Where is the outrage, Bush supporters?

[Stinky The Clown]

Where is the outrage, Bush supporters?

You've been lied to ......... over and over and over.

Bush told you, in 1999, that the economy was on the verge of a recession. That wasn't true. At first. But then Bush gave those huge tax cuts to his close friends. His base, is what he called them. Voila! Recession. And you thought you were his base, didn't you? Well .... he lied.

Bush also told you in 1999 that our military was broken and if asked, much of it would have to say 'Not ready for duty, Sir.' But then, during the 'shock and awe' show, they performed 'magnificently'. That was all before he did anything one way or the other to change the military. In fact, that was President Clinton's military. The military for which Al Gore said he would increase funding. Well, once again, Bush lied to you. In the aftermath of 'shock and awe', he began systematic cuts in military funding. Not the funding that underwrites war, but the funding that underwrites the welfare of the warriors. Lie upon lie.

On September 11, 2001, our country was attacked. Bush climbed atop the rubble that was the remains of 3000 dead people and, through his bullhorn and with his arm around the shoulders of a veteran fireman, said he would hunt the perpetrator and get him 'dead or alive'. Virtually at the same time, he was already diverting funds from that action to begin the preparation for a war that did not need to be fought. Now, some four years later, Osama bin Laden remains at large. That promise made on the graves of 3000 dead people? Fatuous. A lie. Pure and simple.

Bush righteously invaded Afghanistan, the country where those who hit us and killed more than 3000 souls were reputed to have trained. But even that righteous invasion was at least a partial lie. The perpetrators were not from there. They were from Saudi Arabia. If that invasion were not a lie, it was, at least, a shell game of misdirection. In a word, I suppose, it could be called ..... a lie.

And while you thought he was working hard to get bin Laden, he really wasn't. He was diverting billions to soften up his Daddy's old enemy, Saddam. He lied to you as he went about achieving a two-fer. One-upping his Daddy and securing the second richest oil reserves in the world. When he thought the softening was ripe, he regaled you with visions of mushroom clouds. All that, however, is now shown to have been a lie, the truth being in the British meeting minutes given to a reporter who covers the Downing Street beat in London. The rest of the truth is in the current cover up of his staff's actions to deflect and obscure the truth in the words of a former ambassador by exposing his wife as a CIA NOC operative.

Bush promised a new tone in Washington. I know he led you to think this new tone would be honesty and integrity. Well, in truth, we had that already. But you remember all that sex from the last administration. So you thought he meant morality. Well, once again he lied.

There's nothing moral about lying to the entire country.

There's nothing moral about favoring energy companies over states where energy was regulated for the common good.

There's nothing moral about a campaign of fear to keep you voting for the guy 'who will keep you safe'.

There's nothing moral about killing thousands of foreign nationals and several thousands of our own military in an elective war.

There's nothing moral about a war of 'preemption'.

There's nothing moral about revealing CIA secrets for purely vindictive and political purposes.

There's nothing moral about continuing to employ as his highest political adviser a man who does the deed of outing an agent.

There's nothing moral about withholding funding for vital stem cell research.

There's nothing moral about marginalizing the view of over half the country's citizens.

There's nothing moral about imposing a de facto state religion.

In truth, there's nothing moral about anything done by George Bush. And yet he would have you think him a moral man. And if you think that, you would be accepting a lie.

[Clark2008]

1. Now, if we could just pull their fingers out of their ears

and the blindfolds off their eyes so that they might actually listen to and see what you're saying, we'd be halfway there.

But, alas, the Bushbots will use Limpballs' fat fingers to poke their eardrums and hide their eyes behind Mann Coulter's blonde hair. They'll sup from Insannity's insane cup and never drink the truth - sadly, only Kool-Aid is allowed in neo-theo-con drinkware.

But, we should ask these questions of the Bushbots. They will either have to face reality or will run to the comfort of their lying Reich-wing media.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Frustrating. And yet, one of the messageboards I peek in on that has

a high number of ** fans seems to have fallen quiet lately, so I guess that must mean that they are at least aware of the seriousness of the situation. And they aren't all jumping up to support ** either.

http://romantictimes.com/forums.php?state=showforum&ID=374&rtnum=935649186

[gratuitous]

2. Explanation: Politics über alles

Our guys are in power, so whatever they did, whatever they do, is okay with us. Might makes right.

[Skarbrowe]

3. Nothing, ever, will turn these people against Bush. I was at Busch Gardens

last week watching some Katonga show. Right before I sat down to watch the show ( really to get out of the unbearable heat ) I quietly made the comment to my friend.."This country is going to fall apart if we don't get these Republicans out of office." We had been discussing a privacy issue several minutes before we entered the building. Now, I said this practically under my breath. This young guy in front of me had this HUGE head. I couldn't see around him so I decided to sleep through the show. My friend was trying to wake me up when it was over and all the people were leaving and I heard this guy, I knew it was the one with the giant head, turn to me from several seats down and yell something at me.

I turned to my friend and said ...Wha??..She told me he had yelled.."The Republicans are the ONLY THING HOLDING THIS COUNTRY TOGETHER!. I was still in that rigor sleep mode and I couldn't even comment. heh

Point being, that I felt the venom from this guy not even hearing what he said. After I realized that he had overheard a very quiet comment I had made, I knew then, even more than I already have known, that we are in a deep, deep civil war in this country. The Republicans, or at least 99 percent of them will stick by Bush and any other Republican regardless of any incompetence or criminality of which they can be proven.

I didn't feel that loyal to Clinton. EVER.

It's a brand new scary world.

[KansDem]

4. Yeah, it must be pretty hard to be a Republican these days...

The cognitive dissonance must be both mind-numbing and suffocating!

[ComerPerro]

6. They are all too drugged up to care

Whether its Prozac/Xanax, the hype of being "at war", blind patriotism, religious fanaticism, partisan conservative ideology, or just an all-around smug sense of self-satisfaction, most Bush supporters are too high to care about anything like that.

They are too stupid to know they are being lied to, or they are too complacent to care.

[Zorra]

7. 1934: "Where is the outrage

Hitler supporters?"

I have come to this conclusion:

Conservatives have much lower moral and ethical standards than the rest of the majority of the human race, and we must recognize this fact if we are to deal with them effectively and prevent them from damaging our world with their collective conscienceless psychopathy.

We cannot, and should not, project our value system onto them because they do not adhere to the same standards of common decency and morality.

What we do need to learn how to do, IMO, is to learn how to keep these people "contained" in order to keep them from indiscriminately and consciencelessly killing and maiming others en masse, destroying our natural environment, destroying our democratic freedoms, etc.

Because, having few or no morals, this is what conservatives inevitably do after they ruthlessly ascend to power through their nefarious manipulations of public opinion, electoral processes, and undemocratic alteration of the processes of government.

[Skarbrowe]

8. Wonderfully expressed Zorra. Do you mind if I keep this? Quote it maybe.

"We cannot, and should not, project our value system onto them because they do not adhere to the same standards of common decency and morality."

I especially love that sentence. I've been trying to say what you have said for ages, but you can obviously write. Heh, I can't.