A word of Holiday cheer for gobear.
’Bear, my friend, everything has a cycle. I know you and I have widely divergent views about politics, but I also know that we can agree upon this one thing: this Bush guy has gotta go. We’re not the only ones.
In fact, right now is probably not the best time to be a White House Republican, because unless they are all as witless as their collective actions suggest, some of them have to be seeing the writing on the wall.
They say that a fleet is only as fast as its slowest ship. Right now, the convoy that is America is currently taking its direction from the rear of the column, know what I’m saying? Many of the rest of us see that.
Here’s some of what the Bush Administration is facing in the coming eleven months.
At least 3.2 million Americans have lost their jobs under the Bush Administration, and that’s likely created a permanent and irreparable rift between many of those potential voters and Bush. Weasels will roll about in the bag as they always do, like Annenberg does here by focusing on the net job loss under Bush. That spin doesn’t do jack shit for the guys–like me(and, as it happens, every single one of my professional friends in the DC area)–who lost their jobs and much of their savings in the past three years. We will remember, as will the family and friends of those three million.
Those tax cuts and that “dividend tax relief” are doing exactly what Evil Al Gore said they would: they’re making the rich people richer and they’re not doing shit for the rest of us. Did your office even bother to throw a holiday party this year? For most of us, we’re working harder, for the same money, with less job security and fewer benefits, and with a bountiful mistrust of our corporate overlords–overlords who are, quite obviously, big supporters of George Bush. Here’s a telling example: take a look at this alleged internal memo from AT&T. “Congratulations peons! Dividends are up 27%, and you won’t be getting a raise until 2005.”
Almost all of you Americans have by now been adversely affected in some way by the Bush Administration, or at least you haven’t had delivered what was promised. If you work in education, you likely know that the No Child Left Behind Act is underfunded by $8.4 billion this year. If you’re a first responder, you know that your responsibility has increased, your personal safety has decreased, and that’s not gonna change unless the man in the Oval Office changes. If you care about healthy forests, you know that these days it’s all about a healthy timber industry. People who wanted to restore dignity to the White House now have to question whether “Republican” really is synonymous with “dignity.”
And, lets also not forget that deny it though they emphatically do, the Republican Party is the de facto champion of racial division, Christian revival, and homophobia. Nobody who has actually basked in the arctic sunshine of “compassionate conservatism” has any doubt about what it really means now.
In 2000, Bush had a clean record and a bright future. In 2004, Bush will be facing literally millions of people who have been personally fucked over by his irresponsible policies. The fleet is moving too slow for the seas, many of us are foundering, and even some of the smarter rats are showing signs of jumping ship.
Bush’s one job in the next eleven months is going to be silencing your voice, distracting you, and making you fear the other guy more than he, all in the hopes that you will stay away from the polls. Let him get close enough and he’ll steal it again, but you, the millions who discovered that he’s offered a proctologist’s prescription for an ailing national heart, stand in his way.
All you have to do, every one of you who sees things the way we do, is resolve to not let him get away with it. Not again. You are legion. He is but one incompetent man.
Happy holidays, and best wishes to all.
