Amen!!!!!!

Right on!!!

In a hurry gimpel but real quickly and in the interest of "FAIR AND BALANCED" here is a column written back in 2005 by Stuart Dilg. LOTS MORE LATER!!!!!

Oh, George W. has kept his word. His self proclaimed title of “war president” has never rung so delightfully true for him as in this year. But scandals! Not the E! News kind of Clinton’s era involving interns and cigars. Instead, Bush’s scandals are of a darker, more sinister variety, recently popping up in such contagious abundance and scope it made this column almost impossible to write without seeming dated. Every weekend there’s a new unsavory bit of information released by the media. There have been so many of them, each one shredded and in such a tangled mess that it can be hard to connect the dots. Here, we look at some of the more glaring political blunders of 2005 for Bush, his administration and the party whose revival he led.

Jan. 7 — Wag the dog

Documents revealed that the White House paid conservative commentator Armstrong Williams more than $240,000 of taxpayers\\\\\\\' money to promote President Bush\\\\\\\'s No Child Left Behind law on his syndicated television program and to other African-Americans in the news media. Williams has called himself a longtime supporter of No Child Left Behind, but he wrote nothing about the bill in his weekly syndicated column until his contract kicked in late in 2003. He proceeded to write columns in praise of Bush\\\\\\\'s education policies in the first six months of 2004. In addition, he pushed for No Child Left Behind on CNN (10/19/04) and CNBC\\\\\\\'s the Capital Report (8/9/04).

Aug. 2 — Tough day job

Early August began the longest vacation by a president in 36 years. Spending five weeks at the beloved Texas ranch in Crawford, Bush looked forward to “settling in” and reconnecting with his Texas roots. His 39th vacation since taking office. In total, the vacation days prior to this groundbreaker amounted to 319 days, or 20 percent of his time in office.

Sept. 12 — Arabian horses

After New Orleans and the Gulf Coast were hit by Hurricane Katrina, Bush says to Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.” What better way to describe the mess of incompetent planning and misdirected funds than those simple words? Michael Brown’s incompetence and résumé embellishments indicated that allegations of cronyism in the Bush administration rang true, and led to more relevant discoveries that the administration had steadily reduced natural disaster relief funds, and relief workers and managers, for over three years.

Sept. 28 — For the cause

Texan congressman and House majority leader Tom DeLay, after brushing off investigations by the House Ethics Committee numerous times, finally found something that stuck. DeLay has been indicted for his involvement in a criminal money laundering scheme. In Texas, it is illegal to contribute corporate money to state races. DeLay set up a Texas political action committee called Texans for a Republican Majority (TRMPAC) which accepted $190,000 of corporate cash, exploiting a loophole that allowed it to do so to pay for administrative expenses — paper clips and such. TRMPAC then wrote a $190,000 check to Terri Nelson of the Republican National Committee, with a list of state candidates who should receive the money and dollar amounts each person should receive. The corporate cash infusion into state races allowed Republicans to gain control of the state legislature, placing DeLay\\\\\\\'s allies in charge of the redistricting process, which eventually strengthened DeLay\\\\\\\'s stranglehold on power in the House.

Oct. 28 — Worthy of a movie

After an investigation by Justice Department’s Patrick Fitzgerald, something was finally flushed out in the ever-evolving scandal over who in the White House leaked CIA officer Valerie Plame’s name to the press. That something was Scooter Libby. Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff was indicted on five counts: false statements, perjury and obstruction of justice. The scandal scope includes but does not incriminate journalists, such as Judith Miller, Tim Russert, Matt Cooper, Bob Woodward and the most endearing of conservatives, Robert Novak, from CNN’s Crossfire, who first revealed Plame’s identity to the public. With Bush’s staff indicted, Karl Rove and Vice President Cheney investigated, should Bush be innocent on the benefit of the doubt? Up to you.

Dec. 6 — Secret prisons

Still not admitted into existence by Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice were reports from the Washington Post and others that the United States owns and controls secret CIA prisons used to detain high-ranking terrorists and suspects. These prisons reportedly exist in Romania, Poland, Germany and other obscure hideaways around the globe.

Dec. 15 — Information programs

The Pentagon came clean last week about its efforts in writing and submitting news stories for print in Iraqi papers, shining a supportive light upon U.S. military operations. Military officials admitted to paying third parties, such as the Lincoln Group, to translate into Arabic and facilitate the publication of the doctored articles in the Iraqi press, which were then printed without explaining where the material came from.

As you can see, this article is a little dated. We now know for sure about THE SECRET PRISONS. But anyway like I said there is LOTS more to come.

The deficit is still much greater than when he came into office and the federal debt is spiraling ever more out of control. As for profits? It is not because of Bush's tax breaks as Glenn Beck might assess, rather it is because credit card interest rates and late fees are at an all time high, the credit card companies can garner wages of people who file for bankruptcy, the gas companies are posting huge profits. Yes, the big businesses are making off like bandits so the economy must be doing good. Right. Meanwhile these big rich companies outsource more and more of their business. The "available" jobs are often not ones that would pay the bills for a regular household. Yes, this country is doing swell if you stick your fingers in your ear and go "LALALALA" really loud so you cannot hear reality calling.

In light of imdstuf's foolish rant and ill informed or would it be better to say liberally biased facts of 10/12 about the alleged deficit of Mr. Bush I thought I would share the following.

I was reading an interesting article this morning that quoted a previous Presidential Candidate who made this statement; "The Democrats want to save more on defense so they can spend more money to buy votes through the welfare state."

What an interesting quote with a lot of insight. Can anyone tell me who and when the statement was made?

imd, you've resurfaced with the same old bull you always say. In words you used in another blog, "move on." Get over it.

It amazes me that people will prove your responses wrong and you disappear for a couple of days and then re-appear repeating the same old drivel. If anyone needs to be impeached it is you and your flaming liberal cronies.

I will re-iterate a question I asked you several weeks ago before you went underground again and avoided the question; When has President Bush lied? Do not print some unverifiable document that someone unknown wrote; don't use something you heard at the water cooler, don't just blast the President out of the water. Simply research the evidence, build your argument on that and give the sources. It is very simple but it takes time and work. Try to give some rational basis for your argument. And, Please, don't change the subject into some other rant and consider that your argument.