From Bill Schorr

This sums it up for me. Between the anti-whistle blower ruling from the Supreme Court to the attempted cover-up of the most recent massacre in Iraq to the looming war against in Iran to the debt to the current prices of gas Bush the Worst has managed to all but break this great nation.

What is Bush doing to fix all of this? He is backing the Marriage amendment. Who the F*** cares? The state of the nation is the worst it has been in decades and Bush is wasting time on trying to stop a minority of Americans from being happy?

Will someone please impeach this idiot?!?

Bush Compares Himself to a Real American President - What a Joke

It gets worse. At the commencement exercises at West Point the other day Bush compared himself to Truman. What a joke. Not only was Truman a liberal and decent human, a man and mason who loved people and actually cared about America (rather than his personal agendas).

Bush the Worst went as far as saying "This is only the beginning," he said. "The message has spread from Damascus to Tehran that the future belongs to freedom, and we will not rest until the promise of liberty reaches every people in every nation."

He even went as far as saying "By the actions he (Truman) took, the institutions he built, the alliances he forged and the doctrines he set down, President Truman laid the foundation for America's victory in the Cold War," Bush said.

"Today, at the start of a new century, we are again engaged in a war unlike any our nation has fought before. And like Americans in Truman's day, we are laying the foundations of victory," the president said.

Again, Truman was a man and mason who cared about people and America. Truman realized the war in Japan could have been dragged on for years but opted for quick and decisive action to end it. Had Bush been in the same situation he would no doubt have made illegal and back alley deals (like has been doing now) with the military industry complex companies to insure that profits will be made.

Any and all Democrats who read this should be as offended as I am by this speech.

More highlights (or should I say low lights) can be found here.

If you are offended, pass this along to your fellow Democrats and Democrat elected officials.

When Will the Tyranny of the Bush Administration Stop?

The other day a Congressman's office was raided by the FBI, an arm of the Executive branch of the government (aka, King Bush's minions.) This is the first time in the history of the United States a Congressman's office was raided. If this is not a wake up call for America and even the GOP, I do not know what could possibly qualify as such. Thankfully, both sides are outraged by what can only be called a gross breach of Constitutional powers.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R) weighed in, following what colleagues describe as angry phone calls from his staff to the Justice Department. "The Founding Fathers were very careful to establish in the Constitution a separation of powers to protect Americans against the tyranny of any one branch of government. They were particularly concerned about limiting the power of the Executive Branch," he said in a statement.

"Insofar as I am aware, since the founding of our Republic 219 years ago, the Justice Department has never found it necessary to do what it did Saturday night, crossing this Separation of Powers line, in order to successfully prosecute corruption by members of Congress," he added, noting especially the need to protect "certain legislative branch documents." "Nothing I have learned in the last 48 hours leads me to believe that there was any necessity to change the precedent established over those 219 years.

This is from the Speaker of the House, the leading GOP in Congress. Needless to say, my fellow Democrats are saying things much stronger than that. All I can do from here is reiterate that Bush is out of control and needs to be stopped. Please, use the links to the right and contact your Senators and Congresspersons and let them know you think enough is enough and that it is time to impeach the fool in the White House while they still have the right to do so.

Good-Bye Lloyd

We Dems lost a good man the other day... Lloyd Benson, a soft-spoken man from Texas who served this nation as a WW2 aviator who flew over 50 bomber missions over Europe, county judge, US Representative, Senator and Secretary of the Treasury.

As a former Texan I was very proud of Sen. Benson during the famous VP debate with Dan “how do you spell potato” Quail.

Good-bye and God Speed!

Religious Absolutism

The 1st Amendment of the US Constitution states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion…" Yet under the Bush administration we see how the "Christian Right", which is neither, has a strangle hold on the President's agenda. A recent story from Reuters details former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s thoughts on this issue.

"I worked for two presidents who were men of faith, and they did not make their religious views part of American policy," she said, referring to Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, both Democrats and Christians.

"President Bush's certitude about what he believes in, and the division between good and evil, is, I think, different," said Albright, who has just published a book on religion and world affairs. "The absolute truth is what makes Bush so worrying to some of us."

I believe that any from of absolutism is unhealthy. Whenever one refuses to see or consider that they may be wrong, or at the very least not 100% correct on something dialog ends. Given Bush’s seemingly messianic visions of what he thinks the Middle East should be is it any wonder the mess it is. I see very little difference between Bush’s crusade against the Arab world and those of the medieval crusaders. Both were told by Christian leaders and believed it was their destiny and legacy to save the Middle East from itself. Both sacrificed resources, human and material to the point of near destruction of their governments. Both will go down in history as barbarous.

It has been said that those who do not study and learn from history are condemned to repeat its mistakes. Napoleon attempted to invade Russia in the winter and lost his army. Hitler followed in Napoleon's footsteps and received the same fate. Bush is on the same path. Many have tried to conquer the Middle East to only come home in failure. Perhaps if Bush paid more attention to history rather than the lies of the "Christian Right" he you and I would not be in this mess. Then again, perhaps he is as ignorant and foolish as many critics make him out to be.