Fat, Self-Satisfied Republicans are Killing Us
The Los Angeles Times also reported on the issue Thursday night on its Web
site, against the Bush administration's wishes. The Wall Street Journal said
it received no request to hold its report of the surveillance.
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No, the picture isn't of Rush Limbaugh, Bill Bennett, Jack Abramoff or Dick Cheney. It's not Dennis fattie earmark Hastert.
Jack Murtha was right. Republicans sit in their air conditioned offices, on their fat backsides giving orders to their minions and the military. Trouble is they don't know what they're doing. War and peace is not a game of Risk. Besides, the fat Republicans aren't risking anything. They send others to do the job for them. Jack Murtha knows this all too well. That's why he drives the wingnuts crazy.
But now we're down yet another path and all bets are off for Bush. There's no reason to trust the president or his
people any longer. Sending out a resigned John Snow to make your case is not only lame, but desperate. It's clear that our Constitution means nothing to the Republican fatties. Besides, if the free
press doesn't report the facts at this point, what good are they to us?
Have the wingnuts forgotten that this is a democracy? That the free press is
instrumental to our very foundation?
Also, does Michelle
Malkin really believe that terrorists don't expect the U.S. government to
be looking for their money? I mean, seriously, the terrorists aren't stupid.
Every time we underestimate them with this kind of SHHH, they might find
out bunk, we actually show how ignorant we are. The people shifting money
around the globe know we're looking for their records and cash.
If the Republicans did anything but sit inside their comfy offices on their
big fat backsides, maybe they'd wake up to the real world.
Conservatives used to be smart, circumspect people. They were still wrong in
their philosophy, but at least they understood our democracy and its tenets.
Today's “conservatives” are self-satisfied fat cats who
want to cut the Constitution apart and run from the responsibility they have
to uphold it.
They're fat, self-satisfied and self-absorbed. While Republicans live high
off the corporate and K-Street hog, they have the audacity to walk away from
the minimum wage. The Republicans cut and run every day from the responsibilities
they have to middle class Americans. They cut health care benefits and run from
any reform of the insurance industry. But worst of all is that they cut the Constitution apart because they're too busy running from al Qaeda, because they've made up some fantasy war in their own minds, which started with Iraq. God knows where it will end, because the fat Republicans sure don't.
Fat Republicans sitting in their air conditioned offices think they can rule
the world and ruin our democracy without being called on it. They haven't earned our trust and they have
targeted the tenets of our very way of life. All bets are off. The Bush fatties need a fast.
Under a secret Bush administration program initiated weeks after the Sept.
11 attacks, counterterrorism officials have gained access to financial records
from a vast international database and examined banking transactions involving
thousands of Americans and others in the United States, according to government
and industry officials.The program is limited, government officials say, to tracing transactions
of people suspected of having ties to Al Qaeda by reviewing records from the
nerve center of the global banking industry, a Belgian cooperative that routes
about $6 trillion daily between banks, brokerages, stock exchanges and other
institutions. The records mostly involve wire transfers and other methods
of moving money overseas and into and out of the United States. Most routine
financial transactions confined to this country are not in the database.Viewed by the Bush administration as a vital tool, the program has played
a hidden role in domestic and foreign terrorism investigations since 2001
and helped in the capture of the most wanted Qaeda figure in Southeast Asia,
the officials said.The program, run out of the Central Intelligence Agency and overseen by the
Treasury Department, “has provided us with a unique and powerful window
into the operations of terrorist networks and is, without doubt, a legal and
proper use of our authorities,” Stuart Levey, an under secretary at the
Treasury Department, said in an interview on Thursday.
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