Dubya’s Press Conference – the Tale of a Babbling Redneck Puppet
Oh boy … I saw Dubya’s press conference moments ago.
I have a few issues:
If Bush wants to set up private accounts to bolster perceived short comings in Social Security – at a cost of one trillion or more out of our pockets – by reducing revinue to Social Security … these private accounts will be backed by the US Government but investment by the Government in Social Security isn’t backed by anything but “a filing cabinet full of I.O.U’s” … Bush has no plan. It seems like he has some secret aganda – a plan or a deal with a financial brokerage of some sort.
And Bush made what I HOPE is a faux pas. He said something like finding the people who cause harm to Americans and get them out of harm’s way.
Was this just a blunder or a slip?
He also said he didn’t pay any attention to polls equating the polls to a “a dog chasin’ his tail…”.
George Stephanopolous, whom I actually respect, did a good job of poingint out flaws and contradictions in the press conference however he lost a point or two when he said the President was on top of his game tonight.
To me, it sounded like a dumb redneck puppet.
Our grandparents had to dig bomb shelters to protect them from a false threat the government instilled with propaganda.
We, in this later generation, have a more real threat. We need to build GOP shelters.
This can’t be Good or Right
I’m bothered these days by what is happening in the Senate. The thought of any one political party having complete control over the entire government is unsettling – it is
against most of what this once-great and hopeful nation stands. The idea of the GOP gaining such power is disturbing at its most comfortable level.
Frist and DeLay need to be stopped.
It seems, however, that the media spotlight dimmed on other crooked Republicans (Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld…) to shine more brightly on some new thugs.
Of course all Republicans.
I’m glad they represent the best interest of Americans and darn those silly Democrats for obstructing the Real Americans who just want to move government along.
We’re doomed.
Soon Education will be eliminated. Science will be outlawed. The Media will be fully state-run instead of just its whipping post and low-rent prostitute. Freedom, we we used to know it, will be auctioned off – or what’s left will be auctioned off.
Assume false identities and horde Cash. Learn to farm and make what you need. Prepare for canibalism.
Senator Dodd and Resolution 138
US Senator Dodd replied to my email – or maybe his office did. Either way, it was strangely almost personal sounding as if a human wrote the letter. Senator Dodd’s reply informed me of Resolution 138. Read on and pack your bags.
We’re doomed – I see the White Horse …
Dear Dr. McGloin:
Thank you for contacting me regarding judicial nominees and
the use of the filibuster. It was a pleasure to hear from you.
I share your concerns about this issue. As you may know,
under the Constitution, the Senate is charged with the duty to
provide “advice and consent” to the President with regard to his
nominees. This function is particularly important regarding the
nomination of federal judges, who are appointed for life. I have
voted to confirm conservative as well as liberal nominees.
However, I also believe that it is the Senate’s responsibility to
ensure that members of the federal judiciary possess an
appropriate judicial temperament and respect longstanding
American values such as equal opportunity and the right to
privacy. For that reason, I have supported many nominees with
whose views I have disagreed, because I believe they demonstrated
the qualities that, ultimately, are vital and essential to being
a good judge: independence, fairness, thoughtfulness, and respect
for mainstream legal thought.
At the heart of the current controversy regarding nominees
is President Bush’s decision to nominate judicial activists
possessing a far right-wing conservative ideology. While it is
reasonable to expect that a President will nominate judges whose
philosophies are similar to his own, it has also been a long-accepted
practice for Presidents to send to the Senate moderate
nominees capable of winning bipartisan approval. Unfortunately,
President Bush has nominated a substantial number of candidates
whose views, and judicial practices, are well outside the
mainstream.
I am also gravely troubled by Republican proposals to
effectively eliminate the rights of a substantial number of
Americans by making it easier for nominees with extreme views to
be confirmed. On May 9, 2003, Senator Bill Frist (R-TN)
introduced S.Res. 138, which would amend Senate Rule XXII, to
change the number of votes required to invoke cloture, or cut off
debate, on an executive branch nomination. This proposal
threatens to allow the majority to turn the Senate into a rubber
stamp for a president’s chosen nominees. It would fundamentally
undermine the Senate’s role in our constitutional democracy, cede
enormous power to the Executive branch of government, and upset
the deliberate system of checks and balances intended by the
Framers of our great nation. To change the rules of the Senate
in this manner would do lasting damage not only to this
institution, but to the Republic that it has served so well for
over two hundred years.
Thank you again for contacting me. If you would like to stay
in touch with me on this and other issues of importance, please
visit my web site at http://dodd.senate.gov and subscribe to my
online newsletter, the Dodd Digest. Please do not hesitate to
contact me again if I can help you in any way.
Sincerely,
CHRISTOPHER J. DODD
United States Senator
Senator Dodd:
Thank you for informing me of Resolution 138.
With work and my other projects consuming most
of my time, I have trouble keeping up with world
news and events.
The GOP is running rampant and no one seems to care or want to stop them.
We’re doomed.
Maybe Hunter S. Thompson was right when he checked-out. He was outraged by Nixon and Reagan but Bush H.W. and Bush W. and their handlers drove him over the edge – or maybe he saw Death on the White Horse. Maybe it wasn’t Hell who followed but the GOP. And maybe it wasn’t Death on the white horse, it was Bush.
He came for our souls and minds.
Dr, Brian G. McGloin
Meyers and Foul Vermin
Senator Dodd:
I hear some senators are actually considering William Meyers III for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
This is a bad bet any day even with borrowed money on solid terms.
Things are getting uglier and uglier for those of us not blindlingly wealthy or Proudly Uneducated and Ignorant of the ways of the GOP.
I must admit a slight lean to the left but I don’t follow any Party Line or any school of thought other than my own observations.
Please keep one more foul, Corporate-sponsored thug from polluting the Government.
Dr. Brian G. McGloin
I have so much to write my Congressman about. I’ll just write a little at a time. I’m sure no one actually reads any of this – especially rants like the one above. It’s not abrasive enough for my taste. In fact, it’s too polite and benign.
Fear not.
After a string of my letters, he’ll hope to read about Death on a White Horse. He’ll hope for Hell.
