Category: US Politics

by Dave Mindeman

Bye Scooter. Just when I was getting to know a little bit about you, you are gone. No more briefings with the big Dick. No more policies to spin the right way. No more wars to conjure up. It's out to pasture -- in disgrace.

But there is one thing you could do to clear your name (and with a name like Scooter, it needs clearing).....you could squeal like a slop eatin' pig. Don't let those neo-conniving jerks dump it all on you! We know you weren't doing all this on your own -- we know it, you know it.. put it on the record and stick it to the man!

Big Dickie was lying to all of us all the way. He told Russert he didn't know anything about Joseph Wilson. Ha! He told us Saddam had gas weapons, biological weapons, and fixing to get nuclear weapons. Ha! C'mon, Scooter, you know its all a crock! Don't be a sacrificial lamb for the Dickster! Spill it all!

And for Pete's sake how can you let Rove get off the hook? Do you think the master liar wouldn't sacrifice your behind to save his own? How many times did he appear before the grand jury? 3? 4? You don't think your name came up?

Come on Scooter..don't take the rap. Spill your guts. We're talking book deal!... and you can laugh all the way to the bank.

Category: US Politics

by Dave Mindeman

Tomorrow may be indictment day. Hmmmmm.

I know it is too much to hope for... you know, to watch Karl Rove march off to jail. But this constant speculation has done at least one thing.... made King George nervous.

Do you think this God fearing man is praying about this? Let's see, how would it go........

"Please God, I have tried to do your bidding as I alone can interpret it. I need your guiding hand to "spin" this matter away. You know I have never lied --well at least I've never been caught. And you know I try very hard to put war in its proper perspective, you know, as a punishment thing. Don't forsake me now in my hour of Rovian need. It sometimes gets hard to make people understand your will, as only I know it. I need Karl to make people understand You as You talk to me. Karl is my right hand -- wayyyy right, and I need him. Protect him as he passes through the Valley of Indictment and have him fear no liberal, for thou art with him, via me. Amen."

Category: US Politics

by Dave Mindeman

Transportation has certainly been neglected in this country and I would have no problem with a 5.9 mile bridge project that cost $220 million under normal circumstances, but this bridge is in Alaska... it connects an island to the mainland... and the total population of the island is 50 people. As one person put it, forget the bridge, just buy everyone on the island a Lear Jet and you come out ahead.

On top of this, Alaska has no state income tax or sales tax and each citizen gets money back from an ongoing fund composed of excess oil revenue.

Things don't add up unless you understand how Congress works. Alaska has Senator Ted Stevens chairing the Senate Appropiations committee. One Senator with an enormous amount of funding authority....and Alaska is the beneficiary.

Well, not too long ago, Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma had the audacity to propose an amendment which would have switched the funding of that "nowhere" bridge and transfer the $220 million to the Hurricane victims. Senator Coburn is a real jerk but this idea had merit that even a liberal could love. It is simply too logical and understandable -- and it was defeated 82-15... the bridge was saved and the Hurricane victims would have to hope for a bigger deficit.

Senator Stevens was incensed by the amendment proposal and only 15 Senators were brave enough to risk incurring the wrath of the Chairman who could line out their own pork projects.

You have to wonder how far any fiscal discipline can ever get when the ability to walk away from the trough is so weak. Conservative principles? They are traveling on that bridge -- headed nowhere!