RED ALERT! Bush-Repubs close to within THREE POINTS of Dems... because cowering Dem. "LEADERS" helped Repubs PUSH Lamont's winning issues OUT of news
Zogby Poll: Battle for Congress Tightens, Republican Candidates Trail Democrats by Just 3%;
Bush Job Approval Climbs to 39%
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1172
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Democrat "leaders' ARE WELL ON THE WAY to BLOWING the 2006 mid-term elections.. as they blew the 2002 midterms and 2000 and 2004 presidential races... by REFUSING TO GO AFTER the Bush-Republican record of INCOMPETENCE, lies, and gross, in-your-face CORRUPTION!
Herewith a "DIRTY-DOZEN" of DLC/DCCC *BETRAYALS* of those issues that American voters NEED TO BE, MUST be informed about to make a rational, informed opinion when performing the most important act of American citizenship, choosing our leaders:
note- Right off the top we'll ELIMINATE 'the Biggie," the pink elephant in America's living room for the next three decades; Bush-Cheney's LIES-to-WAR and the OUTING of an entire CIA undercover operation (CIA counter-proliferation non-official cover operative Valerie Plame, and HER ENTIRE cover organization, ''Brewster-Jennings Energy Consultants') as a means of protecting those lies, because we realize that the Repubs have made Rove-gate ("Plame-gate") and Lies-to-War TOO COMPLEX and TOO FRIGHTENING for Democrats to tackle-
#1. KEN LAY, Bush's #1 supporter through 2 Texas gubanatorial campaigns, the Republican 2000 presidential primary, the Republican 2000 presidential race, the Florida 2000 recount battle, AND the 2001 inaugueration galas, (if not a major source of Republican funding in the 2002 midterms) WAS_CONVICTED_OF_MASSIVE_FRAUD for Enron's stock-price deception and corporate melt-down, AND *STILL* THE DEMOCRATS give Mr. Bush a FREE PASS for his ENRON connections that funded him through at least 4 of his most important campaigns - as they sat on their hands as Bush-Cheney ALLOWED Enron to EXTORT California energy consumer (electric rate-payers) of BILLIONS of dollars via coordinated power-plant and electric-grid shutdowns and blackouts.
#2. Jack Abramoff WAS CONVICTED of CORRUPTION and BRIBERY for his bribery and extortion efforts on the part of the Tom DeLay Republican Congress... and Jack Abramoff spent HOURS in the Bush White House (Abramoff was reputed to be a close friend of Bush campaign manager KARL ROVE), and STILL the Democrats GIVE A FREE PASS to Bush White House CORRUPTION, and ALLOW Mr. Bush and Mr. Rove to keep Abramoff's White House visits 'A STATE SECURITY SECRET.'
#3. JEFF GANON (real name Jim Guckert) passed Secret Service security clearance to gain entrance to the Bush White House as Mr. Bush's FAVORITE 'reporter' to call upon... and while in the White House Ganon/Guckert spent (according to Secret Service logbooks) many LATE NIGHTS IN THE White House long after the WH press corps had left - DESPITE HAVING an up-and-running WEBSITE, ADVERTISING HIS (Ganon/Guckert's) AVAILABILITY as a GAY PROSTITUTE, and STILL the Democrats GIVE the Bush White House a FREE PASS on Ganon/Guckert-gate!
#4. Randy "Duke" Cunningham WAS CONVICTED of BRIBERY - taking bribes, Congressman Cunningham had a LIST of BRIBES that he would accept for various levels of getting government defense contracts awarded to contractors who paid his bribe "fees" - and STILL the cowering Democrat "leadership" GIVES A FREE PASS to Republican CORRUPTION.
#5. Senator BOB NEY of Ohio has *PLEADED GUILTY THIS WEEK* - and STILL the cowering Democrat "leadership" can NOT make an issue (or WON'T EVEN TRY) of CORRUPTION in the Bush-Republican Party! According to one article on Ney's GUILTY plea, Ney states that he was driven to the extreme misuses of campaign fundraising by relentless pressure from the BUSH WHITE HOUSE to raise MORE MONEY for Ohio and other Republican races.
#6. Dick Cheny CONTINUES TO PROFIT from his ownership of HALLIBURTON STOCK, Cheney's net worth GOES UP every time Halliburton gets another multi-billion dollar NO BID, NO OVERSIGHT, NO AUDIT contract from the US government... AND STILL the COWERING Democratic "leadership" CAN NOT MAKE A WINNING ISSUE out of Cheney-Halliburton CORRUPTION!
#7. FEMA Director Mike "heck'uva job, Brownie!" Brown was dining in 5-star Baton Rouge restaurants as New Orleans flooding victims DIED OF THIRST; Wal-Mart donated trucks of cases of water were TURNED AWAY from New Orleans, while cumbersome media Satellite/TV trucks DROVE right UP TO the neglected Superdome emergency shelter (and improvised morgue) AND STILL the COWARDLY Democrats CAN NOT or WILL NOT make an issue of Bush-Republican GROSS KATRINA INCOMPETENCE and Crony-Corruption. Note: Hurricane Katrina set THE LOWEST RECORDED BAROMETRIC PRESSURE ever recorded in the Atlantic basin (=most powerful up-draft hurricane vortex), swirled in the Gulf of Mexico for FIVE LONG DAYS before heading for the vulnerable US Gulf Coast shoreline... AND STILL FEMA was caught unprepared and impotent, AND STILL the Democrats give Bush-Brown-Chertoff-Cheney a FREE PASS for Katrina incompetence, gross negligence, and post-disaster gross reconstruction fraud!
#8. A significant, HUGE factor in the ESCALATING violence in Iraq was the GROSS CORRUPTION of US Iraq 'reconstruction' contracts - which were seen as license to loot billions, stuffing million dollar wads of cash in briefcases by Bush-Cheney connected contractors, including Halliburton Co. - and STILL the Democrats CAN NOT or WILL NOT make an issue of Bush-Republican Iraq war-contracts and reconstruction CORRUPTION.
#9. President Bush ALLOWED Osama bin Laden to ESCAPE from the US noose at Tora Bora in 2002 (by shifting US combat troops from Afghanistan to the Iraq war buildup, and leaving an escape path out of the Tora Bora valley open), and Mr. Bush is quoted on his own White House website as saying "I'M NOT THAT CONCERNED ABOUT bin LADEN ANYMORE."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
Recently a video of Fred Barnes on FOX news explained his meeting with Mr. Bush << Weekly Standard editor Fred Barnes appeared on Fox this morning to discuss his recent meeting with President Bush in the Oval Office. The key takeaway for Barnes was that "bin Laden doesn't fit with the administration's strategy for combating terrorism." Barnes said that Bush told him capturing bin Laden is "NOT A TOP PRIORITY use of American resources. >>
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/14/barnes-osama/
Let's repeat: President Bush has REPEATEDLY stated that CATCHING Osama bin Laden is ***NOT A PRIORITY*** of his White House... AND STILL the cowering Democrats CAN NOT or WILL NOT make an issue of Mr. Bush's GROSS INCOMPETENCE, NEGLIGENCE, and DERELICTION OF DUTY to FULFILL HIS OWN PLEDGE to "get Osama bin Laden, dead or alive."
Aside from the theatrics of Mr. Bush's wild-west wanted-poster pledge, there is the slight problem.. bin Laden is FREE TO LEAD AL QAIDA TERRORISM against the USA, and release VIDEO tapes on the eve of EVERY US ELECTION... WHILE Mr. Bush's war in Iraq (and war-by-proxy in Lebanon and...) serves as Al Qaida's ULTIMATE RECRUITING POSTER!
#10. Massive EXPORTING - OUTSOURCING - of US jobs. The DLC and DSCC Senators are SO IN BED with the same CORPORATE LOBBYISTS that the Republicans embrace, that Democrats can scarcely formulate a response to CONTINUED OUTSOURCING of US jobs, except for exceptions such as Senator Durbin's recent book, "TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT."
#11. Pharmecueticals and Health Care: Again, the Democrats are so in bed with Big Pharm lobbyists (after Rick Santorum goes down to defeat this November for his gross right-wing paternalizing, hypocritical moral-values-mongering, and Bush-admin sycophantry, HILLLARY CLINTON will become the big-drug industry's NUMBER ONE CAMPAIGN RECIPIENT), that they are let wet, weak, and speechless as Bush turned the "PRESCRIPTION DRUG REFORM BILL" into a THIRTEEN BILLION DOLLAR TAX GIVEAWAY to the nation's wealthies pharmeceutical corporations.. who, it turns out, are Wall Street's top return-on-investment industry! The Bush bill was SO BAD, that, literally, grandmothers and grandfathers who previously were able to take bus trips to Canada to purchase their prescriptions at 1/3rd the price they had to pay on the American side of the border... found themselves physically prohibited from doing so AFTER Mr. Bush's awful billion-dollars GIVEAWAY to drug companies had US government agents TAKING PRESCRIPTION DRUGS purchased in Canada AWAY from American seniors!
#12. And finally (but by no means exclusively) a recent PRINCETON STUDY by that University's IT department found that DIEBOLD's latest "Accu-VoteTS" vote machines were not only EASILY hackable, BUT COULD BE PROGRAMMED to a.) steal an election; b.) mislead the pre-vote test; c.) infect other machines with vote-stealing software via memory cards or even wireless connections; and d.) REMOVE ALL TRACE of the INFECTED softwar AFTER the STOLEN vote tallies had been posted...
.... AND STILL our cowering Democratic "leaders" are AWOL and MISSING, NOT in Action, as the Bush-Rove-Cheney-Halliburton-GOP juggernaut cruises on its way to CRUSHING Democratic voters in 2006 with last second suspicious "vote-swings" for Republicans (as in 2000, 2002, and 2004) AND STILL the cowering Democrat "leaders" are AWOL and REFUSE to bring these ten major points (listed above), FORCEFULLY and VOCALLY, to America's attention!
Items #1, 2, 4, and 5 are CONVICTIONS from Republican CRIMINAL CONDUCT... items #6, 7, and 8 involve LIFE AND DEATH leadership (or corrupt lack of leadership) for American disaster victims or American men and women in combat... AND STILL the Democrat "leadership" allows Karl Rove and the Rethuglican juggernaut to go about business as usual, SMEARING Democratic candidates, STRONG-ARMING corporations and especially media corporations, BETRAYING American voters to Deibold's STOLEN-ELECTIONS-ARE-US machines, BETRAYING American citizens to Bush-Brown-Cheney-Chertoff GROSS CORRUPTION and rampant cronyism in FEMA and Homeland security (we didn't even mention #11, DIVERTING NY and DC counter-terror money to pig-fairs in Idaho! or #12. trying to sell US ports to Dubai Ports World, a company owned entirely by UAE sheiks, UAE a proven conduit for the financing of the 9-11 hijackers; WHICH story we STILL do not know much about!)
...AND STILL THE cowering DEMOCRAT "leadership" CAN NOT FORMULATE A RESOUNDING ELECTION THEME this 2006 election season?!?
This is a GREAT BETRAYAL of EPIC PROPORTIONS. Indeed, the Democratic "leadership" - the DLC, the DCCC, the DSCC, and even the DNC - HAS JOINED the Republican Party and the press/media in PUSHING the WINNING campaign issues of NED LAMONT **OUT** of the headlines and mainstream media news coverage!
President Roosevelt once talked of America's "RENDEZVOUS with DESTINY."
Forgive the mixing Roosevelt metaphors, but THIS 2006 election season sees our Democratic "leadership" MAKING A RENDEZVOUS with calamitous INFAMY..... the Democratic "leadership" IS ROBBING us Democratic voters (and the American public) of a fair and honest discussion of the LIFE-and-DEATH ISSUES at the heart of election 2006!
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Bush tells reporters at WH press conference "bin Laden DOESN'T CONCERN ME"...
[1/3rd down]
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
Video - Bush told Fred Barnes that Capturing Bin Laden Is ‘Not A Top Priority Use of American Resources’
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/14/barnes-osama/
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Despite saying that Al Qaida TERRORIST LEADER Osama bin Laden "DOES NOT CONCERN ME... CAPTURING bin LADEN **IS NOT** a Top Priority use of American resources," President Bush WENT TO CONGRESS... REQUESTING LIFETIME, eternal GESTAPO powers of arrest, incarceration, TORTURE, INDEFINITE detention, and exectutions (by military tribunal) - NO questions asked, answered, or allowed! Make no mistake, a US president is calling for the American equivalent of SS Concentration Camps, and GESTAPO/kgb arrest, torture, and execution powers.... WHILE IGNORING the leader of the terrorist organization that formed the original rational for all the counter-terror wars and responses by Mr. Bush and his administration!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/14/AR2006091401587.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/15/us/politics/15assess.html
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Rep. Bob Ney Agrees to Plead Guilty
Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, Agrees to Plead Guilty in Congressional Corruption Probe By TED BRIDIS
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2450280
WASHINGTON Sep 15, 2006 (AP)— Ohio Rep. Bob Ney admitted improperly accepting tens of thousands of dollars worth of trips, meals, sports tickets and casino chips while trying to win favors for a disgraced Washington lobbyist and a foreign aviation company run by a gambler known as "the Fat Man."
Ney, a six-term Republican, had defiantly denied any wrongdoing for months, but he reversed course and agreed to plead guilty in court papers filed Friday. Prosecutors will recommend he serve 27 months in prison. Ney was expected to formally plead guilty in court Oct. 13.
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Zogby Poll: Battle for Congress Tightens
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1172
Republican Candidates Trail Democrats by Just 3%; Bush Job Approval Climbs to 39%
Despite Close Battle, Congress Remains Unpopular
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1172
Following an aggressive media blitz, the latest Zogby America poll finds the standing of President Bush and congressional Republicans climbing as the November elections rapidly approach.
The telephone survey was conducted Sept. 12-14, 2006, included 1,034 respondents, and carries a margin of error of +/– 3.1 percentage points.
The poll contains good news for congressional Republicans battling a strong Democratic push to retake the House and Senate. While Republican congressional candidates trailed their Democratic counterparts in the “generic ballot” question by a 39% to 31% margin a month ago, today they have whittled the Democrats’ lead to just three points, 37% to 34%.
Coming on the heels of a series of policy speeches culminating in a Sept. 11 address to the nation outlining the President’s vision for domestic anti-terror programs and the War in Iraq, the Zogby survey shows President Bush’s standing has increased five points since mid-August, when just 34% of voters rated him positively. Bush had previously risen to 37% in a Sept. 5 Zogby America poll.
The poll does, however, suggest a Democratic strategy of “nationalizing” the mid-term elections has succeeded, with 71% of respondents in the poll saying their vote this fall will be driven by national, rather than local, issues. But voters planning on casting ballots for Republicans are more likely than those voting for Democrats to say they are casting their ballot based on national issues by a 79% to 69% margin.
Another positive development for Congressional Republicans is that one in four of their supporters—23%—consider terrorism the top issue as they go to the polls, easily the top issue for those backing the GOP. This is the same percentage as say they will vote for Democrats based on the War in Iraq and general U.S. foreign policy. Republican candidates also continue to benefit from the dual issues of morality and values, which are motivating one in nine voters planning to pull the Republican lever this fall. Another 8% of GOP supporters say the War in Iraq and U.S. foreign policy are their prime motivators.
For Democrats, meanwhile, the war in Iraq is clearly the top issue, at 23%. But more traditional Democratic issues like jobs and the economy (14%), education (10%), and healthcare (5%) round out the top four issues for Democratic voters. Terrorism barely registers, at 4%, while the environment is a non-issue for Democrats at 2%, despite repeated discussion over the past year of global climate change.
War in Iraq, Terror Dominate Mid-Terms
Among those voters who say national issues are motivating them at the ballot box, the war in Iraq is clearly the most important single issue, with 22% indicating they will cast their ballot based on the conflict. Terrorism, meanwhile, follows at 14%.
The Iraq War remains unpopular, with a narrow 51% majority saying the conflict has not been worth the loss of American lives, with 42% say it has. Interestingly the survey finds that seniors are among the least favorable in their view of the war, with 58% saying it has not been worth the loss of lives, while middle-aged Americans—those 30 to 49—are closely divided, with 49% saying the war has not been worth the loss of American lives while 46% say it has. Voters under the age of 30 are less sure, with 49% believing the war has not been worth the losses, 39% believing it has been, and 12% undecided—the most of any age group.
Unsurprisingly, Republicans and Democrats continue to view the war in different terms. While 68% of Republicans say the war has been worth the cost in lives, 76% of Democrats disagree. Democrats seem Still, the overall numbers represent a marked shift from early September, when 58% of likely voters said the Iraq War has not been worth the lives lost.
Bush Job Approval Climbs to 39%
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1172
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Democrat "leaders' ARE WELL ON THE WAY to BLOWING the 2006 mid-term elections.. as they blew the 2002 midterms and 2000 and 2004 presidential races... by REFUSING TO GO AFTER the Bush-Republican record of INCOMPETENCE, lies, and gross, in-your-face CORRUPTION!
Herewith a "DIRTY-DOZEN" of DLC/DCCC *BETRAYALS* of those issues that American voters NEED TO BE, MUST be informed about to make a rational, informed opinion when performing the most important act of American citizenship, choosing our leaders:
note- Right off the top we'll ELIMINATE 'the Biggie," the pink elephant in America's living room for the next three decades; Bush-Cheney's LIES-to-WAR and the OUTING of an entire CIA undercover operation (CIA counter-proliferation non-official cover operative Valerie Plame, and HER ENTIRE cover organization, ''Brewster-Jennings Energy Consultants') as a means of protecting those lies, because we realize that the Repubs have made Rove-gate ("Plame-gate") and Lies-to-War TOO COMPLEX and TOO FRIGHTENING for Democrats to tackle-
#1. KEN LAY, Bush's #1 supporter through 2 Texas gubanatorial campaigns, the Republican 2000 presidential primary, the Republican 2000 presidential race, the Florida 2000 recount battle, AND the 2001 inaugueration galas, (if not a major source of Republican funding in the 2002 midterms) WAS_CONVICTED_OF_MASSIVE_FRAUD for Enron's stock-price deception and corporate melt-down, AND *STILL* THE DEMOCRATS give Mr. Bush a FREE PASS for his ENRON connections that funded him through at least 4 of his most important campaigns - as they sat on their hands as Bush-Cheney ALLOWED Enron to EXTORT California energy consumer (electric rate-payers) of BILLIONS of dollars via coordinated power-plant and electric-grid shutdowns and blackouts.
#2. Jack Abramoff WAS CONVICTED of CORRUPTION and BRIBERY for his bribery and extortion efforts on the part of the Tom DeLay Republican Congress... and Jack Abramoff spent HOURS in the Bush White House (Abramoff was reputed to be a close friend of Bush campaign manager KARL ROVE), and STILL the Democrats GIVE A FREE PASS to Bush White House CORRUPTION, and ALLOW Mr. Bush and Mr. Rove to keep Abramoff's White House visits 'A STATE SECURITY SECRET.'
#3. JEFF GANON (real name Jim Guckert) passed Secret Service security clearance to gain entrance to the Bush White House as Mr. Bush's FAVORITE 'reporter' to call upon... and while in the White House Ganon/Guckert spent (according to Secret Service logbooks) many LATE NIGHTS IN THE White House long after the WH press corps had left - DESPITE HAVING an up-and-running WEBSITE, ADVERTISING HIS (Ganon/Guckert's) AVAILABILITY as a GAY PROSTITUTE, and STILL the Democrats GIVE the Bush White House a FREE PASS on Ganon/Guckert-gate!
#4. Randy "Duke" Cunningham WAS CONVICTED of BRIBERY - taking bribes, Congressman Cunningham had a LIST of BRIBES that he would accept for various levels of getting government defense contracts awarded to contractors who paid his bribe "fees" - and STILL the cowering Democrat "leadership" GIVES A FREE PASS to Republican CORRUPTION.
#5. Senator BOB NEY of Ohio has *PLEADED GUILTY THIS WEEK* - and STILL the cowering Democrat "leadership" can NOT make an issue (or WON'T EVEN TRY) of CORRUPTION in the Bush-Republican Party! According to one article on Ney's GUILTY plea, Ney states that he was driven to the extreme misuses of campaign fundraising by relentless pressure from the BUSH WHITE HOUSE to raise MORE MONEY for Ohio and other Republican races.
#6. Dick Cheny CONTINUES TO PROFIT from his ownership of HALLIBURTON STOCK, Cheney's net worth GOES UP every time Halliburton gets another multi-billion dollar NO BID, NO OVERSIGHT, NO AUDIT contract from the US government... AND STILL the COWERING Democratic "leadership" CAN NOT MAKE A WINNING ISSUE out of Cheney-Halliburton CORRUPTION!
#7. FEMA Director Mike "heck'uva job, Brownie!" Brown was dining in 5-star Baton Rouge restaurants as New Orleans flooding victims DIED OF THIRST; Wal-Mart donated trucks of cases of water were TURNED AWAY from New Orleans, while cumbersome media Satellite/TV trucks DROVE right UP TO the neglected Superdome emergency shelter (and improvised morgue) AND STILL the COWARDLY Democrats CAN NOT or WILL NOT make an issue of Bush-Republican GROSS KATRINA INCOMPETENCE and Crony-Corruption. Note: Hurricane Katrina set THE LOWEST RECORDED BAROMETRIC PRESSURE ever recorded in the Atlantic basin (=most powerful up-draft hurricane vortex), swirled in the Gulf of Mexico for FIVE LONG DAYS before heading for the vulnerable US Gulf Coast shoreline... AND STILL FEMA was caught unprepared and impotent, AND STILL the Democrats give Bush-Brown-Chertoff-Cheney a FREE PASS for Katrina incompetence, gross negligence, and post-disaster gross reconstruction fraud!
#8. A significant, HUGE factor in the ESCALATING violence in Iraq was the GROSS CORRUPTION of US Iraq 'reconstruction' contracts - which were seen as license to loot billions, stuffing million dollar wads of cash in briefcases by Bush-Cheney connected contractors, including Halliburton Co. - and STILL the Democrats CAN NOT or WILL NOT make an issue of Bush-Republican Iraq war-contracts and reconstruction CORRUPTION.
#9. President Bush ALLOWED Osama bin Laden to ESCAPE from the US noose at Tora Bora in 2002 (by shifting US combat troops from Afghanistan to the Iraq war buildup, and leaving an escape path out of the Tora Bora valley open), and Mr. Bush is quoted on his own White House website as saying "I'M NOT THAT CONCERNED ABOUT bin LADEN ANYMORE."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
Recently a video of Fred Barnes on FOX news explained his meeting with Mr. Bush << Weekly Standard editor Fred Barnes appeared on Fox this morning to discuss his recent meeting with President Bush in the Oval Office. The key takeaway for Barnes was that "bin Laden doesn't fit with the administration's strategy for combating terrorism." Barnes said that Bush told him capturing bin Laden is "NOT A TOP PRIORITY use of American resources. >>
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/14/barnes-osama/
Let's repeat: President Bush has REPEATEDLY stated that CATCHING Osama bin Laden is ***NOT A PRIORITY*** of his White House... AND STILL the cowering Democrats CAN NOT or WILL NOT make an issue of Mr. Bush's GROSS INCOMPETENCE, NEGLIGENCE, and DERELICTION OF DUTY to FULFILL HIS OWN PLEDGE to "get Osama bin Laden, dead or alive."
Aside from the theatrics of Mr. Bush's wild-west wanted-poster pledge, there is the slight problem.. bin Laden is FREE TO LEAD AL QAIDA TERRORISM against the USA, and release VIDEO tapes on the eve of EVERY US ELECTION... WHILE Mr. Bush's war in Iraq (and war-by-proxy in Lebanon and...) serves as Al Qaida's ULTIMATE RECRUITING POSTER!
#10. Massive EXPORTING - OUTSOURCING - of US jobs. The DLC and DSCC Senators are SO IN BED with the same CORPORATE LOBBYISTS that the Republicans embrace, that Democrats can scarcely formulate a response to CONTINUED OUTSOURCING of US jobs, except for exceptions such as Senator Durbin's recent book, "TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT."
#11. Pharmecueticals and Health Care: Again, the Democrats are so in bed with Big Pharm lobbyists (after Rick Santorum goes down to defeat this November for his gross right-wing paternalizing, hypocritical moral-values-mongering, and Bush-admin sycophantry, HILLLARY CLINTON will become the big-drug industry's NUMBER ONE CAMPAIGN RECIPIENT), that they are let wet, weak, and speechless as Bush turned the "PRESCRIPTION DRUG REFORM BILL" into a THIRTEEN BILLION DOLLAR TAX GIVEAWAY to the nation's wealthies pharmeceutical corporations.. who, it turns out, are Wall Street's top return-on-investment industry! The Bush bill was SO BAD, that, literally, grandmothers and grandfathers who previously were able to take bus trips to Canada to purchase their prescriptions at 1/3rd the price they had to pay on the American side of the border... found themselves physically prohibited from doing so AFTER Mr. Bush's awful billion-dollars GIVEAWAY to drug companies had US government agents TAKING PRESCRIPTION DRUGS purchased in Canada AWAY from American seniors!
#12. And finally (but by no means exclusively) a recent PRINCETON STUDY by that University's IT department found that DIEBOLD's latest "Accu-VoteTS" vote machines were not only EASILY hackable, BUT COULD BE PROGRAMMED to a.) steal an election; b.) mislead the pre-vote test; c.) infect other machines with vote-stealing software via memory cards or even wireless connections; and d.) REMOVE ALL TRACE of the INFECTED softwar AFTER the STOLEN vote tallies had been posted...
.... AND STILL our cowering Democratic "leaders" are AWOL and MISSING, NOT in Action, as the Bush-Rove-Cheney-Halliburton-GOP juggernaut cruises on its way to CRUSHING Democratic voters in 2006 with last second suspicious "vote-swings" for Republicans (as in 2000, 2002, and 2004) AND STILL the cowering Democrat "leaders" are AWOL and REFUSE to bring these ten major points (listed above), FORCEFULLY and VOCALLY, to America's attention!
Items #1, 2, 4, and 5 are CONVICTIONS from Republican CRIMINAL CONDUCT... items #6, 7, and 8 involve LIFE AND DEATH leadership (or corrupt lack of leadership) for American disaster victims or American men and women in combat... AND STILL the Democrat "leadership" allows Karl Rove and the Rethuglican juggernaut to go about business as usual, SMEARING Democratic candidates, STRONG-ARMING corporations and especially media corporations, BETRAYING American voters to Deibold's STOLEN-ELECTIONS-ARE-US machines, BETRAYING American citizens to Bush-Brown-Cheney-Chertoff GROSS CORRUPTION and rampant cronyism in FEMA and Homeland security (we didn't even mention #11, DIVERTING NY and DC counter-terror money to pig-fairs in Idaho! or #12. trying to sell US ports to Dubai Ports World, a company owned entirely by UAE sheiks, UAE a proven conduit for the financing of the 9-11 hijackers; WHICH story we STILL do not know much about!)
...AND STILL THE cowering DEMOCRAT "leadership" CAN NOT FORMULATE A RESOUNDING ELECTION THEME this 2006 election season?!?
This is a GREAT BETRAYAL of EPIC PROPORTIONS. Indeed, the Democratic "leadership" - the DLC, the DCCC, the DSCC, and even the DNC - HAS JOINED the Republican Party and the press/media in PUSHING the WINNING campaign issues of NED LAMONT **OUT** of the headlines and mainstream media news coverage!
President Roosevelt once talked of America's "RENDEZVOUS with DESTINY."
Forgive the mixing Roosevelt metaphors, but THIS 2006 election season sees our Democratic "leadership" MAKING A RENDEZVOUS with calamitous INFAMY..... the Democratic "leadership" IS ROBBING us Democratic voters (and the American public) of a fair and honest discussion of the LIFE-and-DEATH ISSUES at the heart of election 2006!
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Bush tells reporters at WH press conference "bin Laden DOESN'T CONCERN ME"...
[1/3rd down]
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
Video - Bush told Fred Barnes that Capturing Bin Laden Is ‘Not A Top Priority Use of American Resources’
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/14/barnes-osama/
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Despite saying that Al Qaida TERRORIST LEADER Osama bin Laden "DOES NOT CONCERN ME... CAPTURING bin LADEN **IS NOT** a Top Priority use of American resources," President Bush WENT TO CONGRESS... REQUESTING LIFETIME, eternal GESTAPO powers of arrest, incarceration, TORTURE, INDEFINITE detention, and exectutions (by military tribunal) - NO questions asked, answered, or allowed! Make no mistake, a US president is calling for the American equivalent of SS Concentration Camps, and GESTAPO/kgb arrest, torture, and execution powers.... WHILE IGNORING the leader of the terrorist organization that formed the original rational for all the counter-terror wars and responses by Mr. Bush and his administration!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/14/AR2006091401587.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/15/us/politics/15assess.html
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Rep. Bob Ney Agrees to Plead Guilty
Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, Agrees to Plead Guilty in Congressional Corruption Probe By TED BRIDIS
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2450280
WASHINGTON Sep 15, 2006 (AP)— Ohio Rep. Bob Ney admitted improperly accepting tens of thousands of dollars worth of trips, meals, sports tickets and casino chips while trying to win favors for a disgraced Washington lobbyist and a foreign aviation company run by a gambler known as "the Fat Man."
Ney, a six-term Republican, had defiantly denied any wrongdoing for months, but he reversed course and agreed to plead guilty in court papers filed Friday. Prosecutors will recommend he serve 27 months in prison. Ney was expected to formally plead guilty in court Oct. 13.
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Zogby Poll: Battle for Congress Tightens
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1172
Republican Candidates Trail Democrats by Just 3%; Bush Job Approval Climbs to 39%
Despite Close Battle, Congress Remains Unpopular
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1172
Following an aggressive media blitz, the latest Zogby America poll finds the standing of President Bush and congressional Republicans climbing as the November elections rapidly approach.
The telephone survey was conducted Sept. 12-14, 2006, included 1,034 respondents, and carries a margin of error of +/– 3.1 percentage points.
The poll contains good news for congressional Republicans battling a strong Democratic push to retake the House and Senate. While Republican congressional candidates trailed their Democratic counterparts in the “generic ballot” question by a 39% to 31% margin a month ago, today they have whittled the Democrats’ lead to just three points, 37% to 34%.
Coming on the heels of a series of policy speeches culminating in a Sept. 11 address to the nation outlining the President’s vision for domestic anti-terror programs and the War in Iraq, the Zogby survey shows President Bush’s standing has increased five points since mid-August, when just 34% of voters rated him positively. Bush had previously risen to 37% in a Sept. 5 Zogby America poll.
The poll does, however, suggest a Democratic strategy of “nationalizing” the mid-term elections has succeeded, with 71% of respondents in the poll saying their vote this fall will be driven by national, rather than local, issues. But voters planning on casting ballots for Republicans are more likely than those voting for Democrats to say they are casting their ballot based on national issues by a 79% to 69% margin.
Another positive development for Congressional Republicans is that one in four of their supporters—23%—consider terrorism the top issue as they go to the polls, easily the top issue for those backing the GOP. This is the same percentage as say they will vote for Democrats based on the War in Iraq and general U.S. foreign policy. Republican candidates also continue to benefit from the dual issues of morality and values, which are motivating one in nine voters planning to pull the Republican lever this fall. Another 8% of GOP supporters say the War in Iraq and U.S. foreign policy are their prime motivators.
For Democrats, meanwhile, the war in Iraq is clearly the top issue, at 23%. But more traditional Democratic issues like jobs and the economy (14%), education (10%), and healthcare (5%) round out the top four issues for Democratic voters. Terrorism barely registers, at 4%, while the environment is a non-issue for Democrats at 2%, despite repeated discussion over the past year of global climate change.
War in Iraq, Terror Dominate Mid-Terms
Among those voters who say national issues are motivating them at the ballot box, the war in Iraq is clearly the most important single issue, with 22% indicating they will cast their ballot based on the conflict. Terrorism, meanwhile, follows at 14%.
The Iraq War remains unpopular, with a narrow 51% majority saying the conflict has not been worth the loss of American lives, with 42% say it has. Interestingly the survey finds that seniors are among the least favorable in their view of the war, with 58% saying it has not been worth the loss of lives, while middle-aged Americans—those 30 to 49—are closely divided, with 49% saying the war has not been worth the loss of American lives while 46% say it has. Voters under the age of 30 are less sure, with 49% believing the war has not been worth the losses, 39% believing it has been, and 12% undecided—the most of any age group.
Unsurprisingly, Republicans and Democrats continue to view the war in different terms. While 68% of Republicans say the war has been worth the cost in lives, 76% of Democrats disagree. Democrats seem Still, the overall numbers represent a marked shift from early September, when 58% of likely voters said the Iraq War has not been worth the lives lost.
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