Took my usual look at Buzzflash over my morning coffee, and found their usual way with words especially inspiring. Not only do their stories, and the headlines they provide horrify and appall this morning, they actually tell a story.
*A federal intelligence court judge earlier this year secretly declared a key element of the Bush administration's wiretapping efforts illegal. So what do the Busheviks do, ask Congress to make their illegal activities legal. If Reid and Pelosi give Bush and Cheney more totalitarian power, they might as well resign as leaders of their respective houses. Bush and Cheney should be impeached, not emboldened to conduct more spying on Americans.
Ruling Limited Spying EffortsMove to Amend FISA Sparked by Judge's Decisionhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/02/AR2007080202619.html?hpid=topnews*TIME Magazine: "Once again, it's President Bush against just about everyone else. This time, he's vowing to veto the Water Resources Development Act, a wildly popular collection of 940 Army Corps of Engineers projects, including $3.5 billion for post-Katrina Louisiana and $2 billion for the Florida Everglades. The House passed it Wednesday night in a 381-40
, and the Senate vote should be similar; archliberal Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Barbara Boxer of California and archconservative ranking Republican James Inhofe of Oklahoma can't agree on the color of the sky, but they're both pledging to override a veto."
Setting the Stage for More Katrinas?
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1649403,00.html?xid=rss-topstories
*Bush promises to screw Katrina victims yet again. In a sharp and unexpected blow to Louisiana, President Bush threatened Wednesday to veto long-awaited legislation that would enhance hurricane protection along a Gulf Coast still struggling to recover from the devastating storms of two years ago.
Levees, coastal projects at riskBush threatens to veto costly bill http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1186038179288290.xml&coll=1And, then there was this... The Coup de Gras; The post-script to Bush's cruel, and probably intentional failures to lead -- at home or abroad; Mage me want to spit up my coffee!
*If you wonder why Congress doesn't do well in the polls, one of the easiest moves would be to raise required mileage standards for new automobiles. Thanks to Pelosi, House Democrats have decided against the increase when they take up energy legislation later this week.
House Drops Tougher Auto Fuel EconomyBy H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer
After weeks of uncertainty, House Democrats have decided against a confrontation over automobile fuel economy when they take up energy legislation later this week.
Two proposals to boost the required mileage for new automobiles were submitted Wednesday for consideration as amendments to the energy legislation, but they were withdrawn by their Democratic sponsors.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2007/08/01/national/w161437D77.DTLDo you see the pattern? Failure after failure to lead, protect and defend the people of the United States while failing to provide what was "promised" abroad, thereby besmerching our reputation, globally. We all knew this about Bush, didn't we? But, to see it laid out this way in this sordid and shocking little microcosm of "news" is still horrifying, isn't it?
Just as I was dealing, though, with the horror of reading about what Bush was up to, the last headline and story -- the one about Congress rubber-stamping yet another FAILURE of this administration, while doing NOTHING to stop him MADE ME GO CRAZY.
Wake up and smell the Coffee, my friends. We are being F*CKED OVER and the Congress, "led" by Nancy Pelosi, is aiding and abetting it... over, and over, and over again.
I'd say e-mail, write LTTE's, call, fax... but to whom? None of this has helped so far. So, any ideas about what to do NOW? The media, the government, and our own Congress is giving us scandal after scandal, while screwing us over on the important issues. They keep us so busy looking here, and looking there, and mad about this and mad about that, that we can't even FOCUS.
I am at my wits' end. Any thoughts or ideas? We have to get our sh*t together, and rally to support each other, because no one else is, or can.
*Thanks to buzzflash.com
TC