The Worst President Ever?
An excerpt from a really good pieceChristian Jihadists
I will not belabor this point, except to say that, at the very time Bush berates religious fundamentalists aborad, he has breached the wall between religion and state here at home. He has jimmied open this Pandora's Box and there will be hell to pay for it eventually -- as there has been everywhere on earth where this was done.
All the above, and more, is why I contend that George W. Bush is the worst president EVER. Hands down, no one else even comes close.
Herbert Hoover may have trigger the Great Depression, but he didn’t invade another nation on false pretenses, or authorize torture of prisoners, or try to stack the courts. Franklin Roosevelt did try to stack the courts but Congress said “no” and he said “okay,” and went on the save the world from fascism and secure the lives of America's elderly by creating Social Security - which Bush now wants to subvert.
Johnson and Nixon did fight an illegal and immoral war but Johnson lifted millions out of poverty and got the Civil Rights Act passed, much to his own party’s determent. Nixon tried to subvert the Constitution but was caught and thrown out of office before he could succeed.
But I fear it’s too late to stop George W. Bush and his band of rightwing revolutionaries. We have let them get to far along now to stop them. We have let them neutralize too many constitutional checks and balances. And, once they deep-six the filibuster it truly will be game over.
Yes, the Democrats have begun to fight, but too little and now too late. The only recourse soon will be public demonstrations of the kind and size not seen here since the 1970s.
The only question is are there still enough of us out here who give damn.
By Stephen Pizzo
3 Comments:
I think one of the reasons that democrats are not in the majority and are losing ground is because the party seems to be more concerned by Christians then terrorist. I hope that is not true but it is becomeing the template in which most americans look at democrats.
I don't think most americans are going to think it is safe to vote democratic until they convince people they are serious about terrorist.
The post was about the disaster that is The Bush Regime and the good Kool-aid drinkers focus on terrorists.
As long a Bush keeps them afraid of "Terror", they'll sacrifice whatever he asks.
I guess the phrase "Christian Jihadist" threw me off the topic of the article.
Now that I read more clearly the article I feel that there is a better way to change the direction of the government.
Instead of looking backwards to the marches and protest lets come up with some ideas of our own. Lets give the country something to vote for and find a way to convince them we take national security seriously.
In the article he says that we have let them go on to long and that it is looking hopeless. The government was pretty much under democratic control for 40 years before republicans rustled control. This is a longer time then we face today. Whether you agreed or not they had ideas. Tax cuts, term limits, missle defence, win the cold war, the contract with america.
We need some big ideas.
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