Bush Puddle Jumps from PR Stunt to PR Stunt While the Nation Crumbles

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Bush Puddle Jumps from PR Stunt to PR Stunt While the Nation

Crumbles

 

 

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It's so tragically ironic.

 

After sending even grandfathers from the National Guard to die in Iraq

-- leaving our country short-handed in protecting our nation, as

witnessed in Hurricane Katrina -- Rove has Bush puddle jump from one

opportunistic public relations stunt to another. On Monday, he focused

on the Republican demagogue issue of the moment: Mexican immigration.

 

We'll skip for the sake of brevity why poor Mexicans are willing to

die trying to make it to the promised land, and just say that this is

just another example of what a former White House staffer called the

" Mayberry Machiavellis. " It's all public relations imagery without

public policy substance. That's the entire Bush Administration.

 

The immigration issue from our southern neighbor is a very complicated

one. But the word complexity is banished from the White House. Every

problem has a sound bite solution for Karl Rove, even if it actually

leads to chaos and destruction.

 

We hear Bush will also have drones patrolling the border, which means

that we Americans will have to start worrying about more than guano

from pigeons falling on us. Soon drones will be patrolling our city

streets no doubt, in the limitless Orwellian " hunt " for the elusive

terrorists (hey, Bush couldn't even get his man, Osama). And we'll

need to look up to make sure that a missile or laser isn't being aimed

our way.

 

Meanwhile, the perjured Hayden goes on testifying in that oh-so

" business as usual " D.C. sort of way, without a sense of outrage from

the Democrats about the administration's domestic spying. We should

point out again that both Hayden and Gonzales would not deny that the

Bush Administration is engaged in domestic spying for political purposes.

 

And yesterday, ABC revealed that a CIA staff member told them that the

agency was spying on journalists. This was later confirmed to ABC by

the FBI, who took a " you're all fair game " approach to this latest

Soviet-style press intimidation tactic.

 

We have a police start now. Don't cringe that this is some sort of

extreme, over-the-top claim.

 

When you have a government that freely spies on its own people and

journalists for political purposes (which is to keep the journalists

from revealing anything that might embarrass the administration) --

and who in the world would think that the Busheviks aren't using the

information for political purposes: that is their raison d'etre --

without any accountability, you have crossed the threshold into a

police state.

 

The Bush Administration is violating the Constitution with impunity.

The Stepford and moderate Republicans give him a pass and the

" Jellocrats " just demand " an investigation, " as if a real one would

happen or was needed.

 

Message to the Democrats: the facts for a pathologically law-breaking

administration are now in the public domain. Yes, there are more

details to know, many. But there is enough evidence out there to make

the judgment now that we have law-breakers, who regularly violate the

Constitution and the will of Congress in OUR White House. That means

that they should not be in office. They should be in court as defendants.

 

On top of that, as we have endlessly pointed out, the Busheviks are

totally inept. They have taken one act of terrorism and created and

nurtured a whole new generation of terrorists. They aren't fighting

terrorism; they are creating the next wave of terrorism. They are flat

out the most ineffective, arrogant, bumbling, telescopic, egomaniacal,

and failed group of people to lead America in memory. They are losers

who put our country at daily risk. Period.

 

So, why do we continually write about how the Republicans, the

pundits, and most of the Democratic Capitol Hill leaders in D.C. are

continually living in a parallel universe of niceties -- and

preserving the status quo of mediocrity and failure at all cost?

 

Because we have developed a permanent ruling class -- regardless of

party or media affiliation -- that is like one big elite crowd.

Republicans and far too many Democratic leaders alike basically have

contempt for the common person. They believe that they are not

representing democracy, but that they are ruling democracy.

 

How did the village idiot of the nation become President, hopping from

one PR scam to another? This is the stuff of an unstable government

lurching from failure to failure and trying to salvage it through

photo-ops and poll-created announcements with deadly implications.

 

This shouldn't be happening to America. It is our nation.

 

It belongs to us.

 

We should start acting like it. These people are accountable to us.

But it is the big corporations, the big party structures, and the

altar of conventional wisdom that they worship.

 

America's altar is liberty, freedom, privacy and the right to rebel

against tyranny.

 

Let them hear your outrage.

 

The press is starting to connect the dots. From the New York Daily

News: " President Bush is considering using the National Guard to keep

illegal immigrants from slipping across the Mexican border, aides said

yesterday as Bush's approval ratings sunk below 30% for the first

time. " Geddit?

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Rove Basically Says Americans Don't Care if Bush is a Failed Dunce and

Gets Into Cul-de-Sac Wars, Because They Like Him. They REALLY Like

Him. Everybody Likes the Village Idiot, But They Don't Elect Him the

Mayor of the Town.

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The Rude Pundit: Message to Republican Bushevik Cheerleaders (the 29%

of You Left),Hand Over Your Phone Records So We Can Review Them, For

the Good of America

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MORE FIVE ALARMER: FBI Acknowledges: Journalists Phone Records are

Fair Game. KGB America Under the Busheviks. If the FBI Wants to Catch

the Leaker in Chief, Just Pay a Visit to the Oval Office.

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New Hampshire Says No to License to Murder

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