As I mentioned a few sessions back, quite a few friends and associates are what I deem "Ike Republicans", and yes, happy they ain't...

George Orwell fought in the Spanish Civil War, lived through horrific bombings in World War II, and was far from a pacifist.  All of which has led some misguided souls from the right to quote him as though he would be all gung-ho in favor of our little Iraq adventure.

I kind of doubt it...a lot.

Oil prices up there with air fare. Pension funds evaporating at warp. More jobs going overseas. A war going into the toilet. All that, and some actually ask "Can all this be fixed?"

We're fast approaching the 2006 election cycle, with 2008 not that far off as politics goes these days.  So why wait any further, get started NOW.  Get your Slogans here for the 2006 & 2008 election cycle, and remember, check back often--every Republican day brings another slogan worth your time and money.

Frist, Abramoff, DeLay--TIRED OF THE REPUBLICAN FAD?

FEED A CROOK--VOTE REPUBLICAN IN OHIO

INVEST IN A CROOK--VOTE REPUBLICAN IN OHIO

HURRICANE BUSH--THE ONLY LEVEL 6 WIND IN HISTORY

RESTORE DISHONESTY TO POLITICS--VOTE REPUBLICAN

SEND THE REPUBLICANS WHERE YOUR JOB WENT AND YOUR PENSION IS GOING

REPUBLICANS--BRINGING YOU UNIVERSAL WEALTH CARE
SUPPORT A CRIMINAL--VOTE REPUBLICAN

DECRIMINALIZE POLITICS--VOTE DEMOCRATIC

REPUBLICANS--MISERY FOR MILLIONS, MILLIONS FOR A FEW

REPUBLICANS CLAIM LACK OF MEMORY FOR THEIR CRIMES, BUT ALWAYS REMEMBER WHERE THEY BURIED THE MONEY

REPUBLICAN LOTTO--ALL YOU NEED IS A DULLARD AND A DREAM

REPUBLICANS--BAD GOVERNMENT ON A BIG BUDGET

KEEP PROPAGANDA PROFITABLE--VOTE REPUBLICAN

TEXANS FOR DELAY--A DELAY IN WASHINGTON IS ONE LESS DELAY IN TEXAS

Unless you just spent the last 24 hours at warp around the Orion Nebula, you already know what took place today, so, we won't rehash it.

So Libby's indicted, Rove isn't, and the indictments do not charge any violations of law related to leaking classified info, disclosing names of covert agents, etc.

Almost immediately after Fitzgerald said in his press conference that he had made no finding one way or the other on whether Plame was a "covert" agent, and that no one should view his charges as supporting one view or the other, Senator Orrin Hatch appeared on Wolf Blitzer's CNN show and claimed that Fitzgerald had concluded that Plame's status was not covert. Hatch also felt compelled to get in some shots about Joe Wilson's character--pushing the theory that doing something bad to a bad person is okay?

Let the new questions, and the desperate Republican spin, begin.  Lets begin with a brief timeline.

If you can promote the No Child Left Behind Act and the proposed Social Security privatization plans as if they were new products straight from the Corporate Board Room, why not mess with the National Parks?  If you've already established that no hack is too much of a hack to be made the head of FEMA, or the head of federal procurement, why not screen National Park Service employees for politics before allowing them to enter the ranks of management?  Who knows, maybe political screening will turn out to be an improvement over the usual Bush administration policy of no screening.

I'm telling you, we're even one more step closer to having to buy air from some multinational air vendor.

Beginning some time in the next week, Watching The Watchers will officially be sold. The sale of the site has already taken place, and new management will be taken over shortly. What does this mean to the site and the people who post on it?

The Washington Post has been running many articles on the events underlying (and adjacent to) Jack Abramoff's indictment.  Part of that story involves running large sums of money "through" Grover Norquist's "Americans for Tax Reform" groups, which then returned the money (minus good ol' Grover's cut) to some third group, thus concealing that the money actually went from Abramoff to the third group.

The question in the title of this post is addressed by Stuart Levine, an attorney in
Baltimore, Maryland, on his blog:

http://taxbiz.blogspot.com/2005/10/did-grover-norquist-commit-tax-fraud.html

Newspaper headlines often use casualty figures in their headlines:  Seventy Insurgents Killed in Raid.  Twenty Insurgents Dead After Night Strike.  And so on.  Very precise, very knowing, very certain.

Which makes you wonder: How do you know how many of the dead are "enemy" and how many "unlucky civilian?"  Do "insurgents" (or "the enemy" or any other popular name for the "bad guys") carry ID cards that clearly mark them as insurgents?

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