Regime. By bush.

33% is way too high. Its disheartening to pause and consider that there are so many people in our country that are blind to the corruption, policies and LIES of the (MIS)administration. Of course if you consider employees (feds) and their extended families, the super wealthy and the twentysomethings that can't make change of a dollar at the cash register, that can't name the vice president of their own country or that don't know the name of the galaxy that we live in, the approval figure that represents the blind sheep is probably around 20%...Pseudo Socialites, Joe Six Pack, Nascar Dad and the country-clubbin' jetsetter wannabes.

This said, I do believe that we are on the verge of a dream becoming a badly needed reality: A NATIONAL REFERENDUM ON THE WORST (p)RESIDENT AND (MIS)ADMINISTRATION IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Ironically as far as our country's name says, we are no longer a united people (all because of the bush regime) and a change of power in congress and our individual state's governorships will not change that, but our country's survival is dependent upon the election outcomes in 2006 and 2008. Even if these positive changes come to pass in the next couple of years WE HAVE LOST SO MUCH. We are buried in crushing debt with no simple or (even) complex remedy. Our seniors are suffering and our children and their children will suffer for it. We have lost many of our civil liberties under false pretenses, we have lost almost all respect globally; having to hide our citizenship when we travel abroad AND WE HAVE LOST COUNTLESS LIVES attributed to the LIES and actions perpetrated for profit by the neo-cons with a stranglehold on our way of life. WE KNOW HOW HISTORY WILL WRITE THE bUSH CHAPTER.

Poll: Bush may be hurting Republicans By DONNA CASSATA, Associated Press Writer Republicans determined to win in November are up against a troublesome trend — growing opposition to President Bush. An Associated Press-Ipsos poll conducted this week found the president's approval rating has dropped to 33 percent, matching his low in May. His handling of nearly every issue, from the Iraq war to foreign policy, contributed to the president's decline around the nation, even in the Republican-friendly South. More sobering for the GOP are the number of voters who backed Bush in 2004 who are ready to vote Democratic in the fall's congressional elections — 19 percent....CONTINUED

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A Republican bush supporter might wonder why we see things the way we do. This person may not be able to understand our utter disgust for bush and his cronies and handlers. Here are a few choice observations for this person:

Bush talks a lot about freedom, courage, transparent government and the rule of law. He talks. His speeches are carefully choreographed before audiences of his faithful -- often Christian fundamentalists or, to paraphrase Bush, Christian-fascists -- and they must sign loyalty oaths to Bush. He speaks before audience after audience of soldiers and sailors who cannot speak except as directed by the White House. Others before whom he speaks may ask no questions. He runs from journalists, as we have seen in China, even on those rare occasions that he speaks before them. Even worse, he has paid journalists to say good things about him and his policies. He also produces propaganda from government offices that he offers as news reports. And any protests against his policies are diverted well away from his sight and hearing. In his Mission Accomplished foray, he wore a military uniform, something no president has done since Washington, and Washington only wore the uniform to quell a rebellion. Around the world he has replaced the Soviet Gulag with the Bush Gulag, where men may be tortured. He refuses to divulge the energy industries' influence upon his policies and the records of his Supreme Court nominees. He refuses the United Nations access to question prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and refuses the Red Cross access to prisoners at CIA black sites. Furthermore, he threatened to veto legislation against the torture of prisoners even as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice conveyed a "don't ask, don't tell" torture policy to the world. In Iraq, he took us into an unnecessary war. He uses fear, intimidation, distortion and lies. I cannot tell whether the man cannot tell the truth or he doesn't know the truth. From these few examples of many, what kind of man is Bush? Is he like Washington or Lincoln? Or is he a man of another kind? Not a Cincinnatus, but a Tarquin. When I think of Bush, I do not think of liberty and courage, compassion and justice. No, I think of arrogance, greed and lies. He is a thug, a buffoon and a coward. Not only is he incompetent, he is corrupt. He is of a kind with the dictators; a strutting, sanctimonious buffoon who talks democracy but acts like Saddam Hussein. Bush might differ in degree from Hussein, not having been in power as long, but in behavior, with torture and the corruption of government, they are of a kind. The revelation that President Bush authorized spying on American citizens without warrants is a late entry to the year’s “Biggest Lies” list. Bush says he bypassed the law because of the need for speed. He may believe that, but the facts say otherwise. The cavalier attitude toward the checks and balance of a democratic society is a pattern with this administration. Bush and Cheney regard Congress and the judiciary as obstacles, not as equal branches of government. We have no mechanism to deal with a president who has lost the trust and confidence of the American people and has nearly three years remaining in office. Currently, impeachment is a nonissue; it’s not going to happen with Republicans in control of the House and Senate. Bush's spending blueprint for the 2007 budget year that begins Oct. 1 would provide large increases for the military and homeland security but would trim spending in the one-sixth of the budget that covers the rest of discretionary spending. Nine Cabinet agencies would see outright reductions with the biggest percentage cuts occurring in the departments of Transportation, Justice and Agriculture. And in mandatory programs — so-called because the government must provide benefits to all who qualify — the president is seeking over the next five years savings of $36 billion in Medicare, $5 billion in farm subsidy programs, $4.9 billion in Medicaid support for poor children's health care and $16.7 billion in additional payments from companies to shore up the government's besieged pension benefit agency. In addition to strict limits on most discretionary, non-security spending in the budget, Bush sought drastic cuts or total elimination on 141 programs that would produce savings of nearly $15 billion in 2007. The targeted programs included 42 in the area of education ranging from drug-free schools to federal support for the arts, technology and parent-resource centers. As if being asked to strip off shoes, coats, belts and other clothing before going through a metal detector and getting your personal belongings x-rayed is not enough, the TSA will begin psychoanalyzing air travelers in 40 major airports next year. TSA screeners, who are not even fully trained law enforcement personnel, let alone professional psychologists, will perform behavior analysis screening on all passengers. The screeners will look for “suspicious” signs that might indicate a passenger could be a terrorist: having dry lips or a throbbing carotid artery (I’m not kidding), failure to make eye contact with or say hello to the screener, or evasive or slow answers to casual questions asked by the screener. Travelers who exhibit such nefarious characteristics will undergo extra physical searches—the infamous “pat down” frisk and bag rummage—and could even face police questioning. Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue. “We do not torture,” he declared despite ample evidence to the contrary from Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo to secret prisons in Eastern Europe. Vice President Cheney went to Capitol Hill repeatedly to lobby for the U.S. right to torture, capitulating only when the vote went against him 90 to 9. As I was saying to a fellow peasant just the other day, it is ironic that this country should rebel against one King George only to bow down before another monarch of the same name more than 200 years later. That our own King George -- he of the House of Bush -- is truly of royal blood has become clear in recent days with the announcement that he has empowered the National Security Agency to spy on whomsoever and whatsoever it wishes under royal decree. Happily for him if not his subjects, this cannot be challenged by the picky laws and constitutional concerns that rule us poor common folk. It cannot be challenged because he says so, which is the traditional way of kings. Henceforth, throughout the land, let him be proclaimed as His Royal Texas-ship, Defender of the Faith, Interpreter of the Constitution, Protector of the SUVs, Guardian of the Malls, Warrior King, Scourge of the Liberals, Bane of the Activist Judges, His Most High Majesty and Most Excellent King George W. the First of Many.

Would you buy a used car from this?
Would you let it manage your investments?
Would you let it give your child a ride to school?
Would you let it cook a meal for your grandmother?
Would you let it run your country?

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