tidbittles (mainly political)

Sounds like the administrative ranks are starting to crumble a bit. Bushco has been backpedaling for weeks now, one can only hope America is paying attention. I've always admired Colin Powell and have felt that he was rather trapped between a rock and a hard place. Obviously, he knew what he was getting into when he accepted the position but he's just never struck me as the power-hungry, war-mongering type. I wonder how much of the fallout he's going to take from this whole 'no WMD' debacle.

Is the thuggish behavior of the upper ranks of Bushco filtering down or are the crook-like tactics of those who have been around a while filtering up? How can we expect the House members to behave appropriately if their 'leader' acts like an armed goon?

Meriam-webster offers the following definitions for the terms populist and plutocrat:
Populist:
1 : a member of a political party claiming to represent the common people; especially often capitalized : a member of a U.S. political party formed in 1891 primarily to represent agrarian interests and to advocate the free coinage of silver and government control of monopolies
2 : a believer in the rights, wisdom, or virtues of the common people
Plutocracy:
1 : government by the wealthy
2 : a controlling class of the wealthy


If the defendant in the Cheney vs Supreme Court issue isn't willing to ask for Scalia's recusal, you gotta ask what the HELL is going on? Why even bring the case before the court if you're going to ignore what seems to be an obvious conflict of interest?

This is interesting. I wonder if Rock the Vote was as specifically targeted at its audience? Either way - more power to the youth - get out and VOTE!

I wonder if Cheney will come under scrutiny during this probe? I'm guessing probably not. Even if he had handwritten instructions, signed them in blood, & was caught delivering them on videotape, the committee would probably find a way to say it wasn't really him or that he'd been misled...

As I've said before, even though I'm almost to the 'anyone but Bush' mentality, I've got exactly ZERO illusions about the Democratic party and how they conduct their business.