Bush's demise

[manly]

The Terri Schiavo tragedy has revealed an Achilles heel in the Republican party with remarkable clarity, exposing it for the fraud it is. The fundamentalist Bushies stand naked, toothless and unarmed, cowering in the harsh light of the truth.
President Bush loves to be worshipped unconditionally and plays to the republican fundamentalists who idolize him. .The fundamentalists, let us remember, are the people who dispute the facts of evolution, who prefer big business’s needs to the preservation the environment, who are against civil rights; in short they espouse outdated and bigoted policies and avoid thinking. These are the folks who give Bush their unequivocal support and his strength among the populace. By their vehemence and organization they have cowed the democrats into inaction and fear. The fundamentalists have dragged along with them the decent but timid, thought-free lemming-like republicans who thus seem to support the fundamentalist’s uneducated ideologies but, in fact, do not. This can be proven, as you will see.
The repub fundamentalists bring to mind two sayings. First, THE WHEEL THAT SQUEAKS THE LOUDEST GETS THE GREASE. Certainly true in this case, as is self-evident. Second, the corollary, AN EMPTY CAN MAKES THE MOST NOISE. This has gone unremarked, but should be given the importance due it.
The Bush Fundamentalist Revival is rolling merrily along, undoing years of civil and environmental progress, doing its utmost to benefit the rich, taking it out of the hides of the poor and middle class. Bush is slipping religion, his brand, of course, into the workings of the government, in violation of both the Constitution and his oath of office, an impeachable offense. His faith-based initiative is perhaps the most egregious example. Every now and then a democrat will dare to stick his or her head up out the sand and take a stand (Boxer, Lautenberg, Conyers) but there is no solidarity, no follow-up, no attack, and the ripples fade away, to the shame of the party. The democrats are afraid of getting in the way of the perceived fundamentalist retaliatory juggernaut and getting shredded by the lies they anticipate in the fundie attack on them, which they know will be the response, a la Goebbels. (Note here that the fundies follow the Hitlerian propaganda tactics religiously.)
Well, it’s time for all you chickenshit democrats to take a deep breath, gird your loins, and attack, because, thanks to the Terri Schiavo situation, it has been shown that the republican fundamentalists have no teeth. Their feared attacks have nothing behind the image, and they are powerless. Look!
Bush George and Bush Jeb and Tom Delay were proved powerless. All their futile grandstanding proved is that they have no support for their illegal schemes.
At the height of their involvement, trying to overturn the judicial system, what did they achieve?
The polls show the true situation. Between 70% and 89% of the people disapproved of what they were doing. Do you realize the import of this!!! It means that only 10% to 20% of the populace approved, max., of what the Bushies were trying to foist on the country. That is their much vaunted power-base. Perhaps even less than Nixon’s when he chose to head for the hills. It means that when given the opportunity to exercise their own judgment without the pressure and hype and campaigning of the fundies to pre-condition them, the vast majority of the republican rank and file rejected the histrionics of their putative leaders, rejected the fundamentalist machinations and did the decent thing!
Bush and his trolls surely miscalculated here on a massive scale, showing their usual inept judgment. Undoubtedly they anticipated a flood of support for their efforts. Never would they have undertaken such a ploy if they had anticipated a rejection by the country on such a scale. They must be mortified to have exposed their weakness this way.
Now it is up to the gutless Democrats to go after them with a vengeance. When the fundies trot out their Goebbels-like attacks, just blow them away as being full of bullshit. Expose Tom DeLay as the scumbag he is and hound him out of office as being a disgrace to the office, an unethical amoral liar and thief. Do not be afraid any longer of the feared Bush machine because it doesn’t really exist. Remember, they only have power if we say they do. Let us speak the truth. They have no power anymore!
The democrats must find a person with courage and determination and charisma (that let’s out Kerry) to stand up to the medieval fundamentalist Bushies. Surely there’s someone out there who qualifies. We need him now!

[Malva Zebrina]

1. Phew--I'm dizzy!

You made a lot of empassioned points, but unless you put a space between paragraphs it is very hard to keep on reading. :-)

[manly]

6. dizzy

point taken.i agree with you.i prefer the old-fashioned 5-space indent at the start of each paragraph, in contrast the the new style flush left. i think i'll go back to it, if i ever write such a long item again.

[ltfranklin]

2. Of course...

you do realize that Michelle Malkin is going to spout, yet again, that DU'ers are howling for the Death of Bush again. You should realize by now that all too many on the other side have a kind of selective reading ability...they only see what they want to see, so I predict that they're only going to read "Bush's demise" and start yelling about how them DU'ers want to see Bush dead again.

[leesa]

5. So what?

[MissWaverly]

7. are we back in the brain dead debate

just asking!

[manly]

10. Miss Waverly

No, we aren't. Pay attention. Read it again.

[MissWaverly]

11. I did read it, I was making a joke

I understand what you are saying but I think that this will only happen when the American people are outraged. It is the American people who will kick the Dems, and the moderate republicans through the goalposts. There has to be a major revelation to break on the heads of the comatose american public like the waves breaking shore like a real proof of election fraud exploding over the airwaves, it's got to be something major for the immovable object (Congress) to meet the irrestible force (Impeachment/Reform)

[manly]

8. malkin

re: Malkin
fuck 'er.who gives a shit what she says. I don't.

[saracat]

3. I agree with your premise ,but the Democrats will never find anyone if

they are as dismissive of the fine work that John Kerry has done for the party as you are. Jk has been battling fiercely in the Senate for all our Democratic concerns and has been the ONLY one of our leaders to speak out publicly on all of our issues. As for charisma, not all people agree with you. JK got more votes than any Dem in history and IMHO probably won. He used to be referred to as " the charismatic junior senator from Massachusetts" until he ran for president. I remind you he was brilliant in the debates. I have had the experience of seeing him speak in person several times ,and it was his speaking ability and presence that contributed to my initial support of him.
This is a man with the "courage and determination "to take on the entire Congress as a young vet , to beat cancer , and the be elected to six terms of the Senate. The only reason he didn't fight for the recount was the proof was made unavailable by the Ohio judiciary and still isn't available. John Kerry isn't like Bush and Delay who have NO respect for the legal system or the judiciary. He couldn't proceed without proof and just as in 2000, the repubs ran the clock. I blame the Congress for NOT instituting election reform and taking the proper precautions!
We should be supportive of John Kerry instead of trying to tear him down.

[manly]

9. kerry's charisma

all credit to Kerry for his work. Nevertheless, I find his personality about as exciting as a lox. You cannot ignore the reality of today's politics, and that means charisma is even more important than substance, unfortunately. Certainly, that's how Bush got in, as he has no substance whatsoever.
Remember JFK?

[saracat]

13. Excuse me, You don't really BELIEVE Bush has "charisma"

do you ? A bumbling buffoon who can't string a coherent sentence together and has a fake Beavis and Butthead laugh? That is how Bush got elected?
I recall the 2000 race and neither candidate was considered to have personality. Bush was anointed with one after the election was stolen. Instead of stupid , he was "plain spoken". Instead of being unable to make a speech, he was "great one on one" Please. He has as much charm as a lox.
We are being TOLD who has charm and who doesn't . We don't have to believe what we are told. Both Kerry's lack of charisma and Bush's alleged charisma are the products of media spin!
It speaks volumes that Kerry was considered charismatic until he became a threat to Bush and then "became" boring and pedantic !

[blm]

15. YOU believe the media portrayal. Kerry in person is NOTHING like the media

portrayed.

I doubt just ANY man had the charisma and integrity to match the hotter than hot Teresa.... She saw the same sizzle in him that many of us hot, compassionate, intelligent types go for and see in him in spades.

[GoneOffShore]

16. I liked your original post

but I have to take issue with your assessment of John Kerry.

He is a dynamic speaker, with a full arsenal of intellectual weapons at his disposal. He's actually someone who isn't just presented with a speech to deliver as our 'fearless leader' is.

Your other points I agree with.

[cliss]

4. Very nice analysis.

Your post just made my day. Good writing, and I agree with you.

[blm]

12. Your slap at Kerry is uninformed. I'd like you to name ONE lawmaker

who has investigated and exposed more government corruption than John Kerry has.

Just ONE. If you know ANYTHING about the last 40 years of American history, you would know that Kerry has investigated and exposed more government corruption than any other lawmaker in modern history. That takes more determination than one can imagine and especially since he had to go up against both the GOP and most of his own party to do it.

Your assessment that he has no determination and no charisma is not based on real information that can be accessed in the National Security Archives and the congressional record.

Or was that YOU who helped to bring three wars to an end, investigate and expose two of the biggest crimes against the constitution, IranContra and BCCI, and wrote a book to alert the nation to the international financing of global terror.

Your post was fine up until the absurd, uninformed slam at Kerry and the other Democrats. The GOP controls most of the media, and apparently, you believe their media that portrays the Dems as silent and hiding, when they have been working actively against Bush's agenda but getting no broadcast coverage of their efforts.

[manly]

14. uninformed me

Dear Sir or Madam,
You may be right
rw

[blm]

17. There are some books out about BCCI. Kerry pursued it for 5 years.

EVERY powerstructure in DC aligned against him.

It's especially significant today because it was the first time any lawmaker pursued the money trail of terrorists and those global financiers and agents who funded them.

Too bad the press won't talk about BCCI. Every journalist who pursued the story was either offed or fired for "harrassment" of the poor Bush1 administration. 9-11 and our Iraq policy is rooted in BCCI. Almost all the same names pop up.