Lou Dobbs for President!

I'm an old lady, used to be very active in Perot's Reform Party. Just started this AM to explore ways I might spread the word with this message: Lou Dobbs for President -- came across your website while exploring MeetUp movement. Have you ever considered a third party alternative??

Read more at Conversation with Maggy!

Maggy, Cape Canaveral FL

LOU DOBBS FOR PRESIDENT

What's with this idiot who has been elected President of our country. He can't stay at home to even try to do the job! I think the Oval Office scares the Hell out of him every time he realizes that he follows in the footsteps of Clinton, his Father, Kennedy, Roosevelt and other names that he holds in awe! So he travels endlessly around the country reading speeches written by someone else and making funny grimaces with his mouth, trying to look homey and thoughtful! God! How did we get here?

Harry Wettig
Leisure World Arizona

Rational thinkers will recognize that one of the greatest boons to Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and to the advertising and Public Media industries has been the sensations of miracle, wonder drugs! Especially those related to Sex! Viagra, Cialis, etc, alone have rejuvenated, in fact spawned a whole new branch of, Urology!

The Vioxx scare has brought forth hundreds of Lawyer Pools armed with the latest in scare tactics, and intent on getting every possible name on a Class Action Suit against Merck! The resulting "Blue Ribbon Panel" of Industry Pundits has concluded that we should keep selling the Drug, BUT we should warn the patient!

Now examine the idiocy! These medications are given to patients only on Prescription of a Physician! The patient is not a party to the decision to prescribe. The Physician is charged with the resposibility of Diagnosis and selection of a treatment regimen! All advice about the efficacy of the medication and the Warnings of side effects should be addressed to the prescribing Physician!

The oft heard "advise your physician if you have ••••••" is another mark of idiocy. Most patients go to a physician to find out about the state of their health or disease, not to tell the pyysician what is wrong! Advertising of prescription medications has set up a competition for determining which will be the best prescription for my physician to write for me! The advertisement with the most sexy script and the 'prettiest' models will always win! Well, sometimes we might follow a Bob Dole in his sexual fantasy!

Certainly the Parmaceutical Companies have benefitted from the public advertising campaigns. I would guess, however that the patient has suffered from overtreatment and wrong treatment brought on by the patient Zeal to try the hottest new thing on the market. Certainly the Drug Cost per patient per disease has never been higher than now!

A rational response of that "Blue Ribbon Panel" would have been to recommend an end to Prescription Drug Advertising and to have no Black Box or any other kind of label warning to patients about the medication enclosed. This should be the purview and responsibility of the Physician and the Pharmacist working together.

Harry Wettig,

<< Just came across your site and I think it's the greatest. I do the only progressively oriented program on WRKO-AM in Boston and I think it would be swell to speak with you on the radio. My program is on Saturday evenings from 7PM-11PM Eastern and I could accommodate you within that time frame. >>

My response to Jay —

Jay, thank you for your message. I am very flattered by your interest in my views for your Radio Show. What you and other progressive Radio Talk Shows do to spread the message of rationality in Government is appreciated.

I will decline your offer to call in at this moment because I do not feel that my message has crystalized to the point of broadcasting it. I was truly disappointed in the outcome of the election. I feel that that this country's greatest threat at this time is from its own Government.

Certainly the Bush Administration has shown interest in only the top one percent of the population. It is clear to me that George Bush and his cronies are determined to destroy the Institutions that have made this such a great country for the majority of its population. They will destroy the system of Public education that has served us well. They will destroy the Social Security System which has become the bedrock for many at the time of retirement. The Health and Medical programs of the country will revert to full control of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and the larger Insurance Companies in control of a two class delivery system.

The list goes on, but the fact is that there has been no proposal, no action of this administration that benefits the 'little man'. And yet, those who would be most hurt by the Bush policies stand and support him. You don't see the 'millionaires, the captains of Industry' standing in the cheering lines. All that I see and hear in support of Bush are the Fervent Religious Zealots who are caught up in phrases like 'no child left behind' (which simply means that we will leave all of them to sink with no educational support!), and Personal Retirement Accounts (When the total amount of money that they could ever invest would not be a drop in the needed retirement bucket! And their Investment Advisors would have churned even that little bit until there is nothing left!) and Gay Marriage!

All of this comes from the Republican Party, which for my 80 years of living has stood for small government and freedom for the individual to care for himself and his family. Throughout my life I have defined Government as the collective response to a problem which cannot be resolved by individuals. I still think this is the definition of good government.

We do not need a Big Brother, or a GodFather to select those in favor and to tread heavily on those at the bottom of the barrel. This is what the Bush government offers. And those on the bottom of the barrel stand and cheer!

Maybe someday I will give you a call.

Harry Wettig
Leisure World Arizona

The fact that there have been no Postings since February does not mean that the Bush Asministration is doing it right. It reflects my complete frustration with Republicans and Democrats who either believe the supidity of Bush or who believe that he can not be successfully attacked!

The frustration is still there. Even more so! But, we have to resume the verbal attack on the administration to assure that at least a few people are getting a true message. Never has our population been so complacent — not even in the early years of Hitler did we hide our heads in the sand so deeply!

Here are a few thoughts that have come my way. Your comments, your input to this page will be appreciated.

Harry Wettig

A friend of mine writes:

<< I really don't spend a lot of time thinking about the generations to come, but when I see them--mine or others--with such joy and innocence, I know there is hope for the world. >>

Don, I do spend a lot of (most of) my time thinking about the future and what we are leaving for this bunch of joy and innocence! The future grows more dismal for the majority day by day! Those privileged by 'class' or income may fair better for a while. For those who can remember history, we have no problem fitting this scenario into many 'slots' of the world's past.

I had the opportunity in my travels through the south recently, to talk with many of my family, current parents of those young and joyful innocents. I am amazed and discouraged to find how many assume that we have a President and an administration and a congress and a Judiciary, that would certainly never lie to us. So many of them believe that the stories being told by Bush et al are true. They believe that we are improving our lot in life, that no child will be left behind, of secure retirement for everyone and for a war in Iraq that will be over when it's over and then the debt of the war will disappear! My reaction is, "How can they be so stupid?" And half the population believes this.

It is a discouraging time in History. I think we will figure a way to make the pedulum swing, but not with the help of the current leadership in the Democratic Party. How did they become so totally devoid of intelligent leadership! We have let the Extremist in religion, both the Muslim and the Christian Extremists, hi-jack the world. How do we discredit these and get control back in the hands of rational politicians. I hope that is not an oxymoron! If it is, then we are in real trouble!

How true, How true. I run into the same mentality when I visit my siblings and their children in Alabama. They are so mesmerized with their own goodness and telling other people how to live, they don't realize they're being raped. The post war generations are the "have it all" group. They were educated by cheap tuitions, government subsidies, no responsibility for parents who have Social Security and Medicare, Medicaid for handicapped siblings, and Nursing Homes for Grandparents. They are the beneficiaries of a support structure our generation built that produced a middle class that is the envy of the world. They're too involved in emotional issues they don't realize they are squandering their and their children's inheritance and future.

For a generation that's living in the "information age", they are the most uninformed and easily led (emotion over reason) generation this country has ever produced. Wait until they and their children finally understand what Bush really means by the "ownership" society. You and I lived in that society when ownership was reserved to the Rich and Powerful. Based upon our belief that at least a portion of the Nation's collective wealth should be used to give everyone a fair chance to achieve the American Dream., we established a platform that produced the most educated and materially rich generation the world has ever seen.

This is a Nation in Denial. It's in denial of it's rightful world leadership role, it's economy, the war in Iraq, and most damaging of all, the Christian Gospel. When the historians write of this era, the general theme will be "While America Slept".

Jim in Texas

PS: I have written and will mail tomorrow a letter to the DNC informing them I will not donate any more until they replace Howard Dean and move their thinking into the 21st Century.

Harry, I'm not quite as pessimistic as you, though in general I agree with your concerns. People have a lot of "stuff" that they didn't have in the old days and they confuse that with long term financial security I think. Many continue to confuse membership in a formal religion with goodness. Never has been any positive correlation between those two things in my view. Also, many Americans have come from deeply anti-intellectual ancestors. Growing up in Indiana I had many a person laugh in my face when I told them I was interested in math and science and becoming a doctor. We had three substantial factories in Richmond Ind and it had only 40,000 people. All the farm land around there was very productive. High school teachers were a joke because they had to have a night job just to make ends meet, while factory workers, even then, were averaging $50,000 a year with usually 2-3 months off.
Now that the world is catching up fast, America can't afford a heritage that sees it as innately better than everywhere else. Our schools are a mess (they always were but burgeoning factory work and agriculture made that seem unimportant), religious fundamentalism is again in vogue even as the clergy do a bustling business in child sexual abuse, money grubbing etc. There is a substantial likelihood that abortion will again become illegal and contraceptives disdained, even though it's very difficult for a great many families to get by unless they limit the number of children they have and keep both parents working outside the home.
I think the next three years are fraught with some real danger for the U.S. economy and personal rights. The financial impact of Bush's eight years in office alone could sink the country for decades. I guess I blame Bill Clinton as much as anyone because he let his rampant sexuality weaken the Democratic party to the point that Al Gore lost to Bush. Like you I'm hoping that someone other than the current apparent front runners among the Democrats comes forward. I don't think it can be a member of congress--that carries so much baggage it's almost impossible to win the presidency.
On the positive side, none of us will be around forever! I try to take a few deep breaths and be more positive than I really feel. Fate can have a way of changing things again and again.

Don

I must say what you are doing is great! Many people do not understand the dangerous times we live in. They only care that their party is in power. I can only hope that educated Rep's see through the lies of the Bush Dictatorship. I am a Democrat and I have never ad a problem with the Republican Party until now, but these people who are in power are not even Republicans, they are something else, evil even. Most republicans do not even know what is going on due to the shabby stories of the news media. I hope that more people have an opportunity to view your site and I hope that you can still be free to post your 1st amendment views on the internet.

Sincerely,

Ally, Dem. from Texas

..... It seems to me that even the mundane chores of government are not being carried out. At the same time great energy in Washington is given to professing piety, regulating what goes on in people's bedrooms, and interfering in end of life issues.

Anne

Harry, I agree with everything that you said. I believe that Bush controls that half of the population through religion and lies which largely go unchallenged. Potential challengers, such as the press and potential political leaders, are too intimidated or see themselves as part of the new
elite. We may be a world power in our own eyes, but I think most of the rest of the world has a realistic view of our situation and our likely future. Perhaps Bush will overreach, as Nixon did but I doubt it.

Another "9/11" event will only increase his power.

Anne

Anne, thank you for your letter expressing concern for the functions of our government. I was not aware of the decisions and the actions of the Department of Agriculture concerning the recent testing for Mad Cow Disease! I agree with you, however, that we are at a low point in the history of government agencies working for the benefit of all citizens. The processes of government are being buried in the need to serve large corporations, the need to assure control to those who already have power and the effort to subjugate the great middle class that has made this a great country to the dictates of the 2% rich.

This administration has as its major goal the destruction of the education system which has come close to providing an opportunity for all. Bush does not want that! The administration objective is to destroy Social Security which levels the playing field for many at the lower end of the economic scale to have a reasonably secure end of life. Successful retirement is for the Rich only! The administration will continue to saddle the broad population at the lower end of the economic scale with taxes to pay for a war meant to place major oil resources in the hands of the rich! The war is being fought by the sons and daughters of that lower economic level family and paid for by these same families. Isn't it ironic, that even these funds, meant to pay the cost of war, are then subjected to the political graft of companies like Haliburton which are controlled by that rich 2%.

Bush is promoting our return to a 2 class society! Half of the population of this country is helping him! How many of them will qualify for the "Bush Upper Class?" Unbelievable!

Harry Wettig

Once in a while I like to ask my Quicken program to make a few analyses for me, just to keep it on its toes! I did that this morning! I really had no reason to do it, but I decided I would like to know what has happen with the coming in and the going out sides of the ledger over the past 5 years. Recognizing that there were two of us in 2000 and only one of me now, I used those dates (the first 6 months of the years 2000 and 2005) to see if the change in administration of the country might have had any influence on cash flow. Here is some of what I found:

My Total income is down by 44%. This is adjusted for the loss of Social Security Income which my wife had. I do not get any Social Security myself. It is also adjusted for the loss of a very small income from Al derecho Creations. I don't do any creating for profit these days!

My total expenses are down for this 6 months period by 17%. This is surprising when I look at individual items such as Clothing which is down by 88%, and Gifts are down by 49% and Charity by 33%. But most of these occur in the last half of the year. The House has cost me 56% more to operate (Leisure World Fees, no doubt a good part of that!) and I notice that there are Misc items, which I used to never have, which are up by 75%! What is a Misc. item?

Some of the other reports are very revealing! For instance my Grocery bill is down by less than 1% and my Dining Out expenses have decreased by only 37%. This may explain why I have gained a pound or two over the past five years! Most remarkable for a 'party lover' such as I, is that the Liquor Bill has dropped through the floor! Down100%, which means I had better go check my stock! This is accompanied by an increase in Entertainment and Recreation of 4%!

Such things as Auto expenses have decreased dramatically this year since I have not been able to travel. My Taxes show no sign of being reduced, in fact they show an increase of 5% so far this year on an income which has decreased by 44%. Out of pocket Medical expenses, even with the same coverage adjusted to my own expenses, has increased by 22%!

While I feel very fortunate to have an adequate income to do the things I want to do, I notice that the level of income from investments has gone into the Bushes! This income has tanked out at 40% decrease! Who would want to put their trust in that kind of performance to support a retirement account?

So the answer to the question is, NO, I am not as well off as I would have been in a continuuing 2000 mode! And, yes I do believe the problem is in the Bushes! And, I know it will not get any better!

Senator McCain

I have been a Republican for more than 50 years! I believe in small government that keeps its nose out of the business of the individual and lets him make his own decisions about his money, his family, his work and his love life!

In 6 short years George Bush has destroyed that philosphy which has been the basic message of the Party. He has come close to destroying the institutions of government, fashioned by debate between Republicans and Democrats and supported by the vast majority of Americans, which make our standard of living in this country the envy of the world! The man is no Republican. He is an agent of big business and the very wealthy who wish to live as 'Lords of All!' they survey! We decided in the 20s that this is not the Republican Party!

Now, you and the congress are considering legislation to deny medical care to thiose in greates need. You are, at the bidding of the president, proposing to restrict access to Nursing Home Care for those in greatest need. I am not a bleeding heart liberal, but I have lived long enough to know that you and the Bush Republicans are dangerously close to reviving the anarchy of the 1930s as you create a two class society.

It appears that I will have to abandon my beliefs about government and join the millions of others in my party in voting for Democrats to regain sanity in our leadership. Government cannot be oppressive! Government is for all of the people, not just the Cheneys, or the Bushes, or the McCains, or for the Wettigs either! It is time for my Web Site to become active again. I hope you will visit from time to time — << RepublicansAgainstBush.info >>

Harry Wettig

To John McCain, Jon Kyl

With Iraq, Border 'leakage', Health Service costs out of sight, the division within the population at an all time high — this President comes up with Gay Marriage as the most important use of the time of our Congress! Smokescreen! Stir up the Gay Bashers!

And you let him get away with it!

It is time for you to represent the interest of all of the population of this great State and get the congress on track to solve some real problems facing us.

Harry Wettig

An Open Letter to my Congressmen —

I received a letter today from General Wes Clark in support of a Bill (S-2178) which proposes to protect another small part of our inalienable right to individual privacy by making criminal the sale of telephone records. This traditional value of the Republican Party, as I remember these, is being abrogated by the government now in control of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches of Government. This controll is exercised under the name of the Republican Party!

Now we find that our Attorney General and the Treasury Department are skirting around the law to examine banking records of private citizens and corporations and this is openly supported by our Vice President Cheney, who seems to be the leader in these attacks upon our Civil liberties.

Never has our Nation had a more dangerous threat to our continued 'democracy' than it now faces. The Executive Branch has declared itself omnipotent and the Congress has stepped aside in agreement. The Congress has given the Executive Branch complete power over the Judiciary. The voice of the people is being ignored!

It will take time for the people to organize to take back the control of the congress but it will be done. The time will be hastened if those members of Congress who can see this danger will rise and stand with their people to call for an immediate change. I urge you to look at your stance over the past several years. Where do you stand in the battle between the Constitution and the desires of this president? That is what we, the people, are now evaluating.

The Constitutional separation and distribution of Power with appropriate checks and balances is under attack! The people are slowly but surely getting the message. I hope that there are some of our Legislators who will join them in this fight. This is not a Party issue. It is a question of the survival of our system of government. The enemy is our elected representative government!

Think about it!

Harry Wettig

Why castigate the New York Times for breaching Security. They revealed the illegal actions of the Bush Administration. They are in the business of revealing, of publishing, information of interest to the Public. They have no responsibility for Security. They do not have access to secure data through a Security clearance. If they get information it must come from someone who has access. It must come from a member of the Bush administration who has such clearance.

If Bush wants to keep secrets he should begin to look at the people he has assembled to serve him. He should also ask why these loyal subjects would suddenly begin to betray their omnipotent leaders!

This current witch hunt by the Republicans in our Congress is further evidence of the collective stupidity we have elected to our government. When there are no checks and balances within the three branches of our government we become subject to the dictatorship of those who seek power. This Congress is an embarassment in the history of our government! They should not try to blame the News Media for their failures in moral and law abiding government.

Harry Wettig

Thank you for voicing how I feel. I was born and raised a Republican but am thoroughly disgusted. I don't see myself voting Republican again for a long, long time because the Party is just totally gone and I don't see it turning around anytime soon.

Editor's Note: Except that with our hard work and raised voices we may demand the return of truly Republican Values — not the false Religious Right Wing opression that we are finding with the Bushes! It will take many voices raised in high places.

Senator McCain: It is bad enough having an Idiot for President but to give him free reign to appoint others like himself to represent our Nation is unconscionable! John Bolton is a Hot Head who does not understand diplomacy. He has done nothing to help our position in the world during his tenure as a Bush 'schill' in the United Nations!

It is difficult enough to believe in the UN as a world wide quasi-governing body without being reminded daily that it is filled with such asinine appointees as this! Please, move him out of our political life! We have to put him in the same pot as Wolferwitz, Perle, Cheney and Rumsfeld as the most dangerous terrorists in our government. He isn't as smart as the others but no less dangerous.

I don't usually attack individuals with this vitriolic language, but this man has earned it!

Harry Wettig

Isn't it true that a good CEO is necessary to have a prosperous company on the world exchanges today?

Isn't it true that a good CEO is going to decrease the cost of doing business as part of his effort to create a profit for the stockholders.

Isn't it true that the CEO who can reduce the amount paid to the workers in his company while increasing their output will be judged successful?

Isn't it true that the majority of individual stockholders in these companies are not workers but are in the top 5 percent of wealthiest people in the world?

Isn't it true that the objective of the CEO to make money for the stockholders is opposed to the best interest of the worker who needs to earn from a steady job?

Then why does it seem that the majority of workers in this country are now supporting the Bush economic policies which favor only the CEO and his stockholders?

The fact is that a healthy Stock Market is a barometer of fair weather for the owners of stock but is a sign that the worker is being exploited to add to the wealth of the few!

Harry Wettig

I stumbled across your web page this evening. It's taken a lot of courage for you to post such a page. Your words ring such truth during these recent years of hazy propaganda. I am a Democrat. I've never been paticularly crazy angry with Republican Policy but Bush has polarized this country, and this world, in such a way as I have never seen it, and I am fearful that his mad spending may slide us into an economic depression. I don't believe folks have any idea how much credit debt we have. Any way, I'd just like to thank you for your bravery, and I hope to see some good candidates, Republican and Democrat, step up and lead this country in a more decent and professional manner than this crazy Bush Regime has done.

Yours in Peace,
Lisa from Memphis TN

Editors note:

Lisa, thank you for visitiing my WebSite. I wish I could do more! It is difficult to understand how my Republican Party became so corrupted, but it should be a warming to us all. This can happen to any politician, to any group when we stop watching them. It may be that Bush has already mortally wounded our country.

Mr. Flake: I am Harry Wettig, a resident of your Congressional District and a life long (50 years) Republican!. Mr. Flake, you should vote against the extension of funding for the continuance of the war in Iraq. This is a futile effort to meddle in the internal affairs of a foreign country. The benefit is obvious to the Oil Interests, the Military/industrial interests and to the personal ambitions of the president. There is no benefit to the citizen and none whatsoever to the 140,000 in our military who are in harms way on orders of a misguided commander in chief.

The War in Iraq should be brought to an immediate Halt. De-funding any increase, and authorizing expenditures only for the removal of our forces from harms way is the only way to do this! I will monitor the voting. Thnak you.

Harry Wettig

I had not thought it would be necessary to start the 2008 campaign so early in 2007, but the current events tell us that this administration is dangerous! This president is determined to establish himself as 'KING GEORGE!"

We cannot wait for a vote to express our displeasure. We must use all channels of communication with the Congessional Branch of government to stop his actions before he does irrepairable damage.

Above all, keep in touch wih your legislators. Even if you have a McCane and a Kyl, tell them that they are wrong!

For those of you who don't agree or don't care, remember that you were warned!

Harry Wettig

Paul Wolferwitz, author and leader of the plan to attack Iraq from the late 1970s through the administrations of both Bushies, and now President of the World Bank, has surfaced in his true form. It seems that Mr. Wolferwitz, as he says, "".. made a mistake, for which I am sorry." Mr Wolfowitz has faced calls to resign after admitting he helped Shaha Riza, his partner, win a promotion to a high-paying job at the international lender. Mr Wolfowitz has apologised for his handling of the situation which has drawn strong criticism from bank staff.

Despite the crisis he has won the backing of US President George Bush, who praised his efforts to "lift people out of poverty across the world".

But the scandal has weakened Mr Wolfowitz at a time when he is facing controversy over an anti-corruption drive that has led to the suspension of aid to some countries. This man, in my opinion, has been a thorn in the side of democratic principles from the time of his collusion with Perle, Rumsfeld, Cheney and others to present a plan to achieve control of the world's major oil supplies back in the Reign of Ronald Regan! Regan rejected the plan, as did the first George Bush when encouraged by this group to destroy Hussein and Iraq in the Kuwait encounter.

Wolferwits is not a vocal man and will have a hard time diverting 'heat' from himself into praise for the Bank. It is true that the Bank has done some good things in fighting Global Poverty. I doubt that these are the result of leadership by this president of the Bank. It will be interesting to see how much support he gets from the White House as the time approaches for the joint World Bank and IMF spring meetings in Washington. The current call from those in the Bank is for Mr. Wolferwitz to resign in order to restore some confidence in the ability of the Bank to promote good governance in the countries they are attempting to inspire.

Scandals and mismanagement are everywhere in the history of this Bush administration. We must assure that this is the end when we elect a new president in 2008. All associated with the would be King George must be defeated!

Harry Wettig, 13 April, 2007

One of the tenets of the family I was raised in was "Something to Lose". A financial loss had lesser effect because with hard work and thrift it could be recovered. Loss of character, integrity, dignity and reliability of one's "word" was a severe loss because it was seldom recovered. This tenet also applies to our country and we should seriously consider it as it applies to our overall posture in today's world.

On this Memorial Day we are engaged in a war 65% of the country disagrees with. We have the greatest Armed Forces in the world who voluntarily assumed the task of defending us and have made sacrifices way beyond the call of duty. Unfortunately, they are frequently used as political pawns by politicians and fellow travelers of both political parties. The root cause of this dilemma is a failure of Goverrnment.

We are now fighting the third war since WWII without declaring war. This is cover for gutless politicians who want to shield the civilian population from sacrifice and interruption of the materialistic economy. This dereliction of duty allows the pain of war to be born entirely by the armed forces and their families rather than the entire country, as it should be. It also assigns responsibility for the conflict to the Exeuctive Branch making it an Administration policy rather than the country's will.

There is pain in executing an official Declaration of War; however, it ligitimizes and dignifies the cause our Armed Forces die for. This will relieve some of the mental trauma suffered by the Vietnam Veterans and the increased incidence of such by veterans of this war. It's pathetic to see a dysfunctional congress trying to regain the birthright it so willingly gave up.

Another and perhaps the most lasting effect of our ineffective government is we are no longer a country governed by laws. If we were, we would not have immigration problems we have now and are seemingly unable to solve.

When the Constitution was signed, Ben Franklin remarked (paraphrased) "we have created a Republic with liberty and freedom. It also contains the ingrediants for it's destruction". Those might be the rights, if lost, we will never get back.

Pray for our country, our troops and their families,

Jim in Texas on Memorial Day 2007

The New York Times today reported on two decisions that rebuff the efforts of the Bush Administration to impose its own brand of Law. "... the judges said vulgar words are just as often used out of frustration or excitement, and not to convey any broader obscene meaning. “In recent times even the top leaders of our government have used variants of these expletives in a manner that no reasonable person would believe referenced sexual or excretory organs or activities.”

Adopting an argument made by lawyers for NBC, the judges then cited examples in which Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney had used the same language that would be penalized under the policy. Mr. Bush was caught on videotape last July using a common vulgarity that the commission finds objectionable in a conversation with Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain. Three years ago, Mr. Cheney was widely reported to have muttered an angry obscene version of “get lost” to Senator Patrick Leahy on the floor of the United States Senate....... "

Another Panel of Judges " .... in separate decisions dismissed war crimes charges against two of the detainees...." being held in Guantanamo. "The decisions did not turn on the guilt or innocence of the detainees, but rather made essentially the same determination that the military had not followed procedures to declare the detainees “unlawful enemy combatants,” which is required for the military commission to hear the cases." " .... Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the senior Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said after the first of the two rulings Monday that the decision raised significant issues and could prompt Congress to re-evaluate the legal rights of detainees, including Congress’s decision last year to revoke the rights of detainees to file habeas corpus suits to challenge their detentions. “The sense I have is that there’s an unease, an uncomfortable sense about the whole Guantánamo milieu,” Mr. Specter said, adding, “There’s just a sense of too many shortcuts in the whole process.” "

These two decisions accuse the Bush administration of the continueing [ractice of disregard for the rulke of law and the substitution of their own interpretation of how law shoould be enforced. The Attorney General, is in complete agreement with the Bush Camp. He is completely out of touch with the Courts of the land in interpretation and enforcement. He supports the efforts of the iPresident to establish his Monarchy in control of our lives.

Harry Wettig, June 5, 2007

I also used to be a Republican voter until I watched this well planned take over of our once true Democracy take the White House away from the people and hand over our tax dollars, and our treasury to large corp interests who will make certain we never have health care for our children. We are lied to about health care in America. We can afford it if the Insurance Corp are put out of the "profit making business" at the expense of the lives of our kids. Our infant mortality rate of66 in well developed countries is shameful and is another crime on American children and families. We are made to fear it as bad health care when it only takes away the profit margins of large corp greed.
This administration watched while it's citizens drowned in New Orleans right before the eyes of the world, and we forgot to be ashamed as our weaknesses were exposed to the world. Government corruption is now the norm and we forgot to be ashamed. If ever impeachment was necessary this is the time and this is the person impeachment was meant for.
Bush tortured in our name, began an illegal war in Iraq, that by Constitutional measurement is a crime, and pardoned "Scooter" Libby for what was his own Treasonous criminal behavior! Isn't this the same as if Nixon pardoned his lawyer? Bush ignores Congressional questioning of his abuse of power and the media doesn't even assume this is worthy to follow up on. Blackwater is becoming the new Bush privatized army, paid for at tax payers expense and no one seems upset or embarrassed.
Habeas Corpus is no more and we aren't even scared enough to be screaming in the streets because if we do this we'll be arrested if Bush is speaking in the area. Media ownership is deregulated and so a few chosen Conservative fanatics rule what we see on TV and hear on radio, and we haven't noticed yet. Perhaps when we are in to world war 3 we will pay attention? God help us all.
Your site gives me hope I can become a Republican again, but not until the fanatical rule is swept away from the Constitutional laws that it hopes to replace by biblical rule.

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