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.