Thursday, January 15, 2009
Farewell Good Bye Adieu
Tonight is President Bush's Farewell address to the nation. In my heart of hearts I would love it to be an apology--for an uncalled for war, for disregarding human rights and civil rights, for shredding the Constitution, for redefining justice, torture and the executive office, for continuing policies that have laid our economy in ruins.
But based on his last formal press conference, he will take responsibility for nothing--it was not his fault that he relied on faulty intelligence that lead to our preemptive invasion of Iraq --Operation Iraqi Freedom (and our development of more hatred towards and potential threats against America); that FEMA did respond correctly to Katrina (just tell that to the still displaced people of New Orleans and Gulf Coast).
His administration's legacy is one of total disregard for human rights and civil rights, an administration that operated without being accountable to the people of the United States which it was to serve, an administration that was flagrant in its disregard of the Constitution, of laws that Congress passed (signing statements,anyone), and of decisions of the Supreme Court not to mention international laws.
I will watch his address tonight and hope that he will be held accountable for his disservice to America.
But based on his last formal press conference, he will take responsibility for nothing--it was not his fault that he relied on faulty intelligence that lead to our preemptive invasion of Iraq --Operation Iraqi Freedom (and our development of more hatred towards and potential threats against America); that FEMA did respond correctly to Katrina (just tell that to the still displaced people of New Orleans and Gulf Coast).
His administration's legacy is one of total disregard for human rights and civil rights, an administration that operated without being accountable to the people of the United States which it was to serve, an administration that was flagrant in its disregard of the Constitution, of laws that Congress passed (signing statements,anyone), and of decisions of the Supreme Court not to mention international laws.
I will watch his address tonight and hope that he will be held accountable for his disservice to America.
Labels: Bush's legacy, W
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Is History Important?
Not according to our sitting (lame duck) president:
"I'll be frank with you. I don't spend a lot of time really worrying about short-term history. I guess I don't worry about long-term history, either, since I'm not going to be around to read it -- (laughter) -- but, look, in this job you just do what you can. The thing that's important for me is to get home and look in that mirror and say, I did not compromise my principles. And I didn't. I made tough calls. And some presidencies have got a lot of tough decisions to make --"
Not only did he not supposedly not compromise his principles he also was results and reform oriented:
"I think we brought a results-oriented government, and we insisted that people focus on results, not process, and on a variety of reforms."
Please Mr.President, tell that to the displaced people from Katrina, or the people of Iraq or the soldiers who are on tour there, again, or to women's healthcare which has been totally compromised, or. . . .
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Politics/story?id=6356046&page=1
"I'll be frank with you. I don't spend a lot of time really worrying about short-term history. I guess I don't worry about long-term history, either, since I'm not going to be around to read it -- (laughter) -- but, look, in this job you just do what you can. The thing that's important for me is to get home and look in that mirror and say, I did not compromise my principles. And I didn't. I made tough calls. And some presidencies have got a lot of tough decisions to make --"
Not only did he not supposedly not compromise his principles he also was results and reform oriented:
"I think we brought a results-oriented government, and we insisted that people focus on results, not process, and on a variety of reforms."
Please Mr.President, tell that to the displaced people from Katrina, or the people of Iraq or the soldiers who are on tour there, again, or to women's healthcare which has been totally compromised, or. . . .
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Politics/story?id=6356046&page=1
Labels: Bush's legacy
Monday, November 17, 2008
Bush's legacy
In a little over 2 months the Bush administration era will be over and we will begin the celebration of an Obama presidency and the slow clean up of the Bush mess. In case you have a case of election eve celebratory amnesia, here is a quick run through of what 8 years of not paying attention to our Constitution ("just a goddamned piece of paper" according to Bush* ) and other "pesky documents" (a Bush quote about the Geneva Convention) can do:
http://www.truthout.org/111208S and http://www.truthout.org/article/jim-hightower-bushs-imperial-presidency . Not to mention that his ability to comprehend some of those documents is a little weak, for instance, on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights he ommitted those clauses which cause him seem to be contradictory to his governing-- http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/26/4107
But do not rest your vigilance...he and his are still in power until the January 20th passing of the torch...Bush is still using signing statements to change bills into the laws he wants--here is a list of all his signing statements http://www.coherentbabble.com/signingstatements/TOCindex.htm
[The signing statements can also be found at www.whitehouse.gov...]
*http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/111208S and http://www.truthout.org/article/jim-hightower-bushs-imperial-presidency . Not to mention that his ability to comprehend some of those documents is a little weak, for instance, on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights he ommitted those clauses which cause him seem to be contradictory to his governing-- http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/26/4107
But do not rest your vigilance...he and his are still in power until the January 20th passing of the torch...Bush is still using signing statements to change bills into the laws he wants--here is a list of all his signing statements http://www.coherentbabble.com/signingstatements/TOCindex.htm
[The signing statements can also be found at www.whitehouse.gov...]
*http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml
Labels: Bush's legacy
