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The corporations that are collectively about half a trillion dollars richer are very happy about it, however.
Today, though, there are reasons to be (guardedly) optimistic about some things. The continual, never-ending revelations of the lying, criminal activity, scandals and cover-ups throughout the last six years of the Bush administration have finally started to wear thin with the American people. These morons were drunk with their own power and got greedy. They just went too far for too long! And they can't even use Jesus to cover it up any more.
I loved it when Tom Delay was indicted and his boy Jack Abramoff got sent to prison. I chortled with joy when right-wing anti-gay Christian conservative Ted Haggard got caught with his pants down doing nasty things with a male hooker. And Alberto Gonzales… don't even get me started on that sniveling, simpering little worm who thinks his job as Bush's lawyer is to find a way to work around the Constitution! Our President's "trusted advisers" like Karl Rove…these people have actually tried to make the Department of Justice nothing more than a political arm of the Republican Party! And they have succeeded to a great extent… but I think the American people are finally waking up to the fact that they have been played.
What I am saying is that there are a LOT more people out there - from this administration - who need to get arrested! Convicted. Publicly disgraced.
The neo-cons, the "religious right" - these so-called Christian conservatives - they have been in bed together for far too long. And people are finally getting wise. These people are like sleazy used car salesmen. They got a cowboy hat, an expensive suit, a Southern twang, and a box of plastic glow-in-the-dark statues of Jesus! Not to mention a parking lot full of million-dollar HumVees! They have been selling us this war - and making piles of money for each other doing it - and in return they are telling the evangelical rank and file the really important things they want to hear: that they are anti-gay marriage and above all, "pro-life".
Well, if that is not the ultimate in hypocrisy, I don't know what is. Because there is one thing I am sure even Jesus would agree on, if he were alive today: You cannot be PRO-WAR and PRO-LIFE at the same time!!
There is a famous quote from the writer Sinclair Lewis: "When fascism comes to America, it will be draped in the American flag and carrying a cross".
I saw part of the Republican presidential candidates' debate yesterday, and Giuliani was the only one who dared to say that he would respect a woman's right to choose what to do with her own body and her own life!
I have so had it with these self-righteous "born-again" pricks that are more concerned with the fate of the unborn than the actually born! Every last Republican candidate was gung-ho in total support of continuing to spend billions on this war which is killing hundreds, if not thousands, every month, including children of course, and yet they get all mushy and sentimental (not to mention thumpin' on that Bible) when it comes to a fetus!
Bottom line: the abortion issue is not a religious issue. It is not a moral issue. It is a civil rights issue! Full stop. (I was going to say "period" but thought better of it.)
These people are trying to tell women two things. One, that if they are going to have sex (ooh! bad girl!) they are going to have to pay the consequences of their sinful behavior. And two, that their lives and bodies are not their own, that they belong to the state… God's own Christian Republican state.
Also, I think there is a rather cruel and cynical subtext to the whole abortion controversy, which explains why the neo-cons are so supposedly "pro-life". It's like what George Carlin said in one of his HBO specials: "They want live babies so they can turn them into dead soldiers!"
It's true. Let's face it, the rich and powerful are not about to send their children into battle. Certainly not to fight the "war on terror". Not even to defend "freedom" against "Islamic fascists". No. Who would collect their inheritance and take over their membership in the country club? Are you kidding? For $16,363 a year? Not a chance. Hell, their gardening bills are more than that!
No. They need kids from poor families. Dysfunctional families. Uneducated families. Kids that weren't really wanted but their unwed mother couldn't get an abortion because the Federal Government made it illegal. Kids that wanted to get a free college education. Kids that lived in a household where all they ever watched was Fox News. Kids that couldn't find Iraq on a world map. Kids that wanted to do something for their country. Kids that wanted to make something of themselves. Kids that didn't realize they were being used as pawns. Kids that bought into the American dream of liberty and justice for all. And most importantly, kids that won't be missed by anyone rich and powerful.
The reign of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney has been a total disaster for America. They have been reckless, arrogant and belligerent. They have perpetrated great lies on this country. And they have thoroughly antagonized and alienated much of the world. Their policies, far from making the world a safer place, have greatly advanced the terrorist cause by greatly increasing the number of people who hate America.
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