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One of my many sisters had a husband unemployed for so long they lost their health insurance. Their 3 dogs died in a single week from tainted imported food. I said, and how can it be that you are still supporting the Republican party? Her response, that they are the more “MORAL” party.
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Good rant.

But, see I think the problem is education. What she meant to say was that the Republican party is the MORON party. Minor spelling error…all fixed.

oddmommy @ 92

Backwards through history, folks. That’s the direction we’re going in.

Bush’s apparent aim is to return the U.S. to the harrowing conditions described by Upton Sinclair in his 1906 novel “The Jungle”.

Yeah, bring it on. Lead paint for babies. Hot dogs containing rats, rat feces and parts of humans.

“It was the best of times …” — something Milton Friedman would’ve said

Economically they adore the Roaring 20s because business could do whatever it wanted with no government interference — much like a mugger with no cops around.

Well, the Crash showed the flaw in that. Today’s Credit Crisis is pretty similar at it’s roots.

But who else is complicit: “The FDA acknowledges that they do not have the resources to monitor all of the imports into the US … “

It’s not a surprise that Chinese products might be suspect, given “So far in 2007, 60 percent of the recalls we have conducted are of products made in China. So far in 2007, we have done 24 recalls of toys; all of those products have been made in China.”

Since some effort is succeeding, they can’t all be ‘loyal Bushies’.

Maybe if we didn’t spend so much on war, there’d be enough resources for the social good.

War Scorecard

Lyndon Johnson, “war on poverty” – still fighting it, US average income dropping over past five years, credit crisis, little or no citizen savings, mortgage and derivatives markets tanking, poverty is winning.

Nixon, war on drugs – bigger, better and more expensive than ever. Projected $1.2 billion to Mexico, including military firearms, Blackhawk helicopters (only used in Iraq on Sundays?) Plan Columbia proceeds apace, crop spraying more than ever — unfortuantely the farmers on the ground claim 12% success on coca but 88% damage to food crops. More bribes for police and government, lower street prices and better quality — more bang for your buck. US #1 for prison population, 80% of whom in the last decade are low-level users.

Bush, war on terror – implemented al-Qaeda as a growth industry. No oversight on mercenaries contractors. Where’s Wally? bin Laden?
Lost the respect of the world but now we can bomb, bomb, bomb Iran and no one will think the worse of us.

War on guns – breaking even on the citizen front. Arming the Iraqi military and police. OK! Except, oops, what happened to those 110,000 rifles and 80,000 handguns? Oh, some of those men are actually militia members and occasionally shooting at coalition troops? Who knew?! Collateral damage on the home front: wrongful shootings by air marshalls, SWAT teams, and ordinary police. And even when they get it right, they end up in the slammer while drug lords go free.

Whoever said “war is the health of the state” ???

How many more U.S. citizens, men, women and children, are going to die because of bad Republican policies???

Remember Dick Cheney asking in 1994 how many U.S. soldier’s lives would it have been worth to remove Saddam Hussein from power in the first Gulf War?

Well, now we know, because of the second Gulf War that Dick Cheney had a major hand in beginning behind a wall of lies.

Close to 4,000 U.S. soldiers dead, with tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers injured or maimed for life.

So, the simple question voters should be asking themselves in the next election is how many more lives of U.S. citizens (men, women or children, whether in another war, a hurricane, a bridge collapse, a mining disaster, or because children were denied health insurance coverage) are worth it if they vote for any Republican, whether for president, the senate, the house of representatives, or for local dog-catcher???

I know I’ll only vote for a candidate from the Democratic Party, even if I have to hold my nose in voting for any of the DLC-selected or affiliated Democratic candidates, although I’d much prefer voting for a progressive, liberal Democrat selected and affiliated with the DNC.

Except if you try to sue, in which case the ‘market’ suddenly becomes unacceptable and Rethug ‘tort reform’ tilts the field even more against the consumer.

As a Latin teacher I say:

cave asinum, frutex delenda est.

Metaphorically speaking, of course. A professor can only fantasize.

From Cassel’s Latin Dictionnary:

frutex: shrub, bush as a term of reproach, blockhead

Very funny

What we all learn from this president’s example is how much more loudly actions speak than words.
His words are hollow.
His actions are like bricks, weighing us down.