Bushies Screw Kansas Again

First it was the Air Force Tanker, now it looks like the Bush administration, aided and abetted by Roberts and Tiahrt, are rigging a government contract to go to their political allies. This time it's the contract for a biodefence lab. Manhattan (Ks.) is still in the running, but the fix may be in.

The Washington Post reports

The Homeland Security Department swept aside evaluations of government experts and named Mississippi - home to powerful U.S. lawmakers with sway over the agency - as a top location for a new $451 million national laboratory to study some of the world's most virulent biological threats, according to internal documents obtained by the Associated Press.

And more

The states where locations were eliminated despite earning scores higher than Mississippi include Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, Texas, Wisconsin and California, where a site in Tracy near the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory had vied for the lab.

Government experts originally expressed concern that the proposed site in Flora, Miss., was far from existing biodefense research programs and lacked ready access to workers already familiar with highly contagious animal and human diseases, such as foot-and-mouth virus, that could devastate the U.S. livestock industry. They assigned the site a score that ranked it 14th among 17 candidate sites in the United States.

Dumbest President--Ever!

Okay, you're no friend of George Bush, you voted against him twice, you've opposed nearly every thing he's done as President, you detest him and his politics. But you've thought it was laying it on a little heavy when people started calling him the worst President ever. After all, there is some stiff competition--Richard Nixon, Warren Harding, James Polk (Mexican American war), Grover Cleveland (suppressed the Pullman strike), James Buchanan, and Franklin Pierce.

Well, whether he's the worst or not, he certainly appears to be the dumbest and most incompetent.

According to a recent NY Times article, Bush is being interviewed by author Robert Draper. There is a simply amazing passage in the article

Mr. Bush acknowledged one major failing of the early occupation of Iraq when he said of disbanding the Saddam Hussein-era military, "The policy was to keep the army intact; didn't happen." But when Mr. Draper pointed out that Mr. Bush's former Iraq administrator, L. Paul Bremer III, had gone ahead and forced the army's dissolution and then asked Mr. Bush how he reacted to that, Mr. Bush said, "Yeah, I can't remember, I'm sure I said, 'This is the policy, what happened?' " But, he added, "Again, Hadley's got notes on all of this stuff," referring to Stephen J. Hadley, his national security adviser.

"I can't remember." One of the most fateful decisions of his Presidency and Bush can't remember! He didn't have enough "leadership" to make sure that his decisions were implemented. Dumbest President. Ever

State of the Union

This year, both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union address occur on the same day.

One involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a creature of little
intelligence for prognostication.

The other involves a groundhog.