Americans Do Eventually "get it"

I know it is difficult for many of us to understand why so many people could have been fooled into voting for the current (p)resident of the White House. I thought I would post the lastest survey from the polling company American Research Group. It does not take away the sting of the Bush incompetents reign of error on this country and the world, but the latest results do bring just a bit of summer releif.


Bush Job Approval Ratings 8/22/05

Approve Disapprove Undecided
Overall 36% 58% 6%

Economy 33% 62% 8%

For complete survey results, please click HERE

Plame Leak for Dummies

Walter Pincus of the Washington Post, has a very simple and easy to understand article on the treason committed by the White House in the outing of Valerie Plame

What this article clearly shows are two basic facts. The White House attempts to diminish the importance of Joe Wilson's true charges resulted in the act(s) of treason. Quoting from the article;

Time magazine's Matthew Cooper has written that he was told by Karl Rove on July 11 "don't get too far out on Wilson" because information was going to be declassified soon that would cast doubt on Wilson's mission and findings. Cooper also wrote that Rove told him that Wilson's wife worked for the agency on weapons of mass destruction and that "she was responsible for sending Wilson."

This Washington Post reporter spoke the next day to an administration official, who talked on the condition of anonymity, and was told in substance "that the White House had not paid attention to the former ambassador's CIA-sponsored trip to Niger because it was set up as a boondoggle by his wife, an analyst with the agency working on weapons of mass destruction," as reported in an Oct. 14 article.

The other side of this coin is just one of the never ending string of lies that is standard operating procedure for this corrupt White House. Not only did the White House commit treason, they lied while doing it!

Wilson maintains that his wife was asked that day by one of her bosses to write a memo about his credentials for the mission--after they had selected him. That memo apparently was included in a cable to officials in Africa seeking concurrence with the choice of Wilson, the Senate report said.

Valerie Wilson's other role, according to intelligence officials, was to tell Wilson he had been selected, and then to introduce him at a meeting at the CIA on Feb. 19, 2002, where analysts from different agencies discussed the Niger trip. She told the Senate committee she left the session after her introduction.

Senior Bush administration officials told a different story about the trip's origin in the days between July 8 and July 12, 2003. They said that Wilson's wife was working at the CIA dealing with weapons of mass destruction, and she suggested him for the Niger trip, according to three reporters.

So it goes. Thank God the American people have awoken to the fact these people a congenital liars. Just a year too late!

Another AWOL republican

Sent this to the Daily Press today.

Editors:

Just as Bush for Vietnam and today’s conservative College Republicans who fail to fill the recruitment shortfalls for the Iraq war they support, our own 1st district representative JoAnn Davis proves to be another example of a Republican who failed to show up in a tough situation.

Always a reliable rubber stamp for the extreme right wing agenda of Tom Delay, Davis went AWOL for the vote on the American-job-killing CAFTA bill just passed by the House 217-215. While declaring her opposition to the bill, she argues she could not make the hour-long trip from the Boy Scout Jamboree, although the activities had been canceled that day due to the extreme heat. Bush cancelled his planned trip to the event that very same day. Further undercutting her story is the vote closed past midnight.

What on earth was Davis doing at a cancelled event in the middle of the night that precluded her from standing up for American workers and jobs and, in a rare bout of courage, to her Republican leadership?

As I write, her web page is silent on the subject and the heading on that same site reads: “Representing Virginia’s First District”. For her hard-working constituents whose job may now be at risk, nothing could be further from the truth.

Charles F. Stanton
Newport News, VA.