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By KJM, Aug 15, 2003
KJM [nebx2002@yahoo.com] writes:
Mike-
You and your radical left-wing minions need to stop your liberal self adulation, if only for a moment, and face reality: The majority of the country thinks the issues that you support and the contentions you make are simply insane. You are either incapable of sound reasoning and logic and/or you are psychotic. In either event, you need help!
Get a grip, do some real research, and create a blog that makes some sense. Perhaps then, you might have an audience that has some semblance of education that fosters true discourse...It's frightening to think people like you exist!
The editors reply:
Your complaints - really facile insults - make no sense. You failed to support your notions with anything close to any "real research" much less "sound reasoning." Even so, we're open-minded and kind, therefore we'll try to help you. This despite the lack of even one specific fact or any "semblance of education" - or civility for that matter - in your "diagnosis."
First off, you're wrong about us. We're rational progressives and sound-thinking centrists, not radicals. We don't want drastic departures from the honorable American way. We support restoring America's traditional honor and greatness by supporting tried and true approaches.
Your attempt to label us indicates if anyone is radical and out of step with most Americans, it's you and other Bush supporters. We revere American values. You venerate Bush above the Constitution and the flag. You blindly obey an unelected, unqualified and unacceptable life-long failure who's wrecking America.
Bush's unprecedented un-American actions
Because we understand reality, we oppose Bush's increasingly calamitous and unprecedented un-American actions. If you don't, you should. You should face these facts about Bush:
Bush seized power by suing for - not winning - Electoral Votes. He lost the election so he sued to block the actual fair, full count of the votes in Florida. This after wide-spread Republican crimes to rig the election.
In short, the Bush brothers cheated in Florida, but still lost. Then they sued the voters to make sure 10,000s of votes wouldn't count or be counted. That's nothing less than a coup against our republic itself. Bush did that. It's wrong. It's radical. It's un-American.
Bush lied about the economy and his policies failed.
Bush broke campaign vows to cut taxes fairly. He repeatedly assured us his tax policies would not deliver nearly half of our shared surplus to barely 1% of the very wealthy and corporations trying to move jobs out of America. Well, it was even worse.
Bush gave his crooked corporate friends more than our entire surplus. He borrowed $billions and $billions in our name, putting his radical program on our national credit card. He gave his powerful special interest campaign contributors so much of our money our economy is drowning in oceans of record high red ink.
Bush gave his buddies $billions, but handed the rest of us deficits so huge our children and grandchildren will suffer for decades trying to pay it back. This after Bush found a record surplus when he took office. That was even before 9/11. Since 9/11, he's only continued his radical attacks on our fiscal security with tax cuts that can't help - which only hurt - the economy.
Now, Bush is claiming we can't afford to pay for basics - education, health care, even national security. We don't have the money. Bush claims we can't afford to pay for first responders and Air Marshals we need to protect us against the next terror attack. This while spending a $billion a week in Iraq.
Bush's economic policies failed. Robbing the rest to enrich the rich always fails, and it's easy to understand why. Everyone knows small businesses, and working and middle class people spend their money close to home. Shifty CEOs like Ken Lay and corporations like Enron and Dell rip off people and / or use their tax cuts to move operations out of America.
Bush refused to sponsor fair and effective policies, opting to raid the surplus, Social Security, and Medicare to shower money on those who helped Bush the most, but help the economy the least. Giving our money to internationalist jet-setters who invest in foreign sweat shops and multinational corporations who move our tax base off-shore can't help our domestic economy. Bush's "results" prove this. By any measure, Bush is an utter failure on economic policy.
In short, Bush should have kept his promises. He should not have given almost all of his tax cuts to those least in need least likely to help the economy. He should not reward corporations who move operations out of the US and evade taxes by fleeing to Bermuda and fleecing America. Bush lied to us during the campaign and he's still lying to us about his economic policies. Anemic economic performance proves his radical policies are wrong.
Bush lied about Iraq and his policies failed.
Bush also lied to the American people about Iraq, and he had his top officials lie as well. This to trick us into an unprovoked invasion of another nation for the first time in our history. We now know Bush lied to mislead us into war, and not just about uranium from Niger.
That enriched radioactive lie is just the best known of Bush's many lies because he delivered it during the constitutionally required State of the Union Address. Shamefully, Bush denied responsibility for the lies he spoke under the Oath of Office. That's an impeachable offense. Still, Bush continues to lie, and Americans continue to die in Iraq.
The same Iraq which posed no threat to America. Iraq which had no nuclear weapons. Iraq which had no ties to Al Qaeda and no role planning or supporting the attacks on 9/11. Bush's cozy ties with top Saudis, his months of vacation and his lack of leadership before 9/11 had much more to do with the 3,000+ fatalities than Iraq ever did.
Bush's policies keep costing us American lives and $billion a week - at least. Iraq remains unresolved months after the unjustified attack predicated on lies. Even after Bush lied claiming "mission accomplished" and then contradicted that saying "bring 'em on" - challenging Iraqis currently killing our troops nearly every day to kill more Americans.
Bush's other foreign policies also failed. His "road map" for peace in the Middle East still suffers from his reckless refusal to build on the Clinton momentum in 2001. That same year, Bush sided with Libya, Iraq and other rogue states opposing international efforts to contain weapons of mass destruction. The same WMDs Bush now claims justify unilateral attacks - whether or not they even exist. Hypocritical? Pathological? Insane? If the term fits....
Even Afghanistan - Bush's lone "success" - is tainted. His mistakes (at best) let bin Laden escape, and Afghanistan is falling back into chaos as the Taliban and Al Qaeda reform and reassert their power. To sum up - where's bin Laden Bush promised to bring in "dead or alive?" Where's Sadam or the WMDs? By any measure, Bush is an utter failure on foreign policy.
Bush is still lying to Americans.
Under Karl Rove's direction, Bush keeps exploiting our fears - our 9/11 post traumatic stress - for narrow partisan and personal gain. He's violating more than 200 years of American policy. It's wrong. It's radical. It's un-American.
Bush's "leadership" relies on lies. His economic policies led to millions of lost jobs, record high debt, and despite Keynesian and monetarist overdrive, growth is anemic at best. These policies already failed for all but Bush's billionaire friends. Americans understand that.
In the end as in the beginning, Bush bases his reign on manipulations, crimes and lies. His dishonorable un-American actions only continue and grow. Bush actually tried to slash the Air Marshals and first responders. Dubya's double-talk in the wake of massive electrical failure rings hollow even though it wasn't due to terrorism. This time.
Bush opposed measures to protect our power grid. He's cutting our national security in the name of cutting costs. He's leaving us wide open. "Psychotic?" It's almost like he wants another terrorist attack! This Neo-congame isn't conservative. It's worse than piracy. This is idiocy. It's wrong. It's radical. It's un-American.
Therefore, if you really can "face reality" you cannot claim "The majority of the country thinks the issues that [we] support and the contentions [we] make are simply insane." Not when we and almost all Americans support fair and full vote counts, respecting the law, telling us the truth, effective foreign policy, and sound economic policies.
Why do you oppose those things? And why do you imagine "The majority of the country" is "insane?" Rather than attack good Americans who only want what's best for America as "incapable of sound reasoning" and/or "psychotic," why not try to think for yourself? Or is that too "frightening" for people like you?
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