Surprise! Voters are angry

A recent poll, cited somewhere on Buzzflash, indicates that a majority of American voters are angry. Can you imagine? Why would anyone be angry with the way the country is being run? Let's see, the situation in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate badly, opium production there has now reached unprecedented levels. The Karzai government, such as it is, is under attack and may collapse. The situation in Iraq is, to put it mildly, an utter disaster and they are in the midst of an unadmitted civil war. The Kurds are now flying their own flag instead of the Iraqi flag and say if they want to separate they will. Israel (and the U.S.) just lost the "war" in Lebanon. Iran continues to just thumb its nose at an increasingly weakened U.S. The national debt is at an all time high (by far). Real wages for American workers have actually decreased under the Bush/Cheney administration. Americans continue to be illegally spied upon. Republicans have given up on any form of an immigration bill and continue with their obsessions on abortion, flag burning, and gay marriage (while we continue on our downward spiral towards third world status). Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rice et al continue their blatant lying about everything. We seem to be no safer now than before. We are now despised by most of the known world. So what is there to be angry about?

Then there is Rumsfeld, otherwise known as "Rummy," a particularly apt description. Rummy has just announced that anyone who does not support his failed "war" is unpatriotic and a Hitler supporter (dissent is no longer accepted in these United States). Beset on all sides with calls for his resignation, insisting on continuing his "war" even though a large majority of U.S. citizens are now on record as not supporting it, he refuses to resign. And of course the idiot-in-chief won't insist on it because it would make him look bad (I guess that must be the reason as I can see no other reason that makes sense). The worst president ever, supporting the worst Secretary of Defense ever. Birds of a feather.

Watch out for a rip-snortin' Rove October surprise. And don't be angry. Be happy, things are going well (just listen to Bush/Cheney).