Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

The U.S. has presented to Iraq's government the oil contract they have been trying vigorously to sign, but the Iraqis have refused.  Iraq has 80 oil wells that the U.S. wants to have Iraq sign long term leases for 63 of their oil wells granting foreign investors control f the majority of their oil well, leaving Iraqi control of 17 of their nation's own oil wells.

Before Jerry left us, he felt that the Iraq War was the right thing for the U.S. to do.  Even Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, wrote recently in his book, "The Age of Turbulence," that the Iraq War is all about all.

Could Falwell have reasoned that God misplaced a third of the world's oil beneath Arab land?  If that was a mistake, then the Christian world power, the U.S., was acting wisely to remove such a powerful asset from Arab control, and grab it for Christian control.

Then there is Senator Larry Craig, another moral icon of the religious right who is fighting charges that he played footsie with a vice cop in an airport toilet.  Another icon has fallen, being been shown to possess feet of clay.

Wasn't it Senator Craig who ranted against gays, brazenly contributing to gay hate by denying gays every right that his political muscle could do its best to help deny?

But now that Senator Craig is fighting a guilty plea he signed when he was trapped in the toilet, he is asking the judge for mercy.

Hypocrisy is the hallmark of this Republican-controlled Congress.

A Republican mantra has long been, "The Democrats are the big spenders."  

Ronald Reagan boasted that he would balance the budget.  The reality is that the Reagan Administration tripled the national debt, and so they named Washington National Airport as Ronald Reagan Airport.  

Following the same pattern of logic, should we proceed to name every airport after George W. Bush?  Why?  Because Bush and his Republican robot administration has generated a greater national debt than all the previous U.S. administrations combined since the U.S.A. was founded.

To dare call this Republican Administration conservative is the height of hypocrisy!

Jerry Falwell at one point in his infamous career on the stage of life went so far as to declare who would make it to heaven and who wouldn't.

George Bush consulted with his "other Father" meaning God.  When individuals claim to be getting directions and guidance from God, one thought arises.  Doesn't the Bible say "by their fruits ye shall know them"?

Going to war under the proven false threat of weapons of mass destruction told the world who was back of these phony Iraq War fears and it certainly wasn't God.  

Alan Greenspan, former Fed chairman, in his book, "The Age of Turbulence," told the truth the whole world knew and Bush and his followers won't admit, "The Iraq War is about oil."

Could it be that the U.S. has degenerated into such decadence that greed has become its God?

This is the question every U.S. citizen must answer, and that includes every governmental leader.