Wrong rhetoric, wrong time

Today I listened to Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, one of the President's apologists for a terrible war plan.

This administration went to war with the unprepared troops they had. They went to war with the wrong intelligence. They also went to war with the wrong equipment. Then they fired the Generals and the Architect of this war.

General Petraeus and Defense Secretary Robert Gates say we should give them another six months and more troops and they can win this thing. What they can't do is explain what "winning" means. If winning means further decimating the Iraqi
population and our own armed forces - and making Iran bolder - then I don't want to win. 

The Democrats are giving Petraeus and Gates a year, twice what they say they need.

But Sen. Kyl criticizes them for giving the enemy the timetable for our withdrawal.

It's Petraeus and Gates, however, who have provided the timetable. Six months. But someone needs to ask them what they intend to do if we have not succeeded in six months.

The public has had enough of this war and the Democrats know it. They keep saying the public voted them in to stop the war. So stop it. Meaningless and gutless non-binding resolutions are a waste of time. They should make use of their public support and stop playing chicken. 

Attorney General: The People's Lawyer

When John Mitchell was President Nixon's Attorney General and Robert Kennedy was his brother's Attorney General, I wrote my Congressman with a question: "Where in the Constitution or any amendments is the provision that makes the Attorney General the Presidents lawyer?"

I never got an answer.

I have asked this question repeatedly of our distinguished elected officials and either they do not know or care.

But it seems to me the Attorney General should be the people's lawyer and above partisan politics. He should even protect the people from an abusive President, Democrat or Republican.

I therefore think he should be proposed and nominated by a senate panel of four Democrats and four Republicans (with an Independent, should there be one) and confirmed by 75% of the Senate.

I have always believed that the Attorney General function should be to protect the Constitution and the laws of the land for everyone and the prosecutors should not be appointed at the President's behest and subject to his or her political philosophy.

The winds of change give us different political parties in power, but laws should not be subject to these changes.

The Attorney General should only be fired for malfeasance and subjected to an impeachment procedure conducted by the House of Representatives.

Tax cuts or troop support

The Conservatives who keep telling us how they support the troops have some explaining to do.

They were offered the choice of giving our troops the proper armor and arms to fight in Iraq and properly care for them should they be wounded ... or a tax cut.

They could not figure how they could give a tax cut and still take care of the troops they say they support but when push came to shove they chose the tax cut.

So much for caring for the troops.

SHAME. SHAME. SHAME.