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September, 2006

Abandoning our prinicples to make opponents look bad

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

Today our Congress approved one of the worst assault on our Constitution ever legislated. The bill that Our Fine President will soon sign into law with his usual level of flourish gives him legal cover for all the fun he’s been having with terror detainees for the last five years. It abandons our regular rules […]

I’m just along for the ride

Monday, September 25th, 2006

After five-plus years of being ruled by a group that believes staying in power is more important than governing well while in power, I figure I should be pretty numb to all the half-truths and outright lies spinning their way out of Washington, but the current administration always seem to find a new way to […]

Screw you guys, I’m goin’ home

Sunday, September 17th, 2006

These days the level of political discourse emanating from the White House is at about a third or fourth grade level. Faced with the possibility that his Republican Congress is not going to approve his proposals to retreat from the Geneva Conventions and run shadow trials for captive terrorists, Our Fine President turned into Eric […]

Marking the wrong anniversary

Monday, September 11th, 2006

Our Fine President is set to speak to the nation in a few hours on this the fifth anniversary of the al Qaida attacks on what is since being referred to as “the homeland.” Now why we consider fifth anniversaries more special than fourth or sixth, I’ll never know, but the ever so reverent buzz […]