Reoublucans Tough on National Security

Condi Rice was given intelligence that America was going to be attacked by terrirusts before 9/11 occurred, she did nothing.
Bush said he wanted Osama dead or alive, Osama remains alive and not captured. Bush now says Osama is a small deal ( I guess so with things going abysmal in Iraq). Hoever the Republicans are now suing Osama's image in their new SCARE AD.

Cheney still has holdings in Halliburton which is still doing business in Iraq. So in essence Cheney ,as well as other Reublicans, are getting rich off this illegal and prolonged war as soldiers lose their lives.

Where is the outrage? Where is the moral outrage?

Bush Being Unpatriotic

With NAFTA and Cafta and the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs, then add to it Walmart wanting other companies to ship jobs out of the country to bring in "cheap products", its no wonder salaries are depressed. These companies then expect citizens to buy these products in USA. However I fault the consumers for buying buying buying or following the adage shop til you drop. We are fueling our depressed salaries by shopping and doing little savings. If the consumers would get a clue and stop buying these foreing made products that our American companies out sourced, the eexectuves will get a RUDE awakening.

Bush and Rumsfeld want to say Americans arent patriotic for not supporting his CHOSEN war for oil in Iraq, but he fails to call these American companies unpatriotic for outseourcing jobs to impoverised countries ( their problem isnt our problem). Bush doesnt call himself unpatriotic for feeding the top 1% of country's wealthiest people while starving the other 99% but yet want the vote and support of the 99% for is illfated and chosen Iraq War. Bush is talking how he will fund his war but how is he going to get the debt down that he created for the rest of the country? He created this debt in this year and he should show how he plans for the rest of the country is to pay off his debt when he leaves office. Bish is setting up the rest of the 99% to be mired in debt. We should also change where Congress is allowed to vote themselves a raise..they get a raise when the lowest 20% minimum wage earner gets a raise. Coingress knew the expenses of living in Washington DC when they ran for office.

Lott Loves Lobbuinsts and Pork Barrel Spending

Then there is former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-MS, who forever memorialized himself with this quote: "I'll just say this about the so-called Porkbusters. I'm getting damn tired of hearing from them. They have been nothing but trouble ever since Katrina."


Trent hates folks who checks up on him as he spends the USA citizens money on his lobbyists as they bathe him in their money.

Ted Stevens Unmasked

Senators Tom Coburn and Barak Obama have proposed S.2590, legislation that would create a single website with access to information on nearly all recipients of federal funding. The bill cannot proceed, however, because one or more Senators placed a "secret hold" on it. Who is the secret holder? We want to know, and we want your help finding out. Call your Senator, and ask them to go on the record denying that they placed the hold. Senators who issue denials will be removed from the suspect list --- and those who do not, won't!


Ted Stevens has been unmasked as the secret senator to put a "hold" on the bill, now why? If it wasnt nefarious why be secretive Ted? Why put your other workmates under the cloud of suspecion? Why have th blogphere out you?

Bush's Invasion of Iraq Emboldened the Enemy

With polls showing that a majority of Americans believe it was a mistake for the United States to invade Iraq and with many Democrats calling for a deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops, Rumsfeld called the Iraq war the "epicenter" of the struggle against terrorism. Last week, Bush said that setting a timetable for a troop withdrawal would embolden the enemy and cause chaos in Iraq and throughout the region


Bush emboldened the enemy when he and his neocons chose to invade Iraq. Both Iran and Iraq were natural enemies. That longer exists. Bush seems to forget.

Bush Signs Bill to Raise National Debt

WASHINGTON -- With no fanfare, President Bush signed a bill Monday pushing the ceiling on the national debt to nearly $9 trillion. The measure allows the government to borrow an additional $781 billion and prevent a first-ever default on Treasury notes. It also lets the government pay for the war in Iraq without raising taxes or cutting popular domestic programs.

The debt limit increase was the fourth of Bush's presidency, totaling $3 trillion. With the budget deficit near record levels, an additional increase in the debt limit almost certainly will be required next year. The measure allows the debt limit to rise from $8.184 trillion to $8.965 trillion.

When Bush leaves office, will he leave our country in better or worse shape than when he took office?

Bush's Speech in Ohio

CLEVELAND Mar 20, 2006 (AP)— President Bush on Monday cited success in stabilizing an insurgent stronghold in northern Iraq, saying he has "confidence in our strategy" and critics should look beyond the images of violence to see clear signs of progress.
Bush tried a new tactic to boost sagging support for the war, relating to his audience in Cleveland a lengthy story about a campaign to rid the northern city of Tal Afar of terrorism against civilians. Success there "gives reason for hope for a free Iraq," he said.
Bush described how the insurgents who have been using murder and intimidation to run roughshod over the city now have been killed or captured by Iraqi forces and coalition troops working together.
The president's detailed description of the campaign and the eventual success story was meant to underscore another point the White House is trying to make: evidence of progress is more difficult than daily bombings and deaths to capture in media sound bites.
"In the face of continued reports about killings and reprisals, I understand how some Americans have had their confidence shaken," Bush told the City Club of Cleveland. "Others look at the violence they see each night on their television screens and they wonder how I can remain so optimistic about the prospects of success in Iraq. They wonder what I see that they don't."
Bush devoted a considerable amount of his appearance to taking questions from the audience in this Democratic leaning city. Right off the bat, he was challenged on his Christian viewpoint and whether he sees terrorism as a sign of the Apocalypse (he said he never thought of it that way) and how he restores confidence in U.S. leadership after the the reasons he gave for going to war with Iraq later proved false.
"Like you, I mean, I asked that very same question: Where'd we go wrong on intelligence?" Bush said. He said he is working to improve intelligence gathering because "the credibility of our country is essential."
But Bush also got his share of softballs, too he was invited back to for the Cleveland Hungarian Revolution 50th Anniversary and was complimented on his vision for a nuclear treaty with India and for his "very englightening" comments about Iraq.

Read more here http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory

Democrats Need To Get Off The Dime and Impeach or Censure President Bush

WASHINGTON — Democrats distanced themselves Monday from Wisconsin Sen. Russell Feingold's effort to censure President Bush over domestic spying, preventing a floor vote that could alienate swing voters.
A day of tough, election-year talk between Feingold and Vice President Dick Cheney ended with Senate leaders sending the matter to the Judiciary Committee.
"I look forward to a full hearing, debate and vote in committee on this important matter," Feingold said in a statement late Monday. "If the Committee fails to consider the resolution expeditiously, I will ask that there be a vote in the full Senate."
Republicans dared Democrats to vote for the proposal.
"Some Democrats in Congress have decided the president is the enemy," Vice President Dick Cheney told a Republican audience in Feingold's home state.
Feingold, a potential presidential candidate, said on the Senate floor, "The president has violated the law and Congress must respond."
"A formal censure by Congress is an appropriate and responsible first step to assure the public that when the president thinks he can violate the law without consequences, Congress has the will to hold him accountable," Feingold said.
Even as he spoke, Democratic leaders held off the immediate vote that Majority Leader Bill Frist requested. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said he didn't know if there ever would be one. Durbin said that Feingold had sought to use the censure resolution "as a catalyst" for thorough hearings and investigations.
The referral averted a debate and a vote that Democrats privately worried would alienate voters who could decide close elections.
Throughout the day, Feingold's fellow Democrats said they understood his frustration but they held back overt support for the resolution.
Several said they wanted first to see the Senate Intelligence Committee finish an investigation of the warrantless wiretapping program that Bush authorized as part of his war on terrorism.
Asked at a news conference whether he would vote for the censure resolution, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada declined to endorse it and said he hadn't read it.

What Is Immediate In Tip About Natalee Holloway

Julia Renfro was on the phone of On The Record with Greta, in which Julia said Dompig received a "credible" tip that Natalee's body was buried in the sands around the lighthouse of Aruba.

Julia said this tip was received in January and Dompig "immediately" work to search the sands. However that "immediacy" is being done in March. If the tip was so credible why not search hours after receiving instead of months?


Aruba doesnt have cadaver dogs or other electronic equipment for doing body search so they will be paying another American company to do the search.
Julia also said Equusearch would not be allowed in this search since Tim Miller supported the boycott of Aruba in this fiasco search for Natalee Holloway.

Aruba would rather pay for search teams and dogs than take free services from another company because Aruba's feeling is hurt by the call for boycott.

Aruba fail to realize as long as the ghost of Natalee Holloway flits over the island there will be no peace and commerce for the island.

The Added Cost of Bush's Iraq War

WASHINGTON -- The Senate probably will give President Bush most of the money he wants for the Iraq war and Gulf Coast hurricane reconstruction while setting aside bipartisan worries about the enormous costs of both.
That's what the House did when it voted 348-71 Thursday to approve $92 billion in supplemental funds for Iraq and Afghanistan military operations and Hurricane Katrina cleanup, slightly less than what the president sought.
"Our troops need every resource available to stay safe on the ground and fight off insurgent attacks," House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said. The bill, he added, "recognizes the needs on the front lines of the war and responds."
Bush, in a statement, praised the House vote and urged the Senate to follow suit promptly. "This bill will give our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan tools they need to prevail in the war on terror," he said. "The legislation also provides for additional resources for the people of the Gulf Coast as they continue the work of rebuilding their lives and communities."
Despite concerns over massive budget shortfalls, House Republicans and Democrats alike were reluctant to vote against the measure. Doing so could invite election-year criticism that lawmakers were shortchanging troops at war or abandoning hurricane victims.
"How do you vote against it?" said Rep. Solomon Ortiz, D-Texas.
But 52 Democrats, including longtime war opponents, and 19 Republicans, mostly fiscal conservatives, opposed it despite that risk.
The conservative Republicans sought to lessen the impact on the deficit by cutting other programs in the budget to pay for the hurricane recovery money. Unsuccessful, they voted against the measure to make a statement.
"We're not going to support anything and everything wrapped around war funding," said Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga.
The Senate plans to complete its version of the measure this spring. In previous years senators have been reluctant to deviate significantly from Bush's blueprints for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and last year signed off on much of his initial requests for hurricane funding.
Congress will send a final bill to the president's desk shortly after the Senate acts.
Most of the House bill, $67.6 billion, would pay for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Once approved, the money would boost to nearly $400 billion the total spent on the conflicts and operations against terrorism since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Bush's 2007 budget anticipates an additional $50 billion for war, though the costs probably will be much greater.
The bill also contains $19.2 billion for cleaning up and rebuilding the Gulf Coast after Katrina struck last summer. That would bring total hurricane-related spending to more than $100 billion.
Lawmakers are taking up the bill at a delicate time, particularly for Republicans, who, along with the White House, control both houses of Congress. Bush's popularity is at a low point, the federal deficit continues to rise and public support for the Bush administration's Iraq policies is waning as sectarian violence threatens to push the country into civil war.
AP-Ipsos polling in early March showed that about four in 10 Americans supported the president's handling of Iraq, his efforts on foreign policy and terrorism, and his handling of hurricane recovery.
In defiance of Bush, the House bill also included a provision that would block Dubai-owned DP World from running or managing terminals at U.S. ports. That ban probably will not make it into the final bill now that the company has promised to sell its U.S. operations in the face of bipartisan congressional pressure.
Much of the new war money in the House bill would pay for operations and maintenance costs, equipment replacement and personnel expenses.
Of the total, $4.8 billion would go for training and equipping Iraqi and Afghan security forces. The administration contends that large numbers of U.S. troops can begin returning home once the Iraqi security forces themselves are able to safeguard their country.
The bill would provide more money for armored vehicles and nearly $2 billion for the Pentagon to develop technology to detect and destroy makeshift roadside bombs, the Iraq insurgency's weapon of choice and the leading killer of U.S. troops in Iraq.
Of the hurricane money, nearly $9.6 billion would go to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for removing debris, reimbursing state and local governments for building repairs and helping storm victims.
In the six months since Katrina hit, Republicans and Democrats have criticized FEMA's response to the storm; some objected to giving the agency so much money.
To address such concerns, the House would provide $13.5 million to the Homeland Security Department inspector general to audit and investigate disaster assistance.

ImpeachBush.org

ImpeachBush.org welcomes the many thousands of people who have joined the grassroots impeachment movement this week following the placement of the full page newspaper ad in the San Francisco Chronicle.
The response to the newspaper ads in the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times have been amazing. If it were up to the people, Articles of Impeachment would have already been filed. The majority of Americans favor impeachment, by a 53% to 42% majority, if Bush lied about the reasons for going to war in Iraq, according to recent polls. And everyone knows that he did lie! The majority also favors impeachment if the President broke federal wiretapping laws by unleashing a massive secret spying operation on the people of this country. And he did!
But for impeachment to become a reality, it is necessary to a light a fire under the still-too-timid politicians in Congress. Senator Feingold moved to censure Bush this week for the illegal spying operation and Congressman John Conyers and 28 co-sponsors in the House have introduced House Resolution 635, which creates a special committee to investigate Bush’s impeachable offenses. These are good efforts but they require a groundswell of support over the next few months from the grassroots.
This is exactly how Nixon was forced from office in August 1974. The politicians from both parties knew full-well that Nixon was eligible for impeachment or could be forced to resign rather than face impeachment. But they were either too fearful and timid to take action, or they had been actually collaborating with Nixon. It was the outcry from below that changed the political calculus.
We are completely committed to stepping up the pressure. The politicians must feel the heat before they will act. The newspaper ads have been so effective that we want to keep placing them in newspapers around the country. Soon they will be complemented by radio spots. At the anti-war marches scheduled for this weekend, the third anniversary of the start of this illegal and catastrophic war in Iraq, ImpeachBush.org members will be holding ImpeachBush.org signs and banners and collecting thousands of signatures on the petitions.
The ImpeachBush.org movement is an exciting act of genuine grassroots democracy. All progressive and positive change in our country over the past two centuries has been the result of such grassroots movements.

Impeach Bush

Sorry People

I know you folks are hurt when you hear the words Impeach Bush but its true. Of course, people are calling Bush imcompetent, liar, and hapless. All of those are true.

Bush is killing innocent people, driving USA to bankruptcy, and ruining trust in USA by other nations. Bush got to be presidet wasn't because he was qualified but because he was riding on the name of his father.

We need to get Bush out of office NOW to before USA is a third world country but where do we go to get our good name back?

How low can Bush numbers go?

The latest CBS News poll has support for the president and his vice president dropping to 34 percent and 18 percent, respectively. If you add them together and divide by 2, you get a joint approval rating of 26 percent, 2 points above Richard Nixon's pre-resignation level.
How did George W. Bush drop so low? There are many moving parts: Gas prices are high, pensions are fading and the working class is struggling.
There are events that make it look like the fix is in for those in power: Halliburton caught but not punished for gouging the military, a drug bill benefiting drug companies, a Bush crony who is governor of Mississippi getting Katrina reconstruction money while New Orleans gets stiffed.
And there is, of course, the war.
For all these troubles, and many more, Bush would be doing better if he hadn't lost his ear. Gone is the man who picked up the bullhorn at ground zero, replaced by someone so clueless about the Dubai ports deal that he admitted he was out of the loop on the decision and then stubbornly went on to defend it.
Rovie, you're not doing one heckuva job. The Old Bush would have announced he was going to get to the bottom of the Dubai decision now that he was on the case. He would have feigned alarm, if not felt it, that a company owned by the country that was home to two of the 9/11 hijackers, and that recognized the Taliban but not Israel, would be doing business at six major U.S. ports.
Instead he gave his ace in the hole, 9/11, to others to play, and vowed to use his first veto to bat down any attempt to second-guess him. As his own party balked, he said he would let the 45-day review that the law requires take place after all, so Congress could come to see the facts as he does.
With 70 percent of the populace against the ports deal, the Old Bush wouldn't have let opponents be labeled racist xenophobes who are too unsophisticated to understand the nuances of global trade. I hear you, he would say, and I'm going to get to the bottom of this. Then he could have proceeded to do the deal anyway without the hemorrhaging.
But it's not just ports where Bush has gone tone deaf. He has so lost his touch on Iraq that even the military is turning against him. In a recent Zogby poll, only 23 percent of the troops agree with Bush that we should stay as long as necessary; 72 percent want out in a year.
With that goes one of Bush's most useful lines of defense. Whenever criticized for his policies in Iraq, Bush claimed the troops on the ground were with him, while taking a swipe at the patriotism of critics for undermining the troops.
Indeed, until now, the troops were with him, as you would expect. If you're risking your life in Iraq and have no choice about it, you believe it's for a worthy cause, or go crazy. If a friend dies, you have to believe it wasn't in vain. It's why there are fewer grieving parents against the war and more who cling to the notion that a child died for a good reason.
Our troops realize that the so-called Iraqi forces fighting alongside them aren't rising to the task at hand. No matter what Bush says, the number of battle-ready Iraqi battalions is somewhere around zero. Even among the Iraqi police and troops who can shoot straight and don't run away when attacked, there are imposters and infiltrators.
What's worse, now that sectarian violence has increased, it's hard to tell who's an enemy or a friend. Iraqis who used to live side by side are attacking each other on the basis of sect alone. Americans are in the middle.
Bush's own hand-picked intelligence czar, John Negroponte, predicts that the sect-on-sect violence unleashed in Iraq is so virulent it could inflame the whole Middle East. Instead of spreading democracy in the Middle East by invading Iraq, the U.S. may well be spreading civil war.
It's a mess, and if we're waiting for it to get straightened out before leaving, we are there for many, many years.
But Bush hasn't changed his rhetoric to fit the situation. In an interview on ABC last week, he defaulted to his two bromides on the war -- when Iraqis stand up, we will stand down, and the elections show that democracy is working. He even said, "We're making pretty good progress." With the mosques still burning and a curfew still in effect, that's in the category of Mission Accomplished.
If the military support is softening, it joins Bush's other constituencies in going wobbly. Bush is losing ground among his most loyal constituency, Republicans, where his approval may be lower than 34 percent if two obsessively loyal congressional leaders, Sen. Bill Frist and Rep. Dennis Hastert, fearlessly denouncing his Dubai decision are any indication.
It could be lower in the public at large, as well. I wonder how many of the 34 percent don't want to admit to a stranger on the phone how worried they are. "Fine, he's doing fine. Now don't call me again."
Of course, the religious right, enjoying rapture over Justice Samuel Alito, is still on board. That makes up 20 percent. So I'm going with the unscientific Carlson poll at 26 percent, splitting the difference between Bush's number and Cheney's.

Bush base key to McCain success in '08

WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain's support of the Dubai port proposal is just the latest controversial issue on which the Arizona senator has backed President Bush. And that is no accident, political analysts say. Other Republicans can afford to distance themselves from a lame-duck president whose popularity has dropped to near record lows. But experts say that if McCain decides to seek the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, as many in the party expect him to do, he must show his loyalty in order to sway the distrustful Bush base. McCain has no choice, because "he's got reverse Hillary-itis," said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion at Marist College in New York. While Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York is solid with core Democrats but not so popular with independent voters, McCain is "solid with independents but has trouble reaching out to the base," Miringoff said in an interview.

In the latest Marist Poll, conducted in mid-February by Miringoff, McCain was the only possible 2008 candidate who was named by more than 50 percent of voters as someone who should run for president. He did so on the strength of "crossover appeal" to independents and Democrats unrivaled by any of the other 25 politicians from both parties in the poll, Miringoff noted. Dante Scala, a professor at St. Anselm College and an expert on New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary, takes his analysis of McCain's political appeal a step further. "McCain is unusual among politicians in that in some sense, independents are his base," Scala said in an interview. That's fine in a general election, but not necessary an asset in the Republican primaries, he added. McCain won the New Hampshire Republican primary in 2000, largely on the strength of independent voters' support. But not long after that, his bid for the GOP nomination ran aground in South Carolina against a rejuvenated Bush campaign and its motivated base of social and religious conservatives, the dominant force in the national party.

Not surprisingly, then, as he assessing his chances in a second run for the GOP nomination, McCain is actively courting key figures in the Bush political network throughout the country, but especially in South Carolina. In January, for example, he held a meeting in a Spartanburg hotel with Bush loyalists, including Bush's state finance co-chairman, Barry Wynn. Two months before that, he lunched in Columbia with Bush fund-raisers John Rainey and C. Edward Floyd. And the senator's political advisers are trying to sign strategist Warren Tompkins, who ran the Bush campaigns in South Carolina in 2000 and 2004. McCain also has the backing of the South Carolina's senior senator, Lindsey Graham, perhaps the most popular politician in the state. That will help a lot, said Jack Bass, a College of Charleston professor who has written extensively about Southern politics. But "just what the Bush superloyalists will do is unclear," Bass said in an interview. South Carolina's large veteran and military retiree population will be "a significant source of strength" for McCain, who spent nearly seven years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, Bass noted.


But McCain's return to South Carolina after his loss in 2000 to apologize for not speaking out against the display of the Confederate flag at the state Capitol "won't help him with flag supporters," who overwhelmingly supported Bush, Bass added. Still, once Bush started running for re-election in 2004, "McCain has been mending fences with the conservatives almost as fast as Tom Sawyer," said Tom Schaller, a University of Maryland professor who is publishing a book this fall about Southern politics, "Whistling Past Dixie." Not only did McCain campaign aggressively for Bush's re-election, but in the 14 months since Bush's second term began, few senators have stood with the president as closely as McCain, even as the president's poll numbers steadily declined. Although McCain sponsored anti-torture legislation, he vigorously defended the increasingly unpopular war in Iraq. He brokered a deal that cleared the way for confirmation of the president's judicial nominees, including two Supreme Court justices, a top priority of religious conservatives. And amid GOP complaints about allowing a Dubai company to run the ports in six American cities, he urged caution and prudence. Moreover, he has spearheaded a compromise with Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., on legislation to rewrite America's immigration laws, an issue that divides both political parties. And as the scandal surrounding disgraced GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff has threatened to derail the Republican Party's efforts to retain control of Congress in the election this fall, McCain has used his reputation as a reformer to press legislation aimed at cracking down on influence-peddling on Capitol Hill.

John Weaver, McCain's chief political adviser, dismissed the suggestion of experts that the senator is unpopular with a large segment of Bush supporters. "We don't see it," he insisted. In most public opinion polls in recent months, McCain typically has been at the top, and "surely that isn't coming just from people who are not supporters of the president," Weaver said in an interview. Besides, he added, McCain "doesn't make decisions based on who he needs to curry favor with. The word 'curry' is not in his vocabulary." Nevertheless, having skipped the Iowa caucus in 2000, McCain is planning a trip there next month to aid the gubernatorial campaign of Rep. Jim Nussle. That should help him curry, or rather cultivate, the favor of Republicans in one of the most important states in the presidential nominating process. Victories in Iowa and New Hampshire could provide enough momentum for McCain to weather any setbacks in South Carolina and other Southern states where he remains suspect. If so, "the main question national Republicans will have to ask themselves is whether they want to risk nominating somebody less prominent and popular (with independents and Democrats) than McCain," said Schaller. "People like (Bush political adviser) Karl Rove must decide if they are going to vouch for McCain among wary conservatives or let the conservatives go after him."

San Francisco Supervisors Ask Lawmakers to Impeach Bush

San Francisco's supervisors jumped into national politics Tuesday, passing a resolution asking the city's Democratic congressional delegation to seek the impeachment of President Bush for failing to perform his duties by leading the country into war in Iraq, eroding civil liberties and engaging in other activities the board sees as transgressions.
The supervisors, in voting 7-3 for the resolution, made it likely that San Francisco again will become grist for radio and TV talk shows. The city has appeared in the national media spotlight recently for voters' passage in November of a nonbinding measure banning military recruiters from public high schools and for Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval's recent comment on a Fox News show that the United States doesn't need a military.
Supervisor Chris Daly, one of the most progressive members of the board, sponsored the resolution, which also calls for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney. Daly said the measure is justified in light of the administration's case for and handling of the war in Iraq, the federal government's inadequate response to Hurricane Katrina and recent revelations about a domestic wiretapping program."I think the case is clear, and I think it's appropriate for us to weigh in," Daly said.

San Francisco City Council Joins Impeachment Movement

While we were working in the last week to raise sufficient funds to place the full page newspaper ad in the San Francisco Chronicle before March 18, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (the city council) voted by a 7-3 margin to support the impeachment of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. The resolution calls on the Democratic delegation from the city to move for impeachment. The timing of the ad couldn't be better. Similar resolutions are being offered in city councils around the country. The people must use all avenues to pursue this growing nationwide grassroots movement.


Just last week tens of thousands of people participated in the People’s Impeachment Lobby by sending letters to their Congressional Representatives.
Last Thursday, New York City’s historic Town Hall Theatre in Times Square filled up with people supporting impeachment. The event was sponsored by Harper’s magazine. Many of those in attendance took the ImpeachBush.org/VoteToImpeach.org petitions home with them promising to collect signatures in the coming weeks.
Radio personality Garrison Keillor has just released an article entitled "Impeach Bush." and actor Richard Dreyfuss called for impeachment, while speaking before the National Press Club in Washington.
28 members of US Congress have now signed on to H Res 635, including US Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), the original co-sponsor. The current 28 total co-sponsors are Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA), Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO), Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Rep. Sam Farr (D-CA), Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA), Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX), Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI), Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Rep. James Oberstar (D-MN), Rep. John Olver (D-MA), Rep. Major Owens (D-NY), Rep. Donald Payne (D-NJ), Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), Rep. Martin Sabo (D-MN), Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Rep. Fortney Pete Stark (D-CA), Rep. John Tierney (D-MA), Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), and Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA).
Everyone who has been active with ImpeachBush.org/VoteToImpeach.org as a volunteer, activist or donor should be proud. When this movement started, we were confronted by the naysayers who said it couldn’t be done. Bush was tall in the saddle back then. The people who have made this movement come alive didn’t persevere because the issue was “popular.” People have sacrificed to make this movement happen because it is critically important. There was too much at stake to remain passive.


My only question, What took so Long?

Greta's Jurine interview vs Dr Phil's Deepak interview

Mark Furhman said Joran's interview raised more questions than it answered.

Jurine said he left Natalee on the beach because she wanted to stay there.

Remember this is Jurine's version of events.

Why would Natalee want to stay on the beach alone and in the dark, not knowing anyone or the island's customs?

I theorize, Natalee was passed out or unconscious at this point.

Jurine walks to make a phone call. Now he is barefoot at this point. He has left his shoes. Since he has to wait to be picked up, why not look for the shoes?
Jurine called Deepak but Satish picked him up. Deepak wanted to keep Satish out of it and wanted it to be said he picked up Jurine. Why does Deepak want Satish kept out of this and what is THIS?

Nadira in an earlier interview with Greta said Deepak and Satish left Jurine at the lighthouse. We now know that to be a lie.

Nadira said then that Jurine walked hom from the lighthouse. I can't see prettty boy waling to the bathroom let alone walking home from the lighthouse to his home barefoot.

Now by Jurine making the phone call to Deepak who is on the computer chatting with friends. Satish has to drive to the beach to get Jurine and then drive Jurine to home then get home himself.

How long did it take and was there enough time for Deepak to walk there or catch a cab?

would Deepak do this?

So if Deepak went back for Natalee, how much time did he have to do this?

Was another call made from Jurine to Deepak as Satish him drove home?

Men talk about their sexual conquests so did Jurine tell Satish anything on the way home and did Jurine make yet another call to Deepak once he was home?

Lets say Deepak did leave out of the house after Satish got home with the car. Did Deepak go to Natalee?

Lets say Natalee was already Dead. Does anyone think Deepak is sadistic enough to rape a corpse?

Did Deepak then Hide the body for Jurine?

There are still many inconsistent statements.

Compare Jurine's interview to that of Deepak's made by Dr Phil.

Is USA a Leader on Democracy and Women Rights?

As the presidential election near, it struck me that there are some who aren't willing to embrace a female presidential candidate.

USA wants to be leader of the free nations but lagging far behind other freenations with females in leadership roles.

so much for leading.

Margaret Thatcher of Great BritainMargaret Thatcher was the longest serving Prime Minister for more than 150 years and was the first woman ever to take the role.
Her father, a shopkeeper and Mayor of Grantham, was a major formative influence.
Thatcher was educated at the local grammar school and at Oxford where she studied chemistry. She also became president of the university Conservative association.
Mrs Thatcher later read for the Bar, before being elected in 1959 as the Conservative MP for Finchley.

Golda Meir of IsraelEighteen years ago today (March 7, 1969), Golda Meir was nominated by the Labor Party to be Prime Minister of Israel. She held this esteemed position until 1974. Before Golda Meir became Prime Minister, she was the Foreign Minister for Israel from 1956 to 1965, During her time as Foreign Minister, she had the opportunity to work with the cooperative agricultural and urban planning programs between Israel and Africa. Golda Meir was very proud of her international, as well as domestic work. After this time she became the Secretary General of the Mapai Party. She was Minister of Labor from 1949 to 1956, a position which was her personal favorite, for she had the time to work with and for the people.


These two women served over fifteen years ago, so when will USA lead ok, its now play catchup?


On the issue of Women Rights in America.

Why is it so important for Roe vs Wade to be overturned?

Why is it important for a female to have a child of her rapist or incest? Why must a woman see daily the product of her sexual violation?


Men need to be raped to know the feeling. No I am not saying male children but adult men. Our lawmakers need to know what it feels like to be sexually violated. Perhaps they will know what it feels like.


Perhaps

Cheney's fall from grace is a liability

The list of those who aided and abetted the elevation of George W. Bush to the presidency in 2000 is a long one. But none did more to put Dubya in the Oval Office than Dick Cheney.
Sure, there were others who played starring roles. Karl Rove, the grand strategist, for one. Then there was Katharine Harris (aka Cruella), the Florida secretary of state who read the election laws to Bush's advantage at every turn. And let's not forget the five Republican members of the U.S. Supreme Court who cut off the Florida vote recount that represented Al Gore's only chance of victory.
In the end, however, it was Cheney who made the difference for Bush.
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It's mostly forgotten now but the Bush-Gore contest, especially their debates, threatened to bring on a period of national narcolepsy. Who could stay awake? It was an irritating nerd (Gore) against an unqualified naif (Bush). Television sets went dark across the country. Enter Dick Cheney.
His meeting with Sen. Joseph Lieberman was the only debate in the campaign that produced anything like a clear winner -- Cheney. He was cool, smart, informed, just witty enough, and wise, something missing in both Bush or Gore. He brought enough adult supervision to the Bush campaign to make Dubya credible -- barely. Without Cheney it's hard to imagine Bush winning.
So it's stunning now to realize that Dick Cheney has become a yoke around the neck of the Bush presidency or, if you prefer a Nixonian reference, a cancer on the presidency. Just about every problem facing Bush today can be laid at Cheney's doorstep, from Iraq and the flap over warrantless wiretapping, to the White House's frosty relations with Congress and the Valerie Plame scandal.
Clearly, Bush, who needed Cheney desperately five years ago, would now be better off without him.
The Iraq war is largely a Cheney creation. He was the one who declared in 2002 that there was indisputable evidence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Within the White House, he was the enabler of the Pentagon-based neoconservatives (Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith) who desperately wanted the war. Cheney even predicted U.S. troops would be greeted "as liberators."
He seems oblivious of evidence to the contrary. With the insurgency growing and casualties mounting among U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians, Cheney insisted recently that the insurgency was "in its final throes." Some throes.
His links to the oil industry, especially to his old employer, Halliburton, reinforce the belief that the Bush administration is too cozy with the oil industry, with its recent obscene profits. Cheney's convening of a secret committee made up heavily of oil executives to shape national energy policy hasn't helped.
The vice president has been a principal peddler of the notion that the congressional action authorizing Bush to attack Iraq gives the president unlimited power to do just about anything else in the name of fighting terrorism -- warrantless wiretapping, holding terror suspects (even an American citizen) indefinitely without charge, even torture. You name it.
Cheney's problems are compounded by his unfortunate demeanor. He comes across as sour, with a gruff, even snarling countenance and a remote secretive style that belies his obligation to conduct the public's business with some transparency. It's not just the public that Cheney stiffs. He treats Congress no less high-handedly. It's one reason Republicans on Capitol Hill are beginning to resist the White House.
Which brings us to the polls. The latest survey has Cheney's favorability rating down to a dismal 18 percent. Richard Nixon, on the eve of his forced resignation, enjoyed rock star popularity compared with Cheney. Bad as it is, it could get worse. The "Scooter" Libby affair is still out there.
Libby, Cheney's ex-chief of staff who's under indictment for perjury and obstruction of justice, reportedly has asserted he was "authorized by superiors" to discuss classified information with reporters, presumably including the fact that Valerie Plame, wife of a critic of the Iraq war, was a CIA operative. Naturally, Cheney tops the list of those suspected "superiors."
Bush might be able to shed the Cheney tarnish had he not made Cheney the most powerful vice president in recent memory, maybe in American history. Indeed, there is a perception in Washington and the country that Cheney rather than Bush runs the country. He's our first imperial vice president.
What it comes down to is this: Bush is a damaged president. Since his term has three years still to run, that's a serious condition for the country. Cheney is a major part of that damage. It's time for him to do the right thing. It's time for him to go.

Where is Amy Sher

Did a botched policed investigation allow a murderer to go free?That is a question surrounding how police responded to the disappearance of a Billerica woman who is now presumed to be a homicide victim.Our I-Team has been investigating this case. I-Team reporter Joe Bergantino with more on what the police should have done.

Wendy Murphy, Attorney: “It’s unconscionable that the police would not at least have talked to her co-workers.”Former Prosecutor Wendy Murphy is talking about what Billerica Police failed to do in October 2002 when thirty-eight year old Amy Sher disappeared without a trace.Police received a phone call from supervisors here at the Lahey Clinic where Amy worked in the hospital’s finance department.Those supervisors told police that Amy had been a victim of severe emotional and physical domestic abuse for several years, that her husband e-mailed a resignation letter and that they feared she had been murdered.The police response? Police made one phone call to Amy’s husband, Robert Desmond, and did nothing else after Desmond told them Amy had decided to leave the area for a while.

Wendy Murphy, Attorney: “Maybe thirty years ago that’s enough, the police make a phone call, the guy tells him something, he’s the husband, she’s the wife, whatever he says goes because it’s a boys club. Thirty years ago maybe, not in this time frame. It makes no sense.”So why didn’t police, at the very least, drive over to Amy’s home and assess the situation?Daniel Rosa, Billerica Police Chief: “I would say normally that would be the procedure. This particular case presented itself a little differently at the outset.”

In other words, this wasn’t a case that began with a phone call from a home in the middle of a violent episode.Mary Lauby heads up Jane Doe Inc., an advocacy group for domestic violence victims.Joe Bergantino: “Is that a legitimate excuse?”Mary Lauby, Jane Doe, Inc: “No, a very simple no.”Another question, why didn’t police bother to interview Amy Sher’s co-workers to better understand the extent of her abuse?Joe Bergantino: “It boggles my mind as to why some basic things that I would do even as a reporter weren’t done in this case.”Daniel Rosa, Billerica Police Chief: “It’s an ongoing investigation and I’m not going to comment any further about that part of it. Again, I feel there was a response.”Joe Bergantino: “An acceptable response?”Daniel Rosa, Billerica Police Chief: “And I do feel there was a response and they’re following up on the case as we speak.”Wendy Murphy, Attorney: “It’s beyond incredible that they didn’t talk to her co-workers to find out more about what they knew.Joe Bergantino: “So how serious a mistake was this?”Wendy Murphy, Attorney: “If he killed her and they asked no questions of anyone, this is, in a sense, the police being responsible for a murderer walking free.”The police investigation in this case didn’t begin until April of last year, eighteen months after Amy disappeared.It was triggered when Amy’s mother and sister, from whom she had been estranged for ten years, hired a private investigator to get pictures of Amy and son Michael.The private detective found Amy’s husband and son but not Amy.

Joel Picchi, Private Detective: “Amy was nowhere to be found.”Last spring, State Police and cadaver sniffing dogs searched the home where Amy had lived but found nothing. They have questioned Robert Desmond who has stuck by his story.Joe Bergantino: “Why didn’t you file a missing person’s report?”Robert Desmond: “Because she moved out under a sad but amicable situation. She’s not a missing person in our view.”But authorities say Amy’s disappearance is now a homicide investigation.And surprising to many, Middlesex District Attorney Martha Coakley is defending the Billerica Police’s failure to investigate back in October of 2002.

Martha Coakley, Middlesex D.A.: “I’m not sure looking back at that that either the department could have done more or that we would have advised them to do more.”Amy’s family and victim advocates strongly disagree.Joani McCullough: “I think they should have taken it more seriously and somebody should have investigated.”Even in the past year, detectives have failed to do some very basic police work. They have not tried to subpoena Robert Desmond’s credit card records, phone records or computer hard drive. They never searched for Amy Sher’s car until the I-Team questioned why that had not been done. And more than a year into their investigation, they still hadn’t talked with Desmond’s parents or co-workers.

Trip Abroad Gives Bush a Respite From Domestic Woes

There were no questions about the Dubai ports deal. There was little talk of Vice President Dick Cheney's accidental shooting of a fellow quail hunter. The words "Iraq" and "Katrina" hardly came up at all.
Through five days and three countries last week, George W. Bush got a little of what beleaguered American presidents always look for on foreign trips: a chance to set aside problems at home.
True, the trip had troubles of its own. Anti-Bush riots led by Islamists exploded from Hyderabad north to Kashmir, Islamabad was in lockdown because of the risks of bringing the president into Osama bin Laden's backyard, and an American diplomat died in a suicide bombing in Karachi. But compared with Mr. Bush's most recent trips to South America and Asia — one dominated by demonstrations led by President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and the other by problems in Iraq — the president's visit to the subcontinent was a relief for him.


India, where Mr. Bush spent two packed days, embraced him in a way the president had not experienced in a long time.
"He felt very warmly received," Andrew H. Card Jr., the White House chief of staff, said from the lawn of Islamabad's presidential palace on Saturday morning. The night before, in an open-air speech in New Delhi at a 16th-century fort, Mr. Bush said he had been "dazzled" by the spectacle of "this vibrant and exciting land."
This is not to say that all of India adores Mr. Bush, and its Muslim minority in particular is furious about Iraq. But over all, the United States is highly popular in India and Mr. Bush bestowed on the nation such an astonishing gift — last week's nuclear deal — that Indians greeted him like an American maharajah. Even before his arrival, a survey in the Indian newsweekly Outlook found that two-thirds of Indians "strongly" or "somewhat" regarded Mr. Bush as a friend of the country.
Mr. Bush, who can look miserable on foreign trips, often appeared moved and delighted as he raced around India. "I have been received in many capitals, but I have never seen a reception as grand as the one we just received," Mr. Bush said after a majestic arrival ceremony with horses and honor guards at Rashtrapati Bhavan, the 340-room pink and cream sandstone mansion built for the last of the British viceroys.
Rashtrapati Bhavan, now the home of the president of India, evokes all the romance and hubris of the dying Raj. But as evocative as the ceremony was for Mr. Bush, aides said he was more captivated by the India of the present — a functioning democracy of a billion people, a counterweight to China, a huge market for American goods. One of the president's favorite stops on the trip, they said, was a meeting with entrepreneurs in Hyderabad, the booming high-tech city.
"Yesterday I met with some Indian C.E.O.'s and American C.E.O.'s, kind of the old folks," Mr. Bush told a dozen men and women in their 20's and 30's at Hyderabad's Indian School of Business. "Today I'm meeting with the C.E.O.'s of tomorrow, the people that are going to help drive this great engine of economic prosperity for India — for the good of the world, is how I view it."
India cooperated with exquisite spring weather — it was only in the 80's in New Delhi, where lush gardens burst with dahlias and bougainvillea — and huge headlines. "It's a Deal — A Very Big Deal," screamed The Times of India across the front page on Friday morning, over a picture of Mr. Bush with his arm around the shoulders of the Indian prime minister, Manmohan Singh. The two had just announced the pact that would give India help with nuclear power for its energy needs while allowing it to continue to develop nuclear weapons — a tough sell in a skeptical United States Congress, Mr. Bush acknowledged.
Indians made light of Mr. Bush's one faux pas, skipping a three-hour trip from New Delhi to the Taj Mahal, the tomb that a heartsick Mogul emperor built for his wife and still considered the world's greatest monument to love. "I am truly sorry that the president is not taking you to Taj Mahal this time," Mr. Singh said to Laura Bush as he toasted the first couple at a lunch on Thursday. "I hope he will be more chivalrous the next time you are here."
Mr. Bush bookended his trip to India with a surprise four-hour stop in Afghanistan and a 24-hour stay in Pakistan, where Mr. bin Laden is believed to be hiding in the remote tribal areas near the Afghan border. But Mr. Bush, the first American president to visit Afghanistan since President Eisenhower in 1959, and the first to visit Pakistan since President Clinton in 2000, bounced around Mr. bin Laden's terrain with defiance.
Unlike Mr. Clinton, who slipped into Islamabad for six hours on an unmarked military jet, Mr. Bush arrived with a roar on Air Force One. (Although Air Force One, the most recognizable 747 in the world, landed with its running lights off and shades drawn, making it a more difficult target for any ground-launched missile.) Mr. Bush also stayed the night at the fortress-like American ambassador's residence and took time out the next day to take a few swings with a cricket bat with students from the Islamabad College for Boys.
"Terrorists and killers are not going to prevent me from going to Pakistan," he had vowed in New Delhi.
Mr. Bush got home at 5 a.m. on Sunday and returned to his normal life, going to church later that morning, then taking a bicycle ride. On Monday, he would face Iraq, the ports deal, fallout from Katrina, rebellious Republicans, approval ratings in the mid-30's — and a Mr. bin Laden still on the loose.
His trip to the subcontinent was over.

Republican Congress Scrambling To Keep Their Jobs

Republicans are scrambling to do whatever they can to keep their jobs. They have finally woke up to finally do their jobs. However is it much too little too late? These Republicans never did the business of the People but did the business of the president and his personal agenda.

We as a country would never have been in this position if the Rebuplican had done thir jobs. They allowed a dubius war with Iraq, exorbitant spending on this "slam dunk" war, warrantless wiretapping, tax cuts for rich during a time of war, and other things done in SECRECY, and now buying of our ports by Dubai.

This Congress allowed Bush to do whatever he wanted without any questions asked. That is reprehensibile.

These Rebulicans arent going contrary of Bush because it is the RIGHT thing to do but doing so to just get reelected.
Who is to say if this Republicans are reelected that they would continue to do the People buisness or resort back to following Bush?

Do we dare take a chance by just TRUSTING them?

Destination Under Scrutiny - Aruba - One Happy Island?

A jewel in the Caribbean crown of memorable Destinations, Aruba delivers a wonderful Visitor Experience. You do feel very safe and welcome; the islanders are joyous, sparkling with enthusiasm and hospitality. Yet, Visitors still must balance perception with the reality.
Her name is on our minds – a most unfortunate incident – still unsolved after nine months – the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
The case put Aruba on the International map – a lovely Caribbean island caught in the harsh spotlight of the carnivorous media machine and the public appetite for sensationalism.
The intrigue lingers in the background of your visit. When queried, everyone there has an opinion – from the Managing Director of a Resort complex, to your Taxi Cab driver, to your waitress, to a Tourism Official. They grieve for the loss, they are alarmed that the public really only knows the spin of questionable “journalists”, they are numbed that their Island, known for Hospitality, security and almost perfect weather, has suffered such ignominy.
Having just returned from a five day Holiday (a birthday gift from my sons), peeling, rested, revitalized, please allow me to present a perspective. Just as their license plate proclaims, Aruba is “One Happy Island”.
But, not to second guess Island Officials, I do think that Aruba misjudged the media attention and did not effectively present the efforts undertaken there to provide a full picture of their response to the still unfolding unfortunate situation. This is an extremely sensitive issue in Aruba, and the situation goes beyond normal “Damage Control” for Destinations beset with natural disasters, such as hurricanes and tsunamis. One incident, one individual continues to roil the once gentle waters.
I look at Johnson and Johnson with Tylenol and even Wendy’s with the chili ingredient and admire the approach the respective companies immediately implemented to address a crisis. They simply took the wind out of the media sails, comforted the public with their concern, attention and action, and managed the situation through effective, honest and timely communication.
Aruba, I am told, has done about as much as a Destination could do, but we, the public, their potential Visitors, simply do not know that. About 72% of their Visitor traffic comes from the US, which is besieged and bombarded with news – print, on-line, television. And, we all love a good story, the more lurid and unsettling the better. Yellow journalism lives! Aruba misjudged our appetite, which is fed daily with detail, intrigue, innuendo and possibilities. In short, the Island did not effectively put into place a Crisis Management Plan at the onset, and they certainly need something substantial in place now.
First hand, I can assure you that we were treated courteously and generously. My sons, of the late 20’s tribe, were out almost every night until 3 am, enjoying the bars, the casinos, the nightlife, and, at no point did they feel threatened or unsafe. The same temptations exist here as elsewhere. Even with the aftermath of Carnivale, where the capital city of Oranjestad was a bit overzealous, police and good nature prevailed. I might add that the food was terrific, the weather unrelentingly perfect, and the Hospitality bountiful. And, I read that $230M is being invested in the Tourism product, impacting every facet of the Industry to further elevate the Visitor Experience – from renovation at the resorts, new construction, expansion of the Airport, to improved docking access for the Ocean Liners. But, the first question I am asked when I tell people about our visit is, “Have they found the young woman yet?” The intrigue and the impact continue!
It is very easy to become embroiled in the debate on whether or not the Holloway case has been handled appropriately in a legal fashion. Beyond the media frenzy and the political sensibilities (US versus a sovereign entity and even the Alabama boycott), the net result is that the story has “legs”, and, Aruba, as a Destination, will continue to be affected. And, we, the Consumer, are left buffeted by the media wind, therefore, becoming very circumspect with a travel decision.
It is a shame Aruba was not at the forefront with a strategic Crisis Management focus. Millions are spent on Brand Marketing, but their reputation has been tarnished. A first rate publicist or Public Relations Firm should have been retained as the “story” rocketed. Catch up and changing perception are tough assignments! The response will be debated for years. I am still curious about Aruban effort to date.
I shall return to Aruba, and I shall pass along the good news, for our Visitor Experience was simply splendid.