Be afraid: Over the past five years and five months, President Bush and the Republican Party have become experts at using fear of Islamic terrorists to manipulate the public will. Simply by muttering code words like “9/11” and “dirty bomb,” He and his grim-faced marauders have tilted elections in their favor, trashed the Constitution, handed our resources over to their corporate betters and plundered an oil rich nation — all with the blind obedience of millions of American sheepul.
After spending years convincing the populace that Muslims are terrorists, Republicans are experiencing blowback, perhaps for the first time. Their plan to allow the sale of major East Coast ports by the current owners, a British company, to Thunder FZE, a subsidiary of Dubai Ports World in the United Arab Emertis may be scuttled because the citizenry — especially Republicans — are afraid of the ports’ new owners are terrorist sympathizers.
Whether or not the sale of the ports to a conglomerate owned by the Arab royals would impact our national security, the issue has become another major public relations snafu for Team Bush, who seem to be bungling something new just about every week.
Bush’s poll numbers have been bumping around 39 percent for several months, and this weakness has emboldened Republican politicians to come out against the sale. Just to name a few, Gov. George Pataki of New York, Gov. Bob Erlich of Maryland, former homeland security czar Tom Ridge have gone on record opposing the deal, as have GOP members of congress who have been getting hot calls from their Red state constituents: “Why is the preznint selling our ports to Ay-rabs?!”
Judging by the response from rank and file Republicans calling in on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, I would say the base is as unhappy now as it was when the president nominated his secretary to the Supreme Court. This issue, along with their concerns about Dead-Eye Dick, may erode the president’s approval rating even more, inching him down into Nixon territory.
But let’s savor the moment. President Bush and the GOP spent five years successfully packaging Islam as a 1.5 billion member terrorist organization, and now their terrified chickens are coming home to roost.
We lost Bushco’s “War on Terror” the minute we declared it. It is not now, nor has it ever been a real war. It’s just a way to try and keep the public scared and voting Republican – which is precisely why I would never vote Republican, they are afraid of their own shadows and the most cowardly group of politicians imaginable. This war is nothing more than another dodge to hide the fact that they are raping, pillaging, and bankrupting America for their own enrichment and to the detriment of every honest, hard-working American. Someday historians will look back on this time period and laugh their asses off that Bush the Bigot scared the country even more than Joe McCarthy and the Red Scare of the fifties. They will marvel at the destruction wrought by the most pernicious political party in U.S. history while the good people of this country stood by and did nothing. All of this could come to a stop tomorrow if the Democrats has the courage to stand up, even just in the Seenot, and refuse “unanimous consent” to anything the Republicans ask for. Bush could be stonewalled until his time in office runs out IF democratic Senators stood fast without regard to the denigration of the GOP. Sometimes it is just more important to just say “No” than it is to “go along to get along.” We see where that has gotten us, don’t we-halfway to the utter destruction of our democracy. Congress, if they could grow a pair, should rescind the AUMF, declare this useless “War on Terror” over, and enshrine a new Constitutional amendment that would forever dispel the notion of the “Unitarian Executive” with plenary powers. Or just keep cowering under the bed while America is destroyed from within.
Bill Arnett above proves that it does not take an Ivy League or Texas A&M legal-beagle to understand the basic truths of the time and to see a means to do something about it…..Wonder if there is a message in there somewhere….don’t you?
I agree viejogringo, Arnett is dead on. I grew up in the 1960s when the Soviets had nuclear warheads aimed at every major city and then some.
Instantaneous annhiilation at any second. Now that’s scary.
Damn “terrasts” dont’ scare me.
Grrrr….
outrage fatigue has felled me. The sheeple bleating all around me that ter-wrists lurk around every corner like a bad episode of 24 – it’s too much to take. TGWOT – it’s just a big joke that bleeds the gov-mint coffers dry, lining the pockets of the cronies, leaving us to eat the gov-mint cheese soon enough.
when do the minutemen come back and help right the wrongs of this admonkeystration?
is it time to arm bears?