March 10, 2006
From My Perspective
Okay. Let's see what steamed me this (now yesterday, a girl has to work for a living, after all) morning.
1. The public outcry about US ports being turned over to a company in Dubai, has caused some Republican legislators to defy the President's wishes. There has been a public outcry. The legislators are actually hearing from their constituents. Where has "the public" been when they needed to be outcrying about something really important like preventing a fascist dictatorship? torture? the erosion of civil liberties? the supremest takeover of the supreme court? ---- Gambling? Watching reality TV ? Listening to hate radio? NOW they're writing letters ?!?--- They think the enemy is outside of the USof A. Silly girls. P.S. Looks like someone is backing down (a demonstration of democracy at work?). The Rover and the Dick had a much better idea. Turn the ports over to an, as yet unnamed, US owned company. There are those who are guessing that said company is known for effective management of other important projects like the rebuilding of the Iraqi intrastructure, and New Orleans. So what's a little cost overrun among friends . No need to open the bidding for the ports contract when we can go with a company we know and trust, unlike those Muslims in Dubai.
2. And then, right on the heels of the first act pf Republican defiance in five years (see above), George W. asked for a line item veto. Line items are all those little things that our fair legislators tuck in the corners of crucial bills, that really shouldn't be there, but do benefit the folks back home (not all of whom are developers). The Alaskan bridges to nowhere were probably line items. Put it together folks. A line item veto is the cattle prod that's needed to keep the disobedient running with the Republican herd. With the stroke of a Presidential Pen, when anyone strays, W. can make certain that discipline is meted out immediately -- no federal funds for the old home state, ever. Not that the tactic isn't used now, (ask Olympia and Chuck), it just takes so much more time, like that damn FISA court
3. The revelation that white college boys, as a prank, are responsible for the church burnings in Alabama. I am concerned that white boys have been given the message by this administration, their policies, and the media they support, that white men are superior, (In spite of Condi's public presence) --. the message that racism is just fine. Goodness, those boys may be sentenced to a FIVE years in prison. If you're black you can get that for possessing a little pot.
Why, oh why, do I write political entries when Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman are out there -- in a much more timely fashion, I might add. Hubris?
Here, take a whack at it yourself faux news simulator
From now on it's bad poetry for me.
Photo note: Doesn't this picture make you feel short?
Posted by Dakota at March 10, 2006 01:29 PM