Ah, Republicans

Al Neuharth of USA Today wrote a piece the other day suggesting that American Troops should be withdrawn sooner rather than later. From the letters and emails that came in you would think he had recommended the slaughter of all American mothers. It is clear that those on the far right no longer believe that anyone is entitled to their opinion. The outburst from Mel Gibson, in particular, was so outrageous as to be absolutely insane. Now, in response to the vile and disgusting attack on Neuharth, letters in support of his right of free speech are beginning to appear. Keep them coming.

Bush, our not very esteemed President, is about to spend some 40 million dollars plus on his coronation. Be advised that this is more money than he has offered for relief in Asia where one of the greatest human disasters in history has occurred. Actually, he only wanted to give 15 million but was shamed into raising it to 35 million. Not only that, he has set up a coalition for aid consisting of the U.S., Japan, India, and Australia to coordinate the relief efforts. Never mind that this is in direct competition with, and totally ignores the U.N., which rightfully should be in charge of such an effort. Just another Bush attempt to denigrate and circumvent the U.N. Of course he couldn’t be bothered to say anything about the disaster until three days after it occurred – he was too busy cutting brush on his “ranch.” I think he was upset to realize that mother nature had managed to kill more innocent people, especially women and children, in three days than he has been able to kill in three years. He had better take it up with God.

We may, however, see the beginning of the end of Bush/Cheney’s disastrous adventure in the Middle East. Why? Because there is some evidence it is starting to affect American business overseas, especially obviously American products like Marlboro, AOL, McDonalds, American Express, and others. If this is true and becomes significant you can be pretty sure Bush/Cheney will have to pay attention. We can’t have anything adversly affect business. Happily, it may be too late to correct the damage already done, and they’ll just have to live with it. Until, that is, they give up their ridiculous dreams of empire and stop meddling in everyone else’s business (they are probably not capable of doing this). Actually, they can’t do this because they are in too deep. If they lose it may very well mean jail or worse. There is no statute of limitations for war crimes.

Republican hypocrisy continues to know no bounds. After three vote counts it seems that Democrat Gregoire has won the Governorship of the State of Washington. Republicans want to have a completely new vote. You notice they don’t want a new vote in Ohio where it is clear they illegally stole the election. They don’t even want a recount. They don’t even want to have to discuss it. Ah, Republicans, how can we not despise them?

Every morning now I wake up hoping for the next shoe to drop. Things simply cannot go on as they are. Something has to happen to end this nightmare. But don’t depend on the Democrats, those spineless, mewing kittens sucking on the same Corporate teats as the Republicans. I repeat, if no Senator steps forward to challenge the electoral votes, you will know that American Democracy is at an end. Don’t get your hopes up but don’t give up hope quite yet.