Jeff's Political Stuff

Republicans in congress are right now trying to cut food stamp benefits for legal immigrants. LEGAL immigrants L-E-G-A-L People who have played by the rules, jumped through all the hoops and have been welcomed into our country. Children, can you say "racism" Sign in to see full entry.

Why does the news media only talk about the American lives lost in the Iraq war, don't Iraqi lives, and lives of people from other countries count too? Sign in to see full entry.

Called a friend of mine the other night. She wasn't home. She was at a meeting of the local Republican party. The remarkable thing about that is that this person is disabled and relies on Social Security and food stamps to pay her bills. The very same progams the Republicans try to cut every chance... Sign in to see full entry.

The surest way to increase flag burning is to outlaw it. People will burn flags simply because it is illegal--to protest the law. Sign in to see full entry.

Remember a few years back when Republicans were all hot to pass a balance budget amendment to the constitution? Now that Republicans control both houses of Congress and the White House, we have the biggest budget deficit ever and we don't hear any more about that amendment do we? Sign in to see full entry.

I finally figured out what George W. Bush is up to. He's not being a bad president. He's being a good son. He's doing a lousy job as president so his father will look good by comparison Sign in to see full entry.

Congress ought to be ashamed of themselves wasting the taxpayers money on hearings about steroids in baseball. Or course Congress ought to be ashamed of itself for a lot of things, but politicians have no shame. Sign in to see full entry.

Some people are starting to talk about amending the constitution so that California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger can run for President. As it stands now Schwarzenegger cannot be President because he was not born in this country. In any other job, if an employer told an applicant he wasn't being... Sign in to see full entry.

George W. Bush got reelected in large part by scaring people about terrorism. It's sad. Sign in to see full entry.

I wonder if the United States government allowed 9/11 to happen to help the defense industry. After all the defense industry exists because of fear. During the Cold War people put up with having billions and billions of dollars spent on weapons because we were afraid of the Soviets. With that threat... Sign in to see full entry.