America is finally revolting against the Republicans ::Guardian

[biscotti]

This is a great read.
America is finally revolting against the Republicans

Sex, money and Iraq are a triple-whammy of reasons for voters to turn against President George Bush and his party

Andrew Rawnsley in Washington
Sunday October 15, 2006
The Observer
It is one of George Bush's favourite frat boy pranks to grab people in a neck lock. That is appropriate because he and his party have had a stranglehold on America. The Republicans have occupied the White House since 2001. They've controlled the House of Representatives and for most of the time, the Senate as well. Thanks to the appointments made by Bush, the Supreme Court belongs to the right too.
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Some say it is the war. Some say it is the money. Some say it is the sex. Actually, it's all three, a triple-whammy of reasons for Americans to express their disgust with how they are being governed.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1922824,00.html

[babylonsister]

1. War, money, sex, and corruption! They do have a cumulative effect.

I loved this:

George Bush is set to spend his last two years in the White House besieged by searing probes into his presidency. That would be a fitting fate for a President famous for his unwillingness or inability to focus on detail and his lack of curiosity about the consequences of his own decisions.

Thanks for this! This writer got it all just right!

[Tellurian]

5. Hey, "This is like hitting the TRIFECTA!" GWB circa 2001

[KittyWampus]

9. very sharp observation.

[Tellurian]

17. not really..but I appreciate your comment- thanx...nm

[MADem]

2. I liked this line

Let's start with Iraq. Any American with a television set and an IQ above room temperature has known for a long time that Iraq is far from becoming the pacified, liberal democracy that was promised in the original prospectus for the war.


And I found this bit telling: President Bush has again tried to use national security as his trump card in this election. The terror of terror worked for the Republicans in 2002 and again in 2004. It is not working this time. The opinion polls all agree: a majority of Americans now feel that Iraq is getting worse, and that the war was a mistake which has left them less secure.

I noticed a great deal of police presence out and about today, more than usual, on the highway, at the airport, even doing a drive by in a nearby shopping plaza (haven't seen that since the immediate post-Nahn Wun Wun era).

Don't be surprised if he doesn't try to pull another "Oooooooooh, noooooooo! Be very afraid!!!" event out of his ass.

[midnight]

3. Sad to say this but some folks think that the Iraq population

is not really experiencing a invasion. Some people think that we have made this country safer. WI.Congressman Jim Sennsenbrenner said on October 12,2006 that we have made Iraq safer. President Bush said these people are willing to put up with this violence. I truly cannot believe these statements-how can they?

[Jackpine Radical]

7. I guess Sensenbrenner figures that when you depopulate a country--

lik, you know, wipe out the population--you sort of inherently make it safer.

[babylonsister]

10. They lie. We know that, and Sensenbrenner is lying. As is most every

other rethug. That's how they've been winning 'the hearts and minds' for years. But they've been found out by a majority imo.
And I heard dimson talk about what the Iraqis are willing to put up with. It was pure optimistic speculation that didn't jive with the facts we read about. He's talking to his disappearing base.
He lies.

[kster]

4. Well unless the Americans are ready to Fight

when the Neocons steal the election, not waiting for this Politician or that politician to go back and forth to court, but take to the streets and fight, I am afraids we will indeed vote them out, but they will still remain in power.

My two cents...........

[magellan]

6. Well, the Republicans were revolting first

They had it coming.

:evilgrin:

[babylonsister]

8. They're still revolting!

:puke:

Ba dum bum!

[BeFree]

11. We won!

Mission accomplished!

After all, it ain't Saddam who has caused the deaths of these 600,000 people!

[babylonsister]

12. That all depends on who's reading what and what they're believing.

There's a big crevice between diehard freepers that believe whatever Rush tells them and people who get their news from legitimate sources.

[BeFree]

14. For them...

...something to think about:

We've killed 600,000 so far.... only 25 million more to go!

[Subdivisions]

13. That is some of the most beautiful writing I've ever read! KICK!

[Hekate]

15. We are in a sorry mess, aren't we?

Other than that -- from his mouth to God's ears regarding the fate of the Bushites.

Hekate

[NMMNG]

16. They did a good job restoring dignity to the White House, didn't they?

:rofl:

[theHandpuppet]

18. I especially loved this part

You have to say, it couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of people. Lynn Westmoreland is running for re-election as a Republican congressman in Georgia. His sole legislative initiative has been to press a bill requiring that the Ten Commandments be displayed in the House and the Senate. He then had to confess on television: 'I can't name them all.' In fact, he could barely name three of the commandments that he was so keen on. Voters in Iowa have on offer the Republican Steve King. He wants to keep out illegal immigrants by constructing a 700-mile wall along the border with Mexico. Better still, he built his own model of this 'Tortilla Curtain' out of cardboard and wire which he demonstrated to Congress in Blue Peter fashion. That is outdone in the crazy stakes by the Texan Republican Sam Johnson who offered personally to fly an F-15 to nuke Syria. Afterwards, he said he was: 'Kinda joking.' Don't you love the 'kinda'.

Don Sherwood, a Pennsylvania Republican, is famous for paying an undisclosed sum to his former mistress, who had accused him of repeated assaults, to settle her lawsuit against him. He has been forced to broadcast campaign ads denying that he tried to choke her. Down in Florida, Katherine Harris, who achieved world notoriety over the hanging chads which gave Bush the White House in the first place, is running for the Senate. According to her: 'God is the one who chooses our rulers.' Mmm. If the Great Returning Officer really does bother himself with deciding elections, then God must be mighty pissed with America to have chosen rulers like these.

ZING!!!!!!