Saturday, March 31, 2007

Pelosi's Spring Break Buddies

horn tip: Perish the Thought

Wheeeee Whoooooooo! Talk about lining up a P.A.R.T.Y. for spring break ---- Let the good times roll! Nancy Pelosi certainly knows how to pen a guest list!

Guess who's on Pelosi's flight to the Middle East!!??

Give up?

Keith Ellison (Muslim from MN), Holocaust Survivor Tom Lantos and Republican David Hobson (Ohio).

How's that for bipartisan planning? Wonder who gets to stand next to her in Israel? In Syria? In the West Bank? How about in Iran? Iraq?

Uhhhhh ..... somehow, I don't think she'll be too welcome in Iraq right now. Or Afghanistan. Or anywhere her immediate safety might depend on the troops she's under-cutting.

She's also got Democrat Reps. Henry Waxman of Los Angeles, Louise Slaughter of New York and Nick Rahall of West Virginia with her.

On second thought, she could let Hobson walk in front while in the Green Zone and Ellison could maybe ride shot-gun if she dares to venture beyond the Zone ..... Look for Lantos in Israel.




Tuesday, March 27, 2007

The Slow-Bleed Bonanza

Dems have figured out how to buy votes legally (unlike what can be done in a general election when folks go to prison for doing it). Pad the bill with pork! Hungry politicians will swarm like flies to tainted meat.

Meat tainted with the blood of our troops.

Enjoy those broccoli and shrimp and parking lots and pay raises and beef and fruit. Gorge yourselves on the blood of our troops, you traitors.

Soon we'll have your names to nail on the wall like skunk skins. Bad meat, bad smell. Bad for our troops who stand between the President and the slow-bleeders' desire to play politics with their blood.

See how the vultures voted today (to exclude any reference to timelines for troop withdrawal from Iraq) at the DEFEAT CAUCUS.

We'll watch for the vultures to vote again this week.

Friday, March 23, 2007

Nancy's BBQ: Pork 'n Murtha = Pink Pickle

Ouch. The far left is not happy with Speaker Pelosi right now. eh. eh. eh. Pinko protesters were escorted from her hallowed halls today.

Who cares. She and Murtha had just porked up a bundle of billion$$$ in add-on's to entice Dems and 2 Pubbies to vote for the war funding request -- including a section to pull troops from Iraq in 2008.

May their sidewalks be layered in cow pies.


President Bush responded to today's House vote:

"...The purpose of the emergency war spending bill I requested was to provide our troops with vital funding. Instead, Democrats in the House, in an act of political theater, voted to substitute their judgment for that of our military commanders on the ground in Iraq. They set rigid restrictions that will require an army of lawyers to interpret. They set an arbitrary date for withdrawal without regard for conditions on the ground. And they tacked on billions for pet projects that have nothing to do with winning the war on terror. This bill has too much pork, too many conditions and an artificial timetable for withdrawal.
As I have made clear for weeks, I will veto it if it comes to my desk. And because the vote in the House was so close, it is clear that my veto would be sustained. Today's action in the House does only one thing: it delays the delivering of vital resources for our troops. A narrow majority has decided to take this course, just as General Petraeus and his troops are carrying out a new strategy to help the Iraqis secure their capital city...."

What "pork" was attached?

Check out these for starters:

$500 million for emergency wildfires suppression; the Forest Service currently has $831 million for this purpose;
$400 million for rural schools;
$283 million for the Milk Income Loss Contract program;
$120 million to compensate for the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the shrimp and menhaden fishing industries;
$100 million for citrus assistance;
$74 million for peanut storage costs;
$60.4 million for salmon fisheries in the Klamath River region in California and Oregon;
$50 million for asbestos mitigation at the U.S. Capitol Plant;
$48 million in salaries and expenses for the Farm Service Agency;
$35 million for NASA risk mitigation projects in Gulf Coast;
$25 million for spinach growers;
$25 million for livestock;
$20 million for Emergency Conservation Program for farmland damaged by freezing temperatures;
$16 million for security upgrades to House of Representatives office buildings;
$10 million for the International Boundary and Water Commission for the Rio Grande Flood Control System Rehabilitation project;
$6.4 million for House of Representative’s Salaries and Expenses Account for business continuity and disaster recovery expenses;
$5 million for losses suffered by aquaculture businesses including breeding, rearing, or transporting live fish as a result of viral hemorrhagic septicemia;
$4 million for the Office of Women’s Health at the Food and Drug Administration; and
A minimum wage increase, which is the subject of separate legislation.

In the Senate, these are the anticipated pork attachments:

$1.5 billion to the Army Corps of Engineers for recovery along the coast, including funding for Hawaii for an April 2006 flood;
$850 million for Department of Homeland Security grants ($625M for rail/transit grants, $190M for port security grants, and $35M for urban area security grants);
$660 million for the procurement of an explosives detection system for the Transportation Security Administration;
$640 million for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program;
$425 million for education grants for rural areas;
$388.9 million for a backlog of Department of Transportation projects;
$165.9 million (including $60.4 million for salmon fisheries in the Klamath Basin region) for fisheries disaster relief;
$75 million for salaries and expenses for the Farm Service Agency;
$48 million in disaster construction money for NASA;
$25 million for grants through the Safe and Drug Free Schools program;
$25 million for asbestos abatement at the Capitol Power Plant;
$24 million to sugar beet producers;
$22.8 million for geothermal research and development;
$20 million for reimbursements to Nevada for “insect damage;”
$12 million for Forest Service money requested by the president in the non-emergency FY2008 budget
$3.5 million for guided tours of the Capitol;
$3 million for sugar cane; and
Allows the transfer of funds from holiday ornament sales in the Senate gift shop.

Updates later .....

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

A.N.S.W.E.R. COWers

It was cold and CrOWded. Especially if you were a protester. Not much room (unless you took to the middle of the street or an isolated parking lot near the Pentagon) for antics or outrage.

They came, they saw, they COWered.

Let this video be a warning to those who were herded in the anti-war protest in DC Saturday ....



Cud you replay it, please?

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Plaming Cow

I'd throw up, but I have this cud in my mouth which I MUST swallow.


Uh, do witnesses rehearse their speeches with committee chairmen? It sure sounded as if Plame and Waxman had been practicing before they met today.


Get the full joke here and here.


Not sure who was more effective -- Plame or the she-man in the pick shirt performing behind her.

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Fool me once ....

HA! It's a no-no to "bait and switch" in the real world, but not in politics.

Watch this Salon video.

Sacred Cows and Trojan Horses

We're not in the problem-solving business, so don't get too excited about this blog. OK?

We will be looking at a few topics (scenarios) which are often treated as sacred cows -- persons or things routinely considered immune to criticism or questioning.

The list is in the right sidebar. It may be updated without warning. After all, nothing is sacred around here -- especially a list of allegedly sacred cows.

peace.