Bush's arrogance

Republican arrogance seems to know no bounds. Can you believe that at the very same time Bush wants to make permanent his tax breaks for the obscenely wealthy he wants to cut aid to the poor by one billion dollars? And about the only budgets he wants to raise are for defense and Homeland Security. I guess a military budget larger than the military budgets of the next ten largest countries on earth is just not enough. And whom do you think this is going to benefit? If you said the citizens of the United States you are WRONG. How about the usual military/industrials and Bush/Cheney’s cronies?

His recommendation of Alberto Gonzales for Attorney General is another case of arrogance out of control. Gonzales is clearly damaged goods, given his approval of torture and attempt to convert the President into a dictator. Anyone but Bush would have understood that his appointment would send a terrible message not only to Democrats but also to the entire world. He put all Republican Senators on the spot, having to vote for a sponsor of terror and dictatorship or not. But he did it anyway. And Republicans, true to recent form, went along with it, apparently afraid to complain or even question it. This Gonzales appointment was arrogant in the extreme. The same arrogance can be seen in Bush’s insistence on putting forward judges that have already been rejected by the Senate. Bush makes no attempt whatsoever to cooperate with anyone. He just goes ahead with whatever strikes his fancy, a behavior pattern that apparently goes back to his priviledged childhood. He is, in short, a spoiled arrogant rich brat. And Republicans, drunk with power, go along with whatever he proposes. I have asked it before: are there no honorable Republicans? The answer, unfortunately is no, there are none. It turns out there are few honorable Democrats either.

I suggest our only hope for the immediate future lies in Howard Dean who is apparently going to win the DNC Chairmanship. Nothing can turn things around short of a massive grass roots movement. Hopefully, Dean might be able to bring that about. Move the center of Democratic power out of Washington D.C. Forget about the Clintons or the Kerrys, or the rest of Republican-lites, and focus on those who will actually rebel against the fascist takeover that is occurring. All power to the people! Let us fervently hope that Dean can wake people up to what is happening to America before it is truly too late.

I hope you all noticed Bush, at the end of his speech, kissing Joe Lieberman on the cheek. Where were the Family Values people? And what does that tell you about Lieberman? He’s a Republican. In retrospect I can’t even imagine why Gore chose him to be his running mate. Actually I couldn’t understand it even at the time, but now it strikes me as inconceivable. And it doesn’t do much for my opinion of Gore. We need some new blood in the Democratic party – red blood. Hot blood. Less blue blood.


Barren ground is like lost love.
Carefully I search
for some sign of movement,
any hint of life,
but alas, there is nothing.