July 02, 2008

IMPEACH BUSH

IMPEACH CHENEY

BUSH'S TOXIC WASTE

George W. Bush, as far we know, will shuffle off the stage next January and it will be a temporary moment of celebration around the world. But the harm Bush has wrought will live after him. I'm hoping a President Obama can take us in a new progressive direction that will do something about global climate change, end this filthy war in Iraq, do something about restoring the middle class, take action on health care, and make the federal government responsive to the needs of the majority, not just a tiny elite. But Obama won't be able to work miracles. It is far easier to destroy the way Bush has than it is to build. This article by Mark Morford is at www.sfgate.com:

Let us be reminded, the Bush virus will be with us for years, generations. Aside from the shambles of Iraq and the Middle East, aside from handguns and the decided mixed blessing of the Supreme Court's recent spate of decisions, there are maneuvers and decisions we don't even know about, nefarious arrangements, a corruption so deep that normally staid historians are behaving more like alarmed climate-change scientists: We know it's going to be bad, but we just don't know how bad.

There are destroyed nations, mauled infrastructures, horribly compromised federal agencies from FEMA to the EPA, the CIA to the FCC. There is a rogue outsourced military, citizens who can no longer sue gun manufacturers, six straight years of increased poverty, untold numbers of homophobic, misogynistic judicial appointees, devastating environmental policies the consequences of which could take generations to comprehend, much less repair.