Neocons and the Middle East,Minimum Wage Shot Down & Bush Still an Idiot!

   It's Thursday morning and here is some of the stories making the rounds for today!

   First off, we have Nellebracht over at DailyKos with a few thoughts on what the Bush Crime Family is really up to in Iraq and the rest of the middle east. As I've stated before on more than one occasion,it's all about the oil.

If this theory is correct, it allows us to make a few predictions.  The first is that the result of the surge will be to increase violence and division and not decrease it.  The second is that the US will continue its rhetoric against Iran, but will prefer to use its proxies in Israel and Saudi Arabia to instigate violence.  The final prediction I will make is that President Bush will withdraw most if not all American troops from Iraq before the end of his term.       The Article

       Of course, you may already know that GOP Senators blocked the federal minimum wage increase. The GOP wants tax cuts for small business included in the wage raise bill.

On a vote of 54-43, Democrats fell six short of the 60 needed to end debate and go to passage of a House-approved bill, to raise the minimum wage for the first time in a decade -- boosting it over two years to $7.25 per hour from $5.15.  Yahoo News

Congressional Budget Office says that the budget deficit will shrink this year, 3 years in a row, and that we could have a surplus by 2012 if Bush's tax cuts expire in 2010.              NYTimes Article

“Two years ago, the president laid out an ambitious goal to cut the deficit in half by 2009, and we met that goal three years early,” said Rob Portman, the White House budget director. “We are now on a solid path toward the president’s new goal to achieve a balanced budget by 2012.”                  But Congressional budget officials cautioned that the projections were not as sunny as they looked, in part because they assume that Congress will let President Bush’s tax cuts expire in 2010, along with many corporate tax breaks, and will not try to shield millions of families from a big increase in their tax bills because of the alternative minimum tax.

   Here's a nice little story  for your reading pleasure today.

   It looks as if our Idiot in Chief tried to get congressional approval to pretty much attack anyone in the middle east that he wanted to!

    From Think Progress

HAGEL: [F]inally, begrudgingly, [the White House] sent over a resolution for Congress to approve. Well, it was astounding. It said they could go anywhere in the region.

GQ: It wasn’t specific to Iraq?

HAGEL: Oh no. It said the whole region! They could go into Greece or anywhere. Is central Asia in the region? I suppose! Sure as hell it was clear they meant the whole Middle East. It was anything. It was literally anything. No boundaries. No restrictions.

GQ: They expected Congress to let them start a war anywhere in the Middle East?

HAGEL: Yes. Yes. Wide open. We had to rewrite it. Joe Biden, Dick Lugar, and I stripped the language that the White House had set up and put our language in it.

        Knowing the Bush history the way that many of us have for years, this is no surprise.

    Time to start your day!

    Remember! The only good Bush is a prosecuted Bush!

 

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Cheney's Interview With Wolf Blitzer

Vice President Dick Cheney when interviewed by CNN's Wolf Blitzer said:

BLITZER: What if the Senate passes a resolution saying, This is not good idea? Will that stop you?

CHENEY: It won't stop us. And it would be, I think, detrimental from the standpoint of the troops. As General Petraeus said yesterday

-- he was asked by Joe Lieberman, among others, in his testimony about this notion that somehow the Senate could vote overwhelmingly for him, send him on his new assignment and then pass a resolution at the same time, say, "But we don't agree with the mission you've been given."

BLITZER: You're moving forward, no matter what the Congress does.

CHENEY: We are moving forward. We are moving forward. The Congress has control over the purse strings. They have the right, obviously, if they want, to cut off funding. But, in terms of this effort, the president's made his decision. We've consulted extensively with them. We'll continue to consult with the Congress. But the fact of the matter is, we need to get the job done. I think General Petraeus can do it. I think our troops can do it. And I think it's far too soon for the talking heads on television to conclude that it's impossible to do, it's not going to work, it can't possibly succeed.                     Transcript

   So basically what Cheney said was that this administration is still 'stay the course' and that Bushco does not care what the American people,the House, or the Senate thinks!

    This is beginning to sound alot like 'dictator' to me.

    I say that the congress should begin impeachment proceedings and that they start with Condi Rice and work their way up the ladder.

 

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