October 20, 2006


IMPEACH BUSH




IMPEACH CHENEY


THIS AWFUL REPUBLICAN CONGRESS

You don't have to be partisan to be appalled at the performance of this Republican Congress. It's a Congress that just oozes with corruption and perversion. It's the Congress that can deny an increase in the disgracefully low minimum wage while granting itself handsome raises. It's the Congress that gives all kinds of money to companies with no bid contracts because the companies are friendly to Republicans. It's the Congress that apparently thinks civil liberties are so old hat and that torture has its place in 21st century America. It's a Congress that neglects its own citizens on the Gulf Coast when they are ravaged by killer hurricanes. This article by Matt Taibbi is at www.makethemaccountable.com:

There is very little that sums up the record of the US Congress in the Bush years better than a half-mad boy-addict put in charge of a federal commission on child exploitation. After all, if a hairy-necked, raincoat-clad freak like Rep. Mark Foley can get himself named co-chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, one can only wonder: What the hell else is going on in the corridors of Capitol Hill these days?

These past six years were more than just the most shameful, corrupt and incompetent period in the history of the American legislative branch. These were the years when the US parliament became a historical punch line, a political obscenity on par with the court of Nero or Caligula - a stable of thieves and perverts who committed crimes rolling out of bed in the morning and did their very best to turn the mighty American empire into a debt-laden, despotic backwater, a Burkina Faso with cable…

The end result is a Congress that has hijacked the national treasury, frantically ceded power to the executive, and sold off the federal government in a private auction. It all happened before our very eyes. In case you missed it, here’s how they did it - in five easy steps: