Having No Brains

Did Dick Cheney publicly support waterboarding or not? Is Mark Foley a gay man or is the real issue congressional cover up of personal misconduct of a public official? Gay marriage needs to be solved in late October? The border fence is actually going to work because Bush caved in to the extreme right wing of the GOP? Harold Ford likes screwing blondes? What does 'stay the course' really mean, even though you claim to never have said it? The saddest of all of this is the fact that the Republicans will retain control of the Senate and probably the House as we look at things today. Shame on the GOP for serving as the biggest hypocritical party of "values" since Agnew resigned and shame on all of you out there foolish, ignorant or just plain blindly stupid to have put these people in power.

Iraq continues to go so well that there is more than one civil war erupting. The first is in the country Bush invaded by choice. The second is among the left/progressive/liberal/conscious population of the United States. The third is among the rank and file officer corp of the U.S. military. The military bucking the commander in chief and voting Democrat? I asked my brother, the history genius, when the last time this occurred and we thought about, maybe, FDR and the rise of fascism. SEVENTY YEARS AGO??? The fourth is among the Republican Party as Bush has splintered it into the conservative wing and the totally-FUBAR-because-we-support-this-tool wing. Shame on the Democrats for continuing to remain unorganized and unfocussed since LBJ.

My dad's mayoral campaign continues, full steam ahead. He's been hitting the pavement and pressing the flesh. Today, his camp flew an airplane over the entire city of Brentwood carrying a sign that read, "Putting People First Vote Bob Taylor For Mayor". I continue to be proud of my old man. If he wins it's because he ran a great campaign and has a great reputation as a city official. If he loses, it's truly because the monied interests from Sacramento on down helped to bury him for standing in the way of the power brokers and monied interests that have had the privilege of running everything for a long, long time. Twelve days and counting...