Ho-hum, another day

Ho-hum, just another day of the Bush/Cheney administration:

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have a book coming out soon attacking John Kerry’s military record and medals. They are also sponsoring an attack ad. Unfortunately, the wheels are already coming off. According to Buzzflash, Lieutenant Commander George Elliott has apologized for signing the affidavit claiming that Kerry did not deserve the silver star. He said he made a terrible mistake, felt pressure to sign it because of the book deadline, and now believes that Kerry did deserve the honor. It also has been disclosed that Bob J. Perry, a long time Republican and Bush supporter, put up $100,000 for the ad. Furthermore, John O’Neill, the author of the book, has been a Kerry antagonist since the Nixon days and has no credible evidence for his claims against Kerry. Just another Republican dirty trick. John McCain has condemned the ad and says the Bush Administration should do likewise. But they haven’t. Scott McClellan, the White House Spokesman, refused to say directly that Bush had nothing to do with it. An informal poll by the Daily Kos indicates that 97% believe Bush was involved.

For the third year in a row Bush has cut the U.N. Population Fund by 34 million dollars. This is for an organization that has nothing to do with promoting abortion and is the sole source of funding to help millions of poor women worldwide get advice on family planning, health and infant care, medical attention, and so on. Bush and the Pope seem to be on the same mission – to move women’s rights back into the dark ages. For a marvelous article on this see Chris Floyd’s article in the Moscow Times, featured in today’s Smirking Chimp.

According to the AP Economic Figures only 32,000 jobs were created in July. Well over 200,000 had been anticipated. The stock market has dropped 300 points in the past two days. This would seem to indicate that contrary to Bush’s claims, the economy has not turned the corner and is not doing so well. It is said that employers lack confidence. Also, in July the jobless rate for African American youths hit an all time high – 75.1% It was 66% for Hispanics, 56.1% for all 16 – 19 year olds. This does not bode well for our future.

According to the headlines here and there it appears that Iraq is exploding in revolutionary violence. Major battles have broken out between the Iraq resistance and the occupying troops. The truce that was previously negotiated has broken down and the situation continues to deteriorate.

The Republicans, desperate to have someone run against Barack Obama for the Illinois Senate, have recruited Alan Keyes, and he has apparently agreed to run. As Keyes is a resident of Maryland he will have to move to Illinois and establish residency there. On March 17, 2000, on a Fox News Special Report with Brit Hume, Keyes made the following statement:
“I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton’s willingness to go into a state she doesn’t even live in and pretend to represent people there. So I certainly wouldn’t imitate it.”

Republican hypocrisy knows no bounds. NONE!