Sweet lord almighty - just when you thought there couldn’t BE yet ANOTHER absolutely compelling reason to end Republican control of Congress!

Why aren’t “ WE THE PEOPLE” overthrowing this lying, underhanded Government. Our Executive Branch, Congress, and our Courts are the real “Axis Of Evil!!” Ask for Bush to be impeached NOW. Rally in Washington to get rid of this Government. They are supposed to be working for US not ignoring our wants & needs to take care of themselves with salary increases, excellent health care, et al Perhaps we need leadership to start this overthrowing of this “Government.”

This does not suprise me as I have believed since the beginning that this war (Afghanistan and Iraq) was always about oil and money to be made by big business and corrupt politicians

....makes me think of Nixon firing Archibald Cox.

Bush has been fairly sucessful at silencing major investigations. [SEC investigations, the 9/11 investigations, energy conferences, etc etc.] With noone stopping him he grows more bold with each success.

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With George Bush and his supporters like Mr. Weintraub, the terrorists need not bother to attack us to destroy our way of life.  Mr. Bush, Mr. Weintraub, et al, have already taken care of the matter.

If there was no need to “temporarily suspend” our democracy when we were attacked by one of the most formidable and powerful militarized nations on Earth at Pearl Harbor, there is certainly no justification for it now.  Especially when our “terrorist enemies” are so few in number as to be unable to journey here to launch attacks as they are, according to “our” President, too occupied in Iraq to be able to do so.  Even given the fact that Bush has left our borders and ports so porous as to virtually invite this swarm, this horde of terrorist invaders free entry into the heart of our nation at will and with impunity, and yet, not one single “cell” of terrorists has ever actually been found or prosecuted.

The power grabs referenced by Mr. Weintraub are simply and irrefutably just that and only that:  power grabs by an egotist cowboy with no thought given whatsoever to the safety, security and current and future democracy of this country.

We live in dangerous times, indeed, for President Bush is the most dangerous man on earth.

No surprise here… the red state believers… are enabling this adminstration to do whatever they want to retain power. They don’t see the total damage in not having, not demanding oversite in government. The nerve of that Californian Repube politician to include that bill right before
Bush was to sign it.  Now… that same politician from California wants to run for PRESIDENT !!! Dream big baby.... Go FOX News!

Halliburton = Cheney ! Big farce.

Just when I thought the Bushies could sink no lower, this jaw-dropper comes along. How do Bush and Co. address the Iraq reconstruction problems of missing money, missing weaponry, bribery and shoddy construction work? Why, they close down the very agency responsible for rooting out and reporting these problems, of course. Presto, no more problems.
The sleaziness of this stunt is matched only by its breath taking stupidity. Did the Bush crew really think no one would notice the fine print eventually?

Yet another corrupt christian conservative at work.....Mr. truth teller Bush trying to cover his odious tracks. Who got the no-bid shredder order? Halliburton or Bechtel?

We have the most corrupt adminstration in our lifetime. They use hate, fear lies and deception , bigotry, cheating , torture and war to keep themselves in power. Winning and power is the only thing they care about. And they use corporate money and demogoguery to destroy anyone who disagree with them. America no longer stands for truth, liberty, and justice. But we have fallen for the patroit act, illegal wire-taps, torture, and fear. They repeat the same lies over and over again to keep us afraid. all while the poor gets poorer, the middle class becomes poor, and the rich keeps their party going. The votes no longer matter because they manipulate that too. By the time Bush and company finish with our country we will mirror communist China more than the America we used to know and love. The only difference is that with all of the debt that Bush leaves us with , communist China may actually own America!

My biggest confusion is how anyone who calls themselves a Christian can support this war.  An estimate 400,000-800,000 Iraqi’s are now dead due to the instability we created.  Our false belief that militarism is a good way to bring peace is the height of hypocracy and is everything that Jesus stood against.

Of course they’ve silenced the critics - they can’t do anything else if they want to keep all the lovely money rolling around.  The fact that they hid it and sneaked it through in another bill about “supporting our troops” is just another page in Karl Rove’s playbook.  That they haven’t even slowed down their tricks for the ‘election’ scares the hell out of me - normally, you’d assume that they can’t admit they might be in trouble come Tuesday - but they have a proveable history of election tinkering and fraud, so it would be insane to think they wouldn’t try it again.  Arrogance, cheating and lies are the hallmark of this President and this Congress.  I am a religious person who believes the words of Jesus - “You will know them by their fruits”. No matter how much they thump their Bibles and wrap themselves in their ‘Made in China from outsourced American jobs’ flags - they will not be able deny the ever increasing flood of scandals, lies, contract-cheating, deaths, ....the list grows every day.  Please, every citizen - you must demand honest accounting of the upcoming midterm election - study after study shows the relevance and accuracy of exit polls, yet the last two ‘elections’ were wildly differant than the exit polls showed - they’re going to do it again.  They HAVE to - not only are they thoroughly addicted to the huge amount of money and power - they’re scared to death of investigations (real ones, anyway) and indictiments.  Can you see Rummy, Rove or George in jail?  Anyone else, certainly any Democrat, would have been tossed in the klinker long ago.  If they’re willing to spend a year of our national time and $40 million on a blowjob between consenting adults - not gay, not children - how can anyone believe now that that wasn’t the grossest of partisan politics.  Here they have gay, pedophilic sex scandals - millions of missing $$$ in Iraq rebuilding money, the illegal war-profiteering no-bid contracts, the absolutely bizarre abandonment of the American citizens in the Katrina disaster (on our HOME soil !!!!!)....do you think if we’d gotten Gore or Kerry, that the GOP wouldn’t be investigating everything they could get their greasy hands on, all the while spouting “family values” and “Christian values”.  How many pages would Jesus molest?  How many Iraqi citizens would he bomb?  And he didn’t give a rat’s patootie about personal wealth, either - or political power. He could have - he just didn’t.
It’s my personal experience, after many decades now, that the more a person talks about their religious beliefs, the more they need to be watched closely.  The quiet ones who go about the business of caring for God’s flock are the ones you can trust.  There was a very good reason why our founding fathers were so worried about Religion and Government in collusion against the common citizen.  This is the result - right before our eyes. I pray every day that people will wake up and demand an honest government. If enough people don’t participate, from voting to demonstrating to election monitoring - then we really will get the government we deserve. Except, those of us who are politically aware DON’T deserve it!!! Keep your fingers crossed.  But don’t hold your breath.

It’s the End of the World as We Know It:

Let me be so very clear. George Bush is not going to let anything, or anyone, get in the way of his winning the “war on terror”. He earnestly believes that the very survival of our nation is at stake.  He also believes that successful prosecution of the war on terror trumps---at least in the short-term---the maintenance of our democratic institutions. Here are just a few examples:

1.  RE: Civil Unrest---H. R. 5122 Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 Sec. 1076. USE OF THE ARMED FORCES IN MAJOR PUBLIC EMERGENCIES: (1) The President may employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in Federal service, to (A) restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition in any State or possession of the United States, the President determines that (i) domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of maintaining public order; and (ii) such violence results in a condition described in paragraph (2); or (B) suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy.

2.  RE: Wire Tapping---President’s Statement on Signing the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2005: “The executive branch shall construe section 8124, relating to integration of foreign intelligence information, in a manner consistent with the President’s constitutional authority as Commander in Chief, including for the conduct of intelligence operations, and to supervise the unitary executive branch.”

3.  RE: Torture---McCain Amendment 1977 to Defense Appropriations Act of 2006: (a) No individual in the custody or under the physical control of the United States Government, regardless of nationality or physical location, shall be subject to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.” GEORGE BUSH SIGINING STATEMENT: “The executive branch shall construe Title X in Division A of the Act, relating to detainees, in a manner consistent with the constitutional authority of the President to supervise the unitary executive branch and as Commander in Chief and consistent with the constitutional limitations on the judicial power, which will assist in achieving the shared objective of the Congress and the President, evidenced in Title X, of protecting the American people from further terrorist attacks.”

4.  RE: Habeas Corpus--- Sec. 948c. “Any alien unlawful enemy combatant is subject to trial by military commission under this chapter.” The issue in question---if an American citizen is said to relinquish citizenship for his participation in any activity deemed by the government as aiding terrorists (anti-war protests, teach-ins against the war, etc.) In any of these types of scenarios, an American citizen can be held without charge and with no legal recourse.

Look, I do NOT subscribe to the radical viewpoint that has George Bush wanting to become the dictator of America. I DO believe that George Bush loves and honors the ideals of freedom and democracy. But I also believe that George Bush is willing---not happily, mind you--- to suspend many of our freedoms as he seeks victory in the “war on terror”. Make no mistake about it: George Bush believes---to the core of his being--- that the current conflict against “Islamo-Fascism” (and nuclear proliferation) is the struggle for our very existence---and, consistent with this belief, George Bush is systematically laying a foundation that will allow him to pursue this struggle unfettered and unconstrained.

Here are my predictions for the next 2 years:

• In response to continued threats abroad, The U.S. undertakes bombing campaigns against Iran and Syria.
• Protests against the bombings and against the war in Iraq intensify throughout the United States.
• A major “terrorist” attack takes place in the United States.

The government’s response:

Imposition of a State of Emergency:

o The Department of Homeland Security assumes emergency authority over the power grid, airports, railways, highways, nuclear power facilities, food distribution, mobile communications infrastructure, Internet and digital infrastructure, and hospitals.
o Curfews enforced in most metropolitan areas.
o Tens of thousands of anti-war protesters temporarily incarcerated under the authority of the Military Commissions Act of 2006. (Closed military basis serve as the prisons.)
o Selective Service draft reauthorized.
o Either
• Dick Cheney accedes to the presidency in late 2007 under the authority of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, (This occurs when George Bush feigns some sort of major injury), or
• the Twenty-Second Amendment is suspended, elections are postponed, and George Bush remains in power beyond January of 2009.
o Espionage Acts are reauthorized
o Colleges and Universities temporarily suspended
o Sedition Acts temporarily reauthorized

Do I sound alarmist? Paranoid? I don’t think so. The big picture for our President is the long-term survival of our country. George Bush believes that the competing harms argument---the temporary suspension of our democracy vs. the total destruction of our way of life---absolutely legitimizes his actions.

No surprises here. Anyone with a halfway discerning eye knows that over the past five-odd years, the Bush administration has dealt with other kinds of negative reports in much the same way—instead of taking steps which might actually solve or at least lessen the problem, they simply censor the report so that the public doesn’t hear about any problems in the future.