Bush's capital is spent

Not only is Bush's capital spent, the guy is bankrupt and will be looking to the Democrat majority for a loan. Poor Karl Rove has egg all over his and his disciple's face. The days of sticking one's whole head, shoulder deep, into the trough are over.

One thing I haven’t heard mention of is knocking down the bill that the outgoing Republican Congress gave Bush to torture detainees and hold even US citizens without due process of law. It’s only one thing of many that will be addressed by the Democratic leadership in the House, and now we may find out what happened to 9 billion dollars lost in Iraq.

As a liberal-independent who generally but not always votes Democratic (with a touch of red and green here and there), I’d like to be jubilant about last night’s results. I can’t be.

Over the last six years, this administration has done extensive and perhaps irreparable damage to our international relations, our constitutional guarantees, our economy, our credibility on human rights and other moral issues, our middle-class and working poor, and the environment. Above all else, I mourn all of the ordinary people — chiefly Iraqi and U.S. — killed needlessly in this administration’s wrong-footed adventure in Iraq.

I’m sure the Democrats are sharpening their knives (or at least their subpoena-writing skills) for their new day of leadership in one or both chambers of Congress. Doubtless, the public will learn many disturbing and discouraging things in the next two years about the way our country has been run by this government.

However, this President and his enablers — Cheney and Rove chief among them — will continue to insist that their theory of a unitary Presidency should trump every attempt to bring them to heel. They will, for example, resist every investigation, arguing that the only check on the President’s power is the voter’s power to displace him. That opportunity was lost forever in 2004.

The adults stand again in the doorway of the nursery, surveying the wreckage. Perhaps we can repair this mess, but I am not optimistic.

Just some thoughts from a dead guy;

* *
You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
all right, all right

You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We're doing what we can
But when you want money
for people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
all right, all right

You say you'll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well, you know
You better free you mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
all right, all right

My guess is we will not see a new tone from Mr. Bush. Thats OK , at least there are checks and balances in the government once again. Saw Tom Delay on CNN this morning. He said the democrats
didn't win...the republicans lost. With a larger than normal turnout on an off year like this, I believe he is wrong. So Mr. Delay....take your get out of jail free card with you, you'll need it.

The one thing George never understood was that his capital was never more than small change.

Bush is a snake.

Social Security will never be safe as long as he's in the White House.

Wow, now Bush will actually be held accountable for his actions as president. That will be a new concept for the GOP. Absolute power is over.

WoooHooo!

Let there be Investigations!

What did it buy?

President Bush is having lunch with Nancy Pelosi at the White House today.
What I would give to be a fly on the wall at that
meeting.
I hope both sides of the aisle get to work and accomplish something positive for the country now that the election is over.

One of the problems that we have in our government is that the only people with effective oversight of the executive are the folks in Congress. So if the folk in Congress are in bed with the executive, there is no effective oversight.
But now of course the folk in Congress are no longer intimate friends of the executive. Armed with subpoena power, the opposition party can now begin investigations. Those who think last night was tough for the GOP, may be surprised at what's going to happen next.

Let the impeachment proceedings commence immediately!

Democrats should not go back to their old, touchy-feely ways and forget the partisanship that Republicans displayed. They need to remember the dirty tactics and master them so they can win in 2008 also.

The petulant man-boy president will have to cooperate with the opposition if he wants to get anything done during the last two years of a failed presidency. Is he ready to face the real world as an adult? We'll see in January. Meahwhile, expect the lame-duck Congress to ram through a lot of BS legislation benefiting the special interests of their choice. It will be interesting to see how many of these ousted GOPers will make it back to Capitol Hill in a year or two as lobbyists.
As for the Dems, this is no time for gloating. It's time to put together cohesive, practical plans on how to undo so much damage done by the GOP in the last 12 years to: our environmental protection; the middle class; the Bill of Rights; and most importantly, our stature and respect in the world.

I just hope the democrats don't keep us killing for oil.

I very much doubt the current occupant will choose to cooperate with the Democrats. I think we will have two years of squabbling where the Republicans try to blame the Democrats for everything they have screwed up in the last six years. They simply don't know any other way to behave.

"Watch for the president today to set a new tone, not the unbridled tone of that last post-election press conference. Watch for the president to call for political reconciliation, a time of healing."

And if he mouthes those kind of words, it will be just as big a lie as any he has told in these last six pathetic years of Republican rule. Take your olive branch and shove it Bozo.

The lunatics are now running the asylum, or at least one house of it. There's dancing in the streets of Tehran and Gaza, in celebration.

"Dancing in the End Zone" or "A Wingnut Post-Mortem"

Kudos to Dr. Rove on defying wisdom for so long. But the reality is that you cannot create an enduring majority OUT OF THE MINORITY. There are only about 30-35% of the nation who are hardcore right-wing idealogues. The rest of us are either moderate/ independent or liberal. George Bush could have been the most popular president since, well, Clinton if he had chosen a center-right or centrist path after 9/11. Instead, he opted for the Karl Rove "energize the base" strategy coupled with divide and conquer. This was surprisingly effective for six years, shocking both pundits and decent moderates alike. But this success is going to prove a very tough monkey for the GOP to shake off its back after their rude awakening here in '06.

What many of the Wingnuts seem to ignore is that this GOP is obscenely radical; trampling long held civil rights (habeus corpus traces back to the magna carta for g-d's sake), ripping up international treaties, stomping upon the rights of sovereign nations, all the while gleefully busting enormous holes in what was a budget surplus. The Democrats are the moderate party, actually the center-right party, and that may be Rove's lasting legacy: having brought the entire body politic dramatically to the right. Whether that proves advantageous to the GOP in the long term remains to be seen.

There will be plenty of time to lament the fact that now the Dems have to actually do something, and I am at least as nervous as the rest of you. But for now, I'm going to do a little victory dance in the end zone, not on behalf of Democrats, but on behalf of America which is finally starting to take its country back from the brink.

Karl Rove...where are you?? Are you out there?? Calling Karl Rove. Come out come out where ever you are...HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa!!
So I guess November 7th was not that great of a day for Republicans afterall, right Mr. Bush.
Things are going to be different for you and smarmy Cheney, Mr. Bush. You better get used to it. There may even be some investigations into you, your administration, and certain members of Congress. Bring it on!!

Let's not gloat too much over the Republican defeat.

Let's keep in mind that Bush The Invader was enabled in part by a cowardly Democratic minority. Let's remember that Bush The Rampant Spender had plenty of assistance from thumb-sucking Democrats. Let's recall that Bush The Patriot Act-or was lent a helping hand by a compliant Democratic contingent.

If you're truly expecting revolutionary change, I'm afraid you're in for a disappointment. Republicrats still rule.

The election may be over BUT both the Senate and the House are goverened by the Republicans until the end of this congress. Watch Out!!

A balance of power is good for America. I don't want to see either party have a monopoly on the house, senate and White House. That's why things were so great in the late 90s, the president and congress were too busy fighting to screw things up. I look forward to that scenario again.

Bruce...way to go on having a mind of your own. Don't swallow the neo-conservative propaganda whole or anything. "Tehran and Gaza dancing in the streets"? It's one thing to buy it, but to repeat it? "Polly want a cracker"

"My guess is we will not see a new tone from Mr. Bush. Thats OK ,"

bill r,

I agree, and hope his tone won't change. In fact, being the spoiled little sociopath we know him to be, he will probably go into petulant attack mode.

This will bode well for even more gains in 08. Might get the Senate as well as the WH.

I can't wait to see him vetoing health care improvements, minimum wage increases, MPG increases, etc.

hey bill r, remember; 'never get outta the boat!'

DougR,
You won't be hearing from Karl Mephistopheles Rove for a while.
He is at a Management Seminar somewhere in the 4 circle of Hell with his mentor, the Prince of Darkness Cheney trying to figure out what's next.

Turns out there IS a bottom to the barrel called the 'bottomless pit of right wing rage'.

Happy birthday, Pat Tillman. Your brother said you wanted this gift; it's the best we could do, but we'll do more in a couple of years.

The lunatics are now running the asylum, or at least one house of it. There's dancing in the streets of Tehran and Gaza, in celebration.
Posted by: Bruce | Nov 8, 2006 9:16:49 AM

Do you have a link to that story Rush?

You should be celebrating the fact that you still live in even a weak democracy you fool.

Maybe you should move to Tehran so you can get a taste of what life is like under a real theocracy instead of waiting for Republicans to install one here.

I am disappointed that Duckworth lost, but am comforted by the fact that Racist Roskam had to resort to Bashing Immigrants to do so.

There is no place for Racists in Congress, and Roskam is a Racist, as evidenced by his vicious anti-Mexican spots aired during the campaign. He fails to comprehend how much pain he has caused the Hispanic community with those spots. Perhaps an aide should listen to Spanish-language talk radio, so he could better understand just why so many people consider him a Racist.

And, as the Wall Street Journal reports this morning...

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116296129742716836.html?mod=world_news_whats_news

In fact, just months after House Republicans used a crackdown on illegal immigrants to energize their party's conservative base, Hispanic voters responded yesterday at the voting booth, shifting decisively toward Democrats.

Exit polls showed more than seven in 10 Hispanics voted Democratic in races for House seats. Meanwhile, some 27% voted Republican -- an 11-percentage-point drop from the prior midterm election in 2002.
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As more Hispanics move into his District, look for him to lose, perhaps as early as two years.

"But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow "

Just remember that line the most C. Morris.

Also, are the calls for investigations and impeachment jokes, or are you really hoping for it?

Congrats on the win, but if that happens it will really be bad for your 08 Presidential chances. The American people already think you're weak on foreign policy and you'll prove it.

Bush and Co. are fighting enememies, and it seems that you just want to fight Bush and co.

OK, lets say you win and get impeachment proceedings etc....

What does that do for the war on terror? After you give me your typical lefty talking points, tell me who within the left would carry the torch and your talking points and see it through to victory?

...or are you just hoping for "withdrawl with honor?"

So tell me, Bruce, now that the Democrats have some control, would it make you happy for us to "lose" the "war on terror" so you can blame the Democrats? After all, that's what you've accused Democrats of ever since you've been posting.

The Democrats have offered nothing over the last 14 years and you think they are the answer now? God help us as we continue to slide into moral bankruptcy. The Democrats are once again going to completely destroy our military... I know I lived through it during the Clinton nightmare. I thank god that George Bush was president during the past 6 years as we finally went after terrorist, removed Saddam and during 9-11 and the hurricanes. I cannot even imagine how badly the democrats would have failed given similar circumstances.

Once again CNN proves its liberal left slant that has brought on the decaying of America!

Impeach Ro-, I mean Rum-, I really mean Chen-, no wait, I meant...

Bush remains a polarizing and deeply deluded leader. He is not humble and has no sense for political compromise at the national or international level; perhaps as Governor in Texas he could cajole other quasi-conservative democratic members to cooperate, it is naive, however, to believe he has the strength of character, mind or leadership capacity to believe that he could achieve the same at the national and international level.

"The Democrats are once again going to completely destroy our military... I know I lived through it during the Clinton nightmare."

Dave, I dunno, I'd say Clinton's military did a pretty good job in Afghanistan, wouldn't you agree? (That is, until Bush got bored with bin Laden and got distracted with Saddam.) And please don't try to give Bush & Co. any credit for that - neither their budget nor any of their policy changes had taken effect by October 2001.

The Democratic leadership needs to be very aware of the type of people voted into Congress. Many long time Republicans were ousted by conservative Democrats. Nancy Pelosi would be wise to temper any hugely liberal agenda at the start. Her best bet would be to start slowly and start to forge a relationship with the incoming freshmen and the white house. Coming through the door with guns blazing will only anger the people more. Now is not the time to lord over the people with wildly liberal legislation.

The country has spoken and even though the Democrats have picked up many seats, those seats were taken by many conservative or centrist people. The majority of the country is tired of the wild extremes of both parties and wants to come back near the center to finally get things done.

I knew I could count on Bruce to call all Americans fed up w/ this Administration terrorist sypathizers. Shows how much you and your ilk hate democracy. Democracy that works, except in Republican areas that failed to print enough ballots, or made intimidating phone calls to harass voters.

The sun is shining brighter today!

P.S. Dave and Bruce, if you don't like democracy, leave our country now. We'll find two immigrants that understand both parties are fighting for
America but have different ways of approaching that end. The last 6 years your party has failed most Americans and they finally paid the price at the polls. You could not intimidate and instill fear in the silent majority that believes Iraq is a disaster. Now lets get to work fixing everything you had a chance to fix but wouldn't because lowering Paris Hilton's taxes and expanding Presidential powers was more important to your authoritarian party.

My 1st time on here, and I already see "Bruce" is the faux news parrot..........

Dave,

Your Cheerleader in Chief successfully invaded Afganistan,and Iraq with Bill Clinton's,and the Democrats military machine.

You're Welcome Dave

Congratulations DEMS!!!!!

The outcome of this mid-term election says some refreshing things about the country. The population at large can no longer be convinced that we should be scared of everything including our own shadow, and that only the tough-talking conservatives know what needs to be done to protect us(even though they "had better things to do" and the priveledge to get out of it when their number was called). Open dialogue will now hopefully replace "you're either with us or against us", the conservative attitude that is the most unpatriotic of all. Soon the common citizen will not have to fear vilification for questioning the actions and motives of actions of our leaders. And hopefully some of the inappropriate behavior of the past six years(lacking checks and balances) will be accounted for now that checks and balances have been restored.

This is incredible. And who cares if we don't take the senate? At this point, the fact the we took Missouri and are this close in VA and MT is amazing.

The best part of last night was when Webb and Tester both came out and gave what amounted to acceptant speeches. As we learned in FL 2000 - if you act like the winner, you will be the winner. And it's wonderful to see Democrats acting like winners.

I have never watched Fox News or read conservative news blogs. Now I'm watching and reading with glee. I love all the pathetic spin.

Jeff Brown,

Sorry to inform you but we have a number of other "Bruces" out there. Not one of them has their own opinion they pretty much regurgitate what their party tells them. Sometimes it is stated verbatim!!! Scary I know.

Welcome!

Jeff Brown,

Sorry to inform you but we have a number of other "Bruces" out there. Not one of them has their own opinion they pretty much regurgitate what their party tells them. Sometimes it is stated verbatim!!! Scary I know.

Welcome!

""But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow "

Just remember that line the most C. Morris."

and if you look at their actual tactics, jd, their free use of torture, bully pulpit, mockery of the weak ("let me live, let me live"), and 100% unyeilding authoritarianism, then it's obvious that bush is this years mao.

Ms. Pelosi may surprise us -- I think she's a much better politician than she's given credit for. If the Dems can come up with a plan of action with broad consensus among liberal and conservative members, they will be effective. Otherwise, not.

"The will of the mass of the people must prevail."
--Alcuin (735-804),in a letter to Charlemagne

This is how I commented in my blog on October 8,2004:
"Many of us seem to be in denial, offering arguments that Bush does not have a "mandate". Face it. He has, he has. Backed by a Congress with larger majorities in both houses, he will continue to move the nation to the right. His core support groups expect it of him, and he has proven beyond any doubt his tenacity to stick to his positions. Be prepared for social and environmental issues to suffer set backs on the domestic front."

How good it feels to see hubris vanquished! The excesses of the Bush Administration will plague us for years but today is for rejoicing.

Gabe -

Interesting that you've never watched Fox News or read conservative blogs before. So, does this mean you've only indulged in the spin from the left? Reading the entries on this blog, I'm concerned that many of you don't bother to learn about or consider alternative points of view. I'd say it's a good thing to be informed about both sides of an issue so we can all have intelligent discussion instead of the angry partisan arguments I find here.

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-- actually, there's dancing all over the world, especially in Iraq.

Joe,

If you don't want the Democrats to keep killing for oil, tell every driver in America to stop driving.

And don't blame the car manufacturers (typical Demo ploy), but instead the American public who wanted bigger and bigger vehicles.

So, the next time you see one person driving a Ford Explorer or Chevy Suburban - that't why it's about the oil.

jj

"The will of the mass of the people must prevail."
--Alcuin (735-804),in a letter to Charlemagne

This is how I commented in my blog on October 8,2004:
"Many of us seem to be in denial, offering arguments that Bush does not have a "mandate". Face it. He has, he has. Backed by a Congress with larger majorities in both houses, he will continue to move the nation to the right. His core support groups expect it of him, and he has proven beyond any doubt his tenacity to stick to his positions. Be prepared for social and environmental issues to suffer set backs on the domestic front."

How good it feels to see hubris vanquished! The excesses of the Bush Administration will plague us for years but today is for rejoicing.

"The Democrats have offered nothing over the last 14 years and you think they are the answer now? God help us as we continue to slide into moral bankruptcy."

Dave, your idiocy is remarkable. Do you mean the slide into moral bankruptcy lead by right-wing evangelist Rev. Ted Haggard, or pedophile/ex-politico Rep. Mark Foley? Or maybe you're referring to ex-Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio and his dealings with Jack Abranoff? Or have you just forgotten those individuals?

Yes, if it wasn't for the Republican party and their "compassionate", caring ways over the past 14 years, where would we be? (Insert eye-roll here)

And as far as the fact that Democrats have offered nothing over the last 14 years, given the fact that Congress was controlled by the Republican party during that time, is that really a valid point you're making? Maybe in your little mind it is, but not in the minds of the majority of our country.

I spent yesterday as a Democrat Poll Watcher in a Republican county. After the polls closed and I got my copy of the vote count out of the machines I was heartened to see candidates from both parties winning their contests in those precincts. It's nice to know not everyone swallowed the special kool-aid and voted a straight party ticket. I think a balance of power benfits everyone.

The disappointing part comes from the races where the candidate who used the most negative ads prevailed. That will only encourage more in future elections.

Now let's work on limits on vacation time for our elected officials. After all, they work for us, and not many of us get that much vacation time without many years on the job.

I see all the angry Democrats are celebrating. Based on all the name calling and calls for impeachment, the chant of the last 6 years for bipartisanship is over. Lets push our social agenda in their faces. I would guess Peter Roskam will lose in 2 years, since the Democratic congress will give amnesty to their new voter base of Hispanics which will cover the 2000 votes needed to win there.

There should be new names for our neo-con friends on the Swamp. What do you say we call the first two John D-Feated and Pauloser?

It just rolls off my tongue.

C. Morris Now that Rummy has resigned, and Bush's policies reputed, I thought I'd post the lyrics of another Bush(that would be Kate), in honor of the deposed Secretary of Defense: "Army Dreamers" "Army Dreamers" "B.F.P.O." Army dreamers "Mammy's hero." "B.F.P.O." "Mammy's hero." Our little army boy Is coming home from B.F.P.O. I've a bunch of purple flowers To decorate a mammy's hero Mourning is the aerodrome, The weather warmer, he is colder Four men in uniform To carry home my little soldier. "What could he do? Should have been a rock star." But he didn't have the money for a guitar. "What could he do? Should have been a politician." But he never had a proper education. "What could he do? Should have been a father." But he never even made it to his twenties. What a waste--Army dreamers. Ooh, what a waste of--Army dreamers. Tears o'er a tin box Oh, Jesus Christ, he wasn't to know, Like a chicken with a fox, He couldn't win the war with ego. Give the kid the pick of pips, and give him all your stripes and ribbons. Now he's sitting in his hole, He might as well have buttons and bows. "What could he do? Should have been a rock star" (rest of chorus) Army dreamers, oh... ("B.F.P.O.") Did-n-did-n-did-n-dum Army dreamers. Did-n-did-n-did-n-dum... ("Mammy's hero."), ("B.F.P.O.") No harm heroes. ("Mammy's hero."), ("B.F.P.O.") Army dreamers. ("Mammy's hero.") ("B.F.P.O.") No harm heroes. ["B.F.P.O.":British Forces Posted Overseas] copyrite 1980 Kate Bush Music/EMI Music Publ. Ltd.

Bruce - why don't go go party with the terrorists you love so much! Or just shut up and stick it sideways. Your good ole boys were not doing anything - I'm proud of America today, the people actually spoke!

You do remember the people, Bruce? The whole 'majority rules' thingy? That whole separation of church and state and all that silly Bill of Rights stuff?

We've dealt with the Repugs being in control since 1994 and voted for a change, fair and square. Deal with it.

And, by the way, you're acting awfully unpatriotic, all of a sudden, aren't you, laughing boy?

Impeachment is clearly warranted but not feasible with Cheney sitting as VP. Perhaps we should consider the 25th amendment to remove W for his total incompetence, then impeach Cheney the real architect of this quagmire. Rummy's proposed replacement, Bobby Gates, is just another along with Jimmy Baker from the stable of Bush Family consiglieri similar to the Corleones. Just call it the Texas Mafia. You can trust Lee Hamilton.

Having been born and raised in Chicago through the formative years (age 25), but now living in the Liberal State of Washington (and loving it), I still follow what goes on in the Homeland. I am heartened by the fact that Illinois went even more Blue during this election, for it is the center of the country and 'if it plays in Peoria', it will play everywhere else as well. This bodes well for our country's future, for the pendulum had swung far to much to the Right and given the excesses in Power we have borne witness to in the last six years, it is finally swinging back. The future is so bright I have to wear shades (and tear up my Immigration Application to Canada). Long live the Republic!

""But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow "

Just remember that line the most C. Morris."

JD,

OK.
You know how I feel about Him.

The Democrats won control of Congress last night, yet the sun still came up this morning. I still put my pants on the same way and still went to my job. The sun is setting in the west tonight as I write this, just like always. We will still go about our daily business tomorrow as we did today.
It does not matter which party is in control, or who is President. The truth is that we, the voters are in control of Congress. That was proven yesterday, just as it was proven in 1994, and in countless other years where control of one house or the other has shifted from one party to another. That is the great thing about this country. When we want change, we have the power to affect change. If this Congress does nothing, it will be changed out again in two years, four, six or eight.
I hope all of you commenting here voted yesterday, because if you did not, your opinion does not count. I also hope that all of you made thoughtful informed decisions like I did, and simply did not get sucked in to party rhetoric. I have lived happily in this country while both Rebublicans and Democrats controlled Congress and frankly, there is little difference. Names change, rhetoric changes, but our system of checks and balances works, preventing quantum shifts in policy that would have a broad effect on the people. That is why nothing will change with this Congress. The sun will come up in the same place and will set in two years with the same result.

Andrea,

On Iraq, some feared that Democrats will force a too-rapid retreat, leaving that country and the region in chaos. Others said they doubted the turnover in Congressional power would have a dramatic impact on Iraq policy any time soon, largely because the Democrats have yet to define the specifics of the course they want to take.

jj

Didn't Bush "earn" an Ivy League MBA? If he'd been paying attention in class, he might have learned that you don't SPEND capital, you INVEST IT. Even I know that, and I was an humanities major. Instead of investing in projects and missions that might pay off in the long run, he launched a series of policies intended to solidify his short term political standing and his presidential legacy. The result has been a horrendous WASTE of money, prestige, and human life.

Not only has Bush spent his political capital on pointless schemes (privatizing Social Security) and various unneeded initiatives that pandered to his "base," he has wasted billions and billions of borrowed dollars (that will be paid back by your children's children's children's taxes), and he has frittered away our national prestige and moral standing in the world.

No matter what the motivations, invading Iraq was an insane gamble. The payoff so far has $100 billion (and counting) down a rathole , a massively hostile world opinion (getting more hostile by the week), and over 100, 000 dead (with fresh bodies piling up even as I write).

Now that he's made a scapegoat out of the Secretary of Scapegoating (aka Rumsfeld), will there ever be an accounting of Bush's profligate ways? Congressional hearings on all these matters would be a good initial investment in that direction.

Meanwhile, we need to marshall as much intellectual capital and creativity as we can to achieve these goals: 1) free ourselves from dependence on foreign energy, 2) learn how to protect our borders and our national interests without resorting to unprovoked World War II style military operations, 3) encourage savings, self-employment opportunities, and productivity; develop and support home-grown industries; expand fair and mutually beneficial global trade; fix the problem of unfunded liabilities in pensions and entitlement programs; 4) further the first three goals through targeted investments in education, with an emphasis on choice, creativity, motivation, and early learning; 5) inspire a renewed sense of American ideals combined with real world pragmatism, instead of partisan ideology.

Sound dull? It could be incredibly exciting. If the proper controls are in place and if government can turn over some of its inefficient functions to the private sector (see New Zealand), we should thrive. That is, as long as our leaders, unlike Bush, refuse to get into risky adventures guaranteed to WASTE our assets and endanger us even more.

GWB has been morally bankrupt since he avoided serving in Vietnam. His political bankruptcy is just the icing on the cake.

Thanks, America, for waking up and helping turn the country back into a democracy for, of, and by the people.

Expect the beloved belligerent boob to get even worse, just consider his words today at the post-election press conference:

“Amid this time of change, I have a message for those on the front lines: To our enemies, do not be joyful. Do not confuse the workings of our democracy with a lack of will. Our nation is committed to bringing you to justice. Liberty and democracy are the source of America's strength, and liberty and democracy will lift up the hopes and desires of those you are trying to destroy.
To the people of Iraq: Do not be fearful.
As you take the difficult steps toward democracy and peace, America's going to stand with you. We know you want a better way of life, and now is the time to seize it.
To our brave men and women in uniform: Don't be doubtful.
America will always support you.”

Is that the way you outreach to people, by bashing them again and insinuating they are weak?

Facts are stubborn things. Dems will insist on hearings in a # of fields, not just on Iraq. The investigations will evence facts that clearly show high crimes& misdemenors. Those facts will drive public opinion. Look for Bush to act more and more desperate to save his legacy - perhaps a pre-emptive attack on Iran. Little does he realize that EVERYONE now knows that the emperor has no clothes. Bush will face impeachment.

Now's the time to perpwalk the entire Bush crime family to the Hague.

Ah" Regime change at last.

I can't believe what I'm reading on political blogs nowadays. Calls for impeachment now that we have a healthy dose of right in the government, calls for armaggeddon for the same reason. Seriously, with all the name calling that is totally unwonted, I feel like I should be going back to third grade. I would love to see some level-headed political discussion from people who understand both sides of an issue, rather than radicals on both sides reiterating things their party has been saying for who-knows how long. Just remember that next time you decide to post on one of these forums, because I think you'll see many more beneficial comments that will make for a much more intelligent discussion.

Bridges to nowhere in Alaska $250 million
Halliburton no-bid contract $10 Billion
Iraq War (so far) $341 Billion

Democratic majority in Congress - Priceless

What idiot's on this blog