Bush's New Lapdog
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has long been called Bush's Lap Dog for his ever insistant praise of every move Bush has ever made.
It was Blair's constant defending of a war that not only cost thousands of U.S. military lives, but also many from Britain as well. This ongoing position of Blair's to defend every move that Bush makes, has brought about Blair's sudden desire to retire.
It must never be said that Bush doesn't always have someone waiting in the wings to fill the lapspot of Tony Blair.
It must never be said that Bush hasn't found someone even more willing to carry the toilet water of this filthy serpent and his followers.
It must never be said that Bush doesn't know how to choose someone so needy, someone so clingy, someone so desperate for power, that they will say or do anything to take that place on Bush's beloved lap.
Today, that new Lapdog stepped forward once again to defend Bush and his lack of foreign policy, by blaming Bill Clinton yet again.
This new Lapdog has defended the Iraq war since its beginning and he has often been tagging along the Bush coattails hoping for his blessing.
This new Lapdog, was once gutted, stomped, and left in the gutter of disgrace by the very owner of the lap he wishes to coddle.
Yes, Bush has chosen a new lapdog. A Lapdog who is popular with the public because he was supposed to be a war hero.
George W Bush completely destroyed this future lapdog in the 2000 Republican primary.
John McCain is the new Bush Lapdog and if you think Tony Blair was hanging onto more than Bush's lap, wait till you see John McCain.
John McCain, one time war hero is now defending Bush and blaming Clinton for everything Bush has ruined.
Bush and this new Lapdog may secretly hate each other, but they both have one thing in common.
Bush and his Lapdog McCain are both common Traitors.
posted by Larry at 8:46 PM
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Ha haaaa! Great minds think alike Mr. Larry. I talked about ole John McCain on White Noise Insanity tonight:
http://whitenoiseinsanity.blogspot.com/2006/10/take-your-carrots-gop-and-shove-it-up.html/
McCain is as insane as the whackos in the White House and the more he hangs with them the more insane he becomes!!!! It makes you wonder if he's being threatened by use of torture or something. Wow.
Larry, John(I'd sell my mother to be president) McCain, is just doing the prerequisite neo-con kneepad dance to try to get the NOMINATION. One small problem, with the culture of corruption, Johnny boy has TWO strikes against him.
1. The keating scandal. 2. and this will cut badly with the far right trying to find a "clean" candidate, johnny boy cheated on his first wife with his second before he divorced his first.
But since Rudy and Newt has committed the same faux pas, Johnny might be a bit inoculated there.
It is going to be interesting to hear the repugs defend their slew of cheating multi-divorce front runners.
As funny as the Foley scandal has been to watch the repugs implode on family values this time IT might be even more interesting NEXT time as they try to find a real candidate of family values. Or spin one of their new pretenders as the "same as".
McCain is so hungry for power that he will sleep with the devil that took him out before to get his way.
McCain is a phony.
I've thought McCaine was a power hungry sell out so obseesed with becoming president that he is willing to do anything or possibly anyone to tap into the repug money and propaganda "MACHINE"
My only question is was his opposition to Bush on torture, followed by him mysteriously just giving in and compromising his position meant to be a distraction to help the repugs or did the Neo Cons cut him a deal for backing off and promise him a favor.
btw McCaine lost me a few years ago when it appeared he sold his sole to Bush and the Neo Cons, then he "appeared" to take a stand against them again............and they called Kerry a flip flopper, they should put McCaine on To Tell The Truth and say will the real John McCaine please stand up LOL :D:
FACT SHEET ON MINIMUM WAGE
Business and Professional Women/USA has been a strong advocate in the legislative battle to increase the federal minimum wage. At the current level, established in 1996, workingwomen bringing home a minimum wage salary do not have the resources to provide for their families, and 60.9% of workers earning between $5.15 and $7.00 per hour are women.
MINIMUM WAGE AND WORKING FAMILIES
• In 2002, approximately 2.6 million full-time, year-round workers lived in poverty.
• A full-time worker on minimum wage earns approximately $10,712 a year, $1,778 below the 2004 poverty line for a family of two, $4,958 below the poverty line for a family of three, and $8,138 below the poverty line for a family of four.
• Nearly 75% of all minimum wage earners are adults (20 years and older).
• 40% of minimum wage earners are the sole breadwinners in their families.
• Nearly 50% of minimum wage earners work full time.
• The real value of today’s minimum wage is 44% below its peak in 1968 due to inflation.
• Raising the minimum wage to $7.00 would put more than $3,800 a year in the pockets of full-time, year-round workers, increasing their income by 36%. It would also raise the wages of 7.4 million workers, or 5.9% of the workforce.
DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH
• The United States now has the most uneven distribution of income and wealth of any industrialized nation.
• In the past 20 years, 80 percent of the income increase in the United States has gone to the top 20 percent – most of it to the top one percent.
• The average CEO in the United States makes $5,300 an hour – more than 1000 times the hourly minimum wage.
• In 1998, the average-paid CEO earned in two hours the amount a minimum wage worker earns in an entire year.
• If the average minimum wage had grown as much as the average CEO salary over the past five years, the minimum wage would now be $23 per hour.
MINIMUM WAGE AND THE ECONOMY
• The low-wage workers most affected by the minimum wage increase are consumers who are more likely than higher-wage workers to spend their additional earnings on necessary goods and services.
• Adjusted for inflation, the stock market has gone up by over 150 percent since 1968 – while the purchasing power of the minimum wage has declined by 30 percent.
• Full-time workers increased productivity by 20 percent since 1978, but are getting 8.6 percent less compensation.
Bush and his cronnies are the enemies of freedom and democracy and the enemies of the poor and middle class, only the wealthy elite have done well economically under Bush, wages have gone down when adjusted for inflation and good paying blue and white collar jobs are being outsourced overseas to cheap labor, manufacturing and the auto industry has been decimated under Bush, he doesnt even care about the lost jobs, the corporate elite is all he cares about.
Don't Buy the Dow's New High
Peter Schiff
This week, the professional stock market boosters, who masquerade as wise market commentators, filled the airwaves with celebratory musings on the significance of a record high Dow. Many spoke of it as the milestone that will usher in a new bull market reminiscent of the one which roared during the 1990s. However, the Dow's new high is merely an inflationary illusion. The fact that Wall Street universally ignores inflation adjustments with respect to the Dow, while consistently qualifying oil prices in inflation adjusted terms, reveals the bullish bias of an industry dependent on optimism.
In the first place, adjusted for the CPI the Dow's January, 2000 peak would equate to over 14,000 in today's dollars. Of course, since the CPI understates the true inflation rate by at least 2-3 percentage points annually, the Dow Jones would likely have to be over 16,000 today to deliver the same purchasing power that it did then. Ignoring inflation and looking instead from a foreign exchange perspective the Dow is also far from a real high. Priced in British pounds, Canadian or Australian dollars, or euros, at 11,850 the Dow is still below its 2000 peak by approximately 25%, 26% and 32% respectively.
In the second place, the Dow Jones consists of just thirty stocks. If you look at broader market averages, such as the S& P 500 or the NASDAQ Composite, the former is about 13% below its 2000 high, while the latter is 55% below. When those numbers are adjusted for rises in the CPI, in real terms the indexes are below their 2000 peaks by more than 27% and 63% respectively. Of course, those numbers would be far higher were we using a more accurate inflation measure.
While the financial media is quick to proclaim a new bull market in stocks, they have simultaneously proclaimed an end to the current bull markets in gold and oil. Both calls are premature, unsupported by the facts, and more representative of wishful thinking than legitimate forecasting.
Since hitting its nominal peak in January 2000, the Dow Jones has lost just over half of its value relative to gold, even after the recent surge in the Dow and the dip in gold. It should be clear, therefore, that the real bull market is in gold, not the Dow. The way I see it, nothing has happened during the last several months to reverse these trends. From my perspective, we are simply experiencing normal counter-trend moves that typify bull and bear markets alike.
The most significant aspect of such counter-trend moves is their impact on market psychology. Bull market corrections produce fear, while bear market corrections produce hope. Among gold and oil investors, the fear is that the move is over. Those who got in early sell to preserve what remains of their gains, while recent entrants sell to mitigate their losses. Stock market investors buy more hoping to finally recover their losses.
However, neither emotion is likely to be validated. In fact, secular market trends generally continue until both emotions are completely exhausted. Bull markets will persist until all fear is eliminated; producing euphoria, while bear markets will persist until all hope is lost, producing despair. The Dow's new high, and the media hype surrounding it, should help create enough optimism for a major top to be established. Similarly, the recent sharp drops in the prices of gold and oil should unleash enough pessimism for significant bottoms to emerge.
The decree of leverage in today's markets tends to exaggerate the magnitude and speed of corrections. Hedge funds and other speculative players are generally trend-followers and are quick to exit when the winds appear to be shifting. It is important to remember that speculators do not create the underlying trends; they simply tag along for the ride. However, as their frequent entrances and exits add to short-term volatility, long-term investors should not follow their lead.
October 6, 2006
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Like usual the repugs are spinning away, thumping their chests and crowing about things they have no right to crow about, they should be ashamed of an economy were only the ultra wealthy have done well, were health care and medical costs are out of reach of the majority of americans and college is becoming out of reach as well, housing costs medical costs and college costs have in some cases doubled or tripled while wages have stagnated or even decreased for the majority of Americans.
Makes you wonder if John McCain has seen the current polls about Bush and his decision making and if he realizes that aligning himself with this lunatic will be bad for his future career?
Huh. Obviously he hasn't. You'd think a man who spent 6 years in isolation and who experienced tons of torture would despise a person like Bush and the rest of his Cabal! Nope, apparently it hasn't made a lick of difference in McCain's life. Eighteen hundred days in captivity in a foreign land has made John McCain a Devil Worshiper.
Spit.
Mike:
McCain only cried about the torture bill because he was getting flack for defending Bush and his war to much.
If you notice, Bush got everything he wanted on his torture bill and McCain is claiming victory.
McCain is a wanna be that will never be.
I said over on Lydia's Blog right when the North Korea story broke that they would try to rewrite history and blame Clinton for this again.......these repug liars are so transparent and predictable its sickening.
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