Day: November 27, 2009

I Feel Safe With The FBI On The Case!

Daily Agitator

First of all the title is…….. SARCASM!  Second, the FBI has been nothing but a political tool for decades….other than that…there are some stories in the news that deserve a special post….and this one rates that special thing….

We entrust our security as a people and as a nation to many agencies among which is the FBI….in the past I have said that it is a real shame that an agency like the FBI needs TV shows like “Most Wanted” to their jobs for them.  I mean there was one guy that had been on the lame for 20 years and he just got tired and turned himself in.  A cracker jack team of crime fighters.

But now there is a new “threat” out there and the FBI is hard on the trail of this dastardly criminal:

An elderly, grey-haired man known as the Geezer Bandit is suspected of robbing five California banks beginning in the summer.

The man, who is believed to be in his 70s, has been robbing banks at gunpoint in the San Diego area, FBI investigators say.

He most recently held up a Bank of America branch on Monday, demanding cash and then taking off on foot.

FBI spokesperson Darrel Foxworth said the septuagenarian stick-up artist is believed to have robbed four other banks in the county since Aug. 28.

He often wears a hat or cap, and was seen lugging around an oxygen tank during one of his capers.

Police aren’t saying how much money the man has stolen so far.

There is a $16,000 US reward for information that leads to his arrest and conviction.

Okay….re-read it!  The man is OLD and dragging his oxygen tank while committing the robberies…..

Now let us talk about it……if these idiots cannot catch this robber…..how confident are you that they can protect us from terrorists?  I have my doubts……you?

Do They NOT Know They Are Stupid!

That was not a rhetorical question!  Do they, the Repubs, know that they are stupid?  It is a fair question…..I mean from “death panels” to political theatrics……

This post could go on forever…..but for the sake of brevity I will focus on John Boner……oh crap!……my bad!……John Boehner, the Minority leader of the House of Representatives, he has pulled a wealth of boners in his tenure as the Repub leader….the one that stands out is his holding up the Constitution to make a point and then read the DoI…..or his saying that he is receiving more emails against health care reform and a local poll shows that 60% of his district want that reform…..but the best one is that he and his Repub colleagues keep bashing the spending of the Obama admin saying that if they are returned to power they will hold spending down….that they will once again be a party of less government…HA!….they overlook the fact that while they were doing GW’s dirty work they were the party of SPENDING…..but that they have learnbed their lesson….and will be frugal with the taxpayers money…..

I know you ask, what is wrong with that?  Nothing but is it true?

In a country that is reeling from massive unemployment….no consumerism to speak of…..and an economy that will take years to recovery….the Minority leader is showing his leadership is NO fluke…….the Politico is reporting:

The golf events this year sponsored by Boehner’s Freedom Project political action committee have stretched from April until October, from Florida to Ohio. And the minority leader doesn’t hold his events at worn-out municipal courses. The most recent outing was a $20,921.34 event at the plush Robert Trent Jones track in Gainesville, Va., an invitation-only private club that was once also home to the Professional Golfers Association’s President’s Cup.

By all public estimations, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) is a pretty good golfer.

He should be, given the $82,998 his political action committee has spent on golf outings so far this year, according to Federal Election Commission filings.

He , Boehner, has spent more in the three cases than 20% of the population will make as earnings….Does it make sense to preach to the American people and then go out and spend more money that they will make this year?  It shows two things arrogance and a loss of the plight of the American people, especially those ion the district that he represents ….this will come back to bite him in the ass in his next run for office……that is if the people of his district are paying attention or do they really care?

Are not the Repubs the ones saying that Obama is out of touch with Main Street?  Go figure……

While I pick on Boehner, but he is not alone…Repubs have shown an amazing indifference to the people and the truth….

GOP Parties Like Its 2012

Can you hear it?  Listen closely!  There it is the motor of the GOP revving up for the big push in 2012….who will it be?  Who will carry the standard of conservatism into the battle for the presidency?

The GOP is thumping its chest like a sex starved chimp at the wins in New Jersey and Virginia…..they are determined to make that the quintessential (not to be confused with Quintessential Havoc an avid reader…for that I thank you)  indicator that they will take back the White House and the Congress.  And some how they lost in NewYork 23 but they see that as a win in the end…..optimism is a good thing as long as it is not fed by delusion…..

Anyway….enough chit chat….The GOP has a rising number of wannabes for 2012 and I will talk about them endless, but not now….that is for a later post….I know you will be on the edge of your seat in anticipation……

The Chicago Sun-Times has a good look at the field coming:

A year before 2012 campaigning begins in earnest, here’s a look at the moves some are making:

• Palin, the 2008 vice presidential nominee who resigned as governor of Alaska, is starting a national media tour to promote her book, Going Rogue: An American Life. Eager to show her conservative credentials, she recently endorsed grass-roots-backed conservative Doug Hoffman over the GOP-supported candidate in an upstate New York congressional race. Hoffman lost but Palin told conservative activists, “The cause goes on.”

• Pawlenty, a conservative who was on McCain’s vice presidential short list, decided not to run for a third term as governor. He has been building a political operation with Washington-based campaign veterans while working to raise his national profile and taking on Obama. He has tacked even further right recently, including backing Hoffman.

• Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, has kept a lower profile, but he has reappeared at key times to challenge Obama, primarily on economic policy.

• Barbour, Mississippi’s governor and former national GOP chairman, became chairman of the governors group this summer around the time he visited Iowa and New Hampshire.

• Gingrich, the former House speaker from Georgia, has been traveling the country talking up Republican rebirth. He has emerged as a critic of Obama’s health care and economic policy.

• Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, has been raising his national profile with a Fox News talk show and radio commentaries.

But these are not the only ones that are feeling out the field for a possible run for the roses…..Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum has fueled speculation with a visit to Iowa. South Dakota Sen. John Thune and Indiana Rep. Mike Pence also are trying to raise their national profiles.

These are the majors, for now, and it will be interesting to see who will pop out into the lead for the nomination…..