The FALSEHOODS of Mr. Bush and his government... FALSEHOODS that Reid, Pelosi, and Democrats DON'T EVEN MENTION, much less confront...
IN our previous post, we reported that the news of Senator Harry Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi's "Election plan for 2006" was so weak, anemic, pathetic, and useless, that we couldn't even pick out A SINGLE SENTENCE in the story worth highlighting. (The summation of any such sentence would be, "Sen. Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi are pinning their hopes that the issue of MINIMUM WAGE will resonate over ALL OTHER issues in 2006, and inspire Democratic voters and independents across America to turn out in droves on election day 2006.")
As we detailed previously, we most certainly support a raise in the minimum wage, and as well we support the "living wage" battle against Wal-Mart and other big-box stores across the nation for wages and benefits that will allow full time workers from those companies to stay above the poverty line. But we feel that if Senator Reid had made use of the Senate FILIBUSTER powers long before now in support of the minimum wage increase, a tactic or idea he floated recently, we might have ALREADY HAD a minimum wage increase to go along with those FIVE or SIX Congressional pay increases Congress has voted for itself these past dozen years, 4 or 5 or 6 Congressional pay increases with NO such corresponding raise of the minimum wage over that same time period.
Below, this terrific article by Jonathan Schell of The Nation (which we repost from a link at TomDispatch.com) details WHAT EVERYONE in America and the world KNOWS is the REAL substance of Election 2006: THE FALSEHOODS of Mr. Bush's administration and Republican MISRULE in Washington.
*FALSEHOODS* of Mr. Bush, his cabinet, his White House staff, his government officials, and the entire right-of-John-Birch-Society Republican Party.
The FALSEHOODS of a Republican Party which talks about "Moral Values," but forces even rape victims to carry their pregnancies to term, REFUSING TO ALLOW RAPE VICTIMS even access to the "morning after pill."
The FALSEHOODS of a Republican Party which drones on endlessly about "RIGHT TO LIFE," but IGNORES MERCURY RETARDED BABIES in the United States, and depleted uranium babies in Iraq. (And now even American Iraq servicemen are fathering malformed babies.)
The very fact that Rep. Pelosi and Senator Reid are IGNORANT - or PRETEND ignorance by tip-toeing around these serious issues - of these very serious and systematic Republican FALSEHOODS, demonstrates that they are, in our humble opinion, COMPLETELY UNQUALIFIED TO be the LEADERS of the Democratic Party in the House and Senate. Indeed, we here at C-dems.blgspt.com have called for Representative Nancy Pelosi's RESIGNATION in an earlier post.
Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Reid... by REFUSING to CONFRONT those Republican falsehoods so effortlessly listed by Mr. Schell in his commentary, you are effectively SIGNING ON TO THEM... you are COMPLICIT with those falsehoods.
Worse, you are ROBBING Democratic votes of the FIGHT that we need and deserve to start OPPOSING Mr. Bush and his serial FALSEHOODS.
IF the Democrats win control of the House in 2006, it will be DESPITE your "leadership."
IF the Democrats DO NOT regain control of the House or Senate in the 2006, it will be a world disaster, because Mr. Bush and his alcolytes will see it as a mandate to ENLARGE THEIR WARS, not just to the MiddleEast, but to Central Asia as well. That would be the "-stans," including Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrghistan, and other "-stans" which were once part of the Soviet Union, with the US already in Afghanistan. That would be to the doorsteps of Russia and China, who most certainly would supply militias and parties in opposition to American combat troops on their border, meaning that (assuming we get that far) in another 3 or 4 or 5 years from now, Fox 'news,' CNN, the Washington Post, and GE/msnbc (et al) will all be clamoring for a "clearing" invasion, as they are now clamoring for Israel to enter, "cleanse," AND OCCUPY Lebanon.
In 2000, candidate George W. Bush campaigned for president promising a plank of "a MORE HUMBLE foreign policy." It was a swipe (sneer) at President Clinton, who, by Republican lights, had "tied down" American combat troops in Haiti and Bosnia, but in reality it was a sneering scorn for the principle of "PEACEKEEPING," Republicans despising efforts to empower national minorities, especially heaven forbid a tiny Muslim minority in the Balkan European landmass or descendents of slaves Hatian voters.
Seeing as the signers of the PNAC manifesto, including Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and candidate Bush' own brother Jeb Bush, among others, had ALREADY CALLED (in the summer of 2000) for the REMOVAL of Saddam Hussein from Iraq by use of American force of arms, it is 99% probable that this "MORE HUMBLE Foreign Policy" pledge of Mr. Bush's in 2000 WAS ALSO A complete FALSEHOOD.
AND SIX LONG YEARS LATER, the COWERING Democrats STILL DARE NOT EVEN MENTION these policies of aggressive and ever expanding use of US military forces in increasingly far-flung countries.
How sad and pathetic. It looks as if, like Joe Lieberman and Zell Miller before them, Senator Reid and Rep. Pelosi are EMBRACING the neo-con policies of George W. Bush, AGAINST the will of FORTY-EIGHT MILLION AMERICAN DEMOCRATIC VOTERS in the past election, plus those MILLIONS more American citizens who have been electorally, economically, or politically disenfranchised by the autocratic Republican Party, voters who don't even bother to vote anymore, knowing that Deibold, Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris, Ken Blackwell, and the Republican Party are going to ROB their votes anyways.
Speaking of "to rob," THANK YOU, Leader 'Reid' and 'Leader' Pelosi, for ROBBING us Democratic activists of AN EXCITING, COMPELLING, and COURAGEOUS campaign theme this summer, of FAILING to provide those party sanctioned PDF download business cards to hand out to friends and voters "The Falsehoods of George W. Bush ENDANGER America" - doing "WORSE THAN NOTHING" (in the words of the New York Times) to strengthen chemical plants from Bhopalesque sabotage; doing next to nothing to inspect cargo containers, doing ALOT to HELP Dubai/Ports World/UAE private investors (sheiks) buy-out CONTROL OF AMERICAN PORTS, and above all, COMPLETELY FAILING to track down and capture Osama bin Laden, and in so failing (along with launching the UNPROVOKED Iraq war) ENCOURAGING the RECRUITMENT and massive fragmentation/cloning/compartmentalization/METASTASIS of Al Qaida hate-America-terrorism all across the world.
As Randi Rhodes pointed out (on AirAmericaRadio Thursday's show), Al Qaida is MOVING UP IN THE WORLD under George W. Bush's prosecution of the "war on terror." Whle 3 years ago Al Qaida videos were grainy, unprofessional, shot outdoors, and poorly edited, today they issue comuniques from state of the art video studios with FOX like graphics and editing.
In a word, Rep. Pelosi and Senator Reid are SIGNING ON TO leadership that ENDANGERS America with falsehoods to war; Signing ON TO 'leadership' in America that WEAKENS American workers and consumers with policies of gross incompetence and in-your-face corruption at home and abroad.
<< President George W. Bush sent American troops into Iraq to find weapons of mass destruction, but THEY WERE NOT THERE.
He said that Saddam Hussein's regime had given help to Al Qaeda, BUT IT HAD NOT.
He therefore took the nation to war ON THE BASIS OF FALSEHOODS. >>
=========================================
Jonathan Schell, who ended his Nation magazine column, "Letter from Ground Zero," last February, now takes up "The Crisis of the Republic" in what will be a series of periodic, longer essays appearing in the Nation:
Too Late for Empire
By Jonathan Schell
The Nation magazine
http://www.thenation.com/
25 July 2006, as posted at
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=105894
President George W. Bush sent American troops into Iraq to find weapons of mass destruction, but they weren't there.
He said that Saddam Hussein's regime had given help to Al Qaeda, but it had not.
He therefore took the nation to war on the basis of falsehoods.
His administration says that the torture at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere has been the work of a few bad apples in the military, whereas in fact abuses were sanctioned at the highest levels of the executive branch in secret memos.
His administration lambastes leakers, but its own officials illegally leaked the name of a CIA operative, Valerie Plame, in order to politically discredit her husband.
He flatly stated to the public that all wiretaps of Americans were ordered pursuant to court warrants, whereas in fact he was authorizing and repeatedly reauthorizing warrantless wiretaps.
These wiretaps violated a specific law of Congress forbidding them.
His administration has asserted a right to imprison Americans as well as foreigners indefinitely without the habeas corpus hearings required by law.
Wars of aggression, torture, domestic spying and arbitrary arrest are the hallmarks of dictatorship, yet Congress, run by the President's party, has refused to conduct full investigations into either the false WMD claims, or the abuses and torture, or the warrantless wiretaps, or the imprisonment without habeas corpus.
As we detailed previously, we most certainly support a raise in the minimum wage, and as well we support the "living wage" battle against Wal-Mart and other big-box stores across the nation for wages and benefits that will allow full time workers from those companies to stay above the poverty line. But we feel that if Senator Reid had made use of the Senate FILIBUSTER powers long before now in support of the minimum wage increase, a tactic or idea he floated recently, we might have ALREADY HAD a minimum wage increase to go along with those FIVE or SIX Congressional pay increases Congress has voted for itself these past dozen years, 4 or 5 or 6 Congressional pay increases with NO such corresponding raise of the minimum wage over that same time period.
Below, this terrific article by Jonathan Schell of The Nation (which we repost from a link at TomDispatch.com) details WHAT EVERYONE in America and the world KNOWS is the REAL substance of Election 2006: THE FALSEHOODS of Mr. Bush's administration and Republican MISRULE in Washington.
*FALSEHOODS* of Mr. Bush, his cabinet, his White House staff, his government officials, and the entire right-of-John-Birch-Society Republican Party.
The FALSEHOODS of a Republican Party which talks about "Moral Values," but forces even rape victims to carry their pregnancies to term, REFUSING TO ALLOW RAPE VICTIMS even access to the "morning after pill."
The FALSEHOODS of a Republican Party which drones on endlessly about "RIGHT TO LIFE," but IGNORES MERCURY RETARDED BABIES in the United States, and depleted uranium babies in Iraq. (And now even American Iraq servicemen are fathering malformed babies.)
The very fact that Rep. Pelosi and Senator Reid are IGNORANT - or PRETEND ignorance by tip-toeing around these serious issues - of these very serious and systematic Republican FALSEHOODS, demonstrates that they are, in our humble opinion, COMPLETELY UNQUALIFIED TO be the LEADERS of the Democratic Party in the House and Senate. Indeed, we here at C-dems.blgspt.com have called for Representative Nancy Pelosi's RESIGNATION in an earlier post.
Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Reid... by REFUSING to CONFRONT those Republican falsehoods so effortlessly listed by Mr. Schell in his commentary, you are effectively SIGNING ON TO THEM... you are COMPLICIT with those falsehoods.
Worse, you are ROBBING Democratic votes of the FIGHT that we need and deserve to start OPPOSING Mr. Bush and his serial FALSEHOODS.
IF the Democrats win control of the House in 2006, it will be DESPITE your "leadership."
IF the Democrats DO NOT regain control of the House or Senate in the 2006, it will be a world disaster, because Mr. Bush and his alcolytes will see it as a mandate to ENLARGE THEIR WARS, not just to the MiddleEast, but to Central Asia as well. That would be the "-stans," including Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrghistan, and other "-stans" which were once part of the Soviet Union, with the US already in Afghanistan. That would be to the doorsteps of Russia and China, who most certainly would supply militias and parties in opposition to American combat troops on their border, meaning that (assuming we get that far) in another 3 or 4 or 5 years from now, Fox 'news,' CNN, the Washington Post, and GE/msnbc (et al) will all be clamoring for a "clearing" invasion, as they are now clamoring for Israel to enter, "cleanse," AND OCCUPY Lebanon.
In 2000, candidate George W. Bush campaigned for president promising a plank of "a MORE HUMBLE foreign policy." It was a swipe (sneer) at President Clinton, who, by Republican lights, had "tied down" American combat troops in Haiti and Bosnia, but in reality it was a sneering scorn for the principle of "PEACEKEEPING," Republicans despising efforts to empower national minorities, especially heaven forbid a tiny Muslim minority in the Balkan European landmass or descendents of slaves Hatian voters.
Seeing as the signers of the PNAC manifesto, including Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and candidate Bush' own brother Jeb Bush, among others, had ALREADY CALLED (in the summer of 2000) for the REMOVAL of Saddam Hussein from Iraq by use of American force of arms, it is 99% probable that this "MORE HUMBLE Foreign Policy" pledge of Mr. Bush's in 2000 WAS ALSO A complete FALSEHOOD.
AND SIX LONG YEARS LATER, the COWERING Democrats STILL DARE NOT EVEN MENTION these policies of aggressive and ever expanding use of US military forces in increasingly far-flung countries.
How sad and pathetic. It looks as if, like Joe Lieberman and Zell Miller before them, Senator Reid and Rep. Pelosi are EMBRACING the neo-con policies of George W. Bush, AGAINST the will of FORTY-EIGHT MILLION AMERICAN DEMOCRATIC VOTERS in the past election, plus those MILLIONS more American citizens who have been electorally, economically, or politically disenfranchised by the autocratic Republican Party, voters who don't even bother to vote anymore, knowing that Deibold, Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris, Ken Blackwell, and the Republican Party are going to ROB their votes anyways.
Speaking of "to rob," THANK YOU, Leader 'Reid' and 'Leader' Pelosi, for ROBBING us Democratic activists of AN EXCITING, COMPELLING, and COURAGEOUS campaign theme this summer, of FAILING to provide those party sanctioned PDF download business cards to hand out to friends and voters "The Falsehoods of George W. Bush ENDANGER America" - doing "WORSE THAN NOTHING" (in the words of the New York Times) to strengthen chemical plants from Bhopalesque sabotage; doing next to nothing to inspect cargo containers, doing ALOT to HELP Dubai/Ports World/UAE private investors (sheiks) buy-out CONTROL OF AMERICAN PORTS, and above all, COMPLETELY FAILING to track down and capture Osama bin Laden, and in so failing (along with launching the UNPROVOKED Iraq war) ENCOURAGING the RECRUITMENT and massive fragmentation/cloning/compartmentalization/METASTASIS of Al Qaida hate-America-terrorism all across the world.
As Randi Rhodes pointed out (on AirAmericaRadio Thursday's show), Al Qaida is MOVING UP IN THE WORLD under George W. Bush's prosecution of the "war on terror." Whle 3 years ago Al Qaida videos were grainy, unprofessional, shot outdoors, and poorly edited, today they issue comuniques from state of the art video studios with FOX like graphics and editing.
In a word, Rep. Pelosi and Senator Reid are SIGNING ON TO leadership that ENDANGERS America with falsehoods to war; Signing ON TO 'leadership' in America that WEAKENS American workers and consumers with policies of gross incompetence and in-your-face corruption at home and abroad.
<< President George W. Bush sent American troops into Iraq to find weapons of mass destruction, but THEY WERE NOT THERE.
He said that Saddam Hussein's regime had given help to Al Qaeda, BUT IT HAD NOT.
He therefore took the nation to war ON THE BASIS OF FALSEHOODS. >>
=========================================
Jonathan Schell, who ended his Nation magazine column, "Letter from Ground Zero," last February, now takes up "The Crisis of the Republic" in what will be a series of periodic, longer essays appearing in the Nation:
Too Late for Empire
By Jonathan Schell
The Nation magazine
http://www.thenation.com/
25 July 2006, as posted at
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=105894
President George W. Bush sent American troops into Iraq to find weapons of mass destruction, but they weren't there.
He said that Saddam Hussein's regime had given help to Al Qaeda, but it had not.
He therefore took the nation to war on the basis of falsehoods.
His administration says that the torture at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere has been the work of a few bad apples in the military, whereas in fact abuses were sanctioned at the highest levels of the executive branch in secret memos.
His administration lambastes leakers, but its own officials illegally leaked the name of a CIA operative, Valerie Plame, in order to politically discredit her husband.
He flatly stated to the public that all wiretaps of Americans were ordered pursuant to court warrants, whereas in fact he was authorizing and repeatedly reauthorizing warrantless wiretaps.
These wiretaps violated a specific law of Congress forbidding them.
His administration has asserted a right to imprison Americans as well as foreigners indefinitely without the habeas corpus hearings required by law.
Wars of aggression, torture, domestic spying and arbitrary arrest are the hallmarks of dictatorship, yet Congress, run by the President's party, has refused to conduct full investigations into either the false WMD claims, or the abuses and torture, or the warrantless wiretaps, or the imprisonment without habeas corpus.
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