Speaking for only myself (really I guess we all do everytime we say something, anyway..) I am ready for the opposition to come in here if they want.
I just like this thread because it seems like a good place to share things that people against Bush are interested in. Speaking of that..
MAN DATES, HEELS, AND ARMAGEDDON
"W.'s presidency rushes backward, stifling possibilities, stirring intolerance, confusing church with state, blowing off the world, replacing science with religion, and facts with faith. We're entering another dark age, more creationist than cutting edge, more premodern than postmodern. Instead of leading America to an exciting new reality, the Bushies cocoon in a scary, paranoid, regressive reality. Their new health care plan will probably be a return to leeches.", dowd
Editorial: According to my dictionary, a "mandate" is a "clear instruction," but the Liarfuhrer did not get a clear instruction from the electorate to carry out his radical policies in 2000, nor did he get a mandate for doing so in 2004. His margin of victory over Kerry was 3 million votes, the smallest margin of victory for an incumbent since 1916 and the smallest margin of victory for a President in a time of war in almost the same number of years. Further, he took the 11 Southern States by 5 million and lost the other 39 states by 2 million. Finally, without Ohio, the Liarfuhrer would have lost the election, and his margin of victory in Ohio was based on the gay-hate vote, the fear vote, and vote fraud by the machines in use. Even using the Liarfuhrer's definition of "mandate," any election in which you win by one or more votes, it's clear that he does not have a mandate to institute flat taxes, to destroy social security, to drive up the massive deficit, and to turn our republic into a theocracy, some of the ideas being pushed by the Bush conservatives in the aftermath.
Since Trent Lott's attack on the gays prior to the Clinton oral sex wars, it's been quite clear that gays have replaced Communists as the whipping boys used to get the Republican foot soldiers to the polls. In Ohio, Bush used gay-hate to get Christian conservatives to the polls to vote for him, and we're not just talking about gay marriage, here:
"In pivotal Ohio...the voters may not have realized it but they voted to strip people of the right to contractually arrange distribution of assets, child custody, pensions, and other employment benefits. They most definitely were not "protecting" marriage; they were attacking gay people. That is why the political and business establishment there, including Republicans, opposed the measure... The incoherence was tactical. Bush knew...he needed to keep his base of bigots happy, too -- hence his campaign's alliance with them at the grass roots in...Ohio. --Thomas Oliphant
Then, in the aftermath the Liarfuhrer calls for the healing to begin, just like he duped the Dems to play along with his radical agenda in 2000. AT his press conference the day after the election, it became clear that Bush's idea of the nation coming together is for everyone who opposes him to back his radical agenda, and for those who don't to be called obstructionists and creators of disunity:
"'Healing' is merely code for shutting up and allowing the President to do whatever it is he plans to do. But we did that for four years. Four years we waited for the President to stop rending this nation apart and be a uniter not a divider, as he promised. Four years we gave him the benefit of the doubt as to his truthfulness. Four years the subservient press went along with whatever he and his minions said; there was almost no investigating, no insisting on substantive answers to important questions, no in-depth reporting on the effect the Bush administration was having on the country. And we kept watching. Now we should 'heal'? I think not. It's ludicrous to even use that word given the state of our country's health care, with 45 million Americans unable to afford medical insurance. Possibly, I've mistaken the spelling of 'heal.' Perhaps what the politicians want from us is not to 'heal,' but to 'heel.' Like subservient pets, we're supposed to be quiet, walk behind them, and continue to obey their commands without question," writes Rosemary Brasch in a Bush Watch essay.
One thing was can count on now that Bush has declared a Man Date and has called for those who oppose him to heel is that the neocon wackos calling for world domination will come out of the woodwork. At Stevens Institute in mid-October I mentioned that I've always thought the Bush missile defense plan was a cover for devising space platforms for WMDs, a far-fetched scheme but well within the realm of Republican neocon thinking, giving what this group has come up with in the last four years.
Now this from The Guardian-Observer:
"Next year's budget for the US Missile Defence Agency includes funding for research into the development of 'space-based interceptors'. Although the funding allocated to develop lightweight ballistic missile parts is only £7.5m, further details have emerged of a more ambitious programme to site weapons in space. Plans for a 'thin constellation of three to six spacecraft' in orbit, which would target enemy missiles as they took off or landed, are planned, according to Theresa Hitchens, vice-president of a Washington-based independent think-tank, the Centre for Defence Information. The document, said Hitchens, signals that the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which outlaws the use of weapons in orbit, will be ignored."
Today's Quip "Well, I've got no job, my kids 've got no health insurcnace, my brother's in Iraq, but thank GOD gay people I don't even know who care about each other won't be able t' get MARRIED ! First things, first !"
http://bushwatch.org/bush.htm
I really wanted to insert the image of the President in "heil hitler" but I couldn't figure out how to do it.
