What's with Waxman?

What’s with Henry Waxman? It seems like almost everyday he’s calling for a new investigation of something or other, but nothing ever comes of it. His latest call for hearings has to do with the fact that there were 52 warnings prior to 9/11 about the possibilities of highjackings, suicide flights, etc., etc., but they were all ignored. He suggests that possibly, just possibly, Condoleeza Rice was incompetent, along with others. But how could she have been incompetent? She’s now Secretary of State. Of course as Secretary of State she doesn’t have to think or do anything other than just parrot whatever our bumbling pseudo-President tells her to say.

It appears that Howard Dean is now officially the chairman of the DNC. However, it appears that he achieved this lofty goal without the help of any of the Democratic leaders in either the House or the Senate (I hope I am wrong about this). If this is true I don’t know whether to be happy or sad. On the one hand it appears he has the strong support of the more or less rank and file Democrats, which is good. But on the other hand, if the leaders in the House and Senate don’t really want him, that bodes ill for his effectiveness. Of course it’s not as if the Democratic leaders in the House and Senate ever do a damn thing except genuflect to Bush. Personally I think we’ll be better off without them. I’m all for Dean. It’s our only chance to somehow get out of this nightmare we’re in. There is obviously no point in trying to be a Socialist in the United States, that label has been so discredited for so many years it might as well just disappear. And third parties have never done well. So let’s all get behind Dean and hope for the best. We certainly can’t take much more of the Bush/Cheney disaster-is-us bunch. How could we have possibly come to such a miserable state? But, oh, yeah, I keep forgetting. The Rapture.

Things continue to go well in Iraq. Let’s see, 50 killed yesterday, 20 or 30 today, with obviously more to come. But not to worry, Rumsfeld has been there shoring up morale all over the place, especially in the hospitals where our maimed and psychologically damaged are increasingly being found. There is renewed talk of a draft, something both Bush and Rumsfeld have categorically denied. You believe them? There is a new organization being formed, Mothers Against the Draft. Good on you. There should also be a Fathers Against the Draft, a Brothers Against the Draft, Sisters Against the Draft, Cousins and Uncles and Aunts Against the Draft, and most of all, Potential Draftees Against the Draft. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was a war and no one showed up? In this case it should certainly come to that. Who in their right mind would send any more cannon fodder to Iraq for Cheney’s oil? Oil? I thought it was to spread democracy. Or no, to destroy WMD’s. Or something anyway.