Well, I've only met Becky Nace once, at the last RDA Christmas party. That was the same day I found out that she had hired the rat-men at Axiom Strategies to run her campaign for Kansas City mayor. I'm sorry, but I cannot consider anyone who willingly associates with the vile Jeff Roe to be anything but a venal, self-serving poser.
So I was not at all surprised to find out that the most noxious GOPers in the region had kicked in to buy her the KC Mayor's seat. Bartle, Kraus, Graves, and other hard-right Repubs are backing Nace with big bucks. You see, GOPers can't win honestly in KCMO, so they've decided to use a Quisling like Nace to do it for them.
Look, we're fighting too damn hard out here in Eastern Jack to have to worry about faux Dems taking one of the most powerful offices in the state. So if you're a KC voter, don't let Jeff Roe and his Axiom snake-oil fool you. If Becky Nace wins, Republican special interests will line up to loot City Hall, and considering how much money they've given her, she'll have no choice but to let them.
Friday, January 26, 2007
Surging to catastrophe
Well, GWB, the "Decision Maker," is going ahead with his "Surge." As I understand the plan, we are going to put 20,000 of our brave fellow citizens into Baghdad neighborhood police station houses. There they are supposed to train Iraqi police on-the-job style, winning hearts and minds while doing the Rambo to the insurgents.
I predict (and I hope devoutly to be wrong) that this "way forward" will lead to a Teutoburger Wald moment for King George. (In AD 9, hubris led the Romans in Germany to insert several legions deep into a German forest called the Teutoburger Wald. Thousands of Roman soldiers, auxiliaries and civilians were ambushed and massacred by German tribesmen and their precious eagle standards captured.)
Placing our troops in small groups throughout the most heavily-armed and lawless city in the world is utter, negligent insanity. Our soldiers are the best fighters in the world, just as the Romans were in theirs. But the legions were slaughtered in the forest because their leaders were arrogant and refused good advice.
Arrogance and hubris are fine, if only one person pays the inevitable cost. But the bill for Bush's frat boy strut is always laid at the feet of our troops and their families. Frankly, it disgusts me, and his Republican enablers should be ashamed. (But then, if they knew shame they wouldn't be Republicans.)
November of 2006 was an opportunity for GWB to take some advice and in the process save many lives. But he is a stubborn, arrogant man-boy, devoid of wisdom and humility. We are, I'm afraid, doomed to a major disaster in Iraq, one that may cause such a cry of outrage that Bush and his delusional crew will be pushed aside and ignored until January of 2009.
I predict (and I hope devoutly to be wrong) that this "way forward" will lead to a Teutoburger Wald moment for King George. (In AD 9, hubris led the Romans in Germany to insert several legions deep into a German forest called the Teutoburger Wald. Thousands of Roman soldiers, auxiliaries and civilians were ambushed and massacred by German tribesmen and their precious eagle standards captured.)
Placing our troops in small groups throughout the most heavily-armed and lawless city in the world is utter, negligent insanity. Our soldiers are the best fighters in the world, just as the Romans were in theirs. But the legions were slaughtered in the forest because their leaders were arrogant and refused good advice.
Arrogance and hubris are fine, if only one person pays the inevitable cost. But the bill for Bush's frat boy strut is always laid at the feet of our troops and their families. Frankly, it disgusts me, and his Republican enablers should be ashamed. (But then, if they knew shame they wouldn't be Republicans.)
November of 2006 was an opportunity for GWB to take some advice and in the process save many lives. But he is a stubborn, arrogant man-boy, devoid of wisdom and humility. We are, I'm afraid, doomed to a major disaster in Iraq, one that may cause such a cry of outrage that Bush and his delusional crew will be pushed aside and ignored until January of 2009.
Friday, January 05, 2007
Bad Blogger, Lazy Blogger
Man, time just flies by during the Holy Days. Now we're into 2007, and there is some sunshine from the East. After only a day in office, the House Democrats passed an ethics reform bill, and the chastened Gopers went meekly along with it. Remember what Grover Norquist said about a castrated minority? Well, it looks like his dream came true, only reverse-wise.
Permit me to gloat. Hell, permit me to wax ecstatic about renewed oversight for the Iraq occupation, about keeping right-wing religious nutcases off the Courts, about actually allowing real scientists to present their evidence to government committees.
Yes, I have been a lazy blogger these Holy Days, but now is the time to tighten the helmet cords, as a famous Japanese samurai general once said, because a battle may be over, but the war for accountable govenrment, Constitutional freedoms, and the common good goes on.
Permit me to gloat. Hell, permit me to wax ecstatic about renewed oversight for the Iraq occupation, about keeping right-wing religious nutcases off the Courts, about actually allowing real scientists to present their evidence to government committees.
Yes, I have been a lazy blogger these Holy Days, but now is the time to tighten the helmet cords, as a famous Japanese samurai general once said, because a battle may be over, but the war for accountable govenrment, Constitutional freedoms, and the common good goes on.
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