Little w's Big trip (It's the Economy, Stupid!)

While 32% georgey was on his FIRST trip to "the Middle East", which was more about shaking sabers at Iran than anything else, he visited Israel (maybe to get images of Iran's "weapons facilities", like the ones colOn powell showed the UN before the invasion and occupation of Iraq). Shrub danced with swords in between his weak and feable pleas for lower oil prices. Now, she's not my favorite Democratic candidate but Senator Clinton said it best during this week's Democratic debate. She said "President Bush is over in the Gulf now begging the Saudis and others to drop the price of oil," "How pathetic." "We should have an energy policy right now, putting people to work in green collar jobs as a way to stave off the recession, moving us towards energy independence." Maybe the oil man-in-chief just wanted to make his arms deal with Saudi Arabia (where rape victims are brutally punished as their rapists go free) in person. To be fair, the incompetent one did say there will be a Palestinian state before he leaves office, one year from now. I'm not one to rush time along, but Come On 2009!

A "robed" bush touring the Middle East is not the biggest issue facing Our Nation right now. Neither is the ongoing primary season, which I unfortunately feel the need to talk about again. And though, I do agree that the ongoing bombing by "them" and Us in Iraq and our staying there until 2018 are a Big stories, the biggest story and latest crisis We are beginning to face is Our economy. The increase in wholesale prices in 2007 was the largest in 26 years. Inflation has seen its biggest increase in 17 years. The jobless rate has risen to 5%, and the economy only added 18,000 jobs in December. Gasoline prices have more than doubled since the little failure took office. Merril Lynch's $14.1 Billion write-down and Citigroup's $9.8 BILLION loss have added to the bail out of "American" companies by foreign companies. The DOW is dropping almost everyday. The value of the Euro is more than double that of the US dollar. The Recession is here. It's getting so bad, even bush is starting to admit it. Remember the surplus? The failure in chief's economic policies have lead to a huge debt and a huge deficit, which doesn't even take into account the neo-conservative republican war in Iraq, where American contractors are gassing American troops. This unnecessary and illegal war and occupation is costing Us $275,000,000.00 per DAY! Ok... deep breaths... count to ten..

How about a primary update? First off, the Democratic Party stripped Michigan of their delegates, which are what Our contestants are competing for, because the Michigan Democratic party insisted on moving their primary up in the schedule. That is why Senators Edwards and Obama were not on the ballet. Senator Clinton, being the only "major" candidate in the race, managed to lose 44% to "uncommitted". And sadly, Congressman Kucinich still only managed to get 3.7%, tying fred "holllywood" thompson. The reds sure have been fun to watch flounder and pander. The flipper won by 9% in the state where he was born and raised and his father was governor, to become the third republican candidate to win in as many "major" primaries that have been held. That's right three primaries, three winners, and Ron Paul beat little napolean rudy in this one. As the NY POST recently headlined "Republican rivals share one bond: All Losers".

I'll leave you with a couple of items to chew on:
1. Grist Magazine has a page up to tell voters how green the candidates are.
2. The Democrats haven't won the "South" since Jimmy Carter ran for president.
3. Senator Barack Obama is a Christian

And the quote of the week comes from Rep. Wexler (D-Fla.) as he called for hearings on the Impeachment on Vice President Cheney:
“In the history of our nation, we have never encountered a moment where the actions of a President or a Vice President have more strongly demanded the use of the power of impeachment,”