We liberals have been having a good laugh at the bumbling, apparent idiocy of our current President, George - W for Worst Ever - Bush. Sure, we've written letters and signed petitions, we gather together and talk endlessly about just how bad it is, send what money we have left to help victims of disasters and famines; we speculate on how much worse it can get... and we try to hold on until we can get this administration out and someone - hell, almost anyone - else in office.

What has happened in the six years since W has been in office, and has he helped or exacerbated existing problems?

He began his term with a balanced national budget. Now, we're in the greatest debt this country has ever faced, and there's no end in sight. It doesn't matter to W, because HE is rich. His friends are rich. His companies are rich, and his friends' companies are getting all the governmental project awards. Of course things look good to him. We're in a war which was illegal - not just unfounded, but based on lies and revenge. And our sons and daughters are dying because of it. But that's only the tip of the iceberg - that is, the shrinking icebergs in the seas - global warming. If global warming wasn't serious enough, now there's "Global Dimming"... more...

What do you think of flag-burners? Of those who feel so much hatred for the United States that they feel compelled to burn, publicly, the symbol of our unity? Sometimes it makes me really quite angry, other times, it simply makes me sad. As an American, I love my country. And, despite the growing political takeover of those who would suppress everything but the Christian outlook, I do still feel this is MY country, too.

One of the things I love about my country is my ability to disagree - with as much or as little as I like, about how our government is handling things. I have the right to say what I please... and that right is based squarely in our Constitution.

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Our co-presidents tell us their actions are to protect us from attack by terrorists like those on 9-11. But what is the REAL threat here? We've had little or no terrorist activity in the US, but what we have had is the illegal wiretapping of thousands of Americans, illegal surveillance of tens of thousands of Americans, and illegal investigations and detentions of hundreds of Americans and foreign nationals who have NO record of dissent, let alone a record of anything which could be remotely called terrorist activity. Yet there has been no concerted outcry, really, against this. And now, the cowboy coalition has signed into law a decree that all government agencies will be overseen by POLITICAL appointees.

Let there be dark.

The Republican-led Congress had done nothing to curb the reckless abandon with which the Bush co-presidents figuratively and literally pillage and rape our country - and that means each of us, as Americans, are being raped. RAPED. The word itself tastes bad. RAPE. Rape is a serious abuse of power, plain and simple. more...