Anyone Ever Thought About Life Without Bush and His Cabal?

[Frustratedlady]

It's been so long and so miserable, I can't remember what life was like before George.

How will our lives change? We'll have all that extra time we now use in on DU, trying to figure out what the Neocons are up to or to expose them for what they've already sneaked past us. We'll actually be able to visit with our friends and family without everyone complaining about the newest jab by these nincompoops at the middle class/poor. We may even be able to quit popping those high blood pressure pills and leave the cap on the Tylenol bottle. No more Babs or Poppa..goodbye twins and Jeb, KKKarl, Dick the Prick, Halliburton and KBR.

It appears that we won't have any money to spend and will be lucky if we can save our homes and have food to eat, so we'll be busy planting gardens, chopping wood and pitching tents. But, hey! Gas will be so high, we'll be stuck at home anyway, so we might as well find something to keep our hands busy.

I suppose Medicare will be down the tube and Social Security funds will be gone, so the elderly will be on their own. Our taxes will be out of sight, unless one happens to be horribly rich. On the other hand, we won't have to worry about sending the kids to college as NCLB will have dumbed down the younger population by then. Oh well, I guess the kids will be drafted, since he depleted the military with all his wars. What's a kid to do...there won't be any jobs left for them...even at minimum wage, so it's off to see the world (if anyone is still speaking to us).

One positive point, though...we may get rid of George but Laura will always be stuck with him.

[Demeter]

1. Every Day and Every Night

I weep for the country, her young, her old, and for myself and all my loved ones. I envy the dead--they cannot be made to suffer by these bastards.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

2. Great post.

Someday, I reckon we'll get to say "Sayonara, Shrub!" Hard to imagine, though, after all that has gone down.

[pinto]

3. Yes. I worry how focused we are on George, his psycho self,

and how we may be letting the long term stuff slide for some short term bashing.

I think, though, that the Admin's *recent* moves to make the Presidency an independent government are being seen as a red flag by many...

[Sinti]

4. All the time

Life was good. I was doing a lot of work for a group called the Urban Institute - who were trying to figure out how to actually make "the end of welfare as we know it" work. How to educate grown people, get them skilled up (soft skills too), and improve the condition of inner-city housing, and life in general. A lot of stuff about a program called CEPTED...

I remember doing some stuff on Al Gore's imaginary world, where all the cities had green spaces, and affordable housing, so we wouldn't be moving way out into the boonies anymore to be able to raise our kids with a patch of grass somewhere close by, thus causing even more pollution and destruction.

It felt for a short time like people were actually trying to improve the world we all live in. It was far from perfect, but I didn't feel the daily dread, that's for sure.

I knew what was coming when * won, though. I survived his father, just barely. Maybe I'll survive him -- I guess we'll see :)

[hedda_foil]

5. We will never be rid of George. His deeds will live after him.

This is the family that keeps on raping and pillaging generation after generation. Did Poppy stop just because he stopped being president? Did Prescott and Grandpa Walker quit just because they got caught doing business with the Nazis (not to mention helping to fund Hitler's rise to power)? And dubya has gone far, far beyond them in his destructiveness. the sonofabitch has earned a place in history to eclipse Nero and Caligula.

[Tigress DEM]

11. Then we should kick his ass so hard it will break Grandpa Walker's back.

Like Mollie Ivins said, "Only one way to cure a chicken stealing dawg - hang the bloody carcass to it's neck in such a way that it has to rot off him."

Let's put the smell of GW's crap right where it belongs - in his face!

If WE THE PEOPLE keep standing up and fighting there is no shame for us.
If WE THE PEOPLE get back up whenever he knocks us down, the blame's not ours.
If WE THE PEOPLE keep telling the truth until the end of our breath, nothing he can do or say makes it a lie.

The WORLD will understand the truth of it, just as everyone now understands that those who sheltered the Jews during the Nazi's 3rd Reich were as courageous as those who came in with guns blazing.

If we are doing everything we can for DEMOCRACY, OUR power is REAL - not imaginary like Bush's. When WE get our COUNTRY BACK it is Bush that is going to pay.

We may look back and learn from our mistakes and keep our eyes so open that we seem a bit paranoid, but having lived through this gives us the advantage to unmistakably be able to see it coming before it ever happens again. Having lived this will also give us the will to quash anything that even breathes in this totalitarian direction again.

Look how much strength we've gotten from those who were active in the 60's and rose again. A lot of them were kids at the time doing their first bit for Democracy, but they have been able to share the enthusiasm from their youth and the wisdom they've gained since then and help those of us learning for the first time.

I guess what I want to think about is TWENTY YEARS from now, what will I tell my grandchildren I DID for Democracy at our darkest hour?

[mr.alleycat]

12. That's why I call Dubya worshipers

Nero-Cons
Started calling them that in 02, since he fiddled with a book while NYC burned.
Add to that strumming a guitar while NO drown, and it fits very well.

[RedG1]

6. ALL the time

[Tigress DEM]

Thoughts like that do come, but I force myself to kick them out.

You are probably a peaceful person since you are posting here on DU, but if ever there was a time for a FLAMETHROWER in your MIND - this is the time.

It is one thing when this corrupt administration goes out and steals elections, it's another thing when I lay on the floor sobbing and let them get away with it.

It is one thing for this chimperor to claim he is above the law and can do whatever he damm well wants, it's another thing when I forlornly weep, "Well, I guess that's that."

:puke:


If I LET myself dwell on the awful thoughts, and believe me I know how tempting it is... after all each of us as individuals can feel so powerless to effect true change that will make this world a better place. As tempting as it is to let myself off the hook and sink down to the depths of my pain, I just can't. I'd never find my way back and I'd miss me.

Wouldn't you?

:puffpiece:

[Tigress DEM]

7. St John's Wort can help with that.

I know it's depressing if you look at it from the standpoint of a victim and we have all been beat to hell and back by this administration, but hey, MY MIND IS A FREE COUNTRY. And I will be dead and buried or blown to nuclear bits before I concede the FREEDOM in MY OWN THOUGHTS to that Evil Bastard.

Dream big, aim for the moon and we might get to Cleaveland, but hey if we aim for more of the same with different faces, we might as well give up now.

So MY thoughts are more of the "If I could write my own action movie, what would WE THE PEOPLE DO to get OUR COUNTRY BACK?"

WE might have a Continental Congress and sentence Bush to High Crimes of Treason against the People of the US of A.

We might freeze the assets of all the billionaires created during the Bush years (and of any other people who have been marked on public record but so far skirted any punishment) until WE THE PEOPLE can determine if they came by this money honestly or at the sacrifice of the rights of the American people. Those that are part of the problem, we seize their funds and put them in the US Treasury or the Social Security Fund and we use it to put our country back on it's feet.

We elect DEMs this round, but keep the fires burning under their butts and start working with third parties to put the fear of political suicide into the minds of anyone who decides to take us back to this twisted world of crime family rule.

It's YOUR mind. Don't waste it by giving that bastard any more of your freedom.

[spindrifter]

8. If Laura's smart, she

may depart!

[babylonsister]

9. One big sigh of relief; most mistakes can be fixed. I worry about

diplomacy with the rest of the world.
As for internal US politics, think how long it took Clinton to turn the deficit around.
There is hope, but we have to get this dangerous person out of our lives.

[Arugula Latte]

10. I worry they'll stick us with someone equally bad or worse.

If that's possible. :scared:

[mr.alleycat]

13. Have you ever thought?

About the poor SOB that will have to straighten this mess out?
Would You want the job?

[Frustratedlady]

14. It Would Take a Special Person...

and Clinton's busy with all his other projects.

But, look at it this way. It may be a horrible job (or, as GW would say, "Hard work!"), but the improvements would be so obvious and everyone so grateful, he/she would bask in the praise. Kind of like cleaning your teen's room...from sty to some semblance of order.

Now, to find that special person.

[mr.alleycat]

15. Yeah Well...

Trying to straighten out Ronnie's mess cost daddy a second term.

Then again we didn't have DieBold counting the vote.