“It’s not something we’ve done with a meat axe,” Vice President Dick Cheney told Fox News in defense of the administration’s FY 2006 budget. Cheney’s words bring to mind the first rule in deciphering the Bush code of conduct: Reverse what they say to divine what they’ll do. This budget goes straight for the jugular, proposing $212 billion in cuts… return to article
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Reader Comments (6)Page 1 of 1 pagesThe anti-Bush narrative should be the truth? The government has been hijacked by a group of radical right wing zealots. They have created a massive propaganda machine, including numerous paid covert reporter/spies; and even the members of mainstream media not on the payroll refuse to do their jobs and expose the numerous Bush crimes. The rest of the world hates our president because he thinks the world is his wild west and those who oppose him are no better than the poor American Indians. He seems proud of our international isolation. It is embarrassing that we chose this imbecile as president.
Tell the American people about Halliburton and all of the other corporate criminals stealing our money in Iraq. Tell them about the Bush Medicare pay-off to the pharmaceutical companies, thereby selling out seniors and our future. Tell them about Bush and his band of merry neo-cons allowing 9/11 to happen so they could invade Iraq. Their plans are on line. http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
Appeal to the good intentions of Americans. Demonstrate to America that Bush wants to bring America back to the world of Charles Dickens “The Christmas Carol,” where Bob Cratchit worked long hours but couldn’t pay his bills and Tiny Tim was dying for the lack of healthcare.
Most Americans know Bush lied about WMD—the reason for the war; and now they know Bush is lying about Social Security. He lied about medical malpractice to cover up the abuses of the insurance industry. Bush has endorsed the torture and unlawful imprisonment of countless uncharged detainees.
The truth about this despicable man must be told to his country. Blind nationalism is Bush’s weapon but the brutal truth can defeat this imperialist. Don’t count on the mainstream media. Expose them for the frauds they have become. We must find a better way to spread the truth. The internet may be the way but I think we must show the American people how far the Bush administration propaganda has gone. Make them question every media story and the truth will be revealed. And Karl Rove’s propaganda will be ridiculed instead of worshiped.
Posted by AmericanInsurgent on Feb 11, 2005 at 8:52 PM It will be nothing short of a miracle if Democrats grow a spine(the fabulous Boxer notwithstanding). They are more critical of Dean and Moore than they are of Bush and Cheney. Many of them vote for republican legislation as often as not. I’ve only just heard of the “Progressive Democrats of America” and intend to find out more, but most of the party leadership has spent the last two decades destroying the progressive & liberal wing of the party. They seem incapable of seeing their opponents for the ruthless anti-democratic fascists that they are. Or perhaps they are (as I’ve said often before) the good cop to the republican’s bad cop, the house slave to the republican plantation owner, the concentration camp capo that feels our pain, but sends us to our fate anyway. Which American’s are you referring to when you say to appeal to their good intentions? If we don’t count the wealthy, who vote the way they do for venal reasons, and don’t count the Kerry voters, that still leaves a nearly equal number of people in this country who are just as right wing, and just as zealous, just as fanatical, as any of the neo-cons. They voted for Bush for the same reasons Germans voted (yes, voted) for Hitler. He’s the only daddy that’ll walk the line, as the song says. He’ll “get ‘em”. He’ll kick ass and take names, or have someone take names. He’s proud of his lack of education, and so are his followers, they make fun of people who have one. Their shills in the press make fun of the “Reality Based” community as if it’s some kind of UFO cult. They want to turn science on it’s head to fit their ideology. And their followers cheer them on. Do You know what will happen when and if the true length and depth of his complicity in 9/11 are exposed? NOTHING. Zero. Nada. Zilch. Did people stop watching and sending money to Jimmy Swaggert, Jim Baker, Oral Roberts, or Robertson & Falwell (after their remarks following 9/11)? For that matter, it’s clear that none of the lies Bush told, nor the revelations (to some) of the 9/11 commission, during his first term cost him any votes at all. He has faith, don’t ya see, God is working through him. How do you reason with people who think this way? You don’t think showing them evidence of his crimes is going to shake their faith in him, do you? No, it’s going to take a miracle to save this country, indeed this planet, from the consequences of his actions. And as I’ve also said here before, I hope for one, I pray for one, but I don’t expect to see one.
Posted by Kenneth D. Brown on Feb 11, 2005 at 11:36 PM Where’s Hitler now? How about Germany? If we were only as progressive as them. It can and it will be done Kenneth. It won’t be easy, but there are so many smart people in this country who are organizing now. Howard Dean was elected chairman of the DNC today. Howard gets it. I think Harry Reid gets it.
Eventually Chimp Boy will slip up so bad that it will blow up in his face. We have to be there to catch him. I too get very discouraged at times and have nearly given up on the mainstream press’s ability to tell the truth. I won’t give up because the only alternative is giving my country to the idiots and I simply can’t do that. I won’t do that to my daughter.
Posted by Matt Harris on Feb 12, 2005 at 7:00 PM How can you say the democrats don’t support Dean? He was just announced as leader of the DNC.
Posted by brad on Feb 13, 2005 at 12:46 AM I think Kenneth was referring to the Republican-lite Democrats who previously dominated the DNC and still dominate the DLC. And they most decidedly did not support Dean. Dean’s election as leader of the DNC is a great sign that the party is being majorly influenced by the grassroots movement that Dean seemed to harness in the primary election, before the establishment that Kenneth refers to brought him down.
Posted by Matt Harris on Feb 13, 2005 at 9:18 AM Recently even mainstream news labeled the budget proposals fiscal insanity. Bush reps conceal the true costs to Congress. Ya think folks are going to believe the so-called “liberal” media?
It is a complete embarrassment that this goon was reelected (even if they cheated on the unsecure tabulaters), it is embarrassing that so many folks eat whatever bullshit the “President” says. How can people so ignore the huge deficit that this admin has brought upon us and our foreseeable future? That is insanity.
Germany didn’t turn progressive until 6 million people or more were murdered, and that was under the force of other nations. I don’t think we will ever see that kind of horror from our present “leaders”, but the propaganda machines are in place and there aren’t any reporters in the gulags. I still find it abominable that the pentagon refuses to keep stats on civilian deaths which occur during their military involvement.
It is so true that the neo-con Bushites speak with an ironic tongue. Classic doublespeak.
I am so disgusted with the liars in federal office and with the sheep that constitute half the voting public. And I am unanimous in that opinion(!).
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