Awesome Article: We are All Dubya's Doormat (from SF Chronicle)
We Are All Dubya's Doormat News Flash for Ordinary Repubs and Born-Agains: Bush Doesn't Care about You Either
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
This just in: millions of moderate Republicans and gay-terrified evangelical Christians and intellectually numbed conservative parents who thought they were doing some sort of good by blindly voting for Dubya and hence protecting their wee ones from swarthy Islamic evildoers who want to steal their kids' Kraft Lunchables and nuke Disneyland all should be emerging from a deep fog of savage denial any minute now.
Wake, they will, to the increasingly obvious fact that their beloved smirkin' president, the one who seemed to care about them so deeply just a couple weeks ago and who reached out to them and promised them the gun-happy gay-unfriendly moon in exchange for full access to their civil rights and a blank check to do whatever the hell he likes, he apparently doesn't give a damn about them. Not anymore.
The truth will soon be hitting much of the conservative nation like a redneck smacks a dog: now that the fear-saturated Right has handed this failed oilman four more unrestrained years to do his dirtiest deeds and a deeply contaminated, well-greased Congress to do it with, he no longer needs their support and he couldn't care less about their "moral values" or their positions on Social Security reform or the war in Iraq or just what the hell he meant about spending the "political capital" he claims he's earned by winning the election (by the slimmest margin of any incumbent president in history).
Oh, sure, Bush reached out, didn't he, Mrs. Moderate Republican? He made you a believer. He promised more intolerance for gays and more Bible classes in the White House and more laughably irresponsible tax breaks you don't really need and more dumbed-down, black-and-white, good-versus-evil perspectives that take all the pressure off of having to, you know, think.
And because he unconditionally refused to acknowledge any sort of mistake, any sort of massive error in judgment or policy related the appalling Vietnam-grade quagmire that is Iraq, because he stayed "on message" and never fired Rumsfeld for gross incompetence and because he let the lower-rank military plebes take the fall for Abu Ghraib and never once wavered in the most disgusting of lies about why we needed to invade Iraq and kill over 100,000 of their people in the first place, why, he "earned" your vote.
It's so true, isn't it? Despite proof after proof and report after report and dead U.S. soldier after dead U.S. soldier, you thought Bush would do better than Kerry in "defeating" terrorism. No matter that Bush's very actions, his ugly little war, his very poisonous foreign policy that has so violently destabilized the Middle East, no matter that this is what has, in fact, amplified the terror threat a hundredfold and made the U.S. more detested than ever. Ahh, irony. It's what's for dinner.
And now, your reward. You get to be as misrepresented, as tossed aside, as openly ignored as the rest of us. Isn't politics fun?
We are all suckers, all losers in this election. Are you a Democrat? Republican? Doesn't matter. The line is no longer liberal/conservative. It is no longer tax 'n' spend versus cut 'n' deficit, Toyota Prius versus Ford Expedition, happy godless heathen sodomite versus Mel Gibson.
It is now ultrawealthy, power-hungry Bushite CEO versus, well, the rest. Do you see? News flash to conservatives: Bush just pretended to care about you, because he had to, because Karl Rove told him to, because he needed your fear and your blind faith to win another term. You matter about as much as a U.S. soldier in Fallujah, now.
Oh how you will be disappointed from here on out. Oh how you will gnash your teeth and sigh your sighs and wonder what the hell happened to your fearful leader, why you feel so abandoned as your schools implode and your health-care costs explode and your air quality suffers and your jobs vanish and your women get smacked back to 1953 and your kids die miserable and forgotten in Iraq.
Because now you get to sit by with the "liberal elite" as we watch in bitter satisfaction as Bush will now have to wallow in his own nasty, vicious mess, lie in his own snide and war-torn and economically gutted bed for four more years, as much of the country sits deeply ashamed and the international community sits stunned and horrified at our sheer ignorance and gall.
But wait, there's more. See, we know that Bush has never been so beautifully set up than now for a cataclysmic, Nixon-like fall. This most secretive and corruption-filled and Rove-stained administration in history, with its 9/11 cover-ups and well-documented stack of fumbles and flubs and murderous misprisions leading up to the Iraq mess, it is positively bursting at the seams with potential impeachment-level calamity. You think the Nixon tapes were ruinous? Just wait for the Bush mumbles.
Every sign points to the fact that history will look back on Dubya II as one of the worst-run, least accountable and most abusive, warmongering, homophobic, environmentally unfriendly presidencies in American history. Which means either one of two things: there is a very slight chance that Dubya will now try to ease off some of his party's more heartless and voracious of policies, if just to try to create a more appetizing and appealing "legacy."
But don't bet on it. If Rove's recent spittle-filled announcement that Shrub will again seek a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage is any indication, Bush might very well go the other direction entirely, making history the cold-blooded, autocratic way: through policies so hollow and self-righteous and smirking, history can't help but be impressed. After all, neofascism makes great textbook fodder.
What else? Well, now BushCo has no one to blame but themselves. The neocons own the White House and Congress. All fingers of blame for most impending disasters and war ills and social meltdowns point straight back to the GOP. Furthermore, the U.S. has already crashed through the $7.3 trillion debt limit, thanks to Bush. Unless Congress raises the debt ceiling ASAP, as BushCo so desperately demands they do, the U.S. government will run out of cash. We are, in NASCAR parlance, running on fumes.
This, then, is the sour truth for the Repubs and the born-agains, and the sliver of bittersweet solace for the liberals. Will it not be laughable, in a soul-deadening, kill-me-now sort of way, to watch BushCo try to pin the imminent economic implosions and cultural backlashes and catastrophic social-service breakdowns this nation now faces on, say, Bill Clinton? Will it not be horribly amusing to watch this administration sink into its own self-made quicksand?
Will it not be, in short, just all sorts of tragic fun to watch the cancer eat itself?
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well said
if only some people would wake up and realize the type above is really the truth
the cancer will first eat the
the cancer will first eat the whole world...
The only valid way in which American democrats can fight against Bush is by boycotting his sponsors, and making it obvious
Read this and weep for your c
Read this and weep for your children all of you who were taken in by the utter lack of principles or morality of Dubya The Shrub. This is a far more realistic forecast of things to come than the "oh everything's just fine," rhetoric of the cattle who helped put this idiot in office -- again.
reacting
After this election was over my reaction to it was we were "doomed" I am terrified of what this idiot (Dubya) is going to do with this country. Some say he wants to remove every part of the new deal.
"The only thing necessary for the perpetuation of evil is for good people to do nothing." ~Jane Elliott
I hope he goes down as the mo
I hope he goes down as the most despicable leader this country has ever had. Sadly, with his own party controlling every knook and cranny of D.C., they will make sure, most of them anyways, that he is written down as the greatest of all time. This country needs to revolt against this administration.
Just like Hitler without the
Just like Hitler without the smirk. He, too had his followers, they followed him to their graves. This moron is taking us with him!
WHAT CAN WE DO?
Let's do something instead of rattling, what can we do to make sure this guy gets what he deserves. I am so mad at the television about cutting a television documentary program that comes on Sunday who had Greg Palast on last Sunday, and was doing a part 2 this week. Football came on earlier today, I noticed.
The networks should pay for their refusal. Boycott. I do not know what else to do. I am boycotting all businesses that I think are related to this horrible election result.
I did not care for Kerry, I wanted Dean. I think Dean should consider a progressive moderate party chairmanship and regain the followers he had. I voted for Kerry.
Karl Rove idolizes Hitler and his theories, and the neofacists use Hitler as a model. I wonder if the Bush clan is getting payback for what happened to their grandfather. When found out his assets were removed from him. Bush and his father, brother should all be under serious investigation into what happened when on 9-11, the failure of defense tactical responses that should have occurred did not.
Republicans elected since e-voting should all be under impeachment watch. Taking the country back to pre-Bush may not be possible unless investigations of all sorts start to occur.
The UN could bring charges against Bush for War Crimes, and I for one think they should. Iraq should not have happened, and someone should be responsible for the destruction of human life in the name of greed.
London is making a move to impeach Blair which would be a good move on their part. No one sending troops will make Americans wake up for sure.
I saw a picture of a troop taking a smoke. I felt so bad for him and what he must be going through. Imagine what his family must be going through. For what? Some dysfuntionsl rich former drug addict who wants to make a name for himself, and thinks he's JFK,Jr. now with the current smirks.
I am rambling....but something must be done.
Dems already knew this
I found this article interesting as well..not that us Dems didn't already know this:
Analysis: Bush Facing Domestic Challenges
By TOM RAUM
WASHINGTON (AP) - From his domestic policy platter, President Bush chose to serve dessert before the main course. Having now won a second term, he may find it increasingly difficult to deliver on the meatier stuff, even with the political capital he is claiming and larger GOP majorities in the House and Senate.
Bush accomplished the things that were palatable and relatively easy during his first term, and which required little sacrifice for Americans, at least on the home front: hefty tax cuts to spur a stumbling economy, education legislation that promised to leave no child behind, adding a prescription drug benefit to Medicare.
Thornier issues were put off: making those tax cuts permanent and ``fundamental reform'' of the tax laws, overhauling Social Security to allow private investment accounts, easing immigration restrictions, cutting the deficit in half within five years.
Given that the federal budget was $413 billion in the red last year, Bush lacks much of the traditional capital available to spend on his priorities.
``Making the tax cuts permanent would drain about a trillion dollars of revenue, at about the same time you would need an extra trillion or more for the Social Security plan,'' said Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, a bipartisan group advocating fiscal responsibility.
``And the plan to cut the deficit in half assumes that we don't spend any more on Iraq or Afghanistan, which is not a reasonable assumption,'' Bixby said.
Bush may discover that it isn't just outnumbered Democrats that will give him a headache.
Unless the economy takes off and conditions improve markedly in Iraq, the president may find increased restiveness among the GOP, and this only will intensify as the 2006 midterm congressional elections approach.
Republicans united to resist the candidacy of Democrat John Kerry for president. Now that the election is over, GOP majority-party strains are beginning to show even before Bush's second term begins.
Conservatives who are deficit hawks are unhappy with Bush's spending plans and his failure thus far to use his veto. Social conservatives want him to do more to advance their agenda and some are peeved about his push to liberalize immigration.
On foreign policy, extricating the United States from Iraq poses a far more daunting challenge than did the march to Baghdad. Some top Republicans, including Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Richard Lugar of Indiana, have expressed frustration at the cost and chaos of postwar Iraq.
Right after his victory, Bush claimed ``the will of the people at my back.'' While there is no doubt that Democrats are in a state of disarray, there are practical limits to what the president can deliver, despite his optimism.
``He probably has a better chance of pushing his Social Security program than he does at tax reform,'' said Henry J. Aaron, an economics analyst at the Brookings Institution. ``I think you can move the pea around under the shell a little more readily on Social Security.''
Aaron said overhauling the tax laws is ``in essence tax redistribution. It involves taking goodies away that people now enjoy.''
Bush wants fundamental changes of ``our complicated and outdated tax code'' and says they should be ``revenue neutral.'' He has proposed a bipartisan commission to come up with recommendations, but that is about as far as he has gone.
Many conservatives would like Bush to move toward a simplified flat tax or a tax on consumption, such as a national sales tax.
There is a widespread clamor for him to ask Congress to modify the alternative minimum tax. Designed to prevent high-income people from taking too many deductions, the tax was never indexed for inflation, so it is starting to hit many middle-class families.
White House officials give little guidance or details.
``It's too premature to speculate, when an advisory panel hasn't even been appointed,'' White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. ``The president said this is going to be a top priority for him.'' On Social Security, Bush also has not said much beyond repeating his 2000 mantra that younger workers should be allowed to invest a small portion of their Social Security funds in personal retirement accounts.
Veterans of the legislative process expect it to take many months, perhaps all of Bush's second term, to get to final votes on his Social Security and tax overhaul plans.
``The schedule gets really short once you start taking out the stuff Congress has to do. A lot is going to be left on the cutting room floor,'' said conservative economist Bruce Bartlett, director of the National Center for Policy Analysis.
EDITOR'S NOTE - Tom Raum has covered Washington for The Associated Press since 1973, including five presidencies.
Thanks, but some of us have known for a decade about Bush.
How he has come to power amazes me, the revamp of the Constitution should be impeachable in itself. Sometimes I wonder if the Democrats are a part of this entire fiasco.
Terry McAucliffe was a loser from day one, I preferred the Atlanta choice that was not made for leadership. The entire black pretense of the Dems pisses me off as well. The libertarians, greens and other independent parties must be given a chance to get elected in positions all over the country.
The government should be made up of the makeup of our country which includes all races most everywhere in America. Muslims have their religion, Christians, Buddists, Catholics, etc.... It should not be a part of government.
Bush must be impreached. I hope everyone is writing their representatives and senators to report you would like investigation into the electoral fraud that just took place to demand recounts.
Boycott Time Warner Cable. Boycott!!! Walmart, they own you, today they are bragging about how they have personal data on most of their customers. Boycott. Close your checkbooks. Boycott. Boycott. Write letters to your representatives. People should be in the streets, and until they hit the streets, Bush will turn America into a pre-civil war state.
It is there. I know I feel as angry as the northerners back in the mid 1860's about much that is happening. The blue states should as much as possible refrain from putting only a fair share of what is coming back to them in the coffers in the federal government in the matter of taxpaying governments.
Succession does not sound bad. Linking with Canada would be cool for blue states. Actually Northern North America does not sound bad either.
I alone cannot do anything. I am so mad about this second stealing. The web is soothing my soul somewhat when I see that people are so upset, but they are not upset enough.
BOYCOTT. BOYCOTT. BOYCOTT. BOYCOTT. BOYCOTT. BOYCOTT. BOYCOTT.
The Civil War is now on again
The Civil War is now on again, with the southern states controlling the mantles of power. It is they, however, who should secede from the Union, since the Blue States include most of the original 13 colonies. The blue states are the economic engine of America, and give to the red states, through the form of farm subsidies and disaster relief. Democrats should not give and inch, because Republicans won't. our Senators must stand up for our wishes, as we elected them to do.