Sick Kids Pay The Price For Bushco

Coming from President Brainless, this is not surprising. And frankly, at a certain point, I have to state that I don’t know why people are outraged any more (this is a prior post on this subject).

If it isn’t obvious by now that George W. Bush is a delusional, narcissistic, arrogant psychotic, then it never will be, and this latest SCHIP nonsense is typical. The only remotely sane policy he has advocated of late is a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, and of course that was hooted down by his wingnut base (what’s more, he could not have come up with that on his own; he was told to stand for it because it suits the cheap labor needs of his corporatist constituency, the only one that matters in the Republican Party).

Is it beyond repugnant that he is making the rules to qualify for children’s health insurance through SCHIP more cumbersome, since trying to underfund the program to the point of killing it in favor of private carriers has resulted in the current stalemate, requiring (in his juvenile mind) this latest fit of pique as noted by Atrios? Absolutely (and particularly now, when Congress is in recess).

But you can say the same thing about his policies and positions towards a whole host of other issues, most notably the Iraq war, with the ever-mounting evidence that our presence in that country is fueling the insurgency that is responsible for the slaughter of our military as well as innocent Iraqis, making it impossible to achieve anything approximating a stable government or anything attributable to a functioning, sovereign nation (water, electricity, other utilities, a police department, an ability to build and repair infrastructure without the risk of getting killed, etc., etc., etc.).

Here is my point; every man, woman and child in this country (including your humble narrator) must re-dedicate him or herself to the cause of impeaching not only George W. Bush, but Dick Cheney also (the fine bloggers at The Daily Kos have, quite rightly, been pushing for the impeachment of Alberto Gonzales, which is so obvious that it should be almost unnecessary to mention it – almost – but we need to go beyond that).

Oh, and as a reminder, here is one reason why Cheney has to go also (his utterly correct analysis of what would happen if we unilaterally invaded Iraq in 1994, notwithstanding this “coalition of the willing” BS, except for Great Britain, courtesy of MoveOn.org – again, surprised that this has not raised more of an outcry - I know Dick Polman of the Inquirer noted it a few days ago - but then again, this didn’t either within our bought-and-paid-for corporate media)…



And let's not forget to Impeach Cheney First (and here's more ammunition; the long and short of it is that Deadeye Dick admits to having memos pertaining to unauthorized FISA spying, but typically for Bushco, he refuses to turn them over to Congress).

The fact that George W. Bush is doing what he can to deny health coverage to 5 million (and let’s think about that number for a minute – 5 million!) children in this country is the cherry on the icing on the proverbial cake concerning this guy.

And it’s long past time to pick it up and smash him in the face with it.

Update 9/20/07: What a fucking idiotmisinformed person. (sorry for the bad word, but I can't think of a more polite way to communicate how I feel about this)

Update 9/22/07: This is a killer of a post by DemFromCT at The Daily Kos on this.

(This is probably another opportunity for some “Back Talk”; if not, I’ll put it up here again anyway).

Finally, I’d like to share with you the following that was Emailed to me last night (and I sincerely hope the Democratic Party “leadership” in Washington, among others, reads it carefully in hope that it dictates their response to the “magical September” report by Gen. Petraeus Dick Cheney on “the splurge”)…

"We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing its end ... But I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been rethroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless."

It would have been nice if John Kerry, running for president in 2004, had uttered these words or something similar since it would have shown him to be a visionary statesman (he may be that, but that did not come across nearly as much as it should have in the campaign).

No, what you just read was communicated by the 16th president of the United States as The Civil War started to wind down, as horrific and as bloody an affair as mankind has ever seen (and at the advent of reconstruction in the South and industrial retrenchment that led to The Gilded Age of corporate robber barons).

Smart fellow, that Abraham Lincoln…