What Savings?

I received a mailing from the health insurance company touting how losing weight “can improve your health and lower your health care costs.”
So if I’m not overweight, shouldn’t I be entitled to a lower premium? Oh, that’s right, they’re talking about their lowered costs.

GOP Pollsters Help Protect America From Terror!

No one could have ever imagined this was going on at DHS:

Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge met privately with Republican pollsters twice in a 10-day span last spring as he embarked on more than a dozen trips to presidential battleground states.
Ridge’s get-togethers with Republican strategists Frank Luntz and Bill McInturff during a period the secretary was saying his agency was playing no role in Bush’s re-election campaign were revealed in daily appointment calendars obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act.
“We don’t do politics in the Department of Homeland Security,” Ridge told reporters during the election season.
His aides resisted releasing the calendars for over a year, finally providing them to the AP three days after Ridge left office this month.

Shocking, eh?

Terra Time Again

As Congress deliberates the upcoming budget, they were treated with a string of administration officials yesterday warning of the terror threat [while offering no specifics or new information].
It’s kind of funny–we really hadn’t heard much about al Qaeda since . . . right before the presidential election. Did the terrorists go on vacation during November, December, and January? It’s interesting how the tide of their “chatter” apparently rises and falls in synch with the Washington political calendar.

Must Be Watching The Fox News Historians

A poll finds that Republicans would choose George W. Bush over George Washington by a two to one margin. A scary indication of the sheep-like mindset of the majority party.
It also indicates that most Americans are pretty clueless about Washington’s era.
No wonder rightist often try to frame arguments around what they claim the founding fathers intended–most Americans don’t have a clue whether whether the pundits are telling the truth or not. So they can say whatever they want and most people won’t know the difference.