One Reason to Like Dennis Kucinich

Even as a liberal, I’ll admit that half of what comes out of Dennis Kucinich’s mouth is crap.  He’s so out there that even the extreme left blogosphere doesn’t want to have anything to do with him.  His career has garnered him ultra-liberal boogie-man status the likes of which may only be matched by Micheal Moore or Cindy Sheehan.

With the above in mind, it came as a shock for me to read that Dennis, of all people, is looking out for the troops.  He’s taking up the fight with more zeal than any conservative on the Hill.  How is Dennis defending the troops and looking out for them?

The PolitiPorn “Oil for Food Program”

Okey dokey, the price of a gallon of gasoline has gotten way out of hand.  I know that right now you’re thinking “come on PolitiPornster, tell me something I don’t know.”  We could go on for days about how and why this is happening.  We could debate the merits of drilling offshore vs. alternative fuels.  In the end what would all that get us? 

The offshore drilling prospect sounds reasonable enough but best estimates predict that it’ll have no real effect on the oil market for 5 to 10 years!  By that time we’ll all be using transporters like on Star Trek so who the hell will need gasoline? Further complicating this is that the US doesn’t currently have the refining capacity to make anything out of the oil it would pull up from the ocean.  I don’t know how long it takes to build a refinery, but I’m guessing it takes little longer than say throwing up a Wal-Mart on Main Street.

The alternative sources front doesn’t look to good either in my opinion.  You have an auto industry that is so wedded to the gasoline barons that they can’t part, let alone go out on their own and make cars that run on water!  Wouldn’t that be great.  Just turning on the tap of your garden hose, and filling your SUV’s tank whilst simultaneously washing the damn thing.  That’s multi-tasking at its finest.

Fear not, my little PolitiPornsters, I’ve spent considerable time developing a plan that will lead us out this crisis.  In fact, I put all of my favorite Monday Night shows on TiVO just so I could mull over the current gas crisis.  Friends, I’ve found the solution and I call it “Oil for Food II”.

RIP - Tony Snow

1955-2008

Tony Snow, former press secretary, FOX Analyst, and conservative talk radio host has succumb to colon cancer.  Mr. Snow was 53.

I can honestly say that I really liked Tony Snow despite our political differences.  I enjoyed listening to his weekend talk radio show from time to time.  One story he told gave me great amount of respect for the man. 

He was talking about the importance of having your children learn to play an instrument.  Some how the conversation turned to how busy he was and how he missed spending time with his children.  He then went on about how many parents are faced with this guilt and he offered a wonderful suggestion.  Mr. Snow suggested that you make solid and constructive plans to be with child.  In his example, he had signed up for guitar lesson with his son.  It was by no means novel, but I just thought it was a wonderful idea.

Rest in peace, Mr. Snow.