No More Mr. Nice Guy!

Spin, spin, spin your swift boat...

Life is but a scream.

The sleaze, lies and hypocrisy of the Junior junta and its water-carrying poodles have been coming so thick and fast the last few days, I haven't been able to keep up. So in this post I'm just going to address a few random points, not terribly coherently, and let the rest go. I'll be back after I've made some headway on my sleep deficit.

First of all, a couple of items from yesterday's Repulsive. (I can always count on that slimy snotrag to provide fodder for righteous anger.) Let's start with this breathless headline: "Bush's approval rating is at highest point in a year." Whoopy-doo! A whopping, nosebleed-inducing 44%! Which means a mere half of the population has turned against Junior since his poll high point just after 9/11.

Then there's a mouth-foaming editorial against the powerful VoteVets TV ad which highlights the refusal of the rethugs to provide the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan with adequate (if any) body armor. The ad isn't even airing in Arizona (though you can change that) but it's obviously causing mass outbreaks of brown underwear syndrome in 'thug circles, to judge from the frenzied vitriol of Doug MacEachern's reaction. (I can always tell when MacEachern writes the lead editorial, from the way he works himself up into a berserk lather over total falsehoods.)

In the first place, MacEachern's frantic fulmination against VoteVets' "joltingly graphic hit piece", which he accuses of being "pure deceit", is itself the nadir of dishonesty. Whining about the Democrats not specifically mentioning body armor as the highlight of the spending bills they tried to pass, which the 'thugs shot down, is simply pathetic. However MacEachern tries to spin it, the undeniable fact remains that the 'thug administration and the 'thug-controlled Congress had to power to provide US troops with modern body armor, and repeatedly chose not to do so. Jon Kyl in particular has specifically voted against both body and vehicle armor on several occasions.

The 'thugs have also consistency "supported the troops" by cutting their pay and benefits, denying health care to them and their families, even paying Halliburton millions to feed them rotten meat, and generally cutting them off at the knees. What a bunch of insufferable hypocrites! Why do they hate the troops?

Of course the Repulsive's outrage against campaign ad distortions is highly selective. I don't recall them leaping to correct Junior and Cheney the Dick when they repeatedly lied about John Kerry's voting record. And needless to say they eagerly embraced the even more despicable lies of the Swift Boat Sewer Rats for Junior.

But it's an encouraging sign that the 'thugs are so scared of the VoteVets ad, they are launching a pre-emptive strike against it before it even comes to Arizona. (They're pretty good at pre-emptive strikes against perceived enemies, not so good at follow-up.)

The beauty of this ad is that if you donate to get it on the air, you can specify which state you want it to run in and which senator you want to defeat. This is an issue on which Junior's water carrier, Jon Kyl, is very vulnerable, and Jim Pederson is running such a limp campaign, he needs all the help he can get. Here's that donation link again. I'm in for $25 - how about you? We've been endlessly barraged with 'thug propaganda, now it's time to catapult the truth!