Flutterby™! : Political rant

Other people do the political better than I do. Lyn, over at Medley keeps good track of some of the ridiculousness that our current administration has been foisting off on us. But today I feel compelled to spew a bit.

Often the "who's the greater threat, Dubya or [Osama/Saddam/whoever]" argument comes up. Well, Al Qaeda has killed less than 5,000 Americans. CNN on LA smog says:

Recent studies link pollution to 1,500 to 5,000 premature deaths in the region annually. Researchers recently found that when particle pollution goes up, so, too, do hospitalizations for breathing and heart disorders.

Guess which administration has sued California to make it relax its clean air standards? Bingo.

I'll let you go search Medley for the whole "partial birth abortion" fiasco in which members of the administration have clearly said that the life of the mother is inconsequential, but...

So we discover that even if he's not succeeding, Dubya is indeed a threat. Then it comes out that Dubya wanted to take out Saddam before going after the Taliban. So it sure seems that not only are Dubya and his administration as much of a threat to my way of life as Osama bin Laden and his pals, our leaders really aren't interested in taking out even as clear a threat to me as Al Qaeda.

I think we need to finish in Iraq, but it's definitely time for us Californians especially to try to figure out how to get out from under this larger threat.