I'm a Republican, but Bush is Conniving, greedy, lying and deceitful

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I'm a Republican, but Bush is " Conniving, greedy, lying and

deceitful "

 

 

 

 

 

Conniving, greedy, lying and deceitful

Thursday, April 06, 2006 - Bangor Daily News

By Duncan E. Beaton

 

 

 

 

I have been a registered Republican since the early 1950s, as has

my wife, Dot. In fact our dedication to the Grand Old Party was such

that we used to ride our horses around our Buckingham Township, Pa.,

neighborhood with Republican candidates' bumper stickers on their

backsides. Now, we never considered the implication, but we found out

later that one of those candidates was a real " horsesass. "

 

If we had horses today, that's right where we'd stick George Bush's

bumper sticker, on our horses' asses.

 

This is the worst administration in our memory. As a Fiscal

Conservative, I began disliking Bush when he proposed major tax cuts

as a means to get elected in 2000. Despite that, given the choice of

two inept presidential candidates we voted for Bush as " the lesser of

two evils. " Little did we know. Once elected he immediately borrowed

$49 billion to fund the massive tax cut, which primarily benefited the

wealthy, increased the deficit and the national debt.

 

After Sept. 11, 2001, I wrote an op-ed that appeared in the Bangor

Daily News condemning the atrocity, but suggesting we need to find the

root cause which drove those Arabs to do what they did. Despite

numerous articles by people more knowledgeable than I or this

administration on matters of the Middle East, urging the same, it has

stupidly maintained its tunnel vision focusing only on terrorism and

the terrorist, but not the root cause.

 

Instead, three years ago, Cheney (Halliburton), Bush and Rumsfeld, had

allegedly already made plans to invade Iraq which many people suspect

was for its oil. They built the case for war by giving us and Congress

false information about Iraq's stockpile of weapons of mass

destruction and its involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks. All lies with

no foundation in fact. So, for illegitimate reasons, we invaded the

sovereign nation of Iraq, which was not threatening us.

 

Three years later we still have no business being there. Neither the

Iraqis nor we can safeguard their oil facilities. Their infrastructure

throughout the country is in shambles and the newly " elected "

government is mostly inoperable because of opposition from various

fanatic religious factions and insurgents.

 

We have lost nearly 2,400 troops and thousands more have been maimed

for life. Forty thousand to 60,000 Iraqis have been killed and

probably 100,000 wounded and maimed as well, nearly all civilians.

Currently, our troops are at risk from fanatical insurgents and

religious zealots. They should not be.

 

Well, the time has come, long overdue, for our two senators to disavow

this deceitful and conniving president and lead the Congress into

forcing him to withdraw our troops from Iraq starting immediately.

George " Dubya " never should have put our sons and daughters in harm's

way for such a brainless mistake.

 

In fiscal matters, from 2001 through 2008, Bush will increase the

National Debt by $3.919 trillion to a projected total of $9.689

trillion by 2008 according to the Office of Management and Budget.

 

That's an average Annual Deficit of $489 billion, and a 72 percent

increase in the national debt. Yet, he has the gall to cut many

domestic programs including Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

 

Half or more of this debt increase has or will go toward financing

this stupid Iraq war.

 

We can't impeach Bush because that would put Cheney in the Presidency.

Unfortunately we have no recall mechanism that would allow us to

remove an administration for egregious malfeasance in office.

 

The sad truth is that we are stuck with this deceitful collection of

incompetents until 2009. Perhaps the time has come to develop a more

intelligent process for selecting presidential candidates that will

save us from getting another loose cannon on a rolling deck.

 

Duncan E. Beaton is the former town manager of Easton and

Mapleton-Castle Hill-Chapman, and is the current chairman of the

Aroostook County Finance Committee.

http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=131659

 

 

 

 

 

Congressmen tear into Gonzales over NSA wiretap 'stonewalling'

RAW STORY

Published: Thursday April 6, 2006

 

High-ranking Congressmen from both sides of the aisle slammed

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales at a House Judiciary Committee

Hearing on the Department of Justice today, RAW STORY has learned.

 

Though repeatedly claiming that National Security Agency wiretapping

programs were legal, Gonzales refused to provide details, stating that

the issues being discussed were classified.

 

According to the Associated Press, Congressman James Sensenbrenner

(R-WI,) started the hearing off on a confrontational note by asking,

" How can we discharge our oversight if, every time we ask a pointed

question, we're told the program is classified? " He later added that,

in his opinion, Gonzales was " stonewalling " the inquiry.

 

Stating that he believes " our nation is on the verge of a full blown

constitutional crisis, " Congressman John Conyers (D-MI), went even

further.

 

In prepared testimony made available to RAW STORY, Conyers scoffed at

Gonzales: " You can't seriously expect Members of Congress to believe

that the use of force resolution authorized domestic surveillance. "

Conyers went on to quote the Attorney General as having said, " 'It

would have been difficult, if not impossible' to amend FISA to provide

the wiretap authority. "

 

Neither lawmaker seemed willing to give up efforts to secure

Congressional oversight of the program.

 

In response to a question from Conyers, Gonzales reportedly said, " I

do not think we are thumbing our nose at the Congress or the courts. "

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Congressmen_tear