Saturday, January 22, 2005

Saturday Blog Special 01/22/2005: We need a democratic congress in 2006

With the decay in America almost at full bloom, I must go to say that i really much thank the starter of it all, George W Bush and Richard B "Dick" Cheney. I guess it just somehow does not matter to the people of these United States of America that the country is on the road to fiscal catastrophe, yet all they can do is politicize social issues to turn out their "conservative, or shall i call it religious or so-called religious conservative base" so that they will continue to rule the country with open arms, and with no formal opposition. America has almost always been a two party system, but we are dangerously becoming a one party state. I was shocked and dismayed at an article at Google News last night, as well as Yahoo news, that said that Bush may have to cut back on Medicaid spending, despite opposition from governors in both parties that they dont want the strain of Medicaid being saddled to only just them back in the states, and despite the fact that we are spending billions to secure and make safe a country that probably will never be able to be as safe and secure as it possibly can be. I find it amusing that Bush would call for cuts in social programs back here at home, while vowing that every last dollar needs to be spent "securing Iraq." If, anything, the unrest has likely occurred to me that this country is officially in full decay and bloom. If you trade your own people for a peoples that really does not matter to the free world, because they in all of almost human history have never lived under a real free world democracy like ourselves, then what do we have here? What do we have here? It could not possibly occur to me that we are accomplishing what we think or what we may try to accomplish, and Iraq is becoming nothing more than a quagmire like Vietnam every day. I hope for the best on the January 30, 2005 elections there, but is it a real possibility that they really will elect a stable democracy there? This is a part of the world that in all of human history has never really had a stable democracy. I think scaling back programs and services here at home to the American People because we are going broke is completely disastrous and completely insane. The governors, both democratic and republican, do not want to be saddled into raising state and local taxes because they have to be saddled right with the responsibility of cleaning up for the deficits left at the federal level by George W Bush. His policies are in no way that of a true conservative, nor are they that progressive. There has to be fiscal accountability and we are spending more in Iraq than that of our own peoples. How can we really secure the safety and peace of the Iraqis, when they livein a part of the World that has never seen the daylight of Democracy, and unless George W Bush can prove his point in his second term to lead a Trumanesque type revolution, probably never will in the forseeable future. America should not have gotten into this quagmire, as if Saddam was really a bad guy compared to the state that could possibly emerge under an Islamic fascist. Saddam probably was more Pro-America compared to what could possibly emerge under an Islamic fascist. That is pretty damn bad huh? Well, lets just take a look at the state of the federal budget deficit, and the state of the Quagmire, which i myself will keep penning it as from here on out (regardless of future editorials and news by my members opinions starting January 30th , 2005) and believe me, It just is not worth it to think that we will ever accomplish the goods. I hope maybe 40 years from now the people will look back to President Bush and say that he did the right thing and that Iraq turned intoa stable democracy, then he will be remembered kindly and favorable like Truman. But i see this as becoming nothing more than a Quagmire right now, and we are costing the lives of our men and women in uniform. Now, back to the state of the country, our country is at a crossroads. We can either continue down the path of destruction in both our economic and international affairs, while we let the Republicans jinx up their "religious conservative" base at the polls to keep voting for the kind of mess, or we can put into effect a real agenda that will benefit the American People, but will benefit the World, without driving us into debt/deficits. We cannot afford a Republican Congress anymore that is letting George W Bush get away with this because their corporate media minion friends and allies in Congress want to see us down the path of rightwing extremism. The agenda i see here is not coming from a true fiscal conservative. It is coming from nothing more than a radical neo-conservative rightie that is imbalanced. Now, we can either stay that path, or we can elect A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS in 2006. We need a democratic congress in 2006. This country cannot afford the debt/deficit destruction that George W Bush has put us on. This makes Ronald Reagans true fiscal conservatism look like a democrat progressive, for that is how bad it is. Ronald Reagan was just as bad at balancing a budget, and by harboring the WAR ON COMMUNISM which drove us into debt/deficit that Clinton had to bring back into balance. But we need a Democratic Congress, because the Republican Congress so far has shown no interest (not even the ones that question Bush's agenda on his side of the aisle especially) in vetoing the policies that are going to cost our nations children and grandchildren. What will the taxes be like in the future for all of this for our 18 year old, or our 13 year old, or our 3 yearold? Or what will our taxes be like for the ones in the womb? I guess that will get the RightWing enchanting, because they so envy life in the womb while not envying life from birth to old age. But we can put fiscal conservatism, and progressivism, back into our common sense policies if we get people in the Congress that will change the way this Congress does things. In fact, i make it my goal here today, that all who is smart, would turn out a huge mandate in 2006, not just in the November general election set for November 7th 2006, but also to turn out the vote in Democratic primaries and Republican primaries. Oust your incumbent representatives with others that may appear on the ballot. If we get people in Washington DC on both sides of the aisle that is not part of this environment, they will begin to question this environment's policies (even Republicans, and even Republicans that are conservative.) We need to be bold, smart, and make this a true democracy in the 2006 Election. Oust all of your incumbents, in primaries and in generals, and make sure we get a true democracy going. Or atleast oust your incumbent, dem or rep, if they voted for the fiscal irresponsible policies of the Bush administration. The one way to know what they are doing is to check their local representative and state Us Senate websites. Now, as i leave you, I must say that if we get to work, We can elect a Democratic Congress to counter these policies in 2006. George W Bush must sometime suffer the fate of his Dad, and it must be in 2006. That way for the remaining 2 years of his term, he will deal with the opposition. If Clinton had to deal with the opposition for 6 years of his 8 years, then we have to make sure that we make George W Bush accountable for his actions in Iraq, and fiscal economic policy, by ousting our incumbent representatives and senators that votedfor his nonsense neo-conservatism. This is not true conservativism. This is neo-conservatism. and in a later future editorial i will give to you what it means to be a true conservative, and a true progressive, and in some cases , both. For now i leave you at this, We need to hold George W Bush accountable in 2006. Elect a Democratic Congress. Make sure in your local representative race, or us senate race, that you elect a Democratic member (incumbent or challenger representative or senator).

Another BlogNews Update Tomorrow!

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

ALRIGHT RAGNAR. COME OUT. LETS GET THE BALL MOVING ALONG AND LETS HEED THE WORDS OF ME RIGHT NOW. LETS GETTHE BALL MOVING ALONG AND LETS KEEP ON KEEPING ON. R U THERE RAGNAR?

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, SCOT???

7:21 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm posting "anonymously" here to save the hassle of signing up, but this is Dem Socialist Dave (see Politics1 and ShadowPolitics1).

To begin with a purely-technical note, it's very hard to read the small gray or white type on navy blue, Scot, especially when your blog isn't broken up by paragraphs. Even when the text is in bigger black-on-white type in the copy provided when one comments, it's one huge chunk of unbroken prose to digest. Think of how your thoughts are related to each other, and then arrange your sentences and paragraphs to match.

As for the substance, see a scary story by Seymour Hersh in the current New Yorker which says that given his 51% "mandate", Bush is gearing up the Pentagon for a semi-covert war against Iran (as if Iraq weren't enough by herself) at the same time he's gutting the CIA which might come up with more intelligence that's unwelcome and inconvenient to hear.

So long as the Congressional Districts are as badly- (or rather, given advances in database retrieval and computer mapping, skillfully-) gerrymandered as they are now, taking back the House is probably a project for more than one election cycle. I haven't studied them in depth, but since 2000 was relatively good for the Democrats in the Senate, there may also be few chances to take back Senate seats.

9:17 PM  

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