>There is an very interesting editorial from the East Texas Weekly Community Newspaper. Here are a few excerpts:
I’m trying to remember the names of all the people running for the Republican nomination for president. Let’s see…there’s Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Tommy Thompson, Ronny Paul, Huckabee Brownback, Donner, Blitzen, Grumpy, Happy, Larry, Curly and Mo.
There! Did I miss any? It’s hard keeping track of them. When they line up on stage for one of those hilarious televised debates, they look like cardboard cutouts.
But once they begin talking…it doesn’t change much. Oh, they disagree---some---mainly over who is more conservative, who loves God more and who is most like Ronald Reagan....
That pretty much sums up the Republican candidates! However, the writer did not mention that several of the GOP presidential candidates have been divorced several times. If the author of the editorial is bad-mouthing the Republicans and also resides in Texas, you know the Republicans are in big, big trouble.
>>Looks like there is a snag in the Republican money machine. Raw Story:
The Republican National Committee, hit by a grass-roots donors' rebellion over President Bush's immigration policy, has fired all 65 of its telephone solicitors, Ralph Z. Hallow will report Friday in The Washington Times.
Faced with an estimated 40 percent fall-off in small-donor contributions and aging phone-bank equipment that the RNC said would cost too much to update, Anne Hathaway, the committee's chief of staff, summoned the solicitations staff last week and told them they were out of work, effective immediately, the fired staffers told The Times.
The national committee yesterday confirmed the firings that took place more than a week ago, but denied that the move was motivated by declining donor response to phone solicitations.
"The phone-bank employees were terminated," RNC spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt wrote by e-mail in response to questions sent by The Times....
It really warms my heart to see that the GOP's contributors are abandoning their party.
>CDC Director Julie Gerberding has done a less than satisfactory job protecting the country from a pandemic of TB. She was also involved in the investigation following the anthrax scares a few years ago, and that has still not been solved.
>Want to continue the war? Support a Republican presidential candidate. They all seem to be in love with the a continuing war in Iraq. However, Bush and his Republican buddies cannot dismiss the fact that this war in Iraq was their idea. Bush, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, and the rest of the neo-cons started planning an invasion of Iraq before Bush became President. Now, with (ICasualties) almost 3,500 Americans killed in Iraq, the Republicans and their pro-war candidates have provided no solution to end the debacle in Iraq.
