A Look Back at a Wacky Week

1. Who offers their brother or sister to be one of the 50,000 American troops left behind in Iraq after August 31, 2009? To help in the "transition", that is. This is the world's longest "transition", no? Might as well just call them "50,000 Targets".
2. I'm sure those "non-combat" troops staying behind have nothing to do with protecting one of the world's largest underground lakes of crude oil. Right.
   
3. Some truthiness: There was no "Al Queda in Iraq" before President Bush's invasion and occupation. And the real, bad-ass Al Queda was inspired to mobilize its terror campaign after President Bush #41 convinced his buds in Saudi Arabia to allow U.S. troops to stage there prior to driving Saddam Hussein's troops out of Kuwait in 1991.
4. Tim LaHaye's book, "Left Behind" has sold 65 million copies. Rapture that!
5. Spring training games on the radio! Tuned in to the local wing-nut AM station the other day to conduct opposition research and was pleasantly surprised to hear play-by-play of the Rockies' first game against Arizona.
   
6. Today's research: Listened to Rush Gas-Bag and heard him mock President Obama's ideas to help "small bid-nesses" grow and create new jobs. Yes, he pronounced it "bid-ness".
7. Farewell, Rocky Mountain News. Today's issue was the last for this 150-year-old paper. I've had the Denver Post landing on my driveway since moving here, but always enjoyed the Rocky while grabbing a quick meal -- the tabloid format was easier to handle while eating.
8. "Octo-Mom"! Much more interesting for the wing-nuts to harp about food stamps for these 14 kids than explain how we let a jug-eared drunk run the country for 8 years and run up double-digit unemployment, wreck the banking system, and loot our grandchildren's Social Security and Medicare.
9. George W. Bush: "I just can't quit you!"
   

DC Special Interests Examiner: Students and factory workers demand that Georgetown University cut ties with Russell Athletic

DC Special Interests Examiner: Students and factory workers demand that Georgetown University cut ties with Russell Athletic

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Someone Must Always Be To Blame!

<--The G.O.P.'s idea machine.

An excerpt from today's Salon.com article,

"Who is the Right calling "Loser"?

The GOP is whipping up resentment of Obama and "loafers" who defaulted on home loans. But it crashed the biggest welfare Cadillac in history.

By Gary Kamiya

It's the "winners," the super-capitalist heroes of the right, who turned out to be the biggest "strapping young bucks" in history. The Ayn Randian believers in the free market drove the largest welfare Cadillac ever seen, a cosmic Coupe de Ville whose fins were larger than the entire solar system. They made gazillions of dollars playing with unsecured and unregulated credit default swaps, like acid heads who had somehow made it to the finals of the World Monopoly Championship. When it all came crashing down, these brazen welfare loafers came crawling to the federal government to save them. They privatized profit and socialized loss, and they did it to the tune of $300 billion in federal money.

These are the right's poster children. They played the capitalist game exactly the way Alan Greenspan, Milton Friedman and George W. Bush drew it up -- without rules, with greed as the only driving force. When their gigantic Ponzi scheme crashed, it took down the U.S. economy with it. Now Americans are supposed to blame everything on the "losers" whose only sin was that they played the Monopoly game with thousands of dollars instead of billions?

Serve Republicans for Breakfast, Don't Take Them to Dinner!

From The Regressive Antidote - David Michael Green on Politics:

A damning article -- explains why we are better off without losers like Daschle and Judd Gregg serving in the Cabinet. Click on the Title above to link to the full article.

Winners Keep Newly-Blue States Blue!

<-- President Barack Obama walks outside the White House on Friday, the day an economic-stimulus package he pressed for quick passage won approval from Congress. Obama is set to sign the measure Tuesday in Denver. (Evan Vucci, The Associated Press )

President Obama will come to Denver to sign the landmark economic stimulus bill.

The bill-signing, an unusual event outside of Washington, will be Tuesday at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science in City Park. The president also will give a speech about the economy.

Attendance at the midday event is by invitation only, and all invitations have been distributed. (your Blogger is checking his in-box frequently).

CNN reported that a senior administration official cited a desire to get "away from the politics of Washington."

Colorado state G.O.P. Chair Dick Wadhams is criticizing the President's decision to wait until Tuesday, saying if the bill was such an emergency, he should have signed it right away. This is the same loser (and one-time heir apparent to "Turd-Blossom" Karl Rove) who was campaign chair for Virginia wanna-be Presidential contender Sen. George Allen, he of the "Macaca" YouTube fame; and then moved here to Colorado to help the party lose the Governorship, the 2008 electoral votes, and the Wayne Allard U.S. Senate seat (serving as campaign chair for Rep. Bob Schaffer) to Rep. Mark Udall.

Bob Cesca: President Obama Is Driving Republicans Insane

Bob Cesca: President Obama Is Driving Republicans Insane

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Join The Winning Team: Your Blogger Willing to Serve as Commerce Secretary

Mr. President: I think I could do a better job as Commerce Secretary than some pansy-ass GOP Senator! Lemme know. I can meet up with you while you're in Chi-town this weekend. After the interview we'll shoot some hoops, and then hit the town. We'll take your car.


<- OK, so the office will need a little updating. And no, we won't be shopping at "WAL-MART". In fact, I think we'll be writing some administrative regs which Wal-Mart will find quite interesting.






<- Sen. Gregg a/k/a "Quitter"
[Wait, wasn't he in "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood"?]


My qualifications: I've read this article, online of course

Marcy Kaptur: Still a Winner After All these years!

Facing Foreclosure? Don't Leave. Squat.

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. Posted February 6, 2009.

In a recent interview, Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur told Americans: 'Be squatters in your own homes. Don't you leave.'

Marcy Kaptur of Ohio is the longest-serving Democratic congresswoman in U.S. history. Her district, stretching along the shore of Lake Erie from west of Cleveland to Toledo, faces an epidemic of home foreclosures and 11.5 percent unemployment. That heartland region, the Rust Belt, had its heart torn out by the North American Free Trade Agreement, with shuttered factories and struggling family farms. Kaptur led the fight in Congress against NAFTA. Now, she is recommending a radical foreclosure solution from the floor of the U.S. Congress: "So I say to the American people, you be squatters in your own homes. Don't you leave."

Tell-A-Friend: Support a Truth & Reconciliation Commission

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So, Let me get this straight ...

I've awoken in "Alice in Wonderland":
Bush's former chief of staff (Andrew Card) lectures nation about the Prez. always wearing a suit jacket in the Oval Office [photos abound of "W" and "Ronnie" working in shirt-sleeves in the Oval Office, left].

What's next, Karl Rove lecturing on following the law?

DICK Cheney lecturing on protecting covert-op CIA spies?

Colin Powell's sermon on telling the truth to the United Nations?

Alberto Gonzalez' brief on how to keep politics and the Justice Department separate?

"W"'s pointers on elocution, or "How I kept New-cue-lur Weapons" away from Iran?

Give us a break, Bush administration losers! Get back to writing your memoirs and kwitcher pontificating to the American public!

Not Many Winners in the "Bush Depression"

And the GOP's approach is based on the theory that a "rising tide will lift all boats." A simple question: how's that theory been workin' out for ya?

Click on title, above, for full text of article by Joshua Holland of www.AlterNet.org

Winners Face the Facts: We're In a Pickle

As posted on www.Alternet.org Feb, 4, 2009:

It's Not Going to Be OK
By Chris Hedges, Truthdig. Posted February 4, 2009.

The daily bleeding of thousands of jobs will soon turn our economic crisis into a political crisis. The street protests, strikes and riots that have rattled France, Turkey, Greece, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Iceland will descend on us. It is only a matter of time. And not much time. When things start to go sour, when Barack Obama is exposed as a mortal waving a sword at a tidal wave, the United States could plunge into a long period of precarious social instability.

[Link to full text of article by clicking on headline, above]