McCain Boltin' Nukes

The 2008 primary of the reds started to heat up this week with Senator John McCain's neo-AuH2O (Bull Moose's term) power play over the Senate's red leader frist. 14 moderates, from both teams, united behind McCain in the name of sanity in the Senate. In doing so, Senators distanced themselves from the anti-filibuster circus the public neither likes, cares about, nor understands. A distance that might look good in the 2006 and/or 2008 elections. The Democrats, though lacking a leader outside of the elderly Senator Robert Byrd, seem to have found some unity, at least so far as john bolton is concerned. The recent decision to delay the vote on the UN Ambassador nominee, until the documents asked for are made available, is evidence of that.

More news that must have chaffed this president and his posse like a cheap pair of chaps, and it's starting to show.

In an attempt to brighten foreign policy headlines, the president sent the first lady to see if she could smile and praise her way through the Middle East. Maybe she would be met with the flowers and sweets we've all been waiting for. Nope. Unfortunately, she was "mobbed" by angry protesters. This is what we've become. Our image so tarnished, so infuriating that even our first lady is met with animosity. Not to worry though, we'll still have all of Our nuClear weapons to meet that animosity with, if the administration has anything to say about it. It's no surprise that the month long conference on the Non-Proliferation Treaty ended with little positive results. A lot of 'do as I say not as I do' policy going on there, with the US trying to keep the pressure on North Korea and Iran's nuClear prospects while avoiding it's own obligations when it comes to stockpiles of nuClear weapons and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty that President Clinton signed in 1996, but president bush has refused to since taking office. The real nuclear option is a far scarier prospect than the Senate's version is.


“They were immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, very, very dangerous in terms of accidental or inadvertent use, and destructive of the non-proliferation regime”.
-Robert McNamara on the US and NATO policy on their nuclear weapons policies