“The economy is strong.”  Just how strong is an economy that is based on $5.15 an hour?  Has Mr. Bush ever sat down and added up how much it costs to live in his America?  Most people would need to make at least $10 to be considered above poverty level.  A third of Americans can’t even see a doctor when they need to, are living on minimum wage jobs, and are forced to be dependent on government programs like WIC and Food Stamps.  It is clear that after the election Americans want to pay more attention to these issues than Mr. Bush, but he doesn’t see that.  He has tunnel vision for Iraq, like a manic depressive, he babbles on and on about staying the course and things will get better, returning to the same topic over an over again.  For a while there, and even still now a little, I was embarassed to call my self an American.  However, at least some of the people have spoken and the power of the vote is strong.  Now maybe there will be agendas in Washington other than “Stay the course.”

Lets don’t get too myopic,there’s many angles from which to perceive reality.The cabal that’s been imposing their ‘reality’ on,literally,the world,have finally been seen by the progressive apparent majority at present and resoundingly trounced,nonviolently,out on the streets.There has been a silent majority observing the parade of corrupt events of the past 6yrs,that is,the unfolding nightmare we have found ourselves in and finally realized that they were Fed up and we had reached a break point,and IT broke.But even more so, what broke is a Wave,to put it in the words of Thom Englehart,that crashed upon our shores like the Tsunami that hit SriLanka and Indonesia.That WAVE is the progressive thought that’s been brewing in the greater body of humanity,finally for justice and the equalizing of the class paradigm,the idea that war for profit will no longer be ‘normal’.The idea that every human being is entitled to dignity and respect,no matter their race{we are all related}and no matter their financial ability,and that we all have it in us to care for each other.The slaughter of my species in another part of the world is the slaughter of my own humanity and history.And the wave that crashed on our shores woke us up to the knowledge that we cannot sit idly by,comfortably numb,and watch while the rest of the world cries, and is slaughtered and turned into the ‘killing fields’,by people deluded by greed and graduer,and power.This Is the Wave of a new humanity,the shift in our awarness that is necessary for our survival as a species.It is the time for our awakening,else we will only be waking up to our own death as a pretty amazing species and realizing too late that it might have been different.Now we have the opportunity to join ‘the Wave’ that is moving through humanity and recognize each other and our planet as interdependent,and to treat each other with dignity and respect and all that that means:to start,it means: ‘Breaking the habit of War’ {Al Gore’s words}.

Mr Bush maintains the insulated view that is bred in the bone of those for whom extreme wealth is the norm.
He cannot fathom, since he has never had to, what it is like to face the decision of whether to pay the heating bill or buy groceries; to find the time to take community college courses between working more than one minimum-wage job; or to find out in late middle age that your employer has failed to honor terms of a promised pension plan, and now ‘retirement’ years will be spent working whatever job can be found to pay the bills.
Everyone he is exposed to is not only well-employed, but financially secure as well.
As he so famously said (on video)when addressing the well-healed group attending a GOP fundraiser,  the top 1% income bracket are his constituency.

The sooner the Baker-Hamilton report is issued the better - Americans are dying every day - we cannot affort to procrastinate. Hopefully it will point the way to some resolution of the mess we are in - so let’s get it on the table and start formulating a plan to stop the bleeding!!!.

“WASHINGTON (AP) — Almost 79 million people voted in Tuesday’s election, with Democrats drawing more support than Republicans for the first time in a midterm election since 1990.
The overall turnout rate, reflecting a percentage of voting age population, was 40.4 percent, compared with 39.7 percent in 2002, according to an Associated Press vote count and an analysis by American University’s Center for the Study of the American Electorate.”

20 plus % of eligible American voters, confronted with a power mad president and the most corrupt congress in my lifetime had enough sense to throw a monkey wrench into the Rabid Right’s machinery of world domination. 19% of eligible American voters were so content with the Bush regime, they voted to stay the course. An illegal, immoral and insane war of aggression didn’t shake their faith in conservative ideology one bit.

60% of eligible voters didn’t even bother to vote.

The good news is, our quasi-democratic state has survived another year of relentless attack from the Rabid Right. The bad news is, our country has moved so far to the right, if the world was flat, we’d standing with our left foot on earth and our right foot dangling in space.

Good luck, America.