Of Mice and Men

Sound the triumphant horns, two Republican Senators have found courage. Dick Lugar of Indiana and John Warner of Virginia have joined the ranks of public officials who are paying attention to their constituents. Time for a change in strategy, they say. Well pull my shoe from a cow-pie and call me surprised. In the view of this author way too little, way too late. The obvious question would have to be, what took so long? In my humble opinion this has more to do with John McCain’s rapid slide into the trash bin set aside for people that feel compelled to carry water for the president. The only person who really advocates bringing our forces home tomorrow if not sooner is Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul of Texas. I found it rather ironic that “The league of people who don’t want to pay taxes in Iowa”, thought that it was very important to remove Mr. Paul from the list of invited guests to a presidential debate. God forbid you hear a view point from an old school fiscal conservative at a debate with Republican's in attendance.
The whole shtick of fight um over there has lost its luster. I guess I stand with a small minority of people who, believe impeachment hearings followed by war crimes trials in The Hague are long overdue. As more details of just how blatantly the intelligence was fixed.( that would be the information our representatives in Washington depended on to make informed decisions on the matter of deployment of our fighting forces on foreign soil) News stories bought and paid for by the White House. Now behold, the Pat Tillman incident has suddenly become so much a matter of our nations security that the president has invoked executive privilege in the matter. The point of no return came and went long ago for this independent. I no longer care what any Republican thinks any more, in the presidential field. I think however there should be a lot more rage about this whole sad sick mess, coming from the Democratic candidates.