Plea to American voters:Take down your Out To Lunch signs

[democrank]

How come the entire country isn`t scared half to death over Bush administration policies? I`ll even borrow that brain-engaging "connect the dots" idea. Maybe even call up that famous anti-drug ad with the egg in the frying pan. This is your country. This is your country on Bush. How about a really big mental exercise? This is your world. See those flaming red spots? That`s us invading and bombing. See those piles of dead people? We killed them. In the name of freedom. Makes me almost want to pound my forehead in a...Why didn`t I think of that?...moment.

If we were really the planet`s democracy experts, I think we`d have a paper trail every time we vote. I think the Congress would side with "the people" over the drug companies when it comes to affordable medicines. I think Congress would rein in Dick Cheney and shine a bright light on Halliburton, the taxpayers` official foster child. And, there would be no more six-hour voting lines in minority districts. Why? Since they work for us, Congress would be genuinely anxious to learn about the will of the people. Bush says we`re going to Mars. That makes me think we could invent some reliable voting machines first.

The Bush administration has this interesting Boomerang Politics thing going on. Neat how it works. Couple critics start a reality check so Republican operatives twist the whole thing around and nail the questioner with an unrelated claim. Fake uranium claims? Joe Wilson`s "desk jockey" wife sent him to Niger. No WMDs? Democrats don`t support the troops. Bush was AWOL? CBS source had a fake typewriter. War profiteering? Only Halliburton knows how to service our troops. Broken voting machines? Why are Democratic voters so stupid? See how it works? Toss in corporate media tycoons whose only goal is to promote their sponsor`s products, and Houston...we do have a problem. No bad news is good news.

I know reporters spent over a year dishing up the goods on Michael Jackson`s Neverland Ranch, so when they were flying back and forth overhead, didn`t they notice all those boarded up factories and trees tied with yellow ribbons? At the end of every single day, after I`ve done my best to find out what`s really going on, I step outside and strain to hear music coming from the American Idol set. I listen for the sound of bulldozers chewing their way through some new neighnorhood manufacturing complex. I recheck the mailbox for a catalog supporting Union workers. Most of all, I pray I`ll see a long line of National Guard vehicles heading back home where they belong. How did we get this way? One minute I`m reading something written by Thomas Paine and the next thing I know I get forced to look up the word empire.

[Oversea Visitor]

1. If Bush get to walk away from all this

Who get to own all the hatred that this unjust war has cause.
Who get to suffer for all the future terrorist attack on US.

Don't need to be genius to figure this out.

WAR ON TERROR :rofl: enjoy it hey

[Joy Anne]

2. great essay

Submit it as an op-ed article to your local newspaper.

[greekspeak]

3. Excellent work

Thank you! :toast:

[Toots]

4. invent some reliable voting machines first.

Ummm...We did that a long time ago. It's called Pencil and Paper.

[democrank]

5. Toots, you forgot one thing....

This idea you have...the pencil and paper thing...is apparently too simple an idea for voters or they would have forced their representatives to listen by now.

Congressional "leaders" have activated their world famous rational thinking on the subject. It goes like this: Appoint a commission and give it 14 years to come up with a solution. Then appoint another commission to study the first commission`s results. Hire a few fake journalists to do a "story" on the brand new, easy to use voting machines. When all that`s done, ask Rush Limbaugh`s Ditto Heads to write letters to their editors explaining how the machines in their districts worked fine so that means the valueless, unpatriotic voters on the other side are very stupid. When all that is done, announce to the world that we`re so good at democracy, we`re ordering all vulnerable countries to adopt our system or face certain death.

This pencil-reducing practice worked wonders in Florida and Ohio. Imagine what it can do if invade Iran...or maybe even Venezuela.