Lady Liberty

Lady Liberty


Might you consider reading the following article, Bush: Treaty Outlawing Torture Doesn't Apply Beyond US Soil? The moment that I saw the article I knew that it would go well with Lady Liberty.

Supreme Justice

Supreme Justice

Fitzmas Coal

Fitzmas Coal

Fitzmas Letdown

After all the build up of Fitzmas Day I feel a little cheated. Just like I did when I was kid sitting on Santa's lap asking for gifts that would never appear under the family Christmas Tree. I feel a little let down because of all the hyped expectations of multiple indictments for multiple individuals.

Of course on Fitzmas, like Christmas, you get one gift that you could do without. And when all the wrapping paper has been cleared from the floor, there is the realization that the one present you really wanted on Fitzmas would not be found hiding under the family Fitzmas Tree.

I am just happy that I didn't recieve a lump of coal like others did on Fitzmas Day.

What did you get for Fitzmas?

Well, today is apparently Fitzmas Day and I can't help wonder whether or not today's celebration will bring with it gifts of glad tidings or the disappointment of a lump of coal?

I guess all the good little blogging girls and boys will find their gifts under the Fitzmas Tree.

Pointed Criticism

Pointed Criticism

Honor the Dead

Honor the Dead

Fitzmas?

Fitzmas?

Hypocrite

Hypocrite

This cartoon was made possible in part by the words of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and the other members of the Republican Party who authored these talking points and who suffer from what I would politely describe as selective amnesia.

Corruption Carpool

Corruption Carpool

The WHIG Party

The WHIG Party

Fiscal leadership and the MBA President

Under the leadership of President George W Bush the Pentagon has decided that competitive bidding and purchasing directly from manufactures is not cost effective. In place of the "inefficient" process the Pentagon has implemented the Prime Vender Program.

The Pentagon is saving taxpayers money by purchasing products from third party middlemen who profit by marking up prices as much as 89 percent. According to Knight Ridder Newspapers Pentagon program costing taxpayers millions in inflated prices. As recently as 2003 the Pentagon paid $17,267 for a custom refrigerator from MRG Equipment Co. Now under the Prime Vendor Program that same refrigerator cost the Pentagon $32,640.50.

Talk about government inefficiency. And to think, Republicans touted the benefits of having an MBA president. Perhaps the Republican’s were talking about the benefits for corporations and not the average taxpayer.

Of course all is not lost as there is further good news for John and Jane Q. Public. As reported by the Washington Post, Contractor accused of over billing US. Apparently Unisys Corp. has been over billing the US government to the tune of 171,000 hours at $131.00 an hour. Unisys has finished installing the "state-of-the-art computer network" in only half of the airports that are to be upgraded.

Imagine, all this under the watchful eyes of the fiscally conservative Republican Party as they create a smaller and more efficient government.

Bush Live and Scripted

Bush Live and Scripted

Armstrong Williams on the Dole

Armstrong Williams on the Dole

Ass-Backwards

Ass-Backwards

4 Percent Increase

4 Percent Increase

Or you can believe Scotty

Or you can believe Scotty

Elusive Leadership

Elusive Leadership

Chicken Little

Chicken Little

Ready, Set, Go!

Ready, Set, Go!

I am interested in knowing who will be the first to tender their resignation. Will it be Karl Rove stepping down as Bush's brain? Or will it be Harriet Miers resigning herself to the the notion that she will not be a Supreme Court Justice despite years of service to George?

Let the race begin!

Scooter's 'Flame'

Scooter's 'Flame'

Investigations

(I thought it best to fit this between these two cartoons as the three items are linked together by more than circumstance.)

Investigations


George Bush has repeatedly stated that he wants to wait until the Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald finishes his investigation of who leaked the name of CIA agent Valerie Plame before the president or members of his administration will comment publicly on the matter.

It should be known that I don’t blame Scott McClelland when he speaks in meaningless platitudes; after all it is his job to spin reporters questions in an effort to make Bush look good while promoting his agenda, as demonstrated during Tuesday’s (10/18) White House Press Briefing where Scott McClelland again reiterated the president’s position by telling reporters in attendance that “our policy is to not comment on any investigation that is on going.”

I personally would love to learn when the Bush administration instituted the policy to which McClelland avers. The reason for wondering is because this policy “to not comment on any investigation” was not practiced in the ramping up for the invasion of Iraq.

Back then the Bush administration wasn’t interested in waiting for the investigation to end before invading Iraq. While United Nations inspectors investigated U.S. claims that Iraq possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) the policy of President Bush and Dick Cheney (along with various members of the administration) not to comment upon investigations was absent as virtually everyone spoke about their knowledge that Saddam Hussein did possess WMD.

Of course, rather than waiting for the investigation to end and all the facts to come out Bush decided to start his “shock and awe” invasion. All the while Bush and his administration posited that because Saddam Hussein actually use of WMD in the past it was therefore reasonable to conclude that Hussein still possessed WMD.

Oddly enough, Karl Rove like Saddam Hussein also has a past. And while Rove never possessed and used WMD he did possess a bag of political dirty tricks that he has been know to use against gubernatorial candidates, presidential primary opponents and competing candidates for the presidency of the U.S. that George has faced in his career as a politician.

Fair is fair. Let us dispose of the waiting process as Patrick Fitzgerald investigates the CIA leak of Valerie Plame’s identity. I think that the public deserves to see Bush act “preemptively” and invade the office of Karl Rove and remove him from power. That would be one campaign that would leave the American public in “shock and awe.”

Spinning is hard work

Spinning is hard work

New Consumer Bankruptcy Protection

New Consumer Bankruptcy Protection

De-Evolution

De-Evolution

Gore in 2008?

Gore in 2008?

'W' Stands for Wrong

'W' Stands for Wrong

Schwarzenegger's Rose Colored Glasses

Schwarzenegger's Rose Colored Glasses

Proposition 77

Proposition 77

Venezuela

Venezuela

Miers and Rice, Girlfriends

Girlfriends

Antonin Scalia

Antonin Scalia

The New Black Vanguard

The New Black Vanguard

I have always enjoyed moments of irony. And let me say that I really enjoyed my Tuesday. To begin with, I hardly watch CSPAN, but as irony would have it I found myself watching CSPAN's coverage of Reclaiming Our Destiny: The New Black Vanguard II. It was quite entertaining and informative program.

The greatest of ironies arose when the Reverend Peterson stood behind his lecturn and professed that blacks need to think for themselves and that they don't need individual leaders to tell them what to think or to say. Perhaps what the Reverend Peterson should have said was that he believes that the black community needs a "new black vanguard" with like-minded black people.

So where is the irony you ask? Let me direct your attention to the definition of the word vanguard. Please note the parts of the second defintion.

1. The foremost position in an army or fleet advancing into battle.
2. a. The foremost or leading position in a trend or movement. b. Those occupying a foremost position.

Falwell Double-crossed

Falwell Double-crossed

Louis Freeh's Blame

Louis Freeh's Blame

Proposition 79

Proposition 79

The supporters of Proposition 78 are really worried about Prop 79 passing. And with good reason. Should Prop 79 pass Big Pharma won't have the luxury of voluntary participation in reducing drug prices or profit from the cash-cow also known as Medi-cal. And this is the heart of the competing ballot propositions, whether pharmaceutical companies can continue to put profits before patients or the voters decide to put themselves before the corporations.

The battle on the airwaves consist of "vote no on Prop 79" commercials paid for by Big Pharma. In these commercials they talk about how their paid expert by the name of William G Hamm did a study on the costs of Proposition 79, which contains many qualifying statements involving the use of the word "could" as in the following example; "Prop 79 could cost the state more" as compared to Prop 78. It could, then again, it is more than likely Prop 79 could cost less and that is what Big Pharma is really worried about.

And as I have been posting from the beginning, don't take my word in opposition to Propositions 74, 75, 76, 78. Read the language contained in the various propositions if you have any doubts as to who will profit from the passage of these propositions that the Governor of California and his campaign contributors support. Do you actually believe that these corporations are really interested in putting the needs of patients before their profits? Before you answer that just remember that Big Pharma spends more on lobbyists than they do on research.

Well George

Well George

Proposition 78

Proposition 78

Propostion 78 was written and supported by the Pharmaceutical industry and is their latest effort to enrich themselves at the expense of California consumers. I hope the doubting-Thomas' will read the pending proposition.

Noble ElBaradei

Noble ElBaradei

The War President

The War President

A 'Real' Conservative

A 'Real' Conservative

The Company Car

The Company Car

Either With Me Or Against Me

Either With Me Or Against Me

Harriet Miers

Harriet Miers

Judith Miller

Judith Miller

Wanna Help?

Wanna Help?

Square Peg

Square Peg

No Fly Fisk

No FLy Fisk

Left Pocket

Left Pocket

No Reason

No Reason

Contestants

Contestants

Pentagon Follies 2

Pentagon Follies 2


It was learned at this performance that the Pentagon does not believe that Iraqi soldiers ability to fight without US military suport is a problem either. According to Rumsfeld "There are an awful lot of people chasing the wrong rabbit here, it seems to me." Funny, but I was under the impression that U.S. forces would not withdraw from Iraq until the Iraq military was capable of defending itself without being supported by the U.S. military. So, when it is revealed that there is now only one (1) battalion capable of fighting without U.S. military aid/assistance, having dropped down from three (3). It is clearly not a matter of chasing rabbits, but chasing down clues to the "stay the course" policy of the Bush administration.

And since we are "chasing rabbits"...there is the critique of Bush his handling of the invasion of Iraq by Retired Army Lt. Gen. William Odom who stated "The invasion of Iraq I believe will turn out to be the greatest strategic disaster in U.S. history."

Iraq Track

Iraq Track