March 26, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

DECLINE IN REPUBLICAN SUPPORT

I don't like the Republican party and I don't like conservatives, so it's welcome news that polls show a huge drop in Republican support. It's a party with very few accomplishments unless you want to consider the harm it's done to working people, to the Constitution, and to foreign policy. Bush is certainly the greatest example of that, but other Republican presidents like Nixon and Reagan and the first Bush also did considerable harm. This article by Paul Krugman is at www.welcometopottersville.com:

Right now the talk of the political chattering classes is a report from the Pew Research Center showing a precipitous decline in Republican support. In 2002 equal numbers of Americans identified themselves as Republicans and Democrats, but since then the Democrats have opened up a 15-point advantage.

Part of the Republican collapse surely reflects public disgust with the Bush administration. The gap between the parties will probably get even wider when — not if — more and worse tales of corruption and abuse of power emerge.

But polling data on the issues, from Pew and elsewhere, suggest that the G.O.P.’s problems lie as much with its ideology as with one man’s disastrous reign.

For the conservatives who run today’s Republican Party are devoted, above all, to the proposition that government is always the problem, never the solution. For a while the American people seemed to agree; but lately they’ve concluded that sometimes government is the solution, after all, and they’d like to see more of it.

WARMEST WINTER ON RECORD

Yeah, global warming is just hysteria from us on the left. It's just solar activity. It's a normal cycle of warming and cooling the earth experiences every few million years. I wonder what right-wing talking point we'll hear about a report that we've experienced the warmest winter on record. This is not an aberration. We've had some of the warmest temperatures on record in the past ten years. This article is at www.guardian.co.uk:

The world experienced its warmest period on record during this year's northern hemisphere winter, the US government said today.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report said the globally averaged combined land and sea surface temperature for December to February was the highest since records began in 1880.

During the three-month period, known as boreal winter, temperatures were above average worldwide, with the exception of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and areas in central United States.