scandals, cover ups, interference with investigations, to blatant outright bullshit in your face repetition of distortion of facts often enough to make the palatable have come from this warped person's brain/mouth.
The old adage of if you tell a lie often enough with enough conviction eventually it will believed has become an art form with this administration.
I just finished ready a synopsis of old Petunia here and to say that his history is interesting would be an understatement. That he is a sleaze-bag undeniable. That he has the ethic's of a roach motel owner, undoubtedly. The most interesting point I came away with was that when he was 9 years old he had a fist fight over Nixon which he lost. To a girl. Enough of turd-blossom, you know him well enough.
Let us go on to the CONVICTED FELONS.
Yep, you not seeing things, convicted felons as in having gone before a federal judge and been convicted. Of course keeping in family tradition aka Skooter Libby, daddy Bush pardoned seven of these sterling citizens.
Let me thank here author London Yank for his Feb 04, 2005 article in Mother Talkers from where I got some of my info.
Not convicted, but investigated during the Iran Contra scandals is none other the the Deputy Director of the State Department JOHN NEGROPONTE. He worked closely with CIA battalion 316 in its kidnapping, torture and assassinations and then covered up its crimes. Like I said he was investigated but not indicted. He did get another chance when he was appointed .
ELLIOT ABRAMS: Plead guilty to covering up human rights violations including a massacre of 1000 civilians by lying to the US Congress. He was pardoned by Bush daddy.
He new position as deputy national security adviser will having him spouting the pearls of wisdom on the joys and wonders of human rights and the democratic process to places in need of hearing this message...i guess like Iraq ?
JOHN POINDEXTER: Convicted of 5 felony counts of false statements, destruction of documents and obstruction of justice. They were overturned over some nonsense that his testimony might have influenced wittiness's at his trial. As co-founder and sr v.p at Syntek technologies he founded the Genoa surveillance system. Coincidentally, i think not, Mr. Poindexter is currently the DIRECTOR of the Information Awareness Office at the Pentagon. Yet another new spy department. Well guess which new surveillance system they are going to use. You got it Genoa.
Otto Reich: While not indicted was censured for "prohibited covert propaganda activities" A nasty puppy who uses Psyops personnel in the DOD in influencing the US media.
Of course there are the old standbys:
Dick Chaney: Just go to U-tube and find the video of him from 1994 explaining why it would not be a good idea to go after Sadam or to invade Iraq.
Collin Powell: Here's one i feel sorry for. He feel on his sword for nothing. This is the fool that went to the UN with his quite little pictures and made a fool of himself in front of the entire world.
Rumsfield: His name and arrogance say it all.
And you all know the play list from Bremmer to Betray us (oops) Petraus.
The names might change and the dates may change, but the one thing that never changes is the BULLSHIT.
The Putz has been singing the same song over and over for so long I do not think that any one ever listens anymore.
Oh, he got our attention a bit ago when he mentioned WW III, but not for long, because it was the same old same old. Insert country here_______. We'll use some more shock and awe here__________ and here________ and here_____.
No matter that it will be using depleted uranium and create a wasteland for basically forever. But hey, the Putz can go to the UN a declare a genocide in Darfur, but what he has created in Iraq and Afganistian does not count.
The bottom line is this:
COME HELL OR HIGH WATER, NO MATTER HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE TO BE MAIMED OR KILLED TO ACHIEVE IT.

HE WILL BE IN CONTROL OF THE OIL IN THE MIDEAST

The PUTZ in chief speaks. yet again.

A PUTZ (Yiddish) is a prick.
Thought is would offend less people if i used that term to refer to the little turd residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Yesterday, I was caught off guard. Normally as soon as I hear the little putz's voice i have the chance to get to the tv remote to change the channel. But lets just say i was caught in a compromising situation on the throne and couldn't jump up and make the change, so I was forced to listen for a time to his press conference.
The mere fact the networks still manage to give this egotistical, self-centered, self-absorbed, self- aggrandizing, self-assertive, self-assured, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-confessed, self-congratulatory, self-conscious, self-contained, self-contained, self- contradictory, self-controlling, self-deceived, self-deceptive, self-defensive, self-deluding, self- deprecating, self-destructing, self-determined, self-devoted, self-doubting, self-effacing, self-evidently, self-excited, self-existent, self-expressive, self-fulfilling, self-governing, self-gratifying, self-helpful, self-hypnotic, self-identifying, self-igniting, self-inclusive, self-incriminating, self-indulgently, self-instructional, self-insuring, self-interrelatedness, selfishness, self- justification, self-motivated, self-opinionated, self-perpetuating, self-pitying, self-possessed,
self-preserving, self-propelling, self-pronouncing, self-protective, self-referential, self-regulative, self-righteously, self-satisfying, self-seeking, self-serving, self-sustaining, self-willed (thank you Webster's) stubborn little putz still amazes me.
I know that the above might be one "self" too many, but when trying to explain this person, sometimes simple words are not enough to explain a simple man.
I realize better than to question the biased mass media in these days, as that is more or less a wasted effort. Perhaps if i was more interested in that girl (Natalie something) that was missing/killed on some island somewhere, or the blond with the big tits that OD'ed on another island somewhere. Or even better yet more ditsy blonde's who are named after some city in Europe, Venice, maybe or the other one whose parents own some hotels, motel 6 i think. Now if that's the news i want to hear then I know where to go. Any channel, anywhere, anytime. This is what 24 hour news is all about. Right ? 20 years ago there were 60 independent radio/TV owners. Now there are 5. Add to that the thanks to the putz's kroonies at the FCC it is now possible for major newspaper owners to now own radio/tv stations. So the good news will continue to flow at us 24/7. Are you excited yet ?
But i have digresses from my point. The putz's news conference.
The question that I heard, and i was glad i was sitting to hear it, was WHAT QUALITIES TO THINK THE NEXT PRESIDENT SHOULD HAVE ? You think maybe it was a planted question ? Not that anyone in this administration has ever done anything as unthinkable as that ??? At a press conference ??? Nah.
His answer though floored me and I hope many of you out there have recovered as well from this total bullshit answer.
This putz, this miserable excuse for a man, had the audacity to speak of a "firm set of PRINCIPLE'S to guide you". Excuse me, but where in the fuck would he have any idea in the world what a principle was ????
Other than secrecy, what principle's does this putz have ?
Lying, obfuscating, misdirection, interference, creating fear, lying, did i mention lying ?
He went further to mention that you learn you principle's growing up. How well he learns from a spy master father . Forget not the head of the CIA. Forget not the intrigue of those minor little scandals that putz boy put into hiding immediately upon walking into the oval office and signing his first Executive Order ensuring that his daddy's crimes and misdemeanor's and those of his buddies the often falsely exalted Ronnie Reagen's records were locked and sealed away for who knows how long into the future. What crimes you might ask ? Well, there are but a few daddy dearest is only to happy to see disappear:
IRAN CONTRA, IRAQ GATE, OCTOBER SURPRISE AND PASSPORT GATE.
You can Google any one of these for all of their wonderful sordid details and see why daddy breathed a sigh of relief. One interesting detail though, had Clinton chosen to pursue the above mentioned investigations (which were ongoing when he took office), the Bush family name might have become so toxic,we may have never wound up where we are today.
To add further insult to injury he further claimed the IT IS THE PEOPLE THAT YOU SURROUND YOURSELF WITH, TO GET ADVICE FROM THAT IS SO IMPORTANT TO THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT.
If that statement in and of itself if not enough to make you want to vomit i do not know what is.
I cannot even begin to list the names of deplorable assholes that crawled out of the Texas sands to follow this little cretin to Washington. But one name does pop to mind. Turd blossom. Rove.
Carl Rove. Remember this piece of shit. Creator of all that is evil in the putz's little warped mind. Now allegedly home in Texas "spending time with his family" yeah right. Just like the fire in Chaney's office was an accident.
So we are left with a press conference in which he makes himself to be the paragon of judicial prudence. A pillar of fiscal responsibility. A competent leader, confident in his guidance of the country. A responsible bearer of truth in the conflicting stories of the CIA tapes, of course he knew /knows nothing. And of course the omnipresent bearer of all news good from Iraq.
Who else but he knows that no matter how long it takes and no matter the cost Iraq with be a success.
Who else but he knows that the country is in financial good shape and that the mortgage fix he instituted helps but a few people on foreclosures and that the banks on teetering on the brinks off a run like in 1929, or that the economy is stagnant, or that the mortgage meltdown is dragging down not only this economy but worldwide as well. Oh and lest we not forget the falling of the dollar with not end in sight.
And who else but he would know as he stands up there in front of the country with that smug shit eating grin that we have all learned to despise so much that even though he has created his own form of Unitarian government. Even though he believes he has created all of the buffers he needs to protect himself and all of his goons from prosecution for crimes to many to list.
That one day, and one day soon, that shit will hit the proverbial fan and the walls will start to close in on him et al. And we will all be there to stand witness and witness and testify we shall as the entire world gives a collective sigh and says, at last, at long last.
Perhaps this CIA debacle will be the straw on the camel's back or the final domino to fall. One can only hope.
I for one am watching, and waiting.
How about you ?????

COCKROACHES + THUMBS UP/THUMBS DOWN = US SENATE

First let me thank Tom Degan of The Rant for giving the the push to do this. No Tom , you do not know me, but yesterday I printed out 113 pages of your post's and read them all. I enjoyed them all and realized " i can do this too". So here goes. I have no idea where or how this will go out or who will read it, but at least i can try and get all this of my chest. So here goes!

What you might ask do cockroaches and thumbs up/thumbs down have to do with our Senate?
Well i don't know how any of you out there ever watch C-Span, but i am an avid watcher and that is exactly what they are like.
Nine times out of ten whenever a senator is speaking, they are speaking to an empty room. The chamber has no one of an importance other than whatever yo yo is sitting up on the dais and whatever bored clerks are sitting around picking their noses. Rarely if ever is there another senator in the room to even HEAR what someone is ranting or raving about. Yet when it is time for a vote, out they come scurrying from all available doors, slowly at first, then like when you turn on a light in the middle of the night and watch the cockroaches run into hiding out come the senators to cast thier votes.
Bad enough that none of them want to be the first to cast their vote, because they are not capable of free individual thought, no this is nothing but pack mentality. They have to wait and see how the tide is churning to decide how to vote. It is obvious to anyone who is watching this travesty, how they fence sitters wait on the sideline's watching and waiting, counting to see how they will vote. Worst offenders of this are the so called Presidential candidates. For they must you see only be seen on the side that is "politically correct" and have to wait until the last second to cast their votes.
Which brings me to the "thumb's up/thumbs'down" schtick.
I am sure each and everyone of you has seen one movie or another with the gladiators in the ring of the Colosseum in ancient Rome, where the emperor of the time decided their fate with a flick of their wrist. Thumb up they lived. Thumb down they died.
Well this is the procedure our conceited, self centered, egotistical, better than the rest of us snobs cast their votes.
That's right. These obnoxious self serving shits stand and wait to be noticed by the clerk calling the role to see them and then with puffed out chests give the thumbs up or down as a way to cast their vote and then scurry away. Back to whatever hide-e-hole they were snuggled in, doing whatever so important thing they were doing before the vote that they could not be bothered listening to another senator speak.
This is but one of the noxious habits that i have observed that really piss me off about this entire system of ours.
One of my other favorite's is when a message is being delivered from either the house to the senate or from the senate to the house, they must be announced, then CURTSY prior to delivering their message. In 2007 they have to curtsy. Give me a break.
Their make believe courtesy to each other makes me want to vomit. My dear friend, my esteemed colleague, the senior senator from...what a crock of horseshit. Oh, and they must address all of their comments to the chair. Enough, i am ranting here.

I guess the main point to this entire blog is the question of why there are not term limits for members of congress, both houses?
I am a firm believer that one of the main reasons that this idiot in chief has gotten away with so much for so long is because of his unwavering support of both parties in congress.
No other president, at no other time, would ever, ever have been allowed to decimate the Constitution to the degree this man has without the consent of congress no matter how unintentional.
But we must remember that it was a Republican congress until last year, that more or less rubber stamped every thing his little twisted heart wanted, and now have the audacity to bitch and moan when steps are taken to try and reign him in.
Sadly though he Democratic congress lacks not only the spine but the balls as well to definitively stand up to the prick in chief, call each and every one of his bluffs and get control over its own party members.
How dare Pelosi declare that "Impeachment is off the table" as her first statement ? Please tell who died and made her Queen of the house ? How dare she come up with such a blanket statement against the will of the majority of the people t in the country.
This is the main argument for term limits.
These older statesman have been there for so long and become so entrenched in their positions and attained such powers to control votes that they have become dangerous to our alleged system of checks and balances.
Not only with their power to control and sway votes, comes the power from all of money which has come their way from the lobbyists that have been influencing them for more years than we can count. Why do you think the call the senate the "millionaire's club" ?
Senior Senator. A very very dangerous title. These people have been chairmen of committee's not for years but for decade's. They switch chairmanship's with presidential parties, but they stay the same and retain their power to influence and sway.
Pity for to new kid on the block who finds themselves caught in he cross hairs of two of these relic's on an issues they feel strongly about that they will not allow to happen.
If you need proof of how bad this problem is, if offer you the following list of members of the house and the senate.
In the senate i only listed the members who have held their position for 20 years or longer.
In the house members who are there 32 years or longer then a numerical count down to 14 years or long, seeing as there are so many more members.
Read them and Weep:

Senate:
BYRD 59 YEARS
KENNEDY 44 YEARS
INOUYE 44 YEARS
DOMENICI 34 YEARS
BIDEN 34 YEARS
LEAHY 32 YEARS
STEVENS 30 YEARS
HATCH 30 YEARS
LUGAR 30 YEARS
BACUS 29 YEARS
COCHRAN 29 YEARS
SPECTER 26 YEARS
LAUTENBERG 26 YEARS
DODD 26 YEARS
BINGAMEN 24 YEARS
ROCKFELLER 22 YEARS
MCCONNELL 22 YEARS
KERRY 22 YEARS
SHELBY 2 1 YEARS
MCCAIN 20 YEARS
REID 20 YEARS
ROBERTS 20 YEARS

Don't forget some of the above may have served some time in the house prior to moving over to the senate.

HOUSE

DINGER 52 YEARS
CONYERS 42 YEARS
OBEY 38 YEARS
RANGEL 36 YEARS
YOUNG C.W 38 YEARS
REGULA 34 YEARS
SHUSTER 34 YEARS
STARK 34 YEARS
YOUNG DON 34 YEARS
MURTHA 34 YEARS
MARKLEY 32 YEARS
MILLER G 32 YEARS
OBERSTAR 32 YEARS
PAUL 32 YEARS
30 YEAR MEMBERS 4
28 YEAR MEMBER 5
26 YEAR MEMBERS 10
24 YEAR MEMBERS 11
22 YEAR MEMBERS 5
20 YEAR MEMBERS 18
18 YEAR MEMBERS 16
17 YEAR MEMBERS 16
16 YEAR MEMBERS 49

So there you have the worst offenders. Are you happy with this picture ?
I got this information from the senates own website, in the bibliography section, looked up each person one by one for the information.

The bottom line is this. The lump sum total of all these folks years of service (?) COLLECTIVELY
is the following:

SENATE: 1,362 YEARS
HOUSE: 4,627 YEARS

So, my final thought, my final question to you all is this:

WHEN DID PUBLIC SERVICE STOP BEING A SERVICE AND BECOME A PERMANENT CAREER?