shrubs and shrubs

Well shrub #1 is at the microphone and shrub #2 is stalking in from the garden.....but that's not creepy enough - you have to hear what shrub # 1 saying..

1- seems he forgot that Congress did pass legislation to fund our children [the troops]...it's he who wants to veto that legislation

2- seems he also forgot that many of our children are now stuck in Iraq way past their go home dates - well because he wants an escalation

3- he also forgot that many of our children are being sent back sooner than they are supposed to return - AND still without the armor and other protection that is needed

4- he also forgot that the citizens of the USA voted in this current Congress because they also find the situation unacceptable.. but we are not forgetting that this entire mess rests squarely on the shrub's shoulder and he has to someohe get his brain around the fact that the citizens of the USA do not agree with him or his policies...and the DO agree with with what COngress is proposing...

And if this bill is vetoed - it is the shrub who will be failing to fund our children - not Congress and not the SA citizens.

[for those who have not read some of my former posts - I use the term our children as I hate the word troop - troop is a way of distancing yourself from the fact that every military person has a mother and father. They are OUR children over there - even if they are not biologically yours....

In just a few short months

The Democrats have been in power since early January - only a few short months ... or weeks - since this Thursday it will be only 11 weeks! And they have taken time off....

Look at what has been accomplished in 11 WEEKS or less!

It is amazing what scrutiny and sunshine can do ...

Congress is supposed to engage in oversight but in the last 6 years they did nothing that resembled oversight. Instead - they gave way the store, the wallets and our children to a greedy power driven bunch of cronies in D.C. and around the country and globe.

We have no military readiness, we have no money and we have lost the backing of the rest of the world - well except for those in the shrub's pocket... like poodle guy...

Our education system has gotten worse but it costs more
Our health care system is sick....
Our care for veterans is abysmal
And so on....

Imagine if we had had actual oversight 6 years ago and a press that actually did it's job of asking tough questions...

Would be be in a better place today? Sadly the answer is yes...

Can we learn from this? I hope so....but given the parroting of the right wing sound machine in the papers and on TV...it will take more and more of the corruption making headline for that percentage of the population who still believes in shrubs to face actual reality....

Another sad "number"

Today the 3000th of our children died in Iraq. The news clips say that shrub is mourning this death but from what I read he also added that there is no quick end to the war on terror.

I never could understand how anyone can have a "war" on a concept....Wars require specific enemies - not words or actions....

But it's 3000 of our children who have died over there and how many more Iraqi children have died? For what? And why do more have to die?

I hope the new Congress comes in and stops this insanity.

Peace and a saner New Year