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"Harry Hope" |
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30 Oct 2003 01:00:22 PM |
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Republicans on the Ropes. Future Felons of America in the White House. |
The Hartford Advocate, 10/30/03:
http://hartfordadvocate.com/gbase/News/content?oid=oid:40776
Republicans on the Ropes
The GOP, the bad and the ugly
by Alan Bisbort - October 30, 2003
I believe the Republican Party is in deep trouble.
Even if you don't share my optimism, it's indisputable that the GOP
is, like the Know Nothing and Bull Moose parties, ripe for a fall.
We're talking smoldering ruins, defections, patricide, fratricide, and
acts of contrition the likes of which Jimmy Swaggart never imagined.
This situation has nothing to do with the formidable (ha) opposition
of the Democrats, last seen playing patty-cake in Congress with the
Future Felons of America in the White House.
It is just a fact of life, like water running downhill and the Red Sox
losing Game Seven.
If images are more important than issues, try this one on for size:
The White House has banned the media from covering the arrival of the
flag-draped coffins of dead soldiers on all military bases;
Bush himself has not attended a single one of these 340-plus
homecomings.
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil is the Republican mantra, and
they're sticking to it even as their ship runs headlong into a perfect
political storm.
To wit:
Republicans control the White House, Senate, House of Representatives
and Supreme Court.
They control all three branches of government, have no checks and
balances on their power.
They also control Wall Street and the media.
They not only run the show, they massage the message.
My point:
This is their bad.
By "this," I mean an all-time record federal budget deficit that's
bleeding states, cities and towns dry ($374.2 billion for 2003,
doubling last year's deficit and likely to reach $500 billion in
2004).
"This" is a quagmire in Iraq that will not end soon, or well.
"This" is virulent international pariah status, even among allies
(Bush was heckled by Australians and Filipinos! Thai farmers put a
curse on him!).
"This" is setting back environmental progress 100 years. Etc.
In short, the GOP can no longer blame Bill, Hillary, Franklin Delano
or Eleanor.
Their so-called agenda has had time to prove itself, and it has proven
only one thing:
It's a miserable failure on all fronts (economic, environmental,
racial, morality, foreign affairs, even war).
The only things they have to show for themselves are Bush in that
flight suit and 9-11.
These are not reassuring items on which to build a campaign.
Indeed, the foot-dragging on and censoring of the 9-11 probe
(expunging links between Bush's Saudi pals and al Qaeda) and the
ongoing Iraq carnage -- despite Bush in that victorious jock strap --
are too obvious even for Fox viewers to deny.
Telltale signs of GOP desperation are everywhere.
Let me share one from my town.
The "community relations chairman" for the local Republicans has, in a
website posting, called Democrats "neo-Nihilists" who are "greedily
enamored with the destruction of this nation."
Further, Democrats "eschew rational debate," "hate America" and
consider Saddam Hussein "a hero."
Got that, you Al Gore-voting soccer mom?
Then there's George Nethercutt, a Republican running against incumbent
senator, Patty Murray (D-WA).
In a recent speech, echoing GOP talking points, he said, "The story of
what we've done in the postwar period is remarkable. It is a better
and more important story than losing a couple of soldiers every day."
Makes a great campaign slogan, doesn't it?
I mean, for the Democrats.
Or how about this from my Republican Congresswoman Nancy Johnson.
In a recent letter to constituents, she said, "We are in Iraq to help
ourselves and the Iraqi people because 9/11 proved how deeply
intertwined are our lives."
Huh?
Even Bush now admits there was no connection between 9/11 and Iraq.
Since the pretext for this war is gone, even "moderates" like Johnson
are forced to deploy semantic deceits (or what I call Republican
pretzel logic).
Last and least, former first lady Barbara Bush recently described the
12 Democratic candidates for president as a "sorry group."
The Democratic lineup contains two decorated war veterans, a Rhodes
Scholar, a top West Point grad, a longtime legislator, a successful
mayor and governor, and numerous other public servants, none of whom
warrant such an undignified characterization.
Especially not from the matriarch of three substance-abusing
grandchildren,
a felonious whoremonger son (Neil),
ethically challenged son (Marvin),
HMO-fund-embezzler and election thief (Jeb),
coke-sniffing AWOL Air Guard pilot son (W.),
vehicularly homicidal daughter-in-law (Laura) and
father- and grandfather-in-law who traded with Nazi Germany.
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Wonderful family, the Bushes, eh?
Harry
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| User: "James E. Morrow" |
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| Title: Re: Republicans on the Ropes. Future Felons of America in the White House. |
07 Nov 2003 04:44:44 PM |
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In article <7un2qv46o62sb74ocqlefkh6c2pl3h7ttl@4ax.com>,
rivrvu@ix.netcom.com says...
"This" is a quagmire in Iraq that will not end soon, or well.
"This" is virulent international pariah status, even among allies
(Bush was heckled by Australians and Filipinos! Thai farmers put a
curse on him!).
It seems rather strange that you liberal scum mention that our
President was heckled in Australia, but fail to point out that he
was heckled by TWO far left wing members of the Australian
Parliament who were quickly ejected. Not a large demonstration of
disapproval, but TWO Aussie pinko clowns. Your distortion of the
true facts is duly noted.
--
James E. Morrow
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