Strong Odor of Mendacity

"We're not winning".....Chuck Hagel (R-Neb)
Chuck must have picked up the wrong talking points memo. A Republican Senator has broken ranks with the "stay the course" crowd and tells it like it is. I love it when Reps start in-fighting. But Chuck, you better get prepared for the "Swift Boaters." Hagel, another Vietnam Veteran, will be smeared by the "Three Amigos" Draft Dodgers for being unpatriotic and hating our freedoms. Anyhow, my tail wags for you Sen. Hagel. And from Red Dog to the Dems.."You need to grow some cujones, too."

Dead Wrong
A good documentary tonight on CNN. Does this mean that the missing blonde story is dead? If you missed it, watch the rerun. Dog loved it to see the replay of the "misstatements" from Cheney, Bush, Rice, and Powell in the run up to war. Watch Condi's lips quiver when she is lying about the aluminum tubes and the "mushroom clouds." Of course, CNN lets the WH off the hook and jumps on the fall guy, George Tenet. Anyhow, CNN did some real reporting on this special. There is nothing new here, but old lies are hard to distance yourself from sometimes. Especially lies that send this country to war.

Interesting comment from LR:
"I see the platforms of both major political parties shifting. Ten years ago, it was Republicans clamoring for a balanced budget - today, it's the Democrats. Tough illegal immigration policy was safely in GOP hands - now Bill Richardson leads the Dems in declaring it a "State of Emergency" (which it is). It fascinates me and disheartens me in philosophical stroke. Ideologies shouldn't change so rapidly and, yes, ten years is a rapid change in political parties' "core" values."

I'll add another to the list. Who would have thought the Democrats would push welfare reform and the Republicans would push a Medicare Drug Plan. Of course the Repubs were never against welfare, they just felt the wrong people were getting it. Now they control where it goes and it goes to the rich and BigCorp.

The Republicans are masters at the shell game by attracting the religious right on the social issues of gay rights,stem cell research, and abortion, while fleecing the same constituency to fund the coffers of the drug companies and HMO's. Oh, and LR, I used a couple of "code words" - Strict constructionist - anti-gay and anti-abortion supporters and privacy - a woman has the right to determine what happens to her body and whatever consenting adults agree to is no one's business, especially the government.

I'll have to get back to you on the rest of your comments, but I do agree that those who only pay the minimum deserve what they get, however, personal debt in this country is $2.1 Trillion and a 2-4% default is $40 - $80 Billion. It is a huge problem!

Did anyone see Trent on MTP today? Looks almost like he took a swipe at Bush on the run up to war, but weaseled his way out of it. Some of the blogs on the left were saying he "let the cat out of the bag," but I think Trent knew exactly what he was doing. (He doesn't always.) He's still pissed about the Speaker thing. The funniest line I saw today was that Lott wrote a book called "Herding Cats and Frist is writing a book called "Hurting Cats." heh, get it...?

Cat, would you do us a favor? Find out what Lush smells like tomorrow and give us a report. If he would spend more time on his scoop stories and less time on the BS stories, he might could make a decent reporter. He's got to be writing a book, a mystery, because again, I read it and say WTF?