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Friday, May 06, 2005

Not-so-good news Friday

a fairly gloomy way to start off a weekend...
[Colin] Powell's closest friend, former deputy secretary of state Richard L. Armitage, endorsed Bolton in a statement to the Associated Press. "John Bolton is eminently qualified. He's one of the smartest guys in Washington."

given that, from everything i've heard and read, armitage has little use for bolton and worked closely with powell to neutralize him, what snakes through the back of my mind is the quote from rove when he was speaking of a political operative who crossed him... "We will fuck him. Do you hear me? We will fuck him. We will ruin him. Like no one has ever fucked him!"
"Just think of what we could accomplish if we checked our pride at the door, if collectively we all spent less time taking credit and more time deserving it," DeLay told the 54th annual National Day of Prayer gathering on Capitol Hill. [...] The opening prayer was offered by James C. Dobson, chairman of Focus on the Family.

delay's quote alone is enough to make you toss your wheaties but the thought of that hate-filled creep, dobson, even being allowed entrance to the "ornate Caucus Room of the Cannon House Office Building" in our nation's capitol angers me beyond words...
The Bush administration, in one of its biggest environmental decisions, moved yesterday to open nearly one-third of all remote national forest lands to road building, logging and other commercial ventures. [...] "Yesterday, nearly 60 million acres of national forests were protected, and today as a result of deliberate action by the administration they are not," said Robert Vandermark, director of the Heritage Forests Campaign

the arrogance of this administration in its unbridled attack on our environment is breathtaking...
According to the Medicare trustees, the fiscal gap over the next 75 years created by the 2003 law - not the financing gap for Medicare as a whole, just the additional gap created by legislation passed 18 months ago - will be $8.7 trillion. [...] That's about three times the amount President Bush proposes to save by cutting middle-class Social Security benefits.

krugman continues to beat the drum on health care special interests and how they hold the health care system hostage...
Religion and politics clash over a local church's declaration that Democrats are not welcome. East Waynesville Baptist asked nine members to leave. Now 40 more have left the church in protest. Former members say Pastor Chan Chandler gave them the ultimatum, saying if they didn't support George Bush, they should resign or repent.

after yesterday's fda announcement that gays are no longer acceptable sperm donors, do you think that things may be getting out of control when democrats are being banned from churches...?

sometimes it just doesn't pay to get out of bed...

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