Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, has vowed that if the Dems take back the House next month major changes would happen in the first 100 hours (not days- HOURS)!
Changes include:
Get lobbyists out of the legislation process
Implement all recommendations from the 911 commission
Raise the minimum wage to $7.25 per hour (maybe without doing the staggered increase that is typical)
Cut interest rates on student loans
Give Medicare negotiating power with drug companies
And last, but certainly not least
ROLL BACK THE WINDFALL TAX CUTS!
I'll admit that I have been a bit skeptical of Pelosi since she took impeachment off the table (I really do hope that was just political maneuvering and will be re-examined with a Dem majority). If this 100 hour plan is what we get with the first female Speaker then I say "What the hell took us so long?"
PS: Future Speaker Pelosi would be 3rd in line for the presidency. If impeachment happened for Bush and Cheney she might not just be the first female Speaker, but the first female President. That is a happy making thought indeed.
Saturday, October 07, 2006
Friday, October 06, 2006
Don't Walk- Run
To read this bit on impeachment. Seriously. And then I would like someone to explain to me why the Dems are such milquetoast babies that they can't seem to do what Americans want them to do. I can't see myself ever voting for a Republican (unless I could travel back in time and vote with the Radical Republicans after the Civil War) but I am having a hard time seeing how Democratic policies would be much better if they take control after the next elections. To date they haven't shown how they would protect the people they claim to represent.
This is not the Clinton impeachment. This is not about a political power grab over a ridiculous charge that has nothing to do with a person's capacity to run the country. This is about a president who committed actual crimes by lying about the war. This is about a president who is personally responsible for every American death in Iraq by falsifying the basis for the war. This is a legitimate, if not the most legitimate reason for impeaching a president, because he is putting the lives of Americans in danger without justifiable reason and under false pretenses. If Nixon was impeachable for bugging Democrats, how impeachable should Bush be for starting a war with a lie?
This is not the Clinton impeachment. This is not about a political power grab over a ridiculous charge that has nothing to do with a person's capacity to run the country. This is about a president who committed actual crimes by lying about the war. This is about a president who is personally responsible for every American death in Iraq by falsifying the basis for the war. This is a legitimate, if not the most legitimate reason for impeaching a president, because he is putting the lives of Americans in danger without justifiable reason and under false pretenses. If Nixon was impeachable for bugging Democrats, how impeachable should Bush be for starting a war with a lie?
Thursday, October 05, 2006
MC Tubby Hammer?
I dunno what to say. It's like watching a car crash between a pinto and a nova. It's so ugly you can't help but watch.
A teletubby shakes it's thang to MC Hammer's 2 Legit 2 Quit.
A teletubby shakes it's thang to MC Hammer's 2 Legit 2 Quit.
Right on for Fursday Funnies!
Totally swiped from Shakespeare's Sister and possibly not work safe.
Click on image to see what I'm talking about and then get down with your bad self.
The Return of the Giant Virtual Cookie
You may remember how this works. I put out some song lyrics and you all guess who it is (googling is cheating). First person to guess wins a giant virtual cookie!
Since I am still feeling like a silly, giddy 15 year old girl with a mega crush on very cute boy, the cookie is a giant pink heart and the song was one of my faves in high school. This should be easy.
Show me how you do that trick
the one that makes me scream she said
the one that makes me laugh she said
and threw her arms around my neck
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Why do blasts from the past come in waves?
Maybe astrologer extraordinaire Deek(tm) can answer this for me: Why has every single boy I never wanted to talk to again decided this is a good week to check in with me?
It started with my high school boyfriend, who is actually cool and we still talk every now and then, but I think he unleashed the floodgates. Then there was flakey unavailable why don't we talk boy. Then there was a boy I went out with exactly once on the worst date ever. The date was so bad I wrote an essay on it for Salon.com and got published (anonymously- it was that bad). Now it's a boy who I dated very briefly. We parted after a fight in which he said something so vulgar I won't even repeat it, but it's a common insult in trailer parks and red neck bars. It just reminded me why I don't date uneducated mid-western hicks, even if they claim to be artists. Of course before this there was the married guys phone stalking (3 of them- blahhhh).
So Deek(tm) is there something in the stars that says it's time for me to change my name and leave the country? Or maybe just my phone number and email addresses?
It started with my high school boyfriend, who is actually cool and we still talk every now and then, but I think he unleashed the floodgates. Then there was flakey unavailable why don't we talk boy. Then there was a boy I went out with exactly once on the worst date ever. The date was so bad I wrote an essay on it for Salon.com and got published (anonymously- it was that bad). Now it's a boy who I dated very briefly. We parted after a fight in which he said something so vulgar I won't even repeat it, but it's a common insult in trailer parks and red neck bars. It just reminded me why I don't date uneducated mid-western hicks, even if they claim to be artists. Of course before this there was the married guys phone stalking (3 of them- blahhhh).
So Deek(tm) is there something in the stars that says it's time for me to change my name and leave the country? Or maybe just my phone number and email addresses?
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