Thanksgiving pot luck

GM HMO
The nation’s largest HMO, General Motors, has decided to cut its auto making subsidiary by closing 12 manufacturing sites and cutting 30,000 jobs. A GM spokesman said, “We need to concentrate on our main duty to the American people, providing health care. This car making stuff is just getting in the way. We will continue to maintain a sizable work force in our car manufacturing division, but only so that we can do what we do best, provide health care for them.” Something went terribly wrong with the US auto manufactures years ago. Pension and health care Ponzy schemes are now coming home to roost. The UAW has finally gotten its wish and brought management to its knees. Ahhh, but it turns out that management and the union were actually in a suicide pack. Will government learn from GM? No.

Cut and run will lead to more OBLs
It turns out that the “good and descent” John Murtha is a cut and runner from way back. Good and descent John advocated a cut and run policy from Somalia after only 18 dead Americans. The good and descent John got his way back then and what were the results? A little know figure among average Americans came to the conclusion that America was a paper tiger. America could not and would not sustain casualties, even in a just cause. So that figure began striking America. Feckless response by America to the first World Trade Center attacks, African embassy attacks and the attack on USS Cole all encouraged this figure to go for the big enchilada, 9/11. That figure is now known to every American as Osama bin Laden. OBL was encouraged to become what he has become by the good and descent John Murtha and like minded useful idiots. Good and descent John ask yourself, if American cut and run tactics in Somalia gave rise to bin Laden, what will American cut and run tactics in Iraq give rise to?

Too many dopey Republicans to energize the base
John McCain and Lindsey Graham are worried about the Republican majority in the senate. Well that’s odd. They have done as much as anyone to insure a shrinking Republican majority. The gang of 14 stunt alone cost the Republican Senatorial Reelection Committee millions – and should have. Then, knowing that the only way to get face time on a Sunday talk show is by blasting the president, senate Republicans line up and blast away at the head of the party. We’ve got idiots running through the ranks, Specter, Snowe, Collins, DeWine(er), Voinovich, Hagle, Chaffey. Why would any conservative give money to get dopes like that elected or reelected? McCain and Graham complaining about Republican chances next Nov. is like the arsonist who complains about all the noise and commotion the fire trucks are causing. If McCain wants to help, he can start by shutting the hell up.

Happy Thanksgiving!
Lex and family are on the road for the Thanksgiving holiday. Hope you have a great holiday. Give thanks for the great guys and gals doing the job in Iraq in spite of the not so great guys and gals in Washington DC. See ya Monday.