Time Person Of The Year: The Republican Party

[longship]

Former Lloyd Bentsen staffer, Brent Budowsky, has written a compelling argument for Time Magazine choosing the Republican Party as the "Person of the Year". It's also a very good take down of the party of war, torture, vacations, and corruption. It's one of the best reads in some time.

Time Person of the Year: The Republican Party, Which Impeached Bill Clinton For Nothing, Then Gave Us This

Here's an excerpt:

The President, with approval from Republicans in Congress, misrepresented intelligence to drive our country to war, with fear, while the Republicans in Congress, protecting him, covered up the report that would expose it.

The President, ignoring the advice of generals and demeaning those who courageously tried to warn us, with support and silence by the Republicans in Congress, approved a war plan that began with grotesque miscalculation, was conducted with war on the cheap, used troops like the toy soldiers of ideologues. and risked their safety as the petty cash of their partisan politics.

The President, cheered by the throngs of the one party Republican Congress, instituted an Iraq Reconstruction with the Proconsul he named, staffed that Reconstruction with Republican campaign operatives, stiffed that Reconstruction with war profiteers of gargantuan greed, who stuffed their pockets with taxpayers money while our troops shed their blood in patriotism, and the Republican Congress shed their responsibility for oversight, one of the great derelictions of duty in history.

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This list could continue almost indefinitely, to make my point, but need not here, except for this: as the selection committee makes its decision for Time's person of the year there are rightful fears of future investigations, future revelations, future indictment, future conviction at every Republican level of the Republican Administration, Republicans in Congress, and Republican donors who gave dirty money to protect themselves in Republican Washington.

This is the party that impeached Bill Clinton for nothing?

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much more at link

This rant deserves the DU front-page. Please promote it.

[Blue Fire]

1. You reap what you sow.....

I hope the rethugs enjoy their well-earned harvest!

[valerief]

2. k&r

:kick:

[ninkasi]

3. Good article

K&R

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

4. Wow, What a rant! Great reading...

Giving this thread a big K&R
:kick:

[cascadiance]

5. Should be "the Republic Party"! :)

Nancy Pelosi rules now!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2916711&mesg_id=2916711

[longship]

6. Whoa! You go girl. nt

:kick:

[Blue Fire]

7. I copied this to one of my favorite 'dueling' sites.

It should be amusing to see what these folks have to say!
Along with a well-deserved vote for front page!

[longship]

8. You should have provided a link on your post.

The article is much longer than I have quoted above.
There's much more argument in the entire article.

You might want to edit your post on "Right Wing Forum"

[Blue Fire]

10. I did.

It's connected to the word 'this' in the opening sentence. I don't want to make things too easy for 'em - they need the mental exercise!

[longship]

14. Ooops! Missed that.

Sorry. ;-)

[lazyriver]

9. That was a damned good read...thanks! Recommended n/t

[FredStembottom]

11. Wow. I might buy a Time magazine - for the 1st time in 20 years!

n/t

[FredStembottom]

12. Wait. Nevermond.

This isn't from Time magazine.

Of course not.

[longship]

13. If it happens.

Time is so stupid, they'll probably give it to Tom DeLay, or someone like that.


However, Budowsky really nails it here. The Republic Party really deserves to be honored for their utter raping of the US Republic.

[Old Smokey]

15. excellent read

such a sack of shit congress.

[jillan]

16. Budowsky writes some interesting opinions.

I really enjoy his writings.

[EVDebs]

17. The cover pic for the mag should show the Three Stooges...

Bush, Cheney, and Rummy. Bush as Curly !

[indepat]

18. The past three 'puke Congresses have been the most venal, corrupt, greedy, un-American,

liberty-, freedom-, and Constitution-wrecking legislative bodies in the history of any democratic Republic: their abrogation of their constitutional responsibilities and other nonfeasanance, misfeasance, and malfeasance will forever live in infamy. That's the only remotely nice things I can say about them.

[sofa king]

19. They're in great company.

Time's continuing series of "assholes of the year."