September 29, 2006


IMPEACH BUSH



IMPEACH CHENEY


BYE, BYE, AMERICA, BYE BYE

The United States I've known my whole life is disappearing just as surely as glaciers around the world are melting due to global climate change. Since the presidential election of 2000, all the good things we took for granted have been disappearing. We had honest elections once. We once took international treaties seriously. We once believed in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. We didn't advocate or actually commit torture. We didn't lie and deliberately attack a country that didn't attack us. If you worked hard, you had a chance to climb the economic ladder. Now all of that is changing. This article shows how the middle class is also becoming a memory. The article by Joanne Morrison is at www.boston.com:

Middle-class families are struggling to pay for a home, health insurance, transportation and their children's college with wages that have not kept pace with higher prices, according to the study by a think tank headed by a former top aide to President Bill Clinton.

The middle class's financial condition has been a key issue ahead of the November elections, as Democrats warn that this group is fast losing economic ground amid skyrocketing prices and tax cuts that offer them little benefit.

"In our estimates, it's becoming harder for families to afford what we consider a typical middle-class lifestyle," said economist Christian Weller of the Center for American Progress, the political think tank headed by John Podesta, a former Clinton chief of staff.

Weller cautioned that while Americans are taking on more debt to cover higher costs, wages have not kept pace.

BUSH IS OSAMA'S DREAM COME TRUE

If Osama bin Laden really wanted to destroy the United States, he couldn't have found a better vehicle than George W. Bush and his administration. Bush lived up to all the worst things bin Laden could say about the United States when Bush invaded Iraq. Now our military is demoralized and stretched to the limit, we are divided here at home, and our treasury is bleeding. Our credibility around the world is gone, and people who may have admired the United States now despise us. This column by Bob Geiger is at www.alternet.org:

Republicans have become so accustomed to using the phrase "cut and run" that they probably mumble it while sleeping and their childlike leader, George W. Bush, babbled it again yesterday, saying at yet another GOP fundraiser that "the party of FDR and the party of Harry Truman has become the party of cut and run."

That takes a ton of nerve coming from a Chickenhawk like Bush, who used Daddy's connections to avoid Vietnam and then went AWOL from his cushy stateside post. But we've heard that empty phrase from the cretins in the right-wing of the Republican party so many times that it barely even registers any longer.

They like to question the courage and patriotism of Democrats for being unwilling to shed more American blood and waste billions more on a pointless war, that the country was lied into and that's made us far less safe and more despised throughout the world. Aside from the fact that the majority of Americans no longer support the Iraq war -- and, thus, they must all be cut-and-run defeatists as well -- it is the Republicans who have shown themselves to be the lily-livered cowards among us.