Ive learned three things this week. First, the President is a very intelligent man. I learned that from his latest Supreme Court nominee, Harriet Miers, who has known the president for a long time and remains close to him to this day. She was not approved by the Senate for saying that. In fact, she was not given due cordiality by the Senate. It was more like, What the hell are you doing over here? Get your pretty butt back to the Whitehouse. She was not treated as a human being by the nonhuman element of our representation in Washington. I instantly liked Miss. Miers. She is the nice lady next door. I didnt know she existed, she is so quiet. I found that she is very sweet and I could see why she was nominated. She was not part of the Washington crowd even though she lives there. She was fresh and would have been one heck of a justice. (President Bush said so.) She would have brought cookies to the boring justice meetings. A justice to the court does not have to have law or judge credentials. He or she needs to know only how to take the advice of the zillion law clerks working for the court. She wouldnt even have to know how to write. The clerks do all of that. Hell, I could be a justice of the Supreme Court with one hand tied behind my back (hint, hint). I hope the next nominee will not even be an attorney (but an engineer). Go get em George. Second, God is a Democrat. I have to apologize to the President. Before his first term I told my wife, He is not smart enough nor does he have the experience to be president. Well, he lost the first election but the Supreme Court gave it to him anyway and that is why I know that God is a Democrat. Ever since Florida went for President Bush, God has been blasting the state with hurricanes and floods of unprecedented fury. (God may have started early knowing how the election was going to turn out before hand. I also have it on good authority that an angel made a coordinate error with the earthquake that caused the recent tsunami. God said, "Now look what you've done! It was supposed to clobber Florida.") I was impressed with Father Bush. I though that he would be one of the great presidents of our country. He was a very nice fellow, but he did not impress our people with his first term and he lost his chance to a second term. I thought that his son would fare worse, but I was wrong. He won the second term by an electoral landslide perhaps showing that the average voter is a nincompoop. But what could they do. The alternative was Carey. Third, the Cabal We can thank Lawrence B. Wilkerson for the Cabal. In his article Power Runs Amok in the Cheney Cabal (which was carried by the local rag out here in Idaho) it said that a small group in the Whitehouse led by Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was making all the decisions during the first term of President Bush not following the 1947 National Security Act as the congress intended. They were very sneaky, excluding from decision making Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice and other important White House critters, sometimes working with the president, sometimes not. (Cheney, who was held in high regard by the populace during Bush War I lost all of his prestige because of Bush War II.) I already knew that the above was going on. Who didnt? But the word cabal interested me. Jon Stewart said on the Daily Show that he didnt know that cabals existed outside of Jewry. That spiked my interest even more. I found the word easily in my dictionary once I knew I had the correct spelling. It is the fifth entry in the Cs. A cabal is a sneaky group of people usurping power in public affairs. (I thought it would be easier if I put it in my words.) Now we know the Bush War II shenanigans were created by a cabal. Does that make things any better for you? It doesnt for me! How to tell a Democrat from a Republican I decided that anyone that might read this far down the page (nobody likes amateurs writing about politics)might want to know how to tell a Republican from a Democrat. When I was a boy, I use to go to all of the Jackson Day outings with the local Democrat Club of which my father was President. At the picnic everybody would push, pie, cake, and chicken, etc., to their neighbors. "Have a slice of this!" "Won't you have a piece of this chicken?" Dad drifted away from the Democratic Party because he didn't like the tactics of the Kennedy Family. I became an independent having a wishy washy tendency. I even married a republican. (Not knowing she was a Republican, of course.) Anyway, when I was teaching engineering at Iowa State University, a friend and professor invited me to a Republican Party dinner in Nevada (neh vey da) Iowa. I piled my wife in the car and we went to the dinner knowing that my pioneer grandmother was rolling in her grave. The tables were set and there was a nice piece of pie by each plate. We were early and set down at an empty table. Soon the other attendees arrived. To by surprise, they all started to grab the pieces of pie and move them by their plate. That made it easy to decide exactly which piece of pie to choose. As other guest arrived, they had to give up pieces of pie, but did so only if they had to. Some ate several pieces of pie. I had discovered the difference between Republicans and Democrats. A Democrat wants everybody to have a piece of the pie. Each Republican wants the whole pie for himself. Now you know why Im an Independent! |
