York: Take a look at GOP 'values'

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York: Take a look at GOP 'values'
By Jean York/ Free Speech
Wednesday, November 1, 2006

With mid-term elections at hand, Karl Rove says that we should vote for the neo-conservatives because the GOP is the party of compassion and "values," so let's take a look at some of those "values" he's talking about.

First up, lying to Congress and the taxpayers in order to invade Iraq, which has now become a nation-wide morgue for countless thousands of innocent Iraqis. Death has not been easy for these people or their survivors. Is it our patriotic duty to sustain this level of killing by "staying the course," as President Bush put it so strongly and so often? Shall we put aside our own moral values and do nothing to stop this madness?

Passing a domestic agenda, pared to the bone, that tells the elderly, the poor, and the disabled they have no political value. The neo-conservative Congress will continue to promote the general welfare of corporate America, a profitable quid pro quo relationship.

Giving energy companies carte blanche tax breaks, allowing drug companies to set prices, passing legislation to exercise financial control over Americans by the credit card companies and banking industries, causing tax increases for the middle class by cutting federal funding for the states, and ignoring a health care system where it's the survival of the fittest. These are the real "values" Mr. Rove wants to preserve from extinction.

This Republican Congress has allowed President Bush unprecedented powers to bypass the Constitution. The latest gift is the Military Commission Act, the compromise negotiated between three renegade neo-con senators led by Sen. John McCain and President Bush, which eliminates habeas corpus.

Continued @ http://www2.townonline.com/weymouth/opinion/view.bg?articleid=605391

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1. Now why are you getting so upset about the Iraqis?

After all, in the grand scheme of things they are nothing more than a comma.