Independent Ranting

Hello all...welcome to my first blog, post, and rant...I find it amazing how the right wing doesn't think perjury is a crime...or raping the constitution...Scooter Libby didn't do anything wrong...lying to a Grand Jury is fine if you are a Republican, but if you are a Democrat, say President Clinton, perjury is a crime against humanity...an impeachable offense....and yes, Clinton was President while Libby was only part of the President's inner circle...but Libby, Chaney, and Rove did nothing wrong, didn't commit a crime...although to most sane people, perjury is a crime...violates the whole legal system...just ask Clinton...and the party of morals, values, and families supports Libby's lies...guess the commandment Thou shall not bear false witness against they neighbor is only a suggestion for Conservatives and a commandment for Liberals...ten commandments or ten suggestions...Perjury is still a crime...President Clinton lied about fellatio and playing with a cigar...I am not condoning what he did...or Gingrich either, but Clinton's lies didn't cost 3,100 soldiers and counting their lives...didn't cost us taxpayers 400 billion dollars and counting which could have been used for a litany of positive causes...say increasing the VA budget...amazing how the Right Wing thinks it is the only party that supports the troops, but most if not all Conservative mouthpieces and lap dogs have ignored the whole Walter Reed fiasco and the fact Bush has cut the VA budget time after time during his war...thankfully Gates had some balls and axed three people....the 400 billion and counting dollars could have been used to fight the War on Terror, which needs to be fought with intelligence. 9-11 could have been averted with better intelligence...but intelligence is something Bush knows little about...Libby, Chaney, and the gang lie about Saddam purchasing yellowcake, the WMDs, Iraq and Saddam had something to do with 9-11, Saddam was harboring terrorists, Saddam was going to attack the USA., etc, etc...a war based on lies and deception...Vietnam ring a bell...the mystery bullet fired at the Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin...Iraq and Vietnam are twins....the dominoes will fall versus the axis of evil...both wars were instigated...no-bid government contracts a plenty...Halliburton...the country turned against both wars over time...but the Right Wing simply turns their heads about the lies that lead to the war in Iraq...perjury is no crime when it is Bush, Chaney, Libby and gang, but Clinton's perjury was a crime....I am still amazed at the hypocrisy in Bushworld....as for the Democrats, I hope they one day find a clue. The Left Wing has as many plans to the end the war in Iraq as the number of soldiers that have died fighting the war. My favorite was the plan to change the initial War Resolution, which is a good idea, but they wanted three provisions for the mission, one being the troops can only engage the Taliban...like the Taliban are going to be wearing bright red shirts, identifying them, separating them from the Shiite and the Sunni...great idea...I like that the Democrats debate ideas and have slightly turned the tables on the Republicans...but they lack a consensus and a focus that the Republicans have in their genes...the Dems come across as clueless...so the lunacy continues....now, we have learned the Patriotic Act was abused...what a shock....and The Attorney General fired conservative Attorney Generals who weren't conservative enough and who had the balls to actually follow the Constitution that Bushworld ignores and rapes....one AG was released so Rove could give his aide a job....another provision buried in the Patriot Act that replacements can be appointed indefinitely without confirmation hearings and the consent of the Congress....let King George appoint whoever he wants to enforce his agenda instead of following the confirmation process required before the hidden Patriot Act provision...who needs the constitution and rules in Bushworld anyway....but at least the Democrats have awaken from their six year coma and have some oversight and subpoena powers now...all amazing to me...the two party system is in shambles...wonder what the framers and founders think of Bushworld....and what Oliver Wendell Holmes thinks since he wrote: "The principle of free thought is not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought we hate.".....enough for now...more later....