9/29/05:

This is ridiculous, even for conservatives.

Joseph McCarthy is reincarnated into a modern-day radical Republican from Iowa?

A political dustup over congressional efforts to name a Berkeley post office for a longtime councilwoman and left-wing activist intensified Wednesday when Republican leaders accused Maudelle Shirek's supporters of being soft on communism.

Huh? Apparently, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, has decided that a 94-year-old civil rights activist, whose previous political leanings happen to be too Left for him, will not be honored by putting her name on the Post Office in Berkeley, CA.

Wow! BushCo is hard at work dwelling solely on the negative issues, while neglecting everybody who does not fall in line with their extreme values. I thought the conservative party was working to "restore integrity" and "moving America forward?" Instead, these BushCo radicals have politics on their mind...

"How can an Iowa member of Congress say who a California city should honor?" the still-angry Rep. Barbara Lee asked. "This was outrageous.''

There was no effort to disguise the partisan nature of the attack on Cardoza and other Democrats, since the releases were only sent to Democratic districts where Republicans hope to take seats next year.

Rep. Lee should be rightly angry. This insidious attack on an elderly woman is just another tactic by BushCo Republicans to prevent certain defeat in next year's mid-terms and deflect attention from the rampant corruption now plaguing the party.

"These people are so desperate to change the subject from Tom DeLay's indictment and their record of corruption and abuse of power that they will resurrect the ghost of Joe McCarthy and attack a 94-year-old African American woman whose health is failing,'' she said.

Hey King! Communism is dead. Get over it! And, stop being a coward and come tell it to our faces…