Armor and Gannons
October 6th, 2006A left-leaning reporter, a White House inside and former Senior Bush White House aide came out this week and criticized Bob Woodward’s State of Denial. I’ve just started reading Woodward’s work, and while I certainly believe him when he says that Card was pushing for Rumsfeld’s ouster and other such charges, I will say this: his reporting is biased in favor of those who allow him to be their gadfly. Prior Bush books of his were biased in favor of the Administration because the White House welcomed him. For this book, Bush and Cheney decided against giving Woodward an open path into the White House, and his tone shifted accordingly like a scorned lover.
Yesterday, the Congress passed a few bills regarding military tribunals and spreading FISA to apply to terrorists. That isn’t all, however, as they authorized funds for the US to build a 700 foot fence across the Mexican Border, but what they don’t mention is that they also put in provisions that ensure it’ll never be built.
But shortly before recessing late Friday, the House and Senate gave the Bush administration leeway to distribute the money to a combination of projects — not just the physical barrier along the southern border. The funds may also be spent on roads, technology and “tactical infrastructure” to support the Department of Homeland Security’s preferred option of a “virtual fence.”
What’s more, in a late-night concession to win over wavering Republicans, GOP congressional leaders pledged in writing that Native American tribes, members of Congress, governors and local leaders would get a say in “the exact placement” of any structure, and that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff would have the flexibility to use alternatives “when fencing is ineffective or impractical.”
The loopholes leave the Bush administration with authority to decide where, when and how long a fence will be built, except for small stretches east of San Diego and in western Arizona. Homeland Security officials have proposed a fence half as long, lawmakers said.
“It’s one thing to authorize. It’s another thing to actually appropriate the money and do it,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.). The fine-print distinction between what Congress says it will do and what it actually pays for is a time-honored result of the checks and balances between lawmakers who oversee agencies and those who hold their purse strings.
Don’t you love Republicans? Dishonest with Democrats. Dishonest with themselves. Dishonest with America.
Now, a couple of things. I did a search for “Foley gay” so as to find a link to the exact revelation that Foley’s gay (no duh) and this article came up, entitled, “Foley is no pedophile!” Amazing what people will say sometimes, isn’t it? And so, I decided I’d do a Google search and find out what Jeff Gannon is up to, and, predictably, all of the gay prostitute’s entries on his blog were about Foley. I didn’t have to look too long to find the nonsense that made him George Bush’s favorite “reporter” last year, as he provided it on his site in the first paragraph.
Mark Foley is a creep and House Republican leaders forced him out of Congress when evidence of inappropriate behavior came to their attention. It appears that Hastert and Company took action in a timely fashion. The same cannot be said for the George Soros-funded Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, ABC News, gay activists and Democrats.
Amazing.