Plessner Chronicle Blog

The Republicans are at it again. George W. Bush and his minions lied us into a war that is the worst blunder in American history and when we finally have to withdraw in defeat, it will be the Democrat’s fault.

The horrific incompetence of the Bush administration results in a divided, self-destroying Iraq and it’s the Iraqi Politicians’ fault for not leading a country divided by a millennium of hatred to peace.

The president’s ideologically-driven decision to pull our troops out of Afghanistan enabled Al Qaeda to shift resources and primary activities into Iraq for the first time and it’s all Al Qaeda’s fault. Read the rest of this entry »

My mother always told me that “one should not speak ill of the dead”, but in the case of Jerry Falwell, I am compelled not to heed her advice.

Jerry Falwell was a religious fraud who did great harm to America and what it stands for. By raising great sums of money for his various crusades and monuments, by sticking his Puritan nose into American politics and by uttering harmful nonsense about Liberals, gays, Lesbians and people who didn’t agree with him, Falwell divided Americans one from another.

By his words and conduct, Falwell did exactly what America’s founders and the authors of our Constitution labored against — a religion-dominated government. Though Falwell didn’t work alone — the prematurely senile Pat Robertson, the judgmental James Dobson and the self-important Dennis Prager come to mind — Falwell was at the front of the effort to create an America where prejudice could flourish.They have also very effectively used the George W. Bush idea of a faith based initiative to tap into the government money spigot. They now receive millions of our dollars for their social causes which are really religious activities, such as combating drug addition with prayer and teaching abstinence instead of real sex education which has been proven to reduce teenage pregnancy while abstinence training has not.But of all the charlatans on the right, Jerry Falwell was probably the most profound liar. While he raised millions through his many crusades, his record as a liar for financial benefit is to me the most troubling. Read the rest of this entry »

I have never forwarded an article to my email friends but this is just too delicious to pass up!

Finally, the Republicans have a reason to impeach Cheney that is consistent with their stand on family values. Getting more than 3300 of our fine military men and women killed in a war created out of fantasy hasn’t been good enough.

(This story is not yet confirmed by another media source.  Though it is believable, it may not be true.)

Gerald Plessner

May 8, 2007 — Cheney on DC Madam’s list. Yesterday, WMR reported on the DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s list: “WMR has been informed that the CEO of a major corporation is a former CEO but, nonetheless, the aforementioned extremely high-level official of the Bush administration. The individual, who is definitely “newsworthy,” reportedly engaged the services of Palfrey’s escort firm while he was the CEO and maintained a residence off Chain Bridge Road in the Ballantrae neighborhood in McLean, Virginia, a few blocks from the headquarters of the CIA.”

WMR has confirmed with extremely knowledgeable CIA and Pentagon sources that the former CEO who is on Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s list is Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney was CEO of Halliburton during the time of his liaisons with the Pamela Martin & Associates escort firm. Palfrey’s phone invoices extend back to 1996 and include calls to and from Cheney. Ironically, in 2000 Cheney was appointed by Bush to head his Vice President selection committee, a task that enabled Cheney to gather detailed personal files on a number of potential candidates, including Bill Frist, George Pataki, John Danforth, Fred Thompson, Chuck Hagel, John Kasich, Chris Cox, Frank Keating, Tom Ridge, Colin Powell, and Jim Gilmore, before he selected himself as the vice presidential candidate.

The White House saw to it that ABC/Disney killed the DC Madam’s story before yet another scandal swamped the Bush administration. Cheney is departing Washington today for a trip to the Middle East, where he will visit the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and the USS John C. Stennis in the Gulf.

After watching the Republican presidential candidates in the “debate-that-wasn’t-really-a-debate”, I almost feel sorry for the Republicans. (You may not believe it but I am a former fourth generation Republican!)There was a time when Republicans could select a presidential candidate with appeal to a broad cross section of Americans. But no more! These days too many Republican politicians have to bow to extremely conservative supporters and religious leaders who seem to have political life-or-death control over their careers.

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