Oil down? ON what planet? Here in the east home heating oil i****ting new records and the gas at the pump is $2.11 a gallon. Jobs up? Again, not here in NY. Then again, I wouldn't brag, if I were you about jobs being up until we get back the 900,000 we lost. They just put through a measure to raise the deficit ceiling again. Know what that means? Bush intends to spend more money we don't have. How many more of our men and women have died in Iraq? Anyone see an end of that debacle in site?

No Surrender, If you're going to keep spewing your anti-bush nonsense, at least do it without using obscenities, ok? This is expected to be a CLEAN website, and some of us on here still have morals.. -Mike

Porter Goss was confirmed as the new CIA chief back in August. At the time (msnbc.msn.com/id/6063648/ - add your www), Goss promised to avoid partisanship, and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, (R-Kan.), "rejected suggestions that Goss is too political" for the job. It is therefore no surprise whatsoever that Goss last week started moving to purge (commondreams.org/headlines04/1114-01.htm - add your www ) the CIA of liberals and replace them with inexperienced Bush loyalists. A former senior CIA official said, "Goss was given instructions ... to get rid of those soft leakers and liberal Democrats. The CIA is looked on by the White House as a hotbed of liberals and people who have been obstructing the president's agenda." But - bear with me, this is pretty funny - remember when we invaded Iraq because George W. Bush told us that Saddam Hussein had massive stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction? (Rack your brains, it wasn't very long ago). Well, all of that WMD information came from Bush loyalists within the intelligence services who were determined to give the president the justifications he needed to go to war, regardless of the facts. In fact, the White House even set up an Office of Special Plans (guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,999737,00.html- add your www) which would second-guess the CIA and give Bush the information he needed. So now - and this is the really hilarious part, you'll love this - now it's turned out that all the information Bush's intelligence cronies passed on to him was completely and utterly wrong, Goss is dumping the people who got it right. And the people who ****** up the pre-war intelligence so very royally? They get to keep their jobs. In fact, Goss is going to hire more of them. Brilliant! (This came from democraticunderground.com) Don't you feel safer already?

Actually my husband is in the National Guard....he re-joined immediately after 9/11 and was deployed for a year (not to Iraq, but for domestic duty). He just re-upped for 6 more years so I guess that makes him 'fair game' even without a draft which is never going to happen. That was the most ridiculous (out of a whole SLEW of ridiculous) scare-mongering tactics put out there. But, as I said before, I guess they the Dem's had to make things up since they didn't have any viable programs or options.

First of all, Kelle.. I didn't know it was the presidents job to create jobs. I always thought it was up to businesses to create jobs. Maybe you want the government to do everything for you?? You see, in the capitalist country we live in it is up to private businesses, encouraged by a free economy and competition, to create jobs. If you expect the government to do it for you then maybe you WOULD be happier in Canada and their Socialist government. And second of all, the point I was trying to make is that you're making such a big deal about the environment, yet obviously (based on your past posts) don't mind the idea of cutting our military way down and getting rid of all our weapons. In a perfect world, that would be nice to get rid of our defenses and live in peace and harmony and sing songs around the campfire with the rest of the world. Unfortunatly, that ain't the way it really is. There are people that HATE America, and they've hated us long before Bush ever came around. Why do they hate us?? Simple.. we have something most other countries don't.. Freedom! Now if we were to get rid of the military and all of our weapons, these people who hate us would have an open door to wipe out this country and all of its people. Do you really think that the environment is MORE important than the ability to defend ourselves?? What environment would be left if the terrorists were able to come wipe us out?? None.. we'd be gone.. So, see it really doesn't make much sense to be so concerned about the environment, but then turn your back on our military. I'm sorry you don't like America... Maybe you should move to Cuba or something.. I bet maybe then, you'd stop taking this beautiful country for granted and realize how great you had it here. -Mike