BernieHund: The Political Watchdog

And, I thought last week was an ass kicker!

Well, let’s see.  Obama won Mississippi.  No surprise.  Clinton headed to Pennsylvania.

Geraldine Ferraro and Jeremiah Wright tied for the mouth overload of the week.  Ferraro came out with  a derogatory remark saying that if Barack Obama were not black he wouldn’t be in the race.  Wright just seems to hate everyone who isn’t black.  Both are now gone from their campaign positions.  Obama denounced the statements of Wright and Clinton rejected the comments of Ferraro.  Back to square one.

FEMA, or at the very least the attorneys for FEMA, seemed to be more interested in covering asses than getting the formaldehyde facts out to the people who were suffering.  Following a Congressional investigation, it seems that FEMA contacted CDC to test the trailers.  And, everyone is denying that he or she knew anything about anything.  Well, except for the Department of Labor.  They had tested the trailers before FEMA sent them to the displaced Katrina victims and knew they were toxic.  But, with that knowledge FEMA decided to go ahead and move people into them.

The Senate voted on a bill that would eliminate earmarks for one year.  Well, that had a snowball’s chance in hell of passing.  And, it didn’t.  Let’s face it.  The Senators need those earmarks and it is partly our fault.  If they don’t bring money home to their states they won’t be re-elected.  And, the folks at home will all be pissed off if they don’t get a piece of the government pie.  It’s a fact of government and a fact of life.  Earmarks are here to stay.  Maybe we should just monitor them a little closer.

Admiral Fallon steps down after disagreeing with the President.  Seems to fit right in with everything else.

The price of a barrel of oil is up to $110.

The price of a hooker is up to $5,000 if you are former Gov. Eliot Spitzer.  The governor is out, forced to resign as the Republicans of New York threaten impeachment.  So, I guess one could say, Eliot was up and now he’s down, way down.

The Republicans in the House lied about “Secret” Information to get the House into Secret Session to discuss FISA prior to a vote on the bill.  Rocky and Bullwinkle emerged from the meeting knowing nothing more than the House had known all along.  Maybe, it was Rep. Roy Blount who thought the information was new.  He’s the one who wanted the Secret Squirrel Session.

Finally, so everyone could go home for two weeks, the House voted on and passed the Democratic version of FISA.  Let’s hear it for the home team, still strong enough to stand up to the Decider.  The bill goes back to the Senate and we are again back to square one.

And, the coup of the week, the U.S. Government who is sending all of us a letter to let us know that the check is in the mail, skipped the foreplay with investment bank Bear Stearns, by bailing them out of financial ruin on Friday.  Just goes to show that welfare is for the rich, the very rich.