Thursday, December 7, 2006

George Bush talk again: about the election

George Bush and the Republicans have talked Jesus and walked corporate for far too lone. The Old Testament and money have been his sanctuary, his rock, but the rock is starting to crumble. George has pounded his Bible so hard and so long he's thumped a hole in it. Americans have begun to scrutinize motives and results. Those who hold hands with Saudi princes, accept donations from "The Crooked E" or from white collar criminals on "K" street, only distancing themselves when they are caught with their hands deep in the pockets of Jack Abramoff and others of his ilk, have had the bright light of scrutiny shown upon them, exposing them not for what they say, but for what they do.
The Republicans were swept into power over ten years ago. They came to Washington to clean up the cesspool of "politics as usual," and after forty years of Democratic control of Congress, there is an argument to be made that it was a cesspool..
Yet, instead of honoring their mandate to clean it up, the cesspool began to look like a hot tub to them, and with greater lawless gusto, they jumped right in and claimed American government for themselves and their big business friends.
Americans are known to forgive and forget, but the incessant drip, drip, drip of week after week, month after month, year after year of scandal after scandal has tried the patience of a patient people.
It seems the party which laments the corruptness, largeness, and ineffectiveness of big government took power only to make government more corrupt, more ineffective, and even larger.
George Bush and the Republicans, without planning or reflecting on the consequences, led the United States to the brink of oblivion in Iraq, and while doing so gave everybody a tax break and t

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