Friday, January 20, 2006
Bin Laden and Abramoff
According to nervous-sounding pundits in the media, Osama bin Laden’s latest transmission is a sign of weakness.
Not that they would know. No one knows where he is, if he’s injured, or what Al Qaeda is planning. But they’re just positive that he’s desperate.
This latest communiqué was also a golden opportunity for the brilliant commentators on the right to smear lefties with guilt-by-association tactics. Scarborough and guest said that Osama’s words look at lot like those of the critics of the administration. Chris Matthews compared Osama’s message to Michael Moore.
Nice, guys.
John Kerry hit back, saying essentially what I said yesterday: maybe if we had concentrated on Afghanistan instead of Iraq we wouldn’t need to be wildly guessing what Osama’s latest communications meant. Maybe we wouldn’t have let him slip through our fingers.
That’s the real message to be gained from this communication. Bin Laden is still alive, and still planning attacks on American soil. Sadly enough, bin Laden has never before failed to keep his word on these matters.
Michael Medved asked a caller on his radio show what concrete affect Bush’s failures have on the lives of everyday Americans. Besides inflating the debt that will eat up our tax dollars for years to come, besides mercury in the environment that threatens the livelihood of millions, besides cutting funding to countless programs for the poor and shifting the tax burden more squarely on the middle and lower class.
How about this one: Bush’s failed war on terror has actually increased the numbers of terrorist attacks on Earth and it has failed to capture our #1 enemy, meaning that we all still must live in fear of the next attack.
Meanwhile, the Bush Administration is still stonewalling releasing information regarding its ties to Jack Abramoff. Is anyone surprised? Honestly. Is anyone out there just shocked at this revelation?
We already know Abramoff met scores of times with administration officials. Abramoff was a pioneer for the Bush election campaign. According to the Washington Post, “After the 2000 election, Abramoff was named to the Bush transition team for the Interior Department, which regulates the Indian casinos that paid Abramoff his inflated fees.”
This scandal stinks like week-old garbage and Bush is in it up to his neck.
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 3:54 PM 
