Sunday Comics: The Week in Review

The week that was...
The Pope outlined his new strategy in dealing with problems. The 'hear and speak no evil' plan seems to be what he's figured out will work the best.
Our friends in Congress have decided to go for the final flush this week. Arm twisting and character assassinations of Dennis Kuinich show that Nancy doesn't care about losing the House - just this bill - rules and bodies be damned.

Meanwhile, Israel is going ahead with that new subdivision.

And Tiger is back...
And Kansas lost... which leaves the old lady receptionist that doesn't know why she's leading in the office bracket pool right now. She made her picks based on what animals the mascots were.

Quote of the Week

"I also don’t get how anyone could have watched the Senate over the last year or so and not concluded that this thing is better passed with 50 votes than 60. With 50 votes, you have ten fewer Senators to bribe, which according to my calculations should bring the overall cost of the bill down by about at least fifty trillion dollars."

-- Matt Taibbi on reconciliation and the current health care bill

Impeachment Update

The House of Representatives votes to send articles of impeachment against President Bush to the Judiciary Committee for review...

....where it'll probably fall down and die a quiet death....

The motion passed 251-166.

“It is imperative that Members of Congress have a thorough opportunity to read the Articles of Impeachment and study the documentation,” Kucinich said in a news release Tuesday. “When they do, I am confident that they will agree that it is both appropriate and necessary for the Judiciary Committee to begin hearings on the Resolution.”

I find it interesting that old rusty news isn't even touching this thing... hardly at all. And Keith Olberman doesn't count as part of the media. Steven Colbert has more viewers than Olberman on any given day... even a re-run.

But the internet is abuzz. Blogs are going nuts, message boards are three times as long...
Made me think of this:


It's the one and only chance that the Democrats have a chance to stop flapping their mouths and finally drop a pair. I'm not holding my breath, Mrs. Pelosi.

You do realize that this is the one and only discussion about the war that is being conducted in this country, right? And this discussion is the only chance to change the status quo.

Impeachment

You might not have noticed - as no one in the Media seems to give a rip or take seriously - but a 35 article Impeachment Resolution was read into the Congressional record by Democratic Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich (and punchline, punching bag). Question - is anyone going to take this seriously?

Here's an exchange I caught online:

Guidomyte: IMPEACHMENT IS NOT WHAT IS NEEDED RIGHT NOW

Shouldn't congress be preparing to take all three branches of gov't in November's election (office in January) as they keep predicting? Instead of chasing down this wild goose, why don't you start doing something productive to convince me to vote you into power? Impeaching Bush with 7 months left in the presidency would accomplish nada except bolster some pride in some an alienate others, you aren't going to reverse anything within that amount of time, even if you impeach him TOMORROW. This is a prime example of blinded bipartisan hatred, nothing more/less, both parties to blame.

Did Bush do some bad things? Hell yes, obviously. No doubt. Consequence for his actions? Fine, just do it outside of the Presidency, lest you WANT to make the USA look even weaker in the eyes of the world. Impeachment or not, DK just made us look like the biggest group of colossal pussies to the rest of the globe.

mizchief: WTF is this really needed? Dude is going to be gone in a couple of months anyway. Is it really worth how bad this makes the country look? Impeaching two presidents in a row; and you wonder why no one good wants to run for president. Our economy is already going to shiat do we really need to add this to the pile?

FightDirector:Why is this needed? Why is this needed?!

Are you serious?! Are you high? It's needed because we need to make a statement to America, to future presidents, and to the rest of the world that the conduct shown by this administration is NOT OK. We need to own up to and correct as best we can our missteps...and the first step along that trail is to impeach the bastard and hold him PERSONALLY accountable, along with every member of the administration we can get our hands upon before they fly to Argentina with the rest of fascists.

THAT'S why it's fugging needed.

I have to say that I'm happy these things were read into the Congressional record - as a legal note for future Americans (what, for the next Administration??)

I started to read the Impeachment Resolution - I have a link to the PDF of it... click there...

It'll take me a week to get through it. Breakfast nook, toilet time, in traffic, and night-night time -- I think a week is kind of lowballing it too.

Dennis is blaming Bush personally for EVERYTHING that has happened including no body armor and covering up the Pat Tillman friendly fire incident.

-- It's either the ultimate act of futility, or it's a roadmap for Obama to actually pursue a course of change. If it's laughed off - which would be my first assumption of what's going to happen - there will BE NO CHANGE.... 

Wondering what you think of it all. I'm also waiting for Dennis fanboy OneF to chime in... 

Updates: Michigan and Diebold

Two update items to share with y'all.

Last time I posted I was encouraging Michiganitesersians to vote for Mr. Kucinich because of his recount efforts in New Hampshire amongst a few other reasons. Well, Dennis could not overcome Hillary. In fact, he got crushed by Uncommited. He even got about 3,000 votes less than Giuliani.

I see Uncommited as the big winner. The exit polls reveal that Uncommitted won the following votes: youth (under 30), intellectual (post-grad), wealthy (over $100,000 / year), independents, African-American, non-whites, and urban. That probably makes someone at the Clinton Camp wince. Luckily for them, it does not much matter as she won the delegates. None-the-less, momentum is moving towards Uncommitted.

Second update item. Many folk think I am crazy for being so 100% convinced that our voting system is flawed and easily manipulated in a time where politicians are at their most immoral and dishonest. I got a bit a wish when Kucinich paid to recount New Hampshire. It was a safe way to go about it and part of the reason I love people like Kucinich in these races. It was safe because if all is on the up and up, we all just laugh at the little sky gazer and he doesn't care because he goes home with a clean conscience and a hot wife. If something is found, it is a primary so the world does not end. And the publicity may get this thing fixed.

Anyway, the recount started yesterday. The first thing we discovered is that memory cards are unaccounted for. Missing. No one keeps track of them after the election. No one. Not even the Secretary of State. The next thing we learn, they do not keep track of the error reports. No one. Etc.

Here is the recount page for you to follow. The disparities are already over the .5% discrepency threshold at around 3.5%, about 7 times over the legal election limit. Don't worry. No one will get pulled over for this. This is only the first check point.

The error logs that were found show that in the town of Stratham alone 550 of the 3000 ballots cast (18%) were not counted. This was remedied for the result but the question is asked what if the results were only off by 55 votes (1.8% - still not legal) would anyone have noticed? \

Kudos to Kucinich. You can follow with the links.

I wanna Vote!

If you are in Michigan today, please vote for Dennis Kucinich. Of the front runners, only Hillary is on the ticket. Explanation here.

I think this is a good idea and wish I had thought of it before now. Here are five reasons (if you are a Michiganian) Dennis deserves some love and your vote.

• Paid for the New Hampshire recount out of his own pocket. He knows that he will still get less than 2% of the vote. But there were discrepancies and he wants to get to the bottom of it. He is for fair elections.
  
  
• He is the man we want at the convention starting some trouble with over 30 delegates. That would be awesome. It would be like the old conventions. Hillary and Barack would have to listen and respond to Dennis and put some items he feels strongly about on the platform. It's old school politics and he is the man that would play this card properly.
  
  
• Chris Matthews head would fucking explode. If Dennis won, I would watch that loud mouth for a whole week.
  
  
• His wife is smoking hot and I could sleep better tonight if I knew he was getting some primary winner nookie. He deserves it for getting UFO questions during the debate when everyone else got health care questions. And the moderator seemed to think that unidentified meant alien. His wife is also twelve feet tall and has a British accent. I am thinking of running for President for the chicks.
  
  
• No matter how much fun it seems to vote for Mitt Romney to mess up the Republican's election, you would have only yourself to blame if Mittmentum carried him to the White House. If Dennis goes all the way to the White House on Kucinentum I can promise you four years of good things getting done. The war would be over, the lobbyist would be kicked out of Washington, there would be fair elections, and a wide variety of other things established politicians do not want done. Maybe their heads would fucking explode. Could happen

Vote well, Michigan; vote Kucinich.