by Welshman
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This is an excellent diary. Well worth the read.
Like many of you, I witnessed the Press Briefing by Bush earlier in the week.
Unlike many of you, I didn't see an alcoholic or a drug abuser. I saw a tired, jaded man who has lost all confidence. A man who senses that his place in history will be marked by his recklessness in sending
the sons and daughters of his country to die in an unjust foreign war whilst the poor and the needy at home were neglected and ignored.
He is man whose time in office will be remembered only for lies and corruption and the giving to the rich whilst squandering the wealth that has mortgaged the future prosperity of forthcoming generations and has turned a proud nation into one disdained by all others.
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Yesterday, I was glued to C-Span watching the Senate debate the $440 billion military spending bill. I watched a terrified Republican Party being reminded by Democratic speaker after Democratic speaker forewarning about the hidden costs of the two wars in which the US is engaged, of the funding that was not there for its disabled and injured veterans returning from war.
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Major Business Groups Split With Bush Administration Over Patriot Act
By Michael J. Sniffen Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Some of the nation's most powerful business groups are splitting with the Bush administration over whether to restrict the anti-terror USA Patriot Act.
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Congress Seeks to Slash Food Aid for Poor, Conservation
By Libby Quaid Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats are fighting attempts to make cuts in food stamps and conservation programs at a time when people are coping with hurricanes and drought.
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For the Democratic Party what is happening may provide exhilarating justification of their forewarning to the American people. One may see less and less of the compromises that have so angered the progressive left of its party.
MORE.
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As the R's show the world daily just how corrupt and incompetent they are, it is not enough. The Dems in Congress must hear our call to fight and raise their voices to take our country back!
I think we are seeing it start to happen.