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My Current Mood: HappyI'm sorry to bring this up again, but I just can't help it.
The events of 9/11 gave President Bush the perfect excuse for a power grab, the likes of which this country has never seen before...
-Illegal Wars
-The NSA Domestic Spying Program
-Illegal trolling through financial and telephone records (without the permission or knowledge of private citizens)
-Changing the War Crimes Act and the Geneva Conventions
-Establishing secret prisons in Eastern Europe
-Prisoner Abuse
-Torture
-Allowing the government to hold people indefinately with no right to a court hearing.
We can also add to the list...
-Repeated atempts to oppress gay people with Constitutional Amendments
-Failed Border Security
-Trashing the credibility of our country and isolating us from the rest of the world like never before.
Now President Bush wants to drag the rest of the world down with us.
This is just unbelievable.
How can we, as Americans, possibly feel proud of ourselves or our country?
And after ALL OF THAT, the Republicans are still attempting to scare us by using "Be Afraid...Very Afraid of Terrorism" tactics in their election ads. Does anyone else see something wrong with this?
Oh yes, President Bush has been very busy...but our Congress hasn't.
They're on vacation again. Our Congressmen and women make, on average, over $165,000.00 per year, and yet they have worked less than 90 days this entire year. What have they done this year? Name one substantial non pork bill they passed this year. How about last year? Nothing.
And now they're on vacation again. After returning back to "work" from a month long Labor Day vacation, the Capitol building is empty again. This time they are busy trying to get re-elected. They look us in the eye and they lie to us day after day, month after month, and year after year.
I hope you all have your voter cards ready. This will probably be the most important mid-term election in the history of our country.
Let's vote them ALL out of office. We can't do anything about President Bush, but we can do something about Congress. I think we should vote against every incumbent on the ballot. Every single one of them. I think we should send a message to these politicians - they have one term to get it right, or they're out. Period.
Let's do some serious house cleaning on November 7, 2006. It's time to take out the trash.
Lies.
Scandals.
Scams.
Deceit.
Corruption.
... and a bunch of dumb ass pork bills.
That's our government.
I'm sick of this shit.
We're in trouble, folks. We're in really big trouble. I hope you all realize this.
Any American who isn't absolutely and totally appalled, disgusted and horrified at what is going on in this country and the world hasn't been paying attention at all.
We have a slight chance of saving ourselves on November 7th...if we can trust our electronic voting machines, that is.
Edit: Spelling errors suckity suck suck suck.