America is finally revolting against the Republicans

[T_i_B]

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1922814,00.html

It is one of George Bush's favourite frat boy pranks to grab people in a neck lock. That is appropriate because he and his party have had a stranglehold on America. The Republicans have occupied the White House since 2001. They've controlled the House of Representatives and for most of the time, the Senate as well. Thanks to the appointments made by Bush, the Supreme Court belongs to the right too.

Karl Rove, the grand wizard of strategy known as 'Bush's brain', seemed close to realising his ambition to create a Republican hegemony that would last for a generation. He had a dream of turning America into a one-party state and it was a dream that looked like becoming all too real. A country founded on the idea of the separation of powers has rarely witnessed such a concentration of might in the hands of one party.

Such hubris is always the midwife to nemesis. Suddenly that Republican domination is beginning to crack. This autumn the tectonic plates of American politics are beginning to shift under the feet of President Bush and an increasingly desperate Republican party. When I spoke to Stan Greenberg, the hugely experienced political consultant for the Democrats, he predicted an 'earthquake' in the mid-term elections for a third of the Senate and all of the House of Representatives. Even more tellingly, the Republicans themselves sound very scared that angry voters are about to punish them with a thrashing. Thomas Davis, a Virginian Congressman who is one of his party's most senior strategists, talks about the Republicans losing as many as 30 seats in the House, which would put that half of Congress into the hands of the Democrats for the first time in 12 years.

Some say it is the war. Some say it is the money. Some say it is the sex. Actually, it's all three, a triple-whammy of reasons for Americans to express their disgust with how they are being governed.

[marmar]

1. Once he signs that atrocious torture bill next week...

Perhaps his first action will be declaring most Americans enemy combatants.

[thepurpose]

2. Anyone voting democrat will be an enemy combatant for sure.

[Benhurst]

6. First the elections will be stolen -- then anyone protesting will be

declared an enemy of the "republic."

[Stevepol]

38. The votes will be there for a revolution but unfortunately the voting

machines will be there too, just as rigged and just as impervious to verification as ever.

Wish it were otherwise.

The American people have never voted for this guy; the voting machines rigged the 04 results, along with other methods and devices. Jeb and Katherine Harris and Clay Roberts, et al. in FL swung FL and the election to Bush in 2000.

The machines gave the Congress to Bush in 02.

Simple as that.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. To paraphrase parody-song composer, Allan Sherman, that's because

the Republicans are revolting to more Americans than ever before.


You Went The Wrong Way, Old King Louie
by Allan Sherman

Louis the Sixteenth was the King of France in 1789.
He was worse than Louis the Fifteenth.
He was worse than Louis the Fourteenth.
He was worse than Louis the Thirteenth.
He was the worst since Louis the First.
King Louis was living like a king, but the people were living rotten.
So the people, they started an uprising which they called the
French Revolution, and of course you remember their battle cry,
which will never be forgotten:

You went the wrong way, Old King Louie.
You made the population cry.
'Cause all you did was sit and pet
With Marie Antoinette
In your place at Versailles.

And now the country's gone kablooie.
So we are giving you the air.
That oughta teach you not to
Spend all your time fooling 'round
At the Folies Bergere.

If you had been a nicer king,
We wouldn't do a thing,
But you were bad, you must admit.
We're gonna take you and the Queen
Down to the guillotine,
And shorten you a little bit.

You came the wrong way, Old King Louie.
And now you ain't got far to go.
Too bad you won't be here to see
That great big Eiffel Tower,
Or Brigitte Bardot.

To you King Louie we say fooey.
You disappointed all of France.
But then what else could we expect
From a king in silk stockings
And pink satin pants.

You filled your stomach with chop suey.
And also crepe suzettes and steak.
And when they told your wife Marie
That nobody had bread, she said
"Let 'em eat cake."

We're gonna take you and the Queen
Down to the guillotine,
It's somewhere in the heart of town.
And when that fella's through
With what he's gonna do,
You'll have no place to hang your crown.

You came the wrong way Old King Louie.
Now we must put you on the shelf.
That's why the people are revolting, 'cause Louie,
You're pretty revolting yourself!

[wtmusic]

5. A classic

and a relevant one!

[valerief]

26. Funny! And I was singing the original song myself just yesterday. nt

[Frazzled Educator]

36. "Your majesty, the peasants are revolting.

You said it, they stink on ice."

- Mel Brooks
"History of the World, Part 1"

The people are revolting because the Republicans stink on ice.

[jarnocan]

4. good because our World Can't Wait too much pain and horror

www.worldcantwait.net

[Peace Patriot]

7. I stronly disagree with points in this paragraph (later in the article):

"President Bush has again tried to use national security as his trump card in this election. The terror of terror worked for the Republicans in 2002 and again in 2004. It is not working this time. The opinion polls all agree: a majority of Americans now feel that Iraq is getting worse, and that the war was a mistake which has left them less secure."

The U.S. voting system was completely transformed, between 2002 and 2004, into electronic voting, run on TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by Bushite corporations. And they are...

DIEBOLD: Until recently, headed by Wally O'Dell, a Bush-Cheney campaign chair and major fundraiser (a Bush "Pioneer," right up there with Ken Lay), who promised in writing to "deliver Ohio's electoral votes to Bush-Cheney in 2004"; and

ES&S: A spinoff of Diebold (similar computer architecture), initially funded by rightwing billionaire Howard Ahmanson, who also gave one million dollars to the extremist 'christian' Chalcedon Foundation (which touts the death penalty for homosexuals, among other things). Diebold and ES&S have an incestuous relationship; they are run by two brothers, Bob and Todd Urosevich.

These are the people who "counted" 80% of the nation's votes in 2004, under a veil of corporate secrecy.

This coup was engineered by the biggest crooks in the Anthrax Congress, Tom Delay and Bob Ney (now indicted, and resigned in disgrace for other crimes), abetted by corporatist 'Democrats' like Christopher Dodd. They appropriated $3.9 billion with which to bribe and corrupt election officials across the country, to fast-track these extremely insecure and insider hackable computer systems prior to the 2004 election.

Some were in operation in 2002, notably in Georgia--an all electronic system with no paper trail--where Democrat Max Cleland's 15% lead in the US Senate race was flipped over on election day into a loss. Cleland is a paraplegic Vietnam war vet--lost three limbs there--whom the Bushites portrayed as a friend of Osama bin Laden in TV ads. This is a good example of how Rove's pre-written narratives for post-election "explanations" of their miraculous victories work. They commit some outrageous act, like this slander on Cleland, Diebold fiddles the vote for them, then they claim that the attack ad "worked"--that it convinced voters that this veteran in a wheelchair with three limbs missing is a traitor.

This is where the myth comes from that American voters got spooked by "terrorism" in 2002 and 2004. It is mostly a fabrication.

That is mistake no. 1 in the cited paragraph--that "The terror of terror worked for the Republicans in 2002 and again in 2004." Diebold worked. The "terror of terror" didn't. And by 2004, Americans were laughing out loud at Bush's ridiculous "orange" alerts--these pile of little "terra" newsturds piling up in the newsstream as the 2004 election approached.

Mistake no. 2 is this, that "...a majority of Americans NOW feel that Iraq is getting worse." (emphasis added)

The majority of Americans opposed Bush's war from the very beginning, from way back before the invasion. 56% opposed (Feb. '03). 56%! That would be a landslide in a presidential election.

Opposition to the war dipped only once, in the few weeks of the invasion (in '03) with U.S. troops at max risk, then went right back up to the mid-50%'s where it stayed throughout the 2004 election, along with other, even more overwhelmingly anti-Bush opinions, such as 63% of Americans opposed to torture "under any circumstances" (May '04).

Opposition to the war is now in the 70% range, so there HAS been an increase in opposition--as the paragraph avers--but the opposition BEGAN as a significant majority. And to say that Bushites won the 2004 election, and then to imply that that phony "win" was because of the war, is simply wrong. Bush "won" because his buds at Diebold and ES&S were "counting" all the votes with SECRET programming

In the months leading up to Nov. '04, Americans were flocking to the Democratic Party in an effort to oust the Bush Junta. The Democrats blew the Bushites away in new voter registration in 2004, nearly 60/40. All other election stats and indicators, and election analysis, points the same way, including the corporate news monopolies' own exit polls (Kerry by 3%--that's after all the vote suppression). The news monopolies then DOCTORED their exit polls on election night, to force the exit polls (Kerry won) to fit the results of Diebold/ES&S's secret formulae (Bush won). (See www.TruthIsAll.net.) As for the critical state of Ohio (and the antiquated Electoral College vote), hundreds of thousands of mostly African-Americans (Democratic voters) were forced to vote on "provisional" ballots which were later tossed out by Bushite election officials (the differerence between Kerry and Bush). When the Congressional Black Caucus challenged these Electors for Bush, only one Democratic Senator stood with them (Barbara Boxer), and the Diebold Congress of course ignored and ridiculed the challenge.

The allegation that the Democrats lost the 2004 election because of a weak candidate (John Kerry) is belied by the fact that the great majority of former Nader voters (Green voters) THIS TIME voted for Kerry, as did the great majority of new voters, and the great majority of independent voters. The campaign to elect Kerry was a powerful grass roots coalition of rank and file Democrats, and everybody on the left, who compromised with the Democrtic Party leadership in order to get Bush out. After the election, Rove or Cheney was asked how they won, and they said it was their "invisible" get-out-the-vote campaign "in the churches." Invisible it was--and not real. There is NO evidence of any significant increase in the Bush/Cheney base voters; whereas there is quite significant evidence of a major shift to the Democrats and a Democratic win.

The election was SET UP--deliberately, with $3.9 billion in funding to fast-track the Bushite-controlled electronics--to be non-transparent and unverifiable. One third of the country voted on these machines with no paper trail at all--unauditable, unrecountable elections. The rest had entirely inadequate auditing--and many states with 0% auditing--through which any amount of vote stealing could be done with these hackable machines and central tabulators, which many election officials had no understanding of, with others were too corrupt to care.

Americans are much better informed, and far more progressive, than anyone gives them credit for. But the one thing they have not been smart about is the radical change to the voting system. This may be because of the corporate news monopolies' BLACKOUT of news about this vital subject (really, people in the UK have NO idea what it's like living under this "Iron Curtain" of corporate-controlled news), and also--and perhaps even more critically--the complicity of the Democratic Party leadership (chief culprit, DNC chair Terry McAuliffe; also, the aforementioned Dodd). Most of our leaders were either scared pissless by that time, or so corrupted by the corporate rulers and war profiteers that they saw nothing wrong with Bushite corporations "counting" all the votes with secret code.

It's taken a while for word of mouth to work. That's what we're reduced to, over here. Word of mouth and the internet. The story of this inherently fraudulent voting SYSTEM, and its extremely insecure and insider hackable voting machines, is finally breaking into the corporate news, four years too late. It's all in place now, ready to fiddle these mid-term Congressonal electons toward some combo of Bushite Democrats (like those who voted for torture and suspension of habeas corpus last week) and outright Bushites, to maintain a safe majority for Bush (against impeachment, and serious investigation of his regime's multiple high crimes and misdemeanors).

BUT...but, but, but, American voters are in REVOLT. News is coming in of a huge shift to Absentee Ballot (paper ballot) voting in distrust and defiance of the machines. It also seems that there will be a high level of voter turnout for midterm elections (evidenced also in the surge of requests for AB votes). So what we may get out of this election is ELECTION REFORM. If enough people vote by Absentee Ballot--if everyone who despises the Bush Junta, 60% to 70% of the American people, votes by AB--election officials will be forced to reform the system, or resign. They cannot defend this rigged system IF NOBODY WILL VOTE ON THEIR RIGGED MACHINES!

So there is hope that the '08 primaries and general election (for president) can be saved from Bushite-corporate vote counting.

Killing our democracy was a long term project of the fascist rightwing billionaires who are running this country now. Getting our democracy back will be a long term project of the American people. I think we will succeed. I think we will see American Revolution II--the peaceful one--before the end of the decade. And we will learn how to do it from the South Americans, whose decade of hard work on transparent elections and empowerment of the majority (especially the disenfranchised poor) has resulted in strong, peaceful, leftist (majorityist) governments now covering virtually the entire continent, building strong regional political and economic alliances, and looking to the future with outpourings of effort in education, indigenous businesses, the use of natural resources for the benefit of the people, economic diversification, medical care and other helps for the poor, rejection of US/World Bank/IMF policies, and national and regional pride and self-determination.

We have a long way to go to match the South Americans' devotion to democracy and to constitutional government. Their example is heartening.

[disndat]

19. I am glad

that someone has mentioned that Terry McAucliffe was a definite negative in the Gore campaign, '00. A shady character who has now joined the Hillary Clinton campaign for '08. He must be one of Hillary's conduits for Wall Street money. Something to watch as the H.C. presidential campaign goes into high gear. after November.

[krkaufman]

24. McAuliffe was also behind the jiggering of the Dem Primaries in '04...

... which tilted the advantage to whomever could win the early primaries, effectively killing any real democratic process within the party.

[jaysunb]

34. Outstanding Post !

Simply " outstanding !"

I wish every American could read your simple and concise explanation of what has happened and why.

Please diary this. It's too good to not be more widely read.

:toast:

[connecticut yankee]

35. If the Dems take back the Congress

can we get rid of Diebold in time for the 2008 election?

[kenfrequed]

40. Chalcedon???

Dear gods that organization isn't just an extremist Christian org, it's a theocratic Christian reconstructionist organization.

Any organization giving money to such a group should be extremely suspect!!!!

[RestoreGore]

8. Do people really think they are going to let this happen?n.t

[robbedvoter]

9. Saddens me to see all that false hope...

[RestoreGore]

11. It's reality n/t

[civildisoBDence]

12. Don't give them more power than they already have

No one has the power to negate the will of the people, conspiracy theories notwithstanding.

Newsprism

[RestoreGore]

13. Was Bush The Will Of The People?

And I didn't give any more power to them that they didn't already have...That would be CONGRESS that did that also without MY consent, and a majority of compliant, lazy, brainwashed people in this country who simply cannot comprehend how huge a responsibility it is to be vigilant about their government. So please don't come at me with comments about how the will of the people cannot be negated. It was in 2000, and it is going to be even more negated next week when Habeus Corpus will officially have a stake driven through its heart by the man you then claim is there by the "will of the people."

[Arugula Latte]

16. I don't get what you said.

Do you really think it's a conspiracy theory that voting machines have been tampered with? Where have you been for the last few years?

The will of the people CAN be negated and HAS been negated several times, most notably Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004.

[Skittles]

27. oh my

you need to read a history book and double-check what bush inc has been signing in to law lately

[frogcycle]

39. You must think the Constitution can't

be ripped up and thrown away. Of course they have the power to negate the will of the people. As soon as they brush aside the last of the laws and "quaint" documents they declare martial law, start herding people into internment camps...

The "power" is jackboots and guns. You think the holocaust victims didn't have a "will" not to be gassed?

Sound paranoid? Look, nothing is forever. The Roman Empire did fall. Coups de etat occur with great frequency. Just because our form of government, with its "checks and balances" and "free and independent press" worked for 200+ years, you can't assume it cannot be dismantled and a one-party (Baath, perhaps?) rule imposed.

[melody]

44. and if we think like that

We're giving the battle away before it has even been joined. That's what the American Tories counts on -- our capacity to discourage ourselves.

I won't let anyone kill my hope anymore, ever again. I lived that way for two years. We *will* peacefully, legally restore our system of government by using the very Constitution they claim is
still intact. If it isn't intact, then it will be obvious to all. If it is, then it's only a matter
of time before saner heads who are actually patriotic citizens and not the treasonous scum we have in
office now, will prevail.

[frogcycle]

45. well of course

I'm just saying we need to be aware of who/what they are. I don't mean to discourage, I mean to energize!

[melody]

47. imo, that kind of thinking doesn't energize

For a good portion of people, it would be a self-defeating mechanism.

[frogcycle]

48. pardon the big splash of cold water, but

"that kind of thinking" is cold hard reality

"No one has the power to negate the will of the people" is dangerous naiveté.

The idea that our republic is invincible, that the Constitution will somehow prevail without people aggressively countering efforts to nullify it is complacency and can lead to the end of the Republic.

I hope it does not cause a "good portion of people" to just give up and say "ok do with me as you will"

America needs a wake-up call. This is not just a game, with them up a couple of points. Just playing harder won't work when the deck is stacked, the voting machines are rigged, the media has largely been bought off, and much of the government has been bought off.

It is my fervent hope that "the will of the people" will be expressed so overwhelmingly, while playing by the rules, that we will be able to reverse this downward spiral. But we absolutely, positively MUST be aware that they aren't going to rest, and they will damned well will "negate the will of the people" any way they can.

Anyone who gies up and says all is lost pretty much deserves the result.

[melody]

49. what works for you doesn't work for everyone

If you need "wake-up calls" and "cold splashes of reality", then by all means, avail yourself. To further
torture and overwork the metaphor, I woke up in the cold, I'll die in the cold, I live on the bits of warmth,
like a lot of people do. One way the right-wing (as demonstrated in all the Psych Ops studies) has kept us
at bay is by defeating us before we even get going. When you add to that, you're only doing the work for them.
The "wake up call people" are attacking a large section of their own base when they use this kind
of sustained invective. And if you care more about embracing your "wake up call" than properly addressing the
requirements of the people to whom you are addressing your comments, then you pretty much deserve the result *you* get.

Not everyone is like you. Speak to your own people who need wake-up calls. We each talk
to our own, which is why I made the point.

[frogcycle]

50. ok, i'll shut up

but please watch this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8aOiMmekGk

[melody]

52. I've watched that -- that is beside the point

And I don't want you to shut up, I just refuse to.

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. Yes, but be careful with the onslaught of well-wishers. Some of them

are just followers, trying to follow the trend of popularity, and not really committed to the cause. I absolutely despise people who put political signs on their lawns for Democratic candidates and I happen to know those people are the very kinds that the Democrats would prefer not to be associated with, because they lack the ability to be unselfish when it comes to community service.

[The Watchman]

14. The Most powerful Bush Machine isn't a "DIEBOLD"

Its the get out the vote stormtroopers and that well oiled "Oroveian" (orwell w/ a twist of Rove) machine that is kicking into high gear.. over the next few weeks we will see a massive effort to reshift the debate to being scared about brown men attacking us, today Saddam's verdict is supposed to be annonced, then Bush talks about his torture bill, then we discover a new plot and foil it and maybe, just maybe, we pull Osama out of the freezer. I predict the topic of discussion will be on Nov. 8th is why the dems fell short and should Howard Dean be fired for his poor proformance. (more media bull)

Be Vigilant.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/15/us/politics/15base.html?hp&ex=1160971200&en=15fe2312eee67b93&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[NewJeffCT]

15. They control almost all the lower courts, too

Yes, when Bush decries activist judges, he is most likely denouncing courts that have a majority of Republic appointees sitting on them.

so, the control is not just the White House, Congress & the Supreme Court - it's also the other federal courts.

[Up2Late]

17. It's about time!

But, we all know that they don't catch on too quick.

[GreenTea]

18. Keep Democrats complacent is what I see when I read items like this.

Sure the voters are unhappy and the Dem's can win. There needs to be a huge Democratic turnout for that to happen.

However, I also see what a great complacencey tool items like this are as well...Republicans will try every tiny & large trick (Diebold) to keep power and they don't play fair if they did, there would only be a hand full in office.

So I'm always suspect never complacent, I know how slimy and diabolical the republicans are.

[Chipster]

20. Unprecedently Unaccountable

I see that our last constitutionally-elected President Clinton went to Iowa yesterday and talked about how the people know that "something is wrong in Washington"...ah, Bill, it's more than one thing...

"I have never seen the American people so serious," said Clinton. "I think I know why. People know things are out of whack. The rhythm of our public life and our common life in America has been disturbed."...yeah, our common life may be disturbed, but that's not all...

Regarding the MIT study that Bush's Iraqi war has cost 655K civilians their lives, note how casually this Reagan Republican author, John Paul Roberts, remarks:

"When asked about the report, President Bush stated, "I don't consider it a credible report." Bush, of course, is not reality-based, and he knows that any unfavorable news is "enemy propaganda." That's what the neocons who pull his strings tell him, and that is what he believes."

WoW! Such a stunning assertion, made so casually by a Reagan Republican...as if we heard in a former time "Well, yes, of course, the king is mad...perhaps a crumpet with your tea?" Look how callously and casually Bush dismisses the report of thousands of civilan deaths in his Iraqi war.

But man, is Bill ever going to be in trouble with Hillary! Check this:

Bill Clinton joked about the speculation. "I am under no illusions as to why I'm here," he said. "You were so desperate for a Democrat with any name recognition at all who isn't running for president that you resorted to the chief caseworker to the junior senator from New York."

Chief caseworker? She's gonna be on HIS case, LOL!

President Clinton coined a great phrase when he "called the Bush administration and the Republican-led Congress 'unprecedentedly unaccountable' and said tax cuts for the rich have led to huge deficits." I'd argue that the phrase could more correctly be "unpresidentally unaccountable" given how Usurper Boy got into office.

"In Iraq, which is famous for no-bid contracts, $9 billion has gone missing and there has been no serious congressional investigation," said Clinton. "There's never been a more secretive, unaccountable administration."

President Clinton may be vastly underestimating how much taxpayers' money was squandered, leaving our nation, our children and their children, a huge burdensome debt.

"The 15-month proconsulship of the CPA disbursed nearly $20 billion, two-thirds of it in cash, most of which came from the Development Fund for Iraq that had replaced the UN Oil for Food Program and from frozen and seized Iraqi assets. Most of the money was flown into Iraq on C-130s in huge plastic shrink-wrapped pallets holding 40 “cashpaks,” each cashpak having $1.6 million in $100 bills. Twelve billion dollars moved that way between May 2003 and June 2004, drawn from accounts administered by the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The $100 bills weighed an estimated 363 tons.

Once in Iraq, there was virtually no accountability over how the money was spent. There was also considerable money “off the books,” including as much as $4 billion from illegal oil exports. The CPA and the Iraqi State Oil Marketing Board, which it controlled, made a deliberate decision not to record or “meter” oil exports, an invitation to wholesale fraud and black marketeering.

Thus the country was awash in unaccountable money. British sources report that the CPA contracts that were not handed out to cronies were sold to the highest bidder, with bribes as high as $300,000 being demanded for particularly lucrative reconstruction contracts.

The contracts were especially attractive because no work or results were necessarily expected in return. It became popular to cancel contracts without penalty, claiming that security costs were making it too difficult to do the work. A $500 million power-plant contract was reportedly awarded to a bidder based on a proposal one page long. After a joint commission rejected the proposal, its members were replaced by the minister, and approval was duly obtained. But no plant has been built.

Where contracts are actually performed, their nominal cost is inflated sufficiently to provide handsome bribes for everyone involved in the process. Bribes paid to government ministers reportedly exceed $10 million.

Money also disappeared in truckloads and by helicopter. The CPA reportedly distributed funds to contractors in bags off the back of a truck. In one notorious incident in April 2004, $1.5 billion in cash that had just been delivered by three Blackhawk helicopters was handed over to a courier in Erbil, in the Kurdish region, never to be seen again. Afterwards, no one was able to recall the courier’s name or provide a good description of him."

[L0oniX]

21. I can't wait for these ass carrots to get p00ped out of orfice

[nebenaube]

25. yer burro is a web bug!

the burro image is from 2ni2.com which is a spy site that my zonealarm blocked.

[raccoon]

41. thanks for the heads up. nt

[Eric J in MN]

22. From his lips to God's ears. (NT)

NT

[krkaufman]

23. Kudos to real journalism.... The Colbert Report

From the Guardian article...

You have to say, it couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of people. Lynn Westmoreland is running for re-election as a Republican congressman in Georgia. His sole legislative initiative has been to press a bill requiring that the Ten Commandments be displayed in the House and the Senate. He then had to confess on television: 'I can't name them all.' In fact, he could barely name three of the commandments that he was so keen on.

Catch the interview here, on YouTube. This guy is a total boob; makes me wonder how he got elected. (Though Colbert and his editors can make about anybody look foolish, this guy didn't require much help.)

[iconoclastic cat]

28. Whenever I read about "tectonic plates, " I get mad at Josh Marshall. nt

[AIJ Alom]

29. But the people were able to see through the greed of those in power and

realized it was time for a new path.

[Marrak]

30. And the rats will scurry...

These criminals will be scared to death of their own shadows soon, and will say and do anything to save their cojones.
<>
That's what rats do.

[francium22]

31. bush sucks

[Arugula Latte]

33. Welcome to DU, francium22!

:hi: :toast:

[jazzjunkysue]

32. America Finally Finds Republicans Revolting

Ok. Somebody had to say it.
:hi:

[stonecoldsober]

37. Interesting comment to the article

RScully

October 15, 2006 06:42 AM


"Even so, I'm praying for Republican victory in the midterms. The Republicans may be poor at fighting wars, but they are expert at deflecting blame.

If the Democrats win a house, a few years from now the Republicans will be able to somehow convince themselves and most of America that they would have won in Iraq if not for the evil liberals.

Why not? They already say that about Vietnam, even though it was Democrats who increased troops there and a Republican, Nixon, who was elected on a promise to bring them home.

In 1918, the German right handed power over to the SPD just as Germany's Western front armies began to collapse. This enabled them to create their Dolchstoss myth, the idea that German defeat in WWI was the fault of the left. And we all know where those crazy fantasies led.

Let the Republicans carry this can to the end of the road. Let it sink into their slow-witted supporters' heads just how wrong and venal and incompetent they are. Give them enough rope to utterly discredit their warped philosophy.

If, like me, you see today's America as a major threat to world peace, you are much better off with the Republicans. I doubt if those guys could plan a successful war against Costa Rica. And Costa Rica has no army.
They are grinding the US Army and Marine Corps down to a state of near-uselessness. Their reserves and Guard are in even worse shape.

Another two years in Iraq, and I guarantee you the US Armed Forces that emerge won't be in shape for any illegal invasions for quite a while.

So I say Go GOP in 2006! And Down with America!"

[LaCrosseDem]

42. You said it... they stink on ice!

God I love Mel Brooks

[dunn]

43. And he didn't even mention Katrina n/t

[onehandle]

46. Two years too late, morons. nt

[IntiRaymi]

51. AMERICA FINALLY AGAINST THE REVOLTING REPUBLICANS

:dem::dem::dem: