If you think the last four years have been bad with Bush,

[TNDemo]

if he gets back in office we will see Extreme Bush. The last four years have been Bush Lite since he had to run for reelection but there will be nothing holding him back if he slithers back into office. It will be vengeance unchecked.

[sam sarrha]

1. It will be interesting who he will be able to replace his cabnet with when

they dont folow him back after november

[TrustingDog]

2. i'll bet Kissinger gets something real juicy and powerful...

or google a list of Reagan's thugs and we'll see more of those names as well.

It's all one big dysfunctional family.

[0007]

6. What could be more blatant than installing John Negroponte

as king of Iraq?

[Skittles]

3. you got that right

the neocons will have nothing to lose

[stray cat]

4. kick

nt

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. My worry would be creation of an ultra right wing activist Supreme Court

top to bottom, with virtually no dissenting voices, which could stay with us for years to come. I think Kerry needs to ring the alarm bells about this possibility, especially since most Americans (including many Bush supporters) do not want to see Roe v. Wade overturned.

[SecondsFromDeparture]

7. AHHH!!!!!

I am worried that Bush will steal this election, because you are right. He has ruined our country enough within 4 years, Im afraid to witness ANOTHER FOUR!!! What kind of idiot would vote for him anyway...

[UTUSN]

8. Spreading These DU Articles Far and Wide

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http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/08/25/bush_second_term/index.html

And you thought his first term was a nightmare
What Bush has planned for America if he wins.
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By Charles Tiefer

Aug. 25, 2004 | .... Under Bush's slogan of an "ownership society," the Republicans intend a long-term effort, using changes in Medicare, Social Security and taxes to pit better-off and worse-off Democrats against each other, offering all-but-irresistible incentives for some to desert the others -- and any progressive national coalition. .... A second-term Bush agenda will constantly impale Democrats on the dilemma of abandoning their poorer, sicker, older and minority groups, or seeing their better-off, healthier and younger members lured off to the other party. If it sounds like a political nightmare for the Democrats, that's because that's what it is planned to be. ....


http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040906fa_fact

.... When the President pledges to create an “era of ownership,” he is not talking merely about encouraging people to buy their own homes and start small businesses. To conservative Republicans who understand his coded language, he is also talking about extending and expanding the tax cuts he introduced in his first term; he is talking about allowing wealthy Americans to shelter much of their income from the I.R.S.; about using the tax code to curtail the government’s role in health care and retirement saving; and, ultimately, about a vision that has entranced but eluded conservatives for decades: the abolition of the graduated income tax and its replacement with a levy that is simpler, flatter, and more favorable to rich people. ....

...the theme of ownership. He may well talk about establishing investment accounts within Social Security, as well as Retirement Savings Accounts and Lifetime Savings Accounts outside of Social Security, and health savings accounts, which his economic advisers view as a step toward individual, portable health-care coverage. .... “The biggest demographic shift in the past thirty years is not the number of people who speak Spanish; it is the number of Americans who own stocks,” Norquist told me. “It was twenty per cent of adults when Reagan was elected. Now it is sixty per cent, and seventy per cent of voters.”

...returning to a balanced budget will be even harder this time around. A decade ago, it took “tax hikes, a sharp contraction in military spending, and an unprecedented economic expansion to achieve fiscal consolidation,” the I.M.F. noted. None of those things are on the horizon now. ....

“It is the height of deception to say we can only budget till 2009 but we are going to have massive tax cuts from 2010 onward,” Gale said. “That is what the Administration has done.” ....

...a historic restructuring of the American system of government. .... If Bush’s economic agenda was fully enacted, the vast bulk of these payments wouldn’t be taxed at all, and labor would end up shouldering practically the entire burden of financing the federal government. ....

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