A time to act. . .NOW!

As the 2006 election looms nearer each day, there are a number of points that we need to focus on. Points that we need to be talking to everyone about. Points that demonstrate just how critical the 2006 vote is to our future. Call these "Democratic Talking Points" if you will. Call them a pastrami on rye if you wish, but please. . .talk about them. I encourage you to add to this list as you see fit. . .

INCOMPETENCE & MIS-LEADERSHIP:

• The Iraq Quagmire has now lasted nearly as long as WW II, with no credible plan for victory and no end in sight. This administration, and it's GOP congressional supporters still refuse to acknowledge the destruction and chaos that their failed leadership has caused.

• While Bush obsessed over Saddam Hussein and misled us into this endless war, America's most dangerous enemy and the architect of 911, Osama Bin Laden, still walks freely in the world and continues to mock us. Bush "Just doesn't spend that much time on him" to coin an actual quote from The Misleader.

• 10 months after the disastrous failure of FEMA and "Brownie" to the citizens of Louisiana, a new hurricane season has begun, with FEMA still in disarray and our preperations no better than last year.

• The Republican Congress still continues to march in lockstep with this administration's domestic and foreign policy outrages. They have become accomplices to all of the cover-ups and assaults on the courts and our civil liberties.

• Bush's mean-spirited 2007 budget cuts $15 billion from school aid. He leaves 5 million children behind, despite his solemn promise to leave NO child behind.

• Corporations that send jobs overseas have been rewarded. More emphasis has been placed on tax cuts for Bush's corporate friends than for investment in jobs here at home. Some will attempt to tell you that unemployment has decreased. These delusional folk are not factoring in the people who stopped collecting unemployment and gave up, or were forced to take a minimum wage job to have some income.

• Health Care for 53 million low-income Americans has been slashed by this administration. Children, the elderly, and the disabled have all had their coverage shamefully cut back.

• Bush and his rubber-stamp Congress have wasted a record budget surplus and turned it into a record new deficit! In 5 years, Bush turned a trillion dollar surplus into a trillion dollar deficit that will burden our kids for generations. Yet he still wants more tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans. So much for the party of fiscal conservativism. When Democrats spend money, they pay for it as they go!

• Our air and water have been poisoned by the repeal of key provisions in our environmental protection laws. Our national parks and other treasures of nature are in jeopardy.

• We have alienated not only crucial allies, but most of the planet, while increasing recruitment for terrorists by our own reckless acts against other sovereign nations. We have become the "Ugly Americans" thanks to "cowboy diplomacy".
  

We MUST turn the tide by electing a Democratic Congress this year. While a number or Republican congressmen have begun to distance themselves from Bush, it's too little, too late. The supported him through all of his misguided agenda, and are merely looking out for their own hides in an election year.

What will transpire if we don't change things NOW?

Will they take us into another war, in Iran or North Korea?

Will they continue to rape the poor and middle class to fatten the uber-wealthy?

Will they continue their deficit spending and saddle our kids and their kids with debt for generations to come?

Will they continue to destroy the environment, to the point where an irreversible change occurs?

Will they continue to destroy educational opportunities for all but the wealthy?


This is the time for all true patriots to rise up and defend their country from the attacks that have come from within her very soul. It was once said that America could never be destroyed by a foreign power, if destroyed. .the act would come from within. Ladies and Gents, you are witnessing that TODAY! It is not enough to complain about the state of things as they are. We are now at a true "Boston Tea Party" moment here, folks. Inaction is NOT an option. If we do not act now, then when? If WE do not act, then WHO? Your very country is at stake. . .