Ron Reagan Jr. writes about the Bush administration

[Warpy]

and how and why they will be defeated:

"And the guy on the stool, Lynndie, and her grinning cohorts, they brought the word: The Bush administration can't be trusted. The parade of Bush officials before various commissions and committees—Paul Wolfowitz, who couldn't quite remember how many young Americans had been sacrificed on the altar of his ideology; John Ashcroft, lip quivering as, for a delicious, fleeting moment, it looked as if Senator Joe Biden might just come over the table at him—these were a continuing reminder. The Enron creeps, too—a reminder of how certain environments and particular habits of mind can erode common decency. People noticed. A tipping point had been reached. The issue of credibility was back on the table. The L-word was in circulation. Not the tired old bromide liberal. That's so 1988. No, this time something much more potent: liar. "

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6577.htm

[sablescort]

1. I read the article

and it was really so passionately written. Never in a million years that a son of a president would take on the son of another president. Ron did really nail * right up the wall with the scatching article plus the "God on sleeve" speech during the burial.

Reagan really did give us 2 liberals for the price of one! (Ron and Patti)

I passed 'em to friends and they did really love the article.

[SemperEadem]

2. To answer one of Ron's questions

"Does anyone really favor an administration that so shamelessly lies? One that so tenaciously clings to secrecy, not to protect the American people, but to protect itself? That so willfully misrepresents its true aims and so knowingly misleads the people from whom it derives its power? I simply cannot think so."

Yes.. my mother, who is a religous conservative says she would vote Bush back in office if he was the candidate who would vote for a gay marriage ban in the constitution. All I could say to her was "How sad... you would vote Bush back in office over that? you'd vote for a man who will send your 21 yr old granddaughter--my only child-- and your 18 yr old granddaughter--my brother's eldest child-- into the draft to fight this war just because Bush is for this amendment?"

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

4. Well-written and incredibly passionate article.

[Ladyhawk]

6. My mother and family are the same way.

This county is infested with fundamentalists. Every single one I know is voting *.

[SemperEadem]

3. right on target, so direct

If you are dead center on the earning scale in real-world twenty-first-century America, you make a bit less than $32,000 a year, and $32,000 is not a sum that Mr. Bush has ever associated with getting by in his world. Bush, who has always managed to fail upwards in his various careers, has never had a job the way you have a job—where not showing up one morning gets you fired, costing you your health benefits. He may find it difficult to relate personally to any of the nearly two million citizens who've lost their jobs under his administration, the first administration since Herbert Hoover's to post a net loss of jobs. Mr. Bush has never had to worry that he couldn't afford the best available health care for his children. For him, forty-three million people without health insurance may be no more than a politically inconvenient abstraction. When Mr. Bush talks about the economy, he is not talking about your economy. His economy is filled with pals called Kenny-boy who fly around in their own airplanes. In Bush's economy, his world, friends relocate offshore to avoid paying taxes. Taxes are for chumps like you. You are not a friend. You're the help. When the party Mr. Bush is hosting in his world ends, you'll be left picking shrimp toast out of the carpet.

Precisely what I"ve been saying for quite a while---this is the point that the Kool-aid drinkers don't get---they don't figure into bush's world if they don't have more than 6 zeros behind the first number in their income. This isn't about them... but bush doesn't mind using whoever he must to get whatever he wants... and if that means lying to the sheople like a philandering husband--because he can--then that's what he's going to do and you're gonna turn dat ass up in the air, s0n.

[JPJones]

5. Holy shit! nt

[JPJones]

7. ...an administration that so shamelessly lies?

Does anyone really favor an administration that so shamelessly lies? One that so tenaciously clings to secrecy, not to protect the American people, but to protect itself? That so willfully misrepresents its true aims and so knowingly misleads the people from whom it derives its power?

[OKNancy]

8. "As Jonathan Alter

of Newsweek has pointed out, Bush has "never fully inhabited" the presidency. Bush apologists can smilingly excuse his malopropisms and vagueness as the plainspokenness of a man of action, but watching Bush flounder when attempting to communicate extemporaneously, one is left with the impression that he is ineloquent not because he can't speak but because he doesn't bother to think"