I've watching the Democratic debate in
Nevada and I cannot believe the prevarications, falsehoods and
damnable lies I hear. Hillary, Obama, and Edwards trip over
themselves to find distinctions between them and end up telling
outright lies and the most fantastic stories (in the form of policy
statements) I have ever heard. On energy policy, they all would shut
down Yucca Mountain and convene a group of impartial scientists and
let them come up with a repository, instead of the evil Bush trying
to dump the waste on the unsuspecting people of Nevada. Never mind
that they all know that has been done many times and Yucca Mtn keeps
coming up as the only most appropriate place to store our waste. They
talk about taking away the evil one's tax cuts, subsidies, etc he has
given the oil companies. They all want to cap carbon output, start
cap and trade, and take away the windfall profits. Of course, not one
of them said a word about who actually pays when the government takes
money from a business. The moderators failed to ask this fundamental
question. They all want to reduce your power bill, and at the same time never again build
nuclear power plants (Obama will only wait for a safe design---they
blow up, don't they?) Edwards won on points in this mini-debate when
when after the usual promises to consumers he said he would halt all
nuclear plants and new coal-fired plants as well! Talk about
brown-outs, get ready for a war between New England and states on the
TVA power grid the first cold winter. Of course New England's
industry will boom when they reopen the water mills because electric
motors don't run on 9-volt batteries.

Russert did follow through with the
withdrawal of troops from Iraq. He had all three backing away from
the first statement of all that they would all get the troops out in
the first year. Exceptions abounded for protection of the embassy,
troops, hitting al Qaeda, etc. Only Edwards stuck to his guns, sort
of. He would fight the bad guys from inside Kuwait. I wonder if he
has placed a call to Kuwait telling them what life will be like after
he is elected. John-Boy reiterated the story of his meeting the
President of Pakistan and his call to Musharraf. I can just imagine
Pervez looking at the phone (with Edwards prattling on) and asking
who the hell is this guy. Edwards forcefully said something like “I
know President Musharraf”, then he backed off knowing him and kind
of stumbled/mumbled “I met him, ah, some years ago”. Cocktail
party?

I wonder if they know what they are
doing​ Could they watch themselves and explain all the
contradictions and falsehoods or are they lost in the wilderness?