The GOP's latest (unsuccessful) distraction

[CarpeDiebold]

They never had the votes. They could barely muster half of the required votes in the Senate to bar amendments. The immigration bill is dead. But it has done what the GOP intended for it to do all along - keep us from focusing on the many impeachable/censureable illegalities committed by this administration. The illegal wiretapping, today's revelation about Plamegate, cooking intelligence to lead us into war, the list goes on.

The GOP is fully aware of this. They might be saying out loud that these things don't matter, but privately, they are shaking in their boots at how badly their guy has fucked up. The media can only hold out for so long before questions are asked.

So the Senate goes to work on an Anti-Immigration bill that Republicans know will be extremely controversial. They parade around their bill saying that they already have a majority, and all hell is raised by critics and supporters of the bill. But Bush can't be impeached for a failed bill; he can't be impeached for supporting a controversial bill. But he can use it as a wedge to take our eyes off the prize - we need to hammer at his illegalities and not get distracted by sideline issues. This guy is an inch away from being censured, and the only thing keeping him from it is an unaware and distracted populace.

IMPEACH BUSH!

[Ian David]

1. Now we can concentrate on Cynthia McKinney and Steroids in Baseball

And maybe get an early start on The War on Christmas and allowing military chaplains to force our soldiers to pray to Jee-zuss.

Did I mention the violent video games?

Finally...

We can get down to what really matters.

[CarpeDiebold]

2. It's amazing what the conservatives pull out of their ass, isn't it?

They are good at finding trivialities/creating problems that people will eat up. That's their entire game.

[Ian David]

3. I heard that in the state of New York it's legal for women to go topless..

we need to amend the US Constitution right away to ban the public display of female nipples.


Topless in New York

In 1992, the New York Court of Appeals ruled that a group of women protestors did not violate a New York State nudity statute by protesting topless in a Rochester public park. In the 1940s and 1950s the Tammany Hall judiciary was among the extreme in corruption in picking judges in the U.S. There was virtually no quality control and the resulting judiciary was loaded with hacks, incompentents and occasional crooks. Although there has been significant reform in the past quarter century, it is more likely that a New York state judge was a lawyer who was friendly with a senator.

More:
http://www.lilithgallery.com/articles/toplessness.html

Also:

Women may go topless in public, providing it is not being used as a business.
http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/united-states/new-york/