Started reading Bill Press "Bush Must Go"

[question everything]

Was kinda nice to see so many books in the "Current Affairs" shelves of Barnes and Noble. And, no I did not buy this from amazon. I really do not want too many trails of my purhcase...

Anyway, here are some of what he says just in the introduction:



In the election campaign of 2000, candidate Bush ran as a compassionate conservative. He promised to be a uniter, not a divider. He promised an America where no child is left behind. He promised to control spending and balance the budget. And he promised a humble foreign policy.

Instead, he has delivered the most arrogant brand of foreign relations possible. He abandoned the idea of “containment,” successfully followed by four decades by Republican and Democratic presidents - against such enemies as the Soviet Union, Communist China and Cuba – and replaced it with a policy of “first strike” or “anticipatory self defense.” The Iraq war is still a war in search of reason; no WMD, no nuclear weapons, no long-range missiles, no connection to Sept. 11 or to Osama bin Laden.

On the home front, President bush has just about wrecked our country. He’s spent money like a drunken sailor, taking our economy from A-OK to IOU, turning a projected ten-year $5 billion surplus into a projected $5 billion deficit, and in the short-term, replaced Bill Clinton’s balanced budget with a 2004 budget deficit of $374 billion, the largest in history. At the same time, he rewarded his favorite constituency, those Americans making over $320,000 a year, with two back-to-back tax cuts that they didn’t need and we couldn’t afford.

Eight years of the most robust economic growth in history have been followed by three years of Bush recession and the loss of 2.8 million private sector jobs. Bush will be the first president since Herbert Hoover to leave office with more American out of work than when he arrived.

And while rewarding the special interests who fueled his election campaign, he declared war on all the rest of us. Bush cut funds for student loans and Head Start. He stuck seniors with a prescription drug plan that charges them more for less. He built up a bigger, bloated federal government and unleashed John Ashcroft in a direct assault on our civil liberties under the so-called Patriot Act.


And so it goes. He then details 10 reasons in 10 chapters to dump the "Toxic Texan":

1. He lied us into war
2. He has made us less safe from terroris
3. He put 3 million Americaans out of work
4. He spent money liek a drunken sailor
5. He undermined our most basic freedoms
6. He sold Americans out to special interests
7. He ruined America's standing in the world
8. He's the worst ever on the environment
9. He's a divider, not a uniter
10. He never tells the truth

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Toxic Texan-I like that!

and the list is great!

[flpoljunkie]

2. Thanks. My favorite line "taking our economy from A-OK to IOU!

A great case for dumping Dubya made in plain language!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. No trails?

Was kinda nice to see so many books in the "Current Affairs" shelves of Barnes and Noble. And, no I did not buy this from amazon. I really do not want too many trails of my purhcase...<<

I feel differently. Everybody should swamp those who think that they have some sort of business tracking this sort of thing. EVERYBODY. Let them know just how deep in it they are. Let them know just how far from the true vision of America they have taken us. Sad thing is that they ones doing the watching... are generally the ones who need watching the most.. ie: How many felons are working in the Whitehouse? There is a thread on this.

I had a thought once... when all the internet surveillance stuff was going down... couple years back... and this is diabolical... prolly a bad idea.... but

If they are so bad with their carnivore, predator and so forth software... with all the supercomputers and stuff... what if... what if everyone with a particular mindset... decided to... encrypt emails... that were.... at their core... just gibberish to begin with. Wouldn't it be interesting to see their high and mighty Orwellian surveillance machinery come grinding to a halt??

Imagine of 1 million people did this... once a day. I would love to see what would happen... truly. End Rant.

[oasis]

4. I take issue w/#10, Dumbya seldom tells the truth.