BUSHZOMBIE

I got 50 emails today telling me “congratulations, you got rid of Gonzo”. Are these people nuts?

If I did get rid of Gonzo, I don’t know how. Sure, I sent emails, I signed petitions, but was that what really got rid of Gonzo? Hardly.

If there is anything I have learned about Bush Zombies (BZ), it’s that they NEVER stop trying to EAT you, no matter how much you bitch at them. Gonzo is like the head BZ. He is a guy who lies, cheats, breaks the law, tortures people and probably craps in his pants just to get a chance to sniff George Bush’s jock strap. There is NO WAY that I had a gawdamn thing to do with him leaving.

So why DID Gonzo leave?

Assuming that Bush doesn’t make a “Recess Appointment” in the next 3 days, which would be just perfect, I think Gonzo left because Bush told him to leave. Why did Bush tell him to leave? Who knows. Bush is a zealidiot (A zealot and an idiot wrapped into one). Maybe Gonzo dropped Bush’s crumpets when they were having afternoon snacks. Or maybe Gonzo made a pass at Laura. But whatever caused Gonzo to leave, IT WASN’T ANYTHING THAT I DID!!!!!

So please, quite pretending that I’m a “Democratic Zombie” or something. It is just so lame to tell me that Gonzo left because of anything I did.

Let’s talk a minute about Democrats…

Here is the problem: Centrists.

The nation wants to undo the Forth Reich that has been created in this country by the Republican National Committee – and they expect the Dems to undo all this turmoil.

But there is a problem. The Democratic party is now a centrist party.

Democrats are now the middle. This means that they express many progressive AND conservative views.

The Reich Wing continues to move further to the right, taking away liberties and shredding the constitution, sending our soldiers to an un-winnable and untenable occupation. Yet the people who have been elected on the Democratic side are only “just to the left” of these Reich Wingers. Thus, the result is a progressive party that is still too far right to make real change.

Did you expect a bunch of centrist Democrats to get elected and push over the apple cart; to mix things up and slam on the Republican breaks? There are many Democrats who would like to do this, but they are still in the minority.

If you believed centrist Democrats would be able to STOP the Bush Crime Family, then you are a BUSHDUMBY (still better than a Bush Zombie).

What is the answer?

Elect TRUE LIBERALS, not centrists.

You may have an aversion to the left.

Maybe you want the constitution AND Libertarian society as well. Oops! It isn’t going to happen.

You may be sad.

You may not believe in a balanced budget or trade tariffs to protect American jobs as other countries place tariffs against us.

Or you may not want to take away tax breaks to corporations who send American jobs overseas. For some, taxing the rich, aka the very people who use the lion’s share of America’s infrastructure at a higher rate than the middle class is wrong. Maybe they should get a free ride for being such great guys and tossing coinage to the proletariat.

Maybe you’re against unionization or against protecting worker rights. Maybe you think corporations don’t need people to work for them. They should exist in a “virtual world” with all the rights of a citizen.

Or you’re a free trader who thinks that monopoly power is fine and that the “death tax” is money that should be passed from dynasty to dynasty, forcing the concentration of wealth to hands of the top sliver of society. Or you might think that one or two media companies in the entire country is great — that all the news should come from a single source (you are insane, but that’s fine).

Maybe you believe in no government regulation, that as people die from tainted food the market will correct itself as fewer people shop where they are poisoned.

Or you may not agree with the grass roots left (these are the REAL lefties). You might believe quality public education is impossible and it’s a waste of money to pay for educating the bulk of society, or the government should NOT own the national parks and private industry would do a better job of keeping up public beaches and highways (because after all, private industry CARES about the public interest lol).

But even IF you have fallen into the brain washing listed above you should still vote Democratic and most importantly, you should vote for the furthest left leaning Democrat you can find. Otherwise, the centrists will continue to vote with the REICH WING on constitutional issues.

Keep in mind, the grass roots Democrats (these are the far lefties), still care about the constitution.

The only other answer is creating your own party. And I think that’s a fine idea. But first, you must wipe out – I mean totally wipe out the Republican Party.

That means vote left, as far left as you can get.

Our Multinational Corporation, address the Cayman Islands,

international be thy name.

Thy labor come,

work will be done,

by children behind barbed wire fences.

Give to China our daily jobs,

and to India our technology,

and let us teach them the tasks for which we have been trained.

And lead us not into Nordstroms,

but deliver us to Wal-mart,

where if we borrow, we can buy some tainted cereal.

For thine is the market,

and the profits,

and the illusion,

of a better Global Economy,

forever and ever.

Amen.

What do you know…. Cheney had it right all along!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YENbElb5-xY

So you don’t believe in Socialized Healthcare.

I have heard the argument, “I don’t want the government running healthcare in our country. That’s Socialism!”

Let’s take a look at what is obvious.

Let’s assume Socialism in this case is the government paying for healthcare. Sounds pretty onerous, doesn’t it? You might be thinking, “Wow, this guy is advocating ownership of the healthcare system by the government.”

No, I’m actually saying that this is what we have today.

The best way to explain this is to use two examples. And to make it interesting, let’s use YOU as the participant in these examples.

Example 1:

You are one of 44.8 million (15.3%) of Americans without coverage. You have a child, boy or girl who is 6 and one who is 8.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/05/health_numbers.html

One day you come home from your job at Subway, where you earn $10.78 per hour as a supervisor. You have a degree in CIS, but cannot get a job in that field since 2002 when you trained your replacement who now resides in India. You have been laid off from 2 other jobs, but are interviewing at a company next week as a data entry operator. Your skills are cold and you have resigned yourself to never making a significant wage, but you are trying.

Your spouse works as well at a Dentist Office making $7.25 per hour and together, with overtime, your family income is about $40,000.

The transmission in your car blew up last year and you purchased a new KIA, but because of some credit history, your payments are a little high.

You get a call from the school and the secretary tells you that your boy was hit by a car leaving school.

You race to the hospital to find that your child was run over by a hit and run driver, and his leg was almost severed at the knee. The total cost to re-attach is $350,000 and the cost to keep him alive will be close to $200,000 if not more (I just made those numbers up, but it seems perfectly reasonable, if not low).

You have been working at Subway for 2 months and you do not have health insurance.

The hospital has no choice but to keep your child. This will be a net loss to them. The boy would probably die if not for many blood transfusions and he is still not out of the woods.

Your disposable income of $700 per month will never pay off the $200 to $400 thousand dollar cost.

Congratulations… The government will pay your share and that my friend is Socialized Healthcare. And it sucks because they will not re-attach the leg, saving approximately $150,000 for the hospital.

Example 2:

You are a professional Real Estate salesperson, 56 years old. You have seen the ups and downs of the market and have a significant client base.

Your annual income is around $100,000 but last year you were diagnosed with Breast Cancer. While your insurance company paid the initial costs of removal, a $120,000 operation, the cancer metastasized and now you need another operation.

Your insurance company refused to cover you upon renewal, and now you are lying in a hospital bed on a morphine drip.

If you had treatment earlier, and if your insurance had not been dropped, you might have lived. But as for now, you will die within a month, your estate is drained of all assets, you’re indigent and the cost of your hospital stay will be paid for by tax payers.

Congratulations… The government will pay your share and that my friend is Socialized Healthcare. And it sucks because you are dying so the insurance company can pass the cost on to the public.

Do these seem like un-realistic examples? They are not. These are being played out across America every day. America – a place where corporations run the government through campaign funding and the citizens pay with their lives and their futures.

Socialized Medicine is what we have now.

Why?

Because we have not yet made the decision to let people die on the streets.

It looks bad when bodies lie on the streets and what looks bad might encourage people to vote in their own self interest. Insurance companies and healthcare providers cannot let people rot in the streets until they have secured a way to manipulate the vote.

If Americans vote in their own best interest, they would vote for a healthcare system that covered everyone. This way we all agree to do what is best for Americans, not multi-national corporations whose only allegiance is greed and short term profits.

Let’s emphasize something here: We need a healthcare system that covers everyone. It doesn’t matter if it is the “Healthcare Fairy” waving a magical wand, it needs to cover everyone. Why would we ever want to leave someone, anyone, out of having healthcare? So we can save money? Look at the examples above. There are no savings in those cases and it is why we pay more than almost any nation in the world to have terrible healthcare — ranked 31 in life expectancy and 28th in infant mortality rates.

Finally, you might be someone who has not yet fallen prey to the new America, so why should you care? Or you might even be a player who is parlaying profits at the alter of death and misery. If such is the case, you may wish to read up on the concept of Karma.

In any case, America already has socialized healthcare.

 

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July Issues Update from Congressman Franks

Oh Trent…. Will you ever stop being a fax machine for the RNC and start becoming a facts machine for the American people.

Obviously never.

Fairness Doctrine: Recently there have been attempts within Congress to reinstate the “Fairness Doctrine”,

I have heard the debate because I listen to Air America Radio. There are several hosts who espouse NOT the fairness doctrine, but laws to prevent a further erosion of free markets. So Franks might want to actually report on the facts, instead of spewing more right wing rhetoric.

For more discussion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_in_the_United_States
http://www.freepress.net/issues/ownership
http://www.stopbigmedia.com/
Or try Googling the topic.

Allegedly, as an assurance that “contrasting viewpoints” be presented by talk radio hosts on any controversial and pressing issues. This archaic regulation was eliminated by the FCC during the Reagan administration in 1987, and was also vetoed later when Congress passed a subsequent bill seeking to place the doctrine into federal law.

I love it when Neocons use the phrase “allegedly”. Think about Fox and their use of the term, “some people say”. Who are these people and what is alleged by whom? This is a similar tactic made about the Jews in 1933 Germany.

This idiotic statement is innuendo. And while there may well indeed be people who support a modified version of the Fairness Doctrine, no reputable people on the left are supporting the original presidential order. The main point by the left is that the American People own the airwaves and want responsible utilization.

Notice Franks did not quote anyone. This is because he is simply spewing right wing propaganda.

There are those who, in flagrant violation of the First Amendment, would mandate such rigorous broadcasting requirements, as to make compliance next to impossible— thereby eliminating the conservative channel that talk radio has largely become.

Who are those? Oh, the people he didn’t quote. I see. (NOT!!!)

I believe this to be the underlying goal in any such provision; and I remain committed to preserving the principles our Founding Fathers codified in the First Amendment when they guaranteed the peoples’ rights to freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press. Therefore, I recently supported an amendment to the Financial Services Appropriations Bill which will temporarily prohibit enactment of the Fairness Doctrine for one year. I am also an original cosponsor of the Broadcasters Freedom Act, which would permanently remove the FCC’s authority to re-impose the Fairness Doctrine. If the bill passes, the only way the Doctrine could come back would be by an act of Congress.

“I believe…” is how he starts this statement. I think Franks actually believes he is a rubber stamp for the RNC rhetoric. Good job Franks. Thanks for wasting our tax dollars, you sniveling lemming.

Protecting Terrorist Tipsters: Last month, a critical provision protecting citizens from liability for reporting possible terrorist activity was removed from the Homeland Security Appropriations bill. The provision had originally been adopted in March as a result of the “flying imams” incident, in which six Muslim clerics were removed from a U.S. Airways flight after displaying suspicious behavior and being reported by fellow passengers. The men were later cleared by authorities after questioning, and, with the help of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), filed suit against the airline and passengers who had reported them.

The bill therefore shielded citizens who report threats in good faith from civil liability, as well as transportation employees and other officials who take reasonable actions to mitigate those threats. I believe it goes without saying that innocent citizens will be more reluctant to report suspicious activity if they believe they may be brought to trial in American courtrooms for doing so.

Thus, as a result of strong objections from Members of Congress such as myself and a vast public outcry, I am pleased to report that this crucial protection for our vigilant citizens, known as the “John Doe” provision, was restored to the final text of the Homeland Security bill. Congress must continue to encourage citizens to remain vigilant during these times of increased terrorist threats to our homeland.

Keep in mind that Neocons, like lawyers, never make a move unless they have an agenda. It appears this is a way to draw an argument somehow, i.e. that the Democrats have weakened the law. The level of incompetence and dishonesty is breathtaking for people in the administration and people like Franks as well. They have placed many innocent people in prison (hundreds now released), but cannot prosecute the real terrorists. And many of these American citizens – Reported by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, have been sent from the United States to prisons overseas where they can be tortured. Who would have ever thought that this could happen in the United States of America?

Google the phrase: “Extraordinary Rendition”. This was started by Clinton (shame, shame), but taken to an art-form by the Bush Administration.

Notice that every statement in this “press release” is related to political partisanship. This is the cornerstone of the modern Republican National Committee (RNC). Like the Communists in 1965 or Mao Tse-tung in China or Saddam Hussein in Iraq or any other regime attempting to manipulate the populace based on propaganda, a critical element is to take a looming threat that THEY THEMSELVES have created, and turn it toward the enemy (In this case, the Democrats). It is a classic Marshal Arts style move – keeping the enemy close and using their own power against them.

Unfortunately for the RNC and Franks, the ponzi scheme will have a limited effect. This is because they have been so greedy and the public is so disenfranchised that the lies are becoming obvious. Why do I call it a ponzi scheme? Because this is a move to bring short term gains at the cost of our country. This is the epitome of conservatism – self gain at all costs.

Well, there was once another Republican who talked about people like Franks and the RNC. He said this:

You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

– Abe Lincoln

Let’s hope that Abe was correct.

Well, has the American Public figured it out yet?

Republican politicians running our country fall into the following categories:

1. World class liars.
2. World class thieves
3. World class exploiters
4. World class marketers
5. World class murderers

Don’t believe me? Then you must be Helen Keller.

The Bush Crime Family supports Gonzo.

The White House insists Gonzales testified truthfully and restated Bush’s support for his longtime aide, with
spokesman Tony Snow telling reporters that Gonzales could not speak directly to classified matters in an open hearing.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/31/congress.gonzales/

But Gonzo either has early onset Alzheimer’s or he has a memory shorter than that of my German Shepherd. Okay, that’s not fair. Shorter than that of my Border collie. Okay, okay still not fair. Shorter than that of my daughter’s imaginary hamster.

This guy is a firewall to prevent American’s from knowing that the Bush Crime Family spies on Americans. Not terrorists. Terrorists are
the Bush’s best friends. They get the public all upset which means the Bushies can spend even more tax dollars on corporate cronyism to build ships that don’t float.

And if you think the Republicans support out troops… then you’re really a BushZombie.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S.
House of Representatives voted on Thursday to require more leave for U.S. troops in Iraq, defying a veto threat from the White House that said it infringed onPresident George W. Bush’s authority as commander in chief. http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN1034793420070803

Oh, and now they have lost 200,000 weapons in Iraq, so the insurgents can kill our solders with even greater efficiency.

When will you Republican BushZombies wake up and smell the coffee.

Republicans are crooks, liars, murders and thieves. And if you support them, then I guess you’re just more of the same.