Brain dead, stupid, or evil?

It appears that the constitutional amendment to ban flag burning was defeated by a single vote in the Senate. Frightening. What does it mean? Either a near majority of our Senators are brain dead, or, failing that, stupid beyond belief, or, perhaps just plain evil. Unless they are completely sutpid they would have to know that flag burning is not an important issue given the enormous problems that now confront our nation. So if they voted simply to distract attention from the real problems, they are just plain evil. And they must have done this because it is quite clear that (1) flag burning is not an issue (there were perhaps two, maybe four incidents of flag burning in the past year, and (2) there is very little chance that most states would even consider such a ridiculous proposal, and (3) it would take many years for enough states to ratify it to make it even worth the effort. The Senate, with its Republican majority, is just as bonkers as the rest of the administration.

One bright spot. Democrats have vowed to block the House's annual pay raise ($31,000 dollars per each in the last nine years) until the minimum wage is raised. Can you even believe the arrogance and stupidity of House members awarding themselves still another pay raise while refusing to raise the minimum wage from $5.15 per hour? These people should not merely be voted out of office, they should be made to work for $5.15 per hour until they wake up.

Legal experts testified today before a Senate Committee that Bush's "signing statements" are unconstitutional and impeachable. So ha, ha, think anyone will do anything about it? There is now incontroverable evidence that Bush/Cheney tried (and pretty much succeeded) in cooking the intelligence which allowed them to sell their illegal, unconstitutional "war" to a gullible public and Congress. It is also pretty much certain they are guilty of treason (the Plame affair), and probably even worse violations of law and the constitution. Ho hum. Who cares? Our nation has gone mad. It's all Bill Clinton's fault. If only he'd been found guilty of fraudulant land deals none of this would have happened. Think we'll spend millions looking into Hastert's bonanza? When pigs fly. Actually, come to think of it, when you put enough lipstick on a pig it becomes a missile defense billion dollar boondoggle. Oh, well, a billion here, a billion there, it's only play money for Republicans.