Talent Abdicates Responsibility to Troops

While Ike Skelton (D-MO 4th) is holding the Bush administration responsible and asking the tough questions from his seat on the House Armed Services Committee, Senator Jim Talent (R-W's Back Pocket) is missing in action over in the Senate chamber. Talent has a seat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, but after reviewing the minutes of SASC meetings, I can verify that he has missed 65 of 95 meetings. I am certain that the men and women fighting and dieing a half a world away in an illegal war that Talent voted to authorize (he votes the way he is told by Bush and the RNC a staggering 94% of the time) don't mind him abdicating his responsibility to them. They are only the ones in the desert, ill-equiped because three years of combat has taken it's toll on their vehicles and equipment and facing tour extensions as violence flares in Iraq.

Think about that for a moment, Missouri voters. We have two simultaneous wars going on, and the junior senator from our great state can't be bothered to show up for meetings of the Senate Armed Services Committee 68.4% of the time.

That can all change in November, folks, and it will. State Auditor Claire McCaskill is set to turn Jim Talent(less) Hack out of his seat and hopefully put an end to his anaemic, asthmatic, sputtering, pathetic and embarassing political career. And you know that a political career is circling the drain when they impune the name of a dead woman and bring Alan Keyes in to rile up the faithfull by equating medical research with Nazi death camps.

Look for Talent to pull every sleazy, low-down, rotten and coniving trick in the book in his bid to keep his tenuous hold on power. Power that a weak-willed Bush appeaser like him has no business wielding in the first place.

Missouri can't afford six more years of Jim Talent, and America can't afford two more years of Talent meekly obeying his masters in the administration and the RNC. Vote for change. Every Republican who loses their job this November is a nail in the coffin of this administration. It is incumbent upon every last one of us to do what we can to assure that Bush is lame ducked before he does any more damage.