Is 100,000 people together worth anything? I mean how many people like NASCAR? At least a couple of million right? Hmmm, cause I don't give a shit about NASCAR. So it sorta evens out huh? But it can't be bad that people are finally pissed off. It's just to late. See I have it all figured out. The Republicans have it all mapped out. They ARE TRULY BAD FOR YOU. Now I will tell you what I think the Repub thinktanks are plotting oh, let's say, for the next fifteen years.
First of all people say that the prez is a lame duck, cause he's in his second term, and not getting his agenda through, and that this is bad for him. Poppycock. This is what I would want if I was an evil scum sucking Repub- you get my drift.
The prez being 'lame duck' gets no leeway from voters as he is in his second term and he can't use the excuse of being inexperienced, or being handed a whole bag of troubles that he didn't create, in other words, the Clinton excuse. But the beauty of the Repubs' strategy is that Bush will take all the heat and anger and blame (when there is more than enough to go around) and I feel the Repubs know that they will not win on 08. I feel, and I think, the thinktanks know this- that there will no longer be 'long' Republican or Democratic administrations and by long I mean more that two terms. People need change and in this day and age they seem very succeptable toward blaming others, hence, administration change. Anyway, of course Bush can't run again and it seems even the people who voted for him now suddenly begin to realize, "this is not the guy I should have picked".
Oops.
So I see the Dems taking o8. No big suprise there. And you also say, oh the Repubs blew it. And this is where I disagree and am so troubled by what I see occuring in the govenment right now. I've said this from the begining, and every day it becomes more true. The cocksuckers in the White House knew if they could just get us in, just in, using any and every bald faced and covert lie known to mankind- just fucking get us in there, we would be stuck. Bush will, and should, go down in the history books (if there are any) as a man who, with a cadre of other charlitans, conned a nation into an unwinnable 'war'. For the long term. For the corporations. The guys who make the fuel and guns and tanks and sell them to people who use them to kill people and pollute our small, wonderful planet.
Now the line is we 'can't cut and run', well what the hell did we do in Vietnam? Did the sky fall when we left? And the people whos son or daughter just got killed blindly follow the administrations line. From the yahoo story linked above:
Gary Qualls, 48, of Temple, Texas, whose Marine reservist son, Louis, died last year in the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, asked: "If you bring them home now, who's going to be responsible for all the atrocities that are fixing to happen over there? Cindy Sheehan?"
No, jackass, the Iraqis. We give them money and supplies, energy, food, water- whatever, but get our troops out of that hellhole. Iraq is not our country. It is not going to become a state in the union. We went in there illegally- without the proper U.N. security council resolution, and the people who can stop the bombing and killing over there are Iraqis, not U.S. troops. So enough is enough. It was a mistake and a blatantly illegal act to go there in the first place and every day we stay it will be harder to leave. Wanting to create democratic governments in the middle east is a noble and worthwile cause. But you do not acheive that end at the point of a gun.
To have democracy flourishing in the middle east will take decades in the fastest scenario.
If I can figure this out, don't tell me the thinktanks cannot foresee or project this. Bush and his cronies sent our troops in there swinging, knowing that initiating battlee in the middle east, dispite the assurances of swft victory, would basically mean the beginning of an endless and protracted war with no difinative victory goal. Citizens of America, listen now, as I have an eleven year old and I am worried. Unless you want your kids to get drafted in ten years and serve as cannon fodder for corporate interests abroad, there is some serious housecleaning to do in Washington D.C.

Bill Frist under investigation by the SEC. Can anyone say 'Martha Stewart?'

Tom Delay feigns innocence, while his associates are being indicted.

And guess what kids, get used to John Roberts, as you'll be seeing him for the next, oh, let's say thirty plus years as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. After stonewalling the Senate on any real point of view about anything, the best we get from Senators who voted for him are musings like, "Well, I don't think he'll overturn Roe vs Wade."
"I have too many unanswered questions about the nominee to justify a vote confirming him to this enormously important lifetime position," said Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid. Five Democrats -- Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California, Joseph Biden of Delaware, Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Charles Schumer of New York and Dick Durbin of Illinois -- opposed Roberts. Not that it stopped it, but at least there are a few thinking people left in the Senate. And there is another vacancy coming up with Sandra Day O' Connor departing to be with her ailing husband. Look out.
But what I'm getting at is the administration right now is altering the very fabric of our society, minute changers here, a little alteration over there, and before you know it, we're living in a facist state. Right now we have Gitmo in Cuba- the U.S. constitution dosen't apply there- how convienient for a police state. Did you know as of Sept. 10th Bush can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen captured on U.S. soil without any criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital during wartime to protect the nation from terrorist attacks? Dosen't it make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside?!? What a spectacular, free society I live in! Remember kids, USA is #1! Uncle Sam can do no wrong! Drink the kool-aid!
Yes, Bush will be gone in three plus years- still to long for me- but the damage he and his cabal are doing to our country is so bad right now is scares the shit out of me. And the effects will be long lasting. Hopefully, the nation is waking up and realizing they got sold a pack of lies by men who have no business running this country and are beholden only to their corporate masters. Sacry, huh? But true.
Anyone following the Cindy Sheehan circus? Well, she was arrested outside the White House in the culmination of the rally held in D.C. this weekend. Boy, if she isn't getting to be a thorn in the side of ol' G.W. . . .
Okay I leave for Phoenix tomorrow, as my sister gets married Oct. 1st. I got alot to do today, and I'm jumping in the shower now.
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