Good Ideas...Keep 'Em Coming!

The best thing to do when the Repugs control every branch of government and you have nothin' left to lose? Create your own shadow government. Why not? At my house, we've had countless dinnertime conversations thinking up various rationales, most of which border on the absurdist (shades of Abbie Hoffman and trying to elevate the Pentagon). But, now it appears that this idea is appealing (in a much more serious tone) to Congressional Democrats who are picking up on this idea to more closely examine Treason-gate.

Along these same lines -- and in a very serious and thoughtful vein -- another group of very serious folks known as the National Security Advisory Group (NSAG), is issuing their own report on WMD proliferation. Who says Democrats don't have ideas? Who says we can't govern? Who says we are weak on defense/national security issues Bah! Gimme a break.

Posted today on the Senate's website, is
"Worst Weapons in Worst Hands: US Inaction on the Nuclear terror Threat Since 9/11, and a Path of Action." NSAG consists of government and military luminaries including former Defense Secretary William J. Perry (Chair), Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, Graham T. Allison, Samuel R. Berger, Ashton B. Carter, Wesley K. Clark, Thomas E. Donilon, Michele A. Flournoy, John D. Podesta, Susan E. Rice, John M. Shalikashvili, Wendy R. Sherman,Elizabeth D. Sherwood-Randall, James B. Steinberg.

It begins:

"The gravest threat facing Americans today is a terrorist detonating a nuclear bomb in one of our cities. The National Security Advisory Group (NSAG) judges that the Bush administration is taking insufficient actions to counter this threat.

If this catastrophe were to occur, what would we wish we had done to prevent
it? Why are those actions not being taken today?"

Great questions for America to ponder as we wait for the inevitable attack. (Everyone have their duct tape?)

Meanwhile, we spend billions on a war that seemingly has no end, cut veteran's benefits, give tax cuts to people who don't need 'em, and have treasonous sycophants in the White House using the CIA for political purposes.

Damn them. Damn them to hell.