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Thursday, January 29, 2009


Just Trying To Help...


Here's some Cheap Stimulus we might try. Americans should like that.

And it's "Trickle Down," too, so we'd even get quick GOP buy-in.

If they simply indicted every political appointment from the George Bush years (either Bush era is OK, it's mostly the same people, anyway)—en masse—and forced them to "lawyer up," the ripple effect from all those law firms having to hire so many more staff to cope, thereby stimulating purchases for all those luxury items and new homes, creating all that new manufacturing, boosting employment, etc., etc. You can see the benefits here...

Hell, we'd fix the economy, and keep the Preserve The Constitution forces happy at the same time.
According to documents obtained by the Washington Post, the Interior Department ignored scientific findings when deciding to limit water flows in the Grand Canyon in order to optimize generation of electric power.

That's OK. It's what Bushies do; it's in their DNA. In GOPer World, cash flow ALWAYS trumps water flow.




Here's where it gets interesting. If our new administration of Barack Obama were to send clear messages to the personnel of every agency, saying, in effect, "the coast is clear," they'd need to set up ropes and barriers around the Justice Department building to handle the crush from the crowd of whistleblowers.
A memo written by the superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park [Steve Martin [sic]] suggests that the department produced a flawed environmental assessment in order to defend itself in a lawsuit from an environmental group. The reduced flow of water was harmful for endangered fish species and risked eroding the canyon's beaches.

Yes, Superintendent Martin is charging his bosses, the Interior Department folks, with falsifying evidence and obstruction of justice in federal court. That would be a good day's work for your typical Bush agency types. How they found the time for all that falsifying during days filled with sex with oil company employees and bribe-taking from Jack Abramoff is simply stunning. That's true workflow management.

My.

Sometimes, it seems your core Republican type breaks three laws before he or she even gets up in the morning.

It seems new Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is going to be a mighty busy boy.

And that IM link between Salazar and Attorney General Eric Holder may simply crash from overuse.

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