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No DUplicitous DUpe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 10:27 AM
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From SFGate.com "The Storm That Ate The GOP ....
A Really Good Read!!

The Storm That Ate The GOP
Who will pity the soulless Republican Party now that Katrina is mauling their regime?
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/

Snip:{Cheney wondering...}
"We torture innocent detainees in Iraq and abuse inmates at Guantánamo and chip away at women's rights and demonize homosexuals, and we strip the forests and gut the Clean Air Act and pollute the water and devastate the economy and cut welfare spending (whew!), and still the lemming people think we're gods because we keep them wrapped in fear and a whole pile of carefully orchestrated Rove-ian lies. We are, in short, f--ing geniuses."


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henslee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 10:33 AM
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1. Wounded animals are the most dangerous. And lets not forget
the billions that have filled the corportate coffers. And with their successful gerrymandering, their continually tight grip on MSM, and the sun setting on parts Voters Rights act... just consider this a temporary slump.
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dooner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 10:37 AM
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2. But something has shifted... " (OMG, Morford is a mad genius..)
more..

"But something has shifted. Something is ugly and toxic in the water. This is what, I imagine, the GOP overlords are asking each other over cocktails and baby seal kabobs and whale-blood transfusions: Do you think the people are finally beginning to sense it? Are they finally waking up? You think they know that the fact that Bush is finally taking a modicum of responsibility for his administration's failure -- something he never, never does -- is a sign of true GOP desperation? Do you think they recognize that BushCo isn't really spending a dime on Katrina relief, that the $52 billion they just crammed through Congress without any discussion isn't actually going toward repairs and rebuilding at all?

You think people sense that all of it, every single dime, is going toward -- you guessed it -- PR? Spin control? You know it's true. Every government truck and every National Guardsman and every aid package and every miserable FEMA agent you see is merely in place to try and shore up Bush's miserable poll numbers, his dwindling support. Hell, it's the only reason Bush -- or his party -- does anything for the "good" of the nation."



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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 11:52 AM
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3. Another terrific one from Mark Morford.
This guy is GIFTED! Not to mention utterly correct in his assessments. I'd bet you this thought IS INDEED churning through the stomachs of the republi-CON party. Will Pitt had an article along these lines which repeated the phrase... "somewhere, a neocon is seething..."

I hope they do. I hope they have to drown themselves in Maalox and choke themselves on Rolaids and Imodium D. They DESERVE it. And they also deserve being driven out of power.

IMPEACHMENT!!!

NOW!!!

PLEASE call your reps - even if they're people you already realize don't want to hear this. CALL 'EM ANYWAY!!! URGE IMPEACHMENT!!! If THIS is not the time, when will it ever be? Can we REALLY afford three more years of this incompetence and criminal negligence? Really? Haven't they already had the benefit of the doubt, AND second chances, AND THIRD chances, too? And MORE besides?

Let's do it, guys.

1 877 762 - 8762 - TOLL FREE to the Capitol Hill switchboard. They'll transfer you to anybody's office in the House and/or Senate. Won't cost a penny.
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