It is now only too obvious that this current administration is addicted to lying and almost about every word that comes out of their mouths is a lie. No longer should we waste our energy worrying about whether they are telling the truth. Our default position should be that they are guilty as charged and we can stop wasting time debating whether or not to impeach or whether they will change. The answers are yes and never. They will need to be impeached so that there will never be another power grab as the one going on now.
If you aren't frightened by it then you are not paying attention. There are good people, like Ray McGovern, the former CIA analyst and John Kaminski from Maine who have had really good insights into the trouble we are in and have come away with hope in their hearts. They are far better people than I am. I am frightened by what I see.
One part of me says, get rid of everyone of them. No one who has served in government and taken money from any corporation should ever be allowed to serve the public. You cannot have two masters.
If money is one of your masters, then you cannot serve the people. The people must come first and with that as their oath along with their oath to defend and protect the constitution, public officials whether a dog catcher or a postal employee or a congress person or the president, needs to take such an oath and to be held to it.
I don't care if there are complementary foundations that would like to offer help to the candidate. We should all pay for the campaigns and maybe then they will not be as long and as exhausting. Maybe they just don't serve our national good at all.
Conversely, we could decide to put all public servants on a service contract. In other words, you apply for the job, you have other candidates for the job and we all interview you and get to make a selection based on a popular vote, e.g., as in a democracy.
But the point is, could we have elected in a fair election, a president such as George W. Bush? Most likely mistakes are made but then others elections would not be tied to his and we could have impeached him 4 years ago and not let this madness continue unabated this long.
I know it is easy to place blame on all of us for not stopping them. We have been watching a very long train having a very big collision. We do not know if we are going to get hit by it so we are scared to move or to change anything. No matter what rock you look under there is damage to this country from this administration and it is just time to look and pray for those who will truly represent us and not the people looking to get even richer than they are now.
If a woman who worked in Iraq and was gang raped there by her fellow employees, i.e., Halliburton employees, and cannot be properly defended and protected, then we none of us has the luxury of going out on the streets to protest alone. We need a critical mass. The best protected still of that political mass is to vote. To vote for Dennis Kucinich in the primaries because you know he is right and no matter how little time he has had to speak out nationally, you know he is right.
He is right to urge you to vote your heart and give to the country the gift of a real change for the better. Not just change for change's sake but change that means the course of this country will be re-routed to conform to the rules and laws set down in our constitution.
When our government has used the obvious course of all dictators, to lie to the public, we know we are going in the wrong direction but we also need to not just be promised a change in direction but a way to get to the new goals.
I can think of no more reliable way to make sure we are heard than at this point to vote. Not just to vote but to work as poll watchers and other election day officials so we can also be assured that all the votes are counted fairly.
As a way of changing what they used to say in Chicago on election day: Get the vote out and count it fairly.
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Righteous, Deborah. I'm with you all the way, every word!
Have you had enough of petitions to congress and the President, rallies, and protests that have not worked? The Republican party and their conservative members appears insulated from the public and unresponsive to the public. However their contributors do not appear insulated from the public and can collapse under pressure to a withering telephone campaign threatening mass boycotts of their products until they get their friends at the GOP to do what we want.
Would you and your organization consider joining these telephone campaigns and spreading the word to your membership, and fellow progressive groups? I have created these campaigns to peacefully take back America. After you have made these phone calls please send me email to info@democratz.org with the subject CALLED.
Thank you.
http://www.democratz.org
Get as many people to make these 3 phone calls.
Call GOP contributor and war contractor General Electric Corporation at
800 386 1215 or 203 373 2211 and tell the person who answers, that you want
the GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt to get Bush to end the war in Iraq and then Bush
resign with Cheney and until that happens you will not buy any GE products
and that you will tell your friends about this.
Call GOP contributor Rite Aid Corporation at 1-800-325-3737
and tell the person to get the CEO to get the congress to enact HR 676
Single payer universal health care and repeal Medicare Part D and place
the drug benefit in Medicare Part B covering 80% of drugs with no extra
premiums, no extra deductibles, no means tests, no coverage gaps, and
remove the means test for Medicare Part B and until that happens, you
won't buy ANYTHING from Rite Aid Pharmacies and that you will tell
your friends about this.
Call GOP contributor Wendy's restaurants at 614 764-3553 and Tell the
person in public relations that you want their CEO to get the congress to help
enact a $10/HR MIN. WAGE into law and until this happens you will not go to a
Wendy's Restaurant and that you will tell your friends about this..
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