Brief update on the state of your Union...

Lynn, as long as you have Ann Coulter quotes in your signature, no one will take you seriously and your opinion is null and void. Go work for Fox News or something.
 
Oh yeah, and NO ONE in the Bush administration deserved to go to jail.

Oh wait, Scooter Libby got arrested didn't he? AND CONVICTED!!!! BUT THEN BUSH COMMUTED HIS FUCKING SENTENCE. This piece of shit was on the VPs staff and he fucking OUTED a clandestine operative in the CIA because HER HUSBAND pissed off the Oval Office. The entire Bush cabinet should be brought up on charges of war crimes and treason. The only reason Libby got caught was because he agreed to be the fall guy and protect the VP, which the Office of the President obviously assured him that no matter how the trial went, he wouldn't stay a single night in jail.

You can throw all the shit you want at Obama, but you can't say that anything he's done or is doing is even REMOTELY in the same ballpark as the fucking damage the Bush White House did in eight years. It's a fucking insult to anyone who has ever served their country honorably to be forced to serve under such a reprehensible commander-in-chief. If it weren't for the Bush White House, Obama probably wouldn't be forced to spend so much just to bring the country above sea level.
 
Secession indeed...how silly. That man has a vastly overinflated ego. I didn't vote for Obama, but the nonsense spewed by the religious conservatives that have taken over the once proud Republican party is egregious in the extreme.
 
The Omniporkulus Bill singed by Barkey includes tons of money for the "Kennedy legacy" in Massachusetts. That so-called "Kennedy legacy" includes Teddy leaving behind a woman to drown in a car he wrecked. Mary Jo Kopechne was found, btw, with her head inched into into an air pocket indicating she survived the accident, just as Teddy had. Millions spent on his "legacy" should be millions gived to a local prosecutor in an effort to get justice for that young woman, now long dead.

Feds spending millions on Kennedy legacy in Mass.

More than one out of every five dollars of the $126 million Massachusetts is receiving in earmarks from a $410 billion federal spending package is going to help preserve the legacy of the Kennedys.

The bill includes $5.8 million for the planning and design of a building to house a new Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Senate. The funding may also help support an endowment for the institute.

The bill also includes $22 million to expand facilities at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum and $5 million more for a new gateway to the Boston Harbor Islands on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, a park system in downtown Boston named after Kennedy's mother and built on land opened up by the Big Dig highway project.

Well, can we at least put the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Senate under water?


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090311/ap_on_re_us/spending_kennedy_legacy
 
By Adam Levine
CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki confirmed Tuesday that the Obama administration is considering a controversial plan to make veterans pay for treatment of service-related injuries with private insurance.


Lawmakers say they'd reject a proposal to make veterans pay for treatment of war wounds with private insurance.

But the proposal would be "dead on arrival" if it's sent to Congress, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, said.

Murray used that blunt terminology when she told Shinseki that the idea would not be acceptable and would be rejected if formally proposed. Her remarks came during a hearing before the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs about the 2010 budget.

No official proposal to create such a program has been announced publicly, but veterans groups wrote a pre-emptive letter last week to President Obama voicing their opposition to the idea after hearing the plan was under consideration.

The groups also cited an increase in "third-party collections" estimated in the 2010 budget proposal -- something they said could be achieved only if the Veterans Administration started billing for service-related injuries.

Asked about the proposal, Shinseki said it was under "consideration."

"A final decision hasn't been made yet," he said.

Currently, veterans' private insurance is charged only when they receive health care from the VA for medical issues that are not related to service injuries, like getting the flu.

Charging for service-related injuries would violate "a sacred trust," Veterans of Foreign Wars spokesman Joe Davis said. Davis said the move would risk private health care for veterans and their families by potentially maxing out benefits paying for costly war injury treatments.



"I think you will give that up" as a revenue stream if it is included in this April's budget, Burr said.

Murray said she'd already discussed her concerns with the secretary the previous week.

"I believe that veterans with service-connected injuries have already paid by putting their lives on the line," Murray said in her remarks. "I don't think we should nickel and dime them for their care."

Eleven of the most prominent veterans organizations have been lobbying Congress to oppose the idea. In the letter sent last week to the president, the groups warned that the idea "is wholly unacceptable and a total abrogation of our government's moral and legal responsibility to the men and women who have sacrificed so much."

The groups included The American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, and Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.

At the time, a White House spokesman would neither confirm nor deny the option was being considered.