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2005-09-14 posted by vic
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You Have Bad Taste In Music
First the fun. What to do at a Justin Timberlake/Christina Aguilera concert? Well, these guys had a good idea. Enjoy this bit of video sent along for your viewing pleasure by famous pirate Calico Jack Rackham.
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Yay Delay!
Meanwhile, over at the Moonie Times we find this article, and we find Tom Delay is up to his old tricks again:
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said yesterday that Republicans have done so well in cutting spending that he declared an "ongoing victory," and said there is simply no fat left to cut in the federal budget.
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Asked if that meant the government was running at peak efficiency, Mr. DeLay said, "Yes, after 11 years of Republican majority we've pared it down pretty good."
Now, on the surface that statement seems a little silly. But hey, you'd expect a liberal to disagree with Delay just on principle. If only we could find someone else who thinks that's hilarious. Oh, here we go, a few grafs down the article:
American Conservative Union Chairman David A. Keene said federal spending already was "spiraling out of control" before Katrina, and conservatives are "increasingly losing faith in the president and the Republican leadership in Congress."
"Excluding military and homeland security, American taxpayers have witnessed the largest spending increase under any preceding president and Congress since the Great Depression," he said.
Mr. Keene said annual nonmilitary and non-homeland security spending increased $303 billion between fiscal year 2001 and 2005; the acknowledged federal debt increased more than $2 trillion since fiscal year 2000; and the 2003 Medicare prescription drug bill is estimated to increase the government's unfunded obligations by $16 trillion.
So the largest spending increase in spending under any preceding President and Congress since the Great Depression? (yes, we realize their wording is awkward, but what he's trying to say is obvious.) Wait a minute, I thought all that government spending was the fault of those damn tax-and-spend liberals. Now I find out that the party of "fiscal responsibility" has rung the bell? What can we say? Well, this:
Meanwhile, we go back in history to late July and find this release from Tom Delay (heehee):
Washington, Jul 29 - House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) today announced significant transportation funding increases for Texas, bringing highway funding levels to the highest in state history.
Finally, we're glad that we're not the only ones who found the "ongoing victory" phrase a little weird. The Wonkette picked up on it too:
We admire the locution of "ongoing victory" -- it opens up a whole new order of excuses, including "we're not late, we're experiencing an ongoing arrival" and "I don't owe you money, you're recieving ongoing payment." "Ongoing victory" is also very similar to what Bush meant to declare Iraq, including how it is also a flat-out lie.
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It's all who you know.
Finally, check out this article from The USAToday. Check out these two governors:
EXHIBIT A:[Blanco] says that two days after Katrina, desperate for help, she couldn't get through to Bush and didn't get a callback; hours later, she tried again, and they talked.
Barbour hasn't had to wait hours to talk to Bush. In fact, Barbour said in an interview with USA TODAY, the president called him three to four times in the wake of Katrina. "I never called him. He always called me," he said.