Republicans are sending around the Internet a photo of a cute little boy whose T-shirt reads: "The mess in my pants is nothing compared to the mess Democrats will make of this country if they win Nov. 2nd."
One can only wonder at the insouciance of this message. -Are Republicans unaware of the amazing mess the Bush regime has made?
It is impossible to imagine a bigger mess. -Republicans have us at war in two countries as a result of Republican lies and deceptions, and we might be in two more wars--Iran and Pakistan--by November. -We have alienated the entire Muslim world and most of the rest.
The dollar has lost 60% of its value against the euro, and the once mighty dollar is losing its reserve currency role.
The Republicans' policies have driven up the price of both oil and gold by 400%.
Inflation is in double digits. -Employment is falling.
The Republican economy in the 21st century has been unable to create net new jobs for Americans except for low wage domestic services such as waitresses, bartenders, retail clerks and hospital orderlies.
Republican deregulation brought about fraud in mortgage lending and dangerous financial instruments which have collapsed the housing market, leaving a million or more homeowners facing foreclosure. The financial system is in disarray and might collapse from insolvency.
The trade and budget deficits have exploded. -The US trade deficit is larger than the combined trade deficits of every deficit country in the world.
The US can no longer finance its wars or its own government and relies on foreign loans to function day to day. -To pay for its consumption, the US sells its existing assets--companies, real estate, toll roads, whatever it can offer--to foreigners.
Republicans have run roughshod over the US Constitution, Congress, the courts and civil liberties. -Republicans have made it perfectly clear that they believe that our civil liberties make us unsafe--precisely the opposite view of our Founding Fathers. -Yet, Republicans regard themselves as the Patriotic Party.
The Republicans have violated the Nuremberg prohibitions against war crimes, and they have violated the Geneva Conventions against torture and abuse of prisoners. Republican disregard for human rights ranks with that of history's great tyrants.
The Republicans have put in place the foundation for a police state.
I am confident that the Democrats, too, will make a mess. -But can they beat this record?
We must get the Republicans totally out of power, or we will have no country left for the Democrats to mess up.
I say this as a person who has done as much for the Republican Party as anyone. -I helped to devise and to get implemented an economic policy that cured stagflation and that brought Republicans back into political competition after Watergate. -If I could have looked into a crystal ball and seen that under a free trade banner, Republicans would enable corporate executives to pay themselves millions of dollars in "performance pay" for deserting their American work forces and hiring foreigners in their place, thus destroying the aspirations and careers of millions of Americans, I never would have helped the Republicans. -If a crystal ball had revealed that a neoconned Republican Party would launch wars of naked aggression against countries that posed no threat to the United States, I would have shouted my warnings even earlier.
Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, has held numerous academic appointments. He has been reporting shocking cases of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition of his book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how Americans lost the protection of law, was published by Random House in March, 2008.
With all due respect, Mr. Roberts, the neocons would not have been able to wreak the havoc you detail above without the complicity of the Democratic Party.
The Dems continue to fund these wars of aggression.
The Dems voted to gut FISA, providing blanket immunity for crimes against this nation.
The Dems voted for the PATRIOT Acts.
The Dems voted for the Military Commissions Act.
The Dems voted for the Help America Vote Act and have implemented theft-enabling computerized election systems. Despite 50+ scientific studiesrevealing that software is undetectably mutable, the Dems - just like the Repubs - insist on using these systems.
The Dems voted to give themselves nearly annual raises while refusing to raise minimum wage for many years at a time. When Congress finally did raise the minimum wage, which no one in the US can live on, they added caveats that have effectively created legalized slavery.
Yes, the neocons devised these schemes, but the Dems went along. The Dems continue to go along. Even Obama supported the new FISA bill.
This country is in the state it's in - which you so aptly describe above - because of the Democratic Party's collusion with the neocon strategy.
Ignoring this reality only perpetuates the Duopoly's deception that the Dems and Repubs are somehow different. Both parties are to blame. Both parties are enemies of the U.S. Constitution Both parties are guilty of war crimes. Both parties need to go.
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Rady Ananda (109 articles, 255 quicklinks, 23 diaries, 830 comments)
on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 8:16:49 PM
I would like to add that both political party's who have children of military age, there are few represented while the majority of the military personnel have no political clout to keep them from serving.
It's just another example of how how the republicans use fear and intimidation by lies and false information. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the Bu$h cabal's self appointed government inherited a surplus and squandered it along with intensifying the sub-prime mess that had begun an administration earlier.
The real cherry though is selling a gullible public in believing that 9/11 was pulled off by a bunch of former Ronald Reagan "Freedom Fighter's" who were now a turncoat against the very hand that once fed them. Leading the US and the rest of the world into a immoral War Of Terror that is being waged both domestically and abroad.
The pile that Bu$h & Co. presuming they leave in November is one deep, messy pile that will be a challenge to replicate.
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Stanimal (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 17 diaries, 472 comments)
on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 11:18:55 PM
Potential MESS 1... McCain is an advocate of staying in Iraq, with a potential war in Iran...
Potential MESS 2... Obama is advocating invading Pakistan to take out AlQaida. Invading Pakistan, without permission, a nation whose government has a tenuous grasp as it is, meanwhile it actually HAS nuclear weapons...
One thing I have learned, in life... NEVER, EVER, say something silly like "It can't possibly get worse."
Because everytime someone says something like that, somehow, it gets worse....
Ciao, CZ
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steve scheetz (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 579 comments)
on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 11:48:38 PM
it can't get any worse, it does. The current Democratic Congress has the lowest approval rating ever obtained in the the history of this country.
The Republicans, after having control of the house, the senate and the presidency, have totally failed us. Yet, I see the cheering crowds waving the signs for both sides of the aisle as if another election is going to change things for the better.
The U.S. is broke, busted, down and out from a financial standpoint. Our debts can never be repaid, our children will be hopelessly strapped with a burden that was not theirs to bear. But, as Bill Cosby said, "I brought you in, I can take you out."
Until such time that the majority of Americans determine that the answer does not lie within our main stream political parties; the situation will in fact, get worse.
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Mike Folkerth (120 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 566 comments)
on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 7:55:27 AM
I am disappointed in the pitiful quality of the comments. I wrote a powerful article, and it provoked no intelligent comment. Some, such as Rady Ananda, apparently cannot even read. So Ananda repeats back to me my criticisms of the Democrats as if I never made them. This is amazing. I made it clear as day that I expected nothing from Democrats except a less mess than the Republicans have made. It is amazing that people shoot off mouths that have nothing to say and who are unable even to read.
Paul Craig Roberts
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paul roberts (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 21 comments)
on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 8:35:33 PM
For them they are doing quite well. But then it is the endotruth not the exotruth they tell us that doesn't work as they say. Oil prices are up, Iraq under enough control for what they want next---Iran to bow down or fall down. There are many things going on to keep us busy while they trash our country as part of the plan to bring it down. From the ruins they wish to arise as an empires.
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nightgaunt (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 173 comments)
on Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 2:55:49 PM
The Dems will NOT cleanup the mess created by their partners in bipartisanship crimes; no, the Dems will screw things up in their own ways and keep the two-party plutocracy alive and well.
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Joel S. Hirschhorn (125 articles, 29 quicklinks, 57 diaries, 505 comments)
on Saturday, July 26, 2008 at 2:34:35 PM
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