Vito Fossella (aka "Bush's Lap Dog") always claims to be "indepentent." In fact I had some Fossella supporters actually get angry and nasty at me because I called Fossella a Republican (his actual registration). They were telling people (falsely) that he was an Indepentent. And yet this so-called "independent" keeps bringing none other than Dick Cheney to NYC to fundraise for him. Well, this time a protest is planned to tell the big Dick that NYC does not approve of the failed Bush/Cheney/Fossella policies that have ruined America. From a Press Release from the Steve Harrison campaign:

Progressive groups protest Dick Cheney/Koch Industries’ Vito Fossella fundraiser

Truth 13 and other progressive groups are organizing a protest Monday morning [April 21] outside a fundraiser for New York City’s only Republican House member, Vito Fossella, organized by Vice President Dick Cheney and polluters Koch Industries (pronounced Coke)..

Do you remember John McCain’s bizarre re-write of the Beach Boys’ Barbara Ann into Bomb Iran ? Well, the rightward push for war with Iran seems, to me at last, to be coming to shove.

Professional Jew, war monger, neo-con Norman Podhoretz met with George Bush, Karl Rove to urge the bombing of Iran’s “nuclear facilities” and giving interviews about it to conservative outlets like The Politico and The London Times . Similarly a coterie of Cheney chums formed as “Freedom Watch” are devoting their millions to war with Iran. (See NY Times story here .

The most disturbing of these reports, is in the current
New Yorker, by Sy Hersh . This is a must-read in my view,