While I’m certainly not going to hold my breath at the idea of a Democrat taking over the White House on January 21, 2009, I do think there’s hope for that outcome.  That hope is certainly bolstered by the fact that some of President Bush’s former donors are now hedging their bets on candidates like Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton.  I’ve said it before, and I still believe it to be true:  the country is looking for change and if you listen to the current crop of Republican candidates, especially John McCain, you don’t see a lot of difference between them and President Bush.

While I deplored the “swift boating” and the ads about flip-flopping during the 2004 election I think it would be just desserts if someone with money started plaster the television with Rudy Giulianis now apparent flip-flop on the issue of civil unions.  As the old saying goes, “Turnabout is fair play.”

You have to give credit to Lt. Colonel Paul Yingling for taking the president and his superior officers to task for basically rubber stamping the war in Iraq.  The military is not fond of outspokenness of this nature, especially from its active duty officers.  Colonel Yingling just might find himself on the receiving end of a nasty reprimand.  The article itself is a little dry, but still worth a read.

Lawyers in India are calling the arrest warrant issued against Richard Gere for his rather over-the-top kiss ridiculous, and well they should.  An obscenity law that arrests people for kissing in public just because a small minority does not like it is not only ridiculous, but backward and stupid.  And no, this is not a slam on the people of India or their faith.  If this was happening in America I would say the same thing.

New Hampshire became the third state to approve civil unions between same-sex couples.  Of course, it was along party lines with Democrats voting yes and Republicans trotting out the old traditional values red herring to justify a “no” vote.  I just don’t understand why allowing same-sex couple in a committed relationship to legalize that relationship is an attack on traditional values.  Isn’t the whole idea of committed relationships a traditional value?

The vote may be little more the symbolic since it still has to pass the Senate and will surely be vetoed by President Bush, but the fact that the Democrats has the balls and the political will to get a bill passed that will set benchmarks for the Iraq war and a time line for troop withdrawl speaks volumes about how things have changed in Congress.  It also sets Republicans up to stand against the growing American disapproval for this war, which they will have to defend in the upcoming election. 

You don’t say? I think we can file that under “No shit, Sherlock!” He goes on to say the atmosphere among the news media has grown toxic in reference to President Bush, which I find extraordinarily hypocritical considering the far more toxic environment that existed during the Clinton administration. An environment, Mr. Murdoch’s various news media helped create and foment.

I have to applaud two Democrats. First, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says it’s time to drop the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy instituted by her husband. I couldn’t agree more. If my research is correct, and I think it is, we are one of only small number of democratic, industrialized nations to openly prevent gays and lesbians from serving their country. European countries have been allowing homosexuals to serve in the military for a very long time, some of them our allies in Iraq, and have seen no detrimental affect on their military. This policy is wrong and should be done away with and I applaud Senator Clinton for having the balls to say so.

Second, recently elected governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, is saying he will introduce a bill to legalize same-sex marriage. Again, I say it’s about time this accepted discrimination be done away with. Any reason Republicans can come up with to prevent this from happening fails on its own merits. Some Americans may be uncomfortable with the idea of two men or two women marrying, but that’s no reason to enshrine discrimination into out laws.

Sometimes Rudy Giuliani sickensme. Whenever he needs a little boost to his ego he trots out September 11, 2001; and every time he does, it’s for personal gain. Sickening!

Now Giuliani is saying that having a Democrat is office will put the country “…at risk for another terrorist attack on the scale of Sept. 11, 2001.” Exactly how is that, Rudy? What is it that a Democrat would ever do to put the country at risk? What a load of bullshit. Rudy’s reason for this: “[I]f a Republican is elected, he said, especially if it is him, terrorist attacks can be anticipated and stopped.” So again I ask, how is that possible? Do Republicans have some sort of sixth sense for terrorists attacks? They certainly wouldn’t receive different intel from Democrats, would they? The American people may have been more willing to buy Republican scare tactics in terms of terrorists attacks during the 2004 election, but I really don’t think they’re buying it this time. We are at risk for terrorists attacks no matter who’s in office. Lest we forget, it has been shown that George Bush’s laziness had its own role to play in the attacks of September 11, 2001, and that came from the president’s own appointed special investigation group.

I sinerely hope the American people can see through these lies; and that they will stop allowing Republican to use the worst human disaster in America’s recent history for political gain. It’s time for the bullshit to stop.

If there’s one thing that remains consistent about member of the Bush administration it’s they are bunch whiny little babies who live in a bubble where no one is allowed to contradict them.  Well, Karl Rove stepped into the real world this weekend for Karl Rove when someone didn’t back down from him. 

Apparently, Sheryl Crow and Laurie David, wife of Seinfeld creator Larry David, attempted to discuss the issue of global warming with our boy Karl.  When he turned his back on them, Crow reached out to touch him on the arm at which time this exchange happened:

As Ms. Crow and Ms. David described it on the Huffington Post Web site on Sunday, when Mr. Rove turned toward his table, Ms. Crow touched his arm and “Karl swung around and spat, ‘Don’t touch me.’ ”

Both sides agreed that Ms. Crow told him, “You can’t speak to us like that, you work for us,” to which Mr. Rove responded, “I don’t work for you, I work for the American people.” Ms. Crow and Ms. David wrote that Ms. Crow shot back, “We are the American people.”

In their Web posting, Ms. Crow and Ms. David described Mr. Rove as responding with “anger flaring,” and as having “exploded with even more venom” as the argument continued.

You know it’s easy to dismiss what Karl Rove calls “Hollywood histrionics.”  I mean celebrities are Americans and have the same rights as we all do to speak out on what they believe, but you and I both know they can be a little annoying sometimes.  That being said, there’s an important point to be made here.  When Karl Rove says he works for the American people he means those American who believe and support his boss’politics, not the entire country.  A vast majority of which do no support his boss’ politics.  This is true of the entire Bush administration.  They are out for themselves and their cronies.

Besides, who doesn’t want to be touched by Sheryl Crow?