Bush’s Dangerous 14 Months–And Ours

[babylonsister]

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/08/5091/

Bush’s Dangerous 14 Months–And Ours
by Marcus Raskin and Robert Spero

After the 2006 congressional elections, pundits declared that President Bush was a lame duck. Each day his power and capacity to pursue his neoconservative agenda was supposed to drain away until he went back to Crawford Texas, a beaten man.

But like so much in politics, those who tie themselves to conventional wisdom are often very wrong. George W. Bush is as strong now as he was when he gained office for his second term. He is determined–ferociously, like a bulldog with a bone–to pursue his agenda even if it becomes a millstone around the country¹s neck for years and decades.

Why is Mr. Bush, in the remaining 14 months of his presidency, defying the wishes of the people, when 75 percent believe the country is heading down the wrong track? For all the obsessive secrecy of the Bush administration, the president has been remarkably open about his guide in matters of state and as a personal cleanser to his previous alcohol addiction: Jesus.

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Under George W. Bush we have witnessed breathtaking irresponsibility and cynicism, even for recent American presidents. He has used his war on terrorism to spread fear throughout the land. Kleptocracy-a government comprised of thieves–is the order of our day. The coarsening of American life, which comes from continuous war and selfish public policies, has become more vulgar. The rich are awash in Bush’s tax cuts, while the poor and the working and middle class struggle with absurd trickle-down handouts. It is hard to believe that Jesus would applaud these policies of Bush and Cheney as they will surely apply them in the next 14 months.

George W. Bush holds the cards against Congress unless it is made clear to Congress and the president that the nation will not and cannot afford even one month let alone 14 more months of clouded thinking, mismanagement, malfeasance, and the cynical killing of our troops and innocent Iraqis in the name of God or Jesus, and here on earth fantastical views of remaking the Middle East supposedly to give Americans cheap oil that now hovers around 95 dollars a barrel.

So we are left with a question: Can the Democratic Party right the wrongs of the Bush administration with a humane program that works for the society as a whole and individuals to protect their civil rights and liberties with economic justice? Can the Republican Party cleanse itself of its prejudices against Americans of different persuasions and follow the teachings of Jesus, and, yes, Herbert Hoover who campaigned for disarmament and against aggressive wars?


Marcus Raskin and Robert Spero are co-authors of The Four Freedoms Under Siege: The Clear and Present Danger of Our National Security State. (Praeger, 2007).

[StClone]

1. So we are left with a question

From the article: Can the Democratic Party right the wrongs of the Bush administration?

Yes! And it starts with Impeachment.

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[babylonsister]

2. You'll get no argument from me! nt

[Turbineguy]

3. When it comes to being

the "worst president in history", "almost" just won't do.

He's got 14 months to fuck things up more.

[Demeter]

4. It's Not That Bush Is Strong; It's That Congress Is AWOL

Tip O'Neill would have had Bush for Breakfast and Cheney for lunch. Then he'd have cleaned Congress and done the Supremes as a midnight snack.

[sce56]

5. Well they have learned how to take care of that type of congress

Probaly blackmailing the heck out of the members of congress! Have you got your Anthrax letters yet?

Why else would Conyers flip and not charge at them steadfastly as he promised to before Nov 06

[jcla]

6. 14 more months of infrastructure collalpse,

being hated by the rest of the world, spending borrowed billions on a war we have to repay, killing our young people as well as those of other countries, ignoring the Geneva Conventions and our Constitution and Bill of Rights... just some of the reasons I want BUSH AND CHENEY IMPEACHED AND IMPRISIONED!