Single What? Female...

"Get the President AWAY from the TV!"

yeah I'm sure Bush' people were randomly making sure all the TV's were on the cartoon network during the morning shows as Dan Bartlett went on each to defend the new found yet unpublished photos of George with Jack "sure I can get you in with the President" Abramoff. George, and his spokespuppets, all vehemently deny that he even knew who Abramoff was, and that all the photos prove is that Abramoff was indeed invited-with hundreds of other people-to various donor events. But perhaps they doth protest too much right now...damn they are workin' that spin machine HARD...

And speaking of having to spin things...Let's see how they work this one. Apparently within the Department of Justice's voting section, a "small and usually obscure unit", there are lawyers who are accusing senior officials with playing politics in certain voting cases such as Tom DeLay trying to wipe the Democrats off the Texas map, and Georgia essentially trying to keep black and poor voters from hitting the polls by requiring all folks to have a drivers' license or other photo ID in order to vote...one of the lawyers, by the way, who approved the Georgia ID verification was a gentleman named Hans von Spokavsky (was gonna make a name joke here, but Holly Martins at wonkette beat me to it), who happens to be the former head of the Georgia GOP, was recently named to the Federal Election Commission in a recess appointment by the president ("[cough] Katherine Harris [cough]" [also stolen from Holly Martins].

And despite the economy supposedly doing fabulously well, Ford Motors has to cut 30,000 jobs...

And, if you hadn't heard about the Medicare drug plan issues, here's some further proof that so far it's only benefiting the pharmaceutical companies...and rich people..

Lastly...if you go to MoveOn.org, you can learn how to personally present petitions to your congressfolk asking them to vote against Judge Alito...you can do that or just CALL and EMAIL them cause they are paying attention and a little extra nagging so they know that YOU are PAYING ATTENTION can't hurt.

John Adams, while in Philly in 1775 working on declaring our independence from Great Britain wrote this to an impatient James Warren:

"We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy. God grant they may. But I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls..."

And both he and Abigail quoted Daniel Defoe in their letters to each other: "Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could."

While impeachment scares me, mainly because, look who comes next, this adminsitration needs to know that we will not be ruled by noise, meanness and ignorance. Hence, it is necessary that we KEEP E-MAILING!!! E-mail, Call, Fax, Write your friends and family, the press and your congressfolk and let them know that you are PAYING ATTENTION and will not let Bush and his cronies run this country further into the ground with the time they have left. And as this is an election year for Congress, get behind your democratic or independent (or maybe even ashamed and angry republican) candidates NOW. And, as always, pass it on, pass it on, pass it on...

Peace --Alex

posted by funkweee @ 7:52 AM