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Thursday, July 06, 2006

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. . .

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4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Let us not forget the fact that this administration has NO foreign policy strategy - none. The war in Iraq has been a disaster from the beginning and can only be laid at the NeoCons' feet. Now we're facing challenges in Iran and North Korea as well. What is our strategic plan? We continue to flounder in this area and I fear it will only get worse.

This administration promised to bring to justice ("dead or alive") those who were responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Now this administration has disbanded the CIA group whose primary responsibility was to find Osama Bin Laden. This is a slap in the face and a true disgrace to every citizen of this country and especially to those who lost loved ones in that terrorist attack.

This administration and its rubber-stamping congress has run up the largest debts and trade deficits in the history of the world.

This administration continues to decimate the moral and capacity of government organizations only to be able to turn around and say - "See, government doesn't work". Government DOES work when it isn't in the hands of the GOP.

This administration and GOP-led congress has dozens of contacts and operatives under indictment and investigation.

There has been an increase in the number of Americans living in poverty every single year under this administration.

John is right - if not now, when?

title="comment permalink">July 07, 2006 12:01 AM  
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title="comment permalink">July 08, 2006 9:16 PM  
Blogger Human said...

I love your clarion call. However since the Dem Leadership is as much responsible for the mess I don't think they'll be much help. After the election is stolen again or a Democrat FOBush is selected,
then we should take control. My Peaceful Patience is wearing thin.

Will the Democrats let the DLC select the candidate as they did with Kerry?

Peace.

title="comment permalink">July 08, 2006 9:18 PM  
Blogger John Good said...

Jeff - Thank you for your supportive comments!

Human - Alot of the above thoughts came from the Dem leadership, aka Ted Kennedy.

title="comment permalink">July 08, 2006 10:13 PM  

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