What more do you need to say?
Wayne Allard – Colorado
Kit Bond – Missouri
Tom Coburn – Oklahoma
Thad Cochran – Mississippi
John Cornyn – Texas
James Inhofe – Oklahoma
Pat Roberts – Kansas
Jeff Sessions – Alabama
Ted Stevens – Alaska
All these Republican senators should be Impeached along with Bush.
Sounds like there is a new book I’ll have to read Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy as the review at Crooked Timber made it sound great.
So why hasn’t the Republican party been punished by voters for its radicalism? As I understand it, Hacker and Pierson’s explanation has three main components. First, information. Voters are often poorly informed about politics, and are vulnerable to “tailored disinformation,†which distorts public perceptions. Second, institutions. The Republican Party has been able to use its dominance of Senate, House and Presidency to set the agenda and to sideline opposition. Finally, networks. “New Power Brokers†like Tom DeLay have been able to assemble networks that bring together politicians, think-tankers, funders and lobbyists, creating a coherent agenda across separate institutions, rewarding and protecting loyalists while brutally punishing those who go off-message.
These things, I too, have commented on here, here, and here and here.
I picked these definitions off a Google search:
autonomy: immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence
freedom of choice; “liberty of opinion”; “liberty of worship”; “liberty–perfect liberty–to think or feel or do just as one pleases”; “at liberty to choose whatever occupation one wishes”
personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppressionFreedom
the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints
exemption: immunity from an obligation or duty 

And then I found the Wikipedia definition. And the interesting thing I found was that the Wiki actually had a different definition for freedom. It’s interesting to note that there are Political versions of the word Freedom. Types, if you will, and this means to me that Freedom can be interpreted to mean different things. Twisted to represent an aspect other than an equal to the word Liberty.
I remember back to the American Revolution, and they were not fighting for freedom, but for liberty.
…Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness!
Give me Liberty, or give me death!
The current republican corrupters of the constitution have bent this term freedom to mean something other than Liberty. And there is the true spin on their version of “Freedom”. It has become more like the;
I’m sure you get the point.
Give me Liberty!
Is anyone going to ring the Liberty bell?
Another deconstruction (and a superior one) can be found < A href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/stromberg/stromberg14.html">here
One of the baby pictures my parents use in company to embarrass me with is one of me in an “I Like Ike” T-Shirt.
I’m glad someone else likes him also, and someone who makes sense Ike Was Right About War Machine
Time to spend money where it needs to be spent.
Another example of the Bush administrations lack of integrity. When the truth does not work out, they Buy the News.
Impeach Bush and his Propaganda Machine
There is an artical about the Music Companies getting Greedy and it brings up thoughts about other forms of Republican Greed And it all makes sense, “Greed is good!” Greed is the new Republican version of the American Way!
The Republicans are now trying to cover their ass over Katrina, by making it nearly impossible to dislodge them from Congress.
Republicans are now saying, if you can’t win on the facts buy your way back into Congress. Prevent Freedom of choice.
Impeach Bush and the corrupt Republican party which supports him. Vote for ANY NON Incumbentant running for a Republican seat in Congress.
Update: Looks like another Greedy Senator Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist under investigation. Are there NO honest Republicans?
Update, Again! And another fallen Greedy Politican DeLay Is Indicted
Who’s next? Rove?
The current talk about Iraq appears to be civil war, and how to prevent it. In reality you cannot prevent of a Civil war, you can only provide a when it will happen. Every democracy has had to have a Civil war. It is almost a requirement, whenever a passionate desire to control one’s own fate using the tool of government overcomes the ability to argue the points coherently is breached, then civil war will result. The flash point is subject matter. In many of the western democracies the passion is over an Ideal, a principal formed in the popular thoughts of the population. In iraq the subject is religion, a subject swimming in passion. There will be a civil war, can’t be stopped, therefore the goal goal will have to be, when it will be allowed to happen.
The most probable course of action will have to be providing an accommodating framework for all current parties to form a point of intersection. A meeting place where a basic common grown can be formed. In Iraq, this common ground will be a very small place. And it will not look western, in any, way, shape, or function. The attempt to ‘push’ western shaped organizations into a islamic world will not work. Unless a common foundation, comfortable to all participants, can be built, democratic organizations can not be built.
This has been the misguided adventure of the Neo-Cons. Their belief that the western foundations, the western common ground, is the same as an Islamic one, and can be easily overlaid onto a Islamic one. It is misguided, build a foundation, then let the organizations build on solid ground. The Muslin community must be allowed to build it for themselves. In some perceptions, the ‘terrorist’ in Iraq are no different than the Minutemen of the American Revolution. The British at that time called them ‘terrorist’ also.
And NO, it will not look like, nor act like a western democracy. And shouldn’t, It’s their country. Not, the one that the Neo-Cons would have and control. After all, the Neo-cons are only attempting to provide the illusion of democracy, hence the support of the Egyptian ‘Democracy’ which was fundamentally the same one that existed under Hussein in Iraq. The only difference was Hussein did not take direction from the Neo-cons. At least not recently, after all they put him into power in the first place. Put like Mary Shelly’s monster, it got out of control.
It’s about the Oil! and the power that oil provides, Energy, Economic and Political.
Impeach Bush and his Neo-Con masters.
(Funny didn’t he seem like a puppet on a string accepting responsibility during his speech)
Looks like this will be happening sooner than later. Undeclared Civil War In Iraq
Katrina, may have been a natural disaster, but it was a predictable one. And I’m not talking about the death, destruction and economic. It is a disaster for the Republican agenda, and again I’m not talking about the current administration and the current crop of politicians either.
The Republican agenda has been the systematic destruction of the federalist, centralist government of the United States of America otherwise known as the U.S.A. The disaster has been exposing this agenda too early. Well before the planned execution of the victim, the Federal Government. This might sound a little too far into the arena of the tin hat brigade. But the fundamental has been to push control of the government back into the state house. States Rights!
A world where the Federal government only has the power to regulate interstate commerce, and provide for the common defense, and very little else. The civil war, which was fought over this goal (not over slavery) failed in this pursuit and is only now coming to fruition in the form of an internally crippled, bureaucratically corrupt, and functionally inept federalist structure.
The fundamental goal of the Republicans was to demonstrate to the world that a Federal government was flawed. The failure of FEMA while appearing to be a failure of the government was in fact a victory for the Republicans. A further proof that the Federalist system does not work.
The disaster for the Republicans has been that it has happened when they are in power. If the the plan was to work, it was necessary to be the responsibility of the Democrats. Or any other person or party other than the Republicans. Katrina came too early, caused too much destruction.
But part of the demonstration, was to show that Republican controlled states like Florida, could manage, while a Democratically dominated ones like Louisiana could not.
They are likely to succeed in any case, as the Republicans are still in control of the Mass Media. Controlled as they are by big business. There is little information being disseminated that provides the true ‘Big Picture’. And what there is, it deliberately spun into a muddle to be interpreted as needed and to generally confuse the general population.
Another tenet of the Federalist government was a free and independent reporting of the news, another target of the Republicans. A goal mostly accomplished, with perhaps the oversight of the internet. A goal still firmly in their sites. With goals of censorship of the Internet content being then next element on their agenda.
And with all this, do you think Science has been excluded, far from it. It falls into the same category as truth, as the truth from their perspective is something to be managed and subject to interpretation. Redefinition, refinement to provide a more productive result.
But back to the disaster, the trouble with all this talk about decentralizations, is this, it’s not the President’s Job to redefine the government from a Federalist to a State Republic. The President is elected to uphold the constitution, including the three branches of the government, all of which the Republicans do NOT currently control. And hence is an Impeachable offense under the constitution. And exposing this Republican Goal is not a Republican Goal.
Impeach Bush , and impeach the republican goal!
Bush ‘promoted West-Muslim clash’
Impeach Bush
I really do not recall any serious aid being sent to the U.S. during any previous natural disaster.
So another thing President Bush can become Famous about.
Lowering the prestige of the U.S.A. from SuperPower to Third World status.
Impeach Bush!
President Bush’s biographer stated that Bush wanted to be famous. And that being a war President would make him famous.
I have another way that Bush could become Famous.
Become the first President of the 21st Century to be Impeached.
Impeach Bush and grant Bush his wish to be famous.
Often I wonder about the American Ideal, the image I grew up with, the one I remember from Superman. And while this isn’t about some comic book character. Deep down, I always wished that was the way it should be.
I can not tell you how disappointed I have been with the current crop of politicians and their war on the American Ideal. They have managed over the years to subvert all the goodness, and replace it all with buzz word Ideas and word spins. They have managed to produce the political slogan that like that lost song, that from time to time, just won’t leave your thoughts. And maybe it’s not a great song, but it takes on a life of it’s own.
Such is the political tripe that makes good deeds look bad and foul business smell sweet. I long for a simpler time, the remembrance of Supermen, and American Ideals.
Well it looks like the Republicans have the fix in, an opinion in the central states is this.
It’s their own Damn fault if the ignorant fools stayed in New Orleans. It’s time that they took responsibility for themselves.
If that doesn’t sound like a Republican line. I couldn’t think of a better one. Except that is the opinion of my own brother in Kansas. And I can’t believe that he would repeat such Republican propaganda.
Looks like the so called ‘Free Press’ has been paid off to tell the Bush lies in a lame defence of the Lame President. See Sorting out Opinion from Fact on Katrina
My God, will no one in the Media speak the truth to the American people?
