David Pleasant

I’m sick of Dick Cheney and Mini-Cheney Liz Cheney trotting out their propaganda and it being accepted as The Holy Gospel by the news media. Let’s end this debate.

Dick Cheney has been exposed for telling lies time-after-time. He has been proven to be wrong over and over again, so why should anyone afford him any credibility? They should not. Bearing that in mind, let’s examine Dick Cheney’s credibility. Can anyone tell me a single time when Dick Cheney was right about anything over the past nine years?

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Good grief. Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Constitution-Journal posits “John McCain could be the Senate’s new Ted Kennedy.” That has to be the most far-fetched thing I’ve ever heard her say, but then again she’s not someone I follow regularly. That pretty much explains, I guess, why I haven’t followed her.

One of Ted Kennedy’s last requests was to change the succession law in Massachusetts to allow for the governor of the state to appoint his successor rather than have a special election five months later as provided for under current law. Well, the Party of No strikes again. They intend to fight any effort to change the law.

I haven’t listened to Rush Limbaugh in many years, but thought I would give it a try today. I wanted to experience his bile first hand rather than via Olbermann, Maddow et al.

I lasted four minutes.

In that four minutes I learned: 1) the U.S. government would be withdrawing money from my checking account without my knowledge or approval; 2) Ted Kennedy’s success in the Senate was “done on the back of Mary Jo Kopechne”; 3) President Obama would be seizing my computer at any time without my approval or knowledge; and 4) the real name for the Huffington Post is the Huffing Puffington Post (or something like that).

No wonder Rush is paid 30+ million dollars per year. If he can make up that much stuff in less than four minutes, a three-hour stretch, five days a week, must be something else.

My eighty-two-year-old mother, a somewhat political junkie, was telling me earlier today that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX) would be resigning from the Senate. At the time, she did not know that Hutchinson’s resignation was related to her gubernatorial bid, but she was well aware of Hutchinson’s opponent, Gov. Rick Perry. When I told her that Perry was Hutchinson’s opponent for the Republican nomination, she said, “That man needs to be put in jail! He wants to secede from the United States!”

Maybe it’s one of those things where you just had to be there, but I got a big laugh out of it. Hopefully others her age are somehow getting the unvarnished truth as well.

President Obama’s job approval rating dropped to 50 percent in the Gallup Daily Tracking Poll. Since this is sync with other polls, albeit a minority, it cannot be viewed as an outlier.

It is normal for a president’s approval rating to drop to the 50’s level, but as Eric Kleefield notes, President Obama’s descent has been rapid. Furthermore, the descent is to be expected especially when tackling major issues such as health care. However, I am confident President Obama’s decision to throw progressives under the bus on almost every issue is a significant factor in his current polling.

If asked a straight up question of did I approve, I would answer no.

Yesterday, Steve Pearlstein asked RNC Chairman Mike Steele: “Have you no shame, sir? Have you no shame?” Well, the answer is a resounding no. The Republican National Committee is now propagating this lie about health care reform, as reported by the Washington Independent.

It has been suggested that the government could use voter registration to determine a person’s political affiliation, prompting fears that GOP voters might be discriminated against for medical treatment in a Democrat-imposed health care rationing system. Does this possibility concern you?