Adventures of the Coconut Caucus

Who needs friends in the Senate, when you can have the whole 4 branches of government incarnated in Cheney in your favor?

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Vice President Dick Cheney Tuesday dismissed congressional investigations into the firings of nine U.S. attorneys as “a bit of a witch hunt.”

Vice President Cheney says there are no allegations of wrongdoing in the firing of the U.S. attorneys.

“First of all, there’s no charge,” Cheney said. “What’s the allegation of wrongdoing here? Frankly, there isn’t any.”

“They keep rolling over rocks hoping they can find something, but there really hasn’t been anything come up that would suggest there was any wrongdoing of any kind,” Cheney told CNN’s Larry King, adding that he did not feel that Bush senior political adviser Karl Rove need testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the matter.

AND BTW, obviously Larry King Live is NOT live because we already have the transcript….

“I have a foot in both camps, if you will,” Cheney told CNN in an interview to air Tuesday night on “Larry King Live.”

and even in Spanish...

You can watch the non live at all clip before it airs on the “real” CNN here

One of the advantages of fixing up an old house is that sometimes you get some interesting mail intended for the previous owners. Some so interesting you have to tell somebody, like when I got the latest issue of crap from some outfit called The Harvest Institute that blames the ills of the African-American community on Latinos.

This skreed from some place in a rising but still crappy part of D.C. says that Hispanic gains in elected offices are coming at the expense of our African-American brothers and sisters, and that many congressional district offices held by African Americans will move to Hispanic hands.

One particularly interesting sidebar in this racial rant said that, heavens to mergatroy! almost no Hispanic districts have growing Black populations, and that Blacks “keep losing.”

Divide and conquer. Isn’t that what the white man wants?

My, oh, my. Can we get along?

And I tell my African-American brothers and sisters, please, please, please move back into the neighborhood and take Baca back! (and Gonzáles while you are at it)

But anyway, back to my main point… Joe Baca IS 3 feet tall, and here he is standing on a couple of phone books, a no brainer way to be on top of his constituents (yes, a whatever his district is California, phone book )

We all know that Senators don´t read the bills they pass, and few people ever do, however they love amendments that are made in their name, and which we assume at least one person in their office has read.

So here is our favorite amendment in the recently passed more billions to the border that will stop like 3 people from crossing:

S.AMDT.2497
Amends: H.R.2638 , S.AMDT.2383
Sponsor: Sen Byrd, Robert C. [WV] (submitted 7/26/2007) (proposed 7/26/2007)

AMENDMENT PURPOSE:
To establish a wild horse and burro adoption program at the Department of Homeland Security. (The first to be adopted will be Michael Chertoff)

TEXT OF AMENDMENT AS SUBMITTED: CR S10199

STATUS:

7/26/2007:

Amendment SA 2497 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Byrd to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10083-10085, S10103; text: CR S10103)

7/26/2007:

Amendment SA 2497 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

AND speaking of horses, move over Michael Vick,

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AND then they say Latinos don´t relate to science….

so the thing is huge and the picture doesn´t fit, so click on it to get the full effect…