Isn't it Ironic?

President Bush accused Democrats of using troops as leverage to win political battles.

He then said that the budgets for Afghanistan and Iraq must be approved "without strings and without delay," so that Congress can prove that they support the troops. Because the only way to support the troops is by giving President Bush exactly what he demands, even though his direction has, by his own admission, not gone well.

I think it's high time Congress showed the President, through its at least six separate Constitutionally granted national defense provisions, that troop support does not equate to blind allegiance to a general who declared Mission Accomplished in 2003 to a job we're still working on today.

And perhaps the President should not suggest that those who don't follow him blindly do not support the troops. Someone might consider that using the troops as leverage.

Mardi Gras

New Orleans is back to normal. They have fixed everything. How do I know this? Because on Yahoo! this morning, I found an article bemoaning the lack of toilets for Mardi Gras. You see, people can't find toilets during the festivities, so they end up going wherever they can find a spot. This ends up being bad for the landowners on the parade routes. This problem made the top headlines for today, which must mean that everything else has been fixed up all hunky-dory like. Of course, the tourists aren't the only ones who are having trouble finding a toilet in New Orleans.

There are the residents of the Lower 9th Ward who live(d) here:
And here:


And the people who live(d) here:



And the residents of the Lafitte Projects who used to live here:


But they don't matter, because they're poor and don't bring money in to the city. So who cares where they pee?