Comments on: How Mad Are You at Bush?

By: Damien

Damien — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:20:43 +0000

I agree that there will be more people out there, attempting to raise awareness of the GOP failures, and the long-term negative consequences.
But by going to community colleges we may be just preaching to the choir, just a non-voting choir…
Inroads need to be made in religious circles. They vote republican because they are told that the GOP is more in line with what they believe. How about campaigning outside of churches, and other Christian based organizations. Have big photos of mangled Iraqi children, with a captions asking if this is what Jesus would tell someone to do? Is this what Jesus would want? How if abortion is against God’s will,m then why isn’t capital punishment? Bring up all the hypocrisies that Rove so brilliantly spun in order to get the sheep into voting booths. Somehow, this is the demograph that needs to be focused on, they need to be aware of the ‘Judas’ that leads them now.

By: owlbear1

owlbear1 — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:11:53 +0000

Please stop regurgitating the Corporate whore media’s “Dem’s got 2006 in the bag” meme?

History shows Dem’s to be really lazy when it comes to ACTUALLY VOTING and constantly repeating that Corp Whore Media prediction will be just the excuse many of them will use to blow it off yet again.

Slacker Dem mindset:”Everybody else is going to vote them out so I don’t have to bother.”

Each time the CWM says the ‘Dem’s gonna win big time” please remember to remind the Dems how Republicans have redrawn districts, link to the latest voting machine fiasco, and otherwise remind them how the ONLY person responsible for saving their Freedom is themselves?

By: Ron Russell

Ron Russell — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 05:32:44 +0000

ccmask: I disagree with your post about Military voters (130,000) voting for the Rethugs. Bush has badly burned the military and they are just a few Clusterphucks away from turning very hard away from the Chimp. I wouldn’t be suprised to see old Von Dumbsfeld get fragged the next time he goes over to IraqNam. After all, you can only screw over the folks with Guns so often. Now wouldn’t that be a pretty picture.

Oh, to get our numbers up, how about buying (and paying for the shipping) of a few more voting machines in Ohio? I know the Ohio GOP, I mean the Secretary of State will short change the democratic districts–resulting in the same long lines as 04. Someone should analyze the voting patterns and figure out where we should deploy extra voting machines.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:12:22 +0000

I’m not angry at Bush. I’m just terribly sad about our country because we’ve elected a leader who doesn’t care. To say that Bush cares about Americans is like saying Hitler cared about Germans.

By: jitter

jitter — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:46:51 +0000

I’m mad enough to vote.
And not just for greens and independents this time.
Well, except for Kinky Friedman.

By: alittlemusicalityplease

alittlemusicalityplease — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:41:14 +0000

Mary– #64
“The bigger news for the Dems is that, come 2008, Bush is out.”

I don’t think we can assume Bush is going anywhere in ‘08. See my comments in #69.

By: renska

renska — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:01:25 +0000

I saw a statistic that indicated that most people (60% or some such figure) are happy with their individual representatives/senators even if they’re unhappy with Republican leadership in the House/Senate.

How does that end up translating in terms of votes? If they’re happy with their Republican congressman, say, what would it take to make them vote Democratic? Or is the best we can hope for that they just stay home?

By: Cujo359

Cujo359 — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:37:21 +0000

Mary @ 2:54 pm (#64) - Yes, it’s DownWithTyranny’s ActBlue list. I just went there now by clicking on that link, but here it is in long form:

http://www.actblue.com/page/downwithtyranny

If that link doesn’t work, try editing the URL to replace “page” with “list”.

By: alittlemusicalityplease

alittlemusicalityplease — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:22:55 +0000

As furious as I am with BushCo for what they’ve done to our country, and as many phones calls, emails and faxes as I’ve made or sent to Congress to no avail, most of the time I’m cautiously optimistic that Americans will see the light and boot the Rethugs out of office in ‘06 and ‘08.

But lately I can’t even manage cautious optimism. I just don’t see the mid-term elections happening.

This administration has demonstrated time and again it will stop at nothing (stolen elections, illegal war, outing of covert agent, swiftboating of opponents and critics, spying on Americans, lying and then lying about the lies) to achieve its political and global ambitions. So why would they risk losing to Democrats in the House or Senate, which they know full well could lead to subpoenas and possible criminal charges their last two years in office? Ain’t gonna happen.

They’re too close to getting what they want (unlimited Iraq oil, unchecked presidential power) to let a little thing like Constitutionally-guaranteed elections get in their way.

I’m not an alarmist by nature, but I distrust this crowd so completely that I can’t believe they don’t have any number of scare-the-hell-out-of-the-populace-plans on the drawing board to forestall the November election, if not steal it outright.

Polls may give Dems a respectable edge right now, but with another anthrax scare or dirty bomb threat, a 20-point margin will vanish in a heartbeat.

Hate to be so morose. Maybe it’s all the nukes-on-the-table-talk this past week. If anybody has a more positive take on things, I’m all ears.

By: ccmask

ccmask — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:12:51 +0000

okay, stick a fork in me, I’m done talking to myself here…..