| Over the course of George Bush's six years in office | | | | disease carrying homeland invaders." Also, totally |
| it has become abundantly clear that Mr. Bush and his | | | | swept aside is the Senate bill that would have been a |
| cronies are in a state of "willful denial" about the | | | | workable starting point from which to work on this |
| worsening situation in Iraq....and so is a large chunk of | | | | complex issue, in order to reach a rational and |
| the American public, willingly or due to misleading | | | | comprehensive solution. |
| partisan information. | | | | In order to placate their "base," the Republican |
| As the temperature rises and with less than 5 weeks | | | | dominated U.S. government has been conducting |
| left to the mid-term elections, some of the most | | | | sweeping immigration raids across the country, |
| zealous backers of this administration in the Republican | | | | inhumanely separating children born in The United |
| Party are running scared leaving Mr. Bush trapped | | | | States, who are constitutionally American citizens, from |
| holding the "hot plate." | | | | their immigrant mothers and fathers .... well meaning |
| With the on-going "Sex & Pedophilia" scandal involving | | | | "Economic Refugees," from third world nations racked |
| now resigned Republican Congressman, Mark Foley (R | | | | with incompetent and thieving governments.....some with |
| - FL), the focus on this administration has switched | | | | the assistance of greedy U.S. multi-national |
| gears mid-stream -- from a wanton catastrophe to a | | | | corporations whose "colonial" and corrupt profit motive |
| circus of "Catastrophilia." | | | | is legendary. |
| A homosexual Republican Congressman with | | | | Even Tom Kean, former Republican Governor of New |
| Pedophilic tendencies is like "manna from heaven" for | | | | Jersey and a respected ex-911 commissioner has |
| the Democrats. They can't ask for a better gift so | | | | joined the fray for the sake of "Dear Party," pulling a |
| close to the elections -- an opportunity to expose | | | | "Michael Moorer" on Democrats. Sources indicate that |
| Republican hypocrisy. You can bet that mothers of all | | | | Mr. Kean was hired as a pre-production consultant for |
| political persuasions will get an earful of this. | | | | the movie "The path to 9-11" a TV miniseries which |
| These revelations of the activities of Mr. Foley has | | | | grossly misrepresents the facts in the 9/11 Commission |
| prompted an all out "Circular Panic Shootout" amongst | | | | report and portrays the Clinton administration in bad |
| Republicans, with each and every one facing the | | | | light. |
| electorate this November distancing himself/herself | | | | Clearly, a desperate attempt by Republican operatives |
| from Foley. | | | | in collaboration with a "ratings hungry" media |
| This "October Surprise" could be the final nail in the | | | | powerhouse (ABC/Disney) to influence the electorate. |
| coffin for the Republican Party. The "chickens have | | | | If this movie were not a sneaky political move why |
| come home to roost," and the "Values" and "Faith" | | | | was an advance copy of the film given to right wing |
| Party is in deep trouble. | | | | extremist radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh - a |
| "I will not withdraw even if Laura and Barney are the | | | | self-serving demagogue who has a penchant for |
| only ones supporting me," -- George Bush, speaking to | | | | monstrous distortions and extremist hyperbole. |
| a group of Republicans in the White House, according | | | | Other reports from Washington indicate that the |
| to Bob Woodward (Award Winning Journalist) in his | | | | Republicans are planning to unload their significantly |
| new book: State of Denial. Barney is one of the Bush's | | | | superior financial war chest on Democrats in the form |
| two dogs. | | | | of negative TV and Radio ads over personal issues |
| In May 2003, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld | | | | and local controversies. According to these reports, |
| while speaking to a cheering congregation of U.S. | | | | the Republican Congressional committee has |
| troops in Qatar said, "So when people are writing the | | | | dispatched operatives to comb through personal |
| history books, you're going to be in it. Thank you very | | | | records to find damaging information on their |
| much." | | | | Democratic opponents. |
| The Vice President Mr. Dick Cheney in an appearance | | | | Even though mud-flinging is a political staple for both |
| on September 14, 2003 in a "Meet the Press" weekly | | | | parties and in-fact almost everywhere else in the |
| show with NBC's Tim Russert said, "My belief is we | | | | world, the Republicans are masters at this game and |
| will, in fact, be greeted as liberators." | | | | can ratchet it up to ludicrous levels. |
| House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) recently, | | | | Look out for Republican candidates to become |
| sounding much like CNN's Lou Dobbs, linked immigrants | | | | meaner and more twisted in the coming few weeks. |
| to terrorist and criminal gangs by saying: "Illegal's | | | | But will the moderate "swing" voters in both parties |
| crossing our borders are gang members who cross to | | | | buy into this charade this time around? |
| injure our citizens. This is a daily struggle in some | | | | According to a CNN Poll conducted on September 6, |
| towns." | | | | 57% of Americans without a high school education |
| These four statements and many others I have not | | | | believe that Saddam Hussein was involved in the 911 |
| listed here sum up the dysfunctional, hypocritical and | | | | attacks (a fact most recently denied in a news |
| deceitful "Republican Mentality" that readily permeates | | | | conference August 21, when President Bush said |
| the party from top to bottom. | | | | Hussein had "nothing" to do with the attacks), 54% of |
| If you read in between the lines, the intimation is that | | | | High School graduates believe likewise. Only 39% of |
| Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney have been fighting this | | | | college graduates believe the same. The number |
| war for the sake of "history," ....and that "illegal | | | | dwindles dramatically to 19% for postgraduates. |
| immigrants" and by extension "legal immigrants" are | | | | Are Americans that ill informed? If so then we should |
| just a bunch of criminals and terrorists -- dangerous | | | | expect another Republican win this November. |
| and deceitful rhetoric expressly intended drive an | | | | Will red baiting terror, using politics of deceit, fear and |
| "immigration wedge" to divide America, and instill fear | | | | hate work this time? |
| all the way to the November ballot box. | | | | Will the Republican party successfully energize their |
| Like seasoned predators Republicans have in the last | | | | "intolerant" right wing base and also scare the pants |
| couple of years skillfully capitalized on a basic human | | | | off moderate Republicans, Independents and even |
| instinct of "fear of the unknown" to weave a national | | | | some Democrats....again? |
| security policy of "fear" into the psyche of the | | | | Is the Republican Party running on fumes? |
| American public, with incredible effectiveness. | | | | Cheap political scores that violate the core of |
| A few weeks to the mid-term elections, the "Kings" of | | | | internationally revered American values like hurriedly |
| "Wedge Issues" and partisan smears are at it again, | | | | establishing military commissions that will utilize |
| even though they are clearly on the ropes this time | | | | "alternative forms of torture" in order to claim the |
| around. | | | | mantle as the "toughest in the war on terror" are very |
| While Bush has been choreographing the "Terrorist | | | | troubling, notwithstanding the fact that these measures |
| Fear Branch," the right wing of the Republican party led | | | | have been implemented in other countries before with |
| by xenophobes like Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo, | | | | little or no success. |
| George Allen and James Sensenbrenner among many | | | | Piecemeal measures that are politically targeted and |
| others have been "stroking" the locals by holding | | | | principally bankrupt, without any long-term solutions is |
| anti-immigrant town-hall style hate meetings to "rally the | | | | not the way to govern this great nation. |
| base" of the Republican party, a base comprising of | | | | Coercion, "bribery," and scare tactics have destroyed |
| maniacal extremists still hanging on to America's | | | | the good standing of America in the eyes of the rest |
| bloody and racially intolerant past. | | | | of the world during this administration's tenure. |
| The so called "House Republican Immigration Field | | | | On moral, political and pragmatic grounds the |
| Hearings" conducted in the recent months supposedly | | | | Democratic Party or even better non-aligned |
| explored the "societal and governmental costs of illegal | | | | independents should wake up and right the American |
| immigrants," use of health-care facilities, welfare and | | | | ship, for the Republicans have failed miserably....they |
| "the criminal consequences of illegal immigration." | | | | have bamboozled the citizenry, betrayed their trust |
| These meetings turned out to be "Distortion Dens" in | | | | and misappropriated their hard earned tax money in an |
| which immigrants were mercilessly vilified. | | | | unnecessary "imperialist" war. |
| Manufactured videos of immigrants crossing in from | | | | Another Republican majority in both houses will be a |
| Mexico superimposed with images of Osama bin | | | | disaster. America's standing as measuring rod for the |
| Laden and Zacharias Moussaoui were played to | | | | rest of the world has been severely compromised and |
| "fearful" Town-Hall congregants, and are still appearing | | | | stands to diminish even further if Republicans are given |
| on TV screens in numerous family living rooms across | | | | a blank check to continue with their "pillaging sham." |
| America. | | | | The American people need to wake up too and send |
| Needless to say that the "positive" contributions of | | | | a strong message to both Parties, that partisan |
| immigrants (illegal & legal) have been totally blanked out | | | | politicking without principle is damaging to all and sundry, |
| in favor of blood-letting, high-stakes demonizing, | | | | party faithful or no party. |
| irrational and rampant xenophobia aimed at "the | | | | Perhaps we need a "rational" third party? |