It's Opening Day and the first pitch is the high heat...

There's been quite a bit of interesting news today, here on what is practically a national holiday for me... Opening Day of the MLB Season.

First, the Majority Leader of the Senate threw the high heat brushback and though Bush may get out of the way, Democrats have sent their message. It's too bad it took this long for the Democratic majority to get on board with Russ Feingold who has been right all along from the Patriot Act to the Iraq War to re-deployment, but it has finally happened.

-Senate Majority Leader signs on to co-sponsor Feingold Iraq Redeployment Bill

Second, John McCain and the Straight Talk Express (or is it the Bullshit Express?) seemed to veer quite a bit off course today. After proclaiming that Baghdad was safe enough that "General Petraeus went out every day in an unarmed humvee" and that "you and I could walk through those neighborhoods", he went out to put his money where his mouth is. Claiming Americans are not getting "the full picture", he went on a stroll... except he was equipped with a bulletproof vest and had 100 soldiers, 3 Blackhawk helicopters and 2 Apache gunships with him on that stroll.

Just your average walk through the park I suppose.

Third, the party which lives to suppress minority voters went to work again apparently. David Iglesias, one of the US Attorneys who were forced out because they weren't doing the political hackery of the Republican party, reports being pressed to prosecute a group that was registering minority voters. The type of Democracy that these people want to spread to the world is one with a very narrow world view. Only the rich and caucasian shall be major parts of this democracy and maybe a few minorities that are willing to be used for their skin color as false examples of diversity.

They are scared to death of minorities being wise to politics and registering to vote because they lose that vote in colossal numbers but worse this is a rather slimy, pathetic way to be using the Department of Justice and the US Attorneys. Who needs to prosecute real crimes? We have elections to win! :barf:

And finally, Bush is not throwing out the first pitch in Washington for the second straight year. Out of 64 previous opening days in Washington, Presidents threw out the first pitch 46 times. From the article: "Except for when the world was at war, only two other presidents, Woodrow Wilson and Richard M. Nixon, missed Opening Day ceremonies two years in a row. And Wilson had suffered a stroke."

So we're talking Bush and Nixon being in the same class permanently for something other than continued failed war policies, illegal political hackery, obsessive paranoia and being the most impeachable Presidents ever... Good company for Bush to be in.

The White House denies it but I think he's afraid of being booed out of the stadium. Can you think of a more deserving round for the boo birds?

-Rp