George bush

This past week there has been a lot of talk from both Bush and McCain about the necessity for the Congress to start permitting new drilling sites for Oil companies in the face of high oil prices, as seen in this video
from the BBC, even though there is plenty of evidence that the real reason for the high prices are the insiders and speculators that Randi Rhodes first documented this week.
Followed by KO's investigation:

Myers Park Pat will be having the time of his life today, hosting the Worst President Ever at a private (as in closed to the public) fundraiser in Raleigh. And if that weren't disgusting enough, George Bush is using the excuse of presenting a service award to a Clayton teenager to move the cost of this GOP frenzy from the Republican Party coffers to the United States Treasury. You guessed it: taxpayers are footing most of the bill for the Child King to fly to North Carolina and be protected by state troopers during the middle of rush hour.

Here's the letter I just zipped off to Congressman Shuler, and here's where I got the facts:

I know Bush's budget is going to undergo a KennyRogersesque transformation when it hits Congress, but I wanted to point out to you the issues about Mental Health spending.

Bush's budget cuts the following:

- the State Incentive Grants for Transformation to support the development of comprehensive plans to address fragmentation in a state’s public mental health system (to be eliminated);
- school violence prevention (to be cut by $17.8 million);
- jail diversion (to be cut by $2.9 million);
- seniors mental health (to be eliminated);
- post traumatic stress ($ 17.5 million cut);
- consumer support technical assistance centers (to be eliminated); and
- suicide prevention ($15.1 million cut).

I've taken a break from reading The One Percent Doctrine to relate an anecdote.

One of the lessons future administrations were supposed to have learned from LBJ and McNamaras' micromanaging of the Vietnam war was the delegation of such decisions to proper military authorities. It seems no one told George W. Bush.

Anglico's nightmare is real.

Sometimes when I'm lying in bed almost asleep I have these panic attacks that they Navy is scheming some underhanded deal to screw over farmers in some other part of the state . . . and that our elected officials are quietly aiding their efforts. It scares the pee out of me . . . and I'm just enough of a conspiracy theorist to assume the worst.

It isn't the Navy's scheming that keeps the OLF hooked to life support, it's George Bush's refusal to pay our troops a decent wage.

Recently,on October 14th, I had the opportunity to meet and interview John Edwards and get to see him speak to a small audience in North Carolina. Some of the notable points of the evening were the following.
First, the Lieberman Kyl bill had just been voted on by the Senate, and Edwards was already going on the offensive on Clinton's vote in support of that bill.
At that point, there had been no threats or sanctions by Bush or Cheney, yet Edwards was already ahead of the curve on the danger of supporting this bill. Now Iowa voters are catching on, and are even booing Clinton at Iowa rallies for this vote.

Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing


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Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing


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Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing


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