What the Bastards are Up to Today

It's freezing cold here and since we had a $800 heating bill for the month of December (twice the amount we've ever paid for one month) I am trying to keep the heat turned down to under 65. The cats hate it, especially my Burmese, Little Neal, who is cold natured at the best of times and between October and March goes from one heater vent to the other, turning himself into a piece of toast.

When it's this cold, I tend to stay in bed late and this morning, I didn't wake up until 11:oo AM, feeling guilty and behind. What I am behind on, when I sleep this late, is keeping up with what the bastards in the administration are doing. If I don't keep track of them, who will?

Other than the sound of my husband's beeper, the first sound I heard this morning, still half asleep, was that of Sen. Collins, chairing a Senate Committee investigation of the fraud and abuse that occurred in connection with Katrina.

It's not that I have any love for "Brownie" or Chertoff or any of the rest of the idiot political appointees that "ran" FEMA, but I would dearly like for somebody to just connect the bloody dots. For example, there are evidently scores of mobile homes sitting somewhere in Arkansas, rotting, because FEMA bought them and then never used them to house the people who needed housing. Now, why doesn't somebody ask who owned the company that sold FEMA the trailers (since that's what they are, not mobile homes). How much profit did that company make and what connections did that company have with the Republicans? I would like that question answered.

I would like an accounting not just of how much money was wasted, but who benefited from that waste and what political connections those companies and their heads had.

If you go to the website of Know Your Candidates:
http://www.knowthecandidates.org/ktc/RepubContrib.htm

You will see that the Manufactured Homes Institute contributed almost $500,000 to political campaigns and almost 70% of it went to the Republicans. No small payoff.

The Bush administration has functioned exactly like an organized crime syndicate. Well, in actuality, it IS an organized crime syndicate. They took over the government of this country and they have consistently gutted it for six years.

They turned the war against Iraq into one giant boondogle for private interests who had connections with them. Katrina was the same.

So when is somebody going to stand up and say this?

Fortunately, this morning, The New York Times is reporting that Howard Dean (one of the few Democrats with cajones) is calling for Cheney to resign "if" it is demonstrated that he authorized the leaking of government information. How much more evidence do we need?

See the article:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021306L.shtml