Bush Death Watch: Has the unbias liberal press ever printed the same of a dem prez?

RESOUNDINGLY NO!

http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/

It's just that kind of feeling, that sense of hesitant, embryonic optimism,

the sense that says, oh my God, we as a culture and a smash-mouthed,

war-hammered society really are fast approaching something possibly,

potentially, heart-achingly new and different and - because it cannot get

any worse - just a little bit better.

Here is my suggestion: Mark your calendars, set your watch, program a

celebratory ringtone well in advance, because the countdown has officially

begun.

It is now less than one calendar year until the next presidential election.

It is less than one year until the country finally takes a deep breath and

flexes its atrophied muscles and opens its bloody, Cheney-punched mouth and

lets it be known to the world, to the universe, to its own numb and dejected

soul just exactly how unwell it has felt, how much pain has raked its heart,

lo, these past seven (eight, by then) years, by ushering in an entirely new

political era, as we all exhale a massive sigh of long overdue relief that -

praise Jesus, Allah, Buddha and the devil all at once - the long national

nightmare of George W. Bush is finally over.

It is now safe to imagine. It is now becoming increasingly easy to actually

dare to think that, in less than one year's time, Dubya will begin packing

his bags, jamming into his Spongebob duffel his map of the world coloring

book, English-to-English translation dictionaries, mangled pocket edition of

the U.S. Constitution, Bibleman action figure set and a "Mission

Accomplished!" sweatshirt, and heading off to face his destiny as one of the

bleakest, most morally repellent chapters in all of American history.

You think maybe it's too soon? Too early to let the tingle of positivism and

hope take hold? Far from it. After all, the signs of decay and utter GOP

desperation keep pouring in. For example, it has now been officially

recorded in history what everyone already knows: Bush is nearly exactly as

unpopular as Richard Nixon was at his lowest point, and no president in

history has had as long a streak at the bottom of the job-approval rankings

as Dubya. Heckuva job, Bushie!

What's more, the glorious collapse of the evangelical Christian right

marches on apace, as Pat Robertson, now a dejected, lonely widower after the

death of secret boy-toy husband Jerry Falwell, has officially endorsed

pro-choice, pro-gay, thrice-married, massively unbalanced moral pit bull

Rudy Giuliani for president, which is a bit like a militant vegan endorsing

Hot Dog on a Stick for the title of Lord of the Food Court. Desperate times

indeed.

But wait, it gets better. While it's easy to focus on Shrub and Cheney and

to gleefully, achingly imagine their dreary march out of office on that

happy day, it is also vital and heartwarming to note that this time next

year will also mark the demise of an entire army of toxic leaders, federal

department heads, gay-bashing appointees and misogynist directors of every

stripe and scandal and spittle, a simply huge array of right-wing Bushies

who are still entrenched in all manner of powerful federal bureaus and

organizations and policy-making bodies.

It's true. Despite how a huge hunk of hideous GOP policymakers lost their

seats during the last congressional election, plenty more appointees are

still around to poison the well. From Kevin Martin, the lackey who oversees

the FCC, to noxious Idahoan and rabid anti-environmentalist Dick Kempthorne

of the Department of the Interior, to anti-choice Republican Mormon

knucklehead charity scammer and Department of Health and Human Services

overseer Mike Leavitt, and on and on - in a year, all on their way out.

Oh, and one more deserves special attention. Because one year from now will

also be the glorious political end of one Dr. David W. Hager, the rabid

evangelical Christian gynecologist (I know, so wrong) who currently advises

the FDA on women's health issues and who was largely responsible for

delaying the approval of Plan B, opposed RU-486, is in fact against all

contraception, stem-cell research, premarital sex, and (quite naturally)

women's choice, and whose own ex-wife claims he anally raped her, over and

over again, in her sleep.

Intelligent women nationwide still shudder that this man is allowed anywhere

near a living vagina, much less permitted to touch and probe and offer

advice. But there is one noteworthy aspect to Hager; he is the perfect

incarnation of the Christian right's view of women as subordinate,

lesser-intelligent sluts who cannot control their own bodies and therefore

need men, God, and the government to do it for them. Hager is a deep shame

to the male gender, and his return to the private practice of ruining the

sex lives of unfortunate women in Kentucky cannot come soon enough.

But why write this column now, so far in advance of Bush's limp-tailed

departure? Simple enough: Because it will take a full year to get ready.

It will take every month and every week and every single day from the moment

you read this until November 2008 to compile, to gather, to list all the

names and all the horrors and all the deeply entrenched policies that are

still clawing at the face of America as a result of Bush's reign, to fully

get your mind around just how deep is the disease and how widely it has

spread, so we may begin to excise the policies one by one like the malignant

tumors they so very much are.

What, too strong? Not even close. Go read up on Hager, and get back to me.

Ah, but perhaps you are one of the jaded ones, the non-believers, that

certain type of political bitterball who says, oh please, what does it

matter, they're all criminals and cretins and powermongers anyway, no matter

which party or president they work for? Get rid of BushCo and a new slew of

cronies and cretins take their place, and who can tell the difference?

To which I say, well, yes. But also, no. Sure, the system is corrupt and

lopsided and full of backstabbing and backslapping and backroom deal-making.

So what? Has been since the first cavemen voted to see who gets to run the

mammoth hunt.

Truth is, it's just far too easy to let the ennui wash over and not give a

damn, to lump all politics into a phlegmball of nasty negativity and be done

with it, thus entirely disregarding the efficacious issues, the things that

truly effect change and affect lives and improve or degrade the health of

the planet. Outrage fatigue is simply unacceptable. Intellectual apathy is

the refuge of the lazy and the spiritually malnourished. Do not let it

happen to you.

Now is the time. The coming year will slide by rather quickly and the

feeling of urgent change and upheaval will only build and it doesn't really

matter if it's Hillary or Obama or Edwards leading the shift, because no

matter who gets the nod, they will require - from me, from you, from anyone

who professes to care - a roiling tidal wave of progressive momentum behind

them to help them cleanse and haul away the overwhelming mountain of moral

fecal matter Bush has left behind.

Mark your calendar. Set your ringtone. Take a deep breath, feel the wave

build, and then dive the hell in. Right now, it's the only option that

really matters.

MioMyo wrote:

> RESOUNDINGLY NO!

Well, in their defense, no Democratic president has been as big a

world-wide, four star fuck-up as our current coward-in-chief...

Miles "Perspective" Long

>

> http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/

>

> It's just that kind of feeling, that sense of hesitant, embryonic optimism,

> the sense that says, oh my God, we as a culture and a smash-mouthed,

> war-hammered society really are fast approaching something possibly,

> potentially, heart-achingly new and different and - because it cannot get

> any worse - just a little bit better.

> Here is my suggestion: Mark your calendars, set your watch, program a

> celebratory ringtone well in advance, because the countdown has officially

> begun.

>

> It is now less than one calendar year until the next presidential election.

> It is less than one year until the country finally takes a deep breath and

> flexes its atrophied muscles and opens its bloody, Cheney-punched mouth and

> lets it be known to the world, to the universe, to its own numb and dejected

> soul just exactly how unwell it has felt, how much pain has raked its heart,

> lo, these past seven (eight, by then) years, by ushering in an entirely new

> political era, as we all exhale a massive sigh of long overdue relief that -

> praise Jesus, Allah, Buddha and the devil all at once - the long national

> nightmare of George W. Bush is finally over.

>

> It is now safe to imagine. It is now becoming increasingly easy to actually

> dare to think that, in less than one year's time, Dubya will begin packing

> his bags, jamming into his Spongebob duffel his map of the world coloring

> book, English-to-English translation dictionaries, mangled pocket edition of

> the U.S. Constitution, Bibleman action figure set and a "Mission

> Accomplished!" sweatshirt, and heading off to face his destiny as one of the

> bleakest, most morally repellent chapters in all of American history.

>

> You think maybe it's too soon? Too early to let the tingle of positivism and

> hope take hold? Far from it. After all, the signs of decay and utter GOP

> desperation keep pouring in. For example, it has now been officially

> recorded in history what everyone already knows: Bush is nearly exactly as

> unpopular as Richard Nixon was at his lowest point, and no president in

> history has had as long a streak at the bottom of the job-approval rankings

> as Dubya. Heckuva job, Bushie!

>

> What's more, the glorious collapse of the evangelical Christian right

> marches on apace, as Pat Robertson, now a dejected, lonely widower after the

> death of secret boy-toy husband Jerry Falwell, has officially endorsed

> pro-choice, pro-gay, thrice-married, massively unbalanced moral pit bull

> Rudy Giuliani for president, which is a bit like a militant vegan endorsing

> Hot Dog on a Stick for the title of Lord of the Food Court. Desperate times

> indeed.

>

> But wait, it gets better. While it's easy to focus on Shrub and Cheney and

> to gleefully, achingly imagine their dreary march out of office on that

> happy day, it is also vital and heartwarming to note that this time next

> year will also mark the demise of an entire army of toxic leaders, federal

> department heads, gay-bashing appointees and misogynist directors of every

> stripe and scandal and spittle, a simply huge array of right-wing Bushies

> who are still entrenched in all manner of powerful federal bureaus and

> organizations and policy-making bodies.

>

> It's true. Despite how a huge hunk of hideous GOP policymakers lost their

> seats during the last congressional election, plenty more appointees are

> still around to poison the well. From Kevin Martin, the lackey who oversees

> the FCC, to noxious Idahoan and rabid anti-environmentalist Dick Kempthorne

> of the Department of the Interior, to anti-choice Republican Mormon

> knucklehead charity scammer and Department of Health and Human Services

> overseer Mike Leavitt, and on and on - in a year, all on their way out.

>

> Oh, and one more deserves special attention. Because one year from now will

> also be the glorious political end of one Dr. David W. Hager, the rabid

> evangelical Christian gynecologist (I know, so wrong) who currently advises

> the FDA on women's health issues and who was largely responsible for

> delaying the approval of Plan B, opposed RU-486, is in fact against all

> contraception, stem-cell research, premarital sex, and (quite naturally)

> women's choice, and whose own ex-wife claims he anally raped her, over and

> over again, in her sleep.

>

> Intelligent women nationwide still shudder that this man is allowed anywhere

> near a living vagina, much less permitted to touch and probe and offer

> advice. But there is one noteworthy aspect to Hager; he is the perfect

> incarnation of the Christian right's view of women as subordinate,

> lesser-intelligent sluts who cannot control their own bodies and therefore

> need men, God, and the government to do it for them. Hager is a deep shame

> to the male gender, and his return to the private practice of ruining the

> sex lives of unfortunate women in Kentucky cannot come soon enough.

>

> But why write this column now, so far in advance of Bush's limp-tailed

> departure? Simple enough: Because it will take a full year to get ready.

>

> It will take every month and every week and every single day from the moment

> you read this until November 2008 to compile, to gather, to list all the

> names and all the horrors and all the deeply entrenched policies that are

> still clawing at the face of America as a result of Bush's reign, to fully

> get your mind around just how deep is the disease and how widely it has

> spread, so we may begin to excise the policies one by one like the malignant

> tumors they so very much are.

>

> What, too strong? Not even close. Go read up on Hager, and get back to me.

>

> Ah, but perhaps you are one of the jaded ones, the non-believers, that

> certain type of political bitterball who says, oh please, what does it

> matter, they're all criminals and cretins and powermongers anyway, no matter

> which party or president they work for? Get rid of BushCo and a new slew of

> cronies and cretins take their place, and who can tell the difference?

>

> To which I say, well, yes. But also, no. Sure, the system is corrupt and

> lopsided and full of backstabbing and backslapping and backroom deal-making.

> So what? Has been since the first cavemen voted to see who gets to run the

> mammoth hunt.

>

> Truth is, it's just far too easy to let the ennui wash over and not give a

> damn, to lump all politics into a phlegmball of nasty negativity and be done

> with it, thus entirely disregarding the efficacious issues, the things that

> truly effect change and affect lives and improve or degrade the health of

> the planet. Outrage fatigue is simply unacceptable. Intellectual apathy is

> the refuge of the lazy and the spiritually malnourished. Do not let it

> happen to you.

>

> Now is the time. The coming year will slide by rather quickly and the

> feeling of urgent change and upheaval will only build and it doesn't really

> matter if it's Hillary or Obama or Edwards leading the shift, because no

> matter who gets the nod, they will require - from me, from you, from anyone

> who professes to care - a roiling tidal wave of progressive momentum behind

> them to help them cleanse and haul away the overwhelming mountain of moral

> fecal matter Bush has left behind.

>

> Mark your calendar. Set your ringtone. Take a deep breath, feel the wave

> build, and then dive the hell in. Right now, it's the only option that

> really matters.

>

>

>

>

"MioMyo" <USA_Patriot@Somewhere.com> wrote in message

news:Rus%i.20966$Pv2.16090@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net...

> RESOUNDINGLY NO!

>

> http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/

Great op-ed OPINION piece. You do understand that, right Yoyo? It's not

like the unending stream of righwing propaganda that fills the editorials

and newspages and airwaves and cable channels. The way the mainstream

press savaged Bill Clinton over nothing was unprecedented. Then they

rolled over and played lapdog to Cheney/Bush until the failure of the

Federal government to respond to Katrina -- and the growing realization that

Iraq was an unmitigated disaster -- cause the tide to turn.

But for those who missed it, please enjoy this celebration of how we are

moving in the final year of one of the worst administrations EVER.

>

> It's just that kind of feeling, that sense of hesitant, embryonic

optimism,

> the sense that says, oh my God, we as a culture and a smash-mouthed,

> war-hammered society really are fast approaching something possibly,

> potentially, heart-achingly new and different and - because it cannot get

> any worse - just a little bit better.

> Here is my suggestion: Mark your calendars, set your watch, program a

> celebratory ringtone well in advance, because the countdown has officially

> begun.

>

> It is now less than one calendar year until the next presidential

election.

> It is less than one year until the country finally takes a deep breath and

> flexes its atrophied muscles and opens its bloody, Cheney-punched mouth

and

> lets it be known to the world, to the universe, to its own numb and

dejected

> soul just exactly how unwell it has felt, how much pain has raked its

heart,

> lo, these past seven (eight, by then) years, by ushering in an entirely

new

> political era, as we all exhale a massive sigh of long overdue relief

that -

> praise Jesus, Allah, Buddha and the devil all at once - the long national

> nightmare of George W. Bush is finally over.

>

> It is now safe to imagine. It is now becoming increasingly easy to

actually

> dare to think that, in less than one year's time, Dubya will begin packing

> his bags, jamming into his Spongebob duffel his map of the world coloring

> book, English-to-English translation dictionaries, mangled pocket edition

of

> the U.S. Constitution, Bibleman action figure set and a "Mission

> Accomplished!" sweatshirt, and heading off to face his destiny as one of

the

> bleakest, most morally repellent chapters in all of American history.

>

> You think maybe it's too soon? Too early to let the tingle of positivism

and

> hope take hold? Far from it. After all, the signs of decay and utter GOP

> desperation keep pouring in. For example, it has now been officially

> recorded in history what everyone already knows: Bush is nearly exactly as

> unpopular as Richard Nixon was at his lowest point, and no president in

> history has had as long a streak at the bottom of the job-approval

rankings

> as Dubya. Heckuva job, Bushie!

>

> What's more, the glorious collapse of the evangelical Christian right

> marches on apace, as Pat Robertson, now a dejected, lonely widower after

the

> death of secret boy-toy husband Jerry Falwell, has officially endorsed

> pro-choice, pro-gay, thrice-married, massively unbalanced moral pit bull

> Rudy Giuliani for president, which is a bit like a militant vegan

endorsing

> Hot Dog on a Stick for the title of Lord of the Food Court. Desperate

times

> indeed.

>

> But wait, it gets better. While it's easy to focus on Shrub and Cheney and

> to gleefully, achingly imagine their dreary march out of office on that

> happy day, it is also vital and heartwarming to note that this time next

> year will also mark the demise of an entire army of toxic leaders, federal

> department heads, gay-bashing appointees and misogynist directors of every

> stripe and scandal and spittle, a simply huge array of right-wing Bushies

> who are still entrenched in all manner of powerful federal bureaus and

> organizations and policy-making bodies.

>

> It's true. Despite how a huge hunk of hideous GOP policymakers lost their

> seats during the last congressional election, plenty more appointees are

> still around to poison the well. From Kevin Martin, the lackey who

oversees

> the FCC, to noxious Idahoan and rabid anti-environmentalist Dick

Kempthorne

> of the Department of the Interior, to anti-choice Republican Mormon

> knucklehead charity scammer and Department of Health and Human Services

> overseer Mike Leavitt, and on and on - in a year, all on their way out.

>

> Oh, and one more deserves special attention. Because one year from now

will

> also be the glorious political end of one Dr. David W. Hager, the rabid

> evangelical Christian gynecologist (I know, so wrong) who currently

advises

> the FDA on women's health issues and who was largely responsible for

> delaying the approval of Plan B, opposed RU-486, is in fact against all

> contraception, stem-cell research, premarital sex, and (quite naturally)

> women's choice, and whose own ex-wife claims he anally raped her, over and

> over again, in her sleep.

>

> Intelligent women nationwide still shudder that this man is allowed

anywhere

> near a living vagina, much less permitted to touch and probe and offer

> advice. But there is one noteworthy aspect to Hager; he is the perfect

> incarnation of the Christian right's view of women as subordinate,

> lesser-intelligent sluts who cannot control their own bodies and therefore

> need men, God, and the government to do it for them. Hager is a deep shame

> to the male gender, and his return to the private practice of ruining the

> sex lives of unfortunate women in Kentucky cannot come soon enough.

>

> But why write this column now, so far in advance of Bush's limp-tailed

> departure? Simple enough: Because it will take a full year to get ready.

>

> It will take every month and every week and every single day from the

moment

> you read this until November 2008 to compile, to gather, to list all the

> names and all the horrors and all the deeply entrenched policies that are

> still clawing at the face of America as a result of Bush's reign, to fully

> get your mind around just how deep is the disease and how widely it has

> spread, so we may begin to excise the policies one by one like the

malignant

> tumors they so very much are.

>

> What, too strong? Not even close. Go read up on Hager, and get back to me.

>

> Ah, but perhaps you are one of the jaded ones, the non-believers, that

> certain type of political bitterball who says, oh please, what does it

> matter, they're all criminals and cretins and powermongers anyway, no

matter

> which party or president they work for? Get rid of BushCo and a new slew

of

> cronies and cretins take their place, and who can tell the difference?

>

> To which I say, well, yes. But also, no. Sure, the system is corrupt and

> lopsided and full of backstabbing and backslapping and backroom

deal-making.

> So what? Has been since the first cavemen voted to see who gets to run the

> mammoth hunt.

>

> Truth is, it's just far too easy to let the ennui wash over and not give a

> damn, to lump all politics into a phlegmball of nasty negativity and be

done

> with it, thus entirely disregarding the efficacious issues, the things

that

> truly effect change and affect lives and improve or degrade the health of

> the planet. Outrage fatigue is simply unacceptable. Intellectual apathy is

> the refuge of the lazy and the spiritually malnourished. Do not let it

> happen to you.

>

> Now is the time. The coming year will slide by rather quickly and the

> feeling of urgent change and upheaval will only build and it doesn't

really

> matter if it's Hillary or Obama or Edwards leading the shift, because no

> matter who gets the nod, they will require - from me, from you, from

anyone

> who professes to care - a roiling tidal wave of progressive momentum

behind

> them to help them cleanse and haul away the overwhelming mountain of moral

> fecal matter Bush has left behind.

>

> Mark your calendar. Set your ringtone. Take a deep breath, feel the wave

> build, and then dive the hell in. Right now, it's the only option that

> really matters.

>

>

>

>

"Dan Kimmel" <daniel.kimmel@rcn.com> wrote in message

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>

> "MioMyo" <USA_Patriot@Somewhere.com> wrote in message

> news:Rus%i.20966$Pv2.16090@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net...

> > RESOUNDINGLY NO!

> >

> > http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/

>

> Great op-ed OPINION piece. You do understand that, right Yoyo?

A KKKrooKKKed lying repugnigoon understanding something? Not in THIS

universe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Miles Long" <Miles@Home.net> wrote in message

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> MioMyo wrote:

>> RESOUNDINGLY NO!

>

> Well, in their defense, no Democratic president has been as big a

> world-wide, four star fuck-up as our current coward-in-chief...

didn't know that Jimmy peanut was a republican!

>

> Miles "Perspective" Long

>

>>

>> http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/

>>

>> It's just that kind of feeling, that sense of hesitant, embryonic

>> optimism, the sense that says, oh my God, we as a culture and a

>> smash-mouthed, war-hammered society really are fast approaching something

>> possibly, potentially, heart-achingly new and different and - because it

>> cannot get any worse - just a little bit better.

>> Here is my suggestion: Mark your calendars, set your watch, program a

>> celebratory ringtone well in advance, because the countdown has

>> officially begun.

>>

>> It is now less than one calendar year until the next presidential

>> election. It is less than one year until the country finally takes a deep

>> breath and flexes its atrophied muscles and opens its bloody,

>> Cheney-punched mouth and lets it be known to the world, to the universe,

>> to its own numb and dejected soul just exactly how unwell it has felt,

>> how much pain has raked its heart, lo, these past seven (eight, by then)

>> years, by ushering in an entirely new political era, as we all exhale a

>> massive sigh of long overdue relief that - praise Jesus, Allah, Buddha

>> and the devil all at once - the long national nightmare of George W. Bush

>> is finally over.

>>

>> It is now safe to imagine. It is now becoming increasingly easy to

>> actually dare to think that, in less than one year's time, Dubya will

>> begin packing his bags, jamming into his Spongebob duffel his map of the

>> world coloring book, English-to-English translation dictionaries, mangled

>> pocket edition of the U.S. Constitution, Bibleman action figure set and a

>> "Mission Accomplished!" sweatshirt, and heading off to face his destiny

>> as one of the bleakest, most morally repellent chapters in all of

>> American history.

>>

>> You think maybe it's too soon? Too early to let the tingle of positivism

>> and hope take hold? Far from it. After all, the signs of decay and utter

>> GOP desperation keep pouring in. For example, it has now been officially

>> recorded in history what everyone already knows: Bush is nearly exactly

>> as unpopular as Richard Nixon was at his lowest point, and no president

>> in history has had as long a streak at the bottom of the job-approval

>> rankings as Dubya. Heckuva job, Bushie!

>>

>> What's more, the glorious collapse of the evangelical Christian right

>> marches on apace, as Pat Robertson, now a dejected, lonely widower after

>> the death of secret boy-toy husband Jerry Falwell, has officially

>> endorsed pro-choice, pro-gay, thrice-married, massively unbalanced moral

>> pit bull Rudy Giuliani for president, which is a bit like a militant

>> vegan endorsing Hot Dog on a Stick for the title of Lord of the Food

>> Court. Desperate times indeed.

>>

>> But wait, it gets better. While it's easy to focus on Shrub and Cheney

>> and to gleefully, achingly imagine their dreary march out of office on

>> that happy day, it is also vital and heartwarming to note that this time

>> next year will also mark the demise of an entire army of toxic leaders,

>> federal department heads, gay-bashing appointees and misogynist directors

>> of every stripe and scandal and spittle, a simply huge array of

>> right-wing Bushies who are still entrenched in all manner of powerful

>> federal bureaus and organizations and policy-making bodies.

>>

>> It's true. Despite how a huge hunk of hideous GOP policymakers lost their

>> seats during the last congressional election, plenty more appointees are

>> still around to poison the well. From Kevin Martin, the lackey who

>> oversees the FCC, to noxious Idahoan and rabid anti-environmentalist Dick

>> Kempthorne of the Department of the Interior, to anti-choice Republican

>> Mormon knucklehead charity scammer and Department of Health and Human

>> Services overseer Mike Leavitt, and on and on - in a year, all on their

>> way out.

>>

>> Oh, and one more deserves special attention. Because one year from now

>> will also be the glorious political end of one Dr. David W. Hager, the

>> rabid evangelical Christian gynecologist (I know, so wrong) who currently

>> advises the FDA on women's health issues and who was largely responsible

>> for delaying the approval of Plan B, opposed RU-486, is in fact against

>> all contraception, stem-cell research, premarital sex, and (quite

>> naturally) women's choice, and whose own ex-wife claims he anally raped

>> her, over and over again, in her sleep.

>>

>> Intelligent women nationwide still shudder that this man is allowed

>> anywhere near a living vagina, much less permitted to touch and probe and

>> offer advice. But there is one noteworthy aspect to Hager; he is the

>> perfect incarnation of the Christian right's view of women as

>> subordinate, lesser-intelligent sluts who cannot control their own bodies

>> and therefore need men, God, and the government to do it for them. Hager

>> is a deep shame to the male gender, and his return to the private

>> practice of ruining the sex lives of unfortunate women in Kentucky cannot

>> come soon enough.

>>

>> But why write this column now, so far in advance of Bush's limp-tailed

>> departure? Simple enough: Because it will take a full year to get ready.

>>

>> It will take every month and every week and every single day from the

>> moment you read this until November 2008 to compile, to gather, to list

>> all the names and all the horrors and all the deeply entrenched policies

>> that are still clawing at the face of America as a result of Bush's

>> reign, to fully get your mind around just how deep is the disease and how

>> widely it has spread, so we may begin to excise the policies one by one

>> like the malignant tumors they so very much are.

>>

>> What, too strong? Not even close. Go read up on Hager, and get back to

>> me.

>>

>> Ah, but perhaps you are one of the jaded ones, the non-believers, that

>> certain type of political bitterball who says, oh please, what does it

>> matter, they're all criminals and cretins and powermongers anyway, no

>> matter which party or president they work for? Get rid of BushCo and a

>> new slew of cronies and cretins take their place, and who can tell the

>> difference?

>>

>> To which I say, well, yes. But also, no. Sure, the system is corrupt and

>> lopsided and full of backstabbing and backslapping and backroom

>> deal-making. So what? Has been since the first cavemen voted to see who

>> gets to run the mammoth hunt.

>>

>> Truth is, it's just far too easy to let the ennui wash over and not give

>> a damn, to lump all politics into a phlegmball of nasty negativity and be

>> done with it, thus entirely disregarding the efficacious issues, the

>> things that truly effect change and affect lives and improve or degrade

>> the health of the planet. Outrage fatigue is simply unacceptable.

>> Intellectual apathy is the refuge of the lazy and the spiritually

>> malnourished. Do not let it happen to you.

>>

>> Now is the time. The coming year will slide by rather quickly and the

>> feeling of urgent change and upheaval will only build and it doesn't

>> really matter if it's Hillary or Obama or Edwards leading the shift,

>> because no matter who gets the nod, they will require - from me, from

>> you, from anyone who professes to care - a roiling tidal wave of

>> progressive momentum behind them to help them cleanse and haul away the

>> overwhelming mountain of moral fecal matter Bush has left behind.

>>

>> Mark your calendar. Set your ringtone. Take a deep breath, feel the wave

>> build, and then dive the hell in. Right now, it's the only option that

>> really matters.

>>

>>

>>

So sez a "head stuck up move-on fringe left's ass" liberal!

"Miles Long" <Miles@Home.net> wrote in message

news:hvmdnfPQBpkU-aPanZ2dnUVZ_rrinZ2d@giganews.com...

> MioMyo wrote:

>> RESOUNDINGLY NO!

>

> Well, in their defense, no Democratic president has been as big a

> world-wide, four star fuck-up as our current coward-in-chief...

>

> Miles "Perspective" Long

>

>>

>> http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/

>>

>> It's just that kind of feeling, that sense of hesitant, embryonic

>> optimism, the sense that says, oh my God, we as a culture and a

>> smash-mouthed, war-hammered society really are fast approaching something

>> possibly, potentially, heart-achingly new and different and - because it

>> cannot get any worse - just a little bit better.

>> Here is my suggestion: Mark your calendars, set your watch, program a

>> celebratory ringtone well in advance, because the countdown has

>> officially begun.

>>

>> It is now less than one calendar year until the next presidential

>> election. It is less than one year until the country finally takes a deep

>> breath and flexes its atrophied muscles and opens its bloody,

>> Cheney-punched mouth and lets it be known to the world, to the universe,

>> to its own numb and dejected soul just exactly how unwell it has felt,

>> how much pain has raked its heart, lo, these past seven (eight, by then)

>> years, by ushering in an entirely new political era, as we all exhale a

>> massive sigh of long overdue relief that - praise Jesus, Allah, Buddha

>> and the devil all at once - the long national nightmare of George W. Bush

>> is finally over.

>>

>> It is now safe to imagine. It is now becoming increasingly easy to

>> actually dare to think that, in less than one year's time, Dubya will

>> begin packing his bags, jamming into his Spongebob duffel his map of the

>> world coloring book, English-to-English translation dictionaries, mangled

>> pocket edition of the U.S. Constitution, Bibleman action figure set and a

>> "Mission Accomplished!" sweatshirt, and heading off to face his destiny

>> as one of the bleakest, most morally repellent chapters in all of

>> American history.

>>

>> You think maybe it's too soon? Too early to let the tingle of positivism

>> and hope take hold? Far from it. After all, the signs of decay and utter

>> GOP desperation keep pouring in. For example, it has now been officially

>> recorded in history what everyone already knows: Bush is nearly exactly

>> as unpopular as Richard Nixon was at his lowest point, and no president

>> in history has had as long a streak at the bottom of the job-approval

>> rankings as Dubya. Heckuva job, Bushie!

>>

>> What's more, the glorious collapse of the evangelical Christian right

>> marches on apace, as Pat Robertson, now a dejected, lonely widower after

>> the death of secret boy-toy husband Jerry Falwell, has officially

>> endorsed pro-choice, pro-gay, thrice-married, massively unbalanced moral

>> pit bull Rudy Giuliani for president, which is a bit like a militant

>> vegan endorsing Hot Dog on a Stick for the title of Lord of the Food

>> Court. Desperate times indeed.

>>

>> But wait, it gets better. While it's easy to focus on Shrub and Cheney

>> and to gleefully, achingly imagine their dreary march out of office on

>> that happy day, it is also vital and heartwarming to note that this time

>> next year will also mark the demise of an entire army of toxic leaders,

>> federal department heads, gay-bashing appointees and misogynist directors

>> of every stripe and scandal and spittle, a simply huge array of

>> right-wing Bushies who are still entrenched in all manner of powerful

>> federal bureaus and organizations and policy-making bodies.

>>

>> It's true. Despite how a huge hunk of hideous GOP policymakers lost their

>> seats during the last congressional election, plenty more appointees are

>> still around to poison the well. From Kevin Martin, the lackey who

>> oversees the FCC, to noxious Idahoan and rabid anti-environmentalist Dick

>> Kempthorne of the Department of the Interior, to anti-choice Republican

>> Mormon knucklehead charity scammer and Department of Health and Human

>> Services overseer Mike Leavitt, and on and on - in a year, all on their

>> way out.

>>

>> Oh, and one more deserves special attention. Because one year from now

>> will also be the glorious political end of one Dr. David W. Hager, the

>> rabid evangelical Christian gynecologist (I know, so wrong) who currently

>> advises the FDA on women's health issues and who was largely responsible

>> for delaying the approval of Plan B, opposed RU-486, is in fact against

>> all contraception, stem-cell research, premarital sex, and (quite

>> naturally) women's choice, and whose own ex-wife claims he anally raped

>> her, over and over again, in her sleep.

>>

>> Intelligent women nationwide still shudder that this man is allowed

>> anywhere near a living vagina, much less permitted to touch and probe and

>> offer advice. But there is one noteworthy aspect to Hager; he is the

>> perfect incarnation of the Christian right's view of women as

>> subordinate, lesser-intelligent sluts who cannot control their own bodies

>> and therefore need men, God, and the government to do it for them. Hager

>> is a deep shame to the male gender, and his return to the private

>> practice of ruining the sex lives of unfortunate women in Kentucky cannot

>> come soon enough.

>>

>> But why write this column now, so far in advance of Bush's limp-tailed

>> departure? Simple enough: Because it will take a full year to get ready.

>>

>> It will take every month and every week and every single day from the

>> moment you read this until November 2008 to compile, to gather, to list

>> all the names and all the horrors and all the deeply entrenched policies

>> that are still clawing at the face of America as a result of Bush's

>> reign, to fully get your mind around just how deep is the disease and how

>> widely it has spread, so we may begin to excise the policies one by one

>> like the malignant tumors they so very much are.

>>

>> What, too strong? Not even close. Go read up on Hager, and get back to

>> me.

>>

>> Ah, but perhaps you are one of the jaded ones, the non-believers, that

>> certain type of political bitterball who says, oh please, what does it

>> matter, they're all criminals and cretins and powermongers anyway, no

>> matter which party or president they work for? Get rid of BushCo and a

>> new slew of cronies and cretins take their place, and who can tell the

>> difference?

>>

>> To which I say, well, yes. But also, no. Sure, the system is corrupt and

>> lopsided and full of backstabbing and backslapping and backroom

>> deal-making. So what? Has been since the first cavemen voted to see who

>> gets to run the mammoth hunt.

>>

>> Truth is, it's just far too easy to let the ennui wash over and not give

>> a damn, to lump all politics into a phlegmball of nasty negativity and be

>> done with it, thus entirely disregarding the efficacious issues, the

>> things that truly effect change and affect lives and improve or degrade

>> the health of the planet. Outrage fatigue is simply unacceptable.

>> Intellectual apathy is the refuge of the lazy and the spiritually

>> malnourished. Do not let it happen to you.

>>

>> Now is the time. The coming year will slide by rather quickly and the

>> feeling of urgent change and upheaval will only build and it doesn't

>> really matter if it's Hillary or Obama or Edwards leading the shift,

>> because no matter who gets the nod, they will require - from me, from

>> you, from anyone who professes to care - a roiling tidal wave of

>> progressive momentum behind them to help them cleanse and haul away the

>> overwhelming mountain of moral fecal matter Bush has left behind.

>>

>> Mark your calendar. Set your ringtone. Take a deep breath, feel the wave

>> build, and then dive the hell in. Right now, it's the only option that

>> really matters.

>>

>>

>>

"SyVyN11" <robhorine711@yahoo.com> wrote in message

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>

> "Miles Long" <Miles@Home.net> wrote in message

> news:hvmdnfPQBpkU-aPanZ2dnUVZ_rrinZ2d@giganews.com...

>> MioMyo wrote:

>>> RESOUNDINGLY NO!

>>

>> Well, in their defense, no Democratic president has been as big a

>> world-wide, four star fuck-up as our current coward-in-chief...

>

> didn't know that Jimmy peanut

Who's "Jimmy Peanut" - some Disney Character?

You watch too many kids cartoons - are you on welfare or something? You

write like you're retarded.

"SyVyN11" <robhorine711@yahoo.com> wrote in message

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>

> "Miles Long" <Miles@Home.net> wrote in message

> news:hvmdnfPQBpkU-aPanZ2dnUVZ_rrinZ2d@giganews.com...

>> MioMyo wrote:

>>> RESOUNDINGLY NO!

>>

>> Well, in their defense, no Democratic president has been as big a

>> world-wide, four star fuck-up as our current coward-in-chief...

>

> didn't know that Jimmy peanut was a republican!

Didn;t know that Nobel winner Carter ever approached the record low approval

rates of the theif in DC.

Larry

>>

>> Miles "Perspective" Long

>>

>>>

>>> http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/

>>>

>>> It's just that kind of feeling, that sense of hesitant, embryonic

>>> optimism, the sense that says, oh my God, we as a culture and a

>>> smash-mouthed, war-hammered society really are fast approaching

>>> something possibly, potentially, heart-achingly new and different and -

>>> because it cannot get any worse - just a little bit better.

>>> Here is my suggestion: Mark your calendars, set your watch, program a

>>> celebratory ringtone well in advance, because the countdown has

>>> officially begun.

>>>

>>> It is now less than one calendar year until the next presidential

>>> election. It is less than one year until the country finally takes a

>>> deep breath and flexes its atrophied muscles and opens its bloody,

>>> Cheney-punched mouth and lets it be known to the world, to the universe,

>>> to its own numb and dejected soul just exactly how unwell it has felt,

>>> how much pain has raked its heart, lo, these past seven (eight, by then)

>>> years, by ushering in an entirely new political era, as we all exhale a

>>> massive sigh of long overdue relief that - praise Jesus, Allah, Buddha

>>> and the devil all at once - the long national nightmare of George W.

>>> Bush is finally over.

>>>

>>> It is now safe to imagine. It is now becoming increasingly easy to

>>> actually dare to think that, in less than one year's time, Dubya will

>>> begin packing his bags, jamming into his Spongebob duffel his map of the

>>> world coloring book, English-to-English translation dictionaries,

>>> mangled pocket edition of the U.S. Constitution, Bibleman action figure

>>> set and a "Mission Accomplished!" sweatshirt, and heading off to face

>>> his destiny as one of the bleakest, most morally repellent chapters in

>>> all of American history.

>>>

>>> You think maybe it's too soon? Too early to let the tingle of positivism

>>> and hope take hold? Far from it. After all, the signs of decay and utter

>>> GOP desperation keep pouring in. For example, it has now been officially

>>> recorded in history what everyone already knows: Bush is nearly exactly

>>> as unpopular as Richard Nixon was at his lowest point, and no president

>>> in history has had as long a streak at the bottom of the job-approval

>>> rankings as Dubya. Heckuva job, Bushie!

>>>

>>> What's more, the glorious collapse of the evangelical Christian right

>>> marches on apace, as Pat Robertson, now a dejected, lonely widower after

>>> the death of secret boy-toy husband Jerry Falwell, has officially

>>> endorsed pro-choice, pro-gay, thrice-married, massively unbalanced moral

>>> pit bull Rudy Giuliani for president, which is a bit like a militant

>>> vegan endorsing Hot Dog on a Stick for the title of Lord of the Food

>>> Court. Desperate times indeed.

>>>

>>> But wait, it gets better. While it's easy to focus on Shrub and Cheney

>>> and to gleefully, achingly imagine their dreary march out of office on

>>> that happy day, it is also vital and heartwarming to note that this time

>>> next year will also mark the demise of an entire army of toxic leaders,

>>> federal department heads, gay-bashing appointees and misogynist

>>> directors of every stripe and scandal and spittle, a simply huge array

>>> of right-wing Bushies who are still entrenched in all manner of powerful

>>> federal bureaus and organizations and policy-making bodies.

>>>

>>> It's true. Despite how a huge hunk of hideous GOP policymakers lost

>>> their seats during the last congressional election, plenty more

>>> appointees are still around to poison the well. From Kevin Martin, the

>>> lackey who oversees the FCC, to noxious Idahoan and rabid

>>> anti-environmentalist Dick Kempthorne of the Department of the Interior,

>>> to anti-choice Republican Mormon knucklehead charity scammer and

>>> Department of Health and Human Services overseer Mike Leavitt, and on

>>> and on - in a year, all on their way out.

>>>

>>> Oh, and one more deserves special attention. Because one year from now

>>> will also be the glorious political end of one Dr. David W. Hager, the

>>> rabid evangelical Christian gynecologist (I know, so wrong) who

>>> currently advises the FDA on women's health issues and who was largely

>>> responsible for delaying the approval of Plan B, opposed RU-486, is in

>>> fact against all contraception, stem-cell research, premarital sex, and

>>> (quite naturally) women's choice, and whose own ex-wife claims he anally

>>> raped her, over and over again, in her sleep.

>>>

>>> Intelligent women nationwide still shudder that this man is allowed

>>> anywhere near a living vagina, much less permitted to touch and probe

>>> and offer advice. But there is one noteworthy aspect to Hager; he is the

>>> perfect incarnation of the Christian right's view of women as

>>> subordinate, lesser-intelligent sluts who cannot control their own

>>> bodies and therefore need men, God, and the government to do it for

>>> them. Hager is a deep shame to the male gender, and his return to the

>>> private practice of ruining the sex lives of unfortunate women in

>>> Kentucky cannot come soon enough.

>>>

>>> But why write this column now, so far in advance of Bush's limp-tailed

>>> departure? Simple enough: Because it will take a full year to get ready.

>>>

>>> It will take every month and every week and every single day from the

>>> moment you read this until November 2008 to compile, to gather, to list

>>> all the names and all the horrors and all the deeply entrenched policies

>>> that are still clawing at the face of America as a result of Bush's

>>> reign, to fully get your mind around just how deep is the disease and

>>> how widely it has spread, so we may begin to excise the policies one by

>>> one like the malignant tumors they so very much are.

>>>

>>> What, too strong? Not even close. Go read up on Hager, and get back to

>>> me.

>>>

>>> Ah, but perhaps you are one of the jaded ones, the non-believers, that

>>> certain type of political bitterball who says, oh please, what does it

>>> matter, they're all criminals and cretins and powermongers anyway, no

>>> matter which party or president they work for? Get rid of BushCo and a

>>> new slew of cronies and cretins take their place, and who can tell the

>>> difference?

>>>

>>> To which I say, well, yes. But also, no. Sure, the system is corrupt and

>>> lopsided and full of backstabbing and backslapping and backroom

>>> deal-making. So what? Has been since the first cavemen voted to see who

>>> gets to run the mammoth hunt.

>>>

>>> Truth is, it's just far too easy to let the ennui wash over and not give

>>> a damn, to lump all politics into a phlegmball of nasty negativity and

>>> be done with it, thus entirely disregarding the efficacious issues, the

>>> things that truly effect change and affect lives and improve or degrade

>>> the health of the planet. Outrage fatigue is simply unacceptable.

>>> Intellectual apathy is the refuge of the lazy and the spiritually

>>> malnourished. Do not let it happen to you.

>>>

>>> Now is the time. The coming year will slide by rather quickly and the

>>> feeling of urgent change and upheaval will only build and it doesn't

>>> really matter if it's Hillary or Obama or Edwards leading the shift,

>>> because no matter who gets the nod, they will require - from me, from

>>> you, from anyone who professes to care - a roiling tidal wave of

>>> progressive momentum behind them to help them cleanse and haul away the

>>> overwhelming mountain of moral fecal matter Bush has left behind.

>>>

>>> Mark your calendar. Set your ringtone. Take a deep breath, feel the wave

>>> build, and then dive the hell in. Right now, it's the only option that

>>> really matters.

>>>

>>>

>>>

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>

> "Miles Long" <Miles@Home.net> wrote in message

> news:hvmdnfPQBpkU-aPanZ2dnUVZ_rrinZ2d@giganews.com...

> > MioMyo wrote:

> >> RESOUNDINGLY NO!

> >

> > Well, in their defense, no Democratic president has been as big a

> > world-wide, four star fuck-up as our current coward-in-chief...

>

> didn't know that Jimmy peanut was a republican!

Every morning Jimmy Carter wakes up and thanks God for George Bush Jr.

Thanks to Junior, Carter is no longer the worst president of modern times.

Merely the second worst.

"Matt" <matttelles@sprynet.com> wrote in message

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> On Nov 17, 3:02 pm, "Dan Kimmel" <daniel.kim...@rcn.com> wrote:

> > "SyVyN11" <robhorine...@yahoo.com> wrote in message

> >

> > news:fhmn6d$dqv$1@news.albasani.net...

> >

> >

> >

> > > "Miles Long" <Mi...@Home.net> wrote in message

> > >news:hvmdnfPQBpkU-aPanZ2dnUVZ_rrinZ2d@giganews.com...

> > > > MioMyo wrote:

> > > >> RESOUNDINGLY NO!

> >

> > > > Well, in their defense, no Democratic president has been as big a

> > > > world-wide, four star fuck-up as our current coward-in-chief...

> >

> > > didn't know that Jimmy peanut was a republican!

> >

> > Every morning Jimmy Carter wakes up and thanks God for George Bush Jr.

> > Thanks to Junior, Carter is no longer the worst president of modern

times.

> >

> > Merely the second worst.

>

>

> Carter was an inept President, I agree. But "worst"? No way. You

> apparently didn't live through Johnson and Nixon. Or, for that matter,

> Ford. They were pretty awful.

Yep, one of the very worst, although he pales next to Jr. And I did live

through LBJ, Nixon and Ford. LBJ did some great things but was brought down

by his hubris over Vietnam. Nixon is one of the great tragic figures who

might have been a great president if he wasn't consumed with his "enemies."

Ford was a decent man who may have been in over his head. I think the

country would be better off today if Ford had beaten Carter, because I lay

the blame at Carter's feet for eight years of Ronald Reagan.

> Of course, we'd need to define "worst". Reagan did more to destroy

> this country than any President until W. Johnson did more to

> disillusion us than anyone, period. Nixon did more to destroy trust in

> our government. It is all relative.

And Reagan might never have been elected but for the total disaster of

Carter's presidency.

However there's no question that Bush Jr. is far worse than ANY of them.

"MioMyo" <USA_Patriot@Somewhere.com> wrote in message

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> So sez a "head stuck up move-on fringe left's ass" liberal!

This kind of rightarded nonsense is why you KKKrooKKKed lying repugnigoons

can't win elections.

"MioMyo" <USA_Patriot@Somewhere.com> wrote:

>Ah, but perhaps you are one of the jaded ones, the non-believers, that

>certain type of political bitterball who says, oh please, what does it

>matter, they're all criminals and cretins and powermongers anyway, no matter

>which party or president they work for? Get rid of BushCo and a new slew of

>cronies and cretins take their place, and who can tell the difference?

Yep. EXACTLY!!! These Christian fascists are what America has become.

Playing pretend that any Christian out there is any different and thus

would some how be a President who holds the nation's welfare at heart is

idiotically silly.

---

Yes, George W. Bush IS a Christian. Get over it!

Miles Long <Miles@Home.net> wrote:

>MioMyo wrote:

>> RESOUNDINGLY NO!

>Well, in their defense, no Democratic president has been as big a

>world-wide, four star fuck-up as our current coward-in-chief...

This current fascist terrorist regime is at core no different than all

that's come before. Only the SCOPE of treason and war criminality

in the Bush regime has exceeded what's gone on before.

---

Yes, George W. Bush IS a Christian. Get over it!

"Friendly Fred" <NoneOfYourFuckingBusinessPal@aol.COM> wrote in message

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> Miles Long <Miles@Home.net> wrote:

>>MioMyo wrote:

>>> RESOUNDINGLY NO!

>>Well, in their defense, no Democratic president has been as big a

>>world-wide, four star fuck-up as our current coward-in-chief...

>

> This current fascist terrorist regime is at core no different than all

> that's come before. Only the SCOPE of treason and war criminality

> in the Bush regime has exceeded what's gone on before.

You need your ass kicked in the worst way.

>

> ---

> Yes, George W. Bush IS a Christian. Get over it!

>

On Nov 17, 5:34 am, "SyVyN11" <robhorine...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> "Miles Long" <Mi...@Home.net> wrote in message

>

> news:hvmdnfPQBpkU-aPanZ2dnUVZ_rrinZ2d@giganews.com...

>

> > MioMyo wrote:

> >> RESOUNDINGLY NO!

>

> > Well, in their defense, no Democratic president has been as big a

> > world-wide, four star fuck-up as our current coward-in-chief...

>

> didn't know that Jimmy peanut was a republican!

>

>

>

> > Miles "Perspective" Long

>

> >>http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/

>

> >> It's just that kind of feeling, that sense of hesitant, embryonic

> >> optimism, the sense that says, oh my God, we as a culture and a

> >> smash-mouthed, war-hammered society really are fast approaching something

> >> possibly, potentially, heart-achingly new and different and - because it

> >> cannot get any worse - just a little bit better.

> >> Here is my suggestion: Mark your calendars, set your watch, program a

> >> celebratory ringtone well in advance, because the countdown has

> >> officially begun.

>

> >> It is now less than one calendar year until the next presidential

> >> election. It is less than one year until the country finally takes a deep

> >> breath and flexes its atrophied muscles and opens its bloody,

> >> Cheney-punched mouth and lets it be known to the world, to the universe,

> >> to its own numb and dejected soul just exactly how unwell it has felt,

> >> how much pain has raked its heart, lo, these past seven (eight, by then)

> >> years, by ushering in an entirely new political era, as we all exhale a

> >> massive sigh of long overdue relief that - praise Jesus, Allah, Buddha

> >> and the devil all at once - the long national nightmare of George W. Bush

> >> is finally over.

>

> >> It is now safe to imagine. It is now becoming increasingly easy to

> >> actually dare to think that, in less than one year's time, Dubya will

> >> begin packing his bags, jamming into his Spongebob duffel his map of the

> >> world coloring book, English-to-English translation dictionaries, mangled

> >> pocket edition of the U.S. Constitution, Bibleman action figure set and a

> >> "Mission Accomplished!" sweatshirt, and heading off to face his destiny

> >> as one of the bleakest, most morally repellent chapters in all of

> >> American history.

>

> >> You think maybe it's too soon? Too early to let the tingle of positivism

> >> and hope take hold? Far from it. After all, the signs of decay and utter

> >> GOP desperation keep pouring in. For example, it has now been officially

> >> recorded in history what everyone already knows: Bush is nearly exactly

> >> as unpopular as Richard Nixon was at his lowest point, and no president

> >> in history has had as long a streak at the bottom of the job-approval

> >> rankings as Dubya. Heckuva job, Bushie!

>

> >> What's more, the glorious collapse of the evangelical Christian right

> >> marches on apace, as Pat Robertson, now a dejected, lonely widower after

> >> the death of secret boy-toy husband Jerry Falwell, has officially

> >> endorsed pro-choice, pro-gay, thrice-married, massively unbalanced moral

> >> pit bull Rudy Giuliani for president, which is a bit like a militant

> >> vegan endorsing Hot Dog on a Stick for the title of Lord of the Food

> >> Court. Desperate times indeed.

>

> >> But wait, it gets better. While it's easy to focus on Shrub and Cheney

> >> and to gleefully, achingly imagine their dreary march out of office on

> >> that happy day, it is also vital and heartwarming to note that this time

> >> next year will also mark the demise of an entire army of toxic leaders,

> >> federal department heads, gay-bashing appointees and misogynist directors

> >> of every stripe and scandal and spittle, a simply huge array of

> >> right-wing Bushies who are still entrenched in all manner of powerful

> >> federal bureaus and organizations and policy-making bodies.

>

> >> It's true. Despite how a huge hunk of hideous GOP policymakers lost their

> >> seats during the last congressional election, plenty more appointees are

> >> still around to poison the well. From Kevin Martin, the lackey who

> >> oversees the FCC, to noxious Idahoan and rabid anti-environmentalist Dick

> >> Kempthorne of the Department of the Interior, to anti-choice Republican

> >> Mormon knucklehead charity scammer and Department of Health and Human

> >> Services overseer Mike Leavitt, and on and on - in a year, all on their

> >> way out.

>

> >> Oh, and one more deserves special attention. Because one year from now

> >> will also be the glorious political end of one Dr. David W. Hager, the

> >> rabid evangelical Christian gynecologist (I know, so wrong) who currently

> >> advises the FDA on women's health issues and who was largely responsible

> >> for delaying the approval of Plan B, opposed RU-486, is in fact against

> >> all contraception, stem-cell research, premarital sex, and (quite

> >> naturally) women's choice, and whose own ex-wife claims he anally raped

> >> her, over and over again, in her sleep.

>

> >> Intelligent women nationwide still shudder that this man is allowed

> >> anywhere near a living vagina, much less permitted to touch and probe and

> >> offer advice. But there is one noteworthy aspect to Hager; he is the

> >> perfect incarnation of the Christian right's view of women as

> >> subordinate, lesser-intelligent sluts who cannot control their own bodies

> >> and therefore need men, God, and the government to do it for them. Hager

> >> is a deep shame to the male gender, and his return to the private

> >> practice of ruining the sex lives of unfortunate women in Kentucky cannot

> >> come soon enough.

>

> >> But why write this column now, so far in advance of Bush's limp-tailed

> >> departure? Simple enough: Because it will take a full year to get ready.

>

> >> It will take every month and every week and every single day from the

> >> moment you read this until November 2008 to compile, to gather, to list

> >> all the names and all the horrors and all the deeply entrenched policies

> >> that are still clawing at the face of America as a result of Bush's

> >> reign, to fully get your mind around just how deep is the disease and how

> >> widely it has spread, so we may begin to excise the policies one by one

> >> like the malignant tumors they so very much are.

>

> >> What, too strong? Not even close. Go read up on Hager, and get back to

> >> me.

>

> >> Ah, but perhaps you are one of the jaded ones, the non-believers, that

> >> certain type of political bitterball who says, oh please, what does it

> >> matter, they're all criminals and cretins and powermongers anyway, no

> >> matter which party or president they work for? Get rid of BushCo and a

> >> new slew of cronies and cretins take their place, and who can tell the

> >> difference?

>

> >> To which I say, well, yes. But also, no. Sure, the system is corrupt and

> >> lopsided and full of backstabbing and backslapping and backroom

> >> deal-making. So what? Has been since the first cavemen voted to see who

> >> gets to run the mammoth hunt.

>

> >> Truth is, it's just far too easy to let the ennui wash over and not give

> >> a damn, to lump all politics into a phlegmball of nasty negativity and be

> >> done with it, thus entirely disregarding the efficacious issues, the

> >> things that truly effect change and affect lives and improve or degrade

> >> the health of the planet. Outrage fatigue is simply unacceptable.

> >> Intellectual apathy is the refuge of the lazy and the spiritually

> >> malnourished. Do not let it happen to you.

>

> >> Now is the time. The coming year will slide by rather quickly and the

> >> feeling of urgent change and upheaval will only build and it doesn't

> >> really matter if it's Hillary or Obama or Edwards leading the shift,

> >> because no matter who gets the nod, they will require - from me, from

> >> you, from anyone who professes to care - a roiling tidal wave of

> >> progressive momentum behind them to help them cleanse and haul away the

> >> overwhelming mountain of moral fecal matter Bush has left behind.

>

> >> Mark your calendar. Set your ringtone. Take a deep breath, feel the wave

> >> build, and then dive the hell in. Right now, it's the only option that

> >> really matters.

Jimmy Carter is liked, Bush is not. You speak English, right? You

understand the difference?

On Nov 18, 5:11 pm, "SyVyN11" <robhorine...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> "Friendly Fred" <NoneOfYourFuckingBusiness...@aol.COM> wrote in message

>

> news:13k1j0jrskpmd18@corp.supernews.com...

>

> > Miles Long <Mi...@Home.net> wrote:

> >>MioMyo wrote:

> >>> RESOUNDINGLY NO!

> >>Well, in their defense, no Democratic president has been as big a

> >>world-wide, four star fuck-up as our current coward-in-chief...

>

> > This current fascist terrorist regime is at core no different than all

> > that's come before. Only the SCOPE of treason and war criminality

> > in the Bush regime has exceeded what's gone on before.

>

> You need your ass kicked in the worst way.

>

Are you going to handle it yourself?

"Matt" <matttelles@sprynet.com> wrote in message

news:1d7e3923-a2ef-4c69-9734-fe2f3dadc888@i37g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...

> On Nov 17, 6:41 pm, "Dan Kimmel" <daniel.kim...@rcn.com> wrote:

> > And Reagan might never have been elected but for the total disaster of

> > Carter's presidency.

>

> True.

>

> >

> > However there's no question that Bush Jr. is far worse than ANY of them.

>

> No argument. The question is, will we elect someone "good" next time,

> or just someone who isn't Bush?

I'm not assuming who the nominees will be until after the early primaries.

At this time in 2003 it looked like Howard Dean would have it all locked up.

I am not thrilled with Hillary Clinton, but I will vote for any of the

Democrats over any of the Republicans.

Too bad Al Gore couldn't be convinced to run.

"SyVyN11" <robhorine711@yahoo.com> wrote:

>"Friendly Fred" <NoneOfYourFuckingBusinessPal@aol.COM> wrote in message

>news:13k1j0jrskpmd18@corp.supernews.com...

>> Miles Long <Miles@Home.net> wrote:

>>>MioMyo wrote:

>>>> RESOUNDINGLY NO!

>>>Well, in their defense, no Democratic president has been as big a

>>>world-wide, four star fuck-up as our current coward-in-chief...

>> This current fascist terrorist regime is at core no different than all

>> that's come before. Only the SCOPE of treason and war criminality

>> in the Bush regime has exceeded what's gone on before.

>You need your ass kicked in the worst way.

I'm in Glendora, California, cunt. Care to put your god damned

Christian terrorist face anywhere near where I can reach it?

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Yes, George W. Bush IS a Christian. Get over it!