While critics often label the Bush administration incompetent for attacking opponents instead of offering real solutions, the results tell a different story. With corporate profits soaring, privatization surging, and lucrative no-bid contracts at record highs, the administration’s strategy appears not like failure, but a calculated agenda operating exactly as intended.
Rep. Katherine Harris claimed that church-state separation is a “lie,” arguing that electing non-Christians inevitably legislates sin. Yet her narrow rhetoric never explains where other believers stand in her vision of America, especially considering the contentious 2000 Florida election role and Supreme Court rulings that delivered this disastrous national administration.
Living in 1970s Germany taught me that terrorism could be dealt with without panic or politicization—life simply went on. Comparing that resilience to America’s fearful, post-9/11 ‘Chicken Little’ response is embarrassing. Bruce Schneier’s perspective hits the mark: it’s time to take a deep breath, stop cowering, and regain sanity.
The War Bush Isn’t Fighting: When unsmiling agents at the airport take away your contact lens solution, your toothpaste, and your cologne or after-shave, remember Osama bin Laden. Remember the
Critics complain the liberal blogosphere avoids serious debate on radical jihadism, accusing them of ignoring critical foreign policy. But it’s rich when opponents demand engagement after shutting everyone out. I won’t bother armchair-quarterbacking the Middle East; I’ll let our elected officials run that problem into the ground themselves.
Jim Hightower rightly observes that Bush’s neoconservative foreign policy backfired entirely, becoming a blueprint for extremist recruitment rather than regional democracy. Instead of securing peace, these reckless actions drown America’s credibility in a worsening quagmire. With two years left of this failed presidency, voting in a loyal opposition is essential.
Molly Ivins – Creators.com – Creators Syndicate: “The poor man who is currently our president has reached such a point of befuddlement that he thinks stem cell research is the
I.R.S. to Cut Tax Auditors – New York Times: “The federal government is moving to eliminate the jobs of nearly half of the lawyers at the Internal Revenue Service who
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