Reply #45: in response to your "bipartisanship" reference [View All]

[UpInArms]

i assume you mean his bipartisanship which i actually see as a strength

I think you need to understand what a deadly deal that will be.

Bi-PartisanSHIP of Fools
by Bridget Gibson May 10, 2002


"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end" .- Lord Acton

Every craft must be guided by one who can master the waves and the storms of all seasons. Our national agenda is eroding the fields planted and sown for the past two centuries. The Republican Party has long been known for its dirty tricks and smear campaigns so characterized by Richard Nixon and George H. W. Bush. Now, George W. Bush follows bravely in their wake. The Democratic Party has been tarred with the brush of the "tax and spend" painters for so long that the phrase falls readily from our lips. Is it not obvious that the cycle of Republican waste and their propensity for giving the nation's wealthiest the largest tax cuts and rewarding the corporate thieves with the keys to the castle has generally forced the next cycle of Democratic taxation to make up for the losses?

Perhaps my dictionary has become outmoded or I have 'misunderestimated' Mr. Bush, but it states that 'compassion' is a noun, a feeling of sorrow or pity for the sufferings or misfortunes of another; sympathy. Thus, in this concept of being a 'compassionate conservative', is Mr. Bush saying that, as he alters the course of American history back to the dark ages, he "feels sorry" for the lives and the people he is destroying and killing? I do not want his pity. I do not want his sympathy. If anything, I am left feeling sorry for him. He has allowed himself to be molded into a specimen of the nastiest sort -- a person so disconnected from reality that his only reality is where to move the money that his family has drained from the coffers of the American taxpayer for the best economic return.

Who is guarding our liberties while Mr. Bush and his minions are busily dismantling them? While John Ashcroft states "To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty; my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists - for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve," who defies him? No one. Only one could stand and say that they had not signed the USA Patriot Act destroying the liberties expressly provided in the Bill of Rights. Not one solitary soul had the courage of their convictions to say to these thieves and robber barons that this country was built upon a foundation that abhorred the ruling class of England and the first King George. The writers of our Constitution felt so strongly in this regard that Section 9, Clause 8 reads: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

No, in Washington, D.C., it is politics as usual. It is a race to see who can loot the treasury in the most outlandish manner, giving the most pork to the biggest campaign contributors. It is a comedic farce of the worst sort to see who can support the largest gifts to corporations, to continually ignore the results of the disastrous "free market" mentality that has handed our jobs to cheaper foreign labor, while attempting to assuage a minority interest by giving them a part of the purse for their jobless troubles.

In 1994, when Congress failed to give Bill Clinton Fast Track Trade Authority, I had believed that there were those in elected positions that finally realized their responsibilities to the citizens. But no, I was wrong again. It was a partisan play now resulting in the loss of oversight for the entire country. Now those jobs can leave more quickly, those foreign products can be dumped more efficiently and the taxpayers can pay and pay and pay. This is disgusting.

When will someone, anyone, rise to the challenge to actually uphold the rights of the ordinary American citizen? When will the citizenry realize that to fail to become involved every day in every way only allows this gross misconduct to continue?

When will we all realize that 'politics as usual' is the mantra for the fools? Will it be when we all realize that to be on some "bipartisan" sell-off of America is what we are having for breakfast, lunch and dinner?

Eventually, I believe that my fellow Americans will wake up. When they will wake up is much in doubt. Will it be after the final gavel has come down declaring the insolvency of our country? Will it be when all the body bags from all of our best and brightest have been delivered after they have died protecting the oil pipelines laid by the American corporations through all of the mountains of Afghanistan, Colombia, Nicaragua, Argentina and anywhere else the oiligarchs choose to rule?

Wake up soon, my slumbering friends. The alarms are sounding and the bells are ringing. Your continued disregard of the choices that are being made in your name will surely doom us all.