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According to Bush anyone can now make their own laws if they can get to the top of the heap as President. Take the current laws that Bush has been changing since he was in office as an example:

Torture: The Army’s field manual specifically prohibits waterboarding as torture, and under the Geneva convention torture is prohibited. The House of Representatives this week approved a bill that would outlaw its use by the CIA. The bill’s fate is unclear in the Senate and President Bush has threatened to veto it if it is passed.

Why would our Senate need to vote in a bill that establishes an already in effect agreed upon Convention? Perhaps to send a message to the President that he is violating a law? Meanwhile Bush has made his own laws saying that if the President approves of it, waterboarding, and torture are allowed.

Phone Taps: Bush belives that he can ignore wiretap laws and go ahead and spy upon all of us, for whatever reason, just in case we might be involved in terrorist acts. Usually you need to go to the Court and have them look at the evidence and then begin the wiretapping. But in this case, no more.

So many laws and so called “signing statements” have been in the news lately that it’s baffeling for most people to understand, and therefore easy to spin, but the bottom line is that the country has laws for a reason and Bush considers executive power over all of them. This is akin to the Nixon years when Nixon and his team of men beleived that erasing tapes covering up a robbery was okay. Well, it turns out that this wasn’t so.

Yes we know there is a move to impeach Bush and it hasn’t really gotten much steam. Time to take another look.

I was stumbling around this evening and happened upon this blog post on politics. This is really infuriating. Apparantly Ann Coulter is out blasting her mouth off now against women, as if she isn’t one. I guess Ann believes that all Democrats are women, or maybe pussies?

From the New York Observer Anne Coulter now speaks

On women:

If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democrat president. It’s kind of a pipe dream, it’s a personal fantasy of mine, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.

It also makes the point, it is kind of embarrassing, the Democratic Party ought to be hanging its head in shame, that it has so much difficulty getting men to vote for it. I mean, you do see it’s the party of women and ‘We’ll pay for health care and tuition and day care — and here, what else can we give you, soccer moms?’

Okay Ann, so you like to bash on Democrats, you like to speak your mind, and might I remind you that instead of being barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen the reason you CAN is because women finally got the vote and equal rights back in the roaring 20’s.

If you really want to enjoy your new found male hood Ann, you can always go to Yemen where the vote for women only came into existence in 1984.

What amazes me about Ms. Coulter is her apparant lack of understanding of anything that isn’t a reflection of her own narcissism. Can we really eliminate the stupidity of bad votes by getting rid of women voters? How ’bout we get rid of Cowboys and stop the really stupid voting, and after that let’s get rid of the votes of a few Cornell graduates.

Vote for bad republicans  today goes to Republican Gov. Don Carcieri who implemented a very stupid plan to save Rhode Island some money without doing any homework.  Smart (not) lawmakers have now advocated to save juvinille courts and family services money by ruling that many teens are to be tried as adults for things like drug laws. Many people know that teens are emotional hormonal beings that are likely to sew wild oats, and isn’t that what teen years are for? With pressure from peers, and just plain experimentation to adulthood many teens try a few joints, a bit of crack cocaine, some ecstasy etc to see what happens. Some get addicted, hooked up and some go into adulthood with it. Many teens just try it out and eventually find that it is not taking them anywhere, they stop and go on to college, a job, or a fruitful life.

But a few lawmakers trying to save a few dollars, get together and decide that instead they will put teens into prison with adults for a while to shake them up. What a liability. Are you people serious.

Rhode Island, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin try 17-year-olds as adults, according to the National Center for Juvenile Justice. Connecticut, New York and North Carolina try 16-year-olds in adult courts, although Connecticut has raised the age of juvenile court jurisdiction from 16 to 18 for most offenses starting in 2010.

College-bound teenagers arrested under the new law risk losing federal financial aid if convicted of a drug crime. Those looking for work will have to disclose a criminal record. If the 17-year-olds had been in Family Court, their records would be hidden from public view.

What a great way to write off a few youth in favor of saving a few dollars. How ’bout we save some money by getting rid of high salaries for stupid lawmakers and those in government positions that fail to do their homework?

Without doing much homework, Republican Gov. Don Carcieri’s office came up with an idea to put juveniles in the adult system to save some money. The Gov’s goof up ended up costing the State of Rhode Island over $104,000 dollars instead of $40,000 that would be saved in the juvenille system. Very smart Governor.

Not to mention something called human rights.

Dont forget the bumper stickers and other great stuff to use for your bashing pleasure.

Love this one.  Countdown the number of days Bush has in office using the new Bush Timer