Mutants in A Slime Pit

I listened to CNN Contributor,  Jack Cafferty on Stephanie Miller (check it out on her website www.stephaniemiller.com )  I'm totally paraphrasing here, but it was a very enjoyable and funny interview.  Check it out:

Stephanie: It has been confirmed that it is our American soldiers that were found likely tortured and killed in Iraq.

Jack: There is nothing to say.  It's horrible.  It's time to get the hell out of there.  I mean, what's the point?  I mean I don't know if this thing is going anywhere and these two kids, there bodies were found this morning are 2500+ now.  And what's the end game?  The end game is something along the lines that I'm going to leave this for the next president to worry about... pack up and come home...enough already.

Stephanie: What do you think when they keep using the terms like "Cut and Run", you know we can't have a timetable.  I mean, I don't perform except under pressure.  I don't know about you, most people need deadlines.

Jack: The tragedy of this thing is that it's all politics.  The verbiage "Cut and Run" and "Non-binding Resolutions" about redeployments and phased withdrawals and yadda yadda yadda...this is political posturing ahead of the midterm elections on both sides.  It's positioning for some sort of run at the White House in 2008.  And these mutants that we elect to office in this country play career games on the backs of these kids and these families who are getting wiped out or crippled in a war that has so far produced very little that I can see in the way of benefits...at the end of the day we've got kids being killed and there is no upside...Halliburton and all of the defense guys are getting rich.

Stephanie:  You brought up my dad Jack...I feel he would be appalled at what's happened to their party.  What I don't remember from the debate back then is people calling each other bad Americans.  It's what they are doing to Jack Murtha right now.

Jack: The system, I think Stephanie, is broken from the top down.  The name calling and stuff is a byproduct of the entrenched power both political parties are now enjoying in this country.  The country is now owned and run by the lobbyist, the people on K Street.  There are no term limits.  We've got career politicians who sit in these powerful positions and sell their offices and services to the highest bidder.  And the thing has degenerated in to a big slime pit where the overlooked party is the American taxpayer and voter.  Granted, I guess we deserve what we get.

Stephanie: I have never referred to anyone in Congress as mutants in a slime pit, but it is a visual, I'll give you that.

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Stephanie: How about NSA spying, we talk about the politicians, what's up with Americans that they think that's ok.

Jack: Once again the power structure in Washington has succeed in creating a situation where we can't tell whether the law is being broken or not.  There is no judicial reviews.  There's no hearings...the Administration moved to have the two court cases in the country that are attempting to look at the legality of this thrown out because they don't want anybody to determine that these guys are braking the law.   That they didn't go to the FISA court, that they've got the phone companies supplying my records and your records without my knowledge to some super secret government spy agency.  Where are we living here?

Jack:  I do hope they look at eventually getting some term limits, getting some public financing of these campaigns, getting the K Street lobbyist the hell out of the equation and turning the country back over to its citizens.