Two Great Reasons to Post

I haven’t posted for a while again, but I couldn’t resist this week. One good reason is that the topic of my last post has finally been resolved, although again it is hidden away. In my last post I mentioned how the Bush Administration was suspending the Davis-Beacon act. This act was the one that said if you are hiring workers with Federal money, you have to pay them a reasonable wage. Well the Bush Administration backed off from this recently, mostly because of the backlash they received and rightly so.

BUT … this week has a lot more pleasures, to the point that the New York Times calls it Bush’s worst week. Just yesterday, Harriet Miers withdrew herself from the nomination to the Supreme Court. How wonderful the whole debacle has been, and how much I wish it would actually keep going. It has been amazing watching the President’s base ripping into him. The Democrats have just had to sit back and watch. Bush nominated an incredible unprepared and unqualified person, who just happened to be his personal lawyer. What a joke. I would be ecstatic if it wasn’t for the fact that he will likely nominate someone who is even more an extreme right wing idealog, so he can placate his base. If he does there will be a fight to remember in the confirmation hearings, as the Democrats won’t sit still for someone so obviously a right wing sympathizer. In the past they might have, but the President is weak now and I hope they take advantage of the situation.

Then today, Scooter Libby is finally indicted for lying to the grand jury looking into leaks in the Plame case. Libby is the Vice President’s primary political advisor, and it will hurt the administration to no end. Plus the trial will hopefully bring to light the lies we were all told during the run up to war. Libby was one of the chief architects of the lies that emerged from the Vice President’s office.

The third piece of good news is that Rove is not (yet) off scott-free either. He has been put on notice that he is still under investigation, and an indictment may follow. Can it get any better?

How about adding in the fact that Bush’s Social Security plan is pretty much dead, and that the hurricanes have limited his ability to cut taxes even further. Things are going pretty well.

Now it may seem like I am being heartless in my gloating over his problems but let me put this into context for you. This guy is the guy who lied to America about the war in Iraq. Bush lied and people died; 2000 American soldiers as of this week. Plus uncounted Iraqi dead. I remember before the war warning people that we were buying our own west bank, and that we would end up enduring a trickle of soldier deaths, 1 each day. Well my prediction was wrong; it was too little. We have had an average of almost 3 deaths a day since the war began. What a tragedy.

Any man who leads his country to war, in the process killing thousands, over ideology and financial gain, doesn’t deserve any compassion or respect when he implodes. None whatsoever.

Here is a link!