SocSec dismantling being renamed, rammed thru anyway

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Friday April 29, 2005 · 7:01 PM PDT

2005/04/29 · 19:01

In keeping with their policy of renaming their Shit Midas policies so many times they never accept responsibility for disaster, the slippery Repugs are already obscuring the failed Social Security Bamboozle under innocuous new packaging.

The hourlong prime time Chimpomercial during sweeps failed to convince people that they really really loved the intention to gamble with their security (vaguely mumbled details to follow at an unappointed time.)

Will the Repugs abandon this deeply unpopular fixation to strip people of their guaranteed security? Hell no. They'll just describe their original intention differently. There's an even better, more craptastic, vaguer plan in the works -- of which dismantling SocSec is merely a part. How can people possibly argue with that?

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Urge DeLay's Ethics Cttee Hirelings to recuse themselves

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Wednesday April 13, 2005 · 9:13 AM PDT

2005/04/13 · 09:13

The theatrically outraged GOP spin is already out there wanly suggesting that the House Ethics Committee deal with the misbehaving Mr. DeLay -- who has already changed the rules so that a tie on the 5-5 panel means the investigation dies.

Problem? Most of the party is already beholden to Mr. DeLay's sagging moneybag -- or sac a man as it's known in Franglais -- and two of the GOP members of House Ethics (Lamar Smith, 21st Texas and Tom Cole, 4th Oklahoma) even gave to DeLay's defense fund which the GOP's Bag Man set up himself.

Smith & Cole should recuse themselves from ruling on any DeLay-related ethics abuses, as should any committee member paid out of DeLay's big dirty man purse. If they're doing business with DeLay, they have no business hearing his cases.

This outrageous bit of theater, performed by party shills for a docile, golf-clapping media, rivals Bush's Bamboozlepalooza sets before hand-picked applausebots for sheer hooey. This travesty of justice and insult to democratic principles should stop immediately.

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