Thursday, February 9, 2006

Politics As A Spectator Sport Part 2




Lot's going on in the "Who's Sorry Now" department:

Say you're sorry. Bush cited the 2002 LA terrorist threat plans as part of his "why we need to spy on you guys" stump speech recently. Turns out the heavy handed tactics seen earlier on the NSA hearings weren't going over well in the polls (darn, those nagging daily polls).

Now, the WH is changing tactics to give real, live threat examples so we'll really, really believe them and agree that spying on us is not just a good idea, it's so good we'd better get started right now.

"But LA Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa said Thursday he was blindsided by President Bush's announcement (
read more here)." hmmmm Oh, and Bush called the threat target the "Liberty Tower" instead of the "Library Tower". Liberty, library, what's the diff, it's all in play.
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Get a clue! Harrrrry (Reid, that is). Tsk, tsk, tsk. You got all in a tizzy over claiming you never took moola from our favorite wannabe gangsta, Jack Abramoff...but nooooooo.

Actually, it looks like you might have in a 'round about way that - maybe not directly, "But Abramoff's records show his lobbying partners billed for nearly two dozen phone contacts or meetings with Reid's office in 2001 alone." (read more here)

Well, we want to be a fly on the wall for THAT apology.

We might have to run a poll:
Will Jack wear the baseball cap or his (too-tight) Al Capone trench coat?