Thank You, Mr. President

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about "thanking my lucky oil drills" for our region's ongoing warm temperatures. However, I feel that I need to write a post that reconfirms that 1) I'm a Democrat through & through. So much so, that I would bleed blue if you were to cut me (please don't; I have a low threshold for pain) & 2) I think that Ann Coulter's persistent popularity & the public's view of her as a Republican party spokeswoman & bestselling novels is far more toxic & indicative of society's downward spiral than Paris Hilton's popularity. The most offensive thing that Paris Hilton has ever said? "That's hot." Paris uses that to describe anything from the season's latest arrivals at Kitson to the way her urine passes.

Ann Coulter? She, with her middle-age wannabe Valley Girl surgically - enhanced plain looks, is capable of spewing any number of flagrantly offensive statements. Here's a brief sample:

Environmentalism: "The ethic of conservation is the explicit abnegation of man's dominion over the Earth. The lower species are here for our use. "God said so: Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, and rape the planet--it's yours. That's our job: drilling, mining and stripping. Sweaters are the anti-Biblical view. Big gas-guzzling cars with phones and CD players and wet bars -- that's the Biblical view."
"God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, 'Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours.'"

On 9/11 widows: "These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis... These self-obsessed women seemed genuinely unaware that 9/11 was an attack on our nation and acted as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them... I’ve never seen people enjoying their husbands’
deaths so much."

On Illegal Immigrants: "I'd build a wall. In fact, I'd hire illegal immigrants to build the wall. And throw out the illegals who are here. [...] It's cheap labor.

On sexuality: "I don't know if [former U.S. President Bill Clinton is] gay. But [former U.S. Vice President] Al Gore - total fag."

I could go on & on about Ann Coulter, but she really doesn't deserve a post here or anywhere. The purpose of this post was to bring attention to the President's latest political gaffe.

As you may have heard (when the President burst into good TV night last week), the Prez plans on increasing our troop numbers (or a surge) in Iraq. For some odd reason, he has it in his head that the key to winning this war is increasing our troop numbers. Why? Because this war has proven effective so far and all it needs is additional troops to win the war. And, Dick Cheney agrees. Like he was really going to get an opposing opinion there.

In addition to the fact that this is a questionable military strategy at best, the President's insistance that he will continue to carry out his agenda regardless of how Congress votes or what Americans think is a scary thought. People, myself included, are really beginning to wonder if there's still a system of checks and balances to the President's power. Just as getting Saddam out of power/search for WMD's was a backdoor method of getting into Iraq, the current speculation is that this surge will find its way into Iran.

This latest war decision proves that while it's been a great first 15 days of 2007, 2008 can't get here soon enough.