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Q: What Do You Call a Song Titled 'Let's Impeach The President'? A: A Good Start

I feel compelled to find and post the truth every time I hear Our GreatPresident open his mouth which has become synonymous with lying.Thanks again to "granny" for sending us the link for the video.

It didn't take the liberal bloggers and general long public to react and speak outagainst the dems for caving in on the funding bill. And it seems that theybetter grow a set quickly before we start shopping around. Think about this fora moment, you tell your spouse or significant other you are going shopping, butinstead go to a friends house...simple right? umm, NO!, you are confronted bythem and are told you lied. Maybe that's a simple minded analogy, but comparethat to The President of the United States lying on an ongoing basis, changingthe story and then his supporters actually lie further to support him. Wrong,just plain old everyday kindergartenly,  fundamentally, unacceptably wrong.

Well lets start this thing....

'Let's Impeach The President' Song by Neil Youg. Check out Neils page of Song Videos HERE.(check out the hompage)The Lyrics are HERE.

I do not like Andy Dick in just about everything I have ever seen himin...except this video

'Bush Idiot Speech'

Here is a huge list of anti-warsongs worth a peak. Listof Bush lies.

There is just so much more content which could be added to this post, but Ineed to move on from this "consumption" of me.

DeLay blames media for '06 GOP losses

Yes, the 2006 election happened four months ago.  But it seems like just yesterday when millions of Americans kept pressing refresh to see the latest results from the Senate race in Virginia. 

Even though it is beyond time to move on, it is amusing to hear some of the excuses that Republicans are making for their election losses.  For example, in Tom DeLay's new book, the corrupt former lawmaker blamed -- you guessed it -- the media:

“I would suggest that Republicans lost because they did not communicate their message and their victorieswith enough strength to overcome short-term, media-fed issues thatarose right before the election,” Mr. DeLay writes in the book, “NoRetreat, No Surrender” (Sentinel), referring in part to theCongressional page scandal.

So the Mark Foley page scandal was a media fabrication?  Was the Iraq war a media fabrication as well?  How about Katrina?

Will these guys ever take responsibility for their own actions?

Dem's minimum wage bill will help end slave labor in Saipan

Thanks to the second bill in the Democrats' 100-hour agenda, the days of sweatshops on the Marianas Islands are numbered.

Tom DeLay was famous for helping found the "K-Street Project."  But most progressive activists will remember him as the key protector of a policy that allowed sweatshop conditions to continue on a number of American colonies in the pacific.  But this week, historic language was put into the House version of the minimum wage bill that forces American companies in American colonies increase pay.

Back in 1996, Tom DeLay helped defeat the drive to end sweatshop conditions in the Northern Marianas Islands -- conditions that protected the Saipan government's selling of Mongolian women into the life of slave prostitution and forced abortions.  So who was the lobbyist that influenced Mr. DeLay to prevent such human rights laws from being enacted?  Why, none other than lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who was hired by the Saipan government to prevent the U.S. Congress from changing labor laws.

During one visit to Saipan in an effort to downplay the human rights abuses, DeLay praised their government:

"You represent everything that is good aboutwhat we are trying to do in America," DeLay said at the time to hisaudience, which included Saipan officials and factory owners.

Thankfully, this era will come to an end once the minimum wage bill passes the Senate, and is signed into law by President Bush.  Rep. George Miller (D-CA) has been fighting DeLay on this issue for the past decade, and is overjoyed by the end result:

"I first tried to increase the minimum wage in the Northern Marianasbeginning in 1997 and practically every year since then. But at everyturn, the needs and rights of workers in foreign-owned sweatshops inthe CNMI were trampled by the lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his Republicanallies in Congress, including now former Majority Leader Tom DeLay,"Rep. Miller said.

As far as DeLay is concerned, he now has a D.C. job that will help him lobby on behalf of other conservative causes.

How Fitting: Tom DeLay to become lobbyist

Ethically-challenged former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is being hired as a lobbyist for the American Conservative Union.  But interestingly, some board members don't like the idea, according to Robert Novak:

Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is about to return to theWashington political scene as a high-profile operative for the AmericanConservative Union if his negotiations with group Chairman David Keeneare successfully completed.

DeLay, who has moved his residence from Texas to Washington's Virginiasuburbs, would serve as a high-profile strategist and lobbyist for thegroup to promote conservative causes.

Although DeLay is highly regarded among conservatives in the face ofhis prosecution by a Democratic district attorney in Austin, suchsupport is not universal. At least two of the group's board membershave threatened to resign if the deal with DeLay is consummated.

DeLay should be on the job just in time for his January 24th court case, which will decide whether conspiracy charges will be reinstated against him for his alleged 2002 money-laundering incident.

TX-22: Scalia declines to do DeLay a favor

If he could have gotten away with it, then he would have!  But Justice Antonin Scalia's rejection of a last-minute plea that would have allowed the Supreme Court to get involved in the Tom DeLay ballot issue was the only ruling to make.  As a long-time hunting buddy of Vice President Dick Cheney, Scalia was always thought of as a judicial activist whose sole purpose was to rubber stamp GOP policies.  Had he accepted the DeLay case, it probably would have triggered Judiciary Committee hearings in both houses, adding yet another item to the laundry list of GOP scandals as we get closer to November.

Just in case you need a little refresher on what happened, DeLay won his party's primary in March, making him the GOP nominee in the 22nd District of Texas.  Then, after realizing that he might lose to Democratic challenger Nick Lampson this November, DeLay suddenly bowed out.  The Democrats argued that because DeLay won the primary, he had to be the nominee.  And if he refused to be on the ballot, then no other Republican could run.  In short, here is how the court battle went down:

A Republican federal judge in Texas ruled in favor of the Democraticargument last month, and that ruling was upheld by the U.S. Court ofAppeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans last week. With the electionless than 100 days away, Texas Republicans appealed to the SupremeCourt yesterday to stay the appeals court ruling and allow them to picka new candidate to stand against Democrat Nick Lampson in November.That appeal was routed to Scalia, who denied it just two hours after itwas received.

That brings us to where we are now.  With Tom DeLay staying on the ballot, he will have to put his dream of becoming a K-Street lobbyist on hold.

This seat is up for grabs, and the Democrats can pick it up.  Volunteers at the Nick Lampson Campaign down in Texas are working hard to defeat Tom DeLay: the poster-boy of corruption.  The Lampson Campaign can use our help!  Please contribute or volunteer in any way that you can.  We need to win this seat to help kick the corrupt GOP out of the House and hold the Bush Administration fully accountable for putting America's future in danger.
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