Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

There is no record of Jeremiah Wright joking about one death, much less over one million.  The same does not hold true for George Bush, who sang and joked the other day about the false claim of "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq just as he had also done so at another point in time.

Bush also sang and joked about the pardon of Scooter Libby, who was disbarred the other day from the practice of law in the District of Columbia.  That was another less than hilarious subject, to say the very least.

Libby was one of the players in the sordid vengeance as well as potential information cover-up in which a loyal American, Valerie Plame, a researcher in the field of nuclear weapons for the Central Intelligence Agency, was outed.

This occurred after her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, revealed that the administration's claim that Saddam Hussein was seeking yellow cake from Niger in the development of a nuclear weapons capability was false, devoid of any foundation.

This outing carried the frightening possibility of Ms. Plame's extinction.

We have heard so many times the account of Nero fiddling while Rome burnt.  Well, the other day, as he was waiting for 2008 Republican Party presidential nominee John McCain to arrive, Bush was happy to do a little tap dance, giddy all the while.

Yes, there is so much to be giddy about!  In addition to the continuing deaths in Iraq, in which a UN weapons study in Iraq was pre-empted based on fear that Hans Blix and his inspection team would reveal the truth that the claim of Saddam Hussein possessed "weapons of mass destruction" that he was preparing to unleash against us was bogus, the economy is moving along beautifully.

Visit the downtown section of any large city and you will find increasing waves of homeless people.  The situation has become nothing short of critical in the city where I grew up, Los Angeles, as well as the one where I make my current home, Seattle.  

Economic experts warned that such a calamity, a raging onrush of poor people, would engulf the nation if the Bush-Cheney outrageous tax cuts designed to benefit the rich were enacted, coupled with the expensive undertaking of a war that should never have been fought.

The current figure that appears on the U.S. Debt Clock site as this is being written stands at $9,395,673,602,505.70.  Each citizen's share in this land of over 300 million stands at $30,940.25.

Since September 29, 2006 the National Debt has grown per day by an average of $1.65 million.

How many times have you seen the above figures posted by the mainstream media?  

How many times have you seen the above figures posted by the mainstream media?  

How many times in the last week have you seen references to Jeremiah Wright?

Get the connection?  What do they want you to read?  What do they want to sweep under the rug?