The Dictator and the Crook
There are a lot of stories coming out of the press, out of blogsites, and even mainstream media that are comparing our beloved (NOT) dubya dummy to Nixon. It sure does not take a rocket surgeon to see that at the very least, they were/are both crooks. But, the way I see it, and if anyone wants to correct me if I'm wrong, there really is one huge difference. Nixon was some kind of ideologue who would stop at nothing to move his ideologies and his political machine forward. Hence, the Watergate scandal. However, dubya is not an ideologue. He's just flat out not smart enough to hold any opinions, or ideologies, or any modicum of philosophical forthought. His crookedness is based solely on greed and corruption. He's a selfish, stupid moron who needs people to prop him up as their figurehead, so they can maneuver their greedy and corrupt endeavors behind him.
The cartoon above, before I forget, is from the website, The Illustrated Daily Scribble. I tend to download images from websites to my hard drive, so that the originating site makes changes, it will not affect my article. I so so, but will give due credit where credit is due.
Back to the dubya/Nixon comparisons..........
As I search around the web, reading items that are highlighted on Buzzflash or The Raw Story (to name a few), there are these continuing themes of dubya and Nixon. Lately, of course, the wiretapping scandal is the biggest issue, and I will get to that. But, one of the first articles of importance is the comparison between their popularity ratings. From Think Progess:
Via Atrios, an American Research Group poll released today shows that George Bush has dropped to staggering new lows:
George W. Bush’s overall job approval ratings have dropped from a month ago even as Americans who approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president are turning more optimistic about their personal financial situations according to the latest survey from the American Research Group. Among all Americans, 36% approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president and 58% disapprove. When it comes to Bush’s handling of the economy, 33% approve and 62% disapprove.
Among Americans registered to vote, 38% approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president and 56% disapprove, and 36% approve of the way Bush is handling the economy and 60% disapprove.
For a little perspective, recall that Richard Nixon’s approval rating in the summer of 1973 (when the Watergate scandal was in full swing) was 39%.
Compared to Bush, that’s downright sunny.
OK, so here we are....... we have an unpopular president, for sure. But, we also have a royal crook. His connections and lobbyists and puppetmasters have a horrificly criminal trail of corruption that stems from a very evil bunch of criminals. Oh, the connections......... from voting scandals to Oil For Food scandals to pharaceutical lobbying scandals to oil scandals, money laundering, and of course, let us not forget Iraq. You remember Iraq...... that bombed out dust bowl in the Middle East, don't you? There are just way too many scandals to write about in one lil' article on this one lil' blogsite, but I hope my readers follow some of my links. I want everyone who stops by my blogsite to get some kind of education, maybe understand why I'm so pissed off, and why I HATE these republican neocon deathcult warmongering cockroaches.
Wiretapping:
From TalkLeft:
ACLU Calls for Special Counsel To Investigate NSA Warrantless Surveillance.
In a press release, the ACLU says:
The ACLU said President Bush's actions were a clear violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which was passed by Congress in response to revelations that former President Nixon was using "national security" claims to spy on American citizens he considered his "enemies."
"President Nixon was not above the law and neither is President Bush," said ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero. "President Bush cannot use a claim of seeking to preserve our nation to undermine the rules that serve as our foundation. The Attorney General, who may have been involved with the formulation of this policy, must appoint a special counsel to let justice be served."
From FindLaw, we find an excellent article written by John Dean:
"Indeed, here, Bush may have outdone Nixon: Nixon's illegal surveillance was limited; Bush's, it is developing, may be extraordinarily broad in scope. First reports indicated that NSA was only monitoring foreign calls, originating either in the USA or abroad, and that no more than 500 calls were being covered at any given time. But later reports have suggested that NSA is "data mining" literally millions of calls - and has been given access by the telecommunications companies to "switching" stations through which foreign communications traffic flows."
Though not necessarily comparisons, I need to tack on some more illustritive writings that expose the levels of theft and corruption within this White Wash, I mean House, Congress, and this administration, in general:
Stealing Elections:
From The Free Press:
The sun revolves around the Earth and George W. Bush won the election in Ohio
The Bush family and friends stole both the 2000 and 2004 Presidential elections. The covert operations long associated with George Herbert Walker Bush, former President and CIA director, are now overtly practiced in key battleground states. Much more there.....
And, this article from December 30, 2005:
Fake voting rights activists and groups linked to White House
Top level Republican operatives with ties to the White House, Senate Majority Leader William Frist and the Republican National Committee (RNC) not only engaged in the suppression of poor and minority voters in the 2004 Ohio presidential election' but they spun the election irregularities into a story linking blacks to cocaine and voter fraud. Bush allies in Ohio are now using this myth of voter fraud to pass a repressive "election reform" bill.
In the month prior to and immediately after the 2004 presidential election' the Republican Party engaged in an orchestrated campaign to divert the mainstream media focus away from election fraud and irregularities in Ohio and manufactured the myth of "voter fraud."
Oil For Food
Following is an exerpt from The Deadline Pundit:
The Sound of Silence: As in Dogs Not Barking
"For a year every minute item about the Oil For Food Program has been bellowed breathlessly from the conservative media.
And suddenly, there is silence. Last month Kojo Annan, son of Kofi ,was awarded large damages against the Murdoch-owned London Sunday Times, which has to admit that its story connecting him to Oil For Food contracts had no substance. You did not see the story on Fox, MSNBC, or any of the usual cabal.
In December, the US charged two colonels who had worked for the 'Coalition Provisional Authority' with accepting bribes of $200,000 a month for steering contracts to companies that were seemingly just shells. They worked with someone whom the Coalition Provisional Authority hired as comptroller with a budget of $82 million - despite a previous felony conviction for fraud.
It did not make the headlines. Senator Norm Coleman and Congressman Henry Hyde did not call for the resignation of the chief executive of the organization involved, one George W. Bush.
And no one mentioned that much of the money involved presumably came from the $10 billion surplus that the UN Oil For Food Fund had handed over to the Development Fund for Iraq, controlled by the CPA. During its blessedly short life span, the American dominated CPA spent nearly $20 billion of the $23.34 billion of Iraqi funds it had under its control for just over a year. It spent just $300 million of the US taxpayer funding pledges of $18.4 billion for Iraq's reconstruction.
One more topic, as this is getting rather hefty.......
Pharmaceutical Pandering
From the Boston Globe, is an article by Robert Kuttner:
Dollars to doughnuts, Bush's drug benefit is no bargain
"It was clear back in 2003, when the Bush administration rammed this bill through the Republican Congress, that the purpose was not to devise an affordable prescription drug program for seniors. Rather the administration wanted to help two friendly industries, the pharmaceutical companies and the HMOs, and to get bragging rights for the 2004 election that President Bush had helped seniors. Few voters would grasp just how bad the law was, since its effective date was deliberately put off until 2006.
Now, as the year of reckoning arrives, the true cynicism of Bush's program is becoming evident to each senior citizen (or adult child of senior citizen) who attempts to fathom what Bush and the industry lobbyists wrought.
For starters, coverage is woefully inadequate. You pay a $250 deductible and then a 25 percent copay on the first $2,250 of drug benefits each year, plus roughly another $450 a year in premiums. So if your prescriptions cost $2,250 a year, or about $190 a month, you pay $1,200 a year all told and the plan pays just $1,050.
That's pretty shabby. But then, the truly bizarre feature of the plan kicks in. Coverage simply disappears for the next $2,850 in drug expenses and only picks up again when you have incurred a total of $5,100 in prescription costs. This is the infamous ''hole in the doughnut."
The dubya party just goes on and on and one and on................ It amazes me how really dumb people really can be, how utterly clueless they choose to be. It amazes me that at one time, maybe two years ago, somewhere around 50% of Americans refused to read anything beyond a home and garden magazine, or watch anything on TV other than FOX News and reality TV crappola. It amazes me that so many people really choose to remain ignorantly stupid. These articles above are not secret. They are not squirreled away in some obscure dusty library. It's all out there on the internet and local newspapers, for the world to see. But, with the White Wash, I mean House' efforts to coopt the news media industry, pay for propaganda, get them to sit on stories, etc., it's a tough job to stay on top of things. And, it's tougher still to get the messages out to those who may otherwise not have easy access, be they computerless, poor, elderly, disengranchised, whatever. People need to be educated and informed. That's where any hope of success in taking back Congress and hopefully impeaching the disgusting republican slobs may lie.
Do I sound a bit naive myself? Am I kidding myself? I sure as shit hope not. I choose to be an idealistic, socially conscious, educated and informed individual. Ideals do march on, after all.
posted by Dusty Dog at
1/01/2006
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With all your quotes from refrences... you left one out... the one from my blogsite...
Here it is...
TWO REALITIES IN TODAYS WORLD
This will be short.... but very much to the point.
There are two actual realities in todays world;
They are......;
1. George Dubya Bush is a moron.
2. Anyone that supports him blindly is an idiot.
I just wish he got involved in a sex scandal already so he could be impeached.... Three more years... starting from today.... OY!
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Anonymous, at
3:21 PM
Boy, Di, You've been busy! However, there are so many more Bushevic issues to ponder. The list is endless. One that comes to mind is one from today's Buzzflash:
"Compassonate conservatism, a true oxymoron. An immigration bill that recently passed the House of Representative would punish priests, nurses and social workers who provide services to undocumented immigrants with up to five years in prison."
What an absurd thought! Am I, every other health care professional, and institution at risk for spending 5 years in jail? Where would they put us all? On the moon? Every Hospital and clinic in the USA cares for illegal immigrants every day. EVERY ONE!
The depths of the Repugnicans' evil is truly unfathomable.
2006 is the most important year ever. We all have to get to work.
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Anonymous, at
9:48 PM
Steve, you are so right, and I so apologize. You have really summed it up in a nutshell. Why are there so many idiots out there? I just don't get it.
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Dusty Dog, at
9:07 AM
Nan, that bill that passed the house is sponsored by noneother than one of our LI political hacks, Peter King. After getting all kinds of flack for this horrific piece of proposed legislation, he has agreed to make some amendments within it.
But, of course, that doesn't even begin to discuss all the representatives who actually voted for this, or the fact that the bum actually wrote it. They are all idiots, as described by Steve, above. Blindass jingos who are otherwise totally clueless to the plights of real human beings. And, who have zero compassion for anyone but themselves. Blechhhhh........
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Dusty Dog, at
9:10 AM
Apology accepted ;)
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Anonymous, at
9:25 AM
And this differentiates Bush from his predecessor, Clinton, how?
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Anonymous, at
8:36 AM
Well, well well...... we have an anonymous neocon loving moron. If you cannot figure the differences by now, then you're friggin' hopeless. Along with all the rest of the neocon dumbasses. Sheesh............
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Dusty Dog, at
7:34 PM
The level of bullshit flying around is only exceeded by the number of people who eat it up. That's why you have people who worship Pat Robertson, Jesus, and Bush in that order. Of course, that is what you get when you have media completely controlled by the ruling class.
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Anonymous, at
1:25 PM
but don't worry, only three more years, unsless he uses the constitution for toilet paper...you're doomed
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Anonymous, at
1:26 PM
These are dark days for America.
-Civil rights being abused
-Republicans defending the use of torture and murder
-Over 2,000 Americans and at least 30,000 Iraqis killed in Bush's war
-Domestic spying
-Diebold choosing who gets elected
-Delay, Frist, Abramoff, Pat Robertson, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice...and too many other dirtballs to even keep track of
Truly Orwellian. This is what happens when the government and the media are controlled by corporations.
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Anonymous, at
11:54 PM
Yup, this has been a carefully orchestrated republican government take-over, beginning with Gingrich in 1994. He created the K Street machine that bought and paid for republican lobbyists, who then bought out the media, which of course finally led to the dubya "election" of 2000, and again in 2004. Hopefully, now it's crumbling. But, Gingrich, of all goddamm people, is the one hired by the repukes to put a merry face back onto the repukes. They are truly without scruples and ethics. Yup, truly Orwellian.
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Dusty Dog, at
7:11 AM
Latour, he's already using the Constitution as toilet paper. They can do a lot more damage in three more years. that's why we Americans have to work so hard to elect a democratic majority in Congress. Only then can dubya and his dick be impeached. Only then, can Congress attempt to stop their illegal activities.
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Dusty Dog, at
7:14 AM
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