SNAFU, it's all new again

Today we start off with The Sam Seder Show. Celebrity news is not news when it's not on E! But its funny that in the context of Sam's show talking about Rudy Giuliani is a lot like celebrity gossip.

So what was up with "America's Mayor"? It seems he's polling really well and closing the gap between himself and Jon "I'll say anything to make you love me Evangelicals" McCain.

Of course all the brown nosing up to the far right wing megachurchers is rough when your married to your third wife who was your former mistress while you lived in Gracie mansion while you were just New York City's perhaps most unpopular mayor.

Seeing as how your wife (#2, the first wife was his second cousin but who's counting) was still living in Gracie Mansion at the time and so were your children, Awkward!

I guess being unknown to the rest of the country outside of NYC is a real plus, Hizzoner you do know that these details are going to be used to smear you just as soon as the mud slinging phase of the primaries gets underway?

Oh hey fun fact (except for all the dead fire men that resulted, so actually it's a tragic fact) we came to know Giuliani as "America's Mayor" as we watched him stride about the concrete canyons of lower Manhattan on that terrible day the Twin Towers were raised to the ground in that murderous attack.

Now a natural question (unless you work for Viacom/CBS, Disney, Time Warner, News Corp. and NBC/GE) is shouldn't he have been too busy in a city wide command center coordinating the cities first responders and emergency resources. Sadly it turns out his command center was most unfortunately placed on the 23rd floor of Tower 7 of the World Trade Center.

It was placed there personally by him, against the advice of every one. If he had placed it in Brooklyn as he had been advised... He would have had a better place to be then the street where we all watched him because "too stupid to eat a pretzel" was AWOL hiding out at among other things a southern air base.

So don't expect this "America's Mayor" legend to lend its nonsensical myth to Rudy for overly long.

Next we bring in noted blogger Bill Scher , to discuss the state of The Conservative Movement: Stuck On Step 1. This discussion started with the most recent piece of disturbingly vile comedy that goes by the acronym of CPAC.

What happens when a bunch of bigoted bullies bellies up to the teat of conservo celebrity? Well the second thing is the apology that comes later when they are forced to own-up to just what they said openly on camera. But enough about Mann Coulter calling John Edwards a "Faggot", lets face it no man is as manly as she is so I think she has a case... moving on to substance here I will just let Mr. Scher tell it like it was (at CPAC, now 99% more reality free).

As I wrote here just before CPAC, the conservative "secular problem" is their severe lack of competitiveness with the 40%-43% of voters who don't regularly attend church.

Because of that problem, according to the exit poll data, conservatives no longer control Congress. In turn I concluded, "conservatives have to find a way to speak to the substantive concerns of secular voters: low wages, poor health care coverage, energy dependence, destabilizing foreign policy and the imposition of religious beliefs on others."

Yet the dominant diagnosis at CPAC was that the Republican Party just wasn't conservative enough.

Not enough slashing of our government. Not enough bashing of immigrants. Not enough promotion of heterosexuality. Not enough action to eliminate Britney Spears from American pop culture.

I'm afraid that last line was not a joke. I heard three different speakers point to singer's troubles as some sort of evidence of America's societal collapse.

Ok, um...well then trying to appeal to secular voters with these policies is a slam dunk, just like WMD. Tell me MR. Scher could any one at CPAC have managed to come up with anything even more offensive and insane? Yes?! DO TELL... I mean Newt Gingrich please continue.

failure of citizenship

...and the failure of citizenship in the Ninth Ward, where 22,000 people were so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn't get out of the way of a hurricane.

So now it's suddenly so clear but of course blame the victims brilliant. Compassionate Conservative yeah I guess we can dispense with that bull shit now, huh?

Wow, full day's worth of liberal slant? No. Really? Really.

Some people call it an escalation some call it a surge, but I call it the Pap Attack! Please note this is an .mp3 audio file.

But wait there's more!

Do I even need to mention Walter Reed out patient building 18? You've heard about the black mold, rats, cockroaches, leaks and holes in the bathroom ceiling. But did you know about IAP World Services?

Funny story there, if it weren't for all the suffering wounded. It seems one Al Neffgen got himself a no bid contract for himself because I guess having done all the Ice delivery to New Orleans where millions of dollars worth of ice never got off the trucks which ended up costing even more to store it. But hey that's history lets find out what old Al is doing now that he's on his own. Armytimes.com

By Kelly Kennedy - Staff writer Posted : Saturday Mar 3, 2007 9:31:09

The memorandum “describes how the Army’s decision to privatize support services at Walter Reed Army Medical Center was causing an exodus of ‘highly skilled and experienced personnel,’” the committee’s letter states. “According to multiple sources, the decision to privatize support services at Walter Reed led to a precipitous drop in support personnel at Walter Reed.”

The letter said Walter Reed also awarded a five-year, $120-million contract to IAP Worldwide Services, which is run by Al Neffgen, a former senior Halliburton official.

I've used up my hour, still to come, tomorrow or so I've come to expect, but with news like this I can only hope.

"End of Line."-The MCP.