BUSH NOW REPRESENTS ONLY 29% OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!
I SHAKE MY HEAD IN DISBELIEF THAT 29% OF THE PEOPLE OF OUR COUNTRY STILL BELIEVE THAT GEORGE BUSH IS DOING A GOOD JOB!
What does a president have to do to be considered incompetent by the 29% who are judging Bush’s while looking at the world through their belly button?
I must admit right up front that I have been a Democrat for my entire life. Unlike many kids, I did not rebel against my parents inclinations although they certainly were not as fanatical as I am. I have reached the point since the days of Ronnie Reagan that I could never vote Republican as long as I live. George W. Bush sealed that vow with the most expansive display of incompetence, arrogance, and exclusiveness I have ever witnessed. When he was “appointed by the Supreme Court in the 2000 election” I was in a state of shock. I could not believe what I was hearing and watching on the television that day. I knew the Court had some reactionary little minds like Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and William Rehnquist but I thought that Anthony Kennedy and especially Sandra O’Connor would vote with the more reasonable side of the court and against the total partisan arm of the top court in the country.
Justice Souter recently reported to have wept when the court reached its final decision. Much of the country wept along with him. Never again will the Supreme Court be held in awe by the Democratic and Independent voters of this country. Those five Republicans betrayed the constitution while simultaneously screwing the American electorate, a majority of whom had voted for Al Gore.
There is no doubt in my mind that if had the Supreme Court had followed the constitution as they all swore to do, a full Florida recount would have been conducted, many of those who were illegally denied the right to vote would have had their right restored and many whose ballots were not counted for some supercilious reason would have had their citizenship re-established. Al Gore would have won not only the popular vote, but he also would have been victorious in that infamous electoral college.
The next person who tells me to get over the 2000 presidential loss is going to be punched squarely in the nose. You do not get over an injustice; you do not recover quickly from a felonious assault on your country’s constitution with the blessing of the high court in the land and you do not sit quietly by while the villains steal the votes right out of the ballot box.
The 2004 presidential campaign was not much better. The Swift Boat Vets who smeared one of the most highly decorated heroes of the Viet Nam War deserve at the very least to be shot in the public square with a red, white and blue paint gun for the propagation of such unadulterated lies. How can men who consider themselves patriots destroy the reputation of one of the heroes of the Viet Nam War while supporting a man who served his military obligation working in a political campaign in Alabama for a good ‘ole buddy of father’s?
They chose to destroy the reputation and the valiant military service of a man who volunteered to go to the front lines of a very unpopular war that found most sons of wealthy parents either going to Canada, paying off the draft board, or gaining special treatment for their sons so they would not face danger or death and could fly off to the front lines of the political wars in Alabama to work in the Republican political campaign of his old man’s good buddy. The Swift Boat Vets are nothing but a crew of traitors to the American Way of life.
And after nearly eight long years of the most incompetent man to occupy the presidential chair of the Oval Office, the country is left to clean up the mess this son of a wealthy oil man and gang of prospectors who used their boy to make everyone in the oil business billionaires.
I can hear them now, as the George W. Bush era comes to a close, the sitting in the corner offices of some of this country’s tallest buildings laughing their guts out.
The oil companies have never made so much money and received so many tax benefits without building a single refinery since 1979, thus making oil scarce and the price of oil burst through the ceiling.
The insurance companies are ecstatic; eight years and still no national health insurance program as George Boy promised after they gave him so many millions for his various campaigns. It came close though. Those damn Democrats almost got that Schip program increased to $35 billion over a ten year period. As promised, George vetoed and while it was close, the Democrats were 10 Republicans short of overriding the best piece of legislation to come this year.
The banks and the financial institutions are making a bigger fortune than they ever dreamed possible even in the best of times. The stock market has surged more successfully than the surge in Iraq by far and if the world keeps buying American debt which George will have grown to $10 trillion by the time he leaves office, they will make an even bigger profit than expected.
The military-industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us about in his last State of Union Address before leaving office has never had it so good. Halliburton (Dick Cheney’s old company) got a couple of billion in government contracts without ever having to compete although the Army Corp of Engineers requires competitive bidding on all contracts. But because the Republicans were in control of the Congress there were no investigations carried out for what surely is a felony punishable by time in brig. Not only do we have 160,000 American soldiers on the ground in Iraq, we have another 160,000 working for private contractors hired by the government for special service. They are making so much military equipment that the companies that were favored with massive government contracts (George and Dick’s buddies) cannot deliver the trucks, armored Hummers, Sherman tanks, planes, guns, bombs, etc that have been order by the hungry military generals who will soon retire and go to work for those companies whose profits they have increased dramatically.
I wonder how they lost 190,000 guns. Are we arming the enemy? And are we doing it consciously or by stupidity.
Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid’s financial crunch has not been tackled. Bush did fail at his rigorous effort to get all three programs privatized for his friends in the insurance industry. They will be broke in a few years and if the Republicans can maintain control of the White House and /or the Congress then George’s friends can take over the whole industry, privatize all three and add them to their portfolios while the beneficiaries receive less and less in their monthly checks, and pay more and more for their medical bills, their insurance premiums while receiving fewer and fewer benefits.
The little guy, the average man on the street, the common citizen is of little or no importance to George W. Bush and the Republican Party. They care about two things: lower taxes and big defense spending. They are the secret agents of the special interests. I remember when Taft and some of the ultra-right wing of the GOP used to refer to the Democrats as the war party. The Bushes and Reagan have made that look like the biggest overstatement of the century.
The Republicans used to call the Democrats “THE BIG SPENDERS,” the “TAX AND SPEND PARTY,” and today, they insist that if a Democrat is elected president in 2008, taxes will be raised.
Now let us “review the bidding!” When Reagan became president there was a deficit of $900 billion, and while he promised unequivocally to balance the budget by the end of his first term, after eight years as president his deficit was 300% higher than when he first raised his hand and swore…” From $900 billion to over $2.7 trillion; the Reagan deficit was larger than the deficits of all thirty-nine presidents that preceded him. That is called “spend and borrow.” George H. W. Bush, father of the present president increased that deficit by another trillion dollar—“spending and borrowing” again.
Clinton balanced the budgets of Reagan, Bush (41) in eight years and left a surplus for as far as the economists could project. It took Bush (43) but a couple of years to wipe out the surplus and build up the deficit. While George W. Bush became president with a super surplus, when he leaves office, not only will the surplus be spent, but our nation again will be in the “red” by $10 trillion dollars.
If anyone tells you that the Democrats are a “tax and spend” party just tell them that “tax and spend,” is in reality “pay as you go,” economics which is the economic model by which all households in this country are forced to live.
Isn’t it amazing how words can be turned and twisted into something that is bad, evil or just plain awful, when in fact those words are good, healthy and extremely wise? “Pay as you go,” is how we are going to be forced to operate our government until we dig ourselves out of the financial quick sand Bush has placed us with his eight years of bad management of our taxes, with his wars, with his corruption and with his careless approach to economics.
Paul Krugman from the New York Times wrote a marvelous piece that appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on October 8, 2007 which he entitled Leading Conservatives think the poor are funny! He wrote of some of the less humorous words of Ronald Reagan. In 1964 Reagan told an audience, “We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well, that was probably true. They were all on a diet.” If you were wealthy, at a banquet with a lot of other wealthy people, that line was probably funny. The sad part is that the 17 million who went to bed hungry that night did not have enough money to buy food for their table; to them that line was not funny. Several million of that 17 million were children whose stomachs were empty. That line was not funny to them either. Krugman was right, “Leading conservatives think the poor are funny.”
Bill Kristol , a neo-conservative who just happens to be a big supporter of the Iraq war and is editor of the conservative Weekly Standard reacting to Bush’s veto of the bill that would have given 3.8 million more poor children health insurance coverage said, “First of all, whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children, I tend to think it’s a good idea. I’m happy that the president ‘s willing to do something bad for the kids.” He is every bit the a__ h___ that I have always thought he was.
About that same veto, Bush himself said about the nine million children in this country who do not have health insurance, “I mean, people have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room.”
Even George’s mother helped prove Krugman’s point. When Barbara went to Houston to see the thousands of homeless people living in the Astrodome after the New Orleans tragedy, she told those within hearing distance (paraphrasing from a magazine article) that the conditions were better than where they lived before. The only problem was that it was so good, they would probably stay in Texas rather than go back to their houses in New Orleans.
Krugman also mentioned the callous and hurtful comments from the biggest Republican conservative idiot in the country—Rush Limbaugh and the 20 million fools who allegedly listen to his radio show every day. After Michael J. Fox who suffers from Parkinson’s a strong supporter of stem cell research did a commercial for Claire McCaskill who was the Democratic candidate for the Senate from Missouri. Limbaugh had the nerve to mock Fox’s pulsing gestures provoked by his disease on the air and openly claiming that Fox’s palpitating physical gestures and the jerking of his head and hands were exaggerated for the impression it would make on the television audience.
It appears that the Republicans use some tactic to draw the voters’ attention away from the real issues facing the nation and focus the country’s attention on something totally unrelated to the urgent problems we face. In the forties and fifties they coined the word “pinko,” to infer that the opposing Democratic candidate was a Communist. They have used the word “socialism” every time a Democrat has suggested a national health insurance program that provides coverage not only to the 47 million uninsured Americans, but to those who change jobs and lose many of the benefits their tenure at their previous job provided, those whose companies are cutting benefits, those who have jacked up the premiums paid by employees to save the employers a few bucks.
Many businesses and doctors want a national health insurance program to relieve them of a burden that has outweighed the benefits they receive from their employees. To use the word “socialism” as Romney, Giuliani and some of the other candidates for the presidency in 2008 have done is nothing more than a ploy.
Another excuse persistently exploited by the good old GOP is what they refer to as the “Liberal Press.” There is never an admission of wrong doing on their part, it is always the “liberal press” that is to blame for whatever indiscretion of which they have been accused. On October 25, 2007, Giuliani blamed the “liberal press” four times during a campaign speech to divert the attention away from him and his shadowy doings earlier in his career.
It is a scare tactic. But, what should really be scary is a president and a Congress that plan to do nothing about the skyrocketing medical costs, hospital costs, pharmaceutical costs that are the major reasons for the bankruptcies in this country. While pharmaceuticals, hospitals, doctors are sucking off the front tits of the cash cow, the rest of us are lucky to get a look at a tit at all let alone obtain any nourishment.
It is my hope that when November, 2008 arrives the American people will remember that every candidate on the Republican side of the aisle has supported George Bush on the war, on the tax break for the rich, on the failure to override the presidential veto of insurance program for the 9 million poor children, the right of the government to spy on every citizen of this country without a FISA court warrant, the failure to make Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid solvent and were in the Republican-controlled Congress (except Romney, Giuliani, Thompson, Huckabee) during all those years when not one attempt of oversight was undertaken to control the budget, the war, or any other undertaking of the Bush administration.
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