republicans gone wild

On Friday of last week, Bill Frist of Tennessee set into motion legislation to take away my privilege of being able to play Internet poker. Come Monday, he is in Afghanistan saying that the Taliban should be brought into the government of Afghanistan. He says we cannot win the war in Afghanistan militarily.

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I’m rubbing my eyes, hoping I’m going to wake up and this will all be a nightmare, but I’m afraid it’s true. First, the Bush administration and the Republican congress starts a war in Iraq to draw our attention away from their stealing every cent we have in our treasury. While they do it, they take their focus off the Taliban and Bin Laden and then the war in Afghanistan—which was virtually won—falls into the loss column. Then, they start telling everyone what a good friend Muammar Al-Qaddafi is and that he is our buddy and ally in the war on terrorism, disregarding that he was once the poster-boy for worldwide terrorism.

Several weeks ago, we marked the five-year anniversary of the blackest day in American history, and the President gave us that Alfred E. Newman, dork-ass expression, and the Krusty the Clown explanation.

“Don’t blame me! I didn’t do it!”

Now, as the story is breaking about one of their own coming on to teenaged boys, we are learning the Republican leadership was warned it was happening and chose to ignore it. Doesn’t it remind anyone of the same thing they did when they ignored warnings that 9/11 was about to happen?

So what do they do? They go over and suck up to the Taliban.

What’s next?

Will they make an effort to smooch the unpleasant derriere of Mr. Bin Laden? Will they ask the world’s number one Republican to send over some more of his minions to fly some more planes into some more buildings? “We’ve got lots of planes, Mr. Bin Laden, Sir. We have more tall buildings. Take us off the front page and put your own far less than handsome countenance there, instead of ours.”

It’s out of hand and something has to change. But, it’s been out of hand for a long time and nothing seems to be changing, except our government is getting bolder in their shenanigans. It’s like they think they can do anything they want and we’re not going to do anything about it.

And, they are probably right.

At least that’s the way it looks from here in Jimbo’s world.