Too Little, Too Late: A Nation Ashamed

After hiding for a week, our fearless leader has decided to go and "tour" Louisiana. When are the conservatives that support this presidency going to wake up to what their "idiot" is doing to this country and to the Middle East as well as the rest of the world. It is time that our Congress start the impeachment of the Whole Administration, not just the head "idiot". If they don't wake up and smell the coffee, they may find themselves the first victims of civil war between the haves and the have nots. Look how short a time it took for the facade of civilization to break down in New Orleans... now imagine that on a much larger scale. Don't think it can happen? Nobody thought that Bin Laden could take down the World Trade Center, nobody thought a Hurricane could drown a city in the United States. And nobody ever imagined a time where being an American was a shameful thing.

What is wrong with this country? Why did our leaders rush to impeach Clinton over a sex scandal, but refuse to even consider it over a president that lied to start a war that we will end up slinking off and will see a civil war and government worse than Saddam could even have imagined take his place. A President that has ruined this country financially for the benefit of his business associates and this nations wealthy. A President who is, through his No Child Left Behind policy, bankrupting school districts all over this country and lowering standards of education and actually believes a non-scientific and thinly disguised religious theory should be taught in a science class.

I swear, if I could afford it, I would leave this country, but I don't think it will do any good. Honestly, those in charge are doing their best to start a world wide Armageddon. And if they think God is going to make an appearance and thank them for their hard work, then they are also delusional.

I am also curious, like many others, why Clinton and Bush and Carter and Ford don't denounce Bush Jr. I can almost understand Daddy not wanting to publicly denounce his son, but this is getting way bigger than family loyalty. Oh, I know, its just politics. Is there not a better way to conduct "politics" or are we humans doomed to repeat the rise and fall of every civilization the world has witnessed?

Kerry should be given the White House, it is really his anyway. Although I don't know how much good it will do now as we may have passed the point of no return. It is now entirely possible that we are on the long slide down to obscurity. I can see the US breaking up into dozens of small independent countries. Between AIDS and Mad Cow and Tuberculosis and dozens of other diseases that will ravage the world in the next few decades, not to mention unpredictable and worsening weather patterns and the distinct possibility of a few atomic bomb explosions here and in other countries and the retaliation for those attacks...There will be no possibility of help. We are spread to thin and cannot even respond decently to the devastation that Katrina left and every day the rich get richer and poor get poorer and the middleclass begins its now unavoidable slide toward poverty.


Laura

The Family

Dear Fellow Americans,

Have ya'all noticed that when Prez Bush needs to wring money out of us Americans cause the government can't really afford to help people when they're down, given all our money is going to Halliburton, and his attention is in Iraq, he calls on Daddy Bush and Brother Bill [ya I know they aren't really brothers, they just belong to the same club, but I bet that Daddy Bush likes brother Bill a whole lot better about right now. And I even bet Grandpa Carter and Uncle Ford feel the same way!] Anyway, he knows we wouldn't send in as many dimes if he made the appeal. He knows we really don't like him anymore and I bet right now even there are more than a few Republicans wishing Clinton were back in office right about now.

Bush makes me ashamed to be an American and I cringe everytime he opens his mouth cause ya never know what stupid idiotic utterance is going to spew forth from that mean lipped mouth.

Yours Truly,

Laura

Be Careful What You Wish For

A recent article by TODD S. PURDUM in the New York Times on July 5th, pointed out just how often a President finds himself at odds with a Supreme Court Justice that he himself had nominated. So I don't think I will worrying too much over Bush being able to name one or even two Supreme court Justices because once they are in the job, their outlook shifts as the immensity of the position sinks in and we have to trust that they will look to the constitution to back up their opinions rather than their own beliefs.

I even hold contrary beliefs about Roe v Wade. On one hand I deplore the need for such a medical procedure and probably would not have ever had one. But on the other hand, I certainly do not believe that my beliefs are yours and I fully believe in a woman's right to choose whether or not to carry a fetus to term. Because what many right to lifers forget is that there is 18 more years after the birth that if done right will cost a small fortune and there is no guarantee that your child will even be adopted and he or she could end up in the care of the state for 18 years. And we all know how well that option works out most

Now if all the memebers of right to life groups would either adopt all the children that will be born should Roe v Wade be overturned, that I don't have a problem overturning Roe v Wade and making abortion illegal in this country... They can even just donate money regularly so the mother can afford to raise the child herself.

For an idea of what would be ideal should he have two Supremes to replace... visit a site where West Wing episodes and look up the episode called "The Supremes." Or just click on the title of this column and you will be transported there.



Laura

Been A Little Slow

Well its been a little slow and I have been preoccupied with other concerns. Bush decided he needed to defend his Iraqi war after the latest polls showed his approval rate was in the toilet and the American People are close to flushing. And as usual he failed miserably cause he just can't seem to stop lying to us, the public. And TOO MANY Republicans seem to think that Bush's sins are less than Bill Clinton's..

Clinton only broke trust with his family, Bush has broken trust with the whole nation. Yes that is right, this nation did not have a contract with our President to not have sex with a woman not his wife... We were not the victims as we are with Bush's lies and half-truths.

Senator Biden is, for the moment, the person everyone wants to interview what with his recent revelation that he may go for the presidency in 2008.

Anti-Hillary blogs and articles are still trying to derail a run from her. Why on earth would they be so afraid of her this early other than the fact that polls show her as having the better odd of winning then other likely contenders. And they learned in the last election that smear campaigns work [or do they?] they are starting early with her.


Klein supporters, the author of an anti-Hillary book, is claiming that the Hillary Machine is at the root of cancellation for interviews with him. But I think that the fact that it is full of half-truths, outright lies, and severe spin doctoring is the reason. Wonder if there is anything in it that would stand up for a slander suit and if that would even be worth the trouble?

It really is time for this nation to give the female half of its population a chance to steer us for awhile, so keep being positive about wanting her to run for the Presidency... Although I wonder what being First man is going to look like for husband Bill.

Laura

One Nation, Divisible

One Nation, Divisible
By NORMAN ORNSTEIN and BARRY MCMILLION
There is a lot of talk about political polarization in Congress. But is it true? Well, yes.

The story is about voting patterns in congress and shows that there are fewer centrists now than in the 50's. Today there are far more that fall to the left and right.

All this tells me is that we are not playing well together anymore and are so upset at those who vote different than ourselves that we can't even talk with each other, much less compromise.

So it is time to dig up my theory that what most leaders in most countries need are for us people to send a contingent of Kindergarten teachers to the state and national capitals to teach our representatives how to work and play well together. Maybe then we can get something done with regards to our government.

If we don't then all we have to look forward to is more of the same that we have had for the last decade or so... And it doesn't really matter who is in charge because I don't have enough faith that the Democrats won't behave as badly as the Republicans have when it is their turn to be the majority again.

Laura

Hillary Clinton Attacked by Man From Mars

By Tina Brown

Thursday, June 23, 2005; Page C01

"Maybe it's a secret fantasy of girl-on-girl action that makes Ed Klein obsess about Sen. Hillary Clinton's supposed lesbian ethos in his new book "The Truth About Hillary." It's hard to know what else he has to draw on. Yelling "lesbian" at powerful heterosexual women has always been the pathetic projection of the menaced male, but it's especially baffling in Klein's case. As the former editor of the New York Times Magazine, with some bestsellers behind him, Klein used to be a workmanlike scribe with glamour aspirations when he was flat-footing around in the Jackie O crypto-sphere. He's not the usual sniper in the Republican stage army, which is perhaps why such paid-up members as the New York Post's John Podhoretz have elected to play smart and trash the book, too. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that misogyny is a sure boomerang...[for full story just click on heading]

Comment:
You know what I love the most about authors like Klein? It is that they are so afraid of Hillary that they will do anything to stop her. And the irony is that the more they attack the better Hillary is going to start looking to moderates in this country regardless of their political affiliation. It is they that will get Hillary, a Democrat and a woman, elected as the first Woman President in this country and it is damn well about time.

And They’re Off!

The first politician to throw his proverbial hat in to the ring is Democratic Senator Biden. Hillary Clinton is still being coy about it, but pretty much everyone expects for her to make a run for the Democratic Nominee for President in 2008. She has the 2006 Senate race to worry about so we won’t hear from her until that race is over. Is this country ready to put a woman in our highest office, or perhaps, the vice presidency?

Although, unless the Republicans manage to find one helluva candidate for themselves, some intelligent, moderate Republican who doesn’t pander to the Religious Right and someone, who will not continue the sad legacy of Bush & Co, it is a good bet at this point that the Democratic candidate will win. That is assuming the Democrats are very careful in their choice and can manage to get behind them 100%.

Not that Kerry was a bad choice in 2004, but he just could not or would not stand up and tell Bush that he was wrong, wrong, wrong. Kerry needed to say that Bush was wrong about his tax cuts for the rich, wrong about Iraq, wrong about his environmental policy, wrong about just about everything he has touched. It was hard to get excited about a candidate when the Democratic mantra was “anyone but Bush”.

Personally, I am not happy with either major party and honestly think that we need some strong 3rd parties to take enough congressional seats to force all parties to have to work with each other and build coalitions to get legislation passed. There are far too many issues that require give and take of all concerned for us to be at the mercy of just one party who is lucky enough to have the majority.

Our present two party system is in the toilet and many of us are ready to flush them both down into the sewers where it seems they belong. But change is hard and we are a stubborn pride filled nation of people who believe that our way of life, our government, our economic system is the way that the world should go whether the rest of the world wants it or not.

We need to wake up and smell the coffee, because in all honesty, if we have learned anything from the Bush Administration, it is that as far as our country is concerned, “we ain’t all that.”

Laura Cody