Holy crap

So not only has Supreme Court Chief Justice Rehnquist up and died, now Georgie has the gall to nominate Roberts for the job?

Holy hell....

Please, oh please, let the Democrats grow some spines between now and the nomination hearings...PLEASE!!!!

The Ugly Truth

The truth has reared its ugly head this week...it has become plainly obvious that this administration does not care about this country's poor people. To put it mildly. To be even more blunt, the reason that the people that were stuck in New Orleans did not get help sooner was basically because they are the poorest of the poor, and are primarily African-American. Not Bushie's constituents, so he does not care. Kanye West pointed this out on live TV the other night, and luckily, nobody caught that it was not scripted on the live telecast (and he was smart enough not to curse while he was ranting, so the network "censor" was not smart enough to use the 7 second delay). Of course, they removed it from the later west-coast replay.

The racism that often stays hidden in this country has shown itself in many other ways as well. Kanye West also brought up the fact that the MSM has been making a point of saying white people are "foraging" while black people are "looting". The conservative talk radio nutbags are doing everything they can to insinuate (without actually saying) that the situation in New Orleans is due to the victims' color. And around the internet, the REAL scumbags are starting to come out from underneath their rocks...not even attempting to hide their racism. I have seen numerous blogs (brought to my attention by liberal blogsites) by some outright racist MFers who aren't at all ashamed to show their colors.

I am not a Pollyanna; I know racism still exists in the good old U S of A. It just pains me to see that it is still so widespread, and to see that people are proud to show it.

Pass The Buck - What A Surprise

So, the whole country - no wait, the whole world - has finally discovered your administration is completely incompetent; you have shown your true colors and have been called out for it by just about every news agency (including FOX, for goodness' sake!), as well as one of the most popular entertainers in the rap world (you go, Kanye!). What do you do?

Why, you do what you always do of course - blame someone else! In this case, try to pass the buck onto the local and state government for your lack of action. Never mind that they called for martial law, or that they had been trying to get aid and assistance into the area and it had been BLOCKED by federal agencies. There were breakdowns in the system on all levels, but let's face it - the final responsibility for relief and rescue during a disaster of this proportion lies at the federal level.

This is classic Bush administration/neocon work - slander whoever you can to try to avoid the blame, repeat as many times as necessary, and have your minions on conservative talk radio keep repeating it until the sheep actually start believing it to be true. However, as the following post from a thinking, rational person states, what they are attempting to do is false logic:

To address just one of these pathetic excuses, the attempt to shift the blame to the state and local governments is I believe a version of the fallacy known as Ad Hominem To Quoque, in which someone tries to defend a particular action, or inaction, by pointing out that others have done the same thing.In other words, maybe the state and local governments did screw up. So what? That doesn't mean Bush didn't screw up too. And, since he is the President, and since he's built his whole political career on the idea that he keeps Americans safe, the magnitude of his failure eclipses anything you could say about Ray Nagin or Kathleen Blanco.It's sort of like, you're on trial for murder, and your defense is that other people commit murder too. ~ Stephen Stralka

Thanks, Stephen, for letting me use your post to hit the point home.