Screaming Points

Bush, the Scholar: "People Are Poor Because They Are Lazy"

Atrios found this fine report, full of chilling economic detail:

GLOCOM Platform - Opinions

excerpt:

"At Harvard Business School, thirty years ago, George Bush was a student of mine. I still vividly remember him. In my class, he declared that "people are poor because they are lazy." He was opposed to labor unions, social security, environmental protection, Medicare, and public schools. To him, the antitrust watch dog, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Securities Exchange Commission were unnecessary hindrances to "free market competition." To him, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was "socialism." Recently, President Bush's Federal Appeals Court Nominee, California's Supreme Court Justice Janice Brown, repeated the same broadside at her Senate hearing. She knew that her pronouncement would please President Bush and Karl Rove and their Senators. President Bush and his brain, Karl Rove, are leading a radical revolution of destroying all the democratic political, social, judiciary, and economic institutions that both Democrats and moderate Republicans had built together since Roosevelt's New Deal."

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Don't forget: Ken Lay got your Social Security money - and he gave it to Bush - who will spend it on TV ads to convince you he knows his ass from a hole in the ground.

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Kerry, the Hope of the World (?!?) [props to WhiskeyBar]

Guardian Unlimited | US elections 2004 | The hope of the world

excerpt:

"Nothing in world politics would make more difference to the rest of us than a change in the White House.The free world has never had a stronger interest in the result of a US election than it has in the defeat of Mr Bush. Senator Kerry carries the hopes not just of millions of Americans but of millions of British well-wishers, not to mention those of nations throughout Europe and the world. "

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from busybusybusy.com, a Powell Democracy haiku:

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WorkingForChange-Four wars and a cloud of dust

David Corn of The Nation magazine developed a wonderful metaphor for this experience. It goes like this: Two kids are playing, and one says, "I'm gonna take this stick and whack that hornets' nest."

Second kid says, "Don't hit the hornets' nest."

"I will."

"Don't hit the hornets' nest."

"Will so."

"Don't hit the hornets' nest."

Kid hits the hornets' nest, all the hornets fly out and start stinging, kid turns and says: "Now you have to help me deal with all these hornets. It would be irresponsible and disloyal if you didn't."

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Meanwhile, the Winter of Love continues in San Francisco:

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And what the heck is going on in Austin? Has Governor Goodhair really been schtupping his Lt. Gov? And Perry was "under" Bush back in the day.

Somebody's gotta tell me: Is Bush gay? This whole Constitutional Amendment thing is just a way to convince his Dad (and the evil Barb) that he's a man's man?

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They stood in line overnight, in the pouring rain, in the nasty San Francisco cold - just to get the chance to be an American, with full rights and responsibilities, just like the rest of us.

If you're against this, you're Anti-Marriage.

You're Anti-Love.

This is family. And community. And commitment.

This is a good thing.

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Ted Rall on the Return of some Bad People, thanks to Bush:

Yahoo! News - NEW BOSS, WORSE THAN THE OLD BOSS

"Tearing a page from the playbook of the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites)--Republican justices ran out the clock in Bush v. Gore, deliberating four days so that there wouldn't be sufficient time to complete the Florida ballot recount--the Bush Administration refused Aristide's frantic requests to send U.S. troops to restore order to Haiti. "There is, frankly, no enthusiasm right now for sending in military or police forces to put down the violence that we are seeing," said Colin Powell (news - web sites). But hours after Aristide left for Africa--"kidnapped," according to Congresswoman Maxine Waters, by American commandos--the marines were on their way."

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Aristide won 92% of the vote in a clean election.

Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | Why they had to crush Aristide

"An exhaustive and convincing report by the International Coalition of Independent Observers concluded that "fair and peaceful elections were held" in 2000, and by the standard of the presidential elections held in the US that same year they were positively exemplary."

"...Worst of all, he remained indelibly associated with what's left of a genuine popular movement for political and economic empowerment. For this reason alone, it was essential that he not only be forced from office but utterly discredited in the eyes of his people and the world. As Noam Chomsky has said, the "threat of a good example" solicits measures of retaliation that bear no relation to the strategic or economic importance of the country in question. This is why the leaders of the world have joined together to crush a democracy in the name of democracy. "

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You may hear Theragesic Salesman and White House spokesman Sean Hannity say that the most evil thing Democrats have done is to (gasp) *politicize the war on terror*.

Well, next time he says that, someone should phone the little puke up and read them this story:

from the Associated Press:

Bush Ads Use World Trade Center Imagery

WASHINGTON - With a huge $10.5 million downpayment, President Bush's re-election committee rolled out its first campaign commercials on Wednesday, using images of the destroyed World Trade Center to claim "steady leadership in times of change."

"What sees us through tough times? Freedom, faith, families, and sacrifice," says one commercial, as clips roll of the Sept. 11, 2001, wreckage, a flag being raised, children saying the Pledge of Allegiance, parishioners at a church, parents with a new baby and firefighters appear.

The campaign had said it would not use Sept. 11, 2001, for political reasons, yet footage from the aftermath of the terrorists attacks is shown in the ads.

Campaign manager Ken Mehlman said the day was a defining moment that led to Bush's accomplishments, including passage of the Patriot Act and the war in Afghanistan that eliminated the Taliban rule. "These are important parts of this administration's record," he said.

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Posted by ScreamingPoints at March 3, 2004 10:58 PM