November 13, 2006


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY


RIGHT WING NASTINESS

Back when Bill Clinton won his first presidential election I remember letters to the editor in The Fresno Bee where the correspondents said they were going to wear black arm bands because of Clinton's victory. Today The Bee had a really nasty letter from a right-wing yahoo who started off by "congratulating" Democrats on our victory and then making the usual tired accusations that it was a victory for al-Qaeda. He rattled off a favorite list of groups right-wingers hate such as the ACLU. That is the essence of right-wing "thought": find people to demonize and hate. Find someone who is different, such as gays or blacks, and find a way to blame all the woes of society on them. Right-wingers never offer anything positive or hopeful. Their philosophy, such as it is, is all about exploitation in one form or another, eternal war, big prison budgets, and enriching the already rich. I wish they'd just shut up, or move to some island so they can prey on each other there.

PAPPY TO THE RESCUE

The filthy Bush administration proves that George W. Bush should never have been president. The Republican party was derelict in even nominating this guy to the office. His history before he became president was ample proof that he was not up to the job: morally, intellectually, or any other way. He was already going into the tank when the attacks occurred on 9/11. The natural instinct of the country was to rally behind Bush. Then the Republican party slime machine, so well perfected and utilized by the Bush family, went into action. They managed to convince Americans that Americans would be in harm's way if Democrats got elected. Now that Iraq has turned into the nightmare so many wiser headers predicted, Pappy Bush is sending in the cavalry. It's too little too late. This article by Ed Naha is at www.smirkingchimp.com:

As usual, when Junior screws up, Bush the elder rides to the rescue. First, it was the appointment of James Baker, Poppy's Secretary of State, to figure out a solution to Dubya's Iraq fiasco. Now, it's Robert Gates, former Bush 1 CIA director, replacing the deep-sixed Defense Secretary Donald ("Old Ironsides") Rumsfeld. To top it off, Lawrence Eagleburger, another Poppy Secretary of State has just joined Baker's Iraq Study Group - replacing Gates on that team.

If nothing else, George W. Bush has been consistent in his trainwreck of a professional life. He has screwed up nearly every position he's held, redefining "The Peter Principle," and has been bailed-out of his messes by friends of his old man.

Even as governor of Texas, he's best remembered for ruining the public school system, lowering pollution standards and wrecking the state's economy. On the plus side, he executed a heck of a lot of people, even poking fun at a female who begged for mercy. Atta' boy!