Bad for my TV

Learned during Nixon's tenure to shut off the TV rather than to start yelling at it...or worse - toss something at it : - )

So that's exactly what I did when Steve King, a republic from Iowa got his allotted 1 minute and put up a chart that had the letters SCHIP going down the left and it read thusly:

Socialized,
Clinton-style
Hillarycare for
Illegals and their
Parents

Figured then that the real issue was not about health care or insurance for children - it was another TV op spot for republics to show their hatred of the American people.

And those republics voted to stick with mr 24%...

Even tho that ship is going down - and many are leaving - the rats that voted to uphold the veto are staying with their "man."

Another rat leaves the sinking ship

This rat, though, was one of the persons who caused the damage that made the ship sink..

Gonzo is gone! Well going - he's sticking around til mid September - probably gets some sort of monetary reward or retirement packages for being there til then...

In this Administration, the only two originals left standing [call them captains if you must] that will stay on this sinking ship til the end - are Bush and Cheney...

I'll have to go back and see if other originals are left but my recall is that they are gone. Of course the replacements are just as bad but what do you expect . This is the Admin that can't speak truth, can't help but lie, tortures, kills, maims, and threatens and all who support it agree with those as basic American principles...

Having lived in D.C. for so many years, I have good friends who worked at the DOJ - good attorneys who wanted nothing more than to protect us and the Constitution....they were non-partisan in their work and they were passionate about their jobs.

Most have now retired - but Ia can almost guess they are sitting with huge grins on their faces right now...but also wondering if the department they loved so much can ever again garner the trust of the people that it once had.

On rats and sinking ships

The king george ship is sinking and the rats are leaving as fast as they can.

Rove is going, Hastert is not running and neither are some other repugs...the announcements are coming at a pretty good clip.

Are they afraid they may never be i the majority the rest of their lives?

And today tony Snow[job] said he was leaving soon - but hey this guy is different and is a bit more honest -
HE SAID NEEDS MORE MONEY - poor baby can't live on a pr salary.

Having lived in D.C. for a long time, I get angry at those who say they can't live on a high Federal salary. Many of the residents of Washington, D.C. make nowhere near that federal salary level and they are expected to live their lives and often with no help from the Federal government - who won't even allow them to have a vote in Congress...yet tell them what laws they are allowed to keep [after a vote passes them] and what money they are allowed to dole out and how....

Most politicians, when they give themselves raises, tell us they need the money as it is expensive to live in D.C. - DUH!
Half a million people call D.C. home and make do with less than your Senator or Representative makes.

So mr snowjob - go back to faux noise and do the rah rah repug thing again while telling us you are fair...but thank you for at least not saying you want to spend more time with your family...[the now boring repug lie....]