Bush is an ideological hit man for a radical, extremist cabal that hates America and the Constitution. Bush was put into office to pull off a job: execute a contract on the very source of our freedom, the Bill of Rights. Bush's mission: do a job on American freedom, rollback the achievements of the Supreme Court, secure a dictatorship for the blessings --not of liberty --but of big, fat, juicy defense contracts.So far, Bush has done a splendid job for an unholy alliance of corporatist fascists, radical fundies, and simple crooks like Jack Abramoff who were just in it for quick bucks. Pat Robertson took it all seriously, thinking Bush to be on a mission from God to murder Hugo Chavez and to allow black people to die of criminal neglect in times of natural disaster.
Bush hates what America stood for. In several acts of high treason, Bush has deliberately subverted the principles upon which our late republic was founded! He made his preferences known very early on.
This would be a whole lot easier if this was a dictatorship...heh heh heh ...just so long as I'm the dictator!At the time Bush said that, America was holding on by a thread. Just one more vote on SCOTUS would give conservatives the dictatorship Bush dreamed of. Too much could go wrong for Democracy and did. It was called Bush v Gore, a political and disingenuous decision that did not even address the issues cited as compelling the case.
When the court was finally forced to conjure a point of law in its desperate search for a reason for the stay to save the Bush presidency, the justices (probably Scalia) hit upon the argument that the Florida Supreme Court violated the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protecion clause — that Florida's voters were being treated unequally by the lack of a standard in counting ballots. The bitter irony of this decision, as Bugliosi points out, is that "the equal protection clause ... was tailor-made for blacks" after the Civil War, intended to ensure the civil rights of former slaves. In the present case, the black vote was the most likely to be negated by the court's decision to end the recount.That SCOTUS' citation of the 14th was just a ruse is proven by the fact that the court's decision offers up a "remedy" that doesn't even address the 14th. How bloody cynical can you get?--Howard Garcia, In Bush v. Gore, Supreme Court Conservatives Brought Disgrace on Their Institution
...leading professors of constitutional law such as Ackerman and New York University's Ronald Dworkin, [believed that ] naked political self-interest drove the Court's five conservatives to halt the recount ordered by the Florida supreme court. It was not, as the majority opinion stated, that in violation of well-settled Equal Protection jurisprudence the Florida recount in a variety of ways debased or diluted the weight of citizens' votes. Nor was it as the majority held that under Florida law as interpreted by the Florida supreme court (in response to a question posed to it by the U.S. Supreme Court) no time was left to conduct a constitutionally proper recount because December 12 was the outside deadline for Florida to choose its presidential electors. All that was window dressing.In Bush v Gore, the conservatives sold out America, the Constitution, and stuck us with a would be dictator of no talent, no intellect, no humanity! Bush is not redeemed by his megalomaniacal ambitions, his vainglorious dreams of world conquest for Jesus and Jews of a neocon persuasion. Not elected, Bush DOES NOT represent the people of America.
I know how we came to this. The American people must bear awesome responsibility. The American people had not been vigilant. Ignorance of the Constitution is widespread throughout every demographic segment. Our history, the very principles of our founding, was and continues to be all but ignored in far too many school districts. A brief civics lesson may be in order.
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The government of the United States is of the latter description. The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken or forgotten, the constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing; if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts pro- [5 U.S. 137, 177] hibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act.The right wing must hate the principle of "popular sovereignty" because they have been attacking it since the founders wrote "We the people..." European style monarchies were often epitomized by Louis XIV who summed up his position succinctly: L'Etat! C'est Moi! Bush has assumed as much power with considerably less style. He is content to role up absolute rule in just two words, unitary executive, a euphemism for dictatorship.
--Justice John Marshall, Marbury v Madison
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What an idiot! The following is the best analogy to the American war of independence. It is from William Pitt the Elder, Earl of Chatham, on the floor of the Parliament, urging the British government to get out of America.Iraq like historic US war, says Bush
Jim Gerstenzang in Martinsburg, West Virginia
July 6, 2007
THE US President, George Bush, has compared the war in Iraq with the US war for independence in his Fourth of July speech.
Like the revolutionaries who "dropped their pitchforks and picked up their muskets to fight for liberty", Mr Bush said American soldiers were fighting "a new and unprecedented war" to protect US freedom.
My Lords, this ruinous and ignominious situation, where we cannot act with success, nor suffer with honour, calls upon us to remonstrate in the strongest and loudest language of truth, to rescue the ear of Majesty from the delusions which surround it. You cannot, I venture to say, you cannot conquer America.DiscoveriesAnd something completely different. This might have been one of my hang outs somewhere between downtown Houston and Gilley's.I'll have a Dos Equis! Yeeeeee hawwwww!
" What is your present situation there? We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing and suffered much. - You may swell every expense, and strain every effort, still more extravagantly; accumulate every assistance you can beg or borrow; traffic and barter with every pitiful German Prince, that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign country.
Your efforts are forever vain and impotent-doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely; for it irritates to an incurable resentment the minds of your enemies, to overrun them with the sordid sons of rapine and of plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms-never-never-never.
--William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-7, On Affairs in America 1777.
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Of course, you can't forget another wonderful Bush quote from August 5, 2004:
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
If Bush wants to improve the accuracy of his analogy of Iraq to the American Revolution, he must admit that the American occupying forces there more closely resemble the British side in the Revolutionary war.
Typically, the idiot who would be king gets it exactly wrong.
"No one is free from uttering stupidities. The harm lies in doing it meticulously." -- Montaigne, Essays III.
Yes, Bush did sell out America, but the sell-out started much earlier. Lobbyists, Senators and Congressman have been lining their pockets with tax payer payer money.
Selling out the needs of America by refusing to provide universal health care, the kind of quality health care provided by England, Canada, France, and even the small communist Island of Cuba. No, our Government with the help of the majority of Republicans and I'm sure some Democrats refused to give us universal health care! Instead they line their pockets with money and huge campaign funds from their Corporate buddies. Yes, this sell- out is here but, it has been going on for a long, long time.
The solution, I don't know, perhaps we can start thinking about how we choose our leaders and maybe starting to think about where you shop. Start eating at locally owned restaurants,local hardware stores, dress shops, try to spend your dollars anyway other then corporate because they help fund this corrupt media and political system, so buying local provides precious dollars placed back in the local community not in the corporations.
so right Diane b...
we all need to start transitioning to sustainable living habits anyway...it will be the only way this tired planet will be able to make carrying capacity of the not so far off future, with concern to the population impact we humans have been causing.
I also think that people that do the stock market thing should also study up on who they are investing in, and when you find a rotten apple, take that money and put it in with some of the new green funds, which are growing and are getting diverse in their own right.
We need to de-fund the military industrial corporatist and put that money / resource back into the human factor, rather then the DOD (department of death). I am not so naive as to think a super power would ever dismantle it's military, and as the unfortunate state in which the human condition remains, a reasonable military is not unwarranted. But, what we have today is a total over-blown steroid riddled corrupted group of agencies, feeding on what ever they should choose, in order to generate economy and power for it's chosen few. This power structure has been destroying our country in an accelerated rate since the end of WWII.
Some of the simple, but practical things every day working Americans may do to counter the corporate market bias, is to begin a regiment of conscious, elemental living.
It is certainly a challenge pulling out from main stream living habits and patterns, but if we all just start to itemize a list of behavior changes, and then figure out out how to implement them into our every day, just one at a time....it will be a very workable effort, with what I believe could be surprising results.
There are endless web sites that speak of sustainable living practices, and if you look hard enough, there will be people somewhere near you working on these issues, I have found them everywhere. We all just have to keep on keeping on, with no hesitation in maintaining open hearts and minds as we continue to develop and ply our progressive agenda. After all, we have common sense on our side, logic if you prefer, our odds are superior for being the concepts that will be moving forward, this I am certain of.
bmerc
Well, Iraq is EXACTLY like US colonial overthrow of England, but with our contemporary losers King George; his redcoats and mercenaries AND of course, the Iraqi minutemen in the winning role for the independence of THEIR country.
Picked from the Post today:
"Bush commuted a sentence without running requests through lawyers at the Justice Department, White House officials said. He also did not ask the chief prosecutor in the case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, for his input, as routinely happens in cases routed through the Justice Department's pardon attorney."
About Libby:
L’état, c’est moi!
About Iraq:
Apres moi, le deluge!
Bush is no Napoleon but more like a Louis de XIV without the artistic taste!
(let's hope he doesn't share his longevity either...)
Anonymous said...
Well, Iraq is EXACTLY like US colonial overthrow of England, but with our contemporary losers King George; his redcoats and mercenaries AND of course, the Iraqi minutemen in the winning role for the independence of THEIR country.
Indeed! I wish one of our cowardly Senators would stand up in the US Senate as did William Pitt and declare as eloquently, as emphatically: "If I were an [Iraqi] as I am an [American], while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms-never-never-never." I think it had always been the case at least until Blair "Bushed" his country, that in England free speech was ACTUALLY practiced.
SadButTrue said...
If Bush wants to improve the accuracy of his analogy of Iraq to the American Revolution, he must admit that the American occupying forces there more closely resemble the British side in the Revolutionary war.
That particular analogy most certainly holds true.
Typically, the idiot who would be king gets it exactly wrong.
Idiots, I suppose, are consistent. They have no other choice and fail to see one. And thanks for the Montaigne. Excellent!
Diane B said...
Yes, Bush did sell out America, but the sell-out started much earlier. Lobbyists, Senators and Congressman have been lining their pockets with tax payer payer money.
Indeed! There is a long history leading up to Bush's having become a "hit man" for this evil cabal. And not all of it is "American". In my article America's Indebted Prosperity, I recounted the story of Didius Julianus as found in Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The Praetorian guards, literally, sold the Roman empire to the wealthy senator Didius Julianus for the bargain price of 6250 drachmas. Our modern day "Didius" has fared better than Julianus.
A magnificent feast was prepared by his order, and he amused himself until a very late hour, with dice, and the performances of Pylades, a celebrated dancer. Yet it was observed that after the crowd of flatterers dispersed, and left him to darkness, solitude, and terrible reflection, he passed a sleepless night; revolving most probably in his mind his own rash folly, the fate of his virtuous predecessor, and the doubtful and dangerous tenure of an empire, which had not been acquired by merit, but purchased by money.
- Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
See also: Edward Gibbon: General Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West
we can start thinking about how we choose our leaders
I've hinted at that here and there. Simplistically, it involves trashing the primaries, re-defining "corporation" such that corporate money can be absolutely excised from politics, electing the President directly via some form of "preference system" i.e., "instant runoff. A Borda Count is preferable to the present system but not without its own problems. There are better systems. Mathematicians will know that better than me. Sadly, however, none of that will get done as long as mere shreds of the present system persist. It's a Catch 22.
dante lee said...
Bush is no Napoleon but more like a Louis de XIV without the artistic taste!
Bush, I'm sure loves "fries" but hates the French. Bush, I am sure, would eat a "crescent roll" but not a "croissant". He would have a Annie Green Springs but NOT a fine Bordeaux. And, of course, the problem with the French is they don't have a world for "entrepreneur". Sad, isn't it? A generation of idiots will idolize Bush for his wisdom and that other thing that the French don't have a word for ---savoir faire! BTW, mon ami, je poursuis très bien. Mon Français n'est pas mauvais. J'ai fait beaucoup de nouveaux amis. J'aime ma nouvelle maison.
...more stuff on Scooter Libby.
Fuzzflash sez...
The Big Bad Wolf was one thing, but her encounter with Moloch was always going to be a different kind of challenge.
Goldilocks: Why Moloch.... what a big cakehole you have......
(ahem), try Little Red Riding Hood.
*scurries crestfallen from keyboard*
You are right Len, in regards to the selling out of America, in particularly, how we treat corporations as people. This needs to be changed, and would help. Of course, as you have shown there are so many area's in our Government that need help.
At this point (case law etc...etc..)it will probably take a Constitutional amendment to undo the lousy court decision that turned Moloch (evil corporations) into "people". I don't remember the case off hand, but as the topic seems to come up a lot of late, I'll look it up.
The Iraq war compared to the War for Independence. Bizarre: I thought that, in the War for Independence, the insurgents had won!
dantee lee, this War in Iraq is like our Revolutionary War, and from what I can see the insurgents are winning. If this does not end with a direct military win by the insurgents, they will win when we withdraw. We will withdraw make no doubt about it. This WAR is costing America over 12 billion a month! We have NO MONEY!! We are borrowing the money, we as a Nation are on borrowed time!!! Len, is right this is like our Revolutionary War. They were ruled by a dictator, then we invaded, much as America was ruled by a monarch.
dante lee said...
The Iraq war compared to the War for Independence. Bizarre: I thought that, in the War for Independence, the insurgents had won!
It was those American "insurgents" about which William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, blasted Parliament:
"If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I would never lay down my arms-never-never-never."
If American colonists had a right to oppose King George's army, the Iraqi people MOST CERTAINLY do. More so, even. Iraqis were NEVER American "subjects" as were colonists subjects of King George III.
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