Even Republicans Fear Bush: John Nichols

[punpirate]

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1031-30.htm

A couple of nuggets:

"The two 'Say No to Bush' signs in my yard say it all. The present Republican president has led us into an unjustified war -- based on misguided and blatantly false misrepresentations of the threat of weapons of mass destruction. The terror seat was Afghanistan. Iraq had no connection to these acts of terror and was not a serious threat to the United States, as this president claimed, and there was no relation, it's now obvious, to any serious weaponry. Although Saddam Hussein is a frightful tyrant, he posed no threat to the United States when we entered the war. George W. Bush's arrogant actions to jump into Iraq when he had no plan how to get out have alienated the United States from our most trusted allies and weakened us immeasurably around the world... This imperialistic, stubborn adherence to wrongful policies and known untruths by the Cheney-Bush administration -- and that's the accurate order -- has simply become more than I can stand."

-- Former Minnesota Governor Elmer Andersen, a Republican, endorsing Kerry in an opinion piece published in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, October 13, 2004. Andersen argued in the piece that, "I am more fearful for the state of this nation than I have ever been -- because this country is in the hands of an evil man: Dick Cheney. It is eminently clear that it is he who is running the country, not George W. Bush."


"Nixon was a prince compared to these guys."

-- Former U.S. Representative Pete McCloskey, R-California, from an article in the Palo Alto Weekly, September 8, 2004. McCloskey, who is active with Republicans for Kerry, says of members of the Bush administration, "These people believe God has told them what to do. They've high jacked the Republican Party we once knew."

[TaleWgnDg]

1. Yes, how very true . . .

Someone knowledgeable about D.C. politics has similar thoughts regarding George W. Bush and his cronies. Former White House counsel for Richard Nixon who testified against Nixon at the Watergate congressional hearings has written a book about it, and was interviewed:

"While no conspiracy theorist, a still-cautious (John W.) Dean admits to the occasional glance over his shoulder for any sign of Bush's top political strategist, Karl Rove. 'Let me put it this way,' Dean says, carving into a chef's salad at the hotel restaurant. 'I didn't write all I know about Karl Rove. One thing I do know is that he has eyes and ears all over the country. It's part of an apparatus he's spent a lifetime setting up. So it's not in total jest when I say I live in fear of Karl Rove sleeper cells.' " -- Los Angeles Times reporter John M. Glionna, May 9, 2004, "Then and Now Nixon's Ex-Counsel Blasts Secrecy of Bush White House," quoting John W. Dean from Dean's new book entitled "Worse Than Watergate." Dean was the star Congressional witness in the Watergate impeachment hearings of Nixon in 1974.

[Demeter]

2. Well then, It's Time That Bush and Cheney and Rove

start living in fear of us, the people.

[TaleWgnDg]

3. indeed . . . n/t