Bad Deeds for 7-23-2007

It’s Time!
Because One Million Americans Have Said So in Writing

Member of House Homeland Security Committee Denied Access To Portions Of Presidential Directive About How Government Will Be Run After a Significant Terrorist Attack – What are they hiding? Is there a conspiracy buried in the classified portion of a White House plan for operating the government after a terrorist attack? It now appears that Bush wants full control of the government after a catastrophic attack and the White House is attempting to block Congressional review of that directive.

Contact your representatives in the House and Senate to let them know your thoughts on this.

The Obstructionist Republican Senate – This year Senate Republicans are threatening filibusters to block more legislation than ever before, a pattern that’s rooted in — and could increase — the pettiness and dysfunction in Congress. Democrats have trouble mustering 60 votes; they’ve fallen short 22 times so far this year. That’s largely why they haven’t been able to deliver on their campaign promises. By sinking a cloture vote this week, Republicans successfully blocked a Democratic bid to withdraw combat troops from Iraq by April, even though a 52-49 Senate majority voted to end debate. This year Republicans also have blocked votes on immigration legislation, a no-confidence resolution for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and major legislation dealing with energy, labor rights and prescription drugs.

Republican Senator Christopher “Kit” Bond Disagrees With Himself – Bond’s January 13, 2006, press release said, “American officials told us that with the improved readiness of Iraqi military forces they are now optimistic about the prospects for stability in Iraq. …there has been significant progress combating the insurgency. He said the United States and Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) have been successful in cleaning out insurgents, turning the areas over to the ISF to prevent the return of extremists and using funds to create new jobs, particularly in Sunni areas.” However, in his statement last week to the Associated Press, he said, “The strategy we had before was not the right strategy. We should have had a counterinsurgency strategy.”

Neocon Bill Kristol Mocks Democratic Candidates by Using Their Spouses, But Declares Republican Candidate’s Spouse is Off-Limits – Kristol declares that FOX News should hold a debate of the Democratic candidate spouses, because they’re so much more interesting than the actual candidates. But when Juan Williams points out that the wife of the Republican candidate Fred Thompson should be included as well…well, that’s just unfair.

Republican Representative Chris Shays’ Anger Management Problem – Most recently he screamed obscenities at a Capitol police officer for not letting a family enter a building through a restricted-access entrance. Other recent acts that might have caused a neutral observer to question Shays’ mental state have included attacking NASA scientist James Hansen in a committee hearing, and literally screaming at the widows of Blackwater contractors who had died in Iraq in a committee hearing, among others.

Pentagons Solution to the Iraq Was? Re-brand It! – The Pentagon secretly ordered a report on ways to extend the occupation of Iraq long, long into the future with the help of “Madison Avenue” marketing techniques, the same techniques used to sell you other products you don’t need and can’t afford. Now available for the public to read, (Enlisting Madison Avenue: The Marketing Approach to Earning Popular Support in Theaters of Operation), the report cost the American taxpayers $400,000 dollars.

Mitt Romney Holds Up Campaign Sign Reading, “No to Obama, Osama and Chelsa’s Moma.”

“War is a racket. Many die. A few profit”–Gen. Smeldley Bultler
“War is delightful to those who have no experience in it.”–Erasmus

Regards,

Jim