Raw story has obtained a 91-page fantasy put together by the Senate Republican leadership duo of Rick Santorum, Chairman and Kay Bailey Hutchison, Vice Chairman.  It's called "August 2006 Recess Themes: Securing America's Future," and is designed to give Senate Repubs a bunch of coordinated talking points during the Senate's recess (see, the Senators go home then, and have a chance to spread the propaganda directly to their constituents, not just to the propaganda outlets in D.C.).

On August 1, President Bush sent the Senate his nomination to replace the resigned head of OMB's "Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs" (OIRA).  The nomination?  Susan E. Dudley who was serving as Director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University's Regulatory Studies Program.

Wow. And I mean WOW. Ultra-wow! This is not even funny, as it is absolute proof of what we progressives have known for too long now....

America, the superpower.  America the would-be empire.  America where the concepts of "public" and "social" are dirty concepts uttered only by commies, pinkos, and their socialist sympathizers.  America, the preeminent military and nuclear power, the giant power that, unfortunately, can't.

Check out this from the news.........

I haven't made a diary entry in a long time, and since some have been asking, thought I'd park it all here....

For most of my lifetime, there has been a segment of the population that wanted to know "why can't the U.S. government be run like a private business?"  Well my super-capitalist friends, good news!!!!! It damn well is.

As I recuperate from surgery, it's given me some time to collect some thoughts on many things, among them, well, to understand where I'm going with this, you have to take a short course in flying an airplane...

It's a rather odd story, part military news, part media blackout, part public relations event; publicly announced a month ago, yet reported in foreign press sources as new news, and basically ignored by the American media:

The U.S. is building a new, permanent detention camp at Guantanamo, at the very time that the international community calls for closing the Gitmo detention facilities altogether, and despite President Bush's recently announced desire to, maybe, sort of, do just that.

When Karl Rove tells $100-a-plate Ohio repubs that "it's time to ...do it again in 2006," I get real worried. Of course the Ohio polls look grim for Repubs, but we know that polls don't mean much in an era when electronic voting machine security resembles firm Swiss cheese.

How's that for a scary thought, huh?

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