September 04, 2008


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY


LYING: WHAT REPUBLICANS DO BEST

Republicans can't govern. Every time we get a Republican administration it's like swarms of locusts descending on a wheat field. You get massive tax breaks for the rich, a deterioration of public services, government tilted very much to the interest of big business, tax money diverted to the Republicans' fat cat friends, and more and more government intrusion into our personal lives.

Sarah Palin, as the scripture says, is new wine in an old wine bottle. She's just a version of Spiro Agnew or Dick Cheney in drag. She's very good at sarcasm and hate speech, but not much for any constructive vision for the country. I find it astonishing that McCain and his camp talk about "putting the country first." When have Republicans ever done that in the past few decades?

Richard Nixon's operatives probably derailed the peace talks to end the Vietnam war because ending the war would have won the election for Hubert Humphrey. Reagan's operatives sabotaged efforts to free the Iranian hostages. Jimmy Carter would probably have won reelection if the hostage situation had been resolved. In a "time of war" George W. Bush pushed through huge tax breaks for his rich friends. Such unmitigated gall is nauseating. This article by Robert Parry is at www.consortiumnews.com:

Now, however, Palin has been transformed into a maverick reformer. McCain’s campaign even cites her experience as an abuser of the earmark process as part of the reason she supposedly understands why it must be scrapped.

McCain spokesman Taylor Griffin said Palin’s successes in getting earmarked funds “was one of the formative experiences that led her toward the reform-oriented stance that she has taken as her career has progressed."

Nevertheless, Palin wrote in a newspaper column just this year that "the federal budget, in its various manifestations, is incredibly important to us, and congressional earmarks are one aspect of this relationship." [For more details, see Los Angeles Times, Sept. 3, 2008]

Beyond the GOP's reality-challenged speeches, there was the startling image of a nearly all-white convention – where only 36 of the 2,380 delegates were black, the smallest number in at least 40 years – rollicking in ridicule and bristling with animosity toward Obama, an African-American.