The Dusty Dog

Trouble in Dubya Land

This is an article I drafted on September 20th, but never posted. I guess I was looking for some more links, etc. But, then I got involved with some marathon work weeks, and what little time I had was spent playing with my relatively new camera and post processing the images.

However, even though this is "old" news, it's not old news. It's same shit, different day, but with older references. It's now October 1st, but I'm posting it anyway, and not updating it at all. I'll save my energy for more current stuff. I just hate the thought of just deleting it. I work too hard (maybe, I can't remember) on this stuff.

There is an article in the NYTimes online today that caught my eye. In For Governors in G.O.P. Slots, a Liberal Turn, the article describes how repugs are using ...... pandering to voters by adopting values that they have previously defined as tantamount to an obscene phone call. Yup, boys and girls, they are advocating "liberal" values, in order to distance themselves from their cockroach hero, the dubya king, because they know that to remain at his side is tantamount to political suicide.

Unlike other campaign seasons, when a popular president has been an asset to local politicians, many candidates this year are trying to distance themselves from President Bush, either by staking out ground in contrast to him or, as is the case with Mr. Schwarzenegger, treating the president like a communicable disease.

Democratic candidates across the country have responded by constantly reminding voters of their opponents’ conservative leanings, wherever they exist, and trying to tie them as much as possible to the White House.

But, you have to remember that even though these GOP lying bastards are doing this just to get elected, they will be, and often are if they're incumbant, the same dirtbags who will vote to exonerate the dubya king cockroach by passing that dubious piece of legislation that will make it legal to wiretap American citizens and excuse the neocon cockroaches who engaged in the practice when it was clearly deemed illegal by the US Supreme Court.

Remember, when you go to the polls, what these dirtbag repubs really stand for. Remember that they'll be falling all over themselves to criminalize abortions and stem cell research, reduce funding for veterans and homeless people, cut funding for education while granting tax relief to the richest US citizens. They'll uphold failed voodoo economics because it's really just a scam to transfer wealth upwards to their friends and contributors. Remember how they consistently vote to weaken environmental laws, favoring corporate profits over clean air and water. Remember these things. The GOP are just playing a dispiccable shell game to gain the votes that really represent the majority of American's values.

posted by Dusty Dog at 9/20/2006