McClellan Resigns

Well the press secretary, Scott McClellan , has resigned. In the wake of this administration, a lot of positions have been resigned as of late. The question that arises is, What do these people know that we don’t know. We can speculate scenarios, but we truly don’t know.

With the Republican party having a lot of members speaking out against the administration, and obviously, the Democrats against them, it does make me wonder if an impeachment is on the horizon. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, has had a lot of opposition, the Vice President, also has had a lot of people speak out about him, and don’t forget the Rove/Lewis scandal. One thing I do know for a fact, this is a big mess, and the façade can only last so long.

The President announced today that "failure is not an option" in Iraq, when and where is it an option. When people fail at something, it is not because they planned it, but because they had a poor plan. The fact is, it IS that simple. There were lies to get the war started, there were lies to continue the war, and when they were being exposed they broke the law to try and destroy the ones who opposed them.

My own opinion, I don’t believe that Bush has as much of a hand in this other than being the head of the beast. I know this sounds bad, but I don’t think he has made any of the decisions that lead to all of this. He let his Secretary of Defense, and Vice President do their jobs. That is what I believe, I mean this president hasn’t vetoed a single spending bill since he came into office, he sure as hell isn’t going to tell Cheney or Rumsfeld no.

And ANWR, oh my god, everyone wants to drill there, and accuse the Democrats for blocking. Here are the facts, Republican’s can pass whatever they truly want, they are majority in all three branches of government, judicial, legislative and executive. The fact about ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Reserve in Alaska, for those who aren’t up on it) is that on loose estimates, there are only 30 years worth of oil there, some say 5 or less. One report is the amount of barrels in ANWR equal 6 months of oil use in the U.S. total. This is not just for gasoline, but for producing bottles to toilet paper. Of the oil imported 60 percent is used for producing gasoline.
Why is oil so valuable? Quite simply one barrel of oil equals 25000 man hours of work. A good example is this. An American coal miner can retreive in one day what it takes 25 men in China to retrieve. Does Electricity and fuel for machinery help, hell yeah, is it profitable and valuable, hell yeah. Is Anwr and option, no. Plain and simple, the detractors outweigh the benefits. O.K. say you get the oil, what do you do in 30 years? You are back at square one. People need to think about tomorrow, and not worry about today.