WTF Is It Now?!?

"He was a playwright, he was an intellectual, he was not someone you would think of as becoming the president" - - Laura "Stepford" Bush, talking about Czech President Vaclav Havel, May 9, 2002.





Our Crooked Justice Department

The Crook from Crawford's administration is asking a federal judge to bar questioning of a former top aide on Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force.

In a lawsuit seeking information about the Cheney panel's meetings, the Natural Resources Defense Council subpoenaed Andrew Lundquist, who met with business executives and lobbyists in drafting the pro-industry White House plan.

Calling the subpoena "wholly inappropriate," the Justice Department said Thursday in court papers that Lundquist, the task force's former executive director, doesn't have any information relevant to NRDC's lawsuit against the government.

It is too soon in the case to question him, said the Justice Department, which plans to ask for dismissal of NRDC's lawsuit before U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler. The NRDC is suing the Energy Department, which had a key role in formulating the Cheney plan. Lundquist was an Energy Department employee detailed to the Cheney task force.

"The administration continues to deny the public information about what their government is doing," said NRDC attorney Sharon Buccino. "Lundquist holds a critical missing piece of the puzzle about how the Bush energy plan was developed." - (snipped from the bushmoonie site)




The Party of Honor and Integritude (an ongoing saga)

State Sen. Guy Velella, the head of the Bronx Rethuglican Party and a power in the state GOP, was charged yesterday with taking bribes from people who wanted to influence city and state contracts. The indictment announced by Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau charges Velella, his father and two other men with soliciting and taking a number of bribes. It also charges that the owner of a construction company helped launder the bribes, which allegedly went into the account of a law firm controlled by the elder Velella.

Gov. George Pataki, a fellow repug, has said that he considers Velella a friend. The indictment was "obviously disappointing," said Pataki spokesman Michael McKeon. "But at least he didn't lose a little girl like Jeb Bush did in Florida."





Our Tax Dollars at Work: Smell-o-vision

To understand why America's war on terrorism is beginning to sputter, infiltrate the Nooculer Nincompoop administration's Bat Cave at the intersection of Intelligence Way and Cryptological Court at a Navy base here. This is the brand-new homeland defense center from which America is supposed respond to 'terrist threats.'

Tom Ridge, his chest puffed out with pride, showed off the command center on Wednesday to a group of reporters. You had to feel sorry for him, for it was a color-coded moment.

Standing in front of four 50-inch plasma television screens, Mr. Ridge hailed the super-classified capabilities of the SCIF (sensitive compartmented information facility). Unfortunately, while the television system allows simultaneous video conferencing with the White House Situation Room and the C.I.A., the huge plasma screens were devoted to television broadcasts. One of them was showing "Divorce Court."

I feel safer already.





Our Tax Dollars at Work: Are we there yet?

Bein' preznit is hard! Any excuse not to have to sit in the WH and do some work...

Election-year politics has risen to the top of Laura's Lazy Loser's domestic agenda. With energy, Social Security, judicial and other White House initiatives stymied by Democratic opposition, the Smirking Moron, rather than working with the Dems on anything, is going all-out to help rethugs seize full control of Congress in November.

The Insane Ignoramus erupted in full view Thursday when he blasted the Democrat-run Senate for not bending over and capitulating to his rightwingnut neonazi judicial nominees. "I think it is bad politics," he bleated, surrounded by GOP lawmakers.

Presumably, it's good politics to travel the country promoting the GOP agenda and raising money for candidates. The Unelected Fraud has three trips planned this week and intends to increase his travel pace as the Nov. 5 midterm elections near.





More Churchillian Moments from the Oaf of Office

"After all, a week ago, there were-Yasser Arafat was boarded up in his building in Ramallah, a building full of, evidently, German peace protestors and all kinds of people. They're now out. He's now free to show leadership, to lead the world." - Washington, D.C., May 2, 2002

"It's not too high a goal, if it helps a person, if it brings dignity into someone's life it is not too high a goal" - Columbus, OH, May 10, 2002




Yuck !! Repukes talking dirty!!

Republicans have been surprising us lately with their ribald humor. First Chimpy the Pinhead made an off-color joke about "dick" Cheney during Saturday's White House Whoresponents Dinner. Then an R-rated movie featuring female frontal nudity was shown Monday aboard Air Force One. And yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-Badhairpiece.) was quoted in a New York tabloid making a not-too-veiled reference to former President Bill Clinton's private parts.

There's just something so grotesque about repugs-'n'-sex. Fat, white, soft bodies, like giant maggots....brrrrrrrrrrrr. Which reminds me: don't forget to vote in this week's poll!