All Riled Up Over Rumsfeld, City Council and Political Mud
I’m going to be a Friday morning quarterback.
Donald Rumsfeld, the sarcastic, angry and insensitive Defense Secretary, has damaged the nation again with his remarks that critics of iraq policy should “back off.” His news conference yesterday was an embarrassment to the administration he serves and an insult to the courageous men and women who are fighting his mistake-laden war. Rumsfeld hates the press because he worries that the truth will come out, as it has for the six horrible year of his tenure. The same man who originally refused to personally sign letters to next of kin of fallen soldiers, is a man whose history will be marked as a chapter of incompetence and rage.
And as a man who believes in the two party system,I believe his anger at the press conference certainly didn’t help struggling Republican candidates.
Hopefully he will go after the election.
On to Philadelphia City council, which approved by an 11 to 3 vote, a bond issue for funding for cultural and arts groups. Culture is critical to Philadelphia’s life, but the money is too late from a mayor that has ignored the arts for almost seven years. I just wish Mayor Street and Council had the same passion for education than they suddenly do for the arts.
The mayor blasts the school commission for having a 76 million dollar deficit. A day later he gets his bond program passed for arts and culture.
Where are the priorities?
Finally, I wonder just how low political commercials will go. Especially nasty is the Jim Gerlach versus Lois Murphy race for Congress. Democrat Murphy charges Gerlach with “kicking back” funds to Tom DeLay. Gerlach’s ads claim that Moveon.org, the liberal group is anti-semitic, and that is guilt by association because it supports Murphy.
Do these candidates and their spin doctors think we are stupid?
