Tag: politics

Karl Rove – a backstabbing bitch

Honesty and integrity in the White House? Humbug!

Karl Rove’s defense to identifying Joseph Wilson’s wife as a CIA agent is: “I didn’t mention her by name, therefore I didn’t commit a felony”. What utter bullshit. That sort of defense works only for retards. You don’t become an advisor to the White House by being a retard, even under the Bush administration…I think.

Any reasonable person with a functioning brain will see Karl Rove’s word spinning as exactly that, word spinning. When you say Mr. Soandso’s wife is a CIA agent, I don’t think anyone is confused as to who was named as a CIA agent, unless Mr. Soandso has multiple wives. Joseph Wilson has only one wife.

Looks like when that defense didn’t work, he’s now saying that the media already knew she was a CIA agent, he was merely repeating information he’d heard from a reporter. This is, of course, the “if your brother jumped off a cliff, would you jump too?” defense. It usually doesn’t work for 5-year-olds either.

Step down Karl Rove. You’re about to face felony criminal charges, if there’s any justice in the White House.

I’m betting $1,000 he’ll get a presidential pardon on the same day he’s convicted though.

-TPP

Senator Barack Obama’s Knox College Commencement Address

Barack Obama, once again, delivered an awe inspiring speech during his Commencement Address at the Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.

Audio and video replays of the webcast as well as a transcript of the address can be found at the Knox College website.

The speech touches on the unique challenges the global economy imposes on Americans, what can we do about it and what we should not do about it. In particular he very eloquently dismantles and exposes the problems of the Ownership Society currently championed by our puppet leaders.

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Made a $250 donation to Kerry? Blacklisted from industry events

Time Magazine is reporting The White House has excluded at least 4 of the two dozen US delegates for this week’s The Inter-American Telecommunication Commission meeting in Guatemala City, because they have made campaign donations to the Kerry Campaign. Individuals barred from entering the meeting by The White House include people from Nokia and Qualcomm, arguably the two most important companies in the telecommunications industry in the US.

It’s unclear from the article under which authority The White House has barred these people from entering the meeting. The White House spokesperson had the audacity to comment on the issue by saying The White House thinks people that made campaign donations to John Kerry “..would not represent the administration favorably”. I guess telecommunications industry innovation and standards are now a partisan effort as well. What next? The Republican GSM spec?

Looks like Nokia’s and Qualcomm’s competitors’ campaign donations to George W. Bush are REALLY paying off now.

-TPP

Spin City

Senator Bill Frist (R-TN) comments on the Democrats opposition of some of the judicial nominees by the Republicans with “…judges deserve respect, not retaliation…”.

The Republican House majority leader Tom Delay (R-TX), however, has been spewing hate against “liberal” judges for months, most recently against Judge Anthony Kennedy.

If you didn’t know better, you could take Mr. Frist’s comments as a swipe against Tom Delay. That would be most welcome, but that isn’t the case here. Instead Republicans are engaging in pandering of the most basic kind.

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Immigrants Against Immigration 2005

Mr. Schwarzenegger, a first generation immigrant in the United States, has spoken, again, for stricter immigration policies. While what he said could be interpreted as blatant bigotry, it appears he meant to advocate for stricter border controls to curb illegal immigration.

Let’s see how many more times he manages to shoot himself in the foot with his mom and apple pie speeches.

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Republicans – God’s Chosen People – according to Republicans

Senator Bill Frist (R-TN) is joining prominent Christian conservatives in an April 24th telecast and use the telecast to declare Democrats as acting “against people of faith” for their efforts to block some of the more conservative judicial nominees.

Given that the Pope also was a great friend of the Republicans and George W. Bush especially [1], well, according to the Republicans and George W. Bush, this political move is sure to guarantee God himself will vote for Republicans for now and forever.

We heathens will be doomed to eternal political minority, as well as an afterlife in hell. According to the Republicans.

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1. Apart from that little thing about the death penalty, of course

Do as we say, not as we do

Washington Post is reporting on how the Republicans are relaxing the ethics rules so that it would be harder to report ethics complaints against House representatives. Last month they changed the ethics rules so that their majority leader, Tom DeLay, could remain the majority leader even if indicted of accepting illegal campaign donations.

The ethics rules are, in part, designed to ensure the legislators are not unduly influenced by outsiders with which the legislators might have vested interests in. This is why state government officials and judges are supposed to recuse themselves when deciding on issues they have personal involvement in.

According to the Washington Post article the Clinton administration legislated that administration officials could not hold a lobbying position until five years after resigning from their administration position. Well, on his second term, just before his people started leaving the government, he overturned that law. How convenient.

The article outlines several high profile instances of vested interests, for example Bill Tauzin negotiating himself a lucrative lobbying position within the industry he was supposed to be regulating at the same time.

One has to wonder how these fine and upstanding politicians are supposed to reconcile relaxing ethics rules on themselves while trying to impose tougher penalties on questionable business practises in the insurance and financial services industry.

And they wonder why people are turned off by politics. It seems that they only have to look in the mirror. They’d see a person more interested in serving his/her own interests, increasingly often, at the expense of the interest of the people s/he is supposed to represent.

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