Every day, the American political landscape is peppered with talk and debate about Iraq. One side talks about a responsible departure while the other uses inflamatory language to try to make the case for surges and further commitments in the region. T.B.T.K. is an old commonly used set of letters around capitol hill. It stands for "too big to kill." It is commonly used around government pork projects that lawmakers or whomever have ensured it's continued funding by simply making the progra...
This political season reminds me of Christmas. Especially the Christmas's of the 80's and 90's. Not because I have the feeling that it's Christmas morning and waiting under the tree is a super-duper present I had been hoping for. And not because I have any renewed feelings of hope, love and grace. It is because this Presidential election cycle has begun ridiculously early. It reminds me of how every year as I grew up and entered adulthood, the stores and other businesses would start ...
Yesterday, Vice President Cheney, fresh out from the hospital, where he doesn't poll any better than anywhere else, and Sen Harry Reid, fresh from Barnes & Noble, where he was looking for a copy of "The Idiots Guide To Leadership," again bumped heads in what has developed into quite a little feud. Of course, this version of the feud is advantageous to the White House as Harry Reid has become easy fodder in his bad leadership of the Senate since taking the majority. And while the right w...
The controversy involving Pat Tillman isn't about Pat Tillman. It's about you and me, the American people. And it's not really a controversy at this point. At this point , the evidence is alarmingly clear. We were lied to. the use of Pat Tillman's death as a Madison Ave. promotion tool by the executive branch of our government was not only wrong, it is outright disgusting. Heads need to roll. I don't know exactly who's yet, but hopefully not some private or pion like all too often in ...
Today, Vice President stood up before the cameras following his hospital visit involving a blod clot in his leg. Cheney blasted Reid for taking 3 positions in the last 6 months on the war. And Reid has. He has gone from saying there will be no defunding of the troops, to saying that there will be a condition based bill, to suggesting that Senator Russ Feingold's bll to defund the troops will be brought before the Senate floor. And Cheney was right in pointing out the Senator's moveme...
Michael Smerconish is a regular guest on MSNBC, especially on fellow Philadelphian Chris Matthews's "Hardball" program. Smerconish often gets to represent the republican stance on such programs as he does on his conservative talk radio show in the City that "loves ya back." While he is a conservative, at least in the modern context, out of the "Reagan" mold more than the Bush mold, he is no Rush Limbaugh or his comedic ilk. He lacks the hate inspired rhetoric that Ann Coulter types spew. He a...
Everyone knows Dennis Kucinich is an anti war, pro labor liberal democrat. He is the most liberal of all the democratic candidates for President. Kucinich plans on offering articles of impeachment against vice president Dick Cheney. After he submits his impeachment charges, the matter will be reviewed, inspected, negleted, rejected, disinfected and so on... And in the end will probaby never be seriouly brought up on the house floor before Mr Cheney heads off into the sunset in 2009. Ku...
About a month ago, the 2008 Presidential candidates revealed their 1st quarter fund raising totals. We learned a few things about the election at hand next year. 1st off, it's expensive to run for President. Too expensive for anyone who doesn't hang with billionaires to even attempt. That fact alone bothers me. But the issue of campaign finance reforms won't be seriously debated in congress till 2009 if we're lucky. For this cycle, money is the beast that must be tamed if one wishes to run fo...
I'm a huge Sopranos fan. From Season 1, when psychoanalysis was a main plot to this final season, where Dr Melfi is only on sparingly I have enjoyed it all. i agree with a lot of critics who found season 5 to be a little weak compared to the previous 4, but I enjoyed the David Lynch like surrealism of the 1st half of season 6. About the only thing david Chase didn't do in the previous season was have Tony and the boys break into song every once in a while. Tony Soprano is just a great cha...
I've been listening to the clamor over 2nd rate jock Don Imus's comments about the Rutgers Women's Basketball Team for days now. I've been hearing the apologies, the arguments, the statements and everything else. And so far, everyone has gotten his words wrong. And I am sure of it. The worst thing to me about this scandal to me might be that Don Imus has shown unequivocally just how spineless he is in all of this. 1st off, before explaining my point of view and determination of the fac...
After the Vietnam war, our country made a deliberate decision to move away from the military draft. At the time, one argument was made, and apparantly bought by our nation, that the drafting system had unfairly skewed the military population to only include those without enough money or political connections to avoid service. Of course, it also had to do with the fact that so many of our boys had been killed or permanently mamed physically, psychologically or both by a conflict that was high...
Dick Cheney continued his campaign of lies and deceit against the American People and the Constitution he swore to protect and uphold. This week, on comedian Rush Limaugh's show, Cheney had the audacity to repeat his bogus allegations that Iraq and Al Qaeda were working togethre before our invasion in 2003. This was after the release of a report that captured Iraqi documents and intelligence interrogations of Saddam and two of his former aides " all confirmed " that Hussein's regime was n...
The recent trip to Syria by house Speaker Pelosi has once again brought out the right wing portable punditry to lie, smear and spin. This time, the hypocrisy and lying is easy to spot. But only if you take your blinders off. The biggest hypocrisy over the trip was concerning the fact that republicans had made the trip to speak to Syrian leaders over the current situations in the region. Of course, the "counter-spin" was singling out Pelosi as "speaker" and therefore was somehow different ...
I just posted a demo recording (rough draft) of a new song on myspace.com Anyone who is kind enough to give a listen and offer any feedback (relevant) is more than welcome to do so:) thanks:) here's the site... Link