When you go to the polls on November 7th, 2006, don’t forget what the Republicans have been doing to you and your family for the past six years.
It’s easy to get distracted in our attention deficit disorder world. We need a pill to help us focus, another to keep us sane, some to raise our level of arousal and others to put us to bed at night.
There are a lot of people vying for our hard-earned nickels.
The most sinister of the strangers trying to steal our hard-earned nickels are called “politicians”.
We are five days out from election day and the sound bites are flying. Polls don’t look good for President Bush, but the Pit Bulls have clamped down hard on John Kerry. They are trying to distract voters.
Republicans want you to forget that there were no weapons of mass destruction.
Republicans want you to forget that while the Republican Policy Committee was opposed to the deployment of U.S. Soldiers to Bosnia under President Clinton,they’ll brand you a terrorist if you oppose President Bush’s war in Iraq.
Republicans want you to forget there was no yellow cake uranium.
Republicans want you to forget that they hired a bunch of rich thugs to lie about John Kerry in 2004.
Republicans want you to forget they lied about John McCain in 2000…otherwise we would have President McCain right now and not President Bush.
Republicans want you to forget that before attacking Afghanistan to search for Osama Bin Laden and fight the terrorists, Bush first decided we need to attack Iraq – where there were no terrorists…until we attacked and occupied Iraq.
Republicans want you to forget that when the Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki suggested that “several hundred thousand troops”would be needed to stabilize and occupy a country the size of Iraq, President Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld both derided the Army Chief of Staff. His reward for his honesty? They let him go.
Republicans want you to forget that they inherited the biggest surplus in the history of the United States when they assumed control of all three branches of the United States government in 2000 when they took power, and turned it into the largest deficit in the history of the United States.
Republicans want you to forget that they had a plan to attack Iraq drawn up long before 9/11.
Republicans want you to forget that you can’t spend any money when you are dead.
Republicans want you to forget that sending jobs overseas takes jobs away from working Americans.
Republicans want you to forget that they want your grandparents to pay as much as possible for healthcare.
Republicans want you to forget that they don’t want Social Security to exist at all, instead, you get whatever money you have managed to save when you retire.
Republicans want you to forget that a Republican President has started every war since WW2. If they can’t find enemies, they just pick a noun (drugs, terror).
Republicans want you to forget that they have people in their party who solicit sex from underage boys – and when they get caught, they just quit and oh darn, Congress has no authority over private citizens so now Mark Foleycannot be prosecuted.
Republicans want you to forget that they use racial slurs on colleagues’ voicemail. When they are caught, they say they are drunks.
Republicans want you to forget that fuel costs have doubled since 2000, but your income has not.
Republicans want you to forget that even though you are not making record profits, oil companies are.
Republicans want you to forget that if major companies can’t pay their bills, they can declare bankruptcy and get out of their debts, but you have to pay all of your debts even if you declare bankruptcy.
Republicans want you to forget just about everything…
When you go to the polls on November 7th, 2006, don’t forget!
wow that is some post…
So true .
Well done. Digg it.
you are a god among people who think they are gods
You missed:
Republicans want you to forget that we each have the power to stand up and make a difference…
Freedom by Action.
Peace by being.
Time to act and rebuild America to truly be free!
Casey
ourselves.
Has everyone seen this Will Ferrell video. Hillarious.
http://tinyurl.com/yauu54
umm…. isn’t it Mark Foley, not Tom Foley? Tom Foley was a democrat, from washington state, who hasn’t been in congress for a few years now.
from the original message:
“…Congress has no authority over private citizens so now Tom Foley cannot be prosecuted.”
Thanks Brad, my mistake. We have it corrected.
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Wasn’t the Vietnam War started by a Democrat? It was Kennedy who sent the first troops into Vietnam. While I love this post, and I love the fact that it is so true, I still know that not all wars were started by Repbulicans since WWII either.
America entered the Vietnam war under Presiden Eisenhower, a Republican.
Still, isn’t the argument a little disingenuous? After all Vietnam is probably the most significant war since WW2 and while it may have started during a Republican presidency it was heavily escalated during JFK, LBJ and RMN (who eventually pulled the US out).
Also, all this is really saying is that Clinton and Carter did not start a war. JFK and LBJ didn’t have the option since they were so entrenched in Vietnam.
So while this argument is true I have to ask what it accomplishes. To the uninformed it suggests that the Democratic presidents were uninvolved or opposed to the war in Vietnam. And those who are informed understand the meaninglessness of the statement.
The struggle for Viet Nam began with the Eisenhower administration. It was part and parcel of the John Foster Dulles’ policies having to do with the “Red Menace. Military aid and and boots on the ground began with Eisenhower. While you are checking that out (you are checking, aren’t you?), look into the 1954 Allen Dulles/CIA operation to overturn the democratically elected but scary Iranian government. Start with Kermit Roosevelt.
Comment by Tom
2006-11-03 16:22:37
I had no idea that Harry Truman (Korean War) and John Kennedy (Vietnam) were republicans.
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Please do be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible.
Eisenhower sent the first “advisers” to Viet Nam.
Nice, would love to see the Republicans list about the Democrats.
The closest this website has ever come to endorsing a candidate from a political party was when Oscar wrote an article declaring an Independent the winner in a debate:
http://eightandfive.com/2006/10/30/winner-robert-fitzgerald/
But maybe I will make a list of things Democrats want you to forget just for the hell of it.
I will publish it on November 8th, 2006.
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Republicans want you to forget that the US is Free and you should be Controlled by Large Government. Whoops…. That is Democrats… Social Programs that Cost too much to manage because of political Rackets.
Welfare, Medicare, Social Security. I pay into this and I only get 1500 a month? For the few years I live in my golden years!!!!
Rupublicans have had control of congress and the whitehouse for a very long time. If they wanted to change any of this they chould have. They’ve never had a better chance and it will be a long time before they will again. It’s just like abortion. They like to talk about this stuff to get people to vote for them, but they’ll never deliver on their promises because then they won’t have that excuse to get people to vote for them in the future.
I had no idea that Harry Truman (Korean War) and John Kennedy (Vietnam) were republicans.
I’m sensing a little bias… maybe not… it’s a little difficult to detect. a little…
Interesting points; a little redundant. Lacks originality. Good try though.
Don’t forget that they voted not to raise the min. wage but voted themselves a huge pay increase.
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Two words: Terri Schiavo
What a disgrace, to turn her personal tragedy into a national political circus and media event.
The post-mortum also proved that she had catastrophic brain damage.
Rick Santorum is about to get spanked over this in PA. Who else was at her bedside?
Well, the list starts out badly. If you read the New York Times this week they are all upset about the public availability of documents from Saddam’s nuclear weapons program. Yeah, they found a really left handed way of acknowledging Saddam was working on an atomic bomb and was less than a year away from having the bomb.
When you’ve lost the New York Times, you have lost.
That article lists pre-1991 data. Your mis-remembering history. It’s OK.
The truthiness is out there.
Sorry, buddy, you didn’t read the article closely enough. The point of the article was that Saddam stopped his nuclear program when he was asked to by the UN. And that any justification for going into Iraq for nukes was fabricated.
“STAY ON TARGET”
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Republicans want you to forget they have declared war on the middle class and hard working americans.
Ha! With a quick read I can already find two obvious falsehoods. One is that all wars since WWII were starte by republican presidents. Lordy. The other is that we still have to pay our bills when we file bankruptcy. Who is the joker who put together this list? Don’t they understand that when you attack something by using lies then you are the one who is the ass.
If you had taken time to follow the link, you would have found the citation from a Rolling Stone article with a more specific accusation of Republicans:
“Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency.”
Which is true…and I probably should have used the word “escalated” or something like instead of “started” but in the end, I think the readers get the point.
Now shut up, and STAY ON TARGET!!!
Republicans want you to forget that they have declared war on the middle class and hard working americans.
Well, 18 things. Truman sent the troups into Korea but wouldn’t let them fight over the 38th parallel. Also, some might argue Johnson started ‘nam but thats not really true, it was Eisenhower, really.
Even so, its’ republicans who wanted this war so bad they found a guy to let them have it.
-k
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I have been mulling this bit around for the last several months. I came across a book, noted below, that I purchased in a bookstore in the Ginza, Tokyo in 1968. I was just back from a short duty in Viet Nam. I had thought that LBJ and General Dynamics fit this image but it seem that it is as appropriate today as then.
Daniel Defoe writes of his three days in the pillory, available for public abuse but instead had flowers thrown at him and was well tended by his supporters who sold copies of this pamphlet A Hymn to the Pillory” and his other work that was cause for the punishment, “The Shortest Way with Dissenters”.
The excerpt-
“They that in, vast Employments, rob the State,
See them in thy Embraces meet their Fate; 310
Let not the Millions they by Fraud obtain,
Protect ‘em from the Scandal, or the Pain:
They who from Mean Beginnings grow
To vast Estates, but God knows how;
Who carry untold Sums away, 315
From little Places, with but little Pay:
Who costly Palates Erect,
The Thieves that buds them to Protect;
The Gardens, Grottos, Fountains, Walks, and Groves
Where Vice Triumphs in Pride, and Lawless Loves:
Where mighty Luxury and Drunk’ness Reign’d
Profusely Spend what they Prophanely Gain’d
Tell ‘em there’s Mene Tekel’s * on the Wall,
Tell ‘em the Nations Money paid for all:
Advance by double Front and show, 325
And let us both the Crimes and Persons know:
Place them aloft upon thy Throne,
Who slight the Nations Business for their own;
Neglect their Posts, in spight of Double Pay,
And turn us all in Debt the Shortest Way. 330”
Note
*This is the passage from Daniel regarding the hand Writing on the wall
Daniel 5:25-28
5:25 And this [is] the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
5:26 This [is] the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
5:27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
5:28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
** Daniel Defoe: [Defoe, Daniel], J.T. Boulton, ed. Publisher: Schocken 1965, p.106
Being from Australia and watching all this unfold, I cannot help but think… if the entire world’s population is to vote in your mid-term elections, I have little doubt that the Democrats will win be a landslide. The terrible state of our world today is your administration’s blame to keep.
Democrats want you to forget that they do not have a single well thought out plan for solving any of the important issues today (i.e. immigration, homeland security, North Korea, social security, etc.) Vote Constitutional Party.
Comical… Typical rant. If there were no WMD’s, why did Hussein kick out inspectors and not allow them back into Iraq?
Rich Thugs to lie for Kerry??? What’s your definition of rich? And just how poor is Dan Rather if you get my drift.
Hmmm, it’s been determined that Al Qaeda numerous other anti-west terrorist (abu Nidal for one) were given hombrage in Iraq. Nuff said on that.
And just how are Republicans sending jobs overseas? They’re not. The exodus started in the late 80’s and went full steam in the nineties when liberals decided to raise corporate taxes and it also began taking longer and longer to get building permits. And since when should the government get involved telling companies how to run their business’? Why do you think business’ are leaving for starters?
Truman sent troops to Korea, Kennedy sent troops (oops, advisors) to Vietnam where Johnson just plain dropped the ball. Bongo, quick interlude to give you some advice. If you’re going to use Rolling Stone as your reference material, my dear adversary, you are in serious trouble or denial.
Ah, the Foley deal. I guess we conveniently forgot about Representatives Frank (D,MA) and Studds (D,NH). Franks male lover runs a gay whore house out of Franks apartment, Studds got a male page drunk and seduced him when he was 17, but by the time the house (Tip O’Neill at the gavel) censored him, the page was 18 and case dropped. And since when can’t the authorities charge a private citizen. What an idiotic statement. What you’re saying is a member of Congress can murder someone, resign from Congress and face no charges??? What utter bilge. The authorities in Florida are examining this case to see if there IS evidence to prosecute.
Oh, and can anyone answer why France get’s 80% of it’s power from nuclear plants as does much of the developed world, yet we’re at 20% (yeah, coal, LNG and propane make up the majority of the rest, not wind, geothermal, or hydro). Right now there are 30 chemical plants being built worldwide. Zero in the U.S. Hey Bongo, did you know we import gasoline, yes, GASOLINE (that’s refined oil in case you’re unsure) from France because went haven’t built a refinery in this country since 1982. Which of course leads to blaming Republicans for the price of fuel. How patently stupid. Oil is a worldwide traded commodity, which means supply and demand sets the price, not W as some of you would like to believe. Maybe, Bongo, if you boned up on why we won’t allow oil companies to exploratory drill in ANWR, you could give us an opinion on that rather than the typical blame W rant.
Have a great day… And yes, I’m voting Tuesday…
This isn’t a typical blame W rant. This is blaming Republicans.
But I don’t hate Republicans, just the neo-con thugs that have hijacked the Republican party.
Get rid of your neo-con thugs so the Donkeys and Elephants can play nice again.
All right, let’s have a bit of fun.
Point one. Hussein had every right to kick the inspectors out, look at the guy, what makes you think he’d let inspections continue. Strange thing is the documents in today’s news confirm that when the UN told him to stop the nuclear program, he did. Why do you continue to hold on to the hope that there were WMDs?
Uhh, yes, they were rich and they were thugs. What the Swift Boat Vets for Truth did is textbook thuggery. Dan Rather? C’mon, man. You can do better than that.
“It’s been determined?” By who? This administration? Yet another straw-man argument.
Did you even visit the link he provided as evidence to back up his point? It clearly states that U.S. Tax Code, written by Republicans, gives privileges to those that offshore rather than keeping jobs here at home. Oh, and as soon as our government stops telling me what I can do in the bedroom, who we can marry and what women can do with their bodies, it can stop telling business what to do. Businesses are leaving because Republican-written policies reward it.
Korea, that one isn’t so easy to defend. Granted the Korean war was more about defense and not offense. After all we never went above the 38th parallel.
Vietnam’s roots start well before Kennedy I am sorry to say. Eisenhower sent advisers before Kennedy, in fact the first American deaths occurred in the Eisenhower administration. So, while Kennedy and LBJ escalated, Eisenhower started the wheels turning. And while selected historians say it was actually Truman who first sent advisors, these people were non-governmental operatives. I guess you could call them mercenaries.
You guys are so quick to bring up Studds, but you forget about Rep. Dan Crane. Why do you guys always forget that? Do you know who Dan Crane is? Anyway, at least Studds faced the music and didn’t run and hide in “rehab”. Studds faced the House while he was censured and then went and faced his constituents, who voted to reelect him. He admitted his mistake, moved on and was reelected. The people spoke. Foley ran and hid. And, Congress has no power over you, me or Foley now. He can’t be censured by his peers.
The US stopped building nuclear power plants after Three Mile Island. Good thing, too, because Chernobyl taught the world a nasty lesson of what happens when things go bad at nuclear plants. There have been at least 11 near misses in the US since Three Mile Island. And we still don’t know what to do with the waste. And why should I care about France. You, I am sure, certainly don’t.
As for refieneries, why do we need to build more? If this Congress would raise fueld standards there wouldn’t bee a need to build any more. We can cut consumption down. Don’t you remember when Bush said we were “addicted to oil”? Usually that implies a negative. Cut consumption and price won’t matter. And we will be able to cut our dependency on foreign oil. But there are always the pesky oil company lobbyists aren’t there?
And when a company makes a $10.49 billion in a single quarter, while Americans are being squeezed at the pump, there is something completely wrong. That figure is so amazing that I believe it is hard for normal people to comprehend so it doesn’t even register.
And there is no reason to drill in ANWAR and try a easy solution to energy consumption in this country. We have the ability to build more fuel economy into our cash economy and it would create jobs. What is wrong with that?
Oh, and good luck voting on Tuesday if you live in a poor community, you’ll be standing in line most of the night and there is a good chance your name has been “purged” from the voting lists.
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Projection . . .
Comment by zanothrope
2006-11-03 20:12:54
Democrats want you to forget that they do not have a single well thought out plan for solving any of the important issues today (i.e. immigration, homeland security, North Korea, social security, etc.) Vote Constitutional Party.
Hysteria . . .
Comment by ob_one
2006-11-03 20:39:28
Comical… Typical rant. If there were no WMD’s, why did Hussein kick out
inspectors and not allow them back into Iraq?
Rich Thugs to lie for Kerry??? What’s your definition of rich? And just how
poor is Dan Rather if you get my drift.
I have just read the post that you have here today. I am sure that you are otherwise both pleasant chaps to have a drink with, if you are of age, but your post . . . , Gott in Himel, when was the last time your read something of substance and you have to that substance fuel drivel you get from Rush.
I am thinking that first round of pardons will commence around 5:30am on Wednesday morning and the resignations should peak right around Yuletide. Indictments will be in the works by Epiphany.
Lantern Bearer
Have a nice day!
(Now playing Robert Earle Keene, Sonora’s Death Row.)
HA HA, good show!
Wow. I can’t believe there are still people out there who believe the things that ob_one is saying, that there were WMDs, or any of the rest. Soemone needs to pick up a newspaper, and it isn’t the author.
Reblogged at my political site. Well done, excellent list. I know I’ll definitely keep it in mind when I cast my ballot. Things like this make me feel all that much better about my decisions.
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Oh, and if I could add a 20th point to round it off…
The Republicans want you to forget that deficits do indeed matter, especially when China has $1 trillion in reserves, much of it in American debt.
It is all true…during the Kennedy/Johnson administrations, and during the Clinton/Gore years…there were no wars…started…by us…sort of…The NV started Vietnam against the French. Bosnia started it against Hersagovina (spelling sux)…Milosovich started it against his own people.
It is obvious the Republicans are letting jobs get offshored to China…because of the fine trade agreement with them…supported by some kickbacks by Chinese intrests to the party in charge…in when was it…1996? Yup W did that too…
I never blamed W in this post.
I blame all Republicans who allowed their party to get hi-jacked by the neo-con goon squad.
Hey, look on the bright side people, at least we get to watch the American empire fall! How many people alive today are able to say they watched the Roman Empire fall?
I don’t think the American “Empire” will fall. I do believe that there are people in America who think it is an empire, but there are plenty who think otherwise.
The number one thing Americans need to do is restore system of checks and balances by getting another party in power in one of the branches of government, thus, forcing cooperation instead of exclusion and bullying.
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The biggest fault of the Republicans is their hypocrisy. They are so blind to their own faults that they don’t see in themselves what they see in Democrats and anyone else who disagrees with them.
Do they really think that Ted Haggard only paid for a massage? Would they forgive anyone else accused of the something similar (e.g. Bill Clinton)?
I didn’t think so.
Fuck the Republicans. Fuck them all.
I generally like to say “Fuck the Neo-Cons”, but really, the Republicans have allowed their party to be run by the Neo-Cons for the past decade or so.
I am hoping they wake up soon.
just a note on czech airs comment. we did cross the 38th parallel in the korean war by a few hundred miles. though those were not mcarthur’s orders. he was more than a bit of a cowboy.
Umm, did you mean to say “though those were mcarthur’s orders”?
Otherwise you are not making sense to me.
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just a note on the fuel consumption policies - the people who fought hard against that were lobbyists for car manufacturers, not (as stated) oil companies.
In the words of John McLaughlin…
WRONG!
Exxon Mobile gave $935,016 to Republican candidates during the 2004 election cycle in order to get those crooks to gut the energy bill. What was in that energy bill? Higher fuel economy standards, what did those Republicans who got money from Exxon Mobile do to the fuel economy standards. You can probably guess.
Also, I suggest you look up a Wall Street Journal article entitled: “As Gasoline Prices Soar, Americans Resist Major Cuts in Consumption” from the May 1, 2006 issue. There is a candid interview with an Exxon Mobile executive in it.
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Bravo!
You forgot to list all the corporate pandering that has been done. You forgot to list all the pro-corporate/anti-consumer laws thats have been passed (gambling, bankruptcy) that cater to big business and gives kickbacks to all the top bush buddies. You did not mention the faked death of ken lay, bush’s long term friend that died mysteriously and was “cremated” within hours. You forgot to mention jacked up gas prices and the war profiteering in iraq for cheney and the bird flu scare to boost rumsfields flu stock. This list barely scratches the surface.
We only have so much server space!
I have friends who never, NEVER buy into conspiracy theories. But even they think Lay’s death was mysterious.
“Republicans want you to forget that sending jobs overseas takes jobs away from working Americans.”
Are we protectionist? should we close our borders? Democrats are against the right of Indians and Chinease to make a $ and raise thier standard of living?
“Republicans want you to forget that they don’t want Social Security to exist at all, instead, you get whatever money you have managed to save when you retire.”
You can argu against the solution they offered, but this is hardly it. by most statistical mesurments, you will have more money.
“Republicans want you to forget that fuel costs have doubled since 2000, but your income has not.”
If it goes up, they are evil, when it goes down, they are also evil. if no matter what the facts are it is an argument against them, then it is an invalid one. Also, again, what is the problem? Democrats want low prices or green energy? can they decide already?
Republicans want you to forget that even though you are not making record profits, oil companies are.
D&J and S”&P are doing very well. Energy sector is a small % of that, so this statment is false.
Quote: “Are we protectionist? should we close our borders? Democrats are against the right of Indians and Chinease to make a $ and raise thier standard of living?”
My Reply: I never claimed to be a Democrat nor to be writing for Democrats. Republicans have had six years of complete power in all three branches of government - and they blew it.
Quote: “You can argu against the solution they offered, but this is hardly it. by most statistical mesurments, you will have more money.”
My reply: Just because the economy tends to expand over time does not mean we should shit-can Social Security. Got a 401K? Try doing a 401K calculator. The note the asterisk that says, “Based on 8% per year return”. Guess how many 401ks return 8%? Zero.
Quote: “If it goes up, they are evil, when it goes down, they are also evil. if no matter what the facts are it is an argument against them, then it is an invalid one. Also, again, what is the problem? Democrats want low prices or green energy? can they decide already?”
My Reply: I agree with your invalid argument. When in doubt, Republicans ARE evil.
I never said Democrats had all the answers and I never claimed to be a Democrat - then only sure thing is Republicans have blown it.
Quote: “D&J and S”&P are doing very well. Energy sector is a small % of that, so this statment is false.”
My reply: This response has nothing to do with the original post.
STAY ON TARGET!
STAY ON TARGET!!
no i meant what i said. mcarthur’s orders were to retake south korea not invade north korea. he had so much success retaking south korea that he figured he’d just take the whole country and he was well on his way till ran into something like 1/2 a million chinese.
your confusion has been recently made clear to me czech. i meant that trumans orders were only to retake south korea. mcarthur made the unilateral decision to disobey the president’s orders and invade north korea. hence the disgraceful end to his career.
From StarTribune.com letters:
Longtime Republican says Bush is running the country into the ground
I have been a middle-of-the-road Republican most of my life. I have a simple conservative belief: conserve what is good; change what is bad.
My Republican Party was taken over in 2001 by a group seeking above all power: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Ken Rove and later Donald Rumsfeld. Their quest for power has only been exceeded by their incompetence. What has struck me was the way the rest of the Republican Party kowtowed to the bullying tactics of these men and let our country fall into the pitiable state it is now in.
In my mind Bush had decided to go to war with Iraq even before he was in office. I hope now everyone knows there were no weapons of mass destruction or terrorists in Iraq before the war. After the war (”mission accomplished”) Iraq was a breeding ground for terrorists and suddenly there was a brand-new guerrilla war. With his usual incompetence Bush had disbanded the Iraqi army, the one built-in peacekeeping force in Iraq.
Now, Bush is faced with a real nuclear danger in North Korea and Iran, but because of Iraq, he is helpless to do anything about it.
I lament over our 2,700 brave service men and women killed in Iraq and the 20,000 wounded. And who knows how many hundred thousands of innocent Iraqis have been killed
Could anyone not be critical of Bush’s noncaring incompetence? Members of the Republican Party must speak out. They call it Bush-bashing. Well, he should be bashed.
The Republican Party used to be known as the party of fiscal responsibility, but Bush and company have changed that, running up debts in the trillions. It seems almost ludicrous that he has slashed taxes for the rich.
They call it free trade and Bush has let other countries wipe the floor with Americans and American rights. Jobs are outsourced, families destroyed in the name of free trade and globalization. The labor movement has lost its clout, because if a strike is threatened the corporations may gleefully outsource their jobs. The middle class is heading for destruction. It used to be Americans first. Now it’s “let ‘em eat cake.”
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has been so incompetently handled it brings tears to your eyes. After World War II the Marshall Plan rebuilt Europe, but today New Orleans is still a mess.
Bush condones torture in this country. Imagine: The United States of America allowing torture! After the Bataan death march in World War II we still wouldn’t even consider torture. The Japanese POWs couldn’t believe that they were being treated so well.
Prisoners are held without being charged and without access to a lawyer. The Nazis at Nuremburg, the worst criminals in the history of the world, were given lawyers and a fair trial.
And what might end up the most serious charge against Bush is the global warming he has neglected and largely ridiculed. We don’t know yet what this will do to mankind and our planet.
Ever since I was a young man in Fargo, I have had a warm spot in my heart for the Republican Party. GOP: Grand Old Party. The party of Abraham Lincoln. It was a party of responsibility, something you could count on. I fondly remember a picture of my uncle Milton Rue (who was head of North Dakota’s Republican Party in the 1950s) riding in a car with President Dwight Eisenhower. They were laughing and talking, obviously friends. They are no doubt turning over in their graves at the fumblings of Bush.
At that time, I was a jet fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force, fiercely patriotic (still am) and proud of my country. But I can’t be proud of this man who is running our country into the ground.
I could go on and on about Bush and his pathetic crew, but now I can only hope that the November election stops him.
RICHARD RUE, WAYZATA
This post is absolutely telling the truth! Yo, don’t forget and kick those friggin Republicans out!
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its not they want you to forget.
its just they dont want you to think for yourself