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Hey,
Republicans! Had Enough?
by
Allen Snyder
OpEdNews.Com
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Dear
Average GOPers:
It’s
been a few months since my last letter and I just want to know one thing.
Have
you had enough?
Enough
of the lies, the mendacity, the hypocrisy, the fear and the paranoia; the
cowardice, the cons, the irrationality, and the arrogance; the bombast,
the bullying, the violence, the killing, the distrust, the secrecy, and
the hatred?
Enough
of thinly-veiled GOP power grabs, the shameless politicizing and
exploitation of 9/11, the reconstruction deals for the well-connected
Halliburton and Bechtel (sweet!), the Elite Aviator action figure (gag!),
Showtime’s Presidential fiction film, regular buffoonery and
condescension at the UN, the incredibly belated ‘honesty’ (forced by
Dick-head Cheney’s rehashing old lies), the treasonous outing of covert
agents, and the behind-closed-doors Patriot Act ‘conferences’ Herr
Ashcroft is holding?
Enough
of ‘environmentally friendly’ initiatives that pollute the air,
decimate the forests, trash the waterways, endanger species, melt
glaciers, blow more holes in the ozone, eliminate rules and restrictions,
deregulate industry, and encourage prairie-dog-like oil drilling and
mining anywhere there’s a drop of crude or speck of coal dust?
Enough
of their media minions poisoning the airwaves with vitriol passing for
reasoned opinion or logical argument, Judith Miller’s bogus New York
Times stories, their fundamentalist zeal and conscience-less war
cheerleading, their intimidating the competition into goose-stepping ever
farther to the right, the racist and homophobic hate rants from Republican
party leaders, and their palpable ignorance of everything involving even a
minimum of international cooperation, diplomatic tact, or compromise?
Enough
of Bradleys, Humvees, WMD, RPG, CENTCOM, MRE, friendly fire, embeds,
Private Lynch, armchair analysts, neo-cons, chickenhawks, FOX, the WSJ
editorial page, the orchestrated hysteria, color-coded terrorist alerts
that stay yellow no matter what happens, PNAC, ‘surgical’ air strikes,
suicide bombers, the bribes-for-troops program, North Korean nukes and new
American nuke-lettes?
Enough
of the casualties - the dead, maimed, and crippled; the mocked-up corpses
and war crimes committed in your name; the orphans, childless,
brother-less, and spouse-less; the emotionally scarred, psychologically
traumatized, and morally shaken; extended tours of duty, unilateral
military action, pumping testosterone, quagmires, ‘bring ‘em on’
terrorist taunting, shifting rationales, and the whole ridiculous notion
of pre-emptive warfare?
Enough
of bankrupt states, hemorrhaging budgets, cuts in basic services,
ballooning deficits, rising unemployment, tuition hikes, tax cuts for rich
folks, hundreds of billions in military expenditures, trickle-down
economics that have never worked, leaving lots and lots of children
behind, the buck-passing, the finger-pointing, corporate welfare, gutted
social programs, free-speech zones, judge-less subpoenas, warrant-less
searches, overturned sentences, tracked e-mails, library books, and
websites, the acquiescence of Congress, a tainted and corrupt Supreme
Court, the wholesale defection of responsible journalism, dumbed-down
info-tainment, over-hyped news, and sexed-up dossiers?
Enough
of Rice, Rove, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Powell (yes, even him), Perle,
Card, Bugman DeLay, Dick-head Santorum, Bill Frist, Bill Kristol, Bill
O’Reilly, Rush, Arnold, Joe Lieberman (he’s on my side, right?), the
Western White House, Sunday talk show saturation lying, puff-ball
interviews, Bush’s ‘aw-shucks’ folksy down-home act, his butchering
of the English language, orchestrated recalls, punch-card ballots, Gallup
polls, disenfranchised voters, stolen elections, Governor Brothers, and
Tony Blair?
Enough
of the ceaseless irony, the lack of humor, the thoughtlessness, the faux
conservatism, the faux-er compassion, the machismo and misogyny, the
whiffs of fascism, the censorship, the conflicts of interest, the
contemptible war profiteering, the open scorn for the Rule of Law, the
bait-and-switch, and their complete lack of sacrifice?
We
have BushCo and its paranoid delusions of global grandeur to thank for
just about all of it.
Again,
I ask you.
Had
enough?
Yeah,
me too.
Al
Snyder
Allen Snyder is an instructor of Philosophy and Ethics at Pellissippi
State Technical Community College in Knoxville, Tennessee. He can be
reached at asnyder111@hotmail.com
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