TWO BY UBER-TEXAN MOLLY IVINS

I just love columnist Molly Ivins. She first came to my attention when I learned that she was the speechwriter for then Texas Governor Anne Richards who came up with this line referring to our President's daddy back in 1992: "Poor George. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth." Heh. The same can be said for George W. today. Indeed, Molly's still at it, using her poison pen twice weekly to blast conservative nutjobs with the kind of Texas flair that would no doubt be more widespread in the state if there weren't so many conservative nutjobs around.

Anyway, I've got a couple of her latest.

First, from AlterNet, Ivins casts the blame for right-wing steal-from-the-poor policies squarely on the shoulders of the Democrats:

Dumb Dems Let GOP Run Wild

The unholy combination of theocracy and plutocracy that now rules this country is, in fact, enabled by dumb liberals. Many a weary liberal on the Internet and elsewhere has been involved in the tedious study of the entrails from the last election, trying to figure out where Democrats went wrong. I don't have a dog in that fight, but I can guarantee you where they're going wrong for the next election: 73 Democratic House members and 18 Democratic senators voted for that hideous bankruptcy "reform" bill that absolutely screws regular people.

And it's not just consumers who were screwed by the lobbyist-written bill. The Wall Street Journal shows small businesses are also getting the shaft, as the finance industry charges them higher and higher transaction fees. If Democrats aren't going to stand up for regular people, to hell with them.

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And from WorkingForChange, Ivins goes after the President's love of stem cells:

Bush supports culture of life; not in Iraq, of course

"Catapulting the propaganda" would explain his performance at the press opportunity that same day at which he appeared surrounded by babies born from frozen embryos. He used the phrase "culture of life" at least 27 dozen times (I think I exaggerate, but maybe not). "The use of federal dollars to destroy life is something I simply do not support," he said to the press the following day.

Meanwhile, back in Baghdad, federal dollars are being used to destroy life at pretty good clip because Bush decided to wage an entirely elective war against a country that presented little or no threat to us. And according to the Downing Street memo, he damn well knew it, too.

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