Stop it!

1. On Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee threw a potential lynching party, and invited Karl Rove as the only guest. He declined to attend.

Some of the same people who had hounded him out of public service, now eschew the Fifth Amendment, and expect him to incriminate himself in a matter for which there is only the allegation of wrongdoing. As any other private citizen, he is not obliged to appear before Congress.

He may be erroneously charged with contempt of Congress, but that's another empty allegation, because all recent polls clearly indicate that 75-85% of all other Americans also have contempt for Congress.


2. Despite the repudiation by RINO presumptive candidate John McCain, his former financial advisor, Senator Phil Gramm was dead on about the economy. Nevertheless, McCain threw him under the bus for political reasons, and joined his opponent in pandering to the voters by feigning concern for their "plight," which is far less severe than the candidates imagine. Gramm pointed out that whining will not make things better, and McCain, who has plenty of backbone, apparently doesn't want those who don't, to fail to vote for him.


3. Another bit of propaganda snuck into the NBC Nightly News on Sunday. A feature story showed how a former Soviet bunker, from which they could have launched nuclear weapons, is now being used for all sorts of recreational activities (concerts, dances, movies, etc.), implying that there's a whole new fun-loving Russia, and completely ignoring the Sleeping Bear and Vladimir Putin, the Arouser, who are just waiting to pounce. As the people of Poland have said for centuries, "The Russian is coming" (in Polish, which I can say, but not spell).