Subject: FEINSTEIN FAKERY: "Condoleezza Rice......This Remarkable Woman!"

Though I've been for some time, quite some time, in "default mode" of non-shockablity toward anything and everything, considering the surreal and Dali-esque contortions and distortions our country and government have been able to twist themselves up into in unimaginable protean self-reinvention (none of which any more resembles the Constitution, but let's not grind an ax, after all) -- I nonetheless had to gasp at the stunning Rocky Horror Show tour that the gifted Thespian, Dianne Feinstein, did this afternoon, in her "Nixon-In-A-Wig" impression on "The Hill" as she lionized Condoleeeeezza Rice. "This remarkable young woman...." Oooooff.......

I must admit, I was given at least a minimal priming for this adventure when I saw snaps in the LA Times last week of the two of them going at it in true schmooz-a-ganza form, and comments extracted from that encounter that reminded me of Joe Biden telling Alberto "Torquemada" Gonzales, "I love you, man......!" [He too has acting ambitions, having got his tag line, or its fraternal twin, from the old Budweiser campaign. Maybe the Democrats are starting to take a cue, at last, from Arnold, and Ron, and eyeing Hollywood, now that it's apparent only actors can hold office in our increasingly fictional America. Some would say "liars" or "crooks," but let's follow Feinstein's diplomatic inspirations, and just call them "actors." ]

However this may be, Feinstein seems to have mistaken her venue, among other things. She was so rapturous in her praise of "Dr. Rice" that I became confused as to place and general locale, and thought for a brief shining moment that this was being broadcast from another Hill, one of the Seven of Rome, and found myself transported in time and space to the halls of Vatican City, perhaps even in a different age, certain I was at a "Cause" for "summary" Sainthood. Usually, Saints aren't honored by the Church until a respectable passage of time after their deaths, and after much dust falls. Occasionally, with indisputable holy ones, like St. Francis of Assisi, the canonization is almost instantaneous.

We thought we were witnesses of just such an occasion today. "If she is to have the opportunity to be a truly GREAT Secretary of State." "I look forward to working with this remarkable woman."

Wow. And double wow.

She's our OTHER Democrat Senator from California. Her peer, the Boxer, did all she had to do in painting a truly skanky portrait of Rice, carefully enumerating, literally with charts and graphs, all the times she had lied, reversed her stories without apology, covered her ass with thin air, contradicted her recent comments, or Bush's, and then contradicted herself and others again, again without apology. Most seriously: intervened, recently, to try with all her might to maintain a policy that was pro-torture when her silence would have sufficed.

And here's Feinstein, telling us that these were all, really, surely miracles, and that if a third could be proven, that was the general minimum requirement for being put on the Roman Calendar as an official Saint.

I s**t you not, people.

CSPAN will be re-airing this, so don't miss the most amazing demonstration of abject surrender by any Democrat yet. I'm still prying my jaw off the ground. I'd been writing Feinstein for several years, taking strong exception to her confirmation of different judges, and excoriating her reasonings when she replied to my letters. This encourages me in a way, having confirmed once again that my worst suspicions, despite protestations from any number of left of center bloggers, were accurate.

Boxer said that she, herself, had only objected to several nominations out of hundreds, and Rice would be one of them. So where does Feinstein get off, having been there at these same hearings, and heard that? Isn't she better off just making a clean breast and becoming a Republican?

But, no, Feinstein oozed such congratulations, and not just for a Republican or Bush appointee, but one of the most duplicitous and prevaricating and unqualified and incompetent people to ever sit before the Senate, that even that Republican voice-over telling her that time was up sounded embarrassed and pitying........

We don't have a party. We need to make one from scratch. We don't have a Media, we need to be it. We don't have a country. We need to resurrect it.

From the Ashes: a would-be Phoenix,

je

Subject: The Passion

Well, here they go again. Much ado about nothing. The religious right trying to shove their views, values and beliefs down the throats of everyone else. If one doesn't agree with how they see the world they claim religious prejudice. And so it goes for "The Passion Of The Christ" as the latest outcry from these poor disenfranchised religious zealots. All you ever hear from these people is how the Hollywood liberal elite is trying to turn the world into homosexuals. How they ignore or put down Christian values. And how they try to influence their political agenda with the movies they make. The talk on all the stations is how can this be? Why is this happening? Every show has some talking head questioning the academy. Yes, I saw the movie and I also saw "Fahrenheit 9/11" which I don't believe should get a best picture nod either. To the right, everything is a conspiracy if it does not go with their way of thinking. Well to the folks that think this picture should get a nomination for best picture, I say to them what is their standard answer for the elections, "you lost...get over it"....oh, and by the way, it did get 3 nominations.

Bob Lambert
Northridge, CA

Subject: Jack London: The Iron Heel: Times don't change all that much

Jack London's social novella, The Iron Heel, has eerie links to GW and the world we live in today. Consider:

A footnote: The people of the age were phrase slaves. The abjectness of their servitude is incomprehensible to us. There was a magic in words greater than the conjurer's art. So befuddled and chaotic were their minds that the utterance of a single word could negate the generalizations of a lifetime of serious research and thought.

Such a word was the adjective Utopian. The mere utterance of it could damn any scheme, no matter how sanely conceived, of amelioration or regeneration. Vast populations grew frenzied over such phrases as "an honest dollar" and a "full dinner pail." The coinage of such phrases was considered a work of genius.

Another footnote, attributed to Abraham Lincoln, just before his assassination:

Does this sounds remarkably familiar? I would encourage progressive thinkers to read London's The Iron Heel, and give serious thought to the lessons.

Maria Lichter
Cashton, WI

Subject: Republicans supporting war right or wrong...

Unfortunately, I have a very long list of relatives, neighbors and former friends who support this line of thinking. My brother in law admitted that bush lied to get us into Iraq, and that it was wrong of us to go. Then, in the next breath, he declared, "Still, we oughtta just go over there and kill everyone of the -*!@#$-heads (referring to Muslims with head coverings)."

Here's my response--I carry a stack of the Army's postcards requesting information about how to join, and whenever I encounter people like this, I hand it to them. As for the avowed warmongers in my neighborhood and family, well, I took it upon myself to fill out their cards for them and sent them in. Now they are on the junk mail list from hell, and the US Army will hound them to distraction.

A BuzzFlash Reader

Subject: Dan Rather

I feel bad quoting from an obituary but it is perhaps a fitting testimonial to David Nyhan who died Jan. 23. His obituary is in the Jan. 25 Wash. Post. The obit quote is that the Dan Rather story on Bush's Natl Guard service was basically accurate & had been reported in the Boston Globe in 2000. Nyhan said the voters gave Bush a pass because they don't like to think Daddy lies, cheats or steals. Dan Rather has been tarred and feathered by the administration and the press ever since for false reporting but the press has completely dropped further investigation of the primary issue--Bush's service. Will they ever continue to follow up on obvious lies of the Bush machine concerning his national Guard Service? Where is the investigative press? I think the public deserves more facts.

David Nyhan Dies at 64; Columnist for Boston Globe (Washington Post)

Harold Martin
Waynesboro, PA

Subject: civil rights

What we have is a classic cult of personality with all its attributes: party purges, incompetence and pomp. We have witnessed an inauguration-coronation thingy. Whether it is a psychomaniac president himself who is creating a cult, or it is his vice Cheney's work, does not really matter. The point is that the evil has arrived. Soon people will start disappearing. Forget voting in 2008, it will be irrelevant, if not put on hold during some National Curfew because of War or Terrorism. Forget counting on Democrats in the government, for the exception of the very few, they are worthless. The way to restore America is to stage massive dissent on a scale of the Civil Rights movement. A Renewal Campaign of Civil Disobedience. Pragmatically disengage from the stock market and start walking. Take to the streets after work and on weekends: first in small groups, but everywhere, through the entire country, until we become an enormous nation, in charge of our future.

Irina Rozentsveyg
Brooklyn, New York

Subject: DEMS = REPUBLICANS

Nauseating....and it's getting worse. People like myself who vote for the DEMS need their head examined--big time. It's TIME WE GOT a NEW PARTY...period.

A BuzzFlash Reader

Subject: Freedom Marching: Reflections on the Inaugural Speech

So says President Bush as he begins his second term. Really? Since when? Most Americans probably have a knee jerk approval of such sentiments. We would do well, however, to pause and ask how the rest of the world sees them.

Try this: Reread these two sentences, but substitute the word "fascism" for "freedom" and imagine Mussolini saying it in 1928. Then use the word "Nazism" and imagine Hitler is speaking in 1936. Now try "communism" and suppose Stalin says it in 1949, or Khrushchev in 1959 (remember "We will bury you"?). Finally, suppose Ayatollah Khomeini utters such words regarding Muslim fundamentalism in 1985. How would we react?

Most people see their own nation’s policies as benign, if not beneficent, but readily perceive policies of other nations as threatening. The notion that our system is best, others would benefit by it, and it is our sacred duty to see that others get it is a 20th century phenomenon. Hans J. Morgenthau, leading scholar in international politics in the last century, had a name for this outlook. He called it "nationalistic universalism."

Traditional nationalism is content to stay home. It is the feeling of belonging we get when the flag goes by in a 4th of July parade, or we salute it at the beginning of a sports event. It is our feeling of pride when we transfer power peacefully after a free election, or justice overcomes injustice through our judicial or legislative systems. We understand that peoples of other countries legitimately have similar feelings about their treasured traditions and institutions.

Nationalistic universalism, however, is a very different thing. It is not content to stay home, but insists on remaking the world in its own image: "Forcing people to be free" (or fascist, or communist, or fundamentalist). It is consistent with Bush’s unilateral approach to foreign policy.

John F. Kennedy had the antidote for such messianic thinking when he spoke of "making the world safe for diversity." Moreover, when the President’s statements are seen as threatening an American imperialism (whether intended or not), other powers of the world form alliances against the perceived threat. The process is already in motion which could produce in a few years an anti-American alliance of the European Union, Russia, China, and perhaps India--a formidable coalition--if we do not alter course. We could never "shock and awe" such a coalition into submission.

Will Adams, Professor of Political Science (retired)
Liberty, MO

Subject: The Best News All Week . . . When Money Talks . . . People Listen . . .

BuzzFlash,

Justice, but it took two years out of people's lives for something that should never have happened.

Money makes people listen . . . especially the law under the Bush regime. We taxpayers get stuck no matter what, though. The demonstrations against free speech and the freedom to protest has been denied under Bush and when it is clear that these are protected rights, the taxpayers still get billed for what Bush is responsible for. I look forward to the day of real accountability.

Thanks BuzzFlash,

Shirley Smith

Subject: President looking to earn some extra cash

President Bush announced today he needs another $80 billion to keep fighting his war in Iraq. But when critics hammered him over where he expects America to come up with that kind of cash, the president said he is thinking of getting a part-time job.

"Bein' president is hard work," said Bush. But he added that he's willing to pump gas or get a paper route if it helps bring democracy to the whole wide world.

The president said he'd like to dig for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge a couple nights a week or maybe use his Texas tough talk to get some of those Guantanamo detainees to spill the beans. And, when it comes to people like Mr. Bush who have the clout to dish out lucrative no-bid defense contracts, Halliburton is always hiring.

But those closest to the president say the job he is best suited for is "clearing brush," an activity that already occupies more of his time than, say, researching issues like global climate change that are critical to the future of our world.

And though there is not much brush to be found around the Washington D.C. Beltway, insiders say there is plenty of "dead wood" scattered throughout most government office buildings and even the halls of Congress.

Other possible part-time jobs for the leader of the free world include reading books to children during times of crisis, knocking down that pesky wall between Church and State and coming up with priceless material for late-night comedians.

John Breneman
http://www.humorgazette.com...

Subject: exposed payoff

Dear Buzz,

A long time ago I wrote to you in regards to when people were calling the media "liberal." We all knew (know) that the media is not liberal, only whores for the Bush ''agenda." Back then I wrote suggesting that maybe most, if not all of the media may have been bought by the Bush administration. I mean, why else would all these so called journalists whore themselves for the Bush regime?? I still believe that Bush and his thieves have done just that, and now in the Headline section of your site, it states 'another' person may have been paid to glorify Bush's agenda. How many more may be out there? Your guess is as good as mine.

A Loyal BuzzFan Forever!

Sharon Carlton
Bellevue, Nebraska

Subject: Rice on fire

As her pants ignited and she was enveloped in flames, Condi Rice was heard to scream out, "I vas onli folloeing orders!!" Several Democratic senators attempted to extinguish the flames by raising their hands and going against their values; voting for her confirmation as if the "Liar Liar" were not unqualified to represent this country in its foreign affairs.

Members of the media quietly averted their eyes and bowed deeply in the direction of the White House. And the American People felt an extreme pain in the collective ass.

Dr. Rice left the room and continued on her way to the White House cabinet, where she shared a bottle of Jack with the "President." And the beat goes on.....

Richard Wagner
Saginaw, Michigan

Subject: Appearances are Deceiving on Faux News . . .

BuzzFlash,

Regarding the mailbag about Dems appearing on Fox News

I lost my kinship with Feinstein when I read she had six homes in California . . . in no way could she ever relate to me, but I have said this before . . . anyone and especially Democrats who appear on Faux News just give credibility to the hypocrisy of this station and allow the audience to become less informed. It's a no win situation at Faux. It does nothing, absolutely nothing for the Democratic Party. If credible people would stop appearing on Faux News . . . it might change them (Faux) just a little. Money talks.

Who are these people representing when they choose to appear on Faux News . . . Bush's personal propaganda machine and that is no secret . . . the Democratic Party? Nah! They are representing themselves.

Thanks BuzzFlash,

Shirley Smith

Subject: New signs of life in the Democratic Party - support the rebirth!

Dear Friends,

Although many of us have been ready to give up on the deadbeat Democratic Party, surprising new signs of life and renewal indicate that this party may still be worth supporting. On the one hand Barbara Boxer's courageous questioning of Condi Rice's nomination and the ensuing powerful attacks by other Democratic spokespersons give one hope that resistance to the Bush agenda may be stronger than expected (see links in first piece below). On the other hand the chairmanship of the DNC is still up for grabs, and Howard Dean is definitely in the running (see second piece below).

BOTH of these fronts (help - it's hard avoiding war terminology these days) need our support. Letters to our representatives which they can use to prove that their constituents are behind their efforts, and concrete help in the form of donations to the campaign supporting Dean as DNC Chair - see links in 2nd piece below.

As usual - please help spread this info.

Democrats Call Rice Liar, Bush Apologist (AP/ABC)

Democrats Use Rice Debate to Inveigh Against War in Iraq (NY Times)

Be well,

Peter L.
www.democracyforamerica.com

Subject: Disarm Saddam

Dear Buzz;

I'm amazed that the Disarm Saddam page is still available on the Whitehouse.gov site.
I mean with all the crap about WMDs and how much of this and how much of that he had. You have to read it to believe it. You would have thought they would have deleted that page by now.

Also, how about putting the senate role call vote on Rice up on your site.

A BuzzFlash Reader

[BuzzFlash Note: We're surprised, too. Here's more. http://www.whitehouse.gov/....]

Subject: When will the Bush kids defy the terrorists and enlist?

If he can't get his own relatives to enlist, why should anyone else? Maybe Jenna could get a job teaching in Baghdad since her dad is encouraging people to put their lives on the line and vote in an election that has already been decided.

Let him smirk and grin while they shoot at his kids.

Karen Webb
Moore, Ok

Subject: Social Security and other impending "disasters"

Bush, with his self-proclaimed abundance of vision and Idealism, believes he has been ordained to head off his self-identified imminent disasters in Iraqi nationalism and Social Security. Were he truly a visionary and idealist, he would address the root causes rather than knowingly apply dirty bandages to these festering problems [America's dwindling number of oil resources and suppliers and an increasingly inequitable economic, political, and healthcare system]. The only vision and idealism Bush has is that of a Social Darwinist who believes that God has chosen him to ensure that the pigs rule over the Orwellian trough.

A BuzzFlash Reader
Naperville, IL

Subject: Apology time

It's time for O'Reilly to apologize to the nation and follow through publicly and LOUDLY on his pledge NOT to trust the Bush administration again. Let's hope that he is a man of his word.

Jeanne St. John
Newport, OR

[BuzzFlash Note: From a web search: O'Reilly eats words on WMD claims (NY Daily News).]

Subject: WHERE ARE THE ( REAL ) DEMOCRATS!?!?!?!??!?!?

13! Only 13 had the balls to vote against Condi! 13! You have GOT to be kidding me. Excuse the hell out of me, but, I thought there were 45 DEMOCRATS in the Senate? Did I miss the meeting where 32 of them switched to republiKKKan?

Shame on the Democrats who voted for her. This is completely UNacceptable. Condi is a PROVEN LIAR, with her OWN WORDS. She, along with Rummy The Dummy et al., are responsible for countless deaths in the damn Iraq Conquest. So what the crap is this?

WE REALLY NEED A 3rd PARTY THAT WILL ACTAULLY NOT KOWTOW TO THE RIGHTWING NAZIS, this has GOT to stop, NOW.

Lu Cifer

Subject: Bush coronation

Buzzers,

I haven't written in a while because it's hard to write in a fetal position. I know I have to get out of this post election funk, and I'm making every effort to do that. I have been interested in politics for quite a long time. Those of us with a little age on our side have had the advantage of living some of the history they talk about in school (especially me being an "older mother" of an almost 16 year old).

I remember while watching the Clinton v Dole campaign on TV, my young son commented that he wished they wouldn't argue so much and would just get along. I told him if he wanted to write the candidates and tell them, I would help. He wrote, and we still have the reply Clinton sent him (Dole didn't respond).

I wanted to write giving my son's perspective of the coronation. My son attended the event with a group of classmates. The day after the election I asked him if he wanted me to try and get our money back, thinking he might not want to see bush, but he said he still wanted to go. He also stated he wanted to get a haircut before he left on the trip. I told him he could as long as he didn't look like a republican (he ended up not getting it cut).

The event made an impact on him, but not in the way most people thought it would. I asked if he could see gwb during the address from their vantage point and he said only on the jumbotron (don't know which would have been worse). He couldn't stand listening to the speech. I asked him to take plenty of pictures of the protestors because we probably wouldn't get to see them on TV. He didn't take the pictures because it was so cold he didn't want to take his hands out of his pockets, but he did bring me a protest sign he found on the ground!

Because they were snowed in for 2 extra days, the students were in the hotel room watching HBO. The special they were watching involved people reading last letters sent from loved ones killed in Iraq. He listened to a couple of them being read and had to leave the room. He had tears in his eyes as he was relating this to me in the car on the way home from the airport. He was also pretty shook up after visiting the Holocaust Museum (which we had seen 4 years earlier).

I think the wars (both now with Iraq and WWII's holocaust) contrasting with the whole pomp and circumstance of the coronation is what made the greatest impact. There are plenty of young people out there with their eyes and ears wide open. I'm just glad one of them is mine, and I hope there are enough seeing what's going on to help make a difference in the future.

A BuzzFlash Reader
Collinsville, Il.

Subject: camera angles at the inauguration

I have seen nothing about this on any site or news outlet. During the Inauguration ceremony, PBS, FOX, ABC and CBS (the broadcast stations I have in my town) all had exactly the same camera feed. I switched from station to station as I watched, and even the backgrounds were the same. They even had the same crowd shots. Was there a government director calling all the shots? This went on through the entire ceremony. Did none of these networks have their own cameras on this event? I tried to tape it, but my old VCR won't change stations while recording. It was obvious that only one feed was coming out of Washington during the ceremony. Did anyone else notice this?

Arthur Dauer
Gainesville, FL

[BuzzFlash Note: We hadn't heard about this, which is truly an interesting observation. Remember the debates? The Bush/Cheney '04 campaign placed restrictions on those cameras...only C-SPAN showed both candidates simultaneously and continuously, as we recall.

Subject: Gonzales

Hi--

I just called Durbin and heard the Committee passed Gonzales 10-8. All Repubs voted for him. Time to turn up the heat on those people. Thanks for your work.

Judy Munro-Leighton

Subject: EXPLANATION OF ZOGBY POLL = WHY ONLY 31% R ashamed of bush...

= 15% were too busy fighting for their lives in baghdad, 42% weren't asked...(of course too busy surviving the present economy, don't ask them...) 10% were still drunk from the BALL (inauguration)...and the rest were having their nails/hair/car detailed...(SUCH AS MYSELF)...

Zogby: No Support For Iran Attack - But 31% Of Americans Ashamed To Have Bush President (Left Coaster)

Hakuna Matata, debra

Subject: JESUS GOD!!!!!

Jesus God! How many of you news people out there are on the Bush payroll? I knew everyone at Fox News was on their payroll but I had a little respect for the other networks. Now I'm starting to wonder if all of the media is getting paid by the White House!! How sad!!

Karen Massey
South Carolina

Subject: Bush's Plan "B" is CALCULATED to DIVIDE us (a "means" test is the WORST idea of all)

Dear BuzzFlash,

Now that it seems Bush's frontal assault on Social Security may have stalled, he is getting ready to roll out Plan "B."

Plan "B" is CALCULATED to DIVIDE the opposition and, thereby, CONQUER.

Here's how he'll do it.

He will offer LARGER benefits to African-Americans using the rationale that their life expectancy is shorter than that of "whites." And he will give LOWER benefits to women using the rationale that they live longer than men.

Now, there are FLAWS all over the place on that one, and I will try to list a few.

Number One: Not all African-Americans live shorter lives than "white" people do; some "white" people live shorter lives than SOME African-Americans. So how fair would a re-calculation of benefit levels be?

Number Two: If it is accepted as true that African-Americans live shorter lives than "whites" do; it is also true that their widows and children MAY receive Social Security "survivor" benefits in greater numbers -- and for longer periods of time -- than other sectors of the population do.

Number Three: What will the government do with people who are HALF African-American and half "white"? Or if they are one-third African-American, one-third "white" and one-third American Indian?

Number Four: Not all women live longer than men. While it may be true that many do, would we want to penalize those women who get LOWER benefits but die at an earlier age?

Number Five: Bush wants to set the rich and poor to hating one another (even more than they do now). So, I will add here that a "means" test is the WORST idea of all. We all know how many pages there are now in the Internal Revenue Code and also that the rich people can hire lawyers to manipulate their "income" to make it seem as if they have NO income, so they can end up paying NO income taxes. The same would happen to any "means" test for Social Security -- the rich would get away with "murder" and the poor would get the short end of the stick.

Number Six: One of the principal reasons the administrative costs of Social Security are so low -- LESS than ONE percent -- is that everyone gets the same treatment, regardless of skin color, gender, or how many lawyers a person can afford. The benefit is tied to one's lifetime income as measured over one's 35 highest earning years.

Once we go to a MEANS test, there will have to be hundreds of thousands of new employees added to do the calculations, investigations and enforcement. That would be the end of LOW administrative costs -- and the end of Social Security.

Social Security is the MOST successful and SCANDAL-FREE government program ever; why DESTROY such an excellent program?

A BuzzFlash Reader

Subject: Bush Urges Patience As US Toll Grows

Listening to Bush on TV at the press conference this morning was a truly sickening display of his worst speaking ability yet. Hard questions were thrown at him, and his long pauses, stuttering and stammering while giving ridiculous replies, often nothing but a rehash of old propaganda with little or no adequate response to the questions. Once again, he appeared little better than an elementary student attempting to answer questions beyond his ability. It is going to be four more years of disastrous leadership.

RB

Subject: How much "freedom" and "democracy" can Iraq bear?

Thirty-six American soldiers died while fighting in Iraq today.

Torture is going on in Saddam Hussein's prisons today, even though Saddam himself is in our prison somewhere else. His prisons are now under the control of Americans.

Americans and their Iraqi "helpers" are hanging prisoners -- Iraqi citizens -- by their wrists and beating them. The torturers are sodomizing Iraqi prisoners with poles, soda bottles and other fiendish devices. Americans and their Iraqi "helpers" are burning Iraqi citizens with cigarettes, shocking them with electric prods, holding their heads under water, and shackling them in extremely painful positions for hours on end.

Americans and their Iraqi "helpers" are torturing at random now, because they no longer know who is friend and who is foe. So the "solution" is to just torture anyone taken into custody.

Every day, more American soldiers are being killed and maimed for life.

We have bombed whole cities in Iraq into rubble, leaving Iraqi citizens without shelter, water or medical care.

How much more "freedom-spreading" can we afford? And how much more "democracy" can the citizens of Iraq bear?

From one who loves REAL freedom and liberty and democracy

Sources:

36 U.S. Troops Die in Iraq in Their Bloodiest Day(Reuters/Yahoo)

A.C.L.U. Presents Accusations of Serious Abuse of Iraqi Civilians (NY Times)

Deadliest day for U.S. in Iraq war (CNN)

Torture in Iraq Still Routine, Report Says (Washington Post)

Subject: The Screw Deal

How will the Bush tax and Social Security proposals, if they become law, be characterized in years to come?

The Screw Deal

A vision that's askew deal
A Hoover deja vu deal
That benefits the few deal
From folks without a clue deal.

This Neocon miscue deal
A social contract slough deal
Some think tank's warped worldview deal
Whose rationales ain't true deal.

The things that will ensue deal
The lives it will unglue deal
Tis a nasty social coup deal
We'll one day badly rue deal.

©2005 Michael Silverstein

Subject: 31 die in 'copter crash

Dear BuzzFlash,

Another big day in our liberation (?) of Iraq. Bush said they would be throwing flowers at us, why don't we get real? Big difference between flowers and bodies. It's our own soldiers' bodies that equate to Bushites' flowers. Get it Bush??

carolina in Md.

Subject: are all republicans sheep? david corn

Hi, Buzz!!

Thanks for linking to this article - what a fun read. It reminded me of something I ran across recently while reading on the Civil War. "My country, right or wrong," isn't the whole quote. This is what Carl Schurz actually said (Schurz was a German immigrant who fought for the Union in the Civil War): "My country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right." Sounds good to me.
 
Jane Hawes
Emporia, KS (a red-state Democrat)