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Clinton Launches Withering Attack on Bush…

Breaking with tradition under which US presidents mute criticisms of their successors, Clinton said the Bush administration had decided to invade Iraq “virtually alone and before UN inspections were completed, with no real urgency, no evidence that there were weapons of mass destruction.”

At first I was a little mad that Bush asked Clinton to help raise money for the Katrina victims because I just knew he’d mouth off like this. But upon seeing the picture on the right, it couldn’t help but remind me of the picture on the left (”I did not have sex with that woman; Ms. Lewinsky”). Same finger wagging, lecturing, blowhard.

Even the most liberal among us cringe at that picture. In retrospect, I think Bush knew that for most Americans, Bill Clinton does not inspire confidence, trust or even nostalgia. As a matter of fact, when Bill Clinton gets on TV and starts lecturing George Bush about lying, Bush might get a little bump in the polls

…Hear my prayer.

Please, please, please, please, please let an American soldier find this finger wagging, blow-hard, peach-fuzz-faced, faux-muslim, throw-pillow-on-the-head-wearing, imbecilic punk somewhere in the world in flagrante delicto.

Amen

Just for kicks, do a search on this guy - Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey. Whoooooeeeeeeee baby! I’m telling you, this is Democratic presidential material. He’s a writer for Pravda (Truth), the infamous Russian newspaper. Here are a few headlines of his:

Washington’s Evil and Sinister Policy - 9/5/2005
George W. Bush Abandons Americans - 9/2/2005
US Forces Slaughter Dozens of Civilians in Iraq - 9/1/2005

Here’s a quote from his bio:

So let us all remember that we live as citizens of the world and as brothers around a common lake, which is the sea. Instead of dropping bombs on each other, how about holding out our hands in friendship? Tears taste of salt, wherever they may fall. Let’s all try to put a smile in the eyes and not only on the lips of the children of the world, giving them an equal opportunity”

Huh? Sounds like the Tao of Oprah written by Dick Durbin.

This is a good laugh and all, but what is disconcerting is the similarity of some of this tripe to the crap that comes from some of our own leaders in the Democratic Party.

AMERICA’S MAYOR — NOT AMERICA’S MAYOR

September 12, 2001. Mayor Rudy Julianni is interviewed on a radio program and says “I don’t want to see anybody do anymore goddamn press conferences. Put a moratorium on press conferences. Don’t do another press conference until the resources are in this city. And then come down to this city and stand with us when there are military trucks and troops that we can’t even count.

“Don’t tell me 40,000 people are coming here. They’re not here. It’s too doggone late. Now get off your asses and do something, and let’s fix the biggest goddam crisis in the history of this country.”

The next day he’s filmed talking to resue workers unshaven, in a t-shirt complaining about the “Fedal Gub’ment”.

Yeah, right. That wasn’t Rudy the day after - that was RAY.

While the know-it-alls are making comparrisons of Hurricane Katrina to 9/11, let’s hope the good folks of New Orleans make this comparrison: Meet Ray Nagin, New Orleans Mayor.

He’s the clown responsible for this:

I count 220 busses in this pic. At 60 people per bus that’s 13,000 people that could have been evacuated (in just ONE trip!). This pic is just a mile and a half from the Superdome by the way.

This is the idiot that sent people to the Superdome but forgot to send food or water there for them - “DOH!!”

The people that possess the wherewithall, verve and bootstraps to return to New Orleans and rebuild their lives there are going to evacuate this fool next election day.

The Democratic party is fast marginalizing itself. I didn’t see this coming at all.

My fear was always that because of our conservative standards of personal responsibility, morals, limited government, etc., that we might marginalize our own party as more and more people in America jumped on the victimhood express.

Turns out most of us are like the rest of us. No matter how much they bleat, we know a hurricane is a natural disaster and the Evil Dr. Bush didn’t make it in his underground lab. The National Guard wasn’t sent to shoot black people in New Orleans even if a crotch grabbing rapper says otherwise on national TV. We feel sorry for Cindy Sheehan loosing her son, but we got her number pretty quickly, now we feel sorry for the rest of her family including her brave son. We know most of those folks in New Orleans could have left before the storm. We know looting from feeding your family. They will trot out Jackson, Sharpton, Pelosi and Hillary but the facts are still the facts.

In their fervor to get the liberal message out, the major broadcast tv news outlets have shown their hands. They are willing to fabricate, obfuscate and outright lie to uphold the liberal theology - all of America knows it now and we’ve all found other ways to get our news or check their “facts”.

There is, and I guess always will be, that 10% that “don’t know” or “aren’t sure” or “who is Ted Kennedy anyway?”, but that dependable 30% to 40% that would reliably answer poll questions according to the Democratic party planks is dwindling. After more than a week of trying to blame Bush for Katrina, still only 13% buy it in the latest poll.

Americans know what partial birth abortion is, they don’t think homosexuals should have special rights, they are NOT going to pay repairations, and they don’t beieve Al-Zarkawi is a “freedom fighter”.

This is the Democratic party of 2005 - it has it’s adherents and they are a rabid 25%. Let’s keep them at 25% by defending the rights of Cindy Sheehan, Kanye West and Sean Penn to be their spokespeople.

LOOTING ON A GRAND SCALE

I’m no conspiracy theorist. Especially the anti-capitalist, geo-political type, so this is a little different for me. Gas in my city went up over $0.50 per gallon yesterday. Can anyone tell me how in God’s name the cost to extract and process a gallon of gas increased 20% in 3 days?

Supply and demand? Hell, no! I realize that the rigs in the Gulf of Mexico have to be shut down for a couple of weeks, but so far only 1 rig has been lost due to the storm and it washed into shore and will be salvaged. A 2 week loss of the oil these rigs produce is less than 2% of our total consumption for the year. Vacation time has ended, school started. There are thousands of vehicles underwater or destroyed in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama that won’t be using a drop. Demand is down. President Bush Yesterday released some reserves ostensibly to buck up supplies. Therefore supplies are up.

I’m also no economist and the oil business is complex (at least that’s what we consumers are always told), but I thought supply and demand ruled the roost in a capitalist system - low demand, high supply; means you can buy a lighthouse for $1 from the government and live in it. Why doesn’t it work for gasoline?

OPEC has always controlled supply from their end - it’s the way they do business and we’ve learned to live with it. But they are a bunch of tinhorn dictators that happen to be sitting on the most valuable commodity in the economy of the world (which, I guess, makes them gold horn dictators, but just as corrupt as the tins). But this is not an OPEC increase; it’s our fellow countrymen in the oil business.

We already know that one of the peccadilloes of the oil business is that prices go up on a moment’s notice. What is in an underground tank below the gas station at 1:00 PM selling for $2.46 a gallon can go to $3.09 at 1:05. That’s some lunacy that we accept nowadays without question. But let’s say that the cost to produce gasoline really did go up %20 overnight. It would still take 2 weeks for the costlier fuel to hit the pumps. During this emergency don’t you think the oil companies could forego the extra profits of raising prices immediately and wait until it actually did get to the consumer before raising the price?

That’s a fairy tale anyway. The cost to produce that gas did not go up. Demand did not go up and the supply loss was offset by the release of reserves.

So what is the difference between a guy looting a store that has been breached by the storm, an innkeeper who jacks up his prices when people are displaced from their homes and an oil company that jacks up prices during an emergency just because they can make it sound plausible? Plenty of difference really, but what they have in common is what makes them so despicable; the willingness to take advantage of your fellow man when he is most vulnerable.

It’s time to let the oil companies know they are no better than Martha Stewart or Ken Lay - let some heads roll!